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20 28 34 Mission: Relief Hail to the ‘Hawks International Impact By giving war veterans a way A new ock of fanciful Leslie Schweitzer’s curiosity to continue serving, Team Jayhawks by three alumni about global cultures fueled a Rubicon founder William artists adds colorful air to successful business career. McNulty is writing a new KU’s sesquicentennial Now she’s using her interna- playbook for disaster relief celebration. tional worldview to champion and veteran reintegration. education in Afghanistan. By Heather Biele By Steven Hill By Jennifer Lawler

Cover photograph by Anthony Bari Jr., Team Rubicon

Established in 1902 as e Graduate Magazine Volume 114, No. 2, 2016 ISSUE 2, 2016 | 1 Lift the Chorus Your days drew to a close in May I learned statistics from him in opinion counts 1967, he was known for two the business school. He was a Please email us a note usually incompatible achieve- great teacher. at [email protected] ments, a low golf handicap and Bob Jensen, b’70 to tell us what you think of unblemished attendance. On Overland Park your alumni magazine. the last day of his last class, a squad of colleagues blocked Y is the entrance to Green Hall and very good, and I enjoyed the and students did. I was already handcued him to Uncle article on the history of radio a proud Jayhawk: I am a Jimmy’s le ankle out on stations at KU. stratospherically proud Jayhawk Boulevard. His vacant I worked at KANU around Jayhawk aer reading this seat was immediately noticed 1961, and participated in the article! Rock Chalk! when class convened, and the installation of equipment that Luke Bobo, e’82 Struck by question was asked and made it the rst public radio Shawnee Strickland answered. ereupon, Dean station in the United States to Jim Logan adjourned us all to go stereo. I remember standing Band on the run W the new the front steps, and delivered in front of the transmitter and issue of Kansas Alumni, and I his nal lecture in Wills and reveling at how “great” it Editor’s Note: Thanks to all did something I almost never Trusts while standing on the sounded. e transmitter, an who heeded our call for do with any magazine: I saw statue’s base next to “Mr. Kirk.” old Western Electric with information about the band’s iconic pregame dash down the the table of contents photo of And that’s the way it was. mechanical frequency control, stadium steps chronicled in “Suit the hay bales and ipped John E. Smith II, c’65, l’68 was noisy, so the eect was Lake City, Colorado Up the Band,” issue No. 6, 2015. straight to the story [“At First hard to appreciate. Space restrictions prevent us from Light,” issue No. 1] instead of I listen to KANU via the printing every response, but here working my way up to it—and Radio, radio Internet and enjoy hours of is one of the many letters we then I looked at Michael classical music as well as NPR received. Strickland’s and Steve Puppe’s I programs. Stereo sounds a lot photographs instead of reading to Kansas Alumni, and I better now than it did then, but I in fall rst. Beautiful. When I did enjoyed the article on KU radio that was a historic moment 1955 or 1956 for Professor read the story, it was Chris broadcasting [KU 150, issue that I won’t forget. Russell Wiley. Yes, we were Lazzarino’s usual outstanding No. 1]. John Franklin, c’61 running the steps then. Grass work. anks very much for a It was nice to know Wilt Santa Barbara, eld, white suede shoes. I don’t great issue. Chamberlain was a DJ at California recall marching down the hill Charles Marsh, c’77, g’80, g’83, KUOK. I was an engineer there at that time. e front line of PhD’85 in 1965, and your story Proud Jayhawk the band outweighed the Lawrence brought back great memories. football team’s oensive line. KUOK used to be in the I to I have fond memories of No legend basement of Hoch Auditorium, learn that an innocent man, watching Wilt high-jumping and it was a lot of fun. Mr. Floyd Bledsoe, was sent during track season, and the W the ne I also was sad to see McCol- to prison for more than 15 very long lines to buy a print concerning the Decem- lum Hall come down [On the years but exonerated and freed program from him at football ber photo in the 2016 Alumni Boulevard]. I was a resident because of my beloved Univer- games. And I got to listen to Association calendar, I noted when it opened. When they sity’s law school [“Proven Louis Armstrong in the the comment that “law took it down I watched online, Innocent,” Hilltopics, issue student union while waiting for students reportedly chained a and I must say it brought a tear No. 1]. the basketball team to return third-year classmate with to my eye. It was part of KU In my humble opinion, those from a disappointing loss in perfect attendance” to Jimmy history similar to when I saw privileged to attend the the national nal. Green’s statue. Fact, not legend. them take down Old Fraser. University are called and Dear KU, thanks for the Here’s an eyewitness account I was also sorry to read obligated to use this privilege memories! of the event: about the death of Professor for the common good as this Don Sparlin, e’59 As Frank Kirk’s law school Lawrence Sherr [In Memory]. diligent team of KU professors Rolla, Missouri

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2 Lift the Chorus Publisher Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09 Letters from our readers Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Creative Director Susan Younger, f’91 5 First Word Associate Editors Chris Lazzarino, j’86 e editor’s turn Steven Hill Photographers Steve Puppe, j’98 6 On the Boulevard Dan Storey KU & Alumni Association events Graphic Designer Valerie Spicher, j’94 Sta Writer Heather Biele 8 Jayhawk Walk Hoverboards, roller skates and batmobiles, oh my! Advertising Sales Representative David Johnston, j’94, g’06 10 Hilltopics Editorial and Advertising Oce News and notes: Prairie Acre restoration planned; KU Alumni Association University releases diversity action plan. 1266 Oread Avenue Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 785-864-4760 16 Sports 800-584-2957 Basketball claims 12th-straight conference title; www.kualumni.org All-Big 12 inelder Brickey leads soball attack. [email protected]

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ISSUE 2, 2016 | 3 4 | KANSAS ALUMNI ISSUE 2, 2016 | 5 by Jennifer Jackson Sanner First Word

opened 150 years ago following the turmoil and bloodshed of the Civil War has become an international research university. roughout its proud history, KU has prevailed over societal and nancial challenges. e report repeats the chancellor’s declaration in her October 2015 message to faculty and sta: “We are COURTESY KU MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS KU COURTESY united in our pursuit of knowledge and our obligation to share it with the society we serve.” is year, KU begins a monumental $350 million redevelopment of the Central District on the Lawrence campus, an area bound by 15th and 19th streets and Naismith Drive and Iowa Street that will link the historic Jayhawk Boulevard corridor with the thriving western region of campus beyond Iowa Street. e new Central District Central District will include a long- overdue integrated science building to he rst day of March brought a gust of gloom from Topeka. replace outdated and obsolete Malott and Haworth halls, as TAer Kansas tax revenues fell $53.6 million short of esti- well as a 500-bed residential and dining complex, a new student mates in February, Gov. Sam Brownback, l’82, ordered an union, a parking facility, and a central utility plant—all to immediate budget cut of 3 percent—$17.2 million—across the six accommodate enrollment growth. Kansas Board of Regents universities for the current scal year, No state funds will be used to build these new structures. which ends June 30. KU’s share of the reduction totals $7.18 Instead, KU will transform science instruction and invigorate a million across all campuses: $3.95 million on the Lawrence and wide swath of campus through an innovative public-private Edwards campuses and $3.23 million from KU Medical Center partnership agreement. Since 2014, KU leaders have developed programs in Kansas City, Salina and Wichita. the plan with the approval of the Regents and in consultation with In a March 2 email to faculty and sta, Chancellor Bernadette key legislative committees. As Gray-Little said in her Feb. 9 Gray-Little explained that in recent months, as the state’s tax testimony before the House Appropriations and Senate Ways and revenues have repeatedly lagged behind projections, University Means committees, the project saves millions by bundling the leaders had braced for bad news. “Many of our unit heads and construction of several large structures into one cohesive plan, budget managers have been making prudent decisions over the and it relies on self-generating revenue streams from housing, past year in view of a possible reduction,” she said. “But even so, a dining and parking fees instead of state funds or tuition increases. $7.18 million cut presents signi cant challenges and will require “We’ve been asked to operate more like a business, and to nd dicult decisions moving forward.” ways to better serve the state without additional taxpayer funds,” If tax revenue continues to slide through the remaining four she said. “at is exactly what we’ve done with this project, in a months in the current scal year, the prospect of additional cuts way that makes the University of Kansas a model for other casts a long shadow. e Kansas Legislature could be forced to universities, and in a way that makes the state of Kansas a model revise the scal year 2016 and 2017 budgets it passed in mid- business-friendly state.” February. As always, we will provide legislative news via email to As Jayhawks explore the website of the 2016 Chancellor’s members of Jayhawks for Higher Education, our statewide Report or ip through its pages in print, we see the many ways in advocacy network of more than 1,700 alumni and friends. which students, faculty, sta and alumni demonstrate KU’s Only a few days aer the grim news of budget cuts, the Univer- commitment to scholarship and service. e report concludes sity released the 2016 Chancellor’s Report (report2016.ku.edu). In with Gray-Little’s refrain from the 2015 Convocation: “ere’s no print and online, the report is a powerful reminder of KU’s noble limit to what we can do and where we go from here.” purpose and unshakable perseverance. A small college that Our possibilities tower toward the blue.

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Exhibitions 24 KU Jazz I with vocalist Deborah Brown “Letters from a Leader: Phog Allen to Bob Dole, 26 University Band and Jazz SUSAN YOUNGER (3) YOUNGER SUSAN 1938-1939,” Dole Institute, Ensembles II & III through April 15 27 Emerson String Quartet “Celebrating Opportunity 28 Patty LuPone: “Coulda, for People with Disabilities: Woulda, Shoulda ... played 70 Years of Dole Leadership,” that part” Dole Institute, through 29 Popovich Comedy Pet spring eatre 29 Catherine Rodlund, Bales Organ Recital Hall Lied Center events MAY MARCH 3 Symphonic Band 22 Christian Tamburr, solo 4 Red Green’s I’m Not Old, vibraphone and piano I’m Ripe! Tour 22 Symphony Orchestra 5 “Beauty and the Beast” 25 Out of Bounds, public performance 29 Tunes at Night with University Theatre Nicholas St. James 31 Joy of Singing APRIL 1 “Fools in Love,” Macelli’s APRIL 8-10, 15-17 “Little Women- 1 Olga Kern, piano e Broadway Musical,” 2 KU Powwow and Indig- directed by Amy Anders enous Dance and Culture Corcoran, Craon-Preyer Festival eatre 6 Branford Marsalis Quartet 29-30, May 1, 3-4 “Wel- 7 Michael Ignatie, “ e come to Arroyo’s,” directed Better Angels of Our Nature: by Nicole Hodges Persley, Is Moral Progress Possible?” William Inge Memorial eatre 8 PROJECT Trio 9 AEG Live Presents: “Winged Victory of Samothrace” (above), also called “Nike of John Mellencamp Plain Samothrace,” is one of several modern plaster replicas of Greek and Spoken Tour Lectures Roman sculptures found at the Wilcox Classical Museum in Lippincott 10 Jennifer Nettles Next MARCH Hall. The museum, which is operated by the department of classics, was Women of Country Tour founded by Professor Alexander Martin Wilcox and dedicated in 1888. 22 Humanities Lecture 13 e Justice Matters 2016 Series: “Human Tracking Visitors can tour the exhibits in the Mary Amelia Grant Gallery weekdays Nehemiah Assembly from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the fall and spring semesters. in the Heartland,” Hannah 18 Wind Ensemble Britton, e Commons 21 Mike Daisey: “Faster Better Social”

6 | KANSAS ALUMNI 28 “Election Preview: e Academic Calendar 17-20 NCAA men’s basket- 13 Denver: Networking Future of the GOP,” Alex ball tournament, rst and breakfast Castellanos, Dole Institute MARCH second rounds 15-16 Alumni Reunion 31 At Large Lecture Series: 14-20 Spring break 24 Denver: Networking Weekend, Adams Alumni “Land(un)locked,” Steve breakfast Center Rowell, e Commons MAY 24-27 NCAA men’s basket- 17 KU Day with the ball tournament, Sweet 16 O a k l a n d A’s APRIL 5 Last day of classes and Elite Eight 20 Dallas: Jayhawks and 7 6 Stop day “ e National Security 30 Neodesha: Kansas Java Advisor,” Don Gregg, 9-13 Finals week Honors Program Dole Institute 22 Houston: Networking 15 Commencement breakfast 13 At Large Lecture Series: APRIL “ e Challenge of Building a 23 21st annual Rock Chalk 1 Houston: Crawsh Boil National Museum,” Lonnie Ball, Overland Park Conven- G. Bunch III, e Commons Alumni Events 2-4 NCAA men’s basketball tion Center tournament, Final Four, 14 Humanities Lecture MARCH Houston MAY Series: “Mike Brown’s Body: A Meditation on War, Race, 9-12 Kansas City: Big 12 5 SAA Etiquette dinner 1 KU Day with the Seattle and Democracy,” Robin D.G. men’s basketball tournament 5 Twin Cities Happy Hour Mariners Kelley, Lied Center Pavilion 3 16 Houston: Networking 6 Goodland: Kansas Honors Twin Cities: Networking 21 “Embers of War: breakfast Program breakfast e Fall of an Empire and 11 17 KU Alumni online 6 Medicine Lodge: Kansas KU Night with the the Making of America’s networking Yankees Vietnam,” Fredrik Logevall, Honors Program 12 e Commons 7 Logan: Kansas Honors Art History on the Rocks: Program omas Hart Benton and Bourbon, Tom’s Town Distilling Co., Kansas City 13 Fairway: Biospecimen Blood Drive 13 Hays: Smoky Hill Golf Tournament 18 Houston: Networking breakfast 19 Denver: Networking breakfast 20 Garden City: Great Plains Golf Tournament

Events listed here are highlights from the Association’s busy calendar. For complete listings of all events, watch for emails about programs in your area, visit kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957.

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Hover on ome 30 American universi- Anguiano of KU’s Public Safety Oce Sties have banned the told the paper, “we don’t treat it like a self-balancing scooters skateboard.” known as hoverboards, Skateboards—and roller skates, roller citing safety concerns blades, coasters and similar convey- caused by crashes and the ances—are banned by City of Lawrence hot new toy’s propensity for ordinance from Jayhawk Boulevard

LARRY PEARSON bursting into ﬂame while its sidewalks and parking garages. Seems batteries are charging. An entire those daredevil devices are safety country (Great Britain) banished hazards to pedestrians. the wheeled wonders from roads. The new hoverboards, on the other But Mount Oread remains a hand, are hardly the swift, gravity-defying hoverboard haven, according to a thrill rides that transported Marty McFly January report in the Lawrence in “Back to the Future II.” They don’t even Journal-World. hover; they roll, like Segways sans “If we see one on Jayhawk Boulevard, handles. we treat it like a Segway,” Capt. James Yawn. We’ll hold out for jetpacks.

