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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 , Missouri and 15 other states, the JAYHAWK WALK University’s 30-year-old Audio Reader Network 8 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. . 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 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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Exhibitions TIE THAT BINDS: Mimi Smith’s “The 13th-annual Indian Arts Show: “Steel Wool Peignoir,” an early icon A Juried Competition,” of feminist art, is among five impor- through Oct. 21, Museum of HICKERSON ROBERT tant works by postwar women Anthropology artists recently acquired by the .The 1966 “Contemporary American Indian Art sculpture, one of the first to incor- from the Spencer Museum porate clothing, uses the image and Collection,” through Nov. 3, form of a negligee bordered by Spencer Museum of Art bands of steel wool to proffer wry commentary on contrasts between “Japanese Prints from the Collection,” the illusion and reality of marriage. through Nov. 25, Spencer Now on view in the 20th Century Museum of Art Gallery. “Alberto Vargas: The Esquire Pinups,” Sept. 29 through Dec. 30, Spencer Museum of Art “Signs of Faith: Photographs from the Collection,” Oct. 13 through Academic Dec. 30, Spencer Museum of Art “Los Dias de Los Muertos (The Days calendar of the Dead),” Oct. 26 OCTOBER through Nov. 29, Museum 18-21 Fall break of Anthropology NOVEMBER 21-25 Thanksgiving break Murphy Hall events DECEMBER SEPTEMBER 13 Last day of classes 20-23, 25-28 “Butterfly Kiss,” by 14 Stop Day Phyllis Nagy, Inge Theatre 17-21 Final examinations Series 6 Flutists Paul Horn and R. OCTOBER Carlos Nakai Special events 5-6, 11-14 “Six Degrees of Separation” 9 Houston Ballet in “The by John Guare, University SEPTEMBER Firebird” Theatre Series 28 Benefit gala for Spencer 9-10 Bales Organ Recital Hall fifth Museum of Art, featuring a NOVEMBER anniversary celebration preview of “Alberto Vargas: 3 “Afternoon of the Elves,” 11 Fine Arts Collage Concert The Esquire Pinups.” KU Theatre for Young People 13 “Ragtime” Call 785-864-0141 for more 8-11, 13-16 “So What’s New?” 14 Guarneri String Quartet information. by Fatima Dike, Inge Theatre Series 17 Jazz Ensembles I, II and III OCTOBER 23 Ju Percussion Group 12 Late Night with Roy Williams, Lied Center events 26-27 “Orféo” Allen Field House 30 Vocal Jazz Ensemble 12-13 Homecoming, including SEPTEMBER reunions for the Class of 1961, 22 “Dance, the Spirit of NOVEMBER Student Alumni Association Cambodia” 1 Hubbard Street Dance Chicago alumni and former Jayhawk 2 University Symphony 28 University Symphony mascots Orchestra Orchestra 4 Perlman/Nikkanen/Bailey OCTOBER Piano Trio 1 Symphonic Wind Ensemble 9 Dr. Billy Taylor and Kevin 4 Thunderbird Theatre Mahogany

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Football 17 Texas A&M PHONE BOX 20 Baylor SEPTEMBER ...... 24 Oklahoma Lied Center 864-ARTS 15 Wyoming (Band Day) Murphy Hall ...... 864-3982 27 at Texas Tech 22 at Colorado Student Union Activities . . . .864-3477 31 Kansas State Spencer Museum of Art . . . . .864-4710 OCTOBER Spencer Research Library . . .864-4334 6 at Texas Tech NOVEMBER Museum of Anthropology . . .864-4245 3 at Missouri Natural History Museum . . . .864-4540 13 Oklahoma (Homecoming) 7 at Iowa State Hall Center for Humanities .864-4798 20 Missouri University libraries ...... 864-3956 10 Nebraska 27 at Kansas State Kansas Union ...... 864-4596 14 at Texas A&M Adams Alumni Center ...... 864-4760 NOVEMBER 17 Texas KU Information ...... 864-3506 3 Nebraska Directory assistance ...... 864-2700 24 at Colorado 10 at Texas KU main number ...... 864-2700 Athletics ...... 1-800-34-HAWKS 17 Iowa State DECEMBER 13-15 NCAA Championships, San Diego 14 at Colorado SEPTEMBER Soccer 19 Texas A&M 12 Missouri 21 Texas SEPTEMBER 15 at Baylor 14 St. Louis 28 Baylor 17 at Missouri-Kansas City 16 Drury NOVEMBER 19 Iowa State 21 vs. Florida State at FSU 2 Missouri 22 at Oklahoma Tournament 7-10 Tournament, 26 at Texas 23 vs. Central Florida at FSU San Antonio 29 Colorado Tournament OCTOBER 28 Oklahoma Cross country 3 at Kansas State 30 at Oklahoma State SEPTEMBER 6 Texas Tech OCTOBER 14 Iowa State Cross Country 10 at Nebraska 5 at Iowa State Classic 12 at North Carolina 7 at Nebraska 29 Oklahoma State Cowboy 13 at North Carolina State 12 at Texas Tech Jamboree EARL RICHARDSON OCTOBER 13 Chili Pepper, Fayetteville, Ark. CAPTAINS MY CAPTAINS: Coach 27 Big 12 Championships, Terry Allen and senior Norman, Okla. co-captains Harrison Hill (1) and Marcus Rogers (8) share a laugh at Rowing football media day. For more on Hill and the SEPTEMBER rest of the Jayhawks, see 29 at Head of the Des Moines, Des Sports (p. 14). Moines, Iowa OCTOBER 14 American, Kansas City, Mo. 28 at Head of the Iowa, Iowa City NOVEMBER 3 Regatta at Kansas State

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Jayhawks, start your engines

ick Galles, d’70, exercised his prerogative Unser, a two-time Indy 500 winner, liked R.as owner of the Galles Racing Team to the idea. Even if he was a bit sketchy on the give the Jayhawk of its life in July, Jayhawk. pasting the KU mascot’s image on Indy cars “I think it’s wonderful,” Unser said.“I driven by Al Unser Jr. and Didier Andre at know Rick’s very proud of that university. If

Kansas Motor Speedway’s Ameristar Casino he wants to put it on his car, we’ll do every- MCKINNEY/KUDAVID UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Indy 200.“One of the benefits of being a thing we can to make—what is it, a Jay- car owner is that I can put a sticker of a hawk?—a Jayhawk a winner.” mythical bird on my car and no one can Maybe next time. Andre finished 16th; say a thing,” Galles told the Lawrence Unser, 20th. Unfortunately, speed—not And the Oscar goes to ... Journal-World. style—counts at the track. pying the KU flag gallantly stream- Sing above the University of Nebraska’s Lied Center for the Per- forming Arts in May, we braced for the payback. Run a KU flag up a Nebraska pole, we figured, and there’s bound to be a flap. We needn’t have worried.Turns out the crimson and blue banner in the heart of Cornhusker country was a prop, not a prank. Lincoln’s Lied stands in for the Kansas Union in “About LARRY LEROY PEARSON LEROY LARRY Schmidt,” a movie directed by Omaha native Alexander Payne. Jack Nichol- son stars as Warren Schmidt, a Jay- hawk who visits his alma mater while driving from Nebraska to Colorado to stop his daughter from marrying a man he dislikes. Nicholson never visited the Hill, but Payne’s crew filmed outdoor scenes at KU (includ- ing shots of the Natural History Muse- um and Strong Hall). For most of the movie, though, NU’s tortilla-flat cam- pus plays Mount Oread. If that doesn’t deserve an Oscar, Orientation nothing does. with an attitude opportunities in Lawrence not likely covered in the University-sanctioned welcoming isorientation can be good for incoming sessions. “I think it’s important that freshmen are Dfreshmen, say two student leaders who “It’s more about the culture of Lawrence, made aware that there’s a reason you are compiling a “Disorientation Guide” for the stuff you learn after living here awhile,” shouldn’t go to Wal-Mart,” Burton says.“It new students. Browning says.“Like how to recycle and helps the community a little more if you give Kyle Browning, student body vice presi- where to buy shampoo if you don’t want to your money to someone who’s part of it dent, and Ben Burton, chairman of the Stu- shop at Wal-Mart.” instead of a corporation.” dent Senate’s executive committee, say their But the “Disorientation Guide” (which The guide will be distributed in Septem- “activist-oriented, student-centered” publica- will also feature essays on Lawrence history, ber at residence halls, Greek houses and tion, inspired by similar guides from the including one on 1970s campus unrest) is tables around campus—but not at Wal-Mart, 1980s, will school students on options and more than just an alternative shopping guide. we presume.

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With the playing the It’s got a good beat, and theme to “2001: A Space Odyssey,” a big blue egg was rolled to midfield. As if on cue, you can dance to it a blanket of dreary clouds scuttled, the sun burst forth and, sublimely spotlighted, the egg usic should be the most accessible of cracked open. Mthe arts. So say Tom Alexios, director S E V “When I stepped out,” Amy Hurst Rach- of special projects for Down Beat magazine, I H C R man, Baby Jay’s creator, recalled in 1983,“you and Dan Lash, a KU music-therapy student A Y IT S R could hear the entire stadium gasping.” who is Alexios’ intern and administrative E IV N U For those of us old enough to remember assistant.They convinced high-school wood- those first tentative steps, a check of the cal- endar causes a double take. Can it be true? Our Baby At Homecoming 2001 (Oct. 13), our baby Jay is all grown up bird turns 30! Rachman, c’74, is organizing a Homecoming reunion of all former mascots CHRIS LAZZARINO ore than 51,000 fans—until then the to celebrate the occasion, and Baby Jay’s Big Mbiggest football crowd in KU history— Three-O is sure to be the toast of the town. filled Memorial Stadium for Homecoming Should the football Jayhawks do their part 1971, and they left with surprising memories. by beating the Sooners—who happen to be Not only did the Jayhawks (4-7 that season) the defending national champions—the col- thrash the K-State Wildcats, 39-13, but a lective gasp (and subsequent cheers) would secret mascot debut was hatched, literally, blow out the candles on any birthday cake. during halftime. Even one with 30 candles. TOM ALEXIOS (LEFT) AND DAN LASH

shop students to fashion hundreds of drum ildered, b pads (a traditional practice device for drum- Bew ese ec d mers), and, with donated drumsticks in hed zle hand, they preach the healing powers of he buzz is back and bedaz percussion to psychiatric and drug-rehab Tat the Natural patients at Lawrence and Kansas City History Museum. hospitals. One of the museum’s The duo’s latest project, though, is an most popular exhibitions, the artistic flourish in its own right.With collab- bee tree, is up and humming orator Gerald Morrison of McLouth super- EARL RICHARDSON again after curators determined that vising the welding, Alexios and Lash a parasitic infection killed the first assembled assorted ditties of discarded two colonies brought in to populate detritus—including an antique wheelbarrow the remodeled hive. Curators had ini- wheel, plow discs, iron skillets and a Dodge tially suspected a mite that destroyed hubcap—and fashioned a harmonic hunk the local honey bee population. of junk. A third colony is thriving in its new “It’s become this magical thing,” Lash home, which features a “bee-cam” says.“You just want to grab a stick and start that broadcasts activity deep within banging on it. It begs you to step up and the working hive to a television start making music.” mounted nearby. Ratings have been The sonorous sculpture was a hit at the strong. Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival’s Soul “The bees were out of commission School tent, and will be featured in Down longer than we intended,” says Brad Beat to encourage others to create their Kemp, g’91, the museum’s assistant own unique instruments. director of public affairs.“We had “If you open up your mind to what an questions at the front desk every day instrument is,” Alexios says,“music can while they were gone. People are become a bigger part of your life.” really happy to have them back.” And that’s a hope worth humming.

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 [9 HILLTOPICS BY STEVEN HILL Hot topic UPDATE Global warming is not a man-made problem, argue two UNIVERSITY SPRAWL Kansas Geological Survey scientists. It’s only natural. A RIBBON-TYING CAMPAIGN and petition drive launched by the Oread Neighborhood Association in July slowed—but did not stop—KU’s

plan to demolish seven houses to make EARL RICHARDSON room for new scholarship halls. As reported in “Halls of Academe” (issue No. 6, 2000), the KU Endowment Association purchased the properties in the 1300 block of Ohio Street because their location near the Amini halls makes an ideal site for expanding the existing scholarship hall campus. But some property owners say the project violates a promise made in the University’s 1997 Campus Plan, which stated that KU would not expand past the alley west of Ohio Street between 13th and 14th streets.That document also called for cooperation with neigh- borhood groups, which members of the Oread Neighborhood Association feel has been lacking. NAYSAYERS: Geologists Lee Gerhard and William Harrison say the current global warming debate over- states man’s ability to alter the earth’s climate.“We understand that the world is always changing,” Gerhard says. “We share a lot of the same con- “Why is this temperature change that’s being forecast any different than any other natural change?” cerns with the University,” the group’s secretary and treasurer Janet Gertsner, wo scientists at the Kansas Geologi- “Natural variability vastly exceeds any p’82, said.“Most of us are KU alums, so cal Survey believe something is human contribution, and while there is it’s been sad for us not to be able to missing from the global warming some human effect, we’ll probably never work together.” T debate: the science of geology. be able to see it.” The group wants the houses pre- Lee Gerhard, PhD’64, principal geolo- The book, published by the American served, but University architects say gist at the survey, and William Harrison, Association of Petroleum Geologists, that would be too costly.After post- the organization’s deputy director, have divides the factors driving global climate poning a decision at the urging of city co-edited Geological Perspectives of Global into four categories based on their relative officials, the Campus Historic Preserva- tion Board in August voted for demoli- Climate Change, a book that claims to be influence. The largest include immense, tion.The issue next goes before the the first to bring geoscience—which uncontrollable variables such as the city’s Historic Resources Commission. examines the geological record to track geometry of the solar system, the lumi- global climate changes over millions of nosity of the sun and the shifting of the years—to bear on the biggest scientific earth’s continents and oceans. Human question of the day: Is man altering the effects—namely carbon dioxide emissions earth’s climate? from tailpipes and smokestacks—rank

EARL RICHARDSON The answer is no, according to Ger- low on the list, with volcanoes, solar hard, Harrison and most of the 31 scien- storms and meteorite impacts. tists who contributed essays to the book. Both men think the geological record “The scale of climate energy is so offers ample evidence that the world’s cli- immense that we probably have not yet mate has been in constant flux for eons. found a way to affect it,” Gerhard says. They don’t question that the earth is

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warming right now, but they do wonder meetings—will remain the same, but the why the current forecast for a 1- to 5- program has to be customized to each degree rise over the next century is seen school,” she says. Expansion will continue : as less natural than past global tempera- for three years, limited only by interest ture changes. and funds. “The challenge will be to find “The debate has been formulated by schools that have a dean or chair who REPORT CARD people who have no knowledge or experi- supports the program and a tenure-track FACULTY HONORED ence in natural variability,” Gerhard says, faculty member who wants to lead it.” EIGHT FACULTY MEMBERS noting that the methodology currently The program started with seven busi- received distinguished teaching awards used to predict global warming involves ness students in 1992 and grew to 34 last for the 2000-’01 academic year during computer modeling based on written year. According to Mai-Dalton, the attri- Commencement in May. weather records, which date back only a tion rate between 1994 and 2001 was 15 The Chancellor’s Award for Out- century or so. “When you start about percent, compared with 65 percent Uni- standing Teaching,given to faculty mem- 1870, you leave out an awful lot. There’s a versitywide. The program’s average GPA bers of KU Medical Center, went to real gap in the record, and it so happens topped 3.0 in each of the last seven years. Norton J. Greenberger, professor of those gaps are really germane to the dis- About a third of the students went to internal medicine; Karen Wambach, cussion. What we’ve done is step up to graduate school. assistant professor of nursing; and the plate and say you can’t operate your Aiming high is a fundamental part of Robert R.Wittler, associate professor mathematical models independently of the program’s philosophy. of pediatrics. the [geological] data that show what the “This is not a remedial program,” Mai- Two faculty members, Paul Atchley, natural variability is. That’s a new per- Dalton says. “The tutoring is to be top- assistant professor of psychology, and spective.” notch, not to avoid failure. If a student Mark Joslyn, assistant professor of polit- If their theories are true, then why do has a C in a class, I’ll recommend tutoring ical science, received H. Bernerd Fink people get all the blame? so they can get an A.” awards for outstanding teaching.The “Human beings have a sense of self The program also tries to ease what late H. Bernerd, b’31, and Ruth Fink, ’41, that is perhaps disproportionate to their can be a jarring social transition. of Topeka established the award in actual ability to influence events,” says “They find themselves in a very differ- 1961. Harrison. Human input may be causing a ent environment than before. Many say John Gauch, associate professor of host of nasty changes in the environment, they are the only [person of color] in their electrical engineering and computer including acid rain and air pollution, he classes, and they feel they stick out. If you science, received the Archie and Nancy says, “but that’s not what we’re addressing put a mainstream person in an unfamiliar Dykes Award. Established in 1990 by with this book.” background, imagine the former Chancellor Archie Dykes and his wife, Nancy, the award honors

effect on them. That’s EARL RICHARDSON what these students undergraduate teaching and Multicultural scholarship are in for.” mentoring. Field trips Christopher T.Allen, e’80, program branches out PhD’84, associate professor of build friendships electrical engineering and com- 10-year-old School of Business effort and expose stu- puter science, received the to help students of color succeed dents to cul- A Ned N. Fleming Trust Award socially and academically begins a Univer- tural events. for distinguished teaching, sitywide expansion this fall. This fall’s out- scholarship and service. The Multicultural Business Scholars ings include Ruth Ann Atchley, assistant program, created in 1992 by Renate Mai- performances professor of psychology, Dalton, associate professor of business, of “Rigoletto,” received the Silver Anniversary uses privately funded scholarships, faculty “Ragtime” and Award, provided by the 25-year mentoring and social events to boost “The Buddy alumni class. retention of multicultural business stu- Holly Story.” Award-winning faculty were dents. Journalism and education have “Some of the seated onstage during Commence- adopted the program, launching what ment ceremonies and were also hon- GREAT EXPECTATIONS: Mai-Dalton hopes is the first of many ored at the All-University Supper May Renate Mai-Dalton’s high standards push multicultural expansions. scholars to excel.“Students are not used to the rigor 18 at the Adams Alumni Center. “The basic components—broad educa- and discipline I impose on them,” she says.“I give pos- tion, academic feedback, one-on-one itive feedback but I also tell them the negative things.”

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young students are not so sure that’s of VIP was Bush—soon proved true. Enjoy- benefit, but it doesn’t take very long until ing the fine day, the president and first they really enjoy it,” she says. “And then lady Laura Bush had decided to review they say they would never have done it preparations for the capital’s July 4th cele- on their own.” bration. “David and Aaron told me I had to say CLASS CREDIT something,” Nichols says. So when Bush FOUR WIN FULBRIGHTS Meeting with president asked what brought the three to Washing- FULBRIGHT FELLOWSHIPS were caps ‘Casey’s Journey’ ton, Nichols was ready. awarded to four graduate students this “I seized the opportunity and said, summer, raising to seven the total num- s Bobby Nichols, e’01, and senior ‘Actually, Mr. President, we just bicycled ber of KU students who will receive ADavid Dearth neared Washington, across the country to raise awareness support from the prestigious exchange D.C., this summer on their coast-to-coast about drunk driving.’” Hearing of the can- program during the 2001-’02 academic bicycle trip to raise awareness of the dan- celed White House meeting, Bush report- year. gers of drunk driving (“Cross-country trek edly said, “Well, you’re talking to me now, The latest winners are geography honors grad killed by drunk driver,” issue aren’t you?” doctoral students Christiansen Soren No. 4), they took heart in knowing that a The trio spent about five minutes with Larsen and Ratna Radhakrishna, history meeting with President Bush waited at the the president. “He told us to keep up the doctoral student Mark Richard Mun- end of the line. The cyclists planned to good work,” Nichols says. “Then he zinger, and Max Maximov, a 2001 mas- tell the president about their friend Casey walked over to Aaron, squeezed his arm ter’s degree gradate in German Beaver, c’99, killed by a drunk driver in and said, ‘God bless your brother.’” literature.The four join two graduating August 2000, and to seek his support for For Nichols and Dearth, the meeting seniors and an Ethiopian exchange stu- Casey’s Law, proposed legislation to stiffen capped a seven-week effort to spread dent who received Fulbright funding in drunk driving penalties. Casey’s story through public rallies and May. Since the program began in 1947, Then came word that the meeting, one-on-one conversations. Telling it to the 363 KU students have received Ful- arranged with the help of Sen. Sam president was “icing on the cake,” Nichols brights, which pay for round-trip travel, Brownback, l’83, had been canceled. says. “It made it all a little sweeter, that tuition, health insurance and living “Just devastated,” Casey’s mother, Aaron was there when we met him.” expenses for an academic year. Linda Beaver, said of her family’s reaction. In a message posted to a Web site Larsen will conduct an ethnographic “We called the boys on the road to help devoted to her son’s memory, Linda study of the sense of place in the Lakes them through it, and bless their hearts, Beaver wrote, “You all know Casey was up District of British Columbia. they ended up helping us through.” there telling them: ‘Get on in there!’ This Maximov, g’01, will explore how Rus- The disappointing news “kind of took couldn’t have been staged. It just hap- sia is portrayed in the literature of the German Middle Ages while studying at the wind out of our sails,” Nichols says. pened and it happened for a reason.” Heinrich-Heine Universitat in Dusseldorf, “But we didn’t lose sight of our Germany. mission to honor Casey. We Radhakrishna will continue her told ourselves we had to keep research on the use of natural telling people his story.” resources among the indigenous Miskitu Then fate intervened. people of Honduras, conducting a study Nichols, Dearth and Aaron in Ahuas, an inland village on the Patuca Beaver, Casey’s 18-year-old River in the Rio Platano Biosphere brother, were sightseeing at the Reserve. Jefferson Memorial July 2 Munzinger will use his Fulbright for when Secret Service agents six months of dissertation research in began securing the building for Cracow, Poland. He will examine judicial a VIP visit. The agents allowed activity of the High Court of Magde- 10 people to stay, including the burg Law at the Fortress of Cracow three Kansans. from the 14th to the 16th centuries. “The Secret Service guy couldn’t say who it was, but he winked and told me it would FITTING END: A chance meeting with President Bush helped Bobby Nichols and David Dearth fulfill their cross-country mission be worth it to stay,” says to honor roommate Casey Beaver. (from left: Laura Bush, Aaron Nichols. His hunch—that the Beaver, Nichols, Bush and Dearth.)

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ROCK CHALK REVIEW MILESTONES, MONEY AND OTHER MATTERS REPORT CARD AGING CENTER OPENS HISTORIAN AND BIOGRAPHER RICHARD NORTON SMITH, a nationally recognized authority on the American presidency and current director of the Gerald Former U.S. Senator NANCY R. Ford Foundation in Grand Rapids, Mich., will become the first director of the Robert KASSEBAUM BAKER, c’54, joined J. Dole Institute Dec. 1. Smith wrote speeches for Sen. Dole, ’45, in the 1970s, collabo- Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway and rated with Dole and his wife, Elizabeth, on their 1988 autobiography and helped Dole Executive Vice Chancellor Donald with his two recent books of political humor.“Richard Norton Smith, with his back- Hagen to dedicate the Theo and Alfred ground, experience and 20-year association with Sen. Dole is the ideal person for the M. Landon Center on Aging at KU job,” Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway said.“We’re looking forward to the Dole Insti- Medical Center May 25. tute becoming a major public policy institute nationally under his leadership.” Ground- “Our dream from the beginning has breaking is scheduled for Oct. 5 on an $8 million Campus West building for the been to provide leading-edge care for institute, which will house Dole’s papers and sponsor conferences and programs to older citizens of Kansas,” Baker said. encourage public service. “We’re fortunate to have such a mar- velous facil- ABOUT 135 CAMPUS ACTIVISTS FROM THE VIETNAM WAR ERA ity staffed by innova- reunited in Lawrence for four days of seminars and socializing in August.“We came WILLS TONI together and enjoyed each other back then,” said reunion organizer Wayne Sailor, tive national PhD’69.“We wanted to see how that time affected our lives and see what we’re doing leaders in now.” Sailor, who helped found the underground newspaper Reconstruction in 1968 the health and is now a senior scientist at the Beach Center on Families & Disability, said the care of volatile political climate of the day helped unite people from diverse backgrounds.“The older reunion is a celebration of that.” adults.” The $10 million center, the first of JOANN A. SMITH is KU’s new dean of continuing education.The Kansas City, its kind in the Midwest, is expected to Kan., native replaces Robert Senecal, who retired June 30. Smith served 17 years at the draw physicians and older adults from University of , rising from director of business and industry training to associ- across the region. It also provides a ate dean for university extension before being named dean of the School of Continuing health-care resource much in demand Education at Marywood University in Scranton, Pa., in 1999. in Kansas, which ranks 11th among states in the percentage of people 65 DOWN BEAT MAGAZINE HAS AGAIN HONORED KU MUSICIANS and or older, and fifth in the percentage of their instructors with prestigious Student Music Awards. In the magazine’s June issue, those 85 or older.“The need for this Shawnee senior and alto saxophonist Jeff Timmons was named Best Classical Soloist facility throughout is clear,” and trumpeter Fred Mullholland, g’00, was recognized as an outstanding jazz soloist. Hagen said. Timmons studies with Vince Gnojek,professor of saxophone and woodwind division The 52,000-square-foot complex director, and Mullholland studied with Dan Gailey, director of jazz studies.This marks will house a variety of medical special- the 12th time in nine years that Jayhawks have won “Dee Bees.” ists who concentrate on primary and specialty care. It will also serve as a KU’S CHIEF BUDGET ARCHITECT and head of legislative lobbying will retire classroom for medical students and as in December. Marlin Rein, g’63, director of governmental affairs and budget since 1995, a research center for scientists who began his University career in 1983 at KU Medical Center.“His knowledge of the Leg- want to improve care for older islature, the state and the University budgets, and the University as a whole, will be patients. Plans also call for an elder law impossible to replace,” Hemenway said in a written statement.“My hope is that he will clinic and a gym. continue to advise me informally after his retirement.” The center is named in honor of Baker’s parents,Alfred, l’08, and Theo THE FISKE GUIDE TO COLLEGES 2002 ranks KU among 21 public university Landon.Alf, who was governor of “best buys,” the sixth consecutive year the University has earned that recognition. KU Kansas during the Great Depression, is the only Kansas school profiled by Fiske, the oldest and most highly rated guide to lived to 100.Theo lived into her 90s. North America’s 300 “best and most interesting” universities.

