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In the Abstract 28 He’s arguably the most brilliant analyst baseball has ever known. But if you think Bill James’ books are all about stats and formulas, you know only half the story.

BY STEVEN HILL

Click Down Memory Lane 32 A graduate student’s dream project will vault KU’s treas- ured history out of the archives and onto the World Wide COVER Web. Kansas Alumni presents a sneak peak at the past. Untold Fortune BY CHRIS LAZZARINO 20 Photographer Pok Chi Lau has spent 25 years documenting the Asian immigrant experience. A Headliner She started her journalism career ruffling feathers at new book showcases his work. 36 KU. Kelly Smith Tunney has since achieved several firsts that propelled her to the upper ranks of the world’s BY STEVEN HILL largest news service. Cover photograph by Aaron Delesie

BY KRISTIN ELIASBERG

32 Volume 100, No. 5, 2002 My husband checked the inner pocket of his jacket to make sure the Lift the Chorus tickets were still there, only to discover they were gone! Panic stricken, we made our way through the crowd to a gentleman holding a bullhorn and inquired if A history of peace mother, Muriel (Frances) Wolfe anyone had turned in our tickets. No [a member of the Class of tickets had been turned in. Your Oread Encore 1925]. I showed the picture to We walked away with our hearts in essay about the peace my mother and she agreed that our stomachs. About that time, a young pipes tradition at gradua- this was a picture of my grand- gentlemen approached us saying, “I tion [“Token gestures,” mother. believe you dropped your tickets.” issue No. 4] notes that, My grandmother is the one There they were—in the envelope with “We know little of the who is not wearing the gradua- my name on it! This man could have peace-pipe tradition’s end tion gown. I sold those tickets for more than their and even less of its begin- understand that face value on the street. We are so thank- ning.” I cannot tell you she majored in ful that there are honest people among about its beginning, but can narrow English and was KU fans! the time of its retirement to the on the women’s To the young gentleman, wherever period 1963-’71. basketball team at you are: Thanks! When I graduated in 1963, we KU. At one point, Ellen Hassler Boles, d’64 were given a corncob pipe stamped she lived in Starkville, Miss. with graduation information. I do Corbin Hall and not recall who provided it, but sus- told me stories ’72 special even without walk pect it was the Alumni Association. about this when I When I returned in 1971 to join was preparing to This is in response to and in support the faculty, I do not recall that there live in GSP as a freshman. of Kathy Pyke’s ’72 letter in issue No. 4 were any peace pipes given at gradua- My grandmother married (became [“A walk that never was,” about tornado tion. I assume, therefore, that the tradi- Muriel Prike) and had two children. She threats forcing the 1972 tion went from anachronism to fading had five grandchildren. She lived in the Commencement into Allen Field House]. memory sometime during those eight Kansas/Missouri area most of her life, I have fond memories as a member of years. spending the last 50 years near LaCygne. the Class of 1972. On another tradition related to peace She was a grade school and high school What an environment to age in for pipes, I recall that when I was initiated teacher for over 20 years also. four years, having come from a small into Sachem (now Omicron Delta She was an accomplished pianist, community in southeast Kansas. I was Kappa), we shared a common peace played for many local events and gave told at our graduation that we were the pipe. Today, it might be called a “bond- piano lessons for many years. She also 100th class to graduate from the ing” experience, but because I was at remained an avid KU basketball fan University. the end of the line, I looked upon it throughout her life. She died in 1998. So, although we did not get to walk with mixed feelings, and was glad to see Michelle Wade, b’85 the down the Hill, we are still a special it gone to the happy bonding grounds Olathe class. when I became the organization’s Gary Scott, d’72, g’76 adviser in the 1970s. True blue Olathe Professor Phil McKnight, c’63 Chair, teaching & leadership My husband and I parked our car at School of Education the JW Marriott hotel the morning of Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the editor. Our address is Kansas Alumni the first Final Four session in Atlanta. magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, The woman in the fab hat We rode the Marta to the Georgia Dome, KS 66044-3169. E-mail responses may be picked up our tickets, and returned to sent to the Alumni Association, kualum- Thank you for publishing the picture the hotel, hoping to attend the pep rally. [email protected], or Managing Editor and notes about the custom of smoking On our arrival at the hotel, we elbowed Chris Lazzarino, [email protected]. peace pipes after graduation. I did a dou- our way through the crowd and discov- Letters appearing in the magazine may ble take when I saw the picture. One of ered that getting to the pep rally was be edited for space and clarity.

the unidentified women is my grand- futile. ARCHIVES/SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY UNIVERSITY

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Publisher Fred B. Williams 60 Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Art Director DEPARTMENTS Susan Younger, f’91 Managing Editor Chris Lazzarino, j’86 2 LIFT THE CHORUS Letters from readers Staff Writer Steven Hill 5 FIRST WORD Editorial Assistants The editor’s turn Karen Goodell; Andrea E. Hoag, c’94 Photographer 6 ON THE BOULEVARD Aaron Delesie KU & Alumni Association events Graphic Designer Valerie Spicher, j’94 8 JAYHAWK WALK Advertising Sales Birds, bulls and better than bobbleheads Representative Jana Caffrey, j’01 10 HILLTOPICS News and notes: Dole and Hall centers book Editorial and Advertising Office Kansas Alumni Association eminent lecturers; 11 professors win Fulbrights 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 785-864-4760 • 800-584-2957 16 SPORTS www.kualumni.org The Mangino era begins; soccer looks to defend e-mail: [email protected] 38 ASSOCIATION NEWS KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE (ISSN 0745-3345) is published The 2002 Fred Ellsworth winners by the Alumni Association of the University of Kansas six times a year in January, March, May, July, September and November. JAYHAWK GENERATIONS $40 annual subscription includes membership in the Alumni 42 Association. Office of Publication: 1266 Oread Avenue, Welcome to the Hill Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. Periodicals postage paid at Lawrence, KS. 48 CLASS NOTES POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Kansas News from classmates Alumni Magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 © 2002 by Kansas Alumni Magazine. Non- IN MEMORY member issue price: $7 56 Deaths in the KU family KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The Alumni Association was established in 1883 for the purpose of strengthening loy- ROCK CHALK REVIEW alty, friendship, commitment, and communication among all 60 graduates, former and current students, parents, faculty, staff A ’60s history, a fearsome spider, a prairie and all other friends of The University of Kansas. Its members paean and more hereby unite into an Association to achie ve unity of purpose and action to serve the best interests of The University and its constituencies. The Association is organized exclusively for 64 OREAD ENCORE charitable, educational, and scientific purposes. A walk up the Hill

ISSUE 5, 2002 | 3 TraditionsTraditions AnewAnew inin 20022002

Get the ball rolling with a visit to Open House Oct. 5 10 a.m.-3 p.m. the KU Open House and continue Take a new look at KU with science demonstrations, campus tours, a parade, alumni events and entertainment. Don’t miss the good food and lots of free stuff! For more the good times with Homecoming details about Association events, check out the Open House ad in this issue or log onto www.kualumni.org. weekend. Friday, Oct. 11 Class of 1962 Dinner Party Adams Alumni Center 6:30 – Reception, cash bar • 7:30 – Dinner and pr ogram

Late Night with Roy Williams: Lighthearted midnight practice session in Allen Field House launches what ’s sure to be a great season for the men’s basketball team.

Saturday, Oct. 12 The Homecoming Parade through campus starts in front of the Adams Alumni Center, 2 1/2 hours before the KU-Colorado football game in Memorial Stadium. Game time is to be announced. For information about other events log onto www.homecoming.ku.edu.

Other Homecoming weekend highlights “Indian Arts Show: A Juried Competition” Museum of Anthropology “Drawing Figures” “Milk & Eggs: The American Revival of Tempera Painting, 1930-1950” “N.C. Wyeth: Works from the Collection of the Brandywine River Museum” “Alicia Candiani, In the Land of Her Soul” “Four Photographers” In conjunction with the 14th annual Lawrence Indian Art Show. Spencer Museum of Art Ragamala Music and Dance Theatre Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m., Lied Center, 785-864-2787 “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” The University Theatre Oct. 10-12, 7:30 p.m., Murphy Hall, 785-864-3982

www.kualumni.org • 800-584-2957 BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER First Word

I have pictured these KU ments to create a new Web site, This forebears. Week in KU History, which traces tradi- The Malott in my mind’s tions day by day and links to original eye, for example, smiles sources from the Archives. confidently as he strikes a Although I’ll always prefer bothering jaunty pose, preparing to Ned and Barry for the details, this inno- board a small plane. Since I vative Internet resource shares with far- KENNETH SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY first spied this charming flung alumni—and students who know photo in University only KU’s present—the stories of the peo- Archives, the image has ple whose names not only adorn build- become my visual short- ings but also signify the achievements hand for the confidence and and antics that distinguish KU’s past. creativity of Deane W. Sponsored by the KU Memorial Malott, c’21, the beloved Unions, Fortunato and fellow graduate leader who guided Mount students have created lively narratives Oread through World War that detail the history we all share. With II. One morning years ago, each click, viewers can relive the I answered the phone and Nightshirt Parade, the May Fete and, of heard his voice, more grav- course, a basketball game or two. They elly than the voice of the can learn about fabled faculty members man I’d pictured for so long. such as Kate Stephens, John Ise and But as our eighth chancellor Clark Bricker. They can marvel at photos and I chatted amiably about that will become indelible images in the state of the University their minds. four decades after his era, Wielding the power of photographs is the contrast melted away. the specialty of Pok Chi Lau, associate Were it not for University professor of art and design. For 25 years, Archives, I would never have Lau has shared his artistry with stu- found Malott’s keepsake dents; letters from grateful parents s a student on the Hill, I knew photo—or hundreds of others that have through the years attest to his success as Malott only as a building I found their way into this magazine and a teacher. In our cover story, Steve Hill trudged past on my way up the my personal catalog. describes Lau’s latest book, a timely pho- south slope to my journalism On the fourth floor of the Spencer tographic tribute to Chinese immigrants classesA in Flint Hall (which back then Research Library, the Archives protects in America. had only one name). the riches of KU history. Under the gen- A native of Hong Kong, Lau first The names of most campus buildings, erous guidance of Barry Bunch, c’80; made friends in his new land with immi- in fact, served merely as markers on my Ned Kehde, ’63; and John Nugent—that’s grants from the generation before: daily circuit of classes; the first flesh-and- Mr. Nugent, their sweetly stern former adventurers who built communities that blood owners of those names mattered boss, now retired—Kansas Alumni staff enliven our cultural landscape. His pho- little to me. members through the years have learned tos honor their sacrifices, which Of course, I couldn’t have known KU’s traditions, keeping them alive in smoothed the way for the grandchildren then that KU’s past would thread these pages. whose lives now neatly entwine threads through my career, tying me to dozens Now, thanks to the Archives and an of homes old and new. of colorful characters whose stories form energetic graduate student, Henry As an artist and historian, Lau uses the backdrop for my work at Kansas Fortunato, KU history lives online. In his medium to illuminate unknown yet Alumni. As I’ve written about these our feature story, Chris Lazzarino powerful players from our past. From Jayhawks, or as their tales have echoed explains how Fortunato and his team moments caught and carefully preserved, through my conversations with alumni, pored over photos and countless docu- we learn volumes.

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■ Lied Center SEPTEMBER SUSAN YOUNGER 14 Robert Mirabal with RareTribalMob in “Music from A Painted Cave” Tour 20 Collage Concert ■ Jayhawk 27 KU Symphony Orchestra Boulevard lost another majestic OCTOBER elm in July when 4 Cullberg Ballet in “Swan Lake” Facilities and 7 Symphonic Wind Ensemble Operations workers 12 Ragamala Music and Dance removed an ailing Theater 80 year old tree 14 Jazz I, II and III in front of the 24-25 Natural History Urban Tap (Liberty Hall) Museum. 26 “South Pacific” 27 KU Choral Society 31 KU Symphony Orchestra with Gabriela Frank

NOVEMBER 1 National Symphony of Mexico 4-5 “Rent” ■ Exhibitions “David Bracket and Fuyuko Matsubara, Textile Exhibition,” Art and Design Gallery, Sept. 15-27 “Drawing Figures,” “Four ■ Dole Institute lectures Photographers,” and “Alicia Candiani, “John Boyd, Folk Art and Print In the Land of Her Soul,” Spencer Exhibition,” Art and Design Gallery, SEPTEMBER Museum of Art, through Oct. 20 Sept. 29-Oct. 16 17 Brian Lamb, Woodruff “Milk and Eggs: The American Revival Auditorium of Tempera Painting, 1930-1950,” and “N.C. Wyeth: Works from the ■ University Theatre NOVEMBER Collection of the Brandywine River 3 Edmund Morris, Lied Center Museum,” Spencer Museum of Art, OCTOBER Sept. 21-Nov. 17 4-6, 10-12 “The Two Gentlemen of 10 Michael Beschloss, Lied Center “Ansel Adams Photographs from the Verona,” by William Shakespeare 17 David McCullough, Lied Center Collection,” Spencer Museum of Art, 24-27, 29-31, Nov. 1-2 “Iphigenia Oct. 26-Dec. 29 at Aulis,” by Euripides, Inge Theatre ■ “Lawrence Indian Arts Show: A Juried Hall Center lectures NOVEMBER Competition,” Museum of OCTOBER Anthroplogy, Sept. 14-Oct. 20 4-8, 10 “Where to, Turelu?”, Theatre 9 “Community Redefined: Has the For Young People Automobile Helped or Hindered,” Watkins Community Museum

6 | KANSAS ALUMNI 16 “Race Relations: Free State Ideals 16 New York Chapter: “Mamma Mia” 16 Salina: Pat Thompson, and Jim Crow Patterns,” Watkins on Broadway 785-825-5809 Community Museum 17 New York Chapter: Thirsty Third 19 KHP Alumni Volunteer Day, 23 “Colliding Values: Berkeley on the Thursday Adams Alumni Center Kaw,” Watkins Community Museum 19 Lawrence: Flying Jayhawks 23 Shawnee Mission: Joe Kurtzman, 24 Jared Diamond, author of Guns, reunion party, Adams Alumni Center 913-341-7162 Germs & Steel, Lied Center 23 Wichita: School of Engineering 28 Manhattan: A. Mark and Toni Professional Society Stremel, 785-537-3253 NOVEMBER 26 New York Chapter: KU vs. 30 Southern Johnson County: Mark 21 Robert D. Kaplan, author and Mizzou watch party and Elaine Corder, 913-592-7299 international correspondent for The Atlantic, Kansas Union ballroom NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 3 Valley of the Sun Chapter: 4 Eskridge: Josi Garland, Big 12 picnic 785-528-4081 ■ Special events 9 Lincoln: KU vs. NU pregame rally 5 Wichita: Martin Bauer, OCTOBER 16 Lawrence: Rock Chalk Ball patron 316-265-9311 11-12 Homecoming, Class of 1962 and volunteer party, The Outlook 6 Chapman: Susan James, 40-year reunion 785-922-6366 7 Kansas City: Christopher ■ Kansas Honors Program Schneider, 913-573-2851 12 Topeka: Michael and Marcia SEPTEMBER Cassidy, 785-234-5098 11 McPherson: Mary Kornhaus, 13 Johnson County: Bill and Anne ■ Alumni events 620-241-2497 Blessing, 913-327-5454 18 Wellington: David Carr, SEPTEMBER 14 Independence: Garen Cox, 620-326-3361 19 Wichita: School of Journalism 620-251-6700, ext. 344 23 El Dorado: Michael Coash, Professional Society 18 Emporia: Gary Ace, 316-321-1140 19 New York Chapter: Thirsty Third 620-342-9555 Thursday 25 Lawrence: Karen Van For more information 20 Panama City, Panama, Chapter: Blaricum, Alumni dinner and meeting about these and other Association 785-843-4714 events, call 800-584-2957 or see 21 Dallas Chapter: Institute of 30 Sedgwick Humanities & Culture lecture series the Association’s Web site, County: Nick and www.kualumni.org. 28 Tulsa: KU vs. Tulsa pregame rally Naomi Ard, 316-722-9390 OCTOBER

5 Waco: KU vs. Baylor pregame rally OCTOBER Lied Center ...... 864 ARTS

5 New York Chapter: Family Day 1 Parsons: Charles and Mary University Theatre tickets ...... 864 3982 Catherine Brown, 620-421-6066 Outing, Applewood Orchards Spencer Museum of Art ...... 864 4710 11 2 Winfield: Lucy Herlocker, Lawrence: School of Law alumni Museum of Anthropology ...... 864 4245 golf tournament 620--221-4600 Natural History Museum ...... 864 4540 12 Lawrence: Chapter leadership tail- 9 Hutchinson: Terry Edwards, gate party at KU vs. Colorado 620-663-7079 Hall Center for Humanities ...... 864 4798 12 New York Chapter: KU vs. CU 10 Hays: Fred and Shiela Brening, Kansas Union ...... 864 4596 watch party 785-625-2529 Adams Alumni Center ...... 864 4760 15 Washington, D.C.: Graduate 15 Garnett: Terry Solander, KU main number ...... 864 2700 School and International Programs 785-448-6131 Athletics ...... 1 800 34 HAWKS professional society

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We prefer cow tipping

n Overland Park sophomore got closer AARON DELESIE AARON Ato the business end of a bovine than she bargained for when she traveled to Pamplona, Spain, this summer for the traditional running of the bulls. Nineteen-year-old Lindsey Saint joined 2,000 revelers for the daring dash in early July. She’d nearly finished safely when a bull gored her knee. Despite surgery and a brief hospital stay, Saint said she’d do it again. “Some people might call me crazy,” she told From Russia, with confusion a Kansas City TV station. “But when in Spain do as the Spaniards do, I guess.” ove over bobbleheads; here come Lindsey’s brother hurt himself on a Mmatryoshka dolls. Colorado ski trip this summer. After fielding Matryoshkas, better known as Russian the second phone call telling her one of her nesting dolls, are the souvenir of souvenirs children had been injured, mother Ruth for Moscow tourists: The hollow wooden Saint laid down the law. figures come in sets, each successively “I told him, ‘When your sister gets back, smaller doll nesting neatly inside another. neither of you are going anywhere,’” she Traditionally painted to depict peasant

LARRY LEROY PEARSON LEROY LARRY says. “‘Ever.’” women, matryoshkas say Russia like Don’t tell Mom, but we’ve got bulls in wooden shoes say Holland. Kansas, too. So imagine Sabra Volek’s surprise when she spotted a set in a Red Squar e kiosk that depicted not babushkas, but basket- Stroke of luck are now driving a car that's anything but. ballers. KU basketballers. “I have a lot of golf buddies who’ve The Lawrence senior brought the In his four seasons as a guard on the had four or five holes in one, but they matryoshkas home for her father, Tom men’s basketball team, Greg Gurley took haven’t had one when it really counted; Volek, associate professor of journalism. part in three Big Eight championships and all they got were big bar The dolls depict the 1996-’97 team of four NCAA tournaments. But his biggest bills,” Gurley says. DELESIE AARON Raef LaFrentz, Paul Pierce, Billy Thomas, sports thrill—and payoff—came during a “My bar bill was Ryan Robertson and Jerod Haase. recent charity golf tournament, when about $800 that The jerseys carry the right names Gurley scored his first hole in one. night, but now and numbers, but the realism Most par-3’s at the new Staley Farms we own a flags, Tom Volek says: “LaFrentz course in north Kansas City offered golfy Lexus. The is African-American, and Billy trinkets as hole-in-one prizes, but No. 16 big one.” Thomas is blond. And Pierce is featured a Lexus LX 470. Gurley, b’96, Truly a spelled Pierge.” says his golf game is average; even so, he swish come Still, for a U.S. college team to and his wife, Amy O’Neal Gurley, d’96, true. field its own squad of matryoshkas is a distinctive honor—any way you spell it.