In his own words digital le of the interview and obtained STEVE PUPPE STEVE “D. N , happen permission from the to invent basketball?” rights-holder to share “Well, Mr. Heatter, in the winter of 1891, the clip for educational I was a physical instructor at Springeld purposes (exhibits.lib. College in Massachusetts ...” ku.edu/exhibits/show/ So begins a newly released radio naismith150/collections/ interview from 1939 that is remarkable in radio-interview). two ways: Not only is it the only known “I thought it was recording of James Naismith’s voice, but it signcant, but I really also features Naismith himself describing didn’t know how people the birth of his enduring creation. would react,” says Zogry, Zogry As part of his research for a book about whose nd was reported the inuence of religious beliefs on by such heavyweights as Loosen up Naismith’s life, Michael J. Zogry, associate e New York Times, NPR and the BBC. professor of religious studies and director “I was obviously pleased that so many T J R, ’81, of KU’s Indigenous Studies Program, people were interested, and it became a is famous for—a Super touchdown run, a uncovered a reference to Naismith’s global news story.” Supreme quip and a love of beer—all come appearance on the Jan. 31, 1939, episode of Naismith closed the interview by together in the most recent manifestation

“We the People,” a scripted, peppy inter- observing, “ e whole thing started with a of e Diesel’s joie de vivre: a new brew CHRIS LAZZARINO view show hosted by George Heatter. couple of peach baskets I put up in a little called John Riggins 4th & 1 Pilsner. Zogry determined that a copy of the gym 48 years ago. I guess it just goes to Launched in December by Escutcheon show might be held at the Library of show what you can do if you have to.” Brewing of Winchester, Virginia, the Congress; working closely with research Speaking for generations of basketball Czech-style Pilsner (a nod to Riggins’ assistant Katie Hobson, a master’s student fans across the globe, Heatter replied, Czech ancestry) craed by brewmaster in religious studies, Zogry received a “Indeed it does.” John Hovermale features a label with the

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI because the company hired for the event didn’t bring nearly enough skates. Skaters zipped around a rubber “rink” in a giddy haze of swirling lights and disco tunes. Shortly a er the overwhelming success of “Flashback Friday,” SUA announced that roller skating parties would return at

Anguiano of KU’s Public Safety O ce BREWING (2) ESCUTCHEON COURTESY John Riggins and Escutcheon least once a semester. e news thrilled told the paper, “we don’t treat it like a brewmaster John Hovermale sophomore Tonia Vega, who proposed the skateboard.” sample the Diesel-inspired idea last fall. Skateboards—and roller skates, roller 4th and 1 Pilsner. “Roller skating was denitely the thing blades, coasters and similar convey- to do on Friday and Saturday nights,” says ances—are banned by City of Lawrence Vega, a Kansas Citian who frequently ordinance from Jayhawk Boulevard joined friends at Skate City Shawnee. sidewalks and parking garages. Seems iconic image of Riggins shedding a tackler doors opened at 8 p.m., the line for “When I saw that another college had those daredevil devices are safety on his way to a 42-yard touchdown that Student Union Activities’ rst ’70s-themed brought a skating rink to its campus, I hazards to pedestrians. put Washington ahead of Miami for good skating party stretched down the h- thought it would be perfect for KU. The new hoverboards, on the other (and earned the former KU running back oor hallway, doubled back to the stairs, Lawrence doesn’t have skating rinks, so hand, are hardly the swift, gravity-defying MVP honors) in Super Bowl XVII. descended to the fourth oor, and snaked everyone got excited about it. Skating thrill rides that transported Marty McFly Also on the label is a snippet of Riggo’s past the KU Info kiosk. always brings back such good memories.” in “Back to the Future II.” They don’t even most famous quote, directed toward Two hours later, 253 skaters had tripped With skating such a hit, can roller derby hover; they roll, like Segways sans Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day the light fantastic—in 20-minute rotations, be far behind? handles. O’Connor at a tony Washington banquet Yawn. We’ll hold out for jetpacks. in 1985: “Loosen up, Sandy, baby. You’re too tight.” pollutants and very little wake or noise Riggins, who last year shot a pilot A batmobile for the Bay that might disrupt marine or avian episode for a TV show dedicated to beer, wildlife. Although it carries only nine collaborated with Hovermale on the t’s no Gotham City, but San Francisco passengers, it can easily make multiple cra -beer creation. According to the Ineeds rescue—from the terrors of eight-minute trips in the time it takes the Washington Post, the brewmaster gave tra c. Thankfully, residents of this ferry to make one. him a homework assignment: Taste all the congested coastal city may soon see Students plan to present their concept pilsners he could nd and report back. reprieve from its maddening mess. to several companies, “with hopes of No problem, replied Riggins: “I’ve been KU aerospace engineering students turning our ideas into reality,” says team doing homework for 40 or 50 years.” designed the BATWinG, a Bay Area Trans- leader Eric Bodlak, a Wayne, Nebraska, port Wing-in-Ground-eect vehicle, and graduate student. in December captured the $2,500 ﬁrst Making the City by the Bay a better Friday night lights prize at the annual Power Electronics place for its citizens? Surely the Caped Systems and Applications conference in Crusader would approve. I since roller Hong Kong. skating was an option in Lawrence—We “They designed a type of system that miss Fantasyland!—so when the opportu- was speciﬁcally intended for transport, nity arose Feb. 5, students rolled out with alleviating a lot of bottlenecks in areas almost staggering enthusiasm. that could accommodate fast marine Before the Kansas Union Ballroom vessels,” says Ron Barrett-Gonzalez, COURTESY ERIC BODLAK (2) COURTESY e’88, PhD’93, team adviser and professor of aerospace engineering. The BATWinG runs on a rechargeable

CHRIS LAZZARINO battery and can take o and land in water, shuttling passengers to and from existing transport terminals across the bay. It travels up to 10 feet above the water and reaches speeds of 120 mph, easily besting the ferry, which putters along at 3 mph. The vehicle produces no air or water

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The protected area south of Blake Hall known as Prairie Acre is the focus of restoration eorts by environmental studies students like those in Robert Hagen’s ﬁeld ecology course (below).

COURTESY CENTER FOR SUSTAINABILITY (2) SUSTAINABILITY CENTER FOR COURTESY “We have a lot going for us already,” says Kindscher, c’79, PhD’92. “e grasses are mostly there, and there are some wild owers, just not in the abundance that we want. But we’re doing a true restoration in that we’re restoring something from a native state to a better native state.” e environmental studies capstone class that Kindscher teaches researched the Prairie Acre and wrote a report last year detailing its history and ideas for its future. Students and volunteers collected, Laurel Sears, f’99, a graduate student in sorted and cleaned seeds from the KU Prairie preserve urban planning and geography. “We want Field Station and other sites around students to continue to use it as an Douglas County. Prairie advocates also Students lead community eort outdoor, living lab.” provided some hard-to-nd seeds. to restore the Prairie Acre Plans drawn up by students in the In January volunteers planted more than environmental studies department’s 5,000 seeds for 100 plant species in a ne last remnant of the tallgrass capstone class call for a small kiosk that greenhouse on West Campus, and those Oprairie that once covered campus— could provide shelter and classroom space; seedlings will be set out during a public and about 85 percent of Douglas County— a demonstration garden with signs planting event April 24 at 1 p.m. Project still clings to the southern slope of Mount explaining prairie ecology, site history and organizers hope enough volunteers turn Oread, a one-third-acre patch of tawny plant identication; and an eventual out to help them triple or quadruple the grasses and sparse wild owers surrounded expansion that will add prairie plants to an numbers of species and bolster the by a wall of heaped stones thought to have adjacent two-thirds-acre area now presence of other varieties that are only been uncovered by the excavation of growing only trees and grass. sparsely represented at the site. Potter Lake. But rst, the collaboration of the “We need to increase the numbers,” e Prairie Acre, le untouched for the environmental studies program, Sears says, “so there’s a population University’s rst seven decades and the Kansas Biological Survey that can re-seed themselves and formally set aside as a protected site in (KBS) and the KU Center continue their natural cycle.” 1932, still survives, but many of the plant for Sustainability will A gi from School of species that grew there have vanished. focus on restoring plant Business faculty members Now a community eort led by students diversity in the core site, Douglas May, c’81, and aims to reintroduce dozens of native says Kelly Kindscher, Catherine Schwoerer will species to the existing site and eventually professor of environ- help fund the rst phase of more than double the plot’s size while mental studies and the restoration. Historic expanding its purpose from prairie senior scientist at KBS. Mount Oread Friends preservation to living laboratory. He estimates that 200 plants donated $2,500 to kick o a “We really want to design the site as a may have grown there at one crowdfunding campaign in whole so that multiple classes, multiple time, but only about 33 species— January that sought to raise $10,000 departments can make use of it, enjoy it tough plants like prairie grasses, sun ow- for the project. and learn from it,” says project coordinator ers and bee balm—survive today. Expansion into the area directly to the

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI north could start next year, spearheaded religion, marriage equality, sexual orienta- by a class on prairie restoration taught by Promise of progress tion and gender identity, and more,” Rosen Kindscher and Peggy Schultz, associate wrote in the letter to KU sta, faculty and specialist in the environmental studies KU hears campus concerns, students. “Activities at KU must be program. A eld ecology class taught by releases diversity action plan grounded in respect for others if we are to Robert Hagen, research associate at the achieve our goals.” Kansas Biological Survey, will continue U is moving forward with its e diversity action plan is broken into work begun last summer to monitor 40 Kcommitment to create a more four categories: communication and one-meter squares throughout the site to inclusive environment on campus, as accountability, education and training, quantify the number of species present. evidenced by the diversity action plan recruitment and retention, and campus- And Kindscher and Sears say they can Interim Provost and Executive Vice wide strategic framework. Some of the envision a Prairie Acre that within two to Chancellor Sara Rosen released Jan. 28. completed items from each category three years has broad-based educational e document, which details what the include: appeal that would draw KU classes in the University has already accomplished, what • A diversity, equity and inclusion arts and sciences as well as Lawrence is planned for this semester and through- advisory group, led by Clarence Lang, elementary schools and scout troops. out the 2016-’17 academic year, and who chair of the department of African and “Part of why this is taking shape now is is responsible for because people have been working to get each task, was this to become part of the curriculum,” created to “ensure says Sears, who, in addition to serving members of the KU PUPPE STEVE part-time as project coordinator is also a community are teaching assistant for Kindscher’s capstone understood, class that is helping plan the site. accepted and “We really want it to be a place that still successful in their exists in 10 to 15 years as a meaningful individual pursuits.” place for people to learn from,” Sears says, “Last year we saw “because it’s a great spot.” the nation grapple For more information or to sign up with issues sur- for the April 24 planting event, visit rounding race, calls sustain.ku.edu/prairieacre. to ban immigrants —Steven Hill based solely on Rosen

UPDATE

STEVE PUPPE STEVE No. 6, 2014] the University Education (CARE) coordi- trative assistant. The center has hired two women to nator, a position created provides coordination, as- ﬁll important roles on in 2014 to help students sessment and education for campus. who have been sexually sexual assault prevention Jennifer Brockman (left) assaulted. Universitywide. will direct the new Sexual Brockman comes to KU Evans, s’04, s’08, Assault Prevention and from the University of Iowa, worked with survivors of Education Center (SAPEC), where she led a sta of 22 sexual trauma at Bert Nash which KU created in and more than 50 volun- Community Mental Health s part of the ongoing October to centralize sexual teers as executive director Center. As CARE coordina- Aresponse to assault prevention and edu- of the Rape Victim Advo- tor she works at Watkins recommendations made cation eorts. cacy Program. SAPEC’s Health Services to coor- by the Chancellor’s Task Merrill Evans (right) will ﬁrst employee, she will be dinate support for victims Force on Sexual Assault serve as the Campus joined by two prevention of sexual and domestic [“Time for Change,” issue Assistance, Resource and educators and an adminis- violence.

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hall forum on race, respect, responsibility and free speech, the KU Student Senate Fulbrightful: KU ranks among the top Executive Committee demanded the resignations of President Jessie Pringle, universities nationwide for producing Vice President Zach George and Chief of Fulbright Scholars, according to the Sta Adam Moon, citing inaction and failure to address multicultural issues on Chronicle of Higher Education. Six campus. e three leaders refused to faculty members received Fulbright resign, and a nine-member impeachment committee, composed of four standing awards to teach and conduct research committee chairs and ve randomly abroad in 2015-’16, which places the University among a drawn senators, was formed. At the Student Senate meeting on Jan. 27, a group of schools ranked fourth. It’s KU’s highest ranking majority of the senators voted to stop the since 2011, when it placed second behind only Harvard. impeachment proceedings and allow the three to continue their roles. George, who graduated in December and was enrolled as a nondegree-seeking student this semester, resigned on March 2 to accept a African-American studies, and Sheahon resources, ongoing student protests over full-time job with the National Association Zenger, PhD’96, athletics director, was inclusion and equity, and faculty morale, of Counties in Washington, D.C. formed to investigate and pursue issues that keep the school from moving —Heather Biele raised at the Nov. 11 town hall forum. forward. • All deans and vice provosts partici- In a letter submitted to the School of pated in a daylong social justice and Social Welfare community, Smokowski Healthy step diversity training session in January, wrote, “ese concerns existed before I facilitated by the O ce of Multicultural arrived at KU. I have done my best, but Fitness ‘wearables’ help hospital Aairs (OMA). Department chairs also have certainly fallen short at times.” track cardiac rehab took part in a workshop on faculty During his brief tenure at KU, mentoring. Smokowski created the Toni Johnson atients battling serious heart problems • Nate omas, vice provost for diversity O ce of Race and Social Justice, named Pcan get world-class treatment at the and equity, and Sarah Crawford-Parker, aer the recently deceased professor of University of Kansas Hospital’s Center for g’97, PhD’06, assistant vice provost and social welfare, and organized several task Advanced Heart Care, including an director of rst-year experience, estab- forces to address minority student extensive course of rehab therapy provided lished a workgroup to increase retention support, mental health resources and by the center’s cardiac rehabilitation unit. rates for rst-generation, low-income and social justice research. But sooner or later, patients must return students of color. In addition, OMA In recent months a student group home, where old habits—like an unhealthy extended the Hawk Link program through known as the School of Social Welfare diet and too little exercise—can foil the the spring semester to increase academic Student Activist Committee has led a best intentions to make the most of their support for these students. series of protests, citing the school’s failure prescribed rehab regimen. • e KU Climate Study process began to take a stance on racial issues and stand “e main problem is, what do we do last fall and will continue this semester in solidarity with minority students. On then?” says Eric Larson, program manager with focus groups and survey Feb. 22, the group called for the dean’s of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation at the development. resignation. hospital. “We try to introduce gyms, try to For a complete list of items in the Smokowski will o cially step down introduce home walking programs, but the diversity action plan, visit provost.ku.edu/ from his role as dean on July 1 and remain problem is we fall back to 20 to 25 percent diversity-and-inclusion-action-steps. on the faculty as professor. Stephen Kapp, compliance with exercise.” Despite the University’s eorts to foster social welfare professor and associate dean In a bid to more accurately track the inclusion and equity on campus, signs of of academic programs, will serve as exercise level of recovering heart patients, turmoil are still present. On March 2, the acting dean. Larson and his team started a pilot dean of the School of Social Welfare, Paul Student Senate leaders whose future in program that uses an o-the-shelf Smokowski, resigned aer less than a year student government was uncertain last wearable tness device—the Garmin on the job, citing several “daunting” semester will continue their work on Vivot activity tracker—to gather daily challenges, including dwindling nancial campus. In November, following the town feedback on a patient’s exercise levels. e

