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KANSAS ALUMNI
CONTENTSEstablished in 1902 as The Graduate Magazine
DEPARTMENTS
FEATURES 3 FIRST WORD The editor’s turn 20 4 LIFT THE CHORUS Letters from readers A Way with Words 6 ON THE BOULEVARD For thousands of sight-impaired listeners in Schedules of KU events Kansas, Missouri and 15 other states, the JAYHAWK WALK University’s 30-year-old Audio Reader Network 8 Baby Jay turns 30, the delivers sound salvation. bees are back, Jack plays a By Jennifer Jackson Sanner Jayhawk and more
Page 20 10 HILLTOPICS News and notes, including 24 two scientists who say global warming is nothing See You in September to sweat As monarch butterflies undertake one of nature’s SPORTS most astounding migrations, a network of school- 14 A new AD and a children and amateur naturalists springs into returning senior spark fall action. In its 10th year, Monarch Watch is football excitement generating fascinating insights into the monarch mystery, while introducing kids across the nation 18 OREAD READER Chris Lazzarino explores to hands-on science. A River Running West By Steven Hill 19 OREAD WRITER Cover photograph by Earl Richardson Bob Palazzo on the fine art of science writing 32 36 ASSOCIATION NEWS Ellsworth winners, Wood- Herd Around Town Page 24 ward Scholars and more How now crimson-and-blue cow? Kansas 40 ASSOCIATION City’s summertime parade of bodacious CALENDAR bovines exhibits a distinctly Jayhawk flair, The latest on chapter and as KU artists help put the cow KHP events back in Cowtown. 42 JAYHAWK GENERATIONS By Chris Lazzarino Welcome to the Hill Photographs by Earl Richardson 50 CLASS NOTES News from classmates 60 IN MEMORY Deaths in the KU family 62 SCHOOLWORK News from academe 68 HAIL TO OLD KU Page 32 A flood of memories
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FIRST WORD BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER
he smell of the nect more than 100,000 children in 39 states and three Canadi- bonfire and the an provinces. These fledgling scientists, under the trained eyes twang of country of 2,000 volunteers, will carefully tag the butterflies’ wings and music filled the record their flight patterns, adding to a decade’s worth of data Tcool October air as we about the wondrous, mysterious migration. made our way up the gravel Through an alliance of KU faculty and elementary-school drive to a friend’s barn. My teachers (including many alumni) and a partner project at the expectations were simple: University of Minnesota, Monarch Watch has developed a feast on barbecue, enjoy a K-8 curriculum that will soon stretch through high school, rare Friday night with encouraging curiosity and scientific literacy while producing friends and perhaps cajole new insights into the biology of our most recognizable butter- my husband into a trip flies. Taylor attributes the project’s appeal in part to the around the dance floor. monarch’s charisma, but it no doubt has reached farther faster But I got more than I because of the thorough support the KU headquarters provides bargained for. Across the participants: tagging kits, classroom study guides and tests, and room I spotted a vaguely advice on related projects, including rearing monarchs and culti- familiar face; a few seconds vating butterfly gardens. Much of this is available through the later, recognition clicked. Those blue eyes, passed down from project’s award-winning Web site, monarchwatch.org. my great-uncle Dan, could belong only to my second cousin Another Web site expands a KU service that has grown with Aaron. He caught my gaze and we tentatively waved greetings. technology in its 30 years. The Kansas Audio-Reader Network When your paths cross only at family reunions and funerals, the broadcasts readings from daily and weekly newspapers, current sight of a shirttail cousin absent scads of relatives and heaps of books, magazines, catalogs and numerous other publications to green Jell-O and marshmallow salad can be startling. sight-impaired listeners. Throughout Kansas and 16 other states, Turns out Aaron knew the host and her horses from the local people who cannot read for themselves can still share in the roundup club. I knew her through hometown women who gath- printed word. Audio-Reader issues specially tuned radios to lis- ered for birthday lunches. Thanks to her, my cousin and I spent teners who apply, and