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SPORTING CHANCES Women athletes strive for equal opportunities under Title IX

METEORITE SITE, page 16 ^*>>*> A BOY AND HIS BIKE, page 26 ^m* ALUMNI AND FLIPPERS COME HOME, pages 28, 32 eople like traveling with the Swiss Winter Escapade Flying Jayhawks because of February 27 to the KU camaraderie that soars day March 6 after day. $995 per person, from Chicago. Optional upgrade to That's no accident. Our tours unite four-star hotel, $240. (Alumni Holidays) you with people who share the same memories: Potter Lake, Fraser Hall, Australia and New Zealand March 10 to 26 Uncle Jimmy Green and some pretty $3,998 and up, from Los Angeles. Optional Outback/Ayers Rock excursion, $695. exciting basketball. English/French Countryside Optional Auckland post-trip extension, $225. August 6 to 21 (Intrav) $3,995, from New York. So, next time you plan a trip, ask (Intrav) yourself whether you'd rather travel Legendary Passage (Rhine/Moselle) May 12 to 24 with just anyone or with folks like Mongol/Manchu Dynasty $2,995, from Chicago. (China, Trans-Siberian Railroad) you, who share the rich heritage of (Alumni Holidays) September 1 to 18 Mount Oread. $4,695, from San Francisco. Italy's Historic Cities and Countryside (Alumni Holidays) June 5 to 16 $3,499, from New York. For more information about this Voyage to Antiquity (Greece) (Intrav) September 14 to 26 year's tours, contact the Kansas $3,495, from Chicago. Passage to Victory (Seine River) (Alumni Holidays) Alumni Association, (913) 864-4760. June 18 to July 1 $4,200, from Chicago. Danube Passage (Alumni Holidays) September 18 to 29 $2,995 to $3,295, from Chicago. Swiss Alumni College (Alumni Holidays) 1994 Tour Schedule July 4 to 12 $1,895, from Chicago. Exploring the Columbia River, Olympic (Alumni Holidays) Eastern and Oriental Express Peninsula and British Columbia October 1 to 11 January 24 to February 6 Journey of the Czars (Russia) $4,995 and up, from Los Angeles. $2,550 and up, from Seattle. July 5 to 18 (Clipper) (Alumni Holidays) $3,599, from New York. (Intrav) Big Eight Cruise of Trans-Panama Canal February 12 to 22 Midnight Sun Express and Alaska Passage February 22 to March 5 July 18 to 30 $2,540 and up, from most major cities. $2,849 and up, from Fairbanks/Vancouver. (Intrav) Note: Trip dates and prices are subject to change. Prices Optional Vancouver extension $260. are per person, based on double occupancy. (Intrav)

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First Word 4 Lift the chorus 5 The Great Crater On the Boulevard 6 Caper Jayhawk Walk 8 Four scientists find Hilltopics 10 a fallen star. Sports 14 Association 34 class Notes 37 Fair Play In Memory 48 KU shoots _ . . , for gender equity. Schoolwork 50 s M J Quick Study 54 ^ The Year of the Huffy A short story by Thomas Fox Averill page 26 •

Home, home in the rain A soggy Homecoming welcomes alumni.

Nationally respected as a club team, women's crew may win Flipping on the athletics department funding as KU aims to offer more oppor- Love Light tunities to women. Photos by Wally Emerson The Fabulous Flippers rekindle musical memories. KANSADECFJVIBKR/JANUARY 1994 S ALUMVOL.91 NO.6 Established in 1902 as The Graduate Magazine Fred B. Williams, Publisher Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'81, Editor Bill Woodard, j'85, Assistant Editor Jerri Niebaum, j'88, Assistant Editor Christine Mercer, Art Director Karen Goodell, Editorial Assistant Wally Emerson, j'76, Photographer KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS The husky, high-top Nikes, trimmed in Perhaps in neon red and turquoise, seem to yank my part because Chairman Directors to July 1996 daughter's spindly, 7-year-old legs slowly television and John H. Stauffer, j'49, Calvin C. Cormack, c'59, EdD'74, Topeka Kansas City, Mo. down the basketball court. Rachel dribbles other media Steven A. Hawley, c'73, the ball once every three steps. As she largely ignore Executive Vice Chairman Houston, Texas Dorothy Wohlgemuth Lynch, chooses a target for her wobbly pass, she these athletes. d'59, Salina Kathryn H. Vratil, c'71, F75, Prairie Village hugs the ball for what feels like minutes. So says Mar- Executive Committee The referee is generous. Her father and ian Washing- John H. Stauffer, j'49, Directors to July 1997 Topeka (Chairman) David C. Evans, a'67, I watch intently. ton, who for 21 years has coached KU Lawrence William M. Hougland, b'52, Rachel's team plays a lurching offense women's basketball. The inequities in Wichita Nancy Bramley Hiebert, n'63, g'77, PhD'82, Lawrence that knows no diagram. The mayhem men's and women's college sports result John F. Kane, e'56, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Bernard E. Nordling, I49, barely passes for a game, but Rachel from longstanding attitudes, she says. And Hugoton Dorothy Wohlgemuth Lynch, doesn't notice. For now, at least, she likes changing attitudes is more difficult than d'59, Salina Directors to July 1998 John H. Robinson, e'49. basketball. fattening budgets and opening more ath- Guy 0. Mabry, b'50. Shawnee Mission Toledo, Ohio But she hesitates to say so. letic arenas to women. Glee S, Smith Jr., c'43,1'47, Anne Burke Miller, C78, l'8i, Lamed One night before I tucked her into bed, But the changes must occur under Title Manhattan

Carol Swanson Ritchie, d'54, we began to talk sports. Rachel wanted to IX, the federal law that mandates equal Vice Chairmen Wichita choose between basketball or swim team. opportunities for men and women at insti- Gerald D. Blatherwick, j'58, Honorary Members St. Louis, Missouri E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., She asked, "What happens if I like a boys' tutions that receive federal funds. More Kenneth M. Hamilton, b'39, l'47, San Antonio, Texas sport?" than 20 years after the law took effect, La JoBa, Calif. Archie R. Dykes, colleges and universities are trying to Gene McClain, b'58, Goodlettsville, Tenn. I stared. Chicago, Illinois Deane W. Malott, c'21, "Basketball," she said, annoyed by my even the score. In our cover story, Bill CordellD. Meeks Jr., c'64,1'67, Ithaca, N.Y. Woodard explains how the Kansas athlet- Kansas City, Kan. ignorance. Franklin D. Murphy, c'36, Directors to July 1994 Beverly Hills, Calif. "Basketball is not just a boys' sport," I ics department has begun to improve sup- Daniel P. Bolen. c'8i, Raymond F. Nichols, c'26, g'28, port for women's sports. As the U.S. Alexandria, Va. said firmly. "In fact, the Jayhawks have a Lawrence Larry J. Borden, b'62, g'67, women's basketball team." Department of Education investigates a W. Clarke Wescoe, Colorado Springs, Colo. Spicer, Minn. "They do?" civil-rights complaint against the depart- Marvin R. Motley, c'77, l'8o, g'81, Overland Park Her amazement prompted me to crawl ment, administrators consider adding Directors to July 199; back under the quilt and tell her an extra more women's sports. And they wonder R. Bruce Patty, a'58, Fairway bedtime story. how they will pay gender equity's high Bette Jo Jones Roberts, c'50, Garden City I told her about Lynette Woodard. price tag. F. R. Talbott, c'63, g'65, I described the records Woodard set at Meanwhile I have tried to correct my London, England KU. I raved about the fame she achieved own neglect by taking Rachel to that game as a Harlem Globetrotter and as captain of I promised her. As we stretched out in the Fred B. Williams, President the U.S. gold-medal team. bleachers among the few hundred loud, Kay Henry, Senior Vice President for Administration and Human Resources Mention of the medal made Rachel sit loyal fans, I directed her eyes to Lynette

Jeff Johnson, Senior Vice President for External Affairs up in bed. The Olympics put Woodard in a Woodard's red jersey, enshrined in Allen and Membership Development class with her first sports idol, figure-skat- Field House among the blue jerseys of John Sanders, Senior Vice President for Finance and Treasurer ing champion Kristi Yamaguchi. During the Lovellette, Manning and others. Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'81, Senior Vice President long winter Olympics of 1992, Rachel had Rachel reached for one of the T-shirts for Communications slid across our hardwood floors as Kristi the women threw to the fans. She listened Bryan Greve, Adams Alumni Center Club Manager while I called out pretend judges' scores. carefully as her father explained the plays. Mike Wellman, c'86, Adams Alumni Center Facility Manager Rachel seemed stunned that a woman She cheered each basket with delight. Jodi Breckenridge, d'90, g'93. Student and Kansas Honors Programs Director could win medals without gliding around We've taken her to men's football and Brett Fuller, c'89, Chapter and Constituent Programs Director in a glamorous costume. She brightened as basketball games, but this game was dif- Pat Head, Kansas City Office Director I explained that Lynette had displayed ferent. Donna Neuner, '76, Membership Services Director grace on the court. She watched intently. B.J. O'Neal Pattee, C46, Special Projects and Member Assistance Director When I finished my speech, Rachel When she left during a timeout to buy Nancy Peine, Alumni Records Director asked if we could go to a KU women's game. some candy, she gave me a new instruc- Kansas Alumni Magazine (ISSN 0745-3345) is published by the Alumni Association of the University of Kansas six times a year in February, Of course, I said. tion. "Tell me what happens," she said. April, June, August, October and December. $35 annual subscription includes membership in the Alumni Association. Office of Publication: It's about time, I chided myself. Why It's our job to make sure she doesn't [266 Oread Avenue. Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. Second class postage paid at Lawrence, KS, and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: did we forget to mention that women miss out on anything.'-"""» Send address changes to Kansas Alumni Magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 © 1993 by Kansas Alumni Magazine. Non- played basketball—and many other sports? —Jennifer Jackson Sanner member issue price: $6

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Missing the '20s roar chain were all forged at KU. Do unto others Just this week my grandson, Mike 1 receive Kansas Alumni, I first Kennedy, son of James P. Kennedy, e'64, I want to express displeasure with the turn to the Class Notes. How disappointed PhD'70, San Leandro, Calif., called to say tact and tone of the article regarding MU's I am when I find only one or two names he was entering the University of Pennsyl- marketing of the Gourman Report ranking under 1925. Sure, we are all getting old, vania on a football scholarship. His great- [August/September]. The article was but I dusted off my 1925 Jayhawker and grandfather and my dad, A.R. Kennedy defensive and hypocritical, since KU mar- counted 425 senior pictures. There must (KU football coach from 1904 to 1910), had kets our "four-star" rating in the Fiske be some of us who carry memories of left KU when he was captain and quarter- Guide to Colleges, a completely subjective those long past years in our hearts. We back of the 1897 team and enrolled at rating according to the author himself. should share those events with others. Penn to study dentistry and, of course, The sources in the article who discounted For example, a cousin of mine, Opal play football. He had been recruited by his the Gourman Report ranking would also Jayne Kennedy, was walking up 13th Street friend John Outland IKU coach in 1901]. So discount our Fiske rating. to class years ago and bemoaning that she my birth certificate says Philadelphia. More important, however, I fail to would never graduate from KU. Why? When I returned to Lawrence to be understand the need for such sarcasm and Because it was a prerequisite to complete near my family, early memories flooded negativity toward another university in a few laps across the pool, and she just my mind. Who remembers the lilac bushes order to make KU look better. I work with could not swim! Walking behind her was that in 1925 extended from Mrs. Watkins graduates of both KU and MU, and the Dr. James Naismith. He heard her com- home (now the Chancellor's residence) to degrees we earned from both schools plain and said, "Meet me tomorrow after- old Spooner Library? Just a whiff and I am have clearly prepared us to excel profes- noon at the gym." He did teach her to transported back to the time I was sionally. I'm disappointed this article was swim, and she graduated. She became one escorted home by a certain engineer. He representative of part of my alma mater's of Lawrence's favorite teachers and lived continued to do so for the next 61 years. marketing strategy. It was not very to see a public school named in her honor. Lawrence is a lovely place to call home. becoming of KU. The events in our lives sometimes com- Ruth Kennedy King, c'25 James Mulloy, m'85 plete a circle. In our family the links of the Lawrence Mission

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"The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters"is Exhibits among works by Spanish artist Francisco de Goya MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY y Lucientes (1746-1828) "The Pantanal: Brazil's Forgotten on display at the Wilderness" Spencer Jan. g-Feb. 20. Jan. 19-March 13

SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART 19th-century French prints and drawings, photography and expressionist works from the Spencer collection Through Jan. 9 "The Sleep of Reason-. Reality and Fan- tasy in the Print Series of Goya" Jan. 9-Feb. 20 "Dennis Openheim: Drawings and Selected Sculpture" Jan. 16-Feb. 27

KENNETH SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY "French Scientific Exploration and Discovery in the 19th Century" and "French Revolution on Paper" Through March 31

University Calendar Lied Center Events UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FINAL EXAMINATIONS Beethoven, Saint Saens and Elgar Dec. 13-20 For tickets, call the Lied Center Box Office, 913-864-ARTS. Feb. 18 SPRING CLASSES BEGIN SPECIAL EVENT ROCK CHALK REVUE Jan. 11 Minneapolis Children's Theatre "The Word is Out" in "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" February 24-26 Jan. 13

CONCERT SERIES Bobby McFerrin and Murphy Hall Events the Kansas City Symphony For tickets, call the Murphy Hall Box Office, Jan. 25 UNIVERSITY OPERA "The Mikado" SWARTHOUT CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES Jan. 13-15, 16 Ying Quartet Feb. 6 INGE THEATRE SERIES "Grammer Gurton's Needle" and KU BANDS "Ralph Roister Doister" Symphonic Band Jan. 27-30 and Feb. 1-5 Feb. 13 The Guinea Chestnut is one of many THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE endangered species NEW DIRECTIONS SERIES from Brazil's Pantanal "The Reluctant Dragon" The Lewitzky Dance Company featured in a Natural Feb. 12 History Museum Feb. 16 exhibition Jan. ig-March 13.

6 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 WOMEN'S Basketball December Swimming & Diving 19 at Lamar, 5 p.m. MEN'S 22 at UMKC, 5 p.m. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S December 28-29 at Rev. Joseph T. Cahill Invitational, January 18 at Georgia, 4 p.m. (ESPN) KU v. Georgia; Coppin State v. St. John's 15 Minnesota, Arkansas 20 Furman, 7 p.m. (Jayhawk Network) Jamaica, N.Y. Games are 6 and 8 p.m. both nights 22 at Southern Illinois 22 Indiana, 7 p.m. (Raycom) January 29 at Iowa State 29-30 at Golden Harvest Classic, Kansas City, Mo. 2 at West Virginia, 1:30 p.m. February KU v. Rhode Island; SMU v. E. Tennessee State 7 Missouri, 7 p.m. 5 at Notre Dame Games are 6 and 8:30 p.m. both nights 9 Colorado, Noon (Jayhawk Network) 12 Nebraska (Jayhawk Network) 14 at Nebraska, 7 p.m. March January 16 at Iowa State, 2 p.m. 3-5 at Big Eight Championships, Oklahoma City 5 UNC-Asheville, 7 p.m. (Jayhawk Network) 21 Oklahoma, 7 p.m. 11-12 at Zone Diving, Oklahoma City 8 Southern Methodist, 7 p.m. (Jayhawk Network) 23 Oklahoma State, 2 p.m. 17-19 at Women's NCAA Championships, 10 Oklahoma, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) 30 Kansas State, 5:30 p.m. (Prime) Indianapolis 17 Kansas State, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) February 24-26 at Men's NCAA Championships, Minneapolis 22 at Iowa State, 3 p.m. (Raycom) 4 at Colorado, 7 p.m. 26 Oklahoma State, 7 p.m. (Prime) 6 at Missouri, 2 p.m. Home meets are at Robinson Natatorium. 29 at Colorado, 1 p.m. (Raycom) 11 Iowa State, 7 p.m. 31 at Missouri, 8.30 p.m. (ESPN) 13 Nebraska, 2 p.m. February 18 at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m. 6 Nebraska, 12:30 p.m. (ABC) 20 at Oklahoma, 2 p.m. 12 at Kansas State, 8 p.m. (Raycom) 26 at Kansas State, 7 p.m. 16 at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m. (Jayhawk Network) 28 UNC-Asheville, 7 p.m. 20 Missouri, 2:45 p.m. (ABC) March 23 at Nebraska, 7 p.m. (Jayhawk Network) 5-7 at Big Eight Tournament, Salina (Prime) 26 Colorado, 1 p.m. (Raycom) March Home games are played in Allen Field House. 3 Iowa State, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) All times are CSTand are subject to change. For 6 at Oklahoma, 2:45 p.m. (ABC) ticket information, please call the Athletic Ticket 11-13 at Big Eight Tournament, Office, 913-864-3141. Kansas City, Mo. (Raycom)

Potter Lake was built in n)i! as a reservoir for fire protection and was named for State Sen. T.M. Potter, a former member of the Kansas Board of Regents. Although never drained to douse fires, Potter over the years has been used by boaters, swimmers, skaters and mischief-makers.

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Being all he could be turned the next you're back to being a out to be quite an honor for lowly private." Geoff Athey, Sherman, Texas, Besides leadership skills, senior, who last summer was rankings included evaluations named a regimental honor of rifle marksmanship, physi- graduate at advanced Army cal fitness, tactical and land- ROTC camp. Of 4,000 eligible navigation skills. cadets nationwide, only 14 In one exercise, Athey earned the honor. qualified for the Recondo The advanced camp in Fort badge—a combination of Lewis, Wash., is a key measur- strategic skills, marksmanship, ing stick for post-graduate water-safety and rappelling. placement, Athey says. Lead- Cadets climbed a 150-foot-tall ership duties rotate among the tower, grabbed hold of a 2,000 cadets. "It's geared to pulley and slid down a cable A friendly merger assess your that strings potential as across a a commis- lake. "It Oct. i class wasn't Business Associations as usual for Jen- sioned offi- seems like nifer Herbst, first-year law student. Her boyfriend, Mike Ham- cer," says you're mond, c'89, surprised her by showing up in a suit and tie to Athey, who m never going give a guest lecture. Webb Hecker, professor of law adminis- commands N ) 4 to get to tration, introduced Hammond, who sells food processing thejayhawk V other side," 1 m / equipment for Marlen Research Corp. in Overland Park. Battalion on • he says. Hammond spoke about partnerships, the trust and mutual Mount "You have respect that must form between contracting parties. Students Oread and SJf p to over- in the 70-member class took notes. Their pencils paused when will earn a / come your j he made a business proposal to Herbst. Would she marry him? degree in m / fear of She gleefully accepted. They'd chosen her engagement ring civil engi- F .. / heights." together, she says, but she'd never suspected he would ask for neering in , 111 iwmm .f But, as her hand in class. "I think this really indicates how our life will May 1995. 1 § / seems to be be," she says. "Spontaneous and fun." 'One day his habit, f Wedding bells will chime Aug. 5 in Herbst's hometown, you are a § - Geoff Athey \ Kansas City, Kan. troop com- 1 landed on \ mander and his feet. 1

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Larry Heck, c'62, m'66, figured he had a dog's chance of finding the small English setter's owner. Heck had fostered the pooch after nearly running him over near his home in Carmel, Ind. But he phoned the number on the rabies tag just in case. "OOOh, you've found Chili!" the receptionist at the veterinarian's office exclaimed. "That's the Quayles' dog." Dan and Marilyn, that is. The former veep and his wife live less than a mile from Heck and his wife, Frances Fullerton Heck, d'62. It seems Dan's best friend had snuck out while the Quayles were in Huntington for the dedication of the Dan Quayle Museum. Dan himself paid the Hecks a visit to retrieve his wanderer.

8 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 Heard by Most Wanted: The Anchor- he bird... age Daily News in Sink your teeth into this August reported this sordid misdemeanor: "A man reported that his bicycle had been vandalized Sunday night with a Kansas Jayhawk sticker. He Dinner is served this fall at "Mrs. E's," the new Ekdahl Dining suspects a culprit who escaped on the ferry." Commons on Daisy Hill. The $2.4 Sounds to us like a crime of passion. million cafeteria is named for Lenoir D. Ekdahl, who retired in 1989 after 34 years The folks in admissions thought they'd heard it all until this as director of residence hall food ser- excuse for a late application rolled in during August. The vices. Following are facts about feeding prospective student wrote, "I just won a large sum of money. the masses from the Daisy Hill halls— I quit my teaching job of many years, and I'm ready to follow Templin, Hashinger, Lewis, Ellsworth my lifelong dream by pursuing further education at the Uni- and McCollum. versity of Kansas." Follow that dream—and perhaps the horses or the lottery. • Number of meals served daily: 4,700 • Number of seats: 700 Ranked and filed percentage of students who •Times to eat: 6.30 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-8 p.m. were tops at their high schools, • Number of breakfast eaters: 900 .According to the Oct. 4 U.S. student/faculty ratios, reten- • Number who eat before 8 a.m.: 300 News and World Report maga- tion and graduation rates, fac- • Biggest feeding frenzy: 4:30-6:30 p.m. zine, Jayhawks have reason to ulty with top academic degrees • Top 5 of 14 cold cereals available at all fluff their feathers. The maga- and admissions selectivity. hours-. Lucky Charms, Applejacks, zine's editors ranked KU's aca- Chancellor Gene A. Budig Captain Crunch, Cocoa Puffs, Cracklin' demic reputation 27th best contends that KU is disadvan- Oat Bran among public universities and taged by its policy to admit all • Favorite lunch and supper entrees-, 56th best among all universi- Kansas high-school graduates. chicken tenders and pizza ties. The showings put KU in the KU is the only school among • Favorite beverage: Coke Classic second quartile of rankings and the top 30 state universities • Number of full-time cooks, bakers and four notches above its standing without some form of qualified servers per day. 24 the 1992 report. admissions. • Daily grocery bill: $7,000 Besides academic reputa- Chances are, Kansas would tion, the editors consider be more select if it were more entrance-exam scores, selective.

Some of our favorite crit- from around the globe in simu- %rs-dead and alive-reside at lated Arctic, desert, jungle, the Museum of Natural History^ mountain and plains habitats. where the prairie dog still pops Visitors annually rank the from his hole on cue and the display as the museum's top lo still stand still on the ttraction, which should come ige in L.L. Dyche's ever-pop- no surprise: Dyche origi- ular panorama. lly assembled the exhibit for The pajiorama in November i§ie 1893 World's Fair in celebrated its iooth year on Chicago, where it was among Mount Oread and remains one the most popular sights. of the largest such displays in Dyche's stuffed stuff still the world. It features more provides stiff competition for than 200 animal specimens folks' attention.

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 9 Clawson's 10-year tenure Price gave notice first. "The chancellor nursing school. "I've worked the entire paid me what I consider the ultimate com- time I've been here to have a new nursing leaves Med Center sound pliment in saying he would not let me go building," he says. "We have the poorest until I found him a new dean," Clawson facility for one of the finest schools of . Kay Clawson, who since 1983 has says. He has hired Daniel Hollander, who nursing in the country." He has helped been Medical Center executive vice chan- arrives in January from Irvine, Calif., to fill move the $10 million project to the top of cellor, ascribes to the adage that an aca- the post (see story, page 52). University and Kansas Board of Regents demic dean or vice president should work Clawson says a great challenge awaits lists, he says, and hopes for planning no longer than 10 years in one job. Facing the new administrators amid the nation's funds in Fiscal Year 1995. his own deadline, Clawson in November healthcare overhaul. Any new system will He also sees potential for great strides announced his retirement, effective Feb. 1. call on schools to maintain specialized in external research funding. "We've gone "This is a terrible time to retire," admits hospital services while training more pri- from $8 million to $36.5 million in research Clawson, 66, who steps down in the midst mary-care doctors, nurses and allied funding [in 10 years]," he says. "My goal is of altering KU's medical-education pro- health professionals, especially for $50 million, and I think that's eminently grams to fit a changing national model. careers in rural and other underserved achievable in the very near future." But the jobs Clawson has completed regions, he says. To tend both patients Meanwhile Clawson proceeds on his are many: In 1983 the University hospital and students, expert faculty will be forced own projects. A Harvard Medical School was $6 million in debt with a $139 million to send their students elsewhere for basic graduate who says he has worked at least budget. Today's $281 million budget training. During his tenure KU has begun 40 hours a week since age 16, Clawson operates in the black. He has overseen an affiliation in Hays and other training won't lessen his load, just change the construction of a biomedical-research programs outside the Kansas City and format. building, a parking garage, a fitness center Wichita campuses (see Kansas Alumni, He and his wife, Janet, will return to and an institute for plastic surgery. August/September). Lexington, Ky., where he was dean of the "Dr. Clawson has done much to But Clawson says KU's progress must College of Medicine and she raised quar- advance the academic cause of the Medi- quicken to keep pace. "Universities and ter horses before they came to KU. Their cal Center," Chancellor Gene A. Budig even their medical centers are very slow daughter, Kim, a physician in Lexington, says. "Our schools of medicine, nursing to change," Clawson says. "They struggle found them a new home within walking and allied health all enjoy strong national with it." distance of the n-acre farm they have reputations." Clawson leaves other challenges. A pri- kept. There Clawson will work on his Clawson hopes new leadership will ority, he says, is a new building for the memoirs and write a book combining his continue to nudge the Medical Center onward. "1 came here and said it was a sleeping giant," Clawson says. "I think now we are an awakening giant. But we are still stretching and squirming, and we haven't positioned ourselves yet to really move and accomplish what we can do." Budig has recruited Charles E. Andrews, former chancellor of the Univer- sity of Nebraska Medical Center, to serve as interim executive vice chancellor during a search for Clawson's permanent replacement. Andrews, who did internal medicine residency training at KU, was vice president for health sciences at West Virginia University Medical Center when Budig was the university's president in the late 1970s. "Dr. Andrews is a proven leader in the health sciences," Budig says. "He is a person of enormous ability, integrity and energy." Clawson tried to retire last year, he KENTUCKY BOUND: Clawson and his wife, Janet, will retire to Lexington with Missy, the puppy they found aban- says, but former medical dean James doned near the Spencer House shortly after they moved into the executive vice chancellor's residence 10 years ago.

