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Biomedical engineer Lori Setton is looking at novel ways biomaterials could provide relief for those suering from neck and back pain.

SPRING_2016_FCπR2.indd 1 4/14/16 2:28 PM Washington magazine asked five CONTENTS architecture alumni to discuss their favorite projects. The first, John SPRING 2016 | VOL. 87, NO. 1 Mike Cohen, shares details about building his own home in Santa The new digital version of Washington magazine is live on Barbara, California, pg. 24. The Source; visit magazine.wustl.edu .

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Eric Schultz (le†), AB ’02, ©Ciro Coelho/CiroCoelho.com is principal deputy press secretary and special assistant to President Barack Obama, pg. 35. Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis FEATURES DEPARTMENTS STAFF: Executive Editor: Ellen Rostand 2 Letter From the Chancellor Editor: Terri Nappier 12 BACK TO HEALTH Associate Editor: Rosalind Early Biomedical engineer Lori Setton’s collaborative research is Classnotes Editor: Carl Jacobs pioneering new ways of providing relief to those who suersuer 3 First Look Senior Creative Director: Tracy Collins Art Director: Donna Boyd neck and back pain. Sta Photographers: Joe Angeles, James Byard 4 Frontrunners: News, Three Circulation Manager: Galen Harrison 18 OF FRIENDSHIP AND FREEDOM Questions, Quoted, Digital,

The histories of Archer Alexander, a fugitive slave, and William ADDRESS CHANGES: Six Tips Development Services, Washington University Greenleaf Eliot Jr., the university’s first president, intersect in a in St. Louis, Campus Box 1082, 7425 Forsyth Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63105-2103 or by email: dramatic and inspiring story of courage and compassion. 32 Classnotes: Profiles, [email protected] 24 ARCHITECTURAL EXPRESSIONS In Memoriam, OTHER CORRESPONDENCE: COVER FEATURE: Biomedical engi- Magazine Editor, Washington University in Alumni architects discuss how they transform the world In Remembrance St. Louis, Campus Box 1070, One Brookings Drive, neering Professor Lori Setton and St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 or by email: her cross-disciplinary collaborators through their dreams, plans and designs, ultimately remaking [email protected] 46 Alumni Activities are researching new biomaterials old spaces and creating new ones. in hopes of regenerating so tissue, The O•ice of Public A•airs publishes print versions 48 Leading Together: Campaign of Washington magazine three times a year in spring, which could lead to new therapies Archer Alexander, a fugitive slave, found refuge summer and fall; the digital edition can be found at for relieving neck and back pain, Update, My Washington in the home of William Greenleaf Eliot Jr., the magazine.wustl.edu. Unless otherwise noted, articles may be reprinted without permission — as long as they pg. 12. (Cover photo: James Byard) university’s first president. Their story is one of are not edited or revised — with appropriate credit a remarkable friendship, pg. 18. given to “Washington, the magazine for Washington 52 Lasting Impression University in St. Louis.”

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FRONTRUNNERSLETTER FROM THE CHANCELLORNEWS FIRST LOOK

Acknowledging Achievement

Mark Katzman In this issue, we are On Feb. 12, 2016, we dedicated the court in the sharing the impact of Athletic Complex as the Edwards-Fahey Court, faculty researchers, named for the longtime coaches of the men’s and historical figures, women’s basketball teams, Mark Edwards and alumni, students and Nancy Fahey. Both coaches have inspired from coaches. In the cover the sidelines, mentoring student-athletes for 35 “Our women’s feature, renowned and 30 years, respectively. Their coaching legacies biomedical engineering are nearly unparalleled in the history of NCAA soccer team professor Lori Setton Division III athletics. I am so pleased with the shares the latest on her naming of our home court in their honor, paying had a magical collaborative research tribute to the coaches’ impact on student-athletes on relieving neck and now and for generations to come (see pg. 33). season. The Bears back pain. Recruited On the campaign front, the university announced from Duke University finished with a the Board of Trustees’ decision to increase — along with her husband, Farshid Guilak, the goal of Leading Together: The Campaign for professor of orthopaedic surgery and co-director 20-3-1 record Washington University to $2.5 billion (see pg. 48). of the Center of Regenerative Medicine at the With unprecedented support from our alumni, School of Medicine — Setton is already working and a second- parents and friends, the university has already across disciplines in engineering and medicine, raised $2.12 billion of the campaign’s original place finish at investigating new materials that have the potential goal of $2.2 billion nearly two years ahead of to advance human health by relieving chronic schedule. The increase, announced Jan. 22, the … National pain for millions (see pg. 12). 2016, will help the university along the path Championships.” The story “Of Friendship and Freedom” recounts toward the $4 billion needed to fully realize our the relationship between Archer Alexander, a strategic plans for the future — preparing leaders — Mark S. Wrighton fugitive slave, and the university’s first president, of tomorrow, advancing human health, inspiring William Greenleaf Eliot Jr., a staunch abolitionist. innovation and entrepreneurship, and enhancing In learning about their friendship, one also learns the quality of life for all. about the power of courage and compassion As we achieve these goals, we will continue to (see pg. 18). share stories of discovery and accomplishment In our third feature, five distinguished architecture through the pages of the magazine and through alumni share striking images of their favorite our new digital storytelling site, The Source, With Flying Colors projects and describe how their dreams and which brings together the digital edition designs create new possibilities and new spaces of Washington, the Washington University Women’s soccer team tied the that enhance the quality of life. Their impact Newsroom and the Record. I encourage you to 20-3-1 can be found in residential design, federal park explore source.wustl.edu. single-season school record planning, construction management, landscape As always, I hope you enjoy this issue of the architecture and more (see pg. 24). Finished as the 2015 NCAA Division III magazine. We welcome your comments and 2 National Runner-up Turning to athletics, our women’s soccer team had ideas; please email the editor at wustlmageditor@ a magical season. The Bears finished with a 20-3-1 wustl.edu. record and a second-place finish at the 2015 NCAA D3soccer.com named junior goalkeeper Thank you for your interest and support. Division III National Championships. After besting 1 Lizzy Crist, a biomedical engineering Messiah College in penalty kicks in the semifinal Sincerely, major, “Goalkeeper of the Year” game (see pg. 3), the Bears lost 1-0 against James Byard Williams College in the finals Dec. 6, 2015. Mark S. Wrighton Chancellor

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Gun violence study shows children University launches in danger new medical A closer look at the Nearly 400 children suŽeredsu‹ered gun-related injuries in a five-year span humanities minor in St. Louis, a new study shows. Begun in 2008, the study tracked Human Connectome What can art, history, music or philoso- cases at two area hospitals. It did not include children who never Project phy teach us about illness and medicine? sought medical attention, who went to other hospitals or who died A lot, according to Rebecca Messbarger, The Human Connectome Project before reaching the trauma center. PhD, professor of Italian, and Corinna is a $40 million brain imaging Still, the data starts to form a picture of who is aŽecteda‹ected by gun Treitel, PhD, associate professor of initiative funded by the National violence in the St. Louis area, and it could o‹eroŽer physicians and policy history, the founders of a new medical Institutes of Health. Using makers insights into how to keep children safe. noninvasive technology, the humanities minor. “Children getting injured by firearms is a major health crisis in study collects brain scans from The new minor is aimed at any- this city,” says Martin S. Keller, MD, the study’s senior author, associ- volunteers. one who wants to understand health, ate professor of surgery in the School of Medicine and director of medicine and healing as aspects of The consortium is led by scien- trauma at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. “If we took a public-health the human experience. Students tists at Washington University, approach to the problem and treated gun violence as we do any will study topics such as the ethical University of Minnesota and other danger facing children, we could decrease gun injuries and dimensions of medicine, illness narra- Oxford University in the UnitUniteded deaths. St. Louis is the focus of this study; however, it’s representa- Kingdom. tives, and the role of medicine in war, tive of many other regions in the U.S.” empire- and nation-building. “The quality of the imaging data 35 percent of the injuries Treitel, who majored in chemistry is really unprecedented,” says resulted from accidental as an undergraduate, wants to bring Steven Smith, PhD, a biomedical About 82 percent shootings. The median 398 children were two fields that have driˆed apart engineer at Oxford University of all firearm age of accidental shoot- treated, 20 of whom back into conversation. “As an under- and lead author of the study injuries, including ing victims was 12.5. died from their discussed below. deaths, occurred injuries. graduate, I was frustrated because my among boys. science professors didn’t have anything The majority intelligible to say about the humani- were African ties, and my humanities professors had American, with Almost 78 percent nothing to say about the sciences,” she a median age of the children were says. “The sciences and the humanities Brain networks reveal behavioral traits of 15. African American. both oŽer important methodologies What can you learn by looking at a brain scan? For starters, a The study, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, for understanding and improving the person’s likelihood of being successful, says a new study released looked at brain scans of almost 500 volunteers, focusing The majority ooff firearms Nearly 75 percent of accidental world. This new minor allows students by the Human Connectome Project (HCP), a multi-institutional on regions of the brain involved in high-level cognition work, used were handguns. shootings occurred in the home. to choose both.” brain imaging initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health. like memory and imagination. The study also mapped a net- Washington University scientists teamed up with researchers work that remains active when the brain is relatively idle called at Oxford University’s Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain to the “default mode network,” which Marcus E. Raichle, MD, the co-author the study, which shows that individuals with strongly Alan A. and Edith L. WolŽWol‹ Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Three-minute created by science writer experience of science more connected brain networks also score high on behavioral mea- helped discover. science Diana Lutz. With the aid of intimate and less intimi- sures generally considered positive, such as a large vocabulary, Raichle calls the findings “impressive” and says scanning the illustrations and sound dating,” Lutz says. “I hope good memory, life satisfaction, income and years of education. brain’s anatomy allows us to “distinguish people with successful Want to know where elements eŽects, these under-three- people who watch the Those with weaker brain connections were found to exhibit traits and successful lives from those who are not successful.” come from? Or how dogs can minute videos explain cur- series end up feeling much typically negative behaviors such as anger, rule-breaking, Deanna Barch, PhD, who is professor and chair of the psy- sniŽ DNA? Or what the heck rent research going on at the as I do aˆer my one-on- substance abuse and poor sleep quality. chological and brain sciences department in Arts & Sciences and pulsars are and how they work? university, breaking down one conversations with “This study provides intriguing insights into how behavior professor of psychiatry and of radiology at the medical school, Look no further than the complex ideas into under- scientists: encouraged that is related to the incredibly complex brain networks that make co-authored the study. Barch says these findings reflect a multi- university’s new video series, standable shorts. they can understand even each of us a unique individual,” says David Van Essen, PhD, the faceted interaction of biology and environment. She hopes that as Ultra-Condensed Science (ultra- “The idea behind Ultra- esoteric topics — if they are Alumni Endowed Professor in the Department of Anatomy and the HCP progresses, they’ll be able to design interventions to condensedscience.wustl.edu), Condensed is to make the presented in the right way.” Neurobiology in the School of Medicine, who co-authored the study. move the brain and behavior to the positive end of the spectrum.

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SPRING_2016_2-11πR2.indd 4 4/8/16 2:57 PM SPRING_2016_2-11πR2.indd 5 4/8/16 2:58 PM FRONTRUNNERS NEWS Joe Angeles Moving during high Metzger found that kids Rundown on the Hatchery, a who had moved at least once school increases in the previous 12 months were university startup incubator About Alexander dropout rate 50 percent less likely to attain a Barnes degree by age 25. It didn’t mat- Although moving to that ter if the move was to a better NUMBER OF JOBS created McMansion in the suburbs or worse neighborhood. > Won the National since 2008 by startups out Institutes of Health might be many families’ dream, “Our findings support prior Director’s New it can prove a nightmare for research that demonstrates of Olin Business School’s Innovator Award and high school–age children. the strain mobility places on 428 Hatchery, a course that guides $2.3 million for his This according to a study academic attainment a—er students in coming up with innovative research from lead author Molly Metzger, accounting for other academic PhD, assistant professor at the risk factors,” says Metzger, who and pitching business ideas > Won the National Brown School. She and other is also faculty co-director of the to judges, venture capitalists Science Foundation’s researchers studied data from Inclusive Housing Initiative at prestigious CAREER and angel investors. the National Longitudinal the Brown School’s Center for award for his Study of Adolescent Health, a Social Development. groundbreaking survey started in the mid-1990s “Our results suggest that research that tracked then 7th- to 12th- housing policies and programs graders into early adulthood. promoting mobility must con- Amount raised to date by > His doctoral One of the questions asked was sider potentially meaningful mentor, Robert Hatchery alum Jeremy if the student had moved in the Gri‡in, PhD ’69, unintended consequences for $ Friedman, AB ’09, for his is a professor of previous 12 months. youth and families,” she says. 57 startup SCHOOLOGY, a chemistry at MIT and million also a Washington New novel soars learning-management system. University alum. More than 12 million people In her new novel, Margaret worldwide use Schoology. The the First, Danielle Dutton, PhD, assistant professor in the company has twice won top Department of English, writes honors at the CODiE awards about 17th-century English for its K–12 learning platform. A new way to see atoms author Margaret Cavendish, who was called “Mad Madge” Alexander Barnes, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of is hoping to change that by creating a drug that will dock on for her eccentric personality. Chemistry in Arts & Sciences, is revolutionizing structural biology cells and make them release the RNA copy of the virus, so In addition to refusing to write and pharmaceutics with his research in biological molecules. antiretroviral drugs can then destroy it. under a pen name like other Tech entrepreneurs named Barnes, along with researchers in his lab, recently measured “To do this, we need to know exactly how this drug is women of the time, Cavendish CLIFF HOLEKAMP, MBA ’01, the roughly 0.00000002-inch distance between two atoms. It took structured and how it moves at room temperature,” Barnes designed her own clothes, Top 42 days and 918,000 scans. The goal? To discover how biological says. He is working to learn that by improving dynamic nuclear including topless gowns, and she was the first woman invited to one of the nation’s 100 molecules interact with each other. polarization, a method of scanning biological molecules to help join the Royal Society of London (and the last for 200 years). BEST ENTREPRENEURSHIP Though it may seem esoteric, Barnes’ work could help determine their structure. Barnes is also working to reduce the “Each subsequent detail I learned about her … made her Prof PROFESSORS. As the senior find a cure for diseases like AIDS. How? Well, when it enters the time it takes to measure an atom from 42 days to 42 minutes. seem more magical and enigmatic, and so I wanted to try to body, HIV hides a DNA copy of its RNA core in cell chromosomes. “If we can determine the structures and motion of biomol- know her,” Dutton says. lecturer in entrepreneurship Antiretroviral drugs prevent the virus from replicating itself, but ecules 100 times faster than we do now, there’s going to be huge Though Cavendish was a historical person, Dutton’s book is at Olin Business School, once the drugs are stopped, the virus can re-emerge from its application of this technology,” he says. “It can be applied to less historical fiction, more experimental novel, and it has been Holekamp teaches the Hatchery hiding place in healthy cells. So doctors can never say that AIDS study virtually every drug and every biomolecule of interest to praised widely in the press, including Publishers Weekly, Vanity course and is director of the is cured — even when they don’t see it in a person’s bloodstream. science. All researchers in the fields of biology and pharmaceu- Fair and The Boston Globe. The Millions named it one of the most Barnes, in conjunction with researchers at Stanford University, tics will want to use it.” anticipated books of 2016, saying “the taut prose [is] irresistible.” entrepreneurship platform.