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 [13 SPORTS BY CHRIS LAZZARINO Bohl games New athletics director Al Bohl wastes no time in touting TAILGATING (of the legal variety) is football to KU faithful—and even those not so faithful finally a reality at Memorial Stadium.Two days before the season opener against Southwest Missouri State, the University

announced it would permit “responsible MIKE YODER tailgating” in parking lots bordering the stadium.To comply with Kansas Board of Regents guidelines regulating alcohol on campus, tailgating areas will be the focus of fundraising drives.The “Proud to be a Jayhawk” fundraiser’s first bene- ficiary is the Marching Jayhawks. Alcohol will be allowed, but not sold, in the 10 approved lots, and KU officials stressed that tailgating would be reviewed at the end of the season. Long a goal of many fans, the successful initia- tive was spurred by Athletics Director Al Bohl, who announced soon after he arrived that gaining approval for tailgat- ing was one of his highest priorities. “We are dealing openly and honestly with the issues of alcohol attached to tailgating,” Chancellor Robert E. Hemen- SCHOOL TIES: Moments before the news conference introducing Al Bohl as KU’s new athletics director, way says.“I ask the Jayhawk community, Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway noticed that Bohl was wearing nothing that hinted at his new allegiance. So young and old, to demonstrate that we Hemenway, wearing a crimson and blue tie, switched with Bohl.“How about a chancellor who gives you the tie can support a festive football off his neck so you’ll look like a Jayhawk?” Bohl asked.“And he’s not getting this back, either.” environment that all Jayhawks can take l Bohl officially began his tenure as Bohl, 53, replaces Bob Frederick, d’62, pride in.” Association president Fred B. the University’s 13th athletics g’64, EdD’84, who announced his resig- Williams was particularly pleased that Adirector Aug. 1. But on July 31 he nation April 26 after 14 years as athletics the Marching Jayhawks would benefit. already was flying to Dodge City with director. When he was introduced at a “Our constituents enjoy celebrating and coach Terry Allen, drumming up support June 28 news conference, Bohl, for five preserving traditions,” Williams says, in western Kansas for KU football. years the A.D. at Fresno State, was a mys- “and the Marching Jayhawks are cer- Seems Bohl couldn’t wait even a day to tery to KU fans. tainly one of the traditions that enrich trumpet a rejuvenated athletics depart- Introductions are no longer necessary. the KU spirit." ment, and he waited only one day to Bohl seems to be everywhere at once, solidify his new allegiance, writing a appearing at football’s media day, football check Aug. 2 for Jayhawk Society mem- scrimmages, alumni gatherings across the berships for himself and his wife, Sherry. state and even Daisy Hill residence halls Make it official: Al Bohl, architect of when students arrived for moving day. football and fund-raising resurgences at His mantra is football attendance: Toledo and Fresno State, is a Jayhawk. “That stadium will be jam-packed. That is ON THE STRENGTH of a $4 million “It’s a great time to be part of the Uni- going to happen. That will happen.” gift from longtime benefactors Dana versity,” Bohl said at the annual preseason Bohl does more than talk a good game. and Sue Anderson of , the athletics department on Aug. 24 football picnic hosted by the Alumni He offers details of how he plans to boost announced that construction would Association’s Kansas City chapter. “And I average attendance by 20,000, ticket by soon begin on a much-needed strength want you to be proud that Al Bohl is your ticket. The national anthem will be sung athletics director.” by large church choirs, with the hope

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that each singer will bring proud family will be successful.” and conditioning center. members. Veterans organizations will Frederick, who remains on the Univer- Bohl said the 25,000-square-foot accompany the colors when they are sity faculty, will be best remembered for Anderson Family Strength and Condi- paraded onto the field. Corporations will hiring Roy Williams, then an obscure tioning Center, to be built next to the be solicited to purchase blocks of tickets assistant coach at North Carolina, to Anschutz Sports Pavilion west of Allen for schoolchildren, which, for Bohl, is a coach men’s . Another highlight Field House, will be “the state of the personal favorite, “because principals and was his perceptive, hands-off approach to art in all the .” superintendents have access to buses.” Williams’ courtship last year by UNC. Total cost,including equipment, is Bohl already has accomplished one But Frederick’s low point soon fol- expected to be $8 million.Although a goal, with approval being granted for tail- lowed, as budget strains forced him to date for groundbreaking has not yet gating at Memorial Stadium (see sidebar). eliminate men’s and men’s ten- been determined, the Endowment The campuswide alcohol ban had been nis as varsity sports. The budget crunch Association will advance the difference seen by many as a reason game-day envi- was caused, in part, by the thousands of until it is raised from other sources. ronments had become rather tame. empty seats in Memorial Stadium. KU’s current workout area for stu- “That’s something I know must get “My priorities have always been raising dent-athletes is the 6,000-square-foot done,” Bohl said soon after his hiring. “I money and trying to fill up a football sta- Shaffer-Holland Strength Center, built in hope we can create an atmosphere in and dium,” Bohl says. “To be honest with you, 1983. It has become cramped and badly around that stadium to make people love I’ve been trying to fill a football stadium outdated, and has been described as coming to Lawrence.” for 20 years. I’m committed to creative the worst in the Big 12. As for closing the huge funding gap marketing, and we will close that gap. Dana, b’59, and Sue Anderson made among Big 12 athletics programs, Bohl Our stadium will be full.” their pledge last spring, but decided to proposes a direct approach: “I think I’ll Says Allen: “He knows and I know and wait until a new athletics director was arm-wrestle [Texas A.D.] DeLoss Dodds we all know that we’ve got to win in foot- on board to announce their gift. Bohl for a few hundred-thousand dollars.” ball. God bless Al Bohl. The three most started at KU Aug. 1. “Dana thought it would be a good An Air Force veteran, Bohl earned his important things to him are football, foot- idea to make this announcement during bachelor’s degree in math from Bowling ball, football.” Al’s first couple of weeks here because Green, a master’s of education at Southern of the spirit and enthusiasm Al is bring- Mississippi and a PhD in physical-educa- ing to the job,” men’s basketball coach tion administration at Ohio State. He Hill’s goal: Win at football, Roy Williams said,“and because it began his athletics career as an adminis- as well as everything else would help set off his run as athletics trative intern at Ohio State in 1976, and director here at Kansas.” in 1984 was named assistant athletics is bright blue No. 1 jersey glistening The announcement also was timed director. In 1987 he was named athletics Hin the hot August sun, senior co-cap- to help launch the University’s third director at Toledo; in his nine years there, tain Harrison Hill strolls off the Memorial major fund-raising drive, which be for- Bohl was credited with directing record- Stadium field after media-day pho- mally announced in early September. breaking fund drives and season-ticket tographs. KU’s new co-offensive coordina- “We all join in giving this gift,” Dana campaigns during a time of substantial tor, Rip Scherer, who leans against the Anderson said, speaking for the family, cutbacks in state funding. stands as Hill walks past, slips into a per- “hoping to set the tone for a successful Bohl joined Fresno State in 1996. The fect parody of a Southern football KU First program.” Bulldogs’ made it to bowl games the past announcer and drawls, “Number One in The Andersons have supported KU two seasons, and every game last season your program … Number One in your and its athletics department for 40 sold out, except for 500 tickets at the hearts!” Hill grins and walks on. years. In 1996, along with their son, final game. “It broke my heart,” Bohl says. Half an hour later, Hill, who enters his Justin, b’95, now a Lawrence dentist, A 16-person KU committee, chaired by senior season 28 receptions and 753 yards they pledged $10.5 million to benefit Reggie Robinson, c’80, l’87, special coun- from becoming KU’s career leader in both athletics and the School of Business. selor to the chancellor, sifted through a categories, delivers quotes to sportswriters All student-athletes in 18 varsity large pool of candidates for Frederick’s assembled around him. Standing nearby, a sports will use the two-story strength successor. The four finalists then met with well-dressed gentleman waits patiently. center, which will include weight-train- Hemenway. Hill keeps Athletics Director Al Bohl ing equipment, a cardiovascular work- “I felt like his vision, my vision and the waiting. When he finally greets Hill— out area and lockers. vision that most people have for KU ath- who, perhaps coincidentally, served on “For the last four years, we’ve been letics are congruent,” Hemenway says. the athletics-director search committee— recruiting to a blueprint, and that’s a “There is no question in my mind that he Bohl grins like a 12-year-old fetching a very difficult process,” football coach

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Terry Allen says.“When we can finally created by sweep- take our recruits out there and show ing changes them the facility being built, it will have a among the assis- EARL RICHARDSON tremendous impact.” tant coaches and Strength coach Fred Roll recently vocal support told of an unnamed recruit who from the new dropped KU during his campus visit; A.D., it will while touring the current weightroom, a almost certainly ceiling tile fell on the recruit’s head. Not be Hill who pro- only is the current center deteriorating, vides the spark. it is also cramped and requires complex “I don’t go out scheduling to avoid overcrowding. there and try to “We’ve desperately needed this for a be the second-best long time,” women’s basketball coach football player Marian Washington said.“This is one of or an average the best things that could happen to this receiver,” Hill program.” says. “I want to be the best receiver. That’s my goal, and I go out there every day to work toward my goal.” THE FLASHY CO-CAPTAIN is Red-shirt fresh- middle linebacker Marcus Rogers, the man quarterback pass-rushing star is outside linebacker Mario Kinsey, bat- Algie Atkinson and the best-known inte- tling sophomore rior lineman is left tackle and co-captain HE’S NO. 1: Senior wide receiver Harrison Hill says his claim that he’s the best Zach Dyer for the pingpong player in Kansas came from a light-hearted answer he once gave on a pub- Nate Dwyer, one of just 11 defensive licity questionnaire.“He’s the third-best player in our house,” says Hill’s older brother, starting job, was linemen in the Big 12 picked as a pre- Hamilton.“But that’s part of his swagger. I don’t want to take that away.” suspended along season candidate for the Rotary Lom- with starting run- bardi Award. But some veteran prized autograph. ning back Reggie Duncan for the first observers predict that with rugged Big No second-guessing who the star is game for an unspecified violation of team 12 offensive lines awaiting the Jayhawks, this year. rules. The suspension might have tilted the fate of their new 4-3 defense “Everybody who knows him loves the competition toward Dyer, although (installed by new defensive coordinator him,” Hamilton Hill, a former KU quar- Coach Terry Allen did not immediately Tom Hayes, for the past five seasons an terback, says of his brother. “As long as back off earlier statements that he might assistant with the Washington Redskins) they don’t have to compete against him.” not name a full-time starter until he had rests with right tackle Ervin Holloman, a Harrison Hill’s competitive drive is the seen both play in two or three games. 6-3, 300-pound senior from Wichita. stuff of legend around the KU football Should the quarterback job remain in Regardless of his relative importance team. He says he’ll play anybody anytime question, there could be an unintended to the defense’s success, however, it in a game of pingpong, and he proudly leadership vacuum. won’t be difficult to root for Holloman. announces that his PlayStation Jayhawks Not to worry. Hill has it covered. It was revealed during August two-a- recently trounced Oklahoma, 34-12, to “Because of the experience and matu- days that Holloman and his wife, Erika, remain undefeated. “They run some cool rity and confidence that have evolved in their first child, a girl named Nia, routes in that game,” Hill says. “I’m going his time here, Harrison now sees himself Jan. 6, two days after Ervin and Erika to have to tell coach Allen about them.” as a leader and potentially a difference- were married. With real football underway, Hill’s maker,” Scherer says. “There’s no doubt Nia was born Nov. 20, two days after KU’s season-ending loss at Iowa State. competitive fire is now directed toward Harrison is a guy we’re looking to for She had Down syndrome and was born more serious pursuits—including the 3-D leadership.” two months early. Oklahoma Sooners, defending national Scherer says he’ll insist that no offen- While attending to his family, Hollo- champions, who are KU’s Homecoming sive player concern himself with individ- man was placed on academic probation opponent Oct. 13. If Kansas football is to ual statistics and that the team not at the start of spring practice, though capitalize on a burst of preseason energy concern itself with overall stats. “The only

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number that counts,” he says, “is the Gasaway and sophomore Derick Mills, the cause of his problems was not score.” Regardless, there will be some along with two returning tight ends and a revealed at the time. He was able to attention paid to Hill’s numbers. host of other capable receivers. rejoin the team for the final two weeks He caught 47 passes for 591 yards as a “The strongest position on our team is of spring practice and has maintained his junior. If he catches 28 this season, he’ll receiver,” Allen says. “We’ll be different eligibility with summer-school classes. pass Willie Vaughn on KU’s career recep- offensively than we’ve been in the past, I’ll “You’ll never know how tough it tions list. With 753 yards, he’d also pass promise you that, and that’s because of was,” Holloman told . Vaughn in career yardage. the personnel we have at receiver.” “One week we’re burying the baby and “When I first came here, I wanted to Says wide receivers coach Clarence the next I’m supposed to be thinking be one of the best receivers ever to play at James, “The thing we have to do is take about other things. ... I have one more KU,” Hill says. “It would be nice to break the pressure off the quarterbacks. With year left. I decided I could do it. I came the records, but my No. 1 goal now is to the guys we have at receiver, if the quar- back, went to class and tried to go on.” turn this program around. I’ve been dis- terbacks can just get them the ball, things Says Allen:“He’s a guy who has been appointed in every single season we’ve will work out.” through an awful lot. He’s been on such had so far. If we’re having a losing season, One thing that hasn’t worked out for thin ice that you just hope and pray that it’s nothing to be proud of.” Hill is his height. It’s the whole competi- he doesn’t go through the ice.” The Jayhawks were 4-7 last year and tiveness thing. He’s 5-11 1/4 (“Every time haven’t had a winning record since they we measure,” he says sadly), while the were 10-2 in 1995. This year KU has rest of the men in his family are all over 6 seven home games, but the schedule— feet. “I want to be 6-foot so bad,” he says. which includes UCLA, Oklahoma, Kansas “I’m the shrimp, I guess.” State and Nebraska—is ranked the fifth- Hamilton Hill, who recently graduated THE VOLLEYBALL TEAM features toughest in the country. from law school at the University of just one senior—setter Molly LaMere— Though the Jayhawks’ backfield Chicago, treated himself to an August and the roster includes 10 freshmen and includes the flashy Duncan, a sophomore, kayaking trip in Alaska. The day he sophomores. But keeping track of the and other talented young runners, the returned, he perched himself in Memorial players won’t be nearly as challenging as offensive pop for some upsets will likely Stadium’s hot bleachers, watching his following the score. come from the receivers. brother endure two-a-days with the rest of The NCAA has switched to a “rally Hill is the leader, as much for his expe- the Jayhawks. Although he ribs Harrison scoring system,” meaning a point will be rience and enthusiasm as for his talent. for overstating his pingpong prowess, he scored on every play. Previously, only But there are also seniors Termaine Fulton also doesn’t disguise the family’s unity. the offense could score; a defensive vic- (who needs seven touchdowns to pass Law-school struggles, Hamilton says, were tory resulted in a side-out, with the Vaughn) and Roger Ross, junior Byron always lightened by e-mails from Harri- defensive team taking over the serve son. When one brother is but not scoring a point.The first four trying to succeed, the other games of a match will go to 30 points, is always there to cheer. although the fifth game will still go to “I remember when we 15. Repeated side-outs sometimes EARL RICHARDSON were playing football at a lengthened matches, perhaps scaring off relative’s house; I was in potential TV coverage.Also new: Serves high school, all the other that strike the net remain in play. guys who were playing were Coach Ray Bechard expects players in high school, and Harrison to be jittery, knowing defenses can now must have been in fifth or score on an offensive mistake. Until the new scoring is accepted, Bechard says, sixth grade,” Hamilton play will become more conservative. recalls. “But no matter where LaMere, third in career assists at KU, I put the ball, high, long, or enters her third year as a starter.Also side to side, he was there, in back are juniors Kylie Thomas, who fin- perfect position. He seems to ished second in blocks last year, and READY TO HELP: New assistant football coaches are, from left to have some kind of targeting serve specialist Jennifer Kraft, plus right, Johnny Barr (linebackers), Clint Bowen (tight ends/special teams), mechanism. I’d take my sophomores Jordan Garrison (five solo Rip Scherer (co-offensive coordinator/quarterbacks),Travis Jones chances in a jump ball with blocks against Missouri last year, tying a (defensive line),Tom Hayes (defensive coordinator/secondary and Harrison anytime.” assistant head coach), Clarence James (wide receivers) and Sam KU record) and Sarah Rome (185 kills). Pittman (offensive line). So will the Jayhawks.

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 [17 OREAD READER BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

overwhelming from the start— with Powell’s ancestors in Eng- River run land. Worster offers no shortcuts; like Powell floating A renowned KU history professor uses the Grand Canyon’s a mysterious river between the cliffs of the Grand Canyon, bold conquerer to explore vast vistas of the American West there will be no quick escape. Across 573 pages, details he late Edward Abbey, the U.S. Geological Survey blur and cannot be digested. a famously cranky envi- and scattered surveys of the It is impossible to closely fol- Tronmentalist and writer, frontier; education, slavery, low streams of particulars once declared that “a great science, agriculture, ranching about people and places even steel barricade” should be built and irrigation; timber, mineral vaguely connected with the 10 miles from the rim of the and water policies; and, in narrative, and for vast stretch- Grand Canyon. On that barri- their endless American vari- es the book virtually demands cade, Abbey argued, there eties, optimism, opportunism to be let alone. It also cries out should hang this sign: and bigotry. for more maps (chapters on “Human Beings Welcome; To modern sensibilities, Powell’s explorations include Machines Keep Out.” Powell is not a smartly pack- only three) and modern land- The unique canyon Abbey aged hero. Though a passion- scape photographs. so fiercely defended was, and ate student of the Indians he But there is too much here remains, under siege. Too met in his journeys, Powell to give in. The shaping of the many visitors, too many dams, A River Running West:The repeatedly referred to them as West is, in large part, the too much disrespect. None of Life of John Wesley Powell “savages” and insisted their shaping of America, and which existed in 1869, when by Donald Worster only hope for survival was to Worster offers insights and Maj. John Wesley Powell, a Oxford University Press abandon all memories of their connections that we find self-taught naturalist and Civil $35 cultures, languages and spiri- nowhere else. This is a book War artillery commander who tuality. He was perhaps the that, after a first reading, lost his right arm at the Battle length and depth, and one most important early Western deserves a prominent place on of , led a ragged band reading will not do, though conservationist, and would the bookshelf, where it can be of nine men in three small two thorough readings would likely have been as outspoken consulted whenever curiosity wooden boats down the length probably require nearly as as Edward Abbey had he lived is piqued about innumerable of the Green and Colorado much time as Powell needed to see the horrors of the 20th subjects of American history. rivers, starting in southern to make his two trips through century, yet he also happily Worster’s book is more than Wyoming and ending at the the Grand Canyon. (He made boasted that dams would one a reintroduction to Wes Pow- Grand Canyon’s exit in west- his second voyage in 1871; the day plug every U.S. river. ell. It is, in its broad totality, ern Arizona. passage was so difficult that no Powell was not an easy man the rare gift of authoritative Until Powell proved other- one even attempted another to know, and neither is context in which we can place wise, the Colorado River was run until 1889, and that expe- Worster’s book. It is stuffed our brave, forgotten heroes thought to be unnavigable on dition halted after three men with so many topics treated and besieged natural its descent through the Grand drowned.) with depth and detail that it is wonders. Canyon, and that 1869 tri- In giving us the life and umph is the heart of A River times of John Wesley Powell, Excerpt from A River Running West Running West: The Life of John Worster also presents histories “Like the men he recruited, Powell came west as a rather Wesley Powell, by Donald of Methodism, Mormonism ordinary, undistinguished man and found himself challenged Worster, Hall distinguished and abolitionism; geology, to rise to a new, higher plateau than he had known. The Col- professor of history. But biology and theology; real- orado and its highlands inspired and compelled him; they Worster’s book is not so much estate transactions that shaped transformed him from a floundering preacher’s son who could a biography of Powell as it is a small-town America and large- not find himself into a charismatic figure, into a hero for his history of America, with Pow- scale land disbursements that time. ... A half dozen years after his first, improvised field trip ell, the Grand Canyon and the shaped the West; politicians, into the West he had succeeded in navigating, not once but Colorado River as the hooks. presidents and generals; the twice, the most formidable river on the continent.” It is a huge book, both in Civil War and the civil service;

18] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 OREAD WRITER BY ROBERT PALAZZO

nal. Last year, Roger Martin, g’73, editor and writer for KU’s Center for Research Scientific literacy Inc., made the cut. In the laboratory, writers learn how Science writers learn firsthand the joys of discovery at obscure model systems like baker’s yeast or eggs from surf clams offer special prop- a KU professor’s annual course in Woods Hole, Mass. erties for experiments that simply could not be done in humans. The writers peer n these fast-paced days of scientific plicated scientific processes and their into live clam oocytes, using computer- advances and information overload, results? enhanced video microscopes to view Ihow do scientists, accustomed to labo- One way is to learn their way around a chromosomes, the cell structures that ratories and classrooms, effectively con- laboratory. For 16 years the Marine Bio- contain DNA and the hereditary informa- nect with science writers to tell their logical Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., tion required for life. As the week pro- stories? How do discoverers deliver has hosted the Biomedical Hands On Lab- gresses, investigations build upon each the news? oratory Course, where writers experience other, increasing daily in complexity. Talented science writers can the process of The painstaking process of discovery help the public understand how discovery. I’ve introduces the students to a scientist’s work in the lab affects people’s been involved frustration, drudgery and fatigue. Like lives. They can inform public in the project writers, scientists make mistakes, learn debate as our nation attempts to EARL RICHARDSON for the past six from them, and hope to find the unex- legislate scientific issues, forcing years, as co- pected clue that offers a turning point. us all to wrestle with whether director. Experiments are often unpredictable. and how to implement the Why share a But these students are up to the task. knowledge we are gaining. laboratory with I’ve often told my own KU students of the But how do science writers writers? First, importance of developing writing skills, choose the stories they tell? How because the which demand that they learn to assimi- do they accurately explain com- times—and the late knowledge. These accomplished pro- University’s fessional writers prove my point: They mission— make connections and progress through demand it. the week with amazing speed. One writer Chancellor once told me, “I feel like I’ve finished a

RICHARD HOWARD Robert E. PhD in six days.” In many ways, she had. PALAZZO Hemenway has At week’s end, the tired writers burst made improving scientific literacy one with enthusiam, charged by the thrill of of KU’s goals, and he regularly understanding. The course is over and it’s reminds faculty and staff of our duty time to go home, but most of the students to share our knowledge. don’t want to leave. But a second motive also urges me Witnessing their reaction is the week’s to Woods Hole every summer. I’ve payoff for me. These exceptionally bright found that writers and scientists are people, who in their own jobs are in com- not all that different. We share the mand, began the week as children, awed same ethic: a sharp, definitive quest by the tools of science. But now their for the truth. Their news—and our faces seem to say, “Gee, I could really do science—must be accurate and unbi- science if I wanted to.” ased. And that’s the lesson for all of us. Writers do not come easily to the Opportunities like the Woods Hole course Woods Hole course. Nationwide, only can help banish the austere notions that 12 are chosen to work with six faculty make science seem remote and unintelli- members. This year’s class included gible. The fact is, anyone can do science. David Kestenbaum, chief science cor- And we all need to understand how it respondent for National Public Radio, can change our lives. and Antonio Regalado, health and sci- —Robert Palazzo is a KU professor of WOODS HOLE, MASS. ence reporter for the Wall Street Jour- molecular bioscience.

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 [19 BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER PHOTOGRAPHS BY EARL RICHARDSON

Through the voices of volunteers, a KU radio reading service connects sight-impaired listeners to their communities he home exudes warmth. Dark beams crisscross the high living room ceiling, overlooking plump chairs and sofas meant for sitting, not merely for show. Fresh coffee and homemade cupcakes Twelcome visitors. Flanking the fireplace, tall win- dows look out onto the garden, whose bricked walk leads to a shaded gazebo. Back inside, ami- able voices discuss the daily work of the house- hold while a polite schnauzer, Fritz, ambles through rooms that were once the domain of the home’s former feline ruler, Baehr Cat. For many years, the elegant 1920s Tudor belonged to the J.L. Constant family; later it housed KU fraternities. Since 1988 the gracious home has served another extended family: the 12 staff members, 350 volunteers and thousands of listeners of the Kansas Audio-Reader Network, the University’s radio reading service that brings newspapers, magazines, books and other informa- tion to listeners who, because of sight impair- ments or other disabilities, cannot read the printed word. The Audio-Reader center still retains the qualities of a family Audio-Reader, the nation’s second-oldest radio residence while making room for studios and offices.The home’s reading service, will celebrate its 30th anniversary 1988 renovation was funded in large part by a gift from Louis in October with a series of events in the Lawrence and Dolpha Baehr of Paola. area (see box, p.23), but its reach extends through

20] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 to patients in KU Medical Center her radio, now counts on the telephone and area Veterans Administration reader service for her regular doses of hospitals and via cable to Johnson news. County listeners. The reading service and its volunteers The 24-hour, 7-day-a-week and staff become part of listeners’ daily broadcasts feature the voices of vol- lives, Campbell says. “I cannot pinpoint unteers, who read from national and what it is, but there is something about area newspapers, current fiction and this place. You like what you do, you get nonfiction, poetry, mail-order cata- hooked on the program, you get hooked logs and even “mature subject mat- on the people, you get hooked on the lis- ter.” If the program schedule does teners. We form bonds with them. We get not suit a particular listener’s need, intimately involved.” volunteers will record special-request Examples of the familial connections material for only the $1.50 cost of abound: the staff member who for years much of Kansas, western Missouri and the cassette. Other has used vacation days to 15 other states. In recent years, the staff requests include take a listener in Raymore, has supplemented on-air readings with readings from some Mo., to doctor’s appoint- audio descriptions of live theatre, Internet of the state’s smaller ments. The listener in Girard broadcasts and the Lions Telephone weekly newspapers, who welcomed a staff mem- Reader, a dial-in service sponsored in part instruction manuals ber for regular visits. The vol- by the Kansas Lions Sight Foundation. for a listener’s new unteers who have dated, the And for those lucky enough to visit the microwave, or impor- staff member and volunteer Baehr Audio-Reader Center in the Con- tant personal mail, who are now married, the stant home, just off 11th Street north of including legal docu- two volunteers whose shared Memorial Stadium, Audio-Reader also ments, letters or Audio-Reader service also led shares its tranquil Sensory Garden, medical information. to a trip down the aisle. specially designed for blind or sight- Among Audio- Campbell herself is testa- impaired people. Reader’s longtime lis- ment to Audio-Reader’s teners are Susan Haller Tabor, s’73, s’74, and her hus- s she strolls through the garden band, Rob, of Lawrence. Susan began on a sunny morning, Diana Seely relying on the service as a KU student, AFrederick, c’82, points out the and she remembers when Audio- soothing sounds of fountains and the tac- Reader tuned her in to the nation’s tile appeal of plants and flowers. Freder- most-talked-about story. “They read the ick began volunteering in 1979 as a KU Nixon transcripts nonstop for as long student, joined the staff in 1982 and now as it took, and I remember the 18- is development director. She organized minute gap,” she says. Tabor, who has the volunteer effort to plant the garden in been blind since birth, grew up in a 1996, and she savors its serenity and sin- family for whom newspapers were a cere tributes to Audio-Reader listeners daily habit and keeping “centered in and volunteers, whose names and special the world” through news was vital. messages are etched along the garden’s “The Nixon transcripts were a current brick path. story, and it meant that I could have an “To me there is something magical intelligent conversation with my friends Eleanor Symons was the first volunteer reader.The gar- about the mingling of so many lives in the about the subject. By the time publica- den features fragrant, tactile plants, complete with Braille landscape,” she says. tions are converted to Braille, they’re old,” markers. In spring 2000, the Baehr home soon will So many lives have mingled that she says. Tabor, whose duties as chaplain expand to include space for KANU-FM. Bricks along the Audio-Reader’s impact defies precise mea- at the Douglas County Jail and a commu- garden’s walkway bear the names of volunteers and donors. One is Janis Brown Hutchison, ’72, who, as a surement. Director Janet Sommer Camp- nity social worker keep her away from high-school student in the early 1950s, played the piano bell, d’79, says more than 6,000 for Helen Keller when Keller visited Topeka. Hutchison listeners tune in Audio-Reader’s fre- played Debussy’s “Clair De Lune“ as Keller stood in the quency on special radios provided free curve of a grand piano.“She painted a picture of the to sight- or print-impaired listeners moon with her arm,” Hutchison recalls.“Then, as she felt the energetic tempo of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’ she who apply. The service also is available painted another picture of how the music moved her. I’ll never forget it.”