10 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 many life mottoes with advice on hospital of their peers' salaries." management. Coupled with the 3 percent He also plans more trips to Washing- state increase, the tuition hike II ton, D.C., where twice in the past year he would hoist KU salaries 7.25 per- has joined other academic leaders to con- cent on average, Budig says. sult with the White House healthcare "That figure would begin to close team. Clawson helped bring the national the gap with our peers," he says. debate home Oct. 29, when he moderated "Three years of similar support a discussion in Kansas City's Bartle Hall would eliminate the gap." during the Midwest Summit on Health Budig cites an earlier 1 Care. The summit was chaired by the four three-year plan, the Margin of Kansas and Missouri senators and Excellence, that had begun to EV t k \ attended by Hillary Rodham Clinton. help in the late 1980s. But after Clawson looks forward to more time funding two years, legislators with his own first lady. Just before cut the Margin in its final year. Thanksgiving, as they packed their first "Today," Budig says, "we're in 11 load of belongings, he eyed Janet rushing worse shape than we were about the Spencer House, the English before the Margin of Excellence Tudor home on Mission Drive that has program began." been the official residence of the top According to Student Body Medical Center administrator since Ken- President John Shoemaker, neth and Helen Foresman Spencer Topeka senior, students back donated it in 1957. the plan. "Students are upset "My wife is really the driving force that key faculty have been behind the accomplishments that we have leaving and that the overall V had," he said. "Because it's always been standing of the University we. Every night I discuss things with her: seems to be slipping due to a f She is a much better judge of people than lack of support from the I. Some of the mistakes I've made in hiring Legislature," he says. "As long FAIR SHARE: Budig hopes for a budget that will bring faculty salaries closer to those of their colleagues at peer schools. she opposed and some of the good ones as the Legislature is going hand I've made she pushed for....Together we in hand with us, we students worked a 90-hour week." don't have that much of a problem with funding would provide $1.5 million for KU's He's glad to give her a break.""*""* the increased costs." Lawrence campus libraries and $248,500 KU's current full-time undergraduate for the Medical Center libraries. In addi- tuition and fees total $960 for in-state and tion the University is asking for $315,000 Partnership to promote $3,269 for out-of-state students. The to support libraries and other programs at higher faculty salaries Regents propose 9 percent resident and 13 the Regents Center in Overland Park. percent non-resident increases. Through Special requests at the Medical Center an amendment negotiated by Shoemaker include $1.2 million to partially reimburse The Kansas Board of Regents wants to and other student leaders, the tuition primary-care clinical departments whose strike a deal with the state. The Regents raises will recede to 5 percent for in-state doctors care for indigent patients. will raise tuition considerably over the students if legislators fail to appropriate Another $i.6 million would enhance next three years if the Legislature agrees the 3 percent overall general-fund recruitment of medical residents, and a to finance at least 3 percent increases to increase, which would boost operating total of about $820,000 would begin two the Regents base budgets for each of expenditures as well as salaries. rural family practice residency programs those years. If they shake hands, the deal The Regents also are asking for $3.5 and would expand nurse practitioner, will launch the Partnership for Excellence, million to computerize holdings in state preventive medicine and public health the Regents' latest effort to improve university libraries so they can reach programs. D. Kay Clawson, executive vice faculty salaries at the state's six public readers statewide through the Kansas chancellor, says these programs are vital universities. Research and Education Network to bringing the Medical Center into a KU Chancellor Gene A. Budig says the (KANREN), under construction with a changing medical system certain to focus partnership is critical. "On average," he National Science Foundation grant (see on primary and family medicine (see says, "our faculty earn only 87.9 percent Kansas Alumni, October/November). The Kansas Alumni, August/September).

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 11 But KU and Regents administrators Stark means business donated by Clay Blair, d'65, EdD'69, presented their wish list this fall as they Prairie Village, who has agreed to donate braced for bad news. State Budget Direc- as Regents Center dean 23 additional acres. tor Gloria Timmer has predicted that Gov. Stark says he'll work to determine how Joan Finney in her State-of-the-State The Regents Center is working to build a the center should grow in size and in pro- address Jan. n could present a budget that Kansas City corporate image to match its grams. For instance, he says Johnson calls for trims and tucks throughout. new building, which opened last January County is tempting high-technology firms Bills facing the state include settle- in Overland Park. This fall Robert L. Stark, to the area, boosting the number of engi- ments from two major lawsuits, school b'55, a 35-year leader at Hallmark Cards, neers who seek more training. "There is a financing and cleanup of damage from joined the management team as dean. larger demand for graduate education in summer flooding. Meanwhile federal Med- Stark in April retired as president of the greater Kansas City area than we are icaid reimbursements have dropped Hallmark's Personal Communications fulfilling now," Stark says. nearly $70 million. Group, which includes the Hallmark and He intends to tap the market.^""" Good news is that tax collections were Ambassador brands as well as the sub- higher and school spending was lower sidiary Binney G Smith, which makes Cray- than predicted, lessening the amount last ola crayons. Stark says he'll draw on past Enrollment figures show year's Legislature overspent. experience in his new job. "We need to gains in campus diversity But more tax dollars and smaller school articulate the mission of the Regents expenses from FY94 aren't expected to Center, to develop an ongoing strategy help much in FY95, and lawmakers aren't and to define the market needs," he says. Minority students represent 8 percent predicting any new revenue sources. KU "Those are business challenges. They are of the University's student population. and Regents administrators are banking not necessarily academic challenges. The Minority enrollment rose by 3 percent this on passage of the tuition plan. academic programs are the territory of the year and has increased by 16 percent since So are students. "Since we benefit most deans in Lawrence." 1990, according to fall figures from the if faculty are happy or suffer most if they The Regents Center offers graduate educational services department. are not," John Shoemaker says, "we're the courses geared to working professionals Enrollment for the Lawrence campus is ones willing to pay." ---*»• in business, engineering and education 26,127, marking a decline of 338 students (see Kansas Alumni, February/March). The since last fall. Medical Center enrollment new building is constructed on 15 acres rose by 39 students to 2,735. Mortar Board taps On the campuses combined, 2,326 stu- five top teachers dents identify themselves as African- American, Native-American, Asian-American or Hispanic-American. ll's chapter of Mortar Board senior This year 89 of the freshmen accepted honor society named five Outstanding Endowment Merit Scholarships, state- Educators this fall. The five were recog- funded scholarships for minority students nized before the game against Nebraska with outstanding entrance exam scores Nov. 6 at Memorial Stadium. and high-school transcripts. The winners were Sally Frost-Mason, Fall enrollment of international stu- professor of physiology and cell biology dents increased by 2.2 percent. Represent- and associate dean of liberal arts and sci- ing more than 100 nations, the 2,181 ences; Helmut E. Huelsbergen, professor international students account for 7.6 per- of Germanic languages and literatures; cent of the student body. James Rowland, professor of electrical and "These gains represent meaningful computer engineering; David Norman progress in our efforts to provide a more Smith, assistant professor of sociology; diversified campus," Chancellor Gene A. and J. Michael Young, professor of philos- Budig says. "Increases in the numbers of ophy, associate dean of liberal arts and ethnic minority students, as well as stu- sciences and director of the College dents from other countries and cultures, Honors Program. are particularly noteworthy given the dif- Huelsbergen also was tapped by Mortar ficulty of our nation's economy and [over- Board in 1976, and Young was honored by STARK: The former Hallmark executive will help the all] enrollment declines at all Big Eight

~~12 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 • EXTERNAL GRANT AWARDS~~

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TOP DOLLARS: The University ranks among the nation's highest too research trend, comprising 64 percent of this year's total. Chancellor Gene A. Budig says universities in external grant awards. Total outside research funding has risen 64 few universities have done as well. "We expect to surpass the $100 million mark in percent during the past five years. Grants from federal sources have echoed the the next several years," he says.

Grant to recruit students an institute on campus this summer. Department of Health and Human The grant to the School of Education Services, the UAP helps people with dis- to help troubled children and the University Affiliated Program will abilities and those who are at risk for fund three full-time mentors and one half- disability. Young children in poor commu- five-year, $4 million federal grant will time mentor to help recruit students as nities are at high risk for substance abuse, help the University recruit and train early as tenth grade from schools in lead poisoning, low birth weight and other minority students who want to help chil- Topeka, Lawrence, Kansas City, Mo., and factors that lead to disability, Sailor says. dren with backgrounds similar to their Kansas City, Kan. Penn Valley Community The program also will help older stu- own. The U.S. Department of Education College and Haskell Indian Nations Uni- dents to stay in school and gain the pro- award will finance full KU scholarships for versity also will participate. fessional training to help the younger students who agree to work at least three Bailey, associate dean and associate children, he says. years in high-poverty settings, particularly professor of education, says ideal mentors Bailey expects many of the students to inner-city neighborhoods and American will be teachers with advanced degrees. attend community colleges or Haskell Indian reservations. "We want an individual who can counsel Indian Nations University before moving Project director Wayne Sailor and co- students to select the right courses, help to Mount Oread. The students will receive director Jerry Bailey say the project will them maintain their academic careers and stipends to fund their non-KU schooling, help train and certify at least 40 profes- perhaps be a confidant," he says. then receive full scholarships to KU. sionals in child development, early-child- Sailor, professor of special education, "We will look for bright people who are hood education or elementary education. directs the Lawrence campus' University highly motivated to return to their com- The first group of 10 students will attend Affiliated Program. Funded by the U.S. munities," Bailey says. """*

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 13 Blue-collar Kansas bags Williams' reign; the first came in 1989. Williams' home Nov. 28. Then they played They were ranked No. 2 nationally head- like turkeys the next night in an exhibition preseason NIT tide ing into a Dec. 1 home battle with No. 7 against a strong Australian National team Temple. that wrapped up its U.S. tour with a 7-2 Kansas' first four victories of the 1993- Seniors Richard Scott and Steve Wood- record, including wins over KU, Kentucky, 94 season weren't necessarily pretty, but berry led the Jayhawks in NIT scoring with UNLV and UCLA. The Aussies dumped the result was beautiful: a shiny trophy for 17.5- and 14-point averages. But it was the Kansas, 93-82, in double overtime after KU the preseason NIT champions. emergence of center Greg Ostertag that had failed to ice the game at the free- "I liked our effort," Coach Roy Williams perhaps turned the most heads. The 7-2 throw line, missing five of six foul shots in said. "There will be times when we'll be junior at last showed signs of fulfilling his the final two minutes of regulation. fantastic and times when we'll be as ugly potential, averaging 11.8 points, 9.8 "This knocks us right back to reality," as you can see, and sometimes that will rebounds and 4.3 blocks in the tourna- said senior Patrick Richey. "We had a happen in the same game. We've still got ment. Against U-Mass in the championship great week last week, but you can't be to get a lot better, but this is a nice way to game, his three consecutive dunks in the living on what you did last week." start the season." final three minutes stifled a late rally by Although Williams treated the exhibi- Kansas locked down the title by the Minutemen. tion as a glorified practice and placed squeezing opponents in a vise-like Backing the veterans was the heralded several young players in crunch-time situ- defense, allowing only 36.9 percent shoot- freshman quartet of Jacque Vaughn, Scott ations for experience, he was nonetheless ing and 63 points a game. The Jayhawks Pollard, Nick Proud and B.J. Williams. As perturbed by his team's play, particularly stuffed Western Michigan in the opener, expected, Vaughn and Pollard led the way. late in the game, when the Aussies used then tripped Top 25 teams California, Min- Vaughn earned a starting spot and split backdoor cuts to carve up KU's flimsy nesota and Massachusetts to win their time with equally quick junior Calvin Ray- man-to-man defense. second preseason NIT prize during ford at the point. In the title game, he But after replacing four starters from scored 11 points and dished last season's Final Four bunch, Williams 10 assists. Meanwhile, 6-10 couldn't be too upset. "I think we'll get center Pollard backed up better," he said. Ostertag with distinction: "We've got a few more practices between Against U-Mass, he grabbed now and the end of the season. "-^^ 11 rebounds—six of them offensive—and added 10 points. Women favored to wear Scott, the NIT's most valuable player, relished the Big Eight crown again hard-won prize but set stern standards for the season. only 10 scholarship players on "I'm pleased with the new the roster, four of whom are freshmen, guys but I'm not pleased you might think Marian Washington would with this team yet," he said. be worried sick as she enters her 21st "We can execute better on season as women's basketball coach. offense...and defense. We Quite the contrary. Her bench may be can improve on the little short, Washington says, but on it sits the things you have to do to be most talent, player for player, that she's successful. If we do what ever coached. Coach Williams wants, we'll Pollsters agree. Big Eight coaches be all right. He's taken us to choose Kansas to win the league in a close two Final Fours and won race with Colorado, and the Jayhawks three Big Eight champi- rank as high as 14th in preseason polls. onships. If we do things his "We should be a fun team to watch if way, we'll win—point blank." we can remain injury-free," Washington The Jayhawks returned says. "I expect us to be quicker defen- home from New York and sively and push the ball harder offensively celebrated their 4-0 start than any team I've had." OH NO YOU DON'T: Greg Ostertag swatted away 17 shots and altered many more in KU's NIT run. with Thanksgiving dinner at From last year's 21-10 team that won

14 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 KU's sixth Big Eight Tourna- ment championship, Kansas Briefs lost to graduation Shannon Kite, a starter, and Jo Jo Weatherspoon, a backup spanked Mis- player. Also absent are junior souri, 28-0, Nov. Carynn Shinn, who must sit 20 to finish the out for academic reasons, and 1993 football Amelia Holmes and Dianna season with a 5-7 record, fifth in the Williams, freshmen last year Big Eight. Despite a spate of injuries who did not return to the that forced 46 Jayhawks into start- team. ing roles at various points in the But the Jayhawks return six season, Kansas was only a pair of letterwinners, led by All-Amer- one-point losses (10-9 to Kansas ica candidate Angela Aycock, State and 21-20 to Nebraska) from who as a sophomore forward perhaps winning its second- straight last season was team captain bowl bid. and averaged 16.3 points, 6.9 Individually, two Jayhawks set rebounds and 2.8 steals a records. Big Eight freshman-of-the- game in earning all-Big Eight year June Henley ran for 118 yards honors. on 32 carries against Mizzou and Sophomore guard Charisse broke Kerwin Bell's 13-year-old KU Sampson, junior forward Alana and Big Eight freshman single- Slatter and senior center Lisa season rushing record. Henley fin- Tate are the other top return- ished his first year with 1,149 yards ers. Sampson and Tate were and 13 touchdowns. Senior place- honorable-mention league kicker Dan Eichloff became the first DRIVING FORCE: Younger players will look to junior Angela Aycock, an choices last year; Sampson Jayhawk to score 300 points in his All-America candidate. averaged 11.6 points and 5 career; the all-time scoring leader's rebounds while Tate, third on four extra-point conversions KU's all-time blocks list with 184, scored stand 6-i, should give Kansas depth in the against the Tigers gave him 302 8.6 points and 8.1 rebounds a game. Slat- frontcourt; Halbleib, a 5-10 guard, is a career points. ter (9.3 points, 6.9 rebounds) surged at sharpshooter from three-point range. the end of the season, leading KU to its In Kansas' 85-60 exhibition win over .Aiter stum- tournament title and making the all-tour- New Zealand Nov. 22, Washington's bling to fifth ney team. In late November she under- youngsters jumped off to a precocious place at the Big went arthroscopic surgery on her right beginning. The four freshmen combined Eight Champi- knee and was expected to miss two to for 38 points and seven rebounds; Dixon onships, the three weeks. and Halbleib each tallied 13 points. Hal- women's cross-country team quali- In addition to Tate, Michelle Leathers bleib also swiped four of KU's 12 steals. fied for the NCAA championships for and Ericka Muncy round out KU's senior Meanwhile, three other Jayhawks hit the first time in school history with class. Those three will help break in a her- double figures; Aycock scored the team- a stunning victory at the regional alded freshman class that features best 15. meet Nov. 13 in Carbondale, 111. Tamecka Dixon, a 5-9 guard who averaged Veteran Aycock knows, however, that Coach Gary Schwartz called the 28.1 points and 13.6 rebounds a game for the game was little more than a scrim- victory a major event in KU cross- Linden (N.J.) High. Dixon, who led Linden mage. "The offense is looking pretty good, country history. "We did something to two state championships, is the third probably because we've worked a little no team had done before in winning prep Ail-American to sign with KU in three more on that in practice," she says. "But the regional," said Schwartz, who years, following Aycock and Sampson. we still turned it over too many times and has taken three men's teams to Kansas' other freshmen are Shelly we need to get a whole lot better defen- nationals. "We wanted it worse than Canada, Kellyville, Okla.; Angie Halbleib, sively. We need to become more the others. We ran as a team." Middleton, Wis.; and Jennifer Trapp, focused."-^""* Lawrence. Canada and Trapp, who both -Bill Woodard

~~KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 15 Tine Great Crater CaDerFFour researchers read between~~

~~the corn rows on a Nebraska farm~~

~~to find an amazing story~~

deafening roar Science fiction or ancient history? Four KU had cut into Nebraska's flat-topped knolls. So Dort researchers believe it's neither. They are convinced was looking on his map for hills when he noticed a pierced the A such a cataclysm occurred as recently as 500 years hole: A mile-wide circle dented the surface by 70 feet. prairie. For hundreds ago, when a megaton meteorite crash-landed in the "I suspected it was a crater," he recalls, "but I of miles people saw a Cornhusker State. Their story is corroborated by the thought that was much too exotic to believe. It's like Skidi-Pawnee Indians, who lived in the right place at picking up a diamond ring in the gutter. You say, That fiery flash fill the sky. the right time and passed down a legend about a big must be glass." As the ground black star that fell to Earth. He asked another colleague, Ed Zeller, professor beneath their feet Of course the scientists weren't looking to prove emeritus of geology and physics and astronomy, to an Indian legend. In fact they did their best to dig out take a look at the map. "He said, My God, Wake. heaved, thick black of the hole they'd stumbled into without making a You've got a meteorite crater!" Dort recalls. The clouds choked them. fuss. But their data kept pointing to one conclusion-. scientists tried not to get giddy. When the dust Sometime during the past millennium a careening They debated the crater's possible origins with outer-space object had left quite an impression on Larry Martin and Gisela Dreschoff, Zeller's longtime cleared, a mile-wide the Midwest. They could find no other explanation research companion who with him directs the pit had punctured the for the clue that had first brought the mystery to Radiation Physics Laboratory in Nichols Hall. The earth nearly 500 feet their attention—a giant footprint in the sand hills. four friends for decades have gathered at least Backtrack four years. Wakefield Dort, now profes- weekly to talk about whatever interests them. Their deep. Everything sor emeritus of geology, had covered a wall of his tangents have led to books, articles and ideas that living within 20 miles Lindley Hall office with topographic maps of central sometimes are anathemas to other scientists: an had been killed; glass and south-central Nebraska. He eyed intriguing land- ivory carving that they believe is the oldest known forms that he'd noticed while digging fossils with rendition of a human head, solar flares that snuff and black rock cov- friend and colleague Larry Martin, curator of the theories that the sun never wavers, markings that ered the normally Museum of Natural History. They'd seen what local mean earthquakes could rattle the cozy Midwest. sandy soil. farmers call "lagoons," deep pools that wind and rain "We like working with people who have open

16 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 minds," says Martin, PhD'73, who has stuck with surements prove accurate, large chunks of the Zeller and Dort since Dort served on his doctoral meteorite remain buried. committee. Dort, a faculty member since 1957, and Drilling also would confirm the depth of the Zeller, whose KU career started a year earlier, original crater, which they have estimated at already had conferred for years, and Dreschoff 400-500 feet by calculating the amount of sedi- had joined them when Zeller recruited her to ment washed from nearby gullies and by using campus from Germany in 1967. Martin says, "I mathematical formulas based on the crater's have other colleagues who tend to be close- circumference. minded. I think they describe it as being profes- They now await results from radiocarbon tests sional." He chuckles. "It's okay, but they'll never to pinpoint the meteorite's age. Their estimates are discover anything." based on known dates of geologic features the It's not surprising, then, that these partners meteor would have crashed through and on known in curiosity would be tempted by thoughts of a dates of materials above and below glassy sedi- meteorite crater. Such a discovery could blow ment they discovered in a nearby ravine. apart conclusions that meteorite crashes are Even if NASA says no to the grant, the ancient history. "A few decades ago people thought researchers intend to take more magnetic mea- meteorite impacts were something that happened surements on foot this winter. Dort says the farmer Don millions of years ago when the solar system was who owns the land won't mind another visit. He forming," Dort says. "Of course that idea has has collected all the news clippings about his curi- changed, but there still is resistance to the idea ous field, Dort says: "He told me he doesn't care if that a big meteorite could have landed on Earth it's from outer space as long as it keeps yielding recently." good corn crops." If their calculations are correct, Earth could Fans in the nearest town, Merna, Neb., pop. spin in a danger zone. "If this impact were to occur 389, also welcome the researchers. Dort accepted in a populated area—say, Washington, D.C.," Zeller their invitation to speak about the "Merna Crater" says, "there wouldn't be any Washington, D.C., at Heritage Days last summer. After his talk, he anymore." says, an elderly man who had grown up near what Picturing an inescapable doom intrigues the he'd always called "The Bottoms" recalled collect- Dreschoff researchers, but what really thrills them is the ing green glass beads in the family potato patch: hunch that they may have found an enormous He promised Dort he'd ask if any family members source of space dust. "Most of the 150 impact still had samples. "This is the kind of object that craters in the world are extremely ancient," Dort frequently is associated with meteorite falls," Dort says, "so what you see on the surface now is the says. "If we can find even one of them it will practi- result of millions of years of erosion. We think our cally nail the lid on the whole project." crater is 500 to 1,000 years old, so what you see The scientists also listen to lore from the area's today is almost what one would have seen a few earlier citizens, the Skidi (Wolf Band) Pawnee Indi- weeks after the impact. It's been rounded off, but ans. When Dort first realized the meteorite might the surface material is still there." have fallen when humans were on Earth, he called The researchers back their theories with three Richard Rogers, c'66, g'69, PhD'73, an archaeologist years of study. They spent the first discounting with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil Con- Martin other explanations—wind erosion, dissolved salts servation Service in Des Moines, Iowa, and a forming a sinkhole, volcanic activity—and another scholar of Indian legends and linguistics. Rogers two years searching the site. They found glass par- found that the Skidi-Pawnees not only had passed ticles, formed when a meteorite strikes with such legends about a great star falling but also had force that it vaporizes itself and materials on the made "Big Black Meteoric Star" one of their gods. ground. The dirt also contained elements such as "These people set up their villages like constella- titanium, barium, nickel and vanadium that are for- tions," Rogers says. "They oriented their houses to eign to Nebraska. view the night sky and believed the sky gave them Convinced by the preliminary evidence, Dort supernatural knowledge. They even had human announced the discovery at last fall's meeting of sacrifice to the stars." the Geological Society of America. A media shower Dort believes there's more to the legend than followed, with features by the Associated Press, coincidence. But he listens most intently to his Zeller Discover and Earth magazines and, last September, own favorite historian—the contour map with its CBS "Sunday Morning." layers of lessons. "I tell my students over and over Now the scientists are trying to get attention that they have to let the landscape speak to them," from NASA, which they hope will fund future study. he says. They want to conduct a complete magnetic survey "It tells a story if you've got the patience and of the site by air. If their preliminary ground mea- the interest." -"~IB"t

~~KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 17 FAIR~~

PLAYwo decades after Title IX mandated gender equity, college sporting chances. Some schools are resolving the imbalan the courts. At Kansas, a civil-rights complaint filed last De department's push to improve finances and facilities for a Department of Education continues its investigation, hi m

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~~18 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 omen finally are winning more $ on their own; others battle in in her coincided with the athletics Olympic sports. While the U.S. es closer to compliance.~~

arian Washington remembers when years, has improved women's facilities words, "senior woman administrator," Mthe local newspaper tucked women's and operating budgets. It now ponders the make a point, she says-, the athletics sports primly in the society section. addition of sports such as crew and soccer department is working to achieve gender She chuckles grimly at the memory of a to increase competitive opportunities for equity. discussion a few years ago about the need women. "I don't have more responsibility for permanent locker rooms for female "It's been a long time coming," Wash- toward women's sports than men's, which athletes. A male administrator asked her ington says. "A lot of people wanted Title is the way it should be," says Stephenson, in all seriousness if she thought women IX to go away, but I knew that it was here who as an undergraduate was a walk-on really worked up that much of a sweat. to stay because it was based on what is volleyball player. "Philosophically, every- Entering her 21st season as KU's right....] kept saying over and over again one should be concerned with the equi- women's basketball coach, Washington at that attitudes would have to change for table treatment of student-athletes. There last can afford a smile or two at such change itself to take place. I continue to shouldn't be one person charged with that indignities. She say that." responsibility." has 368 career So does Betsy Stephen- Stephenson began work Dec. 7, 1992, wins, six Big Eight "...I kept saying over son, associate athletics three days after the department received postseason tour- director and senior notice of a Title IX complaint filed with nament titles and and over again that woman administrator. In the U.S. Department of Education's Office four NCAA Tour- attitudes would have fact, she thinks her for Civil Rights. The complaint cited nament appear- hiring last October by inequities in office space, locker rooms ances. She has to change for change the department of inter- and budgets for women's athletics. The seen scholarships itself to take place. 1 collegiate athletics OCR keeps the identities of complainants rise from zero to proves that KU's inten- confidential. 15. Her team now continue to say that." tions toward Title IX are Stephenson says the department enjoys more than —Washington honorable. A 1983 Kansas already had planned to spruce up offices the fleeting atten- graduate and nine-year and provide locker rooms as part of the tion of the press veteran of the NCAA, continuing expansion of the Allen Field and a more gener- Stephenson moved from House, Parrott Athletic Center and ous budget that allows national recruiting NCAA headquarters in Overland Park to Anschutz Sports Pavilion complex. A and scheduling. In early January her play- Mount Oread to work with Athletics Direc- locker room for female staff members ers will move into a new, spacious locker tor Bob Frederick. opened this summer and a women's bas- room. Stephenson directs KU's 16 Olympic ketball locker room will be finished in Congress passed Title IX in 1972, but (non-revenue) programs—all sports except early January. In fact, by fall 1994, every only recently, with a passel of civil-rights football and men's basketball. Her charge sport except golf, which does not require complaints and megadollar lawsuits is to provide consistent supervision for on-campus quarters, will have its own camped on their doorsteps, have most programs that for years had bounced locker room. In addition, remodeled intercollegiate athletics programs cared to around among administrators who had offices in Parrott Athletic Center will peep at legal realities. other full-time duties. Although her title improve space for all Olympic-sports Kansas, especially in the past two crowds a business card, the last three coaches.