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SPRING_2016_2-11πR3.indd 6 4/13/16 12:03 PM SPRING_2016_2-11πR1.indd 7 3/30/16 12:18 PM FRONTRUNNERS THREE QUESTIONS QUOTED Alexander Mahmoud with amazing events. There ‘One of my was a concert. There was a ‘We’re seeing these improve- huge banquet in the city hall patients told of Stockholm for 1,200 people. ments within an hour and There was another banquet me he was able the day ažerwarda¤erward in the a half to two hours aer palace with the king and the to pick up a queen, and there, of course, was the ceremony, which was noodle o his ingestion. It’s dramatic.’ the most important part of chest when — LINDA PETERSON, MD, associate professor of medicine and radiology, to NPR the week. It always occurs on results of a study she helped conduct in which participants were given beet on December 10. ... And it he dropped juice and saw a 13 percent increase in muscle power does get rehearsed properly, because you have to do these it. Before the very di¥icultdiŸicult things like walk- ‘It’s nice to know that you’re part of this ing toward the king, taking surgery, he the prize, bowing properly, continuum of black students on a predominantly and turning and not doing any couldn’t move In 1989, alumnus W. E. What was it like to get high fives. [Laughs] white campus who are trying to figure out What it’s Moerner, AB ’75, BS ’75, BS ’75, the call? his fingers.’ became the first scientist in When I got the call, I was in How has the honor ways to support each other and to excel in the — IDA K. FOX, MD, assistant like to win the world to measure the Brazil. I was there for a confer- changed your life? things they want to do.’ light absorption of a single ence, but my phone was not I have a responsibility because professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery, to molecule, a task long thought working, and so the Nobel com- of the prize to communicate — KENDALL MAXWELL, Arts & Sciences Class of 2016, to NPR on the Scientific Blogging about her the Nobel to be impossible. Twenty-five mittee couldn’t call me directly. science to the public to help recently rediscovered Black Student Guide penned by African-American pioneering nerve-transfer years later in October 2014, So I did not get the call. My wife explain some of the complexi-complexi- Washington University students in 1973. It has helped shed light on surgical techniques current racial tensions on college campuses. About W. E. Moerner Moerner won the Nobel got the call from the Associated ties of this particular prize [as Prize for chemistry for his Press in California. She sent me well as] science on a broader breakthrough. a quick message on WhatsApp, level. There’s [also] an oppor- > Moerner is the 25th person associated with the univer- Moerner, PhD, the Harry S. which works on Wi-Fi. This was tunity to learn about some sity to win the Nobel Prize. Mosher Professor of Chemistry about 7 o’clock in the morning. other important areas that I ‘The Supreme Court, over 100 years ago, did and professor by courtesy of I quickly canceled going to the might not have been an expert > Though an electrical applied physics at Stanford conference and tried to grab a in before. One of the issues engineering major and uphold racial discrimination in immigration.’ jacket and tie, because I knew that I’m concerned about is Langsdorf Engineering University, along with 2014’s — STEPHEN LEGOMSKY, JD, DPhil, the John S. Lehmann University Professor in the School of Law, to Fellow, Moerner enjoyed two other chemistry Nobel there was going to be a flood climate change. So I’ve been the Huington Post about the legality of blocking the immigration of certain people. The Supreme Court his physics and math laureates, advanced the of interviews. It was incredibly to a couple of meetings where once upheld the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which prohibited Chinese laborers from entering courses so much, he earned field of super-resolved fluo- exciting, an incredible moment Nobel laureates work with the United States. degrees in all three, all rescence microscopy. Now, to realize, “Wow, can this really atmospheric scientists to try with top honors. microscopes can see cells on be true?” There was a lot of to understand some of the key > While still an under- a nanolevel, thanks to tech- evidence it was, so I had to issues. And there [have been] graduate, Moerner niques that Moerner and believe it. some public declarations by co-authored scientific others pioneered. the Nobel laureates. So that’s ‘For people who care about religious freedom, ignoring the real challenge papers with his mentor Moerner returned to What is the ceremony like? an important aspect of win- James G. Miller, PhD, ning the Nobel Prize. I have the Albert Gordon Hill WashU in fall 2015 to give the Winning the prize involves of U.S. Muslims is making a huge tactical blunder. … You have to stand up Professor of Physics, Weissman Lecture, giving us a going to Stockholm, Sweden, to weave my research in with and attended profes- chance to find out what it’s like and spending a number of days other responsibilities to the for others, or everything you say is going to look like special pleading.’ sional conferences. to win the world’s top prize. there, very exciting days filled larger community. — JOHN INAZU, JD, PhD, associate professor of law in the School of Law and of political science in Arts & Sciences, to See the “Three Questions” video at source.wustl.edu/2016/02/moerner. the Washington Post on advocates for religious freedom staying quiet when it comes to the rights of U.S. Muslims

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Aging better

1 Make a plan. 3 Understand your risks. “People need to plan as they age to be in an “The primary risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease is environment that gives them the freedom increasing age. The older we get, the greater the they want: maybe you need to be on one level so you risk. Some studies suggest that by age 85, close to don’t have to deal with steps, or need safety features like 50 percent of people may be at risk for developing symptomatic a covered garage. One of the things that people ought to Alzheimer’s disease. Family history (genetics) is the second-greatest be really thinking about is a driving retirement program. risk factor. However, in general, the increased risk for o—springo•spring dimin- As people age, there are issues that make driving safety ishes greatly if symptoms for the parent developed a¤era¥er age 80.” sometimes a problem. And if you think about it, you can —John C. Morris, MD, is the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman choose a place to live where you have transportation Distinguished Professor of Neurology and the director of the Charles F. and options. You don’t need to feel that if you don’t drive, you’ll Joanne Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at the School of Medicine. be isolated. As you go into older adulthood, you have to think about what’s the most important thing to you and how you can continue to do it.” —Carolyn M. Baum, PhD, OTR, FAOTA, is the Elias Michael Executive Talk about the future. Director and professor of the Program in Occupational Therapy at 4 the School of Medicine. Baum studies how engagement in daily “Have [end-of-life-care] conversations with people activities supports health. you care about before there is an urgent need. These conversations are hard to have — and they’re even more challenging when in the midst of a crisis or some emergency that is emotional and demands quick decisions. So start talking about Find meaning. Going Improve your memory. end-of-life preferences early. And to get the conversation started, it’s 6 2 less intimidating to start with broad questions — such as ‘What would “Psychologists have determined that “There are certain mnemonic techniques matter to you the most if you were near the end of your life?’ — rather as we approach later life, our orienta- that people can use to produce some than asking people for specifics right o—o• the bat.” tion to time changes, and we begin to to the benefits in memory. One of the most com- —Brian Carpenter, PhD, professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & understand the finiteness of life. Although there seems mon and frustrating problems that older adults experience Sciences, conducts research on family decision-making and communication. to be a natural tendency toward reorienting in the face is name retrieval di•iculties,di—iculties, such as remembering the of the limits of life, we might more purposively decide Source. name of a person you were just introduced to. One of the how to use our energies to make the most of these techniques that researchers have shown benefits people years. There are many challenges, but there are also Discover the information, inspiration and stories of is retrieval practice. So if I’m introduced for the first time, Expect some positive changes. many opportunities in later life. We must decide what is Washington University’s most compelling people I say, ‘Nice to meet you, John Doe.’ And then I carry on 5 most important to us, what our purpose is as an older and research at our new destination, The Source. the conversation, and a little bit later, I retrieve that name “There’s good news about personality as people get adult. It may be relationships with family and friends; it It’s the new home for Washington magazine online, again. And then I wait a little bit longer to retrieve that older. The expected pattern of change is positive. may be a work or volunteer position; it may be a hobby plus it o—ers university news and the Record — all in name again. So practicing and spacing turns out to be As people approach the latter part of middle age to — whatever brings us meaningful engagement. With one location that’s engaging and mobile-friendly. really important in laying down memory traces, not just for later life, conscientiousness goes up and the experience of posi- this focus on what’s important to us, we can assess the healthy individuals but also for individuals with early-stage tive emotion goes up. The propensity to experience strong negative barriers and resources that we have and determine the Alzheimer’s disease.” emotions goes down. I should qualify this by saying these are small best way to achieve these goals. Now or never…” source.wustl.edu changes, but they are characteristic of the average person.” —David Balota, PhD, professor of psychological and brain sciences in —Nancy Morrow-Howell, PhD, is the Bettie Bofinger Brown Arts & Sciences and of neurology in the School of Medicine, conducts —Thomas Oltmanns,Oltmanns, PhD, PhD, the the Edgar Edgar James James Swiˆ Swiˆ Professor Professor in Artsin Arts & Sciences& Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Social Policy at the Brown School and A new way to explore. research on attention, memory and visual word recognition in young andprofessor professor of psychiatry of psychiatry and director at the School of clinical of Medicine, training atis conductingthe medical aschool, longitudi- is director of the Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging. She studies adults, older adults and individuals with dementing illnesses. conductingnal study on a thelongitudinal impact of study personality on the impact pathology of personality in later life. pathology in later life. how older adults can remain engaged and productive in later life.

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M aybe it happened after you hauled a house’s worth of boxes to and from a moving van while helping a friend move. Maybe it startled you after a seemingly innocuous fender bender. Or maybe BackBY ERIN PETERSON to Health you noticed it after spending day in and day out — for years — hunched over your laptop keyboard. Biomedical engineer Lori Setton’s Whatever the case, it is likely that you have Engineering, has made it part of her life’s mission experienced the agony of low-back pain. One to help solve this problem. Much of her research collaborative research is study estimates that 80 percent of the U.S. focuses on developing materials for soft-tissue population will experience a back problem at regeneration, which could unlock a cure for pioneering new ways of providing some point in their lives. And according to the many back problems. After a successful two- 2010 Global Burden of Disease study, low-back decade tenure at Duke University, Setton arrived pain is the top contributor to disability both in at Washington University in summer 2015 to relief to those who suffer neck the United States and globally. zero in on this issue. With the help of a new set Lori Setton, PhD, the Lucy and Stanley of campus collaborators, her already remarkable and back pain. Lopata Distinguished Professor of Biomedical work has risen to a new level.

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SPRING_2016_12-17πR1.indd 12 3/30/16 1:42 PM SPRING_2016_12-17πR1.indd 13 3/30/16 1:42 PM THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE SUFFERING from Princeton, then followed it up with master’s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering One of the most detrimental changes that and biomechanics from Columbia University. It’s contributes to serious low-back problems — as a background that gives her special insight into well as many serious neck problems — is time how our bodies work — and how they can be itself. As people age, many experience degenera- fixed when they break down. tion of the intervertebral disc, a complex soft Now she uses her expertise to understand why tissue between the vertebral bones of the spine. cells in our intervertebral disc regenerate when This degeneration can be exacerbated by demand- we’re young, and what they lose over time that ing physical work. prevents them from regenerating as we age. Compounding the problem is that, unlike many During the past few years, for example, she other cells in the body, cells in the intervertebral and others have learned that certain proteins disc stop regenerating as we get older. (It’s why your within the disc shift over time. One protein, back problem might never seem to go away, but called laminin, appears to be particularly imporimpor-- your kid’s back heals quickly.) It’s a vexing problem tant in early development: It exists in juvenile for scientists and patients with low-back pain. structures, but it’s absent in adults. “Basically, we have these really large structures “We started to ask questions about the effect of that support our entire body — our skeletons — reintroducing laminin,” Setton says. “So we built but they have no means to regenerate or repair two- and three-dimensional polymers that are themselves,” Setton explains. capable of presenting laminin back to these cells What’s more, as we get older, the environ- when we grow them in culture,” she says. ment for these cells in the intervertebral disc The process of building these structures — gets increasingly inhospitable, as oxygen levels known as cellular engineering — is complex. dwindle and pH levels rise in the tissue. Together, First, she and her team take nonfunctioning cells these changes make it more difficult for even the from human subjects. Then they grow them in remaining cells to thrive. tissue culture wells (similar to petri dishes) that For years, scientists and medical device compa- have been modified with specific proteins and nies tried to solve this problem by simply replacing polymers known as biomaterials. Once she and damaged structures with artificial materials, such her team have grown the cells and introduced the as polymers including polyurethane. “We thought laminin, they study them to see if the cells are ““We’reWe’re asking dierentdierent questions: ‘Why are these cells we could just develop strong materials, inject reverting to juvenile behavior. them and solve the problem,” Setton explains. The results so far have been encouraging. dying? And how can we get a cell in this [unfavorable] There was one troubling detail: It didn’t work. “It’s been pretty exciting to see these cells Again and again, researchers and medical device [regain] a lot of the behaviors of the juvenile companies failed to find a solution that improved cells,” Setton says. “They become biosynthetically environment to survive and do its job?’” — LORI SETTON patients’ conditions. So they returned to the active, and they do a good job repairing [them[them-- James Byard drawing board. selves] in this environment.” Scientists, including Setton, are now taking a Although it’s a long way from petri dish to awarded $1.2 million in NIH funding to further ABOVE: Bailey Fearing, new approach. “We’re asking different questions,” clinical solution, it appears to be one very big step COLLABORATION FUELS SUCCESS develop their ideas and innovations. PhD, a postdoctoral she says. “‘Why are these cells dying? And how in the right direction. Though Setton brings a wealth of scientific tools research associate, is can we get a cell in this [unfavorable] environ- to her work, perhaps her most remarkable skill is The two will also collaborate with Munish “Steps like these are possible because of the among Professor ment to survive and do its job?’ We’re becoming her ability to collaborate with other researchers Gupta, MD, the Mildred B. Simon Distinguished combination of skills that Setton brings to the Setton’s collaborators exceptionally interested in ways of using biology Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and chief of table,” says Aaron Bobick, dean of Washington on projects that leverage everyone’s expertise in who are asking ques- Pediatric and Adult Spinal Surgery in the School of to make smarter materials that will survive in this University’s School of Engineering & Applied unique ways. tions that are opening Medicine. Gupta, who arrived at WashU in sum- very hostile environment.” Science . After all, the real-world problems we face For example, before Setton had officially an entirely new field mer 2015 as well, brings deep expertise in complex These types of questions are opening an have never respected the artificial boundaries that started at her position at WashU, she tracked of research — one that spinal deformities, and he is eager to work on entirely new field of research that leans on biol- humans place between engineering and medicine, down Don Elbert, PhD, associate professor of bio-bio- leans on biology, chemis- these types of collaborative projects. ogy, chemistry and engineering — and offers a biology and chemistry. medical engineering, whose work on biomaterials try and engineering. promising road ahead. “Nobody told the tissue in your spine that she had long admired from afar. The two quickly Elbert says that Setton makes for an ideal part- it needed a mechanical solution or a biological saw how his work on polyethylene glycol could ner in such projects. “[She] is great at recognizing solution or a chemical solution,” says Bobick, link up with her own work in biomaterials. In a where other people have expertise that’s comple- BUILT FOR A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE also the James M. McKelvey Professor. “It’s at this matter of weeks, they pulled together an applica-applica- mentary to hers,” he says. “But even better, she’s If there is anyone who is perfectly positioned to interdisciplinary boundary that the advancements tion for an NIH grant. a very generous collaborator. She shares both the excel at this kind of messy, discipline-crossing happen, and a lot of what goes on in biomedical In December 2015, the grant that the pair credit and the accolades, and that matters.” research, it’s Setton. She earned a bachelor’s engineering requires those multidisciplinary efforts. developed scored in the top 1 percent of all Setton’s generosity, paired with her holistic degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering Lori brings that all together in her laboratory.” applications for the cycle, and they wereare looking recently approach to mentorship, was what helped her

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SPRING_2016_12-17πR1.indd 14 3/30/16 1:43 PM SPRING_2016_12-17πR2.indd 15 4/8/16 3:23 PM Indeed, Setton has long been praised for her mentorship. And, in 2004, Duke Graduate School honored her with the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring. But Setton says her best advice will be valuable to students long after they leave her lab. “I want to help them build a lifetime approach NAME: to asking, ‘Where am I now and where am I going Lori Setton to go next? What do I need to get there?’” Setton says. “I want to prepare them to succeed in any number of settings.” TITLE: Leimer also has been grateful to have a female The Lucy and Stanley mentor. “I’ve had many male mentors, but I knew Lopata Distinguished Professor Setton could bring a different perspective, Professor of Biomedical including what it means to be a successful woman Engineering in science,” Leimer says. Setton recognizes that she can play a particularly valuable role for women, which is a responsibility she takes seriously. “Even though fully half of our students in biomedical engineering are women — the pipeline is deep — we still don’t see women rising to the level of leadership,” she says. “Recently, I’ve been focused on building mentoring networks

with more senior women. When you have a big James Byard cohort of successful senior female leaders, then you’re in a much better place to prepare the next generation of female students to succeed.” RESEARCH SPECIALTIES: The role of mechanical factors Setton will have another significant opportunity to guide the field now that she’s the new president in the degeneration and repair of soft tissues of the of the Biomedical Engineering Society, the premier professional society for the discipline. In addition musculoskeletal system, including the intervertebral disc, to accrediting degrees and overseeing the process of articular cartilage and meniscus. Her lab work includes education, the organization connects industry and academics and runs career development program- engineering and evaluating novel materials for tissue ming. “The organization defines new directions — where the field is going,” Setton says. “Because this regeneration and drug delivery to treat musculoskeletal is a really young and dynamic field, it’s an exciting disease. “I want to help them build a lifetime approach to asking, time to be president.” RECOGNITION: Presidential Early Career Award for ‘Where am I now and where am I going?’ … I want to prepare THE ROAD AHEAD As Setton looks to the future, she sees many oppor- Scientists and Engineers (1997); Dean’s Award for Excellence them to succeed in any number of settings.” — LORI SETTON tunities to strengthen her research, find additional in Mentoring, Duke Graduate School (2004); American collaborators at WashU, and build better opportu- nities for the students in her lab and for women Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow James Byard scientists more generally. (2005); American Society of Mechanical Engineers Van C. ABOVE: Lori Setton has convince MD/PhD student Elizabeth Leimer to Setton provides constructive feedback to students She’s particularly eager to build collaborative always taken her role as a follow her from Duke to WashU. Leimer, who is like Leimer, who often have more interesting sci- working relationships with many colleagues she’s Mow Medal (2007); Biomedical Engineering Society Fellow mentor of young female studying the proteins and receptors that contribute entific opportunities than time. known through professional meetings and networks scientists, such as MD/ to painful responses in a degenerated disc, says “Sometimes people approach me [because of for years, and who now work just down the hall. Her (2009); President, Biomedical Engineering Society (2016–18) PhD student Elizabeth that though it would have been logistically easier my scientific knowledge] and ask to work together plate is full, but she’s determined to make the most Leimer (le), seriously. for her to stay at Duke, she couldn’t pass up the on a side project,” Leimer says. “If I think it would of it. “There are things that I can do now that I could FUNDING: NIH, National Science Foundation, Whitaker And as the president chance to finish her work with Setton. be an interesting project, I tell [Setton] about it, never have dreamed about doing before,” she says. of the Biomedical Leimer specifically appreciates how Setton and she’ll say, ‘Well, that would be great. But how The opportunities are enormous. And Lori Setton Foundation, Coulter Foundation, The Orthopaedic Research Engineering Society, is just getting started. Setton is now in a posi- has helped her design projects that will allow are you going to get this done? How is that going and Education Foundation, to name a few her to have the biggest scientific impact in the to help you meet your goals?’ I like to run every- tion to help guide the Erin Peterson is a freelance writer and founder of Capstone direction of the field. limited time she has as an MD/PhD student. thing by her as a reality check.” Communications based in Minneapolis.