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI Sign, sign, From Oread to Whitney not quite everywhere a sign alk about towering toward the blue: ccording to campus landscape plans, hundreds DELESIE AARON TDeath-defying dentist John Forney, Aof new signs such as this one in fr ont of Strong c’51, offered an alpine salute to his alma Hall will eventually guide visitors around the Mount mater June 12, when he reached the sum- Oread maze. Pedestrian signs will list departments in mit of Mount Whitney, at 14,496 ft. the each building, larger directional signs will assist driv- highest height in the contiguous United ers and maps will orient the lost. States. So far, though, this sign is the lone sentr y. With Forney, who is retired with his wife, budget crunches reaching every corner of campus, Eleanor Kothe Forney, c’57, in Englewood, only three prototypes will be produced, while the Colo., boasts worldly climbing credits: So entire project—which also includes improved bus far he has ascended to all the Nor th stops, benches, trash bins and cigarette urns—awaits a private donor. American Rocky Mountain highs above “We’re trying to make them traditional and elegant,” says University Architect 14,000 ft., plus Rainier and several Mexican Warren Corman, e’50, “while not being too expensi ve.” volcanoes; the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc Sounds like the right direction. in Europe; and Kilimanjaro in Africa. Last summer, as he set foot atop Mount Adams in Oregon, the peak experience moved him to exclaim, “Rock Chalk,” Their eyes are on favorable weather for this year’s bountiful amusing a fellow climber who identified the sparrows birding, which listed bobolinks, pied-billed grebes, Hudsonian godwits, white-rumped hey started near Topeka just after mid- bairds and the like from Leavenworth Tnight; 24 hours and 600 miles later, the Bottoms in the east to Cheyenne Bottoms Natural History Museum’s Bird-a-thon in the west. Careful planning helped, too. team had set a Kansas record for most “We call the local sheriffs to let them JOHN FORNEY COURTESY species spotted in a single day. know where we’ll be,” Robbins says. “A Mark Robbins, Roger McNeill and Mike bunch of guys with binoculars out in the Rader tallied 225 feathered friends during middle of the night, you’re liable to end up the American Birding Association’s annual in jail if you don’t call ahead.” Big Days bird watching competi- Team members raised more than tion in May. $2,000 for graduate research Robbins, the museum’s with pledges for each species collection manager of spotted, so their tallying was KU’s rarefied refrain. ornithology, credits not simply a lark. So before setting out for this summer’s California conquest, he called Mount Oread, seeking a suitable standard. The Alumni Association happily obliged. Forney, who trains regularly to summon strength for the summits, rates his latest adventure a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10. “Rainier and the Matterhorn were more difficult. This was not technical, but it was strenuous,” he says. As he unfurled the flag, Forney says, other climbers “got a real hoot out of it. One of them must have been from a Big 12 school, because he said he couldn ’t believe a Jayhawk would do this.” Of course, Kansans know Jayhawks belong in lofty perches. CHARLIE PODREBARAC

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Institute director Richard Norton Smith. “More than that, they all combine rigorous scholarship

SUSAN YOUNGER with literary flair to bring history to life.” The Dole Institute is also bringing C-SPAN founder and host Brian Lamb to campus Sept. 17, and the Hall Center for the Humanities scheduled its own rich fall calendar of author visits and community events. As part of its Humanities Lectures Series, the Hall Center ■ Authors of some of on Oct. 24 will bring to campus Jared Diamond, author of the the most respected acclaimed book Guns, Germs & biograpical and histori Steel: The Fates of Human cal works of recent Societies, and on Nov. 21 hosts years—including Atlantic magazine correspondent Edmund Morris, David Robert D. Kaplan, who has spent McCullough and Jared more than 20 years reporting Diamond—will speak from some of the world’s most on campus this fall. dangerous locations. Like Smith, Hall Center director Victor Bailey, professor of history, says he searched out writers who are both authoritative and popular. American experiences “We try very hard to bring in speakers who are dealing with Presidential biographers McCullough, Morris essential world problems or and Beschloss headline star-quality fall lectures essential American problems, problems we feel the general presented by Dole and Hall centers public will engage with and want to come out and listen to,” he Dole Institute’s bricks-and-mortar Bailey says. “We get speakers who are not inter- home is still under construction next to ested in small and esoteric subjects, but who are the Lied Center on Campus West, but its dealing with fundamental problems and issues.” intellectual enterprise has already made Also on the Hall Center’s fall lineup is the con- Titself a home on Mount Oread. In a dazzling line- tinuation of its popular “Our History” series, pre- up of speakers, the Robert J. Dole Insitute of sented in partnership with the Watkins Politics will bring to campus three of the coun- Community Museum. The current installment, try’s most prominent and popular presidential “Listening to America/Lawrence, 1945-1972,” fea- biographers: Edmund Morris (Nov. 3), Michael tures moderated discussions on the automobile’s Beschloss (Nov. 10) and David McCullough influence on Lawrence (Oct. 9), race relations (Nov. 17). (Oct. 16) and colliding values (Oct. 23). “They are all great storytellers,” says Dole “These events illustrate the benefits that really

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI can come by having a university in your midst,” ure our success will be the degree of public Bailey says, “if that university is not simply involvement in our programs.” inward and wants to share its programs with a All listed events are free and open to the pub- wider audience. It’s one of the real benefits of lic. The three presidential historians will each being in a town like Lawrence.” appear at 8 p.m. at the Lied Center. Lamb The Dole Center’s superstar lineup on consec- appears at 7:30 in Woodruff Auditorium. utive November Sundays offers area residents a Diamond will appear at 7:30 in the Lied Center, rare chance—outside of PBS and C-SPAN—to hear and Kaplan speaks at 8 p.m. in the Kansas Union elite presidential scholars discuss their research. ballroom. For more information, contact the Dole Morris is a Pulitzer Prize winner who has pro- Center at 785-864-2787 or the Hall Center at duced two acclaimed volumes on Theodore 785-864-4798. Roosevelt, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and —Chris Lazzarino Theodore Rex, as well as the chancier Dutch, about Ronald Reagan. Beschloss is the author of a trilogy based on Lyndon Johnson’s White House ◆ ◆ ◆ “Children learn tapes and The Crisis Years, about John F. Kennedy and the Cold War. so much when McCullough is perhaps our most cherished Teaching tool parents under- elder statesman of Americana. Not only did he stand how provide the tender, powerful narration for Ken Schiefelbusch study Burns’ documentary “The Civil War,” but confirms benefits important it is to McCullough also recently published the best-sell- simply talk and ing biography John Adams. He wrote the monu- of Early Head Start mental and authoritative Truman, and hosts the play with them.” TV series “The American Experience.” Among his ederal efforts to boost low-income chil- many honors, McCullough has won the Pulitzer dren to a healthy start in life Prize and two National Book Awards. are paying off, says a “This is a preview of things to come,” Smith recent study that says. “It sets a standard, and hopefully it includedF researchers at KU announces the Dole Institute as a hybrid of sorts, Medical Center. that we have very deep roots in the University A research team led by and in the scholarly community, but will also Judy Carta, PhD’83, sen- branch out far beyond Lawrence. I can’t overem- ior scientist at the phasize that one of the ways by which to meas- Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies, conducted a seven-year evalu-

AARON DELESIE ation of Project Eagle, a comprehensive child development and family support program run by the Med Center. Project Eagle is one of more than 600 sites across the country affiliated with Early Head Start, a program launched by the federal government in 1995 to serve low-income children too young for Head Start. Begun in 1965 to give impoverished children a one- to two-year “head start” before kindergarten, that federal program serves 3- and 4-year-olds in classrooms. Early Head Start targets children from birth to 3, when 90 percent of brain development occurs. ■ The Hall Center’s Victor Bailey (left) and the Dole Project Eagle trains child-care providers and Institute’s Richard Norton Smith at the Campus West parents through visits to daycare centers and construction site of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics. homes in Wyandotte County. It was one of 17

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sites selected for the U.S. Department of Health as they walk through the supermarket, as they and Human Services survey, which studied how drive down the street. There are many teaching effectively Early Head Start serves low-income moments in the course of the day.” kids and their families. “We were trying to find out whether the program makes a difference in how parents interact ◆ ◆ ◆ Talk of the town with their child, whether teaching about good parenting made a difference in how they parent, Forbes magazine ranked and whether that had an impact on the child’s Fulbrightful Lawrence ninth out of outcome,” says Carta. “We found that parenting practices did change KU faculty set record, 96 “smaller metro as a result of Early Head Start. Parents were more lead U.S. universities areas” surveyed for its emotionally supportive of their children. They in coveted fellowships list of “Best Places for interacted with kids in ways that promoted their Business and Careers.” development.” University-record 11 faculty members Specifically, Carta and her fellow researchers, snagged prestigious Fulbright grants to Lawrence also ranked Jean Ann Summers, c’83, PhD’88, associate scien- research or teach abroad this academic sixth in the nation tist, and Jane Atwater, g’82, PhD’88, research pro- year. for per-capita bachelor fessor, found that families participating in Project AThe 10 new grants and one extension eclipse degree attainment, Eagle were more likely to read and talk to their the old record of 10 set in 1956-’57 and 1962- kids and less likely to spank them. This ’63. More than 245 KU faculty members have according to the increased interaction and more positive approach received Fulbright grants since the program U.S.Census Bureau. to discipline led to increased cognitive and social started more than 50 years ago. Tastiest of all, development in Early Head Start children. KU tied with Penn State for the most new USA Today chose Carta says the program stresses that parents scholars, according to Judy Pehrson, director of are their children’s first teachers, and that oppor- external relations at the Council for International Wheatfields Bakery as tunities for learning abound. Exchange of Scholars, which administers the one of the country’s “I think parents learned a lot about the role Fulbright program. “I think this shows that KU top 10 artisan bakeries. they play in their child’s development. It helps does a good job encouraging their faculty to them realize that what they do everyday can help apply for these grants, and a good job recogniz- their children grow and develop: They can teach ing and rewarding them when they win,” Pehrson said. The Fulbright winners are: Nobleza Asuncion-Lande, professor of communication studies, AARON DELESIE who will teach at the St. Petersburg State University of Business and Economics in Russia; Paul Comolli, associate professor of economics, who is currently participating in the German Studies Seminar in Leipzig, Cologne and Berlin; Patrick Dooley, associate professor of design, who will help teach at Fachhochschule Trier, in Trier, Germany; Joshua Freeman, chairman of the department of family medicine at KU Medical Center, who will ■ Researchers (left to right) Jean Ann Summers, Judy Carta and Jane teach and develop a new program Atwater have found the lessons learned by parents in the Med Center’s in family medicine at Federal Project Eagle program helped improve the development of their infants University of Sao Paulo in Brazil; and toddlers. Deborah Gerner, professor of

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI EARL RICHARDSON EARL Update Arrests in Martin’s murder

osta Rican police on July 15 arrested two CGolfito men in connection with the murder of biology student Shannon Martin ("Beautiful Minds," issue No. 4). Soon after the arrests, KU announced its Study Abroad program in Golfito would be permanently halted. "We tried very hard to maintain this program because of its high academic value," said “We tried very Diana Carlin, dean of the Graduate School and International Programs. "But we are concerned hard to maintain about sending students there in the fall." this program At the time of her murder on May 14, 2001, Martin, c’01, was in Golfito to collect fern because of its ■ KU tied Penn State for the most new Fulbright schol specimens for a research project. She was not high academic ars with 10. Here’s how other top universities stack up: officially part of the Study Abroad semester at value. But we the University of Wisconsin Madison, 9; Colorado the time, although she had been in spring 2000. A local Golfito woman was arrested in University, 8; the University of Arizona, 7; Cleveland State are concerned November and remains in custody. According University, Cornell University, the University of California about sending to Costa Rican news reports, she gave testi- Berkeley and the University of Washington, 6. mony that led to the arrests of Luis Alberto students [to Castro, 38, and Rafael Zumbado, 47. Both were Golfito] in “widely known and feared” in the small port political science, who will study and teach at town, according to news accounts and corre- the fall.” Birzeit University in the West Bank; spondence sent to Jeanette Stauffer, Martin's Sivaprasad Gogineni, professor of electrical mother. The online Tico Times reported that engineering and computer science, who will con- investigators say Martin’s duct research at the University of Tasmania midnight murder outside Antarctic Cooperative Research Center in Hobart, a crowded nightspot Australia; began as a robbery; when Anita Herzfeld, associate professor of Latin she fought back, Martin American studies, who will teach at National was fatally stabbed. University in Asuncion, Paraguay; KU officials said

Gwynne Jenkins, assistant professor of anthro- efforts to save the affilia- JEANETTE STAUFFER COURTESY pology and women’s studies, who will conduct tion with Golfito’s research and teach at the University of Costa Rica Institute for Tropical in San Jose; Studies were scrapped Gerald Mikkelson, professor of Slavic lan- because costs and logis- guages and literatures, who will extend his teach- tics of increased safety ing at St. Petersburg State University, where he programs in the remote, spent the previous academic year; tropical setting had Garth Myers, associate professor of geography, become overwhelming. KU will continue its who will conduct research in Tanzania and Study Abroad program in San Jose, Costa Rica’s Zambia; capital and largest city. and Philip Schrodt, professor of political sci- —Chris Lazzarino ence, who will study and teach at Birzeit University in the West Bank.

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ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION Seuferling succeeds Martin as Endowment president Update A quick leadership transition at the Endowment Association was announced $1 million pledge from the Sosland

in July: Dale Seuferling, j’77, formerly the EARL RICHARDSON Foundation of Kansas City will help Endowment Association’s executive vice A the new Center for Urban Child Health president for development and secretary, recruit a director. was promoted to president. He replaces Interest on the gift, which counts Jim Martin, g’68. toward the $500-million goal of the KU “Jim compiled a superior record dur- First, is eligible for matching support ing his 28 years with Endowment and from the state. during his 11-year tenure as president,” Kansas City’s Partnership for Children recently gave the region a C+ for chil- said Dolph C. Simons Jr., j’51, dren’s welfare in the areas of safety, security, health, education and adolescence. Endowment chair and president and “The Sosland Family Professorship will help recruit an expert who can lead the publisher of The World Company. “He Center for Urban Child Health in studies and programs to improve that grade,” will be missed, but we have the utmost says Jasjit S. Ahluwalia, chair of preventive medicine at KU Medical Center, where confidence Dale will do a great job as the center is located. president.” The $4.5 million endeavor will involve Kansas City hospitals and schools, Seuferling, a 21-year Endowment vet- conduct public health research, offer community health promotion and disease eran, promoted Kevin Corbett, c’88, to prevention programs, and educate KU medical, nursing, allied health and public senior vice president for development health students. and secretary. Corbett, who joined Endowment in 1997 and most recently served as vice president for development, was also named trustee. Association’s assets in 1974, the year RESIDENCY PROGRAMS In addition to Seuferling’s new duties, Martin was hired, were about $48 mil- Family health careers he will continue his role as primary lion; today, KU Endowment reports administrator for KU First: Invest in assets of more than $1 billion and the goals for honored doctors Excellence, the largest fund-raising cam- distributes as much as $65 million annu- paign in KU history. ally for scholarships, faculty support, Two residents at Salina’s KU-affiliated Simons noted that the Endowment equipment and program support. Smoky Hill Family Practice Center are Martin worked as an among 20 young doctors nationwide English professor in who were recently chosen as outstand- North Dakota before ing family-practice residents. Sara joining Endowment as Peckham Johnston, c’96, m’00, and Rob

EARL RICHARDSON director of program Freelove, d’96, m’00, won the American development. He was Academy of Family Physicians/Bristol- named senior vice presi- Myers Squibb Award, to be given in dent in 1983, executive October at a San Diego ceremony for 20 vice president in 1987 residents from across the country. and president in 1991. “Rob is wonderful with his patients,” “There is no question Johnston says. “He has the best bedside that his legacy to KU will manner.” Says Freelove: “The reason she be significant,” won is simple: She deserved it. She’s Chancellor Robert E. smart and dedicated, not only to her Hemenway said. “I look patients but to the community.” forward to working with Now entering their third-year of resi- Dale Seuferling in his dency training, both say they plan to new role as president remain in Salina to fulfill their dreams of ■ Retiring Endowment Association president Jim Martin (right) and know that he will do practicing family medicine in an under- passes the “torch” to his successor, Dale Seuferling. an excellent job.” served area of Kansas.

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI Milestones, money and other matters

■ NEW BUDGET CUTS reduced KU’s funding an additional $1.2 million at the Lawrence campus and $825 million at the Medical Center. The cuts, announced Aug. 15 by COURTESY SARA JOHNSTON COURTESY Gov. Bill Graves, were necessitated by continuing shortfalls in state tax collections. “Unless there is a dramatic turn- around in the state’s revenue during the next few months, the next governor will be forced to impose additional allotment reductions,” Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway wrote in his weekly memo to the University. “These may be more severe and harder to deal with.” In all, KU’s budget has been reduced $9.5 million in fiscal 2003. ■ Rob Freelove and Sara Johnston, both third year family practice residents in Salina, were ■ A $1.4 MILLION GRANT from the U.S. Department of Education will benefit two of 20 national winners of the top honor in the Center for International Business Education and Research in the School of Business. their field. The grant will help the center undertake about 50 projects to enhance international business education at KU, encourage related faculty research and reach out to the business community. “I really like the aspect of taking care of the whole family,” Johnston says. ■ TIMOTHY JOHN HANKEWICH, the associate con- “When you treat grandparents, parents ductor of the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, is interim and kids, you have an advantage over director of the KU Symphony Orchestra for 2002-’03. He the specialist. You establish real, long- DELESIE AARON replaces Brian Priestman, who has retired. term relationships.” Says Freelove: “I chose family practice because to me it’s ■ THE SCHOOL OF PHARMACY placed in the top the most rewarding branch of medicine. five for National Institutes of Health funding in 2001, with 33 I get to help people in need throughout awards totaling $8.44 million. KU ranked fourth, behind the life, from birth to death, and every University of California-San Francisco, the University of Utah aspect of that is rewarding.” and the University of Arizona. Dean Jack Fincham praised faculty and researchers for the school’s success. “Our faculty MEDICINE rank among the very best in the country,” Fincham said, “and Pathology chair promoted departments here at KU are world renowned and respected to medicine deanship Fincham as being at the very top in their disciplines.” ■ JIM BUDDE, EdD’76, founder and director emeritus of the Research and Training Barbara F. Atkinson, professor and Center on Independent Living, received the Lifetime Service Award from the National chair of the department of pathology Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers. Budde spent 40 years as a and laboratory medicine, was named researcher and national advocate for people with disabilities. executive dean and vice chancellor for clinical affairs at the School of Medicine. ■ THREE NEW MEMBERS OF THE KANSAS BOARD OF REGENTS began She succeeds Deborah Powell, who four-year terms in July: Former state Senate president Dick Bond, c’57, l’60; Donna Shank; recently accepted the medicine deanship and James Grier III. Bond is former co-chair of Jayhawks for Higher Education, and Shank is at the University of Minnesota. a longtime supporter of the Kansas Honors Program. Grier is a member of Kansas State Executive Vice Chancellor Donald University’s Engineering Hall of Fame. Hagen said he made the quick decision to avoid a long transition with “several ■ KATHLEEN MCCLUSKEY-FAWCETT, g’73, PhD’77, ended her term as interim key recruitments under way and the new dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in July. She has been given the new title of academic year beginning.” senior vice provost for academic affairs. Her primary responsibilities will include coordina- Atkinson, trustee and past president tion of curriculum, policy development and involvement of undergraduates in research and of the American Board of Pathology, service. The new position marks an expansion of her prior role as associate provost from joined KU in 2000. She had been dean 1996 to 2001. at the MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine in Philadelphia.