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 19 The OCR will apply a three-pronged act clearly states that Title IX applies to all test to determine whether KU has broken t a glance, Title IX seems simple. The operations of a recipient of federal funds, the rules of Title IX. For a school to pass Alaw, which took full effect in 1975, guar- thus restoring the Office of Civil Rights' muster: antees the rights of women to equal edu- jurisdiction over college sports. T the numbers of male and female cational opportunities at all scholastic The Supreme Court then gave female athletes must be proportionate to their levels. It prohibits sexual discrimination in student-athletes the ammo they needed in representation in the student body; or institutions that receive federal funds. February 1992, when it ruled unanimously T the institution must show a history But enforcement of the statute in col- that, in cases of gender discrimination, and continuing effort of expanding oppor- lege sports has been a sideshow. individuals can sue colleges and universi- tunities for the disadvantaged gender; or "When Title IX came down I didn't ties for monetary damages. Since then T if the school fails to meet either of think there was a prayer of it being imple- more than 30 lawsuits and civil rights these requirements, it must demonstrate mented because there was a lot of resent- complaints have forced athletics programs that it has met the interests and abilities ment," says volleyball coach Frankie nationwide to face the issue. Some have of students in the disadvantaged gender. Albitz. "Attitudes were too hard to change. settled. One school, Brooklyn College, OCR investigators have collected reams Women have just hung in there and finally chose simply to discontinue its intercolle- of documents from KU and have inter- gained credibility." giate sports programs. viewed all full-time coaches and 50 per- Women also have gained potent legal cent of Jayhawk scholarship precedents that have helped them shoot thletics Director Bob Frederick says athletes-more than 200 student-athletes holes in the status quo. Although Title IX Afair play and financial prudence are in all. Their review of the information and lists 12 requirements for compliance in the two most pressing issues in college subsequent findings was not complete as athletics, only recently have the courts sports. But he and other administrators Kansas Alumni went to press and could mandated that college sports programs wonder whether the goals are incompati- take seyeral more months. play by Title IX's rules. ble, particularly in a era of budget In 1984, in Grove scrutiny. City College v. Bell, In its October report on the financial the U.S. Supreme management in college sports, the Court ruled that National Association of College and Uni- Title IX applied only versity Business Officers decried the dol- to programs that lars schools spent to remain competitive. directly benefited It warned that programs must rein in from federal funds, spending and recommended that the thereby limiting NCAA and conferences adopt more accu- Title IX's influence rate and uniform accounting procedures. in athletics pro- Many schools deserve the scolding. grams. Eighty percent of athletics departments But that ruling have emptied their pockets and, eying was overturned in goodies they can't afford, have jumped 1988, when Congress into puddles of red ink. But the KU depart- overrode President ment, like the one smug kid on the block Reagan's veto of the who actually saves his allowance, still has Civil Rights Restora- a small but enviable stash. Fiscal restraint, tion Act of 1987. The shrewd hirings and victories in football and men's basketball have helped the department mop up its "I don't have more red ink and stand in the black. responsibility toward The healthy balance women's sports than sheet has allowed Kansas to invest more men's, which is the in its non-revenue way it should be." sports. "We believe that philosophically —Stephenson and morally it's the right thing to do," Fred- erick says. "Our prob-

20 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 lem in recent years has been funding. It happens we've had a couple of good financial years and are able to do things that were overdue." Women nationwide still wait for such gains. Last summer's final report of the NCAA Gender Equity Task Force cites a 1991 survey of member schools, which revealed that average expenditures for men's and women's athletics were seri- ously out of balance. Even though the nation's undergraduate enrollment was almost evenly divided among men and women, men constituted 69.5 percent of the student-athletes and their programs received about 70 percent of the scholarship funds, 77 percent of budgets and 83 percent of recruiting money. Kansas reflects the national median. In nine men's and nine women's varsity sports in 1992-93, KU had 275 male scholarship athletes compared to 132 females, a basketball scholarships from 15 to 13 while ratio of 68 percent to 32 percent. Mean- women's basketball grants remain at 15. "Our problem in recent while the University undergraduate popu- Why, he asks, have male student-athletes years has been funding. lation was 51 percent male to 49 percent been penalized-particularly in a sport It happens we've had a female. that makes money to finance so many Men's sports at KU received 72 percent other sports? couple of good financial of scholarship funds, 82 percent of operat- "I have a 14-year-old daughter and I years and are able to do ing budgets and 85 percent of recruiting want her to have all the opportunities in money. the world," Williams says. "Whether we things that were overdue." Those numbers don't tell the entire like it or not, this is a business and there —Frederick story, however. Football and men's bas- has to be some way to pay the bills. The ketball consumed 70 percent of overall biggest question to me is, Where is the sports operating budgets, 56 percent of money going to come from?" scholarship funds and 77 percent of In any athletics department, football The projected 1993-94 budget further recruiting money. But they also brought in gobbles the biggest portion of operating complicates the issue: Thanks to the most more than $3.7 million in direct net rev- expenses. Body-slamming combat requires successful sports year in school enues, according to the KU Athletics Cor- larger squads just to make it through the history-highlighted by the nationally poration's income and expense summary season. Thus football scholarships take unprecedented combination of a football for 1992-93. swipes from the double-edged sword of bowl victory, men's basketball Final Four That $3.7 million provided 37 percent of cost-containment and gender equity: Divi- appearance and baseball College World the corporation's $10.1 million in income sion I programs have had to trim down Series appearance- budgets in all Olympic and, as business manager Susan Wachter from 95 to 88 grants. Next fall scholar- sports have fattened. notes, football and men's basketball pass ships will slide to 85, and the NCAA may The most visible growth appears in on a whopping share of remaining rev- slice still more. travel and recruiting (see box, p. 23). enues. Listed under $5.8 million in "other But at KU, for example, if two men's Women's basketball's travel funds grew 65 revenues" are: $1.77 million collected from sports directly dish up 37 percent of net percent; recruiting jumped 84 percent. the Big Eight Conference, generated by revenues and indirectly add more hearty Volleyball travel bumped up 106 per- football and men's basketball television helpings, will cuts to their funding help cent; recruiting climbed 75 percent. contracts and postseason appearances; other sports? Williams has his doubts. Softball caught a 42 percent travel more than $3 million from donors; "I have a problem with taking away increase; the recruiting budget rose 21 percent. $129,000 from the Jayhawk Radio Net- from programs that make the money to Coach Kalum Haack's Softball players work; and $100,000 from merchandise. support everything else," Roy Williams now can take charter buses rather than Like most men's basketball coaches, says. "You can't find any business in the the uncomfortable, unreliable state vans Roy Williams is troubled that the NCAA country that will cut back in the areas that they had endured in past years. "We once decided to curb costs by reducing men's are very successful. They put money back in." had 18 players going to the Kansas City

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 21 wo hours before sunrise on Oct. Crew, on the other hand, enjoys by T27, 20 shivering members of KU far the greatest participation of KU's crew convene at the dead end of Clin- 29 club sports, with more than 100 ton Lake's marina. Glimmering stars, a female walk-ons each fall. By spring near-full moon and the headlights of a the grueling schedule usually trims the rusty blue pickup illuminate the roster to around 60 women. frozen gravel parking lot where the Kansas competes against crews rowers stretch their from the Big Eight, sleepy muscles. Big Ten, Southwest, Just before 6 Missouri Valley and a.m. they hoist Metro conferences. their slender boats Since the founding from nearby racks of crew on the Hill in and lug them 1979, women's teams down to a narrow have won 12 varsity dock. Coach Rob state championships Catloth affixes and have rowed suction-cupped competitively at flashlights to the regional and boat bows, national regattas instructs the against teams with coxswains to head full university fund- out and shoves his ing. At the National motorized skiff Collegiate Rowing into the frigid Championships, the lake. For the next varsity four in 1992 two hours, the captured second; in rowers pull 1993 the varsity together to battle lightweight four took a 15 mph north fourth and the wind that turns novice four placed Clinton into a choppy mess. fifth. "It's really the quintessential col- Practicing like this five mornings a legiate sport," says team captain week requires abundant discipline, a Maggie Romens, a junior from Min- loud alarm clock and not a little crazi- D neapolis, Minn. "Harvard and Yale had ness. But someday the athletics a regatta back in the 1850s." department might reward the rowers' M Foster Romens fell under crew's spell as a dedication by funding women's crew. ninth-grader when, on a class trip to Athletics Director Bob Frederick changes Washington, D.C., she spied George- calls women's crew and soccer the town University's crew racing home- two most likely candidates to move up ward on the Potomac. She decided from club status as the department en that she would attend a Midwest- tries to increase competition arenas ern university that offered crew. A for women under Title IX. For starters, Kansas strong journalism school and the both sports carry large rosters, which chance to row sold her on KU. would help narrow the participation considers adding Unlike scholarship sports, these gap caused largely by football. student-athletes have one coach who Beyond mere numbers, Frederick oversees both varsity and novice says, soccer appeals because it is the women's sports teams. Their "boathouse" is actually a top team sport in the world and couple of old truck bays in a local because interest in the Midwest has to bridge the cement company's warehouse, where exploded, thanks to a proliferation of they store equipment and can work youth leagues that attract as many out on ergometers and weights. They girls as boys. participation gap train throughout the school year, receive no scholarships, buy their Gaining Ground uniforms and pay for their travel. They pay semester dues of $110 A glance at money matters in three sports each, but Romens figures varsity rowers spend more than $1,000 a Recruiting budget year out of their own pockets. Crew receives about $16,000 $54,790 annually from Student Senate, WOMEN'S BASkETBALL 90,170 which members augment with fundraisers like "Rent-A-Rower"— where on a Saturday each semester they perform odd jobs ($60 a rower for eight hours). This fall they banked $3,500. Not long ago, Romens points out, the University of Miami began funding women's crew. Today only the Hurricane football team boasts greater participation, but crew operates on the second-lowest 1992-93 1993-94 budget. "You can field a competitive crew for not that much money," she says. Travel bu Frederick says he admires the crew's hard work, competitive record and high participation rate, but he is most impressed by the strong academic records of team members. Among the eight women who went to nationals last June, GPAs ranged between 3.2 and 3.95. LLEYBALl "1 think most of us are goal-oriented," Romens says. "Crew has been called the ultimate team sport because you strive for a symphony of motion. Just achieving that balance and being awake in the morn- 1993-94 ing at that hour is great. There's fog rolling off the lake, the sun is rising. I love it. It's my passion." airport to catch a flight for Arizona and $150,000. All Olympic sports receive more Perhaps one day more fans will one of our two vans broke down," he says. advertising. share it. —BW "We piled all our luggage and everyone Frankie Albitz, volleyball coach since into one van. It was ridiculous." 1985, is just happy to have the commit- Haack says he entered budget discus- ment from administrators. "Marketing has sions for 1993-94 determined to win char- historically been unstable for us," says ter buses-for safety alone. But Betsy Albitz. "It was like a car that doesn't run Stephenson broached the subject before all the time. You come to depend on it, he had the chance. "She's been an active then it doesn't start." voice for us," he says. " I know it's not all In fact, when Albitz arrived as coach, due to her, but we've made bigger strides she alone sold her program. But the between last year and this year than we department in the past three years has did in my first five years here." promoted her team more vigorously, and In addition to fatter travel and recruit- crowds are slowly appearing. Albitz ing purses, the budget for marketing has believes volleyball eventually can win nearly quadrupled, from $39,900 to enough fans to support itself.

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 23 "It's one of the premiere spectator Betsy Stephenson. "We'd certainly like to nois, but the judge ruled that the cuts sports in the world and interest could go have this support on an annual basis." were intended to protect women, not to through the roof here," she says, noting Sponsors also can provide women's discriminate against men. He said federal that NCAA regionals attract more than teams with basics that men take for sex-discrimination laws require schools to 10,000 and an Oct. 16 match in Lincoln, granted. Mizuno this fall increased its lim- protect the interests of the underrepre- Neb., drew 4,389 to watch KU play the ited sponsorship of KU volleyball, provid- sented minority. The men have appealed. Cornhuskers. ing players new game and practice A similar brouhaha bubbled at the Uni- Luring large, paying crowds will require uniforms, warm-ups, travel bags, socks, consistent moral and monetary support, two pairs of court shoes each and a pair of not just one or two good years, says weight-training shoes each. Sharon Bass, KU Athletics Corporation "For three years we used the same board chair. "You can't plan to have practice uniforms; they were getting kind record years of revenue every year," says of ratty," says Cyndee Kanabel, a Kansas Kanabel thinks corporate Bass, an associate professor of journalism City, Mo., senior volleyball player and a sponsorships can help who also serves on KU's committee for student-athlete representative to the NCAA accreditation. KUAC board. "Weight-training shoes may women net needed Bass sees Kansas striding toward not sound like much, but in the past we revenues. equity. Better budgets and building fea- had to buy those ourselves. Now we have tures are obvious signs, she says, but sub- long- and short-sleeved game uniforms. It tler evidence also encourages her. For gets awfully hot in Allen in early tourna- instance, she points out that the board's ments, and those short sleeves are a real budget now displays men's and women's blessing." accounts side by side. Men's sports had Frederick pledges been bunched in the front; women's that Kansas will sports resided in the back. increase opportuni- "This allows us to raise questions and ties for women with- be aware of differences that might not out robbing men's have been obvious when men's basketball programs. But KU was seven or eight pages apart from may prove the excep- women's basketball," Bass says. tion, not the rule: In "This pushes everybody onto the same coming years, many page." schools could sacrifice men's non-rev- ob Frederick says Kansas is seeking enue sports to close Bcreative ways to fund women's sports. the gender gap. The University of Oregon, for example, The courts say has granted tuition and fee waivers for they can. A U.S. Dis- student-athletes, freeing the department trict Court in Septem- to pour scholarship funds into women's ber ruled that the sports. University of Illinois But that scenario seems unlikely in could drop men's Kansas, where graduate teaching assis- swimming while tants only recently won waivers. More retaining women's promising possibilities are corporate swimming as a way sponsorships. to save money and to The department Dec. 6 announced Pay- improve the balance less ShoeSource as a major sponsor of between men and women's basketball. The first-time agree- women athletes. The ment includes sponsorship of the Jan. 9 Big Ten has man- Jayhawk Network telecast of the Kansas- dated that its univer- Colorado game. A promotional blitz will sities achieve a 60-40 try to attract a record crowd to Allen Field ratio of men to House for the noon tipoff. women athletes by "Payless hasn't made a long-term com- •995 mitment, but we're breaking new ground Eight male swim- and we hope it will be a trendsetter," says mers had sued Illi-

24 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 versity of Arkansas, which also dunked should be done, then I don't know how men's swimming. As part of a court- quickly it's going to be understood in ordered compromise, Arkansas will phase grade schools and high schools." out the sport as student-athletes graduate These days, Washington's players' bas- or transfer. ketball shorts ride low and drape toward their knees. She's tired of telling the urrently, 3.4 million male and 1.9 mil- women to pull them up. They're emulating Clion female student-athletes compete male athletes, she in high schools; 186,045 ma'e and 96,467 says, but they're also female student-athletes compete in NCAA perpetuating the sports. stereotype of the In citing these numbers, the authors of female athlete as a last summer's NCAA gender-equity report curious oddity, a cautioned that "it should be noted that tomboy. Any Kansas these numbers may not reflect interest fan who cheered accurately, but may instead reflect his- Lynette Woodard toric inequalities in opportunities for girls recalls how her daz- and women in sports." zling grace, beauty Abby Woods, a Tulsa, Okla., senior on and charisma defied KU's nationally ranked women's tennis the tomboy image. team, is a student-athlete representative Therein lies part to the KUAC board and serves on its of the problem in gender equity committee. She says as a attracting more fans child she never really noticed the way the and athletes to media glamorized far more male athletes women's sports-. than women. "I think it does make a dif- Woodard, a four- ference because it sends out a message time Kodak Ail- that women are less valued as athletes," American, Olympic Woods says. gold medalist and Whenever Marian Washington sees the first female Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley or Harlem Globetrotter, Shaquille O'Neal hawking a product on TV, never received the she wonders when Lynette Woodard, national exposure Cheryl Miller or Theresa Edwards will have that her male coun- the same chance. terparts enjoyed. Our society often creates heroes-and Who better to perpetuates stereotypes-in 30-second debunk the myths? commercials, she argues. Consider the "It's just not fair," Shaquille O'Neal Pepsi ad in which a cute Washington says. little boy guards his soft drink by admon- "We don't do any- ishing Shaq: "Don't even think about it." thing to help young The moment is warm and appealing, women in our soci- Washington says, but even if Pepsi ety to have a more wanted a male superstar like Shaq, why positive perception couldn't the child at the playground have of the female athlete." been a girl? Women buy Pepsi. Women Our colleges and universities can and buy athletic shoes. With few exceptions— must lead the way to change, she says, one-hit wonder Mary Lou Retton springs and Title IX is their wakeup call. They're Woods serves as the to mind-Madison Avenue has said to just answering the alarm 20 years late. student-athlete prominent women athletes: "Don't even KUAC board chair Sharon Bass concurs. representative on the think about it." By doing so, they say the "Maybe women won't achieve equity in same to young girls. any one particular year," Bass says. "We're KLAC gender equity "The point is that every single day not going to hit that equity in one year at committee. we're influenced," Washington says. "|At KU, but everybody must be willing to con- the university level] we help mold atti- tribute toward this end. tudes. If we don't understand the way it "There's not a choice. It's the law."•"""*"

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 25 The Year the Huffy ft IS ' m •J1JHPH * B 1PI*

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26 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 ater in his life, Stan Birtch would call coat. "I can walk," he said as she found her Stan rode between his parents to Mike 1957 "The Year of the Huffy." That year purse. "I want to walk!" She opened the Weaver's house to apologize. "Don't his father bought a used car and four front door. "You always say it's good for worry," said Mike's dad. Mike's mother new suits and quit his teaching job to me to walk." When Mrs. Birtch pulled out smiled the whole time. Mike smirked. sell insurance. That year Stan's mother of the driveway Stan saw how poorly he'd In December Stan's mother drove him insisted he walk home for lunch every hidden the bike. He sank into the seat. everywhere. Once at dinner he dared to day; walk, because one night in August, When his mother dropped him off, he ask about a bicycle. "After you've had just before school started, Stan left his old would run home and pedal like mad back more time to think," said his father. Schwinn in the driveway and Mr. Birtch to school. He wished for time. Every day Mr. Birtch called when Stan crunched it to a pretzel in his hurry to Then his mother made a wrong turn. "I was home for lunch. When his mother was make an appointment. might as well pick up your father's cleaning," quiet Stan knew his father was having "When can I get a new bike?" he asked she said. "He needs something to help his day." trouble. For the first time in his life, when his father at least once a week. For Stan Stan hated the smell of dry cleaning. his parents asked him what he wanted for speed was magic Wobbly bike wheels cut Ever since Mr. Birtch had changed jobs Christmas, Stan could not say. in and out of driveways, hopped curbs, he'd smelled like dry cleaning in the n Christmas morning Stan had to be climbed down porch stairs. Stan leaned morning, like stale bread at night. The thin called down the steps into the living into tight circles, daring his bicycle to plastic over Mr. Birtch's suits whispered to Oroom. There, between the tree and throw him off. His bicycle was his freedom. Stan all the way to school: "Late, late, late." the picture window, a blue bicycle leaned "Maybe Christmas," sighed Mr. Birtch. Mrs. Shellhorn sat on her desk reading on its kickstand. "Take a look," his father "When can 1 take my lunch to school?" the new Hardy Boys mystery, Footprints said. "See what Santa brought. He knew he asked his mother. Under the Window. Stan put his head on you wanted a bike." "You don't like my nice hot lunches, his desk. Recess was torture: Stan froze in The bike was used. Its dull blue paint Stanny?" she always asked. So all fall, and the wind watching the bike rack, but Mike was the same color as the upstairs window through a very cold November, Stan didn't miss his Huffy, with its bent front trim. The front fender was bent, the trudged to school. His fingers wouldn't fender and chewed-up pedals. pedals worn. Streamers dressed up the thaw until after the Pledge of Allegiance. When Stan arrived home, his father's cracked handlebar grips; the chain One noon Stan checked the bike rack, car was in the drive. Mr. Birtch shoved out gleamed with oil. Only the tires were new-, chose Mike Weaver's red Huffy with bal- of the front door in time to stop Stan's whitewalls, bright as neon. Stan's parents loon tires and a rusted chain, and high- dive into the bushes. "On more call today, let him take it outdoors. He rode tenta- tailed home. He hid the bike in the bushes Stan Man," he said. "Go on in the house. tively at first, like someone who has taken below the living room picture window. Your mother needs you." a bad spill. Then he abandoned himself to "You made good time today," said Mrs. tan did as he was told: He never did wheels and cold air and speed. He hadn't Birtch. "How's my baby?" Her voice anything else, except for stealing felt so good since he'd ridden Mike jumped an octave. She squared Stan's SMike's bike. The house was warm, but Weaver's bicycle home. shoulders and pecked his cheek. "My Stan couldn't stop shivering. His mother After the New Year Stan rode to school. goodness, you're cold," she said. saw his flushed cheeks, put her hand on He arrived at the bike rack just when Mike Stan devoured his chipped beef on his forehead, and sent him to bed. Weaver did. Mike rode a brand new bike. toast. Mr. Birtch called. "I'm sorry, Frank," The phone rang. The doorbell chimed. Stan admired it. "How do you like yours?" said Stan's mother. "You were counting on The hushed whispers of adult voices filled Mike laughed. him to sign." Finally she whispered, "Can't the living room. A door slammed. An Stan looked again at his bike, an old talk now. Stanny's home." engine roared up the street. Huffy, Mike's old Huffy, with a bad paint Stan stood up to go. Stan felt the soft weight of his mother job and new tires, and he knew where his "What's your hurry?" Mrs. Birtch held sit on his bed. She checked his forehead, father had found his Christmas gift. the phone to her chest. then covered her eyes with the same hand. Stan rode the bike all that year, but Stan shrugged. He couldn't say that the Stan's flu lasted two days. On the third never with real pleasure. Whenever he sooner he left the sooner he'd be riding day his parents sat him on the couch. "Oh, felt sorry for himself, Stan imagined his the long way back to school, stolen freedom Stanny," said Mrs. Birtch. father waiting until after bedtime, sneaking robbing the wind of chill, stripping the cold His father interrupted her grief. "No Mike's bike into the basement, trying night from the cracked white handlebar grips, matter how much you want something, no after night to make it something new, then plundering the footweary boredom from the matter how hard things are, you don't hiding it between the Christmas tree and return trip. He wanted to run from the house. steal," he said. the picture window. And, all during "The "I'm driving Stanny back to school," his "You don't borrow things without Year of the Huffy," he managed to keep the mother announced to Mr. Birtch. She hung asking," said his mother. bike from underneath his father's car.-"*8*"1' up. "You still look chilled to the bone," she "By God, in this family we don't steal. said. "You haven't even taken your coat No matter what," said his father. Tom Aver Hi, c'yi, g'74, is writer in residence off." She grabbed her keys from the "Oh Stanny," said his mother. "What at Washburn University in Topeka. His book kitchen counter. were you trying to tell us?" Her voice What Kansas Means to Me was published in "No," said Stan while she put on her car cracked. Mr. Birtch stalked out of the room. 1990 by the University Press of Kansas.