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Washington University Archives Of Friendship and Freedom

William Greenleaf Eliot Jr. Archer Alexander The histories of Archer Alexander, a fugitive slave, and William Greenleaf Eliot Jr., the university’s first

Unknown (American), Portrait of William Greenleaf Eliot , 19th century. Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 29 1/4” (framed). Mildred Lane president, intersect in a dramatic and inspiring story of courage and compassion. Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. of William Eliot Louis. Smith from GiŒ in memory his family.

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Archer Alexander possessed dangerous knowledge. downtown St. Louis, a sympathetic butcher Confederate sympathizers aimed to sabotage directed him to Abigail Adams Eliot. She a bridge over which Union soldiers were soon to took Alexander home and introduced him to pass. The situation was hazardous, especially for her husband, William Greenleaf Eliot Jr. — a Alexander. He was a slave. His owner was among Unitarian minister, staunch abolitionist and Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis Courtesy Missouri Historical Society the saboteurs. first president of Washington University. So one night in February 1863, Alexander “Dr. Eliot called Archer ‘the most Christian snuck out of his quarters. He conveyed warning. man he ever encountered,’” says Errol Disaster was averted. But secessionist suspicion Alexander, Archer’s great-great-grandson. “On fell quickly on him. Sundays they would walk together to church.” And so Alexander left again, fleeing St. Charles, And when the slave catchers finally caught Missouri, one step ahead of the slave catchers. In up, “Eliot rescued him.”

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Many details of Alexander’s early years have For Eliot, Alexander’s arrival at Beaumont Place, been lost to history. For more than a century, as the family home was called, represented a the primary source about his life has been moment of truth. Though he’d long preached The Story of Archer Alexander: From Slavery to against the return of fugitive slaves, Eliot believed Freedom, a biography Eliot wrote in 1885. in obedience to the law. “What, then, was I to do?” Eliot reports that Alexander was born into This: slavery around 1813 on a large Virginia farm Within hours, he obtained a 30-day order owned by a Rev. Delaney. When Delaney of protection from Lt. Col. Franklin Dick, the died, Alexander was brought to Missouri by Union provost marshal of St. Louis. The order the reverend’s son, Thomas Delaney, and later allowed Alexander to remain in Eliot’s employ Archer Alexander was held captive in the Old City Alexander worked on a farm in St. Charles, Missouri, sold to a St. Charles farmer named Hollman. until legally claimed. Jail a er being taken from the Eliots’ residence. prior to his escape in 1863. (St. Charles, Missouri, 1869) But Eliot, writing six years after Alexander’s A few days later, Eliot went to Judge Barton death, relied almost entirely on his own recol- Bates, an acquaintance of Alexander’s master. Eliot lections. In The Rattling of the Chains: A True explained that he wished to purchase Alexander’s Story of an American Family (2009/2015), Errol freedom and could pay up to $600. Bates relayed ““TheyThey had caught him, sure enough, and had probably got him Alexander, PhD, presents fresh details and a the message, but Eliot received no answer. somewhat different chronology. Until, that is, one fine spring morning not farfar beyond my reach already. But, if so, it should not be for want According to Errol — who has spent three quite a month later. Leaving for class, Eliot noted decades combing historical archives — Archer was a peaceful scene: Alexander working in the ofof effort, on my part, to rescue him.” —WILLIAM GREENLEAF ELIOT JR. born in December 1816, the unacknowledged son yard, Eliot children trailing happily behind, all of a white family, the Alexanders, who owned his under the seeming protection of nearby Union mother. It was the Alexanders who brought him barracks. But on the street loitered three rough- to Missouri in 1829, but in 1837, they sold him to looking characters. They gave Eliot pause but a cousin named Ferrell. He was then sold again to seemed to be leaving, and Eliot, with his mind IV John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. Louis Yosti and finally, in 1844, to Richard Pittman. on his l essons, continued to campus. I V. But as a transplant to a more conservative, slave- In either case, Archer spent most of his That evening, Eliot realized the enormity of holding state, “Eliot learned to work the system.” adult life in St. Charles working on a farm, his mistake. ‘Shoot them dead’ Eliot took his case to the provost marshal’s where he largely oversaw daily operations. The house was in disarray. The children were office. Capt. James F. Dwight examined the docu- Although unions between those enslaved were crying, and the nurse was distracted — only The Old City Jail, located at Sixth and Chestnut, ment, interrogated Eliot and summoned local not recognized by law, Alexander in mind and Abigail remained calm in the crisis. The men was a strange architectural affair. First-floor police. Dwight then charged John Egan, who would spirit married a woman named Louisa, with had been slave catchers, armed with clubs, with gentility — even proportions, a classical cor- later become St. Louis’ first detective supervisor, whom he raised 10 children. knives, with pistols. nice — was undone by a ramshackle second, with ensuring Alexander’s return. Eliot reports the Here, too, Errol adds fresh detail. Drawing They bludgeoned Alexander. They kicked him which appeared deposited by tornado. exchange between Egan and Dwight: on family accounts and slave oral histories, he in the face. They handcuffed him. They hauled It was here that Alexander was taken, here “What shall we do, captain, if they refuse to says that the couple’s youngest child — Alfred, him away. The family thought Alexander had where he lay unconscious. But Eliot had one give him up?” born in 1862 — was likely fathered by Louisa’s been killed before their eyes. more card to play. Alexander’s 30-day order of “Shoot them on the spot.” owner, a man named James Naylor. Reading Eliot’s account, one feels his guilt protection was 29 days old. Under military law, “We are to understand that, Captain Dwight, Like Pittman, Naylor was a Confederate sym- and fury, but also his resolve. “They had caught the fugitive slave had been grabbed too soon. shoot them on the spot?” pathizer. Thus, reporting the conspirators — who him, sure enough, and had probably got him “Eliot came from New England; his friends “Yes, shoot them dead if necessary.” also had secreted a cache of weapons — was not far beyond my reach already,” Eliot writes. “But, were all radical abolitionists,” says Laurie F. By 10 p.m. the slave catchers were in custody, only a valorous act, it was also retribution for if so, it should not be for want of effort, on my Maffly-Kipp, PhD, the university’s inaugural and Alexander, beaten and bruised, was back at the treatment of Archer’s wife, says Errol. part, to rescue him.” Archer Alexander Distinguished Professor in the Beaumont Place.

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V.V “Yes, I saw them at the crossing, as I came along, standing, and looking scared-like, as if they Safety were waiting for somebody,” the farmer coolly replied. “But I have not seen them since.” The next day, Eliot obtained a full order of As Eliot would later observe, “Literal truth is protection. But the political situation remained sometimes the most ingenious falsehood.” volatile. Though President Lincoln had issued Mother and daughter arrived before dawn. the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863, Alexander paid the farmer $20. it did not apply to slave-holding border states. In Missouri, the “peculiar institution” stood Laurie F. Maly-Kipp is the Archer Alexander A retired university professor, Errol Alexander is the great- until 1865. VI Distinguished Professor at the university. (Sid Hastings) great-grandson of Archer Alexander. (Joe Angeles) And so, once he’d recuperated sufficiently to VI. travel, Alexander went by steamboat to Alton, Illinois, a free state. There he worked as a farm- A literate man hand, saved his wages and waited for things to Laurie F. Maly-Kipp Errol Alexander settle down across the Mississippi. Archer and Louisa were soon reunited with two Six months later, when Alexander returned more daughters. They learned that a son, Tom, had to Eliot’s employ, he deposited $120 in the been killed in action while serving in the Union “Reading“Reading was a political act. “The fact that Archer Provident Savings Bank. It was a good sum: army. Archer was grieved but proud. “I couldn’t do Over the same period, a Union private would it myself,” he told Eliot, “but I thank the Lord my Once you develop skills of could learn to read, as have earned $78. He then sent word to Louisa, boy did it.” whose freedom he hoped to purchase. Louisa died shortly after the war ended, under literacy, you’re able to tell a man in his 50s … he “My dear husband,” Louisa wrote back. suspicious circumstances. Returning to “Mr. Jim’s” your own history. It’s a way of symbolized what is best “I received your letter yesterday, and lost no house, to collect her few belongings, Louisa report-report- time in asking Mr. Jim if he would sell me, and edly took ill and died two days later. Alexander organizing … and establishing about education. He died what he would take for me. He flew at me, and mourned a year, then remarried. said I would never get free only at the point of Alexander stayed at Beaumont Place for a time, political legitimacy.” a literate man.” the [bayonet], and there was no use in my ever then took rooms of his own. Still he and Eliot speaking to him any more about it. I don’t see remained close. According to Errol Alexander, on —LAURIE F. MAFFLY-KIPP, THE —ERROL ALEXANDER, AUTHOR, how I can ever get away except you get soldiers Sunday mornings, the pair would walk together to INAUGURAL ARCHER ALEXANDER THE RATTLING OF THE CHAINS: A to take me from the house, as he is watching me Eliot’s First Unitarian Church. Alexander worked DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR TRUE STORY OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY night and day.” the organ bellows while Eliot addressed the Eliot read Alexander the letter. But Alexander congregation. When Eliot’s mother died in 1875, had a back-up plan: A German farmer who lived “Archer was the only person he’d talk to.” “Reading was a political act,” says Maffly- still echo today. “My grandfather used to quote nearby had agreed to help Louisa escape. Eliot, Alexander acquired a pocket-watch, which he Kipp, an authority on slave narratives and author, Shakespeare,” says Errol, who taught business and sensing slavery’s imminent demise, cautioned saw as a symbol of freedom. “Slaves did not need most recently, of Setting Down the Sacred Past: psychology at the University of Stirling, Scotland, that the months of freedom might not be worth watches,” Errol explains. African-American Race Histories (Harvard University before retiring in 1996. “He didn’t go to college. the risks of flight. Alexander also learned to read. Press, 2010). She points out that in 1847, when Where did he get that? Alexander disagreed. He worried that Louisa, “It was an educated household,” Errol says. Missouri legislators banned education for blacks, “The fact that Archer could learn to read, as a having sought to leave, might now be endan- “They had weekly recitations from Dickens and the Rev. John Berry Meachum, himself a former man in his 50s … he symbolized what is best about gered. “Her life wasn’t safe if they got mad at her.” Shakespeare. Julia [Alexander’s second wife] could slave, opened his Floating Freedom School in a education,” Errol adds. “He died a literate man.” Eliot took the point. The German farmer kept speak German. You could not be in that household steamboat on the Mississippi River. Archer Alexander passed away in 1879. The funeral his word. On a moonlit night, Louisa and Nellie, and not learn how to read.” “Once you develop skills of literacy, you’re was held downtown, at the African Methodist Church the couple’s young daughter, climbed into an Errol credits Eliot’s son, Christopher, with tutor-tutor- able to tell your own history,” Maffly-Kipp on Lucas Avenue. Eliot officiated. ox-drawn cart and hid beneath the corn shucks. ing his great-great-grandfather. The accomplishment explains. “It’s a way of organizing community Alexander left his watch to Christopher. A horseman soon rode by. He grilled the is even more impressive given that, prior to the and establishing political legitimacy.” Liam Otten is senior news director of the arts and humanities in Public farmer: “Have you seen Louisa and Nellie?” war, many slave states had passed anti-literacy laws. For the Alexander family, Archer’s values A airs.

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LOCATION: SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA ARCHITECT: JOHN MIKE COHEN, BSAS ’67, MArch ’69 Cohen practiced architecture in St. Louis for some 30 years, heading Alumni architects discuss how a small firm specializing in multifamily housing, historic renovations, and commercial and institutional facilities before leaving the firm in they transform the world through 2002 to do private residential consulting. DESCRIPTION: their dreams, plans and designs, “My wife, Marcia (a three-time alum of the university, AB ’69, MA ’71, MSW ’84), and I had never built a house for ourselves, and when we ultimately remaking old spaces began thinking about it, we thought it would be a good time to find a new place to live. We ended up in Santa Barbara, overlooking the and creating new ones. BY RICK SKWIOT Santa Barbara Channel. We were lucky to find a site that is very private and very green. n It took us five years to get the necessary permits. The biologists were the most di—icult. To build the house, we needed Washington magazine recently asked five architects — all to remove 21 scrub oak bushes (like big sagebrush) and had to replace graduates of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts — them 10-to-1 with plants grown from on-site acorns because of their unique DNA. n The house has a somewhat severe design composed to talk about one of their favorite projects. The work they of three large concrete volumes. We refer to it as three whales heading discussed spans the country, from Carnegie Hall in New out to sea. We went to great lengths to keep it simple. The roofs York to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and spans have no penetrations; usually there would be vents and pieces of equipment located there. The house is dug into the hillside of this disciplines, from landscape architecture to construction canyon location to minimize its visual impact on the environment. management, residential design to federal park planning. ©Ciro Coehlo/CiroCoehlo.com n It turned out well. The home has been featured in books and In the following vignettes, meet the alumni and learn of magazines nationally and internationally. If it looks simple, then The Cohen residence, you know someone spent a lot of time getting it that way.” their favorite projects in their own words. Santa Barbara, California

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LOCATION: SAN FRANCISCO ARCHITECT: CATHERINE MEEHAN BARNER, BArch ’75 Barner is vice president of projects and stewardship for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, where she directs a 60-person team responsible for project design and construction in the national park that covers 80,000 acres of Northern California coastline. DESCRIPTION: “My team and I do a lot of work at Presidio and Muir Woods; we are restoring buildings at Alcatraz; at Land’s End we’ve created a whole new visitor experience — it’s a dramatic site overlooking the Pacific Ocean. n A favorite project is the Cavallo Point ‘post-to-park’ conversion at Fort Baker — a military post built at the turn of the [20th] century that sits on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge in an absolutely beautiful setting looking back at San Francisco. A™er a thorough planning process, the idea of a retreat and conference center emerged as the best option for re-use that would bring in enough money to restore the buildings while also serving a community need. n Successful implementation of the high-profile project called upon my skills as a team leader, designer, partner with the National Park Service and supporter of the private developer who restored the site. Cavallo Point opened in 2008 — a place now enjoyed by visitors from around the world as well as the Bay Area. This new national park lodge o›ers visitors experiences such as ©Bob Eckert hiking, enjoying wonderful food and comfortable accommodations, and taking in amazing views.” Cavallo Point, San Francisco

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LOCATION: NEW YORK LOCATION: CHICAGO ARCHITECT: KEN LEVIEN, AB ’74, ARCHITECT: MARSHALL BROWN, BArch ’95 MArch ’76, FAIA A licensed architect and urban designer, Brown is an Levien leads Levien & Company, a New York firm associate professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology of 23, providing clients complex capital-projects College of Architecture. He’s worked on large urban management and owner’s representative services. projects, such as the Chicago Navy Pier redevelopment, DESCRIPTION: and architectural representation projects. “The Carnegie Hall renovation was extensive and DESCRIPTION: exciting. The main concert hall, built in 1891, had been “In 2014 and 2015, I created a series of 100 collages, renovated in 1986, but the two towers — about 160,000 a selection of which will be exhibited at the Western square feet, previously used as rental properties for Exhibitions gallery in Chicago this spring. I used musicians and others — had never been. n Ten years fragments of other works — it’s about making new ago, it was decided the buildings would be used to architecture from existing architecture. The collages create rehearsal space and a school, as well as an are very small, 14 by 17 inches, and are small-scale education center, archives and new o–ice space. We acts of what I call ‘world making.’ n Everything repurposed the roof to become a meeting place, and that’s real was once a dream. For architects, the we completely reconfigured the back of the house, built environment always begins with the making behind the stage, with new elevator systems. Serving of images, models, drawings and things like these as owner’s reps and project manager, we oversaw collages. n To begin, I use the technique of cutting design and construction. n The concert venues put and pasting, taking found artifacts and first kind of on more than 800 programs a year, plus rehearsals, butchering them, but then reassembling them into so the building could not close during renovation. something new. I create new possibilities for new ©Je– Goldberg/Esto We had to create a safe environment for thousands spaces and what spaces can be in the future. One of people and ensure no performances were missed. collage is actually being translated into a built project, “World-making” collages The hardest part was the logistics.” Carnegie Hall renovation, detail a pavilion I’ll build at the Arts Club of Chicago.” (Courtesy Marshall Brown)

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LOCATION: BALTIMORE ARCHITECT: CAROL MACHT, BArch ’73, FASLA Macht is a landscape architect and founder/principal of Hord Coplan Macht Inc., which focuses on educational, health-care and multi-family/mixed-use residential projects and employs 200 architects, landscape architects, planners and designers in its Baltimore; Alexandria, Virginia; and Denver o€ices. DESCRIPTION: “We’ve worked with Loyola University Maryland for over 20 years. It has been a pleasure and privilege to work with the Loyola team over these many years and to see the impact this collaborative e€ort has had on the quality of the campus environment. Our e€orts have included a range of work from master planning to detailed garden design, including the design of roadways, walkways, planting, lighting, signage and special open spaces. Representative projects are a September 11 Memorial Garden, perennial gardens for the Alumni House and the redesign of the Academic Quad walkways. n As the campus landscape architects, we have enjoyed working closely with many architects on varied building projects. We strive to enhance and enliven the outside spaces surrounding these individual buildings while creating a sense of cohesiveness for the campus as a n ©Alain Jaramillo whole. The campus is surrounded by two very beautiful, historic neighborhoods in north Baltimore originally laid out by the Olmsted Brothers firm. In recent projects, our work has extended to the September 11 Memorial GardenGarden at Loyola University Maryland, landscape architecture, perimeter of campus, where we have improved the exterior frame.” Hord Coplan Macht Rick Skwiot is a freelance writer based in Key West, Florida.