ISSUE 5, 2002 | 15 Sports BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

football causes might conjure. A capable recruiter and distinguished offensive assistant who JEFF JACOBSEN helped create a monster at Kansas State and return glory to Oklahoma, where he was named the country’s top assistant coach after OU’s championship season in 2000, Mangino on Aug. 31 guided his first game as a head coach since 1990—and that was at Ellwood City, Pa., High ■ Mark Mangino down School. played his head coaching Might it be a friendly omen debut: “It was just another that Iowa State’s stadium bor- ders Elwood Drive? day on the sidelines for Unfortunately, no. With me. I didn’t feel any differ excitement around KU football ent, I didn’t approach it reaching levels unknown since any differently, I didn’t do the 1992 and ’95 Aloha Bowl anything differently than seasons (or even back to the I’ve done all of my career.” 1970s, if judged solely on surg- ing season-ticket sales that eclipsed 24,000 for the first time The good fight in 25 years), Mangino’s first Despite a disappointing start at Iowa State, game revealed at least this much: Iowa State, a legitimate Mangino and his players remain confident contender in the Big 12 North, is far too good for KU right now. n a warm, late-August morning, The Jayhawks and Cyclones might be in the Jayhawks gathered in Ames, Iowa, so same conference, but they’re not yet in the same they might get to know each other a league. ISU’s 45-3 victory even included a last- little better. Not during the pregame minute scoring drive by the second-team offense. Oexchange of barbs, brags and brats that delighted “I’m more bothered by that,” Mangino said, “than sun-showered KU and Iowa State fans, but for anything else I saw.” football introductions that had waited long But don’t focus on the loss, or even the score. enough. The outcome was predestined. KU hired New coach Mark Mangino had been at the Mangino long after scheduling the 2002 opener, helm of KU football four days short of nine full and he was forced to simply deal with the hum- months, but had yet to see his players perform, bling prospect of starting the season—and his except during practice. “Our thoughts all along, head-coaching career—by hitting the road with a at all 22 positions, are that we’ll be able to estab- squad that had not posted a winning season lish ourselves once we see our players in game since 1995, to play a talented conference rival competition,” he said before the game. that features a senior quarterback, Seneca And the numerous blue-clad KU fans who Wallace, who rightly should be considered a can- trekked to Iowa State—and probably some of the didate for the Heisman Trophy. players, truth be told—were eager to see just what The focus instead must be on what can be sort of miracles this burly patron saint of lost learned from the earliest action in the Mangino

16 | KANSAS ALUMNI era, and conclusions are mixed. The bad news: KU’s offense, much “I was really impressed with the intensity [on defense], the way like the painful 2001 season, does not we played in the first half. The lack of depth, us not being able to scare a good team. Terming the offense “inept,” Mangino pulled two veteran rotate more people, kind of caught up with us. But that’s an starters, replacing quarterback Zach excuse; I don’t have any excuses.” — Coach Mark Mangino Dyer and running back Reggie Duncan with junior-college transfer Bill Whittemore and freshman Clark Green. lack of spare parts. When outside line- in this to do it the right way.” The ISU defense was so unconcerned backer Banks Floodman injured his knee With five minutes remaining in the about being caught out of position that while pursuing a punt returner, he was first half, KU stopped a 34-yard, 14-play at least one Cyclone blitzed on every KU replaced by freshman Nick Reid, a con- drive. The Jayhawks suddenly found play. Duncan and Green totaled just 52 verted safety (and high-school quarter- themselves trailing only 10-0 late in the yards, and averaged only 2.9 yards per back) who had spent a lifetime total of second quarter against a team that one carry; the two quarterbacks combined one week at the position. week earlier had nearly upset Florida for 81 yards on 31 attempts, each with Even before wearing down, defenders’ State. But Dyer fumbled the ball on the an interception. KU’s longest play of the mistakes were glaring: On one critical first play from the KU 20-yard-line, put- game went for 15 yards. third-down play with the score still 10-0, ting the Jayhawks back to the 12, and on Mangino insists the offensive line will KU had only 10 players on the field and third down was sacked. improve, but there’s little hope that it Iowa State easily kept its drive alive; On the ensuing punt, Floodman hurt can be dramatic: “We have no depth on Iowa State’s first touchdown came on a his knee and was out for the game; on the offensive line,” Mangino said. “We’re nifty reverse, which worked perfectly the Cyclones’ next play, at the KU 43, going to have to play most of the game when two defenders overpursued and linebacker Leo Etienne went out with a with [the same] five guys.” failed to contain the back side of the shoulder stinger. The Cyclones needed Mangino chose to emphasize two play. just four plays to cruise in for a score opinions: He believes in the scheme Problems were painfully clear. Look that gave them a 17-0 lead and, essen- (which is a change, because former closer, though, and there was plenty to tially, the game. coach Terry Allen changed week-to-week admire. First is Mangino: As the weary “I think there were times when we last year), and “all 11 guys contributed Jayhawks trudged silently past a long could have made some moves, and had a to ... the ineptitude of the offense.” fence line of hooting ISU fans, Mangino chance to try to put some first downs The defense was stubborn at times, stopped at the locker room door and together and didn’t do it,” Mangino said. but betrayed a porous secondary and a proudly stood watch over his flock. “But we’re going to get better as it goes. When he faced reporters in a tiny ISU Our kids, they know they were out- meeting room a few minutes later, he played today. We don’t have anything to smiled and spoke enthusiastically. be mad about other than ourselves, that “I went in the locker room, and the we didn’t play better. But we will.” JEFF JACOBSEN kids were strong,” he reported. “Nobody Before the game, Mangino and Allen, is hanging their head or crying or feeling now Iowa State’s associate head coach, bad for themselves. They know that met on the field and shook hands. After we’re in this for the long haul, that we’re the game, as Mangino and the Jayhawks toted boxes of fried chicken to the team bus, Allen, decked out in a sharp new suit, greeted friends and family with a winner’s grin that hadn’t seen much

CHRIS LAZZARINO daylight during his five seasons in Lawrence. Not only did his new team beat his old team, but his new boss, ISU

■ Quarterback Bill Whittemore (4) came off the bench to provide a spark in the second half. After the loss, Mangino and his players endured jeers by focusing on the day when they’ll earn cheers.

ISSUE 5, 2002 | 17 Sports coach Dan McCarney, sweetened Allen’s ■ Coach Mark Francis and senior defenders day by awarding him the game ball. Nikki Wahle (20) and Brianna Valento (17) None of which mattered to any of the hope to continue soccer success that began AARON DELESIE AARON Jayhawks, who were focused only on the with last year’s winning season. day when they get to award their new leader the first game ball of his head- coaching career. and Brianna Valento. The veterans say “It’s a building process,” Nick Reid they are eager to guide another young said, the truth of which was proven by team: Last year’s incoming class had six the freshman’s presence in the postgame starters, and already this season the interview room. He had been a line- early star was freshman Caroline Smith, backer for exactly five practices and one who scored the winning, second-over- game, and here he was, one of just five time goal against Boston College. players representing the team to regional “The younger girls have a lot of talent reporters, gamely answering questions and they’re good soccer players,” Valento with the same veteran’s poise he had says, “but they also bring a lot of charac- shown on the field. ter to the team.” “We’re coming together,” Reid contin- Francis cautions that his team loses ued, “and it’s going to get better as the an edge: The suddenly respected season goes on. They’re disappointed, Jayhawks will no longer be underdogs. but nobody’s discouraged. We know practice began, she announced she could “It’s a new challenge,” he says. “We what we have to improve on. We’ll do all not continue. realize we can’t take anybody lightly, right.” “Pardis is a very good player, but the because people did that to us last year, And when success comes, no Jayhawk other thing is her leadership,” Francis and it can hurt you. But I don’t think will think for a second that it’s a miracle, says. “You can’t replace that; it’s just that we’ll have that problem with this group.” or even a gift. They will have already other people are going to have to step Says Wahle: “With the chemistry paid for it in sweat and, most of all, with up and fill that void.” and talent we have, we definitely have belief. For senior backfield leadership, the potential to go further than we did Francis now depends on Nikki Wahle last year.”

◆ ◆ ◆ Defense won’t rest Updates Backfield leaders essential

itch Price, 47, who spent the previous eight EARL RICHARDSON to maintain soccer momentum Rseasons at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, in early July was named KU’s new head baseball coach. Price’s career coaching record is 501-403-1, and ark Francis coaches soccer to his Cal Poly teams recorded 30-win seasons be played “out of the back.” each of the past three years. “Ritch is one of the It’s a controlled, possession- top young coaches in the country,” said Stanford oriented style that depends coach Mark Marquess. “He’ll do a great job out Mon smart defenders launching plays there in Kansas. You guys got a good one.” Price smoothly with good passes to midfield. replaces Bobby Randall, who resigned in May after six seasons. ... Responsible So the sudden loss of senior defender pregame football tailgating has again been approved for designated parking lots Pardis Brown, twice picked second-team around Memorial Stadium. As part of the “Proud to be a Jayhawk” fundraising pro- All Big 12, created an unexpected void motion, pregame revelers will be invited to purchase game programs for $5, with for a team that in 2001 posted its first $1 from each sale benefiting KU’s Korean War Memorial Fund, the Marching winning record (13-7) and made its first Jayhawks, the KU/K-State Phi Gamma Delta Run for Leukemia, and KU sports clubs. NCAA tournament appearance since ... Former KU swimmer Clark Campbell, d’93, who spent the last four years as head soccer began at KU in 1995. swim coach at the University of Evansville, was named KU’s new swimming coach; Brown endured recurring concussions Megan Menzel, formerly of Colorado State, now leads the women’s golf team. throughout her career; soon before fall

18 | KANSAS ALUMNI ■ Cross country Sports Calendar SEPTEMBER 14 KSU Invitational, at Topeka

OCTOBER 20 at Nebraska ■ Football 5 at Oklahoma State 23 Missouri SEPTEMBER 27 at Kansas State 30 Colorado 14 Southwest Missouri State (Band ■ Men’s basketball Day) 21 Bowling Green (Parents’ Day) ■ NOVEMBER 28 at Tulsa Soccer 4 EA Sports All-Stars SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 12 Washburn 15 at Tulsa 5 at Baylor 19 Holy Cross (Preseason NIT) 19-21 at Evansville Tournament 12 Colorado (Homecoming) 27 Colorado 22 UNC-Greensboro or Wagner 19 Texas A&M 29 Nebraska (Preseason NIT) 26 at Missouri 27-29 at Preseason NIT, New York OCTOBER NOVEMBER 4 at Baylor DECEMBER 2 Kansas State 6 at Texas Tech 9 at Nebraska 4 Central Missouri State 11 Oklahoma State 16 Oklahoma State 7 vs. Oregon, at Portland 13 Oklahoma 18 Central Missouri State 11 at Tulsa ■ Volleyball 20 Iowa State 14 Emporia State 25 at Texas 21 UCLA 27 at Texas A&M SEPTEMBER 28 vs. California, at Oakland 13-14 Hampton Inn/Jayhawk NOVEMBER Classic 18 at Texas A&M 1 at Missouri 21 Oklahoma AARON DELESIE AARON 25 at Colorado ■ 28 Texas Tech Golf SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 23-24 Kansas Invitational (M) 1 UMKC 5 at Texas OCTOBER 9 Iowa State 7-8 at Missouri Bluffs Classic (M); at 12 Baylor Indiana (W) 16 Kansas State 19 at Missouri 14-15 at Wichita State (W) 23 Nebraska 25-27 at Stanford Invitational (M) 26 at Oklahoma 29-30 at Hawaii Invitational (W) 30 at Iowa State NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 4-5 vs. Stanford, UC-Davis, at La 2 Texas Quinta, Calif. (M) ■ 6 at Texas Tech Preseason volleyball practice in the Horesji 13 Texas A&M Family Athletics Center included endless net 16 at Baylor drills. The Jayhawks won their opener, 3 0, at Creighton Aug. 31.

ISSUE 5, 2002 | 19 1 ■ 1. New York City, 1978 A Toi Sahn widow with fan at home in a housing project apartment. FortuneUntold A PROFESSOR’S OWN ODYSSEY MOVED HIM TO DOCUMENT CHINESE IMMIGRANTS’ QUEST FOR A BETTER LIFE IN A GOLDEN LAND. HIS NEW BOOK SHOWS HOW THEIR FORGOTTEN SACRIFICES FURTHERED THE AMERICAN DREAMS OF THEIR DESCENDANTS.

ok Chi Lau was a 26-year-old before. Lau’s request to photograph him graduate student at the California prompted Chon to ask a question of his own: Institute of the Arts when he began Why me? traveling in the mid-1970s to San “I told him the history of the Chinese who Francisco’s Chinatown. There he worked in America, and how they smoothed the photographed the elderly Chinese road for future generations like mine,” Lau writes Pimmigrants living out their golden years in grim in Dreams of the Golden Mountain, a book of tenements and crowded skid row hostelries like black-and-white photographs documenting the the Mandarin Hotel. lives of North America’s Chinese immigrants With the help of a social worker, who intro- over the past quarter-century. duced the young photographer to the “I also hoped the photographs would con- Mandarin’s Cantonese maid, Lau—now associate vince the public to build more low-income hous- professor of art and design—penetrated the ing for the Chinese elderly. His eyes pierced locked front door to explore the hotel. Upstairs through his thick eyeglasses, and he asked how he met Mr. Chon, a laborer hobbled by age much the rent would be.” and hard work who was rumored to have last Part social documentary and part tribute, ventured outside his solitary quarters 13 years Dreams of the Golden Mountain juxtaposes the

BY STEVEN HILL PHOTOGRAPHS BY POK CHI LAU

ISSUE 5, 2002 | 21 ■ 2. San Francisco, 1983 Eastern and Western religious icons mix. 3. San Francisco, 1976 Mr. Chon with his walker and hot plate in his one room home, Mandarin Hotel. 4. Tonganoxie, Kansas, 1994 The Eurasian children of the Low family with Halloween outfits.

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heartbreak and hope, dignity and disap- pointment, naiveté and hard-won wisdom that Lau encountered in Chon and the other Chinese immigrants he photographed from Canada to Mexico over the past 25 years. It traces the arc of the immigrant experience from isolation to assimilation. Edited in Paris and printed in Hong Kong, the book features Lau’s comments on the stories behind the photographs. This text, printed in English, French and Mandarin Chinese, adds a layer of oral history to the photographic record. Lau initially set out to debunk the misconception of America as the Golden Mountain, a mythical land of wealth where fortunes are easily made. Elderly

4 Chinese bachelors, widows and long- married couples dominate the earliest

22 | KANSAS ALUMNI photos, intimate interior scenes that con- tradict the myth of the successful Asian businessman. In bleak one-room homes cluttered with meager possessions, the elderly live in isolation or families sleep shoehorned on shabby mattresses. Peeling walls plastered with family snap- shots, Chinese calendars and Eastern religious icons signify homesickness and cultural and spiritual displacement. Extension cords, coat hangers and card- board boxes predominate, a matrix of the make-do that suggests lives lived close to the bone. Yet there is dignity in the weathered faces. “I look at them now,” Lau says of the photographs from the mid-’70s, “and I know these people are probably dead. What the newcomers don’t recognize is the faith of these folks. These so-called

5 ignorant country people had such passion; they trusted each other as brothers. I am embarrassed and I ask myself: ‘Why don’t I have a brother like that? Where does this rawness, this engagement, come from?’ In my generation and the younger generation it is hard to find.” While younger generations may have loosened their connection to Chinese cultural, social and spiritual traditions, Lau’s later work suggests they gained something else: assimilation into the American mainstream. In photographs from the 1980s and ’90s, Eastern and Western icons mingle. Tonganoxie Chinese-American children show off Halloween costumes: a Mickey

■ 5. San Francisco, 1981 Leung Ah Sahm’s youngest son’s home with soft pornography for his wedding room. 6. San Francisco, 1976 One room home of a Cantonese widow with Catholic idols.

ISSUE 5, 2002 | 23 Mouse T-shirt, cowboy hat and toy pistol for one, a Chinese dragon’s head for the other. Catholic and Buddhist icons adorn the walls of prosperous middle- class homes, and Asian religious sym- bols crown a Midwestern-style salad bar in a busy Chinese restaurant. A refugee meticulously irons an American flag as he prepares to celebrate the Buddha’s birthday in Wichita. The first book in a planned trilogy on the Asian diaspora, Dreams of the Golden Mountain tells a story at once personal and universal. Lau himself emigrated from Hong Kong (as did his parents later) and worked in Chinese restaurants before attending college. Seeing first- hand the economic hardships endured by workers, whose exploitation recalled that of their 19th-century forebears who helped build America’s railroads, he set off across the West, photographing the legacy of those first-wave immigrants— the sweatshops, restaurants and laun- dries where a new generation of Chinese fortune-seekers toiled. While Lau’s work deals specifically with the Chinese people, it will resonate

■ 7. Tijuana, Mexico, 1993 Cafe Flor De Loto, Chinese restaurant and a cowboy street musician. 8. Tijuana, Mexico, 1992 Chop Suey with lime and Penafiel (pineapple soft drink). 9. Holtville, California, 1994 Uncle Fred and Aunt Sue, couple of arranged marriage, fifty years later.

24 | KANSAS ALUMNI 9 The Journey of Marriage

ncle Fred came to California at the age “Who’s getting married?” of eleven doing house servant and “You are!” restaurant work. At the age of eight- Uncle Fred and Aunt Sue have been happily een, he decided to pay a visit home to married since then. Simple folks have great joy. UChina. In the Pearl River delta district, one had They ran a big grocery store and raised three to ride many ferries. Upon arrival, on the cross- children in a tiny town called Holtville, among board towards the riverbank, he spotted his vegetable farmers in the desert of the Imperial uncle. He asked him, Valley of Southern California. “Hey, Uncle. Why are you so dressed up?” “I’m going to attend a feast.” From Dreams of the Golden Mountain “What feast?” by Pok Chi Lau “A wedding feast.” Pace Publishing, $65 10 with anyone who comes from immigrant portraits in the final section, “The stock, says Suko Lam, the book’s editor. Rainbow Coalition,” illustrate the rest- “Although different in details, the lessly global nature of contemporary story of his parents seems very similar to America. Lau’s portfolio of diversity that of my parents. Lau’s experiences of includes a Wichita family that makes a leaving his hometown for a foreign land mockery of racial profiling—the father is are also similar to mine.” Lam, a Hong African-American with Native American Kong émigré who lives in Paris, says Lau ancestry; the mother is Chinese- has preserved the history of men and Vietnamese. women who were largely forgotten in the “If we are conscious of what we teach land they left and not fully welcomed in our children, we can write a new page in the land they chose. “His works become human history,” Lau says. That message a witness to the dark and cold side of rings in the book’s final photo—a tightly history, an answer to why these people framed, out-of-focus portrait of a woman left their beloved home, a document of whose ethnicity is impossible to divine. how they lived with dignity in a land “We cannot—we should not—try to that was not exactly hospitable.” recognize the ethnic origins of people,” Lau believes that land has grown Lau explains. To do so opens the door more tolerant because of its immigrants, to hatred. “It’s a demon born within though that goodwill may have been us, but we have to try to not let the 11 tested by the fallout from Sept. 11. The demon out.”

26 | KANSAS ALUMNI ■ 10. Wichita, Kansas, 1993 Asian refugee immigrant ironing the flag in front of traditional Chinese deities for the Buddha’s birthday. 11. Vancouver, Canada, 1998 12. Lawrence, Kansas, 1999 Al, an African American, Native American and Caucasian mix; Trang, a Chinese Vietnamese refugee from Wichita; and their daughter, Audrey. 13. Lawrence, Kansas, 1988 Tyler Kakeru Lau, the photographer’s son, in his first few hours of being a Chinese/Japanese American.