~~KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 27 HOME~~

~~HOMSeldom was heard a discouragingE word, though the skies remained cloudy all day in the during Homecoming 1993 by Jerri Niebaum & Bill Woodard~~

~~Photos by RAINWally Emerson KINSAS ALUMNUi~~

Student Alumni Association members John Sparks, Kansas City, Mo., senior, and Ashley Ressler, Balboa Island, Calif., senior, helped welcome waterlogged Jay hawks to the Alumni Association's annual picnic.

~~Rain didn't douse the spirits of 28,000 faithful fans, who turned out for Saturday's game or of the Marching Jayhawks, who took the boulevard in Friday's parade.~~

28 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 ancy Kermashek reckoned she and her husband, Gene, p'53, had Nheld KU football season tickets for at least 30 years. But try as she might, Nancy couldn't recall a Homecoming as soggy as this year's. The Kermasheks, of Leavenworth, pondered the downpour while keeping their heads dry at the Alumni Association's Picnic-Under-The-Tent before the game against Iowa State Oct. 16. "We always have one bad day for football," Nancy said. "But it's usually the Mis- souri game." About 360 Jayhawks huddled over steaming plates of bratwurst and beans while the Junkyard Jazz Band swung to "I Get the Blues When it Rains." Thunderous applause could not compete with a large clap of the real thing just after the last chord sounded. Picnickers also were entertained by Kay Kuhlmann, a Lawrence writer and actress, who presented a one-woman play about life 100 years ago along the Oregon Trail. "Out here," she aptly quoted from one pioneer's letter, "hardly anything goes as planned." Bill Kelly, PhD'35, retired associate dean of educational services, ate his lunch, confident the sky would dry so he could take the field with this year's 140- member Alumni Band. He wore a KU letter sweater that his four children, also 'Hawks, had given him. His wife, Barbara, giggled as she explained that one of their children "even lives in North Carolina and still wears Jayhawk shirts—right around Duke." The Kellys' loyalty paid off: The show- ers subsided minutes before kickoff (though they returned in force during the fourth quarter). More than 28,000 fans slogged into Memorial Stadium, where they saw freshman running back June Henley slip past Iowa State for 237 yards and three touchdowns on 27 carries, including a 77-yard scoring burst. The Columbus, Ohio, native shattered the KU freshman single-game rushing record set by Kerwin Bell (217 yards against Kansas State in 1980), and the Jayhawks unwound the Cyclones, 35-20. Besides the Alumni Band, halftime fes- tivities welcomed home members of the 1968 Orange Bowl and 1973 Liberty Bowl football teams and the 1968 men's swimming and diving team, which captured the

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 29 Marching Jayhawks led the lineup, pausing for a brief pep rally at Wescoe Beach. An impromptu male chorus line kicked up its heels during "I'm a Jayhawk," while the mascot kept its feathers dry under a big red and blue umbrella. The parade route ended at the Kansas Union, where several hundred students, alumni and faculty members filled the lobby for a rededication of the building, sparkling after completion of a seven- year, $11.5 million renovation. David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, gave the history lesson. He explained that in 1921 the University of Kansas Memorial Corp. had formed to raise funds for a Union, football stadium and statue of "Uncle Jimmy" Green, former law dean. But the Memorial Corp's initial efforts had built only a shell of a Union, dedicated April 30, 1926, to alumni and former students killed in World War I (See story, page 36). Renovations and additions have been ongoing since, Ambler said, calling the Union, "the living room of the A Roger Nolan, left, and University." Greg Kesler tuned in memories ofHashinger "The Union has endured decades of Hall from the mid-igjos. constant use," he said. "Days and nights of programs, protests and parties; conferences and speeches; and one great tragedy, the near loss of the building in 1970 from the act of arson."

Today's students tucked The Union's latest version is cele- away icons of their era in brated in a time capsule sealed and placed a cornerstone of the ren- in a new cornerstone during the rededica- ovated Kansas Union: tion. Margaret Hu, Lawrence senior and John Shoemaker, student director of Student Union Activities, sum- body president, and marized the past year's national and local Darcy Selenke, special- news before icons of the era were placed events coordinator for Gina Kennedy, c'j6, Student Union Activities, Chicago, came back to in the capsule. "It's been an amazing assisted at the interment Hash with her husband, year," she said. "The marriage of Prince ceremony. V Robert. • Charles and Lady Di ended in a painful separation. Lyle Lovett married a barefoot Julia Roberts, and Connie Chung joined Dan Rather for the CBS evening news. Incredible." first of KU's many conference crowns in Chancellor Gene A. Budig gave special the sport. Also honored were this year's thanks to Student Senate members from student winners of the Excellence in Com- 1986 and 1989, who helped support earlier munity, Education and Leadership (ExCEL) phases of the renovation. "Many students awards, Carmen San Martin, Wichita graduated and became alumni never senior, and Trevor Thompson, Shawnee having had the chance to use the building senior. since renovation," he said. "It is due to On Friday afternoon, San Martin and your efforts and those of students who Thompson waved to about 600 fellow stu- preceded you that we are here today to dents, alumni and Lawrence residents who celebrate the grand opening of the Kansas defied drizzle to follow the Homecoming Union." Parade along Jayhawk Boulevard. The Student Body President John Shoe-

30 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 maker, Topeka senior, explained that the SUA Special Events Committee had chosen items for interment after soliciting ideas campuswide. Of course not all suggestions were feasible: "I'd like to dispel a nasty rumor," he said. "I am not here today to be placed in the time capsule and set into the wall." Scrapbooks were time capsules during a weekend reunion of about 60 Hashinger Hall residents from 1972 to 1975. Brought together by alumnus Don Creach's clever summer invitation, the hall's pioneer residents lunched Saturday at the new Ekdahl Dining Commons in Lewis Hall and con- cluded Saturday night with a bash on Jayhawker yearbook Final Four, Aloha Bowl, Daisy Hill. College World Series, "This was the group that meant the most to me in school," said Creach, c'75, > Undergraduate women's basketball, Big Richmond, Va. "There was so much energy Catalog Eight and other sports here." paraphernalia Like many folks, Paula Bohr, f'76, Okla- homa City, fondly recalled "Sneaky • Copies of the Pete's," a Friday afternoon free-for-all on University Daily Current student ID the microphone in Hashinger's theatre. "Back then you could serve 3.2 beer in the Kansan and local dorms," Bohr said as she sipped a soft papers with • "Safe Sex" packet drink, a concession to KU's new policy stories about with an AIDS ribbon forbidding alcohol on campus. "It wasn't the '93 flood, uncommon to get up and sing for your beer." Nobody remembered—or would Arab-Israeli • Alumni Associa- divulge—how Sneaky Pete's was so chris- peace, President tion Jayhawk credit tened. But everybody reminisced and Clinton's inauguration card applauded when Roger Nolan and Greg and other events Kesler took center stage. Nolan, c'77, Los Angeles, and Kesler, c'75, §'78, Stamford, • Recycle symbol Conn., had first played and sung together • Kansas Alumni at Hashinger and after graduation had magazine featuring made the Midwest nightclub circuit with • Refillable mug the Lied Center's their blues-country-folk act. from the Union "This was a place where many of us had debut and opening of our identities shaped," said Kesler. "We the Kansas Union's came in as kids and left here having grown 1926 time capsule • Joe's Donut recipe up a lot...greatly because of the stuff that was going on in this building." At 10 p.m. the disc jockey's classic rock • List of countries • Pack of cigarettes with mix yielded to Kesler and Nolan, who represented by KU students KU's non-smoking policy seemed right at home. "Forgive us if we're a little rusty," Nolan begged the familiar audience. "Our last gig was in February > Satellite photograph of • J. Crew catalog 1979" campus and Lawrence The pair warmed up with an old Chuck Berry song, moved on to "Dixie" • "Live in Lawrence" and even revived "El Paso." Along the I Brick from Hoch compact music disc way, several curious Hashinger undergraduates pressed their noses against the Auditorium window and soon were invited in. Elvis stamp Sneaky Pete's was back in session.--**•

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 31 ynn and I are at The Red Dog Inn for era, they marked the first stop for stu- Showtime with The Fabulous Flip- dents after saying good-bye to parents L pers. It's 1967, my senior year, and and family. Their concerts are as much a Lynn's in town for the weekend. Smoke part of KU memories as any Jayhawk and sweat sting our eyes as we dance sports team. And, like athletes traveling nose-to-nose. The horns rise in raw to out-of-town games, the Flippers took blasts. With a whole lot of soul, do the a part of KU culture to the world away Harlem Shuffle! from Lawrence. "The Flippers brought Most nights the horns segue to a blue-eyed soul to towns that never heard bleating alarm clock as dawn steals my of James Brown or Bobby Bland," says Fabulous Flippers favorite dream. But Oct. 15, during Home- Mike Levand, c'76, Wichita. Their return reunite at coming 1993, the best blast from my past home became reason to arrange a lost plays on. We of the Big Chill generation weekend. the Red Dog have returned to the Mass Street sanctu- The smoke-filled cavern where Ike ary to hear the hot music that once insu- and Tina Turner once pumped out "Proud lated us from the cold realities to come. Mary" today is Lawrence's Liberty Hall, a Ken Hickerson, j'67, Mission Hills, smokeless environment where, the night admits the attraction-. "I came to remem- before the Flippers reunion I had stood in ber what it was like before we had line for tickets as a tattooed gaggle responsibility." waited for the Jesus Lizard concert. The Couples scramble to find their old hall also hosts tamer events such as chil- favorite seats as the Flippers take the dren's theatre. In fact Kathy Kirk, d'7i, stage. Gone are their brocade jackets; the and Ric Averill, f'72, g'85, both of Lawrence, band now sports white blazers over blue conceived the Red Dog reunion as a jeans. The lights drop, and Danny Hein fundraiser for The Seem-To-Be-Players, shouts across three decades, "Are you a theatre troupe that performs in Liberty ready for Showtime?" Roger Lewis' Hall. Kirk says, "We wanted to produce a trumpet draws us like lemmings into a Homecoming event that not only could sea of fortysomethings. Drummer Jerry rekindle old memories but also could Tammen churns the crowd with "Turn On revive our get-up-and-go that got-up- Your Love Light." Soon we're nose-to- and-went." nose again. The Flippers got together in Lawrence The Flippers had formed as a western two years ago to play for friends and Kansas quintet named for a spinner-style their own enjoyment. "Most of us hadn't hubcap, not a dolphin. Guided by pro- played together in years," says saxophon- moter John Brown, the group grew to ist Doug Crotty. "But our songs came eight when Brown discovered Dennis back, and the magic was still there." The Loewen and Dennes Frederick among his group reunited again last summer for KU fraternity's pledges. Recalls Loewen: three shows in Iowa. Phil Walsh, b'72, "John brought us to Downs, Kansas, his heard them in Des Moines and helped hometown, to rehearse for a few days. book them for his high-school reunion in We then went on the road for 50 straight Salina. nights." The Homecoming reunion in Lawrence The band's original blend of big-band marked only the fifth time the Flippers horns with soulful guitar and organ later had played together since the '60s. "We cued rock groups Chicago and Blood, shared an indescribable, magical experi- Sweat and Tears to add horn sections. ence with our audience," says saxophon- But it was the close harmony of Danny ist Gary Claxton. VI Hein and Dennis Loewen, coupled with But, as always, the music said it best. their open affection for fans, that pro- Dennis Loewen's lyrics echoed the vided the Flippers' magnetism. Gail evening's emotions: "Let's play those HE Underwood, f'77, Lawrence, recalls, "I'd songs one more time...just like we used listen to KOMA late at night for where to do...can't believe we're at The Red Dog the Flippers were playing and wish I Inn...and we thank you." •"*"* were old enough to be with them." Although the Flippers and the Red Dog Bob Basow, j'67, is a KU associate never appeared in KU brochures of the professor of journalism. w 32 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 i Where they ore now...

~~The Fabulous Flippers as they appeared in the 1960s, left to right, and their lives since then:~~

DENNES FREDERICK, '67, VOCALS, BASS GUITAR: Frederick went to Nashville to write popular music and now manages a quality-control laboratory for Rhone Poulenc Chemical. He plays shortstop on two Softball teams and coaches a third.

~~DOUG CROTTY, j'72, SAXOPHONES: Crotty shares a law practice with his wife in Garden City. They have one child. He golfs regularly and takes sax lessons at the community college.~~

~~DENNIS LOEWEN, '68, LEAD VOCALS, GUITAR, ORGAN: Loewen, the father of six, manages a real-estate development firm in Lawrence and writes contemporary Christian music with his wife.~~

~~JERRY TAMMEN, VOCALS, DRUMS: Tammen developed residential real estate in California for 15 years and owned night clubs, Balloons in Palm Springs and Faces in Hunt- ington Beach.~~

DANNY HEIN, c'67, LEAD VOCALS, GUITAR, ORGAN: After seven years with IBM, Hein returned to music and formed the band Calliope and Reflections Records. He started Flipper Produc- I John Brown, 665, left, A Even the old Red Dog and Mike Murfin, b'64, couldn't fend off reality tions in Lamed with Tammen. He is the father of two. opened The Red Dog Inn for some Flippers fans: in 196$, naming it for "Call the babysitter and GARY CLAXTON, '67, SAXOPHONES: their fraternity's annual see if we can stay Claxton brokers health insurance in Des Moines. He practices T'ai party. "The Dog" became another hour." Chi Ch'uan to relieve stress and has bicycled across Iowa. He has home for The Fabulous Flippers and other two children. bands promoted by Brown's Mid-Continent TERRY WEIRMAN, VOCALS, LEAD GUITAR: Entertainment agency. Weirman, the father of two, manages a construction company and a cabinet-making shop with his brother in Hays. Weirman did not play at the Red Dog Reunion.

ROGER LEWIS, '77, TRUMPET, FLUGEL HORN (not pictured): Lewis directs instrumental music and jazz studies at Butler County Community College. He plays first trumpet and contracts personnel for Music Theater of Wichita Orchestra. He has three children.

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 33 Members to vote for 3 A teacher at Laney since 1969, he has specialized in guiding at risk students among Board nominees through freshman composition. Recently he began research on retention of black The 1994 nominees for the Alumni Asso- male students that has resulted in numer- ciation's Board of Directors are June Ann ous publications and presentations. He Bloskey, Hutchinson; Karen K. Neilsen Cle- has written several scholarly and popular land, Chicago; John F. Gardenhire, Los books. His honors include Laney College Angeles; Kenneth P. Koenigs, Long- Teacher of the Year in 1991 and the Uni- meadow, Mass.; Kenneth A. Martinez, Bloskey Cleland versity of Maryland Chancellor's Medal for Lawrence; and F. Bruder Stapleton, Excellence in Teaching. Williamsville, N.Y. For KU he has participated in alumni Bloskey, d'62, is secretary and trea- activities in Seattle and the San Francisco surer of Meschke-Bloskey Inc., and Terry area. In October he returned to KU to Bloskey's Clothing, where she is buyer and speak during Black Awareness Week. executive manager for the ladies store. While a student he was an officer in She is a director for the Hutchinson City the International Club, German Club and Center Association and other business several drama groups. He also belonged to organizations. the student chapter of CORE (the Congress At KU she volunteered for Student of Racial Equality) and worked to help Union Activities and performed in Rock eliminate separate seating and other dis- Chalk Revue. She has served the Alumni Gardenhire Koenigs criminatory policies in restaurants, movie Association as secretary for the Hutchin- theatres and public places. son chapter and as a member of the He is an Association life member. He Nominating Committee. She and her hus- and his wife, Caroyln, have one daughter. band, Terry, c'63, are Williams Educa- Koenigs, c'78, m'82, is a gastroen- tional Fund and Chancellors Club terologist and a partner in Western Mas- members and Reno County Kansas sachusetts GI Associates. He is also a Honors Program supporters. senior clinical instructor for Tufts Univer- The Bloskeys are Association life sity Medical School in association with members. Their children are Jeff, c'90, Bayswater Medical Center. He serves on 1'93, and Beth, c'91, Bloskey. the internal medicine residency commit- Cleland, j'87, is a graduate student at tee at Bayswater. Loyola University, Chicago, where she is Martinez Stapleton As an undergraduate he played var- pursuing a second master's degree in sity basketball four years and was captain higher-education administration. From his senior year. That year he also earned 1988 until June 1993, she was an account Kansan advertising sales staff. She per- honors as an Academic Ail-American and executive with Foote Cone G Belding, an formed in Rock Chalk Revue three years an All-Big Eight team member. A Summer- advertising agency. She earned a master's and served on its advisory board. Her field Scholar, he was elected to Sachem in advertising and marketing from North- honors included the Hilltopper Award for and Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies, western University in 1988. Outstanding Senior; the Sullivan, Higdon S graduated Phi Beta Kappa and won an For KU she has led the Chicago alumni Sink Award and Scholarship for Outstand- NCAA postgraduate scholarship. chapter since 1988 and has assisted the ing Senior in Advertising; the Fred He has been nominated for the GTE Office of Admissions with local recruiting. Ellsworth Scholarship and a vocal-perfor- Academic All-American Hall of Fame. As a student she helped organize mance scholarship. At the School of Medicine he was a Summer Orientation three years for the She and her husband, Aric, b'87, are member and president of Alpha Omega Office of Student Affairs. She was a char- Association life members. Alpha medical honor society. ter member of the Student Alumni Associ- Gardenhire, d'58, is professor and He completed his internal medicine ation. She also represented students on chairman of English at Laney College, Oak- residency and gastroenterology fellowship the Dean and Faculty Search Committee land, Calif. He earned his master's degree at Yale University School of Medicine, where and Faculty Committee at the William from San Francisco State University and he was named outstanding senior resident. Allen White School of Journalism, where his doctorate from the University of For KU he is a Chancellors Club she worked on the University Daily Southern California. member. His professional affiliations

~~34 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 New zones determine Learned Club dues rates~~

Learned Club members who live nearby will pay a bit more, while some long-distance members will pay less under a new dues structure effective Jan. 1 for the private dining services in the Alumni Center. Jerry Nossaman, d'6o, chairman of the center's Board of Governors, says the new dues are more equitable. "Obviously those who live close by and are heavy users of the club ought to pay more," he says. "We also wanted to make the dues attractive HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE: New Learned Club dues are $78 for members in Zone 1 (Douglas County); enough for those who live far away and $68 for Zone 2, which includes surrounding counties and zip codes 64000 to 64199 in Kansas City, Mo.; $65 for visit only occasionally. We wanted their Zone y, $50 (or Zone 4; and $25 (or Zone 5, which includes the rest of Missouri and all other states. expense to be reasonable." include the American Medical Association, at the University of Washington, then The new structure charges dues based the American College of Physicians and the returned to KU for a fellowship in pedi- on five zones of residence for members American Gastroenterology Association. atric nephrology. He chairs the American (see map). Dues range from $25 for most He and his wife, Laura Pinkston Board of Pediatric Nephrology and holds members outside Kansas to $78 annually Koenigs, c'78, m'82, are Association leadership offices with the American Soci- for members in Douglas County. annual members. They have two children. ety of Pediatric Nephrology, the Interna- Members in Kansas and Missouri previ- Martinez, f'6o, gr66, EdD'71, is chief tional Pediatric Nephrology Association ously paid $60, while all others paid $25. executive officer and chairman of ASK and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Nossaman says the new dues will help Associates, a consulting firm specializing At KU he was president of the Class of maintain the club's high standards. "This is in systems engineering and information 1968, worked on the yearbook and was a first-class club that is comparable to engineering services. elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Sachem and any city club or country club," he says, He advises the Center for Interna- Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies. He "yet our annual dues still are far less than tional Studies and Programs and serves on was a board member for the Kansas City most comparable clubs' monthly dues." Jayhawks for Higher Education, an alumni alumni chapter and in 1992 chaired the Learned Club members praised the fine group that tells Kansas legislators about Class of 1968 25-year reunion. food and impeccable service in a survey the needs of higher education. He is a He and his wife, Barbara Read Staple- conducted by McMahon Club Planners last Chancellors Club, Williams Educational ton, b'68, are Association life members. year. In fact, William McMahon, chairman Fund and Swarthout Society member and Their children, Hillary, '95, and Read, '97, of the St. Louis firm, told the Board of helped raise funds for the Lied Center. He are KU students. Governors that the members' reponses belongs to the Phi Beta Delta honor soci- Members will receive ballots and were among the best he had seen from ety for international scholars. statements by the nominees in the Febru- any city or country club, Nossaman says. As a student he edited the Phi Delta ary/March issue of Kansas Alumni. Ballots KU's favorite spot for banquets, wed- Kappan, an education honor society must be returned by April 1. The three dings, holiday parties, and theatre-night newsletter, and was on the student advi- nominees who receive the most votes and game-night dinners has far exceeded sory committee to the dean of education. begin five-year terms July 1. the initial plans for only small lunch He and his wife, Sheila Olsen Mar- Members who want to nominate addi- crowds, says Bryan Greve, Adams Alumni tinez, d'66, g'68, EdD'75, are Association tional candidates must submit petitions Center club manager. He says more dues life members. They have one daughter. signed by at least 100 paid members, with revenue will help maintain and refurbish Stapleton, c'68, m'72, is the A. Conger no more than 50 from the same county. the heavily used club. Goodyear professor and chairman of pedi- Petitions should include nominees' photos Greve reminds patrons that member- atrics at the State University of New York and biographical information and must ships are reciprocal with 107 faculty clubs at Buffalo and pediatrician-in-chief of the reach the Association by Jan. 15. Mail to through the Association of Faculty Clubs Children's Hospital of Buffalo. He special- the Alumni Association, Nominating Com- International. For a membership applica- izes in children's kidney disorders. mittee, Adams Alumni Center, 1266 Oread tion, a list of reciprocal clubs or a calen- He completed his pediatrics residency Ave., Lawrence, KS 66044-3169.^"'^ dar, call 913-864-4672.-^^

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 35 San Jose, Costa Rica >maha, Neb. Alumni Events Oscar Quiros, PhD'93, chapter leader Rick Putnam, c'77, l'8o, chapter leader JANUARY 18 Dallas: KU Night at the Hockey Game Jayhawks migrated south Oct. 18 to cel- Michael Alley, a'79, a'83, invited fellow 29 Boulder: Basketball Pre-game Pep Rally ebrate a 30-year exchange program alumni to the Jones Street Brewery, which between KU and the University of Costa he co-owns, for a chapter meeting Oct. 1 FEBRUARY Rica. About 95 KU alumni, Costa Rican col- The 1893 warehouse, which for much of its 12 *KU/K-State: Joint TV Watch Parties lege students and KU students on life was a candy factory, is listed on the 12 Dallas: Chapter Meeting exchange gathered in a University of Costa National Register of Historic Places. With Rica auditorium to talk 'Hawk with Barbara 15 Kansas City: "Tommy" at Starlight shelves of turn-of-the-century law books Gearhardt, financial officer for the Office Indoor Theatre stacked around them (Alley's partner is a of Study Abroad, and Mary Elizabeth collector), the alumni recalled their days of 16 Kansas City: Mixer and TV watch party Debicki, director of study abroad. required reading on the Hill. They also at NCAA Visitor's Center Gearhart says the afternoon event remembered fun dates in Hoch and talked about touring the new Lied Center when The following chapters have indicated spurred interest among Costa Rican stu- they visit Lawrence again. they have special parties planned to dents who might go north. "We had to pay watch the KU-KSU game Feb. 12: a $97 extra baggage charge for all the KU Jeff Johnson, the Alumni Association's Austin, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; Dallas; information," Gearhart says happily. "It senior vice president for external affairs Detroit; Houston; Los Angeles; New was gone in minutes." and membership development, says the York City; Phoenix; Portland, Ore.; San The six KU seniors now on exchange led crowd of mostly recent graduates agreed Antonio; San Diego; San Francisco and the Rock Chalk Chant. They are: Kathryn to gather at the brewery to cheer the Seattle. Please refer to the TV Guide to Dougherty, Leavenworth; Amy Fitzmaurice, 'Hawks through the basketball season. Kansas Basketball, sent to all Alumni Lawrence; Sonya Horn, Wichita; Jennifer The chapter also made another commit- Association members, for a nationwide Jirak, Hartford, Kan.; Heidi Pitts, Louisville, ment by donating extra food from the schedule of basketball watch parties Ky.; and Jennifer Robken, Fayettville, Ark. gathering to the Francis House, a homeless and chapter contacts. The San Jose chapter plans to meet shelter in downtown Omaha. again in the spring; meanwhile they'll watch KU basketball at Taco Bell. Members will receive fliers about chapter meetings and other eve Dates are subject to change. For nan and addresses of chapter leaders in your area call the Alumni Association, 913-864-4760.

