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FEATURES 20 Body of Knowledge With a recent expansion complete, KU's exercise physiology lab takes a high-tech approach to the science oj shaping up.

By Steven Hill

Cover photograph by Wally Emerson

26 Everyman Tales As he travels the country in search oj the stones behind the headlines, TV newsman Bob Dotson finds there's a little bit oj Kansas in everyone.

By Jennifer Jackson Sanner

28 Wonderful Wishbook? Don't let the colorjul cover and utilitarian title jool you; beneath the jriendly jace oj KU's timetable lurks a stern taskmaster with a cold code heart.

By Chris Lazzarino

Illustrations by Charlie Podrebarac

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VOLUME 99 NO. 1, 2001 KANSAS ALUMNI V SALUTE THOSE WHO HAVE SOAKJED 1 TO NEVf HEIGHTS The Association asks for nominations for true-blue leaders who have proven their commitment to higher education through lifetime service to the University.

Each year we Nominations may come from any source and f& honor individuals should include a recent resume of the candi- with the Fred date's service history, including career, pub- Ellsworth Medal- lished works, previous honors and service to lion, the highest the University. Letters of support may also \y- A • honor for service be included. to KU that the Asso- ciation bestows. Recipi- The deadline for nominations for the ents of the prestigious medallion are 2001 Ellsworth medallion awards is selected from nominations submitted March 30. Please send your nomina- to the Alumni Association and tion to Fred B. Williams at the S7, reviewed by a special Selection Kansas Alumni Association, 1266 Committee. Recipients will be Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS honored at an awards cere- 66044-3169. mony in the fall. Kansas Alumni i Association

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arry Bunch thought he had heard it all. As longtime ist Charlie Podrebarac, '81, found the memorable and mirthful assistant archivist at University Archives, the unflap- in the seemingly mundane. pable Bunch, c'80, and his equally even-keel colleague, If your best intention to shape up for 2001 seems a bit ordi- Ned Kehde, '63, have patiently answered our most sub- nary, reading Steve Hill's cover story just might kick-start your Blime and ridiculous questions about KU lore. They have opened enthusiasm. Hill describes the work of KU's Exercise Physiology their files to let us rummage through records of student hang- Laboratory in , where sleek, sophisticated outs, sainted professors, subversive pranks and scholarly tri- new equipment enables scholars in the department of health, umphs. They have shared hundreds of photos, clippings and sport & exercise science to refine workouts with startling preci- souvenirs, including Chancellor Fraser's Civil War uniform, Dr. sion and help us learn more about what it truly means to be fit. Naismith's optometry case and a most enter- One of the most taining array of political buttons displayed dur- 'i advanced such labs in ing the late 1960s and early 1970s at the | the nation, the KU Strong Hall basement snack bar. 2 advises not But our latest query gave Bunch pause—not | only serious athletes, because the answer eluded him (answers rarely J but also those of us do). He just wanted to double-check his hear- who squeeze exercise ing. Did we really want to know whether any into our schedules publication had ever told the history of the KU when we can. In fact, Timetable of Classes? most of the center's No, he said emphatically. No writer or edi- research applies to tor had ever been so curious or cockeyed as to everyday folks for wonder about the origins of the timetable, KU's whom workout regi- infamous, invaluable schedule of each semester mens are penance for that is legendary for its mind-numbing content. holiday indulgence. But Bunch The mere thought of couldn't be satisfied being weighed under to merely answer water makes our staff the question. He shudder, so we extend looked at Chris special thanks to good Lazzarino a bit sport John Thyfault, warily, then gave in Overland Park doctor- to his habitual al student in exercise smirk. "You guys physiology, who must be nearing the end," he said. endured numerous dunkings in the lab's hydrostatic weighing Surely a story on KU's formidable tank so photographer Wally Emerson could capture the ordeal. compendium of courses signals that Our final feature profiles NBC reporter Bob Dotson, j'68. For Kansas Alumni's best days of chroni- 25 years he has covered events that have made history, but he is cling bygone days would soon be perhaps best known for telling the smaller stories of the com- gone. mon human experiences that make life sweet or sad or just plain We hope to prove him wrong. silly. His subjects don't often make history, but they do make an And we dearly hope you'll enjoy our impact on their communities—and on the viewers who learn tribute to the timeless record of our times: courses for which about them through Dotson's keen eye and concise yet powerful we've stood in line to enroll, add, drop and altogether avoid. words. Courses we wish we'd never taken and those we'd stand in line As we begin 2001, we count ourselves blessed to report the to take again. Courses known by numbers and nicknames unin- stories of the University, as the Alumni Association's magazine telligible to anyone except those of us who've trudged up and has done since 1902. Rest assured we're already scheming about walked down the Hill. our celebration—beginning in the next New Year—of a century In this season of list-making, our homage to KU's most mam- in publishing. Despite our friend Barry's fears, Kansas Alumni's moth list—156 pages for Spring 2001—isn't nearly as daunting own KU timetable—thankfully more colorful and irreverent than as holiday to-dos or New Year don't-dos. It simply celebrates a the one that steered us to our classes—has many more tales to campus icon whose essential role through the years has never tell. We know 2001 will reveal lively, memorable stories about wavered, though its content most surely has. Lazzarino, along our alma mater. And, from our home on the Hill, we wish you a with Art Director Susan Younger, f'91, and Kansas City cartoon- year full of warm, wondrous stories.^""*

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KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Scholarship hall heroes Publisher Chair Fred B.Williams Reid Holbrook, c'64, l'66, Overland Park, Steven Hill's recent article ["Halls of Editor Kansas Academe," issue No. 6] brought back a Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'81 Executive Vice Chair flood of memories. On my arrival at KU in Art Director Janet Martin McKinney, c'74, Port Ludlow, 1939, the number of University dormitory Susan Younger, f 91 Washington Managing Editor rooms available for men was zero. Chris Lazzarino, j'86 Executive Committee On the other hand, women who in Staff Writer Jim Adam, e'56, Overland Park, Kansas that era were outnumbered by men about Steven Hill Reid Holbrook, c'64, l'66, Overland Park, Kansas four to one had a chance of finding Uni- Editorial Assistants Karen Goodell; Andrea Hoag, c'94 Janet Martin McKinney, c'74, Port Ludlow, versity housing at Miller, Watkins and Washington Corbin halls. Photographer Cordell D. Meeks Jr., c'64,1*67, Kansas City, Wally Emerson, j'76 Kansas Olin Templin, Endowment Association Graphic Designer Gil M. Reich, e'54, Savannah, Georgia secretary, decided that male students Valerie Spicher, j'94 Carol Swanson Ritchie, d'54, Wichita, Kansas deserved a break. He worked night and Editorial Office Kansas Alumni Association Vice Chairs day until he was able to establish three 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 Gary Bender, g'64, Scottsdale, Arizona, and men's scholarship halls, following the 785-864-4760 Colorado Springs.Colorado Miller and Watkins model. Advertising Office Michelle Senecal de Fonseca, b'83, Brussels, Sarah Lober, Advertising Manager Belgium Carruth and Templin halls opened in Knight Enterprises, 4840 W. 15th St., Suite 1000 Tim S. Dibble, d74, Issaquah,Washington 1940 and Battenfeld Hall followed in Lawrence, KS 66049 Patricia Weems Gaston, j'81, Annandale, 785-843-5511 or 1-800-844-3781 1941. The day I moved from a basement Virginia fax 785-843-7555 room in a widows home to a room in Car- e-mail: [email protected] Directors to July 2001 ruth Hall was a day I shall forever cherish. Kansas Alumni Magazine (ISSN 0745-3345) is published Lisa Ashner Adkins, c'84,1*87, Leawood, Kansas Olin Templin spent a lot of time min- by the Alumni Association of the John B. Dicus, b'83,g'85,Topeka, Kansas gling with his "boys" in the scholarship six times a year in January, March, May, July, September Robert L. Driscoll, c'61, l'64, Mission Woods, and November $40 annual subscription includes mem- Kansas halls, especially after his retirement from bership in the Alumni Association. Office of Publication: the University. He was a man of small 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. Peri- Directors to July 2002 odicals postage paid at Lawrence, KS. Lewis D. Gregory, c'75, Leawood, Kansas stature with a giant heart. We were hon- POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Lynwood H. Smith, b'51, m'60, Lawrence, ored and inspired every time we were in Kansas Alumni Magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Kansas Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 © 2001 by Kansas Linda Duston Warren, c'66, m'70, Hanover, his presence. Alumni Magazine. Non-member issue price: $7 Kansas He was our hero. KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Dwayne L. Oglesby, c'47, g'51, 1'53 The Alumni Association was established in 1883 for Directors to July 2003 the purpose of strengthening loyalty, friendship, Sidney Ashton Garrett, c'68, d'70, Lawrence, Wichita commitment, and communication among all gradu- Kansas ates, former and current students, parents, faculty, Deloris Strickland Pinkard, g'80, EdD'95, staff and all other friends of The University of Kansas City, Kansas Learn to live with others Kansas. Its members hereby unite into an Associa- David R. Ran kin, p'63, Phillipsburg, Kansas tion to achieve unity of purpose and action to serve the best interests of The University and its con- Directors to July 2004 It is a pleasure to read that scholarship stituencies. The Association is organized exclusively A. Drue Jennings, d'68,172, Leawood, Kansas halls are thriving and even expanding. for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes. Mary Kay Paige McPhee, d'49, Kansas City, I lived at Pearson Scholarship Hall from Fred B.Williams, President; Kay Henry, Senior 1975 to '79 and it was a great environ- Vice President for Administration and Human John W. Mize, c'72, Salina, Kansas Resources; Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'81, Senior ment. Vice President for Communications; Dwight Directors to July 2005 Parman, Senior Vice President for Finance and Trea- Nancy Borel Ellis, d'63, Pinehurst, In addition to the low cost, scholarship surer; William S. Green, Senior Vice President for North Carolina halls provided an opportunity to learn Information Systems; Sheila Murphy Immel, f'69, Sydnie Bowling Kampschroeder, c'65, how to cooperate with others in a living g'84, Senior Vice President for Membership; Kirk Naperville, Illinois Cerny, c'92, g'98, SeniorVice President for Member- Craig B. Swenson, e'59, Lee's Summit, arrangement. ship Services; Nancy Peine.Vice President for Missouri Alumni and Membership Records; Donna Neuner, At a large university like KU, it was 76, Membership Services; Mike Wellman, c'86, Honorary Members comforting to live in a small place like a Special Projects and Adams Alumni Center Facility Gene A. Budig, Ed.D, Princeton, New Jersey Manager; Bryan E. Greve, Adams Alumni Center E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., Ph.D., San Antonio, scholarship hall. More than 20 years later, Services and Jayhawk Society Membership; Chris Texas my best friends are my Pearson Hall Lazzarino, j'86, Managing Editor, Kansas Alumni Archie R. Dykes, Ed.D, Goodlettsville, friends. magazine; Susan Younger, f'9 I, Art Director; Tennessee Carolyn Barnes, c'80, Kansas Honors Program; Delbert M. Shankel, Ph.D., Lawrence, Kansas Greg Munzer, j'79 Jennifer Mueller, g'99, Student Programs. W. Clarke Wescoe, M.D., Kansas City, Mo. Independence, Mo.

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Gamma Delta, across the street. The early- Stewart failures sad morning singing woke all of us who had 'Jay Gens' corrections been sleeping on the carpeted living room The unexpected failure of Stewart floor, waiting for the furniture truck to Editor's note: Three Jayhawk Generations Avenue ["There Goes the Neighborhood?", arrive that day. I can still see all of those biographies published in issue No. 6 contained issue No. 5] does not accurately portray guys sprawled across the living room, errors that require corrections. The correct my shock and surprise in hearing that the looking out the screens of the open sliding versions are printed here. six fraternities on Stewart Avenue have all doors and wondering, "Who is that closed their doors. Having been a member singing and why are they singing now?" Anita Gilpin graduated with honors of the Teke house, I have always been from Emporia High School. She was a aware of a certain snobbery against Stew- K.J. Pyle, a'76 National Honor Society member and a art Avenue, both by other fraternities and Halstead participant in varsity tennis and swim- by the members that lived in the houses ming. On her high school newspaper she on the street. It was with a matter of pride Plenty of hope for Kansas was both entertainment and sports editor. and disdain that Stewart Avenue was Anita plans to major in journalism. She is called the "Greek Ghetto" while I was KU. Greetings to my classmate George the daughter of Glen "Eddie" Gilpin II, Yes, the houses were dated, ugly and Grella, who in [issue No. 5] of Kansas b'79, of Emporia, and the granddaughter segregated from the rest of the Greek com- Alumni commends Chancellor Hemenway of Norma Mendenhall Gilpin, j'50, Empo- munity, but there was a large amount of for his position on the teaching of evolu- ria, and Glen Gilpin, '44. property associated with the Teke house tion in Kansas schools. George and I were that allowed us to do things we would not assistant instructors in English in the mid- Lindsey Bosilevac graduated from have been able to do on Tennessee Street. 1960s and might be expected to agree, as Blue Valley North High School, where she I don't know that it is fair to say that we do, on what he calls "the battle for participated in debate, Student Council tradition has played a large role in the learning over ignorance." and Spirit Club. Lindsey is the daughter of downfall of Stewart Avenue, as Tau Kappa Later in his letter we part company, Sheryl Johnson Bosilevac, c'90, and Fred Epsilon has been on the KU campus since however. Although praising the University, Bosilevac Jr., b'72, of Overland Park. prior to World War II and once occupied he adds, "I have little hope for the state at the ATO house on Tennessee. Just how large, which always seemed to me to be Gavin Jeter, a graduate of Bishop Car- old does a chapter have to be before it is teetering on the verge of endorsing igno- roll High School in Wichita, follows his considered deep with traditions? The rance and stupidity as values." I guess we twin sisters, Michele Jeter Park, c'97, and Greek system across the country has been can forgive you, George, for not really Nichole Jeter Wheeler, b'98, to KU. Gavin on the decline, and the failure of Stewart knowing much about the state of Kansas was involved in , band and drum- Avenue is more than a case of chapters and its people. You spent virtually all of line and played in a local rock band that that have and chapters that have not. your time in Lawrence itself, and, with performed throughout the Wichita area. I find the loss of the fraternity houses due respect to Lawrence, it's hard to gain He is entering the School of Engineering on Stewart Avenue sad and can only hope an accurate impression of the rest of the to pursue a degree in civil engineering. that their demise will only strengthen the state from here! Gavin is the son of Lorraine and Chris Greek system at KU as a whole. Maybe we can agree that there might Jeter, d'68, EdD'79. His grandfather, the Dave Smith, c'93 be a difference between the Kansas Board late Burks Jeter, attended KU in 1942. Chicago of Education and the enlightened people of Kansas, who year after year have the Singing? At this hour? good sense to send the state's brightest young people to schools like the Universi- Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the In the summer of 1975 (not 1977), I ty of Kansas (and nearby Baker University, editor. If you would like to comment on was the lone occupant of the old Theta where I taught for 31 years after complet- a story, please write us. Our address is Tau fraternity house at 1942 Stewart. As ing my studies at KU). Kansas Alumni, 1266 Oread Avenue, one of the house officers for the newly George and I both experienced what he Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. established Kansas Chapter of the Evans calls the "learned and dedicated faculty" at Scholars Foundation, I was charged with KU; I extend my thanks to all the Kansans If you would like to respond via e-mail, cleaning, painting and general preparing whose wisdom—and cash—continue to the Alumni Association's address is of the house for my 28 brothers who were sponsor such a faculty. [email protected], or visit due to move in that August. Dean Bevan, c'56, g'65, PhD'71 our web site at www.kualumni.org. My first introduction to rush was being Lawrence Letters appearing in the magazine awakened by the singing ladies of Alpha may be edited for space and clarity.

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FACES OF FRIENDSHIP: To cele brate the I Oth anniversary of the sister- city relationship between Lawrence and Hiratsuka, the mayor of the Japanese city in October brought to Lawrence mayor Jim Henry, d'69, g'70, EdD76, three prized "Noh theatre masks" as gifts from artist Koichi Takatsu, a Hirat- suka native.Takatsu carves the theatrical character masks from Japanese cypress and colors them using ancient tech- niques.The masks will be stored at , and a lecture by Professor Emeritus Andrew Tsubaki is planned for Jan. 21.

Exhibitions Murphy Hall events 20 Kodo Drummers 23 "Peter Pan" "The Significance of Masks in the JANUARY 25 "The Joy of Singing," KU Japanese Noh Theatre," Profes- 19-21, 25-27 "The Bear," by William Choirs sor Emeritus Andrew Tsubaki, 2 Walton, "Gianni Schicchi," by p.m., Jan. 21, Spencer Museum Puccini, KU Opera 21 "An American Festival: Works of Art by 20th-century American FEBRUARY "Ming Painting Through the Eyes of Composers," KU Symphony 10 "Dinosaurus," by Edward Mast Connoisseurs," Spencer Muse- Orchestra and Lenore Bensinger, KU um of Art, Jan. 20-March 4 MARCH Theatre for Young People "Contemporary Art from Cuba: Irony 1-3 KU Jazz Festival 15-18, 20-24 Chamber Theatre No. and Survival on the Utopian 2, Inge Theatre Series 11 Verdi's "Aida," Teatro Lirico Island," Spencer Museum of Art, D'Europa Jan. 13-March 18 MARCH 13 Berlin Chamber Orchestra 2-3, 8-11 "Blithe Spirit," by Noel "18th- and 19th-century Women 15 Diavolo Dance Theatre Artists," Spencer Museum of Coward, University Theatre Art, Feb. 3-April 1 Series Faculty exhibition, Art and Design Gallery, Jan. 21-Feb. 2 "An Integration of the Arts: Lawrence Lied Center events High School Industrial Design JANUARY Student Exhibition," Art and 20 Trinity Irish Dance Company Design Gallery, Feb. 4-16 FEBRUARY Graduate student exhibition, Art and 2 "Chicago" Design Gallery, Feb. 18-23 3 "Giselle," Moscow Festival Ballet 1 1 Takacs Quartet 14 University and Concert bands 16 KU Symphonic Band

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Men's 15-18 at Rawlings Tournament, Phoenix JANUARY 17 Nebraska 20 Rockhurst 20 Texas A&M 23-25 at Oklahoma 22 at Colorado 27 Creighton 11 Kansas State MARCH 29 at Missouri 2-4 Oklahoma State FEBRUARY 6 at Southwest Missouri State MARCH 3 Texas 9 Missouri 2 at ISU NCAA Qualifiers 5 Iowa State 10-11 at Missouri 9-10 at NCAA, Fayetteville, Ark. 10 Oklahoma State 13-16 Illinois-Chicago 12 at Baylor 17-18 Michigan Swimming and diving 17 at Iowa State 18-19 Eastern Michigan JANUARY 21 Colorado 21 Southwest Missouri State 13 Southern Illinois 25 at Nebraska 23-25 Baylor 26 at Nebraska IS at Kansas State 27 at Arkansas FEBRUARY 30-April 1 Texas 3 Iowa State MARCH 4 Missouri 14-17 Women's Big 12, Men's diving, at Austin, Texas 8-11 Big 12 Tournament Softball FEBRUARY MARCH 2-4 at Diamond Invitational, Albu- 1-3 Men's Big 12, at College Sta- womens basket querque, N.M. tion, Texas JANUARY 16-18 at Las Vegas Invitational 9-11 Zone diving, Fayetteville, Ark. 17 at Oklahoma State 23-25 at Leadoff Classic, Columbus, 15-17 Women's NCAA, Long Island, 20 at Colorado Ga. N.Y. 24 Oklahoma 28 at Washburn 22-24 Men's NCAA, College Station, 27 at Kansas State Texas MARCH 31 Nebraska 8-11 at Speedline Invitational, FEBRUARY Tampa, Fla. 3 at Texas 16-18 KU Invitational 7 Colorado 21 at Oklahoma State (DH) 10 at Missouri 24-25 Texas PHONE BOX 14 Texas Tech 27 UMKC (DH) Lied Center 864-ARTS 17 Iowa State 28 Arkansas (DH) Murphy Hall .864-3982 21 at Nebraska 31-April 1 at Texas A&M Student Union Activities ... .864-3477 24 Missouri Spencer Museum of Art .... .864-4710 Spencer Research Library .. .864-4334 28 at Texas A&M Indoor track and field Museum of Anthropology .. .864-4245 MARCH Natural History Museum ... .864-4540 JANUARY Hall Center for Humanities .864-4798 6-10 Big 12 Tournament 19 at Missouri Invitational University libraries .864-3956 26 at Missouri Triangular Kansas Union .864-4596 Baseball Adams Alumni Center .864-4760 FEBRUARY KU Information .864-3506 FEBRUARY 2 KU Invitational Directory assistance .864-2700 9-11 at Round Rock Tournament, 9-10 at Iowa State Invitational KU main number .864-2700 Athletics 1 -800-34-HAWKS Round Rock, Texas 23-24 Big 12 Championships, Lincoln, Neb.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 JAYHAWKWALK BY LAZZAR1NO & HILL

The New Socialist: Takes a licking, keeps on politicking

ics makes strange bedfellows, we know. But this match strikes us as a bit, well, dodgy. Divining a dearth of outlets for students who find that political discourse leaves them yearning to dole out a good whacking, Morgan Bowen and Ian Spiridigliozzi this fall formed KU's (and likely the world's) first neo-socialist dodge ball club. Neo? And how. "It's not socialism as in take private property and all that stuff," Bowen, Overland Park junior, told the Univer- sity Daily Kansan."lt's more like a social response to the needs of the community and giving students an outlet to take social action/The dodge ball, on the other hand, is the same old cutthroat, survival-of-the-fittest thumping taught in gym class—right down to the big red ball. A wicked arm and a killer instinct (those bedrock principals of socialism) are definite pluses. To be fair; we note that the politics and play are kept separate. "People don't have to be socialists to play dodge ball," Bowen says. But, evidently, it doesn't hurt.

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ary Lou Heuback,the new "I'm getting ideas for next year," she Mhousemother at Kappa Alpha said with a smile. Theta sorority, watched in amaze- If she needed confidential costume ment—or was it horror?—as her new consideration, though, Heuback could friends and colleagues partied the have turned to Helen Lierz, Kappa he University Daily Kansan's new evening away at the Housemom's Sigma's housemother, who was TFree For All phone-in line recorded Howl, a Halloween tradition hosted dressed as a nun and greeted the these words of wisdom from a new by Alpha Delta Pi sorority. party's late arrivals with a wink and a arrival to Mount Oread: "As a child, I always listened to my grandpa tell sto- Heuback, who came to her KU job conspiratorial, "I'll be taking confes- ries about how he walked seven miles in August from the University of Mis- sions later." Also ready to dispense a to school. Uphill. Both ways. Now that sissippi, sat quietly at the fringes of decision was a frighteningly perfect I'm here, I realize he must have gone to the party, dressed in everyday duds. Judge Judy, aka Esther Wolfe, house- mother at Phi Kappa Psi. KU.too." Or Heuback could have rolled the dice with the help of Sigma Kappa's Donna Hodges and Sigma Whatever the case, Heuback Alpha Epsilon's Nancy should learn from Lambda Chi Combest, who came Alpha's Becky DeBauge, whose exces- dressed, you guessed it, as sive Elvira eyelashes were driving her a pair of dice. Shirlie batty. "I can't see a thing!" DeBauge Vaughn, of Delta Upsilon, exclaimed. "This is crazy!" was also a fine feathered And fun. For much of the year, KU friend, though she was Greeks help keep their housemothers heard to exclaim, "I'm young. On Halloween, it's the house- molting!" mothers who are the youthful spirits.

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Memo for 2004:Try the Star for a day ... for now Statue of Liberty play lyde Bolton, veteran sports columnist tudying for midterms one day, stepping out of a stretch limo in front of Cfor the Birmingham News, should start SMann's Chinese Theatre the next: Sound like a film major's dream come making the rounds of the Sunday morning true? Erin Taggart thinks so. In October the Overland Park sophomore and talk shows. Before Alabama-Birmingham ringer for actress Drew Barrymore vanquished 75 contestants to win the traveled to Lawrence for a Sept. 16 football "Charlie's Angels" Iookalike contest sponsored by a Web site for movie fans. game, Bolton alerted his readers—and us— Taggart won a trip to the film's to an unusual bit of political trivia. Hollywood premiere, where she and two other winners vamped "The outcome of each of the last six for the paparazzi on Mann's presidential elections has been correctly fabled red carpet.The ersatz predicted by the outcome of Kansas' angel also came face to face second game in those football with her celebrity doppel- seasons," Bolton wrote Sept. 13. ganger—not at the planned • True enough.The Demo- photo op (canceled) but in the cratic candidate's fortunes ladies' room. appear to be tied to KU's second- game success: KU won in 1976, so did "Drew was wonderful," says Jimmy Carter; KU lost in 1980, '84 and '88, Taggart. "She said it was a com- and Ronald Reagan and George Bush won; pliment to her that they chose KU won in 1992 and '96, and so did Bill me as her Iookalike. I thought Clinton. that was sweet." A film major who hopes someday to write, direct and maybe even star in a As for the 2000 season's political foot- major motion picture,Taggart had a good case for postponing her exams. ball ... enough said that KU's second game "Being the dreamer I am, I looked at this as just getting a taste of what I can was decided by a 50-yard, fourth-quarter hopefully accomplish someday," she says. "I hope to experience many more . premieres."