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n Yong Zhao, a recognized authority on a broad range of education issues, will join the department of educational leadership and policy studies in August as KU’s 11th Foundation Distinguished Professor. A prolific, widely published To ensure that heart patients continue to exercise after their in-hospital rehab sessions are scholar, Zhao is currently presidential completed, Eric Larson of the University of Kansas Hospital’s cardiac rehabilitation unit uses chair and professor in the department Garmin Vivofits to track patients’ activity levels. of educational measurement, policy and leadership at the University of Oregon. device worn on the wrist tracks the Not only are Larson and his colleagues He will also hold a courtesy appoint- number of steps a person takes each day, collecting valuable data they can use to ment with the School of Business and and from that information can estimate improve patients’ therapy regimens, but is expected to expand his research in the amount of calories burned. Users patients themselves also are motivated to creativity and entrepreneurship in edu- synch the device with a special so ware exercise more. cation and collaborate extensively with program that provides a weekly report on “It’s a major motivator, and that’s the faculty members in the school’s Center activity and sleep cycles to Larson and his number one thing,” Larson says. Many of for Entrepreneurship. sta. his patients are recovering from stent Cardiac rehab programs traditionally placements, heart attacks, open-heart n A $1.8 million estate gift from an have relied on patients to self-report their surgery or congestive heart failure. “ese alumnus who worked on the Manhattan exercise levels quarterly, with mixed individuals have been through a life- Project will establish a new professor- results. changing event, and they know they need ship in physics. The gift from Ernest “We would see a 7-pound weight gain to make changes. Now they have some- and Virginia Klema will create the J.D. with someone who supposedly was thing on their wrist they can see on a daily Stranathan Professorship of Experimen- exercising 420 minutes a week,” Larson basis to help achieve that goal.” tal Physics in the College of Liberal Arts says. “at doesn’t add up. So we needed e exercise physiologist (who says he & Sciences. Klema, c’41, g’42, who died something concrete, and now we have it.” and his sta have even embraced the new in 2008, joined the top secret World Twenty-two of the 23 patients enrolled wearable technology, engaging in some War II project to create an atomic bomb in the rst year of the pilot program saw friendly competition to see how many shortly after graduating from KU. positive results as measured by psycho- steps they take each day) has seen a Virginia died in 2015. logical and physical testing, namely a troubling trend in his 21 years in the eld: signicant decrease in anxiety and e age of patients with serious heart n KU debate qualified for the depression and an increase in the ability to disease has dropped. National Debate Tournament for the perform a range of tasks—from doing “Now we’re seeing individuals in their 49th consecutive year this spring. dishes to walking to playing sports. 40s and 50s with massive heart attacks or Two duos (freshman Sion Bell and “One gigantic bit of good news is that open-heart surgery. But they’re taking sophomore Quaram Robinson, and we’ve had a zero readmission rate,” Larson steps to change their lifestyle,” Larson says, juniors Chris Birzer and Mac Cook) says. “at’s gigantic in our eld, especially “and utilizing this o-the-shelf technology will compete in the national champion- when we’re dealing with congestive heart is phenomenal. I think that’s what we need ship tourney, which KU has won failure patients, where it’s such a chronic to see more of.” five times. disease.” —Steven Hill

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tion between the Life Span Institute (LSI) and the department of health policy and

STEVE PUPPE STEVE management at KU Medical Center, and Kurth, senior research assistant at the LSI, Jean Hall and Noelle lead a KU team that is partnering with Kurth will oversee a researchers from Washington State University, George Mason University, ﬁve-year research Independent Live Research Utilization and project that the Urban Institute as part of a ve-year, examines health $2.5 million research grant conducted by insurance outcomes the Collaborative on Health Reform and for people with Independent Living. disabilities under the Aordable CAMPUS LIFE Care Act. Group to forge campus policy on concealed carry of handguns RESEARCH because they have a disability that prevents them from working full time, are not C B Gray-Little Aordable Care Act eligible for employer-based health in February appointed a ve-member focus of researchers’ study insurance. Weapons Policy Task Force to begin the To examine that issue, KU researchers “important and complicated” task of A S, 17.6 million people Jean Hall, g’91, PhD’03, and Noelle Kurth, complying with a state law passed by the have signed up for health insurance under c’00, will use national surveys and Kansas Legislature in 2013 that will allow the A ordable Care Act, according to the interviews to study the experiences of concealed handguns on university U.S. Department of Health and Human working age adults with disabilities in campuses and campus buildings beginning Services, and the percentage of uninsured getting and keeping health insurance, and July 1, 2017. Americans has dropped from 18 percent to identify the impact health insurance has To comply with the law, the Kansas to 11.4 percent, a 50-year low. on community living and integration. Board of Regents in January approved a Less well known is how the ACA a ects Hall, director of the Institute for Health weapons policy that applies to all Regents the 18 million adults age 18 to 64 who, and Disability Policy Studies, a collabora- institutions but allows each to determine

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Satirist speaks WHERE: Kansas Union devolution” that he voting for the Ballroom says has steadily most famous New York Times best-selling lowered the bar for person in the race author, New Yorker writer and BACKGROUND: “The what constitutes a BOROWITZ ANDY COURTESY is not new. That creator of the satirical news Borowitz Report” draws millions qualified presidential was also true of column “The Borowitz Report” of readers and won the first candidate to training our first president, joined KCUR “Up to Date” host National Press Club award for TV viewers to accept George and Kansas City Star political humor. @BorowitzReport was mindless Washington. He Borowitz columnist Steve Kraske for “An voted best Twitter feed of 2011 entertainment. “We was the most Evening With Andy Borowitz,” in a Time magazine poll. have trained the audience to famous guy in America and he the 2016 Kenneth A. Spencer Borowitz has also written two expect less,” Borowitz says, got elected president. But I Memorial Lecture. best-selling books and has “and now it’s not just what would say the accomplishment worked as a television producer they’re watching on TV, it’s of leading a successful SPONSOR: The Commons and a standup comedian. what they’re voting for.” revolution is slightly dierent from firing Dennis Rodman—in WHEN: March 3 ANECDOTE: Borowitz QUOTES: “Actually, the scale, scope and ambition.” compares the “relentless development of Americans —Steven Hill

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI dierent needs of our campuses.” Milestones, money A website, weaponspolicy.ku.edu, shares information about weapons laws and and other matters VALERIE SPICHER VALERIE policies aecting Kansas and KU. Campus community members can share their thoughts with committee members at n Gwen Ifill, co-anchor [email protected]. and managing editor of “PBS Newshour” and ADMINISTRATION moderator and managing editor of “Washing- Committee kicks o ton Week,” will receive national search for new provost the William Allen White Ifill Citation for service to journalism at A chaired by KU April 14. The citation, awarded by speci c ways to implement the policy on Steve Warren, professor of speech, the trustees of the William Allen White their campuses. Universities must submit language and hearing, is working with Foundation, annually recognizes an their plan to the Regents by October. search executive Bill Funk, of R. William American journalist who exemplifies e Weapons Policy Advisory Commit- Funk and Associates, to recruit the White’s ideals of service to journalism tee is chaired by Jim Pottor, l’84, KU University’s next provost and executive and to the community. general counsel, and includes the police vice chancellor. chiefs of the Lawrence campus and KU KU’s former provost, Jerey Vitter, le n A $7.2 million gift from Roger, b’72, Medical Center, and University gover- in December to become chancellor at the and Julie Davis will create the Center nance representatives Mike Williams, from University of Mississippi. Sara Rosen, for Figure Sense at the School of Busi- Lawrence, and Patricia Kluding, from the senior vice provost for academic aairs, is ness. “We think of ‘figure sense’ as the medical center. e committee will the interim provost. eectiveness with which people select oversee formulation of KU’s plan for Joining Warren, c’74, g’75, PhD’77, on and evaluate evidence before making a implementing the Regents’ policy and will the search committee are Michael decision or taking action,” says provide guidance to two campus imple- Branicky, dean of the School of Engineer- Davis, who is owner and CEO of mentation committees—one for Lawrence, ing; Tammara Durham, EdD’09, vice Paxton/Patterson in Chicago. “Strong Edwards Campus and the Kansas Law provost of student aairs; John Ferraro, figure sense requires a solid under- Enforcement Training Center in Yoder, chair of the speech-language-hearing standing of accounting, economics, and one for the medical center’s three department at KU Medical Center; Joshua finance and statistical analysis—and campuses. Hackathorn, steam tter with facilities the ability to persuasively communi- “As I’ve told the committee members, services; Aleah Henderson, doctoral cate recommendations and supporting the goal of this process is to create a student in ecology and evolutionary evidence.” Universitywide plan that emphasizes the biology; Kissan Joseph, professor of safety of our campuses, creates a setting business; Paul Kelton, associate dean for n Mark Petrino became the new conducive to learning, teaching and the humanities in the College of Liberal director of KU Dining Services in Febru- research, and is consistent with state law,” Arts & Sciences; Mechele Leon, chair of ary. Formerly senior associate director Chancellor Gray-Little wrote in a Feb. 29 the theatre department; Julie Loats, f’96, of residential dining at Colorado State message to Lawrence faculty, sta and director of the Center for Online and University, Petrino replaces Nona aliates. “is will require a good deal of Distance Learning; Susan Lunte, distin- Golledge, who resigned after 27 years work by the committees, given the guished professor of chemistry; and Jessie at KU. complexity of our University and the Pringle, student body president. n Undergraduate Research Awards went to 49 students this spring. Coor- dinated by the Center for Undergradu- ate Research, the awards come with a $1,000 stipend to support undergradu- “I subscribe to the Mark Twain view. He said ates as they work on mentored research brilliantly that comedy is just reality very, very and creative projects. Since it was started in 1986, the program has funded baldly and nakedly stated.” —Andy Borowitz {} more than 1,450 student projects.

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announced on Day 1. But, with his Long road Jayhawks just a month away from the destination they have yet to experience, Top-ranked ‘Hawks hope Ellis treads with caution. journey runs to Final Four “I feel like we’re performing really well,” Ellis says, “but you can’t look ahead. You or all of its sparkling success, perhaps have to live in the moment.” Fthe most surprising aspect of the eir path toward another defense of current men’s basketball team is that the their Big 12 titles proved more harrowing only player to experience a Final Four is than the Jayhawks—27-4 overall, 15-3 in senior forward Jamari Traylor—and he the Big 12 and ranked No. 1 in the country didn’t exactly y to New Orleans on the heading into the Big 12 tournament— team charter in 2012. might have imagined a er their triple- “We had to, like, hitchhike our own ride, overtime victory over Oklahoma Jan. 4 in me and Ben,” Traylor says, referencing Allen Field House. With conference road fellow 2012 freshman Ben McLemore, tests awaiting in four of their next six who, like Traylor, was forced to sit out the season—allowed to Leading scorer Perry Ellis (above) and practice, but not travel with the vocal leader Jamari Traylor (left) team—as a “partial qualier” proved the value in diering styles of under the NCAA’s labyrinthian senior leadership. academic guidelines. “It was tough, but we found rides with friends.” A er wrapping up their games, KU lost at West Virginia, 12th-consecutive Big 12 champi- Oklahoma State and Iowa State, onship, the Jayhawks were while “holding serve at home,” as expected (as Kansas Alumni went coach Bill Self is fond of saying, to press) to land a No. 1 seed in against TCU and Texas. the NCAA Tournament, and While many saw the Jan. 30 seniors Traylor, Perry Ellis, overtime victory over Kentucky— Hunter Mickelson and Evan a much-hyped made-for-TV game Manning could begin contem- that had the old hoops barn plating the trip that has eluded rocking up to the ra ers—as the them: the NCAA Final Four, season’s turning point, Traylor April 2-4 in Houston. says it was the 86-67 loss Jan. 19 “I have a goal to go to the Final at Oklahoma State that proved Four,” Ellis said Oct. 1, perched pivotal. on a tall stool on Naismith Court “In the locker room a er that during men’s basketball media game I was just chewing guys out,” day. “We have a lot of pieces back says Traylor, c’16, who graduated and we’ve been through tough in December and will join his times. We know what to do.” three senior teammates for the When the calendar rolled May 15 Commencement proces- forward to March 1, Ellis, a sion. “If we want to be a serious rst-team All-Big 12 forward team we can’t have games like that. from Wichita who is once again Since then, I feel like we’ve been the Jayhawks’ leading scorer, did taking everything more seriously. not back down from the goal he We’ve had a couple of slip-ups

16 | KANSAS ALUMNI since then, but we’ve been making strides to be better.” “In the locker room after that game I was just Including the Kentucky game, the chewing guys out. If we want to be a serious team Jayhawks closed the regular season with 11 consecutive wins. ey clinched a share of we can’t have games like that.” the league title with a nine-point victory —senior Jamari Traylor, on the wake-up-call game at Oklahoma State against Texas Tech Feb. 27 and won the {} title outright with a convincing, 86-56 win Feb. 29 at Texas. “I’m surprised it happened before this,” Self said two days before the regular-sea- Super at shortstop smiling at the memory. “She’s a part of my son conclusion March 5 against Iowa State. family. I talk with her more than my “I thought this would be a game that family, and I have for eight years.” would have conference championship Dynamic Brickey ﬂashes rare Brickey, a 5-foot-1 dynamo, graduated implications for us, for them, for other mix of batting, ﬁelding pizzazz high school a year early, arrived at KU as a teams that would still be ghting for it. 17-year-old and was promptly named Big Fortunately for us, we took care of oball coach Megan Smith remembers 12 Co-Freshman of the Year. Last season, business this past week.” Swell the rst time she encountered she led KU in batting average (.386), hits Heading into the Iowa State game, KU shortstop Chaley Brickey: “I saw video on (68), runs scored (52) and slugging was holding conference opponents to a her when she was an eighth-grader.” percentage (.688), and was second in combined eld goal percentage of .387 and Brickey, named rst-team All-Big 12 as home runs (13), RBI (56), walks (38) and out-rebounding Big 12 rivals by more than a junior last season, committed to KU the on-base percentage (.488). three boards a game. Aer defensive following year, as a high-school freshman A starter in all but two games since struggles of the past couple of seasons, the in Haltom City, Texas, just north of Fort 2013, Brickey early this season became increased intensity is seen as a key for a Worth. Smith was in her rst season at KU KU’s all-time leader in walks, topping the possible deep tournament run. then, aer three years as an assistant at 30-year-old record of 108, and she is “I wouldn’t put this team at the top of LSU, and, in many ways, coach and player among the top ve in career batting some of the other defensive teams we’ve grew into their roles here together. average, RBI and slugging percentage. had,” Self says, “but for us to have a great “We joke about this all the time, but she “I was in a good rhythm last year,” nish, we’re going to have to play to that committed as a freshman, so she was Brickey says. “I know that in certain elite level.” young, and she would call me every other situations I was just very calm. at’s a key He was denied the opportunity to travel week and we would just talk,” Smith says, for me, especially in pressure situations.” with his teammates in 2012, but Traylor was on hand for the semi nal and championships games in the Louisiana Superdome. KU used a smothering PUPPE STEVE defense to march all the way to the season’s nal game, a loss to Kentucky, and Traylor says he now senses echoes of that trademark talent. “ey were a great defensive team,” Traylor says of the 2012 Jayhawks. “is last month or so, we’ve been pretty much getting aer it defensively, and that’s one of the reasons we’ve been so eective. Everybody is focused. We’re locked in.” Two days aer KU won the outright Big 12 title, Traylor got a call from his road-trip pal McLemore, now a third-year pro with the NBA’s Sacramento Kings. “He was talking about wanting to get one of my rings,” Traylor says, grinning, KU softball made the NCAA Tournament two seasons in a row but failed to advance beyond “because I’ve got ve now.” opening-weekend regionals. The key phrase on Chaley Brickey’s mind this season? “Get to a Might a sixth await? super regional.”

