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Special Delivery C! 1ORUS By day a Montana mail carrier, alumnus Gene Bernofsky has earned acclaim for his powerful films 6 ON THE BOULEVARD aimed at preventing ecological disasters. Schedules of KU events By Rex Buchanan 8 JAYHAWK WALK Fantasy football, ghostly 22 Page 20 Biological Warfare research, Jonathan In the wake of a controversial vote by the Kansas Kozol's visit and more Board of Education, KU scientists suddenly find 14 SPORTS themselves forced to defend fundamental theories ranulous resninen. of science, including biological, geologic and cosmic all-time KU athletes evolution. Our package includes an essay by and more Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway outlining the 18 OREAD READER Chris Lazzarino holds University's responsibility to "fight long and hard" out hope for hope for good science education in public schools and 19 OREAD WRITER scientific literacy among all citizens. Megan Maaejowski pon- By Chris Lazzarino ders the dropped chalupa

Essay by Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway 36 ASSOCIATION NEWS Page 22 Board nominees, high- Cover photograph by Wally Emerson flying Jayhawks and more 38 ASSOCIATION 30 CALENDAR The latest on Adams Ground Crew Alumni Center, chapter and Kill' events Eileen Hawley, voice of Mission Control and wife of U CLASS NOTES astronaut and alumnus Steve Hawley, offers insights Profiles of KC mayors, an into the tension and loneliness endured by families of outdoors writer and more space travelers.

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VOLUME 98 NO. 1, 2000 KANSAS ALUMNI As a mentor for a KU student through

KU student is waiting to hear from you.This fledgling 'Hawk Students talk about Awill soon graduate and enter a whole new world of responsibility. A little encouragement and some helpful hints from you 'Hawk to 'Hawk could make a big difference in this Jayhawk's future. "My mentor is a third-generation pharmacist. I can tell from his e-mail that he really enjoys his work and it's In your career, you've walked the walk and talked the talk. inspiring to know that there is such a Why not share what you know with that KU student who's just professional tradition in his family.The starting out? It only takes a few minutes to correspond by e-mail experience and wisdom he offers will or talk over the phone occasionally, maybe schedule a lunch or have a big impact on how I pursue two.You don't have to promise a job or help out with class own career." assignments. Just give some advice, answer some questions, tell leth Deterding, sophomore in phar- your story. iacy, about her mentor, David Rankin, p'63, Phillipsburg The 'Hawk to 'Hawk How-To • Participating mentors and students must be Alumni California sends me one almost every Association members day. He gives me business hints and • Correspond with your student through e-mail, letters, also reminds me that there is more to by phone or in person life than just work. He really has a pos- itive attitude and encourages me to g If you're ready to talk to a deserving 'Hawk, fill out the enclosed reply card or call the Kansas Alumni Association at - Kari Murphy, junior in business, about her mentor, Scott Herring, c'86, Her- 1-800-584-2957 mosa Beach, Calif. to sign up as a 'Hawk to 'Hawk mentor. really encouraged me as Or sign up online at an undergraduate. Our contact gave www.ukans.edu/~kualumni/hawk-to-hawk.html me insight into what he actually does and ideas of what to think about e I -Troy Dinges, first-year law student, .-.Kansas about his former mentor, Bernie Alumni* Nordling, 1*49, Lawrence ASSOCIATION Founded in 1883 FIRST WORD 5Y JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER

1 or as long as I wild range of jazz history notes and resolve them neatly, making can remember, perfect melodic sense in the end. The cat could jam. my dad has Wright also sang a gorgeous operatic tenor and played alto kept a standing saxophone. But his true virtuosity was as a music scholar. Dan appointment at 10 o'clock Saturday Gailey KU director of jazz studies, says Wright could name a mornings. Smartly attired in his velour bathrobe, he scuffs to tune even without hearing the notes. "I could describe a tune I'd the living room in his slippers, turns the radio to jazz and sits in heard—no artist, no title. If I could describe the groove of the his blue chair. He says little. He munches raisin toast, sips coffee tune or guess who I thought was playing, he'd dig around for a and reads the newspaper. But mostly he listens to jazz. And, few moments and find it without fail." until late last fall, to the voice of Dick Wright. Wright's mission to promote jazz as an American art form At 10 o'clock Saturday, Nov. 27, funeral mourners in also took him on the road. For decades he drove throughout the Lawrence said goodbye to Dick Wright, f'53, g'56, who died region to emcee live performances (in fact, he presided over Nov. 23. The next Saturday at 10, radio fans throughout the those Sunday concerts I once dreaded). Jim Monroe, director of region heard a tribute to Wright on KANU-FM, the University's the Topeka Jazz Workshop, calls his longtime friend "irreplace- public radio station, where for nearly 40 years, Wright, 68, able." Onstage, Monroe says, Wright praised local musicians as had been the sage of "The Jazz Scene," his beloved Saturday much as international stars. And he never asked to be paid for morning program. his travel or his time. "The Jazz Scene" set the national standard Dean Hampton, for jazz broadcasting and became a KANU publications director mainstay. Wright himself was a mainstay in for the Kansas City the KU department of music and dance, 1 Jazz Ambassadors, where he had taught his popular Introduction says that along with to Jazz course for 26 years and had donated his boundless gen- an astounding 30,000 jazz recordings to help erosity and knowl- form the University's Archive of Recorded edge, Wright will be Sound. In 1996 he retired as associate profes- remembered for his sor of music, winning a Governor's Arts humility: "He knew it Award and a Chancellor's Award for teaching all and never told excellence. These high honors followed a you so." 1993 award for distinguished service from the Last September International Association of Jazz Educators. and October, Wright Retirement for Wright, however, was a rel- lectured and sang to ative term. He remained in the classroom, audiences in teaching one course each semester while Lawrence and Kansas supervising individual studies for advanced jazz students. And City, Mo., sharing jazz history as part of the JazzTrain Project, a he remained in his volunteer post at KANU, broadcasting each series of events through April sponsored by KU's Lied Center, Saturday so thousands of faithful fans could continue to listen the Gem Theater in Kansas City's historic 18th and Vine district, and learn. On Oct. 23, Wright signed off with his familiar and the State Ballet of Missouri. "Happy Sounds." No one could have guessed the broadcast Wright helped orchestrate the project, the final refrain in his would be his last. lifelong anthem to jazz. The very idea of a prominent homage to A few years ago I joined my father among the legions of jazz thrilled Wright, who remembered well a time when such a Saturday morning listeners. As I shuttled kids to soccer and celebration was unthinkable. "When I was in school, jazz had no the grocery store, I pictured Dad in his chair, enjoying Wrights place in academia. It was considered gutter music," he said in soothing show. I used to tease Dad about his square tastes, grip- September, as he struggled with illness yet continued to keep ing as he and Mom dragged my brother and me on Sundays to every lecture date. "If you wanted to play it, you had to sneak Topeka Jazz Workshop concerts, where we sat through unintelli- around in practice rooms or off campus. I'm thankful for how gible tunes played by old guys named Stan Kenton and Clark far we've gone. This whole year is pretty astounding." Terry. Now that I'm older, Dad and I still go to concerts, but I no The series culminates in Donald Byrd's "JazzTrain" April 7-8 longer complain. I have listened to "The Jazz Scene," and I have at the Lied Center. The dance-theatre piece sets Byrd's choreog- learned. raphy to original music composed and performed by legendary The echoes of Wrights broadcasts linger, as do the classroom drummer Max Roach, guitarist Vernon Reid and pianist Geri lectures he shared with thousands of alumni. Like his favorites, Allen. The performances will be dedicated to Wright, the man Stan Getz and Bill Evans, Wright knew the joy of improvising. who taught so many to listen, learn and love. In his own uncanny style, he could wend his way through a Dad and I will be there.--*••

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KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Trip pays in Alaska gold Publisher Chairman Fred B.Williams Carol Swanson Ritchie, d'54,Wichita, On behalf of the Alaska-based alumni, Editor Kansas I'd like to say thanks to the men's and Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'8l Executive Vice Chairman women's basketball teams, the Association Art Director Reid Holbrook, c*64,1*66, Overland Park, and all the alumni who flew to Anchorage Susan Younger, f 91 Kansas for making The Great Alaska Shootout a Managing Editor Executive Committee Chris Lazzarino, j'86 Carol Swanson Ritchie, d'54, Wichita, tremendous experience. We all had a won- Staff Writer Kansas derful time, and I think everybody gained Megan Maciejowski, j'98 Jim Adam, e'56, Overland Park, Kansas something from the trip. Richard J. Cummings, c'54, m'57, Editorial Assistants Wichita, Kansas The visitors brought us enthusiasm Karen Goodell Reid Holbrook, c'64, l'66, Overland Park, Nancy Crisp, j'83 for KU and nostalgia for Lawrence and Kansas the campus. We (hopefully) gave them an Photographer Cordell D. Meeks Jr., c'64, l'67, Kansas City, Wally Emerson, j'76 appreciation of the wonders and charms Kansas Graphic Designer Gil M. Reich, e'54, Savannah, Georgia of Alaska, as well as a couple of champi- Valerie Spicher, j'94 Vice Chairmen onship gold pans for the trophy case! Editorial Office Gary Bender, g'64, Scottsdale, Arizona, and Certainly the image of Eric Chenowith in Kansas Alumni Association Colorado Springs.Colorado a dogsled is a vision we won't soon forget. 1266 Oread Ave. Michelle Senecal de Fonseca, b'83, Brussels, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 Belgium If any of you are bitten by the Alaska 785-864-4760 Patricia Weems Gaston, j'81, Annandale, bug from the stories brought back, please Advertising Office Virginia make the journey to The Great Land. It's Sarah Lober, Advertising Manager Lou Montulli, '94, Palo Alto, California Knight Enterprises an experience you'll cherish, and we'll Directors to July 2000 4840 W. 15th St., Suite 1000 guarantee you won't be bored, no matter Jim Adam, e'56, Overland Park, Kansas Lawrence, KS 66049 Janet Martin McKinney, c'74, Port Ludlow, if you come here in summer or winter. If 785-843-5511 1-800-844-3781 Washington you need any suggestions planning a trip, fax 785-843-7555 Debra Vignatelli, c'77, d'77,Topeka, Kansas or want to get together with local alumni e-mail: [email protected] Directors to July 2001 to share an Alaskan Amber, please feel free Lisa Ashner Adkins, c'84,1*87. Leawood, Kansas Kansas Alumni Magazine (ISSN 0745-3345) is pub- John B. Dicus, b'83,g'85,Topeka, Kansas to contact me at [email protected]. lished by the Alumni Association of the University of Kansas six times a year in January, March, May, July, Sep- Robert L. Driscoll, c'61, l'64, Mission Woods, Jeff Campbell, c'91 tember and November; $40 annual subscription Kansas Anchorage, Alaska includes membership in the Alumni Association. Office of Publication: 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, Directors to July 2002 KS 66044-3169. Second class postage paid at Lewis D. Gregory, c'75, Leawood, Kansas Lawrence, KS, and additional mailing offices. Lynwood H. Smith, b'51, m'60, Lawrence, What so proudly we hail POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Kansas Alumni Magazine, 1266 Oread Kansas Avenue, Lawrence. KS 66044-3169 © 2000 by Linda Duston Warren, c'66, m'70, Hanover, Kansas Alumni Magazine. Non-member I read Steven Hill's profile of opera star issue price: $7 Kansas Phyllis Pancella [issue No. 5] with great Directors to July 2003 interest. One item that caught my atten- Sidney Ashton Garrett, c'68, d'70, Lawrence, KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Kansas tion was the basketball teams undefeated The Alumni Association was established in 1883 Deloris Strickland Pinkard, g'80, EdD'95, for the purpose of strengthening loyalty, friendship, record during the two seasons when she commitment, and communication among all grad- Kansas City, Kansas sang the national anthem in Allen Field uates, former students, current students, parents, David R. Rankin, p'63, Phillipsburg, Kansas House. The contribution of KU vocalists to faculty, staff and all other interested friends of The Directors to July 2004 University of Kansas. Its members hereby unite A. Drue Jennings, d'68,1*72, Leawood, Kansas its athletics teams has a more substantial into an Association to achieve unity of purpose and action that will serve the best interests of The Mary Kay Paige McPhee, d'49, Kansas City, history than might be expected. University and its constituencies. The Association Missouri Then-director of bands Kenneth is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, John W. Mize, c'72, Salina, Kansas and scientific purposes. Bloomquist selected me to sing the Honorary Members anthem for basketball games during the Gene A. Budig, Ed.Q, Princeton, New Jersey Fred B.Williams, President; Kay Henry, Senior E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., Ph.D., San Antonio, 1967-'68 and 1968-'69 seasons, during Vice President for Administration and Human Resources: Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'81, Senior Texas which time our team was never beaten at Vice President for Communications; Dwight Archie R. Dykes, Ed.D., Goodlettsville, home. I also sang for the games at Memor- Parman, Senior Vice President for Finance and Tennessee Treasurer; William S. Green, Senior Vice Presi- Delbert M. Shankel, Ph.D., Lawrence, Kansas ial Stadium during the 1968 football sea- dent for Information Systems; Nancy Peine.Vice W. Clarke Wescoe, M.D., Spicer, Minnesota son, when only one contest was lost. President for Alumni and Membership Records; Sheila Murphy Immel, f 69, g'84, Senior Vice This clear-cut connection between KU's President for Membership; Kirk Cerny, c'92, g'98, vocal and athletic prowess has been a Senior Vice President for Membership Services o PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER well-kept secret until now. And I believe

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 LIFT THE CHORUS the University has shown exemplary destinations. Still, our wives cannot Thank you for sharing your thoughts, sportsmanship in employing such a deci- comprehend what the big deal is with insight, photography and many talents sive, but heretofore unsung, weapon at KU. Every time our families get together, with us, your readers. We are blessed to crucial times during its long history. I we tell our wives, "See how nice KU have such an accomplished editor, pho- would urge, however, that all publicity people are?" tographer and staff. My thanks to all for cease forthwith, lest this knowledge fall Last week, while watching the Jay- making our reading so educational, beau- into the hands of our opponents! hawks lose to Texas A&M on TV, Eldon tiful and enchanting. It is no wonder your and I decided that you can only compre- magazine continues to win so many Harlan Jennings, g'69 hend the significance of being a Jayhawk awards and recognition. Bravo! Associate professor of voice by becoming one. It is not merely a uni- Michigan State University versity you attend and then move on—it Judy Ruedlinger, assoc. East Lansing, Mich. is more like nationality. Lawrence Surely there is a difference. I have been Friends in far places a devoted Syrian ever since I was born, Keep better scorecards whereas I have been a devoted Jayhawk While walking around the Damascus, only since I was 19! In regards to the KU bowling article Syria, international airport—expecting the [Sports, issue No. 4, in which KUs spring arrival of my Naismith Hall roommate, Thaer Laham, e'84, g'87, g'87 trip to the Intercollegiate Bowling Cham- Douglas Mesler, b'84, c'84, who was due Damascus, Syria pionships was described as a first], not to spend 10 days as my guest in Syria— only had a KU team qualified for the someone flashed a sign that read, Places in the heart national tournament, KU actually won the "Jayhawks." national title [in 1963] and put four The handwritten and colorful sign was What a wonderful afternoon I had bowlers in the top 10. only visible for a split second. Being bash- today! The latest edition of Kansas Alumni I am surprised that someone wasn't ful by nature, I tried to convince myself [issue no. 5] has been on my coffee table aware. The championship trophy is in that I was seeing things so late at night. for a while and at last I sat down to peruse the Jaybowl. Soon my inquisitive side took hold and I one of my favorite reads. What a treat it Dave Rybolt, b'64 thought this was too good to miss out on. was for me and, I'm sure, so many others. Overland Park So 1 went to the guy and asked, "Excuse It was such a work of art! me, does your sign read, 'Jayhawks'?" He As I usually do in my psychotic fash- Editor's note: KU's 1963 bowling team replied in a baffled manner: "How do you ion, I began reading from back to front. I did indeed win the National Intercollegiate know what a Jayhawk is?" always like to see the names of all the Bowling Association championship, led by I said, "I am one," and he replied, "I alumni and their current events. It is fun individual all-events winner Terrel Hays, am, too." It turned out Eldon and I were to catch up on births, marriages and b'63, who rolled a 2,039 in 10 games. both waiting for arrivals on the same accomplishments. Before I knew it, I had Kansas Alumni extends apologies to all flight, and when we saw my roommate read the entire magazine. team members for coverage of the 1999 and his brother come out, they seemed to I found myself teary eyed reading "The team's success that led us to overlook the know each other! Apparently they had Power of Place." Since I am not a graduate accomplishments from 1963. met on the plane while sitting across from of the University, it was interesting to me each other. The brother was writing that the article would bring me to such entries in his diary, which had a Jayhawk sentimental feelings. I can only imagine on the cover. In retrospect, it all seems so what so many graduates must have felt unreal, like a movie plot, but this one when they devoured this article. It was Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the really happened. just outstanding! I also enjoyed the article editor. If you would like to comment on As it turns out, Eldon, who is a Kansas by Steven Hill ["The Healing Hill"], which a story, please write us. Our address is native, has been living in Damascus for was also a very moving piece. When I fin- Kansas Alumni, 1266 Oread Avenue, two years. We have become close friends ished going backwards, I started at the Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. and so have our families; our sons have front and read the entire magazine again. already made plans to attend KU. I congratulate you on your terrific artis- If you would like to respond via e-mail, About 10 years ago, my honeymoon tic style and your genuine grace in the the Alumni Association's address is officially started at the Holidome in way you take a reader right to the heart of [email protected] Lawrence, after 15 hours of flight time the University. The reading and viewing from Damascus. Because we are loyal and was a special gift on this early autumn Letters appearing in the magazine not stupid, we went on to the other U.S. afternoon. may be edited for space and clarity.

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BEEWILDERED:The Exhibitions Natural History Museum "Windows: Photographs from the recently completed two years Collection," Spencer Museum of work on its new bee tree, of Art, through March 19 including the addition of aTV monitor that displays the bees "Jiro Okura: The Spirit in Wood," enlarged 50 times. But a mite Spencer Museum of Art, Jan. infestation is rapidly killing off 21-March 5 the hive and researchers don't know how to halt the "The Art of 20th-century Zen: Paint- extinction. Museum director ings and Calligraphy by Leonard Krishtalka says it will Japanese Masters," Spencer likely be up to the bees to Museum of Art, Jan. 29-March develop a resistance through 11 evolutionary change from generation to generation. "Chokwe Art," Spencer Museum of Art, Feb. 12-April 6 "Neanderthals in Kansas," Museum of Anthropology, through Feb. 6

Murphy Hall events JANUARY 20, 22, 28, 30 "Closer Than Ever," by Maltby and Shire, KU Opera 21, 23, 27, 29 "Cosijan tutte," by Mozart, KU Opera 18 Symphonic Band • Millennium Series FEBRUARY 22 Concert and University bands FEBRUARY 7-12 "The Ugly Duckling," by Hans 23 "Victor/Victoria" 1-April 30 "Woman's Works 2000: Christian Andersen, KU The- 24 "An Anglo-French Evening," atre for Young People Our Past to Our Future," KU Symphony Orchestra Museum of Anthroplogy 17-20, 22-26 "Fen," by Caryl 27 "The Joy of Singing!" with Churchill, Inge Theatre Series 10 Anna Deavere Smith, "Pieces of Eight," KU Choirs Lied Center MARCH 29 The St. Paul Chamber 2-4, 9-12 "Hedda Gabler," by Hennk Orchestra with Andre Watts MARCH Ibsen, University Theatre 3-4 "American Indian Leaders MARCH of the '60s: Red Power and 2-4 23rd annual KU Jazz Festival Politics," at KU and Haskell Lied Center events APRIL 7-8 JazzTrain: Donald Byrd/The JANUARY Academic calendar Group with Max Roach, 28 Bill T. Jones JANUARY Vernon Reid and Geri Allen, 29 "A Bright Idea," Scholastic's 18 Spring classes begin Lied Center The Magic School Bus Live! 26 Jeane Kirkpatrick, Lied Center MARCH FEBRUARY 20-26 Spring break 3 "Camelot" 11 The Watts Prophets MAY 13 "Sponsus: The Parable of the 8 Spring classes end Wise and Foolish Virgins," 10-17 Final examinations New York's Ensemble for Early 21 Commencement Music

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• Men's basketball • Swimming and Diving '• Baseball JANUARY JANUARY FEBRUARY 15 Nebraska 15 at Southern Illinois 12-13 at UT-San Antonio 17 at Texas A&M 22 at Texas A&M 15 Rockhurst 21 at Missouri 28 Nebraska 18-20 at Southwest Missouri State 24 Colorado FEBRUARY 23 at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 29 at Iowa State 5 at Iowa State 25-27 Creighton FEBRUARY 17-19 Women's Big 12 Champi- 29 Baker 3 at Iowa onships, at College Station, 5 Texas Tech Texas 7 at Oklahoma State MARCH 12 at Kansas State 2-4 Men's Big 12 Championships, 16 Iowa State at College Station, Texas 20 Oklahoma 23 at Nebraska 26 Baylor • Indoor track and field 28 at Texas JANUARY MARCH 15 at Nebraska Triangular Missouri 22 at Missouri Invitational 9-12 Big 12 Tournament, Kansas 29 KU-KSU-MU Triangular City FEBRUARY 5 Jayhawk Invitational 5 at Northern Iowa Invitational " Women's basketball 11-12 at Husker Invitational, Lincoln JANUARY 18 Pre-conference Invitational 15 Colorado 25-26 Big 12 Indoor Championships, 19 at Baylor at Ames, Iowa 22 at Texas Tech 2b Missouri 29 Iowa State • Softball FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 1 at Colorado 12 Georgia, at Tempe, Ariz. i 6 Oklahoma State 12 Wisconsin, at Tempe, Ariz. PHONE BOX 10 Texas 13 Utah State, at Tempe, Ariz. Lied Center 864-ARTS 13 at Nebraska 18-19 at Triangle Classic, Chapel Murphy Hall 864-3982 L6 at Iowa State Hill, N.C., vs. Boston, Student Union Activities 864-3477 Campbell and Liberty Spencer Museum of Art 864-4710 19 Kansas State Spencer Research Library .. .864-4334 23 at Missouri 25-27 at Oklahoma Invitational, Museum of Anthropology .. .864-4245

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Apparition tradition

or years, fright- Lorraine and Ed Warren visited Rened fraternity the house, where Lorraine, a clair- members at Sigma voyant, immediately affirmed Vir- Nu have contended ginia's eerie aura. Upon entering with creepy vibes the Bowery, the third-floor bed- and things that go room where the former servant to bump in the night. Gov. Roscoe Stubbs allegedly The former gover- hanged herself in the 1920s, Lor- nor's mansion houses raine, unprompted, said, "There's a more than 80 men and lot of anger and sadness. I see a one unearthly inhabitant, a young woman in black and white. vision named Virginia whose I'm confused as to what her job exploits are legendary among was, but by her dress, she looks like all who have ever lived at 1501 she had a position of servility or Sigma Nu Place. But lest anyone something." dismiss the spirit's psychic vibrations Though the Warrens could not The honor due his name as the stuff of lore, two ghost determine why Virginia lingers, after hunters on Oct. 12 confirmed the they spoke, one thing was certain: ucius Perkins still has the text of the most lady of the house's paranormal pallid fraternity members looked as Lfateful Morse Code message he would ever presence. if they had just seen a ghost. translate as a soldier serving in France during World War I.The message informed Perkins' brigade that hostilities would cease on the I Ith of November at the I Ith hour. Nearly Directions to Utopia:Take 1-70 80 years later, Perkins, e'21, was awarded The east and exit in National Order of The Legion of Honor by the Lawrence government of France for his valor in the war. The presentation celebrated the 80th anniver- s if last year's 33-17 sary of the Armistice, which, as Perkins' mes- thrashing by Kansas sage forecasted, was signed on Nov. 11,1918. A wasn't enough to motivate For the 102-year-old Perkins, who has wit- Colorado football fans for the team's nessed monumental changes over more than 1999 rematch with the Jayhawks, Boulder a century, the award affirms that courage and Weekly editor Joe Miller decided to make honor never go out of style. the city's rivalry with Lawrence personal. In a cover article coinciding with the KU- CU game, Miller proclaimed Lawrence the perfect town. "Every single woman in Lawrence ... is drop-dead gorgeous," the story begins. "You can always find a parking place downtown. Beers are never more than $3.25.The trees are so thick and tall, it feels like Lawrence grew out of the woods." Miller goes on to praise the funky, quiet charm of Lawrence while criticizing Boulder's management of its growth. The Buffalo football team responded by pounding KU, 5 l-l 7.The bright side for the Jayhawks?They got to come home to Lawrence.