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UMNI In the Abstract

WITH STATS, STORIES AND STINGING BY WIT, BASEBALL AUTHOR BILL JAMES STEVEN HILL CHRONICLES AMERICA'S tying run, then NATIONAL PASTIME takes third on a aseball’s sacrifice bunt. All-Star Game Then, with two out and has skulked into Yankee ace Andy Pettitte the record ahead 1-2 in the count, Sweeney books, asteriskedB in a tie; the threat breaks for home. of a season-ending strike looms like a Caught napping, Pettitte recovers black thundercloud on the near horizon; slowly. Sweeney’s slide just beats a hasty and somewhere in Arizona Ted Williams is throw: Royals lead, 2-1. still on ice. Bill James—the Guru of Baseball Statistics, And yet the game’s Sultan of Stats is, well, the Mozart of the Major Leagues—leaps to his feet. ecstatic. Originator of a system of baseball analysis that owes The sky above Kauffman Stadium glows royal more to the dispassionate mathematics of econom- blue in the summer twilight, washed clean by ics than the shout-and-joust of sports talk, Kansas City’s first real rain in weeks. A torrid James, c’73, d’75, created a new genre of August heat wave has broken; the breeze sportswriting in 1977, when he began pub- snapping the outfield flags like lishing The Baseball Abstract. Laden with shoeshine rags promises a night arcane statistics such as Runs jacket-cool and lazy. Element Ratio and Runs Created, The Kansas City Royals host the annual Abstract was to base- the New York Yankees, ball junkies what seed cata- who’ve won 10 of the last logs are to serious garden- 11 meetings between ers: sunshine in the teams. But in the December. sixth inning KC’s Typed, mimeo- Mike Sweeney graphed and doubles mailed from home the James’

ISSUE 5, 2002 | 29 Meet,” which celebrates the evocatively monikered: Emil “Hill Billy” Bildilli and Heinie Meine, to name two. AARON DELESIE AARON By most accounts, James has again hit one out of the park. “I am hardly ashamed or embarrassed to say that I have learned a great deal about baseball from reading James, but there are some among us who hesitate to give this man his proper credit because they deride him as just a math geek,” writes Boston Globe sportswriter Bob Ryan in a column praising the book. Ryan debunks the chief knock on James: that his work somehow reduces baseball to mere statistics, replacing the poetry and grace of America’s pastime with dense mathematical formulas that Joe Fan can’t follow. “In truth, he outcalculates all of us and outwrites most of us,” Ryan writes, noting that the quality of James’ ■ “This is a man who combines a mathematician’s brain with a fan’s soul,” prose, as much as says one sportswriter of baseball author Bill James. Since he began pub the “intriguing lishing his unique statistical analyses in 1977, James has established nature of his sta- himself among the pre eminent historians of the game. tistical finds,” dis- tinguishes him Lawrence home, the first abstracts were nuts simply from the legions of “amateur publications in the best sense called it their imitators he has of the word,” says longtime friend Jim bible, and they inspired. Carothers, professor of English. “He spent 17 years wait- Carothers, whose loved what he was doing and had a pas- ing for an update. course “The Literature sion for it.” That passion caught the eye Now they have it: The of Baseball” became one of of Sports Illustrated. Just before base- New Bill James Historical the University’s most popular ball’s first midseason strike, in 1981, SI Baseball Abstract (Free Press, $45), a when it was introduced in 1974, counts ran a photo of James at Royals Stadium, 998-page behemoth of a book, grandly his friend among the three best baseball with his Runs Created formula displayed surveys the game and the men who’ve writers of the day (with New Yorker on the stadium scoreboard. Ballantine played it. Salting careful statistical analy- magazine writer Roger Angell and Books called him up, and in 1982 the sis with provocative opinion, James Washington Post columnist Thomas homegrown publication that sold 75 sta- ranks the 100 best players at each posi- Boswell). He says there are two sides to pled copies its first year hit the big tion and traces the evolution of the game James’ appeal. leagues, approaching 50,000 in sales. since the 1870s, addressing the serious “Bill James writes in what we might With each subsequent Abstract selling and the silly. Boxed summaries for each call the vernacular: He uses the first per- better than the last, in 1985 James wrote decade mix sober calculations of com- son, he cusses a little, he uses the down- The Historical Baseball Abstract, a lively, petitive balance and home-field advan- home metaphor. But at the same time argumentative amalgamation of lucid tage with rosters of the period’s homeli- he’s writing about some of the most essays and complex formulas that gave est players (originally chosen by his wife, sophisticated questions of baseball freer reign to his inventive analysis and Susan McCarthy, c’77, f’81); analysis ever addressed.” cutting wit. With player rankings and “Retrobermanisms”—Frank (“I’d Follow His breakthrough answers to those decade-by-decade histories, The Historical You to”) Shellenback of the 1920s, for questions include coming to grips with Baseball Abstract stood as the sport’s Rise example; and a quirky little category fielding statistics, and inventing a new and Fall of the Roman Empire. Baseball called “Mr. Dickens I’d Like You to stat, called Win Shares, that quantifies

30 | KANSAS ALUMNI “People enjoy going to baseball games; they enjoy Bill James on: the green of the grass, the excitement of the moment. But what I think people enjoy most about Speeding up the game “Baseball’s poetic and lyrical celebrants baseball is trying to understand it.” —Bill James are fond of pointing out that baseball is the only major team sport without a clock. What these people don’t understand is that, until about 1945, baseball how many wins individual players earn mind on only a game. “If it is worthwhile did have a clock. It was called the sun.” for their team—“a very useful thing to to have these arguments,” he says sim- know when you’re trying to decide who ply, “it is worthwhile to have them in a should get the MVP award or who more organized and intelligent way.” Pete Rose belongs in the Hall of Fame,” James says. This much is clear: James cares deeply “Because of an article I wrote Carothers says James’ method is no about the sport he grew to love as a boy, about Pete Rose ten years ago, less than a quest for truth. pacing the floor of his Mayetta home as I am often confronted by people who “Bill has always been determined to he listened to a scratchy radio broadcast want to debate me about Pete Rose’s find out things he doesn’t know the of the Kansas City A’s during the magi- guilt or innocence (meaning whether answer to. He doesn’t accept received cal season of 1961. He cares so much he did or did not bet on baseball). wisdom: People say things about base- that he has begun to speak out about its I don’t like to be drawn into this ball, and he wants to know if they are flaws—not in how baseball is played, debate, for two reasons: true. I think that’s probably what distin- which he says has never been better, but 1. I don’t know, and guishes his writing from 95 percent of in how it’s staged. Tucked among the 2. You don’t know, either.” all writing about sport in America.” nearly 1,000 pages of his book are sug- Who is the best second baseman gestions for speeding up the game: limit- ever? Which strategy wins more games, ing pickoff throws to first, refusing to The Heaviest Hitter bunting and stealing or waiting for a call time for batters, reducing the wait of the 1990s home run pitch? Who had the better between innings and cutting down on “Cecil Fielder acknowledges a weight of career, Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle? mid-inning pitching changes. 261, leaving unanswered the question of The questions arise because fans care, But tonight, watching a low-scoring what he might weigh if he put his other and because debate is one way we affair that will go 14 innings before the foot on the scale.” extend our enjoyment beyond the Yankees finally snatch a win, the analyst, “excitement of the moment,” James feels. historian, gadfly—and, just maybe, one of More unusual, perhaps, is that James, the enduring poet laureates—of the Babe Ruth whose first degree is in economics, national sport seems content to stay as “Nothing could be more typical of brings a scientific mind to a subject long as the two teams are willing to play. Ruth than to use a corked bat if he more frequently explored by journalists As the dust clears could get by with it. and poets. “A lot of what I do is deriva- from Sweeney’s daring Ruth tested the limits tive of economic analysis and other dash to the plate, he of the rule constantly; social sciences. I apply it to baseball doesn’t point out that this was what made rather than to something serious,” he you’ve just witnessed the him who he was.” says. Thus a treatise on how a 1963 vote Royals’ first straight steal to expand the strike zone lopped 12 of home in 25 years. He points off the era’s batting averages is doesn’t remind you that Don Mossi explained with a parable on salary cuts Ty Cobb stole home 50 “Don Mossi was the and inflation. times, or Jackie complete, five-tool ugly Those who say that baseball is not Robinson 19 times. player. He could run merely statistics, that the dismal science What Bill James tells ugly, hit ugly, throw ugly, can never define the sweet mystery of a you, as he stands clap- field ugly and ugly for graceful swing, miss the point of Bill ping and hooting his power.” James’ analytical approach to making approval with 26,382 sense of the sport’s 130-year evolution. other baseball fans, is So do those who say he wastes a brilliant “That was cool!”

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s a war correspondent By Kristin Eliasberg for The Associated Press in Vietnam, Kelly Smith A tall, refined 62-year-old who retains 11, 2001, she helped direct AP’s Tunney knew writers her Kansas charm, Tunney has also con- response to that day’s horrific events. who were killed in com- quered the corporate world. In 1983 she Despite her accomplishments, she bat. But the first woman founded AP’s department of corporate remains innately modest. Asked to con- sent into a war zone by communications and became its director. tribute to journalism anthologies, she the wire service since World War II did- In 1984 she became an assistant general prefers to put forward the work of col- An’t let that scare her. “You can’t think manager, the only woman at the world’s leagues. When she talks about herself when you are scared,” she says now. oldest and largest news wire service to the conversation always returns to AP, Having risen to the top of her field, hold that title. In January she earned the where she has worked almost continu- Tunney, j’62, knows what she’s talking title vice president, again the first ously for 35 years. The job even gets about when she says journalists cannot woman to achieve that rank. credit for introducing Tunney to her hus- fear intimidation. Best known and Though she considers herself first band. admired for her reporting from Vietnam and foremost a reporter, Tunney moves A member of AP’s first investigative and elsewhere, Tunney found plenty of with ease between journalism and team, in Washington, D.C., in 1967, she chances to test her courage over the past administration. After her stint at AP’s was asked to dine with the brother of 40 years. She covered general news in corporate headquarters, she returned to Rep. John Tunney. Thinking the courtesy Miami during the Cuban missile crisis; Asia, serving as bureau chief in Seoul, might lead to valuable scoops from the reported from Washington, D.C., and the South Korea, during the ’80s and early congressman’s office, she agreed. Her South during the civil rights movement; ’90s, times of economic and political dinner date turned out to be Jay Tunney, and filed some of the most influential upheaval, nuclear threats and increased son of former heavyweight champion stories of the Vietnam War in 1967. world focus on the Pacific Rim. On Sept. Gene Tunney. He had seen Kelly’s pic-

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI ■ A photo from Tunney’s early years with t KU, Tunney’s work on the the Associated Press shows her aboard a heli University Daily Kansan pro- copter gunship in South Vietnam in vided valuable training in effec- 1967. Later, as chief of AP’s bureau in tive dust-stirring. Melvin Mencher,A then faculty adviser to the Seoul, South Korea, she interviewed Kansan and a big influence on Tunney, Lee Hee ho, the wife of Kim Dae jung, recalls those as “very difficult” days. now president of South Korea. For “It was grim,” Mencher says. “Those AP PHOTOS CENTER PHOTO BY BETH KEISER many years, Kim and his wife were lead students learned that you are obligated ing dissidents under governments run by to dig and reveal. They learned what it is military and authoritarian rulers. Today, like to publish truth in the face of ani- Tunney continues her career as vice presi mosity, to stand up for what you dent and director of corporate communi believe.” Mencher, who retired recently cations at AP’s international headquarters from the journalism faculty at Columbia in New York City. University, credits Tunney and fellow students for taking on what he calls “institutional racism.” Among the dis- criminatory practices student journalists ture in the Los Angeles Times, decided the way a man would,” Tunney says. criticized were segregated housing lists he wanted to marry her, and asked “Some women writers can tell wonderful that kept black students out of white his brother to arrange a meeting. stories about the woman’s experience neighborhoods. The ruse worked. They were and their emotional reactions, or talk Recalls Tunney: “We all got in trouble married a few weeks later and have about how they managed going to the with the chancellor several times, all got two children: Teressa, a Los Angeles bathroom while in the field, things like more or less kicked out once. We wrote actress and producer, and Jonathan, a that. But I don’t really remember any of about the civil rights movement. We Chicago bond trader. that. All I remember are the stories. I took on the state Legislature about edu- don’t remember ‘me, myself’; I remem- cational funding. Fairly often it put us in fter graduating from KU, ber what the people over there were a position of crossing swords with the Tunney turned down a doing.” administration.” women’s page job at the Wall Tunney co-wrote “A Day in the Life of Today, Tunney still identifies herself Street Journal, where many of Vietnam,” one of the most heavily as a product of the prairie: She rhap- herA classmates ended up. “Of course anthologized stories of the war, with sodizes about the sky and the vast hori- now our view of ‘women’s news’ has Peter Arnett, who in 1966 won the zon she grew up with. As if to prove that changed greatly,” she explains, “but then Pulitzer Prize in international reporting living all over the world has not made I guess I was snotty about it; I wanted to for his Vietnam coverage. The story her irretrievably worldly, she uses do general news.” She went to work in a chronicles all of South Vietnam: the expressions like “Jiminy Christmas” and Colorado bar instead, but within the Mekong Delta; the Marines in the far laughs at her own pop culture naiveté: year she joined the AP’s Miami bureau. north; the bustling city of Saigon; and She once spent an entire evening talking Her decision took some by surprise, the daily U.S. military briefings that to Phil Jackson with no idea that he is according to colleague Frank Morgan, Tunney and her colleagues called “the the celebrated coach of the Los Angeles j’61. “Kelly was wonderfully pleasant five o’clock follies,” in part because they Lakers. with a great warm laugh; you would downplayed the realities of the war. Growing up in Kansas, she says now, have expected her to end up as the Remembering the impact of that “your understanding of the world is dif- women’s page editor of her hometown story, Tunney explains, “Vietnam was—at ferent; you expect things to go beyond Wichita Beacon,” Morgan says. “Instead that time—a rather new kind of conflict, where you are—you know there are other she goes into the journalistic equivalent without a front and with an enemy that horizons. You are always an adventurer, of the Marine Corps, the AP, and excels was hard to define and search out. and you feel like there’s no limit to what as few men have or could have.” Americans at home had a difficult time you can do.” Perhaps Tunney blazed a trail for understanding why this could be so. ... That she has amply proven. women—as a correspondent and a corpo- This story, among others, stirred up the —Eliasberg is a New York City rate executive—precisely because she dust because it showed the variety of free-lance writer. doesn’t see gender distinctions. “Often lifestyles being lived by Americans as from women journalists people want the well as Vietnamese at this point in the woman’s angle, but I looked at Vietnam war—the fall of 1967.”

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are chosen by representatives Fred Ellsworth from the Chancellor’s Office and the Alumni, Athletics Medallion and Endowment associa- tions. The medallion is the This year’s award for service highest honor awarded by to KU goes to 2 alumni and a the Alumni Association for service to KU. longtime professor For years, Edwards, b’67, g’73, has helped recruit countless students to the University as an ompare the history of service shared by alumni volunteer for the Office of Admissions the three 2002 Fred Ellsworth and Scholarships. Dedicated to helping students Medallion recipients, and you’ll note with special needs participate in the KU commu- Three honored several similarities. Each medalist has nity, Edwards serves as a board member to the Cworked to improve the opportunities of all stu- Natural Ties Student Organization. Natural Ties, Jayhawks share dents—regardless of race or ability—to expand now a national group, was founded at KU in a passion for their cultural and academic horizons within the 1988 to support friendships between students expanding the University environment. and people with disabilities. opportunities This year’s medalists are R.A. Edwards, Since 1980 Edwards has lent his experience as Hutchinson; Cordell D. Meeks Jr., Kansas City, president and chief executive officer of the First for students. Kan.; and Professor Emeritus James E. Seaver, National Bank of Hutchinson to the School of Lawrence. They will be honored by the Business Board of Advisors. University community and the Alumni For the Association, life member Edwards has Association Board of Directors at a dinner Sept. served as a member of Jayhawks for Higher 20 at the Adams Alumni Center. Education, which communicates the needs of The Ellsworth medallion has been given since higher education to the Kansas Legislature. He 1975 to those who follow the example of extraor- also supports the Kansas Honors Program and dinary service to KU set by the Association’s has served as the alumni representative to the longtime executive secretary, Fred Ellsworth, KU Intercollegiate Athletics Corp. board. c’22, who retired in 1963 after 39 years. Winners continued on page 40

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38 | KANSAS ALUMNI Summer Sizzle JAYHAWKS CELEBRATE AT HOT AUGUST EVENTS JAYHAWK JOG PHOTOS: CHRIS LAZZARINO (3). AUGUST EVENTS: AARON DELESIE (3). AARON EVENTS: AUGUST CHRIS LAZZARINO (3). JOG PHOTOS: JAYHAWK

■ Nearly 200 Kansas City area alumni entered the Jayhawk Jog Aug. 3. The Kansas City chapter event benefited The Kansas Audio Reader Network, a reading service for the blind and visually impaired. Entrants in the Tot Trot included Aurora and Juliana Kuhn (top left), daughters of Greg, l’89, and Lucy Cupp Kuhn, c’92, s’95, Lenexa. Marilyn Lind, ’82, Topeka (top center), and her dog, Jaguar, participated in the Dog Guide Walk with Jim Boyd of Audio Reader. As students returned to campus, the Association welcomed more than 1,700 Aug. 19 at the annual Ice Cream Social (top right, center left). Students filled the parking lot, feasted on ice cream bars and cheered with the Spirit Squad before Traditions Night in Memorial Stadium (right), where nearly 5,000 gathered as the uninitiated learned the lyrics to the Alma Mater and the Fight Song.

