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I Love This Place. Let’s work together to make it better than ever.

For four decades, I have As you are likely aware, In the coming months, enjoyed the rhythms of life at today the university is we will ask you to think about the University of Wisconsin- confronted by an ongoing how you, too, can play a part Madison. Although the cam- resource crisis that threat- in keeping this university pus and its people change ens our core mission and great through all seasons and Our emotional attachment to rapidly, there is comfort in principles. We are doing against all challenges. how each year resembles the our best to be nimble and As resources have become this place — its 936 acres, last — from the first hint of creative, launching several scarce, units on campus have the people who make it come color on the Muir Knoll trees efforts aimed at making UW- become more proactive in as students make their way to Madison run more efficiently. their efforts to engage alumni alive, and the important fall classes, to the cool palette We are identifying ways to in our mission. Rather than work here is one that of ice on a wintry Lake stretch our dollars further continuing to send a variety — Mendota, to open-air spring than we already are, and of solicitations throughout the pushes all of us to strive to classes meeting on Bascom we are asking everyone on year, however, we are moving Hill, to heated discussions on campus to think about new, toward a concentrated annual make it better than ever. humid summer nights at the innovative ways to expand giving campaign effort — dur- Memorial Union Terrace. our capacity and improve the ing the months of September One of the reasons I re- educational experience. and October — to encourage turned as interim chancellor is Going forward, that spirit a larger number of alumni to that I simply love it here, and of creativity and innovation actively support the university. I know many of you share will lead to significant changes We look forward to that sentiment. Our emotion- in the way we will contact working with our alumni al attachment to this place — you, in how we ask for your and friends to ensure that its 936 acres, the people who help in supporting the UW’s the University of Wisconsin make it come alive, and the mission, and in the way we remains one of the very best important work here — is one intend to expand the margin universities in the world. that pushes all of us to strive of excellence that is so critical David Ward to make it better than ever. to our university. Interim Chancellor ations ni C University Comm U SUMMER 2012 contents VOLUME 113, NUMBER 2

Features

22 A Labor of Love (for Words) By Jenny Price ’96 Zowie! Wrapping up an unrelenting quest that began in 1965, the Dictionary of American Regional English achieves a milestone.

28 Can You Nurture Your Nature? By Jill Sakai PhD’06 In a new book, renowned UW researcher Richard Davidson says each person has an emotional style that can evolve via mental practices. 30 Farewell Cards By John Allen 22 After twenty-five years, Memorial Library has finally translated (almost) all the data from its card catalog into its online catalog.

36 Robert’s Rules By Jenny Price ’96 His trainees in the pro basketball world say he’s tough, but that’s why they value this former UW track star.

38 There’s an Apps for That By Erika Janik MA’04, MA’06 The books of prolific author Jerry Apps ’55, MS’57, PhD’67 go beyond chronicling rural life — they point the way to lessons from the past. 42 Separation Surgeon By Melissa Peyton 30 Gary Hartman ’70, MD’74 has likely logged more surgeries on conjoined twins than any other physician in the world.

Departments 5 Inside Story 8 Letters 10 Scene 38 12 News & Notes 18 Q & A 19 Classroom 20 Sports Cover Just a rainstorm? Far from it: A recently completed 46 Traditions dictionary of regional English catalogs the entertaining 49 Badger Connections variety of words that Americans use. 66 Flashback Design by Earl Madden. Image by Ben Sanders/Getty.

SUMMER 2012 3 Year of the Wisconsin Idea This academic year, we proudly celebrate the Wisconsin Idea. Through events, information, and reflection, we are observing one of our longest-held traditions: that UW teaching, research, outreach, and public service should improve the lives of people everywhere. Our alumni contribute to the legacy of the Wisconsin Idea every day through their work beyond the boundaries of campus to benefit the state, nation, and world. But we only hear some of these inspiring stories, so we invite you to share yours at www.wisconsinidea.wisc.edu

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Anthony Shadid ’90 could On Wisconsin have been a bitter man. SUMMER 2012 After all, he had seen the worst of what human beings can inflict upon one Publisher Wisconsin Alumni Association another. Yet Shadid, who studied jour- 650 North Lake Street, Madison, WI 53706 nalism at UW-Madison in the 1980s and Voice: (608) 262-2551 • Toll-free: went on to win two Pulitzer Prizes for (888) WIS-ALUM • Fax: (608) 265-8771 Email: [email protected] his reporting for the Washington Post, Website: onwisconsin.uwalumni.com always chose to dig deeper. Co-Editors As he traveled to the Middle East Niki Denison, Wisconsin Alumni Association Cindy Foss, University Communications and began lifting the layers to discover what ultimately leads to conflict, he Senior Editor John Allen, Wisconsin Alumni Association knew that speaking the same language

Senior Writer mattered. Using the Arabic he learned at Jenny Price ’96, University Communications the UW, he interviewed people on their Art Director own terms. He then switched effort- Earl J. Madden MFA’82, lessly to report in English, explaining to University Communications readers what was taking place thou- Production Editor sands of miles away — and why. Eileen Fitzgerald ’79, Anthony Shadid, while on campus in 2002 to University Communications Shadid demonstrated that truthful receive an award from the journalism school, Editorial Associate stories, whether sad or joyful, could spoke to students about the dangers and the Paula Apfelbach ’83, Wisconsin Alumni plant seeds of optimism. He was in rewards of covering the Middle East. Association; Editorial Intern: Lydia Statz ’12 Syria working on his next story for the Design, Layout, and Production New York Times this February when he died from a severe asthma attack. The univer- Barry Carlsen MFA’83; Toni Good ’76, MA’89; Kent Hamele ’78, University Communications sity has established a scholarship in his name.

Campus Advisers We at On Wisconsin reached out to him several times over the years, and he Paula Bonner MS’78, President and CEO, always responded, saying that he felt gratitude to the university that taught him “the and Mary DeNiro MBA’11, Executive Vice skills, tools, and background that made journalism enjoyable.” President and COO, Wisconsin Alumni Association • Amy E. Toburen ’80, Director, He answered our questions in 2002, not long after he had been shot in the University Communications • Lynne Johnson, shoulder while reporting from Ramallah in the West Bank. In 2008, he joined other Senior Director of Communications, University of Wisconsin Foundation well-known alumni in a story about favorite places in Madison. (His choice? The Black

Advertising Representatives Bear Lounge, where he gathered with fellow student journalists for “conversations Madison Magazine: (608) 270-3600 about everything.”) Big Ten Alumni Alliance During his last visit to campus in 2010, he allowed us to sit in as he spoke to a National Accounts Manager class of journalism students and talked about his work. Susan Tauster: (630) 858-1558 “People want to bear witness, and they want to tell you the story,” he said. How Alumni Name, Address, Phone, fortunate we are that he listened. and EMail Changes • Death Notices Madison area: (608) 262-9648 Cindy Foss Toll-free: (888) 947-2586 Co-Editor Email: [email protected]

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siasm described by those young engineers. college years at Madison during the 1970s. Micro When I began there in 1962 … I was one of The more the years go by, the more I look to Macro A tiny fly leads a UW those stereotypical engineers in horn-rimmed back with fondness, even giddiness — sheer geneticist to fruitful discoveries. glasses designing spacecraft with slide delight, if you will, about so many wonderful rules and analog computers. My early years memories of Madison. Thank you, Jenny, for involved spacecraft structural design and [writing] words so befitting of our feelings. mission support. Henry Tse ’76, MA’77, MS’79 It is hard to describe the feeling of excite- Rosemead, California ment and accomplishment of providing mission support to the Apollo lunar missions Bubbler Bonanza

WISCONSIN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — especially Apollo 11 and Apollo 13. I Barbara Belzer Adams’s entertaining 150 YEARS wouldn’t trade my career at Johnson Space piece about the Wisconsin word bubbler Center for anything. was delightful and informative [Spring Bob Schwartz ’61 2012, “Bubbler: A Secret Code,” Sifting & Estes Park, Colorado Winnowing]. I have lived in eight different Over the Top Issue states since leaving Madison, and have [The coverage about] Barry Popkin [“Leading Blame Obesity on Sedentary Habits always found that noun useful in ferreting out the War on Obesity”] and Barry Ganetzky Barry Popkin has the right idea to combat Badgers in social thickets. [“Lord of the Flies”], both featured in the obesity [“Leading the War on Obesity,” Spring Jack French ’58 Spring 2012 On Wisconsin, was reading “over 2012] but does not go far enough. The charge Fairfax, Virginia the top.” Thank you to Jill Sakai and Melba also needs to be led against Mark Zuckerberg Newsome for superb reporting. of Facebook fame, Aaron Rodgers of the Greatly enjoyed Barbara Belzer Adams’s Nancy Wagner Usher ’58 [Green Bay] Packers, and Al Gore, the man article. Having grown up in Madison in the Burr Ridge, Illinois who invented the Internet [sic]. They have all ’50s, I remember bubblers well, and still refer encouraged people to partake in sedentary to water fountains as bubblers. The only fault I Way to Rune a Hypothesis activities, be it sitting in front of the TV or the found was that the picture showed a fountain, “Rune with a View” [Spring 2012] raises computer for hours on end. not a bubbler. A bubbler “bubbled” the water some interesting questions about the Vikings coming to mid-America: In boats propelled It took a few more such encounters before it sank into my by sails and oars, how did they travel up the St. Lawrence River against the wind and the provincial little brain that bubbler was not the universal current? term for that thingy that spurts drinking water. What did they do to get by the numerous rapids on the river that today are bypassed by canals? What did they do when confronted Sound ridiculous? No more ridiculous straight up from the middle of the fountain, by Niagara Falls and the regional escarpment than Popkin blaming corporations for the and was probably not too sanitary. over which it flows? How did they get from personal decisions each and every person Bill Cuthbert ’66 Lake Huron to Lake Superior in a time long should make for themselves. It’s simple — Lake Villa, Illinois before the Sault Sainte Marie locks? if calories in exceed calories expended, you How did they survive a one-thousand- need to stop chewing. Perhaps, if it would The Spring issue of On Wisconsin was excel- mile journey through hostile Indian territory? not take three permits and a helmet, we could lent! When I got to the bit on bubblers (just If they really did penetrate North America, why send our kids out to cut the grass to expend now my spell-check is having a fit … obvi- is this feat not recorded in their sagas, which some of those calories. ously, it’s not from Wisconsin), I remembered proclaim their history? Kip Ertel ’85 a trip we took south with our children. We Marilyn Hurst MS’85, PhD’91 Sheboygan, Wisconsin stopped to get gas, and the kids had a hard Madison time trying to make the attendant under- Inside Story Strikes a Chord stand that they would like to have a drink of Wouldn’t Trade Space Career [In the Spring 2012 Inside Story, Jenny Price] water. When they finally found a drinking foun- As a Wisconsin grad and veteran of the hit a home run when she wrote, “The more tain, they couldn’t understand why there were space program, I was excited to read the years and miles separate people from “white and black” bubblers. They said they “Shared Space” in your Spring 2012 issue. Madison, the more they seem to appre- had tried both of them and the water was the Although I didn’t open the doors that Karina ciate what it brought to their lives.” They are same in both. Ain’t it the truth! Eversley did, I worked for thirty-two years such poignant, sentimental words so aptly Phyllis Anderson ’48, MA’68 at NASA-Houston, and I share the enthu- describing how I feel, looking back on my Madison

8 ON WISCONSIN I moved to Kansas at age 31, having spent PhD’07 to several runestone sites. The two From the Web 29 of my 31 years in Wisconsin. A day or did not travel together and met at just one Wonderful article! [“Lord of the Flies,” Spring two after arriving, I asked a clerk at Sears site, at Heavener, Oklahoma. 2012]. I am a former Drosophila geneticist who to please direct me to the bubbler. What I turned to a writing career because I did not thought was a simple question was met with Please Update Your Address feel a strong enough connection to the human incomprehension. It took a few more such UW-Madison wants to stay in touch with you. condition, working with flies that had legs encounters before it sank into my provincial To update your contact information, which is growing out of their heads and mouths. While little brain that bubbler was not the universal maintained by the UW Foundation, please visit I am happy with my career change, I was so term for that thingy that spurts drinking water. www.supportuw.org/update. To log in, use the wrong! This terrific article proves it. And I’ve Dick Beeman PhD’77 ID number above your name on the magazine come full circle — I wrote the news releases label. This information is shared selectively from the Drosophila meetings in Chicago a with other campus units and the Wisconsin few weeks ago. Corrections Alumni Association to ensure that alumni infor- Ricki Lewis On Wisconsin regrets that it left off the class mation is consistent and accurate. Thank you! year and the h in Rhona Applebaum PhD’81’s I grew up in the greater Boston area, and name in “Leading the War on Obesity” (Spring On Wisconsin Magazine welcomes letters but although I can’t explain this, we all used the 2012). Applebaum is the vice president and reserves the right to edit them for length or term bubbler [“Bubbler: A Secret Code,” chief scientific and regulatory officer for Coca- clarity. Email: [email protected]; Sifting & Winnowing, Spring 2012]. Never any Cola in Atlanta, Georgia. mail: On Wisconsin, 650 North Lake Street, question or thought that another word would Madison, WI 53706; fax (608) 265-8771. We do. The only difference is that we pronounced The article “A Rune with a View” (Spring regret that we don’t have space to publish all it bubbla. 2011) incorrectly stated that runologist Henrik the letters we receive, but we always appre- Joe DiDomenico William traveled with James Frankki ’85, ciate hearing from you.

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SUMMER 2012 9 Digital Diorama #UWRightNow, a multimedia project designed to capture UW-Madison in 24 hours, was a new idea realized. University Communications invited people to share their UW stories, photos, videos, and tweets on April 18, 2012 — and, boy, did they ever. Starting during the wee hours and ending at scene midnight, submissions poured in from on campus and far, far beyond. Ultimately, more than 1,000 pieces were posted to an ever-changing website, as shown in this screen capture. Marvel at what poured in from 50 states and 66 countries by visiting uwrightnow.wisc.edu. Digital Diorama #UWRightNow, a multimedia project designed to capture UW-Madison in 24 hours, was a new idea realized. University Communications invited people to share their UW stories, photos, videos, and tweets on April 18, 2012 — and, boy, did they ever. Starting during the wee hours and ending at scene midnight, submissions poured in from on campus and far, far beyond. Ultimately, more than 1,000 pieces were posted to an ever-changing website, as shown in this screen capture. Marvel at what poured in from 50 states and 66 countries by visiting uwrightnow.wisc.edu. news ¬es

Carded The UW sees a slow but steady demand for voter IDs.

With elections pending in both the the student body has asked for a summer and fall, and a new law voter ID. designed to combat ballot box “I don’t think we had a good fraud, the university began issuing idea of how many people would voter ID cards to students in the be running in here,” says James spring. Between January 23, Wysocky, who works in adminis- when the cards were first distrib- tration and marketing for campus uted, and early May, students had cards at the Wisconsin Union. requested some 549 ID cards. “We didn’t expect a significant In 2011, the Wisconsin state volume, as most students have legislature passed a law requiring a driver’s license or passport. that all residents present a That’s why we didn’t redesign the government-issued photo identifi- student ID but issued a separate cation — such as a driver’s license voter ID instead.” or passport — to vote in elections. The cards, shown here, were The UW student ID card didn’t used for February elections. To meet the requirements of Wisconsin’s 2011 voter ID law, the UW meet all of the law’s requirements, However, they weren’t required offered students a special identification that includes the student’s name, photo, signature, date issued, and expiration date. and so in January 2012, the UW for April votes, after a Dane received permission from the County judge issued an injunction June. It was unclear at press time “We’ve been anticipating that this state’s Government Accountability barring enforcement of the law whether the voter ID law will be in might go back and forth for some Board to issue special voter ID over concerns that it may violate effect for the national elections in time, and we want to be sure that cards free of charge to students voters’ rights. The law will likely November. students can get what they need who requested them. not be in force for the recall elec- “Nothing has changed from to vote, no matter what happens.” Still, less than 2 percent of tion of Governor Scott Walker in our perspective,” says Wysocky. John Allen

quick takes After further consideration, Once again, the UW has percentage of Pell Grant recipi- game created by UW-Extension. the U.S. National Advisory Board surpassed $1 billion in research ents (14.6). Through 408 questions on 102 for Biosecurity agreed that the expenditures. In fiscal year 2010, cards, the game offers informa- journal Nature could publish the university spent $1.3 billion, The geography department’s tion about how to protect water a study of the H5N1 flu virus up $15 million from 2009. The Robinson Map Library received quality and wildlife habitat. The conducted by UW professor UW ranked third overall among more than 1,200 topographic game is available online at Yoshihiro Kawaoka. In December U.S. universities, and second maps, a gift from the Wisconsin learningstore.uwex.edu. 2011, the organization raised among public universities, behind Geological and Natural History security concerns that delayed Johns Hopkins and the University Survey. Topographic maps give The 2012 graduating class the study for several months. of Michigan. highly detailed records of the included Serra Crawford, who (See “Weighing the Issues,” shape of a land surface. Today, turned sixteen years old on May 1. Spring 2012.) The study was UW-Madison also ranked scientists and hikers use digital Crawford majored in international published in Nature’s May issue. among the best in a Chronicle maps, but the library’s new studies. of Higher Education survey on collection includes paper maps Glamour magazine named UW college completion. The UW created during the first half of the The 2012 commencement junior Jasmine Mans one of its received high marks for four-year twentieth century. speaker was Carol Bartz ’71, top ten college women. Mans is a (49.7 percent) and six-year (83 former CEO of Yahoo! and of poet and spoken-word artist and percent) graduation rates. It fared Learn how to preserve Autodesk. She is currently the has appeared on HBO’s Brave poorly, however, in spending Wisconsin’s waterways by lead director of the board for New Voices and on Broadway. per completion ($92,402) and playing Wisconsin Lakes Trivia, a Cisco Systems.

12 ON WISCONSIN Game On Research on the educational power of video games takes a professor to the White House. © 2012 NC INTERACTIVE, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. © 2012 NC INTERACTIVE, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Constance Steinkuehler was told studying how people learn by playing online multiplayer games, such as Lineage, would end her career.