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gtTroy Mailen of the KU Public Safety Office was out running some Smundane morning errands when the call came in: A massive bull, one fine bovine if ever there was one, was loose on the soccer fields at Shenk Sports Complex on Campus West. Seven hours later, the bull's owners and a good-hearted citizen who was handy on horseback had moored the beast to a basketball goal at a house on Topeka Lane, across Clinton Parkway from Campus West. "We have the occasional deer up there in the wooded area," Mailen says, "but a bull? To my knowl- edge, we've had nothing quite like this." Watching cops herd the chops must have been a sight to see. But the better action came at the start, when the critter got loose and nearly caused aT-bone accident, forcing drivers to steer clear and honk their horns. According to Mailen, the bull's owners beefed that it must have kicked at a door in its trailer, loosening a latch. So when the truck and trailer turned from Iowa Street onto Clinton Parkway, the bull tumbled out of the trailer and fell into the middle of the busiest intersection in town. You call it Iowa Street; we call it Rodeo Drive.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 ILLTOPICS BY STEVEN HILL Brain trust DISCOVERY A record private donation paves the way for KU Med to CANCER RESEARCH take a giant step forward in major medical research

A $9.9 MILLION GRANT from the National Institutes of Health will enable he largest pri- KU and two other state universities to vate donation collaborate on an ambitious, interdisci- Tfor a building plinary approach to cancer research. project in the history Gunda Georg, director of the Kansas of KU Medical Cen- Cancer Institute's experimental thera- ter—$4 million, from peutics program at KU Medical Center, Forrest, e'56, and will serve as principal investigator on Sally Roney Hoglund, the project, which brings together 19 c'56, of Dallas—will scientists from KU, KU Medical Center, build a new center and Emporia for brain research at State University. KU's Higuchi Bio- KU's Kansas City, sciences Center will administer the five- Kan., medical center. year grant. The Hoglunds also "It's a pretty unique approach to put pledged another $3 SMART MOVE: Forrest and Sally Hoglund, center, recently donated $4 all these different people together," says million, for Med million for construction of a brain imaging center at KU Medical Center Flanking the Hoglunds after the news conference announcing the gift, which also included Georg. "By gathering cancer biologists, Center projects to be named later. a pledge of $3 million for future projects, are, from left, Michael Welch, vice chan- chemists, biochemists, pharmacologists cellor for research at KU Medical Center, Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway, and and the like, we're putting a truly inter- The Hoglund Donald Hagen, KUMC executive vice chancellor disciplinary team into place to tackle Brain Imaging Cen- cancer.That's still not all that common." ter, to be completed and in operation by cals, injections or high magnetic fields. The NIH grant focuses on young fall 2002, is considered by KU and Kansas "You have taken our science forward biomedical researchers, encouraging City officials to be an important step in by great leaps and bounds," Michael them to develop their own projects their efforts to established Kansas City as Welch, vice chancellor for research at under the guidance of experienced a national leader in life sciences research. KUMC, said to the Hoglunds. "This is the mentors. Estimating that the participat- "This is truly a great day for the Uni- first leap, and what a leap it will be. This ing schools will hire 80 new faculty in versity, the Med Center and Kansas City," will be the first major research building the field within the next few years, Donald Hagen, executive vice chancellor we will have." Georg has also set aside $1.5 million of of KUMC, said during the Oct. 30 news The center will be built just north of the grant for First Award, a program to conference announcing the gifts. the current Med Center buildings, at the help attract top-quality researchers to The Hoglund Center will help scien- current site of a parking lot and an the state. tists research such problems as develop- unsightly storage building. The building In addition, the NIH grant should mental disabilities, autism, Parkinson's itself is projected to cost $2.8 million, and benefit KU Medical Center's effort to disease, Alzheimer's disease and stroke, the other $1.2 million pledged by the achieve designation as a National Can- while also providing patients at KU Hos- Hoglunds for the center will be used for cer Institute cancer center. Currently pital access to MRIs and other advanced equipment. The state will contribute $1 the nearest NCI facilities are in Chicago brain-imaging methods. million for the MEG machinery. and Denver. The center will be one of 12 sites in The center also will have two magnetic "To get that important designation the country with a "magneto encephalog- resonance imaging machines that Welch you need a critical mass of basic raphy" machine, and one of only three describes as "very, very highly sensitive. research at your university," Georg says. capable of studying the brains of unborn ... MRI taken to a new level." Welch says "Our hope is that stimulating cancer infants. The "MEG" records electromag- the new MRI equipment will allow KU research at KU will help us provide bet- netic fields generated in the nerve cells of doctors and researchers to study the ter care for cancer patients in the area." brains without the use of X-rays, chemi- brain's blood flow, illuminating the energy

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and metabolism of the brain as it is actu- million over three years. ally happening. Fewer than 20 universities nationwide "We think this is going to make a big receive National Resource Center designa- difference throughout the state for KU, tions, according to Carl Strikwerda, asso- and for the life-sciences initiative in ciate dean of the College of Liberal Arts Kansas City," Forrest Hoglund said. "We're and Sciences, which oversees the centers. VISITOR putting in the seed capitalization, but def- "It puts the University in an elite group of MUSIC MAN initely it will be much larger than what 17 or 18 schools in the country that have we are giving." this designation," Strikwerda says. "It Renowned civil rights activist After her husband addressed a crowd means that the students at this university JULIAN BOND used slides and of about 100 gathered at the Med Center are going to get the highest level of train- recorded songs to accompany his for the announcement, Sally Hoglund ing in the languages, history, politics, cul- lecture tracing the influence of took to the podium and said, "KU and the ture and economics of that world region." rock 'n' roll and rhythm and blues Med Centers No. 1 cheerleader is Forrest When a center is designated a National on race relations in the 1950s. Hoglund. He is absolutely dedicated to Resource Center, it receives a mandate making KU No. 1 in everything. So come from the U.S. Department of Education to WHEN: Oct. 24 along with him. It's going to be an excit- serve as a regional community resource ing and enthusiastic experience." for its world area, according Strikwerda. WHERE: The Lied Center Forrest Hoglund worked for Exxon KU's centers fulfill that mission by Corp. for 20 years, eventually serving as expanding the teaching of foreign lan- SPONSORS: The Hall Center for the corporate vice president for worldwide guages, serving as research sources for Humanities natural gas. He later became chairman scholars and sponsoring conferences and and CEO of Enron Oil & Gas Co., now workshops for educators. "The accompa- BACKGROUND: Bond founded the known as EOG Resources, and retired in nying grants mean that you have the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Com- 1999. He is now chairman and CEO of funds to actually do a lot of that work," mittee while at Arctic Resources, a group proposing to Strikwerda explains. Morehouse Col- build a natural-gas pipeline from the The centers for East Asian, Latin Amer- lege in 1960 and North Slope of Alaska to the continental ican and Russian & East European studies later served 20 U.S. are longtime recipients of the grants, years in the Geor- He will chair the major fundraising which are subject to renewal every three gia General drive that KU Endowment Association years. The Center for African Studies Assembly. He is will launch next year, and told the Med received Title VI funds once before, from currently chairman Center crowd that the gift was meant, in 1995 to 1997. The addition of a fourth of the NAACP part, to motivate others. funded center raises the University's rank board of directors "We want to set an early example of in total Title VI funding. "We were cer- and professor of history at the Univer- what can happen," Hoglund said.^"^ tainly in the top 20 before," Strikwerda sity of Virginia. —Chris Lazzarino says. "This pushes us almost into the top 10. That puts us in a pretty elite ANECDOTE: Despite the legend that mm Title VI funding upgrades crowd. "•^ * disc jockey Alan Freed coined the KU's international centers phrase rock 'n' roll in the 1950s, Bond noted, the term can be traced to 1930s blues music, where it frequently turned he University's standing as a leader up as a sexual euphemism. Tin international education got an important boost last fall when the QUOTE: "This music introduced U.S. Department of Education white youth to black America," Bond designated four of KU's five inter- said of blues-influenced R&B that began national studies centers as attracting a following among white National Resource Centers. Under teen-agers in the 1950s. "Even if it was the designation, the centers for a romanticized version of black life, it African, East Asian, Latin American, still opened the possibility of inter- and Russian & East European studies racialism and prepared America for the will receive Title VI funding totaling $3.1 civil rights movement."

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Anschutz reorganizes to take federal documents t the November 1989 dedication of Athe Marian and Fred Anschutz Sci- ence Library, Chancellor Gene A. Budig CLASS CREDIT noted that the new $13.9 million facility TOPS IN TECHNOLOGY "cannot be a static monument. It must grow and change, reflecting the changes KANSAS LEADS THE NATION in that take place as our knowledge and higher education technology, according understanding expand." The building's to a recent poll in Government Tech- design reflected that philosophy of maxi- nology magazine, and KU's Internet and mum flexibility: Even the walls were computer services are a big reason why. made to be moved. Kansas' six Regents universities tied Good thing. When the time came this with the public universities of South summer to transfer KU's Government Dakota in the poll, which evaluated Documents Library from Malott Hall to state schools on their Web sites, online Anschutz, science librarians didn't merely programs, and overall technology infra- order new shelves to accommodate the 2 structures. Both states received perfect million items the University has collected scores on the survey. from the U.S. government since 1869; KU's online access to class sched- they had nearly every volume in the 11- ules; capability for sending grades via e- year-old library moved to create more MOVING ON DOWN: Completion of a second mail; and growing use of the Internet to user-friendly setup for the science collec- underground room at Anschutz library boosts study post course syllabi, homework and dis- tion as well. space and creates a more user-friendly layout for the cussion questions earned high marks "Previously the science collection was science collection. from the magazine. So did the speed of split between two floors," says Anschutz When Anschutz opened in 1989, stu- the recently upgraded Internet back- Library head Denise Stephenson of the dents and staff pitched in to assemble bone connecting campus buildings. decision to reorganize. "It's a big building. shelves and haul books. Not this time. "I "We've made major improvements That can be confusing enough without think they learned from that experience in our information technology infra- asking people to move from floor to floor that it's a big drain on people who have structure in the to get materials from the same collection, other jobs to do," Stephens says. The tim- last five years," which doesn't make them very happy. I ing of this move—the last volumes were says vice chan- think that in the long run this new layout put into place only a week before the start cellor of infor- will make each floor autonomous." of fall classes—also made it impractical to mation services The complete science collection is now hire student help. A private contractor Marilu housed on level two, part of it in took about three weeks to shift the mil- Goodyear, who Anschutz 2 North, a new 22,000 square lion or so books in the library's stacks. helped merge foot space that extends beneath Budig Though completion of Anschutz 2 the surveys Hall. The underground room is the sec- North means that most of the library's filled out by ond of two such spaces added to the space has been finished, there's still room each Regents library but left unfinished when Hoch to grow. "It's unlikely we would expand to GOODYEAR school into one Auditorium was rebuilt as after the north, but we could still expand to comprehensive report. "This is simply a 1991 fire. The first underground space, the south, east and west," Stephenson verification that all our hard work is Anschutz 1 North, opened in 1998. says. Plenty of space remains on the paying off," Goodyear says. With the latest reorganization the fourth floor, too, where federal documents Elsewhere in the , library also increased public study areas are now housed. Pointing to a stairwell Nebraska and Texas were among seven to accommodate high student demand, sign that points to the fifth floor, Stephen- states tied for 17th. Missouri placed adding 150 seats, many in private study son says, "That's just the roof." Then, as 24th and Oklahoma ranked 42nd. carrels and seminar rooms. The library's if the idea had just occurred, she adds, main floor now stays open a day "But we could even build there if we for studying. needed to."'-"*m

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ROCK CHALK REVIEW VISITOR MILESTONES, MONEY AND OTHER MATTERS WITNESS TO HISTORY

•THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION gave a record SVETOZAR STOJANOVIC, spe- $65.1 million in gift support to the University in fiscal 2000.The association con- cial adviser to Yugoslavian presi- tributed $21.2 million in student support, $16.1 million in scholarships, $2.9 million in dent Vojislav Kostunica, gave a loans, $1.8 million in fellowships and $430,000 in awards and prizes. KU Endowment's firsthand account of the October total support support for the University increased 20 percent over the $54.1 million uprising that ended the autocratic provided in fiscal 1999, and 47 percent over 1998's $44.4 million gift.Total fundraising rule of Serbian leader Slobodan in 2000 was $53.3 million.The market value of the Endowment Association's assets Milosevic. now tops $1 billion, up from $979 million last year. WHEN: Nov. 17 •WILLIAM TUTTLE, professor of history and American studies, was presented the 2000 Honor for the Outstanding Progressive Educator (HOPE) award during a halftime WHERE: The Kansas Union ceremony at KU's final home football game, in November.Tuttle, whose courses include African-American history, black labor in America and American labor history, has taught SPONSORS: Center for Russian & at KU since 1969. He was selected for the award by members of this year's senior East European Studies class. BACKGROUND: Stojanovic's long- •THE HARRY TRUMAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION has named KU one time advocacy for democratic reform of five Year 2000 Truman Foundation Honor Institution Award recipients.The honor dates back to the reign of Marshal Tito. recognizes the University's success in helping 13 students win Truman scholarships He is the director of the Institute of since 1981."This really is a great big thank you to KU," said Louis H. Blair,the founda- Philosophy and Social Theory at the tion's executive secretary. "The award is not based solely on the number of scholars University of Belgrade. but on the commitment of the institution to helping people go into public service." ANECDOTE: •UNIVERSITY CAREER EMPLOYMENT SERVICES (formerly the University Watching the Oct. 5 Placement Center) is changing its policy on retaining credential files, which are primari- street demonstra- ly used by job-seekers in education. Files not updated in 10 years will be destroyed tions in Belgrade unless UCES receives a request to retain the file by May 31."Outdated credentials are from the city's last not helpful in the job search, so any file dormant 10 years is practically useless," says free radio station, Kent McAnally, assistant director of UCES. Files can be updated, for $5, with current Stojanovic witnessed reference letters and contact information.To order an update packet or request that a the swift collapse of file be maintained without updating, contact UCES at 785-864-3624. Milosevic's police state. "You are looking at a professor •A $2.5 MILLION GRANT from the U.S. Department of Education will help the to whom 30 policemen surrendered," Research and Training Center on Independent Living fund a new center designed to he said. "We gave them some Slivovitz help people with disabilities participate fully in society. Glenn W. White, associate pro- to drink, and kept them safe until mid- fessor of human development and family life, will head the Rehabilitation Research and night, then sent them to their homes Training Center on Full Participation in Independent Living starting in January. one by one."

•THE KANSAS HEALTH FOUNDATION has established an annual $10,000 QUOTE: "Milosevic is a typical scholarship to honor former president Donald M. Stewart, '56.The scholarship, which authoritarian who lives in a dream supports high-school graduates from Abilene, recognizes Stewart's "visionary leader- world," Stojanovic said in explaining the ship, his commitment to Kansas communities and his devotion to the young people of dictator's fall from power. "He overval- the state," says foundation president and CEO MarniVliet.A longtime supporter of the ued his support among the people, and University, KHF in 1995 contributed the largest single gift in KU history, a $15 million surrounded himself with men who commitment for a primary care physician education program at KU Medical Center. were afraid to tell him the truth."

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 SPORTS BY CHRIS LAZZARINO So much so soon After dazzling freshmanseasons , the talented triad of , an icon of KU women's basketball now in her sec- Collison, Gooden and Hiniich grows into comfort zone ond year as an assistant coach, recently was inducted into the Kansas City hey arrived in 1999 Sports Walk of Stars. as one of the finest Woodard, c'81, was the first female Tincoming class of athlete to be so honored. freshmen Kansas basketball "When I think about my career and I ever welcomed. Guard Kirk realize that I've been out of school 20 Hinrich and forwards Drew years this May, I first of all wonder how Gooden and Nick Collison anyone can still remember," she says. did not disappoint. "But they do, so obviously I'm blessed." Hinrich wrestled the Woodard was a four-time All-Ameri- starting guard job can and two-time Academic Ail-Ameri- from Jeff Boschee, then an can during her playing days at KU. She established sophomore, with set and still holds KU records for 13 games remaining in the career points (3,649), rebounds (1,714), steals (522) and games played (139). season. Hinrich went on to lead the team with 123 She is perhaps best known nationally as the first female member of the assists, and, in his most , with whom she important assignment, performed in 1985 and '86.Woodard against Duke's Jason also captained the U.S. women's basket- Williams in the NCAA Tour- ball team that won the 1984 Olympic nament, he had 12 points gold medal. She ended her playing and six assists while playing career by retiring from the WNBA in good defense. Hinrich 1998, and joined her KU mentor, coach earned both the team's Most , as an assistant Improved Player award and before last season. a starting position that looks "Lynette is one of the most brilliant to be his as long as he wears sports figures to come out of this area," a KU uniform. Washington says. "We are so thrilled." Gooden, a graceful 6- Woodard says she was particularly foot-10 Californian, led the delighted that her mother, Dorothy, was team in rebounds with 7.5 a able to come in from Wichita for the game and was second in November ceremony at the Gem The- scoring with 10.6 points a atre in Kansas City's Jazz District, but game. He started just eight she also cherishes other special memo- HE'S NO ZERO: Forward Drew Gooden, who led the team in times, but his production off rebounds as a freshman, is considered KU's best offensive rebounder. ries: Woodard was inducted along with the bench filled KU fans the late Chiefs linebacker Derrick with anticipation for the heights he might Tournament, against DePaul and Duke, Thomas and former Kansas City Royals one day reach. Collison shot .576 from the floor, averag- sensation Bo Jackson. Collison, 6-9 and, like Hinrich, from ing 7.5 points and 11 rebounds. This "Meeting Bo Jackson was totally awe- Iowa, started every game as a freshman year's basketball media guide describes some," Woodard says. "I mean, I got to except for Senior Day. He was third on Collison as "the most consistent per- meet Superman. Now I know how Lois the team in scoring with 10.5 points a former last season." Lane felt." game and second in rebounding with 6.9 And now that it has enjoyed its season The Kansas City Sports Walk of Stars a game. For the season, his field-goal per- is at the Barney Allis Plaza in downtown of big hits, the group already wants to centage was .497. During Big 12 Confer- Kansas City, Mo. break up. Sort of. ence play, he shot .489. And in the NCAA "We're trying to get away from that

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'sophomore trio' thing," Gooden says. points and had six rebounds; Gooden "Whether all of us are out there on the scored 15, with eight rebounds; and Hin- floor or one of us is out there on the floor, rich scored 14, with six rebounds and five it really doesn't matter. We're just trying assists. The only other Jayhawk in double- to come together as a team." figures was senior center Eric Chenowith, Indeed, there seems to be less of a who had 13 points and seven rebounds. THERE WASN'T MUCH on the group mentality as each of the talented "Once you know something, you can line except pride, but sometimes pride sophomores develops his own identity. do a better job of it, so the sophomores, is enough. When the KU While the Jayhawks struggled with in particular, are better," Williams says. team traveled to Norman, Okla., for injuries during the early season, especially "All three of those guys do feel much the final match of the season, the Jay- the foot injury that kept senior guard more comfortable and are not as hesitant. hawks were 14-14; a win or loss would Kenny Gregory on the bench for much of They realize that if I yell, it doesn't hurt make the difference in a winning or los- December, Collison, Hinrich and Gooden for too long." ing season. And senior outside hitter provided the foundation. After his 23 points against DePaul and Amy Myatt needed eight kills to break Despite losing his automatic-starter sta- 19 against Tulsa, Collison was again com- KU's single-season record of 450, set in 1987 by Judy Desch. tus, Collison has flourished. With Gregory ing off the bench against Ohio State. and senior Luke Axtell both out with Williams says Collison doesn't mind not So when Myatt opened the match with a thunderous kill, the Jayhawk injuries, Collison averaged 21 points on starting, because most of the top players bench erupted. 74-percent shooting in victories over get relatively equal playing time, regard- "The entire team started scream- DePaul and Tulsa, and was named Big 12 less of who starts. "Nick really has a ing," Myatt told the University Daily Player of the Week. tremendous attitude," Williams says. "He Kansan after the Nov. 25 match. "I looks at it the right way. He wants to be Hinrich averaged 11.3 points and 7.1 think that everyone at Oklahoma must assists through 10 games, while also aver- in there with the game on the line." have thought we were crazy, because aging only 3.2 turnovers. Gooden, who Collison slightly disagreed: "There is a we were just going nuts and it was only earned as many starts through the Dec. 23 little difference. In the DePaul game, espe- the first point." Ohio State game as he did all of last sea- cially, I was really fired up to come out KU swept the Sooners in three son, was averaging 16.4 points and 8.1 and play." games, giving the Jayhawks their first rebounds. But Collison also insisted "it's up to back-to-back winning seasons since From the start, a Nov. 1 exhibition Coach," and "I'm playing about the same 1992 and '93. And Myatt scored 14 game, the entire team seemed to be mov- minutes, so it doesn't bother me too kills, giving her the season record at ing faster—or perhaps smoother—than much." 457; she scored 423 kills as a junior, last season. Coach Roy Williams didn't Collison proved Williams correct at making her the first Jayhawk with two believe it, since KU had the same players, Ohio State, where he played just 21 min- 400-kill seasons. but Gregory made the distinction that utes and scored only 10 points. But, as "Amy really put together a solid while the lineup featured the same play- Williams predicted, Collison came season," coach Ray Bechard says. "I am ers, the players were not the same. through with the game on the line. very proud of her hard work and all of "The sophomores aren't worrying so With about 10 seconds remaining, her accomplishments during her career much about making mistakes, so they are Ohio State trailed by one point, 69-68. at KU.The record is something she can moving better on the court," Gregory Guard Brian Brown tried a 15-foot jump be very proud of." says. "The young guys aren't worried shot, but was well guarded by Boschee. Also leaving the team are seniors about pleasing Coach. They're concentrat- The shot missed. The Buckeyes got the Nancy Bell, who had 359 kills, Danielle ing on making plays. That makes a differ- ball back and, with just a few seconds Geronymo, who had 287 kills, and Sara ence." remaining, Brown tried another jump Kidd, who recovered from an early-sea- The non-conference schedule hinged shot, from the baseline. son ankle injury to become a starter on the Dec. 7 game at Wake Forest. After Collison blocked it, preserving KU's with 10 games left in the season. a string of five forgettable opponents at one-point victory. Bell set a record of her own with the best hitting percentage in a three- home, the Jayhawks traveled to Wake "I think that in those tough games, game match, scoring .833 with 15 kills Forest filled with confidence. Misplaced someone needs to step up and say the and no errors in 18 attempts against confidence, as it turned out, because right things and make plays, and I think Wichita State. Wake Forest dismantled KU, 84-53. I have the ability to do that," Collison "I'm really happy that our seniors says. "It's a little away from my person- The next game, at DePaul, was critical. are able to leave the program on a win- With Gregory still out, the sophomores ality, but maybe I need to show a little ning note," Bechard said after the OU pushed KU to victory. Collison scored 23 more fire.""*"""1

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match. "As a volleyball team, we are After nine headed in a positive direction, and their games, the young contributions to this program are Jayhawks were 6- immeasurable." 3, including a Replacing Myatt, Bell and Geronymo 116-34 victory won't be easy, as the Jayhawks learned in over Mississippi 2000 when trying to replace Amanda Valley State, the Reves and Mary Beth Albrecht, who largest victory departed after the 1999 season ranked margin in team No. I and 2 on KU's career kills list. history. Leading the rebuilding will be setter But there also Molly LaMere, who had 1,295 assists as were troubling a junior, third-best in KU history. She is losses, including also third on the career assists chart a 76-54 drub- with 2,781 in three seasons. bing by Also notable is that five team mem- Creighton, which bers made Academic All-Big 12 teams. tied the Jay- Myatt, Kidd and sophomore Kylie hawks' worst Thomas were first-team, and Bell and home loss in sophomore Jamie Morningstar were team history. named to the second team. Says "We have got Bechard:"Each of them represents what POWER FORWARD: Senior Jaclyn Johnson, right, is rarely outmuscled for loose to get somewhere is good about ." balls in the lane. in the middle Bechard was particularly excited ground," John- about signing two of the state's top Have we no Pride? Yes, but son said after the Mississippi Valley State prospects, Danielle McHenry, of Topeka, victory, which came one week after the and Ashley Michaels, of Wathena. Creighton loss. McHenry, a 6-0 outside hitter at Johnson steps up as leader KU's first loss, at Alabama-Birming- Shawnee Heights High School, was the tar power rarely dims for KU women's ham, also was Johnson's worst game; she Kansas Player of the Year and led the T- Birds to their second-straight Class 5A Sbasketball. The team that produced scored seven points before fouling out championship. "Danielle has the com- four-time Ail-American Lynette Woodard early in the second half. Coach Marian plete volleyball package," Bechard says. has, since the mid-1990s, enjoyed similar Washington pulled Johnson from the "She was arguably the top prosepct in luminescence. Angela Aycock, a three- starting lineup for the next game, against the state this year and we are extremely time All-Big Eight selection, was named Louisiana-Monroe. excited to have her join our squad. We All-American in 1995. Tameka Dixon was Coming off the bench for the first time believe she will have a tremendous named the 1996 Big Eight Player of the since she was a freshman, Johnson career at Kansas and will have an imme- Year, the 1997 Big 12 Player of the Year responded with 25 points and nine diate impact on our program." and a 1997 All-American. Lynn Pride fol- rebounds. She followed that game with Michaels, a 6-1 blocker from lowed with three consecutive selections to 24 points and seven rebounds against Illi- Wathena High School, was named the the All-Big 12 first team. nois and 24 points and 12 rebounds Class 2A Player of the Year after leading But Pride finished her KU career last against Eastern Illinois. Wathena to third in state. season, leaving the Jayhawks with enough "Jackie is the go-to player for us, and "Ashley will have an immediate leaders but no true stars. we expect a lot from her this year," Wash- impact on our blocking and attacking And that's OK by Jaclyn Johnson, the ington says. "What Jackie does so well, schemes," Bechard says. "We are very 6-foot-1 senior forward from Burbank, and what we have to have, is consistent excited about the level of physicalness Calif., who has missed just one start since scoring in the paint." that she will bring to the net." her sophomore season and now finds her- Junior-college transfers KC Bechard, who took over in 1998, is self KU's leading scorer (17.4 points a Hilgenkamp (72.7 percent shooting from 47-45 in three seasons. In 13 years at game) and rebounder (8.7 points). the floor after nine games, leading the Big Barton County Community College in "My job every night is to come in and 12) and Fernanda Bosi (19 points, includ- Great Bend, he was 716-60, for a win- be consistent," Johnson says. "I don't need ing three of three on three-point attempts, ning percentage of 92.3. to be the leading scorer, but I do want to against Mississippi Valley State) are devel- be the leading rebounder every night." oping as legitimate shooting threats—

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which will open the inside for Johnson, Alabama-Birmingham and Southern Illi- Washington says. nois, and played Oklahoma tough before Washington also says Johnson is losing 34-16. At 2-2, the season looked "learning to lead." Senior point guard Jen- salvageable. After losing to K-State, KU nifer Jackson, KU's most fiery player and won at Missouri and beat Colorado at the visible leader during games, says home. At 4-3, the season looked bright. AN EXCITING GROUP of high- Johnson isn't as laid back as she might And then came losses to Texas Tech, school seniors committed to the men's appear. Nebraska, Texas and Iowa State. basketball program on signing day in "As the point guard, it's important to "You go through four weeks of losing," November, including teammates Aaron have someone to rely on to jump in Allen says, "and you are at the lowest con- Miles and Michael Lee from Jefferson someone's face," Jackson says. "And Jackie fidence level you can be at." High School in Portland, Ore., and will do that. She is intense."^"^ Allen responded by firing defensive Wayne Simien of Leavenworth High. coordinator Ardell Wiegandt and offensive Miles, a 6-0 point guard, is regarded line coach Walt Klinker, and promoting as one of the top guard prospects in the 'Urgency' sweeps football assistant head coach Darrell Wyatt to country. He averaged 13 points, seven after disappointing season offensive coordinator and associate head assists, four rebounds and three steals coach. But soon after, Wyatt left to join while leading Jefferson to the state championship as a junior. ootball is a game stuffed with statis- Oklahoma State's staff. Lee, a 6-2 , averaged tics, but, when analyzing KU's disap- Other changes look exciting: Mario F 12 points and five rebounds as a junior, pointing season, only one number Kinsey and Zach Dyer will battle at quar- and has been teamed with Miles his matters: 24, the points KU trailed by after terback; running back Reggie Duncan, entire life. Lee made an early verbal the first quarter of its first game, at South- who rushed for 222 yards as a freshman, commitment to KU. Although he says he ern Methodist. will be the featured back; and Allen has encouraged Miles to find the best fit for "We put a lot into the opening game," signed two 300-pound offensive linemen. himself, Miles says Lee's decision helped coach Terry Allen says. "To lose the way "I think there's a sense of urgency for him choose KU over Arizona. we did kind of set us up for failure." all of us," Allen says. "We're awful close to Their high-school coach has KU finished 4-7, and 2-6 in the Big 12. having a winning program. I'm convinced described Miles and Lee as "peanut but- After losing to SMU, the Jayhawks beat of that."-^*"* ter and jelly," and Miles even bragged that they teamed up to win a govern- ment-studies contest in school. "[Miles] is a big-time athlete," Williams says. "He does everything. He can pass, he can shoot, he can defend. Michael is a very good shooting guard and a very good defender." Simien, a 6-8 forward, averaged 16.5 points and 9.7 rebounds while leading Leavenworth to the Class 6A champi- onship as a junior. He has attended Williams' summer camps since seventh grade. "We think he can come in here and really help us," Williams says. Also signing a letter of intent to attend KU was Keith Langford, a 6-4 guard/forward from Crowley,Texas. Langford, a left-handed shooter, averaged 18.3 points and 7.2 rebounds while leading his high-school team to a 25-5 record as a junior. "He is a very good all-around basket-

