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Sweet Time Students postpone pomp under varied circumstances SALUTE OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF SOCIETY AND IN BEHALF OF HUMANITY

The Kansas Alumni Association invites nominations for the University's highest honor, the DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CITATION

••'• Since 1941 the University of Kansas and its Alumni Association have bestowed the Distinguished Service Citation upon 300 alumni and 30 honorary alumni. Recipients are selected from nominations submitted to the Alumni Association and reviewed by a special Selection Commit- tee. Distinguished Service Citation recipients are honored by the Alum- ni Association in the spring and also participate in Commencement as honored guests.

Nominations may come from any source and should include a recent resume of the candidate's service history, including career, published works, previous honors and service to the world, nation, state, community and University. Letters of support may also be included. The deadline for nominations for the 2001 awards is Sept. 30, 2000.

Send nominations for the 2001 awards to Fred B. Williams at the Kansas Alumni Association, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169.

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FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 18 FIRST WORD Green Space The editor's turn Crop forecasting now involves more than gazing at LIFT THE CHORUS clouds; it's about peering down from the heavens. Letters from readers ON THE BOULEVAR1 By Rex Buchanan Schedules of KU events JAYHAWK WALK 22 tsruney bpears rumors, wienermob'de winner, Page 18 No Piece of Cake tuba twosome and more. As societal and academic forces nudge (or push) 10 HILLTOPICS News and notes, diploma-seeking undergraduates beyond four years, including a Guggenheim the debate intensifies: Are growing trends of five- and Fellow, new leadership ,- six-year undergraduate careers created minor, a Kennedy visit and more by students' hectic schedules or languid living? 14 SPORTS By Megan Maciejowski; cover photograph by Track and field gets a new Wally Emerson; cake created by Gayle Longfellow; art direction by Susan Younger 16 OREAD READER Megan Maciejowski 28 delves Deep in the Heart The Hope Doctor 17 OREAD WRITER Page 22 Chris Lazzarino has the Professor Rick Snyder has long battled psychology's right chemistry {set) accepted practices that emphasize our dark edges. ^. ASSOCIATION NEWS Now Snyder's research into hope and the brighter side New Board members, ring of human nature is gaining wide acceptance. ceremony and Association events By Steven Hill; illustrations by Jeff Shumway CLASS NOTES Profiles of the Kansas Comet, an accordion 56 champ and a writing Summer Solace coach As this issue headed to press, coach Roy Williams 47 IN MEMORY Deaths in the KU family swelled our Jayhawk pride by electing to remain at SCHOOLWORK KU. Savor scenes from the memorable day in ^Jews from academe Hail to Old KU. By Chris Lazzarino; photographs by Wally Emerson

VOLUME 98 NO. 4, 2000 KANSAS ALUMNI o you have a son or daughter Denrolling as a freshman in fall 2000? Please send us the information for inclusion in Jayhawk Generations, Kansas Alumni magazine's annual fall tribute to KU legacies.

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hree-year-old Rachel blithely splashed in the bathtub, Other less-calculable causes also bear consideration. Even blissfully unaware that I was about to impart life- students who come to the Hill with precise plans find good rea- changing news. For weeks I had rehearsed this sons to change their minds. Some even approach academe with moment, choosing just the right words to elicit a joy- the same sense of adventure that harks back to the nation's earli- Tous reaction from my first-born. An anxious smile on my face, I est colleges, where young scholars prepared not for specific jobs gently told Rachel that, soon after her fourth birthday in August, but for life—by exploring many disciplines and acquiring the she would get to be a big sister. Promotion to such lofty rank, I discipline to patiently seek answers to larger questions. hoped, would surely outweigh the price of sharing her doting Such perseverance is the trademark of a psychology professor parents with a baby brother or sister. profiled by writer Steven Hill in another of our features. After Rachels brown eyes held mine for several long seconds as her working and waiting for years, C.R. "Rick" Snyder at last has preschool mind processed what I had—and hadn't—said. Then earned acclaim from his colleagues and the popular press for calmly she asked for verification that rank would indeed bring his positive approach to psychology. Snyder focuses on our privilege: attributes, advocating hope as the answer to many emotional "This means I'll get to drive, right?" struggles. In his books, he not only measures hopefulness but Nearly 11 years later, Rachel starts the car in the driveway, also outlines a method for increasing hope. We can indeed plan punches in her favorite CD and fidgets until, minutes our success, he says, if we're patient. later, I rush out to chauffeur her to her numerous pressing engagements. She chafes at my habitual late- ness almost as much as she bristles over the two- year wait until she ascends to the coveted rank of licensed driver. At dinner, amid discussions of junior-high studies and social life (not necessarily in that order), she abruptly asks how many years she will need to complete her bachelor's degree, then her master's, then her doctorate. She plans to teach; she plans to marry; she plans to rear two daughters and two sons. She has always planned. Yet life refuses to happen fast enough. Her impa- tient sighs eerily echo my own so many years ago, confirming that Rachel indeed takes after me (to our mutual horror and delight). As I gamely try to learn to slow down, take my time and wait, she reminds me that my first instinct is never to sit still. As I indulge in a small act of rebellion against my lifelong rush by refusing to carry a calendar, she carries a daily planner, an acces- sory required by her junior high. She no doubt will tote one Our features on academic and emotional pursuits also signal to college, where planners—or their computerized cousins— changes in course for the writers of these stories. Steven Hill, are more popular than piercings or tattoos. who recently has written several free-lance articles for Kansas But if current college patterns continue, Rachel might not Alumni and numerous publications nationwide, joins the staff in complete her degree in the four years she has allotted. As Megan July. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilming- Maciejowski explains in our cover story, today's planner-carrying ton and Columbia University, Steve brings prodigious talent, college students don't hold themselves to the traditional four- acute sensibilities and impressive publishing credentials to our year schedule, an English custom that in the United States dates creative crew. back to the mid-1600s. Steve's arrival, however, means the bemoaned departure of At the University, where 20 years ago the four-year under- our staff writer, Megan Maciejowski, who will move to Los graduate degree was the norm (and the "five-year plan" a wink- Angeles to be near family and friends. She joined the staff in ing euphemism for dallying on the dole from Mom and Dad), January 1999, fresh from her KU undergraduate days, and soon five- and six-year plans are more common than not. After inter- charmed us with her splendid prose—and the occasional silly viewing numerous students and administrators, Megan discov- pratfall. During brainstorming sessions, her comedic timing ered that longer stays on the Hill do not necessarily mean could break us up one minute, and her wise insight could stop students are loafing. Many curricula require five or six years, us cold the next. and increasing costs often demand that students work more She is a natural for whom a thrilling adventure awaits. hours and enroll in fewer as they work their way through KU. We're planning on it. -^^

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 h LIFT THE CHORUS A h KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE BOARD OF DIRECTORS KU best place to interact Publisher Chairman I would like to add an optimistic twist Fred B.Williams Reid Holbrook, c'64,1*66, Overland Park, Editor Kansas to your discussion of the dwindling per- Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'81 centage of the black student population at Executive Vice Chairman Art Director Janet Martin McKinney, c'74, Port Ludlow, KU ["Faces in the Crowd," issue No. 2], Susan Younger, f'91 Washington Throughout my 40-plus years of life as a Managing Editor Chris Lazzarino, j'86 Executive Committee "white" American—one who makes a liv- Staff Writer Jim Adam, e'56. Overland Park, Kansas ing teaching English to students from Megan Maciejowski, j'98 Reid Holbrook, c'64, l'66, Overland Park, around the world—I've always wished for Kansas Editorial Assistants greater contact with other population Karen Goodell; Nancy Crisp, j'83 Janet Martin McKinney, c'74, Port Ludlow, Washington groups from my own country, including Photographer Cordell D. Meeks Jr., c'64, l'67, Kansas City, Wally Emerson, j'76 Americans of African descent, but I haven't Kansas Graphic Designer Gil M. Reich, e'54, Savannah, Georgia usually known how to go about making Valerie Spicher, j'94 Carol Swanson Ritchie, d'54, Wichita, Kansas that happen. Editorial Office The one bright spot in my story is that Kansas Alumni Association Vice Chairmen 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 Gary Bender, g'64, Scottsdale, Arizona, and during the years I was at KU, I did have 785-864-4760 Colorado Springs.Colorado the opportunity for genuine friendships Advertising Office Michelle Senecal de Fonseca, b'83, Brussels, with African-Americans. Some worked Sarah Lober, Advertising Manager Belgium Knight Enterprises, 4840 W. 15th St., Suite 1000 Tim S. Dibble, d'74, Issaquah,Washington with me at Watson Library. Some were my Lawrence, KS 66049 Patricia Weems Gaston, j'81, Annandale, students when I was a Spanish teaching 785-843-5511 or 1-800-844-3781 Virginia fax 785-843-7555 assistant. Yes, it was usually only one at a e-mail: [email protected] Directors to July 2001 time, but in the context of KU life, we Kansas Alumni Magazine (ISSN 0745-3345) is published Lisa Ashner Adkins, c'84, l'87, Leawood, Kansas established rapport. by the Alumni Association of the University of Kansas John B. Dicus, b'83, g'85,Topeka, Kansas The highlight was when I was invited six times a year in January, March, May, July, September Robert L. Driscoll, c'61, l'64, Mission Woods, and November $40 annual subscription includes mem- Kansas to my one and only black wedding in bership in the Alumni Association. Office of Publication: Kansas City, Kan., when one coworker at 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. Sec- Directors to July 2002 ond class postage paid at Lawrence, KS, and additional Lewis D. Gregory, c'75, Leawood, Kansas the library got married. I was the only mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address Lynwood H. Smith, b'51, m'60, Lawrence, white person in a church packed with at changes to Kansas Alumni Magazine, 1266 Kansas least 400 guests. What a thrill that was! Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 © Linda Duston Warren, c'66, m'70, Hanover, 2000 by Kansas Alumni Magazine. Non-mem- Kansas Although she and I later lost touch, I've ber issue price: $7 always remembered KU as the one place Directors to July 2003 KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION where, through natural contact on equal The Alumni Association was established in 1883 for Sidney Ashton Garrett, c'68, d'70, Lawrence, the purpose of strengthening loyalty, friendship, Kansas footing, I was allowed into that other commitment, and communication among all gradu- Deloris Strickland Pinkard, g'80, EdD'95, world, making me feel more fully Ameri- ates, former and current students, parents, faculty, Kansas City, Kansas staff and all other friends of The University of David R. Rankin, p'63, Phillipsburg, Kansas can. I miss those days! Kansas. Its members hereby unite into an Associa- I now live in a city with quite a few tion to achieve unity of purpose and action to serve Directors to July 2004 the best interests of The University and its con- A. Drue Jennings, d'68,172, Leawood, Kansas African-Americans in it, in a metropolitan stituencies. The Association is organized exclusively Mary Kay Paige McPhee, d'49, Kansas City, area with thousands and thousands, but for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes. Missouri our paths rarely cross. With a smaller per- Fred B.Williams, President; Kay Henry, Senior John W. Mize, c'72, Salina, Kansas Vice President for Administration and Human centage in the KU community, for some Resources; Jennifer Jackson Sanner j'81, Senior Directors to July 2005 reason meaningful interaction was more Vice President for Communications; Dwight Nancy Borel Ellis, d'63, Pinehurst, Parman, Senior Vice President for Finance and Trea- North Carolina accessible. surer; William S. Green, Senior Vice President for Sydnie Bowling Kampschroeder, c'65, Numbers aren't everything! Information Systems; Sheila Murphy Immel, f 69, Naperville, Illinois Margaret Scheirman, c'78, g'84 g'84, Senior Vice President for Membership; Kirk Craig B. Swenson, e'59, Lee's Summit, Cerny, c'92, g'98, Senior Vice President for Member- Missouri Richfield, Minn. ship Services; Nancy Peine.Vice President for Alumni and Membership Records; Donna Neuner, Honorary Members 76, Membership Services; Mike Wellman, c'86, Gene A. Budig, Ed.D., Princeton, New Jersey Worldwide influence Special Projects and Adams Alumni Center Facility E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., Ph.D., San Antonio, Manager; Bryan E. Greve, Adams Alumni Center Texas Services and Jayhawk Society Membership; Susan Archie R. Dykes, Ed.D., Goodlettsville, You cannot imagine how delighted I Younger, f'91, Art Director;Chris Lazzarino, j'86, Tennessee was to read the article in issue No. 1 about Managing Editor, Kansas Alumni magazine; Carolyn Delbert M. Shankel, Ph.D., Lawrence, Kansas Barnes, c'80, Kansas Honors Program; Michon W. Clarke Wescoe, M.D., Kansas City, Mo. the Center for East Asian Studies and ref- Quick, f 86, Greater Kansas City Area Programs; Jennifer Mueller, g'99, Student Programs. erence to Professor Emeritus Grant Good-

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 LIFT THE CHORUS man. About 34 years ago, I took Professor writers flippantly dismiss creation dogma Goodman's Asian history course and real- in exchange for evolution dogma. If you Salute yesteryear greats ized then that his insight into Asian take evolution back far enough, past Big geopolitics might make for the best course Bang or whatever, science as we know it The highlight of [issue No. 2] for me I would ever take at KU. breaks down because it says that you sim- was the article about Dr. Hamilton Cady ["The Discoverers"]. I had my first chem- Time and experience have reinforced ply can't get something from nothing. Yet istry course at KU under Dr. Cady in this opinion and now I wonder how I can we have something. 1936. He was indeed a kind and gentle get back to Lawrence and hear Dr. Good- Lighten up and broaden your horizons. professor. I did not find his beginning man again. A little spirituality is good for us course very difficult, but perhaps that was humankinds, and that, among other because he was a good teacher. David Morris, b'68 things, separates us from the critters. Alba Mia, Romania In the late 1930s, KU was blessed with I think I'll spend my $40 dues in sup- a great many really great teachers. The one port of something theological. How to blow your horn who influenced my life more than any Doug Bye, e'48 other was Dr. E.A. Stephenson, known to I enjoyed reading your article "The Dis- Peoria, III. his students simply as "Doc." He started coverers" in [issue No. 2 of] Kansas Alumni the petroleum engineering department at magazine. I was especially interested in McNutt's undeserved fate KU in the fall of '38. He loved to argue the the piece about E. Thayer Gaston. I knew other side of any question with a student, Dr. Gaston when I was a student in music It was with a tinge of nostalgia that I which taught all of us that we had better education at the University from 1948 noted the passing of Lynne McNutt, c'48 have our facts and thoughts straight before until 1952. You might be curious to know (In Memory, issue No. 2). making a statement. When "Doc" realized why he was holding the metal ring to his Lynne had the dubious distinction of that on days when we had a physical lips in the picture on page 33. being the KU quarterback from whom the chemistry test (under Dr. Robert Taft) all Gaston was an excellent cornet player ball was stolen on a goal-line play that we studied the night before was physical and teacher and recommended the "non- should have put the Jayhawks into the chemistry, he started giving us pop pressure" system of blowing into a cornet. Georgia Tech end zone for what could quizzes on the same day, just to get our In order to practice doing this, he had his have been the winning touchdown in the attention. students gently place the metal ring to 1948 Orange Bowl game. With the [extra- Dr. Taft was a great teacher. On the first their lips, blow a stream of air and vibrate point kick], the score would've been KU day in his class, every chair was filled. He their lips as though they were playing a 21, Tech 20. remarked that at the end of the first six note. A delirious Red Barber of CBS Radio weeks there would be a lot of empty He believed that once a student could screamed touchdown for Kansas, with chairs, and that at the end of the course do this—vibrate their lips with very little McNutt the hero. Then, BLAM! Our bub- about half of them would be empty—he pressure on the metal ring—they could ble burst, as the officials ruled the play a wasn't far wrong. That physical chemistry play with minimal pressure as they actu- fumble recovered by the Engineers 2 feet course was undoubtedly the toughest ally used a mouthpiece and played their from pay dirt. In a split second, poor course I had in school. cornet. Lynne went from star to goat, a sadly E.S. "Mike" Miles, e'40 Gaston had a number of excellent cor- undeserved fate. Vernon, Texas net students, one of whom was Leo Ironically, it was KU's second "touch- Horacek, P47, g'49, PhD'55, who in turn down that wasn't." Only moments before, taught hundreds of others, including Barber had screamed TD for Kansas as All- myself. American end Otto Schnellbacher, d'48, Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the Thomas C. Lovitt, d'52, g'60, EdD'66 scored on a pass/run. Twas not to be— editor. If you would like to comment on Kirkland, Wash. Schnellbacher, the officials ruled, had a story, please write us. Our address is stepped on the sideline 10 yards shy of Kansas Alumni, 1266 Oread Avenue, Flippant disregard the goal. The next play advanced the ball Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. to less than a yard from a score. Then I, too, with Mr. Lang [Lift the Chorus, came McNutt's darkest moment, arguably. If you would like to respond via e-mail, issue No. 2] am a little embarrassed about So long, Lynne. And, as far as you and the Alumni Association's address is the evolution article ["Biological Warfare," all us good Jayhawks are concerned, "We [email protected] issue No. 1] and am dropping my Alumni wuz robbed, pure and simple!" Association membership. William S. Koester, '41 Letters appearing in the magazine 1, too, find it a little ironic that the Anaheim, Calif. may be edited for space and clarity.

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IT'S MAY! IT'S MAY! A graduate destined to be top banana (center) and a menacing charac- ter (bottom right) who was anything but miserable made this year's Commencement march memorable, as did 'Hawkhead Jason O'Connor (below left), c'96, g'OO, of DeSoto, and theatre major Tim Hansen (right), c'00, of Lenexa, who was Wagnerian in costume and KU in spirit.

Exhibitions "40,000 Years of American Art: The Works of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith," Spencer Museum of Art through Aug. 27 Lied Center events "Brushed Voices: Calligraphy in Con- temporary China," Spencer AUGUST Museum of Art, July 8-Sept. 3 25 Free outdoor concert "Women's Work 2000: From Our Past 31 Kwaidan: "Three Japanese to the Future," Museum of Ghost Stories" Anthropology, through Aug. 6 SEPTEMBER 23 "Anything Goes" 24 Ying Quartet Murphy Hall events Special events JULY AUGUST 6, 8, 14, 16, 20, 22 "You're a Good Academic calendar 21 Ice Cream Social, Man Charlie Brown," by Clark Adams Alumni Center Gesner JULY 29 Summer classes end 21 Traditions Night, 7, 9, 13, 15, 21, 23 "Laundry and Memorial Stadium Bourbon" and "Lonestar," by AUGUST James McClure, Inge Theatre 24 Fall classes begin 23 Opening Convocation SEPTEMBER DECEMBER 28 Steve Allen, Lied Center 12 Last day of classes 13 Stop Day 14-21 Final examinations

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Soccer AUGUST 19 Baker (exhibition) THE HAPPY MONTH OF MAY! Sgt. Rose 25 at Northwestern Rozmiarek and Officer Shawn Reynolds (above right) were relieved to discover Darth Vader was actually 27 at Illinois Joshua Cox, d'OO, of Norton, while graduates celebrat- SEPTEMBER ed with Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway (above) and showed signs (left) of their impending departure. 1 at St. Louis 4 at Creighton 8-10 at UC-Irvine tournament 15-17 KU Credit Union Invitational 22 at Oklahoma NOVEMBER 24 at Oklahoma State 4 at Nebraska 29 Iowa State 11 Texas 18 at Iowa State

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There's no time like the future hen James WGunn first embarked on his science-fiction writing odyssey in 1948, he never imagined his futuristic stories would someday have a copyright date of 2000. But the prolific Gunn, j'47, g'51, has persisted, and at the dawn of a new millennium, the professor emeritus of English is poised to publish his 100th work. "Some things I wrote about years ago as science fiction by accident have become reality," Gunn says. "I suppose if you write long enough, that's bound to happen." Coming soon from Gunn: The Millennium Blues, a novel to be published in electronic form; The Science of Science Fiction Writing, to be released by Scarecrow Press; and "The Abyss," the third of six novelettes that : will eventually compose a novel-length work i/i«xv «T about the consequences of space travel and alien contact under the general title Gift erhaps Allison Deutch relished the Oscar Mayer wiener jingle of her from the Stars. Pchildhood a little too much. For while millions of youngsters have tune- "People always ask me,'How do you fully expressed their desires to become plump, tasty hot dogs, Deutch, j'OO, get ideas?'" Gunn says. "How do you keep has taken the words to heart. Her first post-Commencement job title will from getting ideas? We live in a science be Hotdogger. fiction world." As KU's first Hotdogger, Deutch will sit at the helm of a 5-ton Wienermobile tastefully decorated inside with ketchup and mustard carpet. When Deutch steps out of her buns, her duties include promoting Oscar Mayer and searching for children to sing the famous words, "I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener." Before hitting the road and likely becoming the target of devilish drivers everywhere, Deutch must first make a two-week stop at Hot Dog High at the company's Madison, Wis., headquarters, where she will learn the nuances of her new wheels. "I saw some Hotdoggers on David Letterman, and I thought it was a job I would love to have," Deutch says. "A lot of people think it's kind of a food service job or a truck driver job, but it's exactly what I want to do with a public relations degree." For which she'll receive no flack from us.

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ops, she did it again.Teen-age pop V©vs Osensation Britney Spears drove KU er proposal sounded delectably studying menus of the era. students crazy with rumors that she may Hextravagant. Last summer "My whole family thought I was attend the University. Apparently the Catherine Meissner studied Parisian getting money from the government singer has narrowed her college choices cafes to examine their influence on to drink wine and eat croissants all to Kansas, the University of Kentucky and literary transformation in the city day long," Meissner says. "But there Marquette University and rumor had it from 1875 to 1930. But the research was a lot of hard work involved." that Spears would tour the Hill with stu- was far from facile. Meissner pounded A latte of hard work, to be sure. dent body president-elect Ben Walker the Paris pavement searching Although Walker in May admitted no one for the hallowed haunts where Hemingway and Sartre once had contacted him about the visit, the held court.The cafes that had Britney buzz nevertheless created a cli- not disappeared or become mate of chaos on campus. boutiques sexes presented In other Spears scoop,Thomas another challenge for the strug- Franklin, Independence senior; recently gling graduate student: A cup of won an essay contest sponsored by MTV coffee cost $6. and TeenPeople to attend the Britney Meissner returns to the City Spears Dance Camp this summer in of Lights this summer, but this upstate New York. time with more francs, thanks to No word yet on whether the dance the College of Liberal Arts and camp will interfere with sorority rush. Sciences' Peter Gilles Springer Fellowship. Meissner plans to continue exploring the appeal of cafes to the intellectual set and

inals were finished, but the tuba twosome of They've got spirit yes they do FJess Lightner, Garden City junior, and David ions and Tigers and Bears, oh no. So it was way back in 1935, when Daussat, New Orleans graduate student, was not. the typical high-school mascots failed to excite the students of The walls of Murphy Hall fairly danced as the duo L Vandercook Lake High School in Jackson, Mich. Since their school opened attacked the first movement of Gregson's tuba in 1925, the Vandercook kids had been without a mascot. When a vote concerto. was finally taken in 1935, the winner was ... drum roll, please ... Jayhawks. The cause for the musicians' manic mood? In fact, at least six other elementary, middle and high schools have cho- Blame Canada, Lightner said. sen the Jayhawk as their mascot, according to research forwarded along Both Lightner and Daussat were chosen to by Douglas E. Campbell, j'76, of Fairfax, Va. Campbell says he was conduct- perform in the International College All-Star Tuba- ing an online search of the American School Directory when he decided to Euphonium Ensemble in Regina, Saskatchewan, punch in "Jayhawks." Up popped two high schools, one middle school and May 30-June 3.The ensemble featured the four elementary schools, from Pennsylvania, Nebraska, New York, Iowa, world's top tubists, selected from taped Indiana and Michigan. auditions. Chuck Miller; athletics director at Vandercook Lake, says the Vander- "It's an opportunity to go make music cook Lake Jayhawks are aware of—and root for—the Kansas Jayhawks, with other highly talented musicians," although they chose a bald eagle in flight for their logo in the late 1950s. Lightner said."It's a lot like being on "From Vandercook Lake to the University of Kansas," Miller writes, an all-star team. I guess we're all-star 1 tuba players." '"Go Jayhawks! " And we, too, will delight in cheering for the home-away-from- The concert promised to be a home team. real blast.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 HILLTOPICS BY MEGAN MACIEJOWSKI A woman's fellow Women's studies director and history professor Lisa Bitel VISITOR STEWARD OF THE EARTH will research medieval women as a Guggenheim Fellow Environmental activist and litiga- tor ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. isa Bitel steps everyday into a equated a healthy economy with a world inhabited by saints and healthy environment in his lec- L sinners and Christians and ture, "Our Environmental Des- pagans. She immerses herself in tiny," which attracted a crowd of codes of nobility and honor and gen- 300. der and hypocrisy. She shares her world with those who show interest, WHEN: April 25 with students and colleagues and the occasional publisher. She showers WHERE: The Lied Center her insights on those who have questions. Her enthusiasm is boundless. SPONSORS: Student Union Activities But she is realistic about the size and Student Senate of her audience, so when Bitel learned in April that she had been BACKGROUND: Kennedy, progeny appointed a Guggenheim Fellow, her of the famous political family, is a pro- surprise was palpable. fessor of environmental law at the Pace "I was stunned," Bitel says. "I was University School of Law in White incredibly delighted. It seems to me Plains, N.Y., and the author of The River- a completely fortuitous event." keepers:Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Bitel, director of women's studies Environment as a Basic Human Right. and professor of history, has spent LOOKING BACK: Lisa Bitel's research about gender her career studying medieval Europe roles and saints' lives in early Ireland and Europe continually ANECDOTE: Kennedy warned the and Ireland. Specifically, she has fascinates her "Any time you venture into the past, you're providing yourself with a critical stance about the present." crowd about "welfare cowboys." He focused on gender systems in these said a few rich families in the West societies. Her current research exam- what they've already accomplished and received huge ines the lives and cults of St. Brigit and St. also the project that is to come," Bitel federal subsi- Genovefa, two women whose seemingly says. "I can finally look at my career and dies to run parallel lives in Ireland and Gaul evi- see that my work has traveled what now farms that put dently connect their separate worlds. seems like a coherent path." small farms "I think my research is incredibly While earning her undergraduate out of busi- obscure," Bitel says. "I can't imagine any- degree at the all-female Smith College in ness and hurt one on a committee being interested. It's Massachusetts, Bitel enrolled in an Irish the environ- always the hardest task to make some- language course at University of Massa- ment. "You thing so close to me interesting to other chusetts "to meet boys." Bitel claims she show me pol- people. But then, what is a good historian did not meet any boys, but instead fell in lution; I'll if she or he can't do that anyway? What love with the exotic Irish language. She show you a subsidy," he said. "The only you're doing has to have relevance." spent her graduate-school years studying thing that protects the environment is Bitel obviously proved her relevance to early Ireland and then earned a doctorate a strong democracy." the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial in medieval history from Harvard Univer- Foundation. She is one of just 182 fellows sity. Her first book, Isle of Saints: Monastic QUOTE: "What does it say about us chosen from a pool of 2,900 applicants Settlement and Christian Community in as a generation if half the species on for grants exceeding $6.3 million. Early Ireland, is about monks and saints earth go extinct in our lifetime?" "My understanding is that Guggenheim in the early Middle Ages. Bitel then real- fellowships are given to people based on ized that she had virtually ignored women