36 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 Community College's Stringer Fine Dwight Patton Jr., d, g'59, retired 1921 Arts Center. She lives in Hutchinson. last August from a 34-year career Dorothy Koehring, c, celebrated I948 with Boeing Computer Services. He Donald Brada, c, m'65, a clinical her 95th birthday last summer. She continues to live in Wichita with Kay associate professor of psychiatry at lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Marylee Brochmann, c, s'69, con- Brua Patton, '57, who retired from the KU School of Medicine in Wichita, 1932 tinues to live in Lawrence. teaching kindergarten last spring. recently was named 1993 Exemplary Psychiatrist by the National Alliance Everett DeVault, b, owns Cedar Hill Ethel Hornbuckle Smith, c, is a 1957 for the Mentally 111. docent at the Wichita Art Museum. Farms, northeast of Spring Hill. The property has been in his family for John Jurcyk Jr., I, serves on the 1962 1934 100 years. Kansas Client Protection Fund Com- mission. He and Rita Menghini Dwight Oxley, m, serves as a Edmund Metzger, b, last spring Marilyn Adamson Miller owns Jurcyk, c'56, live in Kansas City. trustee of the American Board of completed 60 years as an agent for Royal Crest Bowling Center in Pathology. He and Patricia Warren Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance. Lawrence. She makes her home in Carolyn Ash McCann, m, retired Oxley, c'59, live in Wichita, where he He lives in Prairie Village. Kansas City. last May as assistant medical director practices at HCA-Wesley Medical 1936 at Cummins Engine in Columbus, Ind., Center. 1949 and moved to Melbourne, Fla. I963 MARRIED Ohmer Kaiser, b, has retired, but 1958 Alfred Ames, c, and Violet continues to work for Kennedy and George Gill, c, g'70, PhD'71, is a pro- Gerald Blatherwick, j, received the Mostoller, Sept. 18 in Somerset, Pa. Coe, a Topeka CPA firm, during tax fessor of anthropology at the Univer- John D. Levy Human Relations Award They live in Fort Myers, Fla. season. sity of Wyoming. He lives in Laramie. last summer from the St. Louis chap- 1937 Katherine Culley Whitaker, c, ter of the American Jewish Commit- Eben Porch III, b, retired last retired last fall from the Hamilton summer as a U.S. Army colonel. He Ethel Senne Wells ranked seventh tee. He retired earlier this year as County and Chattanooga Human Ser- lives in Mukilteo, Wash. in the U.S. Tennis Association's vice chairman of Southwestern Bell vices Head Start programs. She con- senior women's doubles competition and is president of the Telephone I964 tinues to live in Lookout Mountain, last year. She lives in Sun Valley, Pioneers of America. Tenn. Brian Grace, b, 167, chairs the Idaho. I95O Burley Channer, c, retired last Kansas Bar Association's Bench and 1939 summer after 33 years of teaching Bar Committee. He lives in Wichita. Earl Gadbery, e, chairs the board of German at the University of Toledo. Mary Jane Sigler Peironnet, c, and John Hiebert, c, m'68, a Lawrence Archaeological Conservancy, which He and his wife, Mary Lynn, live in her husband, Reese, celebrated their cardiologist, recently was named to identifies, acquires and preserves Lambertville, Mich. 51st anniversary Oct. 29. They live in the Kansas Board of Regents. archaeological sites in the United Kansas City, where Mary Jane volun- Robert Godfrey, m, practices States. He lives in Sewickley, Pa. Anthony Jacobs, c, g'66, serves as teers for several philanthropic groups. rheumatology with Physicians Associ- president and chief operating officer Ron Roberts, d, and his wife, ated in Kansas City. Harry Statland, m, recently of Seafield Capital Corp. He lives in Jacque, continue to make their home donated his collection of books and Keith House, g, directs bands at Shawnee Mission. in Knoxville, Tenn. papers about the Holocaust to the Central Methodist College in Fayette, Jon Lohmeier, d, recently was pro- University of Missouri-Kansas City. 1951 Mo., and is dean of the Swinney Con- moted to senior vice president and servatory of Music. He lives in Kansas City. C. S. English, c, m'55, practices manager of risk management at 1941 family medicine in Clarkson, Wash. 1959 Marsh C McLennan in Kansas City. Roger Hodson, c, 1'5O, retired last 1952 Calvin Cormack, c, EdD'74, is a I965 summer after 34 years as city clerk of Barbara Wasson McPherson, n, partner and senior consultant for Jo Clayton-Dodd, n, directs the Perry. serves as president of the Kansas Cormack Associates in Kansas City, oncology unit at St. Francis Medical 1944 Board of Nursing and as executive where he and his wife, Sharon, live. Center in Monroe, La. director of the Association for Con- Plan to visit campus for a Golden Joanne Francisco-Breyfogle, n, Jerry Harper, c, l'74, serves on the tinuing Education, a consortium of 12 Anniversary reunion and induc- serves on the advisory board of the board of the Topeka Area Bankruptcy hospitals in central Kansas. She lives tion into the Gold Medal Club Valley Hope Alcohol and Drug Addic- Council. Jerry lives in Lawrence, in Great Bend. during Alumni Weekend April 22- tion Outpatient Treatment Center in where he practices law. Mission. 23. Look for a complete events 1953 Bonnie Bashor Peterson, n, g'79, schedule in the next magazine. Robert Hovey, c, I '54, practices law Bill Snead recently became deputy recently was promoted to senior vice 1945 with Hovey, Williams, Timmons and editor of the Lawrence Daily Journal- president of nursing services at Chil- Collins in Overland Park. World. dren's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. Doris Brewster Swift, c, recently published memoirs about her life 1954 i960 I966 growing up in Lawrence during the Plan to visit campus for a 40th Joseph Harkins, c, g'63, recently Charles Frickey, d, 1'69, chairs the 1920s. She lives in Tulsa, Okla. anniversary reunion during received the 1993 Marvin A. "Mike" board of Farmers National Bank in 1947 Alumni Weekend April 22-23. Harder Public Administrator Award Oberlin. from the Kansas chapter of the Amer- Look for a complete events r Byron Caskey, b, and his wife, Bev- Gary Hunter, b, l 6g, is vice presi- schedule in the next magazine. ican Society of Public Administration. erly, moved last spring from Houston He directs the KU Capitol Center and dent of business operations for the to a retirement community in Dallas. Walter Kennedy, c, I56, retired makes his home in Lawrence. Denver Nuggets. He lives in Denver, Lucille Hallenbech Evans, c, from practicing law last April. He Colo. lives in Kansas City. Betty Vondracek, f, was honored teaches Ikebana, Japanese flower Thomas Jones, e, has been last summer with the American Heart arranging, in Hong Kong, where she appointed senior vice president of 1955 Association's Dwight D. Eisenhower lives. Puritan-Bennett in Overland Park. Norman Charles, c, serves on the Lay Volunteer of the Year Award. She Martha Rayl Hamilton, f, recently Cobb County Board of Education. He lives in Dallas, where she's an inte- Richard Wier, b, g'67, is vice presi- showed her artwork at Hutchinson lives in Smyrna, Ga. rior designer. dent of First Excess and Reinsurance

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 37 At the Oct. 1 time capsule interment Frank Wiley, '18, who had lived in the Army Training Corps barracks on campus, joined historians Donald Whitson, left, ofOlathe, and May Steve McGe- orge, of Leavenworth, who dressed in WWI uniforms from McGeorge's private collection.

Photographs from the University Archives show Kansas National j Guard members shipping out from Fort Riley and machinists who trained in Fowler Shops, the war- I^Jov. io, time home of the Technical School 1918, was a chilly, moonlit night for Drafted Men. in the trenches skirting Their names were encased with Germany. Sergeant Ken- other war and KU memorabilia in a copper box within a corner- neth Pringle lay with his stone of the building. The box was uncovered during the recent /^L compatriots hoping for Union renovation, and its contents were found deteriorated (see a miracle—to get out Kansas Alumni, June/July). alive. Pringle, c'16, The University Oct. 1 rededicated the Union to those who dreamed of returning served in WWI and interred a new, state-of-the-art time capsule to KU for the law studies with preserved replacements of the original items. Additional he'd interrupted to enlist in mementos included a Purple Heart, a Medal of Honor and a medal the Army Ambulance Corps. commemorating the 75th anniversary of the war. Suddenly a slow, comforting Blessed by sunny skies, the fall ceremony on the new brick refrain echoed through the trenches: plaza in front of the Union included "Posting of the Colors" by "Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk. K-U-oo." Someone else KU's ROTC Honor Guard and the playing of "Taps" by Patrick picked up the chant, and Pringle joined in. The Duffer, Lawrence freshman. Chancellor Emeritus Raymond F. next day the war ended. Nichols, c'26, g'28, who had attended the 1926 dedication, summa- Pringle later earned a Citation of Bravery from Gen. rized the Union's history. Chancellor Gene A. Budig drew special John J. Pershing for his leadership of teams that pulled injured attention to a large plaque in the renovated lobby that features soldiers from fields under fire. He also earned his KU law degree photographs of the Jayhawks who died. in 1920 and built a distinguished legal career in Wichita. An honored guest was Frank Wiley, '18, 95, who as a student And, until his death in 1971, he would tell his twin daughters, had lived in the Army Training Corps barracks near the current Mary Alice Pringle Morozzo, c'43, and Helen M Pringle Parzybok, Memorial Stadium. After the ceremony "Taps" rang in Wiley's c'43, both of whom still live in Wichita, about that cold night when ears. "That bugle put us to sleep every night on Mississippi Street thoughts of Jayhawks warmed him. "He always said it was one of in 1918," he said. A retired civil engineer living in Topeka, Wiley the biggest thrills of his life," Helen says. "He was very proud of KU." also recalled that on the eve of the armistice he had been in St. More than 3,000 KU students and alumni served in World War I. Louis with 25 other KU trainees chosen to join the Army Air Corps One hundred thirty of them never made it home to describe their in Europe. They packed for home instead. "1 was very lucky to sur- dreams and fears to their families. To honor those who were vive," he said somberly. "I remember very well the ones who died. killed or who died of illness during WWI service, the University We would march in formation down to the railroad station where on April 30,1926, dedicated the Kansas Memorial Union to them. they were shipping the bodies out." Wiley had known Lucy McClinden, one of two KU women who died, when he and Lucy were children in Marion. McClinden, a volunteer nurse at the training barracks in Lawrence, died from influenza. "She was a nice young lady," Wiley said, "very studious Patriotic and innocent." Three cousins attended the ceremony to remember their uncle, Elmer Piehler, '17, who died of pneumonia in France after Union suffering gas poisoning. Harold Piehler, g'71, PhD'75, Lawrence; Virginia Morrill, Lawrence; and Patricia Hill, Partridge, visited the The University rededicates the family's cemetery in Alden, Kan., to place sunflowers on their uncle's grave before the KU ceremony. "We do that often," Vir- Kansas Union to Jayhawks who died ginia Morrill says, "because he sent home a poem about missing serving in World War I the sunflowers. He was lonesome and homesick, especially in the hospital." Fran Beach, of Columbia, Mo., came to honor her grandfather, B Y JERRI N I E B A U M Mark Beach, '01, who had died of flu in an Oklahoma base where he was a physician. After the ceremony Beach toured a WWI in Overland Park, where he and Mary Gail Owen Magathan, d, recently Glaeser Wier, d'69, make their was promoted to vice president of exhibit in the Union Gallery, where she shared mementos she had home. retail products at Bank IV Salina. brought. She clutched a plastic-coated album page with a 1933 I967 Wayne Whitney, c, an investment postcard of Old Fraser Hall that her father, Emmett Beach, c'27, executive with Piper Jaffray Inc., also had sent her mother. She also held a portrait of her grandfather, Michael Davis, c, g'70, PhD'73, is serves as a director of the American superintendent of the Woodward who before the war had been a family physician in Clinton, Kan. Lung Association. He lives in (Iowa) State Hospital School. He and Lawrence. She recalled her father's stories about climbing into the buggy to his wife, Ronda, live in West Des Weldon Zenger, g, was named the make house calls with his dad. Moines. 1993 President's Distinguished Scholar "I wish I had met my grandfather," she said, gazing thoughtfully Stan Fishburn, b, lives in Chamblee, at Fort Hays State University, where mm at his picture. "I feel kind of cheated." ^ Ga., with his wife, Nancy. He's branch he's a professor of administration, manager of the Wachovia Bank of counseling and educational studies. The renovated Kansas Union continues to honor the following Georgia. 1971 KU students and alumni: J.C. Irvin, I, serves as president of Mark Brewer, c, recently became Paul D. Adamson Wilhelm R. Fisher William S. Murphy the Iowa Judges Association. He lives executive director and chief execu- Lionel A. Anderson William T. Fitzsimons William S. Nichols in Shenandoah. tive officer of The Villages in Topeka, where he and his wife, Jan, live with John M. Banister Edward A. Foulks Paul Oakleaf Larry Peterson, e, owns Larry their son, Jeffrey. Mark Beach Verne E. Frank Frederick R. O'Donnell Peterson G Associates in Transforma- tion in Toronto, Ontario, where he Thatcher W. Benson Fay S. Friedberg Claude J. Oshel Leland Hansen, p, manages the and Rebecca Bauer Peterson, c'68, pharmacy at Tice Healthmart in Albert E. Birch John D. Garver Willie M. Painter make their home. Hiawatha, where Debra Crawley Morris A. Blacker Paul N. Gleissner Willard G. Pence Hansen, '73, is a paraprofessional Suzanne Taylor Stephens, n, is a Victor K.D. Blakely A.J. Goodwin John A. Pepper with the Brown County Special Educa- charge nurse at HCA Medical Plaza in John T. Bossi Charles F. Graves Elmer R. Piehler tion Coop. Fort Worth, Texas, where she also Ralph A. Branch Everett J. Grecian William J. Plank has a private practice teaching classes Kathy Kirk, d, practices law with Laurel Brandenburg Gilman C. Harding Vergil E. Porter about making lifestyle changes. Donnelly S Loveland in Lawrence. Ervin S. Brown Dennis A. Harold Valentine S. Rader I968 Daniel Miller, c, g'8o, serves as an Max L. Brown Irvin Haury Claude Rawlings administrative management officer Stephen Chinn, c, practices law with for the city of Oakland, Calif. Ralph S. Busch Robert S. Heizer William W. Reno Stinson Mag C Fizzell in Kansas City. Eugene W. Cladwell Russell C. Hepler Delmer H. Rhodes Jane Wessels Schlickau, n, teaches MARRIED nursing at Southwestern College in George G. Calnon Francis E. Hippie Theodore A. Rocklund Winfield. She lives in Argonia with Francis H. Campbell Itho R. Hobson Ross J. Rummel Joseph Godfrey, j, m'83, and her husband, John. Fred C. Campbell Victor A. Hunt Jewell R. Schreiner Sharon Tork Pendergast, s'75, s'76, March 20. He has a private psychiatric Laurel Hargan Wessman, c, retired Paul C. Carlton Jared F. Jackson Charles D. Seward practice in Enid, Okla., where they recently as a commander in the U.S. Marion L. Carter George W. Jarboe Howard A. Skaer make their home. Navy. She and her husband, Lynn, live John W. Charlton Amos D. Johnson in Norfolk, Va. John P. Slade I969 Samuel J. Charpie Morris B. Jones Harry B. Slaymaker 1972 Henry L Cherry Frederick E. Keen Peter S. Smith Paul Broome, b, owns Ketcham Dan Conyers, c, serves on the audit Oldsmobile in Independence, Mo. He Henry C. Christoff Frank B. Kimpler Frank B. Sorgatz committee of the American Associa- lives in Grain Valley. Clarence L. Cole LeRue S. Kingsbury James N. Tate tion for Respiratory Care. He lives in Charles L. Cone George J. Knoblauch Hubert C. Taylor Thomas Burkett, PhD, retired last Kansas City. year as a professor of English at Den- Glenn C. Coons Frederick P. Kobler Dean Thurman Mary Alyce Miller Galloway, g, is ison University in Granville, Ohio. William E. Courtney Joseph S. Konantz Harold D. Thurman reference librarian at MidAmerica Nazarene College in Olathe. William P. Creek Scott L. Lennen Robert S. Thurman Mark Feaster lives in Lawrence, where he's chief financial officer at Lloyd M. Crooks Ambrose W. Lewellen John A. Traver Barry Homer, c, and his wife, Art C Sign. Donna, live in Lafayette, Calif., with Robert C. Culter Gilbert M. Lewis Carl B. Trowbridge their son, Ryan, 1. Carl C. Culver Robert D. Lewis Harlan P. Warren Judith Henry, d, g'67, teaches Span- ish at Shawnee Mission East High Gene Neely, d, recently was elected James G. Daniels Joseph C. Liggett James G. Watson School. She lives in Overland Park. vice president of the Kansas National Throck M. Davidson Vandeveer M. Martin Ernest E. Weibel Education Association. Gene teaches John Tibbetts, f, g'75, PhD'82, edited Thomas C.P. Deacon Adelbert D. McCleverty Stanley E. Whitsett social studies at Field Kindley Memo- an anthology, Dvorak in America, Otto E. Dingelstedt Clark W. McColloch Willis G. Whitten rial High School in Coffeyville. which recently was published by Eli F. Dorsey Herbert C. McKay Samuel G. Williams Amadeus Press. He lives in Mission. Alan Rupe, c, chairs the Kansas Bar Charles J. Drake Lucy C. McLinden Association's Continuing Legal Educa- William W. Wilson I97O James R. Ebnother Barnard F. McMeel Charles R. Woody tion Committee. He's a partner in the Wichita firm of Rupe C Girard. George H. Edwards, Jr. Leroy F. Medlock Benjamin W.J. Worrall Sandy Arbuthnot, c, moved recently from Paris to Tokyo, where she works Ralph Ellis Bryon H. Mehl William M. Wyatt Ross Schimmels, c, I75, is executive for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. director for Standard Beverage in Harry H. Evans Robert T. Melton Harry C. Ziesenis Wichita. Vernon E. Fahlstrom Casper J. Middlekauff Philip Grecian owns Grecian Cre- ative Services, an advertising agency Monica Schmidt Thompson, d, I76, Frank J. Fisher Elmer L. Morrison in Topeka. practices law with the Resolution Trust

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 39 Corp. in Dallas. She and her husband, Janzen maps career in relief work Charles, live in Garland with Terra, 17, Tyler, 9, and Taylor, 4. In 1956 13-year-old Frank Janzen 1973 walked unhappily in downtown Pam Artman, j, manages marketing Saigon, Vietnam, with his parents. The services for Leggett G Platt Inc. in United States had begun several aid Carthage, Mo. programs there and Frank's father, John Brazelton, j, is a television Herman Janzen, e'39, e'54, would help production specialist with the Train- engineer water and sanitation sys- ing Support Center at Fort McCoy, tems. Frank recalls dreading the two Wis. He lives in Sparta with his wife, Joanne. years ahead; he would desperately miss his house and his spaniel, Skip- Scott Gray, c, m'79, is an assistant professor of maternal and fetal per, back in Chanute. He promised his medicine at Creighton University in dad, "This will never be home to me." Omaha, Neb., where he and Lori But buzzing around Saigon on his Marr Gray, n'82, live with Bryce, 7, scooter excited Janzen's unexpected and Corey, 5. Janzen hopes the itch for adventure. Riding to school in a bus with wire-mesh win- Thomas Harms, 1, recently was efforts of Save the dows—installed after an American military bus was bombed— elected president of the Minneapolis, Minn., law firm of Hessian, McKasy S Children in Soma- toughened him. Janzen, c'68, never again would feel completely at Soderberg. lia won't erode home anywhere. Instead he would become a resident of the world. James Merrill, j, g'76, PhD'82, who because of the Now stopping over in Lawrence, Janzen, 50, reflects on his life's fighting. One of lives in Leawood, and Donald Phipps, wanderings. After studying Russian at KU he traversed the coast of the agency's main g'93, a Lawrence resident, recently achievements, he Yugoslavia and the Middle East in a Volkswagen bus. Then in the opened Applied Marketing Research in Overland Park. says, was clearing 1970s he hitchhiked in South Africa, pausing in Durban to work a canal so farmers awhile as a forklift driver on the docks. "I had wanted to see if it Kathleen Swiderski Saunders, j, could irrigate corn. was true that in parks they had benches that said Blacks and has been promoted to vice president But, he says, "once Whites," he says. "It was true." He eventually earned passage back and general manager of KDAF-TV in they began to have Dallas. She and her husband, to the United States working in the kitchen of a military freighter. a crop there were Ronald, d'72, live in Piano. fears it would be From 1976 to 1978 Janzen lived with a family in a mud hut in Neil Shortlidge, c, 176, practices stolen." Botou, Senegal, where as a Peace Corps volunteer he helped the law with Stinson Mag C Fizzell in villagers build a medical center. And in the early 1980s he worked Kansas City. for the United Nations helping Ethiopian refugees in Somalia build MARRIED new lives as shoemakers or blacksmiths. When Janzen tries to Susan Krehbiel, c, b'81,190, to explain his transitory life he recalls something a refugee said to Larry William, July 24 in Lawrence. him there: If you don't help us, our children will never forgive you. They live in Topeka, and Susan is a tax attorney with the law firm of Janzen's latest overseas stint was back in Somalia, where last Coffman, DeFries and Nothern. fall he worked as logistics coordinator for Save the Children in Mogadishu. The agency ordered him to leave along with others just 1974 Michael Friedman, g, PhD'82, before the December U.S. military invasion. In the nation that is directs neurobehavioral services for fractured by clan warfare, peace had crumbled, he says. He recalls the Neurological Rehabilitation Insti- one day when the driver of his rented Toyota pickup backed off tute in Tulsa, Okla., where he lives the road to flee snipers who hunted one another along the road. with his wife, Cindy. Another image that has stuck with him is of a young Somali boy MARRIED heading to school with an odd book bag, an empty packet from a Paul Clark, c, g'83, to Sondra Krumm, U.S. military Meal-Ready-to-Eat. July 31. They live in Overland Park. Back in Lawrence, Janzen shuns sadness. "My heart is still in 1975 Somalia in a sense," he says, "but I sort of feel numb when I hear Patricia DeLaRosa Anderson, c, the news on TV." directs marketing for Dell Computer He recently bought a battered 1956 World Atlas. He likes to flip de Mexico in Mexico City, where she to the countries that have changed names and borders since the and her husband, Macky, make their home. maps were printed. Sheila Bair, c, 1*78, chairs the Com- He has changed, too. He doesn't need a place called home any- modity Futures Trading Commission more, just a home that needs his help. in Washington, D.C. He'll no doubt move again soon.^** Edith Godfrey Bogart, d'75, who —Jerri Niebaum retired last spring from teaching English at Lawrence High School,