[21 Diana Seely Frederick and Janet Sommer Campbell both joined Audio-Reader in the years when the broadcasts came from makeshift campus quarters. Frederick’s connection began when she was a stu- dent volunteer; now she is development director. Campbell came to the staff as a temporary, part-time secretary. In 1987 she became director.

get calls from other services to see how we’re doing what we do. Telephone reader was the brainchild of one of our staff members, and now he has installed them in Washington, D.C., and in Min- nesota. We’re up on satellite so the read- ing services that are one- and two-person shops can take us off the air.” Campbell credits consistent University and community support for Audio-Read- ’s success. Two-thirds of Audio-Reader’s $400,000 annual budget is University funded; the remainder comes from grants and donations, which provide the special radios for listeners (at a cost of about allure. After completing her special-edu- architecture of the beloved Constant $108 per unit) and other equipment. cation degree in December 1979, she was home. KANU’s annual budget of $1.3 million biding her time until a teaching job For KANU, she says, the move is is evenly split between University and opened the following fall. “I was working sorely needed. Since the radio station’s donor funds. at Weaver’s selling bras over Christmas,” development office in Hoch Auditorium she recalls, “and a girl who was working burned in the 1991 fire, the three fund- there was the bookkeeper at Audio-Read- raising staff members have been reduced he University and community col- er and told me about a temporary, part- to vagabonds, moving seven times, most laboration that sustains Audio- time secretary job. I came intending to recently to offices in Carruth-O’Leary TReader began more than 30 years stay for three months. I later had a couple Hall. And the station’s cramped, window- ago, when the late Lawrence philan- of offers for teaching jobs, but the pro- less broadcast facilities have long belied thropist Petey Cerf, ’64, who spent her gram-manager’s job came open during its expansive national reputation. spare hours reading to a friend in a nurs- that time and it really appealed to me. I Combining the public radio station ing home, sought a better way to provide like the people and program and the vol- and the radio reading service makes the printed word to those who couldn’t unteers, and I’m still here.” sense, Campbell says, because the staffs read. After she learned about the nation’s Campbell became director in 1987, share similar engineering and other tech- first radio reading service, established in shortly before the service moved from nical needs as well as administrative tasks. 1969 in Minnesota, Cerf approached the nearby Sudler House and its trailer annex She also looks forward to staff collabora- University with the idea. In 1971, the to the Baehr Audio-Reader Center in the tions on many issues, although she voices of Audio-Reader volunteers went renovated Constant home. In 1997, emphasizes that the two operations will on the air. Campbell also became director of KANU, maintain separate budgets and develop- The first voice belonged to Eleanor the University’s public radio station, split- ment operations (including mailing lists). Symons, longtime University librarian ting her days between the Audio-Reader A united house could also lead to more who retired in 1994 and has continued center and KANU’s cubbyhole studios prominence for KANU and Audio-Reader, her reading duties for all of Audio-Read- hidden behind Marvin Hall on campus. both of which have earned national er’s 30 years. Symons, a native of Corn- But an expansion to Audio-Reader’s acclaim. Though the public radio station’s wall, England, says she has read nearly headquarters soon will simplify her days regional and national awards typically every genre broadcast by the service: and unite the two radio services. Plans attract more media attention, Audio- newspapers, books, magazines, poetry call for a spring 2002 groundbreaking to Reader, a veteran in radio reading ser- and special-request material. “I was par- begin building a 9,000-square-foot addi- vices, also has earned its claim to fame. ticularly fond of two poetry programs I tion to the home, making room for “When Hawaii wanted to put in a did through the years, and I’ve always KANU’s 18 staff members to join Audio- reading service, our engineer put them on enjoyed English murder mysteries and Reader’s 12-member team. Campbell says the air,” Campbell says. “All of us, our other works set in England. My favorite the expansion will remain true to the program director, our volunteer director, book was Coming Home by Rosamunde

22] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 Pilcher, about a girl of my generation of Audio-Reader’s newest and youngest Kansas: Great Bend, Girard, St. Marys, growing up in Cornwall whose life volunteer, 11-year-old Kate Falkenstien, a Leavenworth, Pretty Prairie. was much more exciting than mine.” Lawrence sixth-grader, who answered a And from Parsons, where 83-year-old Symons’ distinctive British accent is newspaper story’s call for Audio-Reader Irene Hicks lives alone, kept company by recognized by listeners. “I’ve been volunteers. her radio. impressed by the importance of the ser- “I like to read a lot and I like electron- “Thank you for this service. I have vice to so many people,” she says. “The ics, so this is my dream volunteer job,” poor eyesight and hearing, but almost any staff is most considerate and dedicated Falkenstien says. She reads Parade maga- time I turn on Audio-Reader, there is in connecting listeners and volunteers zine from The Kansas City Star on the air, something of interest to listen to,” she at special gatherings or through corre- and she hopes someday to share her says. “Audio-Reader has opened up a spondence.” favorite children’s books: the Harry Potter whole new world to me.” Listeners and staff alike develop their series or selections by Roald Dahl and A world in which voices connect and own favorites among the volunteers, Laura Ingalls Wilder. lives mingle. many of whom are from the University Campbell, herself an occasional on-air community as well as Topeka and the reader, favors letters to the editor, Kansas City suburbs. Campbell recalls her columns and editorials. “They’re the most udio-Reader began its 30-year favorite reader, Arline Bliesner, a retired challenging, because if you totally dis- celebration last spring with its KU secretary who for years had sup- agree with them you have to read it like A.annual fund drive and Volunteer pressed her secret desire to perform in you don’t. It’s hard to read in neutral.” In Appreciation Banquet, which honored radio drama. “She had been a housewife fact, she says, newspapers generally aren’t Eleanor Symons for her record service. and raised her children and worked at meant for reading aloud, so volunteers are Fall events will include: KU, but when she came to us, she had no challenged to make even the most mun- self-confidence,” Campbell recalls. “She dane but vital information if not lyrical OCT. 6: University Open House. was our best reader. She had the most then at least light on the ears. Audio-Reader and its Sensory Garden fabulous accent. She could pull off Scout “It’s not easy to make the school board will be open for special tours and pre- Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, Scarlett in meeting in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, sentations to the community. Gone with the Wind and the black dialects sound interesting, but it is interesting to WEEK OF OCT. 11: Special program- in The Color Purple. She’d go in our studio that person hearing it in Medicine Lodge, ming throughout the anniversary week and do what she’d always wanted to do Kansas,” she says. “It’s not easy to make will include remembrances from volun- and had never had the guts to do. She the results from the 4-H Fair interesting, teers, listeners and staff and appear- enjoyed it as much as our listeners did.” but many people want to hear them. ances by celebrity readers. Campbell says the tapes made by Bliesner, “When you tell people what we do, who died in January 2000, have been their first reaction might be, ‘Well, people OCT. 14: Anniversary picnic for all saved by her devoted fans. can get the news on the radio.’ That’s true. current and former volunteers and Frustrated actors and folks who just But you don’t get all of the things I just families, beginning at 4 or 5 p.m. at love to read are likely candidates to vol- mentioned. You don’t get the divorces, the the Baehr Audio-Reader Center, featur- unteer, but desire alone is not a qualifica- obits and the birth announcements and ing food, drink, live music and greet- tion, says development director Diana the friendship meals, the agenda for the ings from listeners. To confirm start Frederick. Volunteers must audition, first city council, the traffic report—all of time and make reservations, call by reading the words on a confidential, those things that we all read that connect 785-864-4600. 100-word test. After navigating “vicissi- us to our community. Columns and edito- A WATERCOLOR tudes,” “chromacarcinogen,” “impetus” rials are sometimes the things painting of Audio-Reader and the tricky names of Kansas towns, that generate the most contro- headquarters by artist and foreign leaders and newsmakers, potential versy in a community. If you’re Audio-Reader volunteer volunteers also must perform cold read- blind, you can’t share in that.” Mary Ann Saunders, f’00, ings from varied works. Although 85 per- The sharing within the Lawrence, will tour the cent is a passing grade, only one-third of community, within the family, area; prints and notecards the candidates pass the audition, Freder- binds staff members, volun- will be available for pur- ick says. For those who pass, the audition teers, listeners. Each spring, chase. For more informa- also helps determine volunteers’ strengths the staff interviews listeners tion, call 785-864-4600 or and weaknesses. “If someone sails about what Audio-Reader check the Web site: through fiction or news but butchers means to them; their personal reader.ku.edu sports,” she says, “we’ll make sure they’re comments help volunteers reading novels or front-page news and not understand the ways in which The garden’s reading angel hon- the football scores.” their voices have touched lives. ors the hundreds of readers who But lest the audition appear too daunt- The chorus of thanks echoes have shared the printed word on ing, Frederick proudly offers the example from towns throughout the air for 30 years.

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 [23 PAUL SOUTHERLAND PAUL

Schoolchildren embrace a captivating science project: to track nature’s most remarkable migration BY STEVEN HILL

s the days begin to shorten and cool in late August and years, these “citizen scientists” tag between 60,000 and 80,000 butterflies, early September, millions of monarch butterflies abandon and their observations of a host of vari- their summer ranges across North America and fly ables (weather conditions, location and date of tagging, direction of flight and the south, launching a migration like no other in the insect sex and condition of each butterfly tagged Aworld, a cross-continental exodus that in its vast sweep and mysti- and released) provide a wealth of data that researchers are using to better under- fying inevitability rivals the seasonal passages of whales and stand the monarch’s fantastic journey. But as valuable as the data are, the full waterfowl. From five Canadian provinces and every U.S. state east story of Monarch Watch is more than the of the Rocky Mountains, these striking symbols of fragile beauty sum of cold, hard facts. The program’s primary mission, Taylor says, is to pro- will complete a rugged journey that, for the most far-flung among mote science education. Much of the tag- ging is done by elementary and middle them, stretches nearly 3,000 miles. school students across the country; more than 100,000 schoolchildren participated By early October the flight paths of this epic southward flight will be the monarchs from Manitoba and Maine, nearly 2,000 members of Monarch Watch, from Kansas and the Carolinas, will con- a network of volunteers devoted to the verge in the skies above southern Texas, study and conservation of the insect

where they’ll turn toward their final desti- class’s most royal figure, Danaus plexippus. EARL RICHARDSON nation, the oyamel fir forests dotting a The program, run by Orley “Chip” Taylor, dozen or so mountaintops in the Trans- professor of ecology and evolutionary volcanic range of central Mexico. There, biology, this September marks its 10th in the isolated countryside of Michoacán, year of tagging monarch butterflies during 100 miles west of Mexico City, the sur- the fall migration. Armed with Monarch vivors will cluster together by the millions Watch tagging kits, with butterfly nets beneath a protective canopy of evergreens, and bare hands, these volunteers and riding out rainstorms and cold fronts. their helpers will capture and tag—with Come spring they’ll head north again to lightweight adhesive disks that bear the reproduce and die. University’s return address—as many Waiting for them all along the route of monarchs as they can catch. In most SeptemberSee you in

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 [25 spent summers at his grandmother’s Wis- consin farm, had a natural inclination toward biological interests as a boy, but he lacked mentors. “Everything I did was by trial and error,” he says—breeding mice,

EARL RICHARDSON raising ducks and starting his own bee- keeping operation at 14. “It was all self- instruction. That’s great if you’re driven to do it, but not every kid is. A lot of kids need guidance to get to the point where they can self-instruct, and that’s basically what this program does.” In an age when Nintendo and MTV compete with the natural world for chil- dren’s attention, shifting kids’ attention from the great indoors to the great out- doors may seem a tough assignment. But Monarch Watch’s founders were surprised by how easy it turned out to be. “When we started Monarch Watch we didn’t understand the charisma attached to monarchs, how that pulled people in and kept them involved even when things JIM LOVETT

last fall. In partnership with Monarchs in “Everybody does scripted science, where the Classroom, a program run from the the end is known. I want students to University of Minnesota, Monarch Watch learn from their failures, because that is has developed curricula that use butter- where science is made. That’s where the flies as the bait for active, hands-on edu- fun is.” cation designed to interest kindergarten, In his Haworth Hall office, which dou- elementary and middle school students in bles as Monarch Watch headquarters, two science. Projects include rearing live mon- dozen monarchs flit and flutter beneath archs, planting butterfly gardens and lights in cages built of wood, window responding to research questions designed screen and duct tape. As he talks, pas- by Taylor to encourage amateur lepi- sionately, about their appeal, the butter- dopterists to fill in the many blanks in flies sup on kitchen sponges soaked in professional scientists’ understanding of sugar solution. Paper covers every hori- At Hillcrest Elementary School in Lawrence, Orley “Chip” Taylor shows second-graders monarch migration. zontal surface and most of the vertical Jocelyn Medrano and Molly Morgan how to ones: The walls bear newspaper clippings, search for butterfly eggs (p. 25) and helps magazine articles and posters heralding Nathan Davis handle one of the monarch cater- Taylor’s academic work. The general effect pillars (left) that Monarch Watch raises in its “ hat I provide kids is an oppor- is decidedly low-tech and casual and Haworth Hall lab (above).Teacher Kathy Davis tunity to do what I call open- pleasantly chaotic, not unlike the child- looks on as Taylor describes the right way to Wended science, where the hood room of a budding bug collector. hold a butterfly (right). outcome is not scripted,” says Taylor. Taylor, who grew up in Minnesota and

26] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 didn’t seem to be working,” says co- It’s perfectly friendly and accessible, and it nators, a second grader, who had some founder Brad Williamson, a former stu- has this absolutely spectacular metamor- questions for him. The kid got on the line dent of Taylor’s who teaches high school phosis that’s also accessible. It’s so won- and asked a couple of questions about in Olathe. It was Williamson, c’74, g’77, derful to watch this butterfly come out of telling the difference between mommy who came up with the idea of enlisting its pupa and expand its wings; kids just and daddy butterflies, and Chip was sort students to help with butterfly tagging. sit there and their mouths drop open.” of chuckling to himself at how cute that Pragmatism, rather than vision, was his That grade-school kids could be awed was,” Williamson says. “And then the inspiration: Sign up 50 teachers with 100 by butterflies may seem unremarkable, principal got back on the line and said he students, he told Taylor, and you’ve got but Williamson discovered the same atti- wanted Chip to know about the success 5,000 people chasing butterflies. But it tude in his students at Olathe East High of this program, because that young kid wasn’t long before the two realized they’d School, where “nobody was too cool to was an autistic child and those were the stumbled onto something more valuable get excited about catching butterflies.” first words he’d ever spoken at the school. than the research data the tagging gener- Similar reports came from less traditional “They’d just about given up, because ated. They had discovered a powerful settings: A woman teaching at the Lansing they couldn’t get to him. But the butter- teaching tool. Correctional Facility brought monarch flies had gotten to him.” “The butterfly has this incredible biol- larvae into the classroom, then was sur- ogy. It’s rather wondrous that it goes to prised to see inmates give up their breaks Mexico and then comes back in the to watch butterflies emerge from their spring,” Taylor says. “But perhaps more cocoons. But what Williamson remembers hen Monarch Watch volun- important, the monarch is accessible and most is a phone call from a Florida ele- teers began tagging butterflies, big and showy and tough. You can handle mentary school principal. Win 1992, scientists knew little it; it doesn’t fall apart when you pick it “The principal wanted to know if Chip about the population dynamics—the up. It’s easy to rear. It can’t bite or sting. would talk to one of the monarch coordi- overall size, health and workings—of EARL RICHARDSON

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 [27 Monarch Migration: Tracking the sun

During their fall migration, monarchs funnel into Mexico from every state east of the Rocky Mountains. (Western monarchs

SUSAN YOUNGER migrate to the California coast.) Taylor believes their journey tracks the sun’s posi- tion in the sky:The migration begins when the sun’s angle above the horizon at solar noon falls to 56 degrees.When that hap- pens is a factor of latitude:The sun reaches 56 degrees on Aug. 26 in Minneapolis but doesn’t fall that low until Oct. 1 in Austin, Texas.At the winter roosts in Mexico, where Monarchs arrive around Oct. 30, the sun remains at 56 degrees longer than at any other point on their route.When it ascends to that angle again in March, the spring migration north begins.

The leading edge 1 Minneapolis: Aug. 26 2 Omaha: Sept. 4 3 Lawrence: Sept. 11 4 Oklahoma City: Sept. 20 5 Austin: Oct. 1 6 Mexico wintering sites: Oct. 30

the eastern North America monarch pop- Taylor had established himself as one ulation. of the world’s foremost bee experts in the “At the time there was no consistent 1970s with his research on African “killer” monitoring at the overwintering sites, so bees—work that frequently took him to SOUTHERLAND PAUL we didn’t have any idea how strong the Mexico, where he saw monarchs on their population was,” Taylor says. Those sites round-trip journeys. By the early ’90s that were not even discovered by the scientific research was winding down, and Taylor community until the mid-1970s, when was looking for another study area. When University of Toronto biologist Fred a colleague in Mexico called in the spring Urquhart hinted at their whereabouts in a of 1992 to say that almost no monarchs National Geographic article. Urquhart, were moving north, he was intrigued. famously protective of his academic turf, Williamson was then working to estab- ran a tagging program for over 30 years lish a network of teachers across Kansas with his wife, Nora. (In 1976 an Urquhart who wanted to involve students in real tag from Minnesota showed up in Mexico, research. “The idea was, ‘Let’s not play providing the first proof that monarchs games with trying to create simulated migrate long distances.) “But it never pro- research; let’s actually involve students in duced a lot of results because they never real problems that need their work and analyzed the data,” Taylor says. “This was input,’” he says. “What we were trying to of some concern, as they were getting on do is realize that kids might have diffi- in years and it didn’t look like they were culty coming up with their own ques- ever going to analyze it.” tions, but that they could get excited

28] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 about doing real science.” During a sum- urban kids, because they can then go on pretty remarkable.” mertime visit to Taylor’s office, the two to study insects, which you can find in Indeed, when Monarch Watch began talked butterflies and Monarch Watch was your backyard or even in your house. You tracking the migration, only about 100 born. can’t do that with what we call the ‘charis- butterfly tags had been recovered at the Williamson helped sign up teachers matic mega-fauna’—animals like deer. But Mexican roosting sites. After 10 years, the across Kansas, hoping to develop valid when you get right down to it there are number has grown to 1,600. Researchers scientific data from their tagging activities. some pretty charismatic micro-fauna, and now know that nearly every state east of “It wasn’t very long into that first year that the monarch is one of them.” the Rockies is represented at the Mexico we realized the educational opportunity While Mason sees the education of sites, and they know that where the but- far, far outweighed whatever data we were hundreds of thousands of citizen scien- terflies begin their journey affects the going to get out of the research. I’ve tists as Monarch Watch’s biggest impact, odds of its success. (Monarchs from the always held that if you do good science, he notes that the data gleaned from the Minnesota-to-Texas corridor are more education and enthusiasm will follow. nearly half-million butterflies tagged in likely to reach the overwintering sites). And that’s exactly what happened.” the program’s first 10 years have produced They’ve learned much about the risks and Jim Mason, c’75, a naturalist at the real scientific gains. losses the migrants Great Plains Nature Center in Wichita and “The tagging program is coming up encounter on a Monarch Watch participant, has wit- with a whole slew of data that will hope- the way (at nessed the program’s power to interest fully give us a greater understanding of least half children in hands-on science. how something with a brain smaller than never “Anytime you can offer a child actual a pinhead knows how to find its way contact with a living creature, that has a from Maine to Michoacán—which is big impact. Kids will remember for a long time that they were the ones who held the butterfly, who put the tag on his wings. “ANYTIME YOU CAN OFFER A CHILD ACTUAL They go home and tell their parents, and the next time we see them they’re still CONTACT WITH A LIVING CREATURE,THAT HAS A BIG bubbling about it.” IMPACT. KIDS WILL REMEMBER FOR A LONG TIME THAT Butterflies make a good introduction to science, Mason says, because they are THEY WERE THE ONES WHO HELD THE BUTTERFLY, accessible. “They can open doors for those WHO PUT THE TAG ON HIS WINGS.” with an interest in biology, especially for

make it to Mexico) and how degradation of U.S. habitat threatens the migration

RENEE KNOEBLER nearly as much as the destruction of Mex- ican forests. (Hazards here include geneti- cally modified crops, suburban sprawl and roadside mowing of milkweed, the only plant on which monarch caterpillars feed.) And they’ve learned that six to 10 female monarchs must be produced each summer for every female butterfly that comes north from Mexico in the spring, which gives researchers a clearer picture of just how vulnerable this seemingly

Monarchs can be observed in great numbers on the southern portions of their journey, as with this resting group in Oklahoma (p. 28). Citizen scientists like these children, pictured in 1994, have helped Monarch Watch gather a decade’s worth of data on the migration.

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 [29 bountiful butterfly population is. went out there every year at the same with a conservation issue here.” Perhaps most dramatically, Taylor now time and watched what was going on and As part of its mission, Monarch Watch thinks he has gained some insight into the then published the data, it would be valu- promotes conservation of the monarch’s issue Mason raises: How do monarchs able. If you compare a really carefully habitat in Canada, the United States and find their way to Mexico? done experiment with some half-assed Mexico. The Mexican roost sites encom- “One thing that became clear from little anecdotal report and give them pass 200,000 acres of forest that are this tagging program is that monarchs are equal weight, that, to me, is not accept- rich not only ecologically, but also eco- fairly predictable in when they arrive,” able science.” nomically. Taylor says. He knows to expect the lead- Taylor disagrees. “The data from an “The lumber in that forest is extraordi- ing edge of the migration in Lawrence on eighth-grader have the potential to be just narily valuable,” Taylor says of the over- Sept. 11, regardless of weather conditions, as good as those of a retired senior citi- wintering range, which is protected by with peak numbers following nine to 11 zen. There is absolutely no reason ama- government decree but privately owned. days later. He can also date their arrival at teurs cannot get these data. I want to “The government is protecting the land any other point on the migration route. show that anyone can become a scientist.” against the peasant’s wishes, so there is “The regularity of this pattern is really extraordinary, so we started asking why. It turns out that all this migration is appar- ently associated with a process of tracking CHIP TAYLOR the altitude angle of the receding sun in the fall.” As the angle of the sun above the horizon at solar noon falls to 56 degrees —which happens progressively later in the year the farther one moves south— monarchs take wing. Like most research discoveries, this one, which Taylor and a colleague are now writing up for publication, raises as many questions as it answers. And if it doesn’t quite solve the mystery of how an insect with a brain smaller than a pinhead plots a course from Maine to Michoacán, it does take a big step toward a general theory explaining the timing and pace of a migration that, only 10 years ago, Tay- lor says, “seemed like chaos.” “The beauty of it all,” according to Tay- lor, is that the groundwork was laid for this and other important research gains of constant tension in the local community the past decade by “a very simple tagging about whether or not to harvest the trees program that involves thousands of citi- s Taylor looks to the future, he in spite of the restrictions. And in fact zen scientists, and it is turning up new sees himself trying to nudge they are nibbling away at the forest all the information every year.” ABrower and other monarch biolo- time because they have to put shoes on Not everyone shares this assessment. gists toward a more holistic view of the their children’s feet.” Lincoln Brower, distinguished service pro- butterflies. Toward that end, he hosted a That nibbling has led to substantial fessor emeritus of zoology at the Univer- conference at KU in May that brought degradation of the monarch’s winter habi- sity of Florida and research professor of together 90 monarch researchers from tat. Like a moth-eaten overcoat, a forest zoology at Sweet Briar College, is widely around the world. “We really have to canopy riddled with holes provides poor considered the world’s leading monarch understand the whole process, the birth shelter from winter winds. It also reduces researcher. He takes a dimmer view of cit- and death of monarch butterflies through- protection from predators. On a trip to izen scientists. In Four Wings and a Prayer: out the entire year,” says Taylor, who fears Mexico last February, Taylor visited a site Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch But- that “sky-is-falling” biology is wasting pre- degraded by illegal logging and burning. terfly, Brower tells author Sue Halpern, cious time. “We need to get away from the In November, an estimated 1 million “What we get from a lot of amateurs is ‘I hand-wringing and get into some real monarchs were roosting there. By January, saw five butterflies down at the numbers, which is what you need to get winter weather had killed around park on Sunday at five o’clock.’ If they governments to take action. We’re dealing 300,000. When Taylor arrived, he found

30] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 no living butterflies and the forest floor million to a hectare (about 3.5 million per now consists of three full-timers and sev- was littered with orange and black wings. acre) is an “absolutely awesome” sight, eral undergrads. This comes as news to A March storm at another site caused Taylor says. “If you happen to be there at the conservation groups that regularly more losses. There were even rumors, dawn and there’s a little breeze, the pre- solicit Monarch Watch for money. “We never substantiated, that loggers had dominant sound is the rustle of wings. have people requesting grants because sprayed butterflies with pesticides. When I go down there it’s about as close they have only a half-million dollar bud- The very act that facilitates their close as I get to being spiritual: You look at this get,” Taylor says wryly. “We have such vis- study—a migration that funnels insects mass of butterflies and realize that every ibility that people assume we have normally spread across 2,000 miles into a one came over 2,000 miles to get there. millions to work with.” handful of sites covering less than 50 You know they represent only the 20 to Still, Taylor remains committed to miles—leaves them vulnerable to catastro- 50 percent that actually survived the jour- what he says is the most rewarding work phe. “The Achilles’ heel of this system is ney, that there were a lot of hazards on he’s done during his long and illustrious the overwintering thing,” Taylor says. the way, a lot of mortality to get where academic career. Wintering monarchs exist in a kind of they are. That speaks to the incredible “People who are basically disconnected extended torpor, drowsing in a climate drive in the system to survive.” from the natural world will write a letter cold enough to conserve energy but not Monarch Watch is waging its own fight in the dead of winter saying, ‘I want to cold enough to freeze. The balance is deli- for survival: Last year the $200,000-a-year thank you for allowing me to participate cate: Butterflies warmed by the sun will program, which gets no consistent direct in your program, because for the first search out water, only to scurry back to support from the University, posted time in 40 years I connected with some- their roosts when a cloud passes. Those $32,000 in red ink. Most of its funding thing really fantastic and it was awe- that linger too long risk being fatally comes from the sale of educational mate- inspiring,’” Taylor says. “They say we’ve stranded. The rest are easy pickings for rials, a thriving sideline in butterfly T- got them looking at the stars and looking predators. Though toxins in the milkweed shirts and gardening kits, and from at birds and looking at plants in a way they eat makes monarchs unpalatable to donations. (Taylor and his wife are the they never would have done without our most birds, some species—the oriole, for biggest private donors.) Monarch Watch’s program. That’s the kind of positive instance—will prey on them, as will Adopt-A-Classroom program, a goodwill feedback that says, ‘Hey, let’s keep this rodents and insects. And man. Author Sue effort that collects and delivers donated thing going.’” Halpern writes that Mexican farmers used supplies to 30 schools near the Mexican to smoke butterflies out of the trees and roosting sites, is perennially imperiled by let their cows eat them by the thousands. budget shortfalls, and Taylor says he’ll Seeing monarchs clustered together 10 probably have to reduce his staff, which JIM LOVETT JIM LOVETT

Research assistant Jim Lovett, c’93, c’95, distributes donated school supplies to Mexican schoolchildren during Monarch Watch’s annual Adopt-a-Classroom trip (p.30). Left and above:The rich oyamel fir forests of central Mexico’s Transvolcanic Mountains shelter millions of monarchs from November to March.