DROPPED FORA LOSS: Quarterback Dylen Smith and the rest of the Jayhawks faced the country's fifth- ball player," Williams says. strongest schedule, behind Florida, Florida State, Miami and Colorado. According to the NCAA News, KU's opponents won 60 percent of their games.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 EAD READER 5Y CATHERINE S. EVANS A portrait of history A University geography professor's new book showcases the historical legacy and artistic vision of turn-of-the-century studio photographer JJ. Pennell

ne day in 1901 John call of the virgin's heart—as became easier to make outside Welsh reeled in a big Our Town on the Plains rich with romance and mys- the studio and just before catfish. So he did J. J. PENNELL'S PHOTOGRAPHS tery as a shuttered harem." snapshot photography became O OF JUNCTION CITY, KANSAS, what any proud fisherman 1893-1911 By meeting the demands of the rage. would do: He put on his good his customers, Shortridge Now that snapshots have clothes and carted his 4-foot notes, Pennell also captured rendered many of the former trophy downtown to have his the essence of his community. functions of portraiture obso- picture taken. Now his sou- A photograph of Edith Mon- lete, we will probably never venir photo is part of a rare roe's class proves that Junction again see the kind of public photographic history of small- City schools were integrated; inventory of fashion, lifestyles, town life at the turn of the images of prostitutes show that architecture, agriculture, busi- JAMES K SHORTRIDGE previous century, as seen Wi* « cnay by M" Pate the town's brothels were not. A ness, entertainment, trans- through the lens of Junction corset-filled display window portation and personal City photographer Joseph exposes the intimate apparel of aspiration that Pennell created. Judd Pennell. Our Town on the Plains: the day while a horse-drawn "His pictorial account is J.]. Pennell's Photographs wagon with a telephone num- biased," Shortridge writes. "It Before the proliferation of of Junction City, Kansas, snapshot cameras, portrait 1893-1922 ber advertised on the side reflects only a single perspec- photographers were routinely by James R. Shortridge emphasizes the overlap of old tive and the obvious predilec- called upon to commemorate University Press of Kansas and new technology in a cul- tions of his middle-class, fish, Studebakers, road crews, $29.95 ture in transition. probusiness, and Anglo-Amer- corn fields, shoe shops, mili- In his introductory essay, ican male existence. Compared tary maneuvers, children's par- City, Kansas, 1893-1922. John Pulz, curator of photog- with what survives for other ties and cemetery plots. In just Although Pennell's pho- raphy at KU's Spencer Muse- communities, however, it is a 30 years Pennell produced tographs are works of art and um of Art, examines how wondrously complete legacy." 30,000 glass-plate negatives of history in their own right, timing played a big part in the Our Town on the Plains goes far the acclaimed and ordinary Shortridge's text and captions creation of this "incredible to sustain that legacy. The people, places and events provide insight beyond what window onto small-town life." book's images and text show around Junction City and the photographer's lens could No doubt Pennell had talent how our world has changed, nearby Fort Riley. But unlike capture. He takes us on tours but, as Pulz points out, he also and how, in many ways, it has 1 many collections of its kind, of early Junction City and Fort was lucky to work during the not changed much at all.-"* * which are lost to time, Pen- Riley, sharing forgotten tidbits heyday of portrait photogra- —Evans, c'78, g'90, is a nell's negatives were saved, in of daily life. To Pennell's black- phy, just after negatives Lawrence free-lance writer. KU's Kansas Collection at the and-white photo of the local Spencer Research Library. department store's mushroom- Excerpt from Our Town on the Plains Pennells photographs have brimmed hats and hussar tur- "Although much can be learned about the values of towns- appeared in publications, exhi- bans, Shortridge adds the people from looking at streetscapes, it is human nature to want bitions, PBS documentaries popular millinery colors of the to venture under the awnings and into the shops. Pennell's and, perhaps most famously, day—mulberry, serpent green, photographs allow us to do this. ... Most of his photographs on the opening credits for the catawba, dull rose and wiste- were celebratory, taken soon after the store in question had television series "Cheers." ria. To complement Pennell's either opened or remodeled. Since such events also were cov- Now, KU geography professor exterior view of the Columbia ered regularly by the local press, it often is possible to pair a James R. Shortridge showcases Theatre, Shortridge quotes the contemporary description of the scene with a photograph. As a nearly 150 of Pennell's best advertising copy for "The Vir- result, we are able to reconstruct not only a stroll down Wash- and most revealing images in gin of Stamboul," the feature ington Street circa 1905 but also a visit inside a fair sampling Our Town on the Plains: J. J. movie of the week: "A mighty of the stores to see and hear what was on people's minds." Pennell's Photographs ojJunctionphotodrama as human as the

L8] KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 OREAD WRITER BY PATRICK QUINN

its abrupt ending. His gorgeously forebod- ing music exhibits an exquisite sensibility The undead lives! for the film's strengths and weaknesses; when performed live, with the movie on a Since 1931, the true horror of 'Dracula' has been sound— theatrical screen before a full house, the effect produced is as close as we can come until now, as composer Glass proves with live lied show to sharing the unsettling thrills experi- enced by audiences when "Dracula" t is usually unwise to fiddle with a which have soundtracks, and asked the (billed as "the strangest passion the world masterpiece, however flawed. Like composer Philip Glass to create a score has ever seen!") was originally released on Imost 1960s kids, my friends and I for "Dracula." Glass, who moves easily Valentine's Day 70 years ago. knew all about Bela Lugosi's iconic por- between the avant-garde and the main- Universal originally sent Glass copies trayal of Count Dracula long before we stream, leaped at the chance, producing of "Dracula," "Frankenstein" and "The ever saw Universal's 1931 film. Then and an ornate, sweeping composition for Mummy," and asked if he would be inter- now, the childhood business of vampir- ested in scoring one of the three. "I want- ing, be it for Halloween or merely to ed to do all of them," Glass says. "I picked annoy your little brother, consists of 'Dracula' because it's essentially an unfin- creeping about in a paper cape and rub- ished film, and I thought it would most ber fangs, holding your hands like claws directly benefit from the music, but I and growling,"! vant ... to zuck ... your asked them not to assign the other two bloodr until they heard what I did with this one. In a pinch one can dispense with the So far, they haven't." cape and fangs; it's the accent that mat- ters, and it's the accent that signifies that the vampire you are personating is the one so famously played by Lugosi, a Hun- garian actor whose uncertain English dic- string quartet that perfectly tion made his Dracula immortal and captures the film's 19th- blighted the remainder of his career. century high romanticism. When in the early 1970s I finally saw Glass wrote the score for "Dracula" in its entirety at a film festival, I the Kronos Quartet, the recognized its seminal importance, time- celebrated American less appeal and undeniable shortcomings. ensemble whose perfor- Lugosi's is one of the great performances mance of it is now part of in cinema history, but "Dracula" as a com- all licensed copies of the plete work has not entirely held up. The movie. Glass and the quar- brilliant, expressionistic and hugely influ- tet toured with "Dracula," ential opening reel, set in the count's performing the score live in Transylvania castle and featuring many of conjunction with the the- Lugosi's most memorable lines (including atrical exhibition of the film, and in It's probably silly, this fascination with the ominous "I never drink ... wine"), November they brought the show to KU's old horror movies that so notably lack cannot overcome a stage-bound script or Lied Center. today's spectacular special effects, but I stiff direction. "Dracula" soon slumps into A flawed masterpiece is nonetheless wonder if any modern chiller-thriller con- a talky re-enactment of the original Broad- a masterpiece, and I approached the per- tains a line to match the count's elliptical way play that today seems far more dated formance warily, but any doubts were warning to his famous nemesis, colored than Universals other legendary horror quickly erased; the score is a splendid now with the sinister undertones of Glass' film of 1931, "Frankenstein." Technical addition to the movie. Glass, a frequent score: "For one who has not lived even a limitations contribute to the choppy pace: performer at the Lied Center and some- single lifetime, you're a wise man, Van Sound techniques did not permit addition thing of a Lawrence regular, said after the Helsing." I cannot wait to hear what Glass of a score or soundtrack. show that he eschewed camp and tried will put behind Colin Clive's crazed, That last shortcoming has now been instead to "honor the spirit of the film." immortal, "It's alive ... it's alive ... IT'S corrected. In 1998 Universal began He succeeded. His score utterly trans- ALIVE !"-^— preparing for the remastering and rere- forms "Dracula," smoothing the some- —Quinn, a Lawrence writer, is a regular lease of its 1930s horror films, none of times-awkward transitions and softening contributor to Kansas Alumni.

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hen the New Year dawns amid resolutions to slim down and shape up, 38-year-old Matt Miller of Kansas City will round up several friends and business associates and drive to Lawrence. Just as he's done for the past six years, Miller, owner and presi- PHOTOGRAPHS BY WALLY EMERSON dent of Robert E. Miller Insurance Co., will lead his convoy of out-of-shape, middle-aged businessmen to Robinson Gymnasium, where he'll introduce them to Jeffrey Potteiger, director of the Exercise Physiology Laboratory run by the department of health, sport & exercise sciences. Under Potteiger's supervision, these usually desk- bound men of commerce will undergo the kind of pre- cise, state-of-the-art fitness testing that health clubs, with their skinfold calipers, height/weight charts and one-size-fits-all exercise prescriptions, can only dream MoCoM of. Each will be submerged in a tank of water, where his underwater weight will be recorded by a hydro- static scale. After being hooked to an intimidating array of machines that measure blood pressure, heart rate and the chemical composition of every labored exhalation, he'll step onto a treadmill. As graduate students monitor the machines and increase the tread- mill's grade and speed every three minutes, each man will be exhorted to walk, then run, until he can't continue. What each will get for his toil and sweat is a precise measure of two important indicators of his overall health: maximal oxygen uptake, or VO2 max, which quantifies the body's ability to get oxygen to the mus- cles; and body composition, the percentage of body weight divided between fat and nonfat tissue. Both values are excellent indicators of not only a person's fitness, but of his risk for developing heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer. Like Miller, the members of his entourage are exec- utives with hectic, stress-filled schedules. "They want

21 the court I make shots I could never get to before." But perhaps most surprising about Miller's turnaround is that by the usual standard of shaping up it would be con- sidered a bust: Matt Miller's health kick gained him 10 pounds.

eople have always used weight as a measure of fitness, but that can be deceiving," Potteiger says. "How much of your weight is made up of body fat is more important than how much you weigh." The research that Potteiger and his col- leagues conduct is dedicated, in large part, to destroying just that sort of myth about what it means to get in shape. By doing so, they hope to make it easier for time-stressed Americans to make a com- mitment to improving their health. "I think our mission is two-fold," Pot- teiger says. "On one hand, we do some esoteric research that might not have much apparent application to the average person." Some of that research focuses on top-flight athletic performance, a facet that naturally attracts media spotlight in a culture that's fascinated with its athletic superstars. But 70 to 80 percent of research conducted at the Exercise Physiology Labora- Senior Natalie Skola (p. 20) bikes to VO2 max in the lab's environmental chambenThe breathing valve (also modeled by tory and the neighboring doctoral student Jess Acosta, above) connects to a metabolic measurement cart, which gauges cardiorespiratory fitness. Energy Balance Laboratory addresses general health issues that affect the widest to shape up because they realize that if overestimated our fitness," says Miller, possible range of people: the 99 percent you're all business and don't take care of whose body composition—27 percent fat of us who aren't athletes. your health, eventually your health is and 73 percent nonfat—ranked in the "We want to find out what kind of going to affect business," Miller says. By tenth percentile for his age group, a cate- training programs work best, what ways coming to the Robinson labs, they will gory deemed well below average. people can exercise to improve their take advantage of a community outreach Resolving to improve his health, Miller health and reduce their risks for disease, program that lets the public benefit from began following an exercise routine how to get people to lose weight most the most up-to-date theories in exercise sketched out by Potteiger. He hit the effectively, or maintain a healthy weight," physiology in a University research lab weights at his athletic club on two days, Potteiger explains. "Those are the kinds of considered among the most advanced in did aerobics on one, and played at least issues we're concerned with." the nation. two games of tennis or racquetball weekly. "I think sometimes we get a bad rap on But they will come primarily because He returned twice yearly to check his campus, because people think we're just a they have seen what the place did for body composition and VO2 max. Six bunch of PE. teachers," says John Thy- Miller, who first visited with a similar years later, Miller's body fat is 15 percent, fault, who's working on his doctorate in group in 1995. "We all wrote down what in the above-average, 70th percentile for exercise physiology. "But really the kind of we thought our body composition would his age group. "I'm in better shape now research we're doing has the potential to be," Miller recalls, "then we got weighed." than when I was 30," he reports. "I need play a larger role in helping society than The results were shocking. "We all vastly less sleep and feel better all around. On any other research on campus."

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 Indeed, the potential applications of much. In all things, moderation. ology lab has existed at KU, in one form the research conducted in the two labs The good news is that researchers have or another, since the days when Dr. Nai- are, by all indications, huge. According to discovered significant benefits from even smith promoted basketball to encourage statistics from the National Institutes of moderate exercise. wintertime exertion. But the addition of Health, 61 percent of Americans—123 "Twenty or 30 years ago, we used to the $ 1 million Energy Balance Laboratory million in all—are overweight or obese. say that if you wanted to get in shape, last January transformed the Robinson The percentage of children with weight you had to do 30 minutes of continuous facility into one of the top exercise physi- problems, arguably the most troubling aerobic exercise at 70 to 80 percent of ology research labs in the nation. legacy of the country's sedentary lifestyle, your maximal heart rate at least three Brian McCluskey, president and CEO has doubled since 1960, to nearly 20 per- days a week," Potteiger says. "Now we of Rehabilitation Services, a Columbus, cent. The percentage of obese children know that you can get a lot of benefit Ga., physical therapy and athletic training (the most seriously overweight who are at from a couple of 15-minute sessions a services company, is familiar with similar least 20 percent above their ideal weight) day. A lot of people think they don't have has nearly tripled. And while weight is the time to exercise; they want to know, the most apparent and frequently cited 'If I take a couple of 15-minute walks, evidence of America's unhealthy lifestyle, will that help me?' Yes, it does." researchers argue that inactivity—which can be one of the contributing factors to obesity—is the root cause of poor fitness. Even lean people who lead sedentary lifestyles have higher disease risks and can improve their health significantly by exer- ot only do the Robinson cising regularly. labs givne the community a chance to ben- The cost of poor fitness, according to efit from the latest technology in exercise an advocacy group called Scientists physiology, but they also are expanding Against Inactivity Related Diseases, is the boundaries of what science knows immense: Insufficient exercise is linked to about the human body's response, on a at least 17 chronic diseases that cause biological level, to different degrees of 250,000 annual deaths and cost an esti- exercise and nutrition. An exercise physi- mated $1 trillion to treat. Debunking the biggest exercise misconceptions—includ- ing the "no pain, no gain" ethic that sug- gests you have to punish yourself to get in shape—could pay big health dividends by encouraging more people to exercise. university facilities across the South. He "People who exercise at the right inten- toured the KU labs in October, while in sity, duration and frequency are more Lawrence to address a campus meeting of likely to persist," Potteiger says. "I try to the American College of Sports Medicine break it down for my students very sim- (ACSM). "I was amazed at a couple of ply: We tend to avoid things we don't things," McCluskey says. "The equipment, enjoy. If something makes you sore and for starters. The KU lab is much better exhausted, then you'd have to be pretty equipped than any other university lab motivated to continue. No wonder most I've seen." people don't. Exercise should be enjoy- The lab boasts five metabolic carts, one able. When you start out it can't be tor- of them portable. The carts are the basic ture, because who wants to do that?" diagnostic tools that exercise physiologists When Americans attack their newly use to analyze cardiorespiratory fitness. resolved bids to shape up with the same "Most universities would be happy to overindulgence that marks their raids on have one or two," Potteiger says. A new holiday buffet tables, it comes as no sur- biochemical lab stocked with lactate ana- prise that the results of our annual blitz of lyzers, spectrophotometers, fluorometers, well-intentioned exertion blood gas analyzers and EKG is about as sustainable as a machines equips Potteiger and his year-round diet of eggnog Researchers can accurately estimate body composition by comparing dry students to perform blood work and and fruit cake. Whether weight with underwater weight taken on the lab's hydrostatic scale. even collect tissue samples such as it's rich food or exercise, Doctoral student John Thyfault demonstrates. muscle biopsies. An environmental the body can take only so chamber capable of simulating con-

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 23 thought of around the country." At the The $300,000 indirect calorimeter chamber; demonstrated byThyfault and fellow doctoral student Matt Hulver; meaures metabolic rates over a 24-hour period.The chamber is one of only a handful nationwide. national ACSM conference last year, more KU students presented their research than did students from any other university, ditions ranging from January cold snaps types of tissue: fat, nonfat and bone. The McCluskey says. to the hot, humid dog days of August lets $70,000 DEXA (Dual Energy X-Ray Like most labs on campus, the Exercise researchers study the weathers effect on Absorptiometer) scanner can perform Physiology and Energy Balance laborato- human performance. An indirect even more accurate calculations than ries give students a place to get applied calorimeter chamber—a sealed room hydrostatic weighing, which uses the dif- experience in their field by working with capable of measuring a research subjects fering rates of buoyancy for fat and nonfat the latest equipment and designing and metabolic rate over a 24-hour period by tissue to estimate body composition. In conducting their own research. But unlike analyzing the content of respiratory fact, DEXA scanning is the only method many such facilities, where the subjects of gases—is currently undergoing the cus- accepted by the National Institutes of inquiry—mass spectometry, isotope geo- tomarily long, delicate calibration proce- Health for its studies; having access to the chemistry, nuclear magnetic resonance— dure required of such a complex technology clearly creates more research can seem hopelessly esoteric to most of diagnostic device. Once that process is opportunities for the departments faculty us, the Robinson labs are engaged in completed, the $300,000 chamber (one and student scholars. And they've deliv- unraveling the mysteries of a subject of of only a handful nationwide) is expected ered, according to McCluskey. universal and everyday application: the to draw researchers to KU from all over "Even more impressive than all that serious business of taking care of our- the Midwest. equipment is that the faculty and students selves. "The great thing about this new lab The lab also features a diagnostic are very well represented in the litera- is that it really expands our capability to machine, called a DEXA, that uses a low- ture," he says. "They're very active in pub- study more subjects with better techno- level X-ray beam to scan the body's three lishing their research and are highly logy," Potteiger says. "It really enhances

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 our ability to get at some serious driving questions about how to improve public Smarter, harder, faster, stronger health." In a study commissioned by the Amer- ican Heart Association, Potteiger and Thy- lthough most research conducted at the Exercise Physiology and fault are studying middle-aged men to Energy Balance laboratories targets public health, a significant por- determine whether resistance training tion focuses on athletic performance. (what most of us refer to as weightlifting) "We can be very precise with the kinds of measurements we do here," says lab can be as effective for weight loss as aero- director Jeffrey Potteiger. "We're pretty high-tech when it comes to determining bic exercises such as jogging and cycling. how much force an athlete can generate and is that going to translate to a higher Initial results show that under such a regi- pole vault, is that going to make them a better triple jumper." men many men, like Matt Miller and his The labs have put that precision testing to work for several KU sports teams, friends, can reduce fat even as they gain including track and field, cross country, men's swimming and women's basketball. back some of that lost weight in muscle. "With athletes we try to make the testing as sport-specific as possible," Pot- Other projects will provide other prac- teiger says. "We try to identify all the things that are crucial to performance in tical pointers for improving fitness: A their sport and then devise ways to test those in the laboratory." study funded by the National Institutes of Cardiorespiratory fitness and body composition, important indicators of gen- Health examines how energy balance— eral health, are also important to understanding athletic performance. "With ath- how much energy people consume in letes we look at those values in terms of what might limit their performance," food calories versus how much they Potteiger says. The tests quickly get more specific, complex and invasive. expend to keep the body functioning— "With a long-distance runner or cyclist we might test how many breaths they affects weight gain. A study underwritten can take in a minute, or we'll do a muscle biopsy to determine their potential for by Gatorade examines how carbohydrate using oxygen once it gets to the tissue," Potteiger says. "We want to know which supplementation might boost perfor- specific physiological factor limits their performance." mance in resistance training. And recent Even slight improvement can pay big dividends for athletes. research on the effects of creatine, a con- "For the average healthy person a 1- to 2-percent improvement in VO2 max troversial nutritional supplement used to isn't going to make them healthier, but a 1- to 2-percent improvement in athletic boost performance by some professional performance can make all the difference in the world." athletes, has made significant discoveries Serious amateur athletes find the labs' diagnostic tests attractive as well. about the damaging effects of creatine on Tom Liebl, a 41-year-old Lawrence veterinarian and an avid cycler, felt he was the bodies of young athletes, who are pod shape when he underwent testing in November. Now training for 24 beginning to use the substance at alarm- iurs of Moab, a mountain bike relay race contested ing rates. each October in Utah, Liebl typically bikes 120 miles a The more people understand the effi- week. But he wanted a tangible measurement of his fit- cacy of alternative exercise such as resis- ness and the effectiveness of his training regimen. "It's tance training for weight management and one thing to say, 'OK, I rode for an hour and a half today cardiovascular health, Potteiger explains, and I feel great,'" he explains. "But if I can get a measure- the more they might be motivated to ment based on science that says exactly what kind of exercise. "Some people can't do aerobic physical condition I'm in, that's excellent." exercise because they find it boring, or Potteiger took that measurement by monitoring lactate stressful on the joints," he notes. "If they levels in Liebl's blood as he rode an exercise bike. At low don't enjoy it they won't do it." Rather levels of activity the body clears lactic acid as fast as its than excoriate inactive people as lazy or produced—a condition known as a lactate steady state. unmotivated, the scientific approach to As exercise intensity increases, the body eventually pro- fitness tries to find ways to make exercise duces more lactic acid than it can clear. At that point more enjoyable and more manageable—in fatigue sets in. The highest exercise intensity at which the JEFFREY POTTEIGER short, more doable for more people. body can balance production and clearance of lactic acid "The bottom line is that we conduct is the maximal lactate steady state, and it marks the highest performance level an this research because we want to help athlete can maintain for extended periods without fatigue overwhelming the people," Potteiger says. "I want to help body. "Once we identify that, we also have a training intensity that corresponds people remain physically active, be physi- with a heart rate," Potteiger says. "Now Tom can use a heart-rate monitor and cally fit and hopefully lead more produc- know exactly how hard he's working to be very precise in his training." tive lives." Americans are living longer Such precision allows athletes to train at the optimal level, one that does the than before, he notes. "If you're going to most good without doing any harm. "We know that people who train too hard live long, why not live life to its fullest burn out very quickly," Potteiger says. Overtraining can lead to mental fatigue, potential? It's important not only to have a increased injury and decreased immunity to illness. "Athletes have to work hard, long life, but to have a good life."""*"" but they also have to be smart about it."-"""1* —S.H.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 25 NBCs Bob Dotson tells untold stories of unspun heroes

BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER

Headlines fdrttie Common Man

he lazy farmer in New Hamp- headlines—for NBC, says the words of Dotson also recently returned to famil- shire figures into nearly every Frost and other poets help him write his iar territory at NBC, where he reports story Bob Dotson tells, even own stories, everyman tales of heartache, longer stories featured on the expanded though Dotson never met humor and triumph. "Today" morning show. During much of him. He talked about his craft during a his NBC career, he has reported not only TThe farmer milked cows at midnight return to the Hill Oct. 27-28, when he for "Today" but also for "NBC Nightly so he could sleep late and spent most of spoke to students, faculty, alumni and News" and weekly magazine shows from his waking hours writing poetry. fans to raise funds for KU's Friends of the his base in Atlanta. Now in New York His name was Robert Frost. Theatre. The weekend events raised more City, Dotson is heartened that NBC once Dotson, j'68, who for 25 years has than $20,000 to help refurbish Murphy again has asked him to focus on his trade- reported news—but not necessarily the Hall's William Inge Theatre. mark tales. "I want to find people who are

26 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 changing lives, and I don't mean just in news. "I get the tragic stories," he says, tion, which has existed since radio's hey- their neighborhood, but significant people "because even though people know the day, at long last acknowledged the value who don't send press releases," he says. nuts and bolts of it—they've listened to it of the words that accompany video and "It's my specialty, and I love it, because it's on CNN or MSNBC or all-news radio— created its first award for writing. The a part of journalism that people like they still want some meaning. Some sto- winner was Dotson. He is a popular lec- Charles Kuralt used to do. But it's not out ries have no meaning, but at least you can turer among colleagues and students, there anymore." put it in perspective." preaching the principles of storytelling For years Dotson so admired Kuralt Humor, even in the darkest moments, that this year he compiled in his second that he couldn't watch him on TV While is one of Dotson's favorite devices. He book, Make it Memorable: Writing and the late Kuralt was traveling the nation, even parries questions about doing the Packaging TV News with Style. His first, In producing the "On the Road" reports that tough stories with a comic yet serious Pursuit of the American Dream, appeared in became a staple of CBS and popular cul- dose of TV nostalgia. 1985. ture, Dotson vowed to skip his idol's "Remember on 'Lassie' at the end of Dotson's praise from colleagues affirms broadcasts so he could find his own style. every half-hour, when Dad came home what Bruce Linton, KU professor emeritus He found it far from the headlines. and put his arm around Timmy and said, of journalism, has long known about his "When other reporters were reading 'You see, Timmy, this is why Lassie left former student. "Bob's writing and his the New York Times, I always read and this is why she came home'? That was attention to the concepts of editing distin- poetry," he says, "not so much for the what the half-hour meant," Dotson says. guish his work," Linton says. "He goes for poetry itself but for the way the language "I try to get the 'You see, Timmy' the extra details. He cares about stories went together. I figured early on that any- moment." that may not be obvious, and he puts thing written for television had to be of Explaining what it means is the fine art together the pictures and the script in a poetic length. You have to leave time for of storytelling, which Dotson learned long knowledgeable, understanding way. As far the natural sound to play and the picture before he studied journalism at KU. As a as I'm concerned, he is as good as or bet- to develop—for people to experience the boy, he listened to stories from his grand- ter than Kuralt." scene. I write four or five words and try father, Paul Bailey, l'lO, of Hiawatha, who Though Dotson's own roads have taken to get every word so loaded that it carries shaped Dotson's youth during the boy's him across the nation and the world, the the message." visits from his St. Louis home. A favorite lesson he has learned is far from exotic. In His words bear their burdens grace- tale is of his granddad's horseback rides his plain, just-folks baritone, he says that fully. In his story about four students from Hiawatha to Lawrence for classes. underneath the veneer of various cultures, killed by a schoolmate in Jonesboro, Ark., At KU, Dotson was news director at people are much the same. "They want Dotson described the "barefoot voices" of KFKU/KANU radio and studied in the their kids to get a decent education. They the lost girls. As their school friends on radio-television-film sequence (which in want to go on vacation. They don't want camera recall Paige, Natalie, Stephanie 1995 honored him as a distinguished to work 100 hours a week, just the usual and Brittany, Dotson's stark, sublime alumnus). He earned a masters degree in stuff," he says. "If you hang out with the phrase echoes in the ears of viewers, who journalism from Syracuse University, locals long enough, you'll find there's wince at the silence once filled by four where he specialized in documentaries, Kansas all over the place." sweet voices they never heard. and at 24 returned to the Midwest to Such universal qualities help Dotson's Dotson often draws the difficult assign- work for WKY-TV (now KFOR) in Okla- storytelling thrive even in this age of ment of peering closer at the ravages of homa City. As the new reporter, he was demographically-driven, dollar-churning tragedy—prying at wounds his subjects asked to film a documentary on African- news divisions, which are known to wring want to hide. And in this era of 24-hour American history of the West. stories—and the reporters covering news online, on screen and in print, "Primarily I just went around—a boy them—dry. Dotson has known his share Dotson is usually not the first to the story. and his camera—for 11 months and tried of exhausting stints on stories that beg to By the time he asks for an interview, to talk my way into towns and families," be left alone. He grimly recalls his stay in reporters from news and tabloid media Dotson says. The resulting report, Union, S.C., where a young mother, have repeatedly picked over the sad "Through the Looking Glass, Darkly," won Susan Smith, strapped her two sons into facts of a family's lost home or hope or a national Emmy, a rarity for a local pro- the family car, then let it roll into a lake, loved one. duction. Soon after, NBC came calling, leaving her children to drown. Over 33 Dotson, however, doesn't ask the ques- and Dotson moved to Cleveland. In 1977 days, the network asked Dotson for 56 tions others ask. Often he doesn't ask he opened the networks Dallas bureau; stories on the tragedy. much at all—at least not at first. He lis- from there he covered Central America, He's much happier now, finding his tens. He makes folks feel at home. He including the war in Nicaragua. own stories, taking his time. Just a boy shares his own stories. And, when his Through the years he has picked up and his camera, looking for poets in out- subjects are ready to talk, the resulting two more Emmys and numerous other of-the-way places. ^•"* story provides perspective Dotson says is professional honors. In 1999, the Radio missing in today's nonstop, instantaneous and Television News Directors Associa-

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 Wonderful Wishbook or Handbook of Horrors? The frightful, delightful timetable endures as a demanding rite of KU passage

undaunted. Once I com- mitted myself to becom- ing an informed racing writer, I learned the code like a pro, and the bul- lets, dingbats and strings of agate type transformed from gibberish to gems. I wasn't the first neo- phyte to get hip to the Rac- ing Form, but even some of the old hands said 1 picked it up quickly. What they didn't know was, I already had spent four years in a distant apprentice- ship. After mastering KU's timetable, the Daily Racing Form was butter.