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e want to hear about recent promotions, honors, appointments, John R. Hundley III, BU 64, Robert Schoening, LA 68, a national leadership capacity Anita Diamant, LA 73, is the professional dance at Baltimore- international design agency with travels, marriages (please report marriages a er the fact) and GB 65, submitted his 40th applica- GB 73,s retired in July 2015 aˆeraer 25 for the past 16 years. Although author of The New York Times area senior centers. He danced o„ices throughout Europe and the births, so we can keep your classmates informed about impor- tion to the National Society of the years as chief information o¦icero„icer retired from clinical work, she bestseller, The Boston Girl: A Novel a self-choreographed solo work, Americas. He has several books to Wtant changes in your lives. Sons of the American Revolution for three retail companies. His remains an advocate for palliative (Scribner, 2015). The book tells Because You Closed Your Eyes, at his credit and, he says, “a more- Entries may take up to three issues aer submission to appear in the (NSSAR) documenting his ances- last position was with Total Wine nursing care. the story of Addie Baum, who the Reginald F. Lewis Museum or-less accurate biography” on magazine; they are published in the order in which they are received. tors’ service in the Revolutionary & More. He is looking forward to Peyton Gaunt, MD 72, was was born in Boston in 1900 to and performed three dance Wikipedia. War. Twenty-eight of his NSSAR splitting his retiree years between honored for 25 years of service as Russian Jewish immigrants. In the concerts at Goucher College’s Lisa Ring, LA 76, MD 80, Please send news to: applications have been approved, Bethany Beach, Delaware, and medical director of the Pediatric book, Diamant draws on her own Jane Austen Festival. HS 85, has been in private prac- Classnotes, Washington magazine, Washington University in St. Louis, and 12 are pending review. Bethesda, Maryland. Interim Care Center in Kent, experiences at WashU, where she Robert S. Baumol, LA 76, LW 80, tice in dermatology for 30 years Campus Box 1070, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 According to the 2015 NSSAR Max G. Margulis, LW 69, received Washington. A pioneer program for says Harry Marten in the English teaches a course on the politics in St. Louis. She and her late Email [email protected] Membership Directory, only 10 of the Melton M. Lewis Equal Justice treating babies exposed to drugs department mentored her dur- of crime and organized crime at husband, who died of bone cancer, Washington magazine publishes Classnotes in print issues. NSSAR’s 32,000 members have Award from Legal Services of in utero, the center has shared its ing her early writing career and Fairleigh Dickinson University’s had a daughter, now 25. Ring and more than 25 Patriot ancestors. Eastern Missouri in recognition of treatment protocols with institu- changed her life. Teaneck, New Jersey, campus. her current husband, Gregory ALUMNI CODES Edward L. Morris, LA 64, who his contribution to the common tions across the country. William H. Hochstettler III, Pat Purcell, LA 76, was inducted Storch, HS 81, a researcher, teaches at Lindenwood University, good of the St. Louis commu- Michael B. Smith, EN 72, is the EN 73, retired from Franklin into the St. Louis Tennis Hall of teacher and diagnostician, have AR Architecture HS House Sta— BU Business LA Arts & Sciences in St. Charles, Missouri, has writ- nity. He was also recognized by author of The Power of Dadhood, University, in Columbus, Ohio, Fame in mid-April. Aer graduat- traveled extensively the past DE Dentistry LW Law ten another book, Wall Streeters: Washington University School of Become the Father Your Child aer a 23-year teaching career. He ing from Washington University, six years. Now active in WashU EN Engineering MD Medicine The Creators and Corruptors of Law for his contributions to the Needs (Familius, 2015). Smith is a was named professor emeritus she became a tennis club owner. alumni a„airs, Ring says she is FA Art MT Manual Training American Finance (Columbia clinical education program. retired U.S. Air Force colonel, B-52 and continues teaching as an Purcell returned to competitive proud of how strong the university GA Graduate Architecture NU Nursing has become. GB Graduate Business OT Occupational Therapy University Press, 2015). He and his pilot and civilian engineer in the adjunct professor of computer tennis aer a 20-year break, win- GD Graduate Dentistry PT Physical Therapy wife live in the Central West End. s aerospace industry. science. He is also on the faculty ning national titles in women’s 55 Ann Friedman Calandro, GR 77, GF Graduate Art SI Sever Institute Robert E. Johnson, LA 68, is the 70 Sanford V. Teplitzky, LA 72, of Antioch University, where he singles and doubles. has written and illustrated her GL Graduate Law SU Sever Institute co-author, with Janet L. Byron, William Pollard, LA 70, joined an attorney with Ober|Kaler in develops programs for data ana- Eric L. Reiss, LA 76, lives in first children’s book, Never Stop GM Graduate Medicine Undergraduate GN Graduate Nursing SW Social Work of Berkeley Walks: Revealing Duane Morris LLP as an attorney in Baltimore, was selected as a lytics and information technology. Copenhagen, Denmark, with his Drawing (Shanti Arts Publishing, GR Graduate Arts & Sciences TI Tech. & Info. Mgmt. Rambles Through America’s Most its Trial Practice Group in the firm’s Maryland Super Lawyer in the Branch Morgan III, LA 74, wife, Dorthe. He is chairman and 2015). She is currently working on HA Health Care Admin. UC University College Intriguing City (Roaring Forties New York o¦ice.o„ice. For more than health-care practice area. teaches foreign languages and CEO of the FatDUX Group, an two new children’s books. Press, 2015). The book features 40 years, Pollard has had leading 18 detailed, self-guided walks in roles representing corporations 50s Association for her haiku collec- his longtime home of Berkeley, and individuals in complex civil Coaches by the numbers tion, Bird Watch (available at info@ California. and white-collar criminal cases, as On Friday, Feb. 12, Washington University dedicated the court Nina Steg, MD 55, is enjoying snow- cchapline.com). She operates Harry I. Ringermacher, EN 68, well as grand jury and regulatory in the Athletic Complex as Edwards-Fahey Court, named for free Florida and her grandchildren. an art gallery in Stinson Beach, GR 77, GR 80, retired from the investigations. the longtime coaches of the men’s and women’s basketball George Banjak, BU 56, HA 60, California. General Electric Global Research Fran Block, PT 71, owner and s teams, Mark Edwards and Nancy Fahey. The coaches have retired more than two decades ago Richard E. Browning, EN 59, Center as senior research physical therapist at Renaissance mentored Washington University student-athletes for 35 and from Howard Community Hospital is president of Industrial physicist in materials science Healing and Learning Center in in Kokomo, Indiana, aˆer serving Technologies Inc., in Pacific, and is an adjunct professor in Cotati, California, continues to 30 years, respectively. Their coaching legacies are nearly as its CEO. Since retiring, he has Missouri. A member of Architects & the Department of Physics and work with horses and provide unparalleled in the history of NCAA Division III athletics. lived in Asheville, North Carolina. Engineers for 9/11 Truth, he speaks Astronomy at the University physical therapy services in Gail Bate, LA 56, is involved in frequently to professional and civic of Southern Mississippi, in hippotherapy. Mark Edwards Nancy Fahey a variety of volunteer activities organizations about the engineer- Hattiesburg. He most recently Marjorie Sable, LA 71, SW 75, 35 30 in Warwick, New York. A former ing facts surrounding the events published articles in Astronomical a professor and director of the Number of seasons Mark Edwards, Number of seasons Nancy Fahey president of the Warwick Valley of Sept. 11, 2001. Journal and Monthly Notices of the University of Missouri School of AB ’69, has coached men’s basketball has coached the women’s basketball Community Center’s board of Royal Astronomical Society. Social Work, received the Faculty- at his alma mater team directors, she is working on a 60 s Theodore (Ted) Roche, LA 68, Alumni Award from the Mizzou 5 mural design for the exterior of a was inducted into the U.S. Alumni Association. An interna- 2 Number of national championships Number of national championships restored 200-year-old church in David Dohrmann, LA 63, is grateful Synchronized Swimming Hall tionally recognized public health for the Bears under Coach Edwards for the Bears under Coach Fahey conjunction with her membership to Washington University for the of Fame as a contributor. Roche research scientist, Sable focuses in the Warwick Art League. She education that enabled him to served as an o¦icer, a committee on reproductive and sexual health, 625+ 700+ CALLING ALL ALUMNI: also is busy planning a party to enter medical school and eventu- chair and a national judge before violence and HIV/AIDS. Number of wins under Edwards, Number of wins under Fahey, who who ranks sixth in active wins by a was the second-fastest coach in celebrate her 80th birthday. ally become a pediatrician. He retiring in 2014. He was on the sta¦ Jane Sidwell, SW 71, has Division III head coach NCAA men’s and women’s basketball Claudia Chapline, GR 56, hopes his contributions to the uni- of the WashU Athletic Department served on the boards of the history to reach 700 wins received the 2015 Poetry versity can help others attain their from 1970 to 1975 and served as Hospice and Palliative Nurses James Byard Book Award from the Bay goals and encourages other alumni swim coach from 1971 to 1975. He Foundation and the Hospice and Area Independent Publishers to contribute to the Annual Fund. resides in the Salt Lake City area. Palliative Nurses Association in

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PROFILE Eric Schultz, AB ’02

Sandra Barr Hammond, LA adjunct associate professor at American Red Cross Harriman Andrew Tievsky, HS 78, 77, is chairman of the board of Wright State University School Award for volunteer accomplish- retired from the Cleveland Clinic Briefing the nation the Jewish Heritage Fund for of Medicine. ments that extend beyond a local medical sta’sta‡ in 2014 and moved Excellence, a grant-making orga- James B. Thompson, GF 77, had community. He is vice president to Scottsdale, Arizona, where he ric Schultz’s first campaigns were for the Congress of the nization that invests in the health- a 20-year retrospective, James B. and general counsel of Drury Hotels works full time as a neuroradiolo- South 40 (CS40). care market, fosters innovative Thompson: Fragments in Time, on Company in St. Louis. gist at SimonMed, a diagnostic E His next: the U.S. Senate. medical research and supports display at the Hallie Ford Museum Elliot J. Roth, LA 78, received the imaging company. the Louisville Jewish commu- of Art at Willamette University, Distinguished Clinician Award from Jim Holliman, MD 79, received A„erAer his sophomore year at WashU, Schultz, AB ’02, spent nity. She also maintains a family Salem, Oregon. He is a professor of the American Academy of Physical the American Academy of Emergency the summer working for Hillary Clinton during her inaugural run law–focused practice with Tilford art and curator for the Department Medicine and Rehabilitation. The Medicine’s International Emergency for the Senate in 2000. The job o’eredo‡ered him the rare opportunity Dobbins Schmidt. of Art at the university. award honors physicians who have Medicine Leadership Award in to learn from some of the brightest minds in American politics. Frances Madeson, LA 77, pub- Joseph Mica, EN 78, says he achieved distinction in teaching Rome, Italy, in September 2015. But when the campaign asked Schultz to stay in New York lished an essay/interview titled is grateful that his studies at and patient care. Roth serves as Jay M. Kirschbaum, BU 79, is through the election, he was torn. “Sovereign Imagination: The Art of Washington University allowed the Paul B. Magnuson Professor senior vice prpresidentesident and practice “I loved being on campus and was not interested in spend- Leonard Peltier” in Red Wedge, a him to become a NASA electrical and chairman of Physical leader for the National Legal ing time away from the university,” says Schultz, who was then website and magazine dedicated engineer, system engineer and Medicine and Rehabilitation at and Research Group of Willis to the understanding and creation lead engineer. His dreams became Northwestern University Feinberg Human Capital Practice. He is the a CS40 executive and a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity. “But of art and creativity from a revolu- reality as he traveled the world, School of Medicine and as medical immediate past president of the when I spoke to people on campus, they all said, ‘We’ll be here tionary socialist perspective. co-authored an engineer refer- director of the Patient Recovery American Benefits Council, a trade when you get back. Take this experience and run with it.’ It was Edward Syron, HA 77, is chief ence book, published papers and Unit at the Rehabilitation Institute association and advocacy group great advice. I got to see all the components of a campaign — of the Care Coordination Center chaired conferences ― working of Chicago. representing employer-sponsored field work, fundraising, research and the tech side. It made me at Dayton VA Medical Center. with people whom he regarded as Joan Saniuk, SI 78, was benefit plans.

really realize my interest lay with communications.” O‡icial White House photo by Pete Souza Previously, he was director of among the smartest in the world. appointed provisional pastor of Randall Samborn, LA 79, an Today, Schultz is principal deputy press secretary and quality innovation, accreditation Joe Pereles, GB 78, LW 78, Metropolitan Community Church attorney and former legal a’airsa‡airs special assistant to President Barack Obama. You’ve seen him and regulation at Premier Health earned the highest honor bestowed Sacred Journey in Hendersonville, journalist, joined Washington, Network, Dayton, Ohio, and an by the American Red Cross, the North Carolina. D.C.–based LEVICK as a senior on television taking questions from the White House press corps. But that’s a small part of his job. “Most of what we do happens outside the briefing room,” Eric Schultz (le ) is principal deputy press secretary s and special assistant to President Barack Obama. Alumni join admissions to recruit students Schultz says. “We are working around the clock, whether it’s talking to the reporters making the morning network The Black Alumni Council and the university’s O’ice of shows or to the reporters who are putting their stories to bed first term. “That sort of pressure renders some people virtually Undergraduate Admissions celebrated the 20th anniversary late at night.” mute. But the best of them, Eric included, find a way to serve of their annual student recruitment program and dinner in That’s called “rapid response,” and Schultz, a veteran of some both the president they represent and the reporters who count fall 2015. At the event, alumni and parent volunteers joined of Washington’s top press o’ices,o‡ices, is considered a master. on them every day.” individuals from admissions to meet and greet prospective “Given the hyper speed of the media environment right Those days are coming to a close with the approaching end students and families from the Maryland, Washington, now, being able to respond e’ectivelye‡ectively and credibly to any type of President Obama’s second term. Schultz says he has no idea D.C., and northern Virginia areas. Held in Howard County, of story that is out there is incredibly important,” says Schultz, whom he will serve next. Maryland, the annual dinner was hosted by Nellie Anderson- who has worked for powerful Democratic senators Chuck Hutt, AB ’75, JD ’78, and Louis Hutt, BSBA ’76. “It will be di‡icult, if not impossible, to top working at the Schumer (New York), John Edwards (North Carolina) and Al White House,” Schultz says. “I’ve been given a front-row seat TOP: Franken (Minnesota). “Unfortunately, when you are dealing with Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and members of the Oice of to history. I was with the president when he gave that amazing Undergraduate Admissions prepare to welcome alumni, parents, the federal government, sometimes retrieving the information speech in Charleston, South Carolina, and when the Supreme students and friends to the 20th annual celebration dinner. takes some time. You won’t always have all of it at your fingertips Court upheld the health-care act. These are moments of history From le to right are Jordan Peters, AB ’14; Akosua Yeboah, AB ’11; the moment someone is blogging or tweeting about it. So we do that I’m fully aware very few people get to witness. Even now, I Chancellor Wrighton; Julie Shimabukuro, AB ’87; and Chrystal our due diligence on the front end so we have the best informa- Okonta, AB ’10. Peters, Yeboah and Okonta are admissions oicers, still get chills every time I walk through the [White House] gate.” tion ready. The last thing you want is to say something that will and Shimabukuro is director of admissions. be contradicted later.” — Diane Toroian Keaggy, AB ’90

BOTTOM: From le to right: WashU alumni Louis and Nellie Hutt, Photos courtesy of Ava R. Lee The stakes couldn’t be higher, says Wall Street Journal reporter For more with Eric Schultz, visit source.wustl.edu/2016/02/ Chancellor Wrighton and alumnus Joe Madison, AB ’71 — all of and Washington University alumna Laura Meckler, AB ’90. briefing-the-nation/, where Schultz tells us what Obama is really whom attended the first recruitment event in Maryland 20 years “An errant or ill-considered comment can create tensions like, which television show gets D.C. right (hint, it’s not House of ago — were present last fall to continue their eorts to recruit talented students from the area. with other world powers and o’endo‡end friends and enemies Cards), and how to go from WashU to the White House for students alike at home,” says Meckler, who covered President Obama’s who might want a career in politics.