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 [31 or those who are mooved by fanciful art and aren’t cowed by a parade of puns, sum- mer was the season to steak out Kansas City: CowParade, made famous by its U.S. Fdebut two years ago in Chicago, finally reached Cowtown U.S.A. Area artists—including, of course, KU alumni, some of whose work is featured here—lassoed their free-ranging imagina- tions and horned in on the action, fash- ioning festive cows to be displayed at landmarks across Kansas City. Cows could be found at the , Crown Center, , Union Station—everywhere, it seems, but the stockyards. Cartoonist Charlie Podrebarac, ’81, got a jump on the cattle drive: He has drawn his “Cowtown” cartoon since 1984. Podrebarac created three of the KC cows, including “Cowlvis,” featured for months on a Westport billboard. Painter Herd Mike Savage, f’80, saw his “Shaken Not Steered” displayed on the Plaza and “I’ve Looked at Cows From Both Sides Now” penned up in Union Station. And hand- Around Town bag designer Kate Brosnahan Spade, ’86, KU artists put their brands on KC’s bevy of bovines created a colorful cow that grazed, of course, in front of Halls. “You see people everywhere with their BY CHRIS LAZZARINO maps, checking off the cows,” Podrebarac PHOTOGRAPHS BY EARL RICHARDSON says. “It’s become this compulsion, a huge, citywide scavenger hunt. Everyone

32] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 has a camera and their maps, and they’ve There was also some ribbing by art got to see every cow.” lovers who contended that the artistic Some Kansas Citians beefed that the energies and financial resources ($5,000 CowParade idea had lost its tastiness; oth- sponsorships were found for most of the ers said the cows were so well done that 205-cow herd) might have been better while the idea might not have been origi- spent on more serious outdoor, public art. nal, the KC cows certainly were. Jerry To which the artists and fans reply: Elbaum, president of CowParade Hold- Moo to you. ings, of West Hartford, Conn., said, “People love outdoor activities they can “The art is phenomenal. The consistent do as a group,” Savage says. “This sum- quality of art here is the highest we’ve mer they have an outdoor activity seen in any venue.” that involves art, and kids really

“Cowtown” cartoon creator Charlie Podrebarac (above) with his “Cowtown Cow” on . Mike Savage’s “I’ve Looked at Cows From Both Sides Now,” inside Union Station (left), depicts familiar Kansas City vistas.

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 [33 Mike Savage (top) whoops it up aboard “Shaken Not Steered” on the Plaza. Lawrence muralist David Loewenstein, ’93, (above) adds final touches to “Cowalligator,” whose habitat was Shawnee Mission Park. Susan McCarthy, c’77, f’81, (above left) poses in place of her “Cow Grazing in the Flint Hills,” which was sent back to the ranch for repairs after cow-tipping vandals toppled it from its Plaza perch.

34] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 love these cows. This is public art that people are enjoying in the middle of a long, hot summer. I guess I don’t under- stand what could possibly be wrong about that.” Standing near his “Shaken Not Steered” cow in front of a Plaza furnish- ings store, Savage groans when he sees that a couch awaiting pickup by a cus- tomer has been stashed directly behind “More Than Just Meat” (left), a Hospital Hill grazer his cow. And he laughs when someone by Kristin Dempsey, f’91, makes mention of the “cowch” crowding encourages KC barbecue his cow art. lovers to remember their That’s how it is around these bovine veggies. canvases. For the smallest reasons on the hottest days, people pause and smile. “I just love watching people as they look at the cows,” Savage says. “When they get to each cow, they’ll look at it for a moment and then they’ll say hi to the other people who are also there at that cow. What else is going to get people to stop on the sidewalk and say hello to total strangers?” Podrebarac recalls a recent Sunday when he had to repair his “Nascow Stock- yard Race Cow” at the Wyandotte County Courthouse. After slathering on a fresh dose of glue, Podrebarac was stuck hold- ing Nascow’s tailpipe until the glue set. “It was 100 degrees on a Sunday after- noon, and in the short time I was there, three groups of people came up and took pictures of the cow and chatted with me,” Podrebarac says. “There’s no way anyone would even be walking by City Hall on a hot Sunday afternoon, let alone stopping and chatting. But these cows brought them out. Charlie Podrebarac’s rhinestone- “The cows are temporary. What’s not studded “Cowlvis” (above) was temporary is the introduction kids are The King of a Westport billboard, getting to outdoor art. These memories while a more sublime tune was will last.” played at Crown Center by “The Jazz Cow” (left), created by Jan Gaumnitz, g’74, and Janet Satz.

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percent of high-school seniors. He also became known for his signature “orienta- Lifetimes of service tion program” for Hill-bound students, inspiring their excitement for KU tradi- Fred Ellsworth honors go to 3 whose loyalty exemplifies tions. Also for the Association, life member the standard set by the Association’s longtime leader Bunyan has served as a member of Jay- hawks for Higher Education, which communicates the needs of higher edu- cation to the Kansas Legislature, a ’Hawk to ’Hawk mentor to KU students and an employment liaison for the Hire a Hawk program. For the KU Endowment Associa- tion, he was a mem- ber of the National Council and a lead- ership donor for Campaign Kansas, William P.Bunyan III Barbara Burkholder Nordling Linda Bliss Stewart the University’s fund drive from 1988 to tudy the history of service to the letics and Endow- 1992, and he served on the the Greater University shared by the three 2001 ment associations. University Fund Advisory Board. He SFred Ellsworth Medallion recipients, Bunyan, c’61, is a Chancellors Club and Williams and you’ll note several similarities. Each has acted as Dodge Educational Fund member. has ardently made the case for KU in a City’s unofficial Nordling, ’51, has made service to small Kansas community. Each has shown ambassador to KU the University a career, lending her a commitment to young people as a local for more than a volunteer for the Kansas Honors Program. quarter-century. As And each has worked to ensure that the chair of the Dodge City The Ellsworth medallion University’s traditions and rich cultural alumni chapter, Bunyan offerings grow even stronger for genera- presided over a seven-county has been given since 1975 to those tions that follow. area to host countless Univer- who follow the example of This year’s medalists are William P. sity events with his wife, Susan. Bunyan III, Dodge City; Barbara Burk- He shared with the Alumni extraordinary service to KU holder Nordling, Lawrence; and Linda Association his statewide vision Bliss Stewart, Wellington. The Alumni as a board member from 1987 Association’s national Board of Directors to 1992. In 1987 he was among the first substantial volunteer efforts to strengthen and the KU community honored them to receive the Mildred Clodfelter Alumni the arts and academics at KU. She has Sept. 14 at the Adams Alumni Center. Award for sustained local volunteer ser- served on the School of Fine Arts advisory The Ellsworth medallion has been vice to KU. board and the Lied Center board of gover- given since 1975 to those who follow the For years he has encouraged countless nors. Her committee peers laud her spe- example of extraordinary service to KU western Kansas students to choose KU, cial talent for uniting people in support of set by the Association’s longtime executive urging his local alumni chapter to estab- the arts for school-age children. Nordling secretary, Fred Ellsworth, c’22, who lish a merit-based scholarship for new helps facilitate many programs that bring retired in 1963 after 39 years. Winners Jayhawks and chairing the local Kansas world-class performing arts to KU and to are chosen by representatives from the Honors Program events, part of the Asso- local public-school classrooms. Chancellor’s Office and the Alumni, Ath- ciation’s statewide tribute to the top 10 Before she and her husband, Bernie,

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l’49, moved to Lawrence, Nordling was a in recent years has shared her astute time to the city’s Youth Action Coalition KU stalwart in Hugoton, hosting numer- diplomacy and pragmatic approach to and to her church, where she served as a ous KU events in her home and chairing encourage a productive partnership camp counselor. the Kansas Honors Program for many between the school and the Lied Center. Cannon, who with his two older sisters years. She also advanced KU’s legislative As a central Kansan, she encouraged represents his family’s third KU generation agenda as a Jayhawk for Higher Educa- talented young students as the chair for (see p. 45), racked up honors in math at tion. She and Bernie are Association life the Kansas Honors Program in Welling- Shawnee Mission Northwest High School members. ton, where she and her husband, John, along with championships in swimming For the KU Endowment Association, b’58, make their home. She also has as he tutored elementary- and middle- she assisted Campaign Kansas in the late served as a member of Jayhawks for school students in math and reading. 1980s as a National Council and South- Higher Education. She and John are The two join four continuing scholars west Kansas committee member and spe- Alumni Association life members. to complete the Alumni Association’s cial gift donor. She and Bernie are For the KU Endowment Association, 2001-02 contingent of Woodward Schol- members of the Chancellors Club and the she served on the National Council Con- ars. Their $2,000 annual stipends are pro- Williams Educational Fund.. stituent Committee and was a leadership vided to former Kansas Honor Scholars by Linda Bliss Stewart, ’60, is described donor for Campaign Kansas. She and the Association thanks to a $100,000 by colleagues as a silent hero of the KU John are Chancellors Club and Williams endowment from the estate of Herbert community. Her behind-the-scenes work Educational Fund members. Rucker Woodward, a’27. The other four on University boards and committees has students, all sophomores, are Nathan one common denominator: her desire to Dormer, Topeka; Jonathan Hersh, Wich- strengthen the arts at the University and Newest scholars find time ita; Julie McGough, Overland Park; and to make performances more accessible to for plethora of pursuits Carrie Robertson-Tucker, Hugoton. Kansans. Stewart was instrumental in the Burhenn says her first task on the Hill early vision and planning that helped f their high school careers are any will be to introduce herself to a journal- shape the programming philosophy for indication, this year’s freshman Wood- ism school adviser. She planned her the Lied Center. Iward Scholars will bypass first-year tri- career at an early age. “I’ve wanted to Stewart currently serves on the advi- als in time management. Michelle work for a newspaper since I was 8,” she sory board for the School of Fine Arts and Burhenn, Topeka, and Wesley Cannon, says. “I remember getting our first com- Lenexa, proved their puter when I was 6 and writing plays. academic prowess Then I started reading the Sweet Valley and found plenty of High books that lots of girls read. My hours in their days favorite character was Elizabeth, who EARL RICHARDSON for other activities. was editor of her school newspaper.” Burhenn, a sec- Burhenn will also report for work at ond-generation Jay- the Lawrence Journal-World, where, as hawk (see p. 48), she did at her hometown newspaper, edited The Blue she’ll start out as a copy clerk and hope to Streak, Washburn earn bylines. And she has made room for Rural High School’s reading in her schedule to keep up with newspaper, and fur- the English classes that are her second ther sharpened her passion. Her favorite books? Tess of the journalistic skills D’Urbervilles, Wuthering Heights and My through a job at the Ántonia. She says she’s looking forward to Topeka Capital-Jour- tackling the works of Christopher Mar- nal, where she lowe her first semester. began working as a Cannon looks forward to his five-hour copy clerk and Calculus II class, but he isn’t making earned a spot as an guarantees about a major just yet. He BEST OF THE BEST: Freshmen Wesley Cannon of Lenexa and Michelle editor for one of the hopes to find opportunities to continue Burhenn of Topeka are the newest Woodward Scholars.The $2,000 annual newspaper’s weekly his work with elementary-school children. scholarship honors outstanding former Kansas Honor Scholars.The Association’s regional tabloids. “I love the interaction,” he says. “They Kansas Honors Programs annually recognizes the top 10 percent of high-school She also devoted need role models. A lot of them don’t seniors across the state.

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think academics are really important, but native and member of the KU team be one of the biggest yet.” I want them to know that being a good who traveled worldwide during his distin- Cerny also notes that the KU men’s student and taking hard classes will one guished career as an architect. basketball team will play at Colorado Jan. day make your life easier.” 5, and he anticipates that plenty of tickets Cannon will find his share of volunteer will be available for Frontrange Jayhawks opportunities as a member of the Student Football rallies follow to support the Crimson and Blue. Alumni Association, the Alumni Associa- Jayhawks’ road campaign The Jayhawks have an open week the tion’s volunteers corps of undergraduate following weekend, then travel to Lub- students. All Woodward Scholars are SAA estern Jayhawks eager to get wild bock, Texas, to face Texas Tech. Again, members and student members of the Wwhile rooting for KU football can the Alumni Association will be ready with Alumni Association (known as Tradition gather for three hot pregame rallies this a pregame rally near the Alumni Pavilion Keepers). They first learned about the season. on the southwest side of Jones Stadium. Association and their chance to apply for The Alumni Association’s first pregame The event is sponsored by the Dallas and Woodward Scholarships when the Associ- rally will support the football team’s first Lubbock chapters. ation traveled to their communities to rec- road game, Sept. 22 at Colorado. The The last road trip of the season for ognize them as Kansas Honor Scholars Boulder event is set for The Millennium Terry Allen’s football team is Nov. 10 at through the Kansas Honors Program. Harvest House. Texas. Austin will be hopping with Jay- Directed by Carolyn Mingle Barnes, Frontrange Jayhawks from Denver, hawk alumni, who will gather at Sholz’s c’81, KHP recognizes the top 10 percent Colorado Springs, Boulder, Fort Collins Garten, the oldest beer garden in Texas of Kansas high-school seniors. Barnes and and lovely mountain towns in between and a favorite haunt for the KU faithful. her corps of alumni volunteers organize will almost certainly make this the biggest “The Colorado and Texas pregames 40 programs statewide. University profes- Frontrange Chapter event of the year, will be two of the biggest events in their sors, administrators and Association staff according to Kirk Cerny, c’92, g’98, senior local chapter areas in the upcoming year,” travel to the program sites to honor schol- vice president for membership services. Cerny says. ars from all 105 counties. The Association “Our Colorado alumni always support Tickets are available to all three games, established the Woodward scholarships in the Jayhawks when they come in to play as well as all KU home games. To order, 1994 to honor Woodward, a Chanute CU,” Cerny says, “and this pregame will call the KU ticket office at 800-34- HAWKS. For information about the Asso- ciation’s pregame rallies, contact Cerny or Melissa Sutton, membership services sec- 2001 KU FOOTBALL retary, at 800-584-2957, or see the Asso- ciation’s Web site, www.kualumni.org. SCHEDULE Cerny also wants alumni to know that tickets to the Maui Invitational and men’s SEPTEMBER basketball games at Arizona, Princeton

KELLY HEESE/KU UNIVERSITY RELATIONS KELLY 1 Southwest Missouri State and UCLA “are already very hard to come 8 UCLA (Parents’ Day) by, if not impossible, and the athletics 15 Wyoming (Band Day) ticket office won’t have any available.” KU 22 at Colorado fans hoping to attend those games will have to look to other sources for tickets. OCTOBER Cerny says 350 Association members 6 at Texas Tech have already signed up for the Flying Jay- 13 Oklahoma (Homecoming) hawks trip to Maui, and pregame rallies 20 Missouri are scheduled before each of KU’s three 27 at Kansas State games, Nov. 19-21. The Association’s TV Guide to Kansas NOVEMBER Basketball, which will be included in 3 Nebraska issue No. 6, will include listings of more 10 at Texas than 60 locations nationwide where KU 17 Iowa State fans gather with friends of a feather to cheer on the Jayhawks.

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Summer sizzle PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

JUMPIN’ JAYHAWKS: The Jayhawk Jog at Shawnee Mission Park had hot action at the finish line (above) and in the Tot Trot (far left). Payton and Mallory Fahler, 4-year-old twin daughters of Jeff, c’89, and Helen Taylor Fahler, f’89, pre- ferred the arts table (top left). SAA’s Ice Cream Social (below) was the perfect chance for freshman Jerri Williams of Junction City to display her first Jayhawk cheek tattoo (left) and for three stu- dents new to the Hill to show their KU pride by waving the wheat (below cen- ter). Also new to the Hill are Athletics Director Al Bohl and his wife, Sherry, who met the KC crowd at the Terry Allen Picnic (bottom left).

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Chapters & Professional Societies 6 27 Lubbock Chapter: KU vs. Texas Tech Chapter: “La Bohème,” pregame rally, alumni pavilion, Opera For more information, contact Kirk Cerny at Jones Stadium San Antonio Chapter: Dinner 800-584-2957, 785-864-4760 or [email protected], or see the Association’s 13 Web site, www.kualumni.org. Lawrence: Homecoming, Kansas Honors Program Alumni Volunteer November Day, Student Alumni Association September 15-year reunion, Jayhawk Mascot 4 reunion, Adams Alumni Center Valley of the Sun Chapter: 11 New York Chapter: P.S. 50 Big 12 picnic Wichita Chapter: “Tuesday with Cleanup Day Al Bohl” 10 16 New York Chapter: Habitat for 15 Chicago: School of Journalism Humanity, Newark Dallas Chapter: KU vs. Wyoming Professional Society reception, with Austin: KU vs. Texas pregame rally, TV watch party Dean Jimmy Gentry Sholz’s Garten Salina: School of Education reception, 20 with Dean Angela Lumpkin 15 Wichita: School of Engineering Wichita Chapter: Thirsty Third Professional Society, with 18 Thursday Dean Carl Locke Wichita Chapter: Thirsty Third New York Chapter: Thirsty Third New York Chapter: Thirsty Third Thursday Thursday Thursday Wichita Chapter: Thirsty Third 20 Thursday Lawrence: Flying Jayhawks reunion and party, Adams Alumni Center; 22 Student Alumni Association KU/MU Frontrange Chapter: KU vs. drum exchange Colorado pregame rally, Millennium Pregame football rallies Harvest House 22 New York Chapter: KU vs. Lawrence: School of Law Professional Colorado TV watch party Society golf tournament

24 EARL RICHARDSON Dallas/Fort Worth: School of Engi- October neering Professional Society, with 4 Dean Carl Locke Kansas City: School of Journalism 25 Professional Society reception, with Kansas City: School of Fine Arts Pro- Dean Jimmy Gentry fessional Society, with Dean Toni-Marie Montgomery

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Kansas Honors Program 16 Salina: Pat Thompson, Remembering 785-825-5809 17 Hutchinson: Terry Edwards, Dane Bales 620-663-7079 September ane Bales, b’41, who died 10 El Dorado: Michael Coash, 23 Johnson County: Bill and Anne Aug. 26 in Logan, steadfastly 316-321-1140 Blessing, 913-327-5454 supported the University 12 McPherson: Mary Kornhaus, 24 Shawnee Mission: Joyce D and its Alumni Associ- 620-669-0125 Thompson, 913-268-9856 ation. Dane and his 17 Parsons: Charles and Mary 25 Topeka: Michael and Marcia wife, Polly Roth Catherine Brown, 620-421-6066 Cassidy, 785-234-5098 Bales, ’42, are 18 Ottawa: Charlie and Margy 29 Manhattan: A. Mark and perhaps best Porter, 785-242-8732 Toni Stremel, 785-537-3253 known in 19 Wellington: David Carr, 30 Wichita: Martin Bauer, Lawrence for 620-326-3361 316-265-9311 the organ 24 Sedgwick County: Nick and recital hall Naomi Ard, 316-722-9390 adjacent to the 25 Lawrence: Karen Van Blaricum, Lied Center that 785-843-4714 November bears their name. 1 Emporia: Gary Ace, But Dane Bales will 620-342-9555 be especially missed by the 6 Osage City: Josi Garland, Kansas Honors Program’s family of 785-528-4081 October volunteers, among whom he was the 3 Arkansas City: Jean Snell, 7 Chapman: Susan James, unofficial dean and elder statesman. 620-441-2000 785-922-6366 Both Dane and Polly Bales have 4 Hays: Fred and Shiela Brening, 14 Kansas City: Chris Schneider, served as KHP alumni volunteers 785-625-2529 913-573-2851 since the program’s first year in 10 Southern Johnson County: 15 Coffeyville: Nancy Wright, Phillips County, 1974. Alumni and Mark and Elaine Corder, 620-252-7100 friends from Graham, Osborne, Nor- 913-592-7299 ton, Phillips and Smith counties have begun a memorial in Dane Bales’ memory, benefiting the Kansas Honors Program. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION events BIG BLUE MONDAYS at Field- before KU football games at house Sports Cafe (9617 W. 87th Colorado, Texas Tech and Texas all St., Overland Park) are again under- begin three hours before kickoff. way. KU football fans can gather There is no cover charge, and reser- each Monday to watch highlight vations are not required. Pay only films and talk football with assistant for what you order. For game tick- coaches, writers and other personali- ets, call the athletics department ties. For more information, contact Become a Rare Bird at 800-34-HAWKS. Ned Smith, c’91, at 913-339-6687 To upgrade your membership to or 913-696-1648. Jayhawk Society level today, call 785-864-4760.

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 [41 he shrill cicada rhythms of late summer die down around Lawrence as the newest members of the Jayhawk family alight on the Hill. Traffic slows, grocery store lines lengthen and the city pulses with the frenetic energy of youth. “Townies” may grumble, but in truth we’re all touched with Ta slight case of freshman envy. All of us long to be 18 again and take that first walk through the rust leaves carpeting Marvin Grove as hot September days give way to crisp October evenings. Late-night study sessions and caffeine binges lie ahead, but they’re tempered by lifetime friendships and a special professor’s praise to make the heart soar.

As school begins this fall, thousands of families send children off to the Hill. Few parents can resist reflection upon their own slightly yellowed memories of the joys and challenges of their time at KU, perhaps tinged with some latent feelings of freshman envy all their own. In an unselfish moment we realize there’s no better tradition we can pass on to the next members of the Jayhawk family.

BY ANDREA HOAG JAYHAWK GENERATIONS

When JACOB VANDER VELDE comes to the Hill this fall, he brings family ties that stretch back more than a century. Jacob is a Shawnee Mission Northwest graduate and National Honor Society mem- ber who won a research paper award for his academic work. He plans to major in marketing. He is the son of Joseph Vander Velde, e’81, and Betsy Robinson Vander ARTHUR Velde, s’73, s’74, of Shawnee. Jacob is the ROBINSON grandson of Arthur, c’42, m’44, and Betty Hess Robinson, c’43, of Shawnee. Great- grandparents were David, c’06, and Aileen Weaver Robinson, c’06. His great-great- grandmother was Gertrude Bullene Weaver, JACOB VANDER VELDE c’1877, and Jacob's great-great-grandfather, David H. Robinson, was one of the first pro- fessors to teach at the University. In honor of his KU family ties, Jacob represented the Class of 2005 and received the symbolic torch from upperclassmen at KU Traditions DAVID ROBINSON Night Aug. 20.

including his community newspaper. Chris plans to major in film studies. Parents are George E. Burket III, c’65, and Linda Burket of Kingman. His paternal grandparents are George E. Burket, Jr., m’37, and Mary Burket of Wichita. Chris’ family association to KU has spanned nearly a MEGHAN ARMSTRONG gradu- century—his great-grandparents were Clarke, l’12, and Maud ated from William Howard Taft High Spurrier Wallace, ’15. School in San Antonio, where she was a member of Student Council, EMELIE ERIN DILLMAN varsity soccer and volunteered with graduated from Blue Valley North- the Animal Defense League. west High School, where she earned She plans to make journalism her major. She is academic acclaim. She remained on the daughter of Jeffrey, c’78, and Catherine Neal the honor roll all four years and Armstrong, h’79, of San Antonio. Her grandfather received a Presidential Award for is the late Harvey Wilson, b’52, and her grand- Educational Excellence. Emelie plans to study mother is Donna Wilson, assoc., of Prairie Village. journalism. Parents are Steven Dillman, c’81, Her great-grandfather is James T. Lamb, c’29, l’31. Kansas City, Mo., and Jan Davidson Helfer, d’78, g’80, Overland Park. Her maternal grandparents CHRIS BURKET’S talent as a photographer was displayed in are James, c’52, and Emilie Trickett Davidson, ’52, the Kingman High School yearbook, where he was also editor- Leawood. Her great-grandfather was Oscar Wil- in-chief. His work also has appeared in other publications, ford Davidson, c’24, m’26.