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For the KU Endowment Association, Edwards is a trustee and a member of the executive committee. He and his e’re hatching Jayhawk wife, Terry Beach Edwards, c’67, are W members of the Chancellors Club, Elizabeth Watkins Society and the fun at the Kansas Alumni Williams Educational Fund. As Kansas district judge, Meeks, c’64, Association l’67, has earned a reputation for fairness on the bench; he brings this poise to his work for KU boards and committees. ■ Free Stuff. Stop by for free popcorn, There will be A second-generation law school alum- fun for all ages cotton candy and Jayhawk tattoos. nus, Meeks has an enduring interest in The popular giant nest returns! Kids opportunities for minority students, at the Adams of all ages will want to cra wl into our which led to his past role on the advi- Alumni Center nest and have a Polaroid taken with sory board for minority development for the Association’s enormous Jayhawk. the School of Nursing. He also serves as on October 5 a member of the community development advisory board for The Juniper during the ■ “Whack the Cat” Piñata Game. Gardens Children’s Project, which works University’s No true blue bird could resist taking to improve the lives of at-risk children in urban communities. His dedication to Open House. a swing at our cat piñatas, which are stuffed full of prizes and toys. Noon improving the accessibility of higher education also is evident in his work on and 1 p.m. the advisory board for KU’s Edwards Campus in Overland Park. ■ Peach basket For the School of Law, Meeks is a Toss. Step back member and past president of the Law in time and Society Board of Governors. For the Association, life member experience Meeks served as national chairman from basketball the 1997 to 1998. He presided as a speaker way James for the Kansas Honors Program and has Naismith first participated as a member of Jayhawks played it. for Higher Education. He is former steer- ing committee member for the Rock Chalk Ball, a Kansas City event hosted by the Greater Kansas City alumni chap- For more information, ter to benefit the recruitment and reten- visit our Web site at tion of National Merit Scholars at KU. www.kualumni.org or For the KU Endowment Association, Meeks and his wife, Mary Ann Suther- call 800-584-2957. land Meeks, c’67, are members of the Chancellors Club. Meeks was a member of the Campaign Kansas National Council and a Greater University Fund advisory board alumni member in the early 1990s. In 1995 Meeks received the Distinguished Service Citation, the highest honor bestowed by the University

40 | KANSAS ALUMNI and the Alumni Association for service to humanity. In 2001 the School of Law honored him with its Distinguished Alumnus Citation. Professor Emeritus James E. Seaver The Alumni Association was established in 1883 for the purpose of strengthening loyalty, friendship, com heightened the cultural awareness of sev- mitment and communication among graduates, former and current students, parents, faculty, staff and all eral generations of KU students during other friends of The University of Kansas. Its members hereby unite into an Association to achieve unity of his 25-year tenure as director of the purpose and action to serve the best interests of The University and its constituencies. The Association is Western Civilization program. But his organized exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. contributions to the cultural landscape on Mount Oread have not been limited Board of Directors Mary Kay Paige McPhee, ALUMNI CENTER to the classroom. d’49, Kansas City, Missouri Bryan Greve John W. Mize, c’72, Salina Director of AAC Services As campus radio station KANU—now CHAIR and Jayhawk Society Robert L. Driscoll, c’61, l’64, known as Kansas Public Radio—cele- DIRECTORS TO JULY 2005 Mike Wellman, c’86 Kansas City, Missouri brates its 50-year anniversary, Seaver Nancy Borel Ellis, d’63, Director of Special Projects also reaches the half-century mark as EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIR Pinehurst, North Carolina and AAC Facility Manager volunteer host of the station’s “Opera Sydnie Bowling Linda Duston Warren, Kampschroeder, c’65, FINANCE Is My Hobby” program. He also con- c’66, m’70, Hanover Naperville, Illinois Dwight Parman tributes countless hours to catalog EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Craig B. Swenson, e’59, Sr VP for Finance & KU’s Archive of Recorded Sound, to Lee’s Summit, Missouri Treasurer which he donated more than 24,000 Jim Adam, e’56, opera records. Overland Park DIRECTORS TO JULY 2006 COMMUNICATIONS Tim S. Dibble, d’74, Jill Sadowsky Docking, Chris Lazzarino, j’86 Described by colleagues as a Issaquah, Washington c’78, g’84, Wichita Managing Editor, Renaissance man, Seaver also taught in Robert L. Driscoll, c’61, l’64, Marvin R. Motley, Kansas Alumni Magazine the department of history and served as Kansas City, Missouri c’77, l’80, g’81, Leawood Jennifer Sanner, j’81 a faculty member for the Office of Study Reid Holbrook, c’64, l’66, David B. Wescoe, c’76, Sr VP for Communications Abroad, leading students on interna- Overland Park Mequon, Wisconsin and Editor, Kansas Alumni Janet Martin McKinney, c’74, Magazine tional art and architecture tours. A noted Port Ludlow, Washington DIRECTORS TO JULY 2007 Susan Younger, f ’91 authority on Jewish history, Seaver is Deloris Strickland Pinkard, Con Keating, c’63, Lincoln, Art Director the author of The Persecution of Jews in g’80, EdD’95, Kansas City Nebraska the Roman Empire, and during his career Carol Swanson Ritchie, Joe Morris, b’61, Leawood MEMBERSHIP Allyn Risley, e’72, Jennifer M. Alderdice, g’99 he received two Fulbright grants and a d’54, Wichita Linda Duston Warren, Bartlesville, Oklahoma Director of Student Programs Carnegie Foundation grant to advance c’66, m’70, Hanover Sheila M. Immel, c’69, g’84 his scholarly work. The department HONORARY MEMBERS Senior VP for Membership of humanities and Western Civilization VICE CHAIRS Gene A. Budig, EdD, instituted the James E. Seaver Lecture Larry J. Borden, b’62, g’67, Princeton, New Jersey MEMBERSHIP SERVICES E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., Carolyn Barnes, c’80 Series on Continuing Issues in Colorado Springs, Colorado Tim S. Dibble, d’74, PhD, San Antonio, Texas Director of the Kansas Western Civilization to honor his Issaquah, Washington Archie R. Dykes, EdD, Honors Program enduring vision. John P. Hanna, c’65, d’66, g’67, Nashville, Tennessee Kirk Cerny, c’92, g’98 In 1985 Seaver received the PhD’73, St. Petersburg,Florida Delbert M. Shankel, PhD, Sr VP for Membership Chancellors Club Teaching professor- Delano E. Lewis, c’60, Mesilla, Lawrence Services New Mexico W. Clarke Wescoe, MD, Kelly Kidwell, c’01 ship, which he held until his retirement. Mission Asst. Director of Chapter A three-time past chairman of the DIRECTORS TO JULY 2003 and Constituent Programs Donna Neuner, ’76 University’s Senate Executive committee, Sidney Ashton Garrett, Administrative Staff his involvement is considered instru- c’68, d’70, Lawrence Director of Membership Deloris Strickland Pinkard, Services mental to shaping the state of University ADMINISTRATION g’80, EdD’95, Kansas City governance today. Kay Henry RECORDS David R. Rankin, p’63, Seaver and his wife, Virginia, are Sr VP for Administration and Bill Green Phillipsburg members of the Alumni Association’s Human Resources Sr VP for Information Fred B. Williams Endacott Society for retired KU faculty DIRECTORS TO JULY 2004 Services President and CEO A. Drue Jennings, d’68, l’72, Nancy Peine and staff, and former members of Vice President for Records Jayhawks for Higher Education. Leawood —Andrea Hoag

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RALPH CHENEY

THOMAS E. SLAUGHTER JR. graduated from Summit High School in Summit, N.J., where he lettered in both golf and basketball. He is the son of Thomas E., j’72, and Pamela Slaughter, of Summit, N.J. Tom is the grandson of Priscilla Cheney Slaughter, c’47, of Salina, the great-grandson of Ralph Cheney, e’33, and the great-great-grandson of Enos Cheney, THOMAS SLAUGHTER m1891.

Neither the Bengtsons nor the Browns realized they were sending a pair of second cousins to KU this fall, but when Silas S. Brown from the Class of 1895 appeared in both family trees, it was clear we were onto something unique. Just a few quick phone calls later, two branches of a family with deeply intertwined KU roots were finally BLAIR BLINCOE graduated from reunited. Wouldn’t Silas be proud? Woodward Academy, where she was captain of the lacrosse team and a member PATRICK BENGTSON is a Kansas of the Georgia Lacrosse Foundation’s Honor Scholar and Summerfield 2002 All-State team. In addition to her Scholar who graduated from academic success, Blair was also a mem- Lawrence High School as co-valedic- ber of the choir and explored her talents torian. His academic excellence gar- behind the camera. She is the daughter nered him the Dale M. Dennis of William, m’79, and Martha Marley Excellence in Education Award. Blincoe, g’81, of Atlanta. Her grandpar- Patrick is the son of Professor Timothy Bengtson, assoc., and ents are Edward, e’49, and Betty Armstrong Blincoe, ’51, of Kathryn Ward Bengtson, assoc., Lawrence, and the grandson Denver. Blair is the great-granddaughter of Ernest, c’15, l’17, of Margaret Brown Ward, c’40. Patrick’s great-grandfather and Frances Irvine Blincoe, c’17. was Silas S. Brown, c1895. He follows his brother Andrew, b’99, c’99, to Mount Oread. Don’t expect RANDALL P. DAVIS to slow down STEPHEN BROWN is a National when he arrives on Honor Society Scholar from Storm Mount Oread. Much of Lake High School in Storm Lake, Iowa. his time outside of Stephen lent his musical talent to both Syracuse High School the jazz and concert bands, and played was spent flying planes soccer as well. He is the son of Douglas or riding motorcycles. Brown, c’74, of Garden City, and Janys Randy’s parents are Mark, b’80, and Hoyer Schroeder of Oyens, Iowa. He is Donna Bushman Davis of Syracuse. His the grandson of Robert Brown, m’49, grandparents are Ronald, b’56, and Janet Daugherty Davis, Wichita, and the late Alice Brown ’57, of Syracuse, and his great-grandfather was William S. Brown, c’45. His great-grandparents were Ernest Brown, Daugherty, p’29. e’24, and Silas S. Brown, c1895.

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TYLER DOCKING is a Kansas Honor Scholar from Olathe East High School, where he was president of the National Honor Society and played varsity golf. He remained on the honor roll all four years and received a board of education citizenship award his senior year. Tyler is the son of Griffith, j’80, and Cynthia Arboe Docking, b’80, Overland Park, IAN HORNER was the photo editor of and the grandson of George, the newspaper at Pembroke Hill High b’52, l’57, and Marcia Horn School. In addition to his flair for the visual arts, Ian culti- Docking, j’53, of Kansas vated his political interests in the Liberals Club. He is the son City. Tyler’s great-grandpar- of J. Michael, e’70, b’70, and Kathleen McGreevy Horner, c’69, ents were George, c’25, of Shawnee Mission. Ian’s grandparents were the late John, and Virginia Blackwell e’47, and Mary Jane Miller Horner, ’43. He is the great-grand- Docking, d’24. son of Oliver H. Horner, e’14.

ANNE DOMANN graduated from Central Bucks High Twins MARYNELL and ARTHUR School in Doylestown, Pa., where she was on the student JONES graduated from Marcus High council and Key School in Flower Mound, Texas. Club all four years. Marynell’s academic achievement Anne demonstrated placed her within the top 10 percent her philanthropy as of her class. Her volunteer work took a Red Cross Blood her to Mexico, and she helped build Drive volunteer and handicapped ramps at church camp. spent three years Arthur was a National Honor Society participating in the member and displayed his musical gifts in school productions Philadelphia AIDS of “Grease,” “Funny Girl” and “42nd Street.” Marynell and Walk. She is the Arthur are the children of Scott Jones, c’77, and Mary Lou daughter of Dave, Reece, c’77, of Highland Village, Texas. Grandparents are Bill, p’76, and Libby Von Ruden Domann, n’77, of Doylestown, b’41, and Marynell Dyatt Reece, c’42, Scandia. The twins’ Pa., and the granddaughter of Shirley Hoyt Von Ruden, c’49, great-grandmother was Nelle Taylor Dyatt, who received her of Hutchinson. Anne’s great-grandmother was Ruth Horton certificate of nursing from KU in 1909. Hoyt, c’16.

ALENA ELIZABETH LOYD is ELLEN LEE HESS, known as Elle to Kansas Honor Scholar from Shawnee friends, attended Shawnee Mission East Mission North High School. Alena’s High School. Her extracurricular activi- academic achievement won her recogni- ties kept her “on pointe”—she was a tion as a National Merit Commended member of the State Ballet of Missouri student, and outside the classroom and performed in “The Nutcracker she played in the band and acted in Suite” for seven years. Elle is the daugh- drama. Her parents are Allen Loyd III, ter of William, b’69, l’73, and Jane c’73, m’80, and Barbara McGrew Hess, d’69, of Fairway. Her Johnson Loyd, d’73, of paternal grandparents are Mary Anne Osawatomie. Her paternal White Hess, ’39, of Kansas City, Mo., and the late Charles grandmother is Virginia Hess, c’33, l’35. Elle’s maternal grandfather was John Rader Loyd, c’45, of Ottawa, McGrew, c’25, m’27. She is the great-granddaughter of and her maternal grandfather William White, c1902. is Gordon Johnson, PhD’65, of Shawnee Mission. Alena’s great-grandparents were Alex, c’15, g’17, and Elma Ruth Buchanan Rader, c’14.

44 | KANSAS ALUMNI DAVID RALLS earned High School as class valedictorian. She was also editor of her the rank of Eagle Scout school newspaper, president of student council and captain of during his years at both the cross-country and cheerleading teams. Meghan is the Shawnee Mission East daughter of Lee, c’74, l’77, and Mari Baird Tetwiler, c’77. Her High School, and his grandmother was Josephine Lee Tetwiler, c’35, and her great- work for the community grandfather was Hugh Lee, c’08. included volunteer service with Habitat for Humanity. He is the son of Richard Ralls EMILY ANNE YESSEN, a Kansas Honor and Anne Henry, d’72, l’75, Shawnee Scholar, graduated from Lawrence Free Mission, and the grandson of Clark L., c’44, m’47, g’52, and State High School, where she was active Jane Priest Henry, c’46, of Fairway. Two of David’s great- in student council. Emily’s grades gar- grandmothers attended KU. Trine Latta Henry graduated in nered her the Principal’s Mark of 1914 and Eva Dimond Priest attended classes in 1920. David Excellence Award and athletic ability follows his brother, Andrew, ’03, to the Hill. secured her spots on both the tennis and basketball teams. She is the daughter of Robin, b’74, g’76, and Barbara WILLIAM FRANK RUSSELL gradu- Nauman Yessen, c’75, Lawrence, and ated from Wheaton Warrenville South the granddaughter of Clarence D. Nauman, b’50, and High School in Warrenville, Ill., where LaVonne Newman Nauman, ’62, of Lawrence. Emily’s he was editor of the newspaper and won great-grandmother was Dorothy Martin Newman, g’58. the lead in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” William was also a member of the state championship volleyball team. He CARA LYNNE ZIMMERMAN gradu- is the son of Stuart and Laurie Forst ated from Shawnee Mission Northwest Russell, d’73, Wheaton, Ill., and the High School, where she remained on the grandson of Laurie, e’43, and June Hammett Russell, of honor roll all four years and served as Omaha, Neb. William’s great-grandfather was Frank A. co-president of SADD. She currently Russell, e’08, g’18. plans to study engineering, making Cara the fourth generation of Jayhawks in her family to pursue the field. She is JENNIFER ANN the daughter of Robert, e’72, and LOUISE SHELDON- Annette Russell Zimmerman, SHERMAN is a Kansas c’72, c’73, of Lenexa. Her Honor Scholar from grandparents are Laurie, e’43, Lawrence Free State High and June Hammett Russell, School, where she was f’43, of Omaha. Cara’s great- valedictorian of her class. grandfather was Frank A. Her academic accomplishments garnered Russell, e’08, and g’18. her the President’s Award for Academic Excellence. For her prowess with a pen, Jennifer won the NCTE National Writing Contest. She is the daughter of James Sherman and Jan Sheldon, c’71, PhD’74, l’77. Both ■ The popularity of clubs of Jennifer’s parents are professors in the featuring the “new” disco KU department of human development rage reached glittering heights and family life. Her maternal grand- soon after Saturday Night mother is Louise Bowen Sheldon, c’40, Fever hit theatres in 1977. of Independence. Jennifer is the great- granddaughter of Louis H. Bowen, Until the early ’80s, no self Class of 1902. respecting jukebox was worth its 25 cent fee unless it fea tured an array of hits from MEGHAN LEE TETWILER, a Kansas the Bee Gees. Honor Scholar, graduated from Paola

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sister, Katie, on the Hill this fall. Jay is the son of Brian, c’77, and Elizabeth Mitchell Gaudreau, d’77, g’78, of Wichita. His grandparents are David, e’49, and Mary Carolyn Daugherty Mitchell, f’49, of Tulsa, and the late W.B. “Bid” Gaudreau, b’50, of Wichita.

JASON HARDWICK honed his artistic talent at Olathe East High KARLSSON "KARL" School, where he earned awards BANKS graduated from for both his artwork and photogra- Topeka West High School, phy. He is the son of Gary, ’77, and where his dramatic abilities Laura Holmberg Stack, n’78, and landed him the role of Tony the grandson of Merrill, b’52, and Mary Lou Holmberg of in “West Side Story.” Karl Overland Park. was principal cellist in the orchestra and active in other Topeka-area music groups. He is the son of Robert, With a great-grandfather like D.M. d’76, and Jenifer Dahlstrom Banks, d’76, Swarthout, dean of the School of c’76, g’80, of Topeka. Karl’s grandparents are Robert Banks, Fine Arts from 1923 to 1950, it c’51, m’55, and Shirley Smith Banks, ’52, of Paola. should come as no surprise that EMMA KATE HAYES has an abid- ing interest in music. Emma gradu- ANDREW COLEMAN, Kansas ated from Friends Seminary in New Honor Scholar, graduated from York, where she played the flute in the Chamber Wichita High School Northwest, Players Ensemble and lent her talents to a pro- where he was co-captain of his var- duction of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” She sity basketball team and honored is the daughter of Bryant, c’64, and Jennifer for outstanding achievement in Hayes, New York City. Emma’s grandmother German studies. Andrew was a was Evelyn Swarthout Hayes, f’32. DEAN SWARTHOUT nominee for the Kansas State Board of Regents Honors Academy and received his school’s student-athlete award. He is the son of George, assoc., and Jennifer Speer Coleman, c’68, STEPHANI HEIDER graduated from Lawrence Wichita, and the grandson of the late A.H. Speer, ’42. Free State High School, where she was on the first team All-Sunflower League and named a volleyball all-star for the state of Kansas. Stephani’s BRANDON MICHAEL FORD is an Eagle Scout academic achievement earned her recognition as from St. Thomas Aquinas High School, where he a National Honor Society Scholar and she was a played both soccer and tennis and was a Kansas member of the chamber choir. She is the daugh- ACT Scholar. He is the son of William, e’79, and ter of Mark, c’75, and Valecia “Chris” Pollard Heider, d’76, Alisa Speckin Ford, b’79, Lenexa. Brandon’s g’95. Stephani is the granddaughter of Reese, d’51, EdD’71, grandfather is the late Paul Speckin, e’61. and Audrey Oberhelman Pollard, g’80, of Overland Park.

JAY GAUDREAU excelled AMBER KLAVER is a graduate of both academically and ath- Maize High School, where she was letically at Wichita’s a member of the National Honor Kapaun-Mt. Carmel High Society. During senior year, Amber School, where he was a gained new perspectives on nature member of the football, and ecology by participating in track and wrestling teams. Outward Bound, and was also Jay’s charitable work in his community active in her church. She is the daughter of James, b’70, l’74, included tutoring elementary students at and Robin Klaver, Wichita. Amber’s grandmother is the late Blessed Sacrament School. He joins his Mary Schultz Klaver, c’35.

46 | KANSAS ALUMNI STEPHEN MAYER graduated from EMILY PUTBRESE graduated from Red River High School Wichita High School East, where he and is the daughter of David and Anne Schenkein Putbrese, demonstrated his talents on both c’73, of Grand Forks, N.D. the basketball and tennis courts. He is the son of Donald and Francie WESTON ROCKERS graduated from Anderson County Kaelson Mayer, f’73, Wichita, and High School. He is the son of Michael, b’71, and Nancy the grandson of Paul Kaelson, m’50. Rockers, of Greeley. He joins his brother, Sennett, on the Hill.

KEVIN POPPE’S greatest achievement during his years at MITCHELL RUSSELL graduated from Bishop Miege High Rockhurst High School included more than 200 hours of vol- School. He is the son of Glen, ‘75, and Marsha Kavanaugh- unteer work in his community. He was also a member of the Russell, c’74, c’75, of Mission. varsity swim team and played the clarinet in MARY RYAN graduated from Shawnee Mission East High the orchestra. He is School and is the daughter of Michael Ryan, c’68, m’72, of the son of Thomas, Mission Hills, and Ellen Yaun Ryan, c’71, of Fairway. b’72, and Carol Engel Poppe, c’77, Leawood, JOSHUA STUCKY graduated from Marcus High School, and the grandson of Flower Mound, Texas, and is the son of Michael, b’80, and Dale, b’51, and Mary Kimberly Stucky, of Highland Village. Swanson Engel, ’52, Rockport, Texas. Mary Swanson Engel was involved in the first Rock Chalk Revue on campus. Special thanks to Stefanie Shackelford, Alumni Association records specialist, for her genealogical research.

Perfect accessories for any celebration! Great for birthdays, NATHAN COOPER graduated from Newton North High picnics, tailgating, TV watch School and is the son of Thomas Cooper and Linda C. Loney, parties, or anytme you want to add KU flair! c’71, of Newton, Mass. Kids’ Spirit Kit includes: • 6 Stand up Jayhawks KATHANNA CHRISTINE CULP graduated from Holy • 6 balloons Spirit Catholic High School. She is the daughter of Rex, c’69, •12 tattoos g’71, PhD’73, l’85, and Anne McDonald Culp, g’89, of • 12 stickers • 6 pencils Tuscaloosa, Ala. • 6 boxes of crayons (4 per pkg) ANGELA CHRISTINE ERRANTE graduated from St. •18 KU coloring sheets •2 pompoms Teresa’s Academy. She is the daughter of John, ‘92, and Jolene Danaher Errante, g’79, of Lenexa. $18 Plus shipping and Kansas LAUREN FULMER graduated from Trinity Academy. She is sales tax, where applicable. Additional balloons and the daughter of Britt, j’76, and Brenda Fulmer, of Wichita. pompoms are optional.