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PROFILE Tiffany Harper, JD ’08

vice president, leading the firm’s Associates, a consulting engineer- Company. Since he graduated from was elected to the board of Chicago oice in crisis and litiga- ing firm in Seattle. He and his wife, WashU, his vacations have taken directors of the Illinois chapter of Building a legal pipeline tion communications. Previously, Page, have been married 25 years him to 24 states and 14 countries. Make-A-Wish Foundation. ianyi™any Harper, JD ’08, in-house counsel in the Chicago oiceo™ice he served 20 years as an assistant and have two daughters, Harper, A member of American Coaster Cartan Sumner, GB 90, LW 91, Tof Grant Thornton LLP, one of the country’s top-grossing U.S. attorney and spokesperson 18, and Hallie, 22. Hallie is a gradu- Enthusiasts, Bates has ridden more was appointed to a two-year term accounting firms, says she had the professional “pedigree” for the U.S. Attorney’s Oice in ate of Scripps College, and Harper than 100 roller coasters. as board president of the World to succeed at a top firm: an Ivy League undergraduate educaeduca-- Chicago. Two of his three children, will enter college this fall. Lisa Mayer Estes, LA 84, SW 85, Trade Center St. Louis. An execuexecu-- Eve, LA ’11, and Sarah, LA ’13, are Brian Zachariah, LA 82, was was appointed chief advancement tive with Peabody Energy, he is a tion, top-tier law school training at Washington University and WashU alums. elected treasurer of the Interstate oicer of the Ronald McDonald member of the external advisory mentors eager to help. But she found few other black women Medical Licensure Compact House Houston, which serves fami- committee of WashU’s McDonnell attorneys among her colleagues, despite widespread eortse™orts by 80s Commission. The commission lies whose severely ill children are International Scholars Academy. firms to recruit minority associates. aims to improve health-care being treated at a Texas Medical Chris Godlove, LA 91, married Through her career-long involvement with the Black Women Andrea Brown, UC 80, volunteers access by lowering barriers to the Center–ailiated institution. his partner of 20 years, Julien, in Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago (BWLA), Harper saw that at organizations of interest while multistate and interstate practice John Witt, LA 86, HS 94, joined July 2015. They live in Brussels, when African-American women got a shot at top firms, few stayed. pursuing career goals. of physicians. Zachariah is chief TriStar Skyline Medical Center, Belgium, a—era‹er residing 18 years in Nationwide, black women make up less than 3 percent of associassoci-- Robin Steinhorn, MD 80, an medical coordinator for the Illinois Nashville, Tennessee, as a neuro- Washington, D.C. internationally recognized leader Department of Financial and hospitalist and medical director Arny Nadler, FA 91, was honored ates and less than 1 percent of partners. in neonatal perinatal medicine Professional Regulation. for the center’s stroke program. He with an Emerson Excellence in “I talked with a lot of people about it. ‘Why can’t we stay and fetal pulmonary develop- Brian Land, EN 83, leads the is also pursuing graduate studies Teaching Awardaward for his achieve-achieve- at firms? Why can’t we rise in the ranks?’” Harper says. “But I ment, was appointed as senior environmental transactional prac- at Midwestern Baptist Theological ments and dedication to education never got a good answer. vice president of the Center tice group at the Washington, D.C., Seminary. Witt and his wife, Mary in 2015. Nadler is an associate “Most law students of color are concentrated in third- and LA 85, have relocated to professor and chair of undergradu- for Hospital-Based Specialties oice of Kirkland & Ellis. His wife, (Gaska), professor and chair of undergradu- fourth-tier law schools,” says the Chicago native and Dartmouth at Children’s National Health Ellen, teaches preschool; his son Hendersonville, Tennessee. ate art in the Sam Fox School of College graduate. Students there o—eno‹en don’t have the same System. Previously, she served Michael, BU 15, works for General James T. Madore, LA 87, was Design & Visual Arts at Washington as medical director and chair Electric in Stamford, Connecticut; appointed to the executive com- University. opportunity to compete for “big law” summer associate posiposi-- Tiany Harper, in-house counsel at Grant Thornton in of the Department of Pediatrics and his son Mark, who recently mittee of the Society of American Joe Brinkmann, AR 92, and tions and other top internships. Chicago, is one of the founders of Pilot Pipeline Program, at University of California Davis finished “through-hiking” the Business Editors and Writers Joel Fuoss, GA 02, are among a However, she also saw that those schools frequently turn out which mentors black, female law students to help them suc- Ron Vesely Children’s Hospital. Appalachian Trail, is an art stu- (SABEW), an educational not- new ownership group at Trivers great lawyers. “I know plenty of outstanding lawyers of all racial ceed in the profession no matter where they go to school. Stephen Ta , LA 80, published dent at Virginia Commonwealth for-profit with more than 3,500 Associates architecture that sucsuc-- and ethnic backgrounds who came from third- and fourth-tier his first book, A True Free Market: University, in Richmond, Virginia. members in the United States and ceeds Andy Trivers, GA 73, who law schools. I thought I could develop and mentor black, female Conversations on Gaining Liberty Douglas Luke, LA 83, was Canada. Madore was first elected founded the firm in 1975. Trivers law students to be marketable to firms and to succeed in firms One of the Loyola students benefiting from that support, and Justice Through Economics appointed director of the new to the SABEW board of governors continues to practice with the firm. no matter where they go to school.” (iUniverse, 2015). He lives and Public Health Sciences doctoral in 2013 and chairs its finance BJ Kenyon, GR 92, was honored Carrera Thibodeaux, says Pipeline is more than just mentoring. works in New York City. program at the Brown School at committee. He is a senior business with an Emerson Excellence in So in 2014, Harper and Chasity Boyce launched the Pilot “Ti™any continues to support every aspect of my life: prep- Steven Nathan Berk, LA 81, was Washington University. He also writer at Newsday covering the Teaching Awardaward for his achieve-achieve- Pipeline Program, partnering with Loyola University Chicago ping for tests, networking, finding a job, boosting my confidence, nominated by President Barack teaches courses and directs the economy and development. ments and dedication to education. and, in 2015, with Chicago’s John Marshall Law School. BWLA giving me advice on my personal life. I would not be in the posi- Obama to serve on the Superior Center for Public Health Systems Melissa Pierce, LA 87, was Kenyon teaches social studies at attorneys volunteered to conduct workshops to improve tion I am now if it weren’t for the program and all the people Court of the District of Columbia. Science at the school. promoted to manager, government Kirkwood High School. students’ test-taking and writing skills and oero™er chances for who donated their time to make sure I’d be a successful lawyer.” Berk is a principal and founder of Sarah M. Whitman, LA 83, and regulatory aairs, for Comcast’s Tom Reynolds, LW 92, joined professional development. That early success has Harper and Boyce thinking big. Berk Law, where he litigates con- and her daughter, Lauren Western New England region. Seyfarth Shaw LLP, in Atlanta, as The program is working out “phenomenally” according “We want the program to operate on a national level within sumer protection issues on behalf Witonsky, launched a nature Sterling Miller, LW 88, wrote The counsel in the Labor & Employment to Harper. “We had three young women in the program last of consumers and represents photography notecard proj- Evolution of Professional Football Department. His practice focuses the next five years,” Harper says. That would benefit not only whistleblowers in cases under the ect, 50 Percent Cards, so (Mill City Press, 2015), which tracks on defending employers against year, all of whom earned competitive GPAs and class rank the program students but also large law firms whose “diversity False Claims Act. named because 50 percent the history of the NFL. single-plaintisingle-plainti™ claims of discrimidiscrimi-- with the academic support, professional development and initiatives to this point just have not been successful.” Robert Barnett, MD 82, HS 86, of the profits are donated to Doug Green, BU 89, his wife, nation, harassment and retaliation. mentoring provided by the program,” she says. “Each student Harper has been notably successful in her work as a litigator returned to clinical medicine at environmental charities. The Tatiana, and their daughter, Kevin Burke III, LA 93, is execuexecu-- also completed top-notch internships at law firms and in the and in corporate bankruptcy and restructuring work. She believes the Women’s Clinic of New Albany notecards are sold on Etsy. Isabella, welcomed their son and tive vice president of the Illinois chambers of federal and state court judges a—era‹er their 1L year. that her hybrid skill set of litigation and transactional work will in Mississippi a—er a brief retire- com (www.50PercentCards. brother, Alexander, in May 2015. Asphalt Pavement Association. He It’s our hope that these opportunities put these students in serve her well throughout her career, which will include, she ment. He also works as director Etsy.com). Photographers are lives in Springfield, Illinois, with his the best position to be the next generation of diverse law firm hopes, law firm or corporate management and diversity positions. of Centers of Excellence for the invited to submit nature photos 90s wife, Jennifer, and their 8-year-old American Institute of Minimally to be featured on cards (email daughter, Isabela. partners, general counsel and judges.” “I can’t tell you how many recruiters have told me, ‘I want Invasive Surgery. [email protected]). Daryl Luke, HS 90, president and Joseph Abram Doane, HA The program also places students in summer internships with to hire somebody like you.’” Nathan Byers, EN 82, is Donald Bates, FA 84, retired owner of Makai Medical Consulting 93, LW 93, heads the OiceO™ice for large law firms or federal court judges — opportunities they likely Now, thanks to the Pilot Pipeline Program, they may have a senior principal at Sider + Byers a—er 32 years at The Boeing Ltd., in Homan Estates, Illinois, Academic Success at Salus would not have otherwise, says Harper. chance to do just that. — Rick Skwiot

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PROFILE Daniel Medin, MA ’00, PhD ’05

University, in Elkins Park, Mayur Shah, LA 97, started and used violence and murder to prevention and treatment to Pennsylvania. Aer graduating a health-care consulting prac- protect its enterprise. optimize outcomes for patients Literature beyond borders from WashU, Doane practiced tice targeting small businesses. Sara (Fleming) Novy, FA 00, and following cancer treatment. law and joined the faculty at Previously, he was involved in her husband, William C. Novy III, Margaret Eileen Rincker, GR 02, is oicialo¤icial title is associate professor of comparative literature Northwestern University. He health informatics. welcomed their first child, William GR 06, received the Outstanding and English at the American University of Paris (AUP). But earned a master’s degee in learn- Maria Ferriol, LA 98, relocated Charles Novy IV, in July 2015. Teaching Award from Purdue H think of Daniel Medin, MA ’00, PhD ’05, as an evangelist for outout-- ing disabilities from Northwestern from Puerto Rico to Columbus, They reside in southern Delaware, University Calumet (Indiana). before joining the National Board Ohio. She is an associate at Stoner where Sara is facility director Rincker, an associate professor of standing contemporary foreign-language writers. of Medical Examiners. Doane Periodontic Specialists and also and a physical therapist at an political science, was described Case in point: Medin is a judge for the 2016 Man Booker resides in Voorhees, New Jersey, works in private practice. She outpatient clinic. by her peers as “an innovator in International Prize. The annual award honors a fictional book with his wife and their two dogs. has two daughters, Cristina, 5, Christyn (Chambers) Abaray, the classroom whose teaching translated into English and published in the United Kingdom. He has a son, a daughter and and Amelia, 14 months, and LA 01, was named director of empowers students.” The winning title earns a loyloŒy £50,000 ($75,800), split equally four stepsons. would love to connect with other athleticss at Lawrence University Sarah (McCarty) Berry, LA 03, between author and translator. BU 94, HA 96, who WashU alumni. in Appleton, Wisconsin, follow- and her husband, Lee, returned Elaine Leo, Medin and the four other jurists pored over 160 novels and moved to Arkansas for medical Katy (Homar) Kaufman, LA 98, ing a nationwide search. Before to their hometown of New met several times throughout the winter and early spring to residency training in psychiatry, UC 03, and her husband, Joe, wel- she joined Lawrence University, Orleans in 2013 aeraŒer relocating reports that she finds patient care comed a second child, Thea Rose, she had been athletics director at to Wisconsin following Hurricane create the prize’s longlist and then select the winner. “What I’m challenging and fulfilling. in June 2015. Big sister Vivian Joy Buena Vista University, in Storm Katrina. Sarah isSarah is the the assistant assistant doing doesn’t feel like work,” he says. “It’s a privilege.” Patti Bubash, GR 96, partici- is 5. The happy family resides in Lake, Iowa, since June 2012. registrar for academic scheduling Warm, self-eacingself-e¤acing and raise-your-eyebrows smart, Medin pated in the Fulbright Association Madison, Wisconsin. John Ryan Fischer, LA 01, a visit- at the University of New Orleans. works in three languages — German, French and English — allow-allow- Alumni Insight Tour from Havana Joni Kamiya, OT 99, is an ing assistant professor of history at The recipient of the 2013-14 First ing him to read fiction by authors famous in their own countries to central and eastern Cuba, occupational therapist and an the University of Wisconsin-River Year Student Advocate Award, but underrepresented or completely unknown by Anglophones. January 13–23, 2016. In 2002, as a advocate for his dad’s farm, Falls, wrote Cattle Colonialism: she is an adviser for the National Nicolas Kovarik / Agence France-Presse When a novelist or poet impresses him, Medin gracefully labors special educator with the Special Kamiya Papaya, in Hawaii. He An Environmental History of the Society of Black Engineers. to expose that person’s prose to English-language readers. He School District, she participated recently completed a fellow- Conquest of California and Hawai’i Cathy Lander-Goldberg, in a Fulbright Teacher Program in ship with the Cornell Alliance for (The University of North Carolina SW 03, is the author and illustraillustra-- publishes translated selections of their work in Music & Literature, Sunderland, England. Science Global Leadership Fellows Press, 2015). tor of Photo Explorations: A Girl’s The White Review and The Cahiers Series, the three literary Daniel Medin is associate professor of comparative litera- Program, which works to promote Guide to Self-Discovery Through Sharon (Stuber) Jackson, SW Douglas Harrison, GR 01, GR 05, Guide to Self-Discovery Through magazines that he helps edit. He also sends copies to publishers, ture and English at the American University of Paris. 96, was honored with an Emerson access to scientific innovation was appointed associate dean for Photography, Writing and Drawing critics and writers all over the world. Excellence in Teaching Award for as a means of enhancing food faculty a¤airs in the College of Arts (CLG Photographics, 2015). “Reading these books is a pleasure,” Medin says. “It’s similar her achievements and dedica- security, improving environmen- & Sciences at Trinity Washington Through fun, creative assignments, to having something delectable to eat; the delight is enhanced Along with teaching history and literature classes, Medin tion to education. Jackson is an tal sustainability and raising the University, in Washington, D.C. this resource encourages girls by sharing it with others.” is also associate director of AUP’s Center for Writers and associate professor and chair of quality of life globally. Edward Shin, LW 01, was ages 9 to 15 to better understand Translators. The center is known for hosting distinguished writers the Social Work Department at named vice president, general themselves, strive for a balanced In 2014 NPR book critic Juan Vidal called each issue of Music & Literature “a gem … especially useful for those interested in such as Hungarian László Krasznahorkai, whose works are now Fontbonne University, in St. Louis. s counsel and secretary for Clopay life and set meaningful goals for Mindy Kronenberg, LA 96, 00 Building Products, a manufacturer the future. breaking their parochial American reading habits.” widely translated into English thanks in part to Medin’s eorts. co-edited Treating Traumatized Lindsey (Wurzel) Glass, BU 00, of residential and commercial Jamie (Rosenthal) Shiller, In its 250-plus pages, Music & Literature showcases a wide Medin credits William H. Gass, his mentor at Washington Children: A Casebook of Evidence- and Brian Glass, GB 00, welcomed garage doors. BU 03, is treasury manager, variety of material that has never before appeared in English. University, for fostering his literary vision. Back when Medin based Therapies (Guilford Press, a daughter, Sadie Emerson, in Emily (Kaufman) Weber, LA 01, International Risk Management, For instance, one of the most recent issues, No. 6, contains a was a doctoral student, Gass, now the David May Distinguished 2014). October 2014. She joined big joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber at PepsiCo Inc., focusing on lengthy excerpt from Croatian author Dubravka Ugresic’s work- University Professor Emeritus in Humanities, headed the David Mandell, LA 96, and brother Charlie, now 8. The family Schreck’s regulatory health-care western Europe, Canada and Latin in-progress, “A Story About How Stories Come to Be Written.” university’s International Writers Center (now the Center for the Daniel Linde, LA 96, are building resides in Chesterfield, Missouri. practice in the firm’s Denver o¤ice. America. Previously, she managed Humanities). “Many of the writers Gass invited became famous,” a Napa Valley–style destina- Michelle Nasser, LW 00, a Previously, she was associate client services at Arthur Gallagher The first new fiction from the author in years, it appeared before tion experience on the Bourbon federal prosecutor in Chicago, general counsel for University of & Co. Shiller resides in Newburgh, the original Croatian edition. Medin says. “Lydia Davis and Ha Jin were speakers at the center Trail in Kentucky. Set on 100 received the Department of Colorado Health, associate coun- New York, with her husband, Eric, “Daniel brings a fierce intelligence to the project,” says Taylor during my time, before they began to collect awards.” acres of active farmland, their Justice Director’s Award from sel for Temple University Health and son, Samuel. Davis-Van Atta, publisher of the biannual literary magazine. “I The team that wins the 2016 Man Booker Prize will have 37,000-square-foot bourbon U.S. Attorney General Loretta System Inc., and associate counsel Omar Young, LA 04, is an assisassis-- think everyone on stasta¤ has benefited from his refined curatorial no shortage of exposure, but other exciting writers that Medin distillery will allow wholesale Lynch in Washington, D.C., in and compliance o¤icer for Vail tant professor in the Department sensibilities and his skills as an editor.” discovers through being a jurist will also benefit. Medin’s aim is customers to create custom, June 2015. She was honored for Valley Medical Center. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Students at AUP also profit from Medin’s voracious reading to make sure that innovative contemporary authors, no matter authentic, Kentucky whiskey and her investigation and prosecution Renata Beaman, PT 02, is a Division of Maternal-Fetal habits. “Daniel is a wonderful teacher — warm, funny, genuine, what language they write in, are known to a wide audience. will provide barrel financing. of the highest-ranking members physical therapist at OrthoRehab Medicine, at Washington University Eva Durham, UC 97, is a media- of a fraud organization in the Specialists Inc., in Minneapolis and School of Medicine. Young comcom-- completely present,” says Madeleine LaRue, a 2012 AUP graduate “I admire Gass’ vision as a literary advocate,” Medin says, tor at the National Mediation United States that generated Edina, Minnesota. She combines pleted a fellowship in maternal- who now works for Music & Literature. “It was obvious that the “and I can think of no greater model to follow as a reader, Board in Washington, D.C. annual revenues of $2.5 million orthopedic work with lymphedema fetal medicine at Magee-Womens material he was teaching was a constant source of delight to him.” editor and judge.” — Laura Slavik Fortin