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Smith cites Brickey’s ability to draw making wise life decisions, but Brickey has for KU. A er his 2004 graduation from walks and hit for power while registering never second-guessed her instincts. Louisiana Lafayette, where he was a few strikeouts as “a special thing. She’s a “I came here on a visit,” she says, “and it two-year starter on the oensive line, Hill force for us at the plate because we know just felt like home.” spent three years as a NASA engineer. she can hit one out, we know she can drop Beaty also announced that he would a bunt, we know she can take a walk, and assume play calling and quarterback she’s not going to strike out very much.” coaching responsibilities from oensive Also named to the All-Big 12 Defensive Fresh football faces coordinator Rob Likens. Team, Brickey paced KU to a .977 elding “at doesn’t have anything to do with percentage, the second-best mark in the Beaty hires deep roster Rob; it has to do with me,” Beaty said conference and 11th nationally. KU’s 2014 of new assistant coaches March 6, shortly a er the rst spring mark of .979 topped the Big 12 and was practice. “We will be a little bit dierent second nationally. Brickey cites her econd-year coach David Beaty than what we were last year oensively.” backhands and on-the-run elding as her Sweathered a busy o-season, hiring Referencing the high-octane oense Beaty defensive strengths. new assistants to coach the defensive line, helped coach while an assistant at Texas “I’ve known Chaley for a while now,” linebackers, special teams, wide receivers A&M, he said, “We will run more of the says power-hitting sophomore Daniella and running backs. Perhaps most signi- true Air Raid.” Chavez, last season’s Big 12 Co-Freshman cant was the departure to Arkansas by Quarterback Ryan Willis, who started of the Year and a fellow Texas native, “and running backs coach Reggie Mitchell, who eight games as a freshman last season, will I’ve always known her as a big hitter, but had also served as recruiting coordinator. be limited in spring drills while he her defensive skills are amazing as well.” Beaty, himself a former high school recovers from a wrist injury sustained in a A few days before the start of her senior coach, replaced Mitchell with Tony Hull, pickup basketball game. season, Brickey reected on her early who had spent nine seasons as head coach e 15th and nal spring practice is commitment to Kansas. High school at Warren Easton High School in New the spring game, April 9 in Memorial freshmen perhaps aren’t always known for Orleans, an important recruiting region Stadium.

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Senior Daina Levy came career-high 23 points to lead Americans Ainese Havili and within an inch of the meet women’s basketball to an 81-64 Kelsie Payne, sophomore record in winning the Big 12 upset of TCU in the ﬁrst round Madison Rigdon and junior

Indoor weight throw Feb. 26 at JEFF JACOBSEN of the Big 12 Tournament Cassie Wait participated in Iowa State. Also scoring gold March 4 in Oklahoma City. tryouts for the U.S. National was sophomore Sharon Lokedi, Also scoring in double-figures women’s volleyball team Feb. who won the 5,000 meters. As were sophomore guard Chayla 19-21 at the U.S. Olympic Kansas Alumni went to press, Cheadle (15), freshman guard Training Center in Colorado Levy, senior All-American pole Kylee Kopatich (14) and Springs, Colorado. Team vaulter Casey Bowen and Levy freshman forward Tyler selections are expected to be sophomore shot putter Nicolai Johnson (12). ... announced in late March. ... Ceban were preparing for the KU swimming used 15 Senior golfer Ben Welle on On the eve of what is March 11-12 NCAA Indoor top-three finishes to take March 1 won his second career anticipated to be a successful Championships in Birmingham, second place at the Big 12 title with a one-stroke victory at baseball season, coach Ritch Alabama. ... Championship meet Feb. 24-27 the Louisiana Classics Price announced that last year’s Sophomore Smith Hinton at Texas. Senior Chelsie Miller, Invitational. The KU men placed Saturday starter, junior left- continued her unbeaten streak the school record holder in five second in team competition, hander Sean Rackoski, broke a with singles and doubles events, was chosen to compete which followed a two-stroke thumb during preseason drills victories in a 7-0 sweep of No. in the 400-yard individual team victory Feb. 21 at the and will be lost for the season. 46 New Mexico Feb. 28 in the medley at the March 17-19 Desert Intercollegiate in Palm Sophomore Brandon Johnson Jayhawk Tennis Center. The NCAA Championship meet in Desert, California, and two will likely be lost for two 23rd-ranked Jayhawks opened Atlanta. ... Sophomore guard team victories during the fall seasons after tearing an elbow the season 7-1. ... Lauren Aldridge scored a season. ... Sophomore All- ligament.

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After the ‘Hawks ran the table in Allen Field House, coach Bill Self (l) got swept up in the emotion of Senior Night, honoring (below, l-r) Jamari Traylor, Perry Ellis, Hunter Mickelson and Evan Manning. Bob Davis, retiring after 32 seasons as the voice of the Jayhawks, was also recognized March 5. “It’s going to be ﬁve seniors,” Self said two days earlier. Grinning, Self impishly added, “Of course, one of them is a senior citizen ...”

ISSUE 2, 2016 | 19 20 | KANSAS ALUMNI A volunteer army of military veterans brings aid to shattered communities and helps heal the wounds of war

By Steven Hill

KIRK JACKSON, TEAM RUBICON KIRK JACKSON, ISSUE 2, 2016 | 21 Previous page: Team Rubicon member Chris Ryan cradles a newborn—delivered hours before on a desk that served as a makeshift operating table—as the disaster-response

COURTESY TEAM RUBICON COURTESY group prepares to medevac survivors of Typhoon Haiyan on the Philippine island of Leyte in November 2013. Left: William McNulty in the Manresa camp in Haiti, where Team Rubicon’s ﬁrst mission brought badly needed medical aid to victims of the 2010 earthquake.

treat the most critically wounded rst. ey improvised supplies, prying doors o ruined houses to use as stretchers and rigging splints from window frames and tree branches. And they were doing it without being shot at. “It was actually a little bit cathartic for the team, knowing they were operating in this environment and yet they didn’t need to carry a gun, didn’t need to worry about anybody trying to kill them,” McNulty says. “ey were just there to help people.” In the course of their 18 days in Haiti, a team that began with four grew to 60 and treated more than 3,000 wounded. It gained a name—Team Rubicon—and a mission: Take the crisis management skills and passion for service of returning war veterans and apply them to disaster-relief “Port-au-Prince looked just like Iraq agencies mobilizing large-scale relief e orts around the globe. Unlike many aer the war,” says McNulty, who spent e orts. international aid organizations, which can nearly two years in Iraq working in But for McNulty, c’01, and the military take days or weeks to fully mobilize, the counter-terrorism. “It looked a lot like veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who veterans of Team Rubicon would strike Fallujah.” joined the seat-of-the-pants relief e ort quickly—within 24 hours, in most Destruction was widespread and that he organized with his friend and cases—bridging the gap between the catastrophic. Some 250,000 homes fellow Marine Jake Wood, Haiti’s “post- immediate aermath of disaster and the collapsed, tens of thousands were killed chaotic environment” felt like familiar arrival of large-scale relief operations. and millions more were displaced. e ground. e urgent need for a humanitarian nation’s already shaky infrastructure was “ere was a calmness the veterans had quick reaction force was particularly stark devastated, complicating e orts to bury in dealing with a lot of the same issues in Haiti, where McNulty soon realized that the dead and bring supplies and medical [faced in war], the unstable populations, experience in a combat zone did not attention to the wounded. Power and limited resources, the unfamiliar sights, prepare the veterans and emergency rst communication grids were down, vehicles sounds and smells,” McNulty recalls. responders on his team for everything and fuel were in short supply, and the While people and aid had begun piling up they would encounter in Port-au-Prince. Port-au-Prince airport was closed. Media at the airport, “no one was operating in “In Iraq I had seen lots of fresh reports claimed that armed mobs were town,” he says. “We realized that we were wounds—gunshot wounds, shrapnel roaming the streets, and the Red Cross out there alone, and just naturally falling wounds,” he says. “I had never seen and the U.S. State Department advised back on our military training.” wounds that had been le to fester against travel to the country, further e ad hoc “medical militia,” as the untreated for ve or six days. I had never slowing the arrival of international disaster group called themselves, set up triage to seen gangrene. Nor had our ER doctors.

22 | KANSAS ALUMNI is is what we saw every day in Haiti. Crush wounds. Com-

pound fractures. It was an experience no one will ever forget.” TEAM RUBICON WILLIAM MCNULTY, On their second day in Port-au-Prince, the team was triaging patients at a collapsed school, sending those needing high-level care to a local hospital. Word came back that the hospital was full Operation: of wounded, but there was no medical sta to treat them. Haiti Relief McNulty and his team moved in, re-establishing emergency care Port-au-Prince and stang the ER for two days. Earthquake In their secure compound on the grounds of a Jesuit novitiate at 2010 the end of one long day, McNulty turned to Wood and said, “We have a model here. No one else is engaging veterans in this type of service, but it makes so much sense because of the skills we have.” at realization spurred the two men to grow Team Rubicon into a thriving disaster-response organization that taps the unique skills of combat veterans to perform under pressure in crises. e

60 volunteers who joined them in Haiti in 2010 have since swelled MILES PEPPER, TEAM RUBICON to a volunteer force of 35,000 (75 percent of whom are veterans), with a full-time sta of more than 50 that provides back-oce support for the dozens of disaster deployments Team Rubicon mounts each year. e nonprot has attracted backing from the likes of the Clinton Global Initiative, the Starr Foundation and the Drue Heinz Family Foundation, which last year awarded McNulty Operation: Tenzing and Wood the $250,000 Heinz Prize for the Human Condition. Kathmandu, Nepal Along the way, the organization that initially focused its Earthquake attention on disaster victims began to realize that among those 2015 beneting the most from Team Rubicon’s missions were the military veterans themselves.

hortly before graduating from KU with a degree in communication studies in December 2000, William McNulty walked into a Lawrence recruiting oce and enlisted in the

Marine Corps Reserve, requesting infantry duty rather than TEAM RUBICON DOYON, KYLE ocer training. He was following a long family history of service: Both of his grandfathers served in World War II, and his father was a Green Beret, a U.S. Army Special Forces medic. McNulty’s unit was not deployed to Afghanistan; it was put on Operation: standby but never sent to Iraq. He found another way into the Factory One war, taking a civilian job in Anbar province. Flint, Michigan “I thought it was going to pass me by, and I wanted to be there, wanted to be part of the solution,” he says. Contaminated Growing up in suburban Chicago, he was an Indian Guide, a Water Emergency Cub Scout, a Boy Scout. He attended a Catholic high school, 2016 Loyola Academy, where the Jesuit teaching emphasized action in addition to intellect. Service had always given him a sense of purpose. In Iraq, he pinpointed high-value targets for military units to kill or capture. “At the end of the day it felt like playing whack-a- mole, because there’s always another,” says McNulty, who, between

his Marine Corps service and his civilian job, worked on counter- TEAM RUBICON KIRK JACKSON, terrorism for eight years, from 2001 to 2009. “What is the end game? What does winning look like? at was never clearly Operation: dened. “Eventually, I lost my sense of purpose,” he says, “because I Starting Gun didn’t see any progress with the war.” Moore, Oklahoma Tornado 2013 ISSUE 2, 2016 | 23 KIRK JACKSON, TEAM RUBICON KIRK JACKSON,

What he did see was a lot of violence secure letters guaranteeing free passage A few of the 100 volunteers deployed to the and mayhem. ough he deployed in a from the ambassadors of Haiti and Philippines in response to Typhoon Haiyan civilian capacity, he lived and worked neighboring Dominican Republic, then deplane near the hard-hit city of Tacloban. alongside U.S. troops and Iraqis who were contacted a family friend, Dr. Mauricio During Operation: Seabird, Team Rubicon targets of mortar barrages, rocket-pro- Consalter, to put together a 16-member helped with search and rescue operations, pelled-grenade volleys, car bombs. Some medical team from a Chicago hospital. conducted damage assessments and gave days the casualty counts reached 20 dead e team would meet Boynton in Santo medical aid to more than 2,000 people. and 100 wounded. Domingo, cross the Haitian border and “I was very angry,” McNulty says. “We drive to Port-au-Prince. But the plan hit a lost a lot of good people. I lost friends, and snag when the hospital vice president Special Forces medic.) In this way the it infuriated me.” wouldn’t authorize the trip. four-man crew became eight. It grew again McNulty was in Washington, D.C., on “He said, ‘I love what you guys are when McNulty reported to Chicago that Jan. 12, 2010, when he saw the disaster in doing, but I just got o the phone with the conditions were safe, and the hospital Haiti unfold on his television screen. He Red Cross and they say you’re crazy, it’s dispatched its 16-person medical unit. wasn’t about to watch passively. too dangerous,’” McNulty recalls. “I said, Using local sources for transportation When Jake Wood posted on Facebook ‘We’re Marines. We have experience in and language translation, moving quickly that he was thinking of going to Port-au- Iraq and Afghanistan, and we know how and carrying only what they could t in Prince, McNulty called him immediately. to operate in these environments.’” His backpacks, Team Rubicon got to disaster “I said, ‘Dude, I’m in,’” McNulty recalls. Jesuit contacts in Haiti were telling a very victims in Haiti—and, later that year and “‘What’s the plan?’” dierent story than the world was seeing the next, in Chile, Pakistan and Turkey— e plan was to visit Haiti for a few on CNN. “ey said, ‘It’s the walking before the large aid agencies. ey days, deliver medical supplies and come wounded, and you need to get down here undertook humanitarian missions to home. McNulty reached out to his old right away,’” McNulty says. “‘Yes, there are Burma, South Sudan and Mozambique. high school, which put him in touch with some criminal elements, but right now And their volunteer army began to grow, Brother James Boynton, who’d arrived in even the criminals are shaking the dust out just as the military was paring back its Haiti nine days earlier to direct a Jesuit- of their ears.’” commitments in Afghanistan and Iraq. run school. Boynton needed to organize McNulty, Wood and two others ew ey were tapping into veterans’ deep an outside medical team to respond to the separately to the Dominican Republic. On need to continue serving aer their time disaster, but the chaos was making it hard the way, each ran into someone who was in the military was up. A 2009 Civic to do. en route to Haiti and decided to join their Enterprises study on veteran reintegration, McNulty used his D.C. connections to team. (McNulty’s nd was an Army commissioned by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of

24 | KANSAS ALUMNI Sta, found that 92 percent of veterans returning from war value community service. e top three issues they want to volunteer for are wounded veterans, other veterans and military families, and disaster relief. Yet only 13 percent reported their transition from military to home life was going well. By 2009, nearly 2 million Americans had served in the wars in Afghanistan and Hunt, who had been diagnosed with of serving a mission that is larger than self. Iraq, and they faced signicant hurdles in post-traumatic stress disorder and ... e second is the sense of community: their return to civilian life. Veterans struggled with depression, panic attacks You’re doing this mission larger than self experienced higher unemployment rates and sleeplessness. “When he committed with others who are performing a mission than civilians and relied on food stamps at suicide it brought to light this reality that larger than self and feel privileged to do nearly twice the civilian rate. One in ve 22 veterans a day commit suicide here in that. And then there’s the sense of service members had led for divorce the United States, and there’s no silver- identity.” since 2001. Veterans aged 20 to 24 years bullet answer to why this is happening.” Petraeus, commander of multi-national old were two to four times more likely to Hunt’s death jolted McNulty and Wood, forces in Iraq in 2007 and of U.S. forces in commit suicide than their civilian peers— making them take a hard look at Team Afghanistan in 2010, was speaking at a a rate that, if it continued, the study Rubicon’s mission and what the volunteer luncheon in London last June to build warned, could eventually outpace the work they were organizing meant to the international support for the recently combat death toll. veterans themselves. launched Team Rubicon Global. e idea McNulty went through his own dicult “A er Clay’s death, we decided we’re behind Team Rubicon Global, which readjustment. going to change our mission, we’re going McNulty leads as CEO and Petraeus serves “ere was a point where I was a very to shi the focus from the disaster victim as a board member, is to export the Team angry person, very jaded and disillusioned to the veteran, to give the veterans back Rubicon USA model to countries like the about the war,” he says. “I see that a lot in those things they lost when they took o United Kingdom, Australia, Norway, fellow veterans, and to help them through the uniform,” McNulty says. Germany and Canada, where the desire of this transition process, the reintegration “We were a disaster response organiza- war veterans to continue serving their process, has helped me a lot as well.” tion that used veterans for service,” he countries and communities a er leaving Working on the same intractable adds, “and we became a veterans service the military is strong. Joining Petraeus problems for years with no real forward organization that just happens to be good were two fellow board members, Gen. Sir movement had sapped his sense of at disaster response.” Nicholas Parker, the retired commander- purpose. Helping people recover from in-chief of the British Army who served natural disasters brought it roaring back. oldiers lose three things when they with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, “When we were down there in Port-au- take o the uniform, notes retired and Karl-eodor Zu Guttenberg, former Prince and you’re saving someone’s life, it’s Army Gen. David Petraeus. minister of defense under German tangible, immediate progress,” he says. “You lose a sense of purpose—this idea Chancellor Angela Merkel. “When you go into a city immediately a er a tornado ripped through it and you help them batten down a roof or move to shelter, it gives you an extreme sense of ow armed with shovels and sledgehammers, Team purpose.” NRubicon volunteers wear a new uniform—the gray en, in March 2011, Clay Hunt, a T-shirt with the red-and-white logo that denotes a cross 28-year-old former Marine who’d been (the traditional symbol of aid) turned on its side among the second wave of Team Rubicon (signifying Team Rubicon’s nontraditional approach to volunteers in Haiti, killed himself. Jake disaster response). Wood had been Hunt’s partner in sniper The organization’s name refers to Julius Caesar’s school, fought with him in Iraq and famous crossing of the Rubicon River—now a symbol of Afghanistan, and was best man at his irrevocable commitment to bold action. The negative wedding. McNulty also knew him well. space winding through the icon represents the Rubicon “Clay was really happy when he was River and marks Team Rubicon’s commitment to volunteering with Team Rubicon, because reinventing disaster relief. it gave him purpose,” McNulty says of —S.H.