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Reformed geek makes good

ou Montulli, '94, admits he is a dork. So it came L.as a surprise when the former KU computer programmer, who became one of Netscape's found- ing engineers and recently created the online shop- ind yourself surfing at home ping guide Epinions.com, was selected for People Fon a quiet weekend night, magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issue. Montulli, who the nursing a thirst for the old magazine says "seemed programmed to become a school's cherished watering holes? nerd," was named Sexiest Internet Mogul. Then tap into The Wagon Wheel Overcoming what he calls "a Spock mentality", Cafe's Internet camera at Montulli has emerged a leading man for the techno kuwheel.com.Your computer set Beyond his Internet exploits, he has made alumni inroads:To date, he is monitor will display the latest the first Alumni Association national board member to appear as one of action at The Wheel, and you can People's sexiest men. type in a message that will be displayed on a monitor inside the tavern.You don't even have to tip Only for the fleet of fingers the bartenders. And if you are parents of ost days they stay in their dark The contestants fought furiously students currently attending the rooms, illuminated only by the through three-minute quarters for a M University... never mind. glow of their TV screens. But even the Dec. 18 trip to Las Vegas, where the most ardent Sony PlayStation addicts victor would compete against win- stepped outside Oct. 28. More than ners from 63 other schools.The 30 remote-control freaks turned out grand prize was a trip to the Sugar for EA Sports NCAA Football 2000 Bowl and a photo shoot with the Devil's advocates Video Game Championships at the Heisman Trophy for an EA Sports ad. he pivotal scene in director Ang Kansas Union's Jaybowl, hoping for And the most prodigious player could TLee's Civil War drama "Ride pseudo gridiron glory. win an even more prestigious prize— With the Devil" focuses on infamous the chance to score a job testing new Missourian William Quantrill, but the PlayStation games. An armchair film has a decidedly Kansas flavor. athlete's dream. The screenplay was adapted from the novel Woe to Live On by Daniel Woodrell, c'80, and archivists at Spencer Research Library supplied producers with materials from the Kansas Collection's Quantrill assem- blage.The movie also owes its dis- tinctive voice to KU. Paul Meier, associate professor of theatre and film, served as the film's dialect coach. Meier, an expert on 1860s Kansas-Missouri dialects, worked with stars Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich and Jewel to lend authenticity to their articulation. He trained them to feign they were mainly from the Plains.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 iLLTOPICS BY MEGAN MACIEJOWSKI Make no assumption

DISCOVERY Professor Monica Biernat casts herself against type as SIGNIFICANT SUMMER one of the country's leading stereotyping researchers MORE THAN A YEAR BEFORE Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, propelling tereotypes have a way of infil- the United States into World War II, at trating judgments and clouding least one American scholar sensed ten- perceptions. Look at Monica sion in Japanese-American relations. In S Biernat. The youthful associate pro- summer 1940, James Halsema had just graduated from Duke University and fessor of social psychology, who headed to Japan for the seventh Japan- explains her acclaimed research America Student Conference.The stu- while cradling her new baby on her dent delegate kept a diary of his hip, hardly looks old enough to be at experiences there, unknowingly drafting the top of her field. Her energy and a perceptive documentation of the evo- enthusiasm belie the somber issues lution of events and emotions that she tackles daily. would ultimately bring America into the But if her appearances deceive, it war.Thanks to Halsema's friendship is only because of the assumptions with Grant Goodman, professor emeri- we draw from them. No one knows tus of history, that diary now is being that better than Biernat, who studies published electronically by KU's Center stereotypes. for East Asian Studies. "Everybody has stereotypes, no "Because Jim was an incredibly matter how high-minded you are," astute and careful observer, even at the she says. "Ideally we are sensitive to relatively tender age of 21," Goodman these stereotypes and work hard to says, "we are able to share now his overcome them." keen perceptions of Japan, Korea, Since coming to the University in Manchuria and China on the eve of the GETTINGTO KNOW YOU: Monica Biernat's research 1992, Biernat has built a reputation has helped identify how stereotypes influence our behavior Pacific war." as one of the country's leading On Sept. 9, researchers in prejudice and stereotyping. esting issues that have obvious relevance Halsema, now a In addition to being one of the most well- in our everyday society. It's not only t retired foreign published researchers in her field, Biernat important psychology research, it's impor- service officer and has secured grants exceeding $1.1 million tant socially." former journalist, from the National Institute of Mental The potential social impact of her attended a public Health. In August, she was one of two research is what excites Biernat. While the ceremony at KU scholars in the nation to receive the problems she studies are broad and to launch the pub- American Psychological Associations lication of his encompassing, Biernat's research focuses diary on the Internet. In its first week, annual Distinguished Scientific Early primarily on gender and racial stereotypes the Halsema diary had more than 400 Career Contribution to Psychology Award. in the workplace. After five years of hits.The Center for East Asian Studies The APA award completes Biernat's early examining undergraduates in simulated established the site (www.falcon.ee. acquisition of academias triumverate of work situations, Biernat has come to some ukans.edu/~ceas/) to publish a wider grants, published work and recognition. insightful conclusions. variety of limited-interest works, "It's just about the most prestigious "Stereotypes continue to seep into our Goodman says. Its next publication is award that someone can win at this point judgment even if we're not consciously the memoir of a Japanese woman titled in their career," says Professor Greg Simp- aware of them," she says. "For example, if "Those Days in Muramatsu" which will son, PhD'80, chairman of the psychology you ask people, 'Do you believe blacks are go online in January. department. "She's basically competing not as competent as whites?' virtually with every young psychologist in the everyone would say, 'No, I don't believe country. What's more, she's studying inter- that.' But at the same time, if you ask

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them to evaluate a particular black appli- Biernat's research has deeply influenced cant and compare it to how a white appli- her classroom demeanor. Although she is cant is evaluated, we see these subtle currently on maternity leave from teach- differences in people's evaluations." ing, Biernat regularly teaches two under- Biernat says employers tend to set graduate and two graduate courses. She lower standards for women and blacks, says that even though she has always been VISITOR making it easier for them to surpass those attuned to prejudice, her extensive study UNEQUAL GROUND initial standards and gain acceptance. of stereotyping has made her even more Author JONATHAN KOZOL, Paradoxically, those same stereotypes lead critical of her own views as a professor. whose books have highlighted employers to set higher ability standards "If we're talking about prejudice in inequalities and inadequacies in so that more is required of women and class, all eyes turn to the black students in the education system—particular- blacks to prove their competence in the class looking for their response or expect- ly in inner-city schools—spoke to workplace. So while the stereotypes can ing them to be experts," Biernat says. "Am an audience of more than 1,000 actually be beneficial in the beginning, I putting them on the spot? Am I over- about "Love Against Fear:The ultimately they prevent their targets from compensating or treating them differently Ethics and Compassion of Chil- advancing professionally. than white students? These are questions I dren Under Siege." Another focus of Biernat's investigation constantly ask myself." is the role of basic American values in While Biernat concedes she is pes- WHEN: Nov. 13 promoting prejudice toward certain simistic that stereotypes can ever be com- groups. She says two essential values have pletely eradicated, she hopes her research WHERE: The Lied Center traditionally defined the American creed: will help people confront their biases. individualism and egalitarianism. People "I'm trying to accumulate a body of SPONSOR: The Hall Center for the who advocate individualism believe research that can inform activities that Humanities Millennium Speaker Series achievement is possible with individual might be used to change or reduce preju- initiative. Those who promote egalitarian- dice," Biernat says. "Biases exist, but there BACKGROUND: Kozol, a Harvard ism champion treating every person are steps you can take to avoid judging graduate and Rhodes Scholar, began his equally and uplifting their fellow citizens. people based on those biases." -^*^ career in 1964 as a substitute teacher Biernat says that while most people in Boston. believe in both, in some ways these values are contradictory. ANECDOTE: "If you believe in individualism and Chancellors Club winners Kozol criticized then you encounter some groups in our praised for their excellence the govern- society who traditionally don't do as well ment for as others, your belief that hard work can 'hen students enroll in Professor spending only conquer all can lead you to blame people WJack Landgrebe's organic chemistry $6,000 a year for their situations," she says. "We've class, they prepare for the worst. The to educate its found that people who endorse the indi- notoriously difficult course is a make-or- poorest chil- vidualistic belief most strongly tend to be break class for students who must pass for dren and the most prejudiced. They blame blacks admission to medical, nursing, pharmacy $93,000 a year for not succeeding in society; they blame and other graduate schools. But if stu- to keep prisoners incarcerated. He homosexuals for being outcasts; they dents enter the large lecture class expect- noted that Riker's Island, the world's blame fat people for being fat." ing to find a professor who is their largest prison and home to many rela- Conversely, Biernat says that endorsing adversary, a hurdle standing between tives of the children he works with in egalitarian values leads to a reduction in them and their dreams, they must be New York City's poorest district, is visible from the South Bronx. "You can't prejudice. But those values can also pro- pleasantly surprised to meet Landgrebe. see the Statue of Liberty from the mote what she says is not a genuine posi- "I know there's bound to be a large South Bronx, but you can see the tive feeling, but a patronizing, amount of anxiety for organic chemistry," prison," he said. sympathetic reaction. Landgrebe says, "so I try to devise ways to "It's interesting to explore the way that lower the anxiety and make the students QUOTE: "Children learn to find we can walk around believing both of more comfortable. I encourage them to blessings where they can and return these values but let them have very differ- come see me. I go over exams problem by them to us in abundance," Kozol said. ent effects on our level of prejudice," Bier- problem with individuals. Those things nat says. seem to help."

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The Chancellors Club also gives a $5,000 Research Award, and this year's winner is anato- my and cell biology professor Joan Hunt. Hunt, c'56, c'57, DISCOVERY PhD'83, has earned praise for her innovative work in repro- THEY WANT YOUR BLOOD ductive immunology, which COSTASTSATSOULIS AIMS to go focuses on the way genes are one step further in collecting data on regulated to promote appropri- blood procedures.While critical errors, ate communication between the such as giving people red blood cells mother and the baby. Hunt incompatible with their blood type or hopes to help infertile couples accidentally collecting blood from peo- with her research. ple with HIV, are standardly reported, BEST OF THE BEST: Chancellors Club honorees Jack Land- grebe (left) and Joan Hunt, with Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway. "I'm thrilled to receive this Tsatsoulis is concerned with the mis- award," she says. "I'm delighted takes that almost happen. Landgrebe's accessible approach to that my colleagues find my research pro- "Looking at near misses is far more teaching has helped thousands of students gram so interesting and important."-"••* interesting and potentially more helpful in his 37-year career at KU, and for that than just looking at errors," Tsatsoulis he has been honored with the 1999 says. "The errors that almost happen Chancellors Club Career Teaching Award. Children's book collection are more numerous than the ones that KU faculty members, students and alumni to honor Strong's late wife do happen, and they provide more data submit nominations for the $5,000 and reveal a wider variety of problems." award. rank Strong's ties to the University are Tsatsoulis, "As a researcher, Dr. Landgrebe taught Fundeniably strong. His father, Frank, professor of elec- me to be inquisitive, to think 'outside the was KU's sixth chancellor, from 1902 to trical engineering box' and to look for the unexpected," for- 1920. When the younger Strong was and computer mer student Ronald Mathis, PhD'65, born, the Hill's resounding whistle was science, is KU wrote in a letter of support for Landgrebe. blown to announce his birth. lead investigator "I attribute to him my success in making "I guess you could say I was connected of a $3.2 million discoveries that have led to over 50 U.S. to Kansas right from the beginning," National Institutes patents during my career." Strong says. of Health grant Throughout his enduring tenure at the But ask Strong the motivation behind coordinated by University, Landgrebe has retained his his $50,000 gift to the School of Educa- Columbia University that seeks to enthusiasm by alternating between under- tion, and the Lawrence native, who did report near-miss errors in transfusion graduate and graduate level classes, regu- not attend KU, will tell you it has nothing medicine. For example, health care pro- larly switching textbooks and embracing to do with his inherent KU connection. fessionals frequently have reported new technology. He also has been research He points instead to a picture of his late almost giving patients the wrong blood mentor for 22 graduate and postdoctoral wife, Gertrude Way Strong, c'29, who type for transfusions; now blood bag students and 27 undergraduates in addi- died in November 1998. labels are color-coded by blood type to prevent that mistake. Near-miss report- tion to chairing the chemistry department "She is the motivation," he says simply. ing is standard in fields such as aviation from 1970 to 1980 and playing an instru- Strong's gift will establish the Gertrude and nuclear testing, and Tsatsoulis mental role in planning a new undergrad- Way Strong Children's Literature Collec- hopes this study will make it standard uate science teaching laboratory. Teaching, tion at the school's future home in Pear- for blood procedures as well. however, is clearly his first love. son Hall. The collection will provide More than 25 organizations—includ- "Teaching has its own rewards," Land- teachers and students with access to clas- ing hospitals, blood collection sites and grebe says. "When you're working with sic children's literature as well as the latest the Red Cross—are noting blood pro- students on something they've been hav- published children's books. cedures from the point of donation to ing trouble with and then they suddenly "My wife was always interested in the point of transfusion.The data they see the light and everything clicks, that's kids," says Strong, 91, who lives in gather is then forwarded to Tsatsoulis great. It's very exhilarating. But the public Kansas City. "She loved to read to the and his students for analysis. recognition is neat, too." children. This is a way to honor her."'-"*"'

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ROCK CHALK REVIEW DISCOVERY MILESTONES, MONEY AND OTHER MATTERS SHUDDER TO THINK JON LINDSEY SHUDDERS when •AS KU ADMINISTRATORS PREPARE to cut budgets to meet Gov. Bill Graves' he thinks about the images typically orders, Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway prepares to fight for higher education in associated with earthquakes. Kansas. "This is not a fiscal crisis," Hemenway said. "This is a priority crisis. Who is will- "The most common scene from an ing to make higher education a priority even in a tough budget year?" After three years earthquake is people being pulled out of budget surplus, the state expects a revenue shortfall of $73 million.The cut affects of collapsed buildings," he says. "As an state general fund money, so in September Graves asked University administrators to engineer, you're supposed to provide a reduce expenses by I percent. In spite of the debilitated budget, the Kansas Board of structure that never fails.Those images Regents will continue to lobby for five key elements as part of its legislative agenda: an are devastating to see." 8.5 percent salary increase for faculty and unclassified employees; an Other Operating Lindsey hopes his research will help Expenses increase of 3.5 percent; a match from the Legislature of the $1 per credit buildings withstand future disasters. A hour student fees increase to fund library acquisition; the establishment of the Faculty doctoral student in civil engineering of Distinction program, which would generate a legislative match for private gifts of from Kansas City, Kan., Lindsey has $500,000 or more to recruit and retain top faculty; and Senate Bill 345's monetary constructed a simulator that tests the promise to fund a 1.5 percent salary increase for faculty in addition to the base salary effects of earthquakes on building increase. "Human intellectual capital is the single most valuable capital in the 21st beams and columns.The $70,000 struc- century," Hemenway said. "Without a commitment to that, we don't have a chance." ture, which has been in development for five years, uses a hydraulic actuator Alumni willing to contact legislators through Jayhawks for Higher Education should to exert force on a joint that connects contact the Alumni Association, I -800-584-2957. two 15-foot long steel beams set at right angles to each other. Lindsey says •VICTOR CONTOSKI, poet and professor of English,was awarded the 1999 HOPE the object of his research is to make Award—Honors for Outstanding Progressive Educators—during pregame ceremonies the floor beam a hinge so that it at the KU-Nebraska football game Oct. 30. Contoski, who also was a finalist for the absorbs most of the energy of the award in 1998, has taught at the University since 1969. His published books of poetry quake. If this happens, he says, the floor include Astronomers, Madonnas and Prophesies in 1972; Broken Treaties in 1973; Names in will buckle, but the walls will remain 1979; A Kansas Sequence in 1983; and Midwestern Buildings:A Collection of Poems in 1997. intact. He also has put works to music and published numerous translations of Polish writers. "Its like a surge protector for your The HOPE Award is bestowed annually by the senior class. computer," Lindsey says. "The joint absorbs the damage so the magnitude •THE UNIVERSITY SEAL depicts Moses kneeling in front of a burning bush, but of the earthquake becomes incidental." as the academic year began, it was the seal itself that came under fire. In its first meet- Lindsey ing of the semester, the KU chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union questioned says he will the appropriateness of the religious elements and sent a letter to the chancellor asking continue KU administrators to justify the symbol. Hemenway vigorously defended the seal as testing his representative of the pursuit of knowledge that is the University's mission.The ACLU simulator has since dropped its investigation. for another year before •THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE KU Endowment Association in October looking for elected two new trustees. Jeff Johnson, b'88, of Wichita, and H.W. Knapheide, b'67, of a job as a Quincy, III., will join the group of alumni and friends. During fiscal 1999, the Endowment licensed civil engineer in an area sur- Association recorded the most support ever for the University. Expenditures for KU rounded by seismic activity. Ultimately, students, faculty and programs totaled $54.1 million, an increase of 22 percent over he hopes his innovations with beams $44.4 million in fiscal 1998. and columns will be implemented and put into building codes. "This is such an easy, inexpensive alternative," he says.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 L3 BY MEGAN MACIEJOWSKI Freshmen take flight Thrilling threesome thrives in spotlight as Kansas strives IN AUGUST there was optimism. In September there was outrage. In Octo- to maintain momentum and overcome mistakes of youth ber there was rebirth. In November there was revenge. But by the end of KU's dramatic 1999 football season, which the team finished with a 5-7 record, there was only speculation. What if the Jayhawks, who began the year 2-5, had started the season the way they finished it? What if Dylen Smith and Moran Norris and Carl Nesmith had started all along? What if college football had an exhibition season? "If we could have had six preseason games and then started the season, we probably would have been a bowl team," coach Terry Allen said wistfully a few days after his third season ended. "But it doesn't work that way." Unfortunately for Allen and his players, it does not. But Kansas salvaged its season, and quite possibly its program, with a mid-year turnaround that displayed rare determination and fortitude for a team with little or no hope of postseason play.

"In the last five or six games, we CAPTAIN KIRK: In his first Kansas game, Kirk Hinrich was in command of KU's enterprising offense. Hinrich, played pretty good football," Allen said. Nick Collison (4) and Drew Gooden combined for 29 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists in their debut. "We showed a lot of character to build on for next year. We're a much better oments after Kansas defeated Hinrich, impressive with his sure ball team than we were a year ago." Fairfield, 97-71, in its season handling and savvy floor leadership, The low point of KU's season, a Mopener at Allen Field House, the declared that he was making the transi- 41-13 loss to San Diego State during Jayhawks' media interview room resem- tion from high school to college pretty which the Jayhawks were booed off bled an epic basketball battle in the paint: well. But the stage belonged that night to their home field by their own fans, has Cameramen jockeyed for position in the forward Drew Gooden, whose talk is as been well-documented.The team's post. Reporters boxed one another out. flamboyant as his game, as he aptly sum- resurgence began shortly after and Darwinism was on full display as scribes marized his first weeks as a Jayhawk. picked up momentum during late clamored for the attention of KU's three "I came here raw," Gooden said. "I'm October, during the schedule's cruelest fabulous freshman phenoms, available to like a rugged rock that the coaches are stretch. Fueled by a shut-out victory the press for the first time since arriving chiseling off piece by piece." over rival Missouri, Kansas players pre- on campus and generating more early Gooden's poetic metaphor for himself pared for their contest against eighth- buzz than any recruiting class in recent has become an emblem for KU's young ranked Nebraska with one word in memory. season. Coach Roy Williams' team, 7-1 mind: believe. KU's effort, perhaps its In the interview room, as on the court, and ranked eighth in the nation at press finest of the season, proved that, from the youthful players did not disappoint. time, is very much a work in progress. someplace unexpected, the team had Nick Collison, the steady forward who While the 1999-2000 Jayhawks were reclaimed its spirit.The Cornhuskers earned a starting spot in his first college averaging 87.8 points a game and shoot- had to score a touchdown with just game, praised his teammates for welcom- ing 51.9 percent from the field, turnovers ing him into the program. Guard Kirk and poor execution of the team's new

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offense have worried Williams. Gregory and his teammates must keep "We don't set enough screens," he said. playing, and improving, if they are to over three minutes left to escape "We don't read screens properly. We don't transform early-season promise into post- Memorial Stadium with a 24-17 win. take care of the basketball. We don't make season prestige. After the Jayhawks After the game, Allen's disappointment the easy pass. And those things are crucial emerged victorious from the Thanksgiving spelled promise for his team. throughout the course of a long season." weekend Great Alaska Shootout, where "In order to beat a team like The long season is just beginning, they won three games in three days and Nebraska, you have to believe you can and youth-dominated Kansas likely placed four players on the all-tournament beat a team like Nebraska," Allen said. will spend much of it growing into its team, including Most Outstanding Player "So you can't congratulate yourself identity. KU's top six scorers and top four Gooden, Williams told anyone who when you lose to Nebraska." rebounders all are underclassmen. New- would listen that his team still had a long Senior receiver Michael Chandler comers Gooden, who averages 11.3 way to go. echoed Allen's sentiment. points and 8 rebounds a game, Collison "We can improve everything," he said. "To put it bluntly, to take this game (7.8 points, 6.8 rebounds) and Hinrich (4 "To be satisfied with oneself is a sure sign and be happy is a loser's perspective," assists a game) have established them- that your progress is about to stop." he said. selves as legitimate forces in the lineup, Fourth-ranked Michigan State's domi- By the end of the season, it seemed even if they have moved Williams to frus- nating win over Kansas, 66-54, in the Kansas was ready to be a winner. KU tration as often as fancy. The talented Great Eight tournament Dec. 7 proved won two of its last three games, with "triplets," as they have come to be known, Williams' point. But his comments after victories over Baylor and Iowa State have so far averaged more points as a the game indicated that the normally that avenged last year's losses to the class than any since Danny Mannings in exacting coach might be prepared to be respective schools. 1984-'85 and more rebounds than any in more patient with this team. Ironically, some of KU's most glaring school history. They are not shy about "This is a team that needs to fight its weaknesses early in the season helped making their presence known. way through," he said. "We are a young- uncover what would become its big- "We've all been making good passes; club. That's an excuse. I'm not gonna gest strengths. A porous pass defense we've all been scoring," Collison said. use it with the kids. But we are going to led Allen to replace starting safety "We've all made a good adjustment, for get better." Greg Erb with junior-college transfer freshmen, to playing defense and Carl Nesmith. Nesmith became the rebounding. We're all three good heart of the Jayhawk defense with his all-around players and we're helmet-popping hits and propensity for going to keep working hard to play-making. On the last play of the last get better." game of the season, Nesmith elevated The capable freshmen and himself above the line of scrimmage hot-shooting junior transfer Luke and blocked Iowa State's potentially Axtell (10 points a game) have game-winning field-goal attempt, as if to captured the public's attention, put an exclamation point on his superb but KU's most consistent star has debut season. been junior guard Kenny Grego- "Carl Nesmith always makes his ry, who is quietly having the best presence known," Allen said of the Big season of his career. Gregory has 12 Defensive Newcomer of the Year flourished in KU's new up-tempo and first team All-Big 12 selection, who offense, making nearly 70 per- had never played defense before. "He cent of his shots while scoring just gets better and better with each 16.4 points and grabbing 5.6 experience." rebounds a game. Williams When KU's trio of talented running attributes Gregory's success to backs went down with injuries, fullback confidence and maturity. Gregory Moran Norris became the Jayhawks' credits a new mental approach. featured back.The 6-2,245-pound "Before, I used to be so wor- junior responded by gaining 537 yards, scoring eight touchdowns and becom- ried about making mistakes," he GALLANT GREGORY: Although upstaged by the freshmen, said. "Now if Coach yells at me, Kenny Gregory smiles at their success:"! don't mind not getting ing the bruising big back that Kansas no offense to him, but I just forget all the attention.They deserve what they're getting. I'm very never had. A little-used ball carrier for about it and keep playing." proud of them."

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pay off so quickly. At press time, Kansas was 6-1 and most of his career, Norris switched to ranked 20th in the nation. smaller pads when he moved to tailback "We've got an offense now and suddenly emerged as a threatening that really suits us," Washing- runner and receiver. ton said. "And we're still "Moran is capable of being a major doing a lot of learning. We're part of our offense, and his confidence going to reach a point in the continues to improve," Allen said. "Earli- season when the players are er in the season he couldn't catch a not going to have to think so cold. Now he's making one-handed much, when it will just come catches in practice." naturally. That's what I look With 16 starters returning, including forward to." playmakers Smith, Nesmith and Norris, KU has compiled a string Kansas can envision a successful 2000 of impressive victories, win- season. ning at home and on the "With the personnel we have road, in tournaments and coming back," Allen said,"there are against a top-10 opponent. lots of us who would like to start Kansas opened the season practice next week." with a win at Houston before departing for the Great Alaska Shootout. While in Anchor- age, the Jayhawks defeated Northern Arizona and Louisville, set six tournament records and placed two play- THERE ARE THREE OF THEM, GOODEN PLENTY: Now that he's free to talk to the press, the effusive Gooden dishes quotable quotes as ably as he attacks the ers on the all-tournament they are freshmen and they are quickly backboards. He leads the team in rebounds, averaging eight a game. team, including Most Out- writing their names in the Kansas ath- standing Player Lynn Pride, en route to letics record books. Oh yes, and they Eight games into the season, Gooden the shootout championship. The follow- are swimmers, not men's basketball play- was asked to assess the progress of the ing week, Kansas hosted and won the KU ers. Lindsey DeVaney, Gwen Haley and "rugged rock" he described after the Credit Union Jayhawk Classic, beating Beth Schryer have made such a big first game. Loyola Marymount and ninth-ranked UC splash in their first months on the "It's still rugged," he said. "But the Santa Barbara. The team's lone loss came women's swimming team that coach coaches are chiseling, and one day it will at Creighton Dec. 7, but the Jayhawks Gary Kempf is virtually floating from be a fine sculpture." his poolside post. responded with a 97-53 pummeling of Perhaps one day soon Gooden will be Mississippi Valley State. "It could be an interesting year," able to say the same for his Kempf said. "We have one of the best As the conquests mounted for KU, the teams we've ever had here, maybe most encouraging aspect of the early sea- the best." Women's prompt progress son for Washington was not the number Kempf has coached 12 conference of wins but the way her team was win- championship teams, so he knows a tal- sends expectations soaring ning. After all, Kansas is accustomed to ented team when he sees one. And winning. Washington's teams have made much of his team's talent rests with the hen women's basketball practice eight straight NCAA tournament appear- DeVaney-Haley-Schryer threesome. In Wbegan in October, Coach Marian ances and enjoyed national rankings sev- their first six meets, the trio has com- Washington had no trouble selling her eral times in the past decade. What stands bined for 13 first-place finishes, nine team on the triple-post offense. Players out this year to the veteran coach is the second-place finishes and 11 top-five fin- extolled its virtues, noting that the diffi- way her players have sacrificed the famil- ishes. DeVaney, who swims distance cult-to-learn offense would unleash more iarity of their old system, embraced a freestyle and butterfly, already has gar- scoring opportunities for more players change they believe ultimately will make nered six first-place finishes, and Kempf and transform KUs one-woman show them better and adapted quickly. Pride calls her "a national caliber flyer." The into an ensemble production. But even has continued to dazzle, but for the first versatile Haley, a five-time winner, swims the most optimistic enthusiasts could not time since she has worn a KU jersey, she distance freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly have predicted that the change would is not the only star. Senior Suzi Raymant