Us current timetable—the compendium of class _L Voffferings printed each semester—is 121 pages thick, not including a 35-page appendix, where students ignore the fine print about fees, examination schedules, Uni- versity policy and their rights and respon- sibilities. Tiny-type tables of abbreviations efore 1 joined the Fort Laud- readers of the great, late and much-missed run for three pages. erdale Sun-Sentinel as a sports Miami News everything they needed to "When I got here in 1990," says Regis- writer in 1986, I had been to a know from trackside. trar Richard Morrell, "people were com- racetrack exactly once, on a So how was it that someone so igno- plaining that the timetable was too hard day trip to the great, late and rant of racing might make his living in the to read. So we changed the format, came Bmuch-missed Ak-Sar-Ben, in Omaha, swinging circles of the racing circuit, as 1 up with a new design, and we got just as Neb. During my early years at the Sun- eventually did? Well, one of the keys to many complaints with the new format as Sentinel, I filled in for our horseracing understanding horseracing is being able we had with the old. writer maybe three or four times, invari- to read the Daily Racing Form's past-per- "The reality is, there is so much infor- ably relying on generous veterans, includ- formance charts, those heavily-coded lines mation in there that it overwhelms the ing the great, late and much-missed of lingo that tell the initiated how a horse students. You can't know every policy, Luther Evans, who had been the Miami performed in a given race. Such trauma every rule, everything that the timetable Heralds racing writer since, roughly, the sends many promising players back to is telling you. That's impossible. It can't dawn of time, and Art Grace, who told easier pastimes (slot machines), but I was be done."

BY CHRIS LAZZARINO ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHARLIE PODREBARAC

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 Perhaps the timetables density adds not just to its infamy, but also to its legacy. Like many of our memorable pro- fessors, the timetable has become a Mount Oread icon not because it is cuddly, but because it is stern. It can't be mastered and it won't be a fun friend. But it sure knows a lot, and it is there to guide you if you're willing to put in the time. Either that or call 864-3506. Hello, KU Info? Heeellllp! "Our timetables are shredded by the end of the semester," says Susan Elkins, program director for KU Info, the campus information hotline. "We go through two or three a semester at each of our desks." Elkins says callers with timetable ques- tions typically ask about add/drop dates, when they can withdraw from courses and when their finals are scheduled. Of course, all of this information and so very much more is supplied in the KU wish- o, but it is a time capsule. Every the Muslim Women Autobiography; Italy book—32,000 of which are printed each semester, a few copies are safely & the Italians; and Travel, Exploration semester. N stored at University Archives, and Pilgrimage. We tackled History of the "Once students enroll," Elkins says, as are undergraduate and graduate cata- Earth; World History: An Introduction; "they never keep their timetables. logues, the authoritative announcements Global Marketing; Masterpieces of World Never. Ever." compiled every two years. One day, these Literature; and, well, The Search For The poor, neglected timetable. It gets utterly unromantic documents of us will Meaning. no respect. Never. Ever. reveal who we were, what interested us And were we ever energetic, sweating "The first thing that's funny about the and how much we paid in late enroll- through Aerobic Kickboxing, Basic timetable," says Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle, ment fees. Firearms (additional fee charged for d'72, PhD'96, director of the Freshman- One day, researchers will discover that course materials), Basketball, Body Ton- Sophomore Advising Center, "is the name we examined The Varieties of Human ing, Backpacking, Bowling, Ballroom itself. No other university in the country Experience, Microorganisms in Your Dance, Disk Golf, Golf, In-line Skating, uses the phrase, as far as I know. Part of World, The Culture of KiSwahili Speaking Jogging, Judo, Karate, Ki-Aikido, Power the education for new and transfer stu- Peoples and German Cinema in Context. Lifting, Racquetball, Sand Volleyball, dents is to let them know that it's not a We studied Israeli Hebrew, American Scuba Diving, Spinning, Swimming, Ten- train schedule." Sign, Croatian-Serbian, Danish, Dutch, nis and Ultimate Frisbee (the prerequisite Czech, Polish, Russian, Ukranian, Arabic, for which would have been, had we any Haitian, German, Hausa, KiSwahili, humor, Penultimate Frisbee). Wolof, Portuguese, Spanish, We studied First Aid, Secondary Social French, Latin, Chinese, Japan- Studies and The Third World: Anthropo- ese, Korean, Italian, Cherokee, logical Approaches. We could have cho- Choctaw, Yiddish, Old Norse sen Health Systems or Propulsion and Ancient Greek—not to Systems, Biometry or Geometry, Interna- mention, by rough count, tional Business or Zoo Business. We even 401 sections of English, from were haunted by Japanese Ghosts and Composition to Doctoral Demons, as well as Goddesses to Witches: Dissertation. Women in Premodern Europe. We loved Love, Sexu- Yes, we were all over the map, but we ality and Gender in also were all over the maps, offering His- Japanese Literature, tory of Cartography, Advanced Cartogra- as well as Human phy and Problems in Production Sexuality in Everyday Cartography. Life. The timetable The undeniable evidence of our timeta- will tell the future bles and catalogues shows that we are a that we appreciated complicated tribe, but it was not always

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 all should pursue Greek." The catalogue did not list any senior courses because KU did not have any seniors.

lso notable from the first catalogue were the fees: $10 a session for Apreparatory classes, $30 a year for college classes and a "matriculation fee" of $5. Clergymen's sons and daughters paid half, and soldiers' orphans and those orphaned by Quantrill's raid were admitted free. Because archived class schedules and University catalogues have been bound together by year, it is difficult to tell pre- cisely when schedules were first pub- lished separately, although it appears that might have occurred as early as 1918. What is certain, though, is that we are misinformed when we cite its long history as the reason for our stubborn insistence on retaining the name. It was not until fall 1968 that the word "timetable" first appeared, on the "Official Timetable of Classes," which was simpli- fied to "The Timetable" in spring 1978. Morrell tweaked the name yet again in 1992, switching to the current "Timetable of Classes." "We don't call it the 'timetable," Mor- rell says. "In this office, we refer to it as and sanitary science; and Thomas A. the TIC" The Gorrill, janitor. The T.T.C. might be most appropriate poor, neglected The Rev. R.W Oliver was identified as of all, because it sure needs a lot of T.L.C. chancellor, but only because he was ex- Four registrar's office employees work timetable. It gets officio president of the Board of Regents. nearly all year on scheduling classes, toil- no respect. His name did not appear with—and he ing a year ahead of the schedules they was not, in fact, a member of—the compile. Preparations for the fall 2001 Never. Ever. faculty. KU had modeled itself on the timetable, for instance, began in Novem- University of Michigan, which 30 years ber, when the registrar's office sent copies earlier had originally provided for a chan- of the fall 2000 schedule to every depart- so. There were simpler times and simpler cellorship. But Michigan could not figure ment on campus. University catalogues, like the first, pub- out what it was a chancellor was sup- Departments returned the class sched- lished at the start of KU's inaugural fall posed to do and never went beyond nam- ules with changes noted, the changes semester, in 1866. The 18-page "Cata- ing a president; since KU followed were made in the registrar's computer files logue of the University of Kansas, with Michigan's lead, it, too, was uncertain and sent out again to be proofed. That Officers and Students, and a General about the office of the chancellor. As evi- process goes through two or more cycles, Description of the University," was long denced by the first catalogue, Oliver's during which time the associate registrar only on title. chancellorship did not make him a mem- for enrollment services sends out a call to On the second page, there was this fac- ber of the faculty, although Gorrill's jani- 30 or 40 campus administrators for the ulty roster: Elial Jay Rice, president and torship apparently did. rest of the information that fills out the professor of mental and moral science and That first catalogue listed KU's courses, timetable. belles lettres; David Hamilton Robinson, optional only to the extent that students By February, the registar's office will professor of ancient languages and litera- pursued either preparatory or college send the summer and fall timetables to ture; Frank Huntington Snow, professor coursework, and that "young ladies who the printer in Seattle, for delivery in the of mathematics and natural sciences; desire can take French instead of Greek, middle of March. And then comes Albert Newman, lecturer upon hygiene although it is earnestly recommended that spring 2002.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 "There have been some good celebra- tions when it's finally sent off to the printer," Morrell says. "It's a necessary What's in a name? evil. There's so much information in there, we can't get it 100 percent correct. We ocks for Jocks, Weird Weather, geology chair WR. Van Schmus, but it's send it to press, get it back, distribute it Darkness at Noon, Bugs 'n' Boys, only happenstance. and hope there's no glaring error in it." RPsychoSat ... those were our "You want the name to reflect what names for Gemstones (Geology 315), the subject is," Van Schmus says, "and in ames Carothers, professor of English Unusual Weather (Atmospheric Science this particular case, it's a very interesting and veteran of the College of Liberal 220), Introduction to Art History (His- subject. The two go hand in hand." Arts and Science's advising and cur- tory of Art 100), Insects and Human Bill Tuttle, professor of American Jnculum committees, says, "Any [new Affairs (Biology 120), and the Psycho- studies and winner of the most recent faculty member] who starts out advising logy of Satisfaction (Psychology 574). HOPE Award, acknowledges "two freshmen will become pretty familiar with If professors want more attention schools of thought" in naming courses, the timetable and how it works with (and enrollment) for their hard work, one directed toward increasing enroll- about a good solid week of advising, if perhaps they should follow the students' ment, the other having no such direct they're doing it conscientiously." leads and create snappy course titles that intent. A weehl Watching a good adviser whis- are equally as memorable as the subjects "Either way," Tuttle says, "I don't tle through the timetable is nothing short they present. think it makes much difference. Some of amazing, and surely seems the product Or not. courses might carry jazzy titles and still of years of toil. One of the greats is Lorna "I think there's a sense that a certain not gain enrollment, while others are Zimmer, now director of services for stu- decorum is appropriate," says English pretty straightforward and have no prob- dents with disabilities, who earned her professor James Carothers. lems getting enrollment." sparkling timetable reputation as director Carothers and others around campus Says geology's Van Schmus, "There's a of the student assistance center from insist a course title must be informative pretty good grapevine out there, so if a 1979-'97. Carothers is an acknowledged and accurate. If it is also seductive, that course is poorly taught, nobody will expert. And so was Dana Leibengood, is only a bonus—and a bonus few fac- take it no matter what the name is." j'55, g'69, who spent three decades as the ulty would acknowledge. That grapevine is both helpful and School of Journalism's director of student Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle, director of dangerous, says Lorna Zimmer, who services and all-around ace adviser. the Freshman-Sophomore Advising Cen- spent nearly 20 years as director of the Leibengood needed about 15 minutes, ter, cites Earthquakes and Natural Disas- student assistance center. pausing only long enough to ask about ters (Geology 171) as "a great class" "Too often students get on the interests outside of journalism, to chart a whose intriguing name attracts science- grapevine and listen to what other stu- rough draft of coursework that would shy students. That's wonderful, says dents are saying, some of which applies guide a freshman from arrival to them and some which doesn't," Zim- on the Hill to walking mer says. "Just because a course is well down the Hill. known doesn't mean it's the right course Leibengood retired for a particular student." a few years ago, and, Anyone who fusses that course like everyone except names are overly dry might be com- Morrell, groaned when forted to know that it's not just a told the purpose of the matter of academic propriety. call was the timetable. "There is a sense of responsibility After 20 minutes of recount- to the students because of the effects ing the logistics of preparing course transcripts have on people beyond the schedules a year in advance and the University," Carothers says. "If a homework that went into his seem- prospective employer sees a course with ingly effortless expertise on the what looks to be a silly or frivolous title, best classes and teachers, they may not have as much he finally asked to be respect for the student or the set free. University."^"** "This retirement thing —C.L. is hard to beat," Leiben- good says. "Talking about the timetable makes me doubly appreciative. "-*-*""1

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day 2000. She also serves on the boards of KU's Hall Center for the Humanities 6 nominated for board and the Kansas Council on Economic Education. Judge Thomas M. Tuggle chairs committee that selects John P Hanna, c'65, d'66, g'67, PhD'73, annual member and a member of Board of Directors candidates; member voting up next the Jayhawk Society, Langhorne, Pa. He is a principal officer at American Capital Access, a newly formed insurance com- pany that provides marketing and finan- cial analyses of colleges and universities. Hanna was president of Northwest Col- lege in Powell, Wyo., from 1991 to '97 and director of community colleges for the Kansas Department of Education from 1986 to'91. Marvin R. Motley, c'77, l'8O, g'81, life member, Leawood. He is vice president of human resources operations for Sprint global markets group. Before he joined Sprint in 1986, Motley was a staff attor- ALTMAN DOCKING HANNA ney with Kansas City Power and Light and an associate with the Kansas City law firm Morris, Larson, King, Stamper and Bold. Motley is a former member of the Board of Governors of the University of Kansas Law School and he served on the Association's Board of Directors from 1989 to '94. Michael D. Stevens, b'77, life member, Sublette. Stevens is chairman and CEO of Centera Bank, and president and director of Santa Fe Trail Bane Shares Inc., a bank holding company. He is a Sublette city councilman, treasurer and director of the MOTLEY STEVENS WESCOE Sublette Public Schools Foundation, a volunteer youth basketball coach, an urrent regular members will elect three years. Professional affiliations investor in the Dodge City Legend U.S. three new directors this spring to include the Professional Convention Man- Basketball League team, and is a frequent Cfive-year terms on the Association's agement Association and the American participant in Alumni Association activi- national Board of Directors. Ballots will be Society for Association Executives. She ties in Western Kansas. wrapped around the No. 2 Kansas Alumni. also is active with the Susan G. Komen David B. Wescoe, c'76, life member, Six candidates were nominated Dec. 8 Foundation. Milwaukee. He is vice president for by a committee chaired by Judge Thomas Jill Sadowsky Docking, c'78, g'84, life Northwestern Mutual and president of M. Tuggle, 1'67, of Concordia. The 2001 member, Wichita. Docking joined A.G. Northwestern Mutual Investment Ser- nominees are: Edwards and Sons, Inc., in 1988 as an vices, the company's broker-dealer sub- Pamela Phillips Altman, d'73, life investment broker and is currently vice sidiary. Wescoe previously was a partner member, Dallas. National sales manager president of investments. She is co-chair in private law practice and counsel to two for Opryland Hotel Texas, Altman previ- of the Kansas Justice Commission and commissioners of the U.S. Securities and ously was national sales manager for the president of Financial Fitness Foundation. Exchange Commission. Community ser- Loews Anatole and Wyndham Anatole With her husband, former Lieutenant vice activities include board memberships hotels. She also worked as a preschool Governor Tom Docking, c'76, g'80, l'8O, with the United Performing Arts Fund and kindergarten teacher in Dallas for she served as co-chair of Operation Holi- and the United Way of Greater Milwau-

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kee. He is the son of W Clarke Wescoe, with certificates, sorted into a precise the University's chancellor from 1960 order, packed into boxes and finally lifted to '69. onto carts. At 40 pounds apiece, the Along with Tuggle, members of the annual total of 360 boxes means the KHP nominating committee were Laura H. student assistant—this year it's junior Cummings, n'56, Wichita; Linda B. Stew- Susie Sadrakula—hoists 14,400 pounds, art, '60, Wellington; Brad Scafe, c'80, or 7.2 tons, of words. Overland Park; and Robert T. Stephan, It's a toil made with pleasure. '54, Lenexa. "This is the only program that reaches Members may nominate additional all alumni annually throughout the state," candidates by submitting petitions signed by at least 100 paid members, with no more than 50 from the same county. Nominees' photographs and biographical information should accompany petitions M£^ LI and must reach the Association by Feb. 15. Mail to the Alumni Association Nominating Committee, Adams Alumni Center, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. To help members make their choices, i the Association will provide complete biographical information and the nomi- nees' statements in one package with the ballot, which will be wrapped around w1 the outside of Kansas Alumni. Each maga- zine will include one or two ballots, depending on the number of voting members in that household. Annual and life members are eligible to vote; the Association's bylaws prohibit associate members (those who did not attend the we University) from voting.^"""1

Words for the wise: KHP celebrates 30th year of honoring Kansas students

hoever claims words don't carry Wweight hasn't worked for the Kansas Honors Program. The Associa- tion's popular program, which honors the achievements of high-school seniors throughout Kansas, carries as its icon the famous blue American Heritage dictionaries. But before the dictionaries arrive at ACADEMIC STARS SHINE:The Nov. 14 ceremony honoring 184 seniors from lOTopeka-area high each of the 40 special events honoring schools was a typically festive Kansas Honors Program evening, including (from the top) Hayden High School's spirited honorees; alumni volunteers Michael, c'61, d'62, and Marcia Nelson Cassidy, d'62, coordinators of the about 3,600 students annually through- Topeka program since 1987; and Paige Ralston, of Hayden High, accepting the customized KHP dictionary out the state, they are first customized emblematic of academic achievement in Kansas.

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says program director Carolyn Mingle grades and that KU and the Alumni Asso- When they use their dictionary, they Barnes, c'80. "This is our way of going ciation are superbly represented to remember that special night when they out into their communities. Along with Kansans who might otherwise have little were honored in front of their families." honoring the students, that's what is most contact with the Crimson and Blue. And that's what truly makes KHP a important about this program." "We have about 160 alumni volun- labor of love—even the heavy lifting. -"-•• The Kansas Honors Program is cur- teers," Barnes says. "Along with the high- rently celebrating its 30th anniversary. It school counselors, these volunteers are has honored more than 76,000 high- really the key link. It's their job to get this school seniors, all in the top 10 percent of whole thing done on the local level." McClain, Ruedlinger help their classes. While the athletes, perform- The customized American Heritage SAM Semi-Formal swing ing artists and other achievers regularly dictionaries emblazoned with the gold bask in the applause of their family and KHP logo are provided by the Crowell friends, the academic stars rarely hear Book Award, established by the Endow- tudent Alumni Association's splendid public praise. ment Association through a 1936 endow- Ssoiree of the season, the SAA Semi- They do at KHP ceremonies, where top ment of $2 million from Atchison grain Formal, swung with extra enthusiasm at KU administrators and faculty, principals, merchant Frank Crowell, c'1888. its annual December renewal. superintendents, counselors and families "Athletes have their sports trophies, Former Association employee Judy gather for festive evenings of good food but academic achievers don't usually get Ruedlinger, the Student Alumni Associa- and even a few musical numbers by KU such recognition," Barnes says. "The dic- tion's first leader, helped SAA members singers and pianists. Also at each KHP tionary is their trophy. It's a nice symbolic welcome back to the Hill Gene McClain, ceremony are the local alumni volunteers tradition. Many of them keep the dictio- b'58, a former Alumni Association board who donate time, enthusiasm and money naries at their desks in college and even member who endowed the Judy L. to see that students are honored for good in their workplace many years later. Ruedlinger Award to provide $250 schol- arships for books and tuition to each deserving winner. McClain flew in from Chicago to attend the festivities Dec. 8 at the Adams Alumni Center. "We were all impressed by his dedica- tion," says Jennifer Mueller, g'99, director of student programs. "What an impres- sion he left on the students, not only that he endowed the scholarship, but that he was so interested in SAAs well-being and future that he went to all of the trouble to fly here for the Semi-Formal. "He's shown students how important SAA is just by his presence." McClain and Ruedlinger recognized "Judy Rudy" winners Andrea Troutman, Wichita senior, and Jenny McKenzie, Topeka junior. Troutman is SAAs vice president of outreach, and McKenzie is director of the groups 'Hawk to 'Hawk mentoring program. About 60 SAA members, alumni and Association employees attended the holi- day bash, including former SAA presi- dents Laura Graham, j'90, and Megan THE HEARTS OF SAA: Benefactor Gene McClain, left, who endowed Student Alumni Association's "Judy Hughes Richardson, c'89. Rudy" scholarship, flew in from Chicago to celebrate at the group's annual Semi-Formal. He is joined by SAA "Having Judy and Gene both there," president Palvih Bhana, a past scholarship winner; senior Andrea Troutman, one of two scholarship winners honored Dec. 8; and the award's namesake, Judy RuedlingerThe other award winner; junior Jenny McKenzie, Mueller says, "it was truly a special was unable to attend the ceremony. night. "--*••

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relationships between those schools and their alumni associations. Both visits will take place in April. "This is a particularly interesting time for alumni associations," Cerny says. "We have traditionally been the key link to alumni. But today so many more people are involved in university advancement: department chairmen, deans, faculty and other administrators. "I wouldn't say that's threatening to alumni associations, but it is something to be studied and understood so we don't get to the point that we lose relevance." At Penn State, Cerny, c'92, g'98, will study an association that is highly re- garded for maintaining a strong relation- ship with the university and for launching progressive programs that are frequently PARTY TIME—ALMOST: The Kansas City Chapter's annual Rock Chalk Ball, set for Feb. 2, is sure to emulated by other institutions. "I'm curi- be a swinging success, thanks to the tireless work of (left to right) co-chairs Bob and Susan Holcomb, honorary chairs Janet and Clay Blair; and co-chairs Becky and jay Meschke.This year's theme is "Building ous about what makes Penn State such an Tradition—Hawk by Hawk." For more information, contact the Association at 785-864-4760. outstanding organization," he says. At Stanford, he will examine the results of that association's recent decision to give up its independence and work more Survival Kit Notice KUAA solicitations will bear our Assoc- closely with the university. "Their inten- iation logo. tion was to create a more streamlined bout 50 frantic calls in mid-Decem- Only two groups on campus—SAA organization, and I'm curious to see if that Aber made the Association well aware and the Association of University Resi- has been good for them," Cerny says. "I'll that numerous parents and alumni were dence Halls—are approved by the Univer- look into whether their membership irked by an unofficial, non-endorsed ver- sity to solicit parents to buy survival kits. numbers are going up, are their programs sion of the Student Alumni Association's The private company's solicitation list was expanding and whether their employees popular Finals Survival Kit. privately generated, and was not provided are satisfied with their position now as A private, Illinois-based company in any manner by the Alumni Association opposed to five years ago. I'll look for with no affiliation with the University or or University. some indicators of success." Alumni Association apparently purchased Anyone with questions should contact Cerny will present his research find- a national mailing list and solicited par- Mueller at 785-864-4760.^-* ings at the CAAE's summer institute in ents at KU and other universities with July. He also expects to apply what he offers of "Parents Finals Gifts." When learns when he returns to the Hill. delivery was not made as promptly as "We have a good understanding of promised, dozens of steamed KU parents, Cerny to study changes what goes on here at our university, but as thinking they had purchased the official at Stanford, Penn State with any business, a more global under- SAA Finals Survival Kit, phoned the Asso- standing is helpful," Cerny says. "I'll be ciation for explanations and refunds. irk Cerny, the Association's senior able to spend some time at institutions Because of the unofficial products' mis- Kvice president for membership ser- that have been progressive and have made leading names, Jennifer Mueller, g'99, the vices, has been named a Forman Fellow a name for themselves in alumni associa- Associations director of student programs, by the Council of Alumni Association tion work. Hopefully I can apply some of cautions that the best way for parents to Executives. what they've put in place and learn from be sure they are purchasing the official The fellowship, one of two awarded any gains or mistakes they've made." SAA Finals Survival Kit is to note the annually to member executives based on The mission of CAAE, composed of 80 instructions for payment: If the check is written research proposals, will provide chief executives of alumni organizations, not written to KUAA, it is not an official funding for visits to Stanford and Penn is to promote and sustain self-governance Alumni Association activity. Also, all State universities, where Cerny will study of alumni associations.^*"*

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Alumni Events

Chapters & Professional Societies 8 Garden City: Geneen Love, 12 316-275-5512 For more information, including contacts for • Waco: KU-Baylor basketball pregame 12 Dodge City: Melaney Vogel, local events, please visit www.kualumni.org 316-225-8429 or call Kirk Cerny at 800-KU HAWKS. 16-19 15 Holton: Leslie McDaniel, • Frontrange Chapter: Copper Moun- 785-274-4377 January tain ski trip 19 lola: John and Jeannene White, 316-365-1426 18 17 21 Great Bend: Mary King, • New York Chapter: Thirsty Third • Las Vegas Chapter: KU-ISU basket- 316-793-6168 Thursday ball watch party 20 21 • Cincinnati Chapter: KU-Texas A&M • Cincinnati Chapter: KU-CU basket- March basketball watch party ball watch party 1 Pittsburg: Dave and Evelyn Pistole, 316-231-3410 22 25-26 13 Hiawatha: Leland and Debbie • Boulder: KU-CU basketball pregame • Scottsdale: Southwest Open reception Hansen, 785-742-7983 and golf tournament 14 Atchison: Bill and Donna Roe, 27 913-367-7497 • Dallas Chapter: KU-KSU basketball 28 15 Marysville: Kenneth and Zita watch party with K-State alumni • Dallas Chapter: KU-KSU basketball Duensing, 785-363-7456 watch party with K-State alumni 26 Beloit: Michele Heidrick, 29 785-738-3897 • Dallas, San Antonio and Las Vegas 28 Liberal: Al and Donna Shank, Chapters: KU-Missouri basketball March 316-624-2559 watch parties 4 February • Dallas, Cincinnati and Las Vegas Chapters: KU-MU watch parties April 2 3 Logan: Dane and Polly Bales, • Kansas City: Rock Chalk Ball 6-11 785-689-4328 • Kansas City: Men's and women's Big 4 Neodesha: Harry and Dennis 3 12 Tournament pregames Depew, 316-325-2626 • Dallas Chapter: KU Night with the 5 Goodland: Perry and Janet Mavericks • Kansas Honors Program Warren, 785-899-7271

1L \Jf\ JLUl^sccsWl VjlLf^itvy* i JIPTT tl 1 V ullurirUl LVliXl\4nr^ns r> 1 11i1 5 Jo support a KHP event, contact local coordi- Edwards, 316-872-7332 Dallas, Las Vegas Chapters: KU-ISU nators, or Carolyn Barnes at 800-KU HAWKS 17 Greensburg Honor Roll: Bill basketball watch parties Marshall, 316-723-2554 February 19 Anthony: John and Barbara 10 1 Lamed: John Adams, Gaffney, 316-842-5357 • Cincinnati Chapter: KU-Oklahoma 316-285-2053 State basketball watch party 7 Osawatomie: Bob Nicholson, 913-294-4512