STEPHEN C. INNES graduated from Blue Valley Northwest. Watch Party Kits are also available—follow He is the son of Bob and Barbara Young Innes, s’73, s’76, the ’Hawks and party Overland Park. in style! KERRY MCCOURT graduated from Onaga High School. For more information contact the Kansas Alumni She is the daughter of William, d’77, and Marilyn McCourt Association, 800-584-5397, or www.kualumni.org of Onaga.

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1940 Robert Macy, j’59, was inducted into First National Bank. He lives in Prairie George Eschbaugh, f’40, makes his the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame last Village. home in Wilson. year. He and his wife, Melinda, live in Las Vegas. 1966 1944 Richard Bower, p’66, is a pharmacist Marvin Thompson, c’44, l’46, is a 1960 at Pascack Valley Hospital. He lives in partner in the Russell law firm of Richard Bennett, b’60, a retired CPA, Demarest, N.J. Thompson, Arthur & Davidson. makes his home in Lawrence. Ed Buchwald, PhD’66, recently became the McBride Professor Emeritus 1951 1961 of Geology and Environmental Studies Phillip Godwin, c’51, m’55, was Thelma Curl, g’61, lives in Kansas at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. named a Substantial Citizen for 2002 by City, where she’s a retired teacher. William, c’66, m’70, and Judi Golden the Lawrence Kiwanis Club. He practices Robert Farris, e’61, l’64, practices law Walker, ’66, divide their time between medicine in Lawrence. with Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kessel homes in Hilton Head Island, S.C., and in Saginaw, Mich. Hubbard Lake, Mich. Bill recently retired 1955 Barbara Thomas Freeland, c’61, from Radiologic Professional Services in Joseph, c’55, g’70, and Charlene enjoys volunteer work, traveling and Lawrence. Welsh Cox, ’70, divide their time golf. She lives in Leawood. between homes in Grant City, Mo., 1967 Genesee, Colo., and Fredericksburg, 1962 Harry Baum, d’67, g’73, EdD’80, is Texas. Michael Carvan, e’62, recently joined president of C&H Healthcare in HNTB Architects Engineers Planners as a Weatherby Lake, Mo. 1956 project engineer and squad leader for Bob Boyd, d’67, recently became exec- Loyde Hales, d’56, g’60, EdD’64, is a the structural design group. He lives in utive vice president of corporate real- professor at Portland State University in Freeman, Mo. estate services at Grubb & Ellis/Martens Portland, Ore. He and Annie Loudon Marilyn Zarter Wallace, d’62, works Commerical Group in Hutchinson. Hales, ’66, live in Aloha. as a fine-home specialist for Prudential John Carter, f’67, c’73, recently was Real Estate. She lives in Wichita. elected to the Kansas Dental 1957 Association’s 5th District Dental Society. James Edwards, c’57, is retired in 1963 He practices in Overland Park and also Houston. Carl Peck, c’63, directs the Center for serves as secretary of the American Betty Swenson, c’57, makes her home Drug Development at Georgetown Board of Orthodontics’ College of in Hannibal, Mo. University in Washington, D.C. He Diplomates. received an honorary doctorate earlier Edward Herman, c’67, has been pro- 1958 this year from Uppsala University in moted to senior vice president at the Robert Davies, b’58, recently retired Uppsala, Sweden. Bank of Blue Valley. He lives in Ray- in Morristown, N.J. town, Mo. Sandra Herron Hanson, n’58, g’74, 1964 Carol Sullivan Wohlford, c’67, coordi- assistant professor of nursing at KU Robert Dennet, e’64, g’66, is a senior nates community outreach for Great Medical Center, recently received the consultant for CMAI in Houston. Plains Earth Institute. She lives in Phyllis Keeney Lawrence Teaching Wichita. Award for her contributions to nursing 1965 education. She lives in Overland Park. Brian Firkins, a’65, recently joined 1968 the management team of HOK Sport Christine Katz Becicka, d’68, g’81, 1959 Venue Events. He lives in Shawnee recently became a managing partner at Martha Friedmeyer, c’59, teaches Mission. HCap International. She lives in exercise and pre-catechism classes in Samuel Zickefoose, c’65, l’68, man- Overland Park. Clinton, Mo. ages the wealth management group at David Cooper, c’68, is executive vice

48 | KANSAS ALUMNI president of HomeServices.Com. He County School System. He lives in Stanley Plummer, d’73, teaches with lives in Fairway. Chamblee, Ga. USD 368 in Paola. Frederick Pinne, c’68, retired in June from Central Missouri State University in 1973 1974 Warrensburg. He and Wendy Raymond Cynthia Douglass, c’73, recently was Wayne Burge, c’74, recently was pro- Pinne, ’70, recently moved to Lawrence. appointed to the U.S. Department of moted to vice president of provider-con- Linda Nemeth Starkey, d’68, is asso- Labor’s Administrative Review Board. tracting reimbursement at Blue Cross ciate director of opera/musical theater at She lives in Alexandria, Va. and Blue Shield of Kansas City. He lives Wichita State University. Mikio Hase, g’73, is CEO of Hase- in Leawood. Honsha in Kyoto, Japan. James Doepke, d’74, directs bands at 1969 Jerry Brasel, l’69, is an attorney and adviser for the Defense Information Systems Agency in Greenwood Village, Co. He lives in Highlands Ranch. Pamela Gardner Geer, c’69, lives in Overland Park and is associate executive director of the St. Luke’s Hospital Foundation in Kansas City. Rodger Taylor, c’69, recently joined Merrill Lynch as a financial adviser. He lives in Wichita.

1970 Hank Booth, ’70, manager of KLWN- KLZR radio in Lawrence, was named a Substantial Citizen for 2002 by the Lawrence Kiwanis Club. Gregory Gutting, c’70, teaches in the North East Independent School District in San Antonio.

1971 Edward Flynn, d’71, has been promoted to senior therapeutic manager at Glaxo Smith Kline Pharmaceuticals. He lives in Lenexa. Robert Lattimer, PhD’71, works as a physical and analytical chemist at Noveon in Cleveland. He lives in Hudson. Tony Rollins, g’71, PhD’73, owns Knowledgegate, an education consulting company which focuses on systems thinking and organization learning in schools. He lives in Tucson, Ariz.

1972 Lucinda Kemper, c’72, recently became environmental director of Johnson County. She lives in Shawnee Mission. Patrick Welsh, g’72, teaches Chinese, German and Spanish for the DeKalb

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Waukesha North High School in Waukesha, Wis. Ronald Gans, g’74, recently became an associate with Ellerbe Becket in Kansas City. Gary Milburn, c’74, g’79, is vice president of American Medical Laboratories and scientific director of the Molecular Diagnostics and Virology Laboratories in Chantilly, Va. He lives in Fairfax. David Swenson, a’74, recently became an associate with Mahlum Architects in Seattle. He lives on Bainbridge Island. Kathleen Turner, c’74, is the Knight- Crane Chair of Communication at Queens College in Charlotte, N.C. She lives in Cornelius.

1975 Martin Bauer, l’75, is a partner in the Wichita law firm of Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace. J. Michael Sanner, b’75, recently became managing partner with Ernst & Young in Oklahoma City.

1976 John Isaacs, p’76, is a pharmacist at Caney Drug in Caney. He lives in Coffeyville. Michael Schmidt, c’76, m’79, practices Christopher, 11. Genaissance Pharmaceuticals in New orthopedic medicine in Topeka, where Tom Krattli, b’78, recently became Haven, Conn. She and her husband, he and Vickie Ensz Schmidt, p’78, make president and CEO of Kansas City Title Steven, c’80, live in Hamden. their home. Services. He lives in Stilwell. Vicki Hooper, a’81, a’82, directs discipline support and is an associate vice 1977 1979 president at HGA Architects in Lyle Boll, j’77, is senior vice president Julie Nocolay Larrivee, j’79, is a free- Minneapolis, Minn. and general counsel for Millennium lance writer for Lakeshore Newspapers Hotels and Resorts in Greenwood and Lifestyle magazine. She and her hus- 1982 Village, Colo. He lives in Highlands band, Wayne, live in Grafton, Wis. He’s Mitchell Crain, e’82, l’89, practices Ranch. the play-by-play broadcaster for the law with Shughart Thomson & Kilroy in Deadra Milne Halsey, d’77, works as Green Bay Packers. Kansas City. senior planner for Follett Higher Jean Folkerts Towns, g’79, PhD’81, is a Jo Lynn Hardesty, c’82, l’86, director Education Group in Oak Brook, Ill. She professor and director of media affairs at of KU’s Legal Services for Students, was lives in Elmhurst. George Washington University in named KU Unclassified Employee of the Eddy Seger, d’77, teaches art and Washington, D.C. She lives in Year in May. She lives in Lawrence. drama at Caesar Rodney High School in Alexandria, Va. Camden, Del. He lives in Clayton. BORN TO: 1981 Everett Perrin, b’82, and Stephanie, 1978 Laura Bell Fitzmorris, d’81, is assis- daughter, Madison Ainsley, May 15 in Larry Haas, b’78, is a senior finance tant principal at Fredonia High School. Gainesville, Fla. analyst at Boeing. He and his wife, Melodie Funk Henderson, c’81, Reid, c’82, and Mary Steuby Scofield, Betty, live in Augusta with their recently was promoted to vice president j’91, twin daughters, Caroline Marie and children, Sarah, 15; Clinton, 12; and of intellectual capital and licensing at Lauren Elizabeth, May 14 in Leawood,

50 | KANSAS ALUMNI where they join a sister, Katherine, 4. Psychiatric Hospital in Ohbu City, Japan. Reid is CEO of Southwest Petroleum and Abbie Troup Wallace, PhD’84, makes Sterling Energy in Overland Park. her home in Charleston, S.C.

1983 1985 Richard Worrel, e’83, lives in Barbara Grosskreutz Carver, c’85, is Overland Park, where he’s president of assistant to the president of the the Larkin Group, a consulting engineer- University of New Mexico-Albuquerque. ing firm. Lori Elliott-Bartle, j’85, produces and hosts a weekly radio interview show MARRIED about health at Creighton University. Gregory Everage, c’83, to Laura She lives in Omaha, Neb. Gorman, March 10 in Coral Gabels, Fla. Terry Hammond, g’85, is senior They live in Santa Monica, Calif. Gregory program manager at Midwest Research is general manager of a design house in Institute in Palm Beach, Fla. Hollywood, and Laura is managing editor of Gourmet Retailer magazine. 1986 Brian Stucky, c’83, to Kara Lee Paul Winslow, f’86, is an account exec- Dickey, April 20. They live in Reston, Va., utive with Sun Microsystems in McLean, where Brian is founding partner in Va. He lives in Arlington. Technovus. BORN TO: 1984 Moree Mullins Ronning, d’86, g’89, Hitoshi Kato, m’84, chairs Kyowa and Darin, son, Esten Christopherson, Jan. 10 in Manchester, Mo., where he joins a sister, Daria, who’s nearly 2. Moree is a teacher’s assistant at Parkway Baptist Preschool, and Darin is a project manager for Johnson Controls.

1987 Paul Ahlenius, e’87, coordinates bicy- cle and pedestrian programs for the Kansas Department of Transportation in Topeka. Jackie Gorman, c’87, is assistant vice president of human resources for the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. Steve Marshall, b’87, is a dealer with Laramie Ford in Laramie, Wyo.

1988 Katherine Howard Bailes, l’88, practices law in Overland Park and studies for a doctorate in mythological studies at the Pacifica Graduate Institute.

BORN TO: Jana Arnett Anderson, l’88, and Charles, son, Kevin, Jan. 6 in Eagan, Minn., where he joins a brother, Ryan, 2. Jana is a quality assurance consultant for the West Group.

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Arlen Sheldon, c’88, and Angela Meyer, m’93, daughter, Aria Anna, Feb. 6 in Derby. Arlen works for Cessna, and Angela practices medicine at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Wichita.

1989 Kurt Bachman, b’89, owns Kurt Bachman Building in Wichita. Beverly Finger Biehl, j’89, directs Southern Living at Home in Frisco, Texas. Lisa McChesney-Harris, g’89, PhD’93, directs pharmaceutical development at Immtech International. She lives in Vernon Hills, Ill.

1990 Jeff Feist, ’90, manages national sales for Phillips Beverage Co. in Minneapolis, Minn. He lives in Woodbury.

Then Again

pril 4, 1968, brought the comedic Agenius of Bill Cosby to Hoch Auditorium, where the funny man Scott Gorsuch, e’90, is a project man- BORN TO: hammed it up on the bass with ager with Bucher, Willis & Ratliff. He Beth Salva Boresow, d’91, and Marcus Hill and Carl Craig. Midway lives in Overland Park. Jerome, ’93, daughter, Ashlen Marie, through the performance, Cosby Julie Hudson, g’90, m’90, recently Oct. 22 in Shawnee, where Beth teaches stunned his audience with the tragic became an assistant professor of pedi- with the Kansas City, Mo., school dis- news of the assassination of Martin atric anesthesiology and critical care at trict. Luther King Jr. The lighthearted night Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in John Funk, d’91, and Kelyne, daugh- turned somber as Cosby sat on the Nashville, Tenn. She lives in Brentwood. ter, Shannon Rita, April 1 in edge of the stage and shared his mem- Leavenworth, where she joins a brother, ories of King while also pondering BORN TO: Riley, 2. what might await the country in the Eric, e’90, and Deborah Putnam Stephanie Gibson Senn, c’91, m’95, days ahead. Kivett, c’90, son, John Christopher, Feb. and Michael, daughter, Annika Marie, 2 in Wichita, where he joins a sister, Feb. 23 in Newton, where Stephanie Rebekah, 6, and a brother, Andrew, 2. practices internal medicine at the Eric is a project engineer with Raytheon Wichita Clinic-Bethel. Michael is a tech- Aircraft. nical service veterinarian with Pharmacia Animal Health. 1991 Hugh Gill, b’91, g’95, l’95, is a partner 1992 in the Wichita law firm of Hinkle Nancy Perl Daniels, c’92, works as a Elkouri. senior technical writer for Bell & Howell Jeffrey Messerly, e’91, serves as a lieu- in Lincolnwood, Ill. tenant in the U.S. Navy. His home is in Andrew Schefter, c’92, managed the Coronado, Calif. production of music videos for Lenny

52 | KANSAS ALUMNI Kravitz and Craig David and produced for Gragg Advertising. They have a son, j’93, and Evan, c’94, son, Cole Avery, Daniel Baldwin’s film, Irish Eyes. He lives Jordan, who’ll be 2 in November. May 15 in Denver. Heather is an account in Miami Beach, Fla. Karen Davis Schnell, c’93, works as a supervisor with the Integer Group, and human resources senior recruiter for Evan is a partner in Papa Keno’s BORN TO: State Street in Kansas City. She lives in Pizzeria. Sandra Fletcher Derry, d’92, g’01, Shawnee. and James, d’93, son, Ryan James, Nov. David Trevino, j’93, c’94, manages 1994 24 in Wichita, where he joins a sister, international sales for Poly-Flex in Grand Patrick Clarke, c’94, works as an Allison, 3. Jim is a computer trainer for Prairie, Texas. He lives in Fort Worth. engineer with Patrick Engineering in ExecuTrain. Chicago. Michael, c’92, and Christy Hahs BORN TO: Bryan, c’94, and Chandra Barham Flannery, j’92, son, Aidan Michael, Jan. 2 Lance, c’93, and Rachel Ast Dobbins, Linquist, c’97, live in Lewisville, Texas, in Olathe, where he joins a brother, j’94, daughter, Taylor Nicole, May 1 in with their daughter, Sydney. Bryan is a Brendon, 2. Highlands Ranch, Colo., where she joins buyer at Xerox Capital Services, and Eric, j’92, and Sara Gollier Raine, a sister, Bailey, 3. Lance is a program Chandra is a respiratory therapist at d’94, g’99, daughter, Addison Elizabeth, manager for Microsoft. Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. March 15 in Prairie Village. David, e’93, and Renee Boucher Christopher Waldschmidt, c’94, Klocek, p’95, daughter, Kasey Alison, m’98, recently joined the staff of 1993 May 3 in Harleysville, Pa., where she Providence Health in Kansas City, where Aaron Herwig, c’93, is an accredited joins a brother, Trent, 2. David is a he practices emergency medicine. asset management specialist with process engineer with Merck, and Renee Wachovia Securities in Overland Park, is a relief staff pharmacist at Abington MARRIED and Margo Werber Herwig, j’93, is vice Memorial Hospital. Lisa Hurwitz, c’94, and Stephen president of account and media services Heather Werner La Montagne, Pendleton, e’94, April 6. Lisa directs programming for Comcast SportsNet, and Stephen is a project manager with OPNET Technologies. They live in Bethesda, Md.

BORN TO: Katherine Greenwald Parks, g’94, and Thomas, son, Patrick James, Feb. 16 in Newport News, Va. Michele Scheppel Wurl, c’94, and Todd, son, Tyler Allen, March 13 in Bothell, Wash. Michele is a project manager at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Todd owns two Quizno’s Classic Subs restaurants.

1995 Katherine Hutchinson, c’95, l’98, is an associate attorney at Adams Jones, Chartered in Wichita.

BORN TO: Laura Nelson Carpenter, e’95, and William, daughter, Makenna Lauren, March 21 in Gilbert, Ariz. Joseph Ibarra, b’95, and Jennifer, daughter, Abbiegail Marie, May 4 in Lawrence. Joe is a network administrator for the optical division of Essilor Laboratories in Topeka.