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LESLEY HUMPHREYS graduated cum laude ball team. A member from Ashland High School, where her classmates of the Fellowship of elected her basketball sweetheart queen. Lesley's Christian Athletes, Matt academic achievement earned her a national his- also participated in stu- tory and government award. She is the daughter dent council and the of John, c’74, and Diane Humphreys, Ashland, National Honor Society. and the granddaughter of the late Frederick Humphreys, b’43, His parents are Kevin, c’76, and Terry Wintermote Preston, c’78, and Carrie Arnold Humphreys, c’46, Ashland. Her great-grand- Sioux City. Matt’s grandfather, Dick Wintermote, c’51, is former parents were John E. Humphreys, g’36, and Francis Arnold, longtime executive director of the Kansas Alumni Association. who attended KU in 1918. He and his wife, Barbara Fletcher Wintermote, f’51, live in Lawrence. Matt’s great-grandfather was the late William ELLEN MAICHEL graduated from Shawnee Fletcher, c’27. Mission East, where she was involved in many artistic pursuits. In addition to her flair for photog- AARON ROBICHAUD raphy and drawing, Ellen volunteered extensively showcased his musical in her community. She is the daughter of John, talents at Blue Springs South c’69, and Anne “Nancy” Maichel of Overland Park. High School, where he was She is the granddaughter of Katherine Young Maichel, c’32, of principal chair of trombone in Kansas City, Mo. Ellen’s great-grandfather was Alexander Young, the band. He received “ones” e’09, g’14. in solo competitions at the Missouri State Music Festival and will attend KU on a LINDSAY ERIN MATHEWS is music scholarship. Aaron is the son of Jon, an honor roll student from Blue d’78, g’90, and Dixie Hemenway Valley Northwest High School, Robichaud, d’77, Blue Springs, where her writing was published Mo. His grandparents are the in her school’s literary magazine. late Ralph Hemenway, j’50, and She received a presidential award Jeane Callahan Hemenway-Platt, for academic excellence and was awarded a c’50, of Minneapolis, Kan. Aaron Whittaker Leadership Scholarship. Lindsay’s has three great-grandparents parents are David Mathews, c’75, m’78, and who attended classes on the Lucinda Green Mathews, d’75, Overland Park. Hill: Ralph, c’10, and Lillah Her maternal grandparents are Robert Green, Hogue Hemenway, c’09, and a’50, Lawrence, and the late Martha Grob Bessie Callahan, c’49. Green, c’52. Paternal grandparents are Robert Mathews, c’49, m’54, and Patricia Mathews, Overland Park. While students at KU, Aaron’s parents entertained fans during a halftime perfor- Lindsay’s great-grandfather was C. Kelsey Mathews, e’19. mance of the KU Band’s “Wizard of Oz” show. Jon Robichaud plays the Tin Man, with Dixie Hemenway Robichaud in the role of Dorothy. KATHLEEN MILLER is a Kansas Honor Scholar from Manhattan High School, where she showcased her DAVID SHOEMAKER is a Summerfield academic and musical talents. Named Scholar from Shawnee Mission South, where he a Whittaker Leadership Scholar, Katie participated in symphonic orchestra and basket- plans to study in liberal arts and fine ball. David plans to study engineering; he earned arts. She is the daughter of Paul Miller, l’72, and a Department of Chemical Engineering Scholar- Anne Burke Miller, c’78, l’81. Maternal grandpar- ship. He is the son of Dennis, e’66, and Ellen ents are Paul Burke Jr., b’56, Lawrence, and Patri- Jenks Shoemaker, c’66, c’67, of Overland Park. David’s grand- cia Pierson Dowers, d’56, Colorado Springs, Colo. father was Robert Jenks, e’26. His great-grandfather was Great-grandparents were Paul, b’30, and Virginia Wilbur S. Jenks, 1887. Moling Burke,’31, and Ray Pierson, l’23. BRANDON SNOOK’S years at L.V. Berkner High School, MATTHEW PRESTON graduated from North High School Richardson, Texas, were rich in musical activities. He was presi- in Sioux City, Iowa, where he was a member of the National dent of a cappella choir and won first place at the Texas Music Council on Youth Leadership and captain of his school’s basket- Teacher’s Association Vocal competition before journeying to

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Romania on a mission trip mic achievement also earned him a with the Campus Crusade for Presidential Outstanding Academic Christ. Brandon plans a major Achievement Award and distinction in vocal performance in the as a Kansas Honor Scholar. He plans School of Fine Arts. He is the to pursue a degree in law. Parents are son of Daniel Snook, b’77, and Michael, d’79, and Elizabeth Roth Dana Krueger Snook, b’78, Richardson, and Best, c’80, Larned. Mark’s maternal grandparents are Robert, his grandfather is Roy Krueger, c’54, of b’54, and Rosalee Osborne Roth, c’54, Larned. Russell. Brandon's great-grandfather was Hiram Wentworth, c’15. JESSICA BROWN is a Kansas Honor Scholar who was valedictorian ELIZABETH KAY TOLAND was of her class at Marysville High class president of Iola High School, School. Jessica also played in the where her academic achievement band, where her talent as a flutist earned her a McFadden Scholarship, garnered her top marks in regional a Freshman Honors Scholarship and state competitions. Parents are Randall, c’77, m’81, and and distinction as a Kansas Honor Sherry Brown of Marysville. Paternal grandparents are Kenneth, Scholar. She played in her community band and c’60, and Laverta Evans Brown, c’80, Abilene. also served as music librarian. Elizabeth is the daughter of Clyde, c’69, l’75, and Nancy Hummel ADAM BROWNE is a Kansas Toland, g’74, of Iola. Her grandparents are the late Honor Scholar who graduated from Stanley Toland, c’30, l’32, and June Thompson Bishop Ward High School, where he Toland, c’36, of Iola. Elizabeth's great-grand- was co-captain of the basketball team mother, Lucy Wilson Thompson, attended KU in 1909. his senior year. An Oread Scholar and Whittaker Leadership Scholarship ERIN WYATT graduated from recipient, Adam volunteered at St. Mary’s food kitchen and the Lawrence Free State High School Sanctuary of Hope. He joins his brother, Ryan, on the Hill. where she was a member of the var- Adam’s parents are Dennis and Nancy Foster Browne, d’74, g’82, sity volleyball team. Erin plans to Kansas City. His maternal grandparents are Robert, c’48, and study interior design. She is the Jeanne Atkinson Foster, c’46, Kansas City. daughter of Jeffrey and Jennifer Lucas Wyatt, d’91, Lawrence. Her grandparents are W. Max Lucas, JENNIFER BURCH distinguished e’56, g’62, a former KU dean of architecture, and Jane Vaughn herself in the classroom and in athlet- Lucas, d’58, g’76, Lawrence. Erin’s great-grandfather was Thorn- ics at Clearwater High School, where ton Vaughn, c’30. she received a national foreign lan- guage award and played volleyball and basketball. Jennifer put her musical talents to work as a volunteer piano player at an area nursing home. She comes to KU with an advertising degree in mind. Parents are J. David Burch of Parker, Colo., and Katherine Altman Burch, c’79, Clearwater. Maternal grandparents are William, c’56, and Nella Bailey Altman, c’54, Clearwater. TYLER BEAVER was an editor of the newspaper at DeSoto High WES CANNON is a Kansas Honor Scholar School, where he also played on the from Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, team. He is the son of David, where he received an achievement award in a’77, and Cheryl Stelmach Beaver, mathematics. Also honored as a Kansas City Star c’76, l’79, and follows his sister, Scholar-Athlete and a Woodward Scholar, Wes par- Sarah, to the Hill. Tyler’s grandparents are Jack, m’53, and Patri- ticipated on his school’s swim team and qualified cia Scherrer Stelmach, c’45, Kansas City, Mo. for Junior Nationals. He is the son of James, b’65, l’68, and Elaine Proctor Cannon, c’65, Lenexa. Maternal grandparents are MARK BEST is a Kansas Governor’s Scholar and Mount Oread Warren Proctor, e’36, Augusta, and the late Margaret Coutant Scholar who graduated from Larned High School. Mark’s acade- Proctor, c’36.

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CATHERINE CARITHERS presided over stu- Lewis, c’75, and Laura Davis Gregory, j’75, Leawood. Paul’s dent council at The Harley School in Rochester, grandparents are Richard, c’53, m’54, and Coleen Davis, N.Y., where she also participated in choir, soccer Leawood. and drama club. She plans to major in English. Catherine is the daughter of Warren, c’78, and STEPHANIE LECLAIRE Shelly Carithers, Rochester, N.Y. Her grandmother is a Mount Oread Scholar is Martha Webb Carithers, g’78, PhD’82, Topeka. and a Whittaker Leadership Scholar who graduated from ALAN CLEMENT distinguished himself in the Shawnee Mission Northwest classroom as well as on the football field at Pitts- High School. She was nomi- burg High School. He was a National Merit com- nated for homecoming queen and her mended scholar and a football kicker named to many outside interests included volunteer the all-state team three consecutive years. He plans work for the Animal Haven shelter. She to study physics. Alan’s parents are Ron and Patri- plans to major in strategic communica- cia Alloway Clement, c’68, Pittsburg. Maternal grandparents are tions in the School of Journalism. Parents are Richard, c’70, and Curtis, b’42, and Betty Allen Alloway, c’42, Kansas City, Mo. Susan Bick LeClaire, c’70, Shawnee. Her paternal granfather is John LeClaire, e’31, Overland Park. GREGORY WAYLAN DENTON is a Whit- taker Leadership Scholar from James Madison RYAN SCOTT MATTSON is a High School in Vienna, Va. Greg has been awarded National Merit commended scholar a dean’s scholarship and a Robert M. Carey schol- who graduated from Booker T. Wash- arship in mechanical engineering. He is the son of ington High School in Tulsa, Okla., Elwood Denton, Vienna, Va., and Jo Waylan Den- where he participated in drama club ton, n’68, Overland Park. His maternal grandfather is the late and jazz band. Ryan also plays in a Thornton Waylan, c’35, m’35. rock band that recorded a CD. His parents are Lynn and Pamela Meador Mattson, d’72, l’75, Tulsa. His grandfather, Richard C. ASHLEY EMERSON is a Kansas Honor Scholar Meador, was a member of KU’s Class of 1950. who was valedictorian of her class at Nickerson High School. Voted homecoming queen, Ashley MARSHALL MURPHY was an was also active in , where she was all-around sportsman while he lead trumpeter. Her brother, Travis, is a member of attended Andover High School, par- the class of 2004. Ashley is the daughter of Ted, ticipating in football and wrestling in c’76, and Judi Loewen Emerson, s’76, Hutchinson. Ashley’s addition to hunting and fishing in his paternal grandfather is the late Calvin J. Emerson, c’50. spare time. Marshall will major in business like his brother, Matthew, a member of the Class of ERIC FLATON is a graduate of Parsons High 2002. His parents are D. Michael and Barbara Murfin School, where he competed in football and track Murphy, b’72, Wichita. Maternal grandparents are the and was captain of his school’s basketball team. He late William R. Murfin, b’42, and Betty Gains was nominated for the National Wendy’s High Murfin, c’41, Wichita. School Heisman award in recognition of his ath- letic ability. Parents are Frank, c’75, and Rebecca JARVIS ODGERS Groves Flaton, d’73, g’74, Parsons. Eric's grandfather, Bill graduated from Pitts- Groves, p’51, Wichita, enjoyed attending his 50th year reunion burg High School, hosted by the Alumni Association last April. where his skills on the basketball court PAUL GREGORY is a earned him an award National Honor Society from the Kansas Basketball Coaches Associa- member from Blue Val- tion. Jarvis follows his sister, Monica, a ley North High School, member of the Class of 2003, to the Hill, where he was sports where he plans to major in business. Par- editor of his school ents are Rodney, c’71, m’74, and Karen newspaper. Paul spent four years on the honor roll, and was Odgers. His paternal grandfather is John named an Eastern Kansas League Scholar-Athlete. Parents are Odgers, b’50, Topeka.

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youth soccer. He is the son of William, e’76, and Rebecca Hyten Reeves, n’78, of Coffeyville. Grandpar- ents are Donald Hyten, b’50, l’52, of Wellington, and C. Virginia McCrea Hyten, c’51, of Lawrence.

ZACH RENN is a Kansas Honor Scholar from Wellington High School, where he was named a Kansas Board of Regents Scholar and earned a SARAH OLDHAM showcased her medal in the state high school golf tournament. He acting abilities in the drama club and follows his brother, Ben, to the Hill and is the son thespians during her years at Derby of Chad, j’75, and Pamela Palmer Renn, d’74, High School, while her academic Wellington. His grandfather is the late Robert Renn, b’48, l’51. performance garnered her a listing in Who’s Who of American High KELLIS ROBINETT School Students. She is the daughter of Darrell and Sharene graduated from L.C. Anderson Plattner Oldham, b’73. Her maternal grandmother was Oma High School in Austin, Texas. Ogle Plattner, c’41. He participated in golf, bowling and physics, and plans to major JACK PENDRY was in journalism. Kellis is the son elected prom king of of Mark, d’72, g’77, and Carolyn Evans The Independent School Robinett, d’72, Austin. He is the grandson of in Wichita and was cap- the late Thomas Evans, b’40, and Vivian tain of the golf team Baker Evans, d’76. that took first place at regional competition. He is the son of Charles Pendry, Jr., c’74, JOHN SCHMIDT graduated from Shawnee Mis- and Jann Brooks Pendry, d’75. Jack's grandmother is the late sion North High School, where he was on the Emma Staton Brooks, c’47. yearbook staff and lettered in baseball. He is the son of Michael Schmidt, c’74, and Gail Vessels, RYAN PESCHKE graduated from Glenbrook j’74, of Overland Park. John's grandfather is Leon South High School, where he was on the varsity Schmidt, c’48, of Apopka, Fla. diving team. Ryan also volunteered for Christian Youth Mission’s house rehabilitation program. He ABBEY SOREM is an is the son of Karl and Anne Brooks Peschke, c’65, honor roll student from Glenview, Ill. His maternal grandparents are Memorial High School William and Rose Schuepbach Brooks, c’33, Kansas City, Mo. in Tulsa, Okla., where she participated in arts JENNY PITCHFORD is a activities and the Girl National Honor Society member Scouts. Abbey plans to study art therapy. She is the daughter of from Sandia Preparatory School. In James Sorem Jr., e’78, g’81, PhD’85, and Gentra Abbey Sorem, addition to her membership in Span- c’80, l’83, Tulsa. Abbey's grandparents are James Sorem Sr., e’55, ish National Honor Society, Jenny and Mary Schauvliege Sorem, n’55, of Jetmore. volunteered for Big Brothers/Big Sis- ters of America. She is the daughter of John and Pamela Waldorf BRANDON TURNER grad- Pitchford, j’71, Albuquerque, N.M. Maternal grandparents are uated from Blue Valley North Melvin Waldorf Jr., m’47, and Mary Waldorf, Mesa, Ariz. High School, after excelling as a scholar and a musician. He PAUL REEVES attended Tyro Community Christian School in was principal bassoonist for Coffeyville, where he focused on foreign languages; he’s conver- his school’s band and received sant in both German and French. In his free time, Paul refereed a president’s student service award for his

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community involvement. Parents are Marc, c’75, m’79, and Linda Weinstein Turner, j’75, Leawood. Brandon’s paternal grandmother is the late Lois Kram Turner, g’66.

TYLER WALDORF is a Kansas Honor Scholar and National Merit commended scholar from Blue Valley JULIE BALDWIN, Kansas Honor Scholar from Shawnee Mis- North High School, where he was sion South High School, daughter of George, c’73, and Sara elected prom king. He received a Scheibe Baldwin, d’72, Overland Park. President’s Award for Educational Excellence and presided over the Spanish National Honor Soci- ANDREW BALK, St. Albert High School, Council Bluffs, ety. Tyler plans to study architectural engineering. He is the son Iowa, son of John, j’71, g’75, and Cheryl Erickson Balk, c’80, of James Waldorf, c’74, m’77, St. Augustine, Fla., and Debra Columbus, Ohio. Baringer Waldorf, d’75, Leawood. Maternal grandparents are Melvin Waldorf Jr., m’47, and Mary Waldorf, Mesa, Ariz. His MEGHAN BROZANIC, Millard North High School, cousin, Jenny Pitchford, profiled above, extends another branch daughter of Ron Brozanic, j’74, and Patti Wacht Benker, j’73, of the family’s KU tree. Omaha, Neb.

MARY WESTFALL is a National Merit finalist MICHELLE BURHENN, Woodward Scholar from Washburn and Missouri Top 100 scholar from Blue Springs Rural High School, daughter of Russell and Sheryl Anderson High School. Outside the classroom, Mary dedi- Burhenn, b’81, Topeka. cated herself to Life Lights, a church service orga- nization. She is the daughter of Randall and SAMUEL CAMPBELL, Eudora High School, son of Richard, Joyclyn Redwine Westfall, c’79, of Blue Springs, b’87, and Janet Sommer Campbell, d’79, Eudora. Mo. Mary's grandparents were Herold, c’48, and Joyce Durall Redwine, c’46. LISA CROWTHER, Wichita Northwest High School, daughter of Philip, l’76, g’76, and Janet Simmons Crowther, ELIZABETH LOUISE g’77, Wichita. WINETROUB is an academic All- American from Leavenworth High LINDSEY CUNNINGHAM, Academy Northwest, Seattle, School. Betsy edited her high school daughter of Debra Skie Scrivner, d’73, Leawood, and Alan Cun- yearbook and led the golf team as ningham, e’71, Issaquah, Wash. captain her senior year. She is the daughter of Dale, b’73, and Elizabeth Hartley Winetroub, d’71, PATRICK DAVIS, Coventry High School, son of Kenneth, g’73, Leavenworth. Maternal grandparents are W.C., b’44, and j’80, and Nancy Lenzen Davis, d’81, Coventry, Conn. Patricia Ferguson Hartley, c’47, Mission Hills. JOSHUA DEMPSEY, Piper High School, son of Michael P. BROOKE YINGLING graduated Dempsey, c’70, Kansas City. from Lawton High School in Lawton, Okla., and is a self-described “army CHRISTOPHER DUENSING, Valley Heights High School, brat” who has lived in seven states son of Kenneth, c’76, and Zita Wassenberg Duensing, b’77, and two foreign countries. Brooke Blue Rapids. was on the honor roll all of her high school years and received a writing award from JAMES FLAIGLE, Kansas Honor Scholar from Wichita the Lawton Businesswomen’s Associa- Northwest High School, son of Harold, c’71, and Carla Flaigle, tion. She follows her brother, Scott, Wichita. to KU. Her parents are John and Ann Bradford Yingling, d’75, STEPHANIE FROST, St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Peachtree, Ga. Her maternal daughter of Gregg Frost, c’75, g’87, Lenexa, and Lesle M. grandparents are William, Potucek Knop, g’99, Overland Park. b’47, l’51, and Joan Morris Bradford, c’50, Wamego. ROBERT GANDY, Olathe South High School, son of Robert and Susan Majure Gandy, d’71, Olathe.

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JOHNNY KAUFFMAN, Shawnee Mission East, son of Gor- NICOLE PRATT SLATER, Idaho Falls High School, daugh- don, e’61, and Ruth Kauffman, Overland Park. Siblings Bob and ter of John and Nancy Pratt Slater, d’70, Idaho Falls, Idaho. Anne, current KU students, welcome him to the Hill. CLINT THRASHER, Lawrence Free State High School, son of JUSTUS KILIAN, Hays High School, son of Randall, c’77, and Gregory, c’71, and Cathy Wright Thrasher, d’75, Lawrence. Terry Kaase Kilian, Hays. MARK ZILLMAN, Kansas Honor Scholar from Leavenworth NICK KREHBIEL, Kansas Honor Scholar from Moundridge High School, son of John and Gayle Shalkoski Zillman, c’74, High School, son of Ken, p’79, and Cheri Krehbiel, McPherson. Leavenworth.

ANDY KROEKER, Shawnee Mission South, son of Robert, c’68, l’76, and Bar- bara Hills Kroeker, c’68, Overland Park. He joins his brother, Nick, ’03.

RYAN LUNT, Pratt High School, son of Philip, c’60, l’64, and Rose Lunt, Pratt. Ryan’s great, great uncle, Will Hess, was a member of the first KU basketball team of 1899 coached by .

ANDREW MISAK, St. Joseph High School, son of O. Robert, e’67, and Anna Hegenbart Misak, d’67, l’75, Victoria, Texas.

BRIAN MORROW, Edmond Santa Fe High School, son of Richard, e’76, and Debi Alm Morrow, c’78, Edmond, Okla.

BRIAN MICHAEL PALMER, Chilli- cothe High School, son of J. Michael and Patricia Huddleson Palmer, g’75, ED’84, Chillicothe, Mo.

MONICA J. RANDALL, Kansas Honor Scholar from Spring Hill High, son of William, c’76, and Linda Randall, Spring Hill.

ANN RYAN, Salina Central High School, daughter of Marc, c’68, and Martha Larson Ryan, n’76, Salina.

MICHAEL SCAGNELLI, Sedona Red Rock High School, son of Stephen, c’71, and Nancy Engler Scagnelli, c’71, Sedona, Ariz.

ZACHARY A. SCHAMAUN, Great Bend High School, son of Steven and Sheryl Dreiling Schamaun, b’80, Great Bend.

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1930s Harold Phelps Jr., e’46, makes his home in Shelby Smith, b’50, owns the Shelby Smith Marvel Anderson Beeler, c’30, and her hus- Santa Maria, Calif. Group in Wichita, where he lives. He also lob- band, Raymond, make their home in Randall. Mary Turkington, j’46, continues to make her bies in Topeka. George Davis Jr., c’37, makes his home in home in Topeka, where she’s retired. Davidson, N.C., with his wife, Marguerite. 1951 1947 Norma Kyle Cain, n’51, volunteers at her Fred Littooy, c’39, l’41, lives in Colorado church and is learning to use a computer. She Springs with Helen Johnson Littooy, c’41. Norman Carroll, b’47, e’51, is president of Applied Test Systems and of Pilot Mart in lives in Kansas City. Bernice Snyder Rosenkranz, c’32, is retired Butler, Pa. Elgin Flott, c’51, is retired in Sabetha. in San Diego. Kenneth, b’47, l’50, and Sue Cook Harmon, Charles Nakoa, c’51, lives in Kailua, Hawaii, Mary Jane Bruckmiller Spahr, ’38, cele- assoc., celebrated their 50th anniversary last where he’s retired. brated her 85th birthday April 28. She and her May.They live in Lawrence. husband, Charles, e’34, make their home in 1952 Shaker Heights, Ohio. Lauribel Nutt Harrison, n’47, lives in Barbara Wasson McPherson, n’52, retired Wenatchee,Wash. Jane Cravens Stavenau, c’38, is retired in earlier this year after 43 years as a nurse and an Salem, Ore. Glenn Sewell Jr., b’47, retired owner of Fort educator. She and her husband, Brock, assoc., Scott Greenhouse, continues to make his home recently celebrated their 50th anniversary.They 1941 in Fort Scott. live in Great Bend. William Palm, c’41, s’49, was honored James Taylor, e’52, sailed in the San Juan recently when a scholarship in the KU School of 1948 Islands earlier this year with Duane Hirsch, Social Welfare was named for him. He lives in Janice Jacobs Klein, ’48, lives in Tribune. b’52, l’57, and Wayne, b’63, and Betty Inglewood, Calif. Phyllis Oliver McMahon, c’48, retired last Willard Bruning, e’63. He lives in year. She and her husband, To m , e’50, g’67, live Bellevue,Wash. 1942 in Topeka. Ellen McElvain Coester, n’42, enjoys travel- 1953 ing, church work and genealogy during retire- 1949 Dana Richmond Saliba, d’53, teaches music ment. She lives in Fort Scott. Robert Bodmer, c’49, m’52, travels to in Parsons. Marie Horstmann, n’42, keeps busy in retire- Bermuda Dunes, Calif., each winter. He lives in Robert Stewart, j’53, is vice mayor of ment with bridge and golf. Her home is in Mel- Omaha, Neb. Amberley Village, Ohio. bourne, Fla. Alvaro Chavarria, c’49, is self-employed in James Wray, c’42, m’49, volunteers at the San Jose, Costa Rica. 1954 Guadalupe Clinic in Wichita. Lawrence Kennedy, c’49, m’53, has a private Wayne Blount, b’54, makes his home in Elk Grove Village, Ill., where he’s retired. 1943 psychiatric practice and supervises psychoana- Ardyce Pearson Fee, n’54, lives in Overland Mary Roby Jenkins, n’43, and her husband, lysts at the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Park with her husband, Chester, c’51, g’52, Paul, assoc., live in Leavenworth and enjoy Institute. He lives in Topeka. m’56. traveling. Dorothea Fuller Smith, c’49, wrote “When Joseph Meek Jr., c’54, m’57, retired in June as Florence Brown Mason, c’43, is retired in a Survivor is Really a Survivor,” a crime story, dean of the KU School of Medicine-Wichita. Addison,Texas, where she lives with her hus- which was published earlier this year by band, Robert. DiefFesco Publishing. She lives in St. Louis. James, c’54, and Susan Sohlberg Ross, c’56, Robert Norris, m’43, enjoys working with Carroll Voorhees, c’49, m’52, a retired physi- c’57, make their home in Jamestown, N.C., stained glass. He lives in Wichita. cian, plays trumpet in the Lawrence and Leaven- where he’s retired. worth city bands and in a brass quintet in Marvin Weishaar, b’54, is chairman of Liberty 1944 Leavenworth, where he lives. Savings Bank in Liberty, Mo. Robert, c’44, m’47, and Elaine Funkhouser Charles, ’49, and Celeste Beesley Hazen, assoc., celebrated their 50th anniver- Winslow, c’49, make their home in Phoenix. MARRIED sary last December.They live in Prairie Village. Betty Carmean, ’54, to John Jury, Feb. 17 in 1950 Kansas City.They divide their time between 1945 John Atherton, c’50, l’53, a retired lawyer, homes in Leawood and Grand Lake, Okla. Rose Messer von Unwerth, n’45, makes makes his home in Emporia. her home in Overland Park with her husband, Mary Dyer, j’50, lives in El Reno, Okla., where 1955 Hans. she’s a retired newspaper publisher. James Detter, c’55, m’62, is a professor emeri- Lowell Wilder, m’45, does volunteer work in tus of laboratory medicine at the University of Falfurrias,Texas, where he and Dorothy Lan- Marilyn Harter Haase, c’50, makes her Washington. He and Carol Rogers Detter, caster Wilder, ’44, make their home. home in Belleville. n’60, live in Seattle. Phyllis Kraft, c’50, lives in Shawnee Mission, James Moorhead, a’55, lives in Lone Tree, 1946 where she’s a retired counselor. Colo., where he’s an avid golfer. Ethel McMichael Geesling, n’46, is a resi- Kenneth Powell, c’50, m’53, works part time dent of Turon. for two insurance companies. He and Carol 1956 William Larsen, m’46, lives in Leawood, Wineinger Powell, c’47, m’51, live in Lea- Ruth Elser Harold, n’56, does volunteer work where he’s a master gardener. wood, and she has a private psychiatric practice. and keeps busy with gardening and travel. She

50] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 CLASS NOTES A HOME and her husband, Lane, e’51, g’55, live in Inde- Patricia Viola Cormack, d’58, is retired pendence, Mo. after a 27-year career teaching math. She lives Joann Franklin Knox, f’56, makes her home in Abilene. FOR ALL SEASONS in San Rafael, Calif. She enjoys traveling. Kenneth Flanders, p’58, works as a pharma- Howard Sturdevant, c’56, l’62, is a senior cist at HyVee in Lawrence. marketing representative for J.D. Reece in Richard Hinderliter, e’58, recently moved to Leawood. Gladstone, Mo., from New Jersey, where he’d Donald Williams, c’56, m’60, and his wife, lived for the past 42 years. Nancy, live in Newport Beach, Calif., where Molly Smith, n’58, continues to make her he’s retired. home in Mission. Charlene Woodard, c’58, recently was MARRIED inducted into the Columbus Sports Hall of Judy Bickmore, ’56, and William James, Fame as a player. b’60, Sept. 1.They live in Overland Park, where Bill works for Aristocrat Motors. 1959 Garry Hays, g’59, PhD’64, retired in July as 1957 president of United States International Univer- John Brockhouse, m’57, a retired physician, sity in San Diego. lives in Emporia with his wife, Alice. Patricia Cary Peterson, h’59, directs the lab- Leland Carlson, c’57, makes his home in St. oratory at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott. She Louis, where he’s a retired dentist. lives in Arcadia. John Jurcyk Jr., l’57, received the Kansas Bar Neil Walman, d’59, makes his home in Coral Association’s Distinguished Service Award Springs, Fla. earlier this year. He’s a senior partner with the TOWNHOME LIVING AT ITS BEST! Kansas City firm of McAnany,Van Cleave & 1960 Phillips, and he and Rita Menghini Jurcyk, Stephen Bunten, b’60, is president of West- randon Woods is more than c’56, live in Lake Quivira. ern National Bank in Lenexa. He and Susan B William King, c’57, m’61, keeps busy in Maxwell Bunten, c’61, live in Mission Hills. a retirement community. It’s a retirement with volunteer work, golf, skiing and Kathy Lentz Cottingham, f’60, lives in neighborhood of friends. travel. He and Mary Miller King, d’59, live in Niantic, Conn., where she’s a retired graphic When you live in a Townhome Great Bend. artist. at Brandon Woods, home owner- Donna Brown Kocher, n’57, works part time Susan Kliewer Gallagher, c’60, and her hus- ship is a joy! A monthly service at a nursing home in Atwood. band, Roy, d’61, are retired in Crownsville, Md. fee covers all your maintenance Wanda Stalcup Morrison, n’57, lives in James Metzger Jr., e’60, manages technical Hutchinson, where she’s active in Republican concerns. Plus owning a Town- development at Emerson Tool in Hazelwood, politics. home at Brandon Woods is an Mo. He lives in Ballwin. Mildred Clark Pacunski, n’57, works part investment. You have an Cora Price Nollendorfs, c’60, wrote Teaching time as a goldsmith/metalsmith in Port Orchard, German in Twentieth-Century America, which was appreciable asset that benefits Wash., where she and her husband, Joseph, published last spring by the University of Wis- you and your heirs. assoc., make their home. consin Press. She lives in Madison. FEATURING: John Reese, c’57, m’61, builds houses with Habitat for Humanity. He lives in Lawrence, • TOWNHOMES & APARTMENTS 1961 • ASSISTED LIVING & HEALTH CARE where he’s a retired surgeon. Michael Bukaty, e’61, is president and chief Virginia Seymour, g’57, is retired in operating officer of Latshaw Enterprise in • ALZHEIMER’S CARE & REHAB Leavenworth. Wichita. • NO ENTRANCE FEE Vincent Sternitzke, EdD’57, lives in Vallejo, Gordon Leonard, c’61, retired earlier this year (785) 838-8000 Calif., where he’s a self-employed psychologist. as a psychologist and supervisor with the Mil- David Zerfas, d’57, a retired engineer waukee public schools. 1-800-419-0254 with IBM, makes his home in Hots Springs Edward Reilly Jr., c’61, was picked in May www.brandonwoods.com Village, Ark. by President George W. Bush to chair the United States Parole Commission. He lives in 1958 Leavenworth. Franklin Bichlmeier, m’58, is active with Earl Thompson, e’61, makes his home in Jack- senior organizations and volunteers with Habi- sonville, Fla., where he’s a retired petroleum tat for Humanity. He lives in Overland Park. engineer. Marilyn Baker Carstens, c’58, lives in Castle Larry Wood, e’61, is retired in Lincoln, Neb. Rock, Colo., where she’s retired. RETIREMENT COMMUNITY John Clarke, j’58, is retired in Ness City. 1962 1501 INVERNESS DR. • LAWRENCE, KS 66047 John Cooper, c’58, m’62, practices pediatrics Sandra Edson Grundeman, d’62, g’64, LOCATED 1 1/2 MILES WEST OF THE KU CAMPUS in Estes Park, Colo. retired last year as a speech/language patholo-

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 [51 CLASS NOTES gist with the Fairfax County public schools. She Rodney Thompson, c’63, m’67, is a hospital Bennie Ruth Grewing Gilbert, c’65, g’68, lives in Springfield,Va. epidemiologist and infectious diseases specialist PhD’73, recently retired from teaching at Robert Keys, m’62, retired in January after a at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. 32-year career practicing anesthesiology in David Kennedy, d’65, l’68, continues to make Topeka, where he and his wife, Joyce, make 1964 his home in Wichita. Bryant Hayes, c’64, is a senior lecturer their home. Madelaine Lafferty Smith, d’65, is retired in at Baruch College in New York City, where Colorado Springs. Anthony Reed, d’62, teaches photography he lives. part time for the Wichita Center for the Arts. Donna Multer Ward, d’65, serves as presi- Thomas Layloff Jr., PhD’64, is vice president He also enjoys painting landscapes. dent of the Colorado Healthcare Directors of of U.S. Pharmacopeia. He lives in Granite City, Ill. John Wolf, c'62, g'66, is assistant dean of con- Volunteer Services. She lives in Pueblo, where tinuing education at KU. He and Phyllis Bono Mark Praeger, c’64, m’68, practices general she’s also director of volunteer services at the Wolf, '72, live in Lawrence. surgery in Lawrence, and Sandy Kaiser Colorado Mental Health Institute. Praeger, d’66, is vice president of the Kansas 1963 Senate. 1966 Dennis Benner, b’63, is executive vice presi- Joan Howard, d’66, g’69, retired recently dent of corporate development at Autobytel in 1965 after 32 years with the National Archives and Charles Burtner, c’65, is district director of Irvine, Calif. He lives in Rancho Palos Verde. Records Service. She lives in Lakewood, Colo. the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Com- Larry Koskan, d’66, is chairman, president Bruce Hodges, m’63, an Overland Park resi- mission in Phoenix. He and Ruth Haverfield and CEO of Biomune Systems and founder, dent, is executive director of the Medicine Hall Burtner, d’66, live in Scottsdale. of Fame and Museum in Olathe. president and CEO of Donlar. He lives in Linda Dotson Drake, e’65, g’68, recently was Orland Park, Ill. Frederick Madaus, g’63, former career ser- named general manager of the evolved expend- vices director at KU, continues to make his able launch vehicle division at the Aerospace Dale Puckett, j’66, commutes from Goddard home in Lawrence with Carolyn Swartz Corp. in Los Angeles. to Wichita, where he’s general manager of Madaus, ’80. She’s a retired teacher. Freedom System Integrators. John Edgar, b’65, has become a shareholder in William McCane, d’63, works as a counselor the environmental trial firm of Humphrey Far- Roger Schmidt, c’66, g’72, is an associate in the Kansas City school district. He lives in rington & McClain in Independence, Mo. He lives professor of biology at Columbia College in Blue Springs, Mo. in Prairie Village. Columbia, S.C. He lives in Lexington. Larry Sukut, e’66, an engineer with Alaska Airlines, recently completed a seven-month sabbatical, during which he traveled around the world. He lives in Seattle. 1967 Robert Basow, j’67, is an associate professor of journalism at KU. Harold Hladky, e’67, manages the chemical engineering laboratory at Western Michigan University. He lives in Battle Creek. Patricia Cowen Pitts, c’67, g’70, directs the iStrategy Studio at UMKC. She lives in Kansas City. Ann Schroeder Porter, d’67, is principal of Lewis and Clark Elementary School in Grand Forks, N.D. Myron Reed, e’67, recently joined GPW & Associates in Lawrence as vice president of engineering. Raymond Reichenborn, a’67, is a principal associate at Wilson & Co. in Wichita. Donna Ann Kuhlmann Vaughan, c’67, m’71, is medical director of the geropsychiatric unit at Geary Community Hospital in Junction City and a staff psychiatrist at Pawnee Mental Health Services in Manhattan, where she lives. 1968 Robert Dotson, j’68, works as a news correspondent for NBC News. He lives in New York City.

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Myron Hultgren, m’68, is retired in Leawood, Monty Briley, b’71, g’72, recently joined Cen- 1974 where he and his wife, Joyce, make their home. tral Bank and Trust of Hutchinson as Wichita- Daryl Hartter, d’74, traveled to Paris earlier Karen Dix Jones, c’68, works as a manager market president. He lives in Wichita. this year. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he’s for Johnson & Johnson. She lives in Kendall James Coffelt, c’71, g’86, is a senior software a senior research scientist at Battelle Memorial Park, N.J. engineer for Encoda Systems in Lakewood, Institute. Jeannette Opperman Mellinger, c’68, Colo. George Liesmann Jr., m’74, is vice president for medical affairs at St. Francis Hospital and directs public relations for the North Carolina Ray Fisher, c’71, m’74, practices internal medi- Medical Center in Topeka. He lives in Berryton. Symphony. She and her husband, Alan, c’68, cine at the Wichita Clinic. live in Durham. Richard Merker, c’74, is president of Inter- Mona Grimsley-Hett, j’71, is retired from the Betty Hansen Stewart, d’68, g’86, is a liter- State Savings & Loan in Kansas City. Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp. She lives acy coach for the Platte Valley School District, in Topeka. Randall Schmidt, c’74, lives in Fort Worth, and her husband, John, d’67, g’72, EdD’78, is Texas, where he’s a partner in the law firm of associate superintendent of the Greeley-Evans Lee Polson, c’71, recently became a partner in Kirkley Schmidt & Cotten. School District.They live in Loveland, Colo. the Austin,Texas, law firm of Strasburger & Price. Robert Warren, b’74, is chief financial officer Stephen Van Sickle, c’68, manages training James Riscoe, c’71, practices medicine in at Centex Engineering and Construction in for the Federal Aviation Administration. He lives Joplin, Mo., where he and his wife, Kathryn, live Dyersburg,Tenn. in Albuquerque, N.M. with their sons,Tanner, 6, and Patrick, 3. Stephen Wood, j’74, a resident of Austin, MARRIED Ward Whelan, b’71, is president and CEO of Texas, is a partner in the law firm of Thompson, Whelan’s in Topeka. Coe, Cousins & Irons. John Hadl, d’68, to Daniele Alexander, Feb. 25. They live in Lawrence, where John works for Darrell Woelk, e’71, recently became vice president of engineering at Docent Inc. He lives 1975 the KU athletics department. Sheila Bair, c’75, l’78, recently was nominated in Austin,Texas. by President George W. Bush to become assis- 1969 tant secretary of the treasury for financial insti- Joseph Fix, c’69, PhD’77, is executive vice 1972 tutions. She lives in Washington, D.C. Gail Stubbs Dunker, d’72, g’73, is a professor president and chief technical officer for Thomas Christian, c’75, has been promoted of education at Johnson County Community Yamanouchi Pharma Technologies in Palo Alto, to vice president of sales for Clampitt Paper Co. Calif. He lives in Half Moon Bay. College in Overland Park. She lives in Stilwell. in Dallas. He lives in Flower Mound. Richard Hall, b’69, teaches math at Washing- Robert Iler, e’72, lives in Gambrills, Md. He’s a Karen Kohler Clegg, l’75, recently moved ton Township High School in Sewell, N.J. senior engineer at Veridian Engineering in Lex- from Kansas City to Washington, D.C., where David Reed, m’69, practices with the Wichita ington Park. she’s vice president and general manager of the Radiological Group. Brock Kretsinger, ’72, practices medicine defense and space division of Honeywell. in Emporia. Les Diehl, b’75, is vice president and general 1970 counsel for American Home Life Insurance John Holzhuter, s’70, lives in Overbrook and 1973 in Topeka. is executive director of Let’s Help in Topeka. Gladys Bright Baxley, PhD’73, is president of John Mastio, b’75, received the Centurion Scott Johnson, j’70, is chief of plans and policy Healthcare Services Development Corp. in Award for 2000 from AXA Advisors. He works for the North American Aerospace Offense Washington, D.C. for Mastio Financial Resources in Wichita. Command and the public affairs office of the U.S. Space Command at Peterson AFB, Colo. Janie McColey Escobar, f’73, directs occupa- Odell Weidner, j’75, is president and CEO He lives in Colorado Springs. tional therapy at the University of Miami’s Jack- of Capital City Bank in Topeka. son Memorial Hospital. She and her husband, James Kring Jr., e’70, is executive vice presi- Aldo, live in Miami with their daughters, Alexan- 1976 dent of Bartlett & West Engineers and vice dra, 12, and Mariella, 9. Philip Fladung, f’76, is vice president of sales chairman of the executive committee of the and marketing with the Rototech Group. He Rosemary Pinet Hartner, d’73, teaches in American Consulting Engineers Council. He lives in Carmel, Ind. lives in Topeka. the Vista, Calif., United School Distict, and her husband, Rick, is a self-employed metal sculptor. Suzette Werner Jones, f’76, lives in Tulsa, John Oberzan, j’70, recently became financial Okla., where she’s president of TherapyWorks. adviser at Robert W. Baird & Co. in Lawrence. Thomas Simpson, m’73, chairs the board of directors of Blue Cross and Blue Shield Richard Kovatch, j’76, is founder and CEO of John Tilton, c’70, serves as president of Salesvantx in Dublin, Ohio. the Kansas Dental Association. He practices of Kansas. He’s a family practice physician in in Wichita. Sterling. Bobb Meckenstock, c’76, lives in Hays, where he’s president of Main Street Securities. Stanley Whitley, d’70, recently was elected Josephine McKittrick Trowbridge, g’73, is to the U.S.A. Masters Track and Field Hall of retired in Russell. Bradley Thedinger, m’76, has a private neu- rotology practice in Kansas City. Fame. He lives in Alta Loma, Calif., and teaches Richard Watson, a’73, works for RTKL in physical education at Bonita High School in Keith Wilson, p’76, owns Wilson Oil in Miami, Fla., where he’s a senior project manager. La Verne. Winfield. Ronald Worth, a’73, recently received the 1971 Smart CEO Award from the Greater Washing- 1977 David Andersen, j’71, is senior vice president ton Society of Association Executives. He’s exec- Kathleen Schons Putthoff, c’77, h’77, super- of communications at Charter Communications utive vice president of SMPS in Alexandria,Va., vises the laboratory at Canyon Park Medical in St. Louis. and lives in Olney, Md. Group in Edmond, Okla.

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Robert Reese, b’77, recently was elected Steven Hitchcock, d’81, teaches in Rich- husband,Timothy, live with their children, Nick, chairman of Johnson County’s Water District mond, Mo. 16, Meghan, 13, Allie, 10, and Sean, 4. No. 1. He lives in Prairie Village and manages Glenn Jackson, e’81, g’86, recently joined Howard Shaw, c’84, m’88, is vice chair and information security for Sprint. Landplan Engineering in Lawrence as a project program director of the department of obstet- engineer. He lives in Eudora. rics and gynecology at the University of Okla- MARRIED George Pollock Jr., c’81, j’82, has been pro- homa-Tulsa. Debra Vignatelli, c’77, d’78, and Richard moted to senior copy editor at the Newport Konzem, b’80, May 11.They live in Lawrence, News (Va.) Daily Press, where he’s a business MARRIED where Richard is associate athletics director at section designer. He also won the grand prize Jolene Leiker, j’84, to Gregory Hall, Feb. 10 in KU. Debra is vice president of SBC Communi- last spring in the Fan Fiction Writing Contest at Kansas City. Jolene works for IBM in Somers, cations in Topeka. the Anime North convention in Toronto. N.Y., and Greg works at the New York Stock Betty Rogers Schrandt, d’81, works as a Exchange.They live in Danbury, Conn. 1978 technical writer for the U.S. Army Corps of Steven Briman, e’78, is executive vice Engineers in Kansas City. She lives in Lansing 1985 president of Bartlett & West Engineers in with her husband, William, e’95. Gwen Reimer Cooper, c’85, works as Topeka. an analyst at Central Locating Service in Greg Klipp, c’78, lives in Lincolnshire, Ill., with 1982 Raleigh, N.C. his wife, Katie, and their children, Gregory, 17; Rick Baker, p’82, is a pharmacist at Mount Carolyn Risley Hill, s’85, recently became Carrie, 15; and Brian, 14. Greg is vice president Carmel Medical Center in Pittsburg. chief executive of Starkley, which provides of Transworld Systems in Elk Grove Village. David Hill, f’82, manages design programs for services for mentally disabled adults. She lives Vicki Librach Swider, b’78, manages the IBM in Research Triangle, N.C. He lives in Cary. in Wichita. CPA firm of Bergman, Schraier & Co. in St. Susan Lemen, c’82, lives in Orange Park, Louis. She lives in Ellisville with her husband, Fla., where she’s CEO of Dynamic Corporate BORN TO: Richard, and their children, Elysha, 14, and Solutions. Kathleen Kane Donoghue, b’85, and John, Michael, 12. son,William Terence, Feb. 21 in Fayetteville, 1983 N.C., where he joins two brothers, John, 4, and 1979 Paul Concannon, g’83, is a senior project Joseph, 2. Bryce Bidleman, c’79, works as a geologist architect at HDR in Omaha, Nebraska. Jon Gilchrist, b’85, l’88, and Linda, son, Jon with Trans Pacific Oil in Wichita. He lives in Patrick, Jan. 24 in Leawood, where he joins Valley Center. Mark Eboch, c’83, manages geographic infor- mation systems at the University of Michigan- two sisters,Tate, 6, and Aubrey, 3. Jon is an Douglas Edmonds, e’79, l’82, recently Ann Arbor. He and Karen Carleton Eboch, attorney with Payne & Jones Chartered, in became a principal in the compliance depart- b’81, live in Maumee, Ohio, and she’s a lecturer Overland Park. ment of DeFrain Mayer in Overland Park. in the department of management at Bowling Craig Garrison, c’79, is retired in Lake Jack- Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. 1986 son,Texas. Dan Gehlbach, m’83, practices medicine David Gage, b’86, is president of Gage Man- John Goodman, j’79, has been promoted to with Reproductive Medical & Infertility in agement in Lawrence, where he and Mary senior vice president at Helzberg Diamonds in Shawnee Mission. Remboldt Gage, c’81, g’01, live with their Kansas City. children, Jacob, 14;Travis, 12; Amanda, 11; and Zack Mansdorf, PhD’83, directs safety, indus- Stephanie, 8. Julie Nicolay Larrivee, j’79, works as a free- trial health and environment at L’Oreal. He lives lance writer in Grafton,Wis., where she and her in Paris, France. Janet Wohlrab Gose, b’86, and her husband, husband,Wayne, live with their sons, Scott, 20, Joseph, c’88, g’92, live in Shawnee Mission with Christopher Seitter, e’83, works for Velcro their children, Cara, 3, and Jacob, 1. and Bryan, 14. USA, where he’s a director and general man- Timothy Votapka, c’79, m’83, makes his ager. He lives in Hampton Falls, N.H. Robert Sutryk, f’86, recently joined Sullivan home in Highland Park, Ill., with his wife, Laura. Higdon & Sink in Kansas City as an art director. BORN TO: He lives in Olathe. 1980 James, c’83, and Barbara Brainerd Barrett, Kathleen Wilson, ’86, is a community support Karen Loudon, d’80, h’85, g’87, recently c’83, daughter, Rachel Sue, Feb. 4 in Edmond, worker at Comtrea. She lives in Fenton, Mo. became a certified orthopedic clinical specialist. Okla., where she joins a sister, Alice, 5, and a She lives in Overland Park. brother, John, 3. 1987 Stephen Ariagno, b’87, l’90, recently was Cecil Walker, c’80, owns and is president of David Gantenbein, j’83, and Rachael elected vice president of the Kansas Association CW Construction Services in Longwood, Fla. Pirner, c’86, j’86, son, Aidan Lawrence Ganten- of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He lives in bein, April 12 in Wichita, where he joins a Wichita. BORN TO: brother, Boone, 3. Bashar Hanna, e’87, g’89, works as an electri- Craig, c’80, g’85, and Jennifer Thole cal engineer with Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, Berquist, j’94, g’96, son, Landon Albert, April 1984 Mich. He lives in Farmington Hills. 27.They live in Lawrence. Kimberly Coe Baker, c’84, g’91, and her hus- band, Richard, live in Topeka with their son, William “Trey” Humphrey, b’87, is general 1981 Edward, 1. counsel with Lockton Cos. in Prairie Village. Amy Finch, PhD’81, is an associate professor Rita Gilmore Koester, m’84, practices pedi- Carl Saxon, b’87, directs finance for Square at Fort Hays State University. atrics in Edgewood,Wash., where she and her One in Allen,Texas.

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Michael McDaniel, p’89, directs the pharmacy at CARE Pharmacy in Topeka. Mitchell Morgan, m’89, practices internal medicine with the Wichita Clinic. BORN TO: Laura Meyer Maschler, b’89, g’93, and Edward, j’91, daughter, Lindsey Ann, April 30 in Overland Park, where she joins two sisters, Kaitlyn, 5, and Jennifer, 3. Mark, f’89, g’94, and Susan Dickey Putman, c’92, son, Corbin Lawrence, April 30 in Thorn- ton, Colo. Mark is a database administrator at U.S. Bank in Broomfield, and Susan is a customer service representative for Denver Agency Co. Jeffrey Suggs, j’89, and Coleen, daughter, Han- nah Coleen, May 31 in Tulare, Calif., where Jeff works for AT&T Wireless. 1990 Heather Hampton Carlson, b’90, is active with her daughters’ schools. She and her hus- band, Bradley, c’89, live in The Woodlands, Texas, with Haley, 6, and Sydney, 4. Christine Cavataio, e’90, directs operations for H2L2 Planners/Architects in Philadelphia. Karen Gipson Chandler, c’90, works as a human-resources consultant for the city of Castle Rock, Colo. Jeffrey Morris, c’90, l’93, practices law with Berkowitz Feldmiller Stanton Brandt Williams & Shaw in Prairie Village. Schuyler Tackett Steelberg, c’90, m’96, is Rick Stone, b’87, owns the Medicine Shoppe James Kleikamp, b’88, is president of zbanc chief of family practice for the Cherokee Nation in Hutchinson. Home Mortgage in Lenexa. in Cookson, Okla. Charles Knapp, c’88, directs communications Jeffrey Wagaman, g’90, is executive director BORN TO: for U.S. Rep.Todd Tiahrt in Wichita. He lives of the Kansas Corporation Commission. He William, b’87, and Bethany Beilharz in Augusta. lives in Topeka and recently received the Mike Harder Public Administrator of the Year Award. Humphrey, ’88, daughter, Katherine Ann, Jan. 1 Sandra Smith Moore, PhD’88, is retired in in Shawnee Mission, where she joins a brother, Palmyra, Mo., where she and her husband, John, MARRIED William, 5, and a sister, Elena, 3.William is gen- ’81, make their home. eral counsel for Lockton Cos. in Kansas City. Timothy Tuttle, c’90, to Carmel Irwin, March Dennis Smythe, e’88, is senior project man- 9. He’s a judge advocate with the U.S. Air Force Gregory Kaul, j’87, and Shannon, son, Davis ager for Wartsila in Severna Park, Md. at Ramstien AFB, Germany. Robert, Dec. 3 in Orlando, Fla., where he joins a Jeffrey Thompson, f’88, designs footwear for sister, Macy, 2. Greg directs sales for Premier BORN TO: Convention Sales. Timberland in Stratham, N.H. He lives in Portsmouth. Lori Kaleikini Bullock, ’90, and John, b’91, 1988 son, Jordan Andrew, May 13 in Franklin,Wis., where he joins a brother, Jaron, 5. David Francke, c’88, recently became vice BORN TO: president of the import division of the Robert Brady, j’88, and Martha Cernich Stanton, Jana Vohs Feldman, b’90, and Andrew, son, Mondavi Corp. in Chicago. j’90, son, Peterson Quinn, April 25 in Leawood, Seth Adam, May 4 in West Liberty, Iowa, where he joins two brothers, Parker, 3, and Noah, 2. where he joins a brother, Henry, 1. Heather Hughes Johnson, c’88, d’88, has Jana is senior project director at NCS Pearson in been promoted to district sales manager with Iowa City. Pharmacia. She and her husband, Brian, b’88, 1989 Bradley, j’90, and Jill Douglas Robbins, g’97, live in Scottsdale, Ariz. He’s a senior product Anna Davalos, j’89, produces news for daughter, Paige Elizabeth, Jan. 25 in Overland manager with Medicis Pharmaceutical. WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. She lives in Park, where she joins a brother, Brock, who’ll Alexandria,Va. Judith Kinshaw-Ellis, g’88, teaches study skills be 2 in November. Bradley is a master police in the Hartford County public schools. She lives John “Jack” Latzer, b’89, directs key accounts officer in Leawood, and Jill teaches math in in Bel Air, Md. for Protocol in Denver. He lives in Westminster. Blue Valley.