It began with power pellets, changes such as healthful eating merely for fun, Steinkuehler their time or given extra credit. gobbling ghosts, and Ms. Pac and exercise. and her team are looking at “I got really tired of feeling Man. “Games have evolved how the federal government like I was studying people in As a kid growing up into a pretty serious medium,” can mobilize the private sector spaces who were being cajoled in the 1980s, Constance Steinkuehler says. and philanthropic organizations or bribed into being there,” Steinkuehler MS’00, PhD’05 Her eighteen-month term has into developing more games for Steinkuehler says. spent plenty of time in the arcade. her juggling life in Washington, education, civic improvement, But in 2001, she entered the And she was pretty good. D.C., with life in Madison, where and health — games for good, medieval world of castle sieges Her days of playing games her husband, Kurt Squire, an as she likes to call them. by downloading Lineage, an are far from over, although since associate professor of education, Steinkuehler’s interest online game that requires people mid-September, the UW assis- and their two small children live. didn’t really start with games to pay to participate. tant professor of education has “I couldn’t turn down this themselves. Rather, she was “After that, I changed every- been at the White House, serving opportunity,” says Steinkuehler, fascinated by how they helped thing I was doing and have studied as a senior policy analyst in the who in addition to her UW people learn. For five years, she games ever since,” she says. Office of Science and Technology degrees, in 1993 earned three studied human interaction online, Her 2005 dissertation in the Policy. It’s her job to help craft bachelor degrees (math, English, and researched and developed literacy studies program focused policies that can support the and religious studies) simul- online environments designed on the people playing Lineage development of games for educa- taneously at the University of specifically for learning. Study and how they learned. tional or training purposes and Missouri-Columbia. participants were given activi- “They were doing activ- to encourage positive behavorial While many games are played ties to do and were either paid for ities far more difficult than

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we would’ve asked them to,” and develop cures. BRYCE RICHTER Steinkuehler says. To this day, her Last year, President Barack alter ego for Lineage is Princess Obama told students at the Adelaide, a moniker taken from TechBoston Academy that he her grandmother’s middle name. would like to see educational soft- Although she no longer has time ware that’s every bit as compelling to play the game, she keeps as the best video game. the princess “alive” by paying a “I want you guys to be stuck monthly fee. on a video game that’s teaching Her unconventional field of you something other than just study did have some colleagues blowing something up,” Obama wondering if it was wise to pursue. said. While video games are “People said my career was often criticized as being violent, over,” she says. But the concerns Steinkuehler notes that such were unfounded, and today she’s games are only a small fraction of part of a cutting-edge field that is the market. She sees enormous getting academic attention — and potential in taking a medium that games are being developed that kids already enjoy and finding didn’t seem possible in the era of ways to benefit their lives. Ms. Pac Man. Just as games have changed, “Games can help solve problems,” says Steinkuehler, who works in Foldit is one such revolu- so have the players, who no the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. tionary game. Developed at the longer fit the stereotype of University of Washington’s Center teenage boys. households play video games. antiquated,” Steinkuehler says. for Game Science, it challenges The Entertainment Software While many people wouldn’t Games are here to stay — players to learn about the shapes Association, a game-industry call themselves gamers, they and here to help. “We need to of proteins, and then compete trade group, recently found that happily pass time playing Angry show people that Foldit isn’t a online to fold them into the most the typical gamer is thirty-seven Birds or other game apps on one-off — that games can help efficient shapes. Ultimately, it years old and that 42 percent of smartphones. solve problems,” she says. could help to diagnose disease players are women. Two-thirds of “The term gamer is really Käri Knutson

Brave New Reference A UW scholar weighs the credibility of Wikipedia.

Some might be mourning the would be able to capture the “I myself use it on a daily And for events happening in death of the print edition of breadth, depth, and nuance of basis and am pretty sure most real time, Wikipedia is far more Encyclopædia Britannica this typical reference books, which of my colleagues and students nimble, creating a standard that year, but UW history and geog- are backed by the scholarly do, too, even if they won’t admit even newspapers struggle to raphy professor William Cronon training and rigor of the profes- it,” Cronon writes. “Wikipedia is match, he writes. ’76 has already identified a sionals who wrote them. The today the gateway through which “If you can’t beat ’em, join far more comprehensive and history department at Middlebury millions of people now seek ’em,” he concludes, encouraging detailed replacement: Wikipedia. College went so far as to bar access to knowledge—which not his students and colleagues to Like many of his colleagues, students from citing it in their long ago was only available using write for Wikipedia themselves. the current president of the papers. tools constructed and maintained “All one needs is to open oneself American Historical Association But all that has changed. by professional scholars.” to the possibilities and give was initially skeptical about the Wikipedia has exploded to Because Wikipedia invites up the comfort of credentialed online encyclopedia. feature more than 19 million contributions from anyone inter- expertise to contribute to the In an essay for the associa- articles in 270 languages, with 6 ested in a subject, it offers a greatest encyclopedia the world tion’s magazine, Cronon recalls billion individual page views each scope that is unmatched by has ever known.” questioning whether Wikipedia month. typical encyclopedias. Stacy Forster

14 ON WISCONSIN Ring around the Roads Study shows that roundabouts are effective, if unpopular.

’Round and ’round the automo- tions confusing. But in spite of she says. “But overall, there was more common, Noyce expects biles go, but how they crash, only that, roundabouts have demon- a great reduction in the severity that the number of minor colli- TOPS knows. The engineers of strated a record of improved safety of accidents.” sions will also fall, and that the UW’s Traffic Operations and and more efficient traffic flow. Bill and Noyce explain that popular sentiment toward round- Safety (TOPS) Laboratory recently “The data don’t lie,” Noyce personal safety improves even abouts will rise. released a study of roundabouts, says. “Roundabouts have been if the total number of crashes “People’s first impressions examining their effect on safety shown to be effective at increasing doesn’t because of the way that have been negative,” he says. and traffic flow. both the capacity of intersec- roundabouts change traffic flow. “But I think that’s largely due to A roundabout is a road inter- tions and their safety. As long as As all the cars in a roundabout unfamiliarity and a lack of under- section in which cars from all they’re appropriately located and are essentially moving in the standing. There’s a tremendous directions turn right on entering designed, they’re very productive.” same direction, the chance of a benefit to [roundabouts], and as and travel counterclockwise TOPS Lab researchers high-impact, head-on or T-bone people get to know them, they’ll around an internal circle until conducted a study of two dozen collision is removed. come to appreciate them.” exiting on their desired route. In Wisconsin roundabouts between As roundabouts become John Allen recent years, roundabouts have 2009 and 2011. According to replaced traditional four-way Andrea Bill MS’06, a traffic stops and stoplights in various safety engineer who led the study, STUDENT WATCH locations around the country. the roundabouts showed a There are currently more than 52 percent reduction in the Some things about college never change, but trudging fifty roundabouts in Wisconsin, number of crashes that cause with another hundred planned for fatalities and injuries. However, up Bascom Hill with the complete works of Shake- construction in coming years. she also noted that about half speare weighing you down may have become a thing of Roundabouts aren’t neces- of the roundabouts showed an the past. sarily popular with all drivers, increase in minor collisions — however. According to TOPS those causing damage to cars but In January UW-Madison launched a pilot program Lab director David Noyce ’84, not to the people riding in them. to provide e-textbooks to about six hundred students, MS’95, a professor of civil and “At some of the intersections, hoping to save both money and shelf space. The uni- environmental engineering, many there was an increase in side- versity purchases the books in bulk directly from pub- people find the circular intersec- swipes and rear-end collisions,” lishers at discounted prices, and students then pay a BRYCE RICHTER fee to the UW instead of buying the books themselves. The text can be printed on good old-fashioned paper or accessed on nearly any device with an Internet connec- tion. Students and teachers can add notes or hyperlinks to the text and share them with others, making for a much more interactive study experience. Bottom-line savings aren’t known yet, but given that a UW student spends an average of $1,140 on books and supplies each year, even a small cost difference can help when budgets are tight. So the next time you spot students buried in their smartphones, give them the benefit of the doubt. They may be studying for exams. Lydia Statz ’12 Cars pass through the roundabout at the intersection of Mineral Point Road and Pleasant View Road on Madison’s west side.

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Year of the Wisconsin Idea: By the Numbers The Wisconsin Idea — the principle that the university’s knowledge improves people’s lives — is one of the campus’s oldest traditions. As the UW wraps up its celebration of the Wisconsin Idea this academic year, here’s a look at just some of the ways in which the university’s teaching, research, outreach, and public service have made a difference. 4,577 School of Nursing alumni who work and live in Wisconsin 31,690 Students enrolled in evening, weekend, off- campus, and distance programs $43 283 New companies with a million direct connection to Funding given to Wisconsin UW-Madison communities since 2004 for locally directed health and wellness 1,500 projects Arts events offered at the UW each year

1,115 Heart and lung transplants, as of December 150,000 2009, conducted by UW Hospital doctors — including Calls the UW Center for a record-breaking five Tobacco Research and heart transplants in the Intervention’s Quit Line same week has fielded since its inception

600 12 Wisconsin high school Agricultural research students who attend World stations across Wisconsin Languages Day on BARRY ROAL CARLSEN that support the state’s campus each year $59.16 billion agriculture industry

16 ON WISCONSIN Awe-Inspiring

NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite captured this composite image, titled “Blue Marble,” using swaths of the planet’s surface taken on the same day earlier this year. The agency recently renamed the satellite for the late Verner E. Suomi, a longtime UW-Madison professor who COURTESY OF NASA GODDARD SPACECOURTESY FLIGHT CENTER is often called the father of satellite meteorology. This image — taken with an instrument aboard the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership — logged more than 3.1 million views on Flickr.com within the first week of its release. UW researchers help translate the satellite’s data into information useful to meteorologists, farmers, pilots, ship captains, and almost anyone with an interest in the weather.

Changing Perceptions A UW study finds that we can lessen prejudice.

Can a simple message reduce completing a task. They were prejudice than a poster with only variability of Arabs was empha- prejudice and discrimination? then sent to another building positive words. sized just prior to resumes being The work of Markus Brauer, to receive credit for being part Companies spend a lot of reviewed, “the discrimination a UW psychology professor who of the experiment, and as they money on diversity training, but disappeared,” he says. studies human behavior, offers waited in a hallway, a woman of studies show those efforts are Before joining the UW faculty, some evidence — and hope — Arab appearance walked by and “phenomenally ineffective” and Brauer spent fifteen years in that it can. “The message is that purposely dropped a plastic bag, don’t result in more women or France, where he also studied what makes us the same is we spilling its contents. minorities being hired, Brauer reactions to uncivil or immoral are all different,” he says. More than 90 percent of says. Research-based training, behaviors, known as the bystander Brauer created posters those who saw the poster which he is developing using effect. He and his collaborators featuring photos of people from showing the diversity of Arabs the results of his work, can employed “confederates,” such as a particular racial or ethnic group helped the woman in the first achieve those goals. In a series the woman who dropped the bag who have very little resemblance twenty seconds of the incident. of twenty laboratory and field in the poster study, to, for example, to one another. The individuals About 60 percent in the control experiments, Brauer’s methods draw graffiti inside an elevator vary in age, attractiveness, facial group, which didn’t see the effectively reduce prejudice and full of people. Researchers then expression, gender, skin color, poster, offered assistance. discrimination. measured their reactions. and formality of clothing, and Brauer did a follow-up study In another study in France, Why hire these actors to play they are labeled with positive and using two versions of a poster Brauer and his colleagues created a role in research? Brauer says negative traits, such as joyful and featuring African-American indi- a mock hiring situation. When other methods, such as surveys, pessimistic. viduals. The results showed that the most-qualified candidate had are not as reliable: “People do not In one study, participants emphasizing both positive and an Arabic name — rather than a always behave the way they say viewed a version of the poster negative character traits was French name — he was discrim- they behave.” featuring Arab people before more effective in reducing inated against. But when the Jenny Price ’96

SUMMER 2012 17 q&a BRYCE RICHTER

Anders Andren The Sea Grant’s long-time director charts a new course.

After two decades as director of the UW’s Sea Grant Institute, Anders Andren is ready to sail off into retirement. The Finnish native was on the faculty of the College of Engineering, teaching courses in aquatic analytical chemistry, and rose to prominence with studies of pollutants delivered by the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico. Under his leadership, the Sea Grant Institute has fostered studies of pollutants, invasive species, aquaculture, and aquaponics.

How did you become interested in marine science? I grew up on the Åland Islands in the Baltic, where one of the major businesses was shipping. My father was a sea captain. I spent a lot of time at sea in my youth. I traveled all over the world with him. Everywhere, you name it. Except landlocked countries. When he was about fifty years old, his ship company got heavily into the car-carrying trade between North America and Europe. He was asked to head up the operation for North America, and that’s when [I decided] to come over here for a year and check things out. But here I am. We’re also looking at aquaculture and supporting a vigorous UW-Madison is about a thousand miles from any seashore. program. In particular, we’re interested in cool-water fishes, primarily How is it that we have a Sea Grant Institute? the yellow perch. You know how it is in the Midwest, with the Friday- Well, the enabling legislation says that a Sea Grant Institute shall be night fish fry — the number-one delicacy is yellow perch. Up until about situated on our nation’s marine or Great Lakes coast. In fact, every a year or two ago, nobody knew how to get yellow perch to spawn single Great Lakes state has a Sea Grant Institute — although Illinois’s more than once a year. But a breakthrough by Sea Grant–supported and Indiana’s is combined. New York and Wisconsin are by far the research over in Milwaukee has found a way [to help aquaculturists] largest Great Lakes Sea Grant programs. As a matter of fact, we’re one spawn yellow perch at any time. of the larger ones in the nation. What’s next for you? What’s Sea Grant’s role on campus? I’ve been fortunate to work with some of the world’s best at what they Actually, Sea Grant is a [UW] System institute. It’s analogous to the do. It’s a privilege to have the best staff anybody could have to work land-grant concept, in that the law says that the nation should avail with — talented and just fun to be around. But I’m going to keep active. itself of our major universities, research universities, so that we will I’m going to be involved in a number of projects overseas, in places like assure ourselves of sustainable ecological and economic improve- Costa Rica and Tanzania and Zimbabwe. My oldest son is involved in ments of our marine and Great Lakes resources. eco-philanthropy on a large scale, and he’s convinced me to help out It’s absolutely and truly an embodiment of the Wisconsin Idea. We on several projects. spend a lot of time understanding the research priorities of the Great Lakes, and we also have a lot of citizen stakeholder meetings along I understand that you also have a band. the shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. And then we support How did you hear about that? About ten years ago, my Sea Grant over a hundred faculty, staff, and students throughout the System, plus colleagues and I put together a band, and we called ourselves the places like Marquette, St. Norbert’s, Lawrence — we support them to Not-So-Muddy-Waters Blues Band. We get together once a year, or do research on the priorities that we determine. every other year, and perform. I used to, in my misspent youth, have my own rock ’n’ roll band. What do you see as the current priorities for the Great Lakes? In the summertime, we played dances, mainly, in the Åland Islands. What we’re trying to do right now is understand what the effect of That’s where I cut my teeth and really learned to play guitar. But my global warming has been on the Great Lakes. So just as an example, problem is that I can’t really read music. I learned how to write what is Lake Superior, in the last ten years has seen its average temperature … called MIDI [Musical Instrument Digital Interface] music, which is a form three to five degrees warmer than the previous 150 years. of computer language to write music. I still do that in my spare time at The other huge area of concern is pathogens — viruses and night, lay down tracks. bacteria that have arrived from foreign continents. We are seeing some of these show up on our beaches. They contribute to beach closings. Interview conducted and edited by John Allen.

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Tasty Teaching A popular option for first-year students brings classes down to size.

Scott Barton, a New York-based JEFF MILLER chef, is no stranger to the role of kitchen commander. He bounces around the room, correcting tech- niques, dispensing trivia about palm oil and tapioca, and finding jobs for anyone who’s been idle a bit too long for his taste. But his sous-chefs tonight are twenty UW freshmen who are eagerly following his instructions to prepare an authentic Brazilian meal. By the end of the night, at least one finger sports a bandage from a run-in with a knife, a stack of plates has shattered on the floor, and a fair amount of time has been spent picking shards of eggshell out of what will become a fried dessert. But within two hours, a daunting pile of leafy greens and exotic ingredients has been transformed, and the A weekly dinner lab in Babcock Hall provides a spark for discussions about how food relates to society, feasting begins. from sustainability to the Americanization of ethnic foods, in the First-Year Interest Group course. These students, partici- pants in the university’s First-Year could choose among fifty-eight “We learn through a variety tion shifts from goading laughter Interest Group (FIG) program, FIG offerings for fall 2011, and of different channels, but for a lot to thoughtful debate. Kiernan meet in the basement of Babcock eight more choices became avail- of our time at the university, we McCoy x’15 says she originally Hall weekly, with or without a able this spring. During the past use only the aural channel,” he chose this FIG because regis- visiting chef, to prepare and eat academic year, about one in five says. “There’s this whole other tering for three classes at once a meal together. While they dine first-year students participated kinesthetic dimension — feel, made choosing courses easier. on Greek salad or soul food, in FIGs, which offered widely touch, taste, all the senses. … It’s But, she says, she realized during the class discusses how food appealing topics ranging from great to get a chance to use that.” the semester that the class also relates to society, taking on topics [Bruce] Springsteen’s America to Aside from its sheer novelty, provided a “base of people if we ranging from the Americanization Contemplative Neuroscience: The the program does, indeed, work. need help studying or just want to of ethnic foods to sustainability. Psychology of Well-Being. Over the last ten years, data have get together.” The FIG program is a popular Tasting Food, Tasting shown that students who partic- While stirring the evening’s option among freshmen that inte- Freedom, the FIG that includes ipate in FIGs have a higher GPA caruru, a dish similar to jamba- grates coursework with a social the weekly dinner lab, also at the end of their first semester laya, Javier Barbosa-Mireles experience. Typically, a FIG involves classes in nutritional than those who don’t. Program x’15 adds okra, ground shrimp, consists of about twenty students science and sociology. These director Greg Smith attributes peanuts, and cashews. “Cooking who enroll in the same three courses provide the background this to a variety of factors, such together feels great,” he says. classes, forming a core group knowledge to fuel spirited discus- as interacting one-on-one with a “When everyone’s sitting down, that meets several times each sions, but according to Jack professor early in one’s college sharing the meal you just week and becomes a support Kloppenburg, the Department career, and the feeling of having a prepared together, it’s a really network throughout the crucial of Community and Environmental “FIG family” to rely on. powerful experience.” first year of college. Sociology professor who teaches That sense of community That’s exactly what The program, which began the dinner lab, the experiential is felt throughout the evening Kloppenburg wants to hear. in 2001 with four pilot groups, core of his class is what really meal, as dishes are passed with has grown steadily. Freshmen sets it apart. familial ease, and conversa- Lydia Statz ’12

SUMMER 2012 19 sports

TEAM PLAYER Monika Jakutyte For Monika Jakutyte, raising the bar is a way of life — literally. Growing up in a track-and-field family, the Lithuanian-born senior has the high jump in her genes. “My dad was a seven-foot-one-inch high-jumper in college, and my mom was a track-and- field coach in Lithuania since she was eighteen,” explains Jakutyte. “I grew up on the track surrounded by the girls my mom used to train.” Following her family’s move to the United States, Jakutyte officially started training to be a high-jumper for her middle school’s track-and-field team. Eleven years later, she has become an “My mom coached me expert at maintaining the delicate balance between being a college student and a Big Ten athlete. all my life, [and] it was Drawn to UW-Madison for its exceptional academic reputation and atmosphere, Jakutyte really important for me knew she wanted to be a Badger after meeting with assistant coach Nate Davis. “My mom coached me all my life, [and] it was really important for me to find a good coach I to find a good coach could trust as much as I trust my mom,” says Jakutyte. “Nate was that person, and from the first I could trust. ... From visit, I knew I wanted to be a part of the team at the UW.” Jakutyte is no stranger to hard work, and her dedication to the sport has paid off, winning her the first visit, I knew I the 2011 Big Ten high-jump title and second-team All-American honors. wanted to be a part of “I’m currently focused on doing everything I can to jump high this year and pursue my dream of jumping 1.88 [meters] and higher,” she says. the team at the UW.” After jumping 1.83 meters (six feet) to win her event at the 2012 Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational, her dream is not far off. And if Jakutyte meets that goal before the end of the 2012 season, she’ll aim even higher. She will continue to train after graduation to try to reach 1.95 meters (about six feet, four inches), the Olympic “A” qualifying standard. “I’m passionate about high jump, and I don’t want to end my career just yet,” she says. “I have all my life to work and only so many years to perfect the talent that I have.” Libby Blanchette UW ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS

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They Could Have Danced All Night Athleticism guides this motivated team.