10 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 HILLTOPICS in that history and wrote Land of Women: As engaged as Bitel is in her research, Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland. she credits teaching with maintaining her Her most recent book, to be published curiosity. Her most popular course, this fall, is a synoptic history of women in Women's Studies 320, called "From God- the Middle Ages. desses to Witches: Women in Premodern Bitel believes her current research, Europe," often is also her most instruc- which she will conduct as a fellow while tive. VISITOR on sabbatical until August 2001, connects "Students come to a beginning course all of her previous work. so fresh that they ask very basic ques- Baseball legend BUCK O'NEIL "I was always interested in the Middle tions, which really inspire me to re-exam- dispensed words of wisdom from Ages, since I was a kid, and by finding ine my assumptions," Bitel says. his book, / Was Right On Time, as Ireland, I found a way into the Middle The students also remind her of her he helped a crowd of 500 cele- Ages that not very many people took, in a relevance. brate a century of physical educa- culture that not many people outside of "Specifically for gender history, to tion at KU. Ireland had even studied," she says. "It learn about a specific gender system from seems like a wide-open field to practice the past helps distance you from your WHEN: April 25 understanding the past." own and then helps you come back to it Bitel says that Brigit and Genovefa par- with a more critical stance. Anytime you WHERE: Robinson Center ticularly interested her because of their venture into the past, you're providing inherent similarities. Both were saints yourself with a more critical stance about SPONSORS: The School of Education renowned for building churches and trav- the present. "-^"^ eling extensively without guardians, activ- and department of health, sport and ities that decisively opposed women's exercise science roles at the time. Bitel also was struck by the women's likeness because historians Leadership minor teaches BACKGROUND: O'Neil, 88, a for- traditionally have portrayed Ireland as dis- subject that can't be taught mer Kansas City Monarchs player, parate from the influences of Europe and became the first black coach to be the Roman Catholic church. The parallel hired by a major histories of Brigit and Genovefa suggest hile planning for a new minor in league team when contact between Ireland and the rest of Wleadership development, David he joined the the civilized world. Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, Chicago Cubs in 1962. Today he In addition, Bitel says the saints' lives tapped into his reliable network of former scouts for the raise significant questions about the student leaders. His visit with Kyle Craig, Kansas City Royals importance of Christianity, nobility and student body president in 1967-'68, told and serves on the gender roles in defining the lives of Ambler all he needed to know. Veterans' Committee of the National medieval women. Craig, j'69, a former president of Ken- Baseball Hall of Fame. He is chairman "The big questions that recur are, were tucky Fried Chicken-USA who now owns of the board of the Negro Leagues women agents or victims? Was it tough a consulting firm in Denver and teaches Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo. for them or was it easy for them?" Bitel leadership development at the University says. "It was a Christian world in ways we of Denver, explained to Ambler, "I don't cannot imagine. Women were considered know that leadership can be taught, but I ANECDOTE: O'Neil recalled the bigger sinners, particularly identified with do know it can be learned." bonds that grew between black the body and flesh and carnal sins. Men Ambler admits that the vagaries of ballplayers and black entertainers dur- were considered more easily perfectable, teaching leadership will be the core chal- ing segregation. He said they formed a more likely to be saved." lenge of the new academic minor, recently fraternity not only for their own sur- vival as individuals, but to show their So where do Brigit and Genovefa fit approved by the College Assembly and people that they always had hope and a into that world? tentatively set for a 2001 launch. chance. "Their lives challenge some of these "Leaders are born, and then they're notions," Bitel says. "If you were venerat- made," Ambler says. "All of us have the ing Brigit, it wasn't because she was a capacity for leadership, and developing QUOTE: "Satchel Paige used to say, beautiful and pious creature on a pedestal. those skills is not something we should 'Don't look back because something Brigit was feeding the hungry and healing leave to chance, or assume that because might be gaining on you.'Well, I'm 88 lepers. She was very much engaged in students receive a university education years old.That something hasn't caught society." they are ready to become great leaders." me yet."

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it? You learn it by observing, by talking to people who have been successful in their careers and are great civil servants."-"**'

—Chris Lazzai'ino

VISITOR DECODING DNA Spring brings distinction Physician FRANCIS COLLINS for Chancellor Hemenway directs the Human Genome Pro- ject for the National Institutes of he academic life of Chancellor Robert Health. Speaking in the hall dedi- TE. Hemenway came full-circle as two cated to KU's famous chemistry of his former schools honored him at the professor, Collins likened the pro- end of the academic year. ject to developing chemistry's In April, Kent State University's English Periodic Table of the Elements. department feted Hemenway as its Distin- guished Alumnus 2000 at a dinner hosted LEADER OF LEADERS: Vice Chancellor David by university President Carol Cartwright. WHEN: May 5, Bricker Auditorium, Ambler has created a new minor in leadership Budig Hall development Hemenway, who earned his doctorate from Kent State in 1966, gained national SPONSORS: Office of the Chancellor The new minor will be housed within recognition as a scholar for his biography and Sen. Sam Brownback, 1*83 the department of communications stud- of novelist, anthropologist and folklorist ies, and will require 18 to 20 hours of Zora Neale Hurston. BACKGROUND: After a decade of coursework. Most of the courses already Then in May, another former Hemen- work, scientists have drafted a sequence exist in such fields as communications way haunt, Hastings College, awarded the for 85 percent of the genome. and political science; Ambler and the fac- chancellor an honorary doctor of letters ulty will create introductory and capstone degree at the school's graduation cere- ANECDOTE: Collins said the project courses. mony, at which he also gave the com- would improve treatment not only of Students will also participate in work- mencement address. Hemenway attended inherited diseases but also of illnesses shops and conferences—for years the tra- the Nebraska liberal arts college for two caused by inherited and environmental ditional training opportunities for KU's years before transferring to the University factors. budding leaders—and must complete var- of Nebraska at Omaha, where he com- ied internships with leaders in business, pleted his bachelors degree. -""•"* QUOTE: "The government and academia. insights we The minor is an element of another derive will still Ambler creation, the new Raymond leave us won- E Nichols League of Former Stu- dering about dent Leaders. Named for the many aspects of beloved former chancellor and humanity—and longtime campus leader, the so it should be. league aims to organize former We will not student leaders to raise pro- understand gramming funds and offer what love is all about.We will not e-mail mentoring for todays KU understand the spiritual side of our- leaders—which will also be a selves. ... But we will understand a lot required element of the minor about the parts list. And out of that we program. will have the chance to do more to alle- Says Ambler: "Going back to that viate human suffering than we've ever notion that it can't be taught but it had since the world began." can be learned, well, how do you learn

FUTURE STAR: Robert E. Hemenway in his Hastings College Yearbook.

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ROCK CHALK REVIEW DISCOVERY MILESTONES, MONEY AND OTHER MATTERS HEALTHY BUSINESS AS THE HEALTH CARE industry •EIGHT UNIVERSITY FACULTY MEMBERS WERE HONORED as recipi- becomes increasingly competitive, ents of distinguished teaching awards during Commencement ceremonies May 21.The health care administrators are forced winners of the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Classroom Teacher, given to faculty to rely more and more on their busi- members of the KU Medical Center, were James L Fishback, m'83, m'87, associate pro- ness savvy. However, many managers fessor of pathology and laboratory medicine; and Brian J. McKiernan, j'78, h'85, PhD'98, lack the training and skills necessary to clinical assistant professor of allied health and physical therapy education. H. Bernerd make effective business decisions. Fink awards for outstanding classroom teaching were presented to Estela Gavosto, Prompted by this reality, KU's business assistant professor of mathematics, and Barbara Thompson, PhD'82, associate professor and medicine schools will offer a joint of special education. David Cateforis, associate professor of art history, received the master's degree in business administra- Archie and Nancy Dykes Award, which honors faculty members for undergraduate tion and health services administration teaching and mentoring. John Bushman, g'66, professor of teaching and leadership, was this fall at the Edwards Campus in honored as the Ned N. Fleming Trust Award recipient for distinguished teaching, schol- Overland Park. arship and service. Jake Harwood, assistant professor of communication studies, "There is a need among health care received the Silver Anniversary Award, provided by the 25-year alumni class. professionals to gain a broad background in health care and business," • KAREN GALLAGHER, DEAN OF EDUCATION since 1994, has resigned to says Dee Steinle, associate director of take a job at the University of Southern California. Gallagher has accepted the dean's the School of Business on the Edwards position at USC's Rossier School of Education, where she will begin in September. As Campus. "It's important to understand dean at KU, Gallagher devoted two years to coordinating the $14 million renovation business as it applies to health care, but and addition to the education school's new home at Joseph R. Pearson Hall. Provost it's equally important to understand David Shulenburger appointed Jerry Bailey, director of the Institute for Educational business theory in a broader context." Research and Public Service, interim dean. A national search for Gallagher's replace- The MBA/MHSA joint degree pro- ment will begin this fall. gram will require students to complete 66 credit hours, including 33 hours of health, policy and management •ASSOCIATE VICE CHANCELLOR AND DEAN OF STUDENTS James courses and 33 hours of business Kitchen is leaving KU to become vice president of student affairs at San Diego State school courses.This fall, KU will offer University. At SDSU, Kitchen will be one of only five vice presidents and a member of courses in health care systems, man- the President's Cabinet, a group of leaders that oversees the university and counsels aged care, management information the president on key issues and priorities. Kitchen came to the University in 1994 as systems and financial management. dean of student life and was promoted to his current position in 1997. David Ambler, Rod McAdams, program director vice chancellor for student affairs, will begin a national search for Kitchen's successor for health services, says the demand in the fall. "I am delighted for Jim to have this opportunity," Ambler said. "He is a for the joint degree program came superb student affairs professional and San Diego State is an outstanding university. I primarily from clinicians aiming for will miss his service here and I am very appreciative of his many contributions to KU." management positions and middle Ann Eversole, EdD'89, associate dean of students, has been named Kitchen's interim managers striving to better understand replacement. the health care field. "There was a strong interest in •MARK BRADSHAW, JOANNA GRIFFIN AND LEE KELLENBERGER each both schools to create this degree," won one of 80 national Morris K. Udall scholarships, established to attract students to McAdams says. "This is the only careers in environmental policy, health care or tribal public policy. Bradshaw,Walnut accredited joint degree of its kind in senior in American studies; Griffin, Wichita junior in environmental studies; and Kellen- Kansas. We're excited about offering it berger.Algona, Iowa, senior in environmental studies, each will receive $5,000.The to the Kansas City community. It's Udall scholarship program was established by Congress in 1992. what they want."

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 13 SPORTS BY MEGAN MACIEJOWSKI Pass the baton KU's tradition-rich track and field program plans to renew BASKETBALL old glories as former Arkansas star Redwine takes over WHEN HOOPS STAR Paul Pierce elected two years ago to skip his senior season and find his fortune in the NBA, hen Stanley Redwine says to it marked the first time coach Roy his team, "We're all in this Williams had lost a player prematurely Wtogether," he means it in the to basketball's professional draft. In May, most genuine way. Redwine, KU's new Williams experienced another disheart- track and field and cross country coach, is ening first: Prized signee DeShawn willing to go any distance to illustrate his Stevenson, generally regarded as one notion that team unity breeds team suc- of the nation's top three high school cess—even if he has to run with his ath- players, announced that he would forgo letes to get there. college altogether and enter the NBA "If we're going to hurt, we're all going draft. to hurt together," Redwine says. "I can Stevenson's announcement con- relate to the athletes. I have no problem »cluded a confusing series of events that running with them." began after the 6-foot-5 guard from Of course, going the distance with his Fresno, Calif, signed a national letter of team on the track may not be much of a intent in November to play for Kansas. stretch for the 39-year-old Redwine, a for- The talented swingman, MVP of last mer middle-distance runner who retired spring's McDonald's All-American game, in 1996 after finishing fifth in the 800- ONCE AND FUTURE GLORY: New track and had not yet earned a qualifying score on meter race at the U.S. Olympic Trials. A field coach Stanley Redwine hopes KU will revisit past his SAT test at that time. Urged by his five-time member of the USA World prominence under his leadership. "Traditionally, Kansas family to go to college and by others to Championship track team and seasoned has always been known as a great place," Redwine says. "The opportunity to excel here is excellent." go directly into the draft, Stevenson vac- veteran of collegiate and international illated about his plans. By the end of track competition, Redwine knows a Arkansas, his alma mater, before taking April, rumors swirled, speculating thing or two about finishing a race. over as head coach at the University of Stevenson would not play for KU. After Since his NCAA eligibility is expired, Tulsa. In his six seasons at Tulsa, Redwine he re-took the SAT and achieved a qual- • though, the coach's biggest challenge will coached the school's first NCAA partici- ifying score, Stevenson confirmed that, be transferring his own abundant enthusi- pants on both the men's and women's with his academic questions finally asm, energy and ambition to his team, teams and directed both programs to their answered, he would indeed come to which he took over in June. Athletics best conference finishes in school history. Kansas. Director Bob Frederick, d'62, g'64, Tulsa had 12 performers earn a combined Then the Educational Testing Service red-flagged his passing test score EdD'84, announced during the outdoor 25 all-conference honors and three relay because it jumped 700 points from his season that he would not renew the con- teams clock world-ranking times under first score—when he had taken it as a tracts for coach Gary Schwartz, d'66, and Redwine. high school sophomore. Facing the his staff. The ebullient Redwine says he discov- prospect of sitting out his freshman year "I consider myself what you would call ered his love for coaching the first time he as an academic non-qualifier, Stevenson a players coach," Redwine says. "I'm here returned to Arkansas after spending a sea- »mailed a letter to NBA commissioner because of and for the athletes. Our work son running professionally in Europe. David Stern declaring himself eligible for is a collaboration. We'll work hard, but "I was helping some of the younger the draft, forfeiting his college eligibility. we'll have fun doing it." athletes, and I said to myself, This is College underclassmen can declare for Redwine's active approach to leading what I want to do forever,'" he says. the draft and change their minds, but teams has proven prosperous during his As an athlete, Redwine helped estab- the NCAA makes no such allowances 17-year collegiate coaching career. While lish the Arkansas tradition; as a coach, he for high school players. pursuing his own professional running built upon it. He is confident he can do "I honestly believe the rules almost dreams, Redwine spent 11 seasons as an the same thing at Kansas. made it necessary for DeShawn to go to assistant coach at the University of "There is great tradition at Kansas,"

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Redwine says. "Great coaches, great ath- be a dominant offensive force, Allen says. the NBA," Williams said. letes. The athletes here now can do a Add in proven senior running back David Despite landing, then losing, then great job. It's a matter of getting them Winbush, the return of speedy receivers landing again and finally losing the re-focused." Termaine Fulton and Byron Gasaway from player he described as the most gifted Redwine believes KU has talent in injuries and an influx of what Allen calls he had ever signed, Williams remained every area—particularly throws and "immediate impact" junior-college trans- positive. sprints—but needs to cultivate depth in fers, and the KU offense appears primed "This spring has been a very stress- each event. Achieving depth, he says, goes for potency. ful time for DeShawn and his family," beyond recruiting more talented athletes. "I would definitely say our offensive Williams said. "Now that his decision It involves changing the attitude of all the skill players are our biggest strength," has been made, we in the Kansas bas- team's athletes, not just its stars. It means Allen says. ketball family should support him.This working together. Nesmith might disagree. Last year's Big youngster is a fine young man who "We have great people, great athletes 12 Newcomer of the Year was named the signed with KU in the fall and wanted who want to succeed," he says. "I think nation's top safety by Lindy's pre-season to be a Jayhawk. Now he has decided bringing in different faces, as far as the college football magazine and looks for- to move in a different direction, and I new coaching staff, will create different ward to the opportunity, for the first time understand and support that. He has attitudes toward success."--"••• in his college career, to develop at a posi- decided to pursue another dream and tion for a second season. there is nothing wrong with that." "I've been moved from quarterback to Unknowns from last year wide receiver to safety," Nesmith says. "This year I'll be looking more like a safe- will lead football in 2000 ty who knows what he's doing than someone just running around hitting people." Oh, the hits. Nesmith's teammates have ATHLETICS arl Nesmith. Dylen Smith. Moran nicknamed him "The Butcher" because of KANSAS FINISHED in the bottc Norris. A year ago, they were just his propensity for punishing opponents, C half of the Big 12 in both men's and names, inexperienced and unknown. and he plans to unveil his "Millennium women's overall programs in the 1999- Now they are headliners with a year of Butcher Dance" after his first big hit of the 2000 school year, according to stand- individual success behind them, stars who upcoming season in hopes that his ignited ings the conference recently released. grace the football team's promotional teammates will follow his lead. The men's best finish was second in posters. What a difference a year makes. "I predict the whole defense is going to golf; the lowest, I Oth in indoor track. "The guys we're depending on the have a breakthrough year," Nesmith says. Otherwise, KU men were fourth in most this year—Carl, Dylen, Moran— Surely Allen would not dare disagree tennis, fifth in both basketball and were just question marks last year," Coach with the player they call The Butcher.-^"* swimming, sixth in outdoor track, sev- Terry Allen says. "They're enth in cross country, eighth in football returning as marquee play- and ninth in baseball. ers. The stage is set for all The women had only two first-divi- three of them to have a sion finishes—fourth in basketball and great year." swimming. Both volleyball and tennis Allen expects the success were seventh, and the six other sports of his leaders to translate finished ninth or below. into success for his team. In combining men's and women's He is particularly optimistic sports, Kansas finished 12th. KU has about quarterback Smith, the league's seventh biggest athletics whose elusive quickness budget at nearly $21.7 million. and quiet leadership carried Athletics Director Bob Frederick Kansas to a strong finish in considers the year an anomaly. 1999. Running back Norris, "I think we've been in the top 50 who emerged as the team's nationally for the last three or four primary ground threat only years," he said. "We'll just try to do after injuries to three other better next year." HAPPY RETURNS: In his second season as a Jayhawk, Carl players forced him to carry Nesmith plans to build on the reputation he earned last year as a the ball, has the potential to skilled kick returner and devastating hitter

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one gets the nagging feeling that there may be a moral Huearus m airinoiil message under the layers of narrative. But Warner offers An alumna's powerful debut novel tackles emotional turbulence no judgment. She simply tells stories. The vibrant supporting brought upon divergent characters after a single, fateful decision characters contribute enor- mously to the story's credibil- s the protaganist of a and Helen, Hannah proceeds ity—each time it looks like the novel that explores the with her decision. Dr. Bill and author is veering in one direc- Aemotional implications DEEP IN HEART his followers, including the tion, someone throws the story of one of America's most divi- reluctant Penny, meet her at in reverse. sive issues, Hannah Solace at the clinic, and the ensuing Carl, a flagging artist who first read cuts a surprisingly events leave Hannah the pub- makes a living managing a unsympathetic figure. Hannah, lic target of Dr. Bill's crusade. mall bookstore, actually 40, is a successful career As Warner cuts from Han- emerges as the novel's emo- woman, a stern, beautiful nah's life to Penny's, from tional axis. Warner skillfully high-school assistant principal Carl's to Dr. Bill's, the author uses Carls art as a backdrop to whose icy demeanor enables paints a multi-layered portrait the narrative: His masterpiece her to dismiss the wants and of emotional turmoil. There begins as an innocuous sketch needs of the less assertive peo- are no villains here, only con- and evolves into a synthesis of ple who surround her. Carl, flicted characters whose overlapping designs that cap- SHARON HARD WARNER her husband, is a hopeful and actions seem authentic to their tures the book's intricate story. gentle soul who lives to please Deep in the Heart histories. To Warner's credit, As Carl breathes elation, so, Hannah. Hannah's younger sis- by Sharon Oard Warner the characters come to their too, does his painting. As rage ter, Helen, is as nurturing as The Dial Press own realizations about family, envelops him, it envelops his Hannah is aloof. $23.95 faith and love in ways that are canvas. Sadness, acceptance When Hannah discovers neither predictable nor pre- and tempered joy ultimately she is pregnant with the baby sumptuous. Hannah, for color his portrait as well. that both Carl and Helen view single decision. instance, is haunted by a loss Deep In The Heart, in its as Hannah's only chance for As Hannah plans her so profound that her cool title, addresses two of the sto- warmth, her decision to end course of action on one side of detachment becomes under- ries prominent components: the pregnancy seems as cold as Austin, Penny Reed struggles standable. Dr. Bill has his own its Texas setting and its emo- her dismissal of a student from to forge her own identity on demons to confront. Even tional depth. While Warner's her office. the other side of town. For 23 Grandma Mattie, whose blind tale starts a bit slowly, the nar- Compelling characters, of years, Penny has been reared devotion initially seems sim- rative ultimately grows to course, are never exactly what by her grandmother Mattie, a plistic, has a past worth resemble Carl's work of art— they seem, and compelling devout member of a fiercely exploring. an absorbing display of raw novels strive to illustrate their pro-life congregation led by a Admittedly, the controver- feeling that, while not exceed- characters' complexities. Deep magnetic young minister sial subject will deter some ingly brilliant, gets right to In the Heart, Sharon Oard named Dr. Bill. Dr. Bill loves readers. As the story begins, the heart.^"^ Warner's debut, is such a Penny, but Penny's sheltered novel. existence leaves her doubt- Set in Austin, Texas, the ing who she is and whom story focuses on two fero- she should love. She under- Excerpt from Deep in the Heart ciously different women whose stands Dr. Bill's convictions, Carl resented the way the preacher had cheered him on lives collide. Warner, g'94, but questions his hurtful as he'd run into the clinic. Making all kinds of assumptions who directs the creative writ- and often destructive meth- about whose side was whose. Angry as Carl was with Han- ing program at the University ods of expressing them. nah, he found no comfort in this ragtag little band of funda- of New Mexico, weaves the Hannah's abortion brings mentalists. They weren't his comrades. They didn't know a women's stories into a seam- the two women's lives thing about his pain. less narrative that portrays together. Despite the pas- the powerful ripple effect of a sionate pleas of both Carl

L6 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 OREAD WRITER BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

application form, nominating you for full membership." But which two of my fellow Bad chemistry chemists could have signed my application form? I don't think I know two A nominee to a 'prestigious' society discovers he should chemists. So I called the society's headquarters and explained that I was thrilled be wary of any club that would have him as a member to be nominated, except I'm not really a chemist and I was wondering who ... have a secret. I never took chemistry. munity, but I was honored. My coworkers "Oh, that's one of our most popular Not once. We had wonderful chem- shared my excitement when this unex- mailings," the membership assistant inter- Iistry teachers at Lawrence High pected news arrived, and Megan rupted. "When we buy our mailing lists, School, or so I heard, but I stuck with Maciejowski even made a sign for my we buy from ..." Stan Roth for biology and trudged clum- door, announcing to all who entered that Ugh. A mailing list. A bought mailing sily through an introductory physics they should show a little respect. After all, list. My name and address had been pur- course. I must have had some chemistry as a soon-to-be member of the "most chased, my standing in the scientific com- in junior-high science, but not much. It prestigious scientific society in the world" munity not so preeminent as promised. seems the extent of my chemistry training (I had yet to coax our editor into paying By turning to the back page of my mem- came in home economics, where I learned the necessary $108), I would be officially bership application, I saw that my two how to make jam. Unfortunately, I continued this igno- rance of chemistry at the University, where my journalism major required only one science course. I chose meteorology. Newspaper readers take weather stories seriously, so I offer no apologies. But I'm still ashamed by my complete lack of training in chemistry. I had a chemistry set when I was a kid. When I recently asked my mom whether we still had that old yellow box down in the basement, her immediate response was, "Why? Are you going to blow something up?" See? That's why I never took chemistry. A love of learning starts at home, and in our particular home, chemistry meant the possibility that something or someone entitled to "numerous benefits and privi- fellow chemists who signed my applica- would get blown up. In the house where leges of professional membership." tion were society employees. my cousin the doctor grew up, where But what in the world had I done to So it wasn't my articles about helium there lives my uncle the hydrologist, deserve these wonderful benefits and (or was it hydrogen? I always get those chemistry was a career; in our house, privileges? Well, I wrote a nifty little piece two mixed up). It wasn't in honor of any- chemistry came in a really cool, folding on Hamilton Cady, the KU chemistry pro- thing I accomplished professionally, metal box. Chemistry was a game, a scary fessor who discovered helium in natural except to have once subscribed to a maga- game, much like BB guns and camping gas; I've written other science articles, all zine called The Sciences (a review of mail- overnight in the back yard. Someone was based on actual scientific facts, and the ing labels revealed the culprit). definitely going to get hurt. American Chemical Society's current pres- If I'm not a scientist, and certainly not So imagine my surprise when I ident, Daryle Busch, is a KU professor. a chemist, and since we didn't fork over recently received a letter informing me Perhaps all of this had put me over the $108, why did I feel so cheated by this that I had been nominated for member- top. Perhaps they had noticed. shady offer of affiliation with a profes- ship in the American Chemical Society, It was obviously too good to be true, sional society that I wanted no part of? "in recognition of [my] preeminence in but it was right there in print, at the bot- Perhaps it's because insincerity stings— the scientific community." I wasn't aware tom of the letter I received: "Two of your especially when it comes from two of my of my preeminence in the scientific com- fellow chemists have already signed your fellow chemists.^*^

