BROADCAST NEWS I JAYHAWK GENERATIONS I ’51 FLOOD KANSASKANSASNO. 5, 2001 $5 ALUMNIALUMNI 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 VOLUME 99 NO. 5, 2001 KANSAS ALUMNI [1 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- KANSAS ALUMNI I NO. 5, 2001 [3 LIFT THE CHORUS 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.