it recently added a telephone reading ser- the evening getting to know each other for the first time. vice and a password-protected Internet broadcast. As the nation’s We started with the familiar, chuckling at the eccentricities of second-oldest radio reading service, it reaches 7,000 radio lis- his grandmother and mine, two of five formidable sisters from teners plus untold thousands via telephone and the Internet. Texas. I marveled at the wallet photos of his young son and Bonding with those listeners are 12 staff members and nearly caught him up on the adventures of my children. Somewhere 350 volunteer readers, many of whom are fac- along the way, we moved from safe territory to true conversa- ulty, staff, students and alumni. Their voices tion. We talked about struggles with work and marriage and link listeners to worldly issues and, even parenthood like two adults whose lives intersected not merely more important, the talk of their towns: because he is Aunt Helen’s grandson and I’m Aunt Happy’s local fair results, a proposed highway granddaughter. We found we had more than family in common. project or the week’s hot sales The University’s reach, I’ve found, grows much like a family downtown. tree, sprouting shoots in so many directions that connections Most important, lives that blur. Names and faces of people and programs are like those we might be isolated instead see only at family reunions: We know they’re related, but we intersect with others daily, don’t know much else. Each relative has delightful stories to and personal relationships offer, but we never get past the small talk. grow from KU’s public ser- This issue features not only family trees of Jayhawk Genera- vice. Through far-reaching tions (our annual homage to freshmen of KU lineage) but also programs like Audio-Reader
two stories of programs akin to distant cousins: They touch lives and Monarch Watch, SOUTHERLAND PAUL too numerous to count yet remain largely unknown to the KU the tree’s branches community. In our cover story by Steven Hill, you’ll learn about multiply, pointing Monarch Watch, a project that turns kids into young scientists every which way. by giving them a reason to catch creatures they can’t resist chas- But the roots ing anyway. This fall, as the monarch butterflies make their way took hold to Mexico, the program, created by Professor Orley “Chip” Tay- at KU. lor and his former student Brad Williamson, c’74, g’77, will con-
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KANSASSEPTEMBER ALUMNI 2001 KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Hail Haug Publisher Chair Fred B.Williams Janet Martin McKinney, c’74, Port Ludlow, My highest compliments for the terrific Editor Washington story about Matt Haug [“Hail Fellow,” Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Executive Vice Chair issue No. 4]. After reading your piece, Art Director Robert L. Driscoll, c’61, l’64, Mission Woods I felt like I almost knew this exceptional Susan Younger, f’91 young man and I am sure that a lot of Managing Editor Executive Committee Chris Lazzarino, j’86 Jim Adam, e’56, Overland Park readers will agree that they learned a lot Staff Writer Robert L. Driscoll, c’61, l’64, Mission Woods about a truly amazing and talented 23- Steven Hill Reid Holbrook, c’64, l’66, Overland Park year-old in the short space of four pages. Editorial Assistants Janet Martin McKinney, c’74, Port Ludlow, Karen Goodell;Andrea E. Hoag, c’94 Washington Your story left an interesting question Photographer Cordell D. Meeks Jr., c’64, l’67, Kansas City to ponder: What will Matt Haug be doing Earl Richardson, j’83 Deloris Strickland Pinkard, g’80, EdD’95, in perhaps 10 or 20 years? No doubt Kansas City Graphic Designer he will find a rewarding career and his Valerie Spicher, j’94 Carol Swanson Ritchie, d’54,Wichita Linda Duston Warren, c’66, m’70, Hanover choices will appeal to him and benefit Editorial Office Kansas Alumni Association others. 