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 [17 1 • * Green Space

Researchers view crops from on high through a satellite's eye

evin Price carefully unrolls a Hall, those images go to Kevin Price and a estimates of the crop to come. map of Kansas. But this map group of graduate students (see sidebar) "We can correlate color with eventual looks more like a photograph of at the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing productivity," says Price, associate director the state, taken from miles program. In a room filled with computers, of KARS and associate professor of geog- K raphy. "The more green the landscape, the above, a view usually reserved for astro- printers, and fans (to deal with the heat nauts. The photo shows Kansas covered the machines throw off), researchers elec- more biomass is being produced. So, the by splotches of brown, yellow and espe- tronically splice the images and clean up greener things are, the more productive." cially green—dark green in some places, the cloud cover, revealing an accurate, In June, the KARS staff uses this light green in others. intricate image of the landscape. information to forecast the corn produc- Green. The color of money. They're looking for the color green. tion for states in the Corn Belt, a full Every August, the U.S. Department of Greenness—the portion of green in the month before the USDA comes out Agriculture predicts the size of the com- landscape at a given time—is an excellent with its first prediction. ing corn harvest, then revises its estimate indicator of crop yields. When the land is "We can get within seven bushels of once a month until fall harvest. lush early in the year, when we've had a the eventual average per acre for corn Most people probably don't think fair amount of precipitation and tempera- production in the Corn Belt," Price says. much about corn crops, at least not until tures are sufficiently high, those are signs "In June, we can predict the size of the they have to pay more for their Post of a good crop to come. When fields stay coming corn crop within 8 percent. By Toasties. But if you make your living by brown longer and green up later, the har- the time we get close to harvest, we can growing corn, if you trade commodities, vest will likely be disappointing. come within 3 or 4 percent." or if you feed corn to cattle (or even The folks at KARS have historical KARS staff have developed a similar if you live in a state like Kansas that images of the landscape's greenness, and forecast for winter wheat, and they're depends heavily on corn and the cattle they can compare each image with the working on one for soybeans. that eat it), these crop predictions amount of corn eventually produced that "Wheat is tougher to predict than matter a lot. year. In other words, they know how corn," Price says. "It has a longer growing Using those high-altitude photos, and much corn was produced under each set season and so many things can happen to with funding from NASA, KU researchers of weather conditions. When new photos wheat. Soybeans should be easier. We have found another way of predicting show conditions similar to those on past should be able to really nail soybeans." yields. Here's how. photos, researchers have a good idea of Such information obviously helps Every day, satellites send back ex- what to expect from crop sizes. This commodity traders. But it's just as impor- tremely detailed images of the earths sur- process, which requires mathematical tant to others. Imagine one part of the face. On KU's Campus West, in Nichols models and analysis, produces improved Corn Belt looks like it's headed for a

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 19 Average Onset of Greenness Date for Kansas Vegetation indicates winter wheat, which stays green all winter long into early spring. The lighter yellows, reds and browns cover places that usually turn green in late March and early April. In the Flint Hills of east-central Kansas and the Smoky Hills in Ellsworth and Russell counties, the prairie grasses green up midway through spring. The darker reds represent areas that turn green the latest in the growing season. These regions produce soybeans or corn, such as irrigated corn in Sheridan County or non-irrigated corn in Onset of Greenness, Calendar Days Doniphan County in extreme northeastern Kansas. Corn and soy- 1-15 to 1-27 | 3-12 to 3-25 | 5-6 to 5-19 beans are planted in late April and turn green later than surrounding I -28 to 2-10 I 3-26 to 4-7 I 5-20 to 6-20 vegetation. no onset These colors also outline natural 2-1 I to 2-24 I 4-8 to 4-21 detected features in the landscape. The image 2-25 to 3-1 I 4-22 to 5-5 •^B water delineates the Flint Hills almost as

IMAGE AND CHART COURTESY OF KARS clearly as a geological map. A bright red line representing corn follows the path of the Kansas River valley in northeastern Kansas. In other words, an image of plants provides A typical satellite image analyzed a good picture of other natural bumper crop, while another appears x\at the Kansas Applied Remote features. to be in trouble. If your job is to move Sensing program shows, with dif- The KARS program produces a grain, then you'd want to divert trucks ferent shades of greens and yellows, variety of maps, including a wall- and boxcars to the elevators where the the average time that crops green sized full-color map of vegetative corn will be. up across the state. cover for the state and soon a full- The dark green in the swath color satellite view of Kansas. For from Harper and Sumner counties more information, see the Web site in the south to Saline, Dickinson, at www.kars.ukans.edu.-^*1* M.ayb. e even more intriguing is and Ottawa counties in the north —R.B the possibility of combining greenness with weather forecasting. With improved computer models, todays meteorologists make better long-range or so. That combination means the sign of a bumper crop, knowledge weather forecasts. Meld those forecasts region faces serious trouble ahead, that's useful even before the crops with current conditions as revealed by worse than an ordinary weather fore- are planted. satellite images, and you have a pow- cast alone might indicate. Of course, none of this information erful tool. On the other hand, let's say that does any good if it merely stays in a Here's an example: Satellite photos central Kansas has an early onset of lab on KU's Campus West. So the show a late onset of greenness in West greenness, meaning that conditions KARS folks have posted much of their Texas—probably a sign of low soil are good for crops in the ground or work on the World Wide Web at a moisture. Then the long-term weather those about to be planted. Plus the site called the Green Report models predict that West Texas is in long-term forecast is for decent (www.kars.ukans.edu). Updated week- for a drought over the next 18 months amounts of precipitation. That's a ly, the site gets thousands of hits.

20 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 "We have a great deal of potentially useful information," Price says. "We have to determine what kind of information end users want."

T.h,e KARS staff has begun working with private companies to figure out the best ways to share their information. Quite simply, KARS scientists know their way around computer models and satellite images. They don't know much about sales (which isn't their job anyway). About 10 years ago, KARS began working with Sam Campbell, c'71, g'73, the president of Campbell-Becker, a venture-capital firm in Lawrence, to form a company called Terrametrics. "We're attempting to commercialize some of this excellent technology," Camp- bell says. "Our role is to help facilitate getting some of their technology into the marketplace." So KARS research ultimately represents a convergence of technology—satellite images, powerful computers, sophisticated mathematical formulas, the Web—with an entrepreneurial start-up company and farm-boy common sense. The result may not be an exact prediction of the future. But it should be a pretty exciting glimpse. •^mm —Buchanan,'92, is associate director oj the Kansas Geological Survey

Brothers turned space-image analysts Dietrich (left) and Jude Kastens

t's pretty rare to find a couple of bona They've brought in-the-field knowl- develop here. We know what kinds of Ifide farm boys at KU. Dietrich and Jude edge of farming to the high-tech world of problems farmers face, and what products Kastens grew up on a Rawlins County satellite images and mathematical models. will work for them." farm, near the small town of Herndon, "To be a successful farmer, you've got The Kastens' parents, Terry, c'73, and north of Atwood. Jude, d'96, c'96, g'99, to be a mechanic, a plumber, an econo- Marilyn Franklin Kastens, d'75, were big just finished a masters in mathematics mist, an electrician, a businessman, know influences on their sons, who say they and has started on a PhD. Dietrich, c'95, something about animals," Dietrich says. never really considered going to school will soon complete a master's in geogra- "You develop a problem-solving ability anyplace but KU, even though their dad phy. Both work at KARS, but they regu- and a confidence that's helped us here." is a professor of agricultural economics at larly return to Rawlins County, to the Maybe just as important, the Kastens Kansas State University. Jude and Dietrich 8,500-acre farm where, together with know their market. profess to being right at home in their parents, an uncle and aunt, they "We've been around farmers all our Lawrence, although Dietrich plans to go raise winter wheat and corn, and run a lives," Jude says. "We know farmers, back to the Rawlins County farm in the cow/calf operation. the clients for many of the products we summer of 2001. ""*• —KB.

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°JCake Today's undergraduate degrees are often more than four years in the baking

reg Smiths journey toward com- four years and five majors later, is convinced he was finally at home. Unbe- pleting a KU degree has been a Smith still two years from his precious knownst to him, his odyssey was just Glong and winding road. The diploma? beginning. Smith lasted only one year in 1996 graduate of Kansas City's St. "I've known since high school what I engineering. Unhappy in the School of Thomas Aquinas High School had wanted to do," Smith says. "How to do Engineering, he switched to the School dreams of becoming a computer engi- it was never clear. I know now that of Business, where he hoped to translate neer. His senior yearbook even features there's more than one path to the final his interest in computers to the study of a photo of Greg with the caption, "Our destination." business information systems. But the future engineer." He came to the Univer- Smith started college as a physics business school did not feel like a good sity with clear academic goals. He was major because his standardized test fit for him either. After one semester, he not one of the many prospective stu- scores in math were not high enough to changed majors again and landed in the dents who marked "undecided" on his get him into the School of Engineering. psychology department. college application. His road hardly After one strong semester, he switched "I took a psychology class and liked seemed destined for deviation. So why, into the computer engineering program, it," Smith says. "At this point I was just

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 indictment of KU or of any school, department or adviser. It is just his reality. "The point of a liberal arts education is to get variety," Smith says. "No one has had more variety than me." Smith's story may not represent the norm for todays KU students, but stories like his have become increasingly familiar, and accepted, in the past two decades. The stories underscore a national trend of undergraduates taking longer than the traditional four years to earn a bachelor's degree. According to statistics published by the U.S. Department of Education, 45.4 percent of undergraduates who earned degrees in 1977 completed them in four years; in 1993, just 31.1 percent who graduated did so in four years. In 1977, 24.7 percent of graduates took more than six years to complete their degrees; in 1993, the same statistic had risen to 30.1 percent. At the University, such rates are difficult to define. Since 1995, when the Uni- versity adopted a system compliant with seeing psychology as a route to the end. 1 an NCAA mandate for tracking gradua- wanted to get a degree, period. I wanted tion rates, four-year rates have hovered to have a chance to get out." near 25 percent. KU tracks the percent- The deeper Smith delved into psychol- ages of incoming freshman classes that ogy, though, the more he realized the field graduate after four, five and six years. The held no promise for him. As his interest figures do not account for students who "I've known since waned, his attendance and academic per- transfer or drop out and re-enroll. They high school what formance declined. Three years into what do not show rates as far back as 1980, he originally anticipated would be a four- when most administrators agree the shift I wanted to do. year college experience, Smith was still gradually began to occur. Poring over achingly distant from a degree. So he related statistics from the University's long How to do it was changed his course of study again. history—such as the number of fifth-year never clear. I know Today Smith has completed four years students, the average course load per stu- of school and has at last settled into a dent and the percentage of full-time stu- now that there's major that challenges and excites him. He dents in comparison to the total hopes to graduate with a degree in com- enrollment figures—seems an exercise in more than one munications studies by December 2001 or futility. The perception that students at path to the final May 2002. In communications studies, KU today take longer to graduate is over- Smith says he has found instructors he whelming; the numbers are not. destination." can relate to and minimal bureaucracy. He "I think there is a difference between still intends to work in the computer the perception and the data," says Kath- —Greg Smith field. leen McCluskey-Fawcett, g'73, PhD'77, "I'm still basically doing the same associate provost for academic services. thing," Smith says. "But it hasn't been a "It's true that many students don't gradu- straight path." ate in four years. There are a multitude Like the wizened campus guru he of reasons why. But we have to make claims to be, Smith takes his experience sure that individual anecdotes aren't in stride. His story, he says, is not an interpreted as the whole story."

24] KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 "Students have different expectations. When I was in college, everyone went through in four years. Now students are taking more risks. There's not a stigma to taking longer."

—Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett

Indeed, for every Greg Smith there are and has never taken more plenty of students whose KU careers than 12 credit hours in a are focused and expedient. When Smith semester. He has written finally graduates, he expects his transcript for the University Daily to overflow with as many as 40 credits Kansan and worked as a that ultimately prove unnecessary; a good referee, bartender, waiter number of students will graduate without and free-lance writer. one excess hour. So why do so many Jones says that had he administrators, parents and students seem placed himself on a rigid to think there is a Greg Smith waiting in four-year track, he would their office or asking them for more have had no chance to tuition money or sitting next to them enjoy college. in class? "You can be enrolled as a full-time stu- "It's more acceptable now to spend dent, but it doesn't mean you're a full- more time in college," McCluskey-Fawcett time student," Jones says. "I have exactly says, noting that acceptance changes per- one friend I came in with who graduated Part of the inspiration behind such ception. "Students have different expecta- in four years. I wish this idea of rushing programs is the disparity in four-year tions. When I was in college, everyone through college would change. I think we graduation rates between private and went through in four years. Now students should encourage individuals to finish in public institutions. In Minnesota, for are taking more risks. There's not a stigma the time that works for that individual." example, rates at the state's private insti- to taking longer." An increasing number of higher educa- tutions are more than four times higher Witness recent Traditions Nights and tion administrators and state legislators than their public counterparts. Public Convocations. Speakers begin by joking, see things differently. Several schools schools are on the defensive. In the on- "When you graduate in four or five or six across the country, including the Univer- going effort to become streamlined and years ..." Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway sity of Missouri and Iowa State University, businesslike, universities view graduation tells incoming freshmen he wants to see have adopted graduation contract pro- rates as marks of management and them walk through the Campanile toward grams to combat the perception that stu- efficiency. their diplomas and future careers in four dents cannot graduate in four years from "Graduation rates are a proxy measure years, but for many students, the four- a public institution. The programs gener- of how effective and competent an institu- year plan seems arbitrary or unrealistic. ally require participants to meet regularly tion is," McCluskey-Fawcett says. with advisers and complete a minimum But institutions are working against a eth Jones, Mulvane senior in journal- number of credit hours each semester. In current of societal forces that make gradu- Sism, is preparing to begin his fifth, and exchange, the universities promise to pay ating in four years less likely and seem- final, year at KU. Jones says he never for any extra semesters the students still ingly less important. Mary Ann Rasnak, expected to finish school in four years. need to graduate. The point is to get director of KU's Student Development Because he paid for school entirely by freshmen thinking about graduation early Center, came to KU from Iowa State. The himself, he held jobs all through college and reduce the costs to the state by reluctance of students to participate in reducing the number of perennial stu- ISU's four-year graduation contract pro- dents. Taking time off for internships or gram, she says, was revealing. study abroad programs voids the con- "We had parents and legislators won- tracts. In some states, like Minnesota and dering why it was taking students so long • Illinois, the state boards of higher educa- to graduate," Rasnak says. "The university tion have requested that universities offer- was able to say, 'We'll have classes open,' ing a four-year guarantee get extra but students had to be able to say, 'We'll funding. sign up for a minimum 16 credits for

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 eight consecutive semesters.' We all knew that wasn't always possible. Why do many students take longer? There are as many different reasons as there are students." The most obvious reason for many students is that KU offers several degrees that are no longer four-year programs. Many education and engineering programs, for example, require five years. Many architecture programs and pharmacy's PharmD degree require six. In fields dramatically changed by new science and technology, there is simply too much information to teach in four years. Financial realities affect completion patterns as well. The cost of college has increased at a rate significantly faster than inflation. Although KU is still a compara- tive bargain among the nation's public universities, the price of housing alone has soared 419.5 percent since 1970. As a result, more students are working through school, in many cases decreasing their hours each semester and subsequently Scholarship that will finance his fifth year important factors that keep some students increasing their years on the Hill. of undergraduate study and three years of at KU for more than four years. Study On the other hand, more students are graduate study. Bradshaw is one of Mount abroad opportunities abound; if they can receiving scholarships and financial aid. Oread's brightest scholars. He came to KU afford it, many undergraduates will gladly In fiscal 2000, 12,932 students—or 51 a fine arts major, but switched to Ameri- stay an extra semester in exchange for the percent of the total enrollment—received can studies because he "found something chance to travel. In addition, as the some financial aid. The effects of I loved more." Bradshaw does not fit the emphasis in undergraduate curricula has increased aid play out in varied ways. image he fears many adults have of inde- become more pre-professional, intern- While some students worry about loom- cisive, lazy undergraduates living it up at ships have become invaluable, if not ing debt and rush to finish sooner, others their parents' expense: In addition to par- required, for many degrees. And for stu- see the security of scholarships and loans ticipating in various academic and cam- dents who truly want real-life leadership as freedom to explore their options. pus organizations, he has embraced the experience to back up their academic Lawrence community, volunteering exten- training and prepare them for the work- ark Bradshaw, Walnut senior in sively at Jubilee Cafe, a free breakfast pro- force, activities like Student Senate and MAmerican studies, has received gram at a local church, and Boys and Community Outreach demand much of scholarships throughout his KU career. Girls Club, among other places. their time. Last spring, he won a $30,000 Truman "Getting scholarships has allowed me "I think that's a fallacy, that 'Animal to really experience my time here," Brad- House' thing," Rasnak says, referring to shaw says. "I wouldn't want to trade that the John Belushi movie ("Seven years of to finish in four years." college down the drain!") about intoxicat- Bradshaw's perspective illustrates other ed, unmotivated college students. "I don't

"The four-year standard is arbitrary. I can see administrators being worried if it's the school's fault that people can't graduate, but if students want to immerse themselves in KU, what's Wrong With that?" —Mark Bradshaw

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 like that distinction that says there's col- na, but my impression is that if you com- lege and then there's the real world. This bine students who are undecided and is a real world." change majors, you're probably looking at Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle, director of the two-thirds of the freshmen class," Tuttle Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center, says. "Much more, students are going to agrees. college as an automatic rite of passage. It's Maybe a year off would "I have an extremely positive view of more of a social decision, set up by the be the best thing they this generation of students," she says. expectations of their family and their could do. But I know "There's a high level of commitment to peers. The next step for high school grad- that won't happen." achievement and service among a lot of uates is college, without much attention As Tuttle and other them. They're just trying to see where paid to your ultimate career goal." administrators have begun to understand, they best fit in to a quickly changing Tuttle says the societal change in social forces are difficult to change. The society." employment patterns—which indicate significance of completing an undergradu- Tuttle works primarily with new stu- new members of the workforce will likely ate degree "on time" is not what it once dents, freshmen and sophomores strug- change careers, not merely jobs, five was. Why has that perception changed in gling to define academic and career goals. times—contributes to students' indeci- the past 20 or 30 years? The revamped program she directs was sion. "I think the missing link is social created by the University two years ago to "Students are concerned that making a norms," Mary Ann Rasnak says. "If every- improve its oft-criticized advising system. commitment like choosing a major will one in your peer group finishes in four For years, students and parents have shut doors, rather than open them," she years, you're outside the norm if you directed their frustrations at the system, says. "We hope that by students taking don't. But if the norm is five years, well, asserting that many undergraduates get advantage of a more comprehensive advis- six years doesn't seem like such a long lost or misguided by advisers who do not ing system, we can help them find a path time." take the time to understand every stu- that would keep some doors open." Greg Smith understands this. dent's academic wants and needs. Tuttle Tuttle, who confesses that in 1972 she "A lot of my friends who have been hopes the new center will give students completed 21 hours of credit her final here well past five years—I call them 'lif- more comprehensive, individualized acad- undergraduate semester to meet society's ers'—are afraid to leave KU," he says. "I emic advice. four-year deadline, now sympathizes with can see how people get comfortable here. But she also recognizes that improving her young charges. She thinks Americans But I also would like to leave sometime." the advising system is only one step might benefit from a European model of For Smith, leaving after six years will toward better four-year graduation rates. education, where most students do not go be fine. And despite administrators' efforts One significant factor that impedes many on to the university level until they are 20 to make experiences like his less com- students' progress, Tuttle says, is that uni- or so and have matured enough to more mon, or at least perceived as less com- versities offer unprecedented choices clearly define their goals. mon, others see no problem with an combined with little understanding of "I don't think a lot of students are extended college experience. exactly why students are in college. here initially for the academic challenge," "The four-year standard is arbitrary," "We're just now getting into a more Tuttle says. "They're here for their own Mark Bradshaw says. "I can see adminis- statistical look at some of these phenome- notion of what the next step should be. trators being worried if it's the school's fault that people can't graduate, but if students want to immerse themselves in KU, what's wrong with that?" Bradshaw cringes when he hears what he calls "business language" creeping into the lexicon of college administrators. "The goal of a university is to turn out citizens for a better democracy," he says. "We're not products, so we don't need to be turned out on a four-year schedule. "'""••'

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 Illustratio Jeff Shi HOPE DOCTOR A psychology professor says good things come to those who wait—and work. His career is proof.

n the middle of May, in that hopeful happened," Snyder says. "I feel very weakness, the negatives of people," Sny- season between the end of finals and touched." He pens a five-minute speech der says. "I never found that a view I was I the long goodbye of Commencement weaving themes of necessary grief and sympathetic with." weekend, C. R. "Rick" Snyder, professor durable hope around the story of the Throughout his 28-year career—spent of psychology and director of clinical psy- Phoenix, the mythological bird that arose entirely at KU—Snyder has found ways to chology's graduate training program, from its own ashes. accentuate the positive, even though this receives an e-mail from a woman in small- He quotes one of his favorite poems, emphasis usually put him at odds with town Mississippi. Her son, salutatorian of Theodore Roethkes "The Lost Son": the prevailing trends of his profession. His his high school class, is preparing the A lively understandable spirit contributions to psychology (which speech he will deliver at his graduation Once entertained you. include the development of important ceremony. Of the school's 66 seniors, she It will come again. theories in four areas, nearly 20 books explains, five students, including the Be still. and more than 100 journal articles) are homecoming queen, died in the past year. Wait. impressive. Psychologist Christopher Three were killed in a car wreck only two This small gesture exemplifies what Peterson, director of clinical training at days before. What can her son say to his Snyder calls his "minimalist" approach. the University of Michigan, credits Snyder classmates and their families in the after- "My belief is that if I just shoot for small for integrating different specialties, partic- math of such tragedy, the woman wants to differences, maybe my ideas will have a ularly social and clinical psychology. know. "We are desperate for some guid- ripple effect," he explains. "That's the way "When he started doing that 15 or 20 ance because we feel Hope would be an I want to do things, because it keeps me years ago it was considered unusual; now appropriate topic for the circumstances," closer to people." He seems genuinely it's business as usual for the whole field," she writes. "Can you help us?" pleased to be of service. "I feel I can help Peterson says. "That's a very important Some might find it odd that such a her son say something he would not have change and he played a big role in it." plea for help should find its way to the in said otherwise: Sometimes to hope you Snyder is perhaps best known as the box of a humble psychology professor. have to wait." originator of hope theory—an engagingly Not Snyder. "She's heard I'm the hope The ripples generated by "the hope lucid analysis of hopeful thinking that is guy," he says simply. guy" reach into a Mississippi hamlet, illus- proving to have applications far broader He is accustomed to hearing from peo- trating Snyder's wide influence inside and than its deceptive simplicity would sug- ple who attended his lectures on hope or outside academia—itself a tribute to the gest. Because of his work in researching read one of his four books on the topic or virtue of patience. In a field that since hope and other positive human traits, saw him on television—on "Good Morn- World War II has been obsessed with Snyder is widely credited as a catalyst for ing America," for instance, demonstrating humanity's dark side, devoting most of its the emergence of a new school of scien- the link between hope and pain tolerance energies to diagnosing and treating the tific thought called positive psychology. by imploring host Charles Gibson to pathologies of the psyche, Snyder is This approach takes on no less a immerse his hand in a tub of ice water. among a relative handful of psychologists paragon than Freud, the dominant mind "Fairly frequently I get letters saying I who prefer to study the good in human in clinical psychology throughout the made a difference in people's lives, but nature. "I think psychology, certainly clin- this is the first time anything like this has ical psychology, has looked mainly at STEVEN HILL

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 [29 20th century, who believed, according to Though he began his research by ques- Peterson, that "it's a grim world and any- tioning highly hopeful people, Snyder HOPE thing that sounds hopeful or optimistic is quickly moved toward formulating a mea- SCALE certainly an illusion and possibly even a surement that quantifies hope. "The rap delusion." on hope has always been that it's vague," Says Peterson: "Rick is one of the most he explains. "I've tried to pin it down, For each of the eight questions make it more rigorous and scientific." below, select the number that best important of a number of people who are describes you: showing to the contrary, that those who That effort yielded an eight-question have a positive approach to the future Hope Scale that measures a person's level 1. Definitely false 3. Mostly true actually are healthier, happier, they even of hopefulness. Since 1991 more than 2. Mostly false 4. Definitely true live longer and do better. The idea that 30,000 people have completed the survey, hope and optimism are desirable charac- which has been translated into nearly a I. I energetically pursue my goals. teristics and not the mark of a deluded dozen languages. 2. I can think of many ways to get person really is a profound change." In short, Snyder's rigorous scientific out of a jam. But acceptance of this new field— theory stresses personal effort over the 3. My past experiences have which concerns itself with the empirical whims of providence. And yet discussing prepared me well for the future. study of such slippery subjects as hope, his own career, settled in a plastic desk 4. There are lots of ways around happiness, love, tolerance, optimism and chair in his corner office on the third floor any problem. contentment—is a recent development, of Fraser Hall, Snyder is quick to credit fortune. 5. I have been pretty successful one that came relatively late in Snyder's in life. career. "I feel like I've been swimming "This isn't intended as false modesty, upstream intellectually for three decades," but I think I've been really lucky in my 6. I can think of many ways to get he says. "I've been laboring in the career," Snyder says. "I'm still amazed the things in life that are most trenches of positive psychology and now when people read my books." It's true he important to me. suddenly it's hip. But I'm still the same." has caught some breaks in his ventures 7. I meet the goals I set for myself. into the marketplace of ideas. Writing 8. Even when others get discour- rim and energetic at 55, mostly for an academic audience, he's aged, I know I can find a way to his neat beard and tousled seen his work championed by such media solve the problem. Thair both fading to gray, titans as The New York Times and The Add your numbers for each of the Rick Snyder looks at once distinguished Washington Post. "After that, regular folks answers above. A total score of around and boyish. But his appearance is not the started buying the books, which sent 24 indicates an average amount of hope. only thing that makes him seem, at times, them into paperback and drew an audi- a paradox. ence I'd never dreamed of," Snyder A score greater than 24 indicates that explains. "Now they say I'm a crossover you usually think hopefully. Consider his hope theory, hatched during a 1987 sabbatical and nurtured over writer." A score less than 24 indicates that you the past 13 years, a mix of empirical sci- Just how much of a crossover he'll may not consistently be hopeful. ence and self-improvement that values soon find out. This September New Har- "planfulness" above all. Snyder believes binger Press will release Snyder's first people can take control of their lives by book intended for a broader audience. setting clear goals, that these goals can be The Great Big Children's Hope Book, co- reached by mapping multiple routes for written with colleague Diane McDermott, their attainment (a concept he calls "way- associate professor of psychology and power"), and that people can motivate research in education, will go after a piece themselves and overcome self-doubt with of the lucrative parental advice market. positive self-talk (willpower). This three- "Sometimes I think scholars have this component "new hope" differs from tradi- fantasy that somehow our work will be tional definitions of hope in one small, known but that we don't want to get our but important, way. Traditional views of hands dirty," Snyder says. "If we really hope have emphasized unrealistic opti- want to make a difference, why not just mism, the expectation of success without come out and say it would help if people evidence that success is likely. According read our books?" to The American Heritage Dictionary, to Then the man who believes goal-set- hope is "to wish for something with ting holds the key to success says, "I expectation of its fulfillment." According guess the irony is that if you try to cap- to Snyder, to hope is to work for some- ture a bigger readership, then maybe it thing with expectation of its fulfillment. Rick Snyder won't happen."