As at any athletic practice, the obsess over particulars of students here are sweaty, focused, technique as in any other sport. and out of breath. They are obvi- That’s right: the team does ously athletes at work. More have coaches — professional impressively, they are doing it all in dancers who travel from Chicago four-inch heels and dress pants. every few weeks to provide They are members of the lessons. And it does hold prac- Badger Ballroom Dance Team, tices, which, according to team Members of the Badger Ballroom Dance Team say the popularity of a registered student organiza- captain Anna Nadon x’13, are ABC’s Dancing with the Stars has helped the sport go mainstream. tion that competes in dancesport every bit as intense as most held events across the Midwest. Some for traditional sports. active on campus for more than overall program on campus. The people may hesitate to call what “In one practice, I can work a decade, Nadon says the recent team is committed to developing they do a sport, pointing out the all of my legs from my feet to my popularity of ABC’s Dancing with the members’ technique, no sequined costumes and musical hips, my arms, my back, and my the Stars has been a boon for the matter their level of athleticism. accompaniment as evidence of core muscles at once, stretching group’s registration. “More people Nadon says students are encour- its origins as a performance art. and working them to take steps know about ballroom dancing; aged to participate whether or not But this isn’t your grand- and make them into dancing,” more people are curious about it; they intend to compete. mother’s fox trot. she says. “No matter what the more people — particularly guys Most of the members, “When you get into the dance is, you should be working — are willing to admit they want like Nadon, had never danced technique, it’s all athletic,” says so hard and performing so much to learn and give it a try because formally before coming to one dancer Samantha Anderson that you feel exhausted after every all those ‘big, tough athletes’ are of the team’s practices. But she x’13. “The muscles you have to dance — not because you’re out doing it. Mostly it has made ball- hopes their experience on the use, where to put your foot, your of shape, but because you are room cooler, more mainstream,” team will be the first step of a hands — it’s so regimented.” working so many muscles.” she says. lifelong hobby. To the untrained observer, The term dancesport was Last fall the group played host “I know a woman who is ballroom dance may seem like an coined in part to acknowledge to its first annual home compe- ninety-four, and she still gets out anything-goes, freestyle perfor- the growing athleticism of the tition, bringing together dancers and goes social dancing,” she mance. In reality, entire textbooks competitive ballroom world, a from several states for the Badger says. “How many ninety-four- have been written about how trend the media have only recently Ballroom Dancesport Classic. year-old football players can say much foot rise or heel turn certain begun to recognize. Though the But performances are only a the same thing?” steps require, allowing coaches to Badger Ballroom team has been small part of Badger Ballroom’s Lydia Statz ’12

BADGER SPORTS TICKER Former Badger football player Troy place where student athletes can study and The UW is striving to make a Vincent x’92 received a 2012 Jefferson train together. The plan includes renovations comeback in the annual Border Battle Award for public service. Vincent and his and additions to locker rooms and weight with Minnesota. The Border Battle is wife, Tommi, founded Love Thy Neighbor, rooms, a strength-training facility, and an an all-sport competition between the a community-development organization academic center. Construction is scheduled two universities, with points awarded that aids inner-city students. Vincent is one to be complete by January 2014. for victories in head-to-head games of two with UW ties to pick up a Jefferson and matches. It’s now in its eighth year, Award this year; Vice Chancellor Darrell The football Badgers grabbed another with Minnesota holding a 4-3 advantage, Bazzell ’84 also received the honor. transfer quarterback: Danny O’Brien from and the Gophers hold a slim lead this the University of Maryland. Like last year’s year with just five sports (men’s and The athletic department has begun star, Russell Wilson, O’Brien completed women’s golf, men’s and women’s construction of a $76.8 million “athletic his bachelor’s degree before coming to outdoor track and field, and women’s village” around Camp Randall Stadium, a Madison. He will be eligible to play this fall. rowing) left to play.

SUMMER 2012 21 A LABOR OF LOVE {FOR WORDS} From A to Z, THE DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN REGIONAL ENGLISH Reaches Its Goal.

By Jenny Price ’96 From 1965 to 1970, the UW had dispatched researchers to Illustrations by Joyce Hesselberth more than one thousand communities, where they conducted interviews with the locals and documented what words they used. After the fieldwork was done, editors in Madison used the When you’re far from home, the way people collected responses to build DARE, volume by heavy volume. talk is one of the first signs that you’re not in Hall took over as editor after the death of project founder Kansas — or Wisconsin — anymore. Frederic G. Cassidy in 2000. In keeping with Cassidy’s mantra Several years ago, when I was living in Little Rock, — “On to Z!” — DARE reached its goal, publishing a fifth Arkansas, it didn’t take long for Midwestern me to hear words volume that covers Sl to Z. and phrases unique to the heart of Dixie. During my first trip to But it’s not over yet: a sixth volume, which will include the grocery store, the cashier smiled, handed over my receipt, sets of maps showing how synonyms are distributed across the and said what sounded like, “Appreciate ya!” I eventually country, is in progress, with publication planned for early next year. The following pages offer a sneak preview of some of that learned that he meant “thank you.” volume’s content. “We think of American English as being pretty homoge- In the future, DARE may conduct follow-up research, revis- neous, but with our spoken language, there are still thousands iting communities from the original survey. of differences,” says Joan Houston Hall, chief editor for the And the dictionary will be released in electronic form next Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) at UW-Madison. year, making it even more addictive to word lovers. Open the For five decades, the DARE project has been documenting more-than-one-thousand-page fifth volume, and each entry and celebrating the way we speak, and patiently working its leads you to look up another. Pretty soon, you’ll be figuring out way through the alphabet. In March 2012, the project reached ways to incorporate whoopensocker* into daily conversation. n a milestone that, during the early days, may have seemed out of Jenny Price is senior writer for On Wisconsin. reach: the twenty-sixth letter.

22 ON WISCONSIN Outhouse

Aunt Jane’s room little house F.D.R. garden house reading room Mrs. Jones johnny house King Tut’s tomb biffy First National Bank chic sale

SUMMER 2012 23 Askew

skee-wampus galley-west antigodlin catabias gee-hawed cockeyed skew-gee catawampus sky west and crooked squawed one-sided

24 ON WISCONSIN devil’s horse Dragonfly ear sewer mosquito hawk needle devil’s darning needle snake doctor eye stitcher snake feeder witch doctor globe-skimmer

bear claw Pastries bismarck galley-west bun Chicago doughnut hole friedcake fastnacht long john cruller paczki maple bar SUMMER 2012 25 arroyo Streamcreek bayou branch brook coulee run crick

Worms

angleworm fishworm red wiggler baitworm eelworm dew worm night walker grubworm Georgia wiggler bloodworm

26 ON WISCONSIN Belly-flop

belly-buster bullfrog belly-smacker belly-bumper pancake flatbelly belly-whopper back-buster

Regional origins for these words from the Dictionary of American English can be found online at onwisconsin.uwalumni.com.

SUMMER 2012 27 JEFF MILLER Can You Nurture Your Nature ? A leading UW researcher says everyone has an emotional style — and you can train yourself to change.

By Jill Sakai PhD’06

Early on, Richard Davidson’s interests in emotion and meditation were not considered an auspicious start to a productive research career. Undaunted, he has since pioneered the field of affec- tive neuroscience, the study of the brain’s basis for emotion, and, aided by a close relationship with the Dalai Lama, has conducted groundbreaking work with Buddhist monks to learn how meditation affects the brain. Over three decades, the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, who still meditates daily, has largely redefined how scientists think about emotion, showing that the natural malleability of the brain extends to emotion as well — Making time for daily meditation, Richard Davidson says the and that it can be trained toward greater attention, awareness, practice helps to balance his own “ridiculously busy” life, which, as it happens, includes researching and writing about meditation. and even happiness through mental practice. In a new book written with health and science reporter the power of positive emotions. He recently talked to On Sharon Begley, The Emotional Life of Your Brain, Davidson Wisconsin about life, work, and, yes, the pursuit of happiness. describes six distinct emotional dimensions — resilience, outlook, social intuition, self-awareness, sensitivity to context, How did you arrive at these six dimensions of and attention — and says that each has a defined and measur- emotional style? able neural signature. How these six come together create what Completely post hoc, based on thirty years of my scientific work. he calls your emotional style: your personality and how you live They are a way to capture some of the key dimensions of indi- and respond to experiences. vidual differences that I think are important in accounting for a With the support of private gifts and research grants, person’s emotional style. Each is based upon a specific program Davidson founded the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds of empirical research that involves looking at the neural [signals] at UW-Madison’s Waisman Center in 2008 to study and harness of these individual differences.

28 ON WISCONSIN Very early on in my career, one thing that struck me is that How have your own experiences with meditation the most important thing about human emotion, by far, is vari- influenced your approach to these questions? ability: in response to the same challenge, different people There’s no question that my personal involvement in medita- respond in different ways. And I was convinced that this had tion has played an enormously important role. It has given something very important to say about why certain people are me an appreciation for the importance of some of the positive more vulnerable to life’s slings and arrows and why other people qualities nurtured by meditation and the notion of plasticity — are more resilient. That is still the most important question that that our brains change in response to experience and training. drives the majority of our research. These styles all help to inform To an external observer, I lead a very stressful life. I’m ridicu- us about why some people are more vulnerable and some people lously busy; I’m overcommitted. But I love coming to work are less vulnerable to different kinds of emotional challenges. every day, and I get a lot of nourishment from my interactions with those around me. I feel that my own meditation practice When you started, emotion was regarded as has helped me generate a lot of positive energy to keep doing something that could not or should not be studied this in a very balanced way, despite what objectively may look scientifically. Why did you think otherwise? very stressful. I was convinced that emotion was a very important feature of behavior. It is very much involved with motivation, with Has your emotional style changed over time? critical aspects of decision-making, and it was clear to me — Yes, definitely. I used to be much more volatile, no question, and as someone interested in what happens when things go awry there was a period in my scientific career when I used to just fly — that it is involved in disorder. Early in graduate school, off the handle. I cannot remember the last time that happened. I discovered [Charles] Darwin’s book The Expression of the It’s not to say that I don’t get irritated — I do — but it’s much Emotions in Man and Animals, and it was absolutely thrilling. more modulated. Specific emotions evolved to solve specific problems that were posed in our evolutionary past, and they are in our repertoire Your book describes ways that people can work to for a reason. shift where they are on the scale of each dimension I don’t think there’s a single part of the brain that’s unaf- of emotional style. Is there an optimal style? fected by emotion, nor a part of the brain historically assigned One end of each continuum is not necessarily better than the to emotion, that doesn’t also play a role in cognition. These are other end. A lot depends on what environment you’re in, what intimately interwoven. you choose as your occupation, whom you choose as your One interesting side note: in the Tibetan language, there’s partner. I honestly don’t believe there is a “best” way, and one of no word for emotion. Emotion is [considered] part of every- my hopes in writing this book is to cultivate an appreciation for thing, so it doesn’t have its own unique word. Early on in diversity. Our society couldn’t function without a diversity our dialogues with the Dalai Lama, this was a big obstacle of emotional styles. for the translators. Where do you see this work going? Can we actually train the emotional side It’s my hope that we can start using this in research … that some of our brain? of the interventions we describe for transforming emotional Even today, we’re largely taught that personality traits and style can be put into practice in major societal venues. The two emotional disposition congeal around adolescence and are basi- biggest ones are health care and K–12 education, to promote cally fixed for the rest of your life, unless a major trauma occurs. healthy emotional styles and help kids develop on a more posi- That never satisfied me. … My essential point is that you can tive trajectory. These are all things we’re actively exploring now engage in systematic mental practices to change aspects of at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. n emotional style. We normally don’t think about happiness as a skill, but to me, there’s no reason to think about it any differ- This interview was conducted and edited by Jill Sakai PhD’06, ently than playing the piano or playing chess. a science writer for University Communications.

SUMMER 2012 29 30 ON WISCONSIN UW-MADISON ARCHIVES farewell Memorial Library bids an overdue adieu to its card catalog. cards By John Allen

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the catalog card. or alumni above a certain age, no introduction is necessary: the card is an old college friend, the key to unlocking the mysterious vaults of knowledge within the UW libraries. But alumni under a certain age will wonder what in the world I’m talking about. For their benefit, perhaps a description is in order. A catalog card is a rectangular piece of white paper — 110-pound card- stock — seventy-five millimeters tall by one hundred twenty-five wide. Centered along the bottom, four millimeters up from the edge, is a small hole. For the better part of a hundred years, the catalog card was essential to study and research. But it’s been obsolete for more than a quarter century now, and as the spring semester wrapped up in May, Memorial Library finished the process of dismantling its card catalog, the largest on campus and one of the last. Memorial Library hasn’t added a card to its paper catalog since August 1987. Over the ensuing years, the library has been engaged in a project called retrospective conversion — that is, converting all of the card data into digital records so that patrons can find them by searching on MadCat, the UW Libraries’ online catalog. For those younger alumni, that announcement may produce no more than a shrug, as librarian Irene Zimmerman notes that it did from some students she knows. “They’d never used a card catalog,” she says. “Not the one here, or anywhere else.” But the passing of the card catalog marks the end of an epoch for the university — or perhaps the end of an epic would be more appropriate. The effort to computerize the card data has taken more than twice as flong as the Trojan War.1 Now, at the end of the 2012 academic year, the library finally feels ready to let go of the paper that, for generations, has filled Memorial’s Room 224. “We had to feel confident in the fact that we have [the data to represent the entire library collection] and that we have it in numerous formats and places to ensure both its integrity and longevity,” says Lee Konrad ’86, MA’92, the associate director of library technology. To give up the cards, he says, “You have to wait until the right time. And that time, for many research libraries, was ten years ago. For UW-Madison, that time is now.”

1 Read about it in Homer’s Iliad, which you can find in English on the fifth floor of Memorial Library, south stacks, at PA4025 A2 F5 1975, or in classical Greek in Memorial Library’s Cutter collection, on the fourth floor, south stacks at X32Y H8 1950. If you’re interested.

When Memorial Library opened in 1953, the university anticipated adding thousands of titles to its card catalog. SUMMER 2012 31 Note the lack of labels on the drawers in the foreground. Put on NOTIS According to legend, the concept of the card catalog began in late-eigh- teenth-century France. As revolutionaries liberated the libraries of aristocrats and monasteries, the state found itself with a great many books. Radical bibliographers used playing cards to keep track of their burgeoning collections. It’s a colorful story, and who knows? Maybe it’s even true. But whatever the forces of liberté, egalité, and fraternité were doing in Europe, the catalog card was a foreign concept when the UW first The UW’s oldest catalog cards were handwritten using a script devised by Melvil Dewey opened its doors. The university’s initial and Thomas Edison. Library Hand was a required element in a librarian’s education. Note lists of library holdings came in book form. that the subject line has been altered during the typewriter era. It wasn’t a terribly impressive collec- fame) and Thomas Edison specifically System (NLS). Developed specifically for tion. The 1851 catalog, for instance, for use on cards. the UW and the University of Chicago notes that the library had just one “They’re rather hard to read today,” by IBM, NLS was the university’s first volume on the subject of engineering: says Jamie Woods MA’81, the General attempt at a computerized catalog. But it 2 W. Gillespie’s Roads and Rail Roads. But Library System head of original cata- was never finished and was abandoned in it was a growing collection, and that was loging. “We’re not used to that kind of 1987 for a more fully developed system the problem with a catalog as a bound cursive handwriting.” called NOTIS. book: it was hard to change. By the end of the nineteenth century, “I won’t say it was great at that time,” Some time in the 1880s, the libraries typewriters were replacing Library admits Konrad, who came to the UW adopted card catalogs — a giant leap Hand, and soon the UW was acquiring as an undergrad during the NLS experi- forward, technologically. Cards could be pre-printed cards with standardized cata- ment. “At that point, not a lot had been added, subtracted, corrected, and updated loging information created by the Library converted yet, so you had to work in individually, without the need to reprint of Congress — the system that the UW both [paper and digital] environments the whole list. Libraries would follow up to the 1980s. to be sure you had discovered all the Still, the first installments in that early And that’s libraries plural; there are material relevant to your topic. Though card catalog were somewhat laborious, forty-nine of them on campus. Sixteen are challenging at the time, however, the penciled out in a cursive script known as governed by the General Library System conversion of the catalog was certainly Library Hand, which had been developed (GLS), including the largest collections transformative, with respect to nearly 3 by Melvil Dewey (of Decimal System — Memorial and the life science library every aspect of library services.” 2 There were, by comparison, twice as many in Steenbock and College Library in The university abandoned NOTIS in books on the subject of conchology, which is Helen C. White Hall. Most of the rest 1999 for a system called Voyager, which the study of seashells. Sure, “twice as many” means there were just two, but you get the are held within professional schools and is the basis of today’s MadCat online point — the UW’s library was not particularly colleges — law, medicine, education. catalog. But throughout the 1980s, the awesome in 1851. The vast size of the university’s hold- advantages of an electronic catalog over 3 For an example, see Library Handwriting, avail- ings and their many locations presented paper cards were becoming more and able in the School of Library and Information a difficult burden for the cards, and one more apparent. Chief among these are Studies Library, in Helen C. White Hall, at 652.1 N42L. Oddly, the SLIS library uses the that the UW Libraries started addressing that cards take up a lot of space and limit Dewey Decimal System rather than Library of in 1982 with the next great technological the ways in which a person can search Congress, which the rest of the UW Libraries use. leap: the launch of the Network Library for a book.

32 ON WISCONSIN Some of those limitations are arbi- But that’s just the cards that Memo- Elkins Widener Library at Harvard trary, notes Michael Cohen MA’77, rial had at the start of this academic University.4 MA’82, the GLS interim head of cata- year. Previously, there was also the The point is, it’s a lot of paper. Now loging. “Take authors,” he says. “If a subject catalog, which the libraries the retrospective converters didn’t have work had three authors or fewer, each disposed of in January 2011. These to type a MadCat entry for each card would get an individual author card. If included another estimated 3,894,000 in the public catalog, just one for each there were four or more authors, there cards. So when that last card was added title the UW owned. Because each book, would be just one author card. This in 1987, the UW’s public card catalog book series, or journal had not only made for convenient cataloging, but probably contained something north a title card, but also cards for subject inconvenient searching.” of 11 million slips of paper. If they’d all (often more than one) and author (some- been stacked up, one on top of another, times more than one), that cuts down on the pile would stand nearly 1.8 miles the job somewhat. But in August 1987, House of Cards high. If they were laid out end to end, the UW had 4.7 million titles. That’s still So if the card catalog took such they’d stretch — well, not all the way a lot of work, and retyping all of the data shortcuts for convenience, why around the world, certainly, but almost on the cards into a database has taken has the job of turning it into computer all the way from Memorial Library’s a lot of person-hours — many of them records taken so long? There are two front door to the entrance to the Harry from just one person. reasons. The first is money: unlike the 4 Actually, you’d run out of cards somewhere east one card for each title, arranged in order by call UW’s schools, colleges, and academic of New Braintree, Massachusetts. But you’d get number. The librarians used it as the official departments, the libraries don’t have fond there — and farther — if you add in the cards list of the UW’s holdings. Add in its 4.7 million alumni to give unrestricted dollars. from the shelf list. This was the non-public cards, and you’d have enough to shoot right by portion of the card catalog, and it held exactly Cambridge and land in the Atlantic Ocean. “We don’t have any graduates of the library, even though we have more than PAUL ANDREWS AND ANGELA RICHARDSON 4 million people walk through our doors each year,” says interim director Ed Van Gemert ’72, MA’78. “With the budget reductions — plural — it’s more and more difficult to maintain personnel and resources at every level.” With limited funds, the libraries have had to triage their needs, focusing efforts on keeping up with their many new acquisitions. In the most recent year for which records are available, the UW Libraries received 134,118 new volumes. But though the library wishes to free up the card catalog’s 30,000 square feet of space by turning paper records into digital ones — by completing that retrospective conversion — the job is immense, which is the second problem. Precisely how immense no one knows, though Zimmerman, who serves as interim head of the libraries’ technical services division, figures the libraries have Not all of the cards are headed for recycling. Angela Richardson used stacks of them in an about 7,447,000 cards on their hands. art project called Lepitopterarium. The butterflies are made from microfiche slides.