40 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 recently received a Distinguished officer at United Missouri Bancshares July 28 in Holcomb, where he joins a Patricia Macke Dick, I, serves as a Teacher Award from the Presidential in Kansas City. brother, Mitchell, 2. judge of the Kansas 27th Judicial Dis- Scholars Program. trict. She lives in Buhler. Larry Winter, b, works for the Gary Hough, j, and Ann, son, Gage John Robb, b, practices law with comptroller of the currency at Bank Gary, March 27 in Omaha, where he Sharon Kirkpatrick, g, PhD'88, Somers, Robb G Robb in Newton, One Corp. in Columbus, Ohio. He joins two brothers, Van, 7, and Jace, 4. chairs the nursing division at Grace- where he's also president of the lives in New Albany. land College in Lamoni, Iowa. Harvey County Jobs Development I98O Michelle Klaumann, h, m'87, prac- Council. 1978 Paul Christiansen II, c, is president tices medicine with Advanced Janet Burton, j, manages corporate of Christiansen Homes and is a real- 1976 Orthopaedic Associates in Wichita. sponsorships for Sprint in Kansas City. estate broker for Villages Realty. He Paula Bohr, f, received a doctorate and his wife, Sheila, live in Lee's Marvin Mickelson Jr., b, g'84, Jill Sadowsky Docking, c, g'84, is in industrial engineering last spring Summit, Mo., with Jonathan, 13. directs accounting for St. John Hospi- vice president of investments at A.G. from the University of Oklahoma- tal in Leavenworth. He lives in Lenexa. Lewis Faust, d, c'81, is assistant Norman, where she's an associate Edwards G Sons in Wichita. principal for student services at Christine Raspotnik North, is a KU professor of occupational therapy at David Hanks, e, g'89, PhD'93, a pro- McPherson High School. assistant professor of design. She and the OU Health Sciences Center. fessor of civil engineering at the Uni- her husband, Thomas, e'89, make versity of North Carolina, lives in Raymond Grant, d, manages pro- Larry Card, I, is a judge of the Supe- their home in Lawrence. rior Court of Alaska. He lives in Charlotte. gram development for Disney Design and Development, where he directs James Rauschenberger, b, recently Anchorage. John Kemper Jr., a, is an architect performing arts programs for the became a partner in the Atlanta law with Kemper Parker Architects in Barry Davis, b, recently became a Disney Institute, part of the Walt firm of Arnall Golden G Gregory. He Unionville, Conn. partner in the CPA firm of Baird, Disney Co. He lives in Orlando, Fla. lives in Stone Mountain. Kurtz S Dobson. He lives in Prairie Steve Leben, j, l'82, recently was Stephen Grindel, p, practices Cora Ray, g, directs communications Village. appointed as a Johnson County dis- medicine with Northeast Family for the University of Health Sciences' Elahe Hessamfar, e, serves as vice trict judge. He lives in Overland Park. Physicians Family Medical Center in College of Osteopathic Medicine in president and chief information offi- Calvin Wiebe, b, 1*84, owns a law Wichita. Mission. cer for Turner Broadcasting System in firm in Wichita. Atlanta. June Horwitz, s, retired last Jay Shelton is warden of the Norton Priscilla Garber McPheeters sells summer as a social worker at the Correctional Facility. Patricia Loftus McAnany, n, is an Mary Kay Cosmetics in Lawrence. Youth Center of Topeka. account specialist in the risk manage- Bradley Watson, c, [84, recently ment services division of St. Paul 1979 Sharon Suske Knowles, d, g'93, became a partner in the Prairie Vil- lage law firm of Logan 6 Logan. Insurance Co. She lives in Prairie Jeffrey Burns, b, recently moved to teaches at McKinley School in lola. Village. Tulsa, Okla., where he manages fin- She lives in Yates Center. Arnold Williams Jr., g, directs Ken Simpson, b, manages recruit- ancial planning for CITGO Petroleum. Stephen Luce, PhD, is vice presi- communications at McDonnell Dou- glas Helicopter Co. in Mesa, Ariz., and ing, training and development for Parthenia Blessing Evans, c, Y82, dent of program operations for Ban- serves as a director of Rainbow Way Procter G Gamble Thailand. He and practices law with Stinson, Mag G croft Inc. in Haddonfield, N.J. He Denise Carpenter Simpson, d'75, Inn, a group home for abused children. Fizzell in Kansas City, and her husband, lives in Marlton. live in Bangkok with their son, Dan, e, works for SCS Engineers. Pamela Blasi Martin, b, manages MARRIED Zachary, 10. Linda Finestone, j, lives in Los the Houston office of Deloitte G Brenda Boatright, b, to Robert Linda Trigg, I, serves as president- Angeles, where she is news editor of Touche. She has a daughter, Megan, Sniezek, May 20. Their home is in elect of the Kansas Bar Association. the Washington edition of the Los 4, and a son, Collin, 3. Westwood. She practices law in Liberal. Angeles Times. Jason "Jay" Meschke, b, g'82, has Fred Ohse, f, and Julie Jones, s'88, Janice Sargent Waide, s, received Sheila Noonan, j, is a direct mass been promoted to senior vice presi- s'92, April 3. They live in Lawrence. the 1993 Distinguished Alumna Cita- dent of EFL Associates, an Overland media planner for Southwestern Bell BORN TO: tion from Cottey College in Nevada, Park-based management consulting Telephone in St. Louis, Mo. Mo. She lives in Topeka. firm. James Keating, g, I, and Brenda, William Pollard Jr., g, received an daughter, Katharine Elizabeth, April 1977 Daniel Pearman, j, is program Alfred M. Landon Historical Research 26 in Valencia, Calif. Daniel Flynn, p, g'8o, PhD'82, lives Grant last summer from the Kansas director for KYNG-FM and KSNW-FM in Mundelein, 111. He's an adjunct State Historical Society to write a in Dallas. 1982 professor of chemistry at the Univer- book on Civil War forts and military Becky Cotton Zahner, a, a'81, is Steve Clark, a, recently joined sity of Illinois-Chicago and a fellow at posts in Kansas. He lives in Topeka. principal of Mackey Mitchell Zahner Gould Evans Associates in Lawrence Searle-Skokie. Associates in Kansas City. as an associate and director of archi- Terry West, c, works as a supervisor tectural design. Denise White Gilmore, b, lives in at Great Bend Industries and is BORN TO: Kansas City, where she's a partner in pastor of the First Baptist Church in Victor Dobras II, g, is director of William Johnson, c, and Peggylynne, Creative Concessions, a news and gift Russell, where he lives. governmental and public affairs for daughter, Julia Alexandra, Aug. 12 in store at Kansas City International Sprint/United Telephone. He lives in George Wright, c, m'83, practices Fort Leavenworth. Airport. Prairie Village. medicine at the Cotton-O'Neil Clinic Kathleen Hein is a mortgage loan Tim, b, I '83, and Melanie Andersen in Topeka. Scott Faust, j, has moved from Trump, b, l'83, daughter, Claire officer at Columbian Trust in Topeka. Detroit to Rockford, 111., where he's Nancy Zurbuchen, d, owns Motional Louise, June 26 in Tulsa, Okla. Mary Pauline Bee Kaufman, c, city editor of the Rockford Register Images in Kansas City, where she lives works as an artist, author, photogra- I98l Star. with her husband, Anthony Fasone. pher and naturalist for Yogi Inc. in Shenaya Keki Bhote, f, is president Camille Hebert, I, wrote Employee Homer, Ark. BORN TO: of Bhote-Siegel Design in Chicago. Privacy Law, which was published Marshall Toburen has been pro- Gene, 1, andjannelle Robins She and her husband, Jeff Siegel, live recently by Clark Boardman Col- moted to commercial banking audit Gaede, '83, son, Nolan Richardson, in Evanston. laghan. She's an associate professor

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of law at Ohio State University in This job is right down Altenbernd's lane Columbus. Martin Hines, c, g'87, has been pro- In a Catholic hospital ward for elderly moted to manager with Andersen patients, Dr. E.C. Altenbernd quietly Consulting in Kansas City. He lives in approached the bed of a critically ill Topeka. woman. She lay motionless, with her Suzanne Lemen, c, owns and is eyes closed. He could barely detect president of Dynamic Corporate breathing. Solutions in Orange Park, Fla. He took her hand and spoke her Jami Looney, c, g'86, lives in Scotts- name gently. He jingle-jangled as he dale, Ariz., and is a manager with Andersen Consulting Strategic Ser- reached into a great red sack slung vices. across his back. He whispered that he Bonnie Stewart Rockwood, c, is remembered her as a little girl, when an assistant actuary at the Wyatt Co. he had brought her another present. in Phoenix. She opened her eyes, grabbed his Werachone Singnoi, e, g'86, man- long, snowy beard and rubbed it ages projects for IBM Thailand in When he was four against her face. "Santa Claus." They were the first words she had Bangkok. and suffering from spoken in three years. The sisters of the order stared in amazement. Pam Lenn Smith, g, PhD'92, chairs polio, a surprise Almost every December of his adult life, Altenbernd, c'47, g'52, the nursing division at the MidAmer- visit from Santa m'54, has transformed from mild-mannered physician into super ica Nazarene College in Olathe. She lives in Spring Hill. inspired Santa. He has ho-ho-hoed for young and old. "I've never gotten Altenbernd to walk MARRIED again. He says he any disbelievers," he says. "I make them believers." Thomas Blackburn, b, g'84, to repays that debt He wrote about his experiences in a merry little book called Nancy Bohannon, assoc, June 5 in each time he dons Thirty-Five Years in the Red, which has sold more than 5,000 Fairway. He's vice president of Kansas the red coat. copies. In fewer than 100 pages, Altenbernd distills the essence of Venture Capital in Overland Park. what he considers a lifelong call to portray Santa. I983 His devotion to St. Nick began in 1929. He was 4 years old, Lisa Walter Beran, c, 1'86, practices stricken with polio and despondent because he couldn't attend a law with Hannelore Kitts in Great holiday parade. His parents persuaded a friend to dress as Kris Bend. She and her husband, Gerald, Kringle and visit their Eudora farm. Altenbernd recalls a thunder- have two children, Emily and Matthew. ous knock on the front door. His mother held him up to the window, Larry Binnicker, s, is director of where he beheld a beaming, jolly man in red. For the next hour, he chaplaincy services at Independence sat on Santa's knee to recite an extensive wish list from Sears and Regional Health Center, where he's also director of social services. He Roebuck. Santa promised to bring toys on Christmas Eve. lives in Independence, Mo. Santa did return, and Altenbernd clearly recalls the windup car Cordelia Brown directs the Kansas that sputtered around on the living-room floor. But the real gift, City Community Orchestra. She lives he says, was Santa's visit, which inspired him to walk again by the in Eudora. next Christmas. Kenneth Cook, m, is chief of Altenbernd eventually walked down Mount Oread three times radiology and a trustee of the Bay for his undergraduate, master's and medical degrees. He was an Area Medical Center in Corpus Christi, Texas. intern at Bethany Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., in 1954, when he first agreed to play Santa. Roger Hiatt, g, chairs the international department of Watson, Ess, Altenbernd has donned a red coat many times since, never Marshall C Enggas in Kansas City. charging for his services. His late wife, Mary, made most of his Marsha Kobe, j, works as an suits-. He says the knees were always the first to go, worn by account executive for KSMO-TV in squirming, bouncing children. A leathersmith fashioned him a belt Kansas City. that rings with brass sleigh bells. He wears a made-to-order Yak's Mary Anne Brown Kuehn, d, is a hair beard and hairpiece. But he requires no padding thanks to his music specialist in the Rosemount- substantial girth. "Every time I've had a new suit made," he says, Apple Valley-Eagan school district in "we've had to add a yard or two of material to the order." Apple Valley, Minn. Now 68, Altenbernd hasn't played Santa in a couple of years. Wendy Cullers Nugent, j, recently became lifestyle editor of the Newton Mary died last December. In September he suffered a heart attack. Kansan. Her family includes three Now recuperating, he hopes to wear the red again next year. sons, Rodger, 11, Andy, 9, and Robert, 5. It is, after all, his favorite color.^"""' Paul Payne, c, a cardiology fellow at -Bill Woodard Duke University in Durham, N.C., recently received a Pfizer postdoc-

42 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 toral fellowship from U.S. Pharma- Paul Reddick, e, is a management Sharon Dodd Patel, j, works for Corporation's Bradley Support Pro- ceuticals. consultant for McKinsey S Co. in Intergraph in Huntsville, Ala., and gram in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. Cynthia Spear, s, is a hospice social Dallas. He and his wife, Teresa, live in recently won an award in the Society Thomas Kyle, e, received an MBA worker with the Visiting Nurses Asso- Piano with Katelin, 8, and Thomas, 4. for Technical Communication Inter- last summer from the University of ciation in Kansas City. Neil Sader, I, a partner in the law national Technical Art Competition. Dayton. He's an engineer in the Delco Jeff Thompson, b, is a controller firm of Brown, Nachman G Sader, Abhik "Tito" Roy, g, is an assistant chassis division of General Motors with Koch Financial in Wichita where also serves on the Overland Park City professor of marketing at Metropoli- and lives in Bellbrook, Ohio. Council. Neil and Elizabeth Napshin he and his wife, Mary Diederich, d, tan State University in St. Paul, Minn. William Moffitt III, PhD, is chief Sader, b'83, have two children, live with Molly, 7, Scott, 6, Joey, 3, He lives in Minneapolis. psychologist at Osawatomie State Samantha, 3, and Daniel, 1. and Sally, 1. MARRIED Hospital. BORN TO: Chad Williams, d, recently became Susan Frisbie, c, to Scott Coleman, Victoria Hiatt Townsend, j, super- director of Pratt Community College's Greg, c, g'89, and Valerie Hughes May 1 in Tucson, Ariz. Susan is vice vises media planning for the Polizos Outreach Center in Kingman. Goff, d'89, daughter, Samantha president and general manager of EZ Agency in Chesapeake, Va., where MARRIED Marie, May 10 in Lawrence, where Shop in Topeka, where they live, and she lives with her husband, Todd. she joins a brother, Gabriel, 2. Scott's president of RGGS Foods in Thomas Gawlick, p, to Gina BORN TO: Holton. Grannell, June 5 in Wamego. They I985 Larry Melton, b, and his wife, live in Kansas City, where he's an Jane Smith Bartholomew, c, Greg Horton, c, m'89, and Ann Michael, daughter, Elizabeth Carole, administrative sales manager for recently joined the marketing depart- Bernard, n'89, May 15 in Kansas City. June 23 in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she Marion Merrell Dow. ment of Roth Asbestos and Environ- I986 joins a brother, Brandon, 2. mental Consultants. She lives in Ray Paine Jr., j, g'86, to Stacey David Poisner, e, and Linda, daugh- Overland Park. Jeffrey Bandle, c, is a software Werths, May 1 in Concordia. Their ter, Hannah, July 28 in Folsom, Calif. engineer with Hewlett Packard in home is in Merriam. Linda Booth, j, is community rela- Cupertino, Calif., where he and his John, b, and Laura Hedquist Terry, tions and information specialist for BORN TO: wife, Christina, live with Lauren, 2. j, daughter, Paige Elizabeth, May 28 the Olathe school district. in Piano, Texas. Kimberly Newton Gronniger, g, Mac Boatright, b, g'88, recently was Troy Cook, b, has been named vice and Daniel, daughter, Catherine promoted to manager with Andersen president of operations and finance I987 Emmalee, May 10 in Topeka, where Consulting in Kansas City. He lives in she joins a brother, Joseph, 2. Kim- at Oread Laboratories in Lawrence. John Anderson, c, practices law Baldwin. with Lucianna S Lucianna in Hacken- berly is assistant vice president and Kenton Dorsey, p, manages the sack, N.J. He lives in Tenafly. corporate communications officer for pharmacy at Walgreens in Mesa, Ariz. Steven Chrzanowski, c, m'90, prac- the Federal Home Loan Bank. He lives in Gilbert. tices medicine at the Great Falls Diane Whirley Burness, j, is an Clinic in Great Falls, Mont., where he Sharon Appelbaum Hoffmann, j, independent television and video Wayne Fink, e, manages engineer- and Annette Jones Chrzanowski, and Reed, daughter, Rachel Devorah, producer in Toronto. ing services for DynAir Tech of Ari- c'85, live with their son, Jonathan. March 19 in Rochester, NY., where zona. He lives in Phoenix. Andrea Fishman, d, directs Hilltop she joins a brother, Nathan, 2. John Conard Jr., is safety project Child Development Center at KU. James Harder, c, edits the West manager at FMC in Lawrence, where I984 Lisa Frerker, j, works as a commu- Roxbury and Parkway Transcripts in Jan Eighmey Conard, d'85, teaches nity-relations specialist with the Mis- Susan Haverty Eck, b, is an assis- Dedham, Mass. He and Hollie Mark- kindergarten at KU's Hilltop Child souri Highway and Transportation tant trust audit officer at United Mis- land Harder, c, g'88, live in Boston. Development Center. souri Bancshares in Kansas City. Hollie teaches French at Brandeis Department in Kansas City. Kathy Cosgrove, g, owns F.I.T. University in Waltham. Kathryn Gilbert, j, recently moved Mark Grinter, c, owns PenWise, a Bodies in Kansas City, where she's Lindsay Hutter, j, serves as vice to Atlanta, where she develops mar- computer programming and consult- also an exercise physiologist. ing business in Manhattan, where president of industry relations and keting plans for Sprint's cellular and Helena Orazem Grinter, e'83, is a communications for the National Lt. Curtis Gilbert, c, studies at the wireless products. systems analyst with the Kansas Farm Association of Convenience Stores in U.S. Navy department head school in Matthew Levi, j, g'93, directs mar- Bureau. Their family includes Anna, Alexandria, Va. Newport, R.I. keting for Terra Cotta and Cast Stone 4, and James, 1. Paul Hwang, c, received a medical Kelley Haas, b, has been promoted Manufacturing in Kansas City, and Patti Haight-Howard, c, g'89, is a degree and a doctorate last year from to vice president of marketing ser- Katie Grieb Levi, n, is a neonatal clinical supervisor at the Cleveland Johns Hopkins Medical School. He's a vices at Marketing Resources of intensive-care nurse at the KU Medi- Hearing and Speech Center. She and resident at the University of Califor- America in Overland Park. cal Center. her husband, Larry, live in Cleveland nia Medical Center in San Francisco. Robert Heelan, j, is a commodities Anne Corkle Lindeman, h, is a dis- Heights, Ohio. Stacy Jeffress, 1, is staff counsel for broker at the Chicago Mercantile trict manager for Nova Care in Pitts- Michelle Knauss, f, works as an art the Lawrence Social Rehabilitation Exchange, andjamee Riggio burgh, Pa. director at WRK and Bagby Design in Services office. Heelan, h'88, is a senior clinical spe- Raenette Ostmeyer Martin, g, Chicago. Lemuel Kimes, s, works as assistant cialist in occupational therapy at the coaches volleyball at Colby Commu- Ronald McClellan lives in Olathe, to the dean of social welfare at the Rehabilitation Institute. They live in nity College. She and her husband, where he is an assistant professor KU Regents Center in Overland Park. Mundelein with their son, Dominic, 1. Russ, have two daughters, Rishonna, of music at MidAmerica Nazarene 4, and Rhett, 1. Donald Moler Jr., 1, serves as Evan Ice, e, ('93, received an estate College. senior legal counsel for the League of planning award last summer from the Mark Phillips, c, recently received a Mark Mears, j, directs marketing for Kansas Municipalities in Topeka. Kansas Bankers Association's trust doctorate in physics from Caltech division. He practices law with University in Pasadena, Calif. Pizza Hut Inc. in Lisle, III. He and his Megan Morrow, d, d'86, was Stevens, Brand, Golden, Winter S wife, Stacy, live in Aurora. ordained as an evangelical Lutheran Carl Saxon, b, has been promoted to Skepnek in Lawrence. Jaime Munoz, h, is a professor of pastor last summer. She serves as senior accountant with Donnelly occupational therapy at the Univer- pastor of Adullam and Immanuel John Kudlinski, b, directs finance Meiners Jordan Kline. He lives in sity of Illinois-Chicago. Lutheran churches in Bertrand, Neb. and administration for the Vinnell Overland Park.

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David Urban, b, g'92, is vice presi- Sprague hands down the stories of palms dent of vehicle leasing for Dealers Leasing in Wichita. Every hand tells stories, and Viola Bell Sprague delights in MARRIED reading them. Like measuring rings of a tree trunk, she scans Helmut Derra, c, b, to Lesley a hand's crinkles to see how its owner is unique. At a glance Rausch, June 26. Their home is in she'll say whether you are artistic or analytic, impetuous or Aurora, III. inhibited. With a closer look she'll calculate your income Jeffrey Kelley, c, d'92, and Kather- potential or whether you're likely to have children. ine Johnson, c'91, d'93, June 19 in Sprague, c'29, of McPherson, guesses she's read 1,000 Lecompton. They live in Lawrence. palms. She giggles: "We always want to know what's going to Douglas Mannoni, c, to Lori Feyh, happen tomorrow, don't we? We just cannot wait to see." May 1 in Topeka. He works for Farm- ers Insurance in Overland Park, and Now 85, Sprague last year completed What's in Your they make their home in Olathe. Hand, published by Dorrance Publishing Co. in Pittsburgh, Anthony Privitera, b, to Tamela Pa. The slim book contains biographies and hand prints of Hudson, July 9 in Kansas City. persons whose palms Sprague has read—always free of BORN TO: charge. With the book in hand, novice palmists can follow their own lines. "People who are into parlor games just love Robert, j, and Cynthia Wallis Brunker, c'89, daughter, Samantha this," advises Sprague, a KU history graduate and former Wallis, June 14 in Kansas City. high-school teacher. I988 Beholding hands has been her hobby since her junior- Billie Archer, b, is a program college days in Salina. She and a friend were checking out administrator for K-Star. He lives in psychology texts at the library when they spied the palmistry Lawrence. shelf. Curious, they pulled a few books down. In time they learned Sprague takes the Phillip Duff, a, recently joined the long life lines in that the art had grown from ancient Greece. "Every Asian nation is architecture and interior-design firm her own hands as supposed to have some form of palmistry," Sprague says. "When of Simon S Walther in Columbia, Mo. lucky, giving her Buddha was born, the seers were there watching to see what the Ben Ferrell, e, g'92, recently moved confidence to take lines in his hands—and even his feet—might be." from Los Angeles to Houston, where chances. For Sprague's palmistry has added to her family's history. She reads he's a marketer for Nalco Chemical. instance, she last Donna Clausen Ferrell, d'85, d'89, winter went by the hands of her son, Dale, c'67, an attorney in McPherson, and teaches elementary music for the herself on a cruise her two grandchildren, she says, to tell where they might find the Fort Bend County school district. around the world. most happiness. "The theory of palmistry is that you bring into this Sarah Jennings Gillem, s, works as "My son," she says, world talents from what you inherit," she says. "If you are practical a discharge planner for the Rapid City laughing, "thought you know what will be best for you to do in life. If you love the (S.D.) Regional Hospital, and her hus- I was touched." arts you have a different type of hand and a different fate." band, Mark, a'89, is an architect with the U.S. Air Force at Ellsworth AFB. Sprague says her husband, Harry, e'31, who died in 1989, had told her to keep her hand-reading to herself—until she gained Timothy Greenwell Jr., s, serves as vice president for colonization and notoriety among his colleagues during his stint in the Kansas membership for Kappa Kappa Psi, an House of Representatives from 1968 to 1976. "Everybody we knew honorary band fraternity. He lives in up there wanted me to look at their hands," she recalls. "They Lenexa. wondered if they were going to be re-elected." Harry operated an Mark Hammer, c, studies for a doc- oil-leasing firm before his death. Viola now runs the business. torate in English at Oklahoma State Though she has the talent perhaps to tell all, Sprague uses her University in Stillwater, where Kim- berly Coleman-Hammer, j'89, c'89, discretion. For instance, when she sees a palm that foretells early is a co-op advertising director for the death, she never tells the person. "People will play upon that, and Stillwater News Press.

it worries them," she says. "And accidents can be prevented. I've Timothy Harrison, b, has been pro- seen hands change." However, a broken line on her eldest son's moted to manager at Andersen Con- hand she saw when he was 8 never changed: He died at age 21 in a sulting in Kansas City. wreck caused by a drunken driver. Diane Bannerman Juracek, g, Sprague doesn't let fate frighten her. "I take things as they PhD'92, is associate director of Com- come," she says. "I have a philosophy that you should do the very munity Living Opportunities in Lawrence, where her husband, Kyle, best you can with every circumstance. PhD'91, is a hydrologist with the U.S. "That's my philosophy, and that doesn't have anything to do Geological Survey. with palmistry."--^'^ Ann Kaplan, f, manages Luzier Per- —Jerri Niebaum sonalized Cosmetics in Kansas City, where she also sings in the Kansas City Symphony Chorus.