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Hospital of the University of Ebony Patterson, GF 06, is a service center works to ensure earning a JD from the University Meghan Powers, LA 13, spotted Aron Lurie, EN 13, in the ’15 • Viola (Rodenmayer) DiDea, James M. Maas, EN 50; Jan. ’15 • ...... Pittsburgh Medical Center. multimedia artist whose artworks that clients seeking representa- of Kansas School of Law, in is a second-year student at Climb to the Clouds bike ride event. GR 47; March ’15 • Theodore J. Simon Rosenbaum, BU 50; March Kim Cella, SW 05, created, wrote ― many weaving intricate pat- tion for sexual violence and public Lawrence, Kansas. While there, ...... Tu›s University School of Daniel Eisenberg, PMBA 15, Honig, LA 47; Jan. ’15 • Lyle ’15 • Arnold M. Schrier, BU 50; and executive-produced Almost terns, jacquard photo tapestries health issues are empowered to she was executive note and com- Dental Medicine, in Medford, completed his first full Ironman (Reed) Koch, FA 47; Jan. ’15 • Feb. ’15 • Elizabeth (Chipley) There. Bought by DirecTV and AT&T, and glitter ― are prominently claim justice, rebuild dignity and ment editor for Kansas Law Review ...... Massachusetts. triathlon. Mary (Bruns) Mausshardt, NU 47; Stephens, LA 50; March ’15 • the 30-minute TV sitcom about featured in the current season of experience a sense of compassion and served as teaching assistant in Brian Stratton, EN 13, is Anna Villanyi, LA 15, conducts Jan. ’15 • Edward D. Schapiro, Rudolph C. Stinnett, UC 50; Jan. a psychology professor and his the TV show, Empire. Patterson through the legal system. the Lawyers Program. WUtransitioning Legacy: from ...... The Boeing research in animal behavior at BU 47; Feb. ’15 • Shirley D. ’15 • Lila (Mortland) Traeger, LA was recently featured in an article Ian Weaver, GF 08, was recently friends started airing last fall, with Lindsay Hirsch, BU 11, LA 11, is Company’s Defense Division to the Walt Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Sparks, BU 47; Jan. ’15 • John H. 50, LW 52; Feb. ’15 • Dewey E. Steven Pasquale in the star role. in The New York Times. a visiting artist at the University of founder of Wish Upon A Product, company’s Commercial Division She also works with a museum ...... Stradal, BU 47; Nov. ’15 • Juanita Allen, DE 51; Jan. ’15 • Charles C. Anthony M. Hollins, LA 05, Beth A. Rubenstein, LA 06, an North Texas and the University of a Chicago company that provides to help bring the 777X program to featuring more than 450 animal (Johnson) Alden, BU 48; Feb. ’15 • Berry, LA 51; March ’15 • Rupert finished a fellowship in sports attorney with Farrell Fritz, was Texas at Arlington (UTA). Wild Pony solutions to designing, sourcing, ...... St. Louis. The transition includes a skeletons in unique poses, Richard M. Arnold, BU 48; March E. Bullock, SI 51; Jan. ’15 • medicine at Campbell Clinic in named to the 2015 New York Metro Editions, the UTA Department of packaging and marketing con- three-month relocation to Seattle Skeletons: Animals Unveiled! ’15 • Esther (Kohn) Bressler, LA Jeanne (Heinicke) Hoyer, LA 51; Memphis, Tennessee, last year and Rising Stars list in the area of Art & Art History’s fine art press, sumer products...... to learn the scope of the work. 48; Feb. ’15 • Mildred (Schneider) Jan. ’15 • Kenneth L. Johnson, EN is practicing at Memphis Shoulder estate and probate. invited Weaver to produce a print. Lilly Leyh-Pierce, LA 11, GB 15, Jennifer Wong, GA 13, is ...... Cohn, BU 48; Oct. ’15 • Edith 51; March ’15 • Donald A. Lasater, and Orthopaedic Surgery. Orly Henry, LA 07, and Ezra Visit www.wildponyeditions.com. SW 15, is an assistant to Henry S. an architect at William Reue In Memoriam (McCauley) Herndon, NU 48; EN 51; Jan. ’15 • Odile (Stewart) Alexei Tajzler, AR 05, was Hilton, EN 09, were married in Alexa Shoemaker Brooks, Webber, executive vice chancellor Architecture in New York City, LA 51; Feb. ’15 • promoted to director at Howard August 2015. Orly is an attorney LA 09, relocated to her hometown for administration at WashU. Favoritean award-winning Honor: ...... design firm 1930s March ’15 • Melvin E. Kern, BU 48; Mecker, Donald Feb. ’15 • Robert A. Ledner, MD C. Proctor, MD 51; Jan. ’15 • L. Zimmerman Architects in New at Dykema Gossett, and Ezra is of Santa Cruz, California, in 2014 William Shim, LA 11, LW 14, recognized for its innovative Helen (Hoerr) Kurtz, FA 34; Feb...... 48; Feb. ’15 • Helen (Lant) James P.Rodman, GR 51; Jan. ’15 York City. His exterior restora- a senior engineer at Thornton and was married in May 2015. She began the 198th U.S. Army Judge projects that marry creativity ’15 • Delight (Mead) Seaman, tion project, the 1884 New York Tomasetti. The couple reside also started a business, Whimsy Advocate O¥icer Basic Course and pragmatism. Magoon, LA 48; Jan. ’15 • Melvin • Jack P.Tandy, LA 51; March ’15 • Advocate O’icer Basic Course LA 37; Jan. ’15 • Harriet Mercantile Exchange Building, in Chicago. Spot, which sells handmade greet- at the Judge Advocate General’s MyJe‚rey estate Alexander gift will Morris,support LA 14,the School of Medicine because: ...... N. Reiss, EN 48, GB 60; Jan. ’15 • Norman Zaltsman, BU 51, LW 52; (Gronemeyer) Decker, LA 38; Jan. received awards from the Copper Erica (Thompson) Hines, LA 07, ing cards and paper art. Website: Legal Center in Virginia. He will is in the Peace Corps, serving as a Zelig B. Rothman, LA 48; March Jan. ’15 • Jerry L. Cary, BU 52; ’15 • Louise (Kraus) Leyhe, LA 38; Development Association and the GR 08, and Michael Hines, LA 07, www.whimsyspot.com. start active duty as a judge advo- ...... teacher and community-education ’15 • Ruth (Bringer) Sartorius, FA Jan. ’15 • Mitchell L. Cotton, SI 52; March ’15 • Mary (Geisler) Walsh, New York Council of the Society of who met as students at WashU, Cassandra Merrill, SW 09, cate at Fort Lee, Virginia. promoter in Linden, Guyana. He 48; Feb. ’15 • Vernon F. Stone, AR Feb. ’15 • Arthur Feldman, EN 52; ...... LA 38; Jan. ’15 • Natalie (Forshaw) American Registered Architects. were married in Chicago in August was nationally certified in trauma- Uroš Stanojević, GA 11, joined teaches literacy and reading to 48; Jan. ’15 • James H. Sweiger, Jan. ’15 • Irvin A. Friedman, LA DuBois, LA 39; Feb. ’15 2015. The attendants at their wed- focused cognitive behavior Raumesh Akbari, LA 06, a HOK as a design professional ...... students with special needs in MD 48; Jan. ’15 • Billie (Bucher) 52, LW 53; Feb. ’15 • Lester H. Tennessee state representative, ding included Toni Cross, LA 07, therapy. in the firm’s St. Louis o’ice.o¥ice. the lower grades and helps run 1940s Beeler, GR 49; Feb. ’15 • George S. Krone, EN 52, SI 55; March ’15 • helped enact a policy change and Andrea Holmes, LA 07. Lauren Statman, LA 09, and At HOK, Stanojević works with empowerment camps for boys ...... Lillian (Kreienheder) Crow, UC 40; Goding, BU 49; March ’15 • Robert O. Scott, FA 52; March ’15 that protected 10 struggling but Dan Koboldt, GR 07, is the Greg Perlstein, LA 08, who met the architectural team on the and girls. Jan. ’15 • Ida (Glazer) Kramer, LA Charlyne (Goldman) Shifrin, • James C. Shapleigh, LA 52, GR improving school districts from author of The Rogue Retrieval as student leaders of WashU’s Tyson Poultry Industry Historic Caroline Paillou, LW 14, is an 40; Feb. ’15 • Pauline (Ferguson) BU 49; Feb. ’15 • Francis W. 58; Feb. ’15 • John V. Tilly, EN 52, a state takeover. The youngest (Harper Voyager Impulse, 2016), Dance Marathon, were mar- District Building in Springdale, attorney in the litigation practice Dereign, LA 41; Feb. ’15 • Huelskoetter, BU 49; Feb. ’15 • SI 56; Oct. ’15 • Bernard W. member of the legislature and an his debut science fiction book ried in Piedmont, California, in Arkansas. Previously, he worked as group of Greensfelder, Hemker & H. Thomas Dunck, BU 41; Jan. ’15 Meade M. McCain, BU 49; March Weitzman, BU 52, LW 54; Jan. ’15 attorney, Akbari is a vocal advo- featuring a Las Vegas magician September 2015. Many WashU a project designer at Axi:Ome LLC Gale PC. Paillou previously worked ’15 • Jule P. Miller, LA 49, MD 53; • Annie (Norman) Williamson, cate on educational issues. who infiltrates a medieval world. alums either attended the wedding in St. Louis. at Seigfreid Bingham, a Kansas • Ina (Aronberg) Levy, LA 41; Jan. March ’15 • Harry J. Mumm, EN GR 52; Jan. ’15 • Thomas J. Katherine (Clapham) Crowley, Koboldt is a sta¥ scientist at or played key roles. Liz Kramer, Margaret (Bruns) Thoele, City, Missouri, law firm. ’15 • Edith (Bergman) Braun, NU 49; Jan. ’15 • Charles Y. Pfoutz, Wurth, EN 52; March ’15 • Anita LA 06, SW 09, and her husband, the Elizabeth H. and James S. EN 08, o¥iciated; Leah Winer, SW 11, was honored with an Angela Tornatore, SW 14, is in 42; Feb. ’15 • Norma (Schneider) UC 49; Feb. ’15 • Bernard J. (Surtshin) Devore, SW 53; Feb. Richard, EN 07, EN 07, welcomed McDonnell III Genome Institute at LA 09, sand Ashley (Schneidman) Emerson Excellence in Teaching supervision to become a licensed Gillerman, FA 42; Jan. ’15 • Rankin, BU 49; Feb. ’15 • Eleanor ’15 • Jonathan S. Dixon, GR 53; a daughter, Rose Matilda Crowley, Washington University School of Showell, LA 09, were bridesmaids; Award for her achievements and clinical social worker. She recently Elizabeth (Voss) Neilson, NU 42; (Aud) Shoemaker, LA 49, GR 53; Feb. ’15 • Nell (Robinson) Lynch, in October 2015. Medicine. and Daniel Silver, LA 08, was a dedication to education. Thoele celebrated her two-year anniver- Jan. ’15 • Robert F. Flynn, EN 43; March ’15 • J. Leonard Walther, LA 53; Jan. ’15 • Ronald A. Michael Hewitt, BU 06, and JP Mamuric, GB 07, was groomsman. teaches at Emge Junior High Likesary at Professor St. Patrick Center, Sahrmann, where considerJan. ’15 •support- Annabel (Janes) Matteuzzi, EN 53; Jan. ’15 • Mary Lauren Staub, LA 06, were married recently named vice president of School in Belleville, Illinois. ingshe isWashington a mental health University specialist throughHiggins, LAan 43; estate March ’15 • David LW 49; Feb. ’15 (Pellett) Russell, GR 53; Feb. ’15 • in July 2013 and welcomed a son, Tribune Media Company, where he 10s Sally Wippman, LA 11, is in the gift,working life with income the chronically plan or ill atother Honigberg, planned EN gift. 43; March ’15 • 1950s Julien Bernard, in January 2015. oversees financial reporting and physical theater program at Atelier risk of homelessness. Theodore K. Ono, LA 43; Feb. ’15 • Theodore W. Seaton, EN 53; Jewel (Hornberger) Behrhorst, Mike is associate director of tech- leads a new financial planning and Laura Kelly, LA 10, joined Airbnb Teatro Fisico in Turin, Italy. ToJulia learn Brown, more, LA 15, visit and plannedgiving.wustl.eduher Harold I. Mosinger, EN 44; Jan. March ’15 • M. Gus Waeltz, EN 53; NU 50; March ’15 • Borah nology and analytics at Cortland analysis function. as a so¨ware engineer on the Caitlin Anderson, LA 12, earned orfather call rode 800.835.3503. in the August 2015 ’15 • Elmer L. Sandberg, DE 44; Jan. ’15 • Sam D. Weinstein, BU (Goldenberg) Bender, SW 50; Feb. Capital Market Services; Lauren Justin Wilke, EN 07, SI 07, and Host Growth team. a master’s degree in business logislogis-- Pan-Mass Challenge, a two-day, Feb. ’15 • Paul O. Kunz, EN 45; 53; Jan. ’15 • Marian (Vogler) ’15 • Charles J. Burstone, DE 50; is an account supervisor at the his wife, Holly, welcomed their Alexander Molinari, LA 10, tics engineering from The Ohio 200-mile biking event. Through Jan. ’15 • Agnes (Ruzicka) Ziegler, Willoughby, LA 53; Dec. ’15 • Feb. ’15 • B.H. Clampett, LW 50; creative branding agency, Simple second child, Claire Abigail, in began a five-year residency in State University, in Columbus. their participation, the father- NU 45; Jan. ’15 • Donald A. Busch, Jerome H. Zimmerman, LA 53, August 2015. Justin is a lead orthopedic surgery at Beaumont Jan. ’15 • Sarene (Tucker) Truth. They reside in Chicago. Michael Weiss, BU 12, is the daughter team raised some $8,000 DE 46; Feb. ’15 • William B. Ewald, SW 61; Feb. ’15 • David L. Ziska, Maggie Konich, LA 06, GR 08, construction cost estimator at Hospital in Farmington Hills, founder of Worlds Fair USA, an to support cancer patients and Dewoskin, OT 50; Jan. ’15 • LA 46; March ’15 • Ralph H. Jones, BU 53, GB 56; March ’15 • Gerald rejoined WashU as a director of Jacobs Engineering. Michigan. independent, crowd-funded e’orte¥ort research e’orts. The duo’s chief Margaret (Moehlenbrock) Killmar, MD 46; Feb. ’15 • Suzanne A. Diettert, MD 54; Jan. ’15 • data analysis in Arts & Sciences. Rachna Goel, LA 08, launched Jordan A. Carter, LA 11, joined to bring the World’s Fair back to cheerleader was proud wife and LA 50; Jan. ’15 • Jack P. Kinnaw, (Ramsey) Milks, FA 46; Jan. ’15 • Norma (Kitch) Haugan, NU 54; Previously, she was at Purdue the Jane Doe Advocacy Center in the Global Product Liability group the United States. Website: www. Consultmom Rachel your Ha ,legal LA and 82, tax MD advisors 86, before EN 50; Jan. ’15 • Donald L. Patricia T. Puckett, LA 46; Jan. ’15 Jan. ’15 • Marilyn A. (Schmoeller) University (Indiana). Maplewood, Missouri. The legal of Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP a¨er worldsfairusa.com. makingHS 89. Further, a charitable in July gift. 2015, Julia Kuchenbuch, BU 50; March ’15 • • Richard D. Cohen, LA 47; March Sandefur, LA 54; May ’15 •