SUMMER 2012 33 JEFF MILLER member. In 2010, budget cuts forced the libraries to drop all positions but Sandow’s. Even after she officially retired, she returned, now an LTE herself, to continue the work. “I hope to live long enough to see the project finished,” she says. Sandow has retrospectively converted more card records into computer records than anyone else, and she set the stan- dards for speed and accuracy. Just ask Mark Finster ’70 of the School of Busi- ness. In 1994, he taught a class in Total Quality Management that included a project aiming to improve the process. “They came in here to try to show us how to be more efficient,” Sandow says. “But they couldn’t beat me. They couldn’t come up with anything that would be faster than I am.” Her process is fairly simple. Books come to her on a rolling bookshelf, and one by one, she looks them up in a vast, international online database called OCLC.5 If someone has cataloged the book before, she exports the data into the UW’s online catalog. If not, she types in the information from the card. Then she Old technology doesn’t die — it just goes to SWAP. More than 100 catalog cabinets are being sold through the UW’s surplus program, fetching $120 or more apiece. Buyers use clicks a small, metal counter she keeps on them to store tools, crafting supplies, wine, and more. her desk, tallying one more book done,

Sandow has been performing retro- 5 Back in 1967, when OCLC was new, the Treasure Hunt letters stood for the Ohio College Library spective conversion for the UW Libraries Center — it was formed by a consortium Room 324 on the third floor of since the project’s beginning in 1988, and that included Ohio University, Ohio State Memorial Library is a cavernous University, and other higher ed institutions today, she pretty much is the retrospec- in the Buckeye State that wanted to create space, and since Memorial opened in tive conversion department — the only a general computerized catalog system. 1953, it’s been home to the cataloging Later, the abbreviation came to mean Ohio person whose sole responsibility is to Computer Library Center. Later still, after department. Near the very middle of the convert cards to digital data. the advent of the Internet, it came to stand room, partitioned off by four mismatched Over the years, the staff performing for the Online Computer Library Center. Now the letters don’t seem to stand for fabric walls, is the cubicle that serves as that task has grown and shrunk, anything at all. It’s ironic, but this is the kind the palace of the Retro Queen: Ellen depending on how much money the of thing that used to drive library catalogers Sandow. The nickname is one she gave crazy. Imagine books for which OCLC is libraries could spare. Most of the workers listed as author (and there are 85 of them herself, on her Facebook page. She were limited-term employees or LTEs: in the UW’s libraries) or is named in the considers herself the greatest retros- title (54 more). Changing the meaning of part-timers and project workers. Sandow an abbreviation could mean correcting and pective converter ever, and she’s no was the unit’s only permanent staff refiling a lot of cards. doubt right.

34 ON WISCONSIN and reaches for the next. Each month, she Recycling who want to keep alive the memory of reports the number to Zimmerman. objects that were once central to the “I like the monotony, the repeti- Though the card catalog itself library experience. She asked Memo- tion,” Sandow says. “I like working the is gone, students are still coming into rial Library for a large collection of numbers and seeing them pile up. I’m contact with the cards — though few cards — fifteen beer cases full — for doing what I love.” probably recognize what they see. Like use in Bookless, an art show at Madison’s And the job she loves won’t end any institution with budget concerns, Public Library in January 2012. Titled soon. Although the card catalogs are now the UW Libraries have become adept at Lepidopterarium, her piece also includes retired, Zimmerman estimates that the recycling, and are turning the old catalog microfiche slides cut into the shapes of work of getting all of the libraries’ mate- cards into scratch paper. Stacks are set in butterflies (an imaginary species: Caeru- rials into MadCat is now only 98 percent boxes next to each computer station in leus bibliothecaris or “library blues”). She complete. That means that there are still Memorial Library so that patrons can used the catalog cards to paper the walls many thousands of titles left to enter. jot down the call numbers of the books of a small room, creating a landscape on Most of these are what Zimmerman they seek. which to display the cellophane insects. categorizes as “analytics”: items that Not all of them will end up in the The theme of Lepidopterarium, she should have individual records, but that scrap heaps, however. Jamie Woods pulled says, is metamorphosis, suggested by were lumped together with other items aside samples from a variety of different the transformation of paper cards into when they were first cataloged. These eras so that the Catalog Department will digital data. Catalog cards “are fun and might include a series of lectures or have a record of the different ways in interesting to look at,” she says. “They’re papers delivered at a conference. Some of which cards were made. beautiful little objects. Digital tools are these collections are many volumes thick; “Jamie’s a bit of a historian,” says incredibly powerful, but you get a different others have multiple titles by different Michael Cohen, “or maybe a better term experience from thumbing through and authors bound in the same volume. is antiquarian. He likes that kind of stuff.” browsing cards in a catalog. It’s tactile, and Zimmerman guesses that there might be Others have been claimed by people the digital process loses something.” 150,000 of these analytics in the mono- with sentimental attachments to particular But many of the library staffers whose graph collection, and maybe 150,000 works. Zimmerman notes that authors job it was to file those cards feel less more in the journal collection. — or often the descendants of authors — nostalgia for their passing. Zimmerman And these estimates don’t include want to retain the cards for specific books. didn’t keep any, and neither did Van those books that the library doesn’t Library student Laura Damon-Moore Gemert. When he was an undergrad know it has — books that haven’t been MAx’12, for instance, snagged a hundred employed at the library, and later as a seen by the circulation desk in decades. or so cards, including a stack related to newly hired staffer, part of Van Gemert’s Zimmerman has a team of students who Herman Melville. Her father, Dennis job was filing one to two inches of new prowl the stacks looking for these items, Moore, had written his dissertation on cards each day. 6 to bring them to the Retro Queen. Billy Budd, and so Laura and her sister “I filed more cards into that catalog “We don’t really know how many Stephanie used the cards to make him a than I care to admit,” he says. “Everybody [unconverted works] there are,” she says. collage as a Christmas present. would get a pack every week, and I don’t “We won’t know until we’re done.” “We matted them and framed them,” know if there was a policy or anything, but The library calls the project hidden Damon-Moore says. “It was really lovely.” I couldn’t stand to let them get backed up.” treasures, “and some of [the items found] And then there are people such as 7 are true treasures,” Sandow says. “We artist Angela Richardson ’93, MFAx’15 found a book that was published in the 6 Look for it at PS2384 B54, both in College 7 Her works include the videos Chicks Crack the 1600s, several published before 1800. You Library (first floor) and Memorial (second Code, at PN1992.8 W65 C55 in the School of floor, north stacks) — or listen to the opera Education’s library, and .22, found at PS3568 kind of smell them and touch them and version, available on vinyl in the Mills Music I3173 A62 1993 in Memorial. Both are in VHS then [convert them and] take them up to Library at call number LP681726. format, so good luck with that. Special Collections.” Continued on page 62

SUMMER 2012 35 robert’srules This former sprinter now trains pro basketball players — and has a track record for results.

By Jenny Price ’96 As his sprinting days were winding dash, and players could make tackles down, Hackett started to think about a they previously missed by inches. The

Robert Hackett ’88 was fast. career move. following year, the Badgers put up As a sprinter for the Badgers, he won a winning season that culminated in NCAA championships and qualified three victory at the 1994 Rose Bowl. times for the Olympic trials, competing Build Relationships Around the same time, Stu Jackson, against the likes of Carl Lewis. But After going 1 and 10 in his first season the new UW men’s basketball coach, Hackett didn’t just run fast — he also with the Badgers, then-head football drafted Hackett to help players gain knew precisely why he could. And that has coach Barry Alvarez saw big improve- speed and strength on the court. Hackett made all the difference for him and for the ments during the second year. But trained them the way he had been trained, professional athletes he now trains. entering his third season in 1992, he and they got faster and stronger without Hackett’s path to becoming assistant wanted his players to be faster. He turned bulking up. “If you’re in better shape coach for strength and conditioning with to Hackett for help. than everybody, you give yourself a better the reigning NBA-champion basketball chance of competing, no matter what team, the Dallas Mavericks, started when “I wasn’t being defiant. sport you’re in,” he says. he arrived on the UW campus to join a The team earned enough wins to track program known more for distance I was just always asking get its first invitation to the NCAA than speed. The Milwaukee native, who tournament in forty-five years. Jackson grew up as one of nine brothers and questions like, ‘Why are soon left Wisconsin for Vancouver to sisters in the inner city, had been nation- we doing this? What is it become president of the Grizzlies, an ally recruited, but he chose UW-Madison NBA expansion team. Not long after, he to stay closer to home and family. As he going to help me do?’ offered Hackett a job, hoping he could began working with Badger track coach do for the Grizzlies what he had done Ed Nuttycombe, Hackett became a I learned about the body for Badger athletes. student of the sport. itself — how to train the “I wasn’t being defiant. I was just always asking questions like, ‘Why are we body — and it led me Do the Work doing this? What is it going to help me into coaching.” Hackett arrived in Vancouver in January do?’ ” he says. “I learned about the body 1995, joining a team that lost a lot of itself — how to train the body — and it games at the start of its fledgling season. led me into coaching.” Hackett knew he would be making “I came in and said, ‘Hey, we have to do Nuttycombe saw Hackett’s potential big changes. “Football mentality is, ‘If this extra running. We have to lift these and hired him following graduation to you’re not moving, you’re not working,’ ” weights’ — and they looked at me like I work as an assistant track coach while he says. “But I said, ‘If you’re trying to get was crazy,” Hackett recalls. Hackett trained for the Olympic trials, faster, you’re going to have to have down Attitudes changed after a conversa- events at which a hundredth of a second periods. [You] have to rest and recover.’ ” tion with veteran player Byron Scott, can separate those who make the team After six weeks, 98 percent of the the Grizzlies’ team captain who had won from those who watch from home. team was running a faster forty-yard three NBA championships with the Los

36 ON WISCONSIN DANNY BOLLINGER

“The strangest workout [Hackett] has ever put me through was when he made me lunge-walk uphill for fifty yards … five times,” says Mavericks guard Jason Terry. At age thirty-four, Terry has increased his bench press, vertical jump, and endurance under Hackett’s direction, and he ranks among the league’s leading fourth-quarter scorers. “For me, he is more than a coach; he’s a friend and a motivator,” Terry says. “His knowledge of training at a high level is his biggest strength, and he’s always been a positive influence in the locker room.” Hackett credits his time at the UW for his ability to work with a variety of personalities from diverse backgrounds and cultures. And he makes it a point to treat all players — from rookies to super- stars — the same. “They think I’m a drill sergeant sometimes, but I also make the workouts fun. … They know they need it, and I’m trying to help them. It’s not Robert Hackett assists Shawn Marion of the NBA-champion Dallas Mavericks with punishment,” he says. pregame stretching. Hackett is known for his high expectations — but also his impressive Traveling with the team gives him a results — as the team’s assistant coach for strength and conditioning. window into the ways that he can help. Among other lessons, he has educated Angeles Lakers. Scott confessed that he from the team’s general manager before young players about fast food, noting had never bench-pressed more than 300 his interview: “Whatever you do, don’t that it won’t help them succeed on the pounds. Hackett told him, “Give me ten come in here in a suit.” The trainer court. When they respond that they’ve days, I’ll show you a couple things, and initially balked at the idea of looking always eaten those items, he tells them, you’ll bench over 300 pounds.” anything less than professional, but “You ate that because you didn’t have Ten days later, Scott benched 310 the reason for the advice became clear any money. You have money now. You pounds, got off the weight bench, pulled when he met Mark Cuban, the team’s have to eat better.” Hackett into the locker room, and told outspoken billionaire owner. Hackett acknowledges it’s tough to be his young team, “If Hack tells any of you “That’s how Mark is,” Hackett away from his wife, Renee (who was also guys to do it, you better do it.” says. “Mark walks around [in] jeans and a sprinter at the UW), and their three From that point on, Hackett was T-shirts, and he’s got shoes on like he just children during the season. But the job’s known as someone who has high cut the grass.” rewards — such as courtside seats at every expectations — but gets results. He In Dallas, Hackett designs team game — balance out the sacrifices. commanded respect from both NBA and individual workouts to help players “It’s just unique to have a job where stars and journeymen alike. build the endurance needed to play four it’s fun every day,” he says. “I don’t think games in five nights in three time zones. most people can say that.” n Have Fun His approach to training paid off for the Hackett joined the Mavericks’ coaching Mavericks during the fourth quarters of Jenny Price ’96 is senior writer for staff in 2002, after receiving one warning last year’s NBA playoffs. On Wisconsin.

SUMMER 2012 37 AppsThere’s an for that By Erika Janik MA’04, MA’06 STEVE APPS

Jerry Apps finds his Name any topic pertaining to Wisconsin life muse at the family farm near Wild Rose in central Wisconsin, where he and culture, and prolific author Jerry Apps ’55, goes “to find the country quiet that I love and need MS’57, PhD’57 has probably written about it. in my life,” he says.

38 ON WISCONSIN When writer Jerry Apps matter where or when we live.” stands on his farm in central Among the most important lessons he’s learned, says Apps, is the pervasive and Wisconsin, he hears the profound influence of “nature’s clock.” sounds and remembers the “In our hurry-hurry, electronically stories of an earlier time. laced lives, we often think we can ignore He hears the rustle of the yellow heads of nature, but it’s always there, shaping oats waving in the wind, the clatter and everything we do and everything we can shudder of the threshing machine, and the do,” he says. rattle of dry corn leaves. Down the lane, he It’s not that rural Wisconsin’s biggest hears the clang of the bell announcing the champion is against progress. “I believe start of the day at the one-room country the past plays an important part in school. The sounds spring from his memo- shaping the future, helping us under- ries of growing up on a nearby farm during stand where we began and what mattered the 1940s and ’50s. This rustic lifestyle is to us,” he explains, “so we can better one he knows well, but it’s something he “It’s how we had food on understand if it’s worth throwing out and fears we may be losing. starting over, or making small changes to Apps has devoted his career to the table and a little money timeworn ideas to fit modern times.” recording and telling the stories of rural in our pockets every year. Apps sees lessons from the past all people and culture in Wisconsin. Driven around him. He points to the way that There was a way we knew to preserve and memorialize country life respecting the land was important to before it’s gone, Apps has written more of living with the land that his family when he was growing up. “It’s how we had food on the table and a little than thirty-five books on rural history, comes from country living. averaging two new titles annually in money in our pockets every year,” he says. recent years, with three or four books in Taking care of the land is “There was a way we knew of living with the land that comes from country living. progress at all times. He has “more ideas even more important today than life left to write them,” he says. He’s Taking care of the land is even more also written twelve professional books for if we are to have food on all important today if we are to have food on educators and more than eight hundred of our dinner tables.” all of our dinner tables.” articles. The word prolific doesn’t seem Apps believes this knowledge gained big enough to encompass him. by living close to the earth — how people Apps is also an emeritus professor publishers, foundations, and other survived and thrived with nature — holds at the College of Agricultural and Life organizations. valuable insights into ways to care for the Sciences who taught in the Department Nostalgia plays a role in his success. environment in the future. of Continuing and Vocational Education. His fans share his yearning for red “I always tell my writing students that His writing has covered some of Wiscon- barns, country roads, front porches, and when we forget our histories, we forget sin’s most iconic topics — from breweries, communities where time seems to move who we are,” he says. So taking cues from cheese, and the Ringling brothers, to more slowly. But for Apps, it’s more than his own life, the author uses his words to barns and the restoration and conserva- just remembering simpler times. transport readers beyond the pavement to tion of his own farm, Roshara. He also “Rural living teaches important the soil that shaped his view of the world. teaches others how to write their stories lessons about the value of commu- “Jerry Apps’s work celebrates the at venues around the state, including The nity and family, doing things for each rural heritage of Wisconsin that is such Clearing Folk School in Door County. other, being there to help so everyone an important part of our collective past in And for this work, he’s won a dedi- succeeds,” he says. “It taught me about this state,” says Kathy Borkowski MA’92, cated base of readers and more than the relationship between humans and the MA’95, director of the Wisconsin Histor- two dozen awards from Midwestern land, and that’s a connection we have no ical Society Press, who has worked with

SUMMER 2012 39 Apps on several titles. “His stories provide sion, World War II, and into the postwar a way for one generation to remember years, when farming began to change — and a way for another generation to dramatically with the rise of mechanical, appreciate — what makes Wisconsin the chemical, and genetic power. place we call home.” His childhood home “wasn’t a log With a steady stream of books, Apps cabin, but it was close,” laughs Apps. They is a frequent guest on Larry Meiller’s talk had no electricity or indoor plumbing. show on Wisconsin Public Radio. Meiller Heat came from the wood stove. ’67, MS’68, PhD’77 calls him one of his As a kid, Apps milked cows by hand, most popular and effective guests because made hay using horses and a pitchfork, of his range of topics and good humor. and cut grain with a horse-drawn binder. As evidence, you need only stand in the The land didn’t relinquish its bounty studio and watch as lines of eager listeners easily. Located on the terminal moraine form before Apps can even say hello. of Wisconsin’s last Ice Age, the acreage “We’ve had joyous laughter from was hilly and the soil sandy and filled callers — and even some tears from some with rocks that had to be removed before — who Jerry touched with his stories of a t’s easy to take farming for the crops could go in. The future writer simpler life,” says Meiller. “He’s dedicated granted in Wisconsin. Forty didn’t always relish the never-ending to preserving our heritage and to helping percent of the state’s land is in chores of his childhood, but the tradition, other people write about their lives.” agriculture. The landscape of routine, and community fostered by the These are the types of stories and Iplants and livestock, of farmhouses, silos, lifestyle stuck with him. memories that Apps feels are vitally and barns, seems ever present. Nearly The appearance of tractors and other important to capture before they are half a million Wisconsin residents work mechanical equipment on the scene gone. In all of his work, community, tradi- in agriculture, and it is deeply woven into spelled the end of annual traditions such tion, and roots are the dominant threads the state’s history and traditions. as the neighborhood threshing crews that underlie and tie the stories together. But this agrarian landscape is quickly that Apps worked as a teenager. Milking These threads are also at the heart of disappearing. It’s not hard to be compla- machines led to bigger dairy herds and good regional writing. cent about the future of rural life when bigger barns. Many older farmers retired, “Regional writing strips away all the closest many of us get to a farm is and their children left for the city and veneer of pretense and offers readers the view through the windshield as we never came back. Operations grew in size honesty and integrity, which arises, nearly, speed by. The reality is quite different. as neighbors bought out their neighbors. out of the land itself,” says LaMoine Wisconsin is losing farmland faster than From 200,000 farms in 1935, Wisconsin’s MacLaughlin, president of the Wisconsin any other state in the Midwest, nearly agricultural community shrank to 76,500 Regional Writers Association. “It provides thirty thousand acres a year, most of it to in 2006. Wisconsin has nearly 50,000 readers with a historical record and development, according to the Wisconsin fewer farmers today than in 1970. Small personal and human values, which Jerry Academy’s Future of Farming and Rural communities lost their stores, schools, and Apps embodies perhaps more than any Life in Wisconsin project. And with this churches as farmers left. Whole genera- other living Wisconsin author.” land go the history, stories, beliefs, and tions lost their connection to the land and Sheila Leary, director of the University values of rural communities that nurtured the rural lifestyle of their ancestors. of Wisconsin Press, echoes that, calling and sustained people like Jerry Apps. Apps didn’t always appreciate the Apps an authentic Wisconsin voice. The oldest of three siblings, Apps value of his own rural upbringing. “Many themes and details in his work was born and raised on a 160-acre spread Entering the University of Wisconsin are inspired by experiences from his own near Wild Rose, a small town in central in 1951 on a scholarship of $63.50, he life, but wrapped inside a good story are Wisconsin, that his parents, Herman and quickly realized he came from a different Jerry’s ideas about serious issues affecting Eleanor, bought in 1924. They worked world. The urban flurry of Madison rural life,” she says. their land through the Great Depres- unnerved him. His roommate, from the