44 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 Megan Kemper, c, works as a pro- Capt. Donald Kir, c, serves as a T-38 Eric Swim, c, I '93, and Lori Hollar, Curtis Wuerdeman, b, has been duction artist for Universal Press instructor pilot at Vance AFB in Enid, d'93, May 12 in Lawrence. Their home promoted to senior auditor of Occi- Syndicate in Kansas City. Okla. is in Topeka. dental Petroleum of Tulsa. Angela Meyer, c, m'93, is an inter- Rob Knapp, j, edits news for the I99O 1991 Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress. nal-medicine resident at the KU Steven Buckner, g, is managing Melanie Botts, j, has been promoted School of Medicine in Wichita. Laura Maag Lutz, j, works as a cor- editor of The Grower magazine in to senior copy editor for Electronic Sally Kippes Nicholson, d, g'93, is porate communications specialist for Overland Park. He and Tamsen Components magazine in Hong Kong. Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka. Whitten Buckner, '89, live in principal of Oskaloosa Elementary Paul Craven, e, is a sales engineer School. James McKown, I, is an associate Lawrence, where she teaches at St. for Kansas City Equipment. He lives John's Elementary School. Todd Schnatzmeyer, a, directs pro- with the Kansas City law firm of in Lenexa. Bryan Cave. jects for Good, Fulton G Farrell, an Keith, b, and Chrissy Dasbach Stephanie Epting, c, works as a architecture firm in Dallas. William Mahoney, I, recently com- Carr, e, live in Overland Park, where speech-language pathologist for pleted four years as a U.S Navy staff he's an accountant for Black G Veatch Jeffrey Schultz, p, manages the Novacare in Kansas City. judge advocate in Philadelphia and and she's an electrical engineer with pharmacy for American Home Thera- Howard Erenberg, j, directs pro- moved to Kansas City, where he prac- Burns G McDonnell. pies, a home-infusion company in motions for KCFX in Kansas City. tices law with Mahoney G Mahoney. Lenexa, and Mary Holsapple Schultz, Lisa Fletcher, c, g'92, is an audiolo- Jennifer Lane, c, recently was pro- c, is a customer-service representa- Preston Pratt, c, I'93, practices law gist at Audio Accoustics Hearing moted to associate account executive tive for Kemper Financial Services. with Morgan G Hirsch in Oberlin. Center in Lubbock, Texas. with Marketing Resources of America Steven Sneath, c, is a copier sys- Timothy Schuler, j, directs sales for Tim Hagan, j, works as an account in Overland Park. tems specialist for Pitney Bowes in Heartland Park Topeka, and Linda executive for Tatham EURO RSCG in Linda Meierhoffer, g, does free- Indianapolis, where he lives with his Hoffelmeyer, j, coordinates events Chicago. lance writing for health-care clients. wife, Nishimura. for the Kansas Expocentre. Shelley Hansel, j, is a free-lance She lives in Leawood. reporter for KAKE-TV in Wichita. Lisa Maloney Sodders, g, placed Donald Seidel, c, m'89, completed a residency in dermatology last Kendall Peters, s, works as a bene- first in spot news reporting in com- Alan Morgan, j, lives in Arlington, summer and now practices with Tulsa fits administrator for American Air- petition sponsored by the Kansas Va., and is a health lobbyist for the Dermatology Clinic in Tulsa, Okla. lines in Dallas. City Press Club. She's a general American Society of Clinical Patholo- Lesley Elaine Stephens, c, g'93, is assignment reporter for the Topeka Anne Williams Talbott, b, recently gists in Washington, DC. Capital-Journal and lives in Lawrence was promoted to an assistant vice a speech language pathologist at the Derek Schmidt, j, is a legislative with her husband, Daniel, '93. president at Halstead Bank. She lives Kansas Rehabilitation Hospital in assistant for Sen. Nancy Landon in Wichita. Topeka, where she lives. David Williams, b, is a real-estate Kassebaum, c'54, R-Kan., in Washing- Michael Shonrock, PhD, recently finance officer at Crestar Bank in MARRIED ton, D.C. He lives in Arlington, Va. became dean of students at Texas Vienna, Va. Kristen Bushell, c, m'93, and MARRIED Tech University in Lubbock, where Michael Fulton, m'93, April 17 in MARRIED Brenda Isaman, p, to Jeffrey he's also an adjunct assistant profes- Lawrence. They live in Omaha, Neb., Branstetter, March 13. They live in sor of education. Susan Byram, b, to Daniel Hayes, where they both are internal- Wichita, where Brenda's a staff phar- June 5 in Lenexa. Their home is in medicine residents. Matthew Taylor, j, is an editor and Mayfield Village, Ohio. macist at St. Joseph Medical Center. copywriter at H.M. Ives and Sons in Nancy Laws, c, m'93, to Paul Zidek, Topeka. He and Paula Birkbeck Karen Chiles, d, to Kenneth Rosson, Curtis "Mark" Lesher, c, to Tina May 22 in Marysville. They live in Taylor, j'92, live in Holton, where Feb. 11 in Misawa, Japan, where Karen Swenson, May 15 in KU's Danforth Wichita, where Nancy's a family- she's a customer-service representa- teaches third-grade to dependents of Chapel. They live in San Diego, where practice resident at Wesley Hospital. tive for Denison State Bank and U.S. service personnel. he's a CH-46 pilot in the NAS North Susan Novak, b, to David Toussaint, Island Helicopter Combat Support owner of Paula's School of Dance. Cynthia Cohen, j, and Leonard Sept. 4 in Chicago. She's a senior Squadron. David VanSickle, e, won a student Kaufman, m'93, June 6 in Kansas financial analyst for Kraft General competition last summer sponsored City. Foods. John Polzar, c, to Stacy Foster, June 26. They live in Topeka, where John by the Institute of Electrical and Elec- Jim Davis, e, to Lori Schilling, May Crystal Schrag, j, to Michael Bur- directs communications for the tronics for a paper entitled "Demon- 29 in Santa Rosa, Calif. They live in nett, April 24 in Moundridge. She minority leader of the Kansas House stration of a Methodology for Wheel- San Francisco. directs marketing for Melvin Simon of Representatives. chair Acceleration Analysis." He stud- Associates in Machesney Park, 111., ies biomedical engineering at Califor- Jeffrey Johnson, b, to Rachel and they make their home in Roscoe. Carmen Schmidt, p, and Paul nia State University in Sacramento. Couch, March 6 in Knoxville, Tenn. Wade, student, June 5 in Newton. Susannah Shahan, n, to Brian Hart, Their home is in Wichita, where Jeff They make their home in Lawrence. David Wakefield, j, specializes in is vice president of personnel for April 17 in Pittsburg. Susannah is a small-business planning with Boeger Lonestar Steakhouse G Saloon. clinical supervisor at St. Luke's Hos- Cory Schrater and Suzanne Financial Group of Kansas City. pital in Kansas City, and Brian is a Richter, p, PhD'93, May 8 in Salina. MARRIED I989 special agent with Northwestern They live in Roseville, Minn. Mutual Life Insurance. Charmaine Buckley, c, f, manages Stephanie Smith, c, 193, and Michael Habiger, c, to Stephanie Bui, May 22 in Hutchinson. They live customer service for ICF-Unika Vaev Leslie Summers, j, to Daniel Mat- Robert Kissick Jr., c, June 12 in in Shawnee. in Norwood, N.J. uella, Feb. 20 in Kansas City, where Kansas City. she works for Barkley G Evergreen Jennifer Johnson Jewett, j, placed Jeffrey Williams, j, and Dianne Rodney Holcomb, e, g'93, to Brenda Advertising. Beat, March 20 in Kingman. They live second last summer in the Women's Thomas, s'92, June 26 in Kansas City, in Evanston, 111., where he is a doctoral Senior Single Skulls Dash in the Suzanne Sweetman, c, to Jeffrey where he works in the advertising student at Northwestern University. American Rowing National Champi- Hanson, May 29 in Wichita. They live department of Payless Cashways and onships held at Lake Shawnee. She in Tulsa, Okla., and Suzanne is an she's a social worker for Atchison Thomas Maxcy, PhD, and Sara Hib- lives in Lawrence. optometry resident in Tahlequah. Social Rehabilitation Services. beler, Ig2, May 30 in Kansas City.

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They live in Dallas, where he's a pro- Reporter's career takes mysterious turn cess engineer for Texas Instruments. Sean Swindler, d, and Amy Harper Barnes was born too late to prowl Abbuhl, c'93, June 19 in Hutchinson. Kansas City, Mo., when jazz reigned supreme. Their home is in Lawrence. By the time he moved there as a high schooler Robin Wenke, h, to Mark Smith, in the '50s, nightspots like the Sunset Club, Feb. 13. They make their home in San Jazzland and the Boulevard Lounge were mere Francisco. echoes of their former glory. 1992 But after reading Blue Monday, Barnes' Michael Andrews, j, works as an mystery novel set in Depression-era Kansas investment broker for Beyer S Co. City, you'd swear the author had rubbed in Davenport, Iowa. He lives in Bet- shoulders with Bill Basie, Big Joe Turner and tendorf. the teen-aged Charlie Parker. Barnes weaves John Banwart, m, is a second-year music and mystery with the nascent heroin orthopedic surgery resident at the KU School of Medicine in Wichita, and trade, Jim Crow discrimination and political Lynda Beachner Banwart, g, teaches corruption of 1930s Cowtown. second-semester junior nursing stu- Barnes, c'63, critic-at-large for the St. Louis dents at Wichita State University. Post-Dispatch, says Blue Monday evolved Deborah Massie Boschert, j, coor- from a 1974 article he penned on KC jazz and dinates public relations and fund- raising for the Baldwin County (Ala.) blues for Atlantic Monthly magazine. There's Habitat for Humanity. She and her also some autobiography between the lines. husband, Jeffrey, live in Pensacola, For instance, while he was on the Hill, Fla. English major Barnes befriended a music-edu- Barbara Duchardt, PhD, received cation major named Herbert Smith. Smith, the 1993 Award for Outstanding d'65, a black student from Memphis with Research in Learning Disabilities from the Council for Learning Disabil- whom Barnes rallied at civil rights sit-ins and ities. She's an assistant professor of marches, inspired the book character of education at Northwestern State Uni- Robert Creech. Creech is a young, black versity in Natchitoches, La. Barnes' mystery, schoolteacher and the buddy of protagonist Michael Holt, a young, Daniel Fee, c, and his wife, Kim- Blue Monday, white newspaper reporter. The fictional Creech and Holt also meet berly, live in Corpus Christi, Texas, harks back to the atKU. where he's a lieutenant junior grade in the U.S. Navy. smoky, jazzy Holt spends his days chasing stories at the police station and Kansas City his nights roaming jazz clubs with Creech. When band leader Stacey Geier, j, coordinates media of the ig]os. and writes copy at Jones C Seel Bennie Moten dies during a botched tonsillectomy just hours after Advertising in Topeka. She lives in Holt had seen him drinking in a pool hall, Holt suspects murder Lawrence. and begins to investigate. Holly Ifft, b, works as a contract The book, published in 1991 by Patrice Press, has sold about specialist for Shaw Industries in 4,000 copies in the Midwest and has earned the praise of critics in Houston. both literary and jazz circles. Barnes says he so craved accuracy Carrie Klasing, p, a staff pharmacist that the first draft clunked with historical detail. "It wasn't a for Dillons in Wichita, lives in Andover. novel," he says. "It was a textbook. I must have cut 90 percent." Kirk Ludlow, j, c'93, is a retail sales But local color still paints vivid scenes. One brief line informs representative for the Lawrence Daily Journal-World. readers that Delia Gordon's Fish Market sold catfish for a dime a pound. Another passage recalls the interior of the T-shaped Sunset Jonathan Morgan, c, coordinates marketing for Sun Insurance Market- Club, which featured a triangular, raised bandstand. ing in Sarasota, Fla. Barnes used a discarded chapter of Blue Monday as grist for his William, e, and Julie Belt Newton, current project. He returns to the 1930s to imagine the final three s, live in Wichita, where he's a pro- days of gangster Pretty Boy Floyd's life. duction support engineer for Cessna Even if his new book hits it big, Barnes says he'll remain at the Aircraft and she's a clinical specialist Post-Dispatch, his employer for most of the past 28 years, edited with the Sedwick County Department of Mental Health. by an old KU roommate, Bill Woo, c'6o. "The newspaper keeps me Rochelle Olson, g, works for the grounded in the real world," he says. "I'm just an old police Associated Press in Charleston, W. Va. reporter at heart, I suppose." Clare VanMeter Oroke, b, is a staff He wants to stay on the beat.^**** accountant for Maupintour in -Bill Woodard Lawrence, where she lives with her husband, Jeff, e'91, g'93. He's a

46 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 custom design engineer for Butler Richard Carter Jr., c, serves as area Laura Rubin, f, lives in Chicago, land Park, where they make their Manufacturing in Kansas City. director of the American Heart Asso- where she's creative manager of the home. ciation in Topeka. Amazing Balloon Co. Matthew, d, and Mary Ellen Hen- Charles Junge, f, and Amy Schoen- derson Sears, d, celebrate their first Anne Comisky, e, is a specialist in Elizabeth Schoener, c, works as a hofer, f, May 22 in Andover. She's an anniversary Jan. 2. They live in Vir- environmental risk assessment and loan analyst for Sallie Mae in interior designer with Scott Rice in ginia Beach, Va. site remedial designs at the Jacobs Lawrence. Kansas City, and he's a documenta- Genelle Slagle, lives in Kansas City, Engineering Group in Overland Park. Kevin Sigourney, c, lives in Over- tion specialist with Titan in Leaven- worth. Their home is in Lawrence. where she's a second-year surgical Chris DeVolder, a, recently joined land Park, where he's a mutual fund resident at St. Luke's Hospital. the staff of Gould Evans Associates in representative for DST Systems. Pamela Kitarogers, j, and Barry Amy Toberer, j, is an assistant print Lawrence. Pari Smart serves as resident direc- Evans, d, June 5 in Leavenworth. buyer at Barkley G Evergreen Adver- Steven Eggers, c, is an assistant tor of housing at Oglethorpe Univer- They live in Topeka. tising in Fairway. merchandiser for Nationwide Papers sity in Atlanta, Ga. Laura Matthews, 1, and Jeremy Martin VanDerSchouw, c, manages in Kansas City. Monica Swenson, c, manages sales deNoyelles, e, June 19. They make for Sales Tools Unlimited in Prairie regional sales for Fathom Technolo- Melissa Florek, j, manages promo- their home in Lawrence. Village. She lives in Lawrence. gies in Boulder, Colo. tions for the Blue Ridge Mall in Inde- Teresa Moynagh, d, and Carl Robert Weber, c, works as a geolo- pendence, Mo. She lives in Lawrence. Enrique Torres, I, is assistant direc- Tosh, student, June 5 in Lawrence, tor of KU's Office of Minority Affairs. where Teresa works for Capitol gist for Dames G Moore in Overland Greg Garrett, a, works for Gruchalla Park. G Cover Architects in Chesterfield, Mo. Luann Weigand, s, is a hospital Federal Savings and Loan and Carl social worker at Prairie View in studies aerospace engineering. Christina Wesolik, j, recently was Eric Gorski, j, reports for the Newton. promoted to account executive at Anderson (S.C.) Independent Mail. He Julie Regehr, g, and Scott Size- O'Connor G Partners, a public-rela- lives in Clemson. Anne Weist, d, was one of io stu- more, b, May 22 in Inman. They live tions and marketing-communications dents to witness to Pope John Paul II in Tampa, Fla. firm in St. Louis. She lives in Belleville. Christopher Hanna, b, studies law last summer during his visit to Denver at the University of Texas at Austin. for World Youth Day, an international Sean Wilson, c, works in the cus- ALUMNI CODES Elizabeth "Betsy" Higgs, c, Roman Catholic youth gathering. She tomer-service department of Letters that follow names in handles public relations for the lives in Lawrence. Nelson/Weather-Rite Inc. in Lenexa. Kansas Alumni indicate the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. She John Wells, p, is a pharmacist with school from which alumni MARRIED lives in Lawrenceville, Ga. Drug Warehouse in Sand Springs, earned degrees. Scott Frier, c, and Jill Osterhout, John Howard II, c, studies med- Okla., and Julia Cooper Wells, c, is Numbers show their class assistant manager of Walgreen Drugs j'93, March 7 in Lawrence, where they icine at Vanderbilt University in years. in Tulsa, where they live. both work for Sallie Mae. Nashville, Tenn. Aileen Mushinski Wilkins, g, man- a School of Architecture Brett Johnson, c, and Megan Maria Imm, c, teaches at Dixie Bell ages human relations for Kimberly and Urban Design Pogue, d'93, June 26 in Salina. Brett Dance Studio in Shawnee. works for Archer Daniel Midland Quality Care in Overland Park. b School of Business Christine LeBlanc, g, is an adminis- c College of Liberal Arts Milling in Overland Park. Matthew Wingate, d, is a communi- trative aide to the city manager of and Sciences Kimberly Koser, c, and Daniel cations assistant for the National d School of Education University Park, Texas. She lives in Association of Basketball Coaches in Fee, c, May 30 in Wichita. They live e School of Engineering Dallas. Overland Park. in Pensacola, Fla., where he's a lieu- f School of Fine Arts g Master's Degree tenant junior grade in the U.S. Navy. Jennifer Lubin, a, works for the Jennifer Zucco, j, coordinates h School of Allied Health Lawrence architectural firm of Gould internal marketing for Barkley G Kurtis Marozas, c, and Heidi Hei- j School of Journalism Evans Associates. Evergreen Advertising. She lives drick, c'93, June 26 in Beloit. They 1 School of Law in Overland Park. live in Olathe, where he's a case man- Jason McClure, e, lives in Overland m School of Medicine ager with the Franklin County Mental Park, where he's an electrical engi- MARRIED n School of Nursing neer for Airport Systems Interna- p School of Pharmacy Health Center. Mark Benne, e, to Katherine Riehle, tional. s School of Social Welfare Gina Valdez, d, to Francisco Lopez, June 19 in Shawnee. They live in EdD Doctor of Education May 29 in Kansas City. Marisa Morgan, c, is an administra- Lenexa, and Mark's an engineer with PhD Doctor of Philosopy tive assistant with Infinity Medical Black G Veatch. (no letter) Former student Patrick Williams and Kimberly Supply in Lenexa. She lives in Over- assoc. Associate member of the McCall, d, May 29 in Overland Park. Stephanie Juenemann, b, and land Park. Shawn Pearson, b, May 22 in Over- Alumni Association 1993 Donald Phipps, g, lives in Lawrence. Dennis Boginski, b, is an assisant He and James Merrill, j'73, g'76, national bank examiner for the PhD'82, recently opened a firm in Comptroller of the Currency in Overland Park, Applied Marketing If you would like to share news about a job Wichita. Research. change, a marriage, a baby or another milestone Tiffany Brommerich, c, works as a Thomas Poer, e, works as a civil customer-service representative for engineer for the HNTB Corp. in in your life, please write: Twentieth Century Investors in Kansas City. Class Notes Editor Kansas City. Jennifer Reardon, c, received a Kansas Alumni Magazine Luis Cardozo, g, directs wellness National Science Foundation fellow- 1266 Oread Avenue and fitness at Kansas City Kansas ship for predoctoral study in biologi- Community College. He lives in cal sciences at Cornell University in Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. Lawrence. Ithaca, NY.

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Hercules, d'6i; 10 grandchildren; and grandchildren and three great-grand- Frank H. Emerson Sr., c'47, g'48, 1920S two great-grandchildren. children. 71, May 26 in West Lafayette, Ind., Una Alexander Babb, c'27, 87, July where he was a professor emeritus of Fred B. Anschutz, '33, 84, Oct. 4 in Barbara Barteldes Reynolds, c'33, 11 in Lawrence, where she was a horticulture at Purdue University. He Denver, where he had retired from 81, Aug. 29 in Dallas. She is survived retired teacher. She is survived by is survived by his wife, Evelyn Dan- the oil business. KU's Anschutz Sports by two daughters; two sons, one of her husband, Clyde, d'28, and a nenberg Emerson, '51; two sons; a Pavillion and the Marian and Fred whom is Paul, e'6o; a brother, Ben Bar- sister, Anna Alexander Lichlyter, d'32. daughter; two brothers, G.A., '45, and Anschutz Science Library are named teldes, c'36; and eight grandchildren. r Jack, '51; and five grandchildren. Glenn H. Chapped, l 25, 95, July 23 for him. In 1984 he received the Fred Howard Sails, c'37, 79. May 28 in in Nowata, Okla., where he was a Ellsworth Medallion for unique and Francis Franken, b'47, March 24 in Kansas City. He was retired vice pres- retired attorney and judge. He is sur- significant service to KU. He is sur- Salem, Ore. He is survived by his ident of Home Building Corp. and is vived by his daughter, a sister, two vived by a son, Philip, b'6i; a daugh- wife, Marian, and five daughters. survived by his wife, Margaret grandsons and two great-grandsons. ter, Sue Anschutz Rodgers, d'55; six Ramage Sails, c'38; two daughters; C. Hillman Owen, e'43, 77, March 31 grandchildren; and two great-grand- Carlene Johnson Dibble, c'27, 85, and two grandchildren. in Borger, Texas, where he was a children. July 21 in Sonoma, Calif. Surviving are retired chemical engineer. A son, a David G. Smith, '30, 84, June 17 in two daughters, one of whom is Minnie Law Clock, '37, 87, June 16 daughter, three sisters and three Laguna Hills, Calif., where he was a Catherine Dibble Hamill, d'62; a son, in Winfield. She is survived by two grandchildren survive. retired executive with Trans World Douglas, '66; a brother, Carl Johnson, sons, Robert, p'66, and Richard, c'67; Airlines. He is survived by his wife, Robert G. Paulette, e'41, 72, May 4 c'29,1 '31; six grandchildren and two and nine grandchildren. Dorothy; a son, David Jr., e'57; and a in Bella Vista, Ark. He is survived by great-grandchildren. William T. English, c'35, 82, Aug. 2 grandson. his wife, Roberta; a son, Robert, '76; Ella E. Fanning, c'26, 89, June 30 in in St. John. He is survived by a two daughters; a brother, Charles, Daniel L. Tappen, c'39, m'41, 76, Tularosa, N.M., where she was a brother, Robert, b'36; and a sister, e'46; a sister; and five grandchildren. June 12 in Scottsdale, Ariz., where he retired history and English teacher. Josephine English Campbell, c'37. John A. Pettis, c'41, 74, May 8 in Three sisters survive. retired after a 33-year career as an John S. Harrow, b'39, 74, May 1 in obstetrician and gynecologist in Bonner Springs. He is survived by his George A. Hodges, '27, July 21 in Snowmass, Colo. He was former pres- Topeka. A memorial has been estab- wife, Georgia Jones Pettis, d'42, g'66; Wichita, where he had worked for Eli ident of Kansas City Structural Steel lished with the KU Endowment Asso- a son; two daughters, Jennifer Pettis Lilly G Co. and is survived by his wife, Virginia; ciation. He is survived by his wife, Veerkamp, g'81, and Judith Pettis seven children, two of whom are Frankhouser, n'65; a sister; and eight Mary Figgs Luther, c'27, 89. July 3° Virginia Taylor Tappen, d'38; two James, b'70, and Kathleen Harrow grandchildren. in Kansas City, where she was a daughters, Marti Tappen Anderson, Blanding, c'66, c'67; ar|d ei§nt grand- retired elementary school teacher. A '65, and Claudia Tappen Gibson, d'72; Robert R. Snook, c'40, m'42, 82, children. son, a brother and three granddaugh- and seven grandchildren. June 14 in McLouth, where he prac- ticed medicine for nearly 40 years. ters survive. Alan G. Linley, e'36, 79, May 9 in William P. Timmerman, '35, 79, He is survived by his wife, Kathel; Atchison, where he worked for Rock- March 19 in Wichita, where he was a Harold J. McKeever, e'22, June 13 four daughters, one of whom is Nina well International for 40 years. Sur- retired municipal bond attorney. His in Saginaw, Mich. His brother, Fergus, Snook Blindt, c'77; 13 grandchildren; vivors include his wife, Mary Alice wife, Jewell, a son, two daughters, six '31, is among survivors. three stepgrandchildren; and two Graham Linley, c'35; a son; a brother, grandchildren and a great-grand- Carl A. Niemeyer, c'27, g'29, July 3 great-grandchildren. Lawrence, '39; a sister; and five daughter survive. in Schenectady, N.Y., where he was a grandchildren. Marion E. Wade, e'44, 79, July 20 Teresa E. Vaughn, d'31, 89, April 18 professor emeritus of ancient and in Shawnee Mission, where he was Conrad Miller Sr., c'34, 80, June 1 in Kansas City, where she was a retired modern literature at Union College. retired from a career with Westing- in Kansas City, where he was a retired social worker. Several cousins survive. house. Among survivors are his wife, Eleanor O'Donnell Payton, '26, lawyer and owner of Paddock Tool. Eldred Shaw Wieting, d'31, 87, Louise, e'43, and his brother, Lt. Col. 90, Aug. 11 in Ellsworth. Two stepsons Surviving are his wife, Marilyn Adam- April 24 in Gatesville, Texas, where Stanley H. Wade, e'48. and a stepdaughter survive. son Miller, '48; a son; three daugh- she taught music. Four daughters, ters, two of whom are Marilyn Miller, Anna Prettyman White, c'49, July (Catherine Huston Pulford, c'29, two sisters, five grandchildren and d'77, l'8i; and Jeanne Miller Airey, 13 in Ridgefield, Wash. 84, May 1 in Topeka, where she was a seven great-grandchildren survive. secretary at Washburn University. '80; a brother, Harry Jr., c'32; two sis- Martha Horner Winters, '42, 73, She is survived by her husband, ters, one of whom is Maxine Miller 1940S March 20 in Aurora, Colo. She lived in Sifers, c'41; and eight grandchildren. Miles, three sons and seven grand- Dorothy Ewing Beahm, '41, 77, Grand Lake and was a former radio children. Ralph L. Pusey, '48, 82, May 27 in Aug. 30 in Great Bend. She was a performer. Surviving are two daughters, one of whom is Olivia Winters Grace Young Rie, c'25, 91, Dec. 11, Sun City, Ariz., where he retired after retired medical librarian for Central Zick, '71; three brothers, two of whom 1992, in Cinnaminson, N.J. Two sons, a 30-year career as a pilot for Trans Kansas Medical Center and is sur- are John, e'47, and Dwight, a'49; two a daughter and five grandchildren World Airlines. He is survived by his vived by three sons, Bill, c'74, m sisters, Patricia Horner Chatt, n'47, survive. wife, Helen Boman Pusey, d'35; two Donald, c'67, 7'. and Gary, '66; two sons, Ralph, d'65, and Robert, '78; a daughters, Janice Beahm Hayes, d'69, and Eileen Horner Bell, '50; and three Alice Perkins Rudolph, c'25, 88, sister; and five grandchildren. g'71, and Karen Beahm Watkins, d'71; grandsons. April 12 in Oklahoma City. Her hus- a brother; and 12 grandchildren. The Rev Charles F. Zoschke, '46, band, Harry, is among survivors. Henry F. Quinn, c'34, rn 36, 80, April 13 in Lodi, Calif., where he was a Robert D. Brient, '44, 71, June 11 75, May 31 in Coffeyville, where he 1930S retired physician. He is survived by in Dallas. was pastor of Grace Baptist Church. his wife, Lillian, three daughters, two Among survivors are his wife, Ennice; Lottie Harrell Abella, c'30, 85, July Jack A. Dunagin, c'42, m'44, 72, 6 in Lawrence. She is survived by her sons, a stepson, a sister, seven six sons; seven daughters; two broth- June 19 in Topeka, where he was a husband, N.E., a'37; a son, Henry, grandchildren and six great-grand- ers, one of whom is Marvin, d'47; two psychiatrist. He is survived by his b'62; two brothers; three grandchil- children. sisters; and 42 grandchildren. wife, Muriel Henry Dunagin, p'42; dren; and a great-grandson. James L. Raines, '36, 80, April 6 in three sons, two of whom are Charles, 1930S Dorothea Watson Adams, c'35, 80, Topeka, where he was a retired c'69, g'71, and William, c'72, m'75; a Marcus W. Doughty, g'55, 85, July June 26 in Hamilton, Ohio. Surviving accountant. Surviving are his wife, daughter, Elaine Dunagin Engelman, 8 in Shawnee Mission, where he was are a son; a daughter, Jane Adams Velma, three daughters, two sons, 14 c'78, m'82; and 10 grandchildren. a retired teacher. Surviving are his