ISSUE 2, 2016 | 25 U.S. military uniforms contain a lot of information to anyone who knows how to read the various medals, badges and insignia, GORMAN, TEAM RUBICON DANIEL Petraeus explained to his British audience. A soldier’s name, rank, unit, training and combat history are all on display. “You take that Operation: o ,” he said, “and it’s as if you have taken o your identity.” Greased Lightning To try to bring that sense of purpose, community and identity Rockaway Peninsula, to more veterans aer Hunt’s suicide, Team Rubicon launched New York U.S. operations. Because they could deploy volunteers to a Superstorm Sandy domestic relief project at a fraction of what it cost to send them 2012 overseas, the move allowed them to use their donated funds to give many more vets a chance to pitch in. Team Rubicon volunteers helped the people of Tuscaloosa,

Alabama; Joplin, Missouri; and Moore, Oklahoma, dig out aer TEAM RUBICON catastrophic tornadoes. ey led cleanup e orts following 2013 oods in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin. In April 2013, aer a massive ammonium nitrate explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, destroyed scores of homes and killed many local rst responders who were ghting a re at the plant when it exploded, Team Rubicon helped state authorities set up and manage the disaster response. Operation: “We never thought we were going to move the needle on the Huckleberry Hustle domestic side of disaster operations,” McNulty says. “We thought, Mayes County, ‘is is America. We’ve gotta be the best in the world when it Oklahoma comes to natural disasters.’ We were so wrong.” Flood A turning point was the organization’s response to Superstorm 2016 Sandy, the massive hurricane that rocked the Caribbean and the U.S. in 2012, killing more than 200 and causing an estimated $75 billion in damage—walloping particularly hard the densely populated coasts of New Jersey and New York. Team Rubicon shut down its Los Angeles headquarters, where support of eld operations was conducted from afar, and moved

its entire sta to New York, where they set up a forward operating FENTER, TEAM RUBICON ROSS base at 124th Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard and began their usual drill of dispatching eight- to 10-member teams of military veterans and rst responders. But the general public began showing up by the hundreds, wanting to help. Team Rubicon turned them away, McNulty says, “until this former Operation: Marine logistics ocer who was running the FOB said, ‘Hey Karen Shan dummies, you have thousands of people trying to get involved, Thai/Burma Border and we have plenty of tools.”’ (Home Depot and other corporate Humanitarian sponsors oen arm Team Rubicon with the tools, electronics and mission other supplies and equipment they need to complete their 2012 missions). “‘Why not break down the 10-man teams of vets to one or two veterans, attach 20 to 40 civilians, give them the safety brief, the work orders, the tools. Now our impact is an order of magnitude greater than it was.’” e on-the-y shi in strategy allowed 350 Team Rubicon veterans to manage 10,000 civilian volunteers during the Sandy response. It marked the beginning of a move to professionalize the MONK, TEAM RUBICON LISA organization: Team Rubicon adopted the Incident Command System, which is the standard command structure for the emergency management eld. It organized eld teams into 10 Operation: regions that correspond with regions set up by FEMA, the Federal Friendly Ghost Emergency Management Agency. And it invested in training for Casper, Wyoming Cole Creek Wildﬁre 2015 26 | KANSAS ALUMNI volunteers that can lead to emergency management certications in a wide range of skills. Team Rubicon’s volunteer army is adept not only in the physically demand- ing work of mucking and gutting homes ravaged by oods, tornadoes, earthquakes, JONATHEN DAVIS, TEAM RUBICON DAVIS, JONATHEN hurricanes and typhoons, but also skilled in heavy equipment operation, home demolition, wildland reghting, incident management, disaster mapping and other high-level emergency operations. Professionalizing hasn’t meant forgetting that veterans—with the skills they’ve built in their military training and deployment and their desire to serve—remain Team Rubicon’s backbone. When FEMA sent one of its highest-ranking administrators to study the organization’s approach, McNulty was happy to show o the high-tech mapping, management and solar-powered computing tools at his disposal. But he also told his visitor, “Sir, honestly, we’re just throwing veterans at the problem, and they’re guring it out.” structure. It rearms for me what a Taking a break from assessing damage with an ast year Team Rubicon Global fantastic commodity the veteran is.” unmanned aerial vehicle after the Nepal launched its rst overseas network, Karl- eodor Zu Guttenberg, the earthquake in 2015, Brian Brown, logistics Team Rubicon United Kingdom, former German defense minister, believes manager for Team Rubicon region VI, delights and in the next ve years it hopes to the Team Rubicon model could even have children with an eye-in-the-sky view of them- establish teams in 12 countries where implications for geopolitics and the selves in the remote village of Sermathang. veterans have indicated a strong desire to perception of U.S. foreign policy around keep serving. the world. International leaders see a chance not “ e idea of having at a certain point “We don’t give you tickets to the ball only to put skilled veterans to work in not only the fabulous 20 to 30,000 already game,” McNulty says. “We don’t lobby the support of severely taxed emergency engaged American veterans they have, but Hill; we don’t do advocacy. We recruit, management systems, but also to change also shoulder-to-shoulder German train, equip and deploy military veterans attitudes about veterans. Call it winning veterans, British veterans, Norwegian, into natural disasters. We challenge you to hearts and minds. Australian and maybe—in four or ve or continue your service in the mission of e attitude toward veterans now in six years even Russian veterans,” Gutten- disaster response.” England, says Gen. Sir Nicholas Parker, “is berg says, “this is a rich building compo- e mission is familiar: Help people. a whi of sympathy rather than respect,” nent which is invaluable, and unique. “I don’t know any Marine who joined an outmoded attitude that, he believes, at’s something that you cannot produce the Corps to kill people,” McNulty says. “I reects a basic misunderstanding about in the back rooms of G-7 meetings.” joined the Marine Corps to help people.” the post-9/11 veteran. “He and she is a ere is no shortage of veteran service e end game is clearly dened: Bring completely dierent sort of person to the organizations doing good work on behalf relief. To the rescued, certainly. But also to person that the British Legion was of the men and women who serve in their the rescuer. designed to support,” Parker says, referring country’s military. McNulty estimates “Imagine the amount of purpose that to the charity created in 1921 to help there are some 40,000 in the U.S. alone. lls you when you realize you’re out there British military members and their But what sets Team Rubicon apart, says helping someone on the worst day of their families. “It’s the sort of person who has Navy veteran and Team Rubicon Global life,” McNulty says. massive potential. ... ey want to make a president and chief operating ocer Ken at’s what winning looks like. dierence, and my goodness they are Harbaugh, is that “veterans who join our “For a lot of veterans it’s that service of amazingly capable people, who will make ranks know they will not be the object of helping someone else,” he says, “that is things happen, with no money, with no our mission, but rather the agents of it.” really helping themselves.”

ISSUE 2, 2016 | 27 Hail ’ Hawksto the Local artists pay tribute to 150 years of tradition with new twists on our treasured mascot

By Heather Biele

Photographs by Steve Puppe

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI s the University 1912 by student Henry Maloy, cartoon I ever made, ever drew, (see story, p. 33). Fueled by the celebrates its c’14, to the wartime ghting in my life,” he says. “e only parade’s success, the Alumni sesquicentennial, Jay that Eugene “Yogi” Wil- reason it lasted so long is the Association planned a reprise another anniversary liams, m’54, sketched in 1941. foundation was so stunning, so for KU’s 150th anniversary. alsoA demands attention: 70 Sandy still recalls the day R. striking.” Aer enlisting the help of years ago, Hal Sandy drew the Edwin Browne, c’38, g’57, then Shortly aer he graduated, Ottawa-based berglass builder jovial Jayhawk that has stood director of public relations for Sandy sold the Kansas Union ATC Composites to fashion a the test of time. KU, called him into his Strong Bookstore the rights to his bird new mold, the Association When Sandy, j’47, arrived on Hall oce to make a simple for a mere $250. “Made us selected three Lawrence artists campus aer serving in World request: make a happier millions,” he jokes, laughing. to add their own ourishes to a War II, the beloved bird had postwar mascot for the Sandy’s smiling bird inspired new ock of birds. gone through several transfor- University. With tracing paper, artists who created their own mations, from the leggy, quasi- a pen and India ink, Sandy renditions for the 2003 human mascot designed in obliged. “It was the only Jayhawks on Parade project EARL RICHARDSON

ISSUE 2, 2016 | 29 Dyche and Lippincott halls. As Ledeker worked meticu- e bird’s beak showcases the lously on her bird, weaving 150 beautiful gothic windows of years’ worth of architectural Watson Library. Ledeker details into her 5-foot canvas, couldn’t resist incorporating she found herself reecting on other ornate details, including the University’s rich history the owl at the apex of Spooner and tradition. Rock Hawk Hall’s roof and the frieze “I imagined the artisans carved into the front of Twente working on those buildings Hall, into her design. She even with no power tools—just CATHY LEDEKER added a bit of whimsy with a chisel, hammer, elbow grease manhole cover she discovered and an artist’s eye. And what athy Ledeker, a painter, KU Endowment, which o en on Jayhawk Boulevard. they accomplished!” says Cillustrator, calligrapher included illustrating historic “I was taking pictures and it Ledeker. “I know there were and illuminator for more than buildings on campus, Ledeker was right there at that intersec- architectural renderings and 40 years, was a natural choice decided to pay homage to KU tion,” Ledeker says of the cover engineering and all that. But I to design a sesquicentennial by incorporating some of her she spotted in front of Watson think about those blue-collar Jayhawk. e former art favorite architectural elements Library. “I thought, ‘Is that too guys out there who were director at Van Go Mobile Arts into her Jayhawk. silly?’ And then I thought, artists. Who were they? at is Inc., a nonprot organization “I developed a working ‘Well, I really don’t care. I’m their legacy. at is what we that serves Lawrence teens, was knowledge of these grand going to do it anyway because have of those people. I wanted already well-versed in working buildings while researching, it’s a fun thing.’” to honor that.” with the statue: She created photographing, sketching and “Gogh Hawks Gogh!” with illustrating them,” she says. “I assistance from students at Van enjoyed exploring the elegance Go as well as “Holy Hawk!” for and hidden charms of many of the 2003 parade. the old campus buildings, but Ledeker, ’93, gladly agreed to most particularly those of participate in the 2016 edition. Spooner, Twente and Dyche “It felt like a real honor to be halls.” invited to do it,” she says. “It Ledeker’s creation is nothing was a perfect thing for me, short of a treasure hunt for because it allowed me to do Mount Oread enthusiasts. e something that wasn’t associ- head and body of the bird ated with Van Go.” boast the iconic red tile roof of e theme for her bird came Spooner Hall and the lime- easily. A er spending nearly 20 stone blocks found on several years doing freelance work for historic buildings, including

30 | KANSAS ALUMNI Sesqui-Hawk-Tennial

STEPHEN JOHNSON tephen Johnson is no Jayhawk. “I knew I wanted to Sstranger to commemorat- do something with typography ing KU milestones. A versatile and dates,” he explains. “I knew artist known for his Caldecott I wanted a series of abstract Honor children’s book, shapes. I thought it would be Alphabet City, and massive an interesting way to not get mosaics and murals in New stuck down with the eyes, York City and Los Angeles, he beak, tail and shoes and just let created “ e Spirit of Laws,” it be a blank canvas.” an oil painting commissioned Johnson drew inspiration for in 2003 for KU School of his bird from the BMW Art It’s still a car. e Jayhawk will over the Jayhawk’s playful color Law’s 125th anniversary, Cars, a collection of always be the Jayhawk, but you palette in strong fonts that and the abstract sculpture painted racing and road have to make it kind of exciting closely resemble KU’s logos in the Lied Center lobby vehicles that includes and new.” over the years. celebrating the per- the work of several To bring fresh life to a “I think the numbers, as forming arts center’s world-renowned artists, familiar gure, Johnson used graphic as they are, tame the 10-year anniversary including Andy brilliant colors to create bold, exuberance of the abstraction,” and the 100th Warhol, who sweeping brushstrokes over the he says. “ e abstract brush- anniversary of the designed Johnson’s head and body of the bird. “In strokes symbolize the passion University’s concert favorite, a 1979 a way, they’re sort of like and vitality of the 150 years— series in 2003. BMW M1. “He just feathers,” he says. “ ey kind the energy and dynamism and Johnson, f’87, who did a beautiful job of follow the movement of the color of the University. All recently has with these for m .” those brushstrokes are explored abstract brushstrokes,” Johnson honored the moments of time and experi- themes in his paint- Johnson says. “You University’s 150 years on ences that potentially become a ings, almost immediately had know, how do you paint a car Mount Oread by carefully larger conversation. It’s fun to an idea for a sesquicentennial and make it look interesting? juxtaposing “1865” and “2015” think about.”

ISSUE 2, 2016 | 31 KU Songbird

SUSAN YOUNGER

s soon as the Alumni AAssociation announced there would be three berglass Jayhawks commissioned for the University’s sesquicentennial, Susan Younger eagerly asked, “Can I do one?” Younger’s passion for KU is evident in her work as creative director for the Alumni Association, where she designs Kansas Alumni magazine and creates set and table designs for the Association’s major annual events, including the Rock Chalk Ball in Kansas City and the Jayhawk Roundup in Wichita. Younger, f’91, also was the mastermind behind “Whoosh!” and “Mascot Miro,” two Jayhawks featured in the 2003 parade, as well as the “Peace, Love and Daisy Hill Forever” bird, a collaboration with Valerie Spicher, j’94, graphic designer for the Association. For an occasion as special as KU’s sesquicentennial, Younger knew she wanted to go all out—and a mosaic t the bill. She had considered using the technique for the 2003 parade but was reluctant to attempt something she hadn’t done before. Since then, the self- taught Younger has completed

32 | KANSAS ALUMNI The sesquicentennial Jayhawks will be on display April 11-22 at KU’s Edwards Campus in Overland Park and at the Rock Chalk Ball April 23. They will return to the Adams Alumni Center in May for Commencement.