40 ON WISCONSIN bustling metropolis of Rockford, Illinois, told Apps that even his walk was wrong. “You walk like you’re behind a plow,” STEVE APPS he said. “Bob,” Apps replied, “what do you think I was doing last week?” Struggling to fit in, Apps worked hard to hide his country background. He studied the other students on University Avenue and learned to “walk city” as well as his classmates within a few months. No one would mistake him for a farm kid. But soon after college, Apps realized that his background could actually be an asset, rather than a disadvantage. Serving as an officer in the army, he shared a tent at Fort Eustis in Virginia with a man from New York City who woke up frantic nearly every night at the slightest rustle, chirp, or howl from outside. Apps, on the other hand, found the noises comforting. They reminded him of home, even a “Rural living teaches important lessons about the value of community and family, doing things for each other, being there to help everyone succeed,” says Apps, shown above thousand miles from Wisconsin. working during a visit to northern Minnesota. “It taught me about the relationship between “My time in the army made me humans and the land, and that’s a connection we have no matter where or when we live.” realize that my roots were in the land, in my rural background and experi- Gard was known for his activism in words. He became editor of his high ences, and I couldn’t deny that,” he says. community arts and history programs, school newspaper, joined forensics, and Listening to his fellow officers brag about especially in rural areas. The two worked provided radio commentary during their urban hometowns, Apps recognized together at the UW, and Apps credits school basketball games. As an adult, Apps that his origins were not something to Gard with pressing him to tell his stories married his passion for speaking, writing, hide: he had just as much to be proud of and to understand the importance of and storytelling with his belief in the as the next guy. regional writing. importance of the past. So he threw aside his city affectations, “Bob pushed me, gently but firmly, to As more and more people live in urban including that hard-won walk, and turned do my best work, to capture the rapidly places, the stories, values, and rhythms back to the rural roots and the people who changing community and culture through of country life grow increasingly distant. had nurtured him. He began working with my personal stories,” Apps recalls. Wisconsin today is an uneven blend of country people like himself, first as an city and country, as the state has followed Extension agent and then as a professor ut Apps’s love of writing national trends toward more urban and in the College of Agricultural and Life began long before that. suburban living. Fifty-eight of Wisconsin’s Sciences. He also began to tell stories to Stricken with polio when he 72 counties have at least a portion of their preserve and share his own memories, as was only twelve years old, he population categorized as urban, and 13 well as the history of the rural Midwest. beganB writing because he couldn’t move cities have populations above 50,000. The talented UW and Extension fast enough to play sports. Rather than Apps himself lives a bit of a professor, folklorist, and author Robert merely being a hardship, though, Apps’s double life, spending a portion of his Gard actively encouraged Apps’s writing. illness led him to realize the power of time in Madison and the rest on his Continued on page 63

SUMMER 2012 41 SEPAR ATION Doctor Gary Hartman

has become a SURGEON OF LUCILE PACKARDCOURTESY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL (2) world expert in the esoteric specialty of conjoined twins.

By Melissa Payton

T’S NOVEMBER 1, 2011, AT Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital I at Stanford University, and pedi- atric surgeon Gary Hartman ’70, MD’74 is patiently and meticulously separating the fused livers of two- year-old conjoined twins Angelina and Angelica Sabuco, who were born linked from sternum to navel. He is a calm and steady presence in a scrum of a dozen surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses. A sign on the operating room wall says in large letters: “Ina Red, Ica Blue” — a reminder to the team of which pint- Before their separation, twins Angelica and Angelina Sabuco had become adept at toddling sideways together, but their combined weight of 55 pounds was troublesome for their sized, nearly identical patient is which. mother, who had to lift them at times.

42 ON WISCONSIN Through careful planning, consum- mate skill, and the use of new, high-tech equipment, Hartman manages to avoid SEPAR ATION interrupting the blood flow to the two livers, a potentially fatal outcome because two blood vessels within the livers crossed over from one twin to another. But several hours into the surgery, another obstacle looms: will surgeons be able to close the girls’ gaping wounds? “The defect was huge,” says Peter Lorenz, a pediatric plastic and recon- structive surgeon who partnered with Hartman on the surgery. “It was basically an oval window from the neck to the belly button.” Lorenz and Hartman turn the now-separated sisters onto their backs, and Angelica is moved to an adjacent room. For most of the next three hours, they reconstruct Angelina’s torso while Pediatric surgeon Gary Hartman (center) is used to performing complex procedures that another pediatric surgeon/plastic have all the intensity of a NASA space mission. surgeon team focuses on Angelica. The teams don’t know at first if the sisters HE SABUCO SEPARATION about six separations are performed have enough extra skin — produced was Hartman’s fourth as lead each year in the United States, and few by tissue expanders placed in two spots T surgeon and his sixth separation pediatric surgeons ever encounter the under each girl’s skin in the months of conjoined twins overall. Hartman, condition. before surgery — to close the wound. If who has been at Lucile Packard since While procedures such as the Sabuco not, the twins could die from infection, 2004, is believed to have participated in twin separation have brought Hartman a not uncommon occurrence in such more separations than any other pedi- international attention, he has performed separations. atric surgeon in the world. even more complex pediatric surgeries. “We used every bit of real estate we could for tissue,” Hartman says. As it Separation of such twins is one of the rarest turned out, the expanders worked — they just barely managed to do the job, with types of surgery; only about six separations no skin to spare. Within seventy-two hours after the are performed each year in the United States. ten-hour surgery, Angelina and Angelica were breathing on their own. After six days The frequency of conjoined births His most complicated cases involve in the hospital’s pediatric intensive care is hard to pin down, Hartman says, correcting birth defects and removing unit and another seven in the hospital, they because so many of the twins die in tumors. He has fixed such things as a were strong enough to go home. They childbirth or soon after, but estimates blockage of the esophagus or the absence have since had follow-up visits with plastic range from 1 in 50,000 to 1 in 100,000, of an anus at birth. One eighteen-hour surgery and physical therapy to learn to with an overall survival rate of about surgery, Hartman’s longest, corrected a walk straight ahead and develop their 25 percent. Separation of such twins is baby’s tangle of abnormal blood vessels gross- and fine-motor skills. one of the rarest types of surgery; only around the neck and chest.

SUMMER 2012 43 What every procedure has in common, personality differences, with Angelica Catholic boys at St. Thomas to thirty- however, is the goal of saving or improving the more outgoing, aggressive twin eight thousand maniacs in Madison,” he the lives of children who have been dealt a — would have been drastically circum- says. “But between my meal job [serving bad hand. “Pediatric surgery is a combina- scribed without surgery. lunch and dinner at a private girls’ dorm tion of the routine and the extremely rare The Sabucos originally sought out in exchange for meals] and classes and and devastating,” he says, noting that to Hartman after an Internet search of classmates, it didn’t feel that big — it felt him, the routine cases are just as important conjoined-twin specialists kept turning very comfortable and nurturing.” as the complex ones. “Kids with appen- up his name. At a press conference after After earning his bachelor’s in dicitis, they’re hurting and sick, so when her daughters’ successful surgery, a psychology, Hartman says he naively you send them home in good shape, that’s tearful Ginady Sabuco thanked Hartman applied only to the UW for his medical rewarding, too. and his colleagues, saying, “This is a training. “It was stupid — I didn’t know “Children don’t cause their illnesses dream come true. … My family will be how competitive things were. But I — they’re victims of it,” Hartman says. grateful eternally.” wanted to go to UW medical school “They’re so honest. When they’re upset, anyway, because it was a great med it’s clear, but they’re very forgiving. OF LUCILE PACKARDCOURTESY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL (2) school, and for in-state students, a really They’re a nice population to work with.” good deal.” Hartman says he’s particularly grateful HE SABUCO SURGERY for encountering a medical pioneer at had the intensity of a NASA the UW, Helen Dickie, a pulmonologist T space mission. The culmination and professor who mentored thousands of nearly a year of planning, it was carried of Wisconsin students from 1955 until out by a team of almost fifty doctors, her death in 1988. “She was probably nurses, and operating-room staff. Two the toughest professor I had,” he says. weeks later, the active, dark-eyed girls Dickie had amassed a library of hundreds from the Philippines — now living in San of x-rays she used during her teaching Jose, California, with their parents and rounds: “She would throw up x-ray after older brother — left the hospital wearing x-ray, and you would fumble though matching bright red dresses and, for the reading them and making a diagnosis. She first time, riding in separate car seats. really put her medical students on the hot Today, they are catching up with their seat, but I think I learned the most from peers in every developmental marker. those sessions.” Their lives could have turned out After graduation, Hartman did much differently. Angelina and Angelica his internship and general surgical Hartman’s MBA comes in handy when he had what is called a thoraco-ompha- engages in the extensive planning required residency at Highland General Hospital lopagus connection, with separate for operations that can involve up to 100 in Oakland, California, rotating to most hearts, brains, kidneys, stomachs, people. of the hospitals in the San Francisco Bay and intestines. YouTube videos of the Area. He found his specialty during a girls before their operation show how ARTMAN’S JOURNEY TO surgical rotation at Children’s Hospital adept they were at toddling sideways Stanford started in Wisconsin in Oakland in the mid-1970s. together. But their combined weight of H Rapids, where his parents “I became enamored with pediatric fifty-five pounds was proving trouble- owned and operated the local furni- surgery because of the spectrum of condi- some for their mother, who had to ture store. He became interested in tions, the delicacy of surgery, and just lift them at times. Their spines were psychology in high school, enrolled in the dealing with kids,” Hartman says. being distorted by their connection at College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minne- Hartman earned an MBA from the breastbone, and their lives as indi- sota, and transferred as a sophomore George Washington University while viduals — they were already showing to the UW. “I went from two thousand working at Children’s National Medical

44 ON WISCONSIN in 2004 when Hartman and his team encountered a nasty surprise during a rehearsal: when all the surgical instru- ments were plugged in, the power failed. “We had to drop additional power into the room,” he says. In 2007, when Hartman performed his first separation at the Stanford chil- dren’s hospital — and fifth overall — the hospital upgraded an existing operating room. By the time the Sabucos were operated on, the hospital had a room specially built to accommodate the surgery and its legions of instruments and personnel. The late-in-life adoptive father of a Angelina, Ginady, Vincent, Angelica, and Fidel Sabuco are thrilled with the twins’ newfound thirteen-year-old girl — “It’s a challenge,” freedom to run, play, and participate in normal childhood activities. he says happily about raising a teenager Center in Washington, D.C., and is for help from numerous administrative with his wife, Susan — doesn’t stop known for his businesslike preparation and support staff. seeing his young patients after they’ve before complex procedures. With so many bodies jockeying for left surgery. “That’s the best part,” he “Gary is one of the world’s experts position during a surgery, preparation is says about monitoring the progress of in pediatric surgery,” says his colleague key, Hartman says, so the team plots the the Sabuco girls as they receive therapy at the hospital to help them adjust to life as separate individuals. “Last time I saw “Children don’t cause their illnesses — them, they were running up and down the hall, one going one way and one the other they’re victims of it. They’re so honest. way. They look like normal girls — very When they’re upset, it’s clear, but they’re sweet, loving, and attentive of each other and their family.” very forgiving. They’re a nice population Although the twins’ surgical wounds have healed, Hartman will continue to see to work with.” Angelina and Angelica for years to come as he follows the growth of their chests Thomas Krummel, surgeon-in-chief at position of every staffer and instrument and breastbones. Packard Children’s Hospital. “He has beforehand on a detailed diagram. “Then The rewards of his chosen specialty brought real twenty-first-century plan- we do live mock-ups where we go into literally last a lifetime, Hartman says. “If ning to what are incredibly complicated the operating room in the evening, bring an adult surgeon does something fantastic operations, some involving fifty to one in all the instruments, and turn them with a 50- or 60-year-old, the patient may hundred people.” on,” he says. live another twenty or 30 years. Only two dozen or so medical Hartman performed his first “If we get things right with a baby, personnel can be admitted to an oper- conjoined twin separation in 1982 that child will get 70 or 80 years of use ating room at any one time, so if a surgery during a fellowship at the University out of what we’ve done.” ■ takes more than twelve hours, a second of Oklahoma. He was the lead surgeon shift of staffers is required. Planning and on his fourth twin-separation surgery Melissa Payton is a freelance writer and editor executing these risky procedures also calls at Children’s National Medical Center in Portland, Oregon.

SUMMER 2012 45 traditions

For many, the return of the swimming pier on Lake Mendota is a rite of summer. But this year, it’s a short season: it will be removed in mid-August for improvement projects. JEFF MILLER Memorial Union’s Swimming Pier When spring exits the stage after what is typically the briefest of appearances in Madison, students embrace summer with flip-flops and bare arms — often glistening with suntan lotion — and head toward Lake Mendota. If the Memorial Union Terrace is UW–Madison’s patio, the lake’s T-shaped swimming pier, with its white benches and tall, red lifeguard chairs, is its beach. The pier, which is often in place by the first week of June, is a fond campus memory for Gene Wright MD’79. “I would wait (usually along with several others) for the last section to be set in place and then be among the first to jump in the lake (usually fully clothed!),” Wright wrote to On Wisconsin. “That was fun. Do the kids still do that?” The team of carpenters that installs the pier — a process that takes three to four days — has not witnessed anyone doing cannonballs in recent memory. This year, the pier’s summer will be cut short when it is removed in mid-August to make way for a number of improvements along the lake’s shoreline. The work will include reconstruction of the stone steps that lead into the lake and removal of the old concrete pier near the Red Gym, to improve water quality in the area. More than 20,000 people visit the pier each year, and on a warm day, it can be hard to carve out a piece of real estate. Young men and women sit shoulder to shoulder in some spots, legs dangling toward the water. Others lounge on towels, heating up in the sun and then jumping into the lake to cool off. They repeat the cycle over the course of a lazy after- noon. The sound of a splash, followed by gales of laughter, interrupts the stillness. The pier normally stays in place until about Labor Day, when it’s removed before the water gets too cold, starting the countdown for sunbathers until it returns. This time around, the countdown will be a little longer. Jenny Price ’96

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50 Alumni Association Dog Days News Attendees at the 2011 Wisconsin State Fair had a meet- and-greet with Braveheart the dog (who would, no 53 Class Notes doubt, have preferred a meat-and-greet). Rescued from a Dumpster, Braveheart was taken to the UW’s School of Veterinary Medicine and nursed back to health from 59 Calendar near death. He led a parade as part of UW-Madison Day at the State Fair, now an annual tradition in which the 60 Bookshelf university offers science exhibitions, health and well- ness information, games, and a pep rally. This year’s 61 Sifting & Winnowing UW-Madison day is scheduled for August 8.

SUMMER 2012 49 alumni association news

WAA Honors 2012 Distinguished Alumni Meet five Badgers every alum should know.

The Wisconsin Alumni Association has been honoring distinguished one of today’s most prominent jazz musicians? alumni for seventy-six years, but the accomplishments of this year’s As campus prepares to celebrate the Year of Innovation starting group are truly amazing. Inventing the birth-control pill, one of the this August, these graduates personify the heart and soul of inven- most far-reaching medical phenomena of the last century? Helping tion, creativity, and paving new ground. They will each return to to launch the cable TV industry? Leading the National Science Madison at different times to engage with campus and accept their Foundation? Reshaping national insurance law? And becoming awards. For more extensive biographies, see uwalumni.com/daa.

Carl Djerassi PhD’45 Middlebrook. Djerassi began to Wolf Prize in Chemistry, and the Bill, moved to cable system fran- write poetry, and his growing Priestley Medal, which is the chising. She chose to switch to interest in fiction led him to American Chemical Society’s programming, since there were publish his first novel, Cantor’s highest honor. He is a member few original cable shows. Dilemma, in 1991 at age sixty- of the U.S. National Academy In 1975, she promoted seven. He called his new art form of Sciences, the American the cable broadcast of the “science in fiction,” and his goal Academy of Arts and Sciences, world Heavyweight Boxing was to “smuggle science to the the Royal Society (London), and Championship, pitting public under the cloak of fiction. numerous other academies. An Muhammad Ali against Joe ... By using the cloak of fiction, I Austrian postage stamp was Frazier in the Philippines. The can illustrate and discuss ethical issued to honor him in 2005. live event was broadcast to a dilemmas that are frequently not stunned international audience raised,” he says. Kay Koplovitz ’67 by sending the signal 90,000 When his daughter, Pamela, miles up to a satellite and back an artist, committed suicide in down to cable systems. 1978, Djerassi and Middlebrook Two years later, Koplovitz converted their ranch west and mentor Bob Rosencrans of Stanford into the Djerassi started the Madison Square Carl Djerassi Resident Artists Program in her Garden Sports Network, which is not only the memory. The program serves became USA Network in 1980. co-inventor of ninety artists each year in the As chair and CEO, Koplovitz the birth control areas of creative writing, visual led the network to a long-time pill — he’s also arts, music, and choreography. number-one spot for cable view- a playwright More than two thousand artists ership during primetime — a and author of from all over the world have position it holds to this day. She at least twenty already passed through the launched the Sci-Fi Channel in books and plays. program. 1992 and started USA Network He fled Europe as a teen At UW–Madison, he estab- International in 1994. The to escape Nazi repression, and lished two fellowships in creative company was sold for $4.5 when he was twenty, he began writing in 1997 and the Carl billion in 1998 to Barry Diller, graduate studies in chemistry in Djerassi Fellowship in playwriting former chief of Fox, Inc. Madison. Later, he joined Syntex in 2007. In 2011, as a marquee Cable TV After then-President Bill in Mexico City, where his research guest for UW–Madison’s Year of visionary Kay Clinton appointed her as with Luis Miramontes and George the Arts, he read from two of his Koplovitz is the chair of the National Women’s Rosenkranz led to the develop- latest works and met with both founder of the Business Council, she decided ment of the first successful oral arts and science students. USA Network to co-found Springboard contraceptive in the early 1950s. Among numerous awards, and the first Enterprises, a nonprofit that Djerassi started teaching at Djerassi has received twenty- female network champions venture capital Stanford University in 1960. In seven honorary doctorates, president in investments for women-led 1977, he met (and later married) the National Medal of Science, television history. companies. Since January 2000, Stanford literature professor, the Perkin Medal, the National After stints in broadcast TV in it has provided training for some biographer, and poet Diane Medal of Technology, the first the 1970s, she and her husband, five hundred companies that