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 L6] , V ^ r SPORTS and junior Brooke Reves now lead a page as far as goals," she said. "It's not balanced offensive attack. even so much about our physical ability, and individual medley. Schryer, who took "Lynn's role is not diminished at all," which I think we have, as it is the mental top honors in the 1,650-meter freestyle Washington said. "Every team focuses toughness. There's a strong sense of that at the competitive Northwestern Invita- on Lynn Pride. But she's a heady player. with us. Sometimes determination is even tional, also swims backstroke and indi- She knows how to distribute the ball. more important than talent." vidual medley. And now we've made it easier for others The team that has committed itself to In addition to the fabulous freshmen, to score." mastering a new offense and unselfishly Kansas is led by senior captains Rebecca The most eloquent testimony to the finding opportunities for teammates sure- Eustice and Kerri Pribyl and junior cap- triple-posts effectiveness is Raymant. The ly understands that. Raymant, who almost tain Jenny Fuller. Eustice is a standout at consistent outside shooter and legitimate did not return this year after knee surgery, backstroke, Pribyl a diver and Fuller a three-point threat leads the team in scor- understands. That is why she came back. freestyle sprinter. ing with 17.1 points a game. Her pres- "Once I thought about it, I really "We're young. We are going to make progress from October to March," ence also extends defenses and creates wanted to be a part of this team," she Kempf said. "We're going to take a nice, inside opportunities for other players. said. "We want to take Coach Washington long walk before we turn it into a run." "Anytime you have a player that can to the Final Four, and we think it's a knock down a three like Suzi, it's a valu- legitimate goal this season." "*B*" able asset to the team," Washington said. "When I see her perform this season, 1 realize how much we missed her last year. JUDGING FROM the surviving peri- odicals, the last gasps of energy in the She really opens up our second millennium were spent compiling offense." endless lists attempting to recognize and Reves (16 points a neatly index greatness.The University game), who has picked Daily Kansan was no exception, offering up right where she left off its own list of the 10 greatest Kansas this year after a promising athletes of the 20th century. Articles sophomore season, and appeared in regular installments from Pride (14.3 points a I Oth place to first. And the winners game) are the team's other were: 10. Lynette Woodard, basketball, 4ouble-figure scorers. l978-'8l;9.Jim Ryun, track, l966-'69;8. Pride also is grabbing 8 Danny Manning, basketball, l984-'88; 7. rebounds and dishing out Ralph Miller, basketball and football, 5 assists a game. In addi- 1938-'41; 6. Jim Bausch, basketball, foot- tion, junior forward ball and track, 1929-30; 5.AI Oerter, Jaclyn Johnson and junior track and field, l956-'58;4. Nolan guard Jennifer Jackson, Cromwell, football and track and field, the other starters, have 1973-77; 3. Ray Evans, football and bas- turned in solid perfor- ketball, 1941-'43, l946-'47;2.Gale Say- mances. Jackson missed ers,football, 1962-'64;and I.Wilt two games in December Chamberlain, basketball, l955-'58. following ankle surgery After allowing readers to stew for a but was expected to week, sports columnist Derek Prater return almost immedi- countered with a list of why lists don't ately. Sophomore center work. His reasons: 5. Snubs; 4. Old guys Kristin Geoffrey has who favor athletes from their genera- improved dramatically tion; 3.Young guys who have never and has given KU a spark seen the older athletes perform; 2. Evo- off the bench. As Pride lution ("The Kansas Board of Education notes, the pieces of a may not believe in it, but it certainly Final Four puzzle are exists in the world of sports."); and I. coming together for KU. HAPPY RETURN: Suzi Raymant who considered forgoing her final Personal taste. year in school after painful knee surgery, now figures prominently in the "Everyone's on the same offense. She leads the team in scoring and three-point field goals.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1. 2000 17 OREAD READER BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

Making Hope Happen is the second collaboration between Hope is not lost McDermott and Snyder, and the third book for Snyder, who Two KU psychologists use this self-help workbook to teach started all this with The Psy- readers how to pursue and reach goals by increasing their hope chology of Hope, published in 1994. Though based in rigorous 'm always leery when a to get out of a jam and research, McDermott and character enters a movie or whether past experiences have Snyder's current workbook Inovel and flits about with a prepared them well for the presents the subject as acade- name like "Hope." When not- future. Snyder and McDermott mia-lite, which, to my taste, so-subtle names try to com- write that they have adminis- was not as intellectually engag- municate a message, a task y -jMakii•Makit tered the scale to thousands of ing as it might have been. Fas- better suited to dialogue or o people and can therefore offer cinating topics repeatedly slip deeds, then Hope or Grace or Happen.Happen JL norms about what the overall into sometimes-unbearable A Workbook for Turning Faith might as well walk Fallibilities into Reality score reveals about the readers anecdotes, and I must confess around with printed T-shirts level of hope. Their analysis is to skimming more than a few announcing their feelings and Dtaiv McDtnnwt, PhD,* CH Snyitai PhD. also subdivided into "willpow- of the extended stories. I desires. Making Hope Happen er," the energy that propels frankly don't care why "Janet" OK, that one worked splen- by Diane McDermott you toward a goal, and "way- did not finish her degree or didly in "Notting Hill"—per- and C.R. Snyder power," the ability to find why "Ted" was afraid to start a haps appropriately with the New Harbinger Publica- routes to your goals. landscaping business. The tions, $14.95 character named "Spike"—but The hope scale was what authors claim that "the narra- my point stands. Political attracted me to the book. I tive ... is an excellent method views aside, my dwindling of psychology and director of was eager to take the test, and to understand the things you delight with political science the University's clinical psy- was glad to find that an analy- think and do," but I won't finally drained for good while chology program. During a sis of the results was offered agree that it is an excellent watching the "Man from telephone interview, Snyder within just a few short para- way to interest the reader. Hope" video that helped elect told me about his "hope scale," graphs. Where this workbook our president. Granny's poul- the product of a dozen years But there are, in fact, more succeeds, and succeeds splen- tice never went on so thick. of research into hope. With interesting question-and- didly, is when it is just that: a Hope is a deeply personal this scale, Snyder assured me, answer sessions within Making workbook. Questionnaires are notion, a state of being that is hope can actually be mea- Hope Happen. Chapter One is fun to answer, and the reader one of the few unchartered sured. built around a "life satisfaction is tutored in skills for priceless places in our hearts. Hope is I had visions of vast reams questionnaire," which touches introspective writing. The unanalyzed, usually unspoken. of questions, a rigorous exami- on such areas as spirituality, book will of course be worth- Unlike its cousin love, hope is nation that must be necessary finances, physical fitness, and less if the reader is not honest; rarely dragged through pop to quantify hope. My vision, relationships with family, for those who can be honest, musics schmaltz mill. Unlike not so surprisingly, was wrong. friends and lovers. The book the results almost certainly its dear friend spirituality, it is Snyder and McDermott later presents various methods would be illuminating. not packaged and insulted by present the hope scale in their for helping readers further Also instructive is the televised evangelists. To use self-help workbook, and it examine the aspects of their notion that hope should be hope as a cheap device is to takes up less than half a page lives that influence their over- pulled down from its dusty diminish one of the few pure early in the second chapter. all level of hope. shelf, where it is out of reach emotions we have left. There Eight questions, to be "Rather than experiencing and perhaps out of mind. isn't even a hope.com web site. answered on a scale ranging their dreams as causing anxi- Making Hope Happen seems And now comes Making from 1 (definitely false) to 4 ety and requiring excuses, to be the ultimate self-help Hope Happen: A Workbook for (definitely true). The simple high-hope people view their book, a starting point from Turning Possibilities into Reality, questions ask readers for intro- goals as exciting and energiz- which all other other personal by Diane McDermott, associate spection along the lines of ing," the authors write. "How progress must originate— professor of psychology and whether their goals are ener- can you become a high-hope which makes it a perfect research in education, and getically pursued, whether person? The answer is that it addition to this season of C.R. "Rick" Snyder, professor they can think of many ways can be learned." resolutions.-^""*

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 OREAD WRITER BY MEGAN MACIEJOWSKI

nightmare was just beginning. The Associ- ated Press picked up the story and soon Hold your chalupas! Dion's tragic tale of drive-through-window woe was international news. From San In a world where injustice prevails, Dion teaches us that Diego to New York to London, editors delighted in headlines alluding to crispy dropping your chalupa, or your dreams, is not an option shell wishes and sour cream dreams. Consumer rights advocates supported hat happens to a dream barely visible through the tiny window sat Dion's decision not to drop the chalupa. deferred? Does it dry up like a the chalupa that was rightfully Dion's. He In Lawrence, Taco Bell sales skyrocketed. Wraisin in the sun? Does it fester lunged through the minuscule opening, For a week, Dion was the restaurant's like a sore and then run? Or does it come his 6-3, 270-pound frame unencumbered most successful pitchman since its charging through a puny portal at a fast- by logic or reason. His was an act of pas- beloved Chihuahua. food drive-through, the promise of fulfill- sion. Unfortunately, the 14-by-46 inch As playful pundits cast their stones of ment so tantalizingly close, only to be window of opportunity could not sustain scorn at poor Dion, I was struck by a har- crushed by a structure too small to Dion or his dream. The structure col- rowing realization: During the entire sustain it? lapsed, trapping the beleaguered behe- media blitz, I never once questioned why Perhaps the poet Langston Hughes moth in infamy. Dion did what he did. Instead, I ques- and Kansas football player tioned why I never had. Who Dion Rayford would among us, I wondered pen- debate the fate of the sively, has never walked that dream deferred, but Hugh- fine line between sanity and es never tasted a chalupa. insanity? How much con- And by now the world tempt from fast-food servers knows that on one fateful and bank tellers and auto- November night, the night mated answering services he became the most and incompetent drivers can authentic testament to Taco one person be expected to Bell's greatness, neither take? How many times must did Dion. I answer the phone to some- The defensive end went one pronouncing my name south of the border seeking incorrectly? How many boxes sustenance. He was hun- of rock-hard gummy worms gry. He could not wait to must I buy from a kid who sink his teeth into the wants to take a trip spon- crispy fried flatbread sored by some disreputable stuffed with ground beef, organization? When I am sour cream, lettuce, toma- tired and drunk and fam- toes and cheese. As his ished, am I not entitled to friend drove through the a chalupa and service with line, Dion ordered some a smile? chalupas and paid at the When Dion surged window. Inspecting his through the Taco Bell win- bag, he noticed he was dow, he was reaching desper- missing one of the afore- ately to reclaim a rich mentioned chalupas. He returned to the "When you take a guy that big and put cultural dining tradition that began thou- window, handed the clerk his bag and him through a small space, something's sands of years ago with the ancient demanded she add a chalupa. She denied got to give," observed Lawrence police Aztecs. He also was striving to raise the his request and walked away leaving him Sgt. George Wheeler. bar for fast-food service. He willingly bereft not only of his food and money, Indeed. Dion's dream ended in arrest endured a reverse birthing process to link but, let's be honest, his dignity. for assault, criminal damage and trans- the past to the present and remind us of "\Yo quiero mi chalupa!" Dion must have porting an open container. (Oh yes, he what we are all entitled to. His dream was screamed to no one. had allegedly been drinking. Does anyone deferred, but perhaps because of his sacri- Then he saw it. Under a hot lamp go to Taco Bell at 2 a.m. sober?) But his fice, ours will not be.-"•"•*

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 19 Waters" focuses on a proposed titanium mine near the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. At one point, the film features an aerial shot of an active titanium mine in Florida. No words are spoken, but the message is clear: "Let them mine near the Okefenokee and this is what you'll get." Later, the film cuts to images of today's swamp: dense vegetation, a canoe skimming the surface of quiet waters, birds lifting quietly out of the shallows. Still no narration, but the message is equally clear: "Let them mine near the Okefeno- kee and this is what you'll lose." Bernofsky makes advocacy films. He wants viewers to clearly see the landscape (and the threats to it), and he wants to move them to action. But Audubon's comparison to Michael Moore isn't completely apt. Watch "Trem- bling Waters" and you'll never encounter Bernofsky, except for a stray off-screen syllable or two during an interview. In Michael Moore's films, Moore is the star. In "Trembling Waters," the environment is the star and Gene Bernofsky is nowhere to be seen. Even though he can't be seen or heard, the entire film is suffused with Bernofsky's sensibilities, with his love for the outdoors and his visceral distaste for big business in general and mining com- called Bernofsky the "Michael Moore panies in particular. of mining," a reference to populist Gene Bernofksy grew up in New York • ene Bernofsky doesn't claim to filmmaker Michael Moore, who took City, then moved to Lawrence in 1959. G;be reasonable. on General Motors in his film "Roger Many people are stymied by the culture He just does what he has to do. and Me." shock of transition from Manhattan to And he has to make films. Bernofsky, Like Moore's movies, Bernofsky's films small-town Lawrence. Bernofsky loved it. c'64, d'72, works a day job as a mail car- make no pretense of being dispassionate "In Kansas, people didn't seem afraid rier in Missoula, Mont. But he's better documentaries that carefully analyze to make eye contact when you walked known for the films he makes about and air both sides of an issue. These are down the street," he remembers. "That environmental issues, particularly mining take-no-prisoner films, films with a was an astonishment and I loved it. I'd and its impact on the land and people. point of view. walk in the morning and people would A recent profile in Audubon magazine Bernofsky's 1999 film "Trembling say hello. That just floored me."

20 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 Bernofsky earned a degree in philoso- "We want to get to a potential environ- or with a Southern state you can't quite phy. He spent time in Africa, San Francis- mental disaster as early as possible, before recall. After watching "Trembling Waters," co, New Jersey. He did a stint for the U.S. it is up and running," he says. Okefenokee is a place you want to visit. Postal Service and worked as a welder. Miller says Bernofsky's films gained a Bernofsky says he used to make "angry Near Trinidad, Colo., he helped build a new coherence when they took on envi- films, fist-pounding films. They didn't village out of abandoned cars, a place that ronmental issues. He says "Trembling work. People sitting on the fence are became famous in the 1960s as Drop City. Waters" is Bernofsky's best work to date. turned off by that. [Trembling Waters'] He returned to Kansas in the 1970s for a Some of the film's most eloquent testi- was an attempt to do something lower- degree in elementary education, taught mony comes from people who have lived key. Environmental issues mean a lot to for a while, then went back to work for on Okefenokee swamp all their lives. me, and my films are going to be about the Postal Service. They consider the swamp sacred and the issues, not about me." resist any change to it. An ecologist from Bernofsky's techniques have attracted hrough the years, Bernofsky experi- the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service talks professional awards, including a recent Tmented with film. He made what about the mine's impact on the movement honor at the International Wildlife Film might be considered underground films, of water through the swamp. Business Festival in Montana. Meanwhile, he has creating footage of an LSD lab in San owners describe the swamp's impact on another project in the works. On the Francisco and the Drop City commune. the area's ecomony. In only a few minutes, east coast of Kenya, he says, a Canadian In 1982, while still in Lawrence, he a place that can be terrifying (to most of company is proposing a strip mine for formed a nonprofit production company, us, swamps mean snakes and alligators) titanium. Bernofsky says the mine is a Worldwide Film Expedition, with KU becomes less threatening and more beau- threat to rain forest, coral reefs, rare religion professor Tim Miller, c'65, g'69, tiful. Viewers don't have to infer any mes- plants and animals, and particularly to the PhD'71. sage because the people are explicit: "This homelands of indigenous peoples, and he In 1983, Bernofsky and his family is our place and we don't want mining is trying to raise the $20,000 or so it will moved to Missoula and, like Kansas 24 anywhere close to it." take to get to Africa and roll film. years earlier, Montana mesmerized him. About the time "Trembling Waters" That is what he has to do. "There is so much water here, so much risks overloading viewers with informa- "I turn down offers of commercial jobs forest, so many mountain ranges where tion and talking heads, it slips into low all the time," he says. "If I made films for you can just go forever," he says. "All the gear. A canoe glides to a platform where a living, I'd be doing things I didn't want people here seem so at ease living in these musicians play quietly. Later, a poet to do. [My films are] one area I hold in an wild areas. I'd never seen moose, bear and describes in words what Bernofsky has idealistic way. Here, in this one small area, mountain lions. I was enchanted." displayed on film. morality rules." In the winter of 1988-'89, Bernofsky The deftly edited scenes engage view- In Gene Bernofsky's world, that's the heard that the United Mine Workers were ers. Before seeing the film, Okefenokee is way it has to be.— trying to organize a union at a gold and a place you associate with an odd-sound- —Rex Buchanan, '92, is associate director silver mine near Troy, Mont. He showed ing name, with a Walt Kelly comic strip of the Kansas Geological Survey. up and shot a film called "Which Side are You On?" Since then he has made a string of films with environmental themes, including "Red Thunder," about a proposed mine expansion on the Fort Belk- nap Indian Reservation; "Abandoned," about the abandoned hard-rock mines dotting the Montana landscape; "A River Cries," about a proposed mine on the headwaters of the Blackfoot River; "Swim- ming Woman," about exploration for zinc and copper in the Big Snowy Mountains wilderness of Montana; and "Undermin- ing Yellowstone," about a gold mine proposed near the northwestern border of Yellowstone National Park. Notice the recurring word "proposed" in these descriptions. Bernofsky isn't big on retrospective. He doesn't want to document what he considers to be environmental disasters; he wants to head them off. He doesn't want to do autopsies; he wants to prevent death. Displaying signs discarded from Montana mines, even Bernofsky's backyard fence tells a story.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 21 War By Chris Lazzarino

he architectural niche is called an "aedicule," Scientists parry attacks and in classical times this ornamental space between columns was used to display a statue of a god; later, it was sanctuary for saints. Turn- from an unexpected of-the-century naturalists Lewis L. Dyche and TFrancis H. Snow, the men responsible for KU's Natural His- opponent—the tory Museum, reserved the most prominent of Dyche Hall's six aedicules for a tribute to their professional hero. Board ojEducation DARWIN. Yet a pre-construction drawing indicated that the name within the aedicule to the left of the museum's front entrance would honor ornithologist John J. Audubon. So how did the museum come to make such an unambiguous and bold statement praising the controversial, peerless biol- ogist Charles Darwin? Chancellor Snow, a renowned entomologist and champi- Photographs by Wally Emerson on of Darwin's theory of evolution, was responsible for the

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 inscription "Whoso Findeth Wisdom professor of ecology and evolutionary in biology without reference to, and Findeth Life" atop the entrance to biology, finds himself in a position drea- understanding of, evolution." Spooner Hall; he clearly paid attention rily similar to those of his predecessors: The current troubles began when a to such architectural details. Professor He must be unambiguous and bold in his member of the Board of Education, Steve Dyche, Snow's finest protege and among public defense of Charles Darwin and the Abrams, of Arkansas City, tried to alter an the greatest American naturalists of the theory of natural selection. expansive document detailing science- era, proclaimed at his 1884 KU Com- Krishtalka's modern mire is a murky education standards proposed by the mencement, "The appearance, in 1859, mix of education, politics and religion. In board's own committee of 27 experts. At just 25 years ago, of Darwin's Origin oj the wake of the Kansas State Board of the time, the Board of Education's sug- Species ... marked the beginning of an Education's Aug. 11 decision, by a 6-4 gested science curriculum for Kansas impulse given to thought and investiga- vote, that some aspects of biological, geo- schoolchildren dealt sparingly with evolution, the most splendid of the 19th logic and cosmic evolution should be tion; the draft put forth by the science century." dropped from the states high-school committee proposed an expanded and Dyche and Snow were at times assessment tests, Krishtalka is not in the detailed position on evolution. ridiculed for their support of Darwinian mood to back down. If he could solve the That's when Abrams, reportedly being evolution, as evidenced by a 1901 year- problem by adorning the front of Dyche advised by the Creation Science Associa- book illustration that depicts Snow oper- Hall with another aedicule, it would prob- tion of Mid-America, tried to include in ating an "evolutor," a fictional contraption ably read, WAS RIGHT. those evolution proposals a statement that that churned monkeys into men. When it "It's an oft-repeated phrase, but really there are two theories explaining the ori- comes to such controversial matters as it's true: Nothing in biology makes sense gins of the universe—evolution and cre- Darwinian evolution, it seems even a without evolution," Krishtalka says. "It is ationism—while leaving local school stone building must take a stand. an undergirding principle. It is the fabric districts the option of which to teach. Today, nearly a century after the muse- that holds all biological knowledge Abrams' proposal stalled, but the sci- um's 1903 completion, Leonard Krish- together. One cannot teach biology, prac- ence document was sent to a subcommit- talka, current museum director and tice biology or derive the fruits of research tee of three board members—all of whom

It's an oft-repeated phrase, but really it's true: Nothing in biology makes sense without evolution. ... It is the fabric that holds all biological knowledge together.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 23 solution to a problem that didn't exist," Gov. Bill Graves said in a terse statement. LINDA In a public letter sent to Holloway on HOLLOWAY the eve of the vote, Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway, along with the presidents of the other five Regents universities, said, "Standards approved by the state, and based on the belief that science and reli- There's other gion are incompatible, will set Kansas back a century ..." evolutionary theories, John Staver, co-chairman of the Board and there are no of Educations science panel, called the indications in the approved science standards a "travesty," rm i i ii and said board members who voted in standards that they're in favor of the revised standards "are pre- out there. ... What v pared to use their personal religious view \ 1 fi to affect the schooling of all kids in public we have done is I f ! schools in Kansas." broaden academic When asked directly whether personal I 1 religious beliefs influenced her vote, Hol- freedom. ** loway responded, "Certainly anybody that says they're coming to the table with no bias is brain dead, whether it's a religious viewpoint or whether it's a dogmatic viewpoint of whatever. When evolution- H ists come to the table, they have a set eventually voted for the controversial 6,000 years old. Board members said at viewpoint. So this is a conflict of view- science package—for further tinkering. the time that charges of creationist intent points, obviously. But my motivation is "The document we were presented had were unfair. to have all the story of evolution out a dogmatic, extremely narrow and very Scott Hill, of Abilene, said he voted for there. What I couldn't sign on to was the fantasized view of evolution," Chair- the revised standards in the name of sci- way this was being presented. I did not woman Linda Holloway, g'80, of Shawnee, entific clarity, favoring a curriculum that think this was an honest presentation of said in a recent interview. "There was relied on facts rather than "an agenda to evolution." no room for question; there was no indi- indoctrinate on evolutionary theory." Hol- John Rennie, editor-in-chief of Scien- cation that there has been fraud perpe- loway explained that she was sticking to tific American, termed the vote "a trated in evolution. What we have done her campaign promise of favoring local grotesque perversion," and warned that is broaden academic freedom. What the control, especially for "such an unsettled the qualifications of all Kansas high- document did was restrict academic issue." Vice Chairman Harold Voth, of school graduates "will have to be consid- freedom." Haven, who cast the swing vote, said his ered very carefully." The Economist, with The science standards as revised by work on the subcommittee was meant as worldwide circulation and respect, noted, the subcommittee and narrowly approved "an attempt to reach middle ground." "Darwinianism is even the basis for the by the full board deleted references to agriculture on which Kansas depends: the so-called "macroevolution," or the theory o Kansas school district has for- biological revolution that began with Dar- that a species, over great spans of time, bidden the teaching of evolution, win's work has provided the basis for can evolve into an entirely different N the big bang or geologic time, much of modern farming." species. Also out were theories of how and there is no immediate prospect of an Perhaps the freshest voice was that of the universe formed and continues to outrage on the scale of Tennessee's 1925 University Daily Kansan columnist Nick evolve—popularly known as the big prosecution of John Scopes. Holloway Bartkoski, who described a mythical deci- bang theory—and concepts of earths argues, "We now have more evolution in sion by the New York State Board of Edu- evolution, including geologic time and the standards than the current standards cation "to put less emphasis on teaching plate tectonics. have, and to say that we have de-empha- about the existence of Kansas." Critics insisted those foundations of sized evolution is also misleading." She While expressing various levels of out- life, earth and space sciences were singled also characterizes the board's action as "a rage, University scientists appear to out because the immense time necessary fairly minor thing." reserve their hottest fury for the attacks for each contradict "young-earth" cre- Regardless, even the most prominent on evolution, big-bang cosmology and ationist calculations, based on biblical Kansans seem ashamed of their state. geologic time. accounts, that figure the earth to be about "This is a terrible, tragic, embarrassing "Like evolution, big-bang cosmology is

24] KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 the only viable, scientific explanation for a wide set of observations made about the universe," says Bruce Twarog, professor of physics and astronomy. "I don't know of any serious scientist in cosmology or Scientific Method astronomy who doesn't accept the fundamental idea of, quote, big-bang cosmology. The observations that support it now The chancellor responds to evolution debate are so broad they're absolutely stunning." Bruce Lieberman, assistant professor of with a call for improved scientific literacy geology, says he spends at least half of his class time in Geology 105 explaining geologic time and plate tectonics. By Robert E. Hemenway "Throw out a number like 4 billion years, and it is so stupifyingly large that you and I, on a scale of our lifetimes, can- banned in those schools. not grasp it," Lieberman says. "But with In fact, most local school that number, you can explain the uplift of boards proudly endorse the Himalayas without needing to invoke the teaching and testing of a supernatural miracle. Why is it that evolution. In Lawrence, for rocks in Massachusetts are very similar to example, the board voted rocks in North Africa? Instead of invoking unanimously, on the day some miracle, you invoke plate tectonics." after the state board acted, to continue the teaching of hile the Board of Education's evolution. vote removed so-called The process leading to W"macroevolution" from state the Kansas Board of Educa- assessments (Holloway argues that the tion's action is instructive, board is not suggesting the subject not be however, and worth consid- taught), "microevolution," or changes eration by all who believe within a species, was not targeted and that such events could never Kansas schoolchildren will be tested on it happen in their own, more- in assessment exams. enlightened locales. In fact, Krishtalka, however, argues that the he Kansas Board of Educa- 13 states have fought some version of distinction between "microevolution" and tion decided in August to the Kansas battle. One of them, Alaba- "macroevolution" reveals that the stan- impose upon the rest of us ma—the native state of Harvard's E.O. dards were written "from extreme cre- in the state its doubts about Wilson, one of the most distinguished ationist viewpoints" because, according to evolution, its aversion to sci- biologists in the United States—sticks a Krishtalka, nobody else makes those Tentific explanations for the origins of the disclaimer into every biology textbook distinctions. universe, and its disbelief in the geologi- handed to its students, saying, in effect, "Creationists used to say there is no cal evidence for the age of the earth. that you don't have to believe in the evo- such thing as evolution. Now they admit Kansas is a proud and progressive lution taught here if you don't want to. grudgingly that there is what they call state with good schools, common-sense What happened in Kansas is rela- 'microevolution' because there is so much government and an excellent system of tively straightforward. In 1998, the state overwhelming evidence that it is happen- higher education. It is neither as flat nor Board of Education appointed a blue- ing day to day," Krishtalka says. "But they as unsophisticated as some people claim. ribbon committee of 27 scientists, edu- then define something called 'macroevo- Today, many Kansans are working busily cators and other citizens to prepare lution,' which is, in their minds, some- to protect Kansas schoolchildren from standards to guide the teaching of sci- thing bigger, something great, the origin the poor science of the Board of ence in the state's public schools. The of other kinds of species. But, as a matter Education. committee created a 100-page draft doc- of fact, discrimination between the two The board declined to include evolu- ument, using standards prepared by the makes no sense and is specious. Evolu- tion in its optional teaching standards National Academy of Sciences, the tion is evolution and the origin of species for public schools in the state, and American Association for the Advance- is the origin of species. Period." decided that students need not be tested ment of Science, the National Science When told KU scientists argue that the on the subject. But that does not mean Teachers Association and other reputable selected deletions reveal "young-earth" that the teaching of evolution will be scientific groups. With the board's creationist beliefs, Holloway said, "There continued on page 27