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 Vice Chairs David Morris, b’68 785-864-4760 Gary Bender, g’64, Scottsdale,Arizona, and Houston Advertising Office Colorado Springs, Colorado Sarah Lober,Advertising Manager Michelle Senecal de Fonseca, b’83, London, Knight Enterprises, 4840 W. 15th St., Suite 1000 England Haug’s prizes not unique Lawrence, KS 66049 Tim S. Dibble, d’74, Issaquah,Washington 785-843-5511 or 1-800-844-3781 Patricia Weems Gaston, j’81,Annandale, fax 785-843-7555 Virginia Thank you for your article on Matt e-mail: [email protected] Haug. His accomplishments are truly Kansas Alumni Magazine (ISSN 0745-3345) is published Directors to July 2002 incredible, and both he and KU should by the Alumni Association of the University of Kansas six times a year in January, March, May, July, September Lewis D. Gregory, c’75, Leawood take great pride in his successes. In his and November. $40 annual subscription includes mem- Lynwood H. Smith, b’51, m’60, Lawrence article, however, Chris Lazzarino may have bership in the Alumni Association. Office of Publication: Linda Duston Warren, c’66, m’70, Hanover 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. Peri- inadvertently committed an injustice to odicals postage paid at Lawrence, KS. Directors to July 2003 earlier KU scholars in his statement, “No POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Sidney Ashton Garrett, c’68, d’70, Lawrence one [else] has ever won three top graduate Kansas Alumni Magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Deloris Strickland Pinkard, g’80, EdD’95, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 © 2001 by Kansas Kansas City prizes.” Alumni Magazine.Non-member issue price:$7 David R. Rankin, p’63, Phillipsburg I was awarded a National Science KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Foundation Graduate Fellowship, a The Alumni Association was established in 1883 for Directors to July 2004 the purpose of strengthening loyalty, friendship, A. Drue Jennings, d’68, l’72, Leawood Rhodes Scholarship and a Danforth Foun- commitment, and communication among all gradu- Mary Kay Paige McPhee, d’49, Kansas City, dation Graduate Fellowship. I strongly ates, former and current students, parents, faculty, Missouri staff and all other friends of The University of John W. Mize, c’72, Salina suspect that I am not the only KU under- Kansas. Its members hereby unite into an Associa- grad besides Matt to have won three of the tion to achieve unity of purpose and action to serve Directors to July 2005 the best interests of The University and its con- Nancy Borel Ellis, d’63, Pinehurst, top graduate fellowships. stituencies. The Association is organized exclusively North Carolina It would have been nice for Chris to for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes. Sydnie Bowling Kampschroeder, c’65, have asked Matt to mention some of the Fred B.Williams, President and CEO; Kay Naperville, Illinois Henry, Senior Vice President for Administration and Craig B. Swenson, e’59, Lee’s Summit, KU faculty that he considered most crucial Human Resources; Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81, Missouri to his success. In my case, I am especially Senior Vice President for Communications; Dwight grateful for the challenging Honors Pro- Parman, Senior Vice President for Finance and Trea- Directors to July 2006 surer; William S. Green, Senior Vice President for Jill Sadowsky Docking, c’78, g’84,Wichita gram courses I was able to take, for the Information Systems; Sheila Murphy Immel, f’69, g’84, Senior Vice President for Membership; Kirk Marvin R. Motley, c’77, l’80, g’81, Leawood classroom teaching and research mentor- Cerny, c’92, g’98, Senior Vice President for Member- David B.Wescoe, c’76, Mequon,Wisconsin ing of Professor Rudolf Jander and the ship Services; Nancy Peine,Vice President for Alumni and Membership Records; Donna Neuner, Honorary Members late Professor Bill Bell in the entomology ‘76, Membership Services; Mike Wellman, c‘86, Gene A. Budig, EdD, Princeton, New Jersey department, and for the support and Special Projects and Adams Alumni Center Facility E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., PhD, San Antonio, encouragement of a mere undergrad by Manager; Bryan E. Greve, Adams Alumni Center Texas Services and Jayhawk Society Membership; Chris Archie R. Dykes, EdD, Goodlettsville, Chancellor Dykes. Lazzarino, j’86, Managing Editor, Kansas Alumni magazine; Susan Younger, f’91, Art Director; Tennessee Theodore Burk, c’74 Carolyn Barnes, c’80, Kansas Honors Program; Delbert M. Shankel, PhD, Lawrence, Kansas Professor of biology Kelly Kidwell, c’01, Chapter and Constituent Pro- W. Clarke Wescoe, MD, Mission grams; Jennifer Mueller, g’99, Student Programs. Creighton University Omaha, Neb.