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 For someone who professes a lifelong my anchor," he says. "To learn hope you in teaching hope theory I feel I'm just fascination with motivation, a man who need somebody like that who spends time chipping away the extra stuff. I think the has built a career as a teacher, researcher with you." He considers the timing of her basic notions of hopeful thinking are and therapist on his ability to plumb the death a cruel irony. "My mother was very there, because we need them as we grow human mind, Snyder can be surprisingly supportive of me being whatever I want- up. But as we get older we acquire ways unreflective. "I'm not very good at intro- ed. Then she died, very fast, of cancer, of thinking and behaving that get in the spection," he confides. "Quite honestly, I just after I started teaching. We weren't way of hope. You have to chip away that don't spend much time processing what's able to do the fun stuff, talking about the stuff so people can get back to the basics." under the psychic hood of Rick Snyder." ideas 1 was working on and the people I Snyder wants to establish a Hope Insti- But when he explains what his hope was working with. I regret that." tute on campus to conduct research and theory is and, as importantly, what it is Snyder had found his calling by the serve as a kind of clearing-house for posi- not (new age mysticism, self-help bro- end of his sophomore year at Southern tive psychology scholarship. But he also mides, lukewarm soup for the soul), he Methodist University, when it became admits feeling a certain detachment as the grows animated; his blue eyes widen and apparent that psychology offered "the idea he nurtured takes wing. "I can't try to intensify; his back stiffens and he rises closest thing I had seen to looking at the keep it pure or constrain how it's present- nearly off his chair, suddenly as spirited potential strengths of people," he says. ed," he says. "The question is, how am I as a kid spinning tales intricate and fan- "Much of what I was initially taught going to use the time I have left now that tastic. The voice gathers strength and involved weakness, but there were I have this theory I think is useful to peo- pours forth words in a tumult. moments, occasional voices in the night, ple? I'm going to be what I've been all Despite his lack of introspection, it's saying, 'Look at the positives, look at the along." clear Snyder's personal history shaped positives.'" The hope guy pauses, glances out hope theory. "This isn't a theory of hope,' Snyder listened to those voices, and the window. "Not that I could change. I a colleague once told me, 'it's a theory of has listened to them since, eventually suppose I could, but I don't find myself Rick Snyder,'" he says. "He meant that it adding his own to a growing chorus wanting to."-"'*** captures the way I go about my life, and I advocating the study of positive think that's probably the case for every human traits. From his earliest psychologist who pursues a theory: that research, which studied how theory will tell you something fundamen- people accept criticism and tal about that person." other forms of feedback about themselves, he ince childhood, Snyder has steered away from the dis- .been fascinated by good- ease model. He continued Sness. "My dad was a travel- that tack with his unique- ing salesman, and every October we were ness research in the late transferred to a new city," he recalls. "I 1970s and his study of went to 12 schools in 12 years." He vivid- excuses in the 1980s. ly recalls first-day walks down strange Even then his ideas caught hallways, following an assistant principal the imagination of the to a new classroom, where 30 sets of eyes broader culture, turning up stared at the stranger, the outsider, the in CNN documentaries and perennial new kid. "Doonesbury." "Being the new kid meant I had to Throughout his career Snyder learn about people," Snyder says. He has remained, at heart, a teacher, and pauses, weighing what comes next. "I that role seems to fit him most com- don't want to be maudlin," he continues, fortably. He contends with almost "but sometimes I had to learn about peo- evangelical fervor that hope can not ple to survive. 1 made friends very fast, only be measured, but learned. "My because I had to. That forced me to idea is that we as people can just do a understand people, understand what lot better," says Snyder. "I'm a fan of motivates them. And it always killed me Michelangelo. He had this notion that when we moved, because I never learned the artwork was already in a block of to keep things at the surface." marble, that when he did a statue all Throughout this peripatetic childhood he had to do was chip away that Snyder's mother was the steadying influ- which isn't needed to make that which ence. From her he learned to look for is simple and beautiful more obvious. goodness. "She taught me that; she was I'm no Michelangelo, but sometimes

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ers Group, a computer sales firm. Howard, b'79, heads First Capital Part- National leaders ners Inc., a Dallas-based real estate invest- Alumni choose new members of the Board of Directors, ment company.'^•^ while directors elect officers for 2000-2001 terms Two Association programs win national accolades Swenson, and Jeff Weinberg, Lawrence. Sidney Ashton Gar- rett, Lawrence, was elected to a T7~ansas Alumni and the Student Alumni two-year term as chairman. xVAssociation's annual fall event for The new alumni representa- freshmen recently received awards from tive to the athletics board is Gale two national organizations. Sayers, Chicago; Jay Howard, Kansas Alumni won a bronze medal for Austin, Texas, was named to the overall publishing excellence in the Union board. national competition sponsored by the Ellis, d'63, holds a doctorate Council for Advancement and Support of in social psychology and has Education (CASE). Among college and taught at the University of North university magazines with circulations LEAD ON: Janet Martin McKinney, executive vice chairman; Reid Carolina. between 30,000 and 75,000, Kansas Holbrook, chairman; and Carol Swanson Ritchie, past chairman. Kampschroeder, c'65, earned Alumni and Minnesota magazine from the hree alumni will begin five-year a masters in business administration from University of Minnesota Alumni Associa- terms on the national Board of DePaul University, Chicago, and is mar- tion received bronze medals, Middlebury TDirectors July 1 as a result of the keting director for Archipelago, a national Magazine from Middlebury College in Associations spring elections. They are electronic stock trading system. Vermont took the silver and Smith Alum- Nancy Borel Ellis, Pinehurst, N.C.; Sydnie Swenson, e'59, retired from the Bayer nae Quarterly from Smith College, North- Bowling Kampschroeder, Naperville, 111.; Corp. in 1998 after working in process hampton, Mass., won the gold. and Craig B. Swenson, Lee's Summit, Mo. development, technical services and man- Although Kansas Alumni has won The spring meeting May 19-20 included ufacturing during 35 years with Bayer. numerous national honors for overall elections of the national chairman and Holbrook, c'64, 1'66, is a partner in the writing and the design, writing or photog- executive vice chairman. Leading the Kansas City, Kan., law firm of Holbrook, raphy of individual stories, this is the first Association will be Reid Holbrook, Over- Heaven & Osborn. national overall excellence award for the land Park, who served as executive vice Ritchie, d'54, is a longtime KU and magazine since it switched in 1991 from chairman during the 1999-2000 year. community volunteer. its tabloid predecessor to a bimonthly Holbrook succeeds Carol Swanson McKinney, c'74, was elected to the magazine. Ritchie, Wichita. The new executive vice Board in 1995 by the members. She is Also a winner in professional competi- chairman is Janet Martin McKinney, Port retired as president of Martin Tractor tion was the Student Alumni Association's Ludlow, Wash. Co.,Topeka. annual Ice Cream Social, which brings Also elected to a one-year term as vice Dibble, d'74, manages computing ser- freshmen to the Adams Alumni Center chairman was Tim S. Dibble, Issaquah, vices for The Boeing Co. each August for free ice cream and fun Wash. Elected to their second one-year Bender, g'64, is a sports broadcaster for before the annual Traditions Night cele- terms as vice chairmen were Gary Bender, the St. Louis Rams and Phoenix Suns. bration in Memorial Stadium. The Ice Scottsdale, Ariz.; Michelle Senecal de Fon- De Fonseca, b'83, directs business Cream Social won honors as the most seca, Brussels, Belgium; and Patricia development for Global One Communica- outstanding student program in District V Weems Gaston, Annandale, Va. tions. of the Associaton of Student Advancement The Board also chose members of the Gaston, j'81, is national editor of the Programs. Board of Governors, which oversees the Washington Post. The Ice Cream Social and Traditions Adams Alumni Center, and the boards of Weinberg, d'64, g'70, is assistant to Night are part of the University's 'Hawk the KU Athletics Corporation and the Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway. Week events each August. This year's Ice Kansas Memorial Union Corporation. Garrett, c'68, d'70, is president of Cream Social will be at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 21 New members serving five-year terms Brown Cargo Van Inc. at the Alumni Center, followed by Tradi- on the Board of Governors are Holbrook, Sayers, b'75, g'77, is president of Say- tions Night at 8 p.m. in the stadium.--*"•»

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1920s 1943 Maxine Alburty Spencer, f'49, d'5 I, and her husband, Harry, d'49, wrote Sounds on Strings, a Ona Smith Donahue, c'28, continues to James Chandler, c'43, g'49, is retired in Rich- series of books for students of stringed instru- live in Durham, where she's a retired high mond Heights, Mo. ments. Maxine is a violinist with the Fresno Phil- school teacher 1944 harmonic, and Harry plays with the Tulare 1930s Sydney Schroeder, m'44, makes his home in County Symphony.They live in Fresno, Calif. Lawrence, where he's a retired physician. Helen Wilson Baker, c'39, lives in Bloom- James Thornton, e'49, lives in Independence. ington, III. 1945 1950 William Carter, e'35, is a retired engineer George Boone, c'45, m'49, is a retired physi- John Burnett, e'50, recently retired as a with Pacific Fruit Express. He lives in Palo cian. He lives in San Diego. research and development staff specialist for Alto, Calif. Betty Learned Burns, c'45, lives in Littleton, Lockheed. He lives in Atlanta. Arnold Janzen, c'35, m'38, makes his home Colo. Dean Hutchinson, e'50, makes his home in in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Prairie Village. 1946 Elizabeth Whiteford Mclntire.f 39, enjoys James Rhine, I'5O, manages the Manhattan Frank Darden, e'46, works as a petroleum gardening, church work, bridge and reading in branch of Universal Insurance Services. Midland, Mich. engineer for Mercury Exploration in Fort Worth, Texas. Albert Tyler, c'50, and his wife, Bobbie, live in Gordon Miller, e'36, lives in Littleton, Colo., Dallas. He's president of A&B Oil. Joyce Durall Redwine, c'46, c'48, lives in Blue where he's retired from a career with Texaco. Springs, Mo. James Young, d'50, g'52, PhD'71, a retired David Morgan, '33, is a retired physician and George Rippey, e'46, serves on the board of Washburn University professor, makes his home professor in Kansas City. the Army Retirement Residence Foundation in in Topeka. Paul Priebe, c'37, makes his home in San Antonio. Kirkland.Wash. 1951 Harry Greaver, f'5 I, g'52, owns Greaver Hortense Sanders, b'38, is retired in 1947 Kenneth Harmon, b'47,1'5O, is retired in Gallery in Cannon Beach, Ore. Kansas City. Lawrence. J.D. Holmberg, e'5 I, lives in Overland Park. Muriel Williamson Wood, c'35, h'36, lives Bernice Alexander West, c'47, lives in Richard Houseworth, b'5 I, recently was in Pittsburg. Oakland, Calif. nominated by President Clinton to serve on the board of directors of the Federal Deposit 1940 1948 Insurance Corp. He lives in Paradise Valley, Ariz. Dean Brooks, c'40, m'42, makes his home Clare Colman, e'48, lectures at schools and Milo Matthies, e'5 I, is retired in Kansas City. in Everett, Wash. colleges about the offshore oil and gas industry. Ken Medearis, b'51, e'55, a retired division Feme Hill Hogue, c'40, and her husband, He lives in New Canaan, Conn., where he's manager for Pacific Power and Light, continues Don, e'42, live inTopeka. retired from a career with Mobil. to make his home in Corvalis, Ore. Kalman Oravetz, c'40, is a retired attorney. Elmo Maiden, e'48, g'50, makes his home in Maxine Moody Kirmeyer Montgomery, He lives in Milburn, N.J. Winneka, Calif. f'5 I, lives in Redding, Calif, with her husband, Sibio Naccarato, e'48, is a retired contract Cathleen Beyer Robinson, c'40, a retired John.They celebrated their first anniversary surety manager He lives in Chesterfield, Mo. music teacher; makes her home in Bella July 17. Marion Pugh Strand, c'48, takes graduate Vista, Ark. George Skinner, e'5 I, lives in Novato, Calif, classes at Colgate Rochester Divinity School. She lives in Rochester, N.Y where he's a retired engineer. 1941 Joseph, c'5 I, and Rita Franks Spradlin, c 75, Jean Dooley Curry, c'41, a retired teacher 1949 make their home in Lawrence. makes her home in Pine Bluff, Ark., with her Harry Barker, b'49, is retired CEO of Dwayne Tarver, c'51, a retired attorney, lives husband, Clark, assoc. Barker Broadcasting. He lives in Redding, Calif. in Corona, Calif. Barbara Smith Geery, f'41, is retired Edman Chapman, b'49, lives in Mission, Lois Walker, c'5 I, d'54, showed her assem- in Burlington. where he's retired. blages and paintings in New York, Montana and 1942 Glen Martin, m'49, continues to make Spain last year She's an artist in Amityville, N.Y his home in Wichita with Alice Brown James Zimmerman, e'5 I, makes his home in Burton, c'42, g'49, and LaVinia Richards Martin, f 42. Hodgden, '42, are retired from careers with Topeka with his wife, Martha. William, c 49, and Harolyn Clark O'Brien, DuPont.They live in Wilmington, Del. d'49, make their home in Leawood. 1952 Roger Prior, e'42, lives in a retirement com- James Oram, e'49, is retired from a career Paul Arrowood, b'52, who's retired from a munity in Signal Mountain,Tenn. with General Electric. He lives in Fairfield, Conn. career with IBM, makes his home in Williams- Earl, c'42, and Etta Kathryn McGauhey Glendale Jones Raftery, f 49, does oil and burg, Va. Riddle, f 42, make their home in Portland, Ore. watercolor painting in Phoenix. Paul Berkley, b'52, is retired chairman of the Nancy Carey Windier, c'42, and Edwin, Sara Weitzer Shaw, g'49, and her husband, State Bank of Downs. c'43, celebrated their 55th anniversary earlier John, visited China last year They live in John Boyd Jr., e'52, g'61, lives in Prairie Village this year:They live in Sweeny,Texas. Catonsville, Md. and is principal ofTransystems.

34 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 CLASS NOTES WHY WAIT? James Endacott, e'52, makes his home in Richard Wilson, e'54, a retired civil engineer TOWNHOME LIVING AT ITS BEST! Anaheim Hills, Calif., with his wife, Marguerite, makes his home in St. Joseph, Mo. assoc. Richard Etherington, e'52, former executive 1955 director of Learjet, makes his home in Wichita. Jim Cameron, j'55, a retired United Airlines captain, makes his home in Denver Frank Fendorf, g'52, is vice president of Wingert-Jones Music in Kansas City. Adolfo Montero, '55, is president of Montero Enterprises in Austin,Texas, where he lives with Dolores Dolson Lee, e'52, works part time his wife, Harriet. for Lee Consulting in Leawood. Donald Smith, e'55, lives in Lompoc, Calif, Clarence Lucas, e'52, owns C. Lucas Consult- with his wife, Patricia. He's chairman of Space ing in Shawnee Mission. Education Alliance. George Prochaska, '52, continues to make James Sorem Sr., e'55, works as a self- his home inTopeka. employed farmer in Jetmore, where he and Bill Snuffin,'52, recently opened a branch of Mary Schauvliege Sorem, n'55, make their DataNaut.com in Novgorod, Russia. He lives in home. Hatboro, Pa. JohnTrombold, c'55, m'58, recently was James Taylor, e'52, is a retired U.S. Navy rear appointed associate medical director of Scripps admiral. He lives in Bellevue.Wash. Cancer Center in La Jolla, Calif. He lives in Del Bruce Zuercher, b'52, l'54, practices law with Mar Klenda, Mitchell, Austerman & Zuercher in Wichita. 1956 Carol Bowman, d'56, makes her home in 'randon Woods is more 1953 Pittsburgh, Pa., where she's a retired teacher than a retirement community. James Amend, e'53, a retired architect, makes Harold Hein, b'56, is retired from Ernst & Its a neighborhood of friends. his home in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Young. He lives in Arvada, Calif. Jannith Lewis, d'53, directs the library at John Smith, c'56, g'64, a former professor at When you live in a Townhome Oakwood College. She lives in Huntsville, Ala. the University of the Pacific, makes his home in at Brandon Woods, home own- Rosemary Scheuerman, d'53, volunteers as Stockton, Calif. ership is a joy! A monthly ser- a reading tutor in an elementary school in Jack- Joseph Terrill, a'56, recently retired as presi- vice fee covers all your son, Miss. She's a retired deaconess of the dent of Horst.Terril & Karst Architects, which United Methodist Church. he founded in 1950. Joe and his wife, Shirley, live maintenance concerns. Plus Geraldine Feighny Schultz, g'53, a retired in Topeka. owning a Townhome at Bran- teacher, makes her home in Topeka. don Woods is an investment. 1957 William Turner, e'53, lives in Kansas City with You have an appreciable asset Norman Arnold, b'57, works as an associate his wife, Arlene. He serves on the promotion broker for J.C. Nichols Real Estate in Lenexa. that benefits you and your board for the Eagle Scouts. He lives in Overland Park. heirs. 1954 John Bruce, e'57, g'60, PhD'62, makes his FEATURING: home in Saratoga, Calif. Donald McClelland, c'54, directs digital imag- • TOWNHOMES & APARTMENTS ing for UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural His- Juanita Jarvis Farnen, n'57, recently • ASSISTED LIVING & HEALTH CARE tory in Los Angeles. He and his wife, Donna, live retired after 42 years as a nurse. She lives in • ALZHEIMER'S CARE & REHAB in San Marino. Kansas City. • NO ENTRANCE FEE William Mead, m'54, lives in Port Angeles, Mildred Long Foster, d'57, a retired librarian, lives in Brookfield, Conn. Wash. (785) 838-8000 Richard Scott, c'54, g'55, is a professor Leonard Gercken, g'57, is retired in Lenexa. emeritus at Stanford University. He lives in Max Mardick, e'57, lives in Golden, Colo. 1-800-419-0254 Stanford, Calif. Jessie Schmidtlein Poston, n'57, a retired www.brandonwoods.com George, e'54, and Catherine Newman school nurse, makes her home in Rose Hill. Smith, d'54, make their home in Midland, Jane Ratcliff, d'57, is a retired teacher in El Texas. Paso, Texas. Burton Stewart, e'54, lives in New Orleans, James Smith, c'57, lives in Suffern, N.Y, where where he's a retired engineer he's a retired consultant. Frank Surber, b'54, recently sold his CPA Richard Smith, m'57, practices medicine in practice. He's retired in Lee's Summit, Mo. Walnut Creek, Calif. He wrote Managed Care: RETIREMENT COMMUNITY John Towner, d'54, g'61, enjoys golf and travel- Anatomy of a Mass Medical Movement, which 1501 INVERNESS DR. • LAWRENCE, KS 66047 ing. He and Betty Ann Rayner Towner, g'65, was published earlier this year by Wyndham LOCATED 1 1/2 MILES WEST OF THE KU CAMPUS live in Shawnee. Hall Press.

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Joy Immer Walker, d'57, is associate director Ellen Junge Whitaker, d'60, is an elementary Kenneth Lyons, c'62, is vice president of of development for the Lancaster Theological school reading facilitator in Slaton.Texas. She advance technology for Arinc in Annapolis, Md. Seminary in Lancaster Pa., where she and her and her husband, Sanford, live in Ransom John Mitchell, c'62, m'66, won the Henry S. husband, Dennis, make their home.They cele- Canyon. Plummer Award last year for excellence in clini- brated their first anniversary in May. Don Wright, g'60, EdD'61, a retired school cal competence and service. He practices medi- superintendent, makes his home in Green Valley, cine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. 1958 Ariz. Anthony Reed, d'62, retired last year as a Royce Fugate, e'58, is city administrator and photographer and editor for the Wichita Eagle. engineer for West Plains, Mo. 1961 He teaches photography at the Wichita Center Robert Hartley, j 58, wrote Paul Powell of Illi- Sue Carol Brown Benson, d'61, g'70, owns for the Arts. Glazed Expressions in Sarasota, Fla. nois: A Lifelong Democrat. He and Mary Cart- Earl Sundbye, e'62, a retired electronic engi- tar Hartley, d'58, live in Westminster Colo. James Corrigan, l'61, is a district judge neer with Continental Electronics, lives in Con- Maryann Stucker McAfee, n'58, g'85, a in Wichita. roe, Texas, with his wife,Theresa. retired nurse, lives in Leavenworth. Don DeMate, b'61, works as Southwest Albert Steegmann Jr., c'58, is a professor of regional sales manager forTri-Anim Health Ser- 1963 anthropology for State University of New York vices in Sylmar, Calif. He lives in Canoga Park. Robert Eaton, e'63, retired earlier this year at Buffalo. He lives in North Tonawanda. Clay, b'61, and Judith Nininger Edmands, as co-chair of DaimlerChrysler He lives in d'62, g'64, make their home in Salina. Bloomfield Hills, Mich. 1959 Michael Garrison, e'61, directs business V.O. Kampschroeder, c'63, g'65, works for Navistar Financial in Rolling Meadows, III. He Malcolm Applegate, j'59, is retired from development for George Butler Associates in and Sydnie Bowling Kampschroeder, c'65, a career with the Indianapolis Star He lives Lenexa. He and Roberta Johnson Garrison, live in Naperville. She's vice president of mar- in Indianapolis. c'62, live in Leawood. She's a counselor for keting for Archipelago. Rozanne Barry, c'59, lives in Washington, Weight Watchers Inc. Mary Warburton Norfleet, d'63, g'65, is a D.C., where she's a retired librarian. Robert Harbison, b'61, g'65, a former execu- clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral Robert Billings, c'59, chairs the Alvamar tive with the Williams Companies of Tulsa, is sciences at Stanford University. She lives in Palo Development Corp. in Lawrence. retired in Lawton, Okla., where he lives with his Alto, Calif. wife, Jean. Richard Glenn, e'59, vice president of Classic James Patton, e'63, g'68, is president of Black Container Corp., lives in Western Springs, III., Robert Hinton, e'61, recently toured &Veatch in Kansas City. He and his wife, Mari- with Margot Black Glenn, c'61. Salzburg, Prague, Vienna and Budapest with his lyn, live in Overland Park. church choir. He and his wife, Marian, live in Norris Hall, e'59, is retired in Indianapolis. Houston. Ralph Stephenson, c'63, g'64, works as a Norman Love, e'59, lives in Boulder, Colo., manager for Halliburton. He lives in Houston. Fritz Johnson, c'61, m'65, practices with where he's a retired chief engineer with Xerox. Genesys Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgical Dorothy Evans Stevenson, d'63, makes her Howard O'Connor, g'59, makes his home Associates in Grand Blanc, Mich. home in Edwardsville. in Lawrence. John McElhiney, e'61, g'63, retired last year Jack Thomas, d'63, teaches school in Hill City. Roger Schiller, g'59, keeps busy in retirement and now does consulting work in Denver Stephen Toth, g'63, is a secondary school with music and church work. He lives in Damon Patton, c'61, is retired in Green administrator at Fairfield High School in Fairfield, Harrisburg, Pa. Valley, Ariz. Conn., and an adjunct professor of English at Ralph Wright, c'59, is general counsel for Sacred Heart University. He lives inTrumbull Criterion Catalyst in Houston. 1962 with his wife, Judith. James Arnold, e'62, recently became a fellow I960 of the American Institute of Aeronautics and 1964 Peter Anderson, f'60, retired last year after Astronautics. He's deputy director of NASA's Douglas Halsted, '64, a retired foreign lan- 35 years with Maupintour He and his wife, Joan, space transportation aeronautics directorate. guage teacher lives in Andover, Mass., with live in Lawrence. He lives in Saratoga, Calif. Josephine Walker-Halsted, d'63. She teaches elementary school music in Andover. Norb Garrett, c'60, moved recently from Richard Cartwright, e'62, owns R.L. London to New York City, where he's president Cartwright & Associates in La Jolla, Calif. Edith DeEtte Huffman, f 64, is retired of Kroll Associates. in Wichita. John Eagle, b'62, is retired from Electronic Bruce Jackson, e'60, a retired petroleum Data Systems. He lives in Sioux Falls, S.D. Anthony, c'64, g'66, and Nancy Egy Jacobs, engineer, makes his home in Huntington c'65, make their home in Santa Fe, N.M. William Feist, c'62, m'66, lives in Birmingham, Beach, Calif. Ala., where he's medical director for Protective Dorothy Teh-Hsin Hwang, PhD'64, owns John Nienstedt, c'60, wrote Sanity Rising: Life Insurance. Michigan Soy Products in Novi, where she and her husband, Emilian, g'64, make their home. Unnecessary Evil, which recently was published Frederick Home, PhD'62, is a professor of by First Books Library. He lives in Surprise, Ariz. chemistry at Oregon State University in Corval- Byron Klapper, j'64, commutes from Wally Schrepfer, e'60, g'62, retired last year lis, where he and Clara Johnson Home, '59, Montville, N.J., to New York City, where he's and moved to Langhorne, Pa. make their home. managing director of American Capital Access. Sam Shermis, g'60, PhD'61, keeps busy in Charles Kulier, PhD'62, heads Parke-Davis Donald Mason, g'64, is retired in Sarasota, Fla. retirement with his hobby of calligraphy. He Pharmaceutical's research library and informa- Larry Mason, PhD'64, wrote a book of poet- lives in Black Mountain, N.C. tion services in Holland, Mich. ry, A Little Sidewalk Cafe at the End of Time,

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which was published last spring. He lives in Slingerlands, N.Y GRACEFUL SAYERS AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME Cordell, c'64, l'67, and Mary Ann Suther- land Meeks, c'67, live in Kansas City, where efore Gale Sayers ran gracefully Cordell is a Kansas district judge. He recently into the public consciousness, was elected president of the American Lung Bbefore he was the youngest mem- Association. ber inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame John Richardson, e'64, president of Richard- or the founder and CEO of a successful son Decorative Curbing, lives in Topeka. computer business, he had a mantra. Emily Larkin Russell, d'64, s'72, is retired in When injuries and doubt and loss Tucker, Ga., where she makes her home with plagued Sayers, d'75, g'77, four words her husband, Joseph. sustained him. Robert Wills, c'64, lives in Daleville.Va., where "You are good enough." he's retired. Sayers' father, his role model and 1965 hero, taught him these words long before Gale's name became synonymous with William Cibes Jr., c'65, is chancellor of the Connecticut State University System in Hart- achievement. ford. He and his wife, Margaret, live in West Sayers' most recent success is testa- Hartford. ment to his father's pride. As founder and Valera Clayton-Dodd, n'65, works as associ- CEO of the Sayers Group, a company ate administrator at St. Francis Specialty Hospi- that provides computer services, hard- tal in Monroe, La. ware and software, Sayers last year was Gloria Farha Flentje, c'65, is a partner in inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepre- passionate CREDIBLE HERO: "A lot of the Wichita law firm of Foulston & Siefkin. neurship Hall of Fame. His company's about business, people in junior high or high Fred Hamilton, e'65, lives in Houston, where revenue exceeded $170 million last year. "I eive school, when they see that Gale he's retired from a career with Texaco. , , Sayers is coming to speak with He is the rare athlete whose combination speeches and , ,?., ,. , , , ,,„ Carol Fusco May, d'65, teaches third grade in of humility and confidence, acceptance r them, they ask. Well, who s she? San Antonio,Texas. and persistence enabled him to transcend one of my Sayers |augns "They doryt know speeches is Gale Sayers. So I have to bring a Arthur Spears, c'65, is a professor of linguis- the game that made him famous. called 'No highlight film to give myself some tics and anthropology at the City University of "I learned early in my career that foot- More Minority credibilit/ with Xoung PeoPle" New York. He lives in New York City. ball was not a career, that it was a starting Business,'" Sayers says. "You see some Paul Thomas, c'65, directs social work at Par- place," Sayers says. "As you prepare to companies out there who want to give 5 sons State Hospital and Training Center play, you must prepare to quit.The day I percent or 10 percent to some minority 1966 left football, I walked away and didn't company. If I'm qualified, I want 100 have any regrets, because I knew I had Kenneth Asher, p'66, works as a pharmacist percent of the pie. Don't judge me on at Sugar Valley Pharmacy in Mound City. something else to do." being a minority. Judge me on being a Larry Bast, j'66, is president of Bast & Associ- Sayers returned to Lawrence and quality company." ates, an executive search firm in Los Angeles. earned two degrees. He served as assis- Sayers is equally passionate about the He lives in Playa Del Rey. tant athletics director at KU before role of sports in life. When he speaks to Judith Farrell Corcoran, j'66, works at becoming the first black athletics direc- children, he emphasizes the opportuni- Norwest Bank Iowa. She lives in Cumming. tor at Southern Illinois. In 1981, Sayers ties available in business. He encourages George Fletcher, b'66, e'66, is president of moved back to Chicago, scene of his them to get a college education. He tells the Fletcher Group in Greenville, S.C. gridiron triumphs, and got in on the bur- them to dream beyond athletics. Kenneth Karr, b'66, lives in Virginia Beach, geoning computer industry. "The game is so big today, and there's where he's a self-employed insurance agent. "Getting into the computer business at so much money being made, but when David Knutson, g'66, PhD70, works as that time in my life and at that time in you look at the total picture, professional an agent for First Financial Center in Cedar the industry probably was a little lucky," sports is a very small piece," Sayers says. Rapids, Iowa. Sayers says. "The PC just came out in "Every summer they draft 65 basketball Richard Miller, a'66, recently was elected a 1982. I got some good people to work players, or a hundred or so football play- fellow of the American Institute of Architects. with me, so that helped a great deal. My ers. But in my business, information He's president of Earl Swensson Associates in name got me in a couple of doors, but a technology, we have 265,000 jobs out Nashville,Tenn. name can only take you so far." there if you're qualified. Get your degree. Franklin Scamman, e'66, m'70, is a professor The soft-spoken Sayers, whose every Open your mind. Explore what's out of anesthesia at the University of Iowa in gesture conveys a quiet dignity, is there. "--*"* Iowa City.