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 25 are creationists that believe in an old discuss them? Why not open them up? named Francis Crick had once proposed earth, too. I, for one, see evidence for Why are we restricting students in Kansas that the origin of the first organic mole- both, for an old earth, and compelling to a dogmatic, narrow-minded view of cules on the earth may have come from evidence for a young earth. Why not pre- evolution when there's more out there?" meteorites or other bodies landing more sent that? Why not be honest?" When told of Holloways comments, than 4 billion years ago, but Crick's pro- She later continued, "They have had Krishtalka responded that a scientist posal did not include the actions of aliens. He said the "hopeful monster" hypothesis, proposed in the 1920s and '30s by a German geneticist, postulated that macromutations could cause big jumps between species within one new generation; Krishtalka says it was dubbed "hopeful" because macromutations are almost always fatal rather than productive and, after much testing, the hypothesis was discarded decades ago. He says Holloways attempt to invoke the "hopeful monster" is "fraudulent." He also notes that the hypothesis was intended to work within Darwinian evolution, not contradict it. As for Holloways statement that she she sees "compelling evidence" that the earth is 6,000 years old, Krishtalka sug- gests she and her colleagues assemble the evidence and get it published in a peer- reviewed journal. In that case, Krishtalka says, "I guarantee you she will win the Nobel Prize in physics." Says Krishtalka, with sadness and dis- gust in his voice, "Ms. Holloway is, unfortunately, completely unaware of how science works. All of the stuff that she's

continued on page 28 since August, which is how many months 1 now ... they could have simply said, 'You're wrong, here's the evidence.' BRUCE Instead they have resorted to religious bigotry, name calling, dismissal of anyone TWAROG who does not have their viewpoint." As for alternatives to Darwinian evolu- 1 tion, Holloway said, "There's other evolutionary theories, and there are no a indications in the standards that they're Like evolution, out there. The aliens out there planting big-bang cosmology seeds, why not that one?" is the only viable, Asked whether she was serious about aliens planting seeds as a legitimate theo- scientific explanation tail Q ry of evolution, Holloway said she was, for a wide set and cited a scientist named Crick as putting forth the theory "because he of observations sees some problems with the Darwinian made about the lL A theory. He seriously puts that forth as a universe. * * theory. Why not put out there a 'hopeful monster,' [in which] one day a reptile hatched a bird? People out there are putting forth serious theories. Why not

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 continued from page 25 approval, the committee held hearings on Abrams and two other members of the have General Relativity, the Hubble tele- the draft standards at various public board then prepared another draft, scope and all the imperfect but painstak- forums. Last summer, the committee sub- including material from the committee's ingly accumulated learning of the human mitted the final draft of its standards to version and Abrams' original version. race, and, in the other, the Book of Gene- the board. That version, however, was That draft eliminated evolution, as nor- sis. In Kansas, the scales balance." quickly superseded by new drafts written mally defined by biologists; any references Stephen Jay Gould, writing in Time by some members of the board. to the big-bang theory of the origin of the magazine, said the Kansas board "trans- universe; and all references to the earth's ported its jurisdiction to a never-never n recent years, the board has been a being billions of years old. The three land where a Dorothy of the new millen- very controversial body. Independent board members even removed almost all nium might exclaim, 'They still call it Iof governor and Legislature, it com- mentions of famous scientists and scien- Kansas, but I don't think we're in the real prises 10 members who are elected direct- tific achievements of the past. They world anymore.'" ly from geographic districts that included assignments designed to pro- Kansas Gov. Bill Graves called the encompass the entire state. For the past mote creationist views. For example: board's actions "a terrible, tragic, embar- two years, the board has been so dead- "Analyze hypotheses about characteristics rassing solution to a problem that didn't locked, with five conservative and five of and extinction of dinosaurs. Identify exist." Wags say the board solved Kansas' moderate members, that very little educa- the assumptions behind the hypothesis Y2K problem by turning the clock back tional business has been conducted—to and show the weakness in the reasoning to Y1K. the great frustration of Kansas citizens. that led to the hypothesis." Steve Abrams—a veterinarian from At its August meeting, the board reject- lat has been overlooked in all Arkansas City, and a member and the ed the original committee's version of the the commotion is the philo- immediate past chairman of the board— standards and passed the newest version sophical premise underlying read the committee's proposed standards by a vote of 6 to 4, with one moderate the thinking of the majority of the board. for science education and found them member, a former superintendent of I believe that it wishes to destroy the idea objectionable. He took it upon himself to schools, joining the conservative bloc. that the public schools should be a source rewrite the standards, enlisting the assis- The most disturbing part of the board's of truth or certainty. Whereas educational tance of a Missouri group called the Creation Science Association of Mid-America. Abrams not only wanted 44 Most scientists, of course, believe that science is never fully to rid the standards of evo- certain and complete, that new truths lie just around the corner. lution; he also wanted to rel- egate all science to the status of unproven "theory." His version stated: "Since science today is debate on all of the versions was the clear institutions—especially colleges and uni- defined as empirical, and therefore induc- suggestion from the majority of the board versities— define their mission as the tive, no one can rationally claim that any that one could not believe in both God pursuit of truth, the majority of the board scientific theory has been certified to be and evolution—or, for that matter, in seems to believe that the only sources of true." Under that assumption, even the both God and science. Devout people— truth or certainty are the church and the laws of gravity failed to qualify as scientif- including many scientists—who find no family. According to that view, family val- ic fact. According to Abrams, the theory conflict between their religion and their ues are expressed as the family's right to of gravity "has been tested very few times, beliefs in evolution have been deeply determine what a child shall believe, and has at least a modest body of evidence offended by the board's action, feeling that religious values are expressed as theologi- against it, and was (and is) not accepted it is an attempt to impose the religious cal beliefs that schools must accommo- by notable scientists, e.g., A. Einstein." views of the majority of the board on oth- date. If scientific evidence conflicts with The Abrams standards created great ers. The fact that an incompatibility those religious beliefs, science must be consternation among the board and the between science and religion has been rejected, no matter the weight of the evi- public. The board rejected them—per- rejected by Pope John Paul II, most Jew- dence. haps because of the 1987 Supreme Court ish theologians and the majority of main- The irony of this position is worth con- decision, Edwards v. Aguillard, which held line Protestant denominations seemed not templating. By rejecting scientific facts that requiring the teaching of creationism to affect the board's decision. and using the term "theory" in its lay as an alternative to evolution was an The repudiation of the board's stan- meaning of speculation, rather than in its impermissible endorsement of religion, dards has been international and deeply scientific meaning of an understanding violating the principle of separation of humiliating to proud Kansans. Salman that develops from observation, experi- church and state. Or perhaps the board Rushdie, writing in Toronto's The Globe mentation and reflection, the Kansas simply felt that the Abrams draft was too and Mail, summarized the argument: Board of Education is trying to use the extreme. "Thus, in one pan of the scales, we now integrity of science to destroy science. If continued on page 29

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1. 2000 [27 This is an attack not only on science and evolution, but it's an attack on public schools. I think these folks would absolutely love it if public schools would totally go away.

hurled out, it is patently absurd." about," Twarog says. "This is something that would launch the modern world at Ken Bingman, d'63, who has taught which has been tested, proven, and tested the dawn of the 20th century. As Picasso biology at Shawnee Mission West High and proven and tested and proven and and Einstein argue their relative merits, School for 33 years and is one of the tested and built upon in every way possi- Picasso proclaims, "You're a scientist! You state's most respected and honored teach- ble over the history of the field, until now just want theories." To which Einstein ers, is equally somber when he says, "This it is the accepted view of the way the uni- replies, "Yes, and the theories must be is an attack not only on science and evo- verse really operates." beautiful." An intellectual kinship is lution, but it's an attack on public When told scientists resented what quickly formed, based on a beauty that schools. I think these folks would they see as a misapplication of the word allows scientists and artists to "dream the absolutely love it if public schools would "theory," that it does not mean a guess impossible and put it into effect." totally go away." and actually denotes a high level of status Such lovely exchanges must seem A popular argument supporting the reached by broad consensus, Holloway exceedingly fictional to scientists laboring new assessment standards is that they responded, "What I would say is, do we in what has become of the modern world only removed "theories"—which irritates do science by consensus or do we do sci- at the dawn of the 21st century. scientists to no end, because, in the con- ence by evidence?" "It is sort of an attack on me and my text of the current argument, the label discipline," Lieberman says, "but, more "theory" is presumed to mean an uncer- n his delightful play Picasso at the importantly, it's an attack on a lot of tain guess, or even a scientist's personal Lapin Agile, Steve Martin creates an things that underpin our society." opinion. Iimaginary 1904 meeting in a Paris bar Bingman has discovered an unantici- "A theory isn't something that people between Pablo Picasso and Albert Ein- pated byproduct of the heated debate: are guessing on or have a hypothesis stein, both on the verge of breakthroughs While the controversy rages, his students

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 continued from page 27 all science is "theory," then its uncertainty then we should lead a crusade for science people to become scientists. But we must demotes it, and there is no question of its education across the country. We need to make the future scientists and science inferiority to religious faith. show support for science teachers, many teachers on our campuses realize that they Most scientists, of course, believe that of whom are feeling beleaguered, and we will need to take part in public debates. science is never fully certain and com- need to educate our students to under- Additional courses in rhetoric and argu- plete, that new truths lie just around the stand the public role of science. ment, political discourse and the relation- corner, somewhere in the next experiment We live in an exceedingly complex ship of science and theology might help or observation. But that does not mean world, one that is shaped in many ways prepare young scientists and science that scientific theories—incorporating by scientific knowledge. As citizens, we teachers for a public role. facts, laws, inferences and tested hypothe- have to form opinions about the scientific • Educate all students, even those ses—are not truths that can be used to issues that affect our lives, including who are not majoring in science, to be explain the natural world. Evolution is advances in medicine and technology. If scientifically literate. Every college gradu- still the central unifying concept of biol- we don't, we undermine the democratic ate should be prepared to contribute to ogy—and that is a truth that schools and discourse that ultimately determines the public debate over scientific issues. The universities must teach if education is to nature and quality of our society. Science science requirements in our general-edu- maintain its continuous search for bio- has given us a cure for polio, men on the cation programs may need rethinking. logical truth. moon, and the Internet—it is too impor- Instead of a basic, introductory course in When one reaches that level of abstrac- tant for us to shrug off by saying it's too specific science—physics, biology, chem- tion and sees what is at stake in the argu- technical. We must become scientifically istry—why not a course about science in ment, one understands why the board has literate. the modern world, which would illustrate been willing to risk such notoriety. Its Being scientifically literate is not how peoples lives will be affected by such actions attack a basic premise of public "doing science." Only gifted amateurs and scientific projects as sequencing the schools and universities in the United highly educated professionals "do sci- human genome? States: that public education should be ence," and of course our colleges and uni- • Do what we can to educate the rest pursued in a secular setting, as the Con- versities must work even harder to of the public to be scientifically literate. stitution requires. prepare good scientists. But we also must Every college and university should make prepare scientifically literate citizens who continuing scientific education for adult hilosophical disputes aside, what can use science to understand the future. learners a high priority. Institutions also happens next? Most Kansans believe Versions of the Kansas experience will should reach out to members of their Pthat the next election for members almost certainly arise in many other communities who are not students. Each to the Board of Education, in the fall of states. Universities cannot duck the issue, institution should make teams of profes- 2000, will result in a new, moderate and they must be prepared to fight long sors available to respond to requests for majority and a return to sound science and hard against those who would deni- help whenever a state or local school and support for the teaching of evolution. grate all science as mere theory, despite board debates whether to teach evolution. That would take care of Kansas' problems. millions of years of evidence. The long- We need scientific literacy everywhere What about the rest of the nation? term answer lies in marshaling the eco- in the United States, not just in Kansas. If If we as academics believe in the Con- nomic means, human resources and you were shocked by the Kansas Board of stitution, which says that church and state political will to accomplish the following Education's action, if you care about should be separate, and if we believe that goals: young people's learning science, and if the attempts to undermine the teaching of • Prepare science students who are you are above the self-indulgence of mak- science grow from a misunderstanding of skilled in public discourse. Of course, ing cheap jokes about the Midwest, here scientific principles, a mistaken notion major research universities have a special is an educational crusade that needs your that one must choose between God and mission to educate scientists who will dis- help.-"*1"'* science, and a desire to undermine public cover new knowledge, and to educate sci- —This article first appeared in the Oct. 29 educations function of teaching truth, ence teachers who will inspire young edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

are more curious than ever about evolu- experts in the science field," Bingman chancellor said in his Convocation tion, and, like their parents, the students says. "That's really disturbing to me." address, that we do the very best in sci- are suddenly paying close attention to the Says Krishtalka, "It pains me deeply for ence education at the University and that Board of Education's agenda. this single act by six individuals to send we contribute as best we can to science "People who do science are the ones the wrong message about Kansas and its education around the state." who should be listened to and influence people around the country and around Which, in the end, is perhaps the best science education, not people who read the world. It is a message that will take guarantee that future generations of one book, a book that's not even been many years to reverse. On the other hand, Kansas scientists can dream the impossi- peer reviewed, and suddenly become I feel challenged now to make sure, as the ble and put it into effect.'""••*

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The payload cannister containing the Chandra X-ray Observatory is prepared for ascent and loading aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. BY EILEEN HAWLEY

GRDUND CREW While husband Steve traveled aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, Eileen Hawley kept a revealing diary of the tense moments endured by families of space adventurers

hen NASA named Steve to the STS-93 mission Won March 6, 1998, the crew was scheduled to fly in December 1998. That soon slipped to January, then March, then April, then to July 9 and finally to July 20, 1999. With all that time, you'd think we'd have been more than prepared, but STS-93 still seemed to sneak up and catch us a bit off guard. Steve and Eileen In the Johnson Space Center newsroom, I Hawley in the answered media questions, arranged interviews for shuttle's hatch the crew, and developed a schedule for public affairs during a tour designed to help support of the mission—all the time wondering families become when I would get to stop being a public affairs offi- acquainted with cer and begin being an STS-93 spouse. the shuttle and its And then, finally, the day arrived. safety systems.

Launch minus 1 week Texas

Steve and his crew mates enter health stabilization quarantine July 12 in Houston. In addition to minimizing the risk of exposure to illness, the quarantine also marks the start of their sleep shifting, necessary because their work day—and launch—would occur while most people slept. During the families' first dinner with the crew in quarantine, we get a preview of our lives during this week leading up to launch. At 9 p.m., the spouses eat dinner while the crew enjoys breakfast, having just awakened a few hours earlier. We soon adjust to the confusion: instead of saying "morning" or "evening," we talk about "dark" or "light" visits with the crew. For the next two days, we continue our strange meals as the crew members align their "days" to the 12:36 a.m. launch time.

Launch minus 3 dsLjs, Texas and Rarida

Friday, July 16: On his way to Ellington Field to fly out to the Kennedy Space Center, Steve drops by the house to say goodbye. It is, of course, 2 a.m.—midday for the good Dr. Stevie but the middle of the night for me. Happy as our dogs and I are to see him, even

PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY NASA AND EILEEN HAWLEY

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 31 they are content to crawl Bernie and Jeanne Hawley, Steve's parents; Jo Keegan, back into bed for a few my mom; and Jeanne Smolley a close family friend more hours' sleep. from California. The flight surgeons have examined About seven hours them, declared them healthy and approved them to be later, the other crew near Steve and the crew. Steve enjoys a few hours to families and 1 are on visit with our families and share a meal before they are a NASA plane whisked away. bound for Florida. Steve and I get a few more hours together before I, My flight is not as too, am taken back to my hotel room and Steve pre- glamorous or as pares for another busy day of study and training. fast as Steves. He made it in 1 1/2 Launch minus 1 dag. Florida hours in his T-38 training jet. It will Our families tour the space center and for a short take us three times as time Steve and I get to see them, albeit from a dis- long in our little pro- tance. Buses unload the crew families near the launch peller-driven airplane, but pad. Steve and I, along with his crew mates, stand we have more time to enjoy across an open ditch across the road to wave at our the scenery ... if you enjoy staring family guests here for the launch. The sun is bright Mission insignia at the Gulf of Mexico. and warm, but it's nighttime for Steve, so after a few designed by STS-93 crew members. We are accompanied on the flight by our astronaut minutes he and his crew mates depart for their quar- The patch depicts escorts, Charlie Hobaugh and Marc Garneau. From ters ... and sleep. the Chandra X-ray this point through landing, Marc and Charlie are our In the afternoon, I host a reception for our family Observatory caretakers, friends and protectors. They take us to see and friends. Charlie Hobaugh makes sure I take time separating from our spouses, help us get settled in Florida and make to eat something and then sees me safely back to my the Space Shuttle Columbia. sure we understand all the activities surrounding room. Now it's less than six hours until launch. launch. From the balcony of my hotel room, I can look out Safely in Florida, we set up housekeeping in our over the ocean and see the Kennedy Space Center and temporary quarters. Then Charlie and Marc take us the launch pads. I know Columbia is being fueled and out to Kennedy Space Center for dinner/breakfast the countdown is proceeding. with the crew: chicken for me, pancakes for Steve. There is no real privacy, no personal time with your husband or wife in the days before launch. Final Launch minus E dags, Florida goodbyes are said as a group, with our escorts, security personnel and others close by. Sleep is elusive, so I The next two days fall into a comfortable, though relax on the balcony and stare at the stars. somewhat sleep-deprived, pattern. I spend a couple of hours in the early morning visiting Steve, along with Launch Dau No. 1, Julu. ED, the rest of the crew and spouses. We visit the launch pad, stopping at various levels At 10 p.m. July 19, a NASA bus and security escort to look at Columbia and gaze at the spacecraft that arrive for us. We all climb on board the bus and are would safely carry our loved ones to orbit. Its an driven to the Launch Control Center, where we'll impressive and imposing sight—the solid rocket watch the launch from the roof. For the next couple boosters loaded with propellant, the orange external of hours we'll wait in an office. tank housing the fuel to feed the three main engines, Families visit while the children draw a large pic- and Columbia itself towering above us. ture to commemorate the launch. It's a tradition for At the 195-foot level of the launch pad, we look the crew children to create a piece of artwork before out over much of the Kennedy Space Center. We can each launch; childen's art from previous shuttle mis- see the emergency rescue baskets attached to slide sions lines the LCC hallways. wires that Steve and his crew mates would use if they I begin to indulge in my own prelaunch ritual. I had to evacuate the launch pad in an emergency. The sit in one corner of the office next to a console box visit is designed to help spouses feel more comfortable that lets me listen to the launch and flight control about the training, safety and preparation that are part teams as the countdown proceeds. I'm joined by sev- of every shuttle mission. Intellectually, I already knew eral astronauts who are there to help the families cope that. But seeing Columbia, touching Columbia, makes with the stress. The countdown is extremely smooth. it seem all the more real to me. Shortly after midnight, we walk up to the roof. In the evening, we return to the conference center Columbia is off in the distance, brilliantly lit by xenon for dinner. This time, though, we have invited guests: lights, and Steve is onboard awaiting launch. I'm

>2 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 holding a scanner radio, another prelaunch ritual for me. I can hear the commentary during ascent as the first shock wave of sound reaches the LCC and makes it impossible to hear the loudspeakers. I move away from the rest of the families to anticipate launch in solitude. Charlie joins me. We listen to the countdown: 10, 9, 8, 7, "cut off." 1 hear the call about a spike in hydrogen levels and subsequent cut off of the launch sequence. No launch tonight. We go back to the office to let traffic clear before we go back to the hotel. NASA Administrator Dan Goldin, accompanied by First Lady Hillary Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, come by to express their support of our families onboard Columbia. The First Lady and Chelsea hope to come back for the next launch attempt. They wish us well and depart. Shortly after that, we head for home, knowing there will be no launch attempt for at least 48 hours.

Launch flttempt Na. E, July. EE, 1W Different day, same bus, same time, same crew families. We head for the same office in the Launch Con- trol Center and hope for better luck today. Steve did his part to ensure a safe launch by wearing a paper bag over his head so Columbia wouldn't recognize him. A gift from Launch Director Ralph Roe, Steves paper bag is part of shuttle program lore. Today marks the 13th time Steve has strapped into a space shuttle. In those 13 times, he has four launches to his credit ... a dubious record that has become legend. After the first scrubbed launch attempt, Ralph received phone calls from other launch directors who had overseen Steve's previous launches. They informed Ralph that Columbia would never launch if she realized Steve was on m • board ... so out came the paper bag. But as soon as we drive onto Kennedy Space Center property, I see the first flash of lightning. I'm sitting with Eileen Collins' husband, Pat Youngs, and their daughter. Pat and I are amazed by the lightning's intensity, but we try to convince ourselves it is moving away. I can hear the weather forecasters talking to the launch ••»»»'> I directors. They are still hoping Columbia can get off the ground tonight. So just after midnight, we trudge back to the roof. Lightning flashes in the distance; NASA launch rules require no lightning within 20 miles or for a period of 15 minutes for a commitment to launch. Eventually we leave the roof as lightning draws closer, and we know there will be no launch again tonight. A few minutes later, Steve and his fellow crew once again climb out of Columbia and head back to quarters. Dan Goldin, the First Lady and Chelsea visit us again Hawley manages a prelaunch smile (top) as a NASA technician checks to express support and hope for a successful launch his launch and entry suit. tomorrow; then we depart for our rooms. About 3 Seconds after liftoff from pad 39-B, Commander Eileen Collins reported a.m., I talk to Steve. He's tired but in good spirits. We a short circuit onboard. Houston controllers replied that redundancy both need some sleep. had been lost on two of the three main engines—all of which was monitored by Eileen Hawley, whose husband was flying aboard Columbia.

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This is likely our last attempt for a launch without a lengthy standdown for scheduled Air Force launches. The sky is clear tonight and we're feeling confident. On TV, I see Steve arrive at the launch pad, again wearing his paper bag. Launch attempt No. 14 for Steve, and he's ready to fly. As usual, I listen to the countdown. Once again, we head out to the roof to watch launch, with me clutching my scanner radio. The countdown proceeds smoothly, and I see the three main engines light. I start holding my breath as the solid rocket boosters ignite and I know Steve is finally going somewhere. I just hope it's to a safe orbit. Seconds into the flight, I hear Eileen Collins report a short circuit on board and the Spacecraft Communicator in Houston tell her they have lost redundancy on two of the three main engines. I can tell the engines are still fir- ing, so I know the problem isn't critical, but for the next heart-pounding eight minutes until Steve is in orbit, I feel as if I'm holding my breath. We stay on the roof until we can't see Columbia anymore and we hear the "main engine cut off' call from Mission Control in Houston. Charlie and Marc, our exemplary escorts, present each of us a single long-stem rose and personal messages from our spouses. Steve assures me he's going to have fun in orbit and will see me in a few days. Back in the office, Elena Tognini, wife of French astronaut Michel Tognini, opens a bottle of cham- pagne so we can celebrate. Pat Youngs leaves to talk to CNN; his 3-year old daughter, Bridget, sleeps quietly on my lap while Dan Goldin and Johnson Space Center Director George Abbey come by to congratulate us on the crew's successful launch. Then we go back to our rooms. It's time to sleep.

Flight Daqs E-5, Florida Steve's in orbit, working away. We communicate via e-mail messages routed through the flight surgeons in Mission Control Houston. One day we even get to talk to one another via ham radio linked by phone, courtesy of a radio operator in Australia. As soon as I hear Steve's voice, I dissolve into tears, realizing how much I miss him. Fortunately, he lands tomorrow. Steve's parents and I are the only family members still in Florida, awaiting a happy reunion with Steve after touchdown.

INI • NO. 1, 2000 Landing Dag, July E7, (1 LEO p.m.) also is on hand to personally greet us and commend the crew for the history-making mission. One more bus ride to Kennedy Space Center, this By noon, we are back home. Our three whippets time to Runway 33 to watch Steve glide back to Earth. are happy to see us. The families are alone at the start of the runway. The By 3 p.m., Steve is in the back yard watering and night is beautiful, with dark clear skies and a full cleaning up after the dogs. From American hero to moon. In the pond to our left, an alligator surfaces, pooper scooper in less than 24 hours ... keeping a wary eye on the invaders of his sanctuary. Welcome home, Steve."-""^ The double sonic boom caused by Columbia's —Eileen Hawiey is NASA's newsroom manager and, supersonic arrival makes all of us jump and the alliga- in that role, also serves as voice of Mission Control. tor submerge. Shortly after, we hear Columbia's This is her first article for Kansas Alumni. approach. The noise isn't from engines; Columbia glides when she returns to Earth. Instead we hear the noise of the air rushing over her. I see Columbia a few seconds before touchdown, backlit by the full moon. She sails gently past and touches down right in front H nEBRlEFlNE of us. We all congratulate Pat Youngs, thanking him Steve Hawiey, c'73, NASA's deputy director of flight for the fact that his wife has returned our loved ones crew operations, is a Salina native, a former member of to us. the Alumni Association's Board of Directors, and a 1998 An hour and a half later, I'm standing in front of an recipient of the Distinguished Service Citation, the high- elevator in astronaut crew quarters, surrounded by the est award bestowed by the University and Alumni Associ- other spouses and children. The doors open and ation. there's Dr. Stevie. For this mission, his fifth aboard a space shuttle, Hawiey I've never been so happy to see him in my life and served as flight engineer, assisting the commander and hold on to him for a long time, until the flight doctors pilot during ascent and re-entry. Hawiey also helped come to take him away for a postflight physical. Once deploy the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the world's most that's complete, we are back together to enjoy break- powerful X-ray telescope. fast—lasagna and chicken casserole at 5 a.m. Hawiey earned his KU degree in physics and astronomy, and in 1977 earned a doctorate in astronomy and astro- physics from the University of California. He first flew Julu. Efl, lffl, Houston into space in 1984. By 9 a.m., we are airborne and headed back to Commander Eileen Collins, who had flown twice previ- Houston. At Ellington Field, coworkers, friends and ously as shuttle pilot, attracted media attention for STS-93 as the first woman shuttle commander. the public are there to welcome the STS-93 crew home and hail them as heroes. Vice President Al Gore —Chris Lazzarino