The original parade

n February 2002, Doug Holiday, ’85, owner of Biggs IBBQ, blurted out an idea in a brainstorming session of the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) board: several mosaic pieces, includ- A er countless hours of “You know what we should ing tables and benches. She painting and trimming letters, do? Jayhawks on Parade.” was ready to test her new skill cutting glass tiles and carefully Others in the room imme- on a curvaceous canvas. positioning them in the grout, diately agreed, including As she contemplated themes then painting and sealing the fellow board member Brad for her bird, Younger’s top body of the bird, Younger is Kemp, g’91, then assistant priority was to make a lasting pleased with the nal result director of public a airs at tribute to the University. and hopes others will identify the KU Natural History “What’s more lasting than the with her passion for KU when alma mater?” she says, they see it. Museum, and Susan Schmidt Henderson, j’96, who recalling how the vision for her “ ere’s something about the directed marketing for the CVB at the time. They began songbird came together. “I shape of this particular bird to plan a public art exhibition modeled after parades of wanted the words to look that people really respond to,” whimsical ﬁ berglass cows and other creatures in various lyrical and have movement.” she says. “I just want them to cities, including Sun Valley, Idaho, where a pack of Younger initially wanted to celebrate the love of KU.” Labrador retrievers had caught the eye of create ceramic letters by hand Lawrence CVB director Judy Billings, assoc., during and re them in her kiln, but an earlier trip. she quickly realized The Jayhawks on Parade team also included Paul that task was far Vander Tuig, KU’s director of trademark licensing, who too ambitious endorsed the project; Maria Martin and Melodie Christal for the amount of Downtown Lawrence Inc.; other KU sta members; of time she had. Instead, she and the Alumni Association. Michael Irvin, f’96, then purchased premade graphic design coordinator for the O ce of letters—nearly 540 of University Relations, created a three-dimension- them—to replicate all three al rendering of the bird, and a ﬁ berglass fabrica- stanzas of Professor tor, The Glass Hand in Cleves, Ohio, produced George Barlow Penny’s the 100-pound, 5-foot statue. In 2003, 30 birds cherished song, took their perches throughout the city and on “Crimson and the Blue,” campus, becoming instant hits with countless which she carefully placed Lawrence residents and visitors. —H.B. in a swirling design that “evokes movement and is reminiscent of a Watch these Jayhawk transformations and listen to artist bandana, which pays interviews online at kualumni.org/KU150Jayhawks. homage to our Midwest heritage.”

ISSUE 2, 2016 | 33 A powerful force in foreign a airs, Leslie Schweitzer strives to empower and educate students in Afghanistan

by Jennifer Lawler Portrait by Steve Barrett

International Impact

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI hen Leslie McElfresh owner. She was one of the rst American Schweitzer says of her involvement. “KU Schweitzer rst traveled women to engage in business with China has such excellent programs. Most people Woutside the United States— in the 1970s and established a pioneering are not aware of how large and signi cant as a young teenager heading to Mexico trade relationship with that country. In an they are.” for a Girl Scouts program—she had no era when many American women didn’t idea the experience would open the door work outside the home, much less run a or her part, Schweitzer is happy to to a lifetime of adventure and service. business in another country, Schweitzer Fo er the perspective of someone who But she did know an opportunity when took risks. But she has always seen risk has spent her life as part of the global she saw one. di erently from other people, she says. community. “It is so important to develop A few years later, the Osage City native “I was willing to get involved where other the kinds of relationships that arise traveled to Finland as an exchange people didn’t want to go. at’s where through international exposure. It has student, and that trip prompted her to the opportunities are.” She credits her changed my life,” she says. spend her junior year of college in parents for believing she could do any- It’s fair to say that Schweitzer has had a Copenhagen. But unlike many young thing and nurturing her independence hand in changing other people’s lives as people backpacking through Europe, at a young age. well. One of her proudest achievements Schweitzer, ’70, had an entrepreneurial Schweitzer also learned the value of was helping to establish the Friends of the spirit and an eye for business. “I started building meaningful connections. “Busi- American University of Afghanistan, a my rst business between freshman and nesses are based on relationships. It takes nonpro t fundraising organization that sophomore year,” she says. “I worked with time and it’s hard work. It requires a supports the American University of a British chemical company and sold tremendous amount of dedication. None Afghanistan (AUAF). Schweitzer also products in the USSR and ran a franchise of it comes easily,” she says. “ e most serves on the board of trustees for the in college.” important part is understanding the American University. How did Schweitzer pull o such a coup people that you’re dealing with. What are is involvement is characteristic of while her fellow students worked local their priorities and values? How do you Schweitzer, says Gronbeck-Tedesco. “ e jobs in retail and fast food? As an know your own? ere’s no magic. It’s just one thing that comes through in almost all exchange student in Finland, she con- the willingness to make a commitment.” of her work is a commitment to providing nected with as many people as she could. Susan Gronbeck-Tedesco, PhD’99, access to education as a way to make the ree years later she returned and put an associate vice provost of international world a better place.” ad in the Helsinki newspaper, looking for programs, says she has long admired Schweitzer believes the future of work. A Finnish franchisee of the British Schweitzer’s genuine dedication: “She is Afghanistan depends on education. e chemical company spotted her ad. e enthusiastic, open-minded and respectful American University in Kabul is modeled company wanted to hire an American, and of other cultures. She’s able to establish a a er its campuses in Beirut and Cairo, eventually Schweitzer went on the road as vision that she carries out over time. So which were founded more than 150 years a sales representative. many things in our lives hold our interest ago and have educated many leaders in the Curious about other cultures, she for a short period of time and then we region. “Our dream is that this will happen studied international relations at KU for move on. She will keep working.” in Afghanistan,” Schweitzer says. six semesters and ultimately completed Gronbeck-Tedesco has known Nearly 10 years ago, AUAF’s rst class International Impact

her degree in international relations at Schweitzer since 2001, when Schweitzer included 50 students, only one of whom George Washington University. began serving on the advisory board for was a woman. Last fall’s incoming class Over the next 35 years, Schweitzer’s zest KU International Programs. “I believe so was 55 percent women, and female as an entrepreneur and international much in the value of studying abroad and students comprise 35 percent of the entire traveler helped her succeed as a business bringing students to this country,” undergraduate population. “It is the only

ISSUE 2, 2016 | 35 nonpro t coeducational women’s empowerment. It includes day institution in the history care, prayer, tness and cultural centers. of Afghanistan,” Sch- “We are trying to re-introduce to this weitzer says. “In 2001, generation the culture that came before there were barely any the Russians and Taliban destroyed it,” women being educated she says. in Afghanistan. Now 3 million are in schools. chweitzer, the mother of two sons, What has made me so Shas always tried to balance her focus passionate is the on opportunities—for herself and for education of women. But others—with her need to nurture her I also believe in the family. “I thought it was important to coeducational aspect. If make sure there was always a balance you’re going to change a country, you have between my family and entrepreneurial to change how men perceive women and zest. Nothing means more to me than to help them interact together toward one have a normal family life and raise my single goal: the empowerment of Afghans children.” to support their new democratic How did that play out in the global government.” (2) LESLIE SCHWEITZER COURTESY career Schweitzer has pursued? “China in AUAF aims to provide a world-class the ’70s was very dierent from what I’m education and to keep Afghans in their doing now,” she explains. She started by country so they can help lead its develop- facilitating barter and countertrade in Leslie Schweitzer has witnessed tremendous ment. According to Schweitzer, “Right China through the Noble Trading Com- now there is a very strong desire among enrollment growth at the American University pany, but she kept a home base in the U.S. students—particularly women—to stay of Afghanistan, particularly among young “When I had one child, I couldn’t in-country to help their sisters and women, who are now 35 percent of the manage China, so I moved to Eastern cousins. Our students develop a commit- undergraduate student population. Europe. With two I moved into Central ment to help their country. Our graduates and South America.” But she didn’t leave are already in high positions in the company; her role evolved. She began government.” elected president in the history of the developing clients throughout these other With current student enrollment at country. Our goal is to have this be a countries. 2,000, the campus ambiance compares to sustainable democracy, and the university How did working in Eastern Europe that of a small liberal arts college in the can contribute tremendously to ful lling make it easier to balance her family’s needs United States, Schweitzer says. “It’s an that goal.” with the demands of her career? “Shorter amazing institution. Five classes have As part of continuing U.S. and interna- commute,” she says with a laugh. “And it graduated, and 12 percent of graduates are tional eorts to train the Afghan army and was even shorter still when I started Fulbright scholars. Our biggest problem is police force to secure the country on their working in Central and South America that families won’t pay for girls to attend own, President Barack Obama announced and the Caribbean.” She spent every other university.” last October that 9,800 U.S. troops would week in Central and South America for 18 About 70 percent of students receive remain in Afghanistan through most of years. nancial aid. e Friends of the American 2016. e total presence of American and Her husband, attorney William H. University of Afghanistan raises money for NATO troops last fall was 17,000. Plans Schweitzer, died recently. “He was a huge those scholarships. “I’m building a cadre call for U.S. forces to decrease to 5,500 by supporter of all of this. He understood of KU supporters,” she says. “We want early 2017. how important it was to me,” she says. “We Jayhawks all over the school. It’s a fragile “One of our biggest problems has been were married nearly 43 years and he environment right now, but I expect it to security,” Schweitzer says. “It did get much shared my passion. My boys have a unique survive and thrive.” worse in 2014 [aer troop pullouts began]. perspective on what women can do.” Schweitzer emphasizes that the huge It was much more dicult than we had Schweitzer says she isn’t ready to sum up amount of resources and eort invested in anticipated due to the lengthy process it the themes of her life. “I don’t really think Afghanistan has not been wasted. “We took to resolve the election. e university like that. I think, ‘What’s next?’” have made tremendous progress. ere’s has continued to function through all of Opportunity still beckons. much more to Afghanistan than you read this and is growing.” —Lawler, c’88, g’94, PhD’96, is a in the newspaper,” she says. “is is a Schweitzer takes special pride in a Eudora freelance writer and frequent nascent democracy with just the second 70,000-square-foot building dedicated to contributor to Kansas Alumni.

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI FredThe Ellsworth MEDALLION

Nominate a worthy Jayhawk!

ince 1975 the Fred Ellsworth Medallion has honored Sindividuals “who have provided unique and signi cant service to KU.”

Fred Ellsworth Medallion recipients are honored by the Association in the fall and introduced during a home football game.

Past winners have been leaders in Kansas higher education, members of University boards and committees, consultants for KU projects and donors to the University.

If someone you know has continually shared time, talents and resources to bene t KU, submit a nomination today!

To submit a nomination, contact the KU Alumni Association by March 31 at 800-584-5397 or kualumni.org. CHAMPIONSHIPS Jan. 1, 2005, KU vs. Georgia Tech Feb. 24, 2014, KU vs. Oklahoma vs. KU 2014, 24, Feb. 4 of claim a share to KU defeats Oklahoma, 83-75, Big 12 overall) (and 14th 10th-consecutive its title, conference 57th all-time championship and its in NCAA history. the most 10 a fall-away ‘05, hits Langford, Keith Senior guard capping the remaining, seconds jumper with 3.3 beat the season of Georgia to comeback biggest overtime. in 70-68, Tech, March 1, 2006, KU vs. Colorado March 11, 2007, KU vs. Texas vs. KU 11, 2007, March 5 Capping an incredible 22-point comeback, the comeback, 22-point Capping an incredible 88-84, in overtime—and defeat Texas, Jayhawks championship Big 12 Tournament the 2007 capture the Longhorns. over 11 his 60th and final celebrates c’47, Max Falkenstien, a calling Jayhawk athletics.year of Max receives is “retired” 60 jersey Jayhawk and his No. bronze Naismith Court. above March 12, 2011, KU vs. Texas vs. KU 12, 2011, March KANSAS ALUMNI KANSAS March 3, 2015, KU vs. West Virginia West vs. KU 2015, 3, March | Photograph #9 by Je Jacobsen, all other photographs by Steve Puppe Steve by all other photographs Je Jacobsen, #9 by Photograph 6 beat the Moun- to needed overtime The Jayhawks Senior Night first its avoids KU taineers, 76-69. the the ‘Hawks and the win gives 1983, loss since outright Big 12 title. 12 Big 12 Kansas seventh-consecutive claims its Championship title behind a season-high 20 points c’12, defeating Taylor, Tyshawn guard junior from 1 seed in the NCAA KU earns a No. 85-73. Texas, the 10th time in school history. for tournament 38 39 | ISSUE 2, 2016 ISSUE Championships KU’s 12 straight 12 straight KU’s Big 12 Conference Big 12 Conference Top 12 memorable 12 memorable Top moments celebrating celebrating moments March 24, 2013, KU vs. North Carolina vs. KU 2013, 24, March April 7, 2008, KU vs. Memphis vs. 2008, KU 7, April 1 Kansas left in regulation, nine with 2:12 by Trailing in comebacks memorable the most one of mounts win the 2008 NCAA National Champion- to history Kansas defeats Memphis, 75-68, In overtime, ship. in celebrate fifth national title. Jayhawks its for and back home on Mass Street. San Antonio 7 c’13, react Young, c’13, and Kevin Releford, Travis a nine-point halftime deficit, KU overcomes after beat North half to in the second 62 percent shooting 16. The the Sweet to and advance 70-58, Carolina, Self’s 300th at Kansas.win is coach CONFERENCE March 11, 2010, KU vs. Texas Tech Feb. 25, 2012, KU vs. Missouri vs. KU 25, 2012, Feb. 2 archrival battle against conference In the last second- largest its Missouri, KU battles back from tie the game at 75 points—to half deficit ever—19 nine of scores Taylor Tyshawn expires. as regulation guarantee to in overtime 12 points the Jayhawks’ Big 12 title. eighth-straight its of KU at least a share 8 to school in history the third Kansas becomes including wins. The Jayhawks, 2,000 all-time reach 80-68, in the Tech, ‘10, beat Collins, Texas Sherron the Big 12 Tournament. quarterfinals of

March 22, 2009, KU vs. Dayton Oklahoma vs. KU Jan. 4, 2016,

OT features four lead four changes. features OT 2:24 remaining in the second OT, and the third and the third OT, in the second remaining 2:24 Sooners. The Jayhawks rally from five down with down five from rally Sooners. The Jayhawks hard-fought, 109-106 victory over the determined the determined over victory 109-106 hard-fought, In a triple-overtime “instant classic,” KU wins a classic,” “instant In a triple-overtime 3 the Sweet 16 for the third-straight year. the third-straight 16 for the Sweet victory over Dayton in Minneapolis propels KU to KU to Dayton in Minneapolis propels over victory 20 rebounds and 10 blocked shots. The 60-43 shots. and 10 blocked 20 rebounds double in Kansas basketball history with 13 points, with 13 points, history double in Kansas basketball hero Cole Aldrich, c’13, posts the first ocial triple- ocial Aldrich, c’13, Cole the first posts hero In his return home, Minnesota native and hometown and hometown native home, Minnesota In his return 9 Association the center encourages alumni to call the Cancer Center at 855-211-1475 and schedule an appointment. More information about the event can be found at kualumni.org/donateblood. Community calls Another initiative that’s gaining ground is ’Hawks, Helmets and Handlebars, an Blood drive, bicycle donation events rely on Jayhawk volunteers annual event that stresses the importance of healthy lifestyle and bicycle safety for children. ansas City-area alumni can invest in For the past seven years, the Alumni Ktheir community by participating in Association and Healthy Hawks, a two upcoming volunteer opportunities. program created by KU Medical Center’s e third-annual biospecimen blood department of pediatrics to help children drive, a collaboration between the Alumni and their families overcome issues related Association and the Biospecimen Bank at to weight, have distributed hundreds of the University of Kansas Cancer Center, bicycles and helmets to children in need. will be May 13 at the Clinical Research is year’s event will be June 4 at the Center in Fairway. Cancer Center’s Westwood Campus. e is event is the only one of its kind in Greater Kansas City Alumni Network will the nation. Unlike most blood drives, collect used bikes April 23 and May 7 in where large volumes of blood are collected the Jayhawk Central parking lot on the KU for patients in need, the biospecimen Edwards Campus. blood drive uses small samples—the Hospital Heroes and the Concussion equivalent of a few tablespoons of blood— and Trauma teams from the Medical for cancer research, specically early Center will professionally t children with detection of breast and ovarian cancers. In free bicycle helmets on June 4, and the the past six months, researchers at the KU Johnson County Fire Department will be Cancer Center have published several on hand to educate families about re articles citing medical advancements they safety and set up bicycle safety obstacle have made, thanks to these blood courses for the riders. Baby Jay will sign donations. special certicates for all the children. Colleen Reilly, project manager for the Biospecimen Repository at the Cancer Center, is encouraged that the event is gaining attention and hopes that participa-

tion will be strong again this year. “Out- (2) WINETROUB BETSY side of it being a Cancer Center event, it’s starting to be a KU Medical Center event,” she says. “I’m really excited that it’s becoming a Universitywide initiative.” For those who are unable to attend the blood drive but are interested in donating,

Alumni Association board member Luke Bobo, e’82, donated blood for cancer research (above) and Kansas City alumni Andrew Wank, b’09; Jay Ruf, e’96, b’96; and Jace McClasky, c’95, l’02, volunteered at the 2015 biospecimen blood drive. Jayhawk families learn about bicycle safety and healthy living at the annual ’Hawks, Handlebars and Helmets event (opposite).