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Gary Schrader, c'66, g'68, retired last year as Don Rea, a'67, works as a project manager for Elaine Moore McGinn, n'68, makes her worldwide director of manufacturing engineer- ACI/Boland in Leawood. He and his wife, Jean, home in Knoxville.Tenn., with her husband, ing at Plantronics in San jose, Calif. live in Kansas City. Larry, c'64, m'68. He's an anesthesiologist. Datha Miller Rothstein, c'67, h'67, is a physi- Lloyd Weller, g'66, is a retired partner in Black Jack Mitchell, e'68, is an engineering manager &Veatch. He lives in Mission with his wife, Rene. cal therapist at Health South Rehabilitation in for Calumet Oil inTulsa. San Diego, Calif. Franklin Wickham, g'66, received the Vicki Zeiger Mooney, d'68, sells real estate Beal Award earlier this year from the Ohio Donna Ann Kuhlman Vaughan, c'67, m'71, Pharmacists Association. He's director of the has a private medical practice in Wichita. for Re/Max First Realtors in Overland Park. Pharmacy Law Institute at Ohio Northern Sharon Stanley Williams, n'67, practices law Patricia Huggins Pettey, d'68, g'74, recently University in Ada. with Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City. completed her 29th year of teaching in the John Willcott, b'66, recently joined the Turner school district. She and her husband, Resource Group, an employee benefits and 1968 John, live in Kansas City. financial services firm in Overland Park. Cheryl Azamber-Doran, d'68, works as a school librarian in Strafford, Mo. Jane Fothergille Radcliffe,j'68, works as a recruiter for Education America. She lives in 1967 Richard Berens, c'68, is an Internet software Gaylene Bouska Altman, n'67, directs developer for Healtheon/Web in Santa Clara, Colorado Springs. the nursing skills lab at the University of Calif. He lives in Fremont with his wife, Ora Nuttle Ross, d'68, keeps busy in retire- Washington. She lives in Seattle and recently Marilyn, assoc. ment with volunteer work. She and her hus- contributed to Delmar's Fundamental and Jean Daiker, c'68, teaches at Trinity Valley band, Albert, live in Mission. Advanced Nursing Skills, which was published School. She lives in Fort Worth,Texas. earlier this year John Swift, d'68, retired earlier this year as Terry Hexum, PhD'68, is a professor of phar- CEO oftheYMCA of GreaterTulsa. He lives in Robert Bailey, c'67, is executive vice presi- macology at the University of Nebraska in Tucson, Ariz. dent of planning and research for BBDO Chica- Omaha, where he lives with his wife, Deanna. go. He lives in Evanston, III. Eric Hoffman, p'68, directs research at the Sherry Hughey Wilson, d'68, works as a James Brenner, c'67, lives in Palatine, III., and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in New substitute teacher She lives in Parker; Colo., with is a vice president at Oak Brook Bank. York City. He lives in Norwalk, Conn. her husband, Gary. Michael Cook, j'67, is a manager for Packagin Products in Houston, He and Jo Ann Kutz Cook, d'65, live in Kingwood, and she's a teacher for the Humble school district. Joanne Emerick Denton, d'67, is a school librarian in Shawnee Mission. Roger Elliott, e'67, works as a self-employed consulting engineer in Corpus Christi,Texas. Gary Gribben, c'67, g'70, lives in Boise, Idaho, where he's a senior vice president and manager at First Security Bank. Howard Hoffman, a'67, is an associate with SLCE Architects in New York City. He lives in Manalapan, N.J. Carla Bouska Lee, n'67, an associate professor of nursing at Clarkson College in Omaha, Neb., was a contributor to Delmar's Fundamen- tal and Advanced Nursing Skills, which was published earlier this year Kenneth Leone, e'67, works as a principal consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Tal- lahassee, Fla. Plate $11.95 (RusS1 Shipping and Handling) Simple, bold graphics instantly identifies the Jayhawk Gregg Luther, EdD'67, is a retired professor fan. Made of clear, impact-resistant polycarbonate plas- of education at Central Missouri State Univer- tic, they won't bend or chip like aluminum and look like sity in Warrensburg, where he makes his home. they are under glass. Richard Martin, e'67, recently became a BIG JAY Flag $39.29 (Plus $2 Shipping and Handling) certified information technology specialist for 28" x 56", flag grade nylon, reinforced with binding around all edges for long outdoor life. As used by the General Motors in Pontiac, Mich. He lives Marching Jayhawks. in Fenton. Regina Kahn Miller, c'67, g'71, PhD'74, chairs L.L.C. the education division at the University of Hart- ford. She and her husband, Donald, c'70, g'72, To Order Call 800-326-8372 or 785-822-1003 P.O. Box 737, Salina, KS 67402 • FAX 785-827-9337 • www.gasolinealleyllc.com PhD'74, live in Hartford, Conn.

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Harry Zielke Jr., p'68, is a pharmacist at Ritz- mans in Lamed, where he and Amy Weller ACCORDIONIST RETURNS TO COMPETITION Zielke, assoc, make their home. athy Sommers' family has a joke 1969 about her college career. She was James Berryman, c'69, works as a physicist exploring all the "A" majors, they at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. He lives in C say. Starting off in aerospace engineer- Danville, Calif. ing, she moved on to astronomy, then Barbara Lang Dundon, c'69, is executive director of Need in Deed in Philadelphia, where ended up graduating with a degree in she and her husband, John, make their home. advertising. But long before college, "A" Daniel Flanigan, j'69, practices law with subjects just came naturally to Som- Polsinelli, White, Vardeman & Shalton. He lives in mers, j'93. A national champion classi- Fairway with Candace Gambrell Flanigan, cal accordionist, Sommers had started 70. She's a real-estate agent for J.D. Reece. with her first "A"—accordion—before Martha Harmonson Haehl.g 69, teaches she was even navigating her way math at Metropolitan Community College in through kindergarten. Kansas City. Sommers' mother, Joan, founded the Jim Henry, d'69, g'70, EdD76, elected to accordion program at the University of the Lawrence City Commision in 1999, was Missouri-Kansas City nearly 40 years recently elected mayor by his fellow commis- sioners. He is retired from careers at the ago and directs its accordion orchestra. University and the U.S. Navy. Influenced by her mother's career, Som- Jane Hoover, c'69, directs DynCorp in Reston, mers strapped on an accordion of her Va. She lives in McLean. own at age 4. She joined the orchestra Robert Jensen, c'69, lives in Austin,Texas, with at 10 and played in solo competitions as his wife, Elizabeth. He's chief financial officer for a young teen. Joan Sommers RECLAIMED TALENT: To On Q Technology. After college, however, Sommers would know. She prepare for the Coupe Mondiale, Alvin Johnson, p'69, is a staff pharmacist at devoted much of her time to her advertis- had won the U.S. her first accordian competition in 14 years, Cathy Sommers VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare System. He lives ing career. She spent five years handling Championships performed in a five-city, six-day in Topeka. marketing and advertising for a geo- in 1955 and 1956 tour for the Texas Accordian Charles Loveland, c'69, m'73, practices graphic information technology firm in and had repre- Association. "The competition pediatric medicine in Lawrence, where he Kansas City, where she developed its web sented the United was very high-level," Sommers and Mary Ladesich Loveland, c'70, make site and became proficient in Web inter- says. "These people live, eat and their home. States at the breathe for these competitions." face design. Coupe Mondiale Gary McClelland, c'69, is a professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder As much as she enjoyed the challenges both years. But when it came down to it, of her job, thoughts of world-class accor- Joan enthusiastically backed Cathy, who Walter Ross Jr., c'69, m'73, continues to practice medicine in Birmingham, Ala., where dion competitions started creeping into went to work in earnest. She quit her he and Linda Howard Ross, d'75, make her mind. Although she had continued to job—although she continued to do some their home. She recently completed an educa- play in the orchestra over the years, she consulting—and practiced full time for tion specialist degree from the University hadn't competed solo in 14 years. Prepar- the national championship. Her efforts of Alabama. ing at this point in her life would be a paid off when she was named U.S. Virtu- Nancy Schiffer, c'69, works as an executive major undertaking. First she would have oso Champion. Next stop: Trossingen, vice president with the United Way in Dayton, to train for the U.S. competition. Then if Germany, and the Coupe Mondiale. Ohio. She lives in Kettering. she won, she would set her sights on the "The Coupe Mondiale was really Larry Shankles, e'69, lives in Topeka, where Coupe Mondiale World Accordion Cham- amazing," says Sommers, who recently he works for the Kansas Department of Transportation. pionships, the pinnacle of accordion moved to Sunnyvale, Calif., to work as a competition. Curtis, e'69, and Gayle Edmondson designer for an Internet company. "It was Slagell, c'67, make their home in Glendale, "I think I wanted to test myself," Som- such an honor for me to be following the Ark. Curtis is a vice president at Aztec Engi- mers says. "In January 1999 I made the same path as my mother. In the end I neering in Phoenix. decision and started practicing. I never won seventh out of 11. Looking at where Janice Burquest Toebben, s'69, g'83, is a thought I'd be doing this, but the timing I came from to get there, I left incredibly vice president at Firstar Bank in Cincinnati. She was right and I felt motivated. My mother happy. Absolutely no disappointment, and her husband, Gary, assoc, live in Fort thought I was nuts. She said, 'You have no regrets."-^w*> Mitchell, Ky. no idea how much time and effort this is —Evans, c'78, g'90, is a Lawrence Walter Weaver, m'69, practices ophthal- going to take.'" free-lance writer. mology with Heartland Eye Care in Topeka.

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Michael Wentworth, c'69, directs the liberal Bruce Finzen, 173, lives in Minneapolis, Minn., 1978 arts master's program at the University of where he practices law with Robins, Kaplan, Kent Allingham, b'78, is a senior manager for North Carolina-Wilmington, where he recently Miller & Ciresi. MCI WorldCom inTulsa. received an award for teaching excellence. Judy Kahle, f 73, teaches art at Burr Road Jan Anderson-Paxson, j'78, teaches photog- 1970 Middle School in Wauseon, Ohio. raphy, editing and layout at Angelina College in Steven Ruddick, c'73,177, practices law at Lufkin, Texas. Christine Conway Alexander, f70, teaches KU Medical Center in Kansas City. piano in Missoula, Mont. Leslie Burson, c'78, works as medical director of the emergency department at Bakersfield Jaryl Ambler-Brown, 70, works as senior MARRIED manager of wholesale product development for Heart Hospital in Bakersfield, Calif. MCI WorldCom. She lives in Ramona, Okla. Lois Mueller, g73, PhD75, to William Glazier, Janet Bower Butcher, d'78, g'84, teaches first Jan. I in Mystic, Conn.They make their home Robert Bibb, e70, is vice chairman of Bibb & grade in Shawnee Mission. inTopeka. Associates in Shawnee Mission. Roger Daufel, c78, lives in Vandalia, Ohio, Lonnie Lee, c70, serves as senior pastor of 1974 with his wife, Pamela, and their son, Andrew, I. Westminister Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Mark Kochman, j'74, is president of Intel- Anne Burke Miller, c'78, l'81, practices law III., where he and Barbara Dove Lee, d71, lisource. He lives in Arvada, Colo. as a partner in Seaton, Miller, Bell & Seaton make their home. in Manhattan. Jennings "Rowe" McKinley, e70, b'7I, is a 1975 Susan Tart, j78, works as a law clerk for the vice president at Black &Veatch in Kansas City, Thomas "Randy" Cobb,j75, owns Cobb Louisiana Supreme Court. She lives in New and Becky Dowers McKinley, f70, is a Insurance Agency in Great Bend. Orleans with her sons, Jeremy, 10, and Daniel, 7. senior designer with Hallmark Cards. Dean Graves, b'75, recently was made a prin- Petra Tasheff, c'78, works for Citigroup in cipal at Denver Investment Advisors. He and his New York City. 1971 wife, Cathy, live in Evergreen, Colo., with their Stephen Carroll, b71, is vice president of sons, Matt, 17, and Tim, 15. finance at Centis. He lives in Lawton, Mich. 1979 Don, c'75, and Leslie Goldstein Nottberg, Linda Finestone, j79, works as senior Anita Boyd Cole, d71, lives inTussy, Okla., 78, own Elite Feet in Kansas City. news editor of the national edition of the where she's retired. Patricia Soptic, c75, owns Annie's Mountain Los Angeles Times. Charles Mingle, 71, works as a senior parale- & Log, a lodgepole and aspen log furniture busi- Bill Kirby, g'79, is a health resource analyst gal at Vista Eye Care in Lawrenceville, Ga. ness. She lives in Leawood. with the Nevada Division of Health diabetes David Poison, 71, owns Sterling Communica- Lee Meigs Stutzman, d75, l'82, co-owns project in Carson City. tions in Lincoln, Neb. Charlson & Wilson Bonded Abstracters in Bradley Marples, c79, m'83, practices Mark Snyder, d71, works as a school coun- Manhattan. medicine at Cotton O'Neil Clinic inTopeka, selor in St. Louis, where he and Karen Guese where his wife, Aileen McCarthy, c'79, Snyder, c'70, g'72, make their home. Karen is a 1976 m'83, also practices. psychologist. Joel Colbert, c'76, EdD77, is assistant dean Virginia Ortiz Miller, J79, is assistant vice of education at California State University in BORN TO: president of Commerce Bank in Kansas City. Carson, Calif. Arthur Black, e71, and Lorraine, daughter Zackery Reynolds, c'79, serves as president Dennis Ellsworth, j'76, recently became Kristina Reiko, Oct. 13.They live in Sunnyvale, of the Kansas Bar Association. He practices law executive editor of the St. Joseph (Mo.) News- Calif. Art manages power conversion at Sun in Fort Scott. Press, and Deborah Moore Ellsworth, c75, Microsystems. is a self-employed grant writer and consultant. 1980 1972 Susan Bernard Lawrence, d'76, teaches John Anderson, b'80, g'82, is chief information Stephanie Schoeneberg Barken, f'72, is sixth grade in San Angelo,Texas, where her hus- officer at BuyMedDirect.com in Overland Park. band, Richard, c79, is an air traffic controller creative director of Mary Engelbreit Studios in Dennis Depew, b'80, lives in Neodesha, for the Federal Aviation Administration. St. Louis. where he's managing partner of Depew Nancie Jewell Dalke, f'72, d'73, teaches David Wescoe, c'76, has been promoted to Law Firm. music in Overland Park. vice president at Northwestern Mutual Invest- ment Services in Milwaukee, Wis. Gregory Galluzzi, g'80, is president of Richard Horvath, e'72, recently was pro- TMG Consulting. He lives in Austin.Texas. moted to engine systems manager at GE Air- Haruyuki Morikawa, c'80, g'82, is a manager craft Engines in Cincinnati. 1977 John Corson, g'77, a retired chief engineer for for the Sharp Corporation in Nara, Japan. Stanley Lybarger, c'72, g'74, is president of Zelcor, makes his home in Crowder, Okla. Norton Rixey, e'80, lives in Lake Waukomis, the Bank of Oklahoma. He and his wife, Marcia, Mo. He's president of Central States live inTulsa. Tia Jenkins, a77, is executive vice president at WE. Kieding Interior Architects in Denver Com-modities. Linda Miller, g72, works for Ford Motor Co. She lives in Grosse He, Mich. Deborah Kruskop Menefee, c'77, works as William Stiles, PhD'80, works for Center- a human resources specialist for theVA Eastern point Broadbond Technologies, where he's a 1973 Kansas Healthcare System inTopeka. vice president. He lives in San Jose, Calif. Lawrence Engel, c73, is an employee bene- John Works, c'77, is president and CEO of Thomas Taylor, b'80, is president and CEO fits consultant for the AAC Group in Dallas. Rompetrol in Bucharest, Romania. of Agris in Roswell, Ga.

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Thomas Tingle, a'80, a'82, manages projects for the Keith Corporation in Durham, N.C. WRITER HELPS OTHER NATURAL STORYTELLERS MarkToebben, j'80, is president of Direct Communications. He lives in Johnston, Iowa. harley Kempthorne encourages the students at his MARRIED Cworkshop to imagine their Don Holladay, p'80, to Jerrilyn Szelle, Nov. 13. lives as movies, composed of indi- They make their home in Wichita. vidual scenes that reveal the narrative of their existence. He urges 1981 them to makes lists—lists of phrases Stephen, d'81, and Amy Honaker Bartlow, s'87, live in Shawnee with their children, Paxton, their parents overused, lists of every 4, and Elaina, I. place they have ever called home, Karen Carleton Eboch, b'81, teaches lists of childhood kisses and teen- management at Bowling Green State University, age paramours. Twelve silver heads, and her husband, Mark, c'83, supervises space rich with memory, bow in concen- planning at the University ofToledo.They live tration; the only sound in this room in Maumee. at the Lawrence Public Library is the Melodie Funk Henderson, c'81, directs murmur of pencils scratching on intellectual property for Genaissance Pharma- paper. ceuticals in New Haven, Conn. Then Kempthorne, d'64, g'66, Donna Henoch Karlen, j'81, makes her home in Olathe, where she's self-employed in interrupts this period of poignant the communications business. reverie and announces that each Debbie Mah Lee, c'81, works as lead tech- person will now share his or her nologist for Alta Bates Comprehensive Cancer story. The students look at one Center in Berkeley, Calif. another uneasily. Throats clear ner- Scott Mach, l'81, is a partner in Popham Law vously. Kempthorne, the gentle mentor, gone from acad- TELLING STORIES: Firm in Kansas City. reassures the class. emia to farming Charley Kempthorne encour- Carl Mattick, e'81, works for HNTB in "We really are alive, we really are our- to contracting ages students in his family his- Alexandria, Va. tory workshops to tell their selves, when we're peeling potatoes," he and was still stories simply and honestly. Roger Norwood, e'81, lives in McKinney, says. "A book titled The Uninteresting struggling to "Some people who are really Texas, and works as a design engineer for Days of My Life would be the most revela- write his own well-educated have trouble Micron Technology in Richardson. tory book you could write." fiction. Teach- being authentic because it Margaret Payne Potter-Simons, g'81, is As director of the Life Story Institute, ing narrative clashes with what they've been president of Platt College in Cerritos, Calif. taught," he says. based in Manhattan, Kempthorne has writing helped Thaine Shetter, j'81, works for Urban fashioned a nationally celebrated career both him and his students find their & Associates in Sharon, Mass. He lives in Providence, R.I. out of teaching people to reveal their true voices. Debra Bauer Whitney, f'81, coordinates family histories. In his Life Story maga- Creating a written tradition, Kemp- clinical data and works as a designer at PRA zine; his book, For All Time: A Complete thorne believes, connects family members International in Lenexa. Guide to Writing Your Family History; and to one another and to their identities. Janet Schulenburg Wiens, s'81, is a self- in his workshops, like the one held "The family is more splintered than it employed marketing consultant in BartlettTenn. recently in Lawrence, Kempthorne teach- was 50 or 75 years ago," he says. "I think Sam Zeff, '81, produces the news at VVTXF- es his students, who are mostly retirees, we're more aware now of what it means TV. He lives in Elkins Park, Pa. to embrace the ordinary elements of their to lose that." lives. He implores them to write the way The whimsical Kempthorne shares his BORN TO: they speak, to abandon worries of syntax own anecdotes to illuminate his students' Michelle Brown Robnett, j'81, and Lance, and metaphor and originality. more clearly, never hesitating to laugh at son,Travis Gordon, Jan. 24 in Edmond, Okla., "The truth is we've all been storytellers where he joins a sister, Katelyn, who's almost 4. himself and the lessons he has learned since we were children," Kempthorne along the way. 1982 says. "I've learned so much from the old Matthew Boxberger, e'82, manages Kempthorne taught his first memoir people," Kempthorne says. "The women customer services for Sherpa Systems in writing workshop in 1976. He had look at things with so much acceptance San Jose, Calif. already taught English composition at KU and positivity. They write with feeling, Kevin Harlan, j'82, works as a broadcaster and earned a master's from the presti- while the men write with a wry sense of for CBS/Turner Broadcasting. He lives in gious Iowa Writer's Workshop. He had humor. It's true writing."-"""1* Mission Hills.