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around Africa by private jet ($29,950), Paris and London by the Supersonic Con- Up, up and away corde and high-speed Eurostar tunnel train ($6,780), and a tour of China's Flying Jayhawks begin fourth decade of alumni travel ancient silk road ($8,990). Other trips offer just as much charm at with trips for all tastes to all corners of the globe a fraction of the price. "Escapades," which were launched in 1994, include airfare, issouri had just been defeated, Neuner quickly offered to pitch in. accommodations and at least one meal a the afternoon was gorgeous and She has long since taken over manage- day. Passengers can then tailor their trips Mspirits were running high as ment of the program, which has grown to their own interests and budgets by more than 150 travelers from the Associa- significantly. This year's Flying Jayhawks choosing among optional sightseeing trips tion's Flying Jayhawks program gathered program begins with a Jan. 8-15 trip and meal plans. The Austria Escapade in Oct. 23 in the Adams Alumni Cen- to the hidden islands of the February, for example, will allow Flying ter for the programs 30th Grenadines; Jayhawks to enjoy the splendor of annual party and reunion. the 25 th and Salzburg in winter—when the locals say Unlike other final Flying the old city is truly alive—for a base price reunions that regularly Jayhawks excur- of $1,295. occur in the Adams sion of 2000 will "Alumni Colleges Abroad," which also Center, these be a deluxe winter began in 1994, allow travelers to stay in Jayhawks smaller towns or villages. Each day were not includes a lecture from a local united by authority about various aspects class year or course of the regional culture; the rest of study. It was a of the time is spent exploring diverse group and the energy in the room the countryside, and the group was unmistakable—which made the returns to its base town each Adams Center reunion much like a Flying night. Alumni Colleges have Jayhawks trip. quickly established themselves "It's quite often the case that a passen- as one of the program's most ger will look at the list of travelers and popular offerings, selling out say, 'I don't know a single soul in here,'" quickly. says Donna Neuner, 76, the Association's "All of the Flying Jayhawks member services director. "After the trip, trips, but especially the Alumni that person will often come back and tell Colleges Abroad, offer a venue us that within 30 minutes they had dis- for lifelong learning, which covered all sorts of connections they had should always be a major focus with other travelers. It all boils down to TRAVEL PLANNERS: Association staff members Janice Cordry for us to carry out our mis- having the University of Kansas connec- and Donna Neuner attend to the details of Flying Jayhawks trips. sion," says Association Presi- tion, and that's something that's very dent Fred B. Williams. meaningful." The Association organized its first Neuner has been expertly assisted the Neuner has worked with the Flying group travel outing to the Jan. 1, 1969, past eight years by Janice Cordry, secre- Jayhawks ever since she arrived at the Orange Bowl. The popularity of that tary for membership services. Many trav- Association 26 years ago. When Neuner trip—900 Jayhawks flew to Miami to elers who call with questions about their began working here, Executive Director cheer the KU football team—forced Asso- trip speak with Cordry, who handles Dick Wintermote, d'51, was the only per- ciation staff to recognize a need for more many of the details for every trip. son organizing the Flying Jayhawks trips. such trips. Just over a year later, in March "The Flying Jayhawks are a great group Although the Flying Jayhawks only made 1970, the first official Flying Jayhawks of folks," Cordry says. "They are ener- a few trips a year back in the early 1970s, trip carried 53 travelers to Hawaii—at an getic, wonderful people, and it's a joy to the trips were huge: Most had at least 180 all-inclusive cost of $499 per person. work with them. They are always so excit- passengers on a chartered airplane, and Many Flying Jayhawks trips are exotic ed about their trips, before they leave and some had two or three chartered planes. and luxurious and carry appropriate price after they return." The workload was tremendous, and tags. This year's itinerary includes a trip Anyone with questions about a Flying

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Jayhawks trip should call Neuner or signed by at least 100 paid members, with special mention were the Jayhawk Jog at Cordry at 785-864-4760. no more than 50 from the same county. Shawnee Mission Park and a Vespers trip "The best part of our trips," Neuner Petitions should include nominees' that brought more than 300 members to says, "is the camaraderie among the peo- photographs and biographical information Lawrence for the December holiday tradi- ple who have Kansas connections."-^•" and must reach the Association by Feb. tion. 14. Mail to the Alumni Association Nomi- "We have many wonderful chapters nating Committee, Adams Alumni Center, where great things are happening, but March ballot to highlight 6 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66044- these were our truly outstanding chapters for spring Board election 3169.— for 1999," Cerny says. Anyone interested in organizing a rapped around the March (No. 2, chapter for their hometown, or joining W2000) issue of Kansas Alumni will Champion chapters prove already established KU groups, should be the annual members' ballot for the contact Cerny at 800-KU HAWKS.—"- Alumni Association's national Board of loyalty goes the distance Directors election. Printed in eye-catching ome of them are far away from Mount flourescent ink, the ballot will profile the SOread, but all are far and away the Nominate a KU loyalist six candidates nominated as this issue best: Alumni Association chapters in New for lofty Ellsworth honor went to press by a committee appointed York, San Antonio, Dodge City and by national chairman Carol Swanson Kansas City have earned distinction as the f you know a volunteer whose commit- Ritchie, d'54. nation's best KU alumni outposts. Kirk Iment to the University is extraordinary, The nominees are: Cerny, c'92, g'98, senior vice president for please tell us about him or her. The Asso- —Nancy Borel Ellis, d'63, life member, membership services, says all of the hon- ciation is now seeking nominees for its Pinehurst, N.C. She is a community vol- ored chapters have successfully made KU annual Fred Ellsworth Medallion, the unteer. prominent among the alumni in their highest honor for unique and significant —Sheri Welter Hauck, b'81, life mem- communities. service to KU. ber, Long Beach, Calif. She is group con- The New York Metropolitan Area The medallion, established in 1975, troller for Enterprise Car Sales. Chapter, led for the past four years by honors the memory of Ellsworth, c'22, —Jay Howard, b'79, life member, Andrew Coleman, c'90, has adopted a longtime executive secretary of the Asso- Austin, Texas. He is a partner in Circa beach for an annual Earth Day cleanup, ciation whose dedication over more than Capital Corp. participates in Habitat for Humanity and 40 years set a new standard for loyalty. —Sydnie Bowling Kampschroeder, organizes monthly gatherings and fre- The awards will be presented in fall 2000 c'65, life member, Naperville, 111. She is quent TV watch parties. in conjunction with a meeting of the marketing director for Archipelago. The Dodge City Chapter, led for 21 Association's Board of Directors. —Craig Swenson, e'59, life member, years by Bill, c'61, and Susan Bunyan, is The deadline for nominations is March Lee's Summit, Mo. He retired as a vice especially active in student recruitment. 31. Ellsworth recipients will be chosen by president of Bayer Corp. The Bunyans host an annual student- representatives of the Alumni, Athletics —Jeffrey Thompson, b'83, life mem- recruitment event in their home; they and Endowment associations and the ber, Wichita. He is senior vice president coordinate program advertisements in Office of the Chancellor. The committee of Koch Capital Services, a division of publications in the seven-county area will review the nominees' KU service Koch Industries. around Dodge City; and they eagerly host throughout their lives, rather than single Members will vote for three of the six other KU gatherings. events or activities. candidates. The top three vote-getters will "In all they keep about 100 loyal Jay- To nominate someone, please send a begin five-year terms July 1. hawks tied into the fold," Cerny says. list of the candidate's achievements and Chairing this year's Nominating Com- In San Antonio, chapter leader Bruce provide biographical materials, such as mittee was former Association national Barker, j'70, and his fellow alumni orga- newspaper clippings. The committee will chairman Dorothy Wohlgemuth Lynch, nizers "have done the best job nationally consider non-alumni. d'59, Olathe. Serving with her were Bren- of representing KU at high-school fairs," Please resubmit information on past da Roskens Dicus, b'83, Topeka; Gene according to Cerny. nominees, including any appropriate McClain, b'58, Chicago; Kevin J. Corbett, Tom Gray, b'77, is the current presi- updates. c'88, Lawrence; and Bradley E. Scafe, dent of the Greater Kansas City Chapter, Send materials to Fred B. Williams, c'80, Overland Park. which hosts "the greatest signature event" president, Kansas Alumni Association, Members who want to nominate addi- among all of the Associations chapters, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS tional candidates must submit petitions the annual Rock Chalk Ball. Also earning 66044-3169. -—•*

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Alumni Events

Adams Alumni Center 20 22 j Reservations are required for all special events. • KU vs. Oklahoma: Pregame buffet, • Seattle Chapter: Watch party at Call 785-864-4760 10 a.m., $15.95 Uncle Mo's. Contact Tim Dibble, 425-392-0492 or Pregame buffets 23 Timothy. Dibble@PSS .Boeing.com. • Pregame buffets prepared by Fifi's Alumni & Lied: "Victor/Victoria," Catering begin two hours before each 5 p.m. Dinner and ticket, $60. 25 | home basketball game, as do buses to • Kansas City: Rock Chalk Ball Allen Field House. Because meals are 26 patron and volunteer party, catered, reservations are required. Call • KU vs. Baylor: Pregame buffet, KU MedWest, Shawnee. the Association at 785-864-4760 for 5 p.m., $15.95 reservations or further information. 29 ! 29 • New York Metropolitan Chapter: January • Alumni & Lied: St. Paul Chamber Kansas Day, and Kansas vs. Iowa State Orchestra, 5 p.m. Dinner and ticket, watch party at Blondies. Contact the 4 $56. Info Line, 201-288-8868 or • KU vs. Penn: Pregame buffet, [email protected]. 5 p.m., $15.95 March February 12 5 A • KU vs. K-State: Pregame buffet, • KU vs. Missouri: Pregame buffet, 4 6 p.m., $15.95 11 a.m., $15.95 • Kansas City: Rock Chalk Ball 2000, Marriott Muehlebach Tower. For infor- Tndti/^n nr Yt>ct>Y^TCifinnc <*•*£] 11 ^nccin T~Tf>r*l/ 15 IILallUIl Ul rLbClVallOIlb, Lali jUball FlcXK • KU vs. Nebraska: Pregame buffet, 1 Chapters & Professional Societies Holcomb, 913-649-1857, or Becky ^ (tic nc D J\/( 1-1 A1 O £/in 1OC7 6 p.m., $15.95 Brand Meschke, 913-649-1857. 24 January 9 1 • KU vs. Colorado: Pregame buffet, • New York Metropolitan Chapter: 6 p.m., $15.95 10 Winter meeting at Blondies. • San Diego Chapter: With Chancelloi Contact Andy Coleman for details, February Robert E. Hemenway. Contact Rob 609-584-4234 or 732-254-3109. Bletscher, 619-227-0686, or Emily 3 Diaz, [email protected]. 12 ! • Alumni & Lied: "Camelot," • Wichita Chapter: Watch party at 5 p.m. Dinner and ticket, $60 12 River City Brewery. Contact Teresa • Wichita Chapter: Watch party at Veazey at [email protected]. 5 River City Brewery. Contact Teresa • KU vs. Texas Tech: Pregame buffet, Veazey, [email protected]. 17 3 p.m., $15.95 • New York Metropolitan Chapter: 17 Thirsty Third Thursday at the 16 • College Station: KU at Texas A&M Mark Bar. Contact Brian Falconer, • KU vs. Iowa State: Pregame buffet, pregame. Contact the Association at 212-9863700 or 732-441-9578. 3 p.m., $15.95 800-KU HAWKS.

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20-21 March April Scottsdale: 2000 Southwest Open 6 Pittsburg: Dave and Evelyn Logan: Dane and Polly Bales, Golf Tournament. Contact the Associa- Pistole, 316-232-2788 785-689-4328 tion, 800-KU HAWKS. 14 Hiawatha: Leland and Debbie 5 Chanute: Virginia Crane, Hanson, 785-742-7240 316-431-1612 28 15 Atchison: Bill and Donna Roe, 6 Oakley: Wade Park, Austin: KU vs. Texas pregame event 913-367-7497 785-672-3221 at Scholtz's. Contact the Association, 16 Washington: Larry Stoppel, 13 Pratt: Cindy Keller, 800-KU HAWKS. 785-325-2173 316-672-5149 28 Concordia: Ken Palmquist, 17 Scott City: Jerry and Marsha New York Metropolitan Chapter: 785-243-2294 Edwards, 316-872-3145 KU vs. Texas watch party at Ship of 29 Liberal: Al and Donna Shank, 18 Greensburg: Bill Marshall, Fools. Wear Kansas colors because 316-624-6360 316-723-2554 event is combined with Texas alumni. Contact the info line, 201-288-8868.

Houston: School of Engineering professional society meeting. Contact the Association, 800-KU HAWKS. Springtime is tournament time 29 ansas City will host numerous postseason athletics events, providing Dallas: School of Engineering profes- many opportunities for Jayhawk fans to cheer their teams. The spring sional society meeting. Contact the Kseasons gets off to a fast start March 7-11 with the Big 12 women's Association, 800-KU HAWKS. basketball tournament at Municipal Auditorium. Jayhawks will gather at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown Hotel before every KU game during the tournament. The Big 12 men's basketball tournament is again at Kemper Arena, March Kansas Honors Program 9-12. The best pregame action will again be at the big tent in the Golden Ox parking lot three hours before game time throughout the Jayhawks' tourna- For information on supporting a KHP e\ent, ment games. Fans are also invited to the Fan Fair at Hale Arena throughout contact local site coordinators, or Carolyn the tournament. Barnes at 785-864-4760 For more information on pregame rallies for both tournaments, contact the Alumni Association at 800-KU HAWKS. February The University is co-hosting the women's NCAA Midwest Regional 2 Fort Scott: Charles and Martha basketball tournament March 25 and 27 at Municipal Auditorium, and will Jane Gentry, 316-223-0866 host the Big 12 men's and women's tennis championships April 27-30 at the 3 Larned: John Adams, Plaza Tennis Center. Pregame activities for both events will depend on the 316-285-2053 Jayhawks' participation. 7 Dodge City: Melanie Vogel, Also continuing this spring is the Kansas City tradition of Big Blue Mon- 316-225-5667 days. KC Jayhawks gather at 6 p.m. each Monday during basketball season 9 Pleasanton: Rick and Janice at The Pub on Santa Fe, 7938 Santa Fe Dr. in Overland Park. No reserva- Wurtz, 913-795-2531 tions are required. For more information, contact Ned Smith, 913-341-5542. 10 Garden City: Geneen Love, 316-275-5512 17 Holton: Leslie McDaniel, 785-364-3012 23 Great Bend: Mary King, 316-793-6168

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1930s 1949 Ind. He and his wife, Shirley, recently moved Victor Amend, c'39, lives in Indianapolis. He's Russell Taylor, b'49, l'5 I, makes his home to Columbus. a retired professor at Butler University. in Eskridge. Margaret Carey Milne, s'57, makes her Ruth Orcutt Bacon, c'32, celebrated her home in Newark, Del. I OOth birthday Jan. 29. She lives in Kaneohe, 1950 Hawaii. Richard Barton, j'50, divides his time 1958 between homes in Ames, Iowa, and Mesa, Ariz. Lane Andrist, c'58, lives in Galesburg, III., Clark Millikan, m'39, directs clinical research He is a free-lance magazine writer where he's a retired clergyman. at the Intermountain Stroke Center in Salt Lake City. Gilbert Fuller, e'50, is a retired engineering Edmund Fording, e'58, is president of the manager in Prescott, Ariz. Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Arthur Poindexter, c'39, continues to make Association in Washington, D.C. He lives in his home in Huntington Beach, Calif. Jean Hosey Hutton, d'50, teaches piano in Kansas City, where she and her husband, Arlington.Va. 1940 Thomas, c'60, make their home. Clifford Fullman, e'58, works as an environmental engineer at Clifford Consulting in Merle Hall Beech, c'40, makes her home in Cincinnati. Seal Beach, Calif. 1951 Jack Stewart, b'5 I, g'52,1*55, sings in a James Jester, c'58, EdD'66, does volunteer Joseph Tihen, c'40, lives in Fort Myers, Fla. barbershop chorus and acts in Salina. work in Springfield, Mo. 1941 MARRIED William Neal, p'58, practices pharmacy part Beth Weir Jones, c'41, a retired teacher time in Garnett. Willard Thompson, b'5 I, l'58, and Barbara makes her home in Prairie Village. Paul Swoboda, d'58, g'59, makes his home in Lemert, d'60, Sept. 4.They live in Wichita, Boulder; Colo. 1942 where he's a partner in the law firm of Fleeson, Gooing, Coulson & Kitch. Larry Welch, c'58, l'61, recently was honored Vernon Branson, m'42, c'47, volunteers as a when the Kansas Law EnforcementTraining pediatrician at Health Care Access in Lawrence, 1952 Center's new dormitory nearYoder was named where he and Jessie Cassidy Branson, n'42, Robert Heisler, PhD'52, and his wife, Jane, for him. Larry lives in Lawrence and is director make their home. She serves on the Haskell took a two-week trip to Europe last year to of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation inTopeka. Foundation Board ofTrustees. celebrate their 50th anniversary.They live in Philip Hostetter, m'42, wrote Doctor and Sol- Vincentown, N.J. 1959 dier in the South Pacific, which tells his experi- Robert Billings, c'59, lives in Lawrence, Willis Mercer, d'52, g'56, EdD74, serves on ences as a surgeon with the 24th Infantry where he's president of Alvamar Inc. the Salina Parks and Recreation Board. division in the Philippines and Japan during Ronald, c'59, and Elaine Gill Claiborne, Robert Pope, e'52, g'58, keeps busy during World War II. He lives in Manhattan. f 59, make their home in Springdale, Ark, retirement with volunteer work, church activities and travel. He lives in St. Louis. Phillip Friedeman, c'59, a retired minister, 1944 directs after care at Warren McElwain Mortuary Jay Gunnels Jr., b'44, practices law in Kansas 1953 in Lawrence, where he and his wife, Patricia, City. He and his wife, Frances, celebrated their make their home. 50th aniversary in October. William Allen, c'53, l'55, a retired attorney, makes his home in Overland Park with R.M. Hildenbrand, e'59, works for Sears in Betty Austin Hensley, c'44, traveled to Maxine Bednar Allen, d'55, g'59. Tupelo, Miss., where he lives with his wife, Europe last year She lives in Wichita, where Brenda. she owns Flutes of the World. 1954 Mary Sue Poppe Looney, d'59, g'63, lives in 1945 Fritz Widick, e'54, is retired from a career Tulsa, Okla., where her husband, Ronald, has a with NASA, He lives in Coco Beach, Fla. real-estate development company. Evelyn Etzel, b'45, a retired teacher, continues to make her home in Portland, Ore. Norman Love, e'59, lives in Boulder, Colo., 1955 where he's a retired chief engineer with Xerox. Joel Fant Trout, c'45, and her husband, James, Robert Alpers, c'55, is pastor at the United celebrated their 50th anniversary last fall by tak- Church of Christ in Brookings, S.D. Maynard Morris, c'59, lives in La Canada, ing their family to the Cayman Islands.They live Calif, where he's retired from a career James Moorhead, a'55, works at Moorhead with IBM. in Ponca City, Okla. Architect in Lone Tree, Colo. John Murphy, c'59, is network manager for 1946 1956 the New York City Administration Children's Services. He lives in Oakland, N.J. Bolivar Marquez, c'46, e'48, is president of Crandall Melia, p'56, manages the pharmacy Torolandia in the Republic of Panama. at Costco Wholesale in Rancho Cucamonga, Gary Olsen, c'59, owns and manages Calif. He lives in Upland. Olsen & Associates Insurance Services in 1948 Lee's Summit, Mo. John Quarrier, b'56, retired last year from Ray Canfield, b'48, lives inTulsa, Okla., where Union Planters Bank in Miami, Fla., and moved Charles Rutledge Jr., p'59, g'61, lives in West he's involved in commercial real estate. to Tallahassee. Lafayette, Ind., where he's dean of pharmacy at Charles Crowley, b'48, and his wife, Helen, Purdue University. live in Hartland, Wis.They enjoy traveling. 1957 Mark Saylor, c'59, m'66, is a retired surgeon. Marion Pugh Strand, c'48, a retired social Thor Bogren Jr., c'57, retired last fall as pas- He and Nancy Edds Saylor, n'68, live in worker, lives in Rochester, N.Y. tor of First Presbyterian Church of Greensburg, Topeka.

40 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 CLASS NOTES A HOME Richard Sengpiehl, b'59, works as a manu- 1965 facturer's representative for several furniture Margot Hoagland de Labar, c'65, g'77, factories. He lives in Lawrence. traveled to India last summer She lives in FOR ALL SEASONS Kala Mays Stroup, c'59, g'64, PhD74, was Redondo Beach, Calif. honored last fall when a fountain at Southeast Larry Morgan, e'65, g'66, works as a quality Missouri State University (SMSU) was named assurance specialist for Kellogg Brown & Root for her Kala, who lives in Jefferson City, was in Houston. SMSU's 14th president. She is currently Mis- souri's Commissioner for Higher Education. Arthur Preston, c'65, g'67, lives in Wellington, where he's retired from a career in city I960 management. Roger Boeger, b'60, lives in Kansas City, David Richwine, c'65, is executive vice presi- where he's general manager of MetLife. dent of AFCEA International, an association that informs its members about developments in Edward Mealey, PhD'60, is retired in information technology. He lives in Burke,Va., Fountain Valley, Calif. with Gayle Kreutzer Richwine, d'67. David Warren, c'60, g'64, works as a broker Michael Sill, b'65, works forTransworld for Chapman Securities in Wichita, where Patricia Binns Warren, c'94, is a secretary Systems in San Bernardino, Calif. He lives in Upland. for USD 259. 1961 1966 Mary Cunningham Crowder, b'61, is Keith Ericksen, b'66, is executive vice president of Harris Bank Winnetka. He lives in retired from a career with the Social Security Wilmette, III, with his wife, Pat. Admnistration. She lives in Houston. James Meikle, EdD'66, lives in Branson, Mo. Don DeMate, b'61, works as Southwest He's a retired professor of theater and speech. TOWNHOME LIVING AT ITS BEST! regional sales manager forTri-Anim Health Ser- vices in Sylmar, Calif. He lives in Canoga Park. Bruce Owen, PhD'66, recently was inducted 'randon Woods is more than into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Damon Patton, c'61, retired last year from a retirement community. It's a Fame. He's former vice president for instruction Analysts International. He lives in Green Valley, neighborhood of friends. Ariz., where he's an avid golfer at Oklahoma City Community College, and he makes his home in Blanchard. When you live in a Townhome 1962 Carl Reed, e'66, g'69, g'85, has been promot- at Brandon Woods, home owner- Francis Cullinan, g'62, works as a self- ed to vice president and director of structural ship is a joy! A monthly service employed opera stage director He lives in engineering for Delich, Roth & Goodwiltie fee covers all your maintenance Engineers in Kansas City. Centerville, Mass. concerns. Plus owning a Town- Lee Nicholas, b'62, is an assistant professor of home at Brandon Woods is an accounting at the University of Northern Iowa 1967 in Cedar Falls. Leon Brewer, g'67, continues to live in investment. You have an Olathe, where he's retired after 35 years in the appreciable asset that benefits 1963 field of education. you and your heirs. John Urkevich, d'67, EDD'89, is assistant Kent Converse, d'63, visited Brazil last year FEATURING: with a group of Rotarians as part of a group superintendent of curriculum and instruction study exchange. He and Linda Galliart Con- for the St. Charles, Mo, school district. • TOWNHOMES & APARTMENTS verse, d'65, make their home in Garfield. • ASSISTED LIVING & HEALTH CARE John Woodward Sr., g'63, and his wife, 1968 • ALZHEIMER'S CARE & REHAB Pauline, celebrated their first anniversary Jan. I. John Braum, d'68, works as a band specialist • NO ENTRANCE FEE for the Shawnee Mission school district. They live in Lansing. (785) 838-8000 Katharine Wright Young, d'63, is a profes- Laurie Streib Evans, j'68, manages adminis- sor of French, religion and philosophy at Estrella tration for Scott Rice of Kansas City Inc. She 1-800-419-0254 Mountain Community College in Litchfield Park, lives in Peculiar; Mo. www.brandonwoods.com Ariz. She lives in Sun City. Maxine Chapin Hoppe, g'68, a retired English teacher; lives in Kansas City. 1964 William Sampson, c'68,171, has been Duane Guy, PhD'64, makes his home in appointed by the Defense Research Institute to Canyon,Texas, where he's a retired college a special task force on mass torts. He's a part- professor ner with the Overland Park law firm of Shook, Jay Strayer, c'64, l'69, g'71, is a partner in the Hardy & Bacon. Bill and Drucilla Mort Oak Brook, III., law firm of Fewkes, Wentz & Sampson, l'96, make their home in Lawrence. RETIREMENT COMMUNITY Strayer He lives in Glen Ellyn. David Sorenson, l'68, retired last year as 1501 INVERNESS DR. • LAWRENCE, KS 66047 Fred Wilson, PhD'64, teaches physics at an administrative law judge. He lives in LOCATED 11/2 MILES WEST OF THE KU CAMPUS Angelo State University in San Angelo,Texas. Littleton, Colo.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 [41 CLASS NOTES You're a successful broker. )<>it lore it'lhlt you're doi/tv. Glenn Willey, b'68, is vice president and chief Michael Shonka, g'71, recently became exec- financial officer of Fisher-Rosemount in St. Louis. utive vice president and chief financial officer of Cessna Aircraft in Wichita. BUT 1969 Elizabeth Durett Stephens, g'71, plays the You dream ... Robert Heacock, e'69, a retired project engi- organ at Trinity Episcopal Church in Lawrence. of a different lifestyle neer, teaches engineering at KU. He and his Jane Whitener, d'71, directs continuing edu- wife, Darlene, live in Lawrence. in a vibrant community cation and public service at the University of Illi- with a kinder pace Stephen Keeler, c'69, works as a program nois, and her husband, Vincent May, '71, You dream ... manager for Boeing in Seattle, Wash. works as an entertainer in the Chicago. He also of abandoning freeways Kyle Vann, e'69, is senior vice president of recently began a career in real estate. for life where ideas and Koch Industries in Houston. traffic flow freely and your 1972 1970 Richard Beyer, b'72, works as secretary of kids' school is just around Dana Clinton, c'70, g'72, teaches at the human resources for the Kansas Department of the corner Berwick Academy in South Berwick, Maine. Human Resources in Topeka. He lives in Lea- You dream ... Phil Connor, c'70, is assistant coach and wood with Sarah Crews Beyer, assoc. of loving where you live director of basketball operations at Point Loma Robert Hill, b'72, manages contracts for of a city Nazarene University in San Diego. Applied Data Technology in San Diego. He lives like Lawrence Ronald Everly, a'70, directs aerospace pro- in Poway. jects for the Austin Company in Irvine, Calif. Carol McAmis, f 72, g'74, is a professor of He lives in AlisoViejo. voice at Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y Now's your chance. Gilbert Leonard, g'70, manages infrastructure Gene Neely, d'72, serves as president of the U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray is services for Exxon's information systems Kansas National Education Association. He and seeking a successful investment department in Houston. Deborah Robinson Neely, 00, live in Tope- professional to join our ka. She teaches at West Junior High School in Lawrence, Kansas, office. 1971 Lawrence. You'll be backed by an David Andersen, j'71, recently was named George Wanke, b'72, s79, is clinical director organization dedicated to vice president of communications for CNBC in of Lutheran Social Service in St. Paul, Minn. helping you succeed. We Fort Lee, N.J. offer superior sales and Carole Atkins, c'71, makes her home in 1973 marketing assistance, Honolulu. She recently received a doctorate in Jerry Baze, c'73, lives in Pittsburg, where he's comprehensive research educational psychology from the University of president of Parkview Housing. capabilities, state-of-the-art Hawaii. Dian Seetin Bright, c'73, directs children's technology and extensive Harriet Bechtle, g'71, serves as minister of ministries at Will Rogers United Methodist back-office support. We offer United Methodist Church in Louisburg. Church inTulsa, Okla. a great compensation package. Joe Dold, b'71, owns Heartland Insurance and Christi Elniff, c'73, is an ophthalmic assistant And a great community in is president of Digital Scoring Systems. He and at Marin Ophthalmic in San Rafael, Calif. She which to live! Patric Hildreth Dold, d'70, live in Kansas lives in Mill Valley. City. Pat's a learning specialist for the North Jack Grimaldi, 173, lives inTulsa, where he's Kansas City School District. senior international counsel for the Williams Interested? Joyce McKee Fuller, EdD'71, does consulting Companies. Call John Shelton at and serves on the interdisciplinary resource Mark Grube, b'73, works as vice 1 800 333-8978 to team for the Boulder Valley School District. She president/controller of McCormack-Payton confidentially explore lives in Boulder; Colo. Moving and Storage in Grandview, Mo. He lives this opportunity! Anna Schmidtberger Graber, s'71, directs in Basehor the school-consultation program for CCS in John Halki, PhD73, chairs the department QEJbancorp Topeka. of obstetrics and gynecology at Wright State Piper Jaffray* Mona Grimsley-Hett, j'71, makes her home University in Dayton, Ohio. in Topeka. Stephen Kirk, a'73, g'75, has been selected as An equal opportunity employer Max Heidrick, p'71, won the 1999 Bowl of a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Securities products and services are offered Hygeia award for community service from the He's president of Kirk Associates in Grosse through U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc., Kansas Pharmacists Association. He owns S&S Pointe, Mich. member SIPC and NYSE, Inc., a subsidiary Drugs in Beloit. Gary Schafersman, a'73, recently joined the of U.S. Bancorp. 11/99-1630. Steve Pontious, e'71, is CEO and president law firm of Wallace Saunders Austin Brown & of Shell Texas Gulf Coast Resources in Houston. Enochs in Overland Park. He had practiced Lawrence, a vibrant place He lives in Katy. architecture in Chicago before receiving a law Loy Rickman, e'71, moved to San Diego last degree from DePaul University. With J kinder l>Jic year from Brussels, Belgium, where he was a Ronald Worth, a'73, is executive vice presi- senior system engineer for NATO. dent of the national office of the Society for