40 | KANSAS ALUMNI According to Jessica Nelson, j’11, a Kansas City network board member and A NOTE FROM HEATH community awareness co-chair, 52 bikes and 75 helmets were distributed to Alumni are game changers STOREY DAN Healthy Hawks families at last year’s event, and she hopes to exceed those numbers this year. ount me among the thousands of “ e more bikes we can get donated, CJayhawks who love March Madness. the more kids in Kansas City we can help,” We live week to week in March while our she says. beloved Jayhawks are in the national For more information on the donation spotlight as a perennial goliath in the days and the ’Hawks, Helmets and NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Handlebars event, visit kualumni.org/ Kansas basketball provides a platform bikesforkids. most universities would love to have. Winning 12 straight Big 12 Championships is unprecedented in the modern era of Peterson college basketball and, as we all know, this

DAN STOREY (4) STOREY DAN feat did not happen by accident. KU boasts Your membership, philanthropic the incomparable Bill Self, the most support, volunteer work, advocacy, talented players on the ﬂoor in nearly assistance in student recruitment, every game, and the greatest home court leadership, career success—and the advantage in any sport. way you each represent KU within your Just as alumni and fans join forces in communities—dramatically strengthen Allen Field House to help lift our team to KU’s reputation and the value of the victory, Jayhawks working together for the KU degree. University are also game changers. KU sits Together, your collective eorts provide in the middle of the country in one of the an equally impressive advantage for least populated states. It does not have KU—albeit not quite as intimidating as many of the built-in advantages of schools Allen Field House. For all you do, we in heavily populated states, not to mention salute you. the diverse types of industries. Our true Rock Chalk, Jayhawk! advantage lies in the pride and commit- —Heath Peterson, c’04, d’09 ment Jayhawks have for their alma mater. KU Alumni Association president

ISSUE 2, 2016 | 41 Half-price Life Membership for New Grads!

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ISSUE 2, 2016 | 43 It’s almost this easy. !

Jayhawk License Plate purchases and renewals are now easier with one payment to your county treasurer. A $50 annual tax-deductible contribution to the KU Alumni Association is still part of the cost, but now you can pay it along with your normal state tag fees and vehicle taxes. By mail, online or in person, it’s as easy as Rock Chalk!

For additional information, and answers to some often asked questions, visit kualumni.org/license or call 800-584-2957. Board of Directors Ellen O. Remsing, c’00, Manhattan, Reunion weekend Kansas n CHAIR It’s almost this easy. Alumni return for 50-year Dave B. Roland, e’80, Excelsior, Richard E. Putnam, c’77, l’80, Minnesota and Gold Medal Club celebrations Omaha, Nebraska n CHAIR-ELECT Administrative Sta embers of the Class of 1966 and members of the Gold Scott R. Seyfarth, b’83, Hinsdale, n PRESIDENT MMedal Club—alumni who have passed their 50-year Illinois Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09 anniversary of graduation—will return to Mount Oread April n EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE n ADMINISTRATION 15-16 for a weekend lled with memories and merriment. James Bredfeldt, c’70, m’74, Bellevue, ! is year’s reunion will feature guided tours of Quantrill’s Raid Heather Hawkins, j’06, Executive Washington Assistant and Coordinator of Donor through Lawrence, bus tours of campus and a kicko lunch with Kevin E. Carroll, assoc., Atlanta, Georgia Relations KU student leaders at the Adams Alumni Center on Friday Marci K. Deuth, e’05, Chicago, Illinois aernoon. Shelle Hook McCoy, d’73, Topeka n ALUMNI CENTER On Saturday, Gold Medal Club members and the Class of 1966 Camille Bribiesca Nyberg, c’96, g’98, Ben Shepley, Director of will make their way to the Kansas Union for a luncheon and Wichita Adams Alumni Center program featuring Dr. Roy Jensen, director of KU’s Cancer Richard E. Putnam, c’77, l’80, n ALUMNI, STUDENT & Center, before enjoying a special presentation in honor of the Omaha, Nebraska MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS University’s sesquicentennial. Scott R. Seyfarth, b’83, Hinsdale, Brad Eland, b’09, g’11, Vice “e 2016 reunion weekend will allow alumni to share in the Illinois President of Alumni Programs Teri Harris, Vice President for tradition, landmarks and history that make us all Jayhawks,” says n DIRECTORS TO 2016 Jacey Krehbiel, d’12, assistant director of alumni programs. James Bredfeldt, c’70, m’74, Bellevue, Membership “Reunion attendees continually rave about the chance to relive Washington Michelle Lang, b’01, Director of Alumni the history.” John Jeter, c’77, m’81, Hays Programs For more information or to register for the events, visit Shelle Hook McCoy, d’73, Topeka Danny Lewis, d’05, Director of Alumni kualumni.org/reunions. Lori Anderson Piening, b’92, Austin, Programs Texas n COMMUNICATIONS Mark Randall, j’03, Englewood, David Johnston, j’94, g’06, Colorado Vice President for Internet Services and Marketing Life Members n DIRECTORS TO 2017 he Association thanks these Jayhawks, who began their Life Donald R. Brada, c’61, m’65, Lawrence Chris Lazzarino, j’86, Associate memberships Jan. 1 through Feb. 29. For information, visit Luke B. Bobo, e’82, Shawnee Editor, Kansas Alumni magazine T Jennifer Sanner, j’81, Senior Vice kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957. Kevin E. Carroll, assoc., Atlanta, Georgia Marci K. 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ISSUE 2, 2016 | 45 Class Notes by Heather Biele Coach of the Year at the Lutheran High School of Kansas City, where he coaches cross country. He also coaches track at Blue Springs High School in Missouri. Alan Fisher, b’47, was inducted in Jane Werth Joslin, d’57, lives in 47 Lawrence High School Alumni 57 Overland Park. She has two grand- Beatrice Osgood Krauss, g’67, lives Association’s Hall of Honor. He served in children who attend KU. 67 in Tucson, Arizona, where she World War II as part of the U.S. Army 104 Paul Maurer, p’57, makes his home in retired from a career in public health and Infantry Division. Upland, California. HIV prevention. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Methods and Measure- Elmo Maiden, e’48, g’50, was Jim Graves, l’60, a retired attorney ments in the Social Sciences and contrib- 48 inducted in the Heritage League 60 and past board chairman for the uted to a World Health Organization Hall of Fame by the Heritage League of the Family Guidance Center in St. Joseph, guidance on HIV disclosure. Second Air Division of the U.S. Army Air Missouri, received the Missouri Coalition Forces. He is a retired lieutenant colonel in for Community Behavioral Health Care Marty Crump, c’68, g’71, PhD’74, the U.S. Air Force. Community Impact Award for his service 68 wrote Eye of the Newt and Toe of to the eld of mental health. Frog, Adder’s Fork and Lizard’s Leg: e Carl Blair, f’56, a retired professor Lore and Mythology of Amphibians and 56 of art at Bob Jones University in Richard Hu, e’61, published e Reptiles, which was published in Decem- Greenville, South Carolina, exhibited 61 Brooks School about a one-room ber by University of Chicago Press. She is several paintings and sculptures at the country school he attended near Home, an adjunct professor of biology at Utah Hampton III Gallery in Taylors, South Kansas. He lives in Overland Park aer State University in Logan and Northern Carolina. retiring from a 41-year career in structural Arizona University in Flagsta. engineering. Laura Ferguson Brinkley, n’69, Dale Taylor, d’62, g’71, PhD’ 84, is 69 oce manager at Gibson Area 62 publisher at Barton Publishing Orthopedics in Gibson City, Illinois, was School Codes Letters that follow names Company and secretary of the Wisconsin named a Pinnacle Professional in the Field indicate the school from which alumni earned Board on Aging and Long Term Care. He of Health Care by Continental Who’s Who. degrees. Numbers show their class years. also founded the bachelor of music John Manahan, d’69, g’82, owns a School of Architecture, therapy program at the University of Manahan Consulting. He lives in Kansas Design and Planning Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where he was City with his wife, Patricia Dalrymple b School of Business professor emeritus. Manahan, ’85. c College of Liberal Arts Virgil Thompson, p’62, is CEO of Thomas Murray, c’69, a business and Sciences Spinnaker Biosciences in Solana Beach, litigation attorney at Lathrop & Gage in d School of Education California. Overland Park, was inducted in Lawrence e School of Engineering Vikram Tolat, e’62, retired as a program High School Alumni Association’s Hall of f School of Fine Arts director at IBM. He and his wife, Shrile- Honor. Tom is a member of KU’s Hall g Master’s Degree kha, live in Wappingers Falls, New York. Center for the Humanities advisory board. h School of Health Professions j School of Journalism Robert Enberg, Bradley Mathers, l School of Law c’65, m’69, a retired d’70, a retired m School of Medicine 65 physician and administrator at 70 teacher, owns Midwest Trophies in n School of Nursing Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, volunteers Tarkio, Missouri, where he and his wife, p School of Pharmacy for Take Stock in Children, a mentor- Annette, make their home. PharmD School of Pharmacy student nonpro t organization in Florida. s School of Social Welfare He lives in Bradenton. Dee Wallace Stone, d’71, is an u School of Music Roy Swift, f’65, is executive director of 71 actress and intuitive life coach. She DE Doctor of Engineering Workcred in Washington, D.C. He lives in developed BuppaLaPaloo, an interactive DMA Doctor of Musical Arts Clion, Virginia. teaching toy for children. DPT Doctor of Physical Therapy EdD Doctor of Education Janice Sutton Pierce, s’66, is retired PhD Doctor of Philosophy (no letter) Former student 66 and lives in the San Francisco Bay assoc Associate member of the area. Alumni Association H.A. “Bud” Yazel, d’66, was named 2015

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Ric Averill, f’72, g’85, is artistic Karen Zupko, j’72, is president of Karen the BSW social work program at the 72 director of performing arts at the Zupko & Associates in Chicago, where she University of Central Missouri in Lawrence Arts Center. He lives in makes her home. Warrensburg. Lawrence. James Guthrie, e’74, g’77, g’01, retired James Berkley, b’72, chairs Stockton Carol Allen Brandenburg, d’73, is a from a 43-year career with Black & Veatch. Bancshares Inc. in Stockton, where he lives 73 senior business analyst at United He’s a merit badge counselor and unit with his wife, Vicki. Healthcare. She lives in Sartell, Minnesota. commissioner for the Boy Scouts of John Carlile, c’72, m’75, is medical Glenn Meyer, c’73, is a Dell so ware America. Jim resides in Prairie Village. director of hospitalist and intensivist development senior adviser at NASA in services at Summerville Medical Center in Moett Field, California. Charles Boyd, c’75, g’76, is chairman Summerville, South Carolina, where he Donald Pageler, b’73, lives in Westmin- 75 of the Center for the National makes his home. ster, California, where he is retired from a Interest in Washington, D.C. He is a L. Lewis Wall, c’72, m’83, is the inaugu- career with Hughes Aircra Company. He retired general in the U.S. Air Force. ral Selina Okin Kim Conner Professor in served in the U.S. Navy and is past vice David Elkouri, b’75, l’78, is executive Arts & Sciences at Washington University president of the Liberty Veterans vice president and general counsel at in St. Louis. He also is professor of Association. Halcón Resources Corporation in anthropology and professor of obstetrics Roger Reynolds, b’73, was recognized Houston. and gynecology at Washington University for serving 2,000 volunteer hours at the David Middendorf, e’75, retired as an School of Medicine. First Division Museum at Cantigny Park electrical engineer at Black & Veatch. He in Wheaton, Illinois. makes his home in Hiawatha.

M. Jenise Thomas Comer, s’74, is Stanley Moore, c’76, retired from a 74 president of the 2016 board of 76 38-year career at the Dow Chemical directors of the Association of Social Work Company. He recently spent two months Boards. She is a professor and director of volunteering aboard the Africa Mercy

48 | KANSAS ALUMNI hospital ship. Stan and his wife, Karen, live at CK Pharmacies. He makes his home in Massage erapy in Bonner Springs, in Granbury, Texas. McPherson. where he makes his home with his wife, Shelly Morris Miller, ’82. Jacqueline Eyring Bixler, g’77, Chad Leat, b’78, retired vice Randy Olson, j’79, is a contract photog- 77 PhD’80, received the 2016 State 78 chairman of global banking at rapher for National Geographic. He lives Council of Higher Education for Virginia Citigroup Inc., joined Norwegian Cruise in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Outstanding Faculty Award. She is an Line Holdings’ board of directors. He lives Je rey Wesche, c’79, lives in Virginia alumni distinguished professor in the in New York City. Beach, Virginia, where he directs planning department of foreign languages and Catherine Ray Nance, e’78, g’88, retired and logistics at LifeNet Health. literatures in the College of Liberal Arts as a senior engineer at AT&T. and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech in Mike Binkley, j’80, retired aer 34 Blacksburg. William Miller, c’79, is a massage 80 years as a television news anchor in A. Keith Schooler, p’77, is a pharmacist 79 therapist and owns Bodyworks Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he lives.

PROFILE by Heather Biele STEVE PUPPE STEVE

Mother, daughter share including wooden success of family business statues and soapstone carvings. She established lia Sachedina had no intention of the brick-and-mortar Ataking over her mother’s Lawrence- shop, African Adorned, based retail business. e free spirit, who in 1985 and operated was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and raised in both a retail and Lawrence, had le the Midwest behind wholesale business. aer college to travel the world. Kurata immediately “I lived sort of a gypsy life for a long put her daughter to time,” Sachedina, ’00, says. “I le the work, although Sache- “There are great shops everywhere, but I do think we have something country with no itinerary or return date.” dina had no interest in special,” Alia Sachedina says of the family-owned business her Wanderlust was in her blood. Sache- the store, even as a mother, Elizabeth Kurata, started more than 30 years ago. dina’s mother, Elizabeth Kurata, c’72, had teenager. “She actually le Lawrence armed with just a backpack had to re me a number nearly four decades before her, shortly of times,” Sachedina aer graduating from KU, to visit a friend recalls with a laugh. “She would hire me responsible to her to make it work.” in Kenya. She stayed there for 10 years and for busy seasons to work the retail side of Any hesitation she once had has passed. started a family. things. I just wasn’t interested.” Nearly 10 years into her role as owner, Kurata returned to Lawrence in the early Even aer Sachedina le Lawrence to Sachedina has embraced the shop and has ’80s with her daughter and two sons, pursue her own travels, Kurata tried to even implemented several changes, determined to start a new life and support convince her daughter to return and run including modifying the name to Adorned her children aer separating from her the business. Aer numerous failed Boutique, which reects the store’s current husband. She brought back a crate of attempts and threats to close the shop, collection of handcraed jewelry, textiles handwoven sisal bags, which she Sachedina nally agreed. and accessories from countries outside of attempted to sell to local vendors. “I’d been traveling for a few years, and I Africa. She’s also hoping to launch a “She went from shop to shop, kind of started longing for simple pleasures, like website this year. like a traveling salesperson,” Sachedina having a garden and a dresser where I Sachedina can’t predict how long she’ll says of her mother. “She was very industri- could put my clothes,” she says. want to run the family-owned boutique, ous and very driven.” Sachedina took over in 2007 and admits but she already knows who could take her Interest in the handcraed goods was the transition wasn’t easy. “My mom had place when the time is right. strong, and soon Kurata was making built this business; it was her vision and “My 4-year-old daughter loves the shop,” multiple trips to Africa for more artifacts, her creation,” she says. “I felt hugely she says. “She’ll be a great candidate.”