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1996 Pharmaceuticals. Muriel Fisher, c’97, to Greg Folsom, Lisa Derzinski Patterson, b’96, g’02, Oct. 6. They live in Birmingham, Ala. coordinates communications for the city 1997 Matthew Vineyard, e’97, and Erin of Lawrence. Brenda Duncan, b’97, works as a Layton, b’99, Dec. 29 in Wichita. He’s a Keith Rodgers, j’96, is a project man- supervisor for Sprint. She lives in contractor for J.E. Dunn, and she’s an agement specialist for Prudential Shawnee. internal consultant for Fortis. They live Insurance in Scottsdale, Ariz. He lives in Marjory Eisenman, c’97, is an assis- in Lawrence. Phoenix. tant director at Texas Christian University Career Services in Fort Worth. BORN TO: MARRIED Cassandra Dodd Muff, n’97, is a Tyler Euthon, d’97, and Lisa, son, Jason Whitener, c’96, and Tonia family nurse practitioner at Comcare in Caleb Andrew, March 31 in Amarillo, Owens, b’96, May 11. They live in Salina. She and her husband, Samuel, Texas. Lawrence, and they are both research live in Abilene with their children, attorneys for the Kansas Court of Kenna, 2, and Zachary, 1. 1998 Appeals. James Moore, d’98, is an insurance MARRIED agent with Stephens Real Estate in BORN TO: Kristen Coler, c’97, to Jared Lawrence, where he and Allison Vance Justin, e’96, and Melissa Frentzel Challacombe, May 25 in Fountain Hills, Moore, ’96, make their home. She’s a Kelly, c’97, son, Connor, Nov. 18 in Ariz. She manages training and educa- sales associate for Grubb & Ellis/The Andover. Justin is president of Kelly tion for Unitedhealth Group in Phoenix, Winbury Group. Manufacturing in Wichita, and Melissa is and he works for Luce Press Clippings Suzanne Esau Regier, a’98, g’02, a sales representative for Monarch in Mesa. Their home is in Gilbert. recently joined Rosemann & Associates

54 | KANSAS ALUMNI as an intern architect. She lives in Melissa Downing, c’00, works as a Jocilyn Oyler, c’02, studies law at KU. Kansas City. production assistant at One-Eleven in She and her husband, David San Francisco. She lives in Alameda. Vermooten, e’00, live in Lawrence. MARRIED Monica Gorbandt Smith, g’00, serves Justin Rajewski, e’02, is a vehicle Matthew Kopmeyer, b’98, g’02, and as a U.S. Army physician stationed in engineer with Daimler Chrysler. He lives Katie Dreiling, c’99, Sept. 22, 2001, in Enterprise, Ala. in Hays. Kansas City, where Matthew is a com- Greg Younger, c’00, is a financial mercial loan representative with adviser with American Express in MARRIED Commerce Bank. Overland Park. Rebecca Evans, b’02, c’02, to Scott Eric Zimmerman, c’98, and Nicole Hardtarfer, April 27 in Newton, where Basile, c’99, June 2, 2001, in Schwenks- BORN TO: she works for the Harvey County ville, Pa. They live in Sarasota, Fla. Julie Hinshaw Thatcher, p’00, and Attorney’s Office and he works for John, son, Creighton Richard, March 18 Central National Bank. BORN TO: in Derby. Julie is a pharmacist at Via Diane Forge, l’02, to Reid Bauersfeld, Sandra Archer, e’98, and David Noll, Christi-St. Joseph in Wichita, and John is May 31 in Leavenworth. They live in ’02, son, Thomas Charles, May 18 in a training coordinator for Rescare Life Loveland, Colo., where Reid directs ath- Lee’s Summit, Mo. Choices. letics and teaches at St. John’s School. Kelley McKinney Casey, s’98, and Christopher, son, Kenton Scott, April 20 2001 BORN TO: in Manhattan, where Kelley is a home- Jamie Goode, d’01, teaches at Indian Samantha Dunn, g’02, and Shane, based family therapist for the Pawnee Hills Middle School in Prairie Village. son, Shane Anthony Jr., May 3 in Mental Health Center. She lives in Platte City, Mo. Overland Park. Shane is a pipefitter for Erik Heitman, a’01, is a landscape U.S. Engineering. 1999 architect for BNIM Architects in Kansas Scott Beach, j’99, is an Internet archi- City. tect for BF Goodrich in Charlotte, N.C. Borna Ljubicic, g’01, lives in Zagreb, School Codes Letters that follow He lives in Huntersville. Croatia, and is executive director of names in Kansas Alumni indicate the school Melvin Dunston, j’99, works as a pro- Zagrebacka Banka. from which alumni earned degrees. Numbers Shanon Novak, motional event specialist for the Georgia f’01, recently joined show their class years. Lottery Corp. in Atlanta. He lives in the Laker Girls dance team in Los Redan. Angeles. She is also co-owner of a School of Architecture and Urban Michael Payne, c’99, is senior pro- Starstruck Performing Arts Center in Design gram coordinator for the Institute of Shawnee Mission. b School of Business International Education in New York c College of Liberal Arts and City. MARRIED Sciences Catherine Pierce, c’99, teaches Jennifer Scheuer, c’01, and To d d d School of Education English in Milan, Italy. Kornblit, c’01, May 18. They live in e School of Engineering Nashville, Tenn. f School of Fine Arts MARRIED g Master’s Degree Dawn Wormington, d’99, and 2002 h School of Allied Health Charles Williams, d’00, Dec. 15 in Jonathan Feiock, ’02, recently joined j School of Journalism Lawrence. She studies optometry at the the Family Service and Guidance Center l School of Law University of Missouri-St. Louis, and he in Topeka as a mental health specialist. m School of Medicine studies physical therapy at Washington He commutes from Lawrence. n School of Nursing University. They live in Maryland Lynda Huffman, c’02, works as a p School of Pharmacy Heights, Mo. processor for ATI Title in Overland Park. s School of Social Welfare She lives in Lawrence. DE Doctor of Engineering 2000 Mohammad Khan, ’02, is a senior DMA Doctor of Musical Arts Kimberly Glasser Anciaux, p’00, consultant with BKD Investment EdD Doctor of Education works as a clinical pharmacist at St. Advisors in Kansas City. He lives in PhD Doctor of Philosophy Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City. She lives Lawrence. (no letter) Former student in Olathe. Aimee Martinez, j’02, recently assoc. Associate member of the Erin Carlson, c’00, is account man- joined the Laker Girls dance team in Alumni Association ager for the West Corp. in Omaha, Neb. Los Angeles.

ISSUE 5, 2002 | 55 In Memory

The Early Years Crasskill Rubber in Englewood, N.J., and electrical engineer and a U.S. Air Force Helen Cutler Anderson, c’28, 95, May is survived by two daughters; a sister, lieutenant colonel. He is survived by two 16 in Scottsdale, Ariz. Among survivors Rachel Armstrong Thoroman, d’31; six sons and six grandchildren. are two daughters, one of whom is grandchildren; and three great-grandchil- George Jones, c’32, Oct. 12 in Georganna Anderson Tait, c’57; two dren. Albuquerque, N.M., where he was retired sons; and two stepdaughters. Mary Miller Ball, c’37, 86, June 7 in from a career with Singer Sewing Chester Brewer, c’25, l’28, 101, May Lawrence, where she was retired from Machine in China, Japan, Hong Kong 21 in Tulsa, Okla., where he was a for- the telephone industry. She is survived and Southeast Asia. He is survived by his mer attorney. He is survived by his wife, by a brother, Howard Miller, e’35. wife, Eula; a daughter, Jackie Jones Eileen McDonald Brewer, c’26; two Rose Riblet Beller, c’38, March 23 in March, c’66; two stepsons; a stepdaugh- daughters; five grandsons; and five great- Topeka, where she is survived by her ter; a sister; two grandsons; 12 stepgrandchildren. husband, Willis, two sons, a daughter grandchildren; and 11 stepgreat-grand- Jerome Jacobson, c’25, May 10 in and four granddaughters. children. Kansas City, where he had owned sev- Lawrence Cannon, g’38, 95, May 24 Margaret Sanders Leighty, ’35, 88, eral service stations and managed the in Shawnee Mission. He was retired prin- May 12 in Tonganoxie, where she was a Dixon Hotel. Several nieces and cipal of Southwest High School and retired home economist for Graybar nephews survive. retired vice president of the Bank of Electric and Kansas Power & Light. Her Paul Porter, c’28, 94, April 21 in Grain Valley. He is survived by a son; husband, Julius “Pete,” survives. Sarasota, Fla. He had been a professor of two stepsons, Thomas Taylor, c’62, and Martha Atkinson Maxfield, d’31, Nov. urban affairs at Cleveland State Richard Taylor, c’64, m’66; a stepdaugh- 8 in San Antonio. A son and a daughter University and had helped develop and ter, Kathryn Taylor Haggans, f’72; two survive. implement the Marshall Plan for granddaughters; and two great-grand- Alice “Wally” Wallace Patterson, Europe’s economic recovery after World children. c’35, m’38, 88, April 20 in Hutchinson. War II. He also had been chief delegate Virginia Stauffer Coleman, d’39, 85, She is survived by her husband, Harold, to the U.S. State Department’s Mission May 20 in Newton, where she taught c’35, m’38; five sons, three of whom are for Economic Affairs in London and was music. She is survived by her husband, Laird, c’63, Thomas, c’71, and Bruce, a representative to the United Nations Jean, b’40; a son, Jon, c’65; a daughter; c’68, m’73; a sister, Olga Wallace Smith, Economic Commission for Europe in three grandchildren; and two great- a’32; and 11 grandchildren. Geneva, Switzerland. Among survivors grandchildren. Josephine Pyle, c’34, c’35, 90, June 8 are three sons and a daughter. Mary Wickham Coutts, c’36, Nov. 9. in Middletown, Conn., where she super- Homer Williams, c’28, m’31, 96, June She lived in Kennett, Mo., and is sur- vised microbiology at Middlesex 23 in Greenwood Hills, Colo. He served vived by a son; two daughters, one of Hospital. Several nieces and nephews in the U.S. Public Health Service at the whom is Kathleen Coutts Murphy, c’64; survive. U.S. Marine Hospital on Ellis Island a sister, Jessie Wickham Schwartz, c’36; Mark Robeson, c’35, April 17 in from 1932 to 1939, and practiced medi- two grandchildren; and two great-grand- Prairie Village, where he was executive cine in Osage City from 1940 until his children. vice president of Yellow Freight and for- retirement in 1979. In 1950 he began his Everett Eberhard, e’36, Jan. 18 in mer president of the American Trucking long association with KU’s Rural Phoenix, where he was retired from Association. He is survived by his wife, Preceptorship Program as one of the first Motorola. He is survived by his wife, Katherine Willard Robeson, c’36; two host physicians. Survivors include his Charlotte, a son and three grandchil- sons, one of whom is Daniel, c’69; a wife, Dorothy; a brother; a son, John J. dren. brother, John, e’38; a sister; four grand- Williams, c’63, g’66; a daughter; four John Headrick, e’39, 84, Sept. 28, children; and a great-grandson. grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; 2001, in Lakeway, Texas, where he was Ralph Scott, ’36, 93, April 13 in and two great-grandchildren. retired from a career with Phillips Kansas City, where he was retired from Petroleum. A daughter, a son and a the Internal Revenue Service. He also 1930s grandson survive. taught accounting and tax preparation at Russell Armstrong, ’38, 85, March 15 Walter Howard, e’37, 87, May 9 in Ottawa University. Surviving are a son, in Buck Hill Falls, Pa. He had owned Monterey, Calif., where he was a retired Douglas, b’59; a daughter, Nancy Scott

56 | KANSAS ALUMNI Barr, d’66; four grandchildren; and five retired from Swift & Co. and Wins Paper ter and six grandchildren. great-grandchildren. Products. He is survived by his wife, John Ruskin, e’47, 80, Feb. 20 in Fred “Bud” Sellars, ’37, 86, May 23 in Billie, a daughter, a stepson, a step- Livonia, Mich. A daughter, a brother and Kansas City, where he was a retired U.S. daughter, a granddaughter, four step- a grandson survive. Air Force colonel and former executive grandchildren, two great-grandsons and Leroy Snyder, b’48, 78, March 25 in director of the Kansas City Housing four stepgreat-grandchildren. Junction City, where he was a partner in Authority. He is survived by his wife, Ralph Bowman, ’45, 78, June 10 in Arnold Gfeller and Co. He is survived by Maxine, a daughter and three grandchil- Austin, Texas. He worked for the two daughters, a son, a sister, a brother dren. Internal Revenue Service and for the and two grandsons. Carolyn Guidinger Shuck, c’39, 83, Texas Organized Crime Prevention Martha Gibson Van Gundy, c’48, 75, May 11 in La Jolla, Calif. She worked for Council. Surviving are his wife, Margaret; May 7 in Salina. She is survived by her Planned Parenthood and had written a two daughters, one of whom is Cheryl husband, Richard, e’49; two daughters; book, Saving Face: My Victory Over Skin Bowman Eakin, j’72; two brothers; a sis- and two grandchildren. Cancer. She is survived by her husband, ter; and seven grandchildren. Burt Viesselman, ’45, 77, May 3 in DeWitt, a daughter, two sons and four Charles Calhoon, b’49, 76, May 30 in Hot Springs, Ark. He had been a CPA in grandchildren. Shawnee, where he was retired from a Santa Rosa, Calif., and executive director Hall Taylor, c’33, 90, May 11 in career with H.D. Lee Co. He is survived of the Chamber of Commerce in Mount Washington, D.C., where he had been a by his wife, Shirley; two daughters, Vernon, Iowa. Surviving are his wife, program director for the National Karen Calhoon Mitchell, b’84, and Julie Naomi; a son; six stepchidren; a brother, Science Foundation. He is survived by Calhoon Hutton, b’86; a son, Kevin, Mark, e’44; 12 stepgrandchildren; and his wife, Betty Ellen, and a son. b’90; and four granddaughters. two stepgreat-grandchildren. Josephine Lee Tetwiler, c’35, May 31 David Corkhill, e’40, 86, May 9 in Leonard Watson, b’40, 88, May 22 in in Paola, where she was a retired teacher. Nortonville, where he was a retired con- Augusta, where he was retired director She is survived by her husband, Harold, sultant for Northern Natural Gas. He is and chief of personnel at Veterans assoc.; a son, Lee, c’74, l’77; and four survived by a son; a daughter; a brother, Administration Hospital. He is survived grandchildren. John, e’51; two sisters, one of whom is by a son, a daughter, a brother and three Ruth Corkhill Herbert, ’42; and two grandchildren. 1940s grandchildren. Charles Wilson, m’42, May 13 in Maureen Abts, c’46, June 8 in Wade Fite, c’47, 76, Feb. 22 in Fox Guadalajara, Mexico, where he was a Overland Park. Three sisters survive, two Chapel, Pa. He taught at the University psychiatrist. He is survived by three of whom are Mary, c’36, and Frances of Pittsburgh, was a consultant to several sons, one of whom is Charles, c’66; a Abts Robinson, c’44. government agencies and founded daughter; and two grandchildren. Arthur Adelman, m’40, 85, March 11 Extranuclear Labs. Three sons, a daugh- Nancy Slater Wittig, c’48, 74, May 29 in Mission Hills, where he was a retired ter, a stepsister, a stepbrother and seven in Prairie Village, where she ran a secre- surgeon. Surviving are his wife, Nancee, grandchildren survive. tarial service. She is survived by her hus- a daughter, a brother and two grandchil- Lois Worrel Humbert, f’42, 81, April band, Chuck; two sons, David, b’77, and dren. 12 in Eureka, where she was an assistant William, a’89; a daughter, Sarah Wittig John Ballard Jr., b’47, May 7 in professor emerita of music at Eureka Geisler, c’93; and three grandsons. Leawood, where he was retired from the College. A daughter, a son, a sister and banking business. He is survived by his three grandchildren survive. 1950s wife, Pat Billings Ballard, ’48; two sons, Patricia Pfifier Huttenhoff, b’47, 78, Elfie Pittman Bailey, ’51, 102, May 22 John III, b’73, and Paul, d’75; and a April 5 in Encinitas, Calif. She is sur- in Lawrence, where she taught first daughter, Jenny Ballard DeVry, c’88. vived by her husband, Robert, c’42; a grade at Pinckney and Centennial Agnes Ruskin Barnhill, f’41, 89, April son; two daughters; and five grandchil- schools for many years. She is survived 12 in Lawrence, where she had a long dren. by a son, Bob, c’48; a daughter, Marilyn career in the KU Registrar’s Office. A Willard Madison, c’48, m’51, 82, Bailey Wise, ’54; six grandchildren; and memorial has been established with the March 10 in Nortonville, where he was a five great-grandchildren. KU Endowment Association. She is sur- retired physician. He is survived by his Theron Brewer, c’50, 77, March 24 in vived by a daughter, Barbara Barnhill wife, Martha, four daughters and five Lee’s Summit, Mo. He was retired from Brien, d’67; a son, Robert, c’61; a grandchildren. Kansas City Transit and is survived by a brother; four grandchildren; and two James Mundell, b’48, 76, May 13 in son, four daughters, a sister and three great-grandchildren. Arcadia, Fla., where he owned Florida grandchildren. Herbert Borgmann, b’47, 78, May 15 Business Services. He is survived by his Carol Clifton Church, d’57, g’88, 66, in Fort Worth, Texas, where he was wife, Beverly, a daughter, two sons, a sis- May 23 in Lawrence, where she taught

ISSUE 5, 2002 | 57 In Memory physical education at South Junior High Beth Keenan Hudak, b’89; and 13 daughters, Jill Williams Lincoln, c’88, School. She is survived by her husband, grandchildren. and Ann Williams Yates, j’91; two step- Earl; two sons; a sister, Ann Clifton Gerald Knepp, b’56, April 14 in daughters, one of whom is Laura Schiltz, d’56, g’63; and a grandson. Winston-Salem, N.C. He lived in Dillard, Cramer, h’90; a brother; two sisters; and Richard Dillon, ’51, 74, May 8 in Ga., had been chief operations officer at eight grandchildren. Hutchinson, where he was former presi- North Kansas City Hospital for many dent of Dillon Cos. He is survived by his years. A son, a daughter and a stepson 1960s wife, Carolyn Critser Dillon, ’53; three are among survivors. Byron Anderson, c’62, l’65, 63, May 3 sons, two of whom are Reed, c’79, and Willis Mann, ’50, 77, May 12 in Bella in Wichita, where he was a retired attor- Bradley, c’75, l’78; a brother, Ray, ’46; Vista, Ark. He founded Mann Fence in ney. He is survived by his wife, Nancy; and six grandchildren. Olathe and is survived by his wife, two sons; and a brother, Carl, b’56. Clarence “Gene” Draskovich, c’59, Shirley; two sons, one of whom is Scott, Judy Cordonier Endsley, ’67, 56, Feb. 14 in Arlington, Va., where he was a c’83; a brother; and three grandsons. June 12 in Lenexa, where she was an computer specialist for the U.S. Joan Carter Morgan, d’54, 68, April award-winning cake decorator. She is Department of the Army. A sister and a 25 in Colorado Springs, Colo. She is survived by a son, Scott, j’92; a daughter, brother survive. survived by a son; two daughters; her Kimberly Endsley Hendricks, c’98; Clifford Fawl, g’54, PhD’60, 71, June 8 mother, Eleanor Higgins Carter, ’34; her mother; and a brother, Alan in Lincoln, Neb. He taught psychology at three brothers; four sisters; and 10 Cordonier, b’71. Nebraska Wesleyan University for nearly grandchildren. John Haller, f’64, 64, April 25 in 40 years and recently taught at the Royal “Dale” Mullen, j’50, 77, April 3 Lawrence, where he was a free-lance University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He also in Glendale, Ariz., where he was retired artist. He had also been senior art direc- worked at Lincoln’s Child Guidance from a 34-year career in newspaper jour- tor for commercial art firms in Kansas Center and had a private clinical prac- nalism. He is survived by his wife, Betty, City and Los Angeles. He is survived by tice. Surviving are his wife, Barbara, two a daughter, three brothers, three grand- his wife, Tudy Youngberg Haller, d’59; sons and two daughters. children and two great-grandchildren. two daughters, Michelle Haller Babcock, Paul Gellens, c’56, 68, Feb. 20 in Joseph “Jack” Newcomb, d’51, 83, f’82, and Tanya Haller McNeely, f’91; a Sarasota, Fla., where he was a retired April 20 in Kansas City. He managed the stepdaughter; a stepson, Scott Stuart, nursing home administrator. He is sur- Kansas University Bookstore and is sur- c’83, m’87; a brother; a sister; three vived by his wife, Suzanne Rosenstock vived by a sister. grandchildren; and four stepgrand- Gellens, g’66; two daughters; and three Clarence Startz, e’58, 69, May 24 in children. grandchildren. Topeka, where he was a civil engineer for Wayne Hightower, ’62, 62, April 18 in Robert Grogger, ’57, 67, May 6 in the Kansas Department of West Philadelphia, Pa., where he was a Topeka, where he was retired from a Transportation. He is survived by a son, retired professional basketball player. He career in insurance sales and sales man- George, c’86; and four brothers, three of is survived by a daughter, two sons, a sis- agement. He is survived by two sons, whom are John, e’48, Elmer, e’49, and ter, two brothers and four grandchildren. one of whom is John, b’85; a daughter, Raymond, e’48. William Howard, d’67, May 13 in Jean Elizabeth Grogger, c’85; two step- August Theroff, b’51, May 8 in Kansas Salt Lake City, where he was retired daughters; and 10 grandchildren. City, where he was an industrial engi- from a career with IBM. He is survived Dollie Jackson, c’50, c’52, 83, May 25 neer with Owens Corning Fiberglass. by a daughter, a son; his father, William, in San Francisco. She worked in the clin- Among survivors are his wife, Mary g’63; his mother; a sister; and two ical bacteriology lab at KU Medical Sedlock Theroff, b’46, g’69; three sons, grandsons. Center for many years. Dennis, c’77, l’80, Wayne, b’78, and Benjamin Langel, b’62, l’64, 61, June Jay Johnston, e’56, 70, June 2 in Craig, j’87; and a daughter, Diane 7 in Wichita, where he was a retired Kansas City, where he was retired from Theroff Youngberg, e’79, g’82. attorney. He is survived by his wife, Mercer Zimmerman. He is survived by James Wheat, b’52, l’56, 72, May 29 Sondra Hays Langel, d’63; a son, Everett, his wife, Nancy; three daughters, two of in Kansas City, where he was retired c’92; a daughter, Julia, g’02; his father; whom are Melanie, c’85, and Laurie partner with Ernst and Young. He is sur- and a sister. Johnston Meyer, d’91, g’92; three sons; a vived by his wife, Jacque Kimmel Wheat, Nancy Bengel Lynott, c’68, 56, May sister; and seven grandchildren. c’56; a son, Douglas, b’72, l’74; a daugh- 21 in Shrewsbury, N.J. She had been a Ramona Goering Keenan, d’52, 72, ter; and a sister. librarian at KU from 1970-77 and is sur- May 27 in Great Bend. She is survived by John Williams, ’57, 68, May 13 in vived by her husband, Michael, g’72, her husband, Larry, c’52, l’54; two sons, Stillwater, Okla. He had a career in real g’76; a daughter; a son; her mother; and Martin, c’82, l’85, and Matthew, c’81, estate and is survived by his wife, Ann; a brother, Anthony Bengel, c’65. l’84; and two daughters, one of whom is two sons, Kirk, c’84, and Scott, b’85; two Roger Oelschlager, c’67, l’69, 56, Nov.