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Marketing Professional Services in Alexandria, Va. He lives in Olney, Md. SHY MARINOVICH FINDS VOICE AS KCK MAYOR 1974 arol Marinovich spent much of Paul Clark, c'74, g'83, directs finance, opera- her life terrified of public speak- tions and logistics at Moore North America in ing. She confesses that she does Lake Forest, III. He and his wife, Sondra, live in C not know how to "work a room." Physi- Gurnee with their children, Mallory, 12; Garrett, 7; and Benjamin, 5. cally diminished by the surroundings of her enormous office, the diminutive James Doepke, d'74, directs bands at Wauke- sha North High School in Waukesha,Wis. His Marinovich admits that her career choice band appeared marched last year in the Macy's is a bit unlikely. Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. "I was extremely shy growing up," Bruce Frazey, b'74,177, g78, is chief financial says Marinovich, g'82, mayor of the officer for Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar Kansas City, Kan., Unified Government. in Sunrise, Fla. "I consciously avoided every speech class Timothy Short, c74,177, lives in Pittsburg, all through school. People who knew me where he's a partner in the law firm of then must be incredibly surprised to see Spigarelli, McLane & Short. me in public office now." Sue Green Werner, g74, works as a behav- Marinovich has not only transformed ior specialist for the Shawnee Mission school herself from an introverted spectator into district. a highly visible politician; she has forged 1975 a political career defined by uncompro- tion into a political OPTIMISM BUILDER: VirginaAikin Bird, g75, teaches history at mising toughness and deliberate innova- figure has been As mayor, Carol Marinovich Glendale High School in Glendale, Calif. tion. The platforms of her 1995 mayoral gradual. A second- has focused on restoring campaign were consolidation between the . both buildings and pride, Kenneth Butler, e75, is plant engineer for generation Amen- „_., . . . Fleischmann's Yeast in Gastonia, N.C. He lives Wyandotte County and Kansas City gov- ° Physical environment has a in Concord. ernments, neighborhood revitalization can, Marinovich marked Influence on peo. John McConnell, c75, recently was named and restoration of ethics in the historic- says she was deeply pie's attitudes," she says. vice president for clinical programs at the Uni- ally machine-dominated administration. influenced by her versity ofTexas Southwestern Medical Center In 1997, the city's first female mayor also Croatian grandfather. in Dallas. became the first mayor of the Unified "My grandfather really focused on 1976 Government she helped create. Today being American," she says. "Having the Saralyn Reece Hardy, c76, g'94, recently Marinovich can count these achieve- right to vote and to say things publicly, was appointed director of museums and visual ments: Rising taxes and declining popula- that was important to him." arts for the National Endowment for the Arts tion have been neutralized; economic After attending St. Mary's College in in Washington, D.C. She lives in Salina. development thrives; pork-barrel politics Leavenworth, Marinovich began teaching Shiu Nam Kam, e76, is an associate with does not; constituents are taking their in the Kansas City, Kan., public schools. Golder Associates in Mississauga, Ontario, fates into their own hands. She completed a master's degree at KU Canada. "Different neighborhood groups have and then worked as the special education David Wescoe, c76, recently joined North- told me that they'll only come to me as a supervisor to the local school district. western Mutual Life Insurance in Milwaukee as With each career step, Marinovich's voice vice president and assistant to the president last resort," she says. "They're working and chief executive officer with each other to get things done." grew stronger. In 1989 she was elected to Perhaps most important to Marinovich City Council, where she earned a reputa- MARRIED is the new respect Kansas City Kansans tion for standing firm, even if it meant Paula Bohr, f 76, to John Walsh, Aug. 20 in St. have earned for initiating change. standing alone, on issues she viewed as Louis, where she teaches at Washington Univer- "I wanted to return KCK to the KCK it crucial. sity's medical school.They live in Valley Park, Mo. was when I was growing up," says Mari- "I used to be a rebel in organizations," Marinovich says. "My feelings about 1977 novich, a Strawberry Hill native. "People had fled to the suburbs. There hadn't defending people were more powerful Chris Haller, c'77, m'80, is chief of surgery at than my shyness. Now I've learned to be Eisenhower VA Medical Center in Leavenworth, been any new construction downtown in and his wife, Catherine Silva, m'80, m'84, 30 years. As a community, we had lost a more of a consensus builder, but I still practices family medicine at Munson Army lot of our pride and identity." have that streak." Health Center at Fort Leavenworth.They live in As unexpected as Marinovich's present The streak is a reminder, where Carol Leavenworth with their children, Linda, 15;Tom, identity may seem, her personal evolu- Marinovich is concerned, to expect the 13; and Joseph, I. unexpected. -"*•»

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1978 Anne Mischlich Pearson, b 81, and Russell, Terri Reicher, c'83, is assistant general counsel Jill Sadowsky Docking, c'78, g'84, is vice daughter, Nicole Joan, Sept. 3.They live in Eudo- for the National Association of Securities Deal- president of investments for AG Edwards in ra, and Anne works for Madison Marquette ers in Washington, D.C She lives in Roc Wichita, where she and her husband, Thomas, Realty Services in Kansas City. Russell works for Debra Bauer Whitney, f'8 I, coordinates c'76,1'8O, g'80, make their home. He's a partner Hallmark Cards in Lawrence. clinical data and designs case report forms for in Morris Lamg. PRA International. She lives in Shawnee. Candice Hart, c'78, works for the Minnesota 1982 kville, Md. Historical Society in St. Paul. Tracy Epps Albert, c'82, is program manager and victim advocate for the Kansas City Police Timothy Sharp, j'83, works as online editor 1979 Department's Victim Assistance Program. at the Des Moines Register. He lives in Cum- James McCarten, b79, practices law with mmg, Iowa. Woolf, McClaine, Bright, Allen & Carpenter in Steven Koppes, g'82, works as a science Knoxville.Tenn. writer for the University of Chicago News Office. He lives in Homewood. BORN TO: Robert Meyer, c79, works as an employee Scott Dold, c'83, l'9 I, and his wife, Jean benefits specialist forTaylor, Perky & Parker; Marijo Teare Rooney, c'82, co-authored Younger, l'9 I, daughter, Crosby Younger; July 5 a CPA and business consulting firm in Children's Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes. Overland Park. She lives in Lenexa and is a psychologist with in Lawrence, where she joins a sister, Kennedy, Clinical Associates. who's almost 3. Scott is a staff judge advocate BORN TO: with the Kansas Air National Guard, and Jean is Edward, d 79, and Susan Speckman MARRIED assistant vice president of Employers Reinsur- diZerega, d'92, son,Thomas Stanley Augustus, ance Corp. in Overland Park. Kevin Kelso, b'82, to Patty Pyatt, June 12 in July 27 in Lawrence, where he joins a sister, Lawrence.They live in Mission. Kim Bushman Kincaid, e'83, and Jonathan, Johanna, 4. Edward teaches vocal music in son, Noah Sanford, Sept. 9 in Leavenworth, Meriden, and Susan teaches English at the where they live. Lawrence Alternative High School. 1983 John Keeling, f 83, manages design for Hall- Viola Perrill Young, c'83, and Thomas, daugh- 1980 mark Cards in Kansas City. ter; Viola Isabel, Aug. 10 in Tampa, Fla. Debbie Kennett McLaughlin, 80, g'82, recently was named general manager of SRO Communications, the in-house advertising and public-relations agency for the Phoenix Suns and the Arizona Diamondbacks. She lives in Scottsdale. Thomas Munyon, c'80, studies at Edmonds Community College to become a paralegal. He lives in Lynnwood.Wash. Larry Parker, c'80, directs training for the U.S. Navy in Minneapolis. BORN TO: Nancy Black Rowland, c'80, g'87, and Neil, son, Mark Wesley, Aug. 9 in Shawnee Mission. They live in Overland Park, and their family includes a son, Daniel, who'll be 4 in March. 1981 Kate Pound Dawson, j'81, works as a regional equity market correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires in Hong Kong. LJC6I1S6 PlSte $11.95 (Plus S1 Shipping and Handling) John "Jack" English Jr., e'81, is a petroleum Simple, bold graphics instantly identifies the Jayhawk engineer with Chevron Overseas Petroleum in fan. Made of clear, impact-resistant polycarbonate Cabinda, Angola, West Africa. His home is in plastic, they won't bend or chip like aluminum and look Englewood, Colo. like they are under glass. Debbie Travers, n'81, is a research assistant BIG JAY Fl29 $39.29 (Plus $2 Shipping and Handling) professor at the University of North Carolina- 28" x 56", flag grade nylon, reinforced with binding Chapel Hill. She lives in Durham. around all edges for long outdoor life. As used by the Marching Jayhawks.

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1984 Melissa Jones, h'84, works as a physicians PUBLIC SERVICE PUSHES BARNES INTO POLITICS assistant in Denver, where she and her husband, Scott Bates, make their home. ay Cronkite Barnes, mayor of Richard Sifford, '84, is a systems engineer for Kansas City, Mo., believes every Perot Systems, and Julie McCune Sifford, Kleader sets a tone. And after a year c'79, p'82, is a consultant pharmacist.They live in in city hall, hers is unmistakable. Barnes, Plano.Texas, with Kaitlyn, 4, and Matthew, 2. d'60, is pragmatic and indiscriminately Michael Welch, e'84, works as a civil engineer friendly, and thrives on "dispersing for Shawnee County. He lives in Topeka. mayoral goodwill." She loathes disap- BORN TO: pointing people with her decisions, largely because, she laughingly admits, Mark Emig, c'84, m'88, and Ann, daughter, she wants everyone to like her. Mallory Diane, June 4 in Omaha, Neb., where she joins three sisters, Alexandria, 8; Katie, 6; and Don't doubt, however, that when the Steffi, 4. situation calls for it, Barnes can make Elizabeth Frost, c'84, m'89, and her husband, tough decisions. Just consider her profes- Paul Carlson, m'92, daughter Rachel Lyn, sional expertise. Sept. 26 inTulsa, Okla., where she joins two "I taught assertiveness training for sisters, Laura, 4, and Anne, 2. 25 years," she says, smiling. Julia Dalfiume Stutheit, b 84, and David, A former teacher turned human- daughter, Anna Katherine, July 26 in Annapolis, resources consultant, the first female Md.They live in Crofton, and their family POLITICS IN ACTION: includes a daughter, Sarah, 3. mayor of Kansas City, Mo., was swept mother that I into office last spring by a diverse group Kay Barnes had an early fas- resented or didn't cination with televised polit- 1985 of supporters including women, minori- want to be, because |Ca| conventions. At first she John Bradford, c'85, is district manager for ties and corporate executives. I liked that. I just watched to see her cousin, Janssen Pharmaceutical in New Orleans, La., "I've developed a lot of relationships wanted to add on," legendary newscaster Wal- where he and his wife, Kaen, live with their through volunteer activities, my profes- she says *er Cronkite, at work. Later; son, John, 3. sional work and politics," she says. "As a Barnes subse- |nterf In the ProceedinSs John Rau, b'85, works as managing director of result, over the decades I have built kept her watching, fuels management and energy strategies for quently began American Airlines. He lives in Southlake,Texas. friendships in every sector of the commu- working with Cross-Lines Cooperative nity." Council, an organization supporting low- BORN TO: Barnes, long known for her public ser- income families, and the Panel of Ameri- John, c'85, and Linda Noll Boyce, j 87, c 88, vice, campaigned on issues that included can Women, a group dedicated to son, Christopher Andrew Lee, Sept. 15 in job retention and expansion, improving speaking publicly on discrimination Kansas City. John is a direct receipt manager at basic city services, strengthening the city's issues. Both experiences, she maintains, Dillards, and Linda manages central processing international trade and reinforcing a per- changed her life. at Sun Publications. ception of ethical behavior in city hall. "This was a very important time for John Bradford, c'85, and Karen, son, James Her engaging demeanor helped her relay me as far as changing from a suburban Fitzgerald, Aug. 19 in Metairie, La., where he joins a brother; John, 3. John is a district manager these issues to the public. homemaker to community activist," for Janssen Pharmaceuticals. "Kay is a master at building coali- Barnes says. "Both of these experiences Kevin Hallgarth, '85, and Sheryl, daughter, tions," says Kansas State Sen. Audrey really fed what I think was already my Madeline, April 22 in Hudson, Ohio, where she Hansen Langworthy, d'60, g'62, a friend basic mindset and that was to be of ser- joins a sister; Sarah, 4, and a brother Matthew, 2. since college. "She has a good sense of vice to people and to be rigorous in my Kevin has a private orthodontic practice. focus and balance, can look straight discomfort of any form of discrimina- Jamie King Harrison, c'85, b'85, and Scott, ahead, weigh the issues and not get tion." son, Samuel James, July 19 in Farmers Branch, overly caught up in politics." Today, Barnes doesn't look too far past Texas, where he joins a brother, Benjamin, 3. Barnes' election culminates more than city hall. For her, this is simply another Jeffrey, e'85, g'86, and Queta Moore three decades of public and community avenue of public service. Being mayor is Watson, c'85, j'86, son, John Kemper, July 20 in Dallas. service. During the late 1960s, when civil less about politics than about contribut- rights, feminism and anti-war protests ing, and less about power than about 1986 raged, Barnes—then a housewife with influencing. Vicki Austin Fairfield, b'86, works for WRS two small children—reached a cross- That, in short, is the tone of Kay Architects in Riverside, Mo. She and her hus- roads. Barnes' leadership.--*"*" band, John, live in Kansas City with their daugh- "It wasn't being a housewife and —Parks is a Leawood free-lance writer. ter, Madison, 2.

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David Griffith, b'86, has been promoted BORN TO: to vice president of Morgan Stanley in New John Ertz, c'88, and Kimberly, son, Charles York City. Anderson, April 14 in Leawood, where he joins Jason Harper, l'86, is a tax partner with a sister, Natalie, 3. Deloitte &Touche in New York City. He lives in Irvington, N.J. 1989 John Acheson, d'89, g'93, teaches in Shawnee Christine Wright Matousek, b'86, manages Mission. He and Stephanie Williams Ache- human resources for Home Care Services in son, '92, celebrated their first anniversary in Kansas City. December. Leo Redmond, b'86, directs finance for James Allen, e'89, was promoted last year to Genentech in South San Francisco. He and his a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. He wife, Monique, live in San Mateo with their sons, flies the EP-3E Aries II, an electronic reconnais- Keith, 3, and Brice, 8 months. sance aircraft, and is stationed at NAS Whidbey ie Basketball Island, Wash. BORN TO: antasy Camp Karen Hanson Denker, c'89, lives in Dallas Daryl, d'86, and Anne Dardis Perry, c'86, with her husband.Tim. She teaches in Richard- -for Women! s'89, son, Jacob Michael, Sept I in Raleigh, N.C., son. where Daryl and Anne are both commissioned Michael Gough, e'89, serves as a lieutenant officers in the U.S. Public Health Service. commander in the U.S. Navy. He lives in San Francisco. 1987 Douglas Murphy, PhD'89, is associate dean of Tony Arnold, c'87, directs the Center for Land the University ofTexas Health Science Center's Resources and is an associate professor of law school of allied health sciences in San Antonio. at Chapman University in Anaheim, Calif. Christopher Arth, b'87, directs annual giving BORN TO: for the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center Mark Pennel, j'89, and Ann, son, Zachary in Lawrence, where he and Dana Schmidt David, Oct. I 3 in Olathe, where they live. Arth,j'84, l'87, live with Emily, 9, Paige, 7, and Lori Ingram Stussie, d'89, g'92, and Christopher 3. Lawrence, c'90, son, Cameron Van, May I I. John Williams, c'87, works as a property unit They live in Lawrence, where Lori teaches at FEATURING South Junior High School and Lawrence works claim manager for Allstate Insurance in East at M.E.TA.Their family includes a son, Andrew, Elmhurst, N.Y "The Legend" Lynette Woodard who'll be 6 in April. And From the WNBA MARRIED 1990 Gary Albin, c'87,1'9O, to Lesa Rogers, Oct. 2 in Yolanda Griffith-99 WNBA MVP Linda Fay Bartels, c'90, works as a risk man- Wichita, where Gary practices law with Render ager for Enterprise Rent-a-Car in Chicago, Natalie Williams Kamas and Lesa manages Beauty First. where she and her husband,Ty, make their Kym Hampton home. BORN TO: Michelle Edwards JanaVohs Feldman, b'90, is a financialanslys t Greg, b'87, l'9 I, and Amy Buchele Ash, j'88, Tamecka Pixon at NCS. She and her husband, Andrew, live in Coquese Washington l'91, s'99, daughter Isabel Marie, June 2.Their West Liberty, Iowa, with their children, Parker, 2, Monica Lamb home is in Lawrence. and Noah, I. Chantel Tremitere Jon Brax, c'87, and Judy, daughter, Hayden Vic- Mark Garrett, b'90, directs human resources Carolyn Jones-Young toria, May 21 in Kansas City. for the operations division of Hallmark cards in Joy Holmes Clay Henning, c'87, and Jennifer; daughter; Kansas City. Deli&ha Milton Kelly Lin, Aug. 6 in Wichita, where she joins a Joshua Glenn, c'90, took a trip to Africa last Teresa Weatherspoon* sister, Colleen. Clay is a lieutenant commander year. He lives in Denver Cynthia Cooper* with the U.S. Public Health Service. Kira Gould, j'90, c'91, works as a free-lance 'pending Rhonda, e'87, and Ronald Moore, e'90, writer in New York City and as a telecommuni- m'97, daughter; Randi Michelle, May K.They live cations associate with Gould Evans Affiliates. April 14-16, 2000 in Overland Park. MARRIED Houston, Texas 1988 Deborah Winckler, d'90, to Michael Hunter (713-672-2441) Tim Walsh, c'88, owns Shopforschool.com, an July 24 in Wilson.They live in Wichita. Registration Deadline Feb.29, 2000 online shopping service in Edina, Minn., where Camp Open to first 100 paid registration he and Andrea Mitchell Walsh, c'85, b'85, BORN TO: www.abovetherim.org live with their children, Mitchell, 10;Tommy, 8; Richelle Crow-Johnson, I'9O, and Lyndon, and Mary, 3. son, Dylan Richard, May 5 in Topeka, where he

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joins a brother; William, 7, and a sister; Hannah, 3. LAWYER-TURNED-NOVELIST MAKES CRIME PAY Brian Luckerman, e'90, and Julie, son, Alexander; March 15.They live in Ballwin, Mo., aylord Dold was in the midst of a and Brian is a consulting manager for World- 20-year legal career when he wide Technology in Hazelwood. Gdecided his life needed a little Juan Rincon, c'90, and Angela, daughter, Elena mystery. Weary of 10-hour days penning Marie, Sept. 23 in Kansas City, where Juan's a arguments and briefs, the Wichita crimi- training specialist for American Century Ser- nal defense attorney decided to take a vices. stab at crime—by writing a private-detec- Jennifer Grace Walters, c'90, and Scott, son, tive novel. William Jake, Aug. 26 in Sharpsburg, Ga., where he joins a sister, Hannah, 2. Jennifer and Scott "I'd come home tired at the end of the are both physicians. day and pound something out on the typewriter," Dold recalls. "I was 38, 1991 pushing 40. I knew I had to try some- John Bullock, b'9 I, received an MBA last year thing different." from Indiana University. He works for S.C.John- son & Family in Sturtevant, Wis., and lives in Something different turned out to be Racine with Lori Kalekini Bullock, '90, and Hot Summer, Cold Murder. Set in 1950s their son, Jaron, 4. Wichita, the novel introduced Mitch Michelle Carramusa, d'91, works as a sales Roberts, a private detective whose representative for Danka in Lenexa. She lives in exploits were based on the World War II Overland Park. experiences of Dold's father. It landed John Gill, e'9 I, a'92, manages the lighting him a contract with Avon Books in 1984, day job and chal- CRIME PAYS: Gaylord design department at CRS Engineering and and more Mitch Roberts titles followed. lenged himself to Dold turned t0 cnme Design Consultants in Birminham, Ala. Thirteen books and an impressive , rr , fiction when he grew shrug off the con- Larry Hinson, c'9 I, is a research/development stack of favorable reviews later, Dold, weary of his day job as meteorologist at the Aviation Weather Center fines of the private- a defense attorney. in Kansas City. c'69, g'76, has earned a reputation as an eye genre. "You've innovator among crime novelists. Praising Wendy Mullen Klein, j'91, supervises mar- seen these books in the supermarket keting and advertising for Organized Living in his 1996 novel Schedule Two, The New where a guy will write 20 with the same Lenexa. York Times Book Review called him "one hero, same style?" Dold says. "I didn't Kenneth MacAdam, j'91, writes copy for Sta- of those restless writers who keep the want to do that." tion Casino in Kansas City. He lives in Olathe. genre from going stale." Another critic His most recent books—Bay of Mark Smith, e'9 I, works for EquivaTrading in labeled him "a serious writer masquerad- Sorrows, Schedule Two and last year's Devil Houston. ing as a mystery novelist." to Pay—show just how richly the gamble Maybe that's because the philosophy MARRIED paid off. All have been widely praised for major (who stole time from his assigned combining page-turning action with daz- Mark Circle, c'91, to Lisa Knop, Sept. 4 in reading at KU to "devour"novels) is more zling prose and pointed social commen- Ellinwood. Mark is a project analyst for Bank of inspired by Dostoyevsky than Dashiell America, and Lisa is senior staff accountant for tary. Now Dold is working on a novel set State Street.They live in Olathe. Hammett. "'Crime and Punishment, now in Weimar, Germany, which promises to that's a good crime novel," offers Dold, be even more genre-busting than his pre- BORN TO: who views his early writing in the spirit vious books. There's a murder, of course, Amy Herbst Graziano, d'91, and Anthony, of Hammett and Raymond Chandler as a but it takes place against a backdrop of daughter; Celeste Noel, Sept. 2 in DenverThey kind of literary apprenticeship. "I needed turbulent political and social intrigue live in Littleton. to become a professional writer," he says. leading up to Hitler's rise to power. Kevin, c'91, m'95, and Dayna Fancher "One way to do that was to start with "That era is fascinating, intellectually Hughes, d'91, g'94, son, Harrison Kyle, June 2. genuine mysteries, the old private detec- and aesthetically, especially Berlin life and They live in Lawrence, and their family includes tive stuff. It was a way to get in the busi- the cabarets and all the interaction a son,Trevor; 3. Kevin practices family medicine ness, to go from being a working stiff to a at the Cotton-O'Neil Clinic in Baldwin City. between Communists and Nazis and writer who could earn some money." Socialists," he says. If that sounds like 1992 Mission accomplished, Dold jettisoned anything but a simple murder mystery, Christopher Adams, c'92, is an internal med- the hardboiled style and recast his Mid- that's fine with Dold. "Let's call it a philo- icine resident at Southwestern University of western gumshoe, Roberts, as a cos- sophical crime novel," he says.-"*•"•* Texas. He lives in Dallas. mopolitan man-of-the-world before —Hill is a Lawrence free-lance writer and a Dennis, b'92, and Amy Cobb Baginski, '95, abandoning him altogether. He quit his live in Olathe with their son, Nicklas, I. frequent contributor to Kansas Alumni