50 ON WISCONSIN have raised more than $5.5 Virginia, Cora Marrett earned scholars and teachers of color wanted to help the underdog,” billion in equity financing. her PhD in sociology and rose to the field of sociology and he says. “[UW–Madison] The author of Bold Women, to leadership at the National nurturing them so they thrive. gave me an exposure to the Big Ideas, Koplovitz speaks Science Foundation (NSF). Marrett is a member of the academic world that I never had frequently and manages her She serves as deputy board of visitors for the UW– before.” newest endeavor, Koplovitz & director of the 1,700-employee Madison College of Letters & After graduating, he joined Company, a media-advisory and agency, which awards about Science. She and her husband, the army as a first lieutenant investment firm. $7 billion annually, or 20 percent Louis, established the Marrett lawyer and defended soldiers She is chair of the board of all federally supported basic Faculty Fellowship in Sociology, in court martials. The public of Fifth & Pacific (formerly research in nonmedical fields and provided a named fund speaking required to educate his Liz Claiborne, Inc.) and also of science, engineering, math- to support the Chancellor’s fellow soldiers changed him from served on the boards of Oracle, ematics, computer science, Scholarship program. a quiet loner into an articulate Nabisco, Instinet, and Gen Re. and the social sciences. She is litigator. In 1975, he started his She is a member of the board known for her humility, wisdom, William Shernoff JD’62 own firm, focusing on bad-faith of visitors for the UW–Madison wit and patience; for raising the insurance claims. College of Letters & Science. profile of the social sciences Shernoff says he’s “more “She is one of a kind,” within the agency; and for into crusades than cases.” He says Amy Millman, president of building bridges both within helped the American Samoa Springboard Enterprises. Life for and beyond the NSF. government win a $100 million Koplovitz is “a constant search “The National Science jury award for damages after for what’s happening, what’s Foundation is proud to partic- a devastating hurricane. He new, how does she get involved, ipate in the fostering of secured a $5 billion settle- and how can she add value.” discoveries and innovations ment for families worldwide who For Koplovitz, it comes of which the public dreams,” had relatives die in concentra- down to this: “I think if you’re not she says. tion camps, yet had no proof moving forward, you’re moving Along the way, Marrett of death to claim life-insurance backward. There’s no standing was a faculty member at UW– proceeds. still in this world.” Madison from 1974 to 1997, He also wrote a textbook with appointments in sociology and three consumer books that Cora Marrett MA’65, PhD’68 and Afro-American Studies. In help everyday people take steps 1997, she became senior vice to get their claims paid. chancellor for academic affairs In the 1990s, Shernoff and provost at the University of It’s not often helped fund the UW Law Massachusetts-Amherst. Four than an School’s Consumer Law years later, the University of attorney has a Projects (now the Consumer Wisconsin System tapped her to hand in estab- Law Clinic), which trains serve as senior vice president for lishing a new students to work on behalf academic affairs, and in 2007, branch of law, of consumers in conflict with the NSF hired her for a second but William large, powerful institutions. time, and she rose to deputy Shernoff did just that when he He supported the law school director in 2011. won the landmark 1974 case building fund, and, along with It all started in the Kenbridge Egan v. Mutual of Omaha. consumer advocate Ralph library, where Marrett’s mother The case resulted in what is Nader, Shernoff co-founded the took her and her sister to learn known as bad-faith insurance National Insurance Consumer to read. Her parents had a love law. Now in force in more than Organization (NICO). of learning, she says, which thirty states, these acts allow He also acted as a resource surprises her now, because consumers to sue insurance to filmmaker Michael Moore for so many of their peers were companies that take advantage the documentary Sicko, and his The twelfth illiterate. of policyholders. work with Holocaust survivors child of parents In an award from the The senior partner in is the subject of the documen- who barely American Sociological Associa- Shernoff Bidart Echeverria tary On Moral Ground. Screen finished the tion in 2008, Marrett was cited for Bentley in California, Shernoff Gems recently bought the sixth grade in her work in “ensuring diversity.” found his UW Law School rights and has plans to make a tiny Kenbridge, She is credited with bringing experience transformative. “I dramatic film.

SUMMER 2012 51 Ben Sidran ’67 graduate days. When Sidran wrote the lyrics for Steve Miller’s Founders’ Days International hit song “Space Cowboy,” he used the proceeds to pay for his We heard from alumni of the WAA-France chapter about an item PhD in American Studies at the in the Spring 2012 Alumni Association News about Founders’ Day: University of Sussex in England. Chapter members pointed out that Founders’ Days are celebrated Sidran went on to produce around the world (not just in the United States), and added that the music of pop and jazz artists, “our chapter has worked continually and pragmatically to spread create jazz programs for radio the Ouisconsin Idea through events and scholarship support and television, and record and between the university and France for nearly ten years.” perform his own music. For their enthusiasm, we say merci beaucoup! Sidran hosted National Public Radio’s landmark series Jazz Alive, which won a Peabody and Talking Jazz, and a memoir, promoted his latest book, There Award, and his thirty solo albums A Life in the Music. He recently was a Fire: Jews, Music and the include the Grammy-nominated fulfilled a lifelong goal to record American Dream, during a tour of Concert for Garcia Lorca. As a an album of Bob Dylan songs, five U.S. cities with WAA and the producer, he worked with noted Dylan Different. College of Letters & Science. artists including Van Morrison, Missing the Midwest lifestyle, Jazz holds important insights Ben Sidran’s Diana Ross, and Mose Allison. he and his wife, Judy ’69, moved for Sidran. “If you spend ten music career His soundtrack for the film from the West Coast to Madison years blowing through a copper began when Hoop Dreams gained acclaim, in 1972. Their son, Leo ’99, has tube, that copper tube will not he played with and his score for the documen- become a national music phenom be changed. But you will have Steve Miller tary Vietnam: Long Time Coming in his own right. changed,” he says. “When you x’67 and Boz won both an Aspen Film Festival Sidran has advised the UW work on an instrument, you are Scaggs x’67 in a band called The award and an Emmy. He wrote Center for Jewish Studies and this really working on yourself.” Ardells during their UW under- two books about jazz, Black Talk spring he visited with alumni and Ellen Foley ANDY MANIS

WAA sponsors the annual Distinguished Teaching Awards reception because the association believes it is important to celebrate good teaching. Attending the reception were Chancellor David Ward, second from left in front row, and Kathy Cramer Walsh, far right, political science. This year’s winners were, from left, Parry Karp, music; Roseanne Clark, psychiatry; Nicholas Balster, soil science and forest and wildlife ecology; Jake Vander Zanden, zoology; Lee Palmer Wandel, history, religious studies, and visual culture; Cameron Macdonald, sociology; Jeffrey Beneker, classics; Robert Fillingame, biomolecular chemistry; and John Zumbrunnen, political science. Not pictured is Gary Shiu, physics. To learn more about the honorees, see www.news.wisc.edu/20430.

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40s–50s Kid Was a Hustler (iUniverse). UW emeritus professor of It’s the tale of his childhood horticulture Louis Berninger Have Some News? Show It Off! The work of artist Sylvia Fein efforts to “wheedle hard-earned PhD’59 is the 2012 inductee (Scheuber) ’42 of Martinez, money away from adults” to buy into the Wisconsin Green Please email the (brief, California, was part of the first bubble gum and marbles, and Industry Federation’s Hall of please) details of your latest international survey of women the values that he learned in the Fame. An educator for thirty accomplishments, major life surrealist artists in Mexico and process. ZumBrunnen lives in years, as well as a UW-Extension happenings, and transitions the U.S., which the Los Angeles Portland, Oregon; Borst passed floricultural specialist, he devel- to [email protected]; County Museum of Art hosted away in 1997. oped the Garden Almanac weekly mail them to Class Notes, this spring. The exhibit will travel A plaque now hangs in the TV series that was broadcast Wisconsin Alumni Association, to Québec this summer and Detroit VA Medical Center to pay in the Midwest starting in 1964. 650 North Lake Street, Madison, Mexico City in the fall. tribute to Sheldon “Shelly” Berninger now leads WAA’s WI 53706-1476; or fax them to Living between Parentheses: Kapen ’55, who founded the Sarasota/Manatee [Florida] (608) 265-8771. We receive many An American Girl in Post-War first sleep lab in the VA health alumni chapter as its president. more submissions than we can Germany (Lulu) is the memoir care system there in 1985. Kapen Madison is home to the World include in print, but we love to of Helga Voigt Epstein ’48, retired last year as chief of Dairy Expo, which hosts more hear from you anyway. who, as a journalist in the 1950s, explored “the enigma of Please email death notices and “I’m passionate about our commonality as the German personality” while all address, name, telephone, and working with the U.S. Army’s human beings, for I believe we are more alike email updates to alumnichanges@ Special Services unit. uwalumni.com; mail them to than different.” — Janet Hart Heinicke MA’56 The New York Academy of Alumni Changes, Wisconsin Science has bestowed its 2011 neurological sciences. He and his than sixty-five thousand visitors Alumni Association, 650 North Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights spouse enjoy attending Madison’s from ninety countries annually. Lake Street, Madison, WI 53706- Scientists Award on co-recip- Greenfield Summer Institute, Among its 2011 Friends of Expo 1476; fax them to (608) 262-3332; ient Jack Minker MS’50 of sponsored by the UW’s Center for — its most outstanding volun- or call them in to (608) 262-9648 Bethesda, Maryland. An interna- Jewish Studies through the gifts teers — were Betty (Elizabeth) or toll free to (888) 947-2586 tionally recognized leader in the of Roslyn Greenfield and the late Haag ’59 of Milton, Jefferson (WIS-ALUM). field of human rights for computer Larry Greenfield ’56. County’s long-time home scientists, he’s a professor A page in the Winter 2011 economist; Maureen DeBruin Most obituary listings of emeritus and the founding chair issue of Simpson, the alumni ’77 of Jefferson, a Holstein USA Wisconsin Alumni Association of the University of Maryland’s publication of Simpson College classifier for twenty-six years; members and friends appear in computer science department. in Indianola, Iowa, was devoted Badger Press staffer Julie the Badger Insider, WAA’s trian- Arlen Runzler Westbrook to Janet Hart Heinicke MA’56. Soukup Ehrke ’87 of Deerfield; nual publication for its members. ’50, MS’52 recalls a pioneering The emerita chair and professor and Brenda Lee Turner ’97, event in Integrating Delmar 1957: of art now travels globally to work who works for Semex and lives x-planation: An x preceding The Story of a Friendship (self- for causes that foster under- in Belwood, Ontario. a degree year indicates that the published). The book grew out standing of international issues. individual did not complete, of the diaries of Westbrook, who “I’m passionate about our or has not yet completed, that 60s rented her house in 1957 to the commonality as human beings,” degree at UW-Madison. first black family in an all-white Heinicke says, “for I believe we It doesn’t take a rocket scien- suburb of Albany, New York; and are more alike than different.” tist to catch a fish, but fisherman The Wisconsin Alumni Association co-author Margaret Cunningham, Rajat Chakrabarti Harvey Malchow ’61 of (WAA) encourages diversity, whose family shared the house for PhD’58 sent a most impressive Bedford, Massachusetts, is, inclusivity, nondiscrimination, and several months with Westbrook. summary of his career. He’s a in fact, a retired rocket scientist participation by all alumni, students, They bonded through the ensuing retired professor and chair of the who spent most of his career and friends of the UW in its activities. storm of racism and social ostra- mechanical engineering depart- at MIT, working with NASA. cism. Westbrook lives in Delmar. ment at Calcutta, India’s Jadavpur His whimsical memoir, Once, There’s a great photo of University, where he helped to When I Was Fishin’ (Lost Lake Ernest ZumBrunnen MBA’54 create radical, positive change in Publishing), is “a Zeitgeist of babysitting Roger “Buzz” its systems. He’s also served as a the 1950s and a Platzgeist of Borst ag short course ’52, member of the Indian Parliament north-central Wisconsin.” ’56, MS’58 on the cover of and as a director of the State A Concordia University 2011 ZumBrunnen’s memoir, The Bank of India. Distinguished Alumnus Award

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has gone to Luther Otto MS’63, medicine and melody by sitting in and subsequent missions, and elected a fellow of the American PhD’73. Retired from North with Chicago-area musicians. entered the U.S. Astronaut Hall Geophysical Union. Robock says Carolina State University-Raleigh Larry Barish ’67 has of Fame in 2006. his most important endeavor is as the Reynolds Distinguished produced the Blue Book — the Fellowship is the highest level “showing the threats of nuclear Professor of Sociology, he now “Bible of Wisconsin govern- of individual recognition given war to climate” and working for lives in Hot Springs, Arkansas. ment” — since the 1987–88 by the American Ornithologists’ “much more rapid nuclear disar- Being named a Distinguished edition. But, upon retiring last Union, and Douglas Johnson mament to eliminate this threat.” Artist by the Union League Club year after forty-one years with MS’69 now has it. He’s a scien- The American Association of Chicago is just the latest in the Legislative Reference Bureau, tist at the U.S. Geological for the Advancement of Science a long series of accolades for the 2011–12 issue was his last. Survey’s Northern Prairie Wildlife (AAAS) — the world’s largest Phyllis Halperin Bramson Barish’s final, 971-page oeuvre Research Center in St. Paul, general scientific society — MA’64, a painter, printmaker, was delayed due to senate recall Minnesota, as well as an affiliate has welcomed Mary Jane and University of Illinois-Chicago elections and includes photos of senior member of the University Merritt Shultz ’70 of Natick, professor emerita of studio arts. the spring 2011 protests at the of Minnesota graduate faculty. Massachusetts, as a new fellow. Writes facial plastic surgeon capitol and a feature article titled He heads the longest study of its A professor of chemistry at Tufts Robert Kotler x’64, “For Class “Progressivism Triumphant: The kind on the influence of fire on University and the principal inves- Notes, you are soliciting ‘acts 1911 Wisconsin Legislature.” breeding grassland birds in the tigator of its Laboratory for Water of bravery’? Okay, I have one ETA/Cuisenaire said fare- northern mixed-grass prairie. and Surface Analysis, AAAS for you.” In what he sees as an well to Dennis Goldman ’68 lauded her contributions to under- against-the-odds scenario, he’s in December when he retired 70s standing aqueous surfaces and founded Reltok Nasal Products, as its CEO after forty years with the interactions of high-powered whose Kotler Nasal Airway the company, but he’ll continue Has someone ever become laser light with those surfaces. allows patients to breathe clearly his affiliation as a senior consul- famous for eating spaghetti? Well, David Zucker ’70 — the following nasal or sinus surgery. tant. The Vernon Hills, Illinois, firm it happened to Bob Balow ’70 of director of Airplane!, The Naked Kotler, of Beverly Hills, California, is a pioneer in creating hands- Somers, Wisconsin. Thirty years Gun, and many other comedy is also a UCLA clinical instructor. on educational products, and ago, he invented the Original Pasta films — recently loosed his If you’ll be in New York Goldman holds a patent on the Fork, whose twisted shaft allows directing talent on a commer- City between June 1 and July Reading Rods teaching method. the user to easily wind spaghetti cial promoting Wisconsin’s winter 11, Georgia Pugh MFA’66 of They Call Me Mzee: One onto its tines. When sales even- activities. Zucker now lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts, would Man’s Safari into Brightest Africa tually dropped off, Balow posted Venice, California — a place with be delighted if you’d stop by the (CreateSpace) by Lee Mulder a fork demonstration on YouTube darned poor sledding. Durst Gallery in the Wall Street ’68 of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, chroni- that quickly garnered nearly one The seventh honorary fellow Journal Building on Sixth Avenue cles his fifteen trips to Uganda as million hits, with an extra-large of the Hong Kong Securities to view the solo exhibition of her a founding board member of Juna following in South Korea. (Go Institute is Laura Cha ’72. Seawall Series paintings. Amagara Ministries, an organi- figure.) When he’s not selling forks, She also sits on the Hong Kong David Rudd ’66 started out zation that helps AIDS orphans. Balow is the founder and owner of Special Administrative Region’s in chemical engineering, transi- (One dollar from each book sold Accu-Temp Heat Treating. executive council, is deputy chair tioned into marketing, and is now goes to the group.) “If properly Warm congratulations to of Hong Kong and Shanghai a professor of business adminis- trained,” Mulder says, “these Timothy Musty MS’70 of Banking Corporation Asia Pacific, tration and the inaugural Eugene [Ugandan] kids will change the Tucson. His forty-one years of and is a board director of Hong C. Fish Distinguished Chair of future of Africa.” service to children and fami- Kong Exchanges and Clearing. Business at Lebanon Valley The story behind the head- lies have earned him the Lifetime The 2011 Ohio Professor College in Annville, Pennsylvania. line “Middle School Embracing Achievement Award from the of the Year — as chosen by the Before he could read words, Astronaut Museum” is this: Arizona chapter of the National Carnegie Foundation for the Bobby Baker ’67 learned how to administrators in the tiny town of Association of Social Workers. Advancement of Teaching and read music from his brother Eddie Cass City, Michigan, are turning Rutgers University professor the Council for Advancement Baker — a renowned pianist and a middle-school room into the Alan Robock ’70 has joined the and Support of Education — is composer. Bobby studied clarinet Shaw Space and Technology board of trustees of the University Jed (Edward) Burtt, Jr. MS’73, and flute; performed in what he Center to honor Cass City’s Corporation for Atmospheric PhD’77. An accomplished orni- believes was the first jazz fusion most famous high school grad- Research, which runs the National thologist and an Ohio Wesleyan band, Madison’s Imitations; and uate, astronaut Brewster Shaw, Center for Atmospheric Research University zoology professor since played professional alto sax gigs Jr. ’68, MS’69 of Houston. He in Boulder, Colorado. He also 1977, he says that “awakening a in L.A. and Paris. Now a physician joined NASA in 1978, served “wore a tuxedo for the first time passion in a young person and in Long Grove, Illinois, he juggles as a pilot on STS-9 Columbia in his life” recently when he was helping each student fulfill a newly