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Theodore W. Dettmann, GR 55; Gallo, NU 61; Feb. ’15 • Jay F. Paul D. Lyon, LA 70, GR 80; Jan. In Remembrance Davis studied 19th-century the Olin Business School, where court competition, the Wiley radiology technology. She joined Jan. ’15 • Loretta T. Haefele, NU Gernert, EN 61; Feb. ’15 • Eleanor ’15 • Neal Spaeth, UC 70; Jan. ’15 British political history and he earned his MBA in 1990. A Rutledge Moot Court Competition. the School of Medicine in 1998 contributed important scholar- strong supporter of the school, He and his team were quarter- as a technologist and measured 55; Feb. ’15 • Jaques W. Kaswan, (Casey) Gower, GR 61; Jan. ’15 • • Enid (Bell) Golden, LA 71; Jan. Timothy Blair Burnight GR 55; Jan. ’15 • Wayne A. Klish, Constance C. Hilgert, UC 61; Jan. ’15 • Neal J. Handler, DE 71; ship on Prime Minister Benjamin he was presented in 2011 with its finalists in the 2015 Evan A. Evans bone mineral density. She later Timothy Blair Burnight, a doctoral Disraeli, the English Rothschilds Distinguished Alumnus Award. Constitutional Law Moot Court became imaging supervisor to the SW 55; April ’15 • Vance C. ’15 • Joan (Boecker) Hughes, LA March ’15 • Joseph P. Herring, GR student in the Program in Physical and the Duke of Wellington and Survivors include his wife, Merle Competition at the University of division’s clinical administrator. Lischer, EN 55; Jan. ’15 • Ramon 61; March ’15 • Verna (Green) 71; Aug. ’15 • James T. McCullin, Therapy at the School of Medicine, other topics. Cotlar Fox; four children, Matthew, Wisconsin Law School. She is survived by her hus- J. Morganstern, LA 55, LW 57; Smith, GR 61; Feb. ’15 • Stan D. BU 71, GB 72; Jan. ’15 • Barbara died Sept. 4, 2015. He was 28. Davis was chair of the history Peter, Megan and Eli; his parents, In addition, Iversen won band, Scott; sons, Andrew and March ’15 • Rex B. Ragan, SW 55; Barth, EN 62; Feb. ’15 • John H. S. Framer, LA 72, GR 74; March Burnight was a native of Illinois department from 1974 to 1977, Ambassador Sam Fox and Marilyn the Carmody MacDonald Legal Dustin; daughter, Christina; and March ’15 • Vernon (Lee) Foote, UC 62; Jan. ’15 • Richard F. ’15 • T. Jay Thompson, LW 72; and earned his bachelor’s degree and from 1989 to 2003, he served Widman Fox; two sisters, Cheri Fox Practice Excellence Award in 2014. parents, brothers and sister. Henderson, UC 56, GR 66; Jan. Roettger, PT 62; Jan. ’15 • Donald Jan. ’15 • Stephen Iwasczuk, UC magna cum laude from Purdue as director of the Center for the and Paméla (Aba) Claman; two He is survived by his parents, ’15 • Donald B. Higginbotham, EN W. Humphreys, MD 63; Jan. ’15 • 73; Feb. ’15 • Harold A. Lorenz, University. He also attended the History of Freedom, where he over- brothers, Je› (Lotta) Fox and Steve Je› and Debra Iversen; and a Douglass C. North University of Houston, where 56; Jan. ’15 • Robert F. Peck, HA John E. McNicholas, UC 63; Jan. GB 74; Jan. ’15 • Carol Malone, saw the publication of 15 volumes (Nancy) Fox; and several in-laws, stepsister, Rebecca Matthews. Douglass C. North, PhD, co-recip- he earned a master’s degree in 56; March ’15 • Jim R. Waterfield, ’15 • Raymond A. Ahle, UC 64; UC 75; Jan. ’15 • Wayne A. detailing how freedom developed nieces and nephews. ient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial psychology and was elected to MD 56; March ’15 • Michael Feb. ’15 • Robert C. Beatty, UC 64; Stillings, HS, MD 75; March ’15 • in the West in the modern era. Daniel J. Leopold Prize in Economic Sciences and Phi Beta Kappa. Woyetz, BU 56; March ’15 • Jan. ’15 • Claire (Richter) Charles F. Bates, LA 76; Feb. ’15 • A beloved teacher, Davis was Jason S. Goldfeder Daniel J. Leopold, PhD ’83, the Spencer T. Olin Professor He entered Washington honored as a “favorite faculty Jason S. Goldfeder, MD, an MA ’79, a physics research profes- Emeritus in Arts & Sciences, died Arnold H. Bock, SI 57; March ’15 • O’Meara, GR 64; Feb. ’15 • Jean Deborah (Korpal) Bunten, GR 76; University’s physical therapy pro- member” by students in 1971. assistant professor of medicine sor, passed away Dec. 20, 2015, Nov. 23, 2015. He was 95. Howard J. Indermark, BU 57; (Mitchell) Pennington, GR 64; March ’15 • Randy S. gram in 2013 and was expected Davis is survived by his wife, and beloved teacher in the a¥er a long battle with pancreatic North was an economic Feb. ’15 • Margaret (Ringering) Feb. ’15 • Charles T. Thurston, UC Goldenhersh, GA 76; Jan. ’15 • to graduate with a doctorate in Elisabeth; two sons, Benjamin Division of Medical Education of cancer. He was 61 years old. historian who studied why some Kane, NU 57; Feb. ’15 • Howard 64; March ’15 • Ralph Heathcote, Mary P. Thro, GR 76; March ’15 • physical therapy in May 2016. (Helen) and Matthew (Alison); the Department of Medicine, died Leopold’s interest in con- countries became rich and others H. McGee, BU 57; March ’15 • UC 65; Jan. ’15 • Theodore Richard B. Freschi, BU 77; Feb. Burnight is survived by his and two grandchildren. Dec. 9, 2015, a¥er a long battle densed matter physics was remained poor. His work brought father, Tom Alan Burnight; his Carola (Utsch) McNeilly, LA 57; Krupin, HS, LA 65; March ’15 • ’15 • Howard S. Lite, LA 77, HS 84; with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis sparked during an internship at new insights into European and sister, Jessica Lynn Burnight; his March ’15 • James H. Okimoto, John L. Mills, GR 65; March ’15 • March ’15 • Elizabeth J. Seib, UC Gregory A. Fox (ALS). He was 45. Xerox. A¥er earning his doctorate American economic development. grandparents and several aunts, SW 57; Feb. ’15 • Valerie Ronald E. Sims, TI 65; Feb. ’15 • 78; March ’15 Gregory A. Fox, a business execu- Goldfeder joined the School from Washington University, he North earned his PhD from uncles and cousins. He was (Fiebiger) Shaughnessy, LA 57; Carol A. Weerts, NU 65, UC 75; tive and community leader, died of Medicine’s faculty in 1998. held a postdoctoral appointment the University of California, 1980s preceded in death by his mother, Feb. ’15 • James E. Ayers, GB 58; Feb. ’15 • R. Keith Carney, AR 66, Feb. 16, 2016, a¥er a four-year Early on, he served as director of at Harvard University and then Berkley, in 1952 and worked at Judith Lynn (Mann) Burnight. March ’15 • Richard E. Berg, LA GA 68; Feb. ’15 • Richard K. Leslie (Beechler) Schexnayder, battle with pancreatic cancer. the Wohl Clinic and directed the worked at the Research Laboratory the University of Washington in LA 81; Dec. ’15 • Rita Roth, GR 82; He was 54. internal medicine board review of McDonnell Douglas Corporation. Seattle for 33 years before coming 58; Feb. ’15 • Kennard L. Curtis, Gannon, LA 66; Feb. ’15 • Robert Patrick Burton GR 58; March ’15 • Donald R. F. Marchesi, GB 66; Feb. ’15 • March ’15 • Roger W. Depuy, Fox spent nearly 30 years at course. Later, he became an In 1994, Leopold returned to to Washington University as the Patrick Burton, BS ’91, MBA ’95, Harbour Group, the operating attending physician at Barnes- Washington University’s physics Henry R. Luce Professor of Law Dulin, GR 58; March ’15 • Georgia France A. Meier, SI 66; Feb. ’15 • GR 83; March ’15 • Robert T. director of financial administra- company founded by his father. Jewish Hospital and the associate department as a faculty mem- and Liberty in the Department (Haid) Menninger, OT 58; March Albert L. Shain, GR 66, GR 69; Wosewick, GB 83; March ’15 • tion in Alumni & Development A¥er working in several diŸerentdi›erent program director of the hospital’s ber and worked with Professor of Economics in Arts & Sciences. ’15 • James E. Meyer, GR 58; Feb. ’15 • Barrie H. Simonson, GD Mark B. Szabo, BU 84; Feb. ’15 • Programs, died Sept. 29, 2015. management positions, he rose to internal medicine residency pro- James Buckley. Together, they In 1987, he was elected to the Shannon M. Williams, LA 88; March ’15 • Robert E. Murphy, 66; Feb. ’15 • Donald A. Alch, UC He was 51. the position of group president, gram. In 2005, he was named that studied high-energy physics and American Academy of Arts and Jan. ’15 UC 58, TI 63; Feb. ’15 • Corinne L. 67; Feb. ’15 • Richard S. Beldner, Burton came to the university responsible for several of the program’s Teacher of the Year. astrophysics. Leopold’s work helped Sciences, and in 1992, he became Richardson, LA 58, LW 60; Jan. LW 67; March ’15 • Dennis C. Hall, 1990s in 2010 to be director of financial company’s lines of business. Goldfeder is survived by his lead to the creation of very sensi- the first economic historian ’15 • Margaret (Eaton) Wells, GR 67; Jan. ’15 • Lois (Judevine) administration in the A&D OŸiceO›ice Fox was also an active civic wife, Nguyet Minh Nguyen; his tive light detectors that could help to win the prestigious John R. Thomas J. Salmon, DE 90; Jan. of Administration. A promotion SW 58; Feb. ’15 • Edwin Dunlop, Blackwell, UC 68; March ’15 • leader. He served as board presi- mother and stepfather; and his in the detection of dark matter, in Commons Award. ’15 • Je‘ery D. Reinberg, UC 91; in 2011 made him responsible for UC 59; Jan. ’15 • Bernard G. Elvis A. Cole, UC 68, UC 78, GR 86, dent of the Community School father and stepmother. biological imaging and other areas. In 1993, along with economist Jan. ’15 • William A. Yansen, financial administration, human Kohm, BU 59; March ’15 • David Feb. ’15 • Alexander Feld, EN 68, and on the boards of Barnes- Leopold is survived by his wife, Robert Fogel at the University of TI 91; Jan. ’15 • Jamie A. Ryan, resources, facilities and desktop Jewish Hospital, BJC Healthcare, Robert J. Iversen Mary M. Leopold, whom he met Chicago, North won the Nobel Sperling, MD 59; March ’15 • SI 72; March ’15 • Leon W. technology. Previously, he’d been FA 94; Jan. ’15 • David J. March, the Center of Contemporary Arts Robert J. Iversen, a third-year while a graduate student; and Memorial Prize “for having Marilyn (Rudman) Werner, SW 59; Landgraf, UC 68; March ’15 • manager of information technol- EMBA 96; March ’15 • Jeremy B. (COCA), Logos School, MICDS, law student in the School of Law, his sons, James E. Leopold and renewed research in economic Jan. ’15 • Patricia (Eo‘) Wolf, LA Donald D. Lisenby, GR 68; Feb. ogy administration at Kellwood Rodgers, LA 96; Feb. ’15 • Shaare Emeth Temple, Junior died Oct. 10, 2015. He was 39. Jonathan V. Leopold. history by applying economic 59, GR 60, GR 64; Sept. ’15 ’15 • Delmar V. Mahnken, UC 68; Co. and manager of finance at Natasha T. Strauss, LA 98; Jan. ’15 Achievement, Westwood Country Iversen is remembered as a stel- theory and quantitative methods Jan. ’15 • Nels C. Moss, LW 68; Fleishmann’s Yeast. 1960s Club and Kids Under Twenty-One. lar student. He was the sta› editor Cheryl M. Mueller in order to explain economic and He is survived by his wife, Feb. ’15 • William F. Nolan, GR 68; 2000s Born and raised in St. Louis, of the Washington University Law Cheryl M. Mueller, clinical institutional change.” Kay M. Blatter, DE 60; Feb. ’15 • Robyn; daughter, Jackie; mother; Jan. ’15 • Robert A. Ullrich, GB Morgan G. Deters, SI 03, SI 07; Fox graduated from Ladue High Review and was named its senior administrator in the Division of He authored or co-authored Joseph S. Hupert, LA 60; Feb. ’15 brothers; and several in-laws. 68; Jan. ’15 • Francis J. Brown, GR Jan. ’15 • Alvin C. James, MD 07; School and earned his B.A. at the executive editor in 2015. He was Bone and Mineral Diseases at the 10 books and was a dedicated • Philip H. Plack, GB 60; March 69; Feb. ’15 • William O. Monroig, University of Colorado. He then a Scholar in Law Award recipient School of Medicine, died Dec. 17, teacher; the day he won the Nobel Feb. ’15 • Nathan P. Orlofsky, Richard W. Davis ’15 • Joseph H. Rulo, SW 60; Jan. UC 69; Jan. ’15 • Conrad L. spent two years working for the and vice president of the Student 2015, a¥er a 12-year battle with Prize, he still taught class, despite LA 08; Feb. ’15 Richard W. Davis, PhD, profes- ’15 • James T. Shea, UC 60; Jan. Stayton, MD 69; Feb. ’15 NCR Corporation in California Law Association of Metropolitan cancer. She was 52. media clamoring for interviews. ’15 • Richard J. Weidert, LW 60; 2010s sor emeritus of history in Arts before joining Harbour Group in St. Louis from 2014 to 2015. In 1983, Mueller graduated North is survived by his wife, 1970s & Sciences, died Dec. 25, 2015. 1986. A¥er two years at Harbour, Iversen also won the law from St. Louis Community College Elisabeth; three sons; and four Jan. ’15 • Lenore J. Anderson, SW Matthew G. Speizman, LA 16; He was 80. he resumed his education at school’s oldest and largest moot at Forest Park with a degree in grandchildren. 61; Jan. ’15 • Gertrude (Kennedy) Philip Briggin, TI 70; March ’15 • Jan. ’15

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My name:......

Why physical therapy? ...... Herb Weitman, Washington University Archives Herb Weitman, Washington University Archives daughters, Lori and Debra; his Lisa Simone ...... Lisa Christine Simone, a doctoral son, Michael; and several grand- children. candidate in the Program in ...... Physical Therapy at the School of Medicine, died Sept. 29, 2015. Herbert Weitman ...... She was 25. Herbert (Herb) Weitman, AB ’52, MA ’71, former director of photo- Simone earned her bachelor’s WU Legacy: ...... degree in biological sciences graphic services at Washington University, died Jan. 12, 2016. from the Missouri University of ...... Science and Technology in Rolla, He was 89. where she graduated summa cum Weitman began taking pictures ...... laude. She was also a ballerina as an undergraduate, and his and played the role of Clara in photos were published in Student ...... The Nutcracker at age 15. Life and the Hatchet yearbook. She later su•ered a dance In 1952, he graduated and was ...... injury and was treated by immediately hired by the univer- sity’s public a•airs o•ice. Lynnette Khoo-Summers, DPT, an Favorite Honor: ...... associate professor of physical His work helped shape therapy at the university. This university photography (see ...... inspired Simone to enter the right). Ron Wolk, founding editor physical therapy program herself. of Education Week and Teacher My estate gift will support the School of Medicine because: ...... She is survived by her parents, Magazine, said, “Herb Weitman Tom and Tina Simone; her brother, has done more to raise the stan- ...... Nick Simone; and her grandparents. dards of photography in college and university publishing than ...... Stuart Weiss any other single photographer.” In 1960, the American Alumni Stuart Weiss, AB ’50, MD ’54, ...... professor of clinical neurology Council (AAC) named him at the School of Medicine, died “Photographer of the Decade” ...... Oct. 27, 2015. He was 85. for all of U.S. higher education. He again received the honor in A native St. Louisan, Weiss Shirley Ann Sahrmann, earned both his bachelor’s and the 1980s from CASE (Council PT, PhD, professor medical degree at Washington for Advancement and Support of emeritus of physical University and completed his Education), the successor to AAC.