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James Bauer, p'92, directs the pharmacy at BORN TO: MattWingate, d'93, directs operations for the men's basketball team at Florida State Uni- Allen County Hospital in lola, where he and his Sandra Fletcher Derry, d'92, and James, versity in Tallahassee. wife, Shelby, live with their children, Alex and d'93, daughter; Allison JoAnn.July 20 in Wichita, Katherine. where Jim is a computer trainer for ExecuTrain. MARRIED Joe Kuckelman, c'92, works as a software Stacie Porto Doyle, c'92, and James, daugh- engineer for Bridge Information Systems in ter; Julia Gleason, Sept. 21 in Cincinnati. Robin Juris, c'93, to Paul Buzzell, Sept. 5.They Overland Park. live in Chicago, where Robin is a regional direc- Jennifer Raines Johnson, h'92, and Timothy, tor for AMU Residential and Paul is a senior John Murphy, j'92, c'92, supervises media for son, Ellis Robert, March 24 in Abilene, where he associate at Price Waterhouse Coopers. DCA Advertising in New York City. joins a brother, Gabriel, 2. Jennifer is an occupational therapist at Geary Rehab in Junction City. BORN TO: Michael Peck, e'92, is vice president at C- Jeffrey, c'93, and Joni Rankin Klemp, assoc, Tribe, a privately funded business-to-consumer Timothy Lyons, c'92, and Debra, daughter, Haley Ann, Aug. 2 in Highland Park, III. daughter, Caroline Elizabeth, April 7 in Bonner group purchasing web site. He and Laurie Springs. Keplin Peck, d'93, live in San Mateo, Calif. Brett, p'93, and Amy Dawson Winkle- She's a cyber librarian for Classroom Connect. 1993 Gregory Glass, l'93, is a free-lance writer and pleck, p'94, daughter; Regan Carol, May 21 in Charles Sturgis, m'92, is an assistant editor inTamuning, Guam. Arlington,Texas, where she joins a brother, professor of pathology at the Allegheny Health Braden, 2. Jennifer Haile, c'93, g'95, works as a consul- Science University in Pittsburgh. tant for Arthur Andersen. She lives in Overland Park. 1994 MARRIED Kathleen Paton Kindred, j'94, lives in Kansas David Kinnamon,j'93, c'94, manages human City with her husband, John, '00, and their son, Gregory Ballew, c'92,1*95, to Megan Pender- resources at Brotherhood Bank and Trust in Ethan. John is a computer technician for the gast, June 12 in Kansas City, where they live. Kansas City. Turner School District. James Bauer, b'92, to Stacy Ruttman, March John Thywissen, c'93, manages Internet pro- I 3 in Overland Park.Their home is in Olathe. jects for EDS in Dallas. MARRIED Jon Beard, b'94, to Molly Hanner, Aug. 28. They live in Kansas City, where John is a senior investment accountant for IFTC. Shaun Merritt, e'94, and Angela Krutsinger, d'98,June 19 in Makena, Hawaii. Musical Mascots They live in Lawrence, where Shaun works for Allied Signal. Angela is a health promotions • 12" tall plush stuffed toy technician at Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center in Topeka. • Plays the KU fight song Steven Nichols, c'94, and Rebecca Duffy, c'97, July 3 in Lawrence. He is a clinical instruc- • Performed by the tor at the Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago, where she is a third-year student. Kansas marching band BORN TO: • Nearly 50 other college David, g'94, and Sonia Makhdoom Diedel, mascots available b'95, son, Ethan David, Aug. 8 in Overland Park. They make their home in Olathe. Secure Online Ordering: Chad, c'94, g 99, and Kelley Alig Speakar, c'95, daughter Alexandra Marie, May 14 in www.college-mascot.com Moberly, Mo., where Chad works for KWIX/KRES radio and Kelley is a speech How to Place an Order therapist. Internet: www.college-mascot.com Kevin Vollrath, e'94, and Shandy, assoc, Fax Credit Orders - 214.887.1381 daughter; Catherine Rose, Oct. 14 in Lawrence. Phone Credit Orders - 214.455.6436 $22.95 They live in Scranton. 8.25% Tax (TX only) Mail Check / money order payable to: Shipping ($5.50 ea) 1995 DMc eCommerce Solutions Visa & MasterCard Accepted Cathy Skoch Mielke, b'95, and her husband, 6918 Redstart Lane Dallas, TX 75214 John, celebrated their first anniversary Jan. 9. They work for Oracle Corp. in Redwood Questions - Call 214.455.6436 OR e-mail [email protected] Shores, Calif, and they live in San Francisco. Greg Papineau, c'95, works as a nurse analyst at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, and his wife, Jeri

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Stephenson, c'93, is a physician assistant at Atchison Family Medicine.They live in McLouth. JOURNALIST FINDS TRUE CALLING OUTDOORS

MARRIED ohn Husar knew three things when he graduated from Zeferino Arroyo, c'95, and Jina Jorgensen, d'96, June 5.Their home is in Fitchburg.Wis. Kansas: He would never live in Chicago, never write for the Amy Green, c'95, h 98, and Beatty Suiter, J c'95, m'99, Aug. 14. Amy is an occupational ther- Tribune and never cover sports. apist at Children's Hospital in San Diego, and Husar, j'59, just wrapped up his Beatty is a physician. 40th year as a newspaperman. The Anne Haines, c'95, and Noel Graham, c'95, last 33 were spent in Chicago. At m'99, June 12 in Manhattan. She teaches at the Tribune. As a sportswriter. William Chrisman High School in Indepen- "So essentially," he laughs, "I'm a dence, Mo., and he is a pediatrics resident at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.Their failure." home is in Overland Park. Hardly. In a city that takes its Carrie Lamble, c'95, and Jay Nastav, '98, games as seriously as its politics, Aug. 7.They live in St. Louis, where Carrie Husar brings top-flight reporting works for F&C Truck Sales & Service. skills to the sports beat. The Trib's Todd Payne, c 95, g 98, and Kelly outdoors writer for 15 years, he has seen canals, railways GOOD SPORT: In 1968, Magerkurth, c'96, May 30 .They live in two outdoors series nominated for the and industrial John Husar succeeded longtime Chicago Tribune golf Denver, where Todd's an auditor for Arthur Pulitzer Prize. sites. It caught Andersen. writer Charlie Bartlett, a man "I had hopes of being a foreign corre- the attention of so revered that the Masters Jacklyn Roth, c'95, and William spondent, covering national politics, all Illinois Sen. press room is named for him. Grimwood, b'95, Sept. 4 .Their home is in the other things [journalists] dream Charles Percy. Then a novice reporter; Husar St. Joseph, Mo. about," says Husar, a former Jayhawk "Next thing soon created his own name. Scott Smith, c'95, and Lisa Chapman, h'99, tackle who covered news at five papers July 17.They live in Houston, where Lisa's an you know, he'd occupational therapist at Health South. Scott is before joining the Tribune sports desk in read my whole series into the congres- a broker at Amerex Natural Gas. 1966. He considered the post a stepping sional record, bills were being drafted, Scott Tow, d 95, and Shannon Wells, g'97, stone; it proved a true calling. Husar bipartisan coalitions were being formed," May 29 in Pittsburg. Scott is a national accounts soon realized that sportswriting presented Husar recalls. He watched with amuse- executive for Aetna Health and Life, and Shan- opportunities unavailable to foreign cor- ment as his reporting launched the for- non is a physical therapist at Bethany Medical respondents and political pundits. mation of the country's first National Center in Kansas City. "News reporters basically claw after Heritage Corridor in the Des Plaines BORN TO: negatives," he explains. "Sportswriters get River valley. "For a ne'er-do-well sports- to write about champions, people who writer," he laughs, "that wasn't too bad." Brian Filinger, c'95, and Penny, daughter, Clau- dia Michelle, Aug. 16 in Emporia.They live in overcome great odds to win. Once in a Husar's reporting of heroic struggles Cottonwood Falls. while you write a story that moves peo- and long odds recently turned personal. ple, because there's something heroic Writing about Chicago Bears legend Wal- 1996 about the person you're writing about." ter Payton's need for a liver transplant, Julie Klinock Cortes, j'96, is a free-lance Husar became the paper's chronicler of Husar, who contracted Hepatitis C while writer in Overland Park. all things "odd and wonderful," covering serving as an Army medical technician, Kristina McNelley, c'96, is prime-time direc- events like dogsled races and nine revealed that he has been on the liver tor at theYMCA ofTopeka. Olympics before assuming the outdoor transplant list since 1998. Three times he Chris Means, c'96, lives in Midland, Mich., beat. In a genre frequently derided as a has been summoned to the hospital as a where he's a microbiologist for Dow Chemical's Larkin Laboratory. backwater of "hook and bullet" stories, backup to the primary designee. Three Husar tackled big issues. times he has gone home without a trans- Rishi Pal, g'96, works as a senior mechanical engineer for Becton Dickinson in Franklin Lakes, "When I graduated to outdoor writing, plant. N.J. I discovered I was writing not just about "You're on the periphery of this Tatiana Spektor, g'96, PhD'98, is an adjunct games and individuals, I was writing incredible drama," he says, characteristi- assistant professor at Iowa State University in about the planet," Husar says. "That cally upbeat about his ongoing wait. "For Ames. makes it the biggest beat on the paper." those of us who like adventure, it's fasci- MARRIED His 1984 series, "Chicago's Hidden nating. "--••••• Michael Bell, b'96, to Liz Berrong, May 22 in Wilderness," explored the undiscovered —Hill is a Lawrence free-lance writer and a Kansas City. He's an account manager with natural treasures of the city's abandoned frequent contributor to Kansas Alumni. Hormel Foods, and she's a marketing associate

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 49 Could CLASS NOTES with Sysco Foodservices.They live in BORN TO: Modesto, Calif. Penny Burkard Eckert, c'97, and Mark, It Happen Keri Magnuson, n'96, and Christopher daughter, Allison Nichole, Sept. 16 in Overland Jarvis, m'96, July 17 in lola. She's a nurse at the Park.They live in Lawrence. KU Medical Center; and he practices medicine Again? with Coffey Health System in Burlington, where 1998 they live. Andrew Longstreth, c'98, recently studied in Craig Novorr, b'96, to Alyson Fisher Sept. 25. Dakar; Senegal, on a Fulbright Scholarship. He They live in Fairway, and Craig works for UMB lives in New York City. Inherit Investment Advisors in Kansas City. Megan Rachow, c'98, studies law at Pennsyl- vania State University in Carlisle. 1997 William Wilkerson, c'98, works as a produc- theWind Christopher Adams, a'97, works as a designer for Haas & Wilkerson Insurance in Fairway. er for Spillis, Candela & Partners in Coral Gables, Fla. MARRIED Suzanne Jager, j'97, is design director for Col- Jennifer Arellano, '98, and Christopher rado Parent magazine. She lives in Denver Jones, c'99, July 24.They live in Manhattan. Howard Keim, PhD'97, directs field services Traci Darrow, p'98, to Lawrence Lanning, Aug. for Communities in Schools of Kansas. He lives 7 in Marion, where they live.Traci is a pharma- in Hesston. cist at Marion Health Mart, and Lawrence AmyTurnbull Khare, s'97, s'99, studies for a works for the Kansas Department of Trans- doctorate at Cleveland State University. She portation. and her husband, Rahul live in Westlake, Ohio. Kathryn Ferrarini, d'98, and Michael Dave Newman, j'97, is a sportscaster for Scott, c'98, Aug. 13. Kathryn coordinates stu- KRDO in Colorado Springs. dent health services at the KU Medical Center; Jennifer Pfeiffer, c'97, works as a consultant and Michael is a restaurant manager for Mar- for the Zamba Corp. She lives in Minneapolis. riott International. Kristen Riccardi, c'97, g'98, a Leawood resi- Amy McVey,j98, and Peter Carson, j 98, dent, works as special projects editor for Oct. 9 in Lawrence.They live in Minneapolis, JEROME LAWRENCE-ROBERT E. LEE WDAF-TV in Kansas City. where Amy's a copywriter for Carlson Market- ing Group and Peter works at Arcadia Financial. In Dayton, Tennessee during July Jill Zeligson, s'97, is a career network pro- 1925 they took each other on. gram specialist for Jewish Vocational Services in Angela Smith, j'98, to Owen Hiatt, April 3. Clarence Darrow v. William Jennings Boston. They live in Fountain, Colo., where she's a marketing team member for Kroger Bryan. Creation v. Evolution. MARRIED Freedom v. Repression. It was the Jeffrey Brown, b'97, to Angie Clayton, July 24 BORN TO: trial of the century that inspired the in Wichita. Jeffrey's a third-year law student at Kortnee Lanning, c'98, and her husband, Southern Methodist University in Dallas. play. Today it still raises our most Cameron Guelbert, d'98, son, Grant Guel- urgent questions. Inherit the Wind. Gina Byrd, c'97, and David Stadler, c'97, July bert Lanning, July 23.They live in Lawrence. 3 I in Lawrence, where Gina teaches at Hilltop Kortnee studies medicine at the KU Medical Child Development Center and David is an Center in Kansas City, and Cameron teaches association manager at Allen Press. physical education for the Kansas City School 3USS01M Joshua Ediger, c'97, and Teri Thompson, District. e'98, June 5 in Bartlesville, Okla. He's a pharma- "ERTORY ceutical salesman for Schering, and she's a civil 1999 engineer for Bio-Microbics.They live in Olathe. Amy Cannon Hall, h'99, works as a medical James Noble, g'97, to Melanie Brown, July 17 technologist at Bates County Memorial Hospital in Leawood. He's an information systems con- in Butler, Mo. She and her husband, Shane, live sultant for Ernst & Young, and she's membership in Osawatomie. director at Robstan Group.Their home is in Jeffrey, PhD 99, and Erin Hodges Olathe. Parmelee, c'99, celebrated their first anniver- JAN 18-FEB 6 sary Jan. 5.They live in West Des Moines, Iowa. Daniel Stewart, c'97, and Dawn Madrick, CALLTHECENTRALTICKETOFFICE '00, Sept. 17 in KU's Danforth Chapel.They make their home in Ottawa. MARRIED GinaThornburg,j97, to Mark Kutsch, May Danielle Christiano, c'99, to Andrew Smith, 816-2)5-2700 29 in Town and Country, Mo. Gina is a design Sept. 4.Their home is in Springfield, Mo. RELAY MISSOURI AT 1-800-735-2966 editor for the St. Charles County Suburban Sean Keller, m'99, and Anne McCasland, (IT) OR (816)235-2700 FOR DETAILS. Journals, and Mark is an electronics technician '00, June I I in Notre Dame, Ind. Sean is an FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE PROJECT HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY MISSOURI ARTS COUNCIL, AC A STATE AGENCY AND THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, A FEDERAL AGENCY for Mideast Aviation.They live in St. Charles, Mo. internal medicine and pediatrics resident at Indi-

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ana University Medical Center, and they make MAY 6 their home in Indianapolis. Stephanie Lucas, s'99, to Joel Link, June 5 in Olathe.They live in Prospect Heights, III. Every Season Jessica McAtee, b 99, and Joshua Keal, a'99, July 23 in Parsons.They make their home in Lawrence. Every Reaso Elizabeth Musser, j'99, and EricWeslan- der, j'99, June 19 in Linwood.They live in Louisville, Ky, where Elizabeth is a massage therapist and Eric is a reporter for the Louisville To Soar. To Explore*) Courier-Journal. Sisavanh Phouthavong, f'99, and Jarrod Houghton, f 99, May 22 in Winfield.They are both studying for graduate degrees in fine arts at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Kurt Stanfield, d'99, to Jennifer Branden, July 10 in Princeville, Hawaii.They live in Plains. Kelsey Willing, g'99, to Kevin Nichols, Aug. 7 Summer in Wichita, where Kevin is a financial adviser at Paine Webber June 18-26 Alumni College in the Swiss Alps for Families $2,495 adults; $1,995 child with one adult; BORN TO: $1,745 child with two adults Florence McClain, g'99, and Rutledge, daugh- July 9-20 Europe's Cultural Triangle (includes ter Erica Jane, June 14 in Waynesville, Mo. Oberammergau Passion Play) $4,795 Daniel, m'99, and Tracy Vera, m'99, son, July 22-29 Exploring Alaska's Coastal Wilderness From $3,580 Daniel, July 30 in South Elgin, III., where he joins July 27-Aug. 9 Voyage of the Goddess From $5,845 two sisters, Lauren, 10, and Diana, 3. July 27-Aug. 9 Baltic Cruise From 54,995 2000 Aug. 4-18 Exploring Southeast Asia From $4,650 (with optional precruise to Hong Kong Aug. 2-6) BORN TO: Aug. 30-Sept. 7 Alumni College in Scotland $2,395 Derek Orchard, g'00, and Meghan, assoc, son, Maxwell Allen, and daughter Carson Elizabeth, Sept. 16 in Kansas City.

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The Early Years printing brokerage business. Surviving are two Carol Anderson Armstrong, d'74, g'78, and Janet Mary Louise Branson, c'20, 101, Oct. 2 in daughters, one of whom is Donnis, s'78; four Anderson Bradbury, d'73; two sons, one of Eureka, where she was a retired English and grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. whom is Bert, c'78; and eight grandchildren. French teacher. A niece survives. Eleanor Barrett Kerr, g'31,9 I, Oct. 13 in Max Bagby, c'42, l'44, 79, Sept. 15 in Kansas Maurine Bartlett Chapman, c'27,94, Aug. Hutchinson. She lived in Pratt for more than 70 City, where he was outside general counsel for 14 in Lake Forest, Calif. She is survived by two years and had taught English. She is survived by Blue Cross Blue Shield. He is survived by his sons, one of whom is Craig, e'60; five grandchil- two sons, one of whom is David, g'70; and four wife, Betty Dunlap Bagby, c'43;two sons, David, dren; and three great-grandchildren. grandchildren. g'74, and Brian, b'80; four grandchildren; and two stepgrandchildren. Bert Church, l'24, 99, Oct. 22 in Wellington, Patrick Maturo, '38, 82, Aug. 26 in Kansas where he practiced law for 63 years. Several City, where he had been a self-employed busi- Louise Harris Brown, a'44, 81, Sept. 21 in nieces and nephews survive. nessman. He is survived by his wife, Jean; a son, Washington, D.C. She was an architect in Chica- James, b'65; three daughters, Rosemary Maturo go and later in Brazil, where she worked for 40 Philip Klutznick, '28,92, Aug. 14 in Chicago. Lovett, c'70, Patricia Maturo Brewer; n'76, and years. A son, a daughter, two brothers, a sister He was a former U.S. commerce secretary, a Linda Maturo McGuire, d'72, g'97; 12 grandchil- and two granddaughters survive. real estate developer who pioneered planned dren; and nine great-grandchildren. cities and a former president of B'Nai B'rith Elmer Burdorff, e'40, 86, June 19 in Godfrey, International who raised millions of dollars for Harry McFarland Jr., c'38, 83, Oct. 20 in III. He had been a metallurgical associate at Olin Israel. He served the federal government under Overland Park. He owned Harry M. McFarland in East Alton for 33 years. Survivors include his seven presidents and was known as an interna- Insurance and is survived by his wife, Evelynn wife, Dorothy, a daughter, a son and three tional luminary dedicated to Jewish causes. He Little McFarland, c'38; a son,Thomas, c'73; and a grandchildren. sister is survived a daughter four sons, and several Florence Helmke Curley, c'44, 77, Oct. 6 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Hugh Randall, c'35,1*37, 85, Feb. 23, 1999, in in Rockville, Md. A son, five daughters, a brother, Vergie Ingraham Riekenberg, '28, 96, Oct. Wichita, where he practiced law. He is survived four sisters, seven grandchildren and a great- I 3 inTopeka, where she was retired senior sec- by his wife, Blossom Ewing Randall, '38; three grandchild survive. retary in the religion and psychiatry department sons, one of whom is Christopher, d'69;two Donald Fulton Jr., b'49, Feb, 17, 1999, in daughters, one of whom is Kathy Randall White, at Menninger. Surviving are a son, Warren, e'58; Shawnee Mission. A son and a daughter survive. a daughter; Sibyl Riekenberg Kerr, c'62; four c'73; 14 grandchildren; and three great-grand- Dorothy Durand Griffith, c'42,79, Nov. 4 grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. children. in Hoisington. She had been a secretary for Dorothy Rosswell, c'28, 94, Oct. 19 in Monte Rosenblum, '33, 88, Sept. 21 in Durand Insurance for 30 years. Surviving are Kansas City. She had been an executive adminis- San Antonio. He had practiced law in Kansas her husband, Jerry, c'40, l'46; a son, Robert, c'78; trator with Sealtest and is survived by several City for many years. Among survivors are his a daughter Rochelle Griffith McKown, c'69; a sis- nieces and nephews. wife, Pauline; a son; a daughter; a brother; a sister Reola Durand Reid, c'43; and two grandchil- ter; several grandchildren; and eight great-grand- dren. children. 1930s Orval Kaufman, b'48, l'52, 72, Oct. 15 in William Townsley Jr., c'37, 83, Aug. 17 in Patricia Shannon Barton, c'35, 88, Sept 20 Wichita. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Joplin, Mo., where he was a retired newspaper in Olathe. She had worked in several medical Olson Kaufman, f 49; four sons, Brian, b'80, publisher and a former Kansas legislator He is offices and is survived by a son and a grand- Craig, b'78, Allen, c'77, m'81, and David, b'82, survived by his wife, Lillian; two sons, Bill, c'86, daughter l'87; and 10 grandchildren. and Channel, f 77, g'83; two daughters; a step- Robert Childs, b'37, 84, July 23 in Austin, daughter; a brother, Russell, '41; 10 grandchil- Edward Keller, e'47,78, Sept. 16 in Kansas Texas. He is survived by his wife, Mary; three dren; a stepgrandson; and two City, where he was president ofTemperature daughters, two of whom are Judith, c'71, and stepgreat-grandchildren. Engineering and Standard Brass Foundry. He is Nancy, c'71; a son; nine grandchildren; and I I survived by two daughters, Shirley Keller John Zahradnik, c'39, 82, Oct. 16 in Kansas great-grandchildren. McDonald, d'74, and Laura Keller Powell, c'77; a City, where he was retired from Sealright. Sur- Gerald Cole,f 39, 81,June 29 in Sykesville, sister; and four grandchildren. vivors include his wife, Margaret; a son, John, Md. He lived in Westminster and had been a m'70; two daughters, Sandra Zahradnik Shirley Irwin Keller, '43, Aug. 3 I in Mission professor of music at Western Maryland Col- Bergman, j'69, and Maureen Zahradnik Ingalls, Hills. She is survived by two daughters, Shirley lege. Several nieces and nephews survive. d'73; a sister; and six grandchildren. Keller McDonald, d'74, and Laura Keller Powell, William Davidson, b'38, 84, Oct. 5 in c'77; a sister Elen Irwin Minor c'41; and four Shawnee. He was director of housing at Empo- 1940s grandchildren. ria State University for many years and had Harley Anderson, b'41, 79, May 30 in Kansas Eugene Nelson, e'42,77, Jan. 13, 1999, in farmed near Allen. Surviving are three daugh- City, where he worked for Carter-Waters for Mattoon, III., where he was a retired engineer ters, two of whom are Maxine Davidson Lewis, many years. He is survived by his wife, Geneva; He had lived in Hollister, Calif., and is survived d'66, and Barbara Davidson McDonald, c'69; a two daughters, Ingrid Anderson Grace, f 76, and by his wife, Mary Madge Kirby Nelson, c'42; two brother; nine grandchildren; and four great- Kristen Anderson Wheatley, c'84; two sons, daughters, Maria Nelson Smith, j'75, and Mala grandchildren. John, b'80, g'82, and David, b'85, g'87; two Nelson Barnes, j'78; two sons, one of whom is Ruth Benjamin Falls, d'33, 87, Sept 2 in brothers, Homer, b'48, and Dean, b'49; and four Douglas, c'79; and four grandchildren. Prairie Village. She had taught at Metropolitan grandchildren. Jessie Stoker Siegele, n'48,74, May 3 I in Community College in Kansas City and is sur- Robert Anderson, b'48, 74, April 27 in East Lansing Mich. She is survived by her hus- vived by a brother and a niece. Ottawa, where he was associated with the Ben- band, Everett, assoc; five sons, four of whom are Kenneth Graham, c'37, 84, Aug. 22 in Inde- nett Creamery Co. and had owned and man- Sieg, b'69, Rodney, c'73, g'76, PhD'85;Thomas, pendence, Mo. He was general manager of Her- aged the RB Ranch. He is survived by his wife, b'75, g'76, and Robert, e'79; four brothers; and ald House and had owned Graham Graphics, a Virginia Winter Anderson, f'48; two daughters, 16 grandchildren.

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Robert Southern, b'48, l'51, 76, Sept 28 in two daughters; a brother; Louis, c'48,1'5O; and David Reece, j'75,46, Sept. 21 in Littleton, Ellinwood. He practiced law in Great Bend and five grandchildren. Colo. He owned Reece and Co., and advertising agency in Denver, and is survived by his is survived by his wife, Marian; three sons, Synneva Onsgard Stettler, '51, 74, Sept. 4 wife, Sally Claussen Reece, d'75; three sons; and Robert, c'80, Stephen, e'83, and Stuart, c'83; a in Kansas City. She lived in Lawrence and is sur- a daughter stepson, James Hershey, c'68; a brother, William, vived by her husband, Howard, assoc; a son; c'41; and seven grandchildren. two daughters, Sandra, c'74, g'78, g'80, and William Tucker, c'70, 85, Oct. 21 in Kansas Dianne Stettler Lemmon, d'84; and three grand- City, where he was a minister in the Church of 1950s children. Christ. He also worked for the U.S. Postal Ser- Robert Brown, b'50, 71, Jan. 5, 1999, in Ray- vice. Survivors include five daughters, two of J.C. Witter, EdD'52,92, Sept. 2 in Newton. town, Mo. He was an examiner for the Federal whom are Evelyn, c'71, and Sylvia Tucker Reserve Bank and is survived by his wife, Mar- He was a retired college administration McMorris, n'65; a son; three brothers; four sis- garet; three daughters, one of whom is Linda employee and is survived by his wife.Thelma ters; nine grandchildren; and I I great-grandchil- Brown Cook, d'71; and a son, Robert, c'76. Monzingo Witter; '55; a daughter; a sister; and dren. five grandchildren. Loring Dalton, b'50, 85, Sept. 5 in Naples, Fla. He worked for Eli Lilly in Indianapolis for 1980s 29 years. His wife, Dorothy Young Dalton, '38, 1960s Ruth Malte Lee, g'83, 63, Oct. I I in survives. Michael Martin, c'68, l'73, 53, Aug 14 in Lawrence. She had been associate director of Fairfax, Va. He was an attorney for the Inter- residential programs at KU, dean of students at William Hobbs, g'59, g'63, 79, Oct. I 3 in state Commerce Commission and also worked Baker University and program coordinator of McPherson. He had been an administrator at as a free-lance writer Survivors include his wife, student life at Arizona State University-West. Cedars Health Care Center, a professor of edu- Karla Kolins Martin, c'70; two sons; his mother; She is survived by three sons, two of whom are cation at McPherson College and a teacher and and two sisters. Gregory Mikkelson, c'89, and Eric Mikkelson, principal in Topeka and Wakefield. He is sur- 1*94; her mother; and a brother. vived by his wife, Anne Brundage Hobbs, assoc; Mary Ann McCornack,'66, 54, March 30 in two sons; and four grandchildren. Grandview, Mo., where she had co-founded the Kristin Tomlinson, c'87, g'97, 37, July 7 in Grandview Association for Gifted Education Kansas City, where she did consulting and mar- Ella Virginia Hocker, g'57, 81, Aug. 6 in and a community task force for drug-abuse pre- keting research. She was awarded the KU Topeka, where she was a retired medical tech- vention. In 1989, she was named Grandview Department of Communication Studies Award nologist. A sister survives. Citizen of the Year She is survived by her hus- forTeaching Excellence in 1987 and 1988 and William Holiday, e*56, 65, Oct. 14 at Lake band, Dick, '66; three sons; two daughters; a was named Outstanding Young Woman of Quivira. He was retired vice president of oper- brother; Reuben McCornack, b'64; a stepbroth- America in 199 I. She is survived by her mother, ations at U.S. Safety and is survived by his wife, er; a stepsister; and seven grandchildren. Suzanne, assoc, her brother and her grand- Linda Large Holiday, d'62; three sons, one of mother whom is Stuart, c'85; two daughters, one of Janice Chamberlin Moore, b'68, g'92, 53, Hugh Wylie, g'84, PhD'92, 57, July 30 in a whom is Juli Holiday Scott, j'92; a brother; and Oct. 17 in Lawrence. She was a certified public canoeing accident on Rock Lake in Rosseau, four grandsons. accountant and is survived by a daughter, Heather Moore Mathis, j'91; her mother; a Ontario, Canada. He was co-curator of Korean Frank Limbocker, c'50,73, Sept. 25 in brother; and a sister art at the Royal Ontario Museum and an assis- Wichita, where he had worked for Penn Mutual tant professor of East Asian studies at the Uni- Life Insurance. He is survived by his wife, Sally Richard Moore, '67, 57, Sept. 3 in Lawrence, versity ofToronto. His parents and a sister Todd Limbocker, '52; two sons.Todd, c'77, and where he was retired from Reuter Organ. Sur- survive. Craig, c'79, l'82; a sister; and five grandchildren. vivors include a daughter, Heather Moore Math- Helene Steinbuchel Mack, c'52, 69, Oct. is, j'9 I; and a sister. The University Community 14 in Denver, where she was past president of Philip Schmidt, b'60, 60, Sept 3 in Liberty, Robert Hersh, 71, Aug. 3 I in Lawrence, the Colorado Women's Golf Association. Her Mo. He was retired vice president of the Feder- where he chaired KU's biochemistry depart- husband, Lawrence, survives. al Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Among sur- ment from 1971 to 1978 and was a professor Kathleen McCutcheon Mahanna, p'5 I, vivors are his wife, Ellen; a brother; Bill, b'53, l'58; of biochemistry from 1958 until 1996. He had 79, Aug. 3 in Hoxie, where she helped run and a sister received KU's Chancellors Club CareerTeaching Award. A memorial has been established with Mahanna Pharmacy. She is survived by a son, Charles "Mike" Schultz, '65, 56, Oct. I I in the KU Endowment Association. He is survived David, c'84, p'88; two daughters, Loretta Mahan- Shawnee Mission. He was a systems program- by his wife, Sally Six Hersh, c'55, g'56; a son, na Goracke, c'74, and Susan Mahanna Boden, mer for Sprint. Surviving are his wife, Wanda; a Christopher, m'90; a daughter; and two grand- d'75; and five grandchildren. son, Charles II, c'94; a daughter; Barbra, j'95; and children. Dwane McNabb, b'57, 64, Aug. 19 in Wichi- a sister Vernell Pillow Spearman, '82, 66, Nov. 5 in ta, where he owned Pampered Lawns. He is Carolyn Hines Strayer, d'64, g'71, 57, Sept. Lawrence, where she was director of the Office survived by his wife, Winifred, three daughters, a 14 in Glen Ellyn, III., where she was a former of Minority Affairs at KU from 1982 to 1988. sister a brother and six grandchildren. teacher Surviving are her husband, Jay, c'64, l'69, She is survived by her husband, John, '53; two Beverly Flinn Rogers, '51, 69, Sept. 26 in g'71; two sons; a daughter Margaret Strayer daughters; three sons, two of whom are John, Wichita. She is survived by her husband, Gene; Godderz, c'97, g'00; her father; and two broth- c'72, and Paul, c'98; and a sister two sons, Douglas, b'79, and David, c'84, l'87; ers, one of whom is Robert, c'71, two daughters; a sister; and I I grandchildren. Associates Laurence Silks, c'50, 71, Oct. 19 in Shawnee 1970s Eleanor Sandy, 84, Nov. I 3 in Independence, Mission. He was an attorney. Survivors include Ronald Newman, I'7O, 55, Aug. 21 in Olathe. Mo., where she was retired from a career in his wife, Shirley Mclnerney Silks, '54; three sons, He was a U.S. Magistrate judge and is survived early childhood education. Her brother; Hal Mark, c'78, c'79, Gregory, c'82, and Paul, c'84; by two sons, his parents and a sister Sandy, j'47, survives.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 SCHOOLWORK BY LAZZARINO & MACIEJOWSKI Special dread Researchers hope to lessen high-school fears for students with learning disabilities