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1920s 1953 1962 lolene Cox Cole, c'22, celebrated her I OOth Marilyn Hentzler Peters, d'53, is a retired Constance George Elting, d'62, works as a birthday last May. She lives in Manasquan, N.J. teacher in Topeka. CPA for Crona and Associates in Estes Park, Colo., where she and her husband, Gary, d'60, 1930s 1954 g'63, make their home. He's a park ranger at William Avery, c'34, former Kansas governor Alexander McBurney, c'54, m'58, retired last Rocky Mountain National Park. and congressman, was honored last fall when year after practicing medicine for 35 years. He the Wakefield post office was renamed in his lives in Kingston, R.I. MARRIED honor He makes his home in Wakefield. Cathryn Larson, d'62, to Lester Shepperd, Alberta Everett Gantt, d'33, g'43, was hon- 1955 March 25.They live in Granville, Ohio. ored last year for 30 years of service to a Robert Alpers, c'55, is pastor of the Lana'i branch of the St. Louis Metropolitan YWCA Union Church in Lana'i City, Hawaii. 1963 and for more than 35 years of volunteer ser- Clayton Crenshaw, d'63, g'67, retired last vice to the St. Louis community. 1956 year from teaching theatre and drama at Eleanor Henderson Grandstaff, c'3 I, g'33, Margaret Donnelly Buie, d'56, g'75, recently Wichita High School Northwest. He's an m'37, keeps busy in Amherstburg, Ontario, retired as gallery coordinator for the adjunct professor at Newman University. Canada, with hobbies of photography, paper Columbian Theatre, Museum and Art Center in Wamego, where she is a watercolor artist Theodore Mueller, PhD'63, is a retired vice collage and fabric crafts, reading, collecting dolls president and partner in Waldheim Interna- and working crossword puzzles. She celebrated tional. He lives in Oak Ridge,Tenn. her 91 st birthday last November 1957 Robert Hill, e'57, works part time at a Staples Orlando Nesmith, c'38, celebrated his 90th store in Ridgecrest, Calif, where he and his wife, 1964 birthday last year in Half Moon Bay, Calif. He Betty, also do volunteer work. Dewey Amos, d'64, serves as a school admin- and his wife, Emily, divide their time between istrator in Norwalk, Conn. homes in Half Moon Bay and Palm Desert. Gerald Robertson, d'57, g'67, retired recently as a senior professor at Harrisburg Area Com- Dennis Daugherty, c'64, d'65, is business 1942 munity College. He lives in Boiling Springs, Pa., manager at the Hewitt School in New York where he's on the board of several local organi- City. Vernon Branson, m'42, c'47, serves on the zations and plays in two concert bands. bioethics committee at Lawrence Memorial Jerry Morton, b'64, owns Store Systems Con- Hospital and on the board of Cottonwood, sulting in Lawrence, where he and Linda which serves people with developmental dis- 1959 Ward Morton, c'65, make their home. She abilities. He and Jessie Cassidy Branson, Tom Horner, '59, retired from his law practice owns Transcriptions. n'42, live in Lawrence, where Jessie recently last fall in Severna Park, Md. He and his wife, coordinated the placement of bronze plaques Karel, are sailing around the world in their 36- 1965 in historic downtown buildings. foot sailboat, "Homer's Corner" Kenneth Robb, b'65, is senior vice president Grant Hatfield, '42, is traveling the country James McLean, g'59, PhD'65, and Lee Sny- of marketing with Brodbeck Enterprises. He photographing state capitals. He recently com- der McLean, assoc, live in Pittsboro, N.C. Lee lives in Galena, III., with his wife, LoAnn. pleted a tour of Kansas during which he pho- chairs allied health sciences in the medical tographed all 105 county courthouses. Grant school at the University of North Carolina at 1966 and his wife, Margaret, live in Kansas City. Chapel Hill. Cathy Waldron Cordill, d'66, teaches with Cynthia Hunter Newsome, d'59, recently USD 306 in Salina. 1944 retired from teaching in Lawrence and moved Kathleen Dole-Airoldi, j'66, does travel con- to San Diego. sulting for Travel Fair in San Francisco. She lives MARRIED in Corte Madera. Edith Lessenden, c'44, g'52, and Anderson I960 Alan Hoffmann, m'66, practices medicine in Chandler, b'48, May 20 in Topeka, where Larry Eklund, e'60, is a retired project man- Raytown, Mo. He lives in Olathe. they live. ager for Martin Eby Construction. He lives in Thomas Jones, e'66, is president and CEO of Wichita. 1948 Chad Therapeutics. He and Kay Powell John Patten, j'60, lives in Lake Bluff, III., where Jones, d'66, live in Prairie Village. Beverly Brown Coyan, '48, moved recently he's a partner in CEO Partners Inc. to Columbia, Mo., where she's house director Harry Young Jr., c'66, g'68, recently became Jeffrey Reynolds, c'60, m'64, practices medi- for Kappa Alpha Theta. counselor for administrative affairs at the cine with the Meritcare Medical Group in U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New Marie Schreiber Wyckoff, p'48, lives in Fargo, N.D. Anthony. She recently was honored as a distin- York City. Phyllis Grant Roberts, m'60, has a pediatrics guished alumuna of KU's School of Pharmacy. practice in St. Joseph, Mo. 1967 1952 Edward Scheff, g'60, PhD'65, is a retired pro- Marian Allen, c'67, works as a mediator and a fessor at Rhode Island College. He lives in writer in Orland, Maine. MARRIED North Kingstown. Patricia Goering Smith, c'67, directs plan- Elizabeth Thomas, b'52, and William Donald West, c'60, m'64, lives in Lyme, N.H., ning for the city of Ocean Shores, Wash. Her Shafer, c'50, m'54, April 15 in Prairie Village. and is an associate professor of psychiatry at husband, Bill, d'60, is pastor of Sand Point They live in Lake Quivira. Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover. United Methodist Church in Seattle.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 [37 WHY WAIT? CLASS NOTES TOWNHOME LIVING AT ITS BEST! 1968 1973 Martha Crump, c'68, g'71, PhD74, wrote In Pamela Phillips Altman, d73, manages Search of the Golden Frog, which was published national sales for the Opryland Hotel Texas in last year by the University of Chicago Press. Grapevine. She lives in Dallas. She's an adjunct professor of biology at North- Philip Gelpi, b73, is president of MEG Sales ern Arizona University, and she makes her in Overland Park. home in Flagstaff. Nirmala Nanda Mathi, g'73, a technical officer at the University of Hyderabad, lives 1969 in Hyderabad, India, with her husband, B.J.S. Linda Davis Applegarth, c'69, directs psy- Srivastava. chological services for the Center for Repro- ductive Medicine and Infertility at Cornell 1974 University in New York City. She lives in Green- Marsha Haskin Barrett, g'74, directs instruc- wich, Conn. tion for the Blue Valley School District. She lives in Olathe. Bernice Ray Hutcherson, s'69, is a profes- sor emerita at Wichita State University. Rosalind Gumby Bauchum, c74, g'76, is managing principal of R.G. Bauchum Marketing 1970 Research. She lives in Grandview, Mo. John Lieurance, e'70, a program manager for Andrew Benton, 74, recently became presi- Lockheed Martin, lives in Chichester, England, dent of Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. with his wife, Chris. John Haumann, e'74, wrote Cracking the Texas EOC, which was published last fall by the Thomas Poos, b'70,173, is a vice president at Princeton Review. He lives in San Antonio. 'randon Woods is more First National Bank in Conway Springs. He lives than a retirement community. in Wichita. Clayton Koppes, PhD74, recently completed It's a neighborhood of friends. a stint as acting president of Oberlin College, Stewart Rose, c70, lives in Duxbury, Mass., where he's dean of arts and sciences. Clayton When you live in a Townhome and is president and CEO of MoneyFitness. lives in Oberlin, Ohio. at Brandon Woods, home own- Nancy Southern, f70, s78, is an artist and a Byron Myers, j'74, lives in Grand Island, Neb., minister in Deer Harbor Wash. ership is a joy! A monthly ser- where he's an auto writer Herbert Treger, c70,173, has a private law vice fee covers all your Alan Savitzky, g'74, PhD79, an associate pro- practice in Irving,Texas, and his wife, Betsy, is a fessor at , makes his maintenance concerns. Plus senior attorney for the U.S. government. home in Norfolk, Va. owning a Townhome at Bran- Lynette Schultz, d'74, works as a senior don Woods is an investment. 1971 speech pathologist at Sarasota Memorial Hospi- You have an appreciable asset David Hughes, c71, practices law in Overland tal in Sarasota, Fla. Park. He and Teryl Obiala Hughes, c'71, live that benefits you and your Ann Parrish Tharp, f74, is a self-employed in Lenexa, where she's a self-employed artist. occupational therapist in Piano,Texas, where heirs. Mary Reidlinger Nap, d'71, g'82, teaches in she and her husband, Bruce, make their home. FEATURING: the Kansas City school district. She lives in Lake David Woodbury, c'74,177, owns Woodbury • TOWNHOMES & APARTMENTS Lotawana, Mo. Law Office in Prairie Village. • ASSISTED LIVING & HEALTH CARE • ALZHEIMER'S CARE & REHAB 1972 1975 Ruth Forman, 72, is a self-employed voice Marvin Cox, b'75, is vice president and port- • NO ENTRANCE FEE actor in Prairie Village. She also teaches team- folio manager of Salomon Smith Barney's port- building to corporate and children's groups at folio management group in Wichita. (785) 838-8000 Adventure Woods. William Hosking, c'75, recently completed 1-800-419-0254 Terri Howard Jarboe, d'72, teaches at course work for a doctorate of ministry from Olathe North High School. She and her hus- the Graduate Theological Seminary of Indiana. www.brandonwoods.com He lives in Reading, Pa. band, Edwin, a73, live in Olathe. He's vice president of LJ Technologies in Lenexa. Thomas Nuckols, c'75, owns a dental prac- tice in Plainville, where Cassandra Hageman Paul Miller, 172, serves as a Riley County Dis- Nuckols, d'74, owns Sunshine and Rainbows trict Court judge in Manhattan. Preschool. John Robinson, e'72, g'74, is managing direc- Robert Olsen, 175, is an assistant U.S. attor- tor of the technology services division of Amey ney for the U.S. Department of Justice in Kansas in London. City. He lives in Lenexa. RETIREMENT COMMUNITY Gregory Thatcher, e'72, m'76, practices MelindaWebb Schoenfeldt, d'75, an assis- 1501 INVERNESS DR. • LAWRENCE, KS 66047 medicine with ThedaCare Physicians in tant professor at Ball State University, lives in LOCATED 1 1/2 MILES WEST OF THE KU CAMPUS Shawano.Wis. Muncie, Ind., with her husband, Edward, c75.

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in Logan, where her husband, Ryan, e'77, g'78, PhD'82, is a professor David Mullett,j'77, directs business develop- Personalized ment for Stewart International in Houston. Richard Putnam, c'77,1'8O, practices law with the office of Baird, Holm in Omaha, Neb., Childrens' Book where he and Kristin Newell Putnam, c'80, make their home. She owns and manages Design Works. Carl Young, j'77, produces seminars for users for a KU Adventure of Adobe Acrobat. He lives in Phoenix with his wife, Jo Lou. Your child is the star as he/she explores the KU Campus on an adventure to find Jayhawk. BORN TO: Rosalea Postma Carttar, c'77, and Peter, c'78, son,Theodore Postma, Aug. 23 in $19.95 (plus $4.95 shipping and handling.) Lawrence, where he joins two sisters, Sally, Hard Cover book with your child's name and matching who's almost 5, and Magdalene, 3. Rosalea character shown throughout the book. Watch your directs KU's basic Spanish language program, child's eyes light up as he/she solves the mystery of and Peter is an engineer with the Kansas the missing Jayhawk and delivers Jayhawk to Allen Department ofTransportation. Fieldhouse just in time for the big game! 1978 Order online at www.mycampusbook.com Christopher Banta, b'78, directs category Or call 866-542-0122, management for Fleming in Lewisville,Texas. He Or send check to 4010 William D. Tate, lives in Highland Village. #104, PNB-410, Grapevine, Tx 76051 Mitchell Chaney, c78, l'81, lives in Brownsville,Texas, with Susan Cannon Please include child's name, sex, and hair color. Chaney, d'79. He's a partner in the law firm of Rodriguez, Colvin & Chaney. Meredith Miller Christian, n'78, is an out- www. mycampusbook. com patient surgery nurse with Kansas University Physicians in Kansas City. Steven Martindell, e'78, lives in Richardson, He's assistant principal at Monroe Central High Rodney May, e'76, g'77, is vice president of Texas, with his wife, Daphne, assoc. He's an School in Parker City. Fiesta in Albuquerque, N.M. electronic engineer with Texas Instruments. Olivia Yarbrough Stringer, n'75, recently Daphne Doherty Thornton, j'76, owns Michael Meacham, 178, directs health sys- was promoted to colonel in the U.S. Air Two-Bit Train ing, and her husband, Roch, j'76, is tem development for the Connecticut Office Force. She's chief nurse of the 349th Contin- an editor at Knight-Riddercom.They live in of Health Care Access in Hartford. He lives in gency Hospital at Travis AFB, Calif. Her home Overland Park. Coventry. is in Dixon. LindaTrigg, 176, serves as a magistrate judge Rick Riffel, d'78, works as a school adminis- MARRIED of the I Oth Judicial District. She lives in Olathe. trator for USD 325. He lives in Phillipsburg. Lesle Walker, c'76, is a medical technician at David Tholen, c78, recently was selected by Sharon Thyfault Gagnon, d'75, g'79, to Central Plains Laboratories in Hays. NASA to be a member of the science team Thomas Herbers, July 3 in Hutchinson, where for the MUSES-C spacecraft, a mission to col- he is branch manager for Schwieterman, a 1977 lect samples from a near-Earth asteroid. He commodity brokerage firm. Michael Chapman, g'77, works for Brandon lives in Honolulu. 1976 Woods Rehabilitation in Lawrence, where he Charles Vernon, c78, l'81, has his own law and Ann Davis Chapman, g'87, live. She's practice in Houston. He lives in Sugar Land. James Brooks, g'76, directs accounting and a dietitian at KU's Watkins Student Health analysis for Ralcorp Holdings in St. Louis, Mo. Center 1979 He lives in Ballwin. Vicky Sanford Howard, f 77, owns Howard Bill Kirby, g'79, is a health resource analyst for Chuck Efflandt, 176, is a partner in the Design in Overland Park. the diabetes control project at the Nevada Wichita law firm of Foulston & Siefkin. Department of Human Resources. He lives in Daryl Jones, d'77, teaches music for the George Hudson, c'76, g'79, chairs the Carson City. Austin, Texas, Independent School District. department of family medicine at Florida Hos- Debra Krotz, d'79, teaches language arts at pital in East Orlando. Joy Johnson Livingston, d'77, g'86, teaches Bellville High School. kindergarten in Olathe. David Love, e'76, works as a project engi- Alan Shaw, c'79, president of Event Planning neer for Alltel I Communication. He lives in Sonia Manuel-Dupont, c'77, g'81, PhD'86, is and Integration Concepts, lives in Atlanta Aurora, Ohio. an associate professor at Utah State University with Virginia Myers Shaw, d'85. He helped

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plan last year's Olympics in Sydney, Australia, and is helping plan the 2002 Olympics in Salt DIXON'S DEFENSE SPARKS HER WNBA CAREER Lake City. Gretchen Schmitt Thum, j'79, g'81, is an hen became adjunct associate professor at Johnson County head coach of the Los Angeles Community College, and her husband, Terry, WSparks, he decided that less of c'78, practices law with Bryan Cave.They live in would be more. He Kansas City with their son, Teddy, 5. asked Dixon to lose weight. MARRIED "I felt like Meek had the potential to be the best perimeter defender in the Kathryn Potter, f 79, d'79, and Andrew league, and that's exactly what she's Crask, Dec. 18 in Yorba Linda. Kay teaches orchestra at Esperanza High School in Anaheim become," Cooper told the Los Angeles and performs with Quintessence Piano Quartet Times. "She had great defensive feet to throughout southern California. start with, but now that she's lighter, her quickness has taken her to a new level, 1980 not only defensively, but offensively." Robert Garven, d'80, serves as a U.S. Army Dixon's defense helped the Los Ange- lieutenant colonel at the Command and Gener- les Sparks compile the WNBA best regu- al Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, where he's chief of training, mobilization and deployment lar-season record last year. During a for the combined arms services staff school. regular-season game against the Houston Deloris Strickland Pinkard, g 80, EdD 95, Comets, the league's defending champi- recently retired as vice president for executive ons, Dixon's defense was particularly services at the Kansas City Kansas Community notable. Houston's College. She owns a consulting business, DEP2, scored 17 points in the first half. But that works with businesses, agencies and educa- Dixon guarded her in the second half, tional entities in the areas of diversity, educa- and Swoopes scored only nine. The HIP HOOPSTER: tion, strategic planning and personnel. son, she returned Sparks won, 63-58. to Kansas to earn Tamecka Dixon recently "I've always been pretty tough defen- her degree in child wrote You Can Be a 1981 Woman Basketball Gerald Donohue, b'81, recently moved from sively," says Dixon, c'99. "But now I seem psychology. Player to motivate Birmingham, Ala., to Chicago, where he's senior to be beating people to the spot." "I promised my young girls. vice president of operations for the Professional Dixon's turnaround came after a high- parents and myself Convention Management Association. scoring 1998 season and a sub-par 1999. that 1 would attain Susan Keck, j'81, began working last summer In 1998, the 5-9 guard averaged 16.2 that goal," she says. "I talk to children a for Morgan Stanley in New York City. points a game, fifth highest in the league. lot and I'm always preaching that they Linda Jassmann Lane, b'81, manages general But her average fell to 6.8 in 1999 as her should get a proper education, and it procurement for the United Space Alliance in playing time plummeted. would be so shallow of me to preach that Cape Canaveral, Fla. She lives in Titusville. "There was a difference of opinion if I hadn't finished my business." 1982 with the coach []," she She recently helped write a book Jane Bryant, j'82, has been promoted to says. "We just didn't see eye to eye on a telling girls how to become professional vice president of the Washington, D.C., news lot of things." When Cooper replaced basketball players. The book is part of a bureau at McQUERTERGROUP a high-tech Woolridge, the new coach asked Dixon to series encouraging girls to consider non- marketing communications firm. She lives in try catching the ball and shooting it traditional working fields for women and Potomac Falls,Va. rather than dribbling first. is available online at cascadepass.com. Dalenette Bates Voigt-Catlin, d 82, s'86, Dixon, 24, went right to work in the Dixon is also considering her career works as a student counselor and therapist at KU's Counseling and Psychological Services. She off-season, hiring three personal trainers. after basketball, but she's happy with the and her husband, Les, live in Lawrence. But the effort wasn't surprising. Basket- Sparks, although three teammates were ball has been important to Dixon since named to the league All-Star team and 1983 she was 3 and went to the gym to she wasn't. Michael Atkins, e'83, g'89, is president of JMA shots for her father, former "On this team, I'd like to be more of a Solutions in Niwot, Colo. American University star Russell "Boo" 'get it done' player. Whatever the team Larry Eisenhauer, d'83, lives in Wichita, Bowers. needs," she says. "I kind of like that peo- where he's president of Kansas Corporate After Dixon was named a 1997 All- ple are recognizing that I'm not just a Credit Union. American, the Sparks chose her in the scorer any more."^"**" Mitchell Hoefer, g'83, is a principal in Hoefer first WNBA draft. Following her first sea- —Libman is a Los Angeles free-lance writer. Wysocki Architects in Kansas City.

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Harry Parker, g'83, PhD'92, recently was pro- vice president of external relations for the ters, Caroline, 5, and Suzanne, 3. Scott is vice moted to professor at Emporia State University, National Mental Health Association. president of Johnston Insurance. where he's also director of theatre and regional Joseph, b'87, and Hope Strampe Hatte- chair for the Kennedy Center/American College MARRIED sohl, b'93, daughter, Emma, Sept. I 3 in Aliso Theatre Festival. Marilyn McGilley, b'84, to Charles Battey III, Viejo, Calif, where she joins a sister Paige, 5, and David Robinett, c'83, has a commercial web Oct. 28.They live in Kansas City. a brother, Joshua, 4. site, Adblastercom, which places classified ads. Lance Luther, b'87, and Elena, son, Raef He and his wife, Pilar Jacobson, '93, live in BORN TO: Mitchell, March 20 in Leawood, where he joins Overland Park with their children, Luc, 5, and Kemal Kaya, b'84, and Mediha, daughter Erin, a brother Derek, 6, and a sister, Alison, 4. Lance Carly 2. April 5 in Istanbul,Turkey, where she joins a is a partner in Andersen Consulting. Marcella McMillan Sim, e'83, is an appli- brother, Irem, 7. Kemal is executive director of cation engineer with SCS Engineering in Kocbank. 1988 Torrance, Calif. Janet Asmus Brandt, d'88, is a reading recovery teacher in Kearney, Neb. Melissa Mclntyre Wolcott.j 83, and 1985 Steven, c'86, g'91, live in Dayton, Ohio, Carey Berger, c'85, l'89, is president of Darren Hensley, l'88, g'88, practices law with with their children, Christopher 9; Zachary, 6; Business Succession Resources in Lawrence, Brobeck Phleger & Harrison in Denver and Mackenzie, who'll be I in March. Melissa where he and Linda Keys Berger, d'84, Brian Stoddard, c'88, j'88, teaches for USD is a performance technologist with Triad make their home. 475 in Manhattan, where he and Diane Cook Performance Technologies, and Steve studies Janine Gracy, d'85, g'91, directs the Regional Stoddard, c'92, g'95, make their home. She is at the United Theological Seminary. He's also Prevention Center for Johnson, Leavenworth assistant city manager of Manhattan. youth director at Centerville United and Miami counties. She lives in Shawnee. Michael Womack, b'88, directs sales for Methodist Church. Marc Marano, j'85, works as field sales direc- Lucent Technologies in Overland Park. He and tor for Janssen Pharmaceutical in Richardson, his wife, Annamarie, live in Leawood with their BORN TO: children, Marisa, 3. and Michael, who'll be I in Texas. He lives in McKinney with his wife, Lea, February. Julie Bussell Baumert, n'83, and Paul, and their daughter, Jade, 6. m'90, daughter; Kylie Ann, March 24 in Iowa Steven Martin, c'85, is vice president of City, where she joins three brothers,Trey, 8; BORN TO: Charles Schwab in San Francisco. Brock, 6; and Keiffer; 3. Paul practices medicine John, e'88, and Katherine McElhany at the University of Iowa. Stephen McAllister, c'85, l'88, is dean of law Kahl, c'9 I, daughter Stella, Sept. I 3 in Lea- at KU. He and Marci Wolcott McAllister, wood, where she joins a sister Madeline, 2. 1984 c'88, live in Lawrence. John is president of Terra Technologies in Over- Daniel Godfrey, c'84, and his wife, Janice, live Michael Sheffield, c'85, lives in Eagan, Minn., land Park., and Kaki is a real-estate agent with in Flagstaff, with their daughters, Sarah, 6, and with Susan Maupin Sheffield, c'86, and their J.C. Nichols. Hannah, 3. Daniel is a professor of military sci- children, Micaela, 6, and Spenser 3. Michael Chris, b'88, and Kristin Stelzer Piper, b 92, ence at Northern Arizona Univeristy. works for Bristol-Myers Squibb. g'94, daughter Katelyn Rose, Aug. 27 in Rosemary Hope, j'84, c'85, recently won the James Wright, l'85, works as vice president of Lawrence, where she joins a sister Madison, 2. Robert G. Fenley Award for Medical Science taxation for the Orbital Sciences Corp. in Chris owns Grandstand Sportswear. Writing from the Association of American Med- Dulles,Va. He lives in Herndon. Elizabeth Parker Worley, c'88, and David, ical Colleges for a story she wrote for KU Med daughter, Margo Burchard, July 3 in San Antonio, magazine. Rosemary recently joined the KU 1986 Texas, where Liz is an Internet consultant. Endowment Association as medical develop- Paul Boppart, b'86,1'91, recently became a ment writer shareholder in Polsinelli Shalton & Welte in 1989 Kent Houk, b'84, is vice president ofTravellers Kansas City. Gary Allen, PhD'89, retired recently as a U.S. in Lawrence. William Mahood, b'86, l'93, lives in Overland Army lieutenant colonel after 29 years of ser- Valerie Cummins Kisling, f'84, manages Park and is a shareholder in Polsinelli Shalton vice. He lives in Bonn, Germany. graphic design services for Oklahoma State & Welte. Jason Austin, c'89, is corporate counsel for University and is art director of OSU magazine. Dynegy in Houston. She and her husband, Robert, c'85, g'87, live in 1987 Alison Young Kagan, j'89, works as enter- Stillwater with their children, Paul, I I, and Char- Brenda McFadden Beaton, b'87, owns prise editor at the Detroit Free Press. She lives lotte, 9. Robert teaches school in Jennings. McFadden and Associates in Lawrence, where in Royal Oak, Mich. Jolene Leiker, j'84, manages programs for she and her husband, Michael Beaton, b'87, Brian Kane, j'89, recently became a partner in worldwide Olympic technology marketing with make their home. He's a senior supervisor with the law firm of Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon in IBM in Armonk, N.Y She lives in Danbury, Conn. Associated Wholesale Grocers. Pittsburgh, Pa. He lives in Munhall. Carolyn Florez Moon, b'84, is an investment Stephen Cole, b'87,1'9O, recently became a Phillip, c 89, and Anita Ruiz Otto, 90, live in associate with Paine Webber in Kansas City, and shareholder in the Kansas City law firm of Gladstone, Mo., with their children, Emily, I I, her husband, Richard, '82, supervises facilities Polsinelli Shalton & Welte. and Libby, 8. Phillip is a senior actuarial assistant for the Sylvester Powell Jr. Community Center for Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Anita teaches in Overland Park.They live in Mission. BORN TO: preschool at the Hillside Christian Church. Jill Birdwhistell Pierce, PhD'84, lives in Scott Fiss, b'87, and Amy, daughter Lauren, Sherman Padgett, d'89, g'90, is an associate Alexandria, Va., with her husband, Richard. Jill is April 16 in Leawood, where she joins two sis- principal at Heights High School in Wichita,