Weitman also founded the Joe Angeles therapy, neurology neurology residence at Barnes Remembering the Hospital. Aœer a fellowship at Sam Fox School of Design & and of cell biology New York Presbyterian-Columbia Visual Arts photography program. ‘dean’ of photography and physiology The university hosted two University Medical Center, Weiss The late Herb Weitman, AB ’52, returned to St. Louis to practice retrospectives of his work, one when he retired in 1994 and MA ’71, served as director of medicine first at St. Louis City photographic services at the Hospital and then at St. Louis another in 2008 to celebrate the Like Professor Sahrmann, consider support- university for more than four Children’s Hospital. He also main- Sam Fox School naming its photo ing Washington University through an estate exhibit gallery for him. decades. He also served as a tained a private practice. gift, life income plan or other planned gift. Eventually, Weiss came back to Weitman was also the o•icial longtime associate editor of the medical school and Barnes- photographer for the football Washington magazine, contrib- To learn more, visit plannedgiving.wustl.edu Jewish Hospital, where he worked Cardinals during the team’s uting award-winning images, for 51 years as an attending 28-year tenure in St. Louis, and including a CASE Grand Gold or call 800.835.3503. physician and a professor in the he photographed Super Bowl Medal winner. Considered the Games V to XXVIII for the NFL. School of Medicine. In 1994, he “dean” of America’s university photographers, Weitman Weitman is survived by his won the Alumni Faculty Award. played a vital role in presenting images of Washington wife, Diane; son, Gary (Chris); In 2002, he won the Medical Sta• University to the nation and the world. Association Appreciation Award stepdaughter, Gail Armstrong; and the Dr. Neville Grant Award stepson, Bill Greenblatt (Karin); “Herb did much to shape the views of many of us about the five grandchildren; and four step- for Clinical Excellence. university and its people,” says Chancellor Emeritus William H. grandchildren. Weiss is survived by his wife, Danforth. “He loved the institution and the people in it.” Consult your legal and tax advisors before For more, see sidebar at right. Marlita Wennerman Weiss; his making a charitable gift.

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FAR LEFT: Thurtene Carnival, 1963 LEFT: Chancellor Thomas H. Eliot greeting freshmen, 1964 BELOW: Women’s dormitory, 1964

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Follies and Thurtene were favorite activities for It may be difficult to believe now, but for the Class FUN FACTS many students, including Marilyn Dann Steinback, of 1966, smoking cigarettes was permitted virtually FROM ’66 The time of our lives AB ’66, who minored in drama. “Being able to everywhere on campus — on the Quad, in dorm write entertaining and competitive skits was a rooms, even in classrooms. “You could light up a Members of the Class of 1966 reflect on their memories of enrolled as the University of Mississippi’s first sought-after skill on campus at that time. I remem- cigarette in the middle of class, and it was not a big The Class of ’66 African-American student in October 1962. ber working on a Bearskin skit with Harold Ramis deal,” Bill Finnie says. “Glenda and I met as sopho- was first freshman campus as they prepare to celebrate their 50th Reunion. Even with all of the national and international (AB ’66) and Michael Shamberg (AB ’66) and just mores, and she was impressed by the smoke rings class under the developments and tensions, Bill Finnie, BS ’66, sitting in awe of their talent and creativity. I knew I blew in English class,” he recalls with a laugh. 12th chancellor, BY LAURA JOSEHART The Class of 1966 arrived on campus during a recalls that time period as idyllic. “Our college years right away they were geniuses,” Steinback notes. The absence of personal computers might be Thomas H. Eliot. time of great growth and change for Washington didn’t reflect what people generally think of when Students often gathered to socialize off campus equally difficult to imagine, but students who attended University. As incoming freshmen in 1962, they they think of ‘the ’60s.’ Jack Kennedy had just been too. Santoro’s was a convenient and popular Washington University in the early ’60s did not have By 1964, about were the first class under the leadership of the elected president, and it was an idealistic time — hangout, as well as the Puppet Pub. In the early the convenience of Microsoft Office. They hand-typed 67 percent of student 12th chancellor, Thomas Hopkinson Eliot. The before the student demonstrations came along.” their midterm papers. “Skilled typists made a lot of ’60s, the campus cafeteria in Wohl Center was body came from university was increasingly attractive to out-of- In contrast, Bill’s wife, Glenda Lewis Finnie, AB ’66, closed on Sunday evenings, so students would money at the end of the semester by typing papers outside St. Louis. state students, and by 1964, about 67 percent of remembers the mood on campus immediately walk to the Parkmoor Restaurant or The Flaming for their classmates,” says Martha Wohler Bickel, entering freshmen came from outside the St. Louis following President Kennedy’s assassination. “It Pit for dinner. The Hilltop Campus — as it was AB ’66. “And if you had to make a change or addition, area. Several new dormitories south of Forsyth were was amazingly somber. It was as if a blanket of known then — did not have all of the student- you had to pay to have the entire paper retyped!” Santoro’s, the Puppet completed in 1962 to accommodate the growing sadness had fallen over the entire campus. We all centered social and dining spaces that students on In 1963, Time magazine described Washington Pub, Parkmoor need for housing. The new John M. Olin Library were in disbelief,” she says. the Danforth Campus enjoy today. University as one of four “Take-Off Universities.” Restaurant and was also completed that year and quickly became Luckily, the Class of 1966 had plenty of oppor- Women living in the dormitories followed strict Members of the Class of 1966 have taken great The Flaming Pit were a popular location for students to meet and study. tunities for distraction from politics and current curfews in the early 1960s. “There was a reception pleasure in watching the university receive popular oŒ-campus In the winter of 1963, the last streetcar to campus events — Thurtene Carnival, Bearskin Follies, center,” remembers Glenda Finnie, “and that was increased recognition from the media and rise in hangouts and Sunday stopped running, bringing the university’s reputa- Greek Sing, campus concerts, dances, films, the the only way to access your dorm room. You had national rankings over the years. “When I attended dining venues. tion as a “streetcar college” to a symbolic end. Washington University Choir and Madrigal Singers, to check in by a certain time, and if you accrued Washington University, it was in the midst of a The United States was also experiencing a and intramural sports were all popular with a wide transition from being a ‘streetcar college’ to the too many ‘late minutes,’ you were penalized. So we Pre-computers, lots great deal of change in the fall of 1962. President cross-section of students. tried very hard not to hit that number!” Steinback ‘Harvard of the Midwest,’ a respectable backup of money could be John F. Kennedy was finishing his second year Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg, AB ’66, recalls performperform-- remembers it clearly: “When curfew approached, for students who weren’t accepted at Ivy League made typing term as president, and the Cuban Missile Crisis was ing with the university choir under the guidance of everyone with their dates would be kissing and schools,” says Scott Homan, BS ’66. “Now, the uni- papers for fellow gripping the nation. The United States was in the Choir Director Orland Johnson as some of her most carrying on in the lobby. It was an uncomfort- versity is often the top choice for talented students midst of the Space Race, and President Kennedy treasured Washington University memories. “The able scene at best!” By 1966, the curfews in one across the country and the world! I feel privileged classmates. had recently announced plans to send an American choir tours were wild and wonderful, and singing South 40 dormitory had been relaxed, and female to have received such a premier education, and I am to the Moon. The civil rights movement was in in Town Hall in New York was the tops!” she says. students were allowed to determine their own dor- thrilled to attend our 50th Reunion, May 19–21.” For more, visit full swing, and civil rights activist James Meredith Performing in plays and writing skits for Bearskin mitory rules, curfews and men’s visiting hours. Laura Josehart is associate director of Development Communications. reunions.wustl.edu/.

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Great research universities and academic medical centers C  are shaping the future of our world today. … and few   institutions deliver more significant, critical contributions $2.5  Mark Katzman to the future of humankind than Washington University.

To enhance our leadership today to benefit America and the world tomorrow.

With unprecedented support from our alumni, parents and friends, Leading A LASTING IMPACT ON ST. LOUIS AND THE WORLD and adults at 49 clinical sites across the St. Louis Great research universities and academic medical metropolitan area. Together: The Campaign for Washington University will reach its minimum goal centers are shaping the future of our world today. > Research initiatives across the university are of $2.2 billion about two years ahead of the target date of June 30, 2018. The Individuals and organizations all over America laying the scientific groundwork to help meet the campaign total reached $2.12 billion as of December 31, 2015. and around the world are investing in a St. Louis global need for clean, abundant and economical institution because Washington University energy. The Board of Trustees voted to increase the campaign goal to $2.5 billion in delivers the best possible return on philanthropic > Washington University was one of the founders of investment — and few institutions deliver more fall 2015. The new goal was announced to the public on Friday, Jan. 22, 2016. the Cortex Innovation Community in midtown significant, critical contributions to the future St. Louis, which so far has attracted more than From the beginning of the campaign, we have identified $4 billion as the of humankind than Washington University. $550 million in investment and generated more For example: total needed to fully realize the university’s strategic plans for the future. than 3,600 permanent jobs in the Cortex District. Meeting the new goal will enable the university to have even greater impact on > Washington University School of Medicine is In the last 48 months, Cortex development our community, our nation and our global society. leading innovative research to understand the resulted in an additional $500 million in private genetic origins of diseases ranging from cancer investment and development in 20 surrounding Over the next 26 months, we have an opportunity to advance Washington and diabetes to autism and Alzheimer’s, with neighborhood projects. the aim of developing more effective diagnoses University as a leading global resource for education, research, patient care > Washington University collaborates with 29 and treatments. and public service. By building on the achievements already made possible leading institutions worldwide to educate future > The Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish leaders and address global challenges such as by Leading Together, we will increase our contributions to preparing the Hospital and Washington University School of energy and sustainability, public health, educa- leaders of tomorrow, advancing human health, inspiring innovation and Medicine has earned the highest possible rating tion and international understanding. These entrepreneurship, and enhancing the quality of life for all. — “exceptional” — from the National Cancer efforts are carried out through the McDonnell Institute. The center serves nearly 9,000 newly International Scholars Academy, which is We are profoundly grateful to the more than 120,000 alumni, parents and diagnosed cancer patients each year. celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. > As the top-ranked school of social work in the friends who have participated in Leading Together so far, including hundreds Chancellor Wrighton says, “Our alumni and nation, the Brown School is an international of volunteers in St. Louis and in cities across the United States and worldwide. friends have worked together to make Washington leader in policy and procedures addressing Their generosity and enthusiasm are an inspiration to the entire university University a world-renowned center of learning challenges from poverty to productive aging. community, and we encourage all of our alumni, parents, faculty, staff and and discovery. Their generosity will have a last- > The Institute for Public Health harnesses the ing impact — on human health, on a sustainable friends to join us. multidisciplinary strengths of Washington environment, on economic prosperity, on quality University to address complex health issues of life and on the young people who will lead our facing St. Louis and communities worldwide. society in the future. Together, we will build on our Mark S. Wrighton Andrew C. Taylor, Trustee; Chair, Leading Together; > Each year, Washington University physicians accomplishments to contribute even more to our Chancellor Executive Chairman, Enterprise Holdings provide clinical care to nearly 500,000 children community, our nation and our world.”

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“The university is a force for change, and it’s at the forefront of creating B &  “We need to educate people to understand the world’s economy, problems and tomorrow’s leaders. Who wouldn’t want to invest in that?” workforces. We’d better be sure that our country always has the edge. That’s where  Washington University comes in. I love the university because it does so much good.” move. “Many people didn’t understand why I Humanity Initiative in the Whitney R. Harris Seeking change is a way of life for entrepreneurial wanted to make a change after I made partner,” World Law Institute. Nickerson has enjoyed he says. “But I couldn’t imagine staying. I was participating in the multiyear project to draft a like, what’s next?” new global treaty on crimes against humanity. philanthropist Cash Nickerson. His answer involved founding a series of “The initiative is an example of the many companies that provided specialized business ways Washington University is working to BY MARY LEE services. He sold his first entrepreneurial venture, change the world,” says Nickerson, who human resources outsourcing startup Workforce received a global philanthropy award from Strategies, for $8.5 million in 1995. “That will the university for his support of the project. As a youngster, Cash Nickerson, JD ’85, addict you to entrepreneurship,” he says. He took “I am confident we can achieve a breakthrough MBA ’93, spent hours watching Perry Mason the online business portal company Mucho.com in my lifetime.” prove his clients’ innocence in the courtroom. public through a reverse merger in 2000. The Nickersons also have made substantial The fictional TV defense attorney was a role Nickerson joined PDS Tech in 2003. During his gifts for law school scholarships, most recently Joe Angeles model for Nickerson, who decided he wanted Joe Angeles 12 years with the company, one of the nation’s committing more than $500,000 to support to be a lawyer, despite his father’s disapproval. largest temporary staffing firms, he has satisfied students. “The scholarships I received made it Nickerson’s father was an engineer and his urge to start new things by nurturing outside possible for me to go to law school,” Nickerson computer scientist with an entrepreneurial interests. He has written five books of essays, says. “I knew there were generous people streak. Jobs in the business and academic worlds to become a prosecutor. “That first year is such a three of them focused on employment and the behind my education, and I feel fortunate that took him and his family across the country, special time. It’s stressful, exciting, challenging, workplace. After the first book, he created his own I can do the same thing for today’s students.” which left a lasting impression on his son. mind-boggling and disruptive. It’s like a yearlong publishing company to maximize profits. Washington University Law Dean Nancy “I learned that change is OK and that stability boot camp for your brain.” In 2008, he established the David H. Nickerson Staudt says Nickerson is one of her school’s is not something you cling to,” says Nickerson, His plans began to shift in his second year. Foundation in memory of his father, who died most enthusiastic advocates. “Cash is passion- president and chief financial officer of PDS Tech “I found the rules of evidence to be confining, of prostate cancer in 1996. The foundation hosts ate about everything he does, and that includes Inc., an award-winning specialty recruiting and I didn’t completely agree with them,” an annual golf tournament and other events to supporting the university. His involvement company based in Irving, Texas. Nickerson says. He spent the following summer raise awareness about the disease and funds for extends beyond his financial contributions. The influence of both Perry Mason and his as a legal intern with Bryan Cave in St. Louis, research. To date, the organization has contributed He truly embraces our students, our faculty, father are reflected in Nickerson’s career, which which pointed him in a new direction. “I learned about $200,000 to the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer and our educational and scholarly missions.” has taken some unconventional turns. His what law could do for business, which intrigued Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington Following in their father’s footsteps, résumé includes time as a corporate attorney, me,” he says. “Working with clients, I thought, University School of Medicine. Nickerson’s three children have earned degrees associate and partner with one of the largest law ‘I’m more like them.’ So I jumped into the Nickerson supports his alma mater in many from Washington University: Kate, BS ’07; firms in Chicago, and founder and chairman of business school at Washington University.” other ways. He is a member of the Board of Stephanie, AB ’09, JD ’13; and Andrew, AB ’13. two business outsourcing companies. Before he finished his MBA, Nickerson earned Trustees and the School of Law National Council. Kate’s husband, Daniel O’Connell, BS ’07, A big factor in his success, Nickerson says, his law degree and accepted a position with the And he serves as chair of the Dallas-Fort Worth also is an alumnus. “I’m going to have my is the education he received at Washington Union Pacific Railroad as an attorney focused on Regional Cabinet and the North and Central wife take classes so she doesn’t feel left out,” University. “The university really put me in a mergers and acquisitions. The company quickly Texas Region for Leading Together: The Campaign Nickerson says. different world. My two degrees gave me the moved him into business positions, including for Washington University. His efforts have boosted Beyond his family, Nickerson has a power- versatility to take advantage of many opportuni- running Union Pacific ExpressAir in St. Louis, excitement and attendance at regional events. ful motive for continuing his philanthropy and ties and see issues from more than one angle.” where he continued taking courses at the Olin “Cash is a leader who inspires those around him service at Washington University. “The univer- Nickerson came to Washington University Business School. to think creatively and act boldly,” says Chancellor sity is a force for change, and it’s at the forefront School of Law from Carleton College, where he In 1990, Nickerson joined Jenner & Block Mark S. Wrighton. “The university is fortunate to of creating tomorrow’s leaders,” he says. “Who earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and in Chicago as an associate. He made partner in benefit from his dedication and guidance.” wouldn’t want to invest in that?” English. His early law course work — particularly 1993 — the same year he earned his MBA — At the School of Law, Nickerson and his wife, Mary Lee is a senior writer in Development Communications. For a a class in criminal law — reinforced his desire and soon began thinking about another career Evie, provided a grant to launch the Crimes Against related video featuring Cash Nickerson, visit together.wustl.edu/circle.

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As part of her practicum in social work, Keyria Jeries (center) works with elementary students at Fairview Primary in the Jennings School District. Jeries is part of the Brown School’s Urban Education Initiative, which prepares students to take leadership roles in city schools, creates partnerships with public and charter schools across the St. Louis region, and helps schools implement and measure programs to improve the social, emotional and community health of their students. The university’s outreach eorts to the school district also include health-care programs through the medical school and science curriculum assistance through the Institute for School Partnership. Visit source.wustl. edu/2016/02/lost-cause-national-model for more. James Byard

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James Byard GETTING THEIR KICKS The Casting women’s long shadowssoccer team over won Mudd their Field, semifinal the sun game sets inover the Harry NCAA and Division Susan III Seigle Championships, defeating Messiah in a dramaticHall on a penalty lovely spring shoot-out, evening. Dec. Anheuser-Busch4, 2015, in Kansas Hall City, and Missouri. the Knight Although Executive the team lost the championship game theEducation next day to and Williams Conference College, Center 1-0, canthe Bearsbe seen finished at right. second in the country and ended their season with an impressive 20-3-1 record. (Photo: James Byard)

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