48 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 wife, Elinor Berry Doughty, g'59; a flight systems directorate and is sur- Sheldon, '92; her mother; three Kenneth R. Williams, '87, 28, brother; and a sister. vived by his wife, Rudeen; a daugh- brothers; two sisters; a grandmother; March 26 in Oakland, Calif. He is ter; two sons; two brothers, Jack, '51, and two grandchildren. Franz J. Hauboldjr., b'52, 63, April survived by a son, his mother, three and Warren, c'49; and three grand- 28 in Kansas City, where he owned Harold R. Wallace, g'66, 63, April brothers, two sisters and his grandchildren. Steverson Trailer Co. Survivors 16 in Ottawa, where he was former parents. include his wife, Helen, two sons, a I96OS assistant principal of Ottawa Middle 1990S brother and a sister. School and the USD 290 athletic Gerald F. Ashen, g'63, 61, July 16 in director. Surviving are his wife, Mitzi, Steven A. Ashley, '91, 25, June 8 in Hewitt R. Herdlinger, '54, 66, Feb. Overland Park. He taught debate and two sons, a brother, a sister and Quincy, Calif. He lived in Prescott, 3 in Miami. He lived in Kansas City English in Shawnee Mission for 32 three grandchildren. Ariz., where he attended Yavapai Col- and had owned H.R. Herlinger Co. A years and is survived by his wife, lege. He is survived by his mother; his Jackie Coit Ashen, '74; a son, Jeffrey, son, a daughter, a half sister and two 1970S father, John, c'53, m'56; two brothers, grandsons survive. '92; a daughter, Jennifer Ashen Esfan- Harold E. Black, EdD'70, Feb. 12 in one of whom is Thomas, m'84; and diary, d'88; and his mother. Herbert R. Hess Jr., '50, 65, April 6 Orcott, Calif., where he was associate his grandfather. in Hutchinson, where he was senior Martha Baker, '62, 55, March 3 in superintendent of the Orcutt schools. Dennis J. Leffew, '91, 26, May 7 partner with the law firm of Hess, Leslie Osborne, where she was a high- Among survivors is his wife, Charlene. school guidance counselor. Her in Topeka, where he lived. He was and Brown. Survivors include his wife, David A. Campbell Jr., '72, 42, July mother and brother survive. a shift manager at Arby's Restaurant Teresa; a daughter; a brother, Donald, 7 in Larkspur, Colo., where he was a '55; a sister; and a granddaughter. in Kansas City and is survived by his Mary Owen Bass, '68, 62, March 24 home appliance manufacturers' rep- mother, his father, a sister, two in Knoxville, where she was a profes- resentative. Surviving are his wife, Ernest Meeth, '53, 67, April 18 in brothers and a grandmother. Mission, where he was a retired com- sor and nutrition consultant at the Dorothy, two daughters, his mother pliance officer for the Food and Drug University of Tennessee. She is sur- and brother. THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY vived by her husband, William, three Administration. A memorial has been Lucy M. DeSoto, d'70, g'78, 45, Maude H. Elliott, c'22, g'24, 94, sons, three sisters, three brothers established with the KU Endowment June 21 in Kansas City, where she July 31 in Lawrence, where she was a and two grandchildren. Association. Survivors include his taught learning-disabled students at retired professor of Spanish. She is wife, Lois; two daughters, one of Suzanne Thompson Blazer, f 60, Antioch Middle School and earlier survived by a sister, Marion Elliott whom is Michele Meeth Uttley, n'78, 54, June 26 in Overland Park. She was had been principal of St. Francis Needham, c'28. h'84; a brother; and two grandsons. an occupational therapist at Baptist Xavier Catholic School. She is sur- Timothy F. Mitchell, c'65, 49, Aug. Kenneth L. Montgomery, g'58, 59, Medical Center and is survived by vived by two brothers, John, '82, and 17 of leukemia in Lawrence, where he Feb. 18 in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he three sons, her mother and two Philip, '78; and two sisters, Dolores, was a professor of art history and was a professor of telecommunica- brothers. c'68, and Ana, c'73. former chair of the Kress Foundation tions at the University of Pittsburgh. Wayne D. Craven, EdD'6o, 64, July I98OS Department of Art History. A memo- He is survived by his wife, Joan; two [] in Overland Park. He was retired Gregory D. Barker, '86, 31, June 30 rial has been established with the KU daughters, one of whom is Laura, a principal of Broadmoor Junior High in Topeka. He was a librarian at KU Endowment Association. He is sur- KU student; two sons; his mother; a School and is survived by his wife, and is survived by his parents, Lee Roy vived by his wife, Nancy Fink Mitchell, brother; and a sister. Beverly; two sons, Kelly, c'78, and and Vivian Barker, a brother and his d'66; two daughters, Kristina, f'91, Marc, c'77; his mother; two brothers; Gwendel A. Nelson, EdD'59, July 12 grandmothers. and Sarah, student; and two broth- in Arkansas City, where he was a sister; and five grandchildren. Doris Myrick Belote, '81, Aug. 4 ers, John, c'62, m'66, and Bert, c'64. retired president of Cowley County Richard C. Dunlap, p'6o, 54, April in Hot Springs, Ark. She was retired Community College and a member of 14 in Lyons. He is survived by his ASSOCIATES business manager for KU's biological the Kansas Board of Education. wife, Sue; a son; a daughter; his services division. Surviving are her Betty Jean Williams Coffield, 72, mother; two brothers, one of whom Sylvester C. Ramstack, '52, 77, May husband, Chuck; a son, Richard, '87; April [6 in Garden City, where she is Rodney, p'63; and two sisters. 25 in Wichita, where he was a retired two daughters, one of whom is Car- was retired co-owner of the Vogue U.S. Army colonel. He is survived by Darrell D. Nelson, d'61, g'69, July olyn Belote Kelly, '84; her mother; Shop. She is survived by three sons, his wife, Mary; five sons, one of 14 in South Bend, Ind., where he man- three brothers; and eight grand- her mother and six grandchildren. whom is Thomas, c'78, j'78; a daugh- aged compensation and benefits for children. Robert A. Fothergill, 75, June 9 in ter; and 10 grandchildren. Allied Signal. Mary Brethour Buchmann, '80, Kansas City, where he co-owned Tom L. Schwinn, 1'52, 71, Sept. 13 in Kerry Ott, '69, 46, July 24 in Kansas 50, July 20 in Leawood, where she Newlin Machinery. A memorial has Wichita, where he was a retired City. He lived in Lawrence, where he was a former elementary school been established with the KU Endow- attorney and former member of the was an assistant manager of the teacher. She is survived by her hus- ment Association. He is survived by Kansas House of Representatives. He Kmart Distribution Center. Surviving band, Matthew; a daughter; a son; his wife, Mary Kay Frith Fothergill, is survived by his wife, Jane; two are his wife, Katherine Revenew Ott, and two brothers, one of whom is '39; two daughters, Ann Fothergill sons; two daughters, one of whom is '70; a daughter, Sherry, d'93; his par- John Brethour, '87. Wiklund, g'77, and Jane Fothergill Trilby Schwinn Sedlacek, '78; a sister, ents; and a sister. Joseph Michael Burns, '83, 32, Radcliffe, j'68; and two grandsons. Joan, '50; and eight grandchildren. Francisco H. Ruiz, g'64. May 27 in June 27 in Chicago of a brain tumor. Gladys Beller Gordon, 75, April 10 John M. Sims, c'51, d'52, 71, April 7 Kansas City, where he was a profes- He worked for the American Tele- in Wichita. She is survived by her in Garden City, where he was a sor of American history at Longview phone and Telegraph Co. Surviving husband, Dale, b'43; a daughter, Pam, retired professor at Garden City Community College. He is survived by are his father; his mother and step- c'76; a son, Stephen, b'71; two brothers; Community College. Survivors his wife, Irene, three sons, a brother father; a brother, Peter, '84; and two include his wife, Gail, two daughters, and a granddaughter. stepsisters. two sisters; and two grandchildren. his father, four grandchildren and Donna Marsh Shogrin, '67, 55, Feb. Homer W. "Bill" Helkenberg, '83, William B. Klaver, 82, April 10 in three great-grandchildren. 6 of cancer in Lawrence, where she 44, May 8. He lived in Eureka and was Kingman, where he owned Klaver Lawrence W. Taylor Jr., e'55, 59, had taught school and worked at a Chatauqua County undersheriff. Construction. He is survived by his Jan. 15,1992, in Williamsburg, Va. He Hallmark Cards. She is survived by Survivors include his wife, Lisa, two wife, Mary Schultz Klaver, c'35; two had been chief scientist for the guid- her husband, Quentin, '63; three sons, two daughters, his parents and sons, Bill Jr., b'66, and Jake, b'70, ance and control division of NASA's sons, Shawn, '87, Steven, a'89, and a brother. l'74; and six grandchildren.

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An instrument $10,000 gift The wind tunnel Sunnyside •' that engineers use Avenue. from the Ford in a Learned Hall to test strength and Motor Company lab whirred to BUSINESS durability of metals boosts to nearly take-off speed. and plastics now $100,000 the amount the company has Joe Huwaldt, g'93, will enable researchers to study tendons, contributed to the school's minority schol- pumped a little theatrical smoke over a ligaments, bone, skin and cartilage. arship program. James G. Duff, b'6o, g'61, delta wing model inside the glass-fronted Chukuka Enwemeka, chairman of physical sponsored the University's request within portion of the tunnel. Then came the therapy, has won $41,000 in Medical Ford. Duff is chairman and chief executive magic. He flipped off the lights and shone Center research equipment funds to pur- officer of U.S. Leasing of San Francisco, a an aqua laser beam across the wing, chase an Instron Materials Testing System member of Ford's Financial Services Group. where two tiny tornados spun to life. He (MTS), which provides accurate measure- Ford since 1978 has sponsored more pitched the wing to a different angle, and ments of mechanical strength, stress, than 80 minority master's students and in the vortices danced along. strain, energy absorption capacity and 1992 began assisting undergraduates. Huwaldt's Oct. 28 demonstration of his elasticity, he says. Through the minority business program thesis work unveiled the school's new When it arrives sometime next spring, students consult weekly with academic Laser Doppler Velocimeter, which allows physical therapy researchers will share advisers. The program also provides tutors students and researchers to visualize and the new instrument with researchers in and sponsors social activities. "I have to precisely measure velocities and turbu- pathology and laboratory medicine, often commented that 1 was so successful lence around an aircraft. The school pur- dietetics and nutrition, medicine and in my first year because of the minority chased the $150,000 instrument with orthopedic surgery. business program," says Jyarland Daniels, support from Cessna Aircraft, Wichita. Ray Taghavi, assistant professor of Enwemeka says the machine will pro- Overland Park sophomore. "The program aerospace engineering, says he has begun vide crucial information for two projects provided a liaison between students and using the instrument in courses for under- he directs. With $433,000 from the National professors....It taught us to become more Institutes of Health, he tests combinations graduates, who may work with similar well-rounded and instilled positive habits of exercise, ultrasound and laser thera- devices in their professional careers or I know I will continue." pies in healing injured tendons. The U.S. for graduate research. "I used this same Department of Veterans Affairs has pro- equipment at NASA before I came here [in The school's vided $277,000 to fund a similar project to 1991I," he says. "Only select universities national advisory test only exercise and ultrasound therapies. have access to it....This is a major step board this fall pre- "I do not know of any other physical toward expanding the experimental facili- sented its first therapy department that owns this type of ties here." Excellence in equipment," Enwemeka says. "It will not Teaching Award to Sue Tinsley Hall, d'61, a only speed up my research but also will Stevens Point, Wis., an elementary-sci- allow me to recruit more highly qualified ence teacher whose work doesn't begin faculty." and end with the bell. In the University- A native of Leavenworth, Hall helps wide Program guide several state and regional science Review last year, projects in Wisconsin. With her husband, the committee rec- Kent, PhD'69, she also founded the ommended the cre- Stevens Point Area Running Club. "We ation of one new degree: A doctorate in want to help young athletes build confi- architecture and urban design. dence in themselves both athletically and To respond, Dean Max Lucas this fall personally," she says. appointed a PhD planning committee to Now in its 12th year, the club has 150 explore adding the program. Dennis members, including several collegiate Domer, associate dean and chair of the runners, an NCAA champion and an committee, expects a proposal to be sub- Olympian. Hall awards Personal Record mitted to the Kansas Board of Regents in ribbons to children who strive consistently two or three years. "This represents an to improve, although they may never win opportunity to take the school to yet races. She also has helped organize the AFTER-SCHOOL SPECIAL: An acclaimed teacher, Hall another, higher level," he says. statewide Special Olympics for 22 years. directs a running club to energize students' self-esteem.

50 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 Villeneuve loves to wander the halls and gaze at the walls of an FINE ARTS art gallery. But she realizes her pleasure is torture to others. In fact, she says, "there are a lot of persons who would rather have minor surgery than come to an art museum." Villeneuve, curator of education for the Spencer Museum of Art and assistant professor of visual arts education, has worked to open doors for visitors to the museum—and to train students who will build enticing programs elsewhere. For her efforts the Kansas Art Education Asso- ciation in October named Villeneuve Out- standing Kansas Art Educator of the Year. A faculty member since 1990, Villeneuve established the master's degree in art ART SMART: Villeneuve takes pains to make museum visits painless. For her efforts, the Kansas Art Education museum education in 1992. KU is among Association this fall named her Kansas Art Educator of the Year. three universities nationally that offer such a program, she says. fessor of psychology, who thinks KU's they had completed for their magazine Villeneuve also has sought ways to interdisciplinary faculty support helped production class. The AEJMC granted first bring diverse visitors to KU's museum. For win the grant. "This is really building on a prize to Kay Hawes, Lawrence graduate example, she is working with a graduate strength of the University. We already student, whose regional magazine concept student who is blind to develop a tactile have faculty in place who have been doing was Rocky Mountain Outdoor Sports. tour. She this year helped arrange tours significant research in this area." Second place went to Shannon Peters, for Western Civilization students to con- Besides Kemper, faculty working with Crane, Mo., senior, whose Alliance maga- nect their readings to art. And last fall she students on the grant will include Mary zine covered Russian and American topics. launched an exhibit on Mexico's "Day of Lee Hummert, assistant professor of com- Kara Lynch, Hutchinson graduate student, the Dead," for which she and a Mexican munication studies and Kim A. Wilcox, earned third place for Onward, intended student erected a folk-art altar. associate professor of speech-language for the chronically ill and their families. "People are starting to recognize that hearing. And Rachel Duran, Garden City senior, the traditional notion of what art is has won first honorable mention for Winning disenfranchised quite a few people," she Students are Women, which would target women in says. "I try to take a broader view of what getting national NCAA and Olympic sports. art can be." press attention again. For the The National second consecu- alumni appeared Institute on Aging tive year the University Daily Kansan has Nov. 5-6 to witness in November earned the Pacemaker award from the the school's Cen- awarded KU a five- Associated Collegiate Press and College tennial celebra- year, $600,000 training grant to support Media Advisers. Six student staff mem- tion. Special guests were about 15 Golden students researching the effects of aging bers, including the current editor, K.C. Anniversary alumni who had graduated in on communication. Trauer, Dodge City senior, attended the the school's 50th year. Doctoral and postdoctoral students in groups' convention in Dallas Oct. 28-31 to After dinner in the Kansas Union Friday psychology, communication studies and claim the prize. evening, graduates from the school's past speech-language-hearing will be eligible And four magazine students swept a five decades testified about their time on for grants, which will include tuition, a contest sponsored by the Association for the Hill. The speakers were Tony Immel, stipend and research support. Education in Journalism and Mass Com- 1*38, Iola; Glee Smith, c'43, Y47, Lawrence; "Money to support student research is munications. The students submitted mag- former Kansas Gov. Robert F. Bennett, very scarce," says Susan J. Kemper, pro- azine prototypes and business proposals c'50,1'52, Overland Park; Jed Hurley, 1'62,

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ate dean for clinical affairs. Hollander helped realign the faculty physicians into a group practice that could contract with the managed-care agencies: The college now serves 80 to 85 percent of patients from such programs, Hollander says. In keeping with President Clinton's plan to form a nationwide managed-care system, other hospitals—including KU's Medical Center—must change their struc- tures. The University is counting on Hol- lander, who in January becomes the new dean of medicine, to help show the way. Hollander says, "I will try to explain to the faculty that the handwriting is on the wall: They need to organize under a group practice program....This way hopefully KU can continue to see private patients instead of being squeezed out of the market." In addition to his administrative exper- tise, Hollander specializes in gastroenterology and does research in molecular medicine. A graduate of Baylor University College GOOD CHEMISTRY: Current and former students say their interest in science was nurtered by Huyser, who this of Medicine, Hollander completed his fall earned the Chancellors Club Career Teaching Award. internal medicine residency at KU in 1968. He succeeds Sebastian Faro, chairman of San Francisco; Georgann Eglinski, l'78, Mount Oread. Now his devotion to stu- gynecology and obstetrics, who has Lawrence; and David Atkins, c'82, l'9o, Jef- dents has won him the 1993 Chancellors served as interim dean since the retire- ferson City. Dick Bond, c'57, l'6o, Overland Club Career Teaching Award, which carries ment of James Price last spring. Park, current president of the KU Law a stipend of $5,000. Society, was master of ceremonies. "The most gratifying part of my career Dean Bob Jerry says on Saturday morn- here has been working with students," ing about 100 alumni went back to class Huyser says, "Some of my former students for continuing-education credit. Terry Bul- are now among the top in the profession." lock, 1'64, Shawnee County district judge, One former student, Dale Boger, c'75, led the lesson on ethics. now a distinguished professor of chem- Jerry says he was pleased all eras were istry at the Scripps Research Institute in La well represented, although throughout the Jolla, Calif., recalls Huyser's help both in weekend the 50-year class joked about and out of the classroom. "He was the needing more muscle. "The Class of '38 most influential individual in my decision considered moving the Jimmy Green to pursue a career in organic chemistry," statue to the new building," Jerry says, Boger says. "Even today I consult with him "but they thought better of it." on important career opportunities."

.^V.fter two years In 1989 about working for Dow half of insured Chemical Co. in patients in Califor- Midland, Mich., nia had joined LIBERAL ARTS Earl S. Huyser in MEDICINE managed-care 1959 had registered five patents for chemi- health plans. That year the University of cal processes. But he wanted to mix his California College of Medicine, Irvine, DEAN OF MEDICINE: One of Hollander's primary-care research with teaching, so he came to appointed Daniel Hollander senior associ- goals will be to help faculty form a group practice.

52 DECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 Professor Dennis Dailey, whose Human Sexuality in Everyday Life class draws 500 students a semester, is the 1993 HOPE Award winner. Dailey received his award, given by the KU senior class, in a ceremony Nov. 20 before the KU-Missouri football game. HOPE, the Honor for an Outstanding Progressive Educator, was established by the Class of 1959. It is the only teaching award bestowed exclusively by students. HOPE winners receive $200, and their name is engraved on a permanent plaque in the Kansas Union. Dailey, a faculty member since 1969, says that, for faculty committed to teaching, the award "affirms what you are doing." Dailey received the Chancellor's Distin- guished Teaching Award in November 1990 and the Outstanding Social Welfare Faculty Award in 1989. Other HOPE finalists were Jeff Aube, associate professor of medicinal chem- FOR OUR HEALTH: The Chancellors Club Research Award recognizes Klaasen's pioneering work in toxicology. istry; Timothy Bengtson, Clyde M. Reed distinguished teaching professor of jour- The school will the event at the Westin Crown Center nalism; Greg Shepherd, assistant professor host its fifth hotel call 913-588-1616. of communication studies; and Barbara annual Nursing: Woods, instructor of pharmacy practice. The Heart of Curtis Klaasen, NURSING Healthcare awards professor of program April 29 pharmacology and in Kansas City. The school will select 10 toxicology at the nurses for recognition from statewide PHARMACY Medical Center, nominees. this fall received the Chancellors Club Dean Eleanor Sullivan says the pro- Research Award. gram was begun to increase awareness During his 25 years at KU, Klaasen has of nursing's importance. For example, she gained international attention for his says, "[Nurses] ensure access to health studies of how the human body expels care for inner city and rural residents, foreign chemicals. uninsured and low income people who otherwise would have no primary or The National Institutes of Health for preventive health care." more than 25 years has funded Klaasen's Last year the school chose honorees research and in 1971 awarded him a career from 750 nominations submitted by development award. patients, physicians, fellow nurses and The 1993 Current Contents professional other health-care colleagues. Winners journal credits Klaasen for having a greater receive a glass sculpture by Vernon impact on the study of toxicology than any Brejcha, associate professor of design. other scientist. He has served on commit- The school will accept nominations tees for the Environmental Protection through Jan. 14. To request a nomination Agency, the National Institutes of Health PRIZED PROFESSOR: The HOPE award affirms form or for information about attending and the Food and Drug Administration. Dailey's popularity on campus.

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A jt a yeai is inauguration the 26th U.S. P teodore Roosevelt wrote tc ; good friend William nporia Gazette. He sought White's blessing and guidance during the campaign. "You are among the men whose good opinion 1 crave and desire to earn by my actions," Roosevelt wrote in the Feb. 6,1900, letter. White's mail has become required reading for Del Brinkman, who ended 23 years of KU service last August to become journalism program officer for the John S. and James L Knight Foundation, Miami. Before starting his new job Brinkman spent six months in Washington, D.C., studying White's correspondence in the Library of Congress, which devotes 198 feet of shelving to Emporia's sage. Brinkman, who started his career as a Gazette reporter in the late 1950s, is gathering White's letters for a pair of books he hopes to publish by 1997. The volumes will focus on notes posted to and from White's house and the White House during the administrations of seven presidents, Theodore Roosevelt through Franklin Delano Roosevelt. All were close friends economic truths which distress your busi- 1913, while Landon, Y08, was a law stu- of White's, Brinkman says: "It has been ness men. They, being organized, will dent): jjfiK' d argued that no resource is more valuable protest...and claim the University is "As I sit here in my air-cooled office for continued and detailed study of the spreading bolshevism and socialism and think of you sweating and worrying, first part of the 1900s than the works and distress and will demand that the profes- loadecUfawn with responsibility and other personal papers of William Allen White." sor be removed. It is then I want to func- mtiefs, I get kind of sorry that I Brinkman returned to KU Oct. 5 to tion as the only two minute egg in a hard- ire you out of the University thirty share some of his favorite letters in this boiled Easter basket." years ago and rum your career so that you year's first address of the Humanities Hr peaceful, simple and honest Lecture Series. Many of the scribblings February 26, 1927 life as an oil man, producing something pertained to the University and to other To Forrest C. "Phog"Allen, '09, men's bas- usefulW mankind." finer things in life: ketball coach for 39 years, after Allen had June 4,1923 written to rebut an editorial White wrote Jan. 9,1912 To KU Chancellor E. H. Lindley, accepting criticizing college athletics: To Charles F. Scott, longtime ffjemfrom lola-. Lindley's invitation to serve on a Fund- "A football or basketball victory only "...And, brethren, have you got a raising committee: attracts the undesirable students and not phonograph, a Victor? You ought to have 7 will join your business men's club those that you particularly care for. one and you ought to get a twelve-inch for two reasons. First because I want to Harvard does not need a football victory record called 'Schubert's Unfinished serve the University in any way I can, and to make it a great university; neither does Symphony' and then when you come second, because I believe there is grave the University of Kansas." home at night after reading a paper like danger in any men s group associating the Gazette...anil seeing a mad nation with the University and I want to be on July 20, 1936 going steadily crazy, put that old sympho- the ground when the trouble starts. And To Kansas Gov. Alfred Landon, who that ny on the machine and click it off and let trouble will start just as soon as some year lost his bid for the U.S. presidency her run four or five times....I do not know free man in the University stands up and (White had been a member of the that you need it. I simply suggest that it is begins telling uncomfortable social and University's Board of Regents from 1903 to a pretty good thing to take." SHOW A TENDER FACE.

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