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Jeffrey, m’90, and Julie Little Unruh, d’90, & Technologies, and Paige is an environmental in Seaside, Calif., where she joins a brother, n’92, son, Grant Allen, April 26 in Topeka, where biologist with Tetra Tech. Jonathan, 7, and a sister, Emily, 5. he joins a sister, Haley, 3. Jeff works at Anesthe- Sherry Unstead Kivett, b’93, g’99, and sia Services Medical Group, and Julie is an 1992 Larry, b’95, son, Jacob Carter, March 31 in emergency room and recovery room nurse at Dru Stewart Fritzel, c’92, co-owns Interiors Flower Mound,Texas. Larry is national manager St. Francis Hospital. in Lawrence, where she and her husband, of communications for Deloitte & Touche Lisa Arnold Williams, d’90, n’95, and Dar- Thomas, c’92, make their home. He’s vice in Dallas. rell, b’92, son, Jared, May 25.They are stationed president of Gene Fritzel Construction. at Spangdahlem AFB, Germany, where Darrell is Amy Schwindt Nachtigal, b’92, is chief 1994 a U.S. Air Force captain, and their family includes financial officer of St. Luke’s South Hospital in Buran Ayuthia, c’94, manages products for a son, Marcus, 4. Overland Park. Sentry Insurance. He lives in Madison,Wis. Heather Miles Scott, c’92, works as a Nikkie Sackuvich Freeman, b’94, g’95, is 1991 territory manager for Hill’s Pet Nutrition in business assessment manager for Sprint in Michelle Carramusa, d’91, recently joined McKinney,Texas. Westwood. Builders Publishing as a national marketing director. She lives in Overland Park. Michael Myers, e’94, is a staff engineer with MARRIED Boeing. He and Jennifer Murrill Myers, c’98, Linas Grikis, j’91, makes his home in Chicago, Kenneth McRae, c’92, l’96, and Susan live in Torrance, Calif., with their son, Grant, where he practices corporate health law with Beaver, d’99, Jan. 27 in Overland Park. He’s who’ll be 1 Sept. 30. McDermott,Will & Emery. an attorney with Petefish, Immel and Heeb Jeff Pacha, e’94, works as the finance business Jordan Lerner, e’91, recently became a pro- in Lawrence, and she works at Central partner for quality at Cessna Aircraft, and Brett ject manager and electrical engineer with GPW National Bank. Weinberg, c’94, is a senior associate with & Associates in Lawrence. Carmichael Lynch Spong in Minneapolis, Minn. Thomas Schaeffer, e’91, manages engineer- BORN TO: He lives in Minnetonka. ing at Fru-Con Engineering in Cape Girardeau, Jeffrey Lane, b’92, and Kathleen, son, Collin Jef- Linda Wright, g’94, directs the Johnson Mo. frey, May 26 in , where Jeffrey is a pro- County Area Agency on Aging. She lives in Steve Wright, c’91, l’94, is an assistant vice jects manager with Anchor Gaming. Prairie Village. president of Commerce Bank in Kansas City. Mark Pettijohn, b’92, and Traci, daughter, Chloe Amelia, March 30 in Solomon, where she BORN TO: MARRIED joins a brother, Gareth, who’s nearly 2. Mary O’Connell, c’94, and Steven Hill, son, Ted McBride, c’91, and Tiffany Sharp, c’98, Zachary Harrison O’Connell Hill, May 28 in Sept. 30.They live in Overland Park, where Ted 1993 Lawrence, where he joins a sister, Juliana, 2. manages projects for Sprint and Tiffany is a sur- Christopher Hanna, b’93, co-owns the Bleu- Steve is staff writer for the Kansas Alumni gical nurse at Menorah Medical Center. Jacket restaurant in Lawrence, where he and Association. Cheryl Stallwitz, e’91, to Wesley Pudwill, Teresa Lynch Hanna, c’92, make their home. Stacey Neff Watts, d’94, and Terry, son,Troy June 2 in Nassau Bay,Texas. She’s an account Jason Jundt, e’93, g’96, works as a financial Joseph, March 31 in Olathe.They live in Ottawa, manager and business analyst with Praxair, and analyst for IBM Global Services. He lives in where Stacey teaches science.Terry is a produc- they live in Seabrook. Raleigh, N.C. tion planner for Graphic Technology in New John Mullies, b’93, h’97, recently was pro- Century. BORN TO: moted to PathNet Enterprise architect with Matthew, b’91, and Kelly Halloran Birch, Cerner in Kansas City. 1995 j’92, son, Adam Patrick, Jan. 18 in Wichita, where Brian Prosser, e’93, g’95, manages product Kimberly Ebert Jones, e’95, recently became he joins a brother, Jeffrey, 3. Matthew is an marketing for EPIQ Systems in Kansas City. a structural engineer with the DLR Group in account executive with Adelphia Business Overland Park. She and her husband, To d d , James Remer, c’93, is secretary/treasurer of Solutions. e’95, live in Olathe. Buckeye Development. He lives in Kansas City. Lori Hanson, c’91, and Timothy Manning, David Stallwitz, e’93, manages sales for c’92, daughter, Aidin Helene Manning, May 15. MARRIED Phillips K-Resin, and Carrie Meeks Stallwitz, They live in Lawrence, where Lori is an adminis- Desiree Fish, j’95, to Lawrence Wilson, May 5 a’94, directs public relations for the DLR Group. trative assistant at Gene Fritzel Construction. in New York City. She directs public affairs for They live in Roeland Park. Timothy is a producer and director with Time American Express, and he’s senior vice president for marketing and business strategy with Net- Warner Cable in Overland Park. MARRIED Bradley, b’91, and Theresa Pettersch Value. Larsen, b’91, son, Bailey Michael, April 12 in Melissa Grace, c’93, to Jason Honsaker, May 5. Deborah Gillespie, b’95, to Brett Smith, Sept. Issaquah,Wash., where he joins a brother, Bran- They live in Pensacola, Fla. 9 in Leawood. She’s a contract administrator don, 4. Bradley is a product manager for with Black & Veatch, and he’s a network design Microsoft, and Theresa is a senior technical BORN TO: engineer with Sprint.They live in Olathe. application consultant for Sprint Wholesale Ser- Michael, c’93, and Christina Clayton vice Group. Ducey, c’93, daughter, Olivia Anne, Nov. 7 in BORN TO: Paige Cowden Marett, c’91, and Robert, Kansas City, where Michael is an assistant profes- Kristen Wewers Lykes, j’95, and Jeff, son, e’93, daughter, Halle Jennifer, April 30 in sor of chemistry at Saint Mary College. Benjamin Ross, April 3 in Oklahoma City, Lawrence, where she joins a sister, Leah, who’s Melissa Nehrling Holmgren, ’93, and where Kristen is a supervisor for Hertz Financial almost 2. Robert works for Starfire Engineering Jonathan, e’96, daughter, Abigail Grace, Feb. 27 Center.

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1996 Daniel Almanza, f’96, co-owns The Bleu- Jacket restaurant in Lawrence, where and his wife, Kay Kimball Almanza, c’88, live with their children, Fischer, 7, and Ellen, 4. Douglas Conder, PhD’96, is executive direc- tor of Cross Timbers Community Foundation. He lives in Keller,Texas. Jeffrey Grace, b’96, works as a producer for IMA in Wichita. Chad Roesler, c’96, recently became an investment representative with Edward Jones in Lawrence. Melanie Zack, c’96, directs membership for DMB in Scottsdale, Ariz.

MARRIED Jeremy Bezdek, b’96, to Emily Dennis, Nov. 25 in Tulsa, Okla. He manages marketing for in Chicago, and she’s an actress and a teacher.

BORN TO: Catherine Johnston Cordova, n’96, and Maximillian, ’01, son, Creighton Robert, May 21 in Lawrence, where Catherine is a nurse at Mount Oread Family Practice and Max works for United Parcel Service. 1997 Andrew Bunten, b’97, works as a strategic finance analyst for Esurance in San Francisco. Timothy Huskey, f’97, directs bands for Cain Middle School in Rockwall,Texas. Peter Sittenauer, c’97, serves as a captain in the U.S. Army. He lives in Fort Knox, Ky., with his wife, Carolyn, and their daughter, Sarah, 1. 1998 Lisa Bartling Finlay, c’98, supervises tellers at First Fidelity Bank in Norman, Okla. Carol Koski, h’98, manages medical records at the KU Medical Center’s Cancer Center in Kansas City. Melissa Quigley, c’98, works as a new tech- nology adviser for the Lexus division of Toyota Motor Sales in Torrance, Calif. She lives in Redondo Beach. Jason Unrein, b’98, c’98, manages advertising for SRC Communications in San Antonio.

MARRIED Robert Smith, b’98, to Amber Roselle, May 5 in Denver. He’s an investment manager with King Financial, and she’s a project coordinator with Shaw Contract Flooring.They live in Over- land Park.

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BORN TO: Debra LiaKos, d’98, and Jeremy, son, Brayden Kane, Jan. 12 in Lawrence, where Debbie is senior teller at Capitol Federal Savings. 1999 Mark Adams, e’99, is a project engineer for CMS Viron Energy Services. He lives in Olathe. Kristel Cosner, e’99, works as an analog engineer for Intel in Chandler, Ariz. She lives in Phoenix. Ann Hammond, c’99, is a sales service assis- tant for Coordinated Systems & Supplies in Lawrence. Sara Shay Tarvin, j’99, works for Coca-Cola. She and her husband, Cory, live in Overland Park. BORN TO: Layne Gentry Martin, d’99, and Harold, son, Blake, June 22 in Olathe, where Layne is office manager for Playground magazine. 2000 Bob Armintrout, s’00, is a family specialist with DCCCA Family Preservation Services in Kansas City. He lives in Independence, Mo. Dan Kulmala, PhD'00, has accepted a posi- tion as visiting assistant professor of English at Fort Hays State University. He had been a lec- turer in KU's English department. Matthieu Piganiol, g’00, works as an analyst for Accenture in Paris, France. Blaine Riney, j’00, recently became an invest- ment representative with Edward Jones in Lawrence. Trent Frankum, b’01, works as analyst for CB Richard Ellis in Manila, Philippines. School Codes Letters that follow names in Kansas Alumni indicate the school MARRIED Koren Hawk, j’01, is a music inventory analyst from which alumni earned degrees. Numbers Jennifer McLaury, c’00, and Michael with Best Buy in Eden Prairie, Minn. show their class years. Kauphusman, l’00, May 20.They live in Bruce Hull, ’01, is a diplomat with the U.S. a School of Architecture and Urban Shawnee Mission. Department of State at the U.S. Embassy in Design Andrea Steffens, b’00, to Jeff Myers, April 21. Barbados. b School of Business They live in Shawnee, and Andrea manages c College of Liberal Arts and Alissa Overall, ’01, manages a branch of Sciences accounting for Sandy Inc. in Lenexa. Commerce Bank in Lawrence. d School of Education e School of Engineering BORN TO: MARRIED f School of Fine Arts Devon Reese, l’00, and Emily, daughter, Kate g Master’s Degree Jacalyn, June 1 in Reno, Nev. Devon is a law Shannon Mossberg, c’01, to Shelby Kuehler, h School of Allied Health clerk for the Nevada Supreme Court in May 11 in Las Vegas. She works for Statestreet j School of Journalism Carson City. Financial in Kansas City, and he owns Insul-Tech l School of Law Services in Lawrence, where they live. m School of Medicine 2001 n School of Nursing Maria Albert, c’01, manages prerenovation BORN TO: p School of Pharmacy education programs for the Kansas Department s School of Social Welfare Michael Burns, h’01, and Melissa, son, Ethan of Health. She lives in Lawrence and recently DE Doctor of Engineering received the Rising Star Award at the National Michael, May 15 in Rolla, Mo., where Michael is a DMA Doctor of Musical Arts Lead-Safe Housing and Indoor Air Environmen- nurse anesthetist at Phelps County Regional EdD Doctor of Education tal Health Conference. Medical Center. PhD Doctor of Philosophy TauniBrooks, b’01, is a media assistant with Robynn Hart Krueger, g’01, and Peter, (no letter) Former student assoc. Associate member of the Kuhn & Wittenborn Advertising in Kansas City. daughter, Kathryn Nicole, Nov. 28 in Alumni Association She lives in Lawrence. Golden, Colo.

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The Early Years Virginia Downey Stone, ’33, 91, June 20 in Liebert Parker, d’71; 12 grandchildren; and a Betty Millard Dickerson, c’29, 93, March 25 Lawrence, where she had been director of KU’s great-grandchild. in Wichita, where she taught at the Wichita Art Joseph R. Pearson Residence Hall. She lived in Ralph Miller, d’42, 82, May 15 in Black Butte Association for many years.Two sons survive. Eudora and is survived by a son, Darryl, c’72; a Ranch, Ore.While at Oregon State University, daughter, Darleene Stone Overstreet, f’61; six Miriam McClelland James, c’26, 95, April he coached the men’s basketball team to four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. 21 in Virginia Beach,Va. She is survived by a Pac 10 Conference championships and eight daughter and two grandsons. John Vogel Jr., b’39, 85, June 19 in Lawrence. NCAA tournament appearances.The basketball He was a stockman and a farmer and had court at Oregon State’s Gill Coliseum is named 1930s served in the Kansas House of Representatives.. for him. Earlier he coached at Wichita State Uni- Everett “Andy” Anderson, ’32, 93, June 25 He received KU’s Ellsworth Medallion for versity for 13 years. Survivors include his wife, in Topeka.A memorial has been established with unique and significant service to the University. Emily Milam Miller, c’42; two daughters; a son; 10 the KU Endowment Association. He is survived Survivors include a son; a daughter, Nancy, c’63, grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. by his wife, Kyle; a son, Dana, b’59; a daughter, d’63, g’65, PhD’71; a brother; and four sisters. Joyce Durall Redwine, c’46, c’48, 76, May Sally Anderson Martell, d’58, seven grandchil- 31 in Blue Springs, Mo. She had been chief med- dren; and 10 great-grandchildren. 1940s ical technologist at Kiowa County Memorial Alice Gallup, f’33, 89, May 28 in Lawrence, Velma Boyd Amberg, ’41, 85, Jan. 4 in Hospital and a bookkeeper at Redwine Motor where she was a retired teacher and administra- Newark, Del. She had owned the Barn Studio in and at Blue Springs Family Eye Care. She is sur- tor. She is survived by a brother, Alfred, b’38. Landenberg, Pa., and is survived by her husband, vived by two sons, John, c’72, and Jack, b’75, g’76; Lyle, c’38, g’39, and two daughters. Helen Homolka, c’32, 91, June 21 in Holy- a daughter, Joyclyn Redwine Westfall, c’79; a rood. She worked for KU food services before Alice Gaston Bragg, ’47, 76, May 31 in brother; and nine grandchildren. moving to Claflin. A memorial has been estab- Hutchinson, where she was a retired appraiser. William Salero, p’49, 74, June 12 in Kansas lished with the KU Endowment Association. A Three daughters, a sister, five grandchildren and City. He lived in Manhattan and was retired niece and a nephew survive. seven great-grandchildren survive. director of pharmacy at Lefene Health Center. A Clitus Hosford Jr., ’38, 85, May 29 in Prairie Ramon Charles, g’49, EdD’53, 83, June 12 sister survives. Village, where he was a retired partner of Black in Raymore, Mo. He was director of guidance Frances Mee Byrn Stephenson, d’49, 77, & Veatch. He is survived by a son, Robert, c’65, for the state of Kansas and regional director June 8 in Topeka. She lived in Lawrence, where l’68; four grandchildren; and eight great-grand- with Science Research Associates. Survivors she was a retired teacher. A son, a daughter, six children. include his wife, Gwendolyn, two daughters, a grandsons and six great-grandchildren survive. brother, five grandchildren and three great- Dorothy Harvey King, c’32, 89, March 24 grandchildren. Charles White, m’42, 85, June 27 in Kansas in Kansas City, where she was a retired medical City. He had established the radiology depart- social worker. A cousin survives. Dolores Custer Chesky, c’48, 74, March ment at the Wichita Clinic and also worked at 15 in Halstead. She had worked for Chesky the Veterans Administration Hospital. Surviving Olive Edmonds Laing, c’36, 89, May 25 in Insurance and Chesky Arabian Horse Farm. Winchester, where she was a retired teacher. are his wife, Nelda Bortz White, c’38, h’39; three She is survived by three sons, two of whom daughters, two of whom are Sally White Guil- She is survived by a daughter; three brothers, are Victor, g’79, and Eric, d’81; a sister; and five two of whom are H.V. Edmonds, d’41, f’49, and foyle, d’71, and Mary White Pusateri, n’76; a sis- grandchildren. Ernest Edmonds, d’38, g’46; and a granddaughter. ter; a brother; and five grandchildren. Frank Darden Jr., e’46, 74, March 1 in Fort Ethelyn Soper Lonnberg, c’32, 89, April 17 Wendell Wood, b’49, 84, April 28 in San Worth,Texas, where he was founder and chair- in Wichita, where she co-owned Wichita Vinegar Antonio. He had been chief underwriter at the man of Mercury Production and a director of Works. Several nieces and nephews survive. department of Housing and Urban Develop- Quicksilver Resources. He is survived by his Herlan Loyd, c’35, m’40, 88, March 24 in ment and later was an independent real-estate wife, Lucy, two sons, a daughter, a sister and appraiser. He is survived by his wife, Pauline, two Carmichael, Calif. He was an oncologist and a eight grandchildren. hematologist and is survived by his wife, Mar- sons and a sister. Virgil Davis, c’49, 80, May 18 in St. Joseph, jorie, two daughters and four grandchildren. Mo., where he was retired from Swift and Co. 1950s Max Ontjes, b’33, 91, June 26 in Hutchinson. He is survived by his wife, Kathryn; a son, Scott, Rose Bachman, d’59, 71, June 5 in Liberty, He is survived by a daughter, Carolyn Ontjes c’73; a daughter; a brother; and a sister. Mo. She lived in Kansas City, where she taught Falletta, c’62; and two sons, David, c’59, and Melvin Hayes, c’47, April 20 in Palm City, school and later worked for the Kansas Depart- Sam, c’67. Fla., where he was a retired writer and editor. ment of Social and Rehabilitation Services.Two John Page, e’39, 89, May 7 in Lafayette, La. He He is survived by his wife, Helen, two daughters, sisters and a brother survive. was a retired geophysicist and is survived by his a brother, four grandsons and six great-grand- Martha Grob Green, ’52, June 9 in Kansas wife, Lorrel, a son, two daughters, a brother, two children. City. She lived in Lawrence, where she was a sisters and four granddaughters. Robert Keplinger, ’48, 81, June 27 in founding member of St. Margaret’s Episcopal Hattie Davis Pierson, ’33, 90, June 16 in Shawnee Mission. He attended KU before and Church. Surviving are her husband, Robert, a’50; Lawrence. She is survived by a son, John, c’58, after his service in the Army in World War II, five daughters, Becca Green Diederich, c’93, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. where he served in the Pacific and won a Lucinda Green Mathews, d’75, Stacey, h’89, Heinz Puell, c’35, 92, May 26 in Osterwaldstr, Bronze Star. Survivors include a sister, Heather Green Bravence, d’89, and Kimberly, Germany. He is survived by his wife, Irene Martha Keplinger Cook, c’50, and a brother, a’98, e’98; a son; a brother; and nine grand- Teubner Puell, c’34, and four sons. Donald, b’42. children. Genevieve Bero Sears, c’31, 90, March 27 Patrick Liebert, e’49, 76, June 5 in Norman, Berniece Hughes, ’50, 72, May 24 in Wichita, in Vallejo, Calif. She had been a teacher and a Okla. He is survived by his wife, LaVon; four where she was a bookkeeper and accountant columnist and is survived by a daughter. sons; three daughters, one of whom is Susan for Southwest National Bank. She is survived by

60] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 IN MEMORY three sisters, one of whom is Lula Hughes Swan, e’79, and Pamela Krivohlavek Robinson, 1980s Hunt, ’48. c’74; a stepson; three stepdaughters; three Michael Galle, ’85, 40, June 13 in San Luis Thelma Sprout Keller, c’52, 70, May 17 in grandchildren; nine stepgrandchildren; and four Obispo, Calif. He lived in Lawrence and is sur- Orlando, Fla., where she was a physical thera- stepgreat-grandchildren. vived by his parents and a sister, Suzanne, c’89. pist. She is survived by her husband, Louie, two Agnese Kiger Mahon, ’68, 93, June 10 in Lani Mortenson, s’80, 61, April 7 in Olathe. sons and a sister. Dallas, where she was a retired teacher. She is She lived in Paola, where she was executive survived by her husband, Harry; a daughter, Richard Nabours, m’54, 73, May 15 in director of the Paola Housing Authority. Her Sylvia Mahon Allgaier, d’58; a sister; three grand- Topeka, where he was a family practitioner. mother, two sisters and a brother survive. Two sisters survive. sons; and a great-granddaughter. Jack McCall, j’62, g’65, 56, June 25 in an Theodore Nichols, l’81, 49, April 26 in Phyllis Nehrbass Pankratz, d’55, 69; June Anthony, where he was an attorney. He is sur- 1 in Midland, Mich. She is survived by her hus- airplane crash near McAlester, Okla. He lived vived by his wife, Sandy; a son; a daughter, band, Paul, e’55; three sons; a brother, Carl in Ozawkie and taught automobile mechanics Brandy, c’00; a brother; and a sister. Nehrbass, c’64; two sisters, Rowena Nehrbass for USD 501 in Topeka. Surviving are his wife, Pine, c’81, and Joyce Nehrbass Elliott, d’58; and Ruth, two stepsons, two brothers and six James Swanson, ’80, 47, June 17 in Wichita eight grandchildren. grandchildren. of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Donald Powell, b’51, 73, April 2 in Wichita, Michael Metzler, e’65, g’67, 58, May 1 in He lived in Junction City and was a technical where he was retired personnel manager with Kissimmee, Fla., where he was retired from a engineer for the Kansas Department of Trans- Cessna Aircraft. He is survived by his wife, career with Black & Veatch. A memorial has portation. Surviving are his parents, R.W., d’38, Zelph, two sons, a daughter and three grand- been established with the KU Endowment Asso- g’39, and Phyllis Sikes Swanson, c’39; two broth- daughters. ciation. He is survived by his wife, Nancy Patter- ers; and a sister, Sue Swanson Hornbaker, c’70. son Metzler, f’65, s’70; a son; a daughter; his Gerald Scott, c’55, 68, May 16 in Ventura, mother, Rosa Lee Metzler, c’33; a sister, Elizabeth, 1990s Calif., where he was retired from a career in c’81; a brother, John, e’74, g’79; and a grandson. the motion picture industry. He is survived by Patricia Johnston Aventa, c’93, 58, March a son; a daughter; a sister; and a brother, 1970s 24 in Grandview, Mo. She lived in Indepen- Lloyd, b’42. dence, Mo., where she was a founding member Calvin Atwood, d’74, 50, May 29 in Arling- Charles See, m’59, 67, April 18 in Houston. ton,Texas. He co-founded Atwood Convention of Preservation Renaissance Independence and He practiced family medicine for 41 years and Publishing and is survived by his wife, Linette, worked for Ochsner, Hare & Hare. She is sur- is survived by his wife, Ann, a son, a sister and a daughter, two sons, his parents and two vived by a son, her mother, and a sister, Jeanette a grandson. brothers. Johnston Okerstrom, g’87. Lennard Shipley, b’51, 76, Dec. 16 in Donald Brewster, ’70, 64, June 20 in Topeka. Gary Barnes, l’92, 42, May 30 in Las Vegas, Neodesha. Among survivors are two sons and He lived in Lawrence, where he owned Brew- where he was a telephone technician. He is sur- a daughter. ster Construction and Northstar Realty. He is vived by his wife, Laurie, his parents, four sons, a William Sladek, c’59, 65, June 16 in Wichita, survived by his wife, Patricia; two daughters, one daughter, two sisters and his grandfather. where he was a retired petroleum geologist. He of whom is Gayle Brewster Robb, s’91; two Lori Irving, PhD’92, 38, April 29 in Vancou- is survived by his wife, Sheri, two sons, two sons, Donald, g’01, and Kyle, b’89; five brothers, ver,Wash., where she was a professor of psy- daughters, a stepson, three stepdaughters, his one of whom is Gerald, e’67; two half brothers; chology at Washington State University and a a half sister; nine grandchildren; and two great- mother, a sister and 11 grandchildren. national authority on eating disorders. She is grandchildren. Frank Surber, b’54, 69, June 2 in Lee’s survived by her husband, Mike Morgan, her par- Summit, Mo., where he was a CPA. Surviving James Ellis, e’70, 54, June 19 in Lawrence, ents, two brothers and a sister. are his wife, Patricia, two daughters and four where he lived. He worked for Mid-West Con- Pamela Dowell Martinez, ’91, 44, June 18 grandchildren. veyor in Edwardsville and is survived by his par- ents, two brothers and three sisters. in Lawrence, where she was a nurse at Asthma, Earl Watson, c’50, l’51, 78, May 26 in San Allergy and Rheumatology Associates. She is Diego. He had been vice president and project Kathryn Keesee Gold, d’74, June 4 in Kansas City, where she taught German at North survived by her husband, John, c’71, m’74; two manager at Ebasco and later was a consultant daughters, one of whom is Jennifer Martinez for Finance Factors Insurance in Honolulu. Sur- Kansas City High School for 27 years. She is sur- Weiford, b’94, m’98; two sons; her parents; five vivors include three sons, a daughter, two sis- vived by two sons, her parents, three brothers brothers, one of whom is Gregory, b’76; and a ters, a brother and three grandchildren. and three sisters. grandchild. Robert Wood, m’53, 74, May 13 in Peabody, Rita Suderman Lind, ’72, 57, May 23 in where he was a physician. He is survived by Lawrence, where she was language arts coordi- Anne Turner, g’94, PhD’00, 33, May 11 in two sons, one of whom is Timothy, l’82; and a nator for USD 497. She is survived by her hus- Rolla, Mo. She was a visiting professor in the sister. band, Richard, ’61; a daughter; two sons, one of writing program at James Madison University in whom is Richard, d’89; her parents; a sister; and Harrisonburg,Va. A memorial has been estab- Julian Zimmerman, c’52, l’53, 84, March 31 seven grandchildren. in Austin,Texas, where he was president and lished with the KU Endowment Association. She CEO of Lumberman’s Investment. He is sur- Jack Singleton 111, d’74, April 22 in Kansas is survived by her parents, a brother and her vived by his wife, Shirley, a daughter, a stepson, a City. He is survived by his wife, Ruth Warriner fiance, Dan Kulmala, PhD’00. stepdaughter, two sisters and six grandchildren. Singleton, ’76; his father, Jack Jr., a’48; and a sister. Raymond Whelan, g’77, g’82, PhD’85, Associates 1960s 69, Nov. 1 in Wilson, N.C. He had been a pro- Clara Gingrich Peterson, 84, April 6 in Ernest Krivohlavek, ’62, 77, June 25 in fessor of French at Barton College and is sur- Kent,Wash. She is survived by her husband, Wichita, where he was a retired teacher. He is vived by his wife, Chantal, c’85; a sister; and Carl, b’38; two sons, one of whom is James, e’68; survived by two daughters, Carol Krivohlavek three brothers. a daughter; and two grandchildren.