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 CLASS NOTES PROFILE BY STEVEN HILL where he and Mia Wickliffe Padgett, s 88, s'90, make their home. BIOLOGIST FINDS SECOND CAREER AS POET Daniel, j'89, and Pamela Withrow Pennington, c'89, live in Lawrence with their daughters, Crosby, 5, and Nell, I. Dan is hile building a distinguished vice president of sales and marketing for academic career at the Univer- Tiesthatbind.com.The Penningtons last April sity of Albany, biology profes- traveled to Cambodia to adopt Nell, who was W sor L.G. "Larry" Mason, PhD'64, learned born Jan. I 3, 2000. well the adage "publish or perish." So Laura Kelly Slaughter, c'89, has a private when after 27 years as a teacher and psychiatric practice in McKinney,Texas, where researcher he found his interest in writ- she lives with her husband, Steve, and their daughters, Katie, 5, and Megan, 2. ing scientific articles eclipsed by an urge to get his poetry into print, he knew Ted Tow III, c'89, is a deputy district attorney in Adams County. He and his wife, Cathy exactly what to do: He retired from acad- Traugott, p'9 I, live in North Glenn, Colo. emia and turned full time to verse. Michael Werner, j'89, teaches atTopeka "I realized a few years ago that I High School, and Michelle Deitrick Werner, wasn't publishing anything except poetry h'89, is an occupational therapist at the Capper despite the fact that I was officially in sci- Foundation. ence," says Mason. "That told me it was time to get out of science and do what I MARRIED was apparently meant to be doing." Kathleen Brennan, c'89, and Ned Nixon, Earlier this year Mason's first collec- c'90, m'94, Sept. 22 in Shawnee.They live in Lawrence. tion of poems, A Little Sidewalk Cafe at the End of Time, was published by Pen TRUTH TALES : Science BORN TO: Rose Publishing. The book's four sec- excited about writ- and poetry provide differ- Jim Holcomb, b'89, and Molly, son,Theodore tions—Tango of the Dragonflies, A Little ing just as I was ent answers to similar William, July I in Chicago, where Jim is product Sidewalk Cafe at the End of Time, Keep- excited by science." questions, says retired biol- manager for Global Commerce Zone. ing Holy All the Writing in the Sky and Mason says his ogy professor L.G. Mason, who recently published his Richard Skalla Jr., b'89, and Cammy, son, Black-eyed Susans—explore the erstwhile rededication to first collection of poetry. Jeremy Austin, May 30 in Plymouth, Minn. biologist's increasingly spiritual affinity poetry was shaped, "In science an answer is Richard manages marketing for Pillsbury in with nature. in large part, by true if you try to disprove Minneapolis. "I tend to be impressed by nature. I growing older. it and can't. In poetry an answer is true if it moves 1990 see everything that's going on all at once "There was a Richard Eckert, c'90, l'93, lives inTopeka, and I'm just knocked off my feet," he time when the ques- where he practices civil and municipal litigation says. "I think there needs to be a sense tions you ask in sci- as the Shawnee County counselor. that we belong to the natural world; we ence were among the questions I wanted Leigh Borden Knubley, c'90, manages tend to believe too much that we own it. to answer. But as I got older there was human resources for Communications Test I wouldn't go so far as to claim 1 actually less time to organize big scientific pro- Design in Bessemer Ala., where her husband, say that in the poems, but they are writ- jects, less time to realize complicated Richard, c'90, is regional sales director for Har- ten in that spirit." ends." At the same time, Mason explains, cros Chemicals.They live in Birmingham with For Mason, regarding the natural some elements of biological research their son, Brady, 2. world with spiritual engagement rather made him uncomfortable. "The closer I James Langham, c'90, g'98, recently was pro- than scientific detachment is less of an get to the end of my life the more sacred moted to lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. He and Stephanie Goyette Lang- about-face than a return to a longtime life becomes to me. I just couldn't do ham, c'90, live in Littleton, Colo. interest. He began writing poetry during some of the things you need to do in bio- Melanie Dick McMullen, 190, practices law his undergraduate days at the University logical research. For example, I couldn't with the Kansas City firm of Lathrop & Gage. of Michigan, where he won the school's kill anything." She and her husband, Keith, live near Kearney, Hopwood literary award. When he came But don't think that Mason has repu- Mo., with their children, Alex, 5, and Sean, 3. to KU in 1959 for graduate work in ento- diated science by turning full time to Laura Ambler Pfeifer, j'90, manages market- mology, he continued to write, attending poetry. "I don't see why you can't be ing at Bushnell Performance Optics in Overland a poetry workshop taught by Arvid Shu- interested in both," he says. "Poetry and Park, where she and her husband, Kevin, live lenberger. "My life could have gone in science ask some of the same questions; with their children, Samantha, I I, and Ryan, I. more than one direction," he recalls. they differ primarily in the nature of the Lindsey Bjorseth Serrano, c'90, l'93, directs "Both interests were always there. I was answers."^*""' business development for uclick in Kansas City,

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Michelle Cloud Kelso, b'9 I, works as a train- ing consultant for ABN AMRO North America in Chicago. Wendy Mullen Klein, j'9 I, owns Klein Cre- ative Services in Prairie Village. Rebecca Freese Langenkamp, a'91, is an architect. She lives in Kansas City. Jeffrey, e'91, and Mary Mikels Messerly, d'91, live in Coronado, Calif, with their children, Brandon, Alexis, Madison and Jordan. Jeff is a U.S. Navy flight deck officer aboard the Pelieliu. Troy Meyers, b'91, is branch manager of a Sherwin-Williams store in Midland,Texas. Cameron Schenk, '9 I, and his wife,Tammy, live in Beloit with their daughter Lillian, I. Patricia Sexton, c'91, recently became a shareholder in the Kansas City law firm of Polsinelli Shalton & White. BORN TO: Sarah Thomas Holbrooks, h'9 I, and Howard, m'95, daughter, Hannah Susan, May 4 in Manhattan, where she joins a brother, Jacob, I. Howard is an anesthesiologist at Irwin Army Send a flock of Jayhawks Community Hospital. Robert, b'91, and Theresa Rudy Mullen, '94, son, Evan Matthew, June 10 in Shawnee Mis- no matter what the occasion sion, where he joins a brother; Jackson, 2. Robert is a manufacturer representative for Mullen & Associates. Dave, e'9 I, and Jennifer Barber Ruf, e'92, g'96, daughter Madeline Rose, Aug. 17 in Roe- ^Bfe Kansas Jayhawks land Park. Dave is a project manager at J.E. JayhawksJ Dunn, and Jennifer is a project manager at Black &Veatch in Kansas City. Each set includes eight cards and eight envelopes. There are two cards of each design. 1 set: $10 2 sets: $18 3 sets: $24 Each additional set, only $8 each 1992 Jayhawk Society members take an additional 15% off the already low prices on cards. Rudolph Beuc, a'92, owns R Beuc Architects If you're not a member, call 1-800-584-2957 to join! in St. Louis. He lives in Webster Groves, Mo. Deborah Massie Boschert, j'92, and her husband, Jeffrey, live in Jacksonville, Fla., with their daughter Claire, I. Deborah works as a Kansas Alumni desktop publisher. Association Mark Denney, b'92, is treasurer of J.F. Denney Plumbing and Heating in Leavenworth. ORDER TODAY! CALL 1-800-584-2957 OR 864-4760 Drew Elder, c'92, lives in Acton, Mass., and is senior vice president of Putnam Investments in Boston. where her husband, Joe, c'93, practices law with 1991 Debra Holmes Fox, e'92, works for Patrick Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal. Michael Biggers, c'91, lives in Englewood, Quigley & Associates, a lighting design firm in Torrance, Calif, and her husband, John, e'92, Gary, c 90, g 93, and Andrea Boyd Steinle, Colo., where he's vice president of Prism works for Francis Krahe & Associates, a lighting c'90, g'96, work for Anadarko Petroleum in Mortgage. Houston, where Gary is a system analyst and design firm in Laguna Beach.They live in Seal Janis Mull Fitzgerald, s'91, is a social worker Andrea is an exploration geologist.Their daugh- Beach. at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal. ter Natasha, is 3. Steven Lencioni, f'92, owns Studio Lencioni, Elliott Hammer, c'91, recently became an a visual communications firm in Chicago. MARRIED assistant professor of psychology at Xavier Uni- Curtis Marsh, j'92, is associate director of Ann Liedtke, d'90, to Marc Theodore, May 20. versity in New Orleans, where he and his wife, marketing for KU's Division of Continuing Edu- They live in Denver Elizabeth, make their home. cation. He lives in Lawrence.

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Alex Mitchell, e'92, directs sales for Broad- Jump, a start-up software firm. He and Kelley AIR FORCE ONES PHONES RELY ON JANCICH Frieze Mitchell, j'92, c'93, live in Round Rock, Texas, with their children, Natalie, 4, and Alec, I. ost people can only Takunari Miyazaki, c'92, recently became an dream about a job assistant professor of computer science at Mthat comes with perks Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa. that include business meetings Juli Dalin Rasmussen, c'92, graduated from at the White House or regular the MIT Sloan School of Management last year test flights aboard Air Force She lives in Redmond, Wash. One. Aivars Sics, c'92, is a senior analyst with the Steve Jancich would call it Kansas City law firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon. just another day at the office. Shannon Broadstreet Stone, c'92, directs Jancich, c'87, g'89, a senior the annual fund and stewardship at UMKC. She lives in Lee's Summit, Mo. electronics engineer with the Defense Information Systems Steven Strubberg, a'92, is an architect with Robert Horn Architects in Washington, D.C. Agency, is assigned to the White House Military Office. MARRIED As a communications expert, Sheila McKain, f 92, and Jordan Waid, a 92, his job is to ensure that mem- June I I in New York City. Sheila is a fashion bers of the National Command designer for Oscar De La Renta, and Jordan is a Authority—the president, vice media consultant and a teacher at New School president and secretary of University. defense—are always reachable, no or Geneva. ALL TALK: Steve Jancich matter where they are. "I remember makes sure the president's 1993 hones work near and fan Michael Ducey, c'93, is an assistant professor "The president does not cease being when we started, P of chemistry at St. Mary College in Leaven- president when he leaves Washington, we had a Wang worth. He and Christina Clayton-Ducey, D.C," Jancich says from his home in computer sys- c'93, live in Bonner Springs. Herndon, Va., where he lives with his tem," Jancich recalls. "It was no more William Fowle, c'93, directs information wife, Cindy Redden Jancich, b'88. "He than a word processor. Now you look, retrieval solution with Output Technology Solu- needs instant communications. You everyone has a PC, the Internet, e-mail; it tions in Kansas City. He lives in Lawrence. wouldn't want him to be out of touch if just gets more and more complex." Chris Hanna, b'93, is president of the he's going to Europe or Japan." Jancich, a native of Basehor, began Fleur-De-Lis Restaurant Group in Lawrence, where he and Teresa Lynch Hanna, j'92, Jancich's office supports Air Force One working for DISA soon after he left KU in make their home.Teresa is active as a commu- and the E-4, a modified Boeing 747 1989. Then, his job had a Strangelove- nity volunteer. stuffed with communications gear. Offi- like feel to it: making sure the communi- Stephanie Leahy Leibengood, b'93, re- cially, the E-4 is called the National Air- cations gear on the E-4, hardened against cently became a financial consultant for Mitch borne Operations Center, but those who the devastating effects of a nuclear deto- Fiser & Co. in Lenexa. work on it know it as the Flying White nation, would continue to operate if the Tawnya Hall Mason, c'93, manages human House. Jancich adds that although Air United States wound up in a nuclear war. resources for Meridian Project Systems in Force One is typically a specially config- "We were adding new types of equip- Sacramento, Calif, where she and her husband, ured 747, it only goes by that call sign ment and capability to keep up with Sean, make their home. when the president is aboard. growing technology, and you have to Jennifer Campbell McClure, j'93, g'94, Advancing technology means Jancich remember that we were still in the Cold directs government and association relations for War," he says. DeVry in OakbrookTerrace, III. She lives in and his group are constantly installing South Elgin. and testing new equipment for global In a world less predictable than it was Rodney McGinn, e'93, directs engineering at communications. New technology has just a few years ago, Jancich says it Urban Media Communications. He lives in also brought about a subtle shift in the remains important that the president Suwanee, Ga. role of Air Force One and the E-4. In never find himself in a position where he Lisa Collins Reed, e'93, works as a designer the not-too-distant past, the planes can't communicate. for Lighting Design Alliance in Long Beach, served solely as transport for the presi- "When you have to reach out and Calif. She and her husband, Todd, b'94, live dent and his staff. Now the airplanes' touch somebody, he'd better be in Lakewood. roles have blurred, with both planes now there. "-""••* MarkTetreault, e'93, received a law degree able to function as complete offices, no —Teska, g'98, is a Lawrence last year from Roger Williams University in Bris- matter whether they are parked in Boston free-lance writer. tol, R.I. He's a construction project manager for

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O. Ahlborg & Sons in Cranston, where he lives Christopher Gannett, j'95, manages strate- Chamber of Commerce and is executive with his wife, Michele. gic and product marketing for Notara, an Inter- director of the Greater Raleigh Sports Council. net software company. He lives in New York. Her husband, Randy, works as a manager for Rex Walters, d'93, recently signed a one-year Hyperion. contract with the Indiana Pacers basketball Tammie Johnson Picklesimer, b'95, works team. He and Deanna Knorr Walters, d'95, as a subcontract administrator in Honolulu, Michael Enenbach, c'96, m'00, recently live in Jupiter, Fla. Hawaii, where she and her husband, Shane, began a psychiatric residency at the University make their home. of California-San Francisco, where Amanda BORN TO: Cathleen Reitz, c'95, spent several weeks last Hostetler Enenbach, c'96, m'00, is a pedi- atrics resident. fall in Cote d'lvoire.West Africa, where she ran Michael Harvey, b'93, g'00, and Stacia, daugh- a pediatric health clinic sponsored by the Chris- Christina Erickson, '96, owns Kansas City ter Chandler Anne, Sept. 12 in Overland Park, tian Missionary Fellowship of Indianapolis. She's Concierge. She lives in Prairie Village. where she joins two brothers, Joseph, 6, and a cardiac nurse at St. Joseph Health Center in Sydney, 4. Michael is vice president of Valerie Crow Gieler, j'96, coordinates mar- Kansas City. DeMarche Associates. keting for DLR Group in Overland Park. She Tiffany Irsik Robbins, c'95, works as a and her husband, John, '99, live in Olathe. Paige Hall Lierman,f'93, and Randy, son, human resources technician for Douglas Nathan Gorn,g'96, is a mechanical engineer Garrett Duke, April I 8 in Chesterfield, Mo. County in Castle Rock, Colo. for George Butler Associates in Kansas City. Mark, c'93, and Sarah Shea Sizemore, e'96, Julie Lee Sankey, p'95, is a pharmacist at Dil- Kyle Gunnerson, m'96, practices internal and son, Cameron Edward, Sept. 19 in Shawnee. lons in Salina, where her husband, Shane, c'94, emergency medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Mark is a consultant for Data Systems Interna- owns Sankey Auto Center. Detroit, Mich. He and his wife, Meghan, live in tional, and Sarah is an environmental engineer Lisa Perry Snodgrass, j'95, works as an ana- Berkley. with Burns & McDonnell. lyst for Armed Forces Insurance in Leaven- Erica Lee, s'96, is an application specialist in Amy EpmeierWadsworth,j'93, and worth, where her husband, John, b'88, works risk management technology services for All- William, son, Ethan William, Aug. I I in for Kaw Valley Inc.They live in Lansing. state Insurance. She lives in Chicago. Avon, Conn. KimberlyTrevithick Lorbacher, f 96, works MARRIED as an accountant for Dixon Odom in Sanford, 1994 Jason Angilan, c'95, and Courtney Pace, N.C. She and her husband, Scott, live in Apex. Laura Chauvin, c'94, works as a sales consul- c'97, May 20 in Kansas City.They live in Fairway. Nicholas Mizell, c'96, TOO, recently became tant for Pampered Chef in Olathe. Shannon Heide, s'95, s'00, and Buddy Liv- an associate with the Kansas City law firm of Eric Mikkelson, l'94, practices law with ingston, '95, June 3 in Lawrence, where he's a Shook, Hardy & Bacon. He and Lisa Miller Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City. He and screen printer at Midwest Graphics. Mizell, b'92, live in Olathe. his wife, Margo, will celebrate their first anniver- Andrew Nolan, c'95, l"98, to Sheryl Griffith, Drucilla Mort Sampson, l'96, directs devel- sary in March. Oct. 7 .They live in Wichita, where he's an opment for MediaWise in Kansas City. She lives Brett Weinberg, c'94, recently became an attorney with Folston & Siefkin. in Lawrence. associate at the public relations firm of Catherine Trujillo, b'95, to Patrick Becker, Kimberly Tidwell, j'96, moved last year from Carmichael Lynch Spong in Minneapolis. Sept. 23.They live in Lenexa, and Catherine is Chicago to Washington, D.C., where she's Joshua Whetzel, j'94, directs broadcasting an auditor with Arthur Andersen. photo editor for Discovery Communications. and media relations for the Binghamton Mets Jenny Wohletz, e'95, to James Pelner, May 12 baseball club in Binghamton, N.Y. in Phoenix, where they live. Jenny is a software MARRIED engineer with Intel. Joleen Davis, n'96, and John Fulcher, e'98, MARRIED g'99, Sept. 19 on the island of St. Lucia in the BORN TO: West Indies. She's a nurse at Shawnee Mission Marc Hensel, c'94, g 96, and Krista Cord- Medical Center; and he's lead software develop- sen, d'95, June 3 in Houston. Marc is a director Dietrich, c'95, and Jennifer Smith Kastens, at Premium Standard Farms in Kansas City. at ENRON Broadband Services, and Krista is a c'97, daughter; Eliza Gabrielle, April 10 in physical therapist at Texas Orthopedic Hospital. Lawrence, where Dietrich is a research associ- Kimery Sands, c'96, and Matthew ate with KU's Applied Remote Sensing Pro- Schwartz, b'96, Sept. 16 in Carmel, Calif.They David Johanning Jr., f'94, and Deborah gram, and Jennifer is a freelance cartographer. live in Houston. Headley, c'98, Sept 2 in Lawrence. David man- Stacey Smith, c'96, and Chad Marlow, 96, ages the Sandbar, and Deborah is a student 1996 April 29 in Pratt.They live in Wichita, where loan representative at Firstar Bank. Judith Beck, n'96, g'98, is an assistant profes- Stacey coordinates sales for Balco Manufactur- Ozel Soykan, b 94, g 96, and Kristin Ulrich, sor of nursing at Graceland University's campus ing and Chad works in the commercial new c'98, Sept. 30.They live in London, where Ozel in Independence, Mo. She lives in Leavenworth. equipment sales division ofTrane. works for Motorola. Lori Haskins Brannan, c'96, works as a vet- erinarian at Blaire Doan Veterinary Clinic in BORN TO: 1995 Wichita. She lives in Derby with her husband, William, g'97, and Amy Patton Grammer, LaRisa Chambers-Lochner, c'95, is a team Ryan, 97 g'97, daughter; Abigail Elizabeth, May 14 in supervisor for the American Cancer Society in Sarah Clagett, j'96, is an associate producer Kansas City, where William is a wetlands scien- Austin.Texas, where her husband, Brian, '95, for NBC's "Today" show in New York City. She tist with Burns & McDonnell. works for Enfield Homes. lives in Upper Montclair, N.J. Mollie Hamill Qualseth, c'96, and Shon, Mark Galus, c'95, practices law with Smith Jenny Harden Dorsten, c'96, directs com- l'97, daughter Rylee Michelle, Sept. I 6 in O'Callaghan & White in Chicago. munity affairs for the Greater Raleigh (N.C.) Lawrence, where Mollie is education coordina-

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tor for the Golf Course Superintendents'Asso- ciation. Shon commutes toTopeka, where he's 'BUFFALO BILL BRINGS WILD WEST TO PARIS an associate with the law firm of Fairchild, Haney & Buck. im McMullan has again succumbed to the lure of the Wild West. This 1997 time, though, the veteran TV and Kathryn Richardson Franquemont, c'97, is movie actor is living the legend not on a marketing representative for DMB & Associ- J a Hollywood back lot, but in a Paris din- ates in Scottsdale, Ariz., where she and her hus- band, Mike, make their home. ner theatre as the star of "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show" at Disney Village. Kristen Hagglund, c'97, manages sales for Springhill Suites by Marriott in Shawnee Mis- "It's such a dramatic and romantic sion. She lives in Overland Park. character, riding a white horse, wearing Suzanne Jager, j'97, is a graphic designer for great leather buckskins," McMullan, a'61, SuperFlow. She lives in Englewood, Colo. says from his country home near Disney- Brian Kruse, j'97, has been promoted to land Paris. "Buffalo Bill came here in senior account executive at the Kansas City 1889 for the World Exposition and he office of Fleishman-Hillard. He lives in Lenexa. was a big star. People loved him, and Linda Mitchell, PhD'97, is an assistant profes- they still do. He's an amazing character sor of curriculum and instruction at Wichita in Europe." State University. McMullan says that when friends and Sarah Phillips, c'97, works in promotions Hollywood cohorts hear he's playing Buf- and marketing with DeStefano & Partners in falo Bill at Disneyland Paris, they assume Chicago. he's one of the characters that roam Dis- Charlotte Balsamo Puttroff, n97, a US ney parks, performing an occasional test, directed by LEGENDARY: Veteran Navy lieutenant junior grade, works in the operating room at the Camp Pendleton Naval street show. In fact, McMullan is the legend-in-the-mak- actor Jim McMullan por- Hospital. Her husband, Aaron, c'98, is a first headliner in a 1,000-seat dinner theatre ing Sam Peckinpah, ^ Buffal° Bi" at Disney lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps.They live in built by Disney specifically for the show. Village, near Pans, Oceanside, Calif. who at the time was Europeans who fill the arena savor an shooting his third Keri Russell, c'97, j'98, manages MAI Sports in American meal of barbecue ribs, corn on film, "Ride the High Country." Though Overland Park. the cob and roast chicken, and they cheer McMullan did not land a role in Jennifer Sherwood, c'97, works as a broker madly for a show that features 50 Indians Peckinpah's film, the screen test earned for Rabjohns Financial Group in Chicago. and rodeo cowboys on horseback. There him a contract at Universal Studios. Peter Sittenauer, c'97, recently graduated are buffalo, stagecoach robberies and an He says his favorite acting experience from the training course at the U.S. Army Annie Oakley who shoots out candles. Ranger School at Fort Benning, Ga. He's a fire was a prominent role in Robert Redford's direction officer assigned to the 320th Field "Imagine these European kids who 1969 movie, "Downhill Racer," and he Artillery at Fort Campbell, Ky. have never seen such a thing. They just gained fame as Sen. Dowling on "Dallas." Jonathan Staley, e'97, serves as a lieutenant love it," McMullan says. "You see them But McMullan has lately been reminiscing junior grade in the U.S. Navy stationed aboard looking, and you know they are thinking. about his first movie: In "The Raiders," a the USS Cheyenne in Pearl Harbor Hawaii. 'Oh, if only I could be Buffalo Bill 1963 film starring Robert Culp as Wild McMullan, an architecture and art stu- Bill Hickok, McMullan played none other MARRIED dent, discovered acting at KU when he than Buffalo Bill. Sara Conrad, c'97, and David Pahl, b'97, signed on for a small part in a play that Now that's he's come full circle, April 29 in Lawrence.They live in Boulder; featured his girlfriend. After participating McMullan says the legend of Buffalo Bill Colo., where Sara works at the Boulder in numerous KU theatre productions and Country Club and David owns David Pahl Cody means as much to him at this stage Photography. finishing his architecture degree, McMul- in his career as it did at the beginning. lan traveled to Los Angeles to visit a John Erck, j'97, to Erica Henry, July 8 in "Getting this role was a godsend for Little Rock, Ark. John is an associate producer friend. With encouragement and a few my wife and me," McMullan says. "We for Sportvision in Lawrence.They live in connections, he ended up visiting with were getting stale. The parts weren't com- Kansas City. playwright and fellow Jayhawk William ing. Mentally we were in a bad place. Gary Miller, c'97, and Jolene Savolt, c 98, Inge, c'35, who was overseeing the movie This was one of those magical things. We s'00, July 15 in Scott City.They live in Lawrence, production of his play "Splendor in the needed a change. Now we own a house where Jolene works for Bert Nash. Grass." in the woods near Paris, we're speaking Beth Spreitzer, c'97, and John Felski, b 97, Inge sent McMullan to his agent, and French and traveling everywhere. It has c'97, June 24 in Overland Park, where they Inge's agent landed McMullan a screen been a true blessing. "^"•» make their home.

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Heather Stancliffe, c'97, and Aaron Tracy Stephenson, c'99, g'00, to Michael Stacie Daniels, c'00, and Paul Vincent, 02, Whiteside, c'97, June 10 in Lawrence.They Clouse, Sept. 9.They live in Topeka, where he's a July 8.They live in Lawrence. live in Prairie Village. supervisor with Cox Cablevision. Kristen Hearne, p'00, and Michael Fink, Teresa Veazey,j'97, to Travis Heying, Sept. 2 p'00, Aug. 5 in Lawrence, where they live. in Wichita, where Teresa is curator of education BORN TO: Michael is a pharmacist at Medical Arts at Wichita State University's Edwin A. Ulrich Jennifer, g 99, and David F. Dulny, c'72, b'73, Pharmacy. Museum of Art. Travis is a photographer for g'77, daughter Amanda Nicole, Oct. 20, 1999. Shelby Ladner, s'00, to Budd Cherny, June 3. the Wichita Eagle. Jennifer is chief operations officer for shopper- Shelby is an adoption social worker with the point.com and David is director of financial ser- Kansas Children's Service League, and Budd is 1998 vices for Providence Medical Center.They live an electrical designer with Black & Veatch.They Laura Lee, p'98, works as a pharmacist at in Shawnee. live in Roeland Park. NCSA Healthcare in Wichita. Jason, e'99, and Rachel Dinkel Purdy, Elizabeth Wristen, j'00, to Craig Wakeman, Debra LiaKos, d'98, is a senior teller at assoc, daughter; Morgan Kay, Oct. 25 in Wichita, Sept. 23 in Leawood, where they make Capitol Federal Savings in Lawrence. where she joins a brother, Joshua, 3. Jason is an their home. aerospace engineer with Cessna. Holly Lucas, j'98, coordinates marketing and public relations at Olathe Medical Center. BORN TO: 2000 Stacy Grim, c'00, son, Jacob Wendell Scott, Laura Olberding, b'98, works as an agent for Angela Patterson Dale, s'00, works in the May 16.They live in Sabetha, where Stacy is a American Family Insurance in Olathe. She lives victim/witness assistance program of the Office nurse's aide at Sabetha Manor. in Kansas City. of the Commonwealth's Attorney in Norfolk, Va. Melissa Wolfe Weide.e 98, is a plant Angela Jefferson Steffen, p'00, and Boyd, David Dowdy, g'00, lives in Macomb, III., with son, Elijah Glenn, Sept. 18 in Concordia, where engineer for UCB Films inTecumseh. She lives his wife, Lisa, and their son, Noah, who'll be I in in Topeka. Angela is a clinical pharmacist at Cloud County March. David is a physical therapist at McDo- Health Center. nough District Hospital. MARRIED Stephen Hardy, c'00, is a congressional intern Associates Allison Arbuckler, j'98, and Matthew for U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran, c'76, l'82. He lives in Harry Shaffer, professor emeritus of eco- Taylor, b'98, June 10 in Wichita. She is a man- Arlington, Va. nomics, wrote American Capitalism and the ager at SBC Communications in Mission, and Thomas Hetherington, m'00, a resident at Changing Role of Government which recently he's a systems engineer at EDS.Their home is Forest Park Hospital, lives in St. Louis with his was published by Praeger. He and Betty in Fairway. wife, Amy, and their daughter; Ashley, who's Robert Shaffer, '87, live in Lawrence. AlicaVause, c'98, and Grey Montgomery, almost I. c'98, j'98, June 20 in Kansas City. Alicia teaches Darnell Johnson, s'00, works as a children's kindergarten at Buttercup Hill Preschool in case manager for Franklin County Mental Salem, Ore., and Grey is life editor at the SchOOl Codes Letters that follow Health in Ottawa, where he lives with his wife, Statesman Journal. names in Kansas Alumni indicate the school Melanie.Their son, Krystofer is I. from which alumni earned degrees. Numbers 1999 Richard Johnson, TOO, practices law with show their class years. ArmstrongTeasdale in Kansas City. Sara Deere, g'99, teaches at Don Bosco a School of Architecture and Urban Charter High School in Kansas City. Bethany Larson, PhD'OO, appeared last fall in Design a PBS Masterpiece Theatre production, "Cora Lorrie Scott, d'99, is a sales representative for b School of Business Unashamed." She teaches theater at Buena Vista Hallmark in St. Louis and a cheerleader for the c College of Liberal Arts and University in Storm Lake, Iowa. St. Louis Rams football team. She lives in Ball- Sciences win, Mo. Frederick Patton, TOO, is a staff attorney for d School of Education the state of Kansas. He and his wife, Kimberly, e School of Engineering Fred Warkentine, m'99, and his wife, live in Topeka with their son, Zachary, I. f Marshelle, live in Grosse Pointe Wood, Mich., School of Fine Arts with their daughter, Katharina, I .Fred is a resi- Devon Reese, TOO, works as a law clerk for g Master's Degree dent at St. John's Hospital and Medical Center the Nevada Supreme Court in Carson City. He h School of Allied Health in Detroit. and his wife, Emily, live in Sparks with their j School of Journalism daughter; Madeline, I. 1 School of Law MARRIED Danell Russell, d'00, works as a counseling m School of Medicine Mandy Dye, d'99, and Adam Sikes, d'00, assistant in Salina, where she lives with her n School of Nursing June 17. Mandy teaches second grade in Liberty, daughter; Morgan, who'll be I in March. P School of Pharmacy Mo.They live in Independence. Ryan Shirk, c'00, and his wife.Tonia, live in s School of Social Welfare Darren Griffith, d'99, and Tammy Ibbet- Lecompton with their son,Tanner, who's nearly DE Doctor of Engineering son, d'00, July 7 in Lawrence. Darren is an assis- 5, and daughters, Reanne and Carlee, I. DMA Doctor of Musical Arts tant equipment manager for the Atlanta Falcons EdD Doctor of Education football team, and Tammy works for Resurgens MARRIED PhD Doctor of Philosophy Orthopaedics.Their home is in Suwanee, Ga. Lacey Breithaupt, n'00, and Christopher (no letter) Former student Bronwyn Schields, j'99, to Thomas Rapp, Martin, j'00, Sept. 15.They live in Prairie Village. assoc Associate member of the March I I in Branson, Mo., where they both Stephanie Buek, TOO, to Andrew Goodenow, Alumni Association work for Kanakuk Kamps. Aug. l9.Their home is in Lenexa.