magine, Don Deshler challenges, that you are in high school centrally involved in the fabric of what's going on in school, Iagain. You spend six hours of every day in silent terror, wait- and as a result, they leave school without the skills they need." ing to be called on. Your teachers have given up on you The first component of the study will be a yearlong obser- because you can't seem to learn. Your classmates grasp con- vation of the high school context that already exists. The cepts easily while you struggle to understand. When the bell researchers then will design teaching and intervention strate- rings, you do not stay after to participate in extracurricular gies and develop ways to help teachers use those strategies. activities because staying afloat academically demands all of The researchers then will attempt to distribute the findings your attention. Besides, after years of failing in class, you do nationally to other teachers and trainers of teachers. not have the confidence to face more rejection in any of the "The intervention has to be packaged in such a way that after-school endeavors that your peers enjoy. it's palatable and doable for teachers," he says. "We must You are not alone. give them something they can incorporate into their daily According to Deshler, director of KU's Center for Research activities." on Learning and one of four principal researchers in a new Each of the researchers brings to the study a history of find- study to help high-school students with learning disabilities, ing creative approaches to teaching at-risk learners. Deshler these are experiences familiar to many students. thinks many of the approaches can be successful with modifi- "Regrettably for many students with learning disabilities, cations. The key, he says, is adapting alternative teaching meth- high school is anything but happy and fulfilling," Deshler says. ods to meet the unique learning styles and characteristics of a "By the time kids get to high school, they have a pretty good broad spectrum of kids. notion of how good they are at the school game. They've expe- "Each student has a complex profile—it's impossible to put rienced rejection in a variety of ways. They are used to being kids in little pigeonholes," Deshler says. "Our goal is to bring the last picked, the first picked on. They view school as a fail- all of our experience together to come up with more effective ure-laden experience." ways to teach these students for whom school is so difficult." Deshler is optimistic that research done for The Institute for While educators have focused on young students with Academic Access can be a first step in changing that. The insti- learning disabilities, Deshler says high-school students have tute, which officially began been somewhat neglected. Sept. 1, is the result of a I There is a misconception, he five-year, $700,000 per year I believes, that learning disabili- grant from the U.S. Depart- | ties go away with age. But par- ment of Education funding ents of learning-disabled research at KU and the Uni- students know otherwise, and versity of Oregon. Joining their demand for attention Deshler as KU's investigators from the professional commu- are Jean Schumaker, g'70, nity has helped fuel projects PhD'76, associate director of like The Institute for Academic the Center for Research on Access. Learning; Janis Bulgren, "Nothing is more heart- PhD'87, senior research sci- breaking for parents than to entist at the center; and watch their children struggle Keith Lenz, associate scien- through the complexity of tist at the center. adolescence and then com- "Kids with disabilities are pound it with a disability," not an integral part of the Deshler says. "As a parent high school experience you're in search of answers. either socially or academical- TEACHING TEAM: Don Deshler, left, and colleagues Janis Bulgren, Jean We hope we can find some of ly," Deshler says. "They're not Schumaker and Keith Lenz are developing new ways to help high-school those answers."'""•* students with learning disabilities find success.

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BUSINESS and petroleum engineering and a senior A University distinguished professor of researcher at the Kansas Geological Sur- Spanish and Portuguese, Debicki will Dean to give retirement vey. John C. Davis, c'61, received the remain on the faculty, teaching and con- a more sincere effort medal from the Austrian Geological Sur- ducting research in the humanities, West- vey in a November ceremony in Vienna. ern Civilization and Spanish and here are many things Tom Sarowski Davis was selected for the award based Portuguese departments. Twould like to do. Travel. Learn to play on his mathematical and statistical tech- Debicki also is an internationally the piano. So when his five-year commit- niques for the mapping of chemical ele- known scholar of modern Hispanic ment as dean ends in June, Sarowski will ments in various streams in the Austrian poetry. stroll into retirement a happy man. Alps. He became involved in the project "We will miss Andy's administrative "It was always my plan to retire when I in 1978, when Austrian geologists came leadership in the Graduate School and was 50, and I did, but I couldn't stick to the Kansas Geological Survey looking international programs, where he has con- with it," Sarowski says. "So I decided that for help in mapping their data. The first tributed vast amounts to the University's after five years as dean, it was time for me maps were published in 1989. Since then mission," Provost David Shulenburger to get back to the business of retiring." Davis has continued collaborating with said. "We are very fortunate that he When Sarowski left Arthur Andersen the Austrians on the project, which also intends to maintain his exceptional schol- & Co. in 1990, he thought his working maps environmental pollution. arly career at KU. I look forward to con- days were over. But the chance to share "They've spent millions of dollars and tinuing our faculty relationship." his experience lured Sarowski in 1991 to collected some beautiful data," Davis says. Debicki came to KU in 1968 as a pro- KU, where he became distinguished lec- "It is a project we feel we could do here in fessor of Spanish and Portuguese and was turer and executive in residence. Kansas at some point." named distinguished professor in 1976. He was named dean in 1995. During Whether or not Davis ever gets to He co-directed KU's Center for his tenure, enrollment increased 20 per- bring the mapping project to Kansas is Humanistic Studies and was acting chair cents, and he helped create courses in unsure, but the clout afforded him by the of the department of Spanish and Por- international business and entrepreneur- award certainly cannot hurt his chances. tuguese. ship. He is most proud, though, of the "I think it's a great honor, but I don't From 1989 to 1993 he directed the plan for excellence, which supports the know how much it will mean in Topeka," Hall Center for the Humanities and then school's goal of becoming one of the Davis says, referring to the Survey's source took over as dean of the Graduate School. country's top 10 public business schools. of funding. "We won't do anything as During his tenure as dean, Debicki also "For the rest of this academic year," extensive as the Austrians have done, but served as vice chancellor for research, Sarowski says, "I plan to put my full I imagine that in the future we'll make graduate studies and public service from energy into implementing the plan for geochemical surveys to monitor the envi- 1994 to 1996. excellence and helping celebrate the ronment and to check for changes in the "Andy Debicki's more than 30 years of school's 75th anniversary." natural environment caused by pollution." service to the University and to the com- Sarowski hopes to help establish an The Haidinger medal is among the munity has been extraordinary," Chancel- endowed chair for the next dean that highest civilian awards given by the Aus- lor Robert E. Hemenway says. "His tireless would supplement the salary and attract a trian government. It has been awarded work on behalf of students and in the richer set of candidates. As a teacher and only 11 times in the past 50 years. leadership of faculty is deeply dean, Sarowski stressed the importance of appreciated." perseverance to his students. Now, it GRADUATE As dean, Debicki will be remembered seems, he is following his own advice. for leading the Graduate School to "I failed Retirement 101," he says, "so Tireless' dean steps down emphasize education and career prepara- I'm trying it again." to resume teaching career tion of individual students. He helped develop mentoring guidelines and new ENGINEERING he Graduate School and international systems of assessment and review. Tprograms will lose their leader when For the office of international pro- Austrian government gives Andrew Debicki, dean since 1993, retires grams, Debicki helped coordinate many rare honor to KU professor next summer. Debickis retirement will be new programs designed to make KU a effective July 30. stronger international university. or the first time in its 150-year history, "I feel very fortunate to have had such Shulenberger says he expects to form a FAustria's Willhelm Ritter von a long career at KU," Debicki says. "I've search committee to begin the selection of Haidinger Medal will be awarded to an been able to develop my teaching and Debickis replacement as soon as possible. American. That American happens to be a research career at a school where the professor in the department of chemical atmosphere was just right for me." Continued on page 57

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 55 SCHOOLWORK Get me rewrite Journalism recasts itself with altered sequences and emphasis on 'media convergence'

he School of Journalism has long defined itself by a tradi- become a manager," Musser says. "When they become man- Ttional approach to teaching journalism and mass commu- agers, they must have a real clear idea what this mixed-media nications. Students choose one sequence—news-editorial, environment is like." magazine, advertising, radio/TV or business communica- One of the new core courses for all students will be tions—then stick with it through graduation. Research and Writing (a prototype of which is now being Though journalism students usually taste another sequence team-taught by Gentry, Musser and Assistant Professor Larry with an introductory-level course, meaningful crossover has Baden), which will replace Reporting I. It will offer students been rare or even nonexistent. exposure to writing for newspapers, shooting video interviews Those days will soon be gone. and web-site work. Beginning next fall, students will choose either multimedia All journalism students also will be required to take a News and Information or Strategic Communications. media ethics course (only two of the five sequences now The new sequences are the result of a thorough shake-up of require it), as well as courses on the media and society and the the school's curriculum, launched when Jimmy Gentry arrived First Amendment and society. as dean two years ago. "That's essentially based on a concern that we live in a "Jimmy came in and said, 'You get me, you get change," world where a sizable portion of the population doesn't think Professor Rick Musser says. "We're going to get these things the First Amendment should be in the Bill of Rights," Gentry started. We're rolling." says. "And we think the media ethics course is essential Curriculum changes reflect what Gentry and faculty mem- because we are seeing ethical failures in the media on a bers have identified as "media convergence," in which tradi- regular basis." tional boundaries no longer apply. Newspaper reporters are Visual communicatons will also be a part of the new intro- often required to deliver their news on television—in some ductory courses required by all students. cases from the newspaper's own newsroom. Advertising graduates will be asked to work in every possible medium. And everybody will eventually see (or place) their work on the Internet. "When we were preparing for our recent accreditation, we surveyed our graduates and found that a significant number, almost 50 percent, had left the field they had studied in school," Gentry says. "You might see a news- ed person doing PR., you might have someone with a TV degree who has gone over to maga- zines. We said, 'We have to respond and get out in front on this.'" University Daily Kansan reporters are already doing stand-ups outside the newsroom for KUJH, the school's television station. KUJH reporters are writing stories for the Kansan. And all news students are producing copy for Internet sites. "Yes, you may specialize as a print journalist or you may specialize as a video journalist OUT OF SEQUENCES: Dean Jimmy Gentry has led the journalism school's changes at the reporter level, but what I think we're that will require students to venture beyond the boundaries of traditional print, broadcasting, educating them for is the level where they advertising or business communications courses.

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Continued from page 55 affiliate and eventually to CNBC and net- LAW work stations in San Francisco and Los "If we prepare our gradutes for one Angeles, Tom Linden hopes to simplify medium and one medium only, we are False perceptions targeted career paths for journalists and doctors not doing them a service," Gentry says. by new 'lawyering' course who want to pursue medical journalism. "They need to understand that there will Linden, Glaxo Wellcome distinguished be many different ways to report and dis- irst-year law students are no longer professor of medical journalism at the play their work." Frequired to take legal research and University of North Carolina, recently vis- One concern is that the broad educa- writing in their first semester and appel- ited the School of Medicine, offering KU tion won't offer the intensity that special- late advocacy in their second semester. physicians and communicators tips on ization has traditionally offered. Few will Instead, those law-school standards have how to spread their messages, as well as dispute that KU copy editing students, been replaced—and expanded—by a an overview of his sequence at UNC— for example, enter the work force as well yearlong course on "lawyering." which he says is the country's first mas- trained as graduates from any other uni- The new course will cover the same ter's program to focus exclusively on versity; the fact that they might not know topics as the traditional first-year basics medical journalism. how to operate a TV camera rarely hurts courses, but it will also include history, "People don't relate to medical theory, their employment options. professionalism and ethical obligations. for the most part," Linden told his KU "That's something that faculty have "We want students to gain a better Medical Center audience. "That's why it's really been wrangling with for a while," appreciation of the profession and what it a good idea to coach your physicians and Gentry says. "It's a delicate balancing act." is that lawyers do," says Stephen McAllis- providers with lessons in how to speak Musser says he is confident the ter, associate dean for academic affairs. with TV and print reporters." intense speciality training won't be lost. Few professions have been portrayed Linden offered KU physicians 12 "tele- Learning the nuances of being a good in books, movies and on TV more often vision performance tips," including advice reporter, Musser raises as an example, than law; McAllister acknowledges that to increase your own energy level to 125 can happen whether a student is learning many new law students are shaped by percent of what you think is animated to report the news in print, on TV or on images from the popular media. and speak plain English, not jargon. the Internet. "I always want to refer to 'L.A. Law,' For KU Medical Center communicators "We are beginning to break down bar- but I know I'm dating myself when I do who hope to reach wide audiences with riers," Musser says. "In many ways, this is that," McAllister says. "Some of those stories that are often technical and com- still the same place. The people are still movies and TV shows provide a realistic plex, Linden suggested that each story the same. What's different, I think, is the picture, but they all embellish. We hope must "have a face," meaning medical atmosphere. We're sitting down as a this course will provide the students a research should be personalized with a group and talking about what it is we dose of reality." patient or physician; the problems pre- need to be teaching." The courses will be taught by Michael sented must have a solution; and the solu- Accreditors who visited the school last Davis, professor and former dean, with tion must be presented in simple terms. fall and granted formal certification last assistance from three practicing attorneys. Linden disagreed when an audience spring cited "pioneering curricular efforts The first-year group is split in half for two member suggested the goal for medical of on-campus media opportunities," as sections of the course, both of which meet journalism should be education of the well as "diligent, demanding instruction twice a week. general public. and a firm commitment to students." "The law is a rigorous course of study, "If you try to be educational on TV, The report also cited KU as "a must-stop and it can be high-stress in the real you'll succeed, but only with a very small hub for recruiters from some of the coun- world," McAllister says. "We want to audience," Linden said. "I really don't try's major newspapers and parent corpo- instill early on the importance of profes- think we have a mission to educate. Our rations." sionalism, civility and being ethical." job as journalists is to report the news." Says Gentry: "I don't have to worry about energizing people now. They have MEDICINE NURSING energized themselves. Faculty are working together a lot more across the Lecture helps doctors Federal grant launches sequences, as are our students. In fact, play themselves on TV nurse midwife program you might not hear the word 'sequence' at some point in the future. "-"""^ fter traveling a circuitous route that $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Aled from the Los Angeles Times to AHealth Resources and Services medical school to a small-town network Administration will fund a collaborative,

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graduate-level nurse midwife program, a The program is designed to provide within a particular city. As of March 1998, joint effort of KU's School of Nursing, the good health care for women who live in the federal government designated 76 University of Missouri-Kansas City, Wichi- medically underserved areas or are part of Kansas counties as wholly or partially ta State University and Fort Hays State "medically underserved populations," medically underserved areas, and five University. such as prisons or Medicaid recipients Kansas cities were found to have med- Mad scientists Weary of stereotypes, chemistry professor hopes to inspire young science teachers

T oe Heppert thinks scientists are o the process and culture of science; it's I misunderstood. Perceived as bril- | a challenge to us scientists and sci- uant aberrations who speak a lan- 5 ence teachers to more effectively com- guage foreign to everyone else, municate what it is that we do," scientists often are held separate Heppert says. "It's disappointing in from other professionals. People the short term, but it demonstrates envision them as isolated, working the need for us to adequately prepare madly on complex problems. These teachers with modern scientific misconceptions, Heppert believes, knowledge." contribute to a fear of science that The project's first goal is to discourages students from entering enhance cooperation among the scientific fields. different institutions that prepare "Science brings a great variety of teachers. The second objective is to people together," says Heppert, asso- recruit and retain more potential ciate professor of chemistry. "As edu- teachers, particularly minorities. cators, we need to promote the "Math and science teachers are in understanding of the process and short supply," Heppert says. "We're culture of science so that we can all going to look at how changing some feel we are a part of it." of their experiences down the line, Elevating Kansans' understanding particularly in their early years in of science begins with improving sci- college, may draw more students to ence education in Kansas schools. A the field." $2.4 million grant from the National Changing introductory science and Science Foundation to upgrade sci- math courses to reflect true scientific ence and mathematics teacher prepa- practices is the third goal. Heppert NEW FORMULA: Joe Heppert leads a statewide ration in the state is encouraging project to help science teachers more effectively share likens most classroom experiments, educators to do just that. The Kansas scentific methods with their students and the public. for example, to cooking: The formula Collaborative for Excellence in is uncomplicated and results are pre- Teacher Preparation, a three-year dictable. In real science, he says, project led by KU and Kansas State University, is the bene- experiments are more open-ended. "Science is about fresh ficiary of that grant. problems and finding new ways to investigate," he says. "The project is focused on the entire experience of becom- The fourth aim is to align the knowledge base students ing a science or math teacher," Heppert says, "from the indi- gain in their content courses with the methods of teaching vidual's own education as a student to their first years of they learn in the education school. Finally, the project hopes teaching." to provide mentoring support for young teachers by helping The Kansas Board of Educations recent decision to make them attend workshops and seminars and keeping them the teaching of evolution in Kansas schools optional makes the updated on the latest advances in science. project particularly timely, Heppert says. "We want to create a feeling for teachers of being connected "The Boards decision reflects the lack of understanding of with someone who cares if they succeed," Heppert says.-"""1*

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ically underserved populations. Certified nurse midwives can offer affordable and accessible health care for Noteworthy hire women throughout their reproductive years. Painter Peter Thompson's successor flourishes Though they maintain arrangements with physicians and other health-care pro- on the keyboard rather than on canvas fessionals for consultation and referral, certfied nurse midwives independently n internationally known pianist is ity for me," Montgomery says. "As long manage the health care of women and AKU's new dean of fine arts. Toni- as I'm physically able, I will perform." newborns. Marie Montgomery, director of Arizona Among deans and directors at the Graduates of the program can offer care State University's School of Music begins country's top 20 music schools as sel- during pregnancy, childbirth and the post- her new job at Mount Oread April 3. ected by U.S. News and World Report, partum period, and can also offer new- Montgomery has performed through- Montgomery is the only woman or eth- born care, gynecological exams, family out the United States, as well as in nic minority. When she begins her job planning and primary care. Austria and Brazil. Since 1995, Mont- as KU's dean of fine arts, she will be the "By developing a collaborative program, gomery has presented workshops at University's first black academic dean. we can prepare nurse midwives who will annual conferences of the National "I didn't even know that was the case be equipped to address the health-care Association of Schools of Music and until I saw it mentioned in a newspaper needs of women in the metropolitan area International Council of Fine Arts article after I'd been hired," Mont- and across the state," says Associate Pro- Deans. She also served on a panel at a gomery says. "What's important to me is fessor Ann Schorfheide. conference for the International Associa- that I do what I can to help other tion of Jazz Educators. women and ethnic minorities see the SOCIAL WELFARE In 1988 she helped begin the Black job opportunities that are out there for Music Repertory Ensemble of Columbia them. It's not important to me that I'm Grateful graduates pledge College in Chicago. The 15-member the first African-American [academic scholarship assistance group has performed at New York City's dean]. What's important is that I'm not Lincoln Center, Chicago's Orchestra Hall the last." odie Abbott and the late Dot Sim- and on numerous television and radio Carole Ross, associate professor of Dmons committed their lives to social programs. piano, has officially served as interim work. Now the pair's endowed scholarship "Performance will always be a prior- dean since the beginning of the school fund will ensure that other students have year, but has been the school's leader the same career opportunities. since October 1998, when Professor Abbott, MSW'57, and Simmons, Peter Thompson underwent quintuple MSW'65, pledged $50,000 to establish the bypass surgery soon after announcing Dot Simmons and Dodie Abbott Scholar- his intention to resign his deanship and ship Fund to benefit social welfare stu- resume teaching painting. dents interested in the health care or A Philadelphia native, Montgomery mental health fields. graduated magna cum laude from the "We've always been interested in stu- Philadelphia College of Performing Arts. dents and decided we wanted to do some- She earned a master's degree and a doc- thing with our money that would allow torate from the University of Michigan students to go to school and get their and has studied at the American Con- degrees," Abbott said. servatory in Fontainebleau, France, and Abbott worked at the Child Welfare at Harvard University's management Department of Kansas City, Kan., and then development program. at KU Medical Center for 32 years. Sim- She previously served as an assistant mons also worked at KUMC, then at the dean at the University of Connecticut, Johnson County Mental Health Center. and joined ASU as associate dean of the Abbott and Simmons established the College of Fine Arts in 1990. She was scholarship fund shortly before Simmons' named director of Arizona State's School PROVEN PERFORMER: Montgomery has June 11 death from cancer. successfully combined her administrative duties of Music in 1996.^""' and her concert schedule.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2000 59 HAIL TO OLD KU BY CHRIS LAZZARINO New Year's tears KLFs firstturn-of-the-centur y was a somber time of loss and grief

f we greeted this latest '00 with a bit dark waters, and his cries could be heard. prouder as seniors, proclaiming, "We too much frenzy—blame our hang- But soon he slipped away for good. know it all! We can't be taught! Rock Iovers on the third zero?—then "Sadder news than that announc- Chalk, Jay Hawk! Class of Naughty perhaps we Jayhawks were making the death of Will A. Snow Naught!" ing up for lost time. One hun- ... could hardly be received But the seniors' mischievous moniker dred years ago, the earlier in Lawrence," began does not diminish the notion that Mount elbow of centuries found the lead paragraph of a Oread seemed a somber hilltop as the spirits clouded on Mount report in the Kansas 20th century appeared. Campus newspa- Oread: Chancellor Fran- University Weekly of pers offered no remembrances of great cis H. Snow, an adored Oct. 14, 1899. Began events of the 19th century, nor was the leader and respected the second graph: 20th century hailed. Yearbooks and scientist, had lost his "Will Snow was a archived documents offer no hints at a first son, Will, on Oct. Lawrence boy ..." recognition of the historic times. 10, 1899. Chancellor Snow, "It was," says historian Steve Jansen, For a time his father's unknown in San Fran- g'78, PhD'85, director of the Watkins private secretary and cisco, was observed as Community Museum of History, "pretty instructor of entomology at "the image of grief," a much of a nonevent." KU, 30-year-old Will Snow, short, white-haired man Jansen endorses the hypothesis that the cl891, gl894, was finally living absently pacing a beach. He devoted University unfailingly took its his dream, working as a reporter had lost his youngest child, 9- lead from Snow. And it is certain the for the San Francisco Chronicle. The month-old Harold, 11 years earlier; chancellor was in no mood to night was dark and stormy, yet bells and with two of his three sons now gone, celebrate.--'"•* whistles happily tolled the return of the Francis Snow never fully recovered. After Spanish-American War's heroic 20th repeated and lengthy absences, he Kansas Volunteer Regiment, led by Medal resigned his chancellorship less than two of Honor winner Frederick Funston, a years later. member of KU's Class of 1890. Eager to Despite the tragedy, there were deliver the biggest story he had yet moments of levity. In the spring of 1899, encountered, Snow boarded a crowded the Class of '00 had serenaded the cam- reporters' launch, knowing his editors pus with cheers of, "Cock a Doodle Doo, would be thrilled to print the first inter- Crimson and Blue, Century, Century, view with Funston, with whom teen-age K.S.U.!" They shouted louder and Will Snow had palled around while Fun- ston was a KU botany student. The trick was to beat other reporters to Funston. After the small boat was lashed to the troopship, Will Snow left a crowd of reporters shouting to the soldiers and made his way to the front of the launch, where, according to reports, "it was was heaving up and down at a frightful rate." Snow was shouting to the soldiers when a

Memorial — •• ^^ ^^ ^r a great wave swept him into the sea. For a few moments Snow could be seen in the —m n ii T- —r —— TRIBUTES PAID TO THE BRAVE NEWSPAPER RECENTLY LOST HIS LIFE

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