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Civility in the Senate just warily edge his way in—he took on me get out the brass polish and brighten the issue of the increasing tendency of the it up every time I came to visit (he died I want to congratulate Professor Burdett senators themselves to become more vitu- in 1992). Loomis [“For argument’s sake,” Oread perative and less thoughtful in their daily The second whistle was given to Justin Writer, issue No. 4] on the fine conference deliberations. He created an atmosphere “Jus” Hill and was installed at the Jayhawk he conducted two years ago on Capitol where senators and senior staff could can- Paper and Box Company, where it was Hill, on the subject of “Civility and Delib- didly share ideas and gain a perspective used to signal the lunch hour. That whis- eration in the U.S. Senate.” on where the institution was going. That tle is now on the patio at the home of Jus’ At the time the conference occurred, I is an all too rare accomplishment. son in Lawrence, Stephen. was in my sixth year as chief of staff to a Michael S. McGill, b’65 Anyway, I was thrilled to see Capt. senator. Having watched the Senate Washington, D.C. Haggart mentioned in that very well writ- become more and more contentious dur- ten story, but not as thrilled as when he ing that period, it was a relief to sit down Museum days with Dad came home from the war. Thanks for con- with colleagues and outside experts to tinuing to publish the best alumni maga- reflect on what was happening to an insti- Imagine my joy and surprise when I zine in the nation—bar none! tution that billed itself as “The World’s opened my Kansas Alumni magazine and Peter Haggart, g’63 Greatest Deliberative Body.” there was Comanche [“The Veteran’s Day,” Secretary of the Faculty While the Senate is an integral part of issue No. 3]. University of Idaho the federal government, it is anything but Growing up in Lawrence, one of my Moscow, Idaho bureaucratic. Where the executive branch Saturday excursions was to the museum. is populated with large agencies full of My mother worked, a rarity for the times, Editors’ wake-up call career civil servants whose jobs are gov- and Saturday belonged to my father and erned by detailed rules, the Senate con- me. Top of the list was the Natural History Editors’ note: For those of us old enough to sists of 100 separate and independent Museum for a free, very educational and remember fashioning publications with paper offices, each of which is led by a proud fun afternoon. and glue, the computer age sometimes seems and powerful boss. We were there so often, the people mystifying—which was all too evident in issue The legislative process thrives on per- working way upstairs would occasionally No. 4. Repeated and missing text in Associa- sonal contacts among the legislators, but treat me to a special, private tour. tion, and a missing final line in our feature on those contacts involve only sharing a lim- When I graduated from KU and the Hall Family Foundation’s $42 million gift, ited amount of information. Information is returned to Lawrence with my 7-year-old were caused by a coding glitch that crept into power, and senators carefully dole out son, to the museum we went. He loved the digitized magazine in the final stages of hints about how they plan to vote, or the “stuffed horse” best. We looked up the our new “direct to plate” production process. what their concerns are about an issue, so history involving Comanche, and now, The errors should have been caught by paper- as not to become too predictable. In this eight years later, occasionally discuss him and-glue-era editors, but were not. One miss- fashion, they are poised to bargain. This and the other exhibits. ing article detailed renovations to staff offices, means that their staffs must remain dis- Judith Scott Mills-Hinch, d’68 including a computer-friendly reconfiguration creet and not become too friendly with Aberdeen, Md. of Art Director Susan Younger’s office. Gone other offices. are the last remnants of our former ways. These factors combine to create the Whistle a happy tune We prom equivalent of 100 Mom and Pop grocery stores in the Senate, warily eyeing one Thanks for including the information another, jockeying for advantage, and about my father (Capt. Robert Haggart) in Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the seeking publicity. This does not make for Steven Hill’s article about the campus editor. If you would like to comment on a very collegial environment, and it steam whistle [“All steamed up,” Hail to a story, please write us. Our address is severely inhibits the ability of senior staff Old KU, issue No. 3]. Kansas Alumni, 1266 Oread Avenue, to learn from one another through the You might be interested to know that Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. candid exchange of opinions and ideas. Capt. Haggart brought two steam whistles After all, the seemingly most innocent back that he took from German ships that If you would like to respond via e-mail, comment by one senator’s staffer can inad- had been sunk in an Italian harbor. The the Alumni Association’s address is vertently provide important intelligence to whistle that would not blow the right note [email protected], or visit another senator. for KU now resides on the front porch of our web site at www.kualumni.org. It was into this environment that Pro- my 98-year-old stepmother’s home in Letters appearing in the magazine may fessor Loomis stepped. And he did not Laguna Woods, Calif. My dad would have be edited for space and clarity.
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