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The Early Years sister; eight grandchildren; and four great-grand- Services in Duncan, Okla. Among survivors are George Alden, c'27,95, Sept. 16 in Hutchin- children. two sons and two daughters. son, where he worked for the Hutchinson Gladys Laughery Ewbank, g'38,95, Sept. Anna Katharine Kiehl Rathbun, c'39, News. He is survived by a daughter Mary Alden 26 inTopeka. She was a retired associate profes- m'43, Oct. 17 in Lee's Summit, Mo. She had Tikwart, j'59, and two grandsons. sor of English atWashburn University and is practiced pediatrics for nearly 50 years and had Martha Lambert Clodfelter, '29,94, Sept. survived by two sisters and a brother taught at Harvard University and at the Univer- 10 in Columbus, Ohio, where she was active in Perdue Graves, g'31, EdD'49,94, Sept 17 in sity ofTexas-Galveston. Surviving are a son, community affairs. She is survived by two Topeka, where he was a teacher and an admin- Kiehl, c'72,175; a daughter; a brother, Otto Kiehl daughters; a son; a sister-in-law, Mildred Clodfel- istrator atTopeka High School. He also had Jr., c'41; four grandchildren; and a great-grand- ter; b'41; 15 grandchildren; and 22 great-grand- been president of Garlinghouse. Surviving are a daughter. children. son, Gary, d'67; a brother; two grandchildren; Sarah Pickett Richardson, c'36, 85, Aug. 4 Margaret Harris, c'23, 99, Sept 23 in and a great-grandchild. in Bowling Green, Ky. She was a social worker Wichita, where she was a retired nurse. A Helen Pieper Hartman, c'32, 9 I, Sept 17 and is survived by her husband, Harry, a daugh- sister survives. in Bartlesville, Okla. A daughter; a son and three ter, a son and a brother. Marguerite Cox Howard, '24,97, Aug. 20 in grandchildren survive. Murrel Snyder, g'36,92, Sept 3 in Winfield, Idaho Falls, Idaho. Survivors include a daughter, Walton Hoyt, '31, 92, Sept. 29 in Peabody. where he was a retired professor of economics Peggy Howard McManus, c'48; three sons; three He had a career in civil service and had lived in and sociology at Southwestern College.Three sisters; 13 grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren; Washington, D.C., and in Lakeland, Fla. A sister sons, a daughter, a sister, 10 grandchildren and and a great-great-grandchild. survives. 13 grandchildren survive. Carl Rumold, c'29, 94, June 2 in San Fran- Robert Hyman, '36, 86, Oct. 2 in Kalaheo, Charles Sutton, b'37, 86, Sept 25 in cisco, where he worked for Recorder Legal Hawaii. He was a civil engineer and had worked Oskaloosa. He had been an agent for Prudential Publishing. He is survived by his wife, Lucylle, for the Federal Aviation Administration. His wife, Insurance and worked as a real-estate agent for a daughter and five grandchildren. Sally Lee, survives. Regan Real Estate in Johnson County. A niece survives. 1930s Allene Duckett Isbell, n*36, 86, Sept 13 in Carthage, Mo. She is survived by a daughter, Charles Theis, b'34, 87, Oct. 20 in Wichita. Lauren "Andy" Anderson, c'30, g'31, 9 I, Ann Isbell Geisert, d'64; a son; two sisters, one He had been an independent oilman and a Aug. 25 in Riverside, Calif., where he was a pro- of whom is Jane Duckett Campbell, n'39; three stock broker Surviving are a son, Charles, c'65; fessor emeritus of entomology at the University grandchildren; and two great-granddaughters. a daughter; five grandchildren; and two great- of California-Riverside. Among survivors are a grandchildren. daughter, Carolyn, c'65; a son; two sisters, one of Love Lasher, c'32, c'33, June 8 in Saline, whom is Elinor Anderson Elliott, c'37; five grand- Mich.Two cousins survive. Lola Wiggins Thomas, c'30,9 I, Oct. 3 in Hoxie. She had taught school in Oberlin and children; and four great-grandchildren. Maurine Allen Lehmberg, d'31, 93, Sept. Selden and is survived by a nephew. Walter Baxter, c'34, 89, Sept. I I in Atlanta, 28 in McPherson, where she was a homemaker. where he was a retired purchasing agent, She is survived by a son; a daughter Lorna William Thudium, b'30, March 14 in San accountant and treasurerTwo sons survive. Lehmberg Stroup, c'62; a brother; two grand- Diego, Calif, where he worked in the grocery business and later for San Diego County. He is Zelma Snydal Beardslee, '34, 87, Aug. 24 in daughters; and four great-grandchildren. survived by his wife, Lois, two daughters, four Denver. A daughter; five grandchildren and two Arthur McClure,e'32, 9 I, July 31 in granddaughters and eight great-grandchildren. great-grandchildren survive. Lawrence. He worked for Standard Oil and had Lois M. Bowers, g'32,94, Oct. 6 in Hering- been a printer Surviving are his wife, Helen Jane Atwater Tinklepaugh, c'39, 82, Sept. 3 ton, where she was a retired interpreter A Kirkham McClure, assoc; two sons, James, e'55, in Kansas City. She is survived by her husband, brother survives. g'60, and Kirk, a'73; a daughter; 10 grandchildren; Mac, b'40;two sons, one of whom is David, s'72; and six great-grandchildren. a daughter; four grandchildren; and a great- Russell Bunker, '34,91, Sept. 26 in Beloit He grandson. owned and operated The Country Kitchen in Donald McMorran, b'38, 83, Sept. 5 in Tipton. Survivors include his wife, Marie, a son, Green Valley, Ariz. He had a long career with Arlene Foulks Warren, c'31,90, Oct. 30 three grandsons and two great-grandchildren. Pan American World Airways and is survived by in Ottawa, where she was a retired teacher. his wife, Alexia Marks McMorran, c'40; two Four grandchildren and eight great-grandchil- Donald Dooley, b'36, 85, Aug. 25 on Whid- daughters, one of whom is Loring McMorran dren survive. bey Island, Wash. He worked for Weyerhaeuser Dixon, d'65;two sisters, Helen McMorran and later for American Savings Bank, where he Dorothy Wilson, f 37, 95, Oct. 18 in Adams, f'30, and Kathleen McMorran Yeager, was controller and financial vice president. Sur- Lawrence, where she taught junior high and high f 32; and four grandchildren. viving are his wife, Helen Dodds Dooley, '40; a school. A niece and a nephew survive. son, John, b'65; three daughters; eight grandchil- Perry McNally, c'39, 84, Oct. 20 in Richard Wood, e'32, 9 I, March 12 in Wichita, dren; and three great-grandchildren. Bartlesville, Okla., where he was an executive where he was a retired civil engineer He is with Phillips Petroleum. He is survived by a son, Florence Shaser Dworkis, n'38, April 24 in survived by his wife, Florence; two daughters, Sacramento, Calif, where she was a retired Michael, b'67,170; two daughters, Jean McNally one of whom is Judith Wood Reilly, d'71; two nurse and a bridge lifemasterTwo sons, a Whelan, c'65, and Elaine McNally Nelson, c'74, stepsons, one of whom is Larry Prather, d'61; a daughter and three grandchildren survive. g'79; a brother; a sister; and three grandchildren. sister; four grandchildren and six great-grand- children. Robert Entrikin, c'34, 87, Aug. 24 in San Frances Coon Phipps, c'33, Sept 25 in Francisco, where he had been on the faculty at Houston. A son, a daughter; a sister; five grand- Ada Hanson Woshinsky, c'30,93, Oct. 4 in Golden Gate University. He is survived by his children and four great-grandchildren survive. Pensacola, Fla. She had been a reporter and a wife, Jean Finch Entriken, assoc; four sons, two Jose Ramos, e'39, 85, Oct. 18 in Bakersfield, proofreader Two sons, two daughters, six grand- of whom are Robert, j'69, and Edward, c'66; a Calif. He had a 38-year career with Halliburton children and four great-grandchildren survive.

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1940s Colette, three sons, four daughters, a sister and her husband, John, b'47; three sons, Mark, c'70, Clayton Banta, '41, 85, Oct. 8 in Topeka. He nine grandchildren. John, c'77, and Thomas, c'87; a daughter; three managed the Colorado Springs Chamber of Robert Hagen, d'47, 80, Oct. 2 in Fort sisters, two of whom are Helen Piller Davis, Commerce and is survived by two brothers and Dodge. He lived in Lawrence and had been an c'50, and Catherine Piller Ball, '48; a brother; a sister adviser to the Small Business Administration. Robert, b'49; five grandchildren; and two great- grandchildren. Isobel "Izzy" Faurot Bennett, c'48, s'76, Surviving are his wife, Kittye Cooksey Hagen, 73, Oct. 9 in Ottawa. She lived in Overland Park assoc; five daughters, two of whom are Amy Lucille Loeb Shinkle, '45,77, Oct 5 in and had been a social worker for many years. Hagen Addington, c'84, and Parry Hagen-Sevra, Kansas City, where she was a homemaker She is c'76; eight grandchildren; and eight great-grand- She is survived by a son; two daughters, Janet survived by her husband, Harry, e'48; and a son. children. Nesch, c'71, and Kathryn Nesch Williamson, Edward Sommers, b'49, March 10 in Wich- c'74, g'79; a sister; and three grandchildren. Donna Roots Hepp, n'47, 85, June 27 in ita. He was an accountant and is survived by his Edward "Bud" Boddington jr., c'47, l'48, Brea, Calif. She had worked as a nurse and is wife, Lorraine; a daughter, Mary Sommers Grant, 78, July 18 in Kansas City, where he was a for- survived by her husband, Ralph, and a sister; d'72, g'79, g'98; and three sons. mer partner in the law firm of Boddington and Martha Roots Knox, n'42. Alice Bodman Spray, c'40, 81, Sept. 19 in Brown. He is survived by his wife, Jeanne Fern Hill Hogue, c'40, 82, Sept. I 6 in Topeka. Lawrence. She is survived by her husband, Popham Boddington, c'43; a daughter, Ellen Bod- She had written several genealogy books and Chester, b'40; a son; two daughters, Elizabeth dington Baumler, c'74, g'83, PhD'86; a son, Craig, is survived by her husband, Don, e'42; three Spray Haehl, b'77, and Christina, c'72; a sister, c'74; a sister; Betty Boddington Reese, c'40; and daughters, two of whom are Kathlyn Hogue Carolyn Bodman Johnson, a'47; and three three granddaughters. Rodriguez, d'66, g'69, and Evelyn Hogue Dowell, grandchildren. c'70; six grandchildren; and two great-grand- William "Jim" Brady Jr., b'48, 80, Sept 24 Carroll Walker, g'40, 90, Feb. 24 in Bella children. in St. Joseph, Mo., where he was part owner of Vista, Ark. He was a management analyst with Snorkel Fire Equipment.Three brothers and two Jacob Holper, c'49, g'5 I.June 22 in the U.S. Veterans Administration for 30 years sisters survive. Charleston, S.C. He is survived by his wife, Patri- and had been a teacher and a principal. His sur- cia, a son, a daughter, six grandchildren and a Emma Staton Brooks, '47,76, Oct. 21 in vivors include his wife, Erma, a son, a daughter great-granddaughter. Coffeyville. She is survived by her husband, Jack; and a sister a daughter, Jann Brooks Pendry, d'75; and two Elizabeth Posornow Lintecum, '48, 75, Donald Wilson, b'48, 76, March 14 in Lin grandchildren. Oct. 31 in Kansas City. She is survived by two coin, Neb. He had a 35-year career with GMAC sons, one of whom is Frederick, m'79; a daugh- Richard Buck, c'43, 78, Aug. 18 inTulsa, Okla. and is survived by his wife, Nina, four daughters ter; and two grandchildren. He was director of the electronics laboratory at and 10 grandchildren. the Research Foundation at Oklahoma A&M F.W'Bud" Mallonee, e'48, 80, Oct. 24 in Oliver Yarham,e'4O, 86, April 21 in Park For- College. He is survived by his wife, Patsy, five Wichita, where he was a drilling contractor and est, III., where he was a retired chemical engi- sons, a daughter; a stepson, a stepdaughter; a an oil and gas operator He is survived by a neer for Nalco Chemical.Three daughters are brother; a sister and 13 grandchildren. stepson; a stepdaughter; a brother, Robert, c'44; among survivors. and a sister; Elizabeth, c'47. John "Jack" Cleverley Jr., '45,77, Sept 19 in Independence. He worked in the radio and Carl Michaelis, c'45, g'49, 82, Sept. 12 in 1950s television business before joining Phillips Petro- Kettering, Ohio. He lived in Dayton, where he Glenn Arbuckle, e'50, April 30 in Chicago, leum's marketing department. Among survivors was a professor emeritus of chemistry at the where he was a retired senior customer engi- are his wife, Violet, a son, a sister and four University of Dayton. Surviving are three broth- neer for IBM. Surviving are his wife, Betty Jean, a grandchildren. ers, two of whom are Walter, b'49, and Francis, son and two grandchildren. b'49; and three sisters. Adrian Dinges, b'49,78, Oct. 25 in Kansas Mary Waddell Baker, '55, 86, Feb. 16 in Pleasant Miller Jr., c'47, 77, Sept 23 in City, where he was a retired budget analyst at Eagle Lake,Texas. She had chaired the fine arts Kansas City, where he had been president and the Marine Corps Finance Center. He is sur- department at East Lansing High School in East board chairman of Commerce Trust/Commerce vived by his wife, Marie, three sons, a daughter, Lansing, Mich. She is survived by her husband, Bank. He is survived by his wife, Alice Shankland four brothers, two sisters, 10 grandchildren and Rollin, PhD'48; a daughter; two sons; and four Miller, '47; two sons, Plez, c'75, and David, j'78; a four great-grandchildren. grandsons. daughter, Allison Miller Frizell, n'81; a brother, Charles Bartholomew, e'59, 63, July 13 in Joan Gardner Dunne, f 48,74, Oct. 7 in Don, m'48; and three grandchildren. Wichita. She is survived by three sons, two of Philadelphia. He had chaired the civil engineer- Peter Purduski, '49,74, Oct. 15 in Kansas whom are Jack Jr, b'77, and Michael, s'81; a ing department at Widener University in City, where he worked for General Motors for daughter; and six grandchildren. Chester; Pa., and is survived by his wife, Rita more than 40 years. He is survived by his wife, Shoup Bartholomew, c'57; two daughters; a son; William Ellis, b'47, 76, Oct. I 6 in Los Ange- Anne Marie; a son, Stephen, e'78; a daughter; a a brother; a sister; and four grandchildren. les, where he was the oldest living recipient of a brother; three sisters; and a grandson. heart transplant in the United States. He had Robert Bennett, c*50, l'52, 73, Oct 9 in John Romary, e'43, 88, Sept. 19 in Topeka. He owned Farley Candy and Ellis Foods. A son and Kansas City. He had been governor of Kansas was retired from Curtis Wright in Montclair, N.J., four grandchildren survive. from 1975-79, president of the Kansas Senate and is survived by his wife, Leona; two sons; a and mayor of Prairie Village. He founded the law Earl Fowler, c'43, g'55, May 12 in Kansas sister, Agnes Romary Sours, f 40; and two grand- firm of Bennett Lytle WetzlerWinn & Martin City. He had a career in chemistry and microbi- children. and had received the Kansas Supreme Court ology and is survived by a brother James, c'44, Patricia Piller Shelton, c'45, 77, Oct I in Justice Award and been named a distinguished m'47; and a sister Kansas City. She lived in Wichita for many years statesman by the Native Sons and Daughters of Rex Gish, c'40, m'42, 83, Oct. 20 in Mon- and had founded the Wichita Social Services for Kansas. A memorial has been established with terey, Calif, where he was a retired anesthesiol- the Deaf. She was active in the Junior League in the KU Endowment Association. He is survived ogist and physician. He is survived by his wife, Wichita and in Kansas City and is survived by by his wife, Olivia; a son, Robert Jr., c'72; three

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daughters, two of whom are Virginia Bennett Donald McFerson, '53, 68, Sept. 23 in Cecil Bayless, s'68, 64, Aug. 30 in Indepen- Hesler, c'74, and Patricia, b'85, l'88; a stepson; Chanute. He was Derby city attorney, municipal dence, where he had directed the Social and and 10 grandchildren. court judge and city councilman. He is survived Rehabilitation Services office and later worked Otis "Dick" Carrithers, '58, 65, Oct. 25 in by his wife, Charlene; three sons; four daugh- as a carpenterTwo sons, a daughter; two sisters and four grandchildren survive. Kansas City. A daughter a son, his mother and a ters, one of whom is Molly McFerson Kysar, grandson survive. c'98, g'00; a sister; Mary McFerson Detmer, c'62; Charles Bennett Jr., c'65, d'66, 56, March 2 and three grandchildren. in Fort Scott, where he was a counselor and Robert Drewelow, '59,70, Sept. 5 inTopeka, psychologist at Fort Scott Middle School. His where he was a staff artist, director; cameraman Harry Morey Jr., b'50,75, June 4 in Sarasota, mother survives. and film editor for WIBW-TVTwo sons, a Fla. He had been marketing manager for Stauf- daughter and four grandchildren survive. fer Chemical in Westport, Conn., and is sur- Linda Few Desmone, d'68, g'70, 54, Oct vived by his wife, Margaret; three daughters; a 10 in Andover, Conn. She had been a speech Rachel Estabrooks, g'59, 86, Oct. 7 in brother; Robert, j'54; and two grandchildren. and language pathologist, a real estate agent, a Columbia, Mo. She had taught school in Topeka clinical instructor of speech at the University of Carroll Noland, e'5l, 76, Sept. 17 in Kansas for many years before retiring in Columbia.Two Connecticut and clinical coordinator at the City. He had managed the Gas Service Co. in brothers and a sister survive. Southeastern Connecticut Hearing and Speech Liberty, Mo., and owned Fickle Construction in Thomas Farmer, c'54, July 2 in Houston. He Center A sister Louise Few Henderson, d'61, Parkville. His survivors include his wife, Bettie, a is survived by his wife, Lola, a son, a daughter survives. and a brother son, a daughter and five grandchildren. Helen Warren Fair, c'66, 55, Sept 12 in Cecilia Pearson, g'52, 98, Oct 6 in John Hope Jr., e'50, g'72,79, Oct 23 in Denver, where she was a senior legal secretary Lawrence, where she had taught third grade at Kansas City, where he was a retired engineer at Rothgerber Johnson and Lyons. Her parents He is survived by six daughters, a son, 10 Cordley Elementary School and been principal and a brother survive. grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. atWoodlawn and East Heights schools. A nephew and a niece survive. John Hendrickson Jr., PhD'67, 59, Aug. 9 in Edwin Husband, e'59, 63, Aug. 18 in Hous- Minneapolis, where he was a system administra- ton. He was retired from a 29-year career with Mariana Lohrenz Remple, '50, 87, Sept. tor for Metropolitan Health Plan. Earlier he had Texas Instruments. Surviving are his wife, Karen, 19 in Kansas City. She lived in Lawrence and been a statistician and research biologist at the a son, a daughter, his mother and two grand- had been an elementary school teacher and Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. children. a writer Survivors include her husband, Harry, He is survived by his wife, Karen Kruenegel PhD'50; a daughter; Lucy Remple McAllister; Hendrickson, f'73; two sisters; and a brother Noble Irving, m'51, 84, April 14 in Naples, f'58, d'60, g'67; a son, Robert, c'62; and a Fla., where he was a retired radiologist. He Jewell Himes, d'67, 55, Sept. 24 in Fort grandchild. is survived by his wife, Florence, a son, two Worth,Texas. She lived in Dallas and was Span- daughters, five grandchildren and two great- Edward Self, g'52, March 23 in Sun City ish interpreter for the Dallas-Fort Worth grandchildren. Center; Fla., where he was retired from a career courts. She is survived by her parents, a brother in the oil business. Survivors include his wife, and three sisters. Harry Janssen, e'57, 66, Sept. 6 in Ponca Nancy, and two sons. City, Okla., where he was a retired chemical Richard Iliff, g'67, Sept. 24 in Prairie Village. engineer for Continental Oil. Survivors include Frank Shogrin, c'51,73, Aug. 20 in Santa Fe, He was chief audiologist at the Knight Altringer his wife, Betty, a son, a daughter and three N.M., where he was active in the oil and gas and Bunting Clinic and later began the Prairie grandchildren. business. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn, Village Hearing Service. He is survived by his assoc; a daughter; two sisters; a brother; wife, Janet Rainsburg Iliff, assoc; three sons, Priscilla Richmond Jones, c'50, Aug. 25 in Quentin, e'63; a granddaughter; and two great- Doug, c'71, m'74, Stephen, c'78, g'80, and Bartlesville, Okla. She is survived by a son; a grandchildren. Christopher c'76,179; a daughter Mary Ann Iliff daughter; and a brother,Tom, c'55. Hughes, c'84; a sister; and 17 grandchildren. John Keller, d'52,71, Oct. 6 in Great Bend, Alan Showalter, g'5l,July 20 in Auburn, Ind. He had been a physicist, an electronic engineer Patricia Jackson Leachty, '60, 66, May I I in where he was a teacher and a coach. While at Placerville, Calif. She lived in Diamond Springs KU, he had been a member of KU's 1952 and a college professor A son and three daugh- ters survive. and is survived by her husband, Ernest, e'50; a NCAA championship basketball team and of son; a daughter; a brother; and two grand- the U.S. Olympic gold medal basketball team. Harold White, a'51,74, Aug. I I in Wichita, daughters. He is survived by his wife, Marilyn, two sons, where he had been an architect and engineer Daniel McCarthy, g'69, 77, June 5 in St. two daughters, four sisters and seven grand- His wife, Barbara, and two sons survive. David, Ariz. He worked as a reporter for the children. MaryWidner, g'57, 87, Sept. I I in El Dor- Freemont (Ohio) News, the Herington Adver- Jane Sands Kramer, '57, 65, Oct. 6 in ado, where she was a retired teacher at the tiser-Times, the Kansas City Star and VFW Topeka. She lived in Lawrence and is survived Boys Industrial School. A nephew and two magazine. He also taught journalism at Central by two sons, John, c'79, and Timothy, p'83, p'94; cousins survive. Arizona College and at Indiana State University. a brother; and a granddaughter. Norman Yackle, d'50, 73, Sept 23 in Lake Surviving are his wife, Mary Ellen, and three Alan Lynn, c'55, g'57, July 25 in Reno, Nev.A Carroll, III. He had been a teacher, coach, princi- sisters. daughter and a son are among survivors. pal and school superintendent. Surviving are his Robert McLeod, b'68, 54, Sept 9 in Shirley "Tealy" Ketchum McDaneld, wife, Clare, a son, three daughters and eight Shawnee. He had worked for Arthur Young s'56, Oct. 30 in Overland Park. She and her grandchildren. and later had been self employed. His father late husband had operated McDaneld Drug survives. Store in Turner for many years and she is sur- 1960s Michael "Tubie" Miller, c'65,1*68, 57, Oct vived by a daughter, Dana McDaneld Steinwart, Mary Elizabeth Cabbell Adams, s'65, 71, 8 in Overland Park, where he was first deputy b'81; a son, Michael, a'87, g'94; a sister, Mary April 14 in Topeka, where she was a retired executive vice president of the American Acad- Ketchum Davis, c'5 I; and four grandsons. social workerTwo nephews and a niece survive. emy of Family Physicians. A memorial has been