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Patricia Harris, c'82, directs external opera- Darryl Jones, e'83, g'87, works as a project Anne Sheehan, c'84, has been promoted to tions at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort engineer at Baker Hughes, an oil field equip- associate professor of geophysics at the Univer- Worth, Texas. ment firm. He lives in Houston. sity of Colorado. She and her husband, Craig Parvesh Kumar, e'82, m'86, chairs the radia- Mark Lee, c'83, covers sports for the Kansas Jones, have two daughters, Kathryn, 4, and Megan, 2. tion oncology department at the Cancer Insti- City Kansan and recently published a book, tute of New Jersey's Robert Wood Johnson Rainbows are Beautiful. Susan Benjamin Suzuki, c'84, makes her Medical School. She lives in Princeton with her Daniel McLaughlin, b'83, g'85, works as a home in Lenexa with her husband, Riichiro, son, RJ., who's almost 3. CPA with Enterprise Merchant Bank in Over- c'85, g'91, and their daughter Keiko, 5. Kathryn Tarwater, c'82, is associate pastor of land Park. He and Julie Pachta McLaughlin, Joel Thornton, j'84, works as chief of the Calvary United Methodist Church in Frederick, h'83, live in Olathe, where she's an occupational copy desk at the Dallas Morning News. He and Md. She and her husband, Donnie Woodrow, therapist for the school district. his wife, Melissa Watson, have a daughter, live in Mount Airy and will celebrate their first Kent Pennybaker, e'83, g'87, founded River Cammy, 2. anniversary in August. City Engineering in Lawrence. Elizabeth "Lisa" Kanarek Weinstein, j 82, Terri Reicher, c'83, is assistant general 1985 founded HomeOfficeLife.com in Dallas, where counsel for the National Association of Securi- Gordon Beck, c'85, p'85, is managing director she and her husband, Gary, c'82, m'86, live with ties Dealers in Washington, D.C. She lives in of Cytocom in New York City. He lives in their sons, Blake, 5, and Kyle, 3. Rockville, Md. Princeton, N.J. Nancy Harris Spatz, e'83, g'91, makes Katie Bolt-Goeke, s'85, works as executive MARRIED her home in Lee's Summit, Mo., with her director of Action for Adoptions in Lawrence, where her husband, Ed, g'94, is music minister Jay Dark, e'82, g'91, to Aracely Espinoza, husband, Jeffrey, e'83, and their children, at St. Margaret's Church. Dec. 18 in Chihuahua, Mexico.They live in Mark, 8, and Laura, 5. Canton, Mich. Jim Sterbenz, p'83, p'98, is clinical coordina- Joan Bowen, b'85,1*90, recently joined the tor for the pharmacy at St. Francis Hospital Wichita law firm of Blaylock & Cleous. BORN TO: and Medical Center in Topeka. P. Scott Francis, j'85, buys and sells rare Janis Biehler Milham,j'82, and Allan, Robert Turner, c'83, a resident of Canton, books, maps and atlases in Cleveland. daughter; Katherine Grace, Oct. 26.They live Mich., is president of Griffin Properties Jim Garner, c'85, l'88, serves as Democratic in Walnut Creek, Calif. in Southfield. leader of the Kansas House of Representatives. He lives in Coffeyville. 1983 MARRIED Mickey Greene, d'85, g'89, teaches John Aunins, e'83, works for Merck Research Mindy Spritz,f'83,toTodd Molkner, Oct. physical education in Shawnee Mission. She Laboratories. He and his wife, Anne, live in 10 in Wilmette, III.They make their home lives in Lawrence. Doylestown, Pa., with their children.Thomas, 6; in Atlanta. Jennifer Hanson, b'85, g'87, works as a finan- Benjamin, 4; and Emily, I. cial system administrator at KU. 1984 Karen Farrar Beal, b'83, manages alumni Philip, c'85, and Kelly O'Keefe Heintzel- Dave Barber, e'84, works for J.E. Dunn affairs at UMKC. She lives in Kansas City with man, d'86, live in Overland Park with their chil- Construction in Kansas City. her sons, Alexander, 10, and Jackson, 7. dren, Scott, 9; Maggie, 7; and Jack, 5. Philip is Lisa Walter Beran, c'83, l'86, owns a law firm Steve Boresow, e'84, g'95, manages the East- district manager for Alza Pharmaceuticals, and in Great Bend. ern region for Sprint Corporate Real Estate in Kelly teaches at Rolling Hills Preschool. Atlanta, where he and his wife, Sherri, live with Colleen Cacy, j'83, g'85, l'86, practices law in LeRoy Leiker, j'85, g'92, is senior manager their daughters, Madeline, Hannah and Leah. Tucson, Ariz., where she lives with her husband, of planning and research at Intertec Publishing Peter Akmajian. Marsha Kindrachuk Boyd, j'84, coaches in Chicago. competitive figure skaters in the Atlanta area, Jan Fink Call, c'83, l'87, is a partner in the where she also does free-lance writing. Marsha Margaret O'Rourke Nowak, j'85, Philadelphia law firm of Hoyle, Morris & Kerr. and her husband, Willis, live in Kennesaw with works as a business feature writer for Fidelity She and her husand, Jeff, live in Abington with their children, Madeleine, 7, and William, 5. Investments. She and her husband, Daniel, live their children, Kellye, 10, and Brian, 6. in Alplaus, N.Y, with their sons, Anthony, 4, James Maxwell, d'84, directs bands for USD and Joseph, I. James Eighmey, c'83, works as an archaeolo- 394 in Rosehill. He lives in Wichita with Sonya gist for environmental firms in Southern Califor- Ramsey Maxwell, d'85, who teaches elemen- Brad Payne, h'85, lives in Olympia, Wash., nia. He and his wife, Donna Huss, c'85, live in tary vocal music for USD 259.Their family and works for Sound Solutions. San Marcos with their son, Aaron. includes two children, Genee, 9, and Allen, 4. JoAnn Skillett, EdD'85, is retired in Bella Michael Fox, e'83, a U.S. Navy lieutenant Jacqueline Braly Payne, c'84, owns I.R Hold- Vista, Ark. commander, serves on the USS Harry S.Tru- ings in Littleton, Colo. man as a catapult and arresting gear officer He MARRIED Kim Hahlen Peak, n'84, and her husband, and Wendy Johnson Fox, '83, live in Chesa- Stephen, live in Lenexa with their children, Christy Fisher, j'85, to Tore Nelson, Nov. 26 peake, Va., with their children, Ryan, 16,Tory, 14, Kaitlin, who's almost 7, and Christian, I. in West Des Moines, Iowa, where they make and Abby, 10. their home. Elliot Reno, d'84, is a senior medical science Myron Frans, l'83, practices law with Faegre & liasion for Chiron, and Heidi Gehle Reno, Benson in Minneapolis, Minn. c'85, is a bioprocess engineer at Amgen.They BORN TO: Mark Gunter, b'83, manages financial report- live in Thornton, Colo., with their daughters, Timothy Davis, e'85, g'87, and Lisa, son, Ryan ing at Black &Veatch in Overland Park. 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1986 Jeff Elliott, b'87, directs long distance interna- MARRIED Andres Carvallo, e'86, moved recently to tional finance for Sprint in Kansas City. Stephen Ariagno, b'87,1'9O, to Julie Beemiller, Austin,Texas, where he's executive vice presi- Barry Gales, p'87, p'89, is an associate profes- Jan. 29.They live in Wichita, where they both dent of global sales and marketing at sor of pharmacy at Southwestern Oklahoma practice law. iMark.com. State University in Weatherford. He lives in Christine Davis, b'86, g'87, is a senior man- Edmond with Maria Jenisch Gales, p'87. She BORN TO: ager with Ernst & Young in Richmond, Va., manages Superthrift Pharmacy. John Hanson, e'87, and Rosalba, son, where she and her husband, Randy Roberts, '90, make their home. Caryne Finlay Mount, f'87, a fine crafts Aidan John, Feb. 18 in Smyrna, Ga. John is a design artist, received a grant recently from structural design engineer for Lockheed Martin Richard Ferraro, g'86, PhD'89, recently Peninsula Community Foundation. She lives in in Marietta. became executive editor of the Journal of Gen- eral Psychology and of the Journal of Psycholo- Redwood City, Calif, with her husband, George, gy. He is a professor of psychology at the and their daughters, Ellie, 3, and Beatrice, 2. 1988 University of North Dakota at Grand Forks. Caryne owns Art to Wear. Mark Brown, e'88, is vice president of Burger Engineering in Olathe. Celia Fuller, f'86, is a graphic designer William Munroe, c'87, works as senior prod- for Lindgren/Fuller Design. She lives in uct marketing manager for Netegrity, an inter- Michelle Butler, j'88, lives in Topeka and Brooklyn, N.Y net software firm. He lives in Westford, Mass. works as Kansas chief of staff for Rep. Jim Ryun. Debra Robinson McGlohen, b'86, is the Mary Wilson Schroer, b'87, manages Mary Reilly Daniel, h'88, works as an occu- firm administrator at Berberich Trahan & Co. in accounting for Universal Underwriters Group pational therapist at St. Louis Children's Hospi- Topeka., where she and her husband, Patrick, in Overland Park. tal in St. Louis, Mo. p'81, make their home. He manages a Wal-Mart Gina Galen, c'88, directs international sales pharmacy. Bonnie Snyder,j'87, is sports graphics editor at the Washington Post. She lives in forThermoQuest in Needham Heights, Mass. Charles Miller, e'86, g'90, lives in Nashville, Tenn., where he's a research associate at Van- Arlington, Va. Kathy Hagen, e'88, manages structural engi- derbilt University. Shannon Spangler, l'87, works as a managing neering at Bibb & Associates in Fairway. Linda Nelson Stelk, h'86, makes her home partner in the San Francisco law firm of Shook, Mark Hudson, c'88, g'90, is executive director in Bettendorf, Iowa, with her husband, Jeffrey, Hardy & Bacon. She lives in Orinda. for the Frederick County Historical Society in assoc. He works for Medtronic. Christopher Stramel, h'86, leads a respira- tory therapy team at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City. Patricia Thomas, g'86, is associate dean of medicine at the KU Medical Center She and her husband, Martin Haynes, a'83, live in Overland Park with their three children.

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Frederick, Md., where he and his wife, Julie, Suzanne Sweetman Hanson, c'89, and Jef- BORN TO: frey, son, Jackson Trace, March 6 in Wichita, make their home. Karan Gipson Chandler, c'90, and Blake, Susan Auer Mitchell, c'88,1'94, serves as a where he joins a sister Sophia, 2. son, Payton Gipson, Jan. 22 in Castle Rock, Colo. captain in the U.S. Army JAG Corps at Fort Timothy McNary, j'89, and Mia, son, Colin Kathryn Driscoll Hollrah, c'91, n 93, and Irwin, Calif. James, Nov. I I in Glenview, III., where he joins a Scott, m'94, son, Benjamin Jeffrey, Jan. 9 in Mis- brother, Patrick, 2. Joseph Morris, b'88, works as national sion Hills, where he joins a sister Emma, 3.. account manager for Countryside Home Loans. Julie Heaton Medlock, j'89, and Tom, c'89, Lucinda Burlingame Powell, c'90, l'93, and He lives in Overland Park. son, Eric Martin, Jan. 10 in Shawnee, where he her husband, David, l'93, son, William James joins a sister Katherine, 3. Julie is an information Burlingame, Sept. 21 in Kansas City. Tiffany Platis Starbuck, j'88, manages traffic developer for CTG, and Tom teaches at Pem- for R&R Partners, an advertising agency in Salt broke Hill School. Lake City, where she and her husband, Chad, 1991 Jeffrey, b'89,192, and Susan Mauch Melanie Botts, j'91, works as a senior copy make their home.They celebrated their first Wietharn, b'89, l'92, son, Mason Bryant, Nov. editor at Dow Jones Newswires in Sydney, anniversary in May. 12 in Topeka. Jeff and Susan are both lawyers. Australia. BORN TO: Mark Brady, m'91, practices with Midwest 1990 Anesthesia Associates in Overland Park. Nancy Rehfeld Clinton, c'88, and Patrick, Michael Ancona, b'90, manages the Frank Stacey Empson, c'91, l'94, g'99, has been pro- son, Andrew James, Dec. 23 in Del Mar Calif. Ancona Honda dealership in Olathe. He lives in moted to vice president of ehealth strategy at Overland Park. Child Health Corporation of America in Over- 1989 Steven Brown, b'90, and his wife, Gina, live in land Park. James Allen, e'89, recently was promoted to West Chester, Ohio, with their children, Connor, Amy Gilbert, j'91, lives in Charlotte, N.C., a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. He 3, and Taylor I. Steven works for Fifth Third where she's an account representative for the lives in Oak Harbor Wash. Bank in Cincinnati. Charlotte Observer Christine Connelly Bork, c'89, teaches Cami Denison Glovier, j'90, teaches Barrett Jesseph, e'91, is polypropylene main- fifth grade in Hampton, Va. She lives in eighth grade in Joliet, III. She lives in Aurora. tenance superintendent at Phillips Chemical in Virginia Beach. Laura Ellis, g'89, g'91, is a professor of music Pasadena, Texas. Kira Gould, j'90, c'91, is a free-lance designer at McMurry University in Abilene.Texas. Catherine Powell Pickert, h'9 I, manages and writer in New York City. Josi Sahlberg Garland, d'89, teaches in rehabilitation services at Heritage Manor in Osage City. Erin Hartshorn, b'90, works as a controller Osawatomie. She lives in Overland Park. at Resources Connection. She lives in I Elizabeth Thomas, PhD'91, and her husband, Vicki Johnson, PhD'89, is associate director rvine, Calif. of research and development at Wichita Trace Stark, '83, make their home in St. Louis State University's National Institute for Edward "Bart" Hubbuch, j'90, covers with their daughter Skyler, I. Beth works for professional basketball for the Dallas Monsanto, and Trace teaches elementary physi- Aviation Research. Morning News. cal education. John "Jack" Latzer, b'89, works for Canicom Kelly Jones, c'90, m'94, practices medicine Carol Wylie, b'9 I, manages materials for in Denver He lives in Westminster with his with Community Health Care inTacoma,Wash. Dynacraft in Algona, Wash. wife, Andrea. Maureen Luby, m'90, is an anesthesiologist Kurt, c'89,192, and Elaine Woodford Level, with West County Cardiothoracic Anesthesia in MARRIED j'89, n'94, make their home in Wichita with their Town & Country, Mo. Heather Friede, b'91, c'91, to Timothy Abra- children, Madeline, 5, and Harrison, I. Kimberly Becker Lynch, p'90, manages the hamson, March 25 in Shawnee Mission. She's a pharmacy at Costco Pharmacy in Gilbert, Ariz. computer consultant for AMS Entertainment, MARRIED and their home is in Roswell, Ga. Jeffrey Morris, c'90, l'93, practices law with Nikki Callaway, c'89, to Jeffrey White, April 8. Bryan Cave in Overland Park. They live in Chicago, where she's a sales analyst. BORN TO: Michael Rizk, p'90, lives in Flower Mound, Donna Yeager Logback, j'91, and Steven, Catherine McKernan, n'89, to Edgar Hull, Texas, with his wife, Cherry. He's general son, Logan Edward, March 15 in Manhattan, Nov. 13 in Charleston, S.C., where she's a pedi- manager ofTexas Health Pharmaceutical in where he joins a sister, Elizabeth, 4. Donna is atric flight nurse for Meducare. Grand Prairie. regional marketing manager for Cellular One. Marc Roskin, c'90, is vice president of devel- Mark, c'91, and Kimberly Zoller Wewers, BORN TO: opment at Centropolis Entertainment in Santa j'91, son, Jared Alexander, Sept. 22 in Grapevine, Kurt, b'89, and Debra Hart Bachman, b'91, Monica, Calif. He and his wife, Jennifer live in Texas. Mark practices law with Roberts, Cun- daughter, Madeleine Grace, Oct. 26 in Wichita, Manhattan Beach and will celebrate their first ningham & Stripling, and Kimberly is a global where she joins a sister Hannah, 2. Kurt is presi- anniversary Aug. 7. account manager with MCI Worldcom. dent of KDB Builders, and Debra is a supervisor Curtis Wuerdeman, b'90, works as con- at Cessna Aircraft. troller for Quebecor World in Aurora, III. 1992 Claudine Cygan Barnhart, d'89, g'92, and Sallie Norton Attar, c'92, sells real estate Scott, daughter, Heather Rose, March 22 in MARRIED with J.C. Nichols. She and her husband, Cary, Lisle, III., where she joins a brother Jake, 2. Clau- Chad Gillam, c'90,194, and Kara Beach, live in Overland Park with their son, Hudson, 4. dine teaches science at Glenn Westlake Middle d'94, g'96, Nov. I 3 in Wichita.Their home is in Barton Fisher, b'92, is program director at School in Lombard. Englewood, Colo. Net Com in Fenton, Mo.

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Patrick Hilger, p'92, owns Gregwire Health Rodney Price, c'93, is a meteorologist at Dennis, c'94, and Jennifer Shreve Cun- Mart in Russell, where he and his wife, Elaine, KSN-TV in Wichita. ningham, c'95, son, Sean Michael, Feb. 22 in live with their children, Rachel, Nathan, Christo- Catherine Zartman Wiese, e'93, works as Overland Park. pher; Sarah Elizabeth and Seth. a business unit leader at Solutia in St. Louis, Mo. 1995 Warren Miller, c'92, is regional sales Laura Paige Williams, f'93, is assistant Joseph, b'95, c'95, and Melissa Boos manager for Fibre-Metal Products. He lives designer/production manager for Janus Mutual Nielsen, d'95, g'99, live in Shawnee with their in Chandler; Ariz. Funds in Denver; where she also studies for daughter; Grace, I. Jason Petty, b'92, works as a senior margin a master's in nonprofit management at analyst for Ameritrade Holding Corp. in Regis University. Sean Roland, c'95, makes his home in Omaha, Neb. Coatsville, Pa. MARRIED Joe Slechta, p'95, is a clinical pharmacist at MARRIED Amy Epmeier, j'93, to William Wadsworth, Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, where Allison Knorr.j'92, to Clint Metcalf, Oct. 23. Oct. I 6.They live in Avon, Conn., and Amy is Stacy Moffatt Slechta, c'95, is a medical res- Allison is a web marketer for IndustryClick in a sales manager for Store Equipment and ident at the Wichita Center for Graduate Med- Kansas City. Design magazine. ical Education. Eric Raine, j'92, and Sara Jane Gollier, d'94, Sarah Smith, c'95, d'96, received a master's in g'99, Nov. 13 in Ottawa.They live in Kansas City, BORN TO: physical therapy last spring from the University where Eric manages accounts for Datacore John, e'93, g'96, and Marci Stevanus ofTexas in Dallas. Marketing and Sara Jane teaches fifth grade. Dreher, '93, daughter, Mia Nicole, Sept. 14 Peter Suhr, a'95, and his wife, Jacqueline, cele- in Topeka. brated their first anniversary May 22.They live BORN TO: Robert, e'93, and Paige Cowden in Geneva, III. Michael Abbott, b'92, and Stacey, son, Marett, c'91, daughter Leah Elizabeth, Nov. Blake Joshua, Feb. 14 in Chicago. Michael is a I I in Lawrence. MARRIED management consultant with PriceWater- Maribeth Portz, b'95, and David Wanek, houseCoopers. 1994 b'95, Dec. 3 I in Kansas City. Maribeth is regional James Bridges, c'92, and Katy, son, James, Aug. Elaine Barkley-Lueders, j'94, manages pro- manager of Shaw & Hren Surety Bond Agents, 21 in Vernon, Calif, where James is a sales rep- duction art for Sandy, Inc. in Lenexa. and David studies law at Santa Clara University resentative with LA. Specialty Produce. Daniel Bednarczyk, c'94, has a dental prac- in Santa Clara, Calif. Timerra Haas Olmsted, b'92, and James, tice in Kansas City. Jenny Shields, h 95, and Robert O'Brien, son,Tyler James, Aug. 26 in Salina. Catherine Bowdern Gorman, c'94, and her '89, Oct. 2 in Wea.They live in rural Paola. Stacey, e 92, and Shanna Hill Winger, d 93, husband, George, c'95, make their home in Corey Taylor, c'95, b'95, l'98, and Joseph son, Alexander James, Sept. 20 in Arlington, Prairie Village. Ziegler, c'96, Oct. 2 in Prairie Village. She Texas, where he joins a sister Mikayla, 4. Stacey Jeremy, '94, and Janette Phelps Kornis, practices law with Blackwell Sanders Peper is a senior computing engineer at Bell Heli- f 94, live in Shawnee with their children, Martin in Kansas City, and he works for copter and Shanna teaches sixth grade in Zachary, who's almost 3, and Gabrielle, I. Lockton Companies. Kennedale. Jeremy is a mechanical draftsman with Barnes and Dodge. BORN TO: 1993 Matthew O'Connor, c'94, practices law with Cindy Travnicek Hollinger, e'95, and Eric, Megan Shoup Brown, b'93, g'94, and her Polsinelli, White in Overland Park. c'97, daughter, Ashley Elizabeth, Nov. 2. Cindy is husband, Craig, c'94, j'94, live in Prairie Village a consultant for WGK & Associates in Overland with their daughter; Bridget Ann, I. Wayne Riley, b'94, is controller for Home- town Physicians. He lives in Mission. Park and Eric is a supervisor at Kantel.They live Robin Juris Buzzell, c'93, is regional director in Lawrence. of AMLI Residential in Chicago. Annie Simonich, j'94, is regional sales manager for Cable One in Joplin, Mo. Daniel Deaver, e'93, manages projects for 1996 Kristie Taylor, b'94, directs business develop- Lembeck & Associates in Overland Park. Christy Cain,j'96, works for the Kansas ment for Clinmark.com, and her husband, Victor David Harris, c'93, manages category devel- Department of Transportation in Topeka. Burns, manages product marketing for Quan- opment for Unilever in Eden Prairie, Minn. tum Magnetics.They live in Carlsbad, Calif, and Jana Blackburn Calkins, j 96, is executive Lance Johnson, e'93, g'94, is president of the celebrated their first anniversary May 6. producer of evening newscasts at WDAF-TV Peridian Group in Lawrence, where Jennifer in Kansas City. She and her husband,Troy, live Thompson Johnson, c'94, coordinates events MARRIED in DeSoto. for the Kansas Union. Eric Mikkelson, l'94, to Margo Losey, March Julie Klinock Cortes, j'96, a free-lance copy- Sean Kentch, c'93, received an MBA last l8.They live in Kansas City, and Eric practices writer; is active in the Kansas City Advertising spring from Old Dominion University. He's a law with Shook, Hardy & Bacon. Club. She lives in Overland Park. U.S. Navy intelligence department head in Kellee Farmer, c'96, works as a legislative Chesapeake, Va. BORN TO: assistant for U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kan., in Britt Miller, b'93, works as a senior product Stephen Caruthers, b'94, and Carrie, daugh- Washington, D.C. analyst for Sprint in Kansas City. ter Kiersten Leigh, Dec. 28 in Shawnee, where Kristin Hoffman, b'96, received a master's of John Mullies, b'93, h'97, is a microbiology Stephen is an investment advisory analyst with landscape design earlier this year from Louisiana product specialist for Cerner in Kansas City. American Century Investments. State University. She lives in Durham, N.C.,

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where she works for the landscape architecture Amanda Traughber, j'97, toTheoden Janes, MARRIED firm of Haden-Stanziale. Dec. l8.They live in Alexandria,Va., and they Brian Runk, s'98, to Kristen Spohn, Nov. 20. John Mclntyre, g'96, works for the U.S. both work for the Washington Post. They're both social workers in Lawrence. Department of State in Washington, D.C. Nicholas Mizell, c'96, TOO, practices law with BORN TO: 1999 Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City. He and Natasha Brown Chung, g'97, PhD'OO, and Anthony Johnson, j'99, works for Interwerk. Lisa Miller Mizell, b'92, live in Olathe with Il-Kyung, son, Isaac Alexander; Aug. 17 in Milton, He lives in Lawrence. their son, Andrew, I. Wash., where Natasha is a psychology post- Rachel Wiese, c'99, writes copy at Bloomberg Laura Wedel Zellers, b'96, g'97, is an internal doctoral fellow at the Child Study and Treat- in Princeton, N.J. auditor at Wichita State University, and her ment Center Marion Kincaid Wilson, s'99, directs residen- husband, Jeremy, b'96, works for Ferguson Martin Maxwell, d'97, and Laura, daughter tial life at United Methodist Homes in Topeka. Enterprises. Molly Kathleen, Feb. 9 in Visalia, Calif., where she Adam Yarbrough, j'99, recently was named joins a sister; Madison, 4. MARRIED assistant account executive at CCI Publications Odie Brant Porter, g'97, and Robert, assoc, & Marketing Communications in Kansas City. Michael Enenbach, c'96, and Amanda daughter, Olivia Gawehnidi, Oct. 21 in Anita Poe Wiley, s'98, and her husband, Hostetler, c'96, Nov. 27,They live in Kansas Lawrence. Odie directs budget management Robert, recently adopted a boy, Robert Wiley, City, where they're both fourth-year medical and fiscal services at KU, where Robert is a who was born Nov. 18.They live in Ottawa, and students at the KU Medical Center professor of law. their family includes two daughters, Brittany, 6, Amy Goodrum, n'96, to William Mott, Feb. and Mia, 2. 26 in Treasure Cay, Abaco, the Bahamas.They 1998 live in Wellington. Patrick Brown, c'98, works as an account 2000 Denise Knipp, n'96, to Gregory Weiss, Feb. 19 executive for Broadwing. He and Cassandra Carey Pittman, g'00, is an early childhood teacher atTroost Communications School in in Salina, where she's a nurse practitioner at Eanes Brown, c'00, live in Lawrence. Smoky Hill Family Practice. Kansas City. Heather Good Giese, j'98, is an Internet Phoebe Smith, c'00, studies for a doctorate marketing consultant forThomson Newspapers BORN TO: in physiology and neurobiology at the Univer- in Valdosta, Ga. sity of Connecticut-Storrs. Amy Hartman Sexton, c'96, and Chris, Kimberly Green, a'98, e'98, works as daughter, Jena Elizabeth, Feb. 7 in Parker Colo. an application engineer at GPW Lighting Amy is a personal banker with First Bank Hold- BORN TO: in Lawrence. ing Co. in Littleton. Owen, f 00, and Kathryn Hicks Oliver, 01, Gary Kluczykowski, p'98, lives in Topeka with son,Jonathon David, Oct. I.They live in 1997 Karen Hare Kluczykowsi, p'92. He's a phar- Lawrence, and Owen is an art director for Jennifer Carlson, j'97, writes a sports column macist at Walgreen's, and she's a pharmacist Valentine Radford in Kansas City. for the Daily Oklahoman. She lives in Norman. with Blue Cross Blue Shield. Cheryl Hagemann, l'97, practices law with Raechelle Manis, c'98, works for Andrews Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Houston. McMeel Publishing in Kansas City. School Codes Letters that follow names in Kansas Alumni indicate the school Michael Mills, c'97, makes his home in St. Debra Oehmke, s'98, does community men- from which alumni earned degrees. Numbers Paul, Minn. tal health care at Family Consultation Service show their class years. Kristin Gernon Olson, c'97, is a clinical social in Wichita. a School of Architecture and Urban Design worker at Astor Day Treatment Center in Julie Whitmer Rabe, h'98, and her husband, b School of Business Bronx, N.Y. She and her husband, Kevin, c'96, Jeremy, live in Dodge City, where she's a med- c College of Liberal Arts and live in Brooklyn, and he practices law in New ical technologist at Western Plains Regional Sciences York City. Hospital.They celebrated their first anniversary d School of Education Nathan Orr, c'97, works as an associate in June 5. e School of Engineering the St. Louis, Mo., law firm of Spencer, Fame, f School of Fine Arts Iris Rosenthal, c'98, works as a field Britt & Browne. g Master's Degree representative for United Jewish Communities h School of Allied Health Susie Wilcox, c'97, leads trips for Backroads, in Chicago. School of Journalism an active travel company specializing in biking j 1 School of Law and hiking vacations based in Berkeley, Calif. Lewis Toland, PhD'98, is an associate profes- m School of Medicine She travels year-round. sor of English at the New Mexico Military Insti- tute in Roswell. n School of Nursing School of Pharmacy MARRIED Nichole Jeter Wheeler, b 98, makes P s School of Social Welfare James Plesser, j'97, and Leslie Taylor, j'97, her home inTulsa, Okla., with her husband, DE Doctor of Engineering Oct. 24 in KU's Danforth Chapel.They live in Jonathan, c'96. She works for Cisco-Eagle, DMA Doctor of Musical Arts Los Angeles, where he coordinates advertising and he teaches social studies at Nimitz EdD Doctor of Education for Warner Bros. Pictures. Middle School. PhD Doctor of Philosophy Lindsay Stratton, b'97, to Roger McClellan, Janice Willis, j'98, lives in Omaha, where she (no letter) Former student Aug. 7.They live in Wichita, and she's a CPA works at the University of Nebraska Medical assoc;. Associate member of the Alumni Association with Chance Industries. Center's department of public affairs.