54 ON WISCONSIN formulated dream is the essence as a lieutenant general after thirty- through pictures and rhymes” manager at the army’s Redstone of teaching. There is no higher three years in the U.S. Air Force that McDonald presented at the Test Center in Huntsville, Alabama. calling, no greater purpose in life.” and then served as Northrop American Occupational Therapy To channel Hill Street Blues, “Let’s Officially, Michael Arny ’74, Grumman Information Systems’ Association conference in April. be careful out there.” ’79, MS’82 is president of the VP of full-spectrum initiatives. Terry Swartzberg ’76 You’ll find many UW grads Leonardo Academy, the Madison Hedy Buss Rossmeissl wrote for the International Herald listed in the 2012 edition of Best nonprofit that he founded in ’74, MS’80 of Herndon, Virginia, Tribune for twenty-five years Lawyers in America, and among 1997 to promote sustainability. shared a story of loss and hope. and now runs a media consul- them is William Horn ’78, But unofficially, he’s the “Father Her husband, avid bicyclist tancy in Munich. He also notes JD’81 of Mika Meyers Beckett & of LEED-EB” — Leadership in Paul Rossmeissl ’74, MS’77, that his “anti-war burlesque,” Jones in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Energy and Environmental Design PhD’80, died in 2006 from inju- Tzaddhik, is garnering much Those included are selected for Existing Buildings — because ries suffered in a biking accident. attention “because of its subject through a nationally conducted, few people have been more Through organ donations, his — humanity’s never-ending ability peer-review survey. instrumental in creating, imple- liver and kidneys saved the lives to delude itself into war — and This may be a first: a Badger menting, and promoting this U.S. of three people and furthered its venues — the august funeral cherry magnate. Thomas Klevay Green Building Council rating research. Hedy and others have chapels of Germany’s munic- ’78 is the new CEO of the Diana system to certify best practices. since organized Paul’s Ride for ipal cemeteries.” Swartzberg also Fruit Company in Santa Clara, As a Madison city plan- Life, an annual bicycle event that heads the Munich chapter of the California, a ninety-year-old firm ning and development director that sells maraschino and fruit- turned private consultant, George “Awakening a passion in a young person and cocktail cherries internationally. Austin ’74, MA’76, MS’76 helping each student fulfill a newly formulated His wife, Anne Draper Klevay has been at the forefront of ’79, is a clinical nurse specialist some of the capital city’s most dream is the essence of teaching.” at Stanford University Hospital, iconic projects: Monona Terrace, — Jed (Edward) Burtt, Jr. MS’73, PhD’77 and number-two son Nick x’13 the Overture Center, and the is studying here at the UW. Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, honors his memory and raises Stolpersteine, the world’s largest After twenty-one years, which has won R&D magazine’s funds to promote organ dona- project of art and commemora- Alan Stavitsky ’78 has left the 2012 Laboratory of the Year inter- tion. And, the Washington [D.C.] tion of the Holocaust. University of Oregon to join the national competition. He’s also Regional Transplant Community Robert Browning MA’77, University of Nevada-Reno as the been working with philanthropist created a floragraph of his image MA’78, PhD’81 has served new dean of its Reynolds School spouses Pleasant Rowland and to represent the group on the as the founding director of the of Journalism and Advanced W. Jerome Frautschi ’56 on a Donate Life float in the 2012 C-SPAN Archives since 1987, Media Studies, which has just bid to redevelop the 100 block of Tournament of Roses Parade. and he received a 2010 Peabody completed an $8 million renova- State Street. What’s more? Austin What do Lady Gaga and Award for creating the C-SPAN tion project. At Oregon, Stavitsky hasn’t missed a Badger home Robert Aldridge ’76 have Video Library. Browning is also was a senior associate dean football game in forty-two years. in common? Both were 2011 an associate professor of polit- and the founding director of the Now here’s news you don’t Grammy Award nominees — ical science and communication Turnbull Portland Center. read every day: filmmaker James and Aldridge won! The Montclair at Purdue University in West The president-elect of the Bruner ’74 is teaching advanced [New Jersey] State University Lafayette, Indiana. Ecological Society of America screenwriting in the MFA program music professor took the prize Among the new appointees is Jill Baron MS’79, a U.S. at the Red Sea Institute of for Best Contemporary Classical to the UW System’s eighteen- Geological Survey research Cinematic Arts in Aqaba, Jordan. Composition for his opera Elmer member board of regents is Tim ecologist in Fort Collins, Colorado, Affiliated with the University of Gantry, and the Aldridge: Elmer Higgins ’77. The owner and who’s led national efforts to adapt Southern California’s School of Gantry CD won as the Best principal of ChiRho Services, to the consequences of nitrogen Cinematic Arts, the institute is the Engineered Album, Classical. a health care management deposition and climate change on creation of Steven Spielberg and Ginger (Virginia) Grass company in Appleton, Wisconsin, mountain ecosystems. She’s also King Abdullah of Jordan. McDonald ’76 of Dayton, Ohio, he’s also served two terms on the the founder and co-director of the Dan “Fig” Leaf ’74 is the shared the new CD-ROM that Wisconsin Alumni Association’s Powell Center for Earth System new director of the Honolulu- she’s co-authored, Self-Care with national board. Science Analysis and Synthesis. based Asia-Pacific Center for Flair! (Therapro). Intended for Best wishes to Christopher Peter Blum ’79 and Security Studies, a Defense therapists, teachers, and parents Helser ’78 as he vacates his David Rosenberg ’95 are at Department institute that of children with disabilities and construction-safety manager post the helm of the New York City- addresses regional and global especially autism, it’s a “practical at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility based investment banking security issues. In 2008, he retired guide for teaching self-care skills to become the explosive-safety and brokerage firm Ladenburg

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Thalmann & Company as its sory board of the National Investor tising firm in West Palm Beach, never heard from Keith Turner new co-presidents and co-CEOs. Relations Institute, as a director for Florida; and Nick has founded ’86 before. The dolphins are Blum was most recently the firm’s WAA’s Chicago chapter, and as a and become executive director of part of his work in coastal Pacific head of capital markets and has former director of WAA’s board. Special Forces Unlimited, as well Palisades, California, where he served as president of Bear Ridge Way to go, UW School of as CEO and performance archi- runs his own law firm and special- Capital. Rosenberg was previ- Social Work! Madison Magazine tect for Mercury Speed Unlimited. izes in view-rights issues. Turner ously Ladenburg Thalmann’s honored three of its grads in the Through these firms, the Savages, credits time spent on the Union co-chief operating officer and is November article “People of of Leesburg, Virginia, help Terrace and sailing Hoofers’ boats the co-founder and former CEO the Year: 35 Madisonians Who student-athletes to complete the for instilling his “deep apprecia- of BroadWall Capital. Made 2011 Better.” They were transition to “life beyond sports.” tion of a great water view.” Kashmira Trivedi Sheth Crystel Anders MS’83, execu- It’s always nice to see a name Twenty years ago, Ann MS’79 has earned many awards tive director of Community Shares from the past, which came to this Davidson Braue ’86 went for her picture books, middle- of Wisconsin; Brenda Johnson reporter as Grant VanderVelden from teaching schoolchildren to grade novels, and young-adult Nelson MS’89, the recently ’83, EMBA’97 — we spent lots teaching dogs, and opened Ann fiction, all of which have been retired executive director of the of time in the yearbook and Daily Braue’s Canine Training Center best-of-the-year picks by the Safe Harbor Child Advocacy Cardinal offices. He’s shifted in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Now a UW’s Cooperative Children’s specialist in agility training, she Book Center. Sheth has now “Wisconsin is just the whole package!” travels internationally to offer joined the faculty of the Solstice — Ashwini Simha MS’11 instruction and to compete with MFA in Creative Writing Program her own border collies on the at Pine Manor College in Center; and Hooyung Young directions since then, however: American Kennel Club’s World Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. MSW’08, director of commu- VanderVelden received his master Team, which earned the silver nity impact for the United Way of of divinity degree in 2010 and is medal in Norway in 2007. 80s Dane County. now pastor of First Presbyterian We had no idea that there Madisonian Ellen Barnard Church in Waukon, Iowa. was popcorn royalty among us, Marylynn Villinski Yates ’83, MS’84 is a social worker The only national award that yet it’s true: Tim Virnoche ’86 ’80 is new to the deanship turned entrepreneur: she and a college presents to an individual — also known as the “prince of the College of Natural and Myrtle Wilhite MS’95 own for exceptional teaching (and of popcorn” — says that “the Agricultural Sciences at the A Woman’s Touch, one of the few which carries the single largest lessons that Mom and Dad University of California-Riverside, boutiques in the nation to focus monetary prize of $250,000) is (Richard Virnoche ’58) used but she’s hardly a newcomer on sex, sensuality, and sexual the Robert Foster Cherry Award to pound into my brother and to the institution, where she’s health from a woman’s perspec- for Great Teaching, bestowed me while growing up in the family held numerous academic and tive. Now Barnard is helping biennially by Baylor University. business are still paying divi- administrative posts since 1987. other entrepreneurs by leading The 2012 honor belongs to Brian dends.” Tim and li’l bro Tom Sergio Fajardo Valderrama the effort to construct Madison’s Coppola PhD’84, the University Virnoche ’88 own and operate MA’81, PhD’84 has won the Food Enterprise & Economic of Michigan’s Thurnau Professor Madison’s Badger Popcorn & hearts of voters in the depart- Development Kitchens, an incu- of Chemistry. He’ll be in residence Concession Supply Company. ment of Antioquia, Colombia, bator for food-based businesses. at Baylor in Waco, Texas, during Wayne Newhauser ’87, to become its new governor. For the past dozen years, the spring 2013 semester. MS’91, PhD’95 writes with He’s promised the same kind of attorney Leslie Hairston ’83 has At First Solar in Irvine, “some news of an old Badger” innovative urban planning and worked to improve the heritage- California, VP for project develop- (though some would dispute the education reforms — as well as rich area where she was raised ment Brian Kunz ’85 is leading old part). In August, he moved security and transparency — (and where the Obamas held their the company’s Silver State North to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to that he established in Antioquia’s wedding reception) as the Fifth Project in Nevada: its effort to become a tenured professor with capital city of Medellín when he Ward alderperson on Chicago’s devise the first large-scale photo- an endowed chair at Louisiana became its mayor in 2003. City Council. Interesting family voltaic solar project on public State University, direct its medical We salute William Chapman bit: Hairston’s father was the first land to contribute power to the physics program, and serve as ’82: he’s Institutional Investor African-American to own and grid. Thanks to First Solar’s chief of physics at the Mary Bird magazine’s 2012 Investor operate a McDonald’s restaurant. Kenzie Riesselman ’03 for Perkins Cancer Center. Relations Professional of the Year (Corey) Nicholas ’83 and letting us know. Way to fly, Jill Droster in the Capital Goods Industry. The Ann King ’84 Savage met and We at Class Notes HQ Eshbaugh ’88! Following the senior director of investor relations fell in love in Madison. Since have never received a photo of merger of United and Continental for W.W. Grainger in Lake Forest, then, Ann has become president dolphins swimming past an office Airlines, she was promoted to Illinois, also serves on the advi- of BG, Incorporated, an adver- window, but that’s because we’ve operations managing director for

56 ON WISCONSIN has also signed for Madeleine Tom Hall ’86: Video Game Innovator Albright, Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. DAVID NAJJAB Two days bear special significance for video-game designer Tom Hall ’86. On June 9, 1980, his parents brought home 90s an Apple computer. “I lived on that thing,” he recalls. The It’s “nothin’ but Nets” for Barry second milestone occurred three decades later, on April 13, Baum ’92: he’s the senior VP 2010. “Totally out of the blue,” Hall says, “I had a stroke.” of communications for Barclays At the age of forty-seven, after forging a reputation Center, the sports and entertain- as one of the gaming world’s most daring innovators, Hall ment arena in Brooklyn, New suffered a lower-left pontine stroke that affected muscles York, that will be home to the on his right side. During his recovery, he developed a new Brooklyn Nets (formerly the New perspective on life. “I suddenly wanted to do things now, Jersey Nets) professional basket- instead of later,” he says. “I love photography, so I got the ball team when the center opens camera I’d dreamed of. I got a nice Herman Miller chair. I’m in September. eating better and simplifying my life.” Congratulations to Laura Growing up, Hall thrived on complications when it Bishop ’92! She’s been came to computer programming, creating his own games promoted to vice president of and vowing to major in computer science once he got to government relations for the college. At UW-Madison, while working toward his bach- Richfield, Minnesota-based elor’s degree in systems programming, he began thinking Best Buy and is president of the about a career in game design after he created education Consumer Electronics Retailers software for learning-disabled kids. Coalition. She’s also worked “I’d gotten positive response from folks about the text Tom Hall uses humor to enhance virtual in Switzerland for the U.S. adventures and games that I wrote,” Hall says, “but helping life and overcome adversity in real life. Department of State, as well a teacher improve his teaching tools with little games and as in the White House, the U.S. simulations really gave me that need to do games.” (See a related story, page 13.) Department of Education, and Shortly after graduation, Hall began working at a software company where he met John Romero, John the U.S. Senate. Carmack, and Adrian Carmack. In their spare time, the four geeks created the video game Commander Four Badgers from the ’90s Keen. It caught on. “We realized we could actually do this for a living,” he says, and the quartet formed its are moving in and moving up as own company, id Software. “We worked crazy hard — seven days a week, sixteen hours a day,” says Hall. attorneys: James Conley ’92, “I felt guilty eating breakfast. I had to get in to work and make the game.” JD’01 has joined the San Diego, Over the ensuing years, Hall developed games including Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, Rise of the California, office of Mintz Levin Triad, the award-winning Anachronox, and the immensely popular DOOM. Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo; Now living in Half Moon Bay, California, Hall has relied on the playful spirit that informs his game Sara Betzel Noel ’95 has been design after he was blindsided by the stroke. “Once I knew I wasn’t going to die,” he explains, “it was kind elected a shareholder in the of fun to relearn stuff: ‘Oh, that’s how you use a spoon.’ It was also fun tweeting dumb jokes and updates Minneapolis office of Leonard, from the hospital. My folks … taught me to find humor in life, so that’s how I dealt with it.” Street and Deinard; Timothy Phasing out the intensive production demands that have marked most of his previous projects, and Pfeifer ’96 is a new partner at now working for the Loot Drop game company, Hall says he’s embraced a new direction. “I’m kind of the New York City office of Baker done for now with games that take three or four years to develop. Facebook, smartphones, and eventually Hostetler; and Michael Borree Google — that’s the current frontier. I like the fast turnaround. Maybe that has to do with the stroke lesson: ’99 is a new partner as well, at ‘Do things now.’ ” the “trial practice boutique” of Hugh Hart Donohue Brown Mathewson & Smyth in Chicago. If you’re in the Chicago area, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Doing sign-language interpre- to accept the presidential nomi- tune in to WGN-TV’s Morning Russia, and India — no small tation for famous people might be nation at the 2008 Democratic News show, for which Aline area. Eshbaugh, of Dundee, feeling a little old hat for Susan National Convention, also held Wessel Cox ’96 is the recently Illinois, has also joined with Jordan Faltinson ’88, MS’90: in Denver. “It’s just an amazing promoted managing producer. co-workers to help build a school she interpreted an address given opportunity to sign for the presi- She describes the program as the in Cambodia, where she and her by President Obama in Denver dent,” she says. The Front Range “highly rated newscast in Chicago spouse sponsor two children. this fall, as well as his speech Community College instructor that mixes news with some fun.”

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It’s hard to argue with that on a bleary-eyed morning. Emily Friedman ’07: On the Campaign Trail Todd Hughes MA’97, MICHAEL SEAMANS PhD’01 is now occupying the Taking a rare break from shadowing chief technology officer’s seat at Mitt Romney as an ABC News reporter, Next Century Corporation, a tech- Emily Friedman ’07 pondered her nology company headquartered in upcoming schedule one frosty afternoon Columbia, Maryland, that special- from a Southfield, Michigan, hotel room: izes in work for the defense and “Tonight he’ll have an election-night intelligence communities. He was event; tomorrow we get on a bus early most recently a program manager in the morning and drive to Ohio, where at the Defense Advanced Romney will do two events; then we fly Research Projects Agency. on a charter to Fargo, North Dakota; Union College in then we fly to Idaho on Thursday; then Schenectady, New York, was to Seattle; and on Friday we fly back to founded in 1795 as the first Ohio. It’s going to get crazy.” planned campus in the U.S., and Operating as a one-person news its new director of engineering — unit, Friedman shoots video, contributes lo, these many years later — is to a blog, interviews campaign advisers, Andrew Rapoff PhD’97. He’s Emily Friedman (center cameraperson) has a front-row and serves as ABC’s constantly trav- seat to history as an ABC News digital reporter covering also an associate professor of eling expert on Romney. It’s a perfect fit Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. mechanical engineering. for the New York native. “I come from a It was no surprise that total news-junkie background,” she says. “I was raised in a household where the newspaper’s on the table Richard Schwartz ’97 made every morning; the evening news is on the TV every night.” the Hollywood Reporter’s “Next At the UW, Friedman began writing for the Badger Herald student newspaper in her sophomore Gen 2011” list of Tinseltown’s year before becoming deputy editor of its opinion page. Friedman recalls, “We’d write editorials about fastest-rising stars. The senior everything from how much a university had to report to a student’s parents if they were arrested for a DUI, VP of television at Olive Bridge to how the school handed out tickets for football games. People really did pay attention, and that’s why Entertainment has studied I enjoyed it so much.” comedy under Stephen Colbert The summer before her senior year, Friedman interned at ABCNews.com in New York. After graduating at Second City, served as David from the journalism school, she returned to the network, and within a couple of years became a field producer Lynch’s assistant on Mulholland covering hurricanes and missing-child stories for Good Morning America and the ABC Evening News. Drive, produced web content Since October, when she began tailing Romney full time, Friedman has been toting around a video for and toured with tennis star camera, tripod, batteries, cables, and her laptop to document the Republican candidate’s every move. Anna Kournikova, and worked at “As much criticism as he gets for being awkward and stiff, Romney genuinely likes people and tries to Fox Sports, Warner Brothers TV, connect with them,” she says. and Conan O’Brien’s production Friedman shoots all of Romney’s speeches, but her duties as an “off-air campaign digital reporter” company. Somewhere in there, go far beyond sending video clips to ABC headquarters. “A lot of times, you press Record on the camera, Schwartz also won $18,000 on and as Romney speaks, you’re on your Blackberry taking notes on what he’s saying. If you haven’t VH1’s Rock & Roll Jeopardy. tweeted that Mitt Romney told us his tax rate within thirty seconds of him saying it, you get emails, ‘Did U.S. Attorney General Eric you see what so-and-so tweeted?’ And you go, ‘Yes, I was writing an email to tell you about it! I can’t Holder has awarded assistant email and tweet and feed the post at the same time!’ ” U.S. attorney Angela Walker It’s a grueling gig, but Friedman has no complaints. “I knew what I was signing up for. I miss my Woolridge ’99 the Attorney apartment, and I miss having dinner with friends, but at the same time, I have a front-row seat to history,” General’s Award for Outstanding she says. “That’s pretty cool, too.” Contributions by a New Employee Hugh Hart for her exceptional work as a Tucson-based federal prosecutor.