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established with the KU Endowment Associa- Kansas City Star; the Tulsa Tribune, the Dallas Gloria Timmer, '82,49, Oct. I I in Lawrence. tion. Surviving are a daughter; his mother; Helen Times-Herald and the Arizona Republic. He She was former budget director for the state of Miller; c'44; and two grandchildren. worked for CBS Sportsline and is survived by Kansas and is survived by her husband, John, Joseph Peppart IV, '65, 59, Nov. 4 in his wife, Robin, his mother and a brother l'85; two daughters,Tracy, c'99, and Jennifer, stu- Phoenix, Ariz. He had been vice president of Leroy Simoneau, '79, 65, Sept. 28 in Logan. dent; her parents; two brothers; and a sister commercial loans at Boatman's Bank in Kansas He is survived by his wife, Donna, a son, two City and is survived by his wife, Sharon Hill, a daughters, three brothers, two sisters and six 1990s son and a sister. grandchildren. Dianna Rae Hammons, g'93, 62, Sept. 14 Ronald Schmidt, b'61, 61, Sept 22 in Lea Douglas Vokins, '78,43, Sept. 12 in Scotts- in Kansas City. She lived inTonganoxie and was wood. He was a partner in Ernst & Ernst and dale, Ariz., where he was a senior integrated a teacher Survivors include her husband, Paul, later was senior vice president of finance at technologist specialist with IBM. He had lived in a son, two brothers, three sisters and two Providence Medical Center. He is survived by Overland Park for many years and had worked grandchildren. his wife, Janie Shields Schmidt, c'78; a son, for United Missouri Bank. He is survived by his Nathan Haston, '96, 29, Aug. 20 inTisho- Andrew, s'92, s'99; two daughters, Carolyn wife, Dorie, a son, a stepson, his parents, three mingo, Okla., where he had been a ranch fore- Schmidt Galvin, j'87, and Kathleen, f 83; his brothers and his grandmother man and parts manager for Meineke Boyd and mother; a brother; and a sister Philip Wagner, c'77, July 12 in St. Paul, Minn. Tishomingo Chevrolet. His wife, Alison, a son, Agnes Nowak Schockley, d'62,92, Oct. 3 He was former director of the inter-college his mother and stepfather, two stepbrothers in Lawrence. She had been a teacher and prin- program and adviser in the college of liberal and his grandparents survive. cipal for 36 years and is survived by a son, arts honors program at the University of Min- three daughters, five grandchildren, two step- nesota. He is survived by his wife, Mary Kay; John "Nick" Kanatzar, e'93,50, Sept 25 grandchildren and I I great-grandchildren. two sons; his mother; and three brothers, one in Shawnee Mission. He is survived by his wife, Mary Lou, two sons, his father and stepmother Marvin "Sonny" Timm,'61,69, Sept 19 in of whom is Kenneth, j'79, l'83. four brothers, two sisters and two grand- Lenexa, where he was retired from a career children. with the Federal Aviation Administration. Surviv- 1980s ing are his wife, Jo Ann, four sons, two daugh- Julie VanAlyea Firth, g'81, 65, Oct 5 in ters, a brother; 18 grandcihldren and a Overland Park. She had been a teacher and is The University Community great-grandson. survived by her husband, Harry; a daughter Judy Avery Bornheim, '00,56, Oct. 6 in Mary Firth Scott, g'92; two sisters; a brother; Kansas City. She lived in Lawrence, where she Vernon Voorhees II, b'64, l'67, 57, Oct. 14 and three grandchildren. in Fairway. He was senior vice president of cor- was the controller for the KU Endowment porate services and secretary of Business Men's Kelle Gehrt, '87, 36, Sept. 15. He lived in Association. A daughter her mother a brother a Assurance Co. Surviving are his wife, Jane Lut- Topeka and was a security manager for local sister and three grandchildren survive. ton Voorhees, f'64; two daughters; his mother area Kmart stores and had worked for Berry- Kathryn Colwell Loy Calvin, c'32, 89, Aug. Betty Gayle Sims Voorhees, c'36, g'65; two sis- ton Excavating. Surviving are his wife, De'De, his 29 in Brighton, Mich. She had been a social father a brother and a sister ters, Linda Voorhees Snodgrass, d'67, and Gayle worker and in I960, became an instructor of Ann Voorhees Stuber, d'82; and a grandson. Cynthia Hocker, c'85, g'92, 38, Sept 29 in sociology at KU. She is survived by two grand- Nancy Watts Vunovich, g'66, 71, May 4 Maple Hill. She had worked in the judicial sons, three great-grandchildren and a great- in Nashville,Tenn. She had taught theatre at administration for the state of Kansas for more great-granddaughter Arkansas City High School, the University of than 20 years. Surviving are her mother and Roy Laird, 75, Oct. 21 in Lawrence, where he Wisconsin and at the University of Tulsa, stepfather a brother, her grandmothers and a was a professor emeritus of political science at where she was department chairTwo stepgrandmother KU. A memorial has been established with the daughters survive. Amy Dennis Pierron, n'81,48, Sept. 25 in KU Endowment Association. He is survived by Olathe, where she had been a nurse and was his wife, Betty Olson Laird, '66; two sons, David, 1970s active in the arts community. She is survived by c'76, and Claude, c'78, g'81, PhD'86; a daughter Valentine Lange Braun, g'76, 71, Oct 23 her husband, Joe, 171; two sons, one of whom Heather, c'83; a sister; and four grandchildren. inTopeka. She had come to the United States is, Sam, c'00; a daughter; her mother; a brother; from Romania as a World War II refugee and a sister. Associates and retired in 1994 as associate director of Steven Seufert, j'80,44, Sept. 7 in Dallas, Ruth Hamilton, Oct. 31 in La Jolla, Calif. the Kansas Medical Society. Her husband, where he was a flight attendant for American Alexander; survives. Airlines. He is survived by his parents, a brother Among survivors is her husband, Kenneth, b'39, William "Chuck" Evers III, l'72, 54, Sept and his grandparents. l'47. She had careers in teaching and in labora- tory technology. Although she earned degrees I I while on vacation in Door County, Wis. He Dorothy Shoham, '82, 66, Sept. I 3 in from Case Western Reserve and U.S. Interna- lived in Collinsville, where he was an attorney. Kansas City, where she was a staff nurse at the tional universities, Ruth was an active KU sup- He is survived by his wife, Lynda, a daughter, a KU Medical Center before retiring in 1998. porter; she and her husband helped found the son and his mother She is survived by her husband, Gilbert, a son, Alumni Association's KU chapter in San Diego. John Farney, PhD'76,59, Sept. 9 in Wichita. a daughter a brother two sisters and three He had been a farmer and is survived by his grandchildren. Milton Roberts Jr., 68, Oct. 21 in Garden wife, Sheryl; three daughters, two of whom are Lenvillene Bowlin Stanton, d'82, Oct. 25 City, where he was a retired meter tester for Krista Farney Dawson, c'92, and Megan, c'99; his in Overland Park, where she was a real estate Enron. A memorial has been established with mother; a sister; and a grandson. agent and had taught second grade at M.E. the KU Endowment Association. He is survived Steven Schoenfeld, j'77,45, Oct 24 in Pearson Elementary School. Surviving are her by his wife, Bette Jo Jones Roberts, c'50; a son, Tempe, Ariz., of injuries sustained when he was husband, James, three sons, three daughters, her Kurt, b'80; a daughter, Andrea Roberts Johnsrud, struck by a car. He had been a reporter for the parents, a sister and eight grandchildren. b'81; and six grandchildren.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 53 SCHOOLWORK BY LAZZARINO & HILL The whole wide world New Edwards Campus program helps working professionals grasp globalization

director Deborah J. Gerner. The rise of the global economy means that many professionals who never set out to work for an international business often find themselves doing just that. "It then becomes more important to understand the economy, culture and society of the countries they find themselves deal- ing with," she says. "International studies is ideal for teachers, military person- nel, journalists, bankers, attorneys and other professionals who want to expand their understanding of the contemporary global arena," Gerner says. "A lot of people in those fields studied something other than international affairs when they got their degrees, but now they have jobs that require them to know stuff about the world." While economic globalization has rapidly transformed the workplace, universities have been slower to adapt, Gerner says. When she and her colleagues looked around, they found no master's programs closer than St. Louis, Denver and Chica- go. A survey of Kansas City businesses identified strong inter- est in a local program. International studies is one of 18 programs now offered at Edwards and the eighth launched in the last two years at the rapidly growing campus. It officially starts this spring with two courses. Carl Strikwerda, associate dean of the College of Lib- eral Arts and Sciences, will teach "Globalization in History," a survey of the phenomenon of globalization since 1500. David Lambertson, former U.S. ambassador to Thailand, will teach "U.S. Foreign Policy," which will examine how U.S. foreign policy is formed in the context of world politics. Expansion will depend on how many students enroll. The interests of each student will determine the type of courses

WORKING WORLD: Deborah J. Gerner associate professor of political offered. "We're trying to create a program that can be cus- science/government, directs KU's new international studies program for tomized to the needs of the individual student," Gerner says. professionals. The program's interdisciplinary approach guarantees faculty diversity as well. "We're stealing people from various depart- hink globally, act locally. That's the concept behind the ments to staff this thing," says Gerner, who will continue new international studies program at KU's Edwards teaching political science while she directs the program. TCampus in Overland Park. The interdisciplinary study Instructors from sociology, business, political science and other of international issues in politics, economics, history, culture departments are also expected to teach international studies and other areas will award a master's degree to students com- courses. pleting 37 credit hours and a thesis. And, like most Edwards The reliance on so many departments makes it likely that Campus programs, international studies targets working pro- some classes will have to be taught in Lawrence, but the main fessionals who want to continue their education and build focus will be on serving the Kansas City area. "These are night their job skills. classes designed for working professionals," Gerner says. "These days it's hard to find a large business that doesn't "That's our primary audience, and they're going to bring a fair have some kind of international connection," says program amount of knowledge into the classroom themselves."'-"••*

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ARCHITECTURE lisher Rich Karlgaard. The boom in Inter- principal of Hocker Grove Middle School net and information technology com- from 1997 to 2000. The state award puts School to host designer merce is for real. Neal in the running for the national out- with Mr for the modest Karlgaard delivered his upbeat assess- standing educator of the year award. ment of the so-called new economy at the Since August Neal has worked with KU n architect known for accomplishing Anderson Chandler Lecture Series Oct. 18 faculty and local school districts to coor- Abig things on a modest scale will lec- in Budig Hall. Despite the poor returns dinate the classroom experience for ture Jan. 31 at the Spencer Museum of Art many high-tech stocks produced in 2000, School of Education students from fresh- as part of the School of Architecture's lec- venture capital and consumer demand for man year to graduation, including assign- ture series. Houston architect Carlos technology will continue to power growth ments for classroom observation, teaching Jimenez is highly regarded for his elegant, in the high-tech sector, Karlgaard predicts: and internships. "non-heroic" buildings, according to "The pace of change will not slow down; He comes to the job well prepared: In architecture dean John Gaunt. it will speed up." the 1970s he taught and coached in "His work has that unusual combina- In his speech, "Winners and Losers in Claflin before moving on to Sterling High tion of modesty and design brilliance," the New Economy," Karlgaard made it School, where he was principal for 18 Gaunt says. "Most often that involves clear that he thinks bright and talented years. modest projects done with modest materi- business school graduates will be among Moving into his office in education's als. At the same time, there is meticulous the winners, as long as they work for new new Pearson Hall headquarters was a detailing and a real elegance to the work." technology companies instead of stodgy homecoming of sorts for Neal. "I was here That combination makes Jimenez an blue-chip corporations. under very different conditions during the excellent role model for young architects, "Your opportunities going forward are '60s," he says, recalling that Pearson was who are often enthralled—unrealistically much more likely to be in the entrepre- known as "the zoo" when he lived there Gaunt suggests—by the heroic efforts of neurial sector than in incumbent compa- as a member of the 1968 Jayhawk football architects like Frank Gehry who designed nies," the publisher told students. He team. the curvaceous, titanium-sheathed praised new companies for rejecting the He clearly considers the space's current Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain. traditional corporate ladder, which he configuration a better use for the Univer- "Most of the opportunities students will says retards innovation, and embracing sity. "It really makes the life of an educa- encounter after graduation are in fact not more democratic organizational structures tional professional more attractive, and it going to be for huge world-class projects," that value new employees. "Let them treat should help us in recruiting the best pro- he notes. Jimenez's work demonstrates you with the dignity and respect you fessors and administrators. It's a wonder- that it is possible to make exemplary deserve," he said of these companies. ful facility." architecture out of the small-scale projects "They really need you." young architects typically get a crack at. Named publisher at Forbes in 1998, ENGINEERING Jimenez, who was born in Costa Rica Karlgaard joined the company in 1992 to and moved to the United States in 1974, start Forbes ASAP, a bimonthly magazine Professor doubles up graduated from the Houston School of covering major trends in the digital age. on lofty NASA honors Architecture in 1981 and established his The Anderson Chandler Lecture Series own practice soon after. He won design is funded by a gift from Anderson W. lenn Prescott, professor of electrical awards from Architectural Record three Chandler, b'48, and his late wife, Patricia. Gengineering and computer science, times in the 1990s and has served as visit- was twice recognized by the National ing professor at several schools, including EDUCATION Aeronautics and Space Administration in Harvard University, the University of Cali- 2000 for his contributions to the agency's fornia-Berkeley and the University of New fieldleade r named Earth Science Enterprise. The NASA pro- Pamplona. He is a professor at the Rice state's educator of the year gram is designed to help researchers University School of Architecture. understand environmental changes caused ike Neal, the School of Education's by man and nature by observing and BUSINESS Mrecently appointed coordinator of modeling the planet's land surface, oceans, Publisher advises students field experience, has been named Out- ice sheets and atmosphere. standing Educator of the Year by the In July, Prescott received the Terra to embrace new economy Kansas Parent and Teacher Association. Award, one of the highest honors given by Neal, d'71, g'74, EdD'00, received the NASA Earth Science Enterprise Group, for ever mind that stock prices for many honor in October. He was chosen for his his contributions to the planning of satel- Ninformation technology companies administrative leadership in the Shawnee lite information systems. In October, he took a beating last year, says Forbes pub- Mission school system, where he served as Continued on page 57

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 SCHOOLWORK Dying dialects Researchers hustle to document Kansas' unique German-speaking communities

n their quest to compile a comprehensive map of the Adds Johnson, "With the Mennonites, the urgency is that state's German-speaking communities, researchers Chris we have a situation where the incursion of English into their IJohnson, c'79, PhD'95, and Gabi Lunte, PhD'98, racked language is not yet great, so we have a chance to work with a up 9,000 miles last year crisscrossing Kansas by car, some- fairly pure dialect." He and Lunte hope to document as much times driving 800 miles from Lawrence to southwestern of the language as possible before English starts to creep into Kansas and back just to conduct a single interview. the dialect spoken by the adults and before their children "If we drive three hours out and three hours back that begin learning English. usually leaves four hours to conduct interviews," Johnson Johnson and Lunte have thus far pursued their research says. Although the researchers' dialect questionnaires are with their own money and in their spare time, between jobs designed to take about 30 minutes to complete, sessions fre- and their duties as courtesy associate professors in German quently take longer. "If we're all having a good time and they languages and literatures. start singing and telling stories, then one interview can take A grant from the Kansas Humanities Council will help the the whole four hours. We will stay and record all we can get researchers pay travel expenses and make overnight stays, from them." allowing them to compile samples of German dialects more Now Johnson and Lunte are enlisting the help of students quickly. and teachers from the state's German language classes. The Their ultimate goal is to create a "clickable" Internet- two are working with junior-high and high-school teachers to based map of dialects with links to sound files that provide help integrate their cultural heritage preservation project into recorded samples of each.-"*1" the state's foreign language curriculum. Johnson and Lunte hope that by this spring German teachers will have some of their students inter- view relatives or acquaintances who may have learned the language as children. "It's a way to give students who take German a chance to get exposure to spoken German that is a lot different than what they might learn in a textbook," Johnson says. It will also help speed up a research project already fueled by a sense of urgency. "There are certain areas where the German dialects are still being passed on to kids," Johnson says. But in other areas, such as the central Kansas counties of Ellis, Rush and Russell, where the Volga dialect once was common, German dialects are on the verge of extinction as the pop- ulation ages. "There is a sense of urgency to get- ting those people interviewed, getting all the dialects recorded with several speakers so that we get a good representation of each dialect." Among the more intriguing Kansans targeted by the KU researchers are German-speaking immigrants from Mexico, who came here to work as farm laborers. "They are from Old Colony Mennonites who moved to Mexico from Canada SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH? Researchers Chris Johnson and Gabi Lunte are mapping early in the 20th century," Lunte says. Kansas' unique German dialects.

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Continued from page 55 KU, to spend a month with Turkish law insurance to all uninsured Kansans. was recognized at a ceremony at the space students, comparing the two countries' Kansas was one of 11 states to receive agency's Washington, D.C., headquarters legal systems. part of a total grant of $13.6 million from for his help in establishing the NASA the U.S. Department of Health and Earth Science Enterprise Advanced Infor- MEDICINE Human Resources. mation System Technology program. "The grant is intended to examine, in a "Glenn's work directly supported Election to national board scholarly way, who are the uninsured in NASAs future ability to acquire, process gives dean important role Kansas and why are they uninsured," says and deliver large volumes of Earth remote Barbara Langner, associate professor of sensing and related data to public and eborah E. Powell, executive dean of nursing, the grant's planning director. governmental entities," according to Gor- Dthe School of Medicine, was recently Langner, n'71, PhD'85, says she will don Johnston, associate director for tech- elected to the National Academy of Sci- begin her study by gathering information nology strategy at NASAs Office of Earth ences' Institute of Medicine. With her from about 8,000 households. She and Science, Program Planning and Develop- election, Powell joins a "think tank" that her fellow researchers will then conduct ment. advises the U.S. government on national interviews with people who lack insur- Prescott completed his work while on health and science policy, and provides ance and focus groups with employers, sabbatical from KU's Information and advice to the corporate sector, the medical particularly small employers, to "tease Telecommunication Technology Center. industry and the general public. out" the circumstances that lead Kansans Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway says to becoming uninsured. LAW her election was "a tremendous honor and "We know much of this in generalities, reflection of her national reputation." but it's not yet specific enough to craft Dean helps Turks consider Also elected to the group were Donna policy solutions," Langner says. death-penalty procedures Shalala, secretary of the U.S. Department Langer will forward a report to Sebe- of Health and Human Services; Jane Hen- lius, who must report to Gov. Bill Graves ean Steve McAllister traveled in late ney, commissioner of the Food and Drug by next fall. Sebelius and Langner say that DNovember to Turkey, where he deliv- Administration who was vice chancellor Kansans without health insurance delay ered three speeches about the death for health programs and policy at KU's health care, are less likely to engage in penalty's application in the United States. School of Medicine from 1985 to 1992 preventive care and are more likely to get McAllister says Turkey, traditionally hesi- and interim dean from 1987 to 1989; and care at an expensive facility, such as an tant to use its death penalty, has been Surgeon General Antonia Novello. emergency room. with it since a Kurdish rebel Already with the Institute of Medicine "We know that having insurance low- leader was recently sentenced to death for is Barbara Atkinson, KU's chair of pathol- ers health care costs," Sebelius says. crimes against the state. ogy and laboratory medicine and director "Healthy Kansans mean lower health Although Turks are eager to see the of the resident program. expenses, so the governor and I are sentence carried out in this dramatic "It's a huge honor for the KU med enthusiastic about the opportunity to instance, their laws require that Parlia- school to have two institute members on develop a plan that works." ment approve all death sentences before its faculty. That's highly unusual," Powell they can be carried out. Under that politi- says. "It's not only symbolic of the fact PHARMACY cized system, Turkey has not carried out that the med school has excellent faculty an execution in 16 years. it also is important for the state." Student organization wins "They're struggling with it," McAllister top award after just 3 years says. "They want to be a member of the NURSING European Union, and none of Europe Researcher to help officials harmacy's student chapter was recently now executes, so there will be a big politi- Pnamed Chapter of the Year by the cal cost if they follow through with this." fill health-insurance gaps National Community Pharmacists Associ- This was McAllister's fourth trip to ation. The KU group topped more than Turkey since 1996; deans of Turkish law ccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, 60 other student chapters and received a schools came to Lawrence last spring for a Aabout 10 percent of Kansans have no $2,000 prize for funding community ser- conference. health insurance. Although that's one of vice and professional development pro- Also part of his trip in November was the lowest uninsured rates in the country, grams. planning a four-week summer program in Insurance Commissioner Kathleen Sebe- The group, only three years old, last Istanbul that will allow students from lius, g'80, recently landed a $1.3 million year was named Most Improved Chapter. three American law schools, including grant to develop a plan to provide health Student chapters were judged accord-

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ing to their ability to provide a link members, has organized field trips to Chapter leaders cited support from between pharmacy students and indepen- independent pharmacies throughout the their faculty adviser, Gene Hotchkiss, dent pharmacists throughout the nation, state and organized several community p'69, assistant to the dean, as well as as well as community service. service events, including diabetic foot sen- Dean Jack Fincham. KUs group, which has more than 50 sitivity screening at a local pharmacy. "Our dean's office actually supplied us Take the show on the road TV production van allows broadcasting students to cover events just as the pros do ;ince news rarely happens in the newsroom, KU broadcasting students are finally properly equipped to pursue their stories. The Weir sProduction Van, named for benefactors Ralph L. "Bud," e'44, and Barbara Barber Weir, c'44, of Col- SM & MASS COMMUNICATION! orado Springs, Colo., arrived on the Hill in the fall. Though it's not yet fully loaded with its comple- ment of equipment, the van is already helping stu- dents cover events such as volleyball matches and "Late Night with Roy Williams." "Until now, we've been using my conversion van, loading stuff into it, then unloading it when we're done," says Gary Hawke, general manager of KUJH-TV and the student radio station, KJHK. "Not only is this fairly heavy equipment, but obvi- ously in Kansas it's too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter to be hauling it around as we have been. Now we have a proper van to protect our production equipment." TV STARS: Barbara and Bud Weir recently toured the production van made possible by their donation.The van gives broadcasting students valuable experience in remote TV pro- The van arrived at virtually the same time that duction. the School of Journalism announced plans to seek funding to build a multimedia newsroom in the Dole Human working side by side. This would represent a good combina- Development Center. The newsroom would be a focal point of tion of opportunities." the school's new emphasis on media convergence. It would Hawke says "you can count on one hand" the number of house Internet operations for Digital Jayhawk, TV production university journalism programs with their own remote TV for KUJH-TV and news operations for KJHK. Although the production van. He's particularly eager for students to use it University Daily Kansan would retain its autonomous news- for sports coverage, because the frantic pace represents the room in Stauffer-Flint Hall, Dean Jimmy Gentry says one or best possible experience for TV production: "If you can go out more newspaper reporters might also work out of the Dole and produce a live sporting event, you can do anything." newsroom. After launching his career with a radio station in Junction Gentry predicts the newsroom would cost between City, Bud Weir built a company with 41 cable television com- $75,000 and $200,000, "depending on how much we want to panies in four states. He also was active on the board of the do." What Gentry is certain of is that the funds, like those National Cable Television Association and served as president raised for the production van, will have to come from donors. of the Mid-America Cable Television Association. In 1980, the "We want all of our media to work together and pretty Weirs provided funds to establish the Weir Production Center much reproduce what you're starting to find in a fair number for KUJH-TV of media operations," Gentry says. "We respect that the "As the van travels throughout the area for events, it will Kansan is a separate, independent entity, but we already have serve as a great way to promote the University," Bud Weir says. print and broadcast students and advanced reporting students "It's just a wonderful opportunity for KU students."-^""*

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with funding, which is something they don't have to do," says chapter president Travis Stallbaumer. "After talking to other schools at the convention [in San Anto- Float your brooch nio] , I learned that most didn't receive the support from their dean that we did." Jewelry students test their designs at Potter Lake party

SOCIAL WELFARE f it's the unusual class- Foster-care 'limbo' targeted room assignments that Iare the most memo- by training-program grant rable, then design students in Matti Mattsson's jewelry esearchers in the School of Social courses will never forget RWelfare will use a $261,000 grant their field trip to Potter from the U.S. Department of Health and Lake. Human Services to construct a national Mattsson, a visiting World Wide Web-based training program artist from Finland, first for child welfare professionals. told his students that he The goal of the three-year project is to wanted them to design help supervisors in the child welfare field brooches. Once they had SAIL ON: Artist master new requirements mandated by their ideas, Mattsson then Matti Mattsson the Adoption and Safe Families Act of told them to create boat- tested his students' 1997, now being phased in nationwide. like models of the jewelry designs on designs—and those mod- the frigid waters of The Web site developed by KU faculty Potter Lake. will not only help explain the specific els had to be made out of provisions of the federal law, but will pro- reclaimed materials found vide content to instruct supervisors on outside. how best to use those provisions as man- If the boat versions agement tools. floated well in Potter Lake, "What the act tries to do is implement Mattsson told the students, then the began lighting candles on their odd lit- a system of accountability," explains Terry designs were balanced and would per- tle brooch boats and sending them onto Moore, g'81, associate director of social form well when the corresponding the water. Though some crafts appeared welfare's Office of Child Welfare Research brooches were pinned to clothing. more worthy than others, none were and Development. The legislation requires "You cannot explain it," Mattsson seen to sink. states to measure how many children said, moments before students prepared "When you construct the boat, it has attain permanent homes—either by to launch their boats on a frigid to be able to float," says senior Deena returning to their families or through evening at Potter Lake. "It works or it Amont, a visual art education major. "If adoption—and how quickly permanency doesn't work. Either the boats will float it is properly balanced, it will float is achieved. or not. Either the brooch will be bal- properly. We then create our brooches Foster care can be like a state of limbo, anced or not. So you use the water as in the same way. If it's not properly bal- Moore notes, and the legislation tries to the test." anced, it will hang awkwardly." reduce the amount of time children spend Mattsson, who has worked for five Mattsson also escorted seven of his in limbo by forcing states to decide more years as an independent metalsmith in metalsmithing students to an interna- quickly on a child's final placement. Lawrence, created a number of ice tional show at the Ostholstein Museum The accountability system measures sculptures for the November launch at in Eutin, Germany, one of Lawrences how successful states are in achieving that Potter Lake, each filled with a small two international sister cities. The stu- goal. candle. He also asked a flutist to per- dents raised $7,000 to cover their "Our job is to train managers on what form, creating what he and the students expenses. The late-November trip was that system is and how to use that considered to be a performance art the first overseas excursion for KU's art accountability information to better man- atmosphere. and design department. age their programs," Moore says. As Mattsson and a student slipped "If you have high goals," Mattsson onto the lake in a johnboat, students says, "you will jump high, too."'"**

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 1, 2001 59 JLTOOLD KU BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER Rituals of Winter Game day at the field house means more than basketball

s students dashed into Allen 0 Then, as I settled in for a rousing Field House on a wintry night, 1 game, Jack leaned close and announced, my 4-year-old son, Jack, "I'm ready to go home now." squeezed my hand to ensure The pregame pageantry was plenty for Ahe wasn't swept along with the throng. a 4-year-old. We were among early arrivers for KU's Big I convinced him to stay through the Monday contest against Florida, Dec. 7, first half, then we hurried out into the 1994. So eager was 1 to introduce Jack to cold so I could get home in time to watch the field house frenzy that we arrived in our team beat Florida, 69-63, on TV time for a 7 p.m. tip-off, only to discover Even though I didn't witness the win the Jayhawks wouldn't face the Gators firsthand, I enjoyed my own victory—of until 8:30, in the second ESPN game. The scene unleashed questions from sorts. I knew we would return to Allen The late start left plenty of time for my curious escort: Why do those boys Field House, and we would stay longer Jack to munch pizza, slurp pop and sur- take their shirts off and paint those letters with each visit. I knew the game would vey the scene. Perched high above the on their tummies, Mom? Who is Roy? Are someday become as important to Jack as court in the vacant bleacher seats, we dis- they really his boys? Why do the KU girls the hoopla. cussed the finer points of Kansas basket- and boys stand all the time? Do the Big And sure enough, he now knows the ball's pregame rituals. I pointed to the Jay and get dizzy running so fast game and the rituals. He cheers. He hugs "Beware of the Phog" banner at the north around the middle of the court? Who are and sways. He chants. He remembers the end, delivering a brief biography of the all those dancing girls? Saturday afternoon when he saw Wilt coach whose aura lingers in the house As the flags took their places at center Chamberlain in "the house that Wilt that bears his name. We looked to the left, court and the anthems and the Rock built." He wears a LaFrentz jersey and and I listed the names and numbers of Chalk Chant echoed, Jack's eyes grew plays for a team, the Floor Burns, that players whose jerseys are enshrined on wider. Soon Howard Hill introduced the honors Jerod Haase. the south wall. Next came my lecture on Florida starters and students hid behind This season, Jack escorted his 3-year- the championship banners arrayed in the their University Daily Kansans. Jack asked old sister, Claire, to the KU-Tulsa game rafters, but by that time Jack was focused why they were reading. When rumble Dec. 16. The older brother answered the on the bleachers below, where KU's surged to roar, Jack screamed and clapped same questions he had asked six years flamboyant fans _•_ were beginning along with me as confetti rained down before. He and his sister shared ice cream to strut their till stuff. and Jerod Haase, Greg Ostertag, Scot Pol- and popcorn. And when they return to lard, Jacque Vaughn and Raef LaFrentz Allen Field House in seasons to come, took the floor. they'll share much more.-""•'•* Your Team, Your Passion Engrave your name on a Jayhawks Basketball

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