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The Early Years Mildred Grady Ward, c'29,94, Feb. 5 in Architects. Surviving are his wife, Shirley Jones Donna Smyser Adams, c'27,94, Jan. 25 in Philadelphia. She taught English in Wichita and Mann, c'36; a son, Robert, f'70; two grandchil- Greenville, Miss. She worked as a translator in Lebanon and is survived by a daughter, Phyllis dren; and a great-grandchild. the foreign department at General Mills and is Ward Hettinger, b'54; two grandchildren; and Kenneth Meuser, c'31,90, Feb. 16 in Spring- survived by two daughters, four grandchildren two great-grandchildren. field, Mo. He lived in Monett and was publisher and two great-grandchildren. of the Monett Times and the Lawrence County 1930s Julia Hamilton Blair, c'29,92, April 2 in La Record of Mount Vernon. He is survived by his H. Lee Barry, c'39, m'44, 87, Jan. 31 in Las Jolla, Calif. A son, 13 grandchildren and 15 great- wife, Mary, two sons, a daughter; four grandchil- Cruces, N.M., where he was a retired physcian. grandchildren survive. dren and a great-grandson. His wife, Wilma Medlin Barry, d'42, survives. Kenneth Moses, b'38,1*41, 82, Jan. 30 in Meldon White Glenn,'22, 100, March 2 in Elva Ottman Bowlus, c'39, 81, Nov. 14, and Topeka. He practiced law in Marysville for 40 Boise, Idaho. She lived in Kansas City for many Thomas Bowlus, b'38, 84, Dec. 28 in years before retiring, and he was a lay minister years and is survived by a daughter, Patricia Bartlesville, Okla. She was a retired dietician and He is survived by his wife, Monreve; a daughter; Glenn Insko, c'5 I, c'53; six grandchildren; and 14 he was a retired vice president of Smith Barney a sister; Winifred Moses Hurley, c'37; three great-grandchildren. Harris Upham.They are survived by a son, grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. Bessie Bryan Hayes, c'28, 93, April 4 in St. Thomas, m'78, and two daughters. Otis Mumaw, g'38, 89, Feb. 3 in Kansas City, Joseph, Mo. She lived in Troy and is survived by Dorothy Arnold Brown, c'33, 87, Jan. 8 where he was a retired music teacher and for- a newphew. in Great Barrington, Mass. She was a social mer district manager for Schulmerich Handbells. worker and later owned and operated a book- Justin Hill, c'26,94, Jan. 26 in Lawrence, He is survived by his wife, Mary Lucile, two store in Stonington, Conn. Several nieces and where he was president of Lawrence Paper and stepsons, five grandchildren and two great- nephews survive. vice president of Bowersock Mills and Power. grandchildren. He is survived by four sons, David, c'56, Justin Jr., A.G."Jug" Carter Jr., b*32, March 4 in Margaret Coutant Proctor, c'36, 82, Jan. c'66, Stephen, c'59, and Alan, c'61, g'65; 10 Phoenix. He owned Carter's Bakery in Kansas 29 in Augusta. She is survived by her husband, grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. City. Surviving are his wife, Eleanor Higgins Carter '34; five daughters, one of whom is Joan Warren, e'36; a son, Robert, c'59, m'63; three Ora Parsons Keeler, c'24, 99, March I I Carter Morgan, d'54; three sons; 22 grandchil- daughters, Elaine Proctor Cannon, c'65, Martha in Lawrence. She was a former teacher and dren; and 38 great-grandchildren. Proctor Riedl, e'78, and Anne Proctor Williams, is survived by a daughter, Barbara Keeler d'58; a brother, William Coutant, c'42, m'44; two Sallie Lillard Dibble,'31, March 23 in Sudlow, d'57; three grandchildren; and 10 sisters, Katherine Coutant Brazee, '39, and Bar- Kansas City. She lived in Topeka until moving to great-grandchildren. bara Coutant Cole, '53; I I grandchildren; and Kansas City last year. Survivors include two four great-grandchildren. Dorothy Koehring, c'2l, 101, Jan. I I in sons, Daniel, b'54, and Paul, b'58; a brother Cedar Falls, Iowa. She was on the faculty at Thomas Lillard, c'43; seven grandchildren; and Marian Fitzwater Rankin, b'34, 87, March Iowa State Teachers College from 1933 to 1970 20 great-grandchildren. 31 in Philiipsburg. She is survived by a daughter; and later was regional training officer for the a son, David, p'63; four grandchildren; and six Mary Wilson Drew, c'39, c'40, 87, Sept 23 Iowa Head Start program. A nephew survives. great-grandchildren. in Indianapolis.Two daughters, a brother and Edith Martin, c'25, 95, Jan. 24 in Wichita, five grandchildren survive. Georgia Reuter, d'38, 84, Jan. 2 in Topeka, where she was a retired physical education where she taught elementary school music and Gustave Ediger, g'39,92, Feb. 14 in Newton. teacher A sister, Ruth Martin Weber, c'28, sur- was a special music consultant for USD 501 He was retired chairman of the science depart- vives. ment at Appleton High School in Appleton, before retiring. John Orr, '29,94, March 22 in Conway Wis.Three brothers and a sister survive. Katherine Kenyon Stewart, g'38,90, Jan. 6 Springs, where he farmed and worked in the Dorothy Tedlock Groneweg, d'30,90, Oct. in Smith Center where she was a retired aircraft industry. A son, two daughters, 10 10 in Santa Rosa, Calif, where she was a retired teacher Three sons, a daughter eight grandchil- grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and three educator and an artist. A daughter and two dren and two great-grandchildren survive. great-great-grandchildren survive. sons survive. Nelson Sullivan, c'39, 84, Jan. 28 in Baytown, Modena Porter Pitman, '28,92, Feb. 8 in Mary Nottingham Herrick, d'32,95, Texas. He had lived in Pasadena and owned Emporia. She taught music, piano, voice and March I I in Lawrence, where she was a retired Gulf Wire Rope. He is survived by his wife, home economics. Surviving are a son; two teacher Three brothers survive, two of whom Doris, three sons, a daughter I I grandchildren daughters, one of whom is Francia Pitman are Jonathan Nottingham, c'31, g'32, and James and five great-grandchildren. Goltz, d'64; seven grandchildren; and two great- Nottingham, e'40. James Sund, b'39, 82, Feb. 3 in Shawnee Mis- grandchildren. Oliver Johnson, c'34, 87, March 21 in Belling- sion. He worked for manufacturing companies Mary Hoge Starrett, d'26, 95, Jan. 30 in ham.Wash. He was a chemical engineer for and later for the U.S. Department of Energy. He Kansas City, where she taught at Barstow Mobil Oil for many years and is survived by a is survived by two sons, a daughter, a sister and School for 25 years. She is survived by a son, a son; a daughter; two brothers, one of whom is five grandsons. niece and a nephew. Enoch, c'36, m'38; two grandchildren; and two Raymond Watson Jr., '39, 81, Jan 20 in Margaret Brown Torrey, c'20, 104, March great-grandchildren. Honolulu. He lived in Kansas City, where he was 25 in Laurie, Mo. She had been an interior dec- Robert Kaul, l'35, 88, March I 3 in Topeka, a retired insurance broker. Among survivors are orator in Kansas City until retiring at the age of where he was a former Kansas Supreme Court his wife, Sarah, three sons, a sister and three 88. Among survivors are a son, Philip, '45; two justice. He is survived by a son, Fred, c'62; two grandchildren. daughters, one of whom is Judith Torrey Turner, grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. William Wilson, c'33, 89, Feb 29 in c'50; 10 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchil- Robert Mann, a'32,90, Feb. 15 in Hutchin- Rockville, Md. He was retired deputy assistant dren. son, where he had owned Mann and Company comptroller general for the General Accounting

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Office. Survivors include his wife, Gabriella, a George "Will" Frank, e'47, 76, Feb. 20 in physician. A son, a daughter, a brother and four son and a stepdaughter. Houston, where he helped found Houston Oil grandchildren survive. Joseph Young, c'37, 84, Jan. 20 in La Jolla, International and served as vice president of Jean Mansur, c'46, 75, Feb. 18 in Bethesda, Calif, where he was a retired Episcopal vicar Tenneco's international division. He is survived Md. She had been assistant director for regula- Surviving are his wife, Dorothy, two sons, a by his wife, Elaine Wells Frank, c'47; two daugh- tory affairs at the Federal Drug Administration daughter a sister; three grandchildren and five ters; two sisters; and four grandchildren. Bureau of Drugs. Several cousins survive. great-grandchildren. Merle Gentry, '49,76, Feb. 4 in Lawrence, Milton Noltensmeyer, m'4l, 84, Feb. 12 in where he was a real-estate agent. He is sur- Lenexa, where he was a retired physician. He is 1940s vived by his wife, Jo Anne Baumgardner Gentry, survived by four sons, a daughter and eight Esther Jones Alford, '45, 76, Jan. 23 in Eudo- assoc; three daughters, two of whom are grandchildren. ra. She lived in Lawrence and had owned a Camillia, c'72, and Marsha Gentry Hesany, n'84; Jeanne Holman Quesenbury, n'48, 74, dairy farm with her late husband. Four daugh- three sons, two of whom are Brian, c'83, and Feb. 29 in Lee's Summit, Mo. She lived in Leav- ters, six grandchildren and three great-grand- Clinton, e'83;two sisters, one of whom is Nila enworth and was a retired associate professor children survive. Gentry Harmon, c'46; and eight grandchildren. in the KU School of Nursing. Her husband, F. Owen Ambler, e'49, Oct. 18 in San Antonio. Marilyn "Sissy" McClure Graves, '49,72, Dale, survives. Three sons survive. March 31 in El Dorado. She was a sculptor Joyce Platt Reed, c'40, 81, Feb 16 in San Rosamond Barland, c'40, 81, March 20 in Surviving are a son, Courtney, c'75; a daughter, Diego, where she was a retired social worker Lemon Grove, Calif. She had been an adminis- Kathryn Graves Kraft, d'73; a brother; and She is survived by her husband, William, '42; trator in the civil service and the private sector two grandchildren. two sons; a brother; and three grandchildren. and is survived by four sisters and four broth- George Grist, b'42,1*53, 80, Jan. 19 in Wichi- Walter Seeley Jr., b'49, 76, Feb 17 in Par ers, two of whom are Jerome, d'57, g'58, and ta, where he was a retired attorney and CEO sons, where he was in the insurance business. Raymond, '38. of the Wichita Disabled American Veterans He is survived by his wife, Betty Jane; two sons, Thrift Stores. A memorial has been established Arden Booth, '41, 88, March 10 in Lawrence, one of whom is Michael, m'78; and a brother. with the Williams Fund. He is survived by a where he founded KLWN-FM, which later Georgia Shideler, g'42, 84, Oct. 26 inTope- daughter, Joyce Grist Evans, j'68; two brothers, became KLZR. He had been a Kansas state sen- ka, where she taught music. A memorial has one of whom is Warren, e'49; four sisters; three ator and had served on the board of the been established with the KU Endowment grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. William Allen White Foundation. Surviving are a Association. Several cousins survive. son, Hank, j'70; a daughter; a brother; three Kenneth Harden, b'42,79, Jan. 18 in Chilli- Victor Stark, '41, 80, March I 6 in Coldwater grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. cothe, Mo., where he founded the CPA firm of He was a farmer; a flight instructor and a for- Keith Bunnel, b'46, Dec. 28 in Pittsburgh, Pa., Harden, Cummins, Moss and Miller He is sur- mer member of the Kansas House of Repre- where he was retired vice chairman of Ameri- vived by his wife, Gloria; a daughter; two sons; sentatives. Two daughters, five grandchildren and can Standard. He is survived by his wife, Joan, a two stepdaughters, one of whom is Deborah I I great-grandchildren survive. son, a daughter; a sister and four grandchildren. Langdon Blinn, c'76, c'77, h'77; and 10 grandchil- Robert Stroud, c'48, 76, March 22 in Hicko- dren. John "Jack" Burns, '47,76, March 31 in ry, N.C. He had a dental practice inTopeka and Wichita, where he was a retired insurance David Harman, c'48,76, March 18 in had been executive secretary of Regional Den- executive. He is survived by his wife, Katherine Smithville, Mo. He lived in Kansas City, where he tal Testing Service. He is survived by his wife, Josephine; two daughters; a son; a brother, Her- Hoag Burns, '50; a son, Don, c'79; a daughter; a was a retired merchandising manager at Hall- schel, c'52; and two grandchildren. sister; a stepsister; and two grandchildren. mark Cards. He is survived by his wife, Mary, two daughters and three grandchildren. J. Milton Sullivant, c'40, l'42, 82, March 22 Granville "Mac" Bush, b'42, l'48,79, April in Lawrence. He was a U.S. bankruptcy judge 7 in Lyons. He practiced law for 50 years and is Richard Howery, e'48, Jan. 16 in Mor- and a U.S. magistrate. He is survived by his wife, survived by his wife, Letha Epperly Bush, '43; restown, N.J. He was an electrical engineer and Doris, assoc; a daughter; Mary Sullivant Zeller, two sons, Granville, c'70, l'73, and John, c'77; a is survived by his wife, Phyllis, four daughters and four grandchildren. n'65, g'92; a son, Patrick, s'75, s'99; a stepson; a daughter; Helen Bush Frick, c'66, g'74; and stepdaughter; a sister; two brothers; four grand- seven grandchildren. Doris Hodson Hupe, c'43, 79, Feb 8 in children; and four stepgrandchildren. Perry, where she was a teacher; a farmer and a Edsel Crawford, c'49, s'55, 76, Jan. 25 in DelsonThelen, b'40, 8 I, April 5 in Belton, Stow, Ohio. He was retired director of group partner in Hupe Farms. She is survived by a son, Dennis, b'73; a daughter, DeAnn Hupe Seib, Mo., where he was a former accountant. He is life services at Summit County Children's Ser- survived by his wife, Betty; a daughter; a son; a c'80; two brothers, one of whom is Roger Hod- vice and had been a Red Cross volunteer He is stepdaughter; a stepson; a sister; Frances Thelen son, c'41, l'50; and four grandchildren. survived by his wife, Betty, three sons, a sister; a Coon, c'47; three grandchildren; and two stepbrother and six grandchildren. Ralph Lassen, '40, 81, March 19 in Atchison. grandchildren. He operated Lassen Grocery Store in Musco- Herman Easterly Jr., e'49, 79, July 19 in St. Floyd Thuston, d'49, Jan. 14 in Shawnee Mis- tah for many years and was an egg inspector Louis, Mo.. He had been a petroleum explo- sion. He lived in Chanute, where he was a for the state. ration geologist and a U.S. Air Force geodesist. retired pastor of the Church of God in Christ. He is survived by his wife, Kanza, a daughter; Robert Lee, b'46, l'49, Dec. I 3 in Wichita, Survivors include his wife, Roberta Dorcas two sons and three grandchildren. where he was a CPA. Survivors include his wife, Thuston, assoc; four sons, one of whom is Geraldine Humphrey Ewing, c'44, 77, Feb. Katherine Langston Lee, '35; three sons; two of Nathaniel, d'88, g'00; five daughters; a sister; and 6 in Wichita. She is survived by her husband, whom are Eugene, c'63, and Lonnie, c'70; and 22 grandchildren. Dale, c'44, m'46; two sons.Thomas, d'73, and a grandson. Ruth Krehbiel Trachsel, c'44, 76, July 26 in Gerald, j'75; a daughter; a sister; Laura Moyne Lichlyter, c'40, m'43, 80, Dec 17 in Gladstone, Mo. She is survived by her husband, Humphrey Owens, c'37; and two grandchildren. Santa Barbara, Calif, where he was a retired Merle; three daughters; two sisters, Sally Kre-

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hbiel Lees, c'47, and Dena Krehbiel Motley, c'37; Metro Transit Among survivors are a daughter; Francisco and is survived by three brothers, one eight grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. two sons and two sisters. of whom is Bill, c'46, and a sister James VanBiber, m'44, March 9 in Indepen- Helen Bullock, f'51, 79, Feb. 18 in Topeka, George Hoffman, e'50, 77, March 19 in dence, Mo., where he was a retired pediatrician. where she was a retired occupational therapist. Prairie Village. He was a retired electrical engi- He is survived by his wife, Clara; four sons, A memorial has been established with the KU neer with Trans World Airlines. Surviving are his three of whom are James, c'67, John, m'88, and Endowment Association.Two nieces and a wife, Virginia; a son, Richard, e'82; a daughter, Joseph, m'85; two daughters; a stepson; two nephew survive. Carol Hoffman Schoedinger, b'82; a brother; stepdaughters; a sister Darlene VanBiber Wight, Frank Byam, e'51, 69, March 17 in Indepen- and three grandchildren. c'48, g'52; I 3 grandchildren; five stepgrandchil- dence. He founded Byam Engineering and is Suzann Kinkead, c'53, 68, March 6 in dren; and seven great-grandchildren. survived by his wife, Gloria; two sons; two Atlanta. She had worked for Continental Oil Robert Walker, b'48, 81, March 28 in daughters; a sister; Betty Byam Hartmeyer, f'50; and for DuPont Oil. A brother and a sister Albuquerque, N.M. He divided his time and 14 grandchildren. survive. between homes in Casper; Wyo., and Tucson, Yvonne Robb Eckert, f'56, g'77, 65, March Richard Lolley, p'55, PhD'61, 66, April 3 in Ariz., and had worked forTexaco. His wife, 14 in Hesston. She taught art at Osawatomie Pasadena, Calif. He had been a neuroscientist Annetta, survives. and Halstead high schools before retiring in and associate dean for scientific affairs at the J.J."Joe" Weigand, g'46, PhD'59, 87, March 1994. Survivors include a son; three brothers; University of Southern California and had taught at UCLA, where he chaired the anatomy 23 in Empona. He was a former music teacher her father; her mother; Martha Perkins Robb, department, for 30 years. His research on mol- and retired alumni director at Emporia State d'68; and a grandchild. ecules crucial to vision helped to found the University. Survivors include his wife, Catheryn; Gene Elstun, c'57, 64, March 30 in Overland field of neurochemistry. Survivors include his a son, F.J., f'65, d'66; two daughters; a sister; Park, where he was a manufacturers represen- wife, Cheryl; three daughters; two sons; two sis- eight grandchildren; and seven great-grand- tative in the golf industry. He is survived by his ters, one of whom is Ellen Lolley Rangel, n'77; children. wife, Nancy; two sons, one of whom is Douglas, and a brother Harold Wilson Jr., c'40,1*42, March 19 in c'92; a daughter, Pamela, c'97; his mother; a brother; Bill, e'62, g'64; and two grandchildren. Elizabeth Stephenson Lorimer, d'50, 70, Fort Worth,Texas. He was retired president of Nov. 24 in Lacey, Wash. She is survived by her Phyllis Fangman, c'54, 71, April 6 in Scotts- the former Community Bank & Trust in Enid, husband, Wayne, three daughters and four dale, Ariz., where she had been a medical tech- Okla., and is survived by his wife, Kay, three grandchildren. sons, three daughters and 14 grandchildren. nologist and a high school biology teacher Her mother; a brother and a sister survive. Duane Malmstrom, g'51,75, Feb. 19 in Emerson Voder, m'49, 86, March 28 in Salina. He was retired principal of Maize Junior Overland Park. He practiced family medicine in Edward George,'58, 66, Jan. 19 in Mesquite, High School.Two brothers and a sister survive. Denton for 40 years and is survived by two Nev. He had been a general manager and a James McMechan, c'58, 63, Feb. 14 in sons, one of whom is Roger c'79; a daughter, partner in the Snowbridge Square Liquor Store Lawrence, where he practiced medicine. He is Pamela Yoder Wilson, n'75; a brother; three sis- in Copper Mountain, Colo. Survivors include his survived by his wife, Mary Griswold McMechan, ters; and two grandchildren. wife, Shirley, a daughter; two sons, a sister, a brother and two grandchildren. d'58; a daughter, Jeanne McMechan, s'92; a son, James, c'81; a sister; six grandchildren; and a 1950s Jerry Hall, d'55, 66, March 5 in Wichita. He great-grandchild. Fletcher Bell, b'57,70, Feb. I 8 in Rogers, lived in Pratt and was a retired teacher A Michael McNalley, c'53, m'56, 68, Jan. 25 in Ark. He lived in Bella Vista. He had been Kansas memorial has been established with the KU Newport Beach, Calif, where he founded the insurance commissioner for many years and is Endowment Association. He is survived by his cardiology department at Hoag Hospital. He is survived by his wife, Mona; a son, Steven, c'78, wife, Dorothy; three daughters, Susan Hall Tar- survived by his wife, Sharon; two daughters; PhD'85; a daughter, Nancy Bell Kincaid, d'99, water; d'78, Julie Hall Oliver; d'81, and Janis Hall three sons; a sister; Mary McNalley Medlock, '5 I; g'00; and four grandsons. Arnold, h'81; his mother; a brother; a sister; and and I I grandchildren. nine grandchildren. Robert Bell, e'55, Jan. 29 in Houston, where William Meyers Jr., b'52, 70, March 26 in he was a retired vice president of operations Mary Clardy Hanna, '52, 69, Jan. 14 in Dal- Kansas City, where he was credit and accounts at Halliburton/Texstream. He is survived by las. She is survived by a son; a sister; Patricia receivable manager at Puritan-Bennet.Two sis- his wife, Norma, a son, a daughter and three Clardy Beck, f'49; and a granddaughter ters survive. grandsons. Margaret Smith Hanscom, '55, 81, March J.Wilson "Bill" Nance, c'51, 70, April 6 in I in Sun City West, Ariz. She is survived by her Fredd Bennett, c'50, 74, Jan. 22 in Wichita. Shawnee Mission. He was a consultant for the husband, Daniel, four daughters, a son, a broth- He had been a drywall taper and a high school American College of Radiology. A memorial has er, a sister and 13 grandchildren. teacher. Surviving are his wife, Shirley, a son, been established with the KU Endowment three daughters, two brothers, a sister and nine Ann Nichols Hanslip, j'59, 62, Dec 15 in Association. He is survived by his wife, Martha grandchildren. Poulsbo.Wash. Surviving are a son; two daugh- Thomson Nance, c'78; a daughter, Patricia Roy Bennett, l'54, 70, April I I in Overland ters, Jill Hanslip Miller; j'87, Kathie Hanslip Nance Slentz, d'75; three sons, two of whom Park. He practiced law for many years and was Swartz, c'89; and five grandchildren. are Charles, e'78, and Paul, b'80, g'82; a brother; active in community affairs. He is survived by Nathan Harris Jr., '55, 66, March 14 in La Howard, e'61; and four grandchildren. his wife, Karon; three daughters, two of whom Cygne, where he worked in the insurance busi- Sylvia Nelson, g'55,9 I, Dec. 26 in Topeka, are Laura Bennett Brown, b'79, and Dorothy ness and had served as mayor. He is survived where she directed elementary education for Bennett Hiatt, d'82; a son; and 12 grandchildren. by his wife, D.D., two sons, two daughters, two the school district for 23 years. A brother and a Russell Briscoe, e'51,74, Nov. 14 in Sno- brothers and five grandchildren. nephew survive. homish.Wash. He lived in Seattle and had been Donald Helm, d'51,72, Jan. 26 in Hutchin- Glenn Peer, g'55, 88, April II in Wichita. He an engineer for Boeing and a transit planner for son. He had been a school social worker in San was a teacher; coach, principal and former state

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auditor for the Kansas Department of Educa- Fred "Buck" Wilcox, b'50,73, March 19 in James Meikle, EdD'66, 72, Jan. 30 in Spring- tion.Two sons, two daughters, two brothers, Norman, Okla. He lived in Navarre Beach, Fla., field, Mo. He was a professor emeritus of nine grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren and was retired vice president and general speech and theater at the College of the survive. manager of United Gas Improvement. A broth- Ozarks in Point Lookout. Survivors include his Pansy Dent Penner, '57,95, April 6 in er and a sister survive. wife, Dora; a daughter; Michelle, f'79; three stepsons; a stepdaughter; and five grandchildren. Eudora. She taught school and wrote newspa- Iva Rothenberger Wirth, d'50,74, Jan 27 per columns for local papers. A son, a sister, two in Osborne, where she was retired after a 45- Ronald Miller, e'68,55, April 7 in Overland grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and year career teaching music. She is survived by Park. He worked for Hunt Midwest Realty and eight great-great-grandchildren survive. three sisters, two of whom are Lucile Rothen- had previously been a project engineer for Felix "Phil" Pileggi, e'51,73, Feb. 28 in berger Romine, f'46, and Joann Rothenberger Amoco Oil. Survivors include his wife, Reba Kansas City. He lived in Independence, Mo., and Sommerville, '52. Turner Miller; d'68; three sons; his parents; eight had owned an operated Pileggi Construction. brothers; and three sisters. He is survived by his wife, Maria, two sons, 1960s Darrell Myers Jr., '62, 60, Feb. 13 in Gardner, three daughters, a sister, seven grandchildren Leodies "Lee" Adams, d'69,53, Jan. 6 in where he was a former letter carrier A sister and a great-granddaughter. Bakersfield, where he was division director of Eileen Myers Hartman, n'47, survives. Milton Rubottom, p'51,75, Dec. 30 in Alma, educational support services at California State Ronald Reivich, m'65, 65, Feb. 3 in Indepen- where he operated Rubottom Pharmacy for University. He is survived by his wife, Barbara; a dence, Mo. He was on the staff at Menorah many years. A memorial has been established son; two daughters; a brother; and a grand- Medical Center from 1967 to 1995 and had with the KU Endowment Association.Two sons, daughter. been an associate professor at the KU Medical a daughter and four grandchildren survive. Byron Eaton, b'66, 56, March 4. He lived in Center. A son, four daughters and a brother Bill Sanders, '58, 64, March 12 in Topeka, Lambertville, Mich., and worked for Michigan survive. where he owned Topeka Typeshop and Sanders Consolidated Gas. Survivors include his wife, Ira "Bud" Williams, g'63, March 3 in Photocomposition. He is survived by his wife, Mary Lee France Eaton, d'67; a son; a daughter; Lawrence, where he had been a teacher and a Virginia Fleer Sanders, '58; two daughters; a son; a sister; a stepbrother; and his stepmother principal. He also owned Phoenix Painting. He is and eight grandchildren. Elizabeth Royse Fury, '60,72, March 2 in survived by his wife, Pat; two daughters, Allen Smith, e'58, 64, March I 3 in Paige, Salina. Several cousins survive. Suzanne Williams Peerbolte, c'82, and Elizabeth Texas. He was a colonel and vice president of Williams Alford, d'83; a son, Michael, j'80, g'91; Kenneth Gates, e'60, 62, Feb. 23 in Kansas his mother; and four grandchildren. area affairs with the U.S. Combined Training City. He had been an industrial engineer for 30 Association. He also had been associate direc- years before retiring. Surviving are his wife, 1970s tor of maintenance and operations at Lamar Patricia Sortor Gates, d'60; a son, Scott, c'88, Stephen Carey,'77,45, April 2 in Sachse, University in Beaumont. Surviving are his wife, l'91; two daughters, one of whom is Laura Christine, a daughter and three grandsons. Texas. He lived in Waco and was a salesman for Gates McQuitty, n'87; a brother; and four Lubrication Engineers. Among survivors are his Felix "Chic" Spies, e'50, g'62, 77, Feb. 8 grandchildren. father and a brother in Kansas City. He lived in Louisburg and David Greenlee, c'64, g'66, Feb. 19 in San had worked for Bendix for 35 years. He is Lee "Jack" Fent, m'70, 65, Feb. 7 in New- Diego. He had worked for Xerox, Digital Equip- survived by two daughters, one of whom is ton, where he was a pediatrician. He is survived ment and Qualcom. Surviving are his wife, Gail; Mary Spies Speckin, c'85, p'88; three sisters; by his wife, Cynthia Hill Fent, n'69; his parents; a son; a daughter; his mother; and a brother and seven grandchildren. and two sisters, Laura, c'94, l'98, g'98, and Lanya, Ronald, c'63. d'96, g'97. Brainerd Stocks Jr., h'52,76, March 17 in Herbert Hawkins, g'68, 61, Jan. 17 in Kansas Prairie Village, where he was retired from a Diana Girdley Fox, d'70, 65, Feb. 16 in City. He lived in Lyndon and had taught school career with Black & Veatch. He is survived by Lawrence, where she was a retired administra- and been a high school principal in Denton for his wife, Dorthea, and a sister tor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. many years. He is survived by his wife, Barbara She is survived by a daughter; three sons.Timo- Grace Thompson Swinton, g'5l, 74, Jan. 12 Kongs Hawkins, 76; two sons; two daughters, thy, c'85, Mark, c'79, and John, c'88; her father in Kansas City, where she worked for the public Kathleen, student; his father; two sisters; and a and stepmother; two brothers; and seven school district for more than 30 years. She is grandson. grandchildren. survived by a daughter; Lisa Swinton McLaugh- lin, student; a brother; and a sister Mary Heckman, g*61, PhD'66, 78, March 3 Marie Gardner, '77, April 9 in Dallas. She in Kansas City. She was the 1970 Missouri Med- lived in Wichita for many years and is survived HarlanVan Nice,'52,75, March 2 in ical Technologist of the Year and former presi- by a daughter a son, two grandchildren and a Lawrence, where he was plant superintendent dent of the Kansas City Society of Medical great-grandson. at Allen Press. He is survived by his wife, Technologists. A sister and a brother survive. Dorthea; a daughter Joan, c'85; a son, John, j'73; Paula Mollendorf Groseth, c'76, 67, March a brother; a stepbrother; a sister Dorothy Van Francis Kiene, '63, 73, Jan. 19 in South Bend, 9 in Pinehurst, N.C. Survivors include her hus- Nice Browning, c'44; a stepsister; and two Ind. He was a retired teacher and longtime band, Clark; three sons, Jeffrey Coey, c'78, Kevin grandchildren. commissioner of the Purdue University Basket- Coey, c'78, and Joel Coey, b'80; three daughters, ball Camp. He is survived by his wife, Karen, one of whom is Elizabeth Groseth Parris, c'83; a Bernice Larson Webb, c'56, g'57, PhD'61, two sons, three daughters, two sisters, 13 sister; and 10 grandchildren. March 19, 1999, in Lafayette, La, where she was grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. a professor of English and of creative writing. James Honan, c'78,44, Feb. 14 in Olathe.A She had written several books, including a biog- John Madden, l'62, 68, March 21 in Wichita, daughter, two sons and two sisters survive. raphy of James Naismith. Among survivors are a where he practiced law and had been judge Charles King, m'72, g'90, 52, Dec. 27 in daughter; a son; a sister, Lorraine Larson Dole, pro tern of the Sedwick County Juvenile Court. Worthington, Minn., where he was a physician. c'50, h'51; and a brother His wife, a son and a daughter survive. He taught at the KU Medical Center for many so] KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 IN MEMORY