2000s has been named a non-equity ioffice; and Jeffrey LaValle Alan Fish MS’01, the UW’s partner at Swanson, Martin & Bell JD’04 and Natalie Giugno former associate vice chancellor Here’s where some of this in Chicago; Brendan Sweeney Maciolek JD’04 have been for facilities planning and manage- decade’s legal eagles have ’01 is a new associate in Blank elected to partnership at Quarles ment, has become Johns Hopkins landed: John Arranz ’00, JD’03 Rome’s Boca Raton, Florida, & Brady in Milwaukee. University’s VP for real estate and

58 ON WISCONSIN campus services. Fish oversaw photographer documenting the the creation of a new campus lives of Dust Bowl farmers in Calendar master plan, and during his tenure 1930s Kansas. McCabe performs since 1989, the UW completed, with Shakespeare & Company began building, or initiated the in the Berkshires and has July design of fifty-seven projects appeared Off-Broadway, in TV 12–13, 19–20, 26–27 Grandparents University worth more than $2.3 billion. commercials and daytime serials, Grandparents and grandchildren (ages seven to fourteen) can JD Stier ’04, the subject and on Saturday Night Live. learn together and from each other through hands-on activities of the Fall 2011 On Wisconsin on the UW-Madison campus. Offered by the Wisconsin Alumni feature “Prison Breaks,” has been Association and UW-Extension Family Living Programs since 2010s 2001, Grandparents University® is an award-winning workshop to eastern Congo with actress held on campus every summer. • uwalumni.com/grandparents Robin Wright. She’s an activist Jacob Kushner ’10 isn’t the with the Enough Project — an kind of journalist who rushes to organization working to end geno- the scene of a tragedy and then August cide and crimes against humanity departs just as quickly. Instead, 8 UW-Madison Day at the Wisconsin State Fair — whose TIME op-ed “Put an End he moved to Haiti after its January Come to the Wisconsin State Fair and spend the day with Bucky to Blood Minerals” appeared in 2010 earthquake and began Badger, the Marching Band, and UW alumni and friends. Enjoy November. “The crisis [in Congo] covering the U.S. deportations of science demonstrations, performances, and athletic contests, and is unparalleled,” Stier says. Haitians that resumed a year later. sample products developed at the university. • statefair.wisc.edu The Camarones Community Kushner took the story of one Coalition is a nonprofit dedicated deportee from Florida who died in September to promoting sustainable devel- a Haitian jail to the Florida Center 1, 15, 22 Home Field Advantage opment and providing health for Investigative Reporting, which Visit Madison for any of our home football weekends. Available and educational services to the provided funding and distribution exclusively to WAA members, Home Field Advantage packages rural community of Camarones, partnerships for his reporting. include Friday- and Saturday-night accommodations at the Ecuador — and it’s the brainchild Rohinton Tarapore PhD’10 Edgewater Hotel and two game tickets. • uwalumni.com/hfa of Emily Kalnicky (Price) ’05. now holds a research post at WAA Football Tour: Oregon State She’s currently raising funds to the University of Pennsylvania 6–9 Embark on a three-night getaway to see the Badgers play Oregon build a community center there. Medical School and co-chairs its State. Tour includes hotel accommodations, game-day transfers, A chapter of the National Biomedical Postdoctoral Council, pre-game BADGER HUDDLE®, a game ticket, and much more. Air Society of Hispanic MBAs exists but while doing his doctoral and land-only travel options are available. • uwalumni.com/athletics in Milwaukee thanks to the initia- research at the UW, he and his tive of founders Scott Astrada colleagues discovered that the 28–30 WAA Football Tour: Nebraska ’06 and Marc Adesso ’01. natural compound lupeol, found Hit the road with fellow Badger fans for our first football trip to Nebraska. Tour includes chartered bus transportation, overnight The society serves eight thou- in several fruits and vegetables, accommodations, pre-game BADGER HUDDLE®, and more. Lim- sand members in the U.S. and may have the potential to target ited game tickets may also be available. • uwalumni.com/athletics Puerto Rico, and seeks to foster a type of melanoma. They’ve Hispanic leadership through published their findings in the graduate management education Oxford University Press journal October and professional development. Carcinogenesis and are eager to 6 Alumni for Wisconsin Forum Badger State students are conduct further research. Discover ways to support UW-Madison in your community, at the learning about energy through A U.S. State Department state capitol, or in Washington, D.C., from distinguished faculty the Stevens Point-based grant took Madisonian Kevin and campus leaders. Then, join fellow Badgers for a football Wisconsin K–12 Energy Bargnes ’11 and Kyle Mianulli tailgate before the Badgers take on Illinois. • uwalumni.com/ alumniforwisconsin Education Program (KEEP). Its of Plymouth, Minnesota, to Serbia director, Jennie Lane PhD’06, in May 2011 to lead seminars for notes that KEEP has become a university students on how to valentine to the UW in The Hindu, “Wisconsin is just the whole national leader in this arena. launch their own online newspa- one of India’s national daily news- package!” Simha, of Folsom, Josh Aaron McCabe pers. Thanks to the pair’s ongoing papers. She praised our “public California, is a graphics hardware MFA’06 made a return to the efforts, student journalism is ivy” status, research, faculty, engineer at Intel Corporation. Madison stage this winter to blooming at the Universities of degree programs, International star in the Forward Theater Nis, Novi Sad, and Belgrade. Student Services department, Compiler Paula Wagner Company’s world premiere of In November, Ashwini campus, college experience, and Apfelbach ’83 would really A Thousand Words, about a Simha MS’11 penned a four seasons, and concluded: prefer that you solve for x.

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however, in her recent short-story collection, ■■ Paula Dáil MS’80, PhD’83’s Women Journeys of the Mind (Trafford Publishing), and Poverty in 21st Century America in which a very rational woman explores what (McFarland) has won the 2011 Kingery/Derleth lies beyond rationality. Baumann is retired in Nonfiction Book Award from the Council for Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Wisconsin Writers. With careers in newspaper journalism and academia at Virginia Tech and ■■ Larry Ceplair MA’69, PhD’73, author Iowa State, Dáil now lives in Spring Green, of Anti-Communism in Twentieth- Wisconsin, where her dog “sings in the Century America: A Critical History choir of turkeys and other musical creatures (Praeger), explains that his book “traces the ■■ Jerome Chazen ’48 met Art Ortenberg inhabiting her land.” ’47 at the UW in the 1940s, and they became rise and effects of anti-communism by cate- roommates. Ortenberg then introduced gorizing its variety of styles, and examines the ■■ Following her Chazen to his future wife, Simona Chivian logic and necessity of it.” He lives in Santa popular debut novel, The Chazen, and Ortenberg went on to marry a Monica, California. Monsters of Templeton, and her collection of relatively unknown fashion designer named ■■ The central character Liz Claiborne. While meeting for a drink in New short stories, Delicate of Peter Levine ’00’s Edible Birds, Lauren York City in 1975 and pondering what to do debut collection of Groff MFA’06 of about their professional restlessness, Chazen short stories, The Gainesville, Florida, blurted out, “We can start a company.” By Appearance of is garnering praise the early ’90s, with Chazen as the chair and a Hero: The Tom for Arcadia (Voice/ CEO, Liz Claiborne had become an enormous Mahoney Stories Hyperion), the name of success. These stories and many others (St. Martin’s Press), a 1960s commune whose utopian dream is are part of his new book, My Life at Liz is drawn from people foundering. The work follows fifty years in the Claiborne: How We Broke the Rules Levine met while at the life of Bit Stone, a tender-souled boy born in and Built the Largest Fashion Company UW: a businessman who’s good-looking, Arcadia who must eventually learn to make his in the World (AuthorHouse). You may also popular, athletic, dynamic, and seemingly way, painfully, in the “real world.” know the Chazens as the philanthropists who uncomplicated. But, as he approaches middle gave a $20 million gift to double the size of the age, Mahoney realizes that he’s disappearing ■■ Scott Helman ’97 has been a Boston UW’s Chazen Museum of Art. The Nyack, New from the lives of those who once surrounded Globe staffer since 2000, including stints as York, couple attended the grand opening of the him — a modern-day Willy Loman. Levine its political editor, a lead national reporter museum expansion in October. lives in Washington, D.C. on the 2008 presidential campaign, and a ■■ Thomas Waite ’79 State House bureau reporter covering Mitt ■■ In While America describes his first novel, Romney’s gubernatorial administration — all Sleeps: A Wake-up Terminal Value (Marl- of which make him unusually qualified to co- Call for the Post- borough Press), as an author a book on the former-Massachusetts- 9/11 Era (Crown “intense thriller that pro- governor-turned-presidential-candidate. The Publishing), former vides an insider’s look work, The Real Romney (HarperCollins), Democratic U.S. Senator into the excitement of a has been excerpted in Vanity Fair. from Wisconsin Russ technology start-up, the Feingold ’75 looks ■■ Attitudes about gender roles in American anticipated riches of an at institutional failures society were unmasked in a profound way initial public offering, the since 9/11 and proposes during the Vietnam War — and even had gut-wrenching murder of a friend, and the dark steps to ensure that we an impact on foreign policy — contends side of corporate America.” The Bostonian become focused on solving the international Heather Stur PhD’08 in Beyond Combat: entrepreneur writes both fiction and nonfic- problems that threaten our nation. Since Women and Gender in the Vietnam tion, and his work has appeared in the Harvard leaving the Senate in 2011, he has taught at War Era (Cambridge University Press). The Business Review and the New York Times. Marquette University Law School and Stanford assistant professor of history at the University ■■ Carol Edler Baumann ’54 has a PhD University, and founded Progressives United, of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg says from the London School of Economics, served an organization that challenges the dominance that “the home front and the battle front are as a State Department diplomat, taught inter- of corporate money in American democracy. very closely intertwined.” national relations, and spent thirty-three years Feingold was a Rhodes Scholar, an honors directing UW-Milwaukee’s Institute of World law graduate of both Harvard Law School and You’ll find more new-book news at Affairs — all roles in which her thoughts were Oxford University, and the 1999 co-recipient of On Wisconsin’s website, onwisconsin. firmly planted. She lets them roam freely, the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. uwalumni.com.

60 ON WISCONSIN sifting &winnowing BARRY ROAL CARLSEN

In no time at all, I would be at fifteen hundred feet in the bright blue sky, Flying Solo or up above the billowing clouds, looking down at tiny trees or cars on By Audrey Waldschmidt Lawler ’45 the rolling countryside. It was like nothing else, and all I could hear was the whirl of the propeller. The progress and accomplishments of the university featured in My boyfriend at the time called me “Ameeee-lia” in honor of Amelia On Wisconsin articles are always fascinating, but I was also amazed Earhart, the world’s most famous aviatrix. And my friends teased me by an ad in the Spring 2011 issue that featured Middleton, Wisconsin. before I took my first solo flight, expecting that I might land at the It brought back wonderful memories of a simple country town and wrong airport — just like Wrong Way Corrigan, who became a national some high adventures I had as a student. hero in 1938 after filing a flight plan from New York to California, but My recollection starts in July 1943 during World War II, when we had landing in Ireland instead. soldiers from Madison’s Truax Field on campus. The war had become The airport in Middleton was really out in the country in those days part of our lives, since many of our friends had gone off to fight. Even — literally surrounded by farms. To get there, I had to take an almost- women had become involved in the war effort as transport pilots. hour-long bus ride to the road along which the airport was located. I I signed up for two courses that summer: Theory of Flight and never minded the distance, because I was determined to learn how to Meteorology. They were fascinating subjects to me because I had fly. I’d walk down that road to the small airport entrance, all the while never flown before. In those days, we mostly traveled by car or train. being watched and mooed at by black-and-white cows standing along Then I learned that I could take flying lessons at Middleton Airport, so I the wire fence. Sometimes they walked along with me. asked for permission from my parents to learn to fly. Back then it cost I never spent time in town, but I imagine it had a main street and a only fifteen dollars per lesson, but I got a job at a department store in bunch of houses, farms, and stores like most small towns. So when I Madison to help defray the costs. We flew planes such as Taylorcraft and saw the modern hotel picture in the ad announcing, “It’s snazzier here other two-seaters, and in winter, we landed on the snow-covered runway in Middleton,” I was charmed by the thought. They had even added a with long skis instead of wheels. To start the engine, my instructor had fountain. The airport is still there. Today named Middleton Municipal to spin the propeller until it caught. Then he would quickly hop in the Airport-Morey Field, it was purchased by the city of Middleton in 1998. passenger side (after I had learned how to take off, that is). Maybe I’ll go back someday. Then I could stay in a “snazzy” hotel, Other students were learning how to fly there, too. Young men from even though I’d be mindful of that nostalgic time when it was just a Truax, wearing navy uniforms, trained in yellow, open-cockpit planes sleepy little airport town. they called N3Ns. As a postscript, the war ended about the time I graduated, so I It was all quite thrilling. I can’t adequately describe the feeling of gave up piloting and became an American Airlines stewardess instead. being on a solo flight. Little old me actually flying, stick in one hand, I guess I just wanted to hold on to that feeling of being above the throttle in the other. Together they made the plane go up and down, clouds as long as I could. and to turn, I just worked the ailerons with my feet. So utterly unreal! Audrey Waldschmidt Lawler resides in Tampa, Florida.

SUMMER 2012 61 Farewell Cards envision spaces where faculty could work of catalog cabinets that were built into Continued from page 35 with graduate students. I see technology the walls. And library staff have also set as being a big part of the room. I see the aside a few thousand cards to remind the Cohen, who’s worked in libraries — capability of video conferencing with space’s new inhabitants of what went on on campus and off — since 1977, puts his other collaborators around the country.” before their arrival. feelings more bluntly. “I hated them,” he But at the moment, the plan remains “There are plans to keep at least half says. “I hated filing those cards when I in the visionary stage. The most recent a dozen of the catalog drawers with some had to do it, and I’m glad to see them go.” director of the libraries, Ken Frazier, of the contents,” says Konrad. “We’d like retired in January, and a search for his to tie in — to whatever we ultimately do Reshuffling successor has just begun. Any plan to in the space — some physical connection transform Room 224 would tie up space to our past, in an attempt to provide some the Deck and money, and both are scarce resources insight as to how standard library conven- But recycling the cards them- for the library. tions started and what such standards selves isn’t the issue that occupies “It would probably be best to wait made possible in the digital age. The phys- library leadership — it’s recycling the area until a new director is here to make a ical catalog will always be an important they used to live in: Memorial Library’s determination as to what’s best for the and interesting piece of our history.” Room 224. library,” says Konrad. “It’s a long-term But the rest of the cabinets — some One of the leading ideas is to devote commitment. For now, we are concen- 117 of them — are being shipped off to the old catalog room to something called trating on the services that are not space SWAP (Surplus with a Purpose, the UW’s the Humanities Research Bridge, a dependent, such as workshops, speaker surplus warehouse) to be sold. According collaborative effort among the libraries, series, and consultations.” to SWAP’s Tom Bessey, the cabinets the College of Letters & Science, and As a result, Van Gemert believes go for about $120 apiece, though some the UW’s Division of Information Tech- Room 224 will likely remain an open have fetched more than $400 at auction. nology aimed at supporting research in study space at the start of the 2012–13 Demand has been high. the humanities. academic year. “They’ve been going pretty well,” “There’s a growing interest in collab- he says. “Every time we [list one for sale orative humanities work,” says Konrad, A Lot of Wood online], it goes out on Facebook and “the kind that requires collective expertise Twitter and is re-tweeted. I’ve been kind to carry out a given project. We anticipate Disposing of the card catalog of surprised.” that, for this type of work, faculty and doesn’t just create an excess of paper and Demand comes from store owners students will need seminar and presenta- a new space to fill. It also frees up a lot of who want to use them to display products, tion spaces to discuss their work, and small furniture: hundreds of cabinets designed from crafters who want them to store art meeting spaces where you might expect to to hold three-by-five cards now have no supplies — even from people who want to 8 find a range of people, including faculty, purpose on campus. install a prefabricated wine rack. There computer scientists, visualization experts, Most of the cabinets were acquired are, it seems, many uses for obsolete librarians, campus technologists, and so on. in the 1950s or earlier. Built by Globe- library technology. The spaces and services we provide should Wernicke (a firm that hasn’t existed “If nothing else,” notes Irene help facilitate the mixing and matching under that name since 1963) and Zimmerman, “they’re the perfect size for of scholars and campus technologists Remington Rand (a brand that ceased in storing cassette tapes.” n 1955), the typical model stands five feet engaged in computational work such as 8 “The drawers are the perfect size for a bottle data mining, analysis, and visualizations.” tall and three and a half wide and weighs of Bordeaux,” says Jamie Woods. “But a The possibilities for the new space in at 350 pounds. Burgundy? I don’t know.” Some of them will be saved. If and excite Van Gemert. John Allen is senior editor for On Wisconsin, “We envision collaborative areas,” when the Humanities Research Bridge which can be found in Memorial Library’s Room he says. “We envision seminar space. We moves into Room 224, it will inherit rows 240 (periodicals and newspapers).

62 ON WISCONSIN Apps the best way to teach history. While his Continued from page 41 novels focus on contemporary issues, each is deeply rooted in the past. His first sixty-five-acre farm just two miles from novel, The Travels of Increase Joseph, was where he grew up. His father purchased based on actual events that took place in the land and sold it to Apps and his Wisconsin in the mid-nineteenth century twin brothers for $1 in 1966 to ensure and featured an itinerant preacher with that the family would stay strongly a guiding theology carefully crafted rooted. The family carefully restored from all of Apps’s environmental heroes: the acreage and prairie — a tale Apps Thoreau, Emerson, Muir, and Leopold. recounts, along with the genealogy of From this historical foundation, Apps the land itself, in his book Old Farm. wove a story of environmental conserva- “The farm is a place of solitude, tion through the preaching of his where I go to find the country quiet that fictional minister. I love and need in my life,” he says. “All of my novels have a deeper It’s also how he stays connected to message about something I care about, the land and where he taught his chil- be it food safety or how to care for the dren to appreciate the value of a life The consolidation of the one-room land for future generations,” says Apps. lived close to the earth. Apps counts such schools, along with agricultural changes “No one likes to be preached to, so why great Wisconsin environmental thinkers in the latter half of the twentieth century, not try to convey a message through as Aldo Leopold, John Muir x1863, led to their demise. But for more than storytelling? Sigurd Olson ’20, and Gaylord Nelson two hundred years, these schools were an “Everyone should know where they LLB’42 among his heroes, because they integral part of Wisconsin life — as were came from — their history,” he says. “I taught him to recognize the impor- small dairy farms. try to capture the details, the beliefs, and tance of leaving something to the next In Cheese: The Making of a Wisconsin values of rural and small-town people, generation. The farm has now become a Tradition, Apps traces the history of what they did for fun and what was touchstone for him, his wife, Ruth, and cheesemaking from the 1840s to the important to them.” their three grown children. Apps often present, exploring the evolution of the As rural life continues to change, goes there to write and garden. industry from the local farm to the Apps believes there’s no better time to As in Old Farm, many of the rural factory. The same forces of change that explore the past — to remember who we historian’s stories and topics spring drove many farmers off the land were were and what values we held dear. from his own life. Apps spent his first also at work in the cheese industry in the “Every piece of land tells a story; eight years of formal education in the twentieth century, as the small, family-run every piece speaks its history,” he says. one-room Chain O Lake school. That factory began to disappear. “The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve experience, and the realization that most Loss and change figure heavily in realized that your history — where you of these country institutions had disap- Apps’s Breweries of Wisconsin as well. Many grew up — it’s who you are today. It peared from the landscape, led him to of the beers he enjoyed as a young man in doesn’t matter if it’s the middle of New write One-Room Country Schools: History central Wisconsin no longer exist today. York City or a sandy farm in Waushara and Recollections from Wisconsin. So he went back to the beginning to — that place creates you and underlies “Wisconsin had over fifty ethnic discover how breweries formed the core everything that you do and everything groups, all committed to public education, of many Wisconsin communities in the that you are and will be.” ■ in 1900,” Apps says. “The little country nineteenth century. school was the symbol for accomplishing In recent years, Apps has also Erika Janik MA’04, MA’06 is a Madison writer that, and was, along with the church, the branched out to fiction. It’s not surprising and radio producer who only wishes she were cornerstone of the community.” for a man who believes that stories are as prolific as Jerry Apps.

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All Wet The Mifflin Street Block Party struggled through its forty-fourth year in celebration, in May 1969, began as a street dance and ended as a early May, the festivities somewhat dampened by friction with the city three-day riot, with seventy injured and a hundred arrested — including and sponsors (but not by hoses, as in this photo dated 1970). then-alderman Soglin. Planners for the 2012 party had a difficult time during the last In the ensuing years, attendance at the party has varied from year. After the 2011 event was marred by violence — including three the hundreds to the tens of thousands, and arrests and injuries have reported stabbings and two reported sexual assaults — Madison Mayor ranged from zero (as was the case in 1970) to hundreds. By 2011, the Paul Soglin ’66, JD’72 and other city leaders called for an end to the event was known chiefly as an opportunity for binge drinking. A survey annual bash in the student-heavy neighborhood south of campus. Then that Associated Students of Madison conducted on campus found that in March 2012, the event’s sponsor, All-Star Catering, backed out. The 54 percent of respondents believed that the main purpose of the party party survived the scowls from officialdom and went on anyway on is to drink (and 78 percent planned to attend). May 5, but only after neighborhood residents promised to make it more Ultimately, an estimated five thousand people attended this year’s of a block party and less of a booze-fest. Mifflin Street Block Party. Friction with city authorities is nothing new to the event: its first John Allen

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