58 | KANSAS ALUMNI 19 in The Woodlands, Texas, where he services for Johnson County. He is sur- Carolyn Ely Neuringer, c’74, 64, was a real estate appraiser with Bill vived by his wife, Margaret; three sons, March 27 in Lawrence, where she was a Jackson and Associates. He was a pas- one of whom is Gary Dickerson, d’70; lecturer in the English department for 19 sionate bass fisherman and for the two daughters; two sisters; and eight years. She is survived by her husband, last four years served as president of grandchildren. Charles, g’56, PhD’60; two daughters, The Woodlands Bass Club, which he Shirley Snavely Dowd, ’84, 68, May Helen Neuringer Benefiel, c’84, c’92, and founded in 1983. Survivors include his 21 in Shawnee Mission. She lived in Miriam Neuringer Salamon, f’83; and wife, Linda, and two step-children. Olathe and was a widely exhibited three grandchildren. George Sharp, b’65, May 17 in painter. Survivors include a son, two Maynard Shelly, 73, May 3 in Kansas City, where he worked for the daughters and five grandchildren. Lawrence, where he was a professor city law department. He is survived by Sherry Lynn Heyde, s’84, 57, May 13 emeritus of psychology. his wife, Linda, three sons, his mother in Topeka. A memorial has been estab- Doris Payne Vander Velde, 78, April and a sister. lished with the KU Endowment 14 in Emporia. She had been secretary to Quentin Shogrin, ’63, 65, April 19 in Association. A brother survives. the dean of medicine at KU. Surviving Lawrence, where he was retired from a Roland Levy, b’88, 38, June 10 in are four sons, two of whom are Jay, c’68, career with Hallmark Cards. He is sur- Topeka, where he worked for and Eric, c’83; two daughters, one of vived by his wife, Sharon Krueger Southwestern Bell and co-owned Egos whom is Carolynn Vander Velde Letts, Shogrin, assoc.; three sons, one of whom Salon and Day Spa. He is survived by his d’71; a brother; a sister; 12 grandchil- is Sheldon, ’92; four stepsons, one of mother, Elfriede; a half sister; and a dren; and four great-grandchildren. whom is Shawn Brimer, c’01; two stepbrother. daughters, one of whom is Shannon Ann Crossette Schaffer, ’86, 55, Associates Brimer Hendrickson, b’00; two sisters; March 12 in Rochester, Minn. She Betty Harkless Busler, April 11 in three grandchildren; and 10 stepgrand- lived in Claflin, where she was a home- Prairie Village. She is survived by her children. maker. Surviving are her husband, Dick, husband, Robert, c’39; a daughter; a son; p’66, m’72; a son; two daughters; two a sister; and two grandchildren. 1970s stepsons; two brothers; and three grand- Dorothy Pell English, May 12 in William Dressler, a’76, e’76, 48, May children. Lake Quivira, where she was a volunteer. 3 in Springfield, Mo. He lived in Olathe, Lesley Long Tharp, ’88, 51, May 25. A memorial has been established with and had been a pastor at Life in Christ She lived in Wichita and taught Spanish the KU Endowment Association. She is World Outreach Center. He also had at Augusta High School. Surviving are survived by her husband, Jack, assoc.; been a missionary in Queenstown, her husband, Michael; her mother; and three daughters; three sons, one of South Africa. Survivors include his wife, two sisters, one of whom is Kelsey, h’76. whom is James, f’76; a brother; and five Regina; three sons; his parents; and a sis- grandsons. ter, Linda Dressler Davies, g’86, PhD’90. 1990s Adeline Justice, 90, April 29 in Gary Kaplan, b’72, 51, April 24 in Thomas Schroeder, e’98, 31, March McPherson, where she was a retired legal Kansas City, where he was a self- 23 in Lenexa, where he was a civil engi- secretary. She is survived by two sons, employed CPA. He is survived by his neer with Kaw Valley Engineering. He is Ronald, e’55, and Robert, e’57; and three wife, JoAnn; a son; his mother; and two survived by his wife, Marci Bussell grandchildren. brothers, one of whom is Larry, b’70. Schroeder, c’93; a daughter; his mother, Richard Kastrup, 56, April 8 in Marie Shirer, ’74, 49, June 4 in Marilyn Heim Schroeder, c’56, g’97; his Lawrence. He had managed offices for Washington, D.C., where she was a father, Richard, ’59 and stepmother; two Morris Plan in Wichita and Shawnee, priest at St. Columba’s Episcopal brothers, one of whom is David, m’95; Okla., and later was a finance and insur- Church. She is survived by her parents, and two sisters, one of whom is ance manager for Davis Moore Hampton, m’48, and Viola Shirer; a Katherine Schroeder Geeding, c’89. Automotive. A memorial has been estab- brother, Hampton, c’72; and three sis- lished with the KU Endowment ters, two of whom are Virginia, ’77, and The University Community Association. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn Shirer Boyd, c’83. Roderick Davis, 76, April 3 in Rebecca Owen Kastrup, ’70. Lawrence, where he was an engineer at Eloise Strawn Stewart, 76, May 20 1980s radio station KANU for many years. He in McPherson, where she had been a Kenneth Betterton, c’85, g’88, 68, is survived by his wife, Marian, assoc.; a medication aide at The Cedars. Surviv- May 25 in Overland Park. He was a daughter; two sons, one of whom is ing are two sons; five daughters, one classical pianist, a composer, a 12-year David, b’70, l’74; seven grandchildren; of whom is Bonnie Stewart Rockwood, veteran of the Colorado State Highway two stepgrandchildren; and two great- c’82; a brother; two sisters; 20 grandchil- Patrol and long-time director of human grandchildren. dren; and seven great-grandchildren.

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“Rice’s death generated much more sym- pathy and outrage from the entire Lawrence community than did Dowdell’s,” C. KURT HOLTER KURT C. writes Rusty Monhollon in This Is America? The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas. “... Both blacks and whites denounced the police for firing tear gas into the café where Rice was carried after he was shot. By contrast, public outrage came almost exclusively from the black community or the radical fringe when Dowdell was killed, and several whites even justified the shooting.” The killings touched off two weeks of unrest, venting tensions that had simmered throughout the 1960s, though few ■ This Is America? The Lawrencians were willing to face them, Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas Monhollon argues. His exhaustively by Rusty L. Monhollon researched history portrays a community (Palgrave, $39.95) that prided itself on its Free State heritage examines how America’s even as it subjected African-Americans to counterculture revolution egregious discrimination. Monhollon, PhD’99, assistant professor reverberated in Lawrence. of history at Hood College in Frederick, Md., details how blacks were denied employment and housing and harassed by police. The University, though widely viewed by townspeople as a source of revo- lutionary ideology, was not above reproach. “At the University of Kansas, several fraternities, most notably Sigma Nu, still had ... offending clauses [barring racial and religious River City revolution minorities] well into the 1960s, and alumni, benefactors, and national officers continued to Monhollon’s ’60s history rethinks pressure local houses not to accept minorities,” KU’s most tumultuous decade he writes. When students began to question this arrangement, Chancellor W. Clark Wescoe n July 16, 1970, Rick “Tiger” Dowdell argued, “rather disingenuously,” Monhollon con- was shot in the back of the head by a tends, that the University could claim full inte- Lawrence police officer while fleeing gration because fraternities and sororities were through a downtown alley. Four days not under direct University control. (Wescoe Olater, during a street rally protesting Dowdell’s would later ban discrimination at KU after stu- death, Nick Rice was shot and killed by police dent protesters occupied his office.) near campus. While Monhollon clearly views race as the key Both men were 19. Both had been KU stu- issue to understanding the ’60s, it’s not the only dents. But Dowdell was black and Rice was one. This Is America? also examines the anti-war white: The reactions to their killings differed movement, the rise of feminism, debate over fed- greatly. eral welfare policy and conservatives’ nearly

60 | KANSAS ALUMNI pathological fear of communism and ◆ ◆ ◆ Some fear is justified: The small spi- socialism. der’s powerful venom can cause painful Monhollon shows the ’60s to be not wounds that take months to heal. But simply a battle pitting young against old, Spiderman’s web not all bites cause a severe reaction, and students against townies, or white it’s unlikely that all bites attributed to burghers against black militants. Instead, Grad student’s Internet site brown recluses are actually caused by the book (which grew out of his doctoral educates public about the spiders, Sandidge says. dissertation) offers a more balanced brown recluse The key to eradicating recluses from a analysis of how America’s contentious home, he says, is to learn more about social revolution played out in Lawrence. them. That’s where his doctoral research, “One of the goals I had in mind when is Haworth Hall lab is home which focuses on population biology I started writing the dissertation was to to tarantulas, scorpions and and genetics, comes in. try and demythologize the decade as even, one recent morning, a “Understanding the population bio- much as possible, to try and strip away wayward bat that flapped in logy is extremely important to getting rid the myths and legends and stereotypes Hovernight through an open window. of them. You have to know when they and reconstruct that contested political But among all these creepy creatures, mate, where they place their eggs, and and social terrain that is so important to Jamél Sandidge says, it’s a little spider where they are most susceptible in order understanding the ’60s,” Monhollon with a big bite that causes the most fear. to know when and where to treat,” says says. “My contention—and I think it’s a “Every summer it turns into the Sandidge, who has started a business central, driving theme of the book—is the brown recluse show in here,” says consulting with homeowners who need decade would not have been so divisive Sandidge, g’02. A doctoral student in helping controlling the brown recluse. if only students had been protesting.” ecology and evolutionary biology, his He advises people to reduce the spi- Mining tens of thousands of docu- research focuses on the spider known as der’s habitat by moving furniture away ments from the Spencer Research Loxsceles reclusa. from interior walls, storing firewood well Library’s Kansas Collection and “No matter what we’re doing, some- away from the exterior walls and keep- University Archives, including letters one always comes in with a brown from constituents to Sen. James Pearson recluse and they always ask lots of and Gov. Robert Docking, Monhollon questions. And I started to realize samples opinion across the full political that time and again I was telling AARON DELESIE AARON spectrum, from Leftist radicals and black them, ‘No one knows; no one has militants who echoed Malcolm X’s call done any research on that yet.’” for equality “by any means necessary” So Sandidge decided to do the to right-wing vigilante groups who research himself. stood armed and ready to defend the Interest in his work is spread- status quo. ing. Since he started a Web site to While plenty of moderate voices provide more information on the speak between these extremes, the most recluse, “the Spiderman” has given disturbing element in This Is America? is dozens of interviews to media the readiness of seemingly sensible citi- around the world and has been zens to endorse violence to protect their swamped with e-mail messages property and power. After the shooting from people who plead for help of Dowdell, a downtown merchant told ridding their homes of the spider, an Associated Press reporter that he did which adapts so well to human not like killing, “but if it’s going to take habitat that it’s found in greater some killing to get the job done, then I numbers indoors than out. say let’s get on with it.” “People write and say, ‘The “This is Lawrence? This is Kansas? brown recluse has ruined my life.’ This is America?” wrote one of Sen. They were forced to sell their Pearson’s disbelieving constituents in dream homes at a loss due to 1970 as his formerly quiet hometown brown recluse infestation,” was wracked nightly by arson, bombing he says. “I tell and sniper fire. This Is America? reminds them they don’t ■ us that it was, once upon a time. have to be that scared; Spiderman Jamél Sandidge combats —Steven Hill they can take action.” arachnophobia with information.

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ing clothing and bedding examination of the literary biogra- off floors. pher’s task and his razzing of the “When they come madness and manners of academia into your house it’s kind are entertaining. DELESIE AARON of like the pilgrims land- Similarly, the main character of ing on Plymouth Rock. There Rich Cohen’s meditative memoir, has to be some kind of hospitable envi- Lake Effect (Alfred A. Knopf, $23), is ronment or they won’t make it.” notable for his irrepressible person- Right now there’s no shortage of hos- ality, not the fact that he eventually pitality. “I can walk into just about any becomes a Jayhawk. house in the area and find them,” the When we first meet Jamie Drew, Spiderman says. “You just have to know he’s that rare high school kid who’s where to look.” popular with both students and Visit the Brown Recluse community teachers. A Dean Moriarty type who project on the Web at http://www. seems to burn brighter than those ku.edu/~recluse. around him, Drew becomes —Steven Hill Cohen’s best friend and his role model. After high school, their paths part as Drew comes to KU ◆ ◆ ◆ and Cohen goes to Tulane, then cross again for a brief but memo- OREAD READER rable Mardi Gras. ◆ ◆ ◆ Gentlemen and scholars Rather than attempt an objective chronicle of his own coming-of-age, Two new books feature characters Cohen sets out to capture “the spirit of a Prairie quartet with KU connections certain season and the thrill of a certain kind of friendship and what happens to Professor’s plays he protagonist of novelist Peter such friendships when the afternoon dramatize small moments Cameron’s The City of Your Final runs into the evening.” Though the behind Kansas history Destination (Farrar, Straus & book’s forays into the drug-and-booze Giroux, $24) is Omar Razaghi, a teen culture will alarm many and put off hile on a sabbatical in the TKU doctoral student who has won the others, Cohen successfully crafts a mid-90s, John Gronbeck- prestigious Dolores Faye and Bertram poignant meditation on the bonds that Tedesco, professor of the- Siebert Petrie Award for Biographical sustain young men as they struggle atre and film, traveled Studies for his proposed biography of a toward adulthood. Wthrough Kansas in search of stories late writer named Jules Gund. —Steven Hill about the immigrants and settlers who There’s only one hitch: Omar lied on arrived before the Civil War. Intending his application. The fellowship to write a play about those people who (which includes publication by the set down roots in a place that many University of Kansas Press) thought was a desert, he traveled to requires authorization, and Gund’s libraries, searched through historical col- estate won’t give it. So at the urging lections, and talked with individuals of his grad-school girlfriend, the throughout the state. hapless student hops on a plane to “All of these are the keepers of a past Uruguay to persuade Gund’s that will never become part of one of the executors—his wife, mistress and official histories of the nation that so brother—to change their minds. many students read in high school or Cameron’s briskly paced novel college,” he says. spends little time in Kansas before ■ The City of Your ■ Lake Effect The result was a set of four plays, col- shifting to South America, and its Final Destination By Rich Cohen lectively called “Prairie Fire.” The first portrayal of Lawrence—and the two, “Lift Off” and “Flight & By Peter Cameron Alfred A. Knopf, $23 details of Omar’s academic life—are Farrar, Straus & Denouement,” debuted in July as part of accomplished in broad fictional Giroux, $24 The University Theatre’s Kansas strokes. Nevertheless, Cameron’s Summer Theatre. The final two parts,

62 | KANSAS ALUMNI ■ Professor John Gronbeck Tedesco counters Oberlin, Sharon Springs, Wichita, with the exploration of space and the historical “amnesia” with a set of four plays Lawrence—all over the state—people saw enormous technical power developed to about Kansas’ prairie heritage. to it that the past came to me. They make that possible. They also contrast thrust it into my hands or sat quietly, contemporary impatience and love of offering it to me with their voices over speed with the plodding, painstaking “The Four Horsemen” and “The Prairie coffee or lemonade. pace of pioneer life. Cabaret,” will be staged by The “In Holton, I sat in a small historical “I didn’t grow up faced with such University Theatre in future seasons. collection, about the size of an average vastness, such a sense of infinity, that Gronbeck-Tedesco’s plays explore kitchen, reading reminiscences. The eld- the landscape here evokes,” says director larger themes and events made possible erly woman who kept the collection said and choreographer Marianne Kubik, only because of the small, human she had been waiting for someone like assistant professor of theatre and film. moments that are seldom remembered. me all of her life, even though her hus- “It feels like miles of freedom and seren- “Private sufferings and personal band told her no one needed the stuff ity. I can imagine how, 150 years ago, achievements and failures also con- she collected and guarded so avidly on this landscape might appear overwhelm- tribute to the larger scheme in which we behalf of her community.” ing, even daunting, to the immigrants live,” he says. “These plays deal with the Set on the tall-grass prairie of north- traveling west in search of fertile land ‘amnesia’ that comes from forgotten his- east Kansas Territory, “Prairie Fire” tells and greater hope. tory and the price people pay for this the story of a family of Irish immigrants, “Life then was mostly a struggle—with amnesia. All of us perform daily deeds the Fultons, who come to the territory in the elements, with the land, and with that become the basic material for the 1854 and live in a soddy. In both plays, one’s own fear of this struggle. But they future.” the future—in the form of a contempo- managed to survive, and their determina- Gronbeck-Tedesco says his research rary astronaut—impatiently chides them tion has now become the foundation for brought him in touch with the people of to get on with their lives in order to pro- the culture and tradition that exist in Kansas. duce him, their direct descendant. this part of the country today.” “In Easton, Oskaloosa, Valley Falls, The plays contrast the harshness and —Charla Jenkins, j’69, is director of public Humbolt, Winchester, Leavenworth, subsistence-level living of pioneer life relations for The University Theatre.

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■ Jim Carothers, professor of English and founder of the Mount Oread Scholars program, leads talented freshmen up the Hill. antly down to claim their degrees. First steps “Walking up the Hill One of KU’s newest traditions at the beginning is a way of calling atten- helps students start college tion to why you’re on the right foot here: You’re striving to reach the summit n Monday morning at the start of of your academic ’Hawk Week, a group of KU’s most career.” distinguished new arrivals gathers out- They learn about side Memorial Stadium. They come to Lawrence’s Free Ocomplete a rite that mirrors the Commencement State heritage, the passage each hopes to make some fine May after- contested origins of the Rock Chalk Chant and noon in the future: The Mount Oread Scholars how Mount Oread got its name. They get their begin college by walking up the Hill. first inkling of the myths and manners that con- The walk is the idea of Jim Carothers, profes- nect them to the larger Jayhawk tribe. And they sor of English and the first director of the pro- see for themselves, in the soft morning light, how gram, which was launched in 1995 to recruit beautiful their campus can be. and retain talented freshmen. About 200 Mount “If you look for the best this University has to Oread Scholars enrolled this fall. The walk intro- offer, if you take it seriously and work at it,” duces them to faculty, to one another and to the Carothers tells them, “you’ll find the best that’s storied history of the campus and city they’ll in you.” call home. It’s a leisurely stroll, with frequent stops to “You are beginning your climb,” Carothers savor the view. That, too, is part of the message: tells his charges. He points to the Campanile and Stop to look around, the languid pace seems to calls to mind the day they will march triumph- say. Cherish every moment.

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