years before moving to Minnesota. A memorial Elementary School and is survived by her hus- had been a volunteer with Big Brothers. He is has been established with the KU Endowment band, James, two daughters, a brother a sister survived by his father Ben, and two brothers. Association. He is survived by his wife, Mary and five grandchildren. Bradford Nickerson, c'97, 31, March 21 in Lynn, three sons, his mother, a sister and two Mark Holloway, c'83, 38, Jan. 7 in Los Ange- Overland Park. He worked for Hixon & Fiering granddaughters. les. He was a computer salesman for Pacific Rim Design and is survived by his father; his mother Patti Lampe, s'73, 52, Feb. 14 in Herington. Capital and had served in the Missouri House and stepfather; three brothers, one of whom is She had been a social worker and is survived of Representatives in the early 1990s. He is sur- David, c'95; and his grandparents. by two sons, a daughter her parents, a brother vived by his parents; a brother Michael, c'91; and and three sisters. his grandmother. Timothy Schwartz, '95,29, March 27. He lived in Topeka, where he was a test pilot and Judith McBride McCauley, d'70, 5 I, March Dawn Price, '82, 41, Jan. 30 in Lawrence, flight instructor. His parents, a sister and a 6 in Colorado Springs. She is survived by her where she was a machine operator at Hall- brother survive. husband, Charley, c'70, g'73, PhD74; a son; a mark. Survivors include her mother; a brother, daughter; three sisters, two of whom are Cyn- Michael Harris, 173; and three sisters. Jennifer Lowden Strawn, n'93, 29, Jan. 21 in thia McBride-Palmer, f 76, and Gail McBride Kansas City. She lived in Abilene and was a Mark Rafferty, c'82,41, Feb. 21 in Manhattan, Vest, h'79, h'81. nurse for Coram Health Care. Surviving are her where he was a restaurant manager. His parents Daniel Mott, c'74,46, Jan. 21 in Topeka. He survive. husband, John; a stepson; her father, Robert had been a pastor of churches in Onaga, Lowden, h'92; her mother; a brother; and a Earl Rooney, m'84, g'99,48, March 8 in Wheaton, Wells Creek and Alma. Surviving are stepgrandmother. Austin.Texas. He lived in Leawood and was his wife, JoAnn; three daughters; two sons; his father; a brother Steve, b'81; and two sisters, medical director at A-Tek Industries. Among The University Community one of whom is Julie Mott Nice, c'89. survivors are his wife; Anne Jones, m'86; a daughter; and a son. Ruth Dingus Fauhl, n'38, c'69, 84, Jan. 7 in Marjorie Hill Raney, d'70, Jan. 31 in Lansing, Topeka. She had been a nurse, a photographer Dean Schaake, c'84,43, March 31 in Derby, where she was retired from a 34-year teaching and a library assistant at KU from 1957 to where he was a self-employed independent career She also gave private piano lessons and 1987. A daughter Martha, c76, n'78, survives. had been organist for Pilgrim United Church of petroleum geologist. He is survived by his wife, Christ for more than 50 years. She is survived Sherri Stewart Schaake, d'81; two daughters; his Lewin Goff, 79, June 22 in Ardmore, Okla. by two sons, a daughter, two stepdaughters, a father, Ralph, d'43; his mother Helen Parr He was a professor and director of KU's Uni- stepson and two granddaughters. Schaake, '45; a brother Stanley, d'71; and a sister. versity Theatre from 1955 to 1967 and later taught at universities in Michigan, New York, James Schmidt, c'71, g'76, g'79, 57, March Fred Shields Jr., '81, 69, March 22 in Tucson, Texas, Wisconsin and Iowa. A memorial has I I in LeRoy. He served in the U.S. Navy, was a Ariz. He had taught band and orchestra at been established with the KU Endowment geologist in Russell and coached softball at Allen several junior high and high schools and at County Community College in lola. Surviving Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence. Association. He is survived by a daughter, are a daughter Gillian, n'95; and four brothers. Surviving are his wife, Rita; two daughters, one Wynne Goff Brochu, c'65; a son, Barclay, c'77; of whom is Linda Shields Ksiazek, d'79; and six a sister; and six grandchildren. Robert Welch, EdD'76,71, Jan. 27 in grandchildren. Overland Park. He was a teacher; counselor Richard Harp, '41,81, March 18 in Lawrence, and principal and is survived by his wife, Carol, Cathy McNicoll Tinsley, c'82, g'84,49, where he was KU's head men's basketball coach a daughter, two sons, a brother and five Jan. 14 in Kansas City. She lived in Lawrence from 1956 to 1964. During that time, he grandchildren. and was assistant director for the Kansas coached Wilt Chamberlain and led the Jay- Howard Zinn, '74,48, April 8 as a result of Department of Commerce's travel and tourism hawks to two conference titles and two NCAA injuries suffered in a bicyle accident April 6 in development division. Surviving are a daughter, Tournament berths. He also had been an assis- Palo Alto, Calif. He was an aerospace engineer Tina Tinsley Ison, c'94; her mother; a brother, tant to Dean Smith, d'53, basketball coach at with Lockheed Martin and is survived by his John McNicoll, c'7l;two sisters, Susan McNicoll, the University of North Carolina. A memorial wife, Janis, a son, a daughter, his parents, a c'76, and Cindy McNicoll, c'85; and two has been established with the KU Endowment brother and two sisters. grandchildren. Association. He is surived by his wife, Martha Sue Layne Harp, c'62, d'65; a son, Richard, c'67, 1980s 1990s g'71, PhD74; and four grandchildren. Vance Crummett, c'81,40, Feb. 25 in Den- llesh Abhir, '94,27, Feb. 18 in Hoyt, where ver He was a writing program educator at the he was self employed. His father is among Associates University of Colorado-Boulder Survivors survivors. Dean Baesel, 79, April 12 in Wichita. He include his wife, Cynthia, a daughter his mother, Joshua Copp, '95, 25, March 12 in Eugene, was retired district administrative manager his father and stepmother and a brother Ore., where he was a salesman for a frozen of the Aluminum Company of America. Katherine DeGrande, g'85,43, March 18 in meat company. He is survived by his parents, a Survivors include a son, Dean, c'72; a sister; Petaluma, Calif. She lived in Olathe and was vice sister, a brother and his grandparents. and two grandchildren. president of finance and chief financial officer at Robert Foresman, e'93, 30, Feb. 20 in Win- Research Medical Center in Kansas City. Her field, where he was a construction engineer for Catherine Urlass Gorton, 89, March 14 in parents and a brother survive. the Kansas Department ofTransportation. Sur- Lawrence. She is survived by a daughter, Judith Dale Ewing Jr., d'81, 46, Jan. 23 in Lawrence. viving are his wife, Laurel; his father, James, c'60; Gorton Parkinson, f'61; and two grandchildren. He is survived by his wife, Rachel, a daughter his his mother; and a brother Geraldine Reed McNeal, 96, March 8 in father, his mother a brother and three sisters. Steven Kozikowski, c'91, 33, Jan. 31 in Leawood, where she was a retired teacher Sur- Joanne Blossom Gantert, g'87, 65, March Prairie Village. He was active in numerous orga- vivors include two sons, one of whom is Dale, 15 in Shawnee Mission. She taught at Tomahawk nizations focusing on child development and e'61; and two granddaughters.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 SCHOOLWORK BY LAZZARINO & MACIEJOWSKI Know the score Athletics' diversity should be modeled across campus, education researchers find

ollege athletics gets its share of negative press, but ath- feel the same way." letics departments also possess a valuable asset that uni- The results of Wolf-Wendel and Morphews study appear in Cversity administrators would love to understand and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators' model, an asset more elusive than big-budget funding or publication, "Diversity on Campus: Reports From the Field." national recognition. Athletics departments have racial and Although they could not disclose the names of the schools they socioeconomic diversity that far exceeds the rest of university studied, the researchers say they were all Division I, represent- communities. ing the PAC-10, Atlantic 10, Big 12, ACC and Conference "Intercollegiate athletics get picked on a lot," says Lisa Wolf- USA. The study focused on football, men's and women's bas- Wendel, assistant professor of teaching and leadership. "We ketball, and men's and women's track and field. always notice when someone cheats or does something "We looked at the most obvious thing, race, but also at wrong—and some of it is deserved—but athletics also do a lot urban vs. suburban vs. rural upbringings, geographic back- of good things that don't get noticed." grounds, socioeconomic backgrounds," Morphew says. "We Wolf-Wendel and Christopher Morphew, assistant professor found that student-athletes are remarkably sophisticated at of teaching and leadership, worked with two colleagues to dealing with differences." observe five different athletics programs across the nation. Wolf-Wendel says the study has obvious relevance to today's Through a series of document reviews, focus groups and inter- college administrators. views with student-athletes, coaches and administrators, they "It's our natural inclination to be with people who make us concluded that college athletics often created successful com- feel comfortable," she says. "But we live in a society where munities that transcended differences in race, socioeconomic diversity is a reality. We need the skills to work with people status and geographic background. The study found that ath- who are different. Sports provide a wonderful opportunity to letics groups, some of the most diverse collections on college teach kids to find common goals and see beyond campuses, were generally successful at uniting students to stereotypes." "•"' work toward a common goal. Wolf-Wendells area of research is diversity in education. Morphews is athletics. The two united because they saw a convergence in their fields. "Where athletics is ahead of the curve," Mor- phew says, "is that the people involved realize that to build the best team, the team needs to be diverse. Administrators are beginning to develop that mindset, but they don't know where to start." Athletics is fertile ground for creating communities, he says, because meritocracy is clear-cut, interaction among participants is intense and frequent, and athletes share common goals of winning and have a common enemy and shared adversity. To create academic communities that are diverse both researchers say, administrators need to model the essential characteristics of athletics communities. Create a meritocracy that seems fair. Create a common experience, such as mandatory orienta- tion, that offers adversity and a common goal. "Students want to feel they matter," Wolf- Wendel says. "Student-athletes are engaged; they WINNING TEAM: Researchers Christopher Morphew and Lisa Wolf-Wendel say know their roles. Non-student-athletes need to that athletics departments are ahead of other university communities in successfully embracing diversity.

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ALLIED HEALTH lectures and dynamic teaching style, "I am honored and thrilled that retired in May. While Michel requested Deloitte & Touche has given the grant to Honored teacher listens that there be no special occasion planned KU in my honor," Kangas, b'66, g'67, to sounds in youngest ears to mark his departure, Gaunt could not says. "As a KU alumnus, it is important to resist the opportunity to honor the man me to contribute to the university's ability Tudith Widen came to KU from the Uni- he considers the most famous faculty to continue to develop excellent leaders J versity of Miami so she could study the member among 30 years of students. who are comfortable in the ever-globaliz- latest techniques designed to test hearing In April, Gaunt sent out requests to ing business world. I am so pleased in young children. A decade later, the alumni to contribute to a scholarship fund Deloitte & Touche chose to support KU testing techniques Widen studied—and in Michel's name that he hoped would and the future leaders it will produce." then helped perfect—mean newborns can become an endowed fund. The response The grant, marked specifically for the have their hearing tested even before leav- has been revealing of Michel's popularity, schools division of accounting and infor- ing the hospital. Gaunt says. mation systems, will support the Center "The trick with babies, obviously, is "Lou was a very passionate, very for International Business, an internship that they can't raise their hand when they knowledgeable teacher," Gaunt says. "I am program, a study abroad scholarship pro- hear a tone," says Widen, associate profes- constantly reminded of this as I meet gram, graduate fellowships and faculty sor of hearing and speech. "Now we have alumni of the school throughout the grants for research and teaching. a little device with a soft rubber tip that country. His students feel very strongly Kangas, who lives in New Canaan, fits in the ear canal and presents clicks, or about him. He's had a tremendous influ- Conn., joined the accounting firm Touche tones, into the ear. If the inner ear is ence on a large amount of students. I Ross, which later became Deloitte & working properly, it will produce a sound think creating an endowed scholarship in Touche, following his graduation from KU that I can measure with a little micro- his name is certainly an appropriate way in 1967. In May he received the School of phone. So when we get sounds back, we to honor him." Business Distinguished Alumni Award. know the ear is working properly." Gaunt says the school has already For her innovative scholarship, Widen raised nearly $7,000 in small contribu- ENGINEERING recently received the School of Allied tions from many alumni. It takes $10,000 Health's Stata Norton Distinguished to establish an endowed fund. Gaunt says Minority-group team rallies Teaching Award. Norton, a professor he is confident contributions will contin- for national conference tide emerita, was dean of allied health from ue to come in, and regardless of when the 1980 to 1990. scholarship becomes endowed, the first team of four KU engineering students Widen, whose research speciality is Lou Michel Scholarship will be rewarded Arecently became the school's first win- pediatric audiology, says hearing problems next spring. ner of the National Society of Black Engi- that go undetected can lead to language Michel taught history of architecture neers' Academic Technical Bowl. The development difficulties. By beginning and also was known nationally and inter- Jayhawks came from behind in the final treatment with hearing aids or language nationally as an expert on architectural round against the University of California- stimulation before the infant is 6 months lighting. His last lecture was attended by Berkeley to claim the championship at the old, Widen says, the child should be able Gaunt and several other faculty members. NSBE national conference last March in to develop language normally. "It was very poignant," Gaunt says. "I Charlotte, N.C. "The prognosis for super development find him inspiring." Michael Bell, Detroit senior; Judi Har- is great because these kids apparently are ris, Wichita junior; Jerrell Herod, not being handicapped [when treated very BUSINESS Lawrence junior; and Nicolas Johnson, early]," Widen says. "If you've got your Olathe junior, beat out five other NSBE language skills, you are going to do better Deloitte & Touche honors regional champions, including rivals in every aspect of life." chairman with KU fund Princeton University, the University of Kentucky and/UC-Berkeley to win the ARCHITECTURE hen Edward Kangas announced his bowl and a $1,000 prize for the school's Wretirement as chairman of Deloitte NSBE chapter. Retirement of a 'legend' & Touche's global organization, Deloitte "We were relaxed," Bell says, noting spurs scholarship donations Touche Tohmatsu, the firm honored the that this is only the second year KU has KU alumnus in a most appropriate way. competed. "We weren't nervous at all. We rchitecture Dean John Gaunt calls The firm gave $600,000 to the Endow- were just having fun." ALou Michel "a legend in his time." ment Association to create the Deloitte & In the championship round, the KU The professor of architecture, known by Touche/Ed Kangas Leadership Develop- students and faculty for his memorable ment Fund at the School of Business. Continued on page 55

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 SCHOOLWORK The once-reluctant leader After discovering joys of administration, Carlin rises to graduate school's deanship

iana Carlin says she accidentally fell into the role of graduate assistants," she says. "If you attract good graduate administrator. The seasoned professor of communica- students, you attract good faculty. One of the ways to do that Dtion studies never intended to enter higher educations is to have enough money for them so they don't need an extra complicated bureaucracy. job to support themselves, so they can conduct independent "But I noticed a lot of things affecting me as a teacher were research." because of the decisions of administrators," says Carlin, d72, Carlin also wants to attract a more diverse group of gradu- g'74. "And I was good at it. I was taught that if I have a gift, I ate students and emphasize preparing students for the profes- have the responsibility to use it." sion of academia, if that is the direction they wish to pursue, So Carlin found herself tackling tough administrative tasks, by sending them to more conferences and making them avail- first as the communication studies department chair, then as able for research service opportunities. But she also thinks it is acting associate provost for student support services and act- vital to educate students about all of their options. She plans ing assistant provost. On July 1, Carlin assumed her most to trace the destinations of all graduate students to illustrate prestigious position to date: dean of the University's Graduate the value of a graduate degree outside of traditional academic School and International Programs. settings. "I was obviously very pleased to find out I had gotten the "Not all of out graduates will end up at Research I universi- job," Carlin says. "I knew I had a good chance, but I also ties," Carlin says. "There are opportunities for research in the knew there were good private sector. Theories find their way into candidates." business." An internal search Finally, Carlin plans to improve the KU committee in April experience for part-time graduate students who • tapped Carlin to suc- are not on the track to become professors. ceed Andrew Debicki, "We need to give them better mentors, offer who had been dean classes at more convenient times," she says. since 1993. "We need to develop relationships with the "Dianas various outside sector, get more job placements for administrative experi- people who don't want to go into academia and ences in the Univer- not make those students feel like second-class sity have given her a citizens." solid perspective of Carlin's plans for international programs are the institution as a equally ambitious. She hopes to expand study whole, and this abroad scholarships, increase faculty interna- preparation will serve tional experience, develop international pro- her well," Provost grams in curriculum and bring more David Shulenburger international scholars to Lawrence. says. Carlin also will continue to teach and con- For the graduate duct her own research. At KU, she won the school, Carlin aims to University's prestigious WT. Kemper Fellow- increase the number ship for Teaching Excellence in 1999, an "Out- of graduate fellow- standing Educator" award in 1998, and the ships and increase College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' Graduate stipends for graduate ACCIDENTAL ADMINISTRATOR: Diana Carlin never Faculty Mentor Award in 1995. students. planned to be an administrator, but her talent as a problem-solver "I like problem-solving," Carlin says, "and "We can't do has made her an indispensable leader at the University. She that's what this is."^""" recently took over as dean of the Graduate School and Interna- research without tional Programs.

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Continued from page 53 "I introduced it as a new project to my "I don't know what would be the equal team accumulated 1,400 points by class every semester," Lazzarino says. of it," she says. "There have been so many answering 25 questions from five cate- "They had to come up with ideas and highlights for my students. There may be gories. UC-Berkeley finished with 1,300 planned events and see how much cover- a sense of historical perspective they've points. age they could get." gotten from doing it, but that may be too "Typical scores in any round are usu- After KU won the NCAA basketball lofty. Probably the thing I've heard the ally between 1,000 to 2,000 points," Bell championship in 1988, Lazzarino's stu- most is that they wish they could have says. "In the round against Kentucky, we dents created enduring snapshots and gone to a school like Hillcrest." scored 3,100 points, which one of the memories when they took their Hillcrest event organizers said was the highest buddies to celebrate with them on the LIBERAL ARTS & SCIENCES score she had ever seen." Hill. Another year, they invited photogra- Six schools competed in the event, rep- phers and reporters to watch as the Hill- Martin makes no bones resenting the six NSBE regions. KU crest kids released balloons with messages about hopes for dino hall earned the Region V title and the berth to in them. the national championships by beating They also created yearbooks and time inosaur discoveries keep rolling in at Tulane University, Prairie View A&M and capsules that now bear witness to per- Dthe Natural History Museum in the University of Okalahoma. sonal, social and cultural changes. Dyche Hall—so rapidly, in fact, that Pro- In addition to the team members, 11 "I never lost enthusiasm," Lazzarino fessor Larry Martin has announced his other engineering students and a group says. "I was careful not to do things the hopes for construction of a dinosaur hall from Lawrence and Free State high same way each time. Each class of mine on the KU campus. schools traveled to the national conven- brought a new approach. And our prod- Martin, senior curator at the Natural tion. The KU NSBE has been working uct kept changing, so there was always a History Museum, is currently excavating a with students at the high schools to challenge." "super giant" Brachiosaur in Wyoming's encourage interest in engineering and When the Class of 2000 graduated Black Hills. Martin and his KU crew provide tutoring in math and science. from Hillcrest and dispersed to three uncovered the dinosaur's foot while exca- junior high schools in 1994, Lazzarino vating another recent find, the fossils of a JOURNALISM decided that keeping track of all the stu- 50-foot long Camarasaurus nicknamed dents would be too unwieldy and "Annabelle." Class of 2000 project ends dropped the project. But former Hillcrest Martin says he is already confined to memorable 13-year run kids and their parents would see her posing Annabelle in a crouching position around town and plead with her to con- because her skeleton is far too large for iane Lazzarino was casually reading tinue. the museum's limited space. According to Dthe newspaper in 1987 when the So last spring, Lazzarino gave her pro- Martin, Annabelle is the most complete caption under a photo of smiling kinder- motional writing class—which, because of long-neck dinosaur ever found, with 85 to gartners caught her attention. "Class of changes in the school's curriculum, was to 90 percent of the bones recovered. It is 2000," the caption proclaimed. Those be her last—the final, daunting assign- also the first such dinosaur found with a three words provided all the inspiration ment of bringing the entire project to a complete set of feet and its backbone Lazzarino needed to launch what became successful culmination. The students intact, as well as pieces of fossilized skin. a 13-year collaboration between the jour- updated profiles, revisited old spots Now comes the most recent discovery, nalism instructors promotional writing and held a final get-together at Hillcrest made by graduate student Craig Sundell classes and Hillcrest Elementary School. in April. during the recovery of Annabelle. Sundell Lazzarino, g'69, who every semester "When I started this project, one of the found the Brachiosaur's foot while digging gives her students community events and reasons I thought it would be valuable to a drainage ditch at the Annabelle site, and groups to promote, charged her students my students was that they would have to Martin says this dinosaur, when recov- with promoting the Class of 2000. Begin- learn how to interview people and write ered, could prove to be 100 feet long and ning in 1987, Lazzarino paired her stu- about people completely outside of their six stories high. dents with Hillcrest kindergartners to peer group," Lazzarino says. "When we "We're winding up with something bet- document the children's lives and had the reunion at Hillcrest, I realized my ter than Sue," Martin says, in reference to interests. Each semester for the next seven students and the Hillcrest kids were only the Tyrannosaurus rex that is all the rage years, a new group of Lazzarino's students a year or two apart now." at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural His- descended upon Hillcrest, initiating Lazzarino says she cannot imagine tory. "We're going to have the fourth or events and projects to promote the finding another project with the size and fifth best dinosaur exhibit in the world." youngsters. scope of this one.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 4, 2000 55 HAIL TO OLD KU BY CHRIS LAZZARINO Summer Solace Roy's choice affirms our Jayhawk pride

HE'S STAYING: Above, Allen Field House pleas; left, fans at the moment of the announcement; below, the coach with Jerod Haase and Jacque Vaughn, watching a highlight tape on the Scoreboard.

stadium so the basketball coach could announce: "I'm staying." As the Campaniles carillon chimed 9, Williams made his happy pronouncement in football's home-team locker room, but the scene was beamed out to the scoreboard's huge video screen. The 16,000 or nder a summer sky so fans who filled the stadiums west of that certain pale stands might not have realized it, but U shade of blue— Williams and his assembled news confer- much too Carolina blue for ence were directly beneath them. Their comfort—the relentless sun cheers roared through concrete. baked Jayhawk Boulevard. Roy Williams, a North Carolina alum- The Chi Omega fountain sat nus who was always expected to say yes idle, officially because of a when his school came calling, said no to water-main break but more his mentor, KU alumnus Dean Smith, appropriately for sheer d'54. No. A word no member of the exhaustion. North Carolina basketball legacy had ever Despite the heat of July said to Coach Smith. Until now. Williams 6, our lovely Mount Oread explained that, in the end, loyalty to his offered sanctuary, a quiet, players outweighed loyalty to a legend. shady, sacred place where the breeze know that's corny as all get out," Williams He had learned about loyalty and honor, snapped and the view soared. Within the later explained, "but that's me." he said, from Smith himself. hallowed hollow of the Campanile, where Hemenway wisely suggested the Cam- After the press conference, Williams Jayhawks go to graduate and contem- panile. Within our proud tower, the bab- ventured back out into the heat and sweat plate, a man could find solace. ble stopped. The heat of the crazy week and frenzy. He picked up a microphone Roy Williams certainly did. relented. Calm came. When he emerged and explained to the KU fans—his fans— As Athletics Director Bob Frederick, from his sojourn and stepped back into what had happened earlier, in the d'62, g'64, EdD'84, diverted reporters, the noontime sun, Roy Williams had moments after he uttered the word he Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway led finally made his decision. never thought he would say to Smith. Williams through a back door of his By 8 p.m., the mean summer sky had "The last thing Coach Smith said to me Strong Hall complex. His nerves frayed softened and KU's hyper-loyal basketball today was, 'Do a good job for my alma raw after a week of struggling to decide fans were gathering by the thousands in mater.'" between Kansas and North Carolina, Memorial Stadium for one of the most The fans cheered. Then they chanted. Williams had told his bosses he wanted to bizarre scenes in the history of college Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, glorious walk across campus one more time. "I sports: a press conference in the football anew.-""*

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