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 [61 SCHOOLWORK BY HILL & LAZZARINO Driven to distraction Cell phones divert the head, not the hands—and that’s what makes them dangerous

“Your brain has a limited amount of processing power, and as you do more tasks the amount of resources doesn’t increase,” Atchley says. Instead, the limited resources get

EARL RICHARDSON stretched between multiple tasks. “If you’re trying to walk and chew gum you’re now sharing resources between two tasks.” Easy tasks present few problems, but mix driving and talking—which are much more complicated than most of us think—and things get a little more dicey. “Conversation is an extremely complicated computational process,” Atchley says. “We can’t make our best supercomput- ers speak to us or understand what we’re saying. That illus- trates how much computational power it takes to talk.” Evidence of this distraction can be found in the, well, dis- tracted nature of cell phone chatter. “If you ever talk to someone who’s on a cell phone in traf- fic, you can hear when the traffic gets heavy.” Unresponsive- ness, gaps in conversation and requests to repeat information HANG UP AND DRIVE: Cognitive psychologist Paul Atchley says laws ban- are all signs the brain is straining to do two things at once, ning hand-held phones are misguided.“People get the incorrect information that Atchley says. “The brain is trying to do the driving and that is hands-free phones are safe.What do they do? Jump in the car, use the phone and interfering with the conversation. It obviously goes the other not worry.” direction as well.” And therein lies the problem: The brain can’t do two oping to reduce traffic accidents involving cellular things at once, so it switches rapidly from one task to another. telephone users, New York in November will become “When you are talking and driving, it’s as if you drive a lit- Hthe first state to ban hand-held phones behind the tle bit and then talk a little bit. During the time you’re talking, wheel. Since 1995 at least 35 states, including Kansas and you’re not really actively attending to the road,” he says. In a Missouri, have considered similar measures, and many will do car moving 40 feet per second, a moment’s lapse is enough to so again. cause a crash. But such laws will likely increase accidents because they Atchley expects accidents rates to decrease initially in New send the false signal that hands-free cell phones are safe, says York, as drivers curtail their talk after learning that cell phones Paul Atchley, assistant professor of psychology. and driving are an unsafe combination. But because the law Atchley, a cognitive psychologist whose research focuses on encourages switching to hands-free equipment rather than visual attention, studies how drivers extract information from abandoning cell phones altogether, he predicts that accident the environment. The trouble with cell phones, he says, is they rates will increase as more and more people embrace what distract the brain, not the hands. they mistakenly believe is safer technology. “We know from previous studies that cell phones don’t The only real solution, he believes, is an outright ban on seem to impact the ability to steer a car,” Atchley says. “If you phoning and driving. At least one city, Brooklyn, Ohio, has have driven a stick shift you know that.” instituted such a ban. Others are working toward a nationwide Holding the phone may not be distracting, but talking on it ban. A Philadelpia mother, Patricia Pena, began lobbying for is. A 1997 New England Journal of Medicine study estimated tougher cell phone restrictions after a driver ran a stop sign that phoning while driving increases accident risk by 400 per- while dialing a cell phone, killing Pena’s 2-year-old daughter. cent—about the same risk rate as drinking and driving, “People argue that lots of other things are distracting, so according to published reports. Another study showed that we shouldn’t pick on cell phones, but I really have a problem cell-phone talkers miss twice as many stoplights as other dri- with that,” Atchley says. “If it’s something you could regulate vers and are slower to react to the stoplights they do notice. and reduce the number of accidents, why wouldn’t you Results were the same for hand-held and hands-free phones. do that?”

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ARCHITECTURE & ENGINEERING riculum will not change. annually in four courses and a directed “We have worked together to develop independent study. The MBA program Change aims to streamline this new administrative structure without recently added an e-business concentra- architectural engineering changing the excellent academic program tion, too. present in architectural engineering,” says The entrepreneurial internship pro- rchitectural engineering has a new Carl Locke, dean of engineering. “We gram will be part of the school’s existing Aname and a new administrative struc- want to continue the strong input from internship program, directed by Lisa ture this fall, after a task force of alumni the School of Architecture and Urban Ottinger. She says the School of Business and faculty recommended shifting admin- Design to develop graduates who have a views internships as a “vital component” istration of the program from the School special perspective on both the architec- of students’ education. of Architecture and Urban Design to the tural and engineering aspects of their “They get the opportunity to explore School of Engineering. degrees. We have excellent students from possible life choices in their field and to The change is designed to streamline all over the country in this program with adapt to the business environment. Busi- administration and improve faculty a strong faculty.” nesses get excellent, fresh perspectives recruitment and retention by ending the About 200 students enroll in architec- and highly skilled people for a term. old arrangement under which faculty tural engineering annually. Many also find this is an opportunity to members served dual appointments with preview potential employees.” the schools of architecture and engineer- BUSINESS Entrepreneurs interested in learning ing. Currently eight faculty members have more about the program should contact split appointments. The realignment will Entrepreneurs encouraged Jeff Morrow at 785-864-7556. result in six faculty with full-time to look to KU for interns appointments in the engineering school EDUCATION and three with full-time appointments in new School of Business initiative will Fun, informative activities architecture—including one new position Aallow entrepreneurs to tap a valuable in the School of Architecture. resource that big companies have been planned for Open House “We were discovering with the 50-50 using for decades: student interns. arrangement that it just wasn’t clear The entrepreneurial internship pro- unsen burners and blood pressure enough that faculty were attached to one gram will match business students with Bchecks, story readings and stress-bust- school or another,” says John Gaunt, dean entrepreneurial companies in biotechnol- ing exercises are just a few of the School of architecture. The new administrative ogy, software, technology, manufacturing, of Education’s offerings for the University’s structure, Gaunt says, will be invisible to retail and other sectors. Qualified compa- first Open House, Oct. 6. students but will help faculty members nies can receive partial funding of student Like schools and departments all over navigate the promotion and tenure salaries and will have access to the campus, the School of Education will use process more easily and compete more school’s Career Services Center database. interactive demonstrations and tours to effectively for research dollars. “The point A joint effort by the School of Busi- help children and adults from Lawrence was to create clarity and focus that would ness, Students in Free Enterprise and the and surrounding communities experience help in recruiting and retaining faculty,” Kansas Innovation Corporation, the pro- the diversity of KU’s programs. he says. “I feel we have accomplished this gram is funded by a $50,000 grant from Activities for children at Joseph R. very successfully.” the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Pearson Hall include story time readings If the Kansas Board of Regents Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman from the children’s literature collection, approves the administrative change, the Foundation in Kansas City. face painting and sidewalk geography art. new department will be called civil, envi- “Many of these students have an At Robinson Center, kids can enjoy tum- ronmental and architectural engineering. impressive technological sophistication bling and other physical activities. Begun in 1913, the program offers that can benefit almost any business,” says Parents can take part in presentations a five-year undergraduate degree that Jeff Morrow, b’89, g’90, director of entre- on school violence prevention and career gives students a broad background in preneurial internships at KU. “We think exploration for children in Pearson Hall, architecture with specialized training in entrepreneurs will find this a great oppor- and get weight management tips for engineering. tunity to have high-quality graduate and adults and kids and tour the school’s It is one of only three five-year archi- undergraduate students at their business Exercise Physiology Lab at Robinson. The tectural engineering degrees in the nation. for a semester or longer.” presentations—led by School of Educa- The program also offers a master’s of sci- The new program marks an expansion tion students, staff and faculty—will ence degree and a master’s of construction of the school’s entrepreneurial offerings, start every 30 minutes from 10 a.m. to management. Those degrees and the cur- which enroll more than 200 students 2:30 p.m.

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 [63 SCHOOLWORK Smart shoppers KU researchers help mentally ill patients improve their lives, starting at the grocery

trip to an unfamiliar grocery store can be a stressful sites. The training in “community support programs” usually event for the most seasoned shopper. For those with lasts for nine half-hour sessions, during which the participants Asevere mental illnesses, a trip to any grocery store can be are taught some shopping basics: the little carrots cost more daunting. than bags of regular carrots; items on the bottom shelf are often That’s why three KU Medical Center faculty members who better bargains than items at eye level; labels should be read for assist mentally ill patients chose grocery shopping as a means nutritional information. for studying new ideas about teaching daily-life skills. The KU researchers consulted the National Alliance for the “We are trying to determine both if the intervention is effec- Mentally Ill about shopping-related issues, and trained coordi- tive, and what the factors are that predict whether or not [par- nators and staff members to teach the sessions and carefully test ticipants] will benefit from the interdiction,” says Tana Brown, progress in grocery-store field trips. associate professor of occupational therapy in the School of “One of the big issues is price,” Brown says. “We interviewed Allied Health. people before we designed the project, and we found that Brown, PhD’99, is the primary investigator on a $433,500, almost everybody was living below the poverty line. Most three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s receive Social Security as their primary income. They have very National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. little money, and they want to buy as much as possible with the Helping Brown with the research are co-investigators Melisa Rempfer, g’95, PhD’00, assistant professor of occupational therapy and a clinical WALLY EMERSON WALLY psychologist, and Edna Hamera, g’74, PhD’77, associate professor of nursing. Brown explains that people with schizophrenia and other severe men- tal illnesses often have “cognitive deficits,” or difficulty paying atten- tion, remembering things and mak- ing decisions. (The researchers are careful to distinguish between cogni- tive and intellectual difficulties.) Those cognitive deficits can make a simple trip to the grocery store anything but simple, and can make independent living difficult or impossible. “Grocery stores are such a com- plex physical environment, and they can have difficulty screening out the environment to figure out what’s important and what’s not,” Brown says. FOOD FOR THOUGHT: KU Medical Center faculty members (left to right) Melisa Rempfer, Edna Hamera Though class participants make and Tana Brown are using a three-year grant to learn how best to teach daily-life skills to the mentally ill. Severe supervised shopping trips, much of mental illness can cause a person to perform day-to-day tasks poorly in complex environments, and few com- the work is done at various research mon situations are as complex as the bright lights, overwhelming selection and general hustle and bustle of a modern supermarket.

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FINE ARTS am to be the new executive director of the money they do have. That’s why we try to Lied Center,” Van Leer says. teach them things like scanning the The shows will go on Dean Toni-Marie Montgomery says Van whole display, from top to bottom. Many under new leadership Leer brings “an incredible wealth of expe- of them tend to go for whatever they first rience as an arts manager and presenter. see at eye level.” U performing arts have two new top Tim’s national stature assures the Lied Brown says their research already has Kadministrators: Lawrence Mallet, for- Center’s continued success as a top uni- indicated that a strong predictor of suc- merly of the University of Nebraska, is the versity presenting organization.” cess in grocery training is a good score on new chair of the department of music and the “Hope Scale,” a nationally known tool dance in the School of Fine Arts, and Tim GRADUATE to measure optimism developed by KU Van Leer, formerly a venue director in psychology professor Rick Snyder. The California, is the the new executive direc- Indian program’s founder researchers believe that boosts in hope, tor of the . named to Bowlus chair confidence and self-esteem—already Mallet had been interim dean of the damaged by a world that stigmatizes Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Perform- onald Fixico, director of indigenous mental illness—would also improve a ing Arts at the Lincoln campus, and previ- Dnations studies, has been named mentally-ill person’s ability to handle the ously was director of Nebraska’s School of Thomas M. Bowlus Distinguished Profes- complex chores of daily life. Music since 1993. sor in American Indian History. “As a psychologist, I understand mem- He replaces Stephen Anderson, who The new professorship, established ory impairments or attention impair- left KU in spring 2000 to become dean of through a gift to KU from the estate of the ments, symptoms associated with mental the Conservatory of Music at the Univer- late Thomas M., b’38, and Elva Ottman illness, at a clinical level,” Rempfer says. sity of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. Bowlus, c’39, provides an annual $10,000 “But now I’m with somebody at a grocery “I know that KU can become one of salary stipend and a $5,000 research fund store and I see how these things really the top music and dance programs in the for at least five years. The gift also funds influence day-to-day living and have such country,” Mallet says. “This is a wonderful fellowships for students in the indigenous a negative impact for people. It’s much department with a great heritage, a great nations studies program and scholarships more significant for me to see these tradition and an exciting future.” for Haskell Indian Nations University things not so much at the clinical level, Mallet, a clarinetist, has performed in students who take classes at KU. but at the real-life level. By helping peo- Carnegie Hall and with a variety of bands “During the 50 years that my parents ple attain better skills to live indepen- and orchestras as a guest soloist, and has lived in Oklahoma, they developed a dently and successfully in the community, served as director of bands at three uni- deep appreciation for the natural world hopefully we can improve their quality of versities. He earned his doctorate in and for the traditions and philosophies of life to an extent that is truly meaningful.” instrumental conducting from the Univer- Native American cultures,” said Jean Brown says the last part of the training sity of Iowa, his master’s in clarinet and Bowlus. “KU is where they met and where is the most difficult: applying the new woodwind performance from Ohio State, they married, so they were fond of the skills during unescorted shopping trips. and his bachelor’s in clarinet performance University.” Not only will the supermarket be a chal- from Iowa. The indigenous nations program, lenge, but, since most people in the study Van Leer comes to the Lied Center which Fixico founded in 1999 with the don’t own cars, they must either negotiate from the El Camino College Center for cooperation of Haskell, awards a master’s public transportation or arrange for rides the Arts in Torrance, Calif. degree for study of traditions, diversity with family and friends. He replaces Jacqueline Davis, g’73, and culture of American Indians. “Most of the people in our study are who left in June 2000 to become execu- doing their own shopping now,” Brown tive director of the New York Public JOURNALISM says, “but even with assistance from a Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln case manager or a family member, it’s Center. Reporting students win with usually with some difficulty. Van Leer has 27 years of experience as prestigious Howard prizes “We can talk about grocery shopping an arts presenter, including earlier stints as an example, but we hope the strategies at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg, ewspaper and magazine students we use to teach this will also be used for Fla., Mershon Auditorium at Ohio State Nwon numerous awards in recent things like taking the bus and managing University, and the Gammage Center for national journalism contests, including money. These are real barriers for many the Performing Arts at Arizona State Uni- two first-prizes in the prestigious Roy W. people.” versity. Howard National Competition. “I can’t begin to tell you how excited I Those winners were Kursten Phelps of

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Manhattan and Jay Krall of Bartlett, Ill. three winning entries were written as final Howard competition exemplifies the Leita Schultes of Rolfe, Iowa, was a run- projects for Professor Ted Frederickson’s excellence of our students, faculty and ner-up. newspaper reporting course and pub- our reporting classes,” Dean Jimmy Gen- The first-place winners received lished in the University Daily Kansan. try says. “While we have long been $3,000, while Schultes won $2,000. All “The success of our students in the known for fine instruction in editing, our Home care New dean aims to focus on community health at Wichita medical campus

he complexities of a modern years later he moved to school of medicine are innu- Wichita, where he helped Tmerable. But S. Edwards Dis- create the nationally ranked muke, new dean at the School of master’s of public health pro- Medicine-Wichita, understands that gram, which grants degrees his predecessor, Joe Meek, had it just jointly with Wichita State about right by continually emphasiz- University. One of his first ing medicine’s human elements, stated goals as dean is to cre- including people and pride. ate a “national model” for “He really makes people feel good a community-based medical about themselves,” Dismuke says of school campus. Meek, “and feel good about this Dismuke is now responsi- school.” ble for the 27 departments at Meek, c’54, m’57, always a promi- the Wichita campus, includ- nent spokesman and vocal supporter ing 95 full- and part-time of his Wichita campus, retired June faculty, as well as 130 admin- 29 after 10 years as dean. One of the istrators and staff. The school roles that Meek took particular pride also works with more than in was organizing and rallying the 700 volunteer physicians volunteer physicians who support CARRY ON: Dean S. Edwards Dismuke, a 10-year veteran of the with affiliation to Via Christi School of Medicine-Wichita, plans to continue the work of former Dean KU’s medical training in Wichita. Joe Meek, including encouragement for the school’s broad volunteer Regional Medical Center’s Dismuke, Kansas Health Founda- support from area physicians. St. Francis and St. Joseph tion distinguished professor of public campuses, Wesley Medical health and himself a 10-year veteran of the Wichita campus, Center and the VA Medical Center. immediately announced that he would continue Meek’s work Before he was named dean, Dismuke served as chairman of with doctors in Wichita and rural communities throughout preventive medicine for both the Wichita and Kansas City Kansas. campuses. “Running a community-based medical school is much dif- “I am very pleased to have my colleague with whom I have ferent from running a school in an academic center like the worked so effectively taking over the leadership of the Wichita KU campus in Kansas City,” Dismuke says. “We are so depen- campus,” says Deborah Powell, executive dean of the School of dent on others, particularly on volunteer physician faculty Medicine and vice chancellor for clinical affairs. “I am sure that and our community hospitals. One of my highest priorities he will continue to build on the strong foundation of excel- is to become a trusted community partner as we all work to lence laid by Dean Joe Meek.” improve the overall health of Wichita, Sedgwick County Says Don Hagen, executive vice chancellor of KU Medical and Kansas.” Center, “This is a very important time for medical education Dismuke, who has taught internal and preventive medicine in our country, and Dr. Dismuke has the talent and skill to for 23 years, in 1988 left the faculty at the University of Ten- lead our Wichita campus into the next generation of medical nessee to join the KU Medical Center in Kansas City. Three education.”

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reporting students ... have probably won providers in their decision making. Fincham says. “We’ve boosted funding 10- more Howard and Hearst awards than any He says another goal is to create elec- fold because this is an important focus for other school.” tronic records systems that could easily be us. We want our students to feel really Phelps’ story was a 10-year retrospec- sent from one health-care site to another. good about the University of Kansas, tive on the election of KU’s first black stu- “There are some studies that would say because when they graduate and go on to dent-body president. Krall examined KU’s 30 or more perecent of a nurse’s time can be successful in their positions, we hope exclusive soft-drink contract with Coca- be spent in some type of documentation,” they will be glad to contribute their time, Cola. Schultes’ story was an in-depth look Bleich says. “Improved electronic records talents and treasures to their alma mater.” at dog fights conducted by Lawrence can result not just in time savings, but also youth. in improved data accuracy.” SOCIAL WELFARE Magazine students Elizabeth Powell, Bleich says other areas of concern are Kate Williams, Angela Seat and Katharina confidentiality of the electronic records Hartford doctoral program Businger swept the start-up category in a and how these systems might help save selects two for fellowships contest sponsored by the Association for money. Education in Journalism and Mass Com- “The whole shift is happening right wo doctoral students in the School of munications. Emily Forsyth, j’99, g’01, now, where more and more data is entered TSocial Welfare were among seven U.S. won second place in the service and infor- in the patient record electronically,” Bleich scholars selected by the Hartford Doctoral mation writing category, and Jessica says. “This whole notion is huge.” Fellows Program in June to receive Meyer, j’01, won an honorable mention. $60,000 fellowships in support of their PHARMACY dissertation work. NURSING Mercedes Burn-Klug was chosen for her KU students will lead work on the “Social Role of Seriously Ill Electronic records need national organizations Nursing Home Residents.” Mitsuko reforms, standardization Nakashima, g’89, g’91, won for her onors are again flooding the School research on “A Naturalistic Inquiry of Psy- anaging patient care depends in large Hof Pharmacy, especially in leadership chosocial and Spiritual Well-being Among Mpart on managing patient records, positions within national student organiza- Terminally Ill Older Adults.” KU was the which is why Mike Bleich, associate dean tions. only university to have two students cho- for clinical and community affairs, co- Fifth-year pharmacy student Patrick sen for the prestigious awards. wrote a chapter on the subject for a new Brady of Bonner Springs was recently Fellows receive $40,000 from the John nursing textbook. elected president of the Academy of Stu- A. Hartford Foundation of New York City Bleich and Marcelline Harris, a post- dents of Pharmacy, which is affiliated with and $20,000 from their home institutions doctoral fellow at the University of Min- the American Pharmaceutical Association. over a two-year period. The program, nesota/Mayo Foundation and assistant As president, Brady will oversee the execu- which is administered by the Gerontologi- professor at Winona State University, were tive committee for an organization that cal Society of America, also provides men- invited to contribute a chapter on elec- represents more than 18,000 pharmacy toring and leadership development and tronic medical records for Economics and students nationwide. supports fellows’ attendance of GSA and Nursing: Critical Professional Issues. Accord- Another fifth-year student, Angeline the Council of Social Work Education ing to Bleich, the textbook is the first to Eichenlaub of Overland Park, reached the annual meetings. focus on economics in nursing. highest elected position of Phi Lambda The Hartford Foundation estimates that Bleich says he and Harris made a good Sigma’s Leadership Society House of Dele- 600,000 social workers practice in the team for the project because she is most gates. Membership to the organization is United States, but only about 7 percent at interested in the details of technology, by invitation only. the doctoral level specialize in aging. while his interests are in systems applica- Leonard Plain, p’01, of Winfield, was The Hartford Doctoral Fellows Program is tions. elected chairman of the International designed to cultivate the next generation One goal for the evolution of electronic Pharmaceutical Students Federation’s exec- of geriatric social work faculty who will medical records is to create a system in utive committee. Plain will be one of seven become teachers, role models and mentors which professionals from all health disci- pharmacy students coordinating exchange for future social workers caring for the plines—such as nurses, doctors and thera- programs throughout 35 countries. elderly and their families. It is part of a pists—might use a standardized language “We actively promote student involve- major initiative by The Hartford Founda- when they enter patient information. That ment in these organizations and we open tion to improve the well being of older way, Bleich says, the patient’s electronic our pockets to financially support their adults by strengthening geriatric record can truly assist all health-care transportation to meetings,” Dean Jack social work.

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 [67 HAIL TO OLD KU BY STEVEN HILL Flood relief Fifty autumns ago students passed buckets, not the buck

n July 13, 1951, after a five-day Many North Lawrence buildings had deluge dumped 16 inches of rain been swept away, and families with homes on a valley already soaked by to return to still faced the gargantuan task O U.S. Navy planes dropped supplies, including typhoid months of wet weather, the Kansas River of removing several feet of thick river swept into Lawrence, engulfing homes, mud. and diphtheria vaccines, into Memorial Stadium.The Kansas River bridge (above) and Highway 40 in businesses, farms—and nearly every road The Interfraternity Council floated a North Lawrence (below) at the height of the flood. out of town—in muddy, swirling water. proposal: Instead of spending time and On Mount Oread, summer classes money decorating for Homecoming, why “No huge convolutions of chicken wire went on, interrupted only by the drone of not help North Lawrence dig out? Hale’s and papier-mâché will teeter in the breeze planes dropping supplies in Memorial house, Phi Kappa Sigma, signed on, as outside of organized houses,” the Daily Stadium and the clamor of students did other fraternities. Sororities volun- Kansan editorialized on Homecoming eve; climbing Old Fraser’s tower to view the teered to serve lunch. Soon scholarship there would be “no triumphs of crepe watery spectacle. But those returning to and residence halls joined the effort, and paper, engineering ability and freshman campus in September found a town still by October 700 students turned out for elbow grease adorning the University this reeling from disaster. Dick Hale, who the first of several Saturday cleanups. Homecoming.” But 35,000 fans still OFFICIAL U.S. PHOTOGRAPHS, NAVY KANSAS COLLECTION, SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LIBRARIES spent the summer in southwestern Hale worked in a basement, ankle braved a December mist to watch KU Kansas, recalls the shock. “It was just deep in ooze so thick that students had to beat Missouri. The newly built Campanile unbelievable to see the high-water form a bucket brigade to bail it out by made its Homecoming debut, hosting marks,” says Hale, j’52, “unbelievable hand. North Lawrence residents were recitals and tours. And though bereft of that months later so much cleanup grateful for the help. “These kids have brightly lit decorations, the cam- remained to be done.” done a wonderful job,” homeowner Virgil pus houses still drew crowds of Ball said. “I just don’t know what I would parents, friends and alumni for have done without them.” Nearly 700 coffee and doughnuts after the families registered for Red Cross aid game. Dark on the outside, that fall; students helped cut the perhaps, but bright as ever list to 150. within.

68] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 5, 2001 2002 promises to be the best year yet for Flying Jayhawks trips. All rates are per person, double occupancy. Dates and prices are subject to change.

Trans-Panama Canal Cruise Alumni College in Norway JAN. 18-29 $2,295 and up plus air JULY 1 – 9 $2,395 Mysteries of Earth Alumni College in Ireland JAN. 20 – FEB. 13 $36,950 JULY 21 – 29 $2,295 Exploring the Rain Forests, Reefs & Hidden Fjords and Glaciers Mayan Temples of , Tikal & Honduras of Alaska’s Inside Passage FEB. 9 – 16 From $2,895 AUG. 3 – 10 From $2,080 Prague Deluxe Escapade Alumni College in Scotland FEB. 23 – MARCH 2 $1,395 AUG. 14 – 22 $2,395 Rediscovering Cuba’s Rich Cultural & His- Danube River–From Vienna torical Heritage to the Black Sea MARCH 29 – APRIL 4 $3,395 from Miami AUG. 14 – 27 From $4,595 Classical Japan Alumni College in England’s Lake District APRIL 12 – 27 $11,295 SEPT. 2 – 10 $2,395 Côtes du Rhône Alumni College in Tuscany Passage SEPT. 4 – 12 $2,395 APRIL 23 – MAY 6 The Human Odyssey: A Search for our From $3,895 Beginnings Alumni College in SEPT. 12 – 30 $32,950 from London Burgundy Kenya Wildlife Safari MAY 1 – 9 $2,295 SEPT. 16 – 26 From $4,595 Medieval Seaports of Western Europe Minarets of Morocco MAY 1 – 12 From $4,460 SEPT. 20 – 29 $4,595 Alumni College in Normandy The Galápagos MAY 20 – 28 $2,295 Islands Cruise the Elbe Passage SEPT. 27 – OCT. 4 MAY 27 – JUNE 10 From $4,095 From $2,235, plus air package American Orient Express, National Parks of from Miami. the West Alumni College in MAY 29 – JUNE 5 From $3,190 Italy’s Veneto District Alumni College in Provence OCT. 7 –15 $2,395 JUNE 4 – 12 $2,395 Renaissance Cities of Italy Alumni College in the Italian Lakes District OCT. 18 – 29, 2002 From $3,895 JUNE 10 – 18 $2,395 Florence Deluxe Escapade Alumni College in Greece NOV. 1 – 8 $1,695 JUNE 18 – 27 $2,395 Germany’s Legendary Holiday Markets DEC. 1 – 9 From $1,900