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Tim Hills, ’80, lives in Sedan, where he is gology-head and neck surgery at the Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, senior vice president at the Bank of Sedan. University of Michigan Health System. where he lives. Lorraine Mangione, g’80, PhD’84, Matthew Keenan, c’81, l’84, is a partner Margo Warhola Shepard, g’82, is senior professor and director of practica at at Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City, nancial adviser and senior vice president Antioch University New England in where he has worked for 30 years. He of investments at Wells Fargo Advisors in Keene, New Hampshire, was honored for makes his home in Leawood. Overland Park. her dedication to teaching by the Massa- chusetts Psychological Association at its Barbara Bichelmeyer, j’82 c’86, g’88 Susan Haka, PhD’83, senior annual conference in November. 82 PhD’92, is provost and executive 83 associate dean and Ernst & Young Teresa Bratton Peterson, d’80, lives in vice chancellor at University of Missouri- professor of accounting at Michigan State Lawrence, where she is an assignments Kansas City. She lives in Kansas City. University in East Lansing, received the specialist at KU Student Housing. Elizabeth Blackburn, d’82, g’84, was 2016 American Accounting Association’s appointed to the Seventh Judicial Circuit Lifetime Contribution Award. David Bruns, d’81, was named Court in Florida. Liz is a partner at Cobb Anthony Marino, e’83, is president and 81 2015-’16 international president of Cole in Daytona Beach, where she makes CEO of Vermilion Energy Inc. in Calgary, Optimist International. He is a judge of her home. Canada. the Kansas Court of Appeals in Topeka, Kevin Kelso, b’82, is an accountant and Joseph Moore, c’83, is a senior manage- where he lives with his wife, Shawn principal at Kevin Kelso, CPA, PC, PA in ment analyst at the Department of Pierson Bruns, e’83. Kansas City. Veterans Aairs in Washington, D.C. He Jaynee Handelsman, g’81, PhD’84, is Douglas Reding, m’82, vice president of makes his home in Fredericksburg, president of the American Speech-Lan- oncology services at Ministry Health Care Virginia. guage-Hearing Association. She also in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, leads hematol- Paul Mullin, e’83, is a senior mechanical directs pediatric audiology at C.S. Mott’s ogy and oncology services at the James engineer at Northrup Grumman Aero- Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, Beck Cancer Center. space Systems in Redondo Beach, Califor- Michigan, and is a clinical assistant Michael Regier, b’82, is general counsel nia. He and his wife, Isabel, live in professor in the department of otolaryn- and secretary at Vanderbilt University Manhattan Beach.

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Francis Wardle, PhD’83, is an adjunct Randy Eakin, b’85, is chief nancial professor at the University of Phoenix in ocer of Children’s Learning Adventure Arizona and Red Rocks Community Childcare Centers in Phoenix. College in Lakewood, Colorado. He lives Sally McRorie, PhD’85, lives in Tallahas- in Denver. see, Florida, where she was named provost and executive vice president for academic of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Tom Bené, b’84, is president and aairs at Florida State University. Rock, where she makes her home. 84 COO of Sysco Corporation. He Robyn Nordin Stowell, c’85, is an Cedric Hunter, ’87, a former KU lives in Houston. attorney at Sherman & Howard in basketball player, was inducted in the Scottsdale, Arizona, where she resides. Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Kelly Arnold, g’85, is town manager Fame. He is a behavioral coordinator at 85 of Windsor, Colorado, where he Patricia Cowan, g’87, is dean of the Boys Town Day School in Boys Town, makes his home. 87 College of Nursing at the University Nebraska.

PROFILE by Chris Lazzarino BILL SERNE

Sports psychologist helps against the biggest teams, Blue Jays ﬁnd mental edge and yet you see it. It struck me that, emotionally and ngus Mugford, hired in December as mentally, Scotland won the Athe Toronto Blue Jays’ rst “director of game before it even high performance,” has already elded started.” In the soccer plenty of questions about why a successful match, Mugford saw the sports psychologist would choose to work ip side of failure, with his in baseball, oen seen as slow to embrace English squad losing by the latest trends in physical and mental choking in the crucial nal training and performance analytics. moments. What doubters fail to take into account, “at was a big turning Angus Mugford says kids should be encouraged in sports “to he explains, is that baseball has long been point for me,” Mugford reinforce the eort and the life lessons, as opposed to the at the forefront of player development. says. “I wanted to know outcomes and the trophies. That’s the key to keep in mind.” “In baseball, they accept that when you m ore .” dra an 18-year-old, they’re probably not Underwhelmed by his going to be playing in the majors until 25,” psychology and sport says Mugford, g’99, PhD’05. “ey science studies as an undergraduate at “My wife teaches me all the time,” understand that journey of learning.” the University of Birmingham, Mugford Mugford says, “about mental performance, Mugford traces his professional passion discovered inspiration in the “awesome” managing pressure, communication.” to a pair of heartbreaking matches he faculty he found at KU, which he attended Mugford, president-elect of the Associa- endured as a 13-year-old boy back home on scholarship as part of the KU-Birming- tion for Applied Sports Psychology, chose in Britain: In March 1990, Scotland upset ham exchange program. to leave IMG for the opportunity to “dive heavily favored England to win rugby’s His rst job aer earning his doctorate deep” with one organization, for which Five Nations Championship; four months was at the inuential IMG Academy, in he’ll help guide young prospects to later, England lost its World Cup soccer Bradenton, Florida, where Mugford maturity as athletes and men and prepare semi nal to West Germany when England supervised mental training for junior and big-leaguers for success in pressure twice failed to convert on penalty kicks. professional tennis players and NBA and situations. In the rugby championship, Mugford NFL dra prospects. He even coached “Winning is clearly important, and that’s saw a Scottish side that simply looked Green Berets and Navy SEALs, life-and- the outcome we’re measured on, but the ready to win: “e analogy would be death work he prepared for by studying his reality is that it’s about growing and March Madness, right? ere are some wife, Sarah Temple Mugford, c’05, an developing people. Winning is a byprod- teams that have no business winning emergency-room physician. uct of that.”

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Michael Reid, ’87, retired aer 38 years Portland, Oregon. He makes his home in enterprise solutions executive at McKes- as curator of collections at KU Memorial Camas, Washington. son Technology Solutions. ey live in Unions. He was responsible for acquiring Mark Putman, f’89, g’94, is vice presi- Parker, Colorado, and have three children. the 1,000-piece Jayhawk Collection dent of operations at Credit Union Student currently on display at the Kansas Union. Choice in Washington, D.C. Michelle Anschutz, e’91, is a eld Mark Russell, e’87, lives in Beaufort, 91 engineering administrator at the South Carolina, with his wife, Wendi Dill Daniel Cindrich, f’90, is a military Kansas Department of Transportation. Russell, j’86, where they own Printology 90 analyst for the U.S. Department of Lorraine Cavataio, b’91, is an attorney at Signs & Graphics. e couple have four Defense. Sandberg Phoenix & Von Gontard in children. Kiersten Gobetz Firquain, c’90, owns O’Fallon, Missouri. She lives in Swansea, InHome Bistro Catering and is chef for Illinois. Robin Hales Johnson, b’88, man- Happy Food Company. She makes her Jason Feldman, c’91, is an equity trader 88 ages real estate and workplace home in Lenexa. at Susquehanna International Group in services at Salesforce.com in San Fran- Laura Woodward Garrison, j’90, is vice Chicago. cisco, where she lives. president of Dimension Data. She lives in Jared Lock, c’91, founded the JDL Atlanta. Group in Leawood, where he makes his Robin Abramowitz, c’89, is execu- Kyle Mathis, e’90, is director of strategic home. 89 tive director at the Brain Injury transactions at Chevron Phillips Chemical Monica Forman London, h’91, lives in Association of Kansas and Greater Kansas Company. He resides in Spring, Texas. Omaha, Nebraska, where she is an City in Overland Park. Sarah Purdy, g’90, is city manager of occupational therapist at Healthpro. Todd Cohen, c’89, j’89, is associate vice Yates County, New York. president for marketing and communica- Cheryl Reinhart Riddle, j’90, is director tions at Regis University in Denver. of sales for the higher education division Michael Harmelink, c’89, g’91, is an at Lexmark Enterprise Soware. Her executive partner at Gartner Inc. in husband, David, c’90, is a strategic

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Elizabeth Moneymaker, c’91, l’96, is an Munaf Shamji, m’92, an interventional Erin is a program assistant at KU. ey attorney and partner at Dine, Pino & cardiologist at the Heart Medical Group in live in Olathe. Moneymaker in Bradenton, Florida. Van Nuys, California, is on the board of directors at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Matthew Druten, b’93, is chief Stephen McPhilliamy, f’92, is Van Nuys. 93 nancial ocer at Executive 92 partner and executive director at David Suro, e’92, is a sta attorney and AirShare Corporation in Kansas City. Insight Product Development in Chicago, member of the pro bono team at Shook, Gillian Schieber Flynn, c’93, j’93, author where he makes his home. Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City. of the best-selling book Gone Girl, ipped Paul Rudd, ’92, received a star on the switch at the annual Plaza lighting the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los MARRIED ceremony in Kansas City last year. Her Angeles. He was also named the Keith Larkin, d’92, g’97, and Erin short story “e Grownup” was published Topeka Capital-Journal’s 2015 Kansan Cottrell, c’13, Oct. 10 in Topeka. Keith in November by Crown. of the Year. teaches at Olathe East High School, and Hale Sheppard, j’93, l’98, g’99, an

PROFILE by Steven Hill STEVE BARRETT STEVE

Dewey leads preservation was my freshman of ‘America’s Front Yard’ naiveté. Now I know better.” s the chief caretaker of the National A future in AMall in Washington, D.C., Catherine espionage seemingly Dewey oversees the repair and upkeep of derailed, she discov- America’s most visible national treasures. ered another path in e Washington, Jeerson and Lincoln an archaeology class monuments. e Vietnam Veterans and taught by Elizabeth National World War II memorials. Ford’s Banks, associate eatre and Petersen House (where professor of classics. Abraham Lincoln died) all fall under the “I thought I wanted “People don’t always realize the National Mall is part of the National watchful eye of Dewey, c’93, who in April to be an archaeolo- Park Service,” says Catherine Dewey, manager of a D.C. park system 2015 was named chief of resource manage- gist, but Betty Banks that draws 33 million visitors per year. ment for the National Mall and Memorial said to me, ‘No, you Parks unit of the National Park Service. would like to be an “I feel very privileged to be trusted to archaeological site conservator.’” Dewey constant upkeep. Collections of artifacts care for all these special places,” she says, soon learned that Banks was right. (medals, photos and other mementos le noting that America’s Front Yard, as the “In archaeology, you basically destroy by visitors to the Vietnam Veterans Park Service calls the National Mall, “is the site to get the information,” she says. Memorial, for example, or the coat Lincoln like no other place in the country.” “I liked the idea of saving sites rather than wore to Ford’s eatre and a pillow that “O en when I’m ying into National destroying them.” cradled his head as he lay dying) must be Airport and I look out and see the She gradually moved into architectural maintained. ere are even living things Washington Monument, the Lincoln conservation and now works to ensure such as the Tidal Basin cherry trees and Memorial, I think, ‘Oh, that’s all mine,’” that America’s national treasures don’t urban wildlife to manage. Dewey says. “‘at’s mine to take care of.’ become ruins. She guides the maintenance “We can be dealing with a little pin I o en smile to myself and wonder, ‘How of more than 150 Washington sites, associated with Lincoln’s assassination one did I get here?’” ranging from the 146-acre National Mall minute and one of the world’s largest e journey started at KU, where her to dozens of tiny pocket parks scattered freestanding masonry structures the next,” plans to study political science and across the metro area. Dewey says. “Every day is dierent, but it’s Russian crumbled with the Berlin Wall. New monuments (with complex really all about protecting our natural and “I didn’t think they would need spies regulatory hurdles to clear) are established cultural resources. It keeps me challenged anymore,” Dewey says, laughing. “at frequently, and existing structures demand and entertained.”

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attorney at Chamberlain Hrdlicka in the Shopping Cart,” which was published Chapel Hill. He lives in Cary. Atlanta, was named to the 2015 Super in Peace & Change. She is a professor of Kenneth LaTessa, PhD’95, is chief Lawyers’ Business Edition. history at Washburn University in Topeka. information o cer at the National Scott Weisenberg, c’93, is an attorney at Michael Happe, j’94, is president and Research Center for College & University Selig Law Firm in Chicago, where he lives. CEO of Winnebago Industries Inc. in Admissions in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Forest City, Iowa. Lori Reesor, PhD’95, is vice president for MARRIED Nicole Moritz Ohmes, s’94, ’01, is a student aairs at the University of North Daniel Deaver, e’93, to Robin Wether- medical social worker at Palomar Medical Dakota in Grand Forks, where she makes ington, Nov. 6 in Valdosta, Georgia, where Center in Escondido, California. She lives her home. they make their home. Dan is director of in Oceanside. Hilary Thomas Wagner, f’95, manufacturing at Georgia Gulf Sulfur Joseph Reardon, l’94, is CEO of the directs client services at TalentRISE Corporation. Greater Kansas City Chamber of in Chicago. Commerce. Angela Cervantes, c’94, wrote Allie, Tim Jordan, f’96, also known as 94 First at Last, which will be pub- MARRIED 96 “Typewriter Tim,” exhibited his lished in late March by Scholastic Press. In Lorraine Darwin, d’94, g’99, to Steven glass-infused typewriters and typewriter 2014, Angela won the International Latino Marroulis, Sept. 5 in Little Rock, Arkansas. parts at the William and Florence Schmidt Book Award for her debut novel Gaby, ey live in Reisterstown, Maryland. Art Center at Southwestern Illinois Lost and Found. College in Belleville. Laura Geritz, c’94, g’04, is a lead Neeli Bendapudi, PhD’95, was Melissa Frazier Knudsen, b’96, is a portfolio manager at Wasatch Advisors in 95 elected to MRIGlobal’s board of measurement and data analyst at iModules Salt Lake City, where she resides. directors. She is H.D. Price professor of in Leawood. Rachel Waltner Goossen, PhD’94, business and dean of KU’s School of Ernest Oelkers, f’96, ’02, is a recitalist received Peace History Society’s 2015 Business. DeBenedetti Award for her article, David Hanks, c’95, is business manager “Disarming the Toy Store and Reloading at the University of North Carolina in

58 | KANSAS ALUMNI and played at the Winterfest organ Keri Morrison Lauxman, c’98, was Kansas City. He is an attorney in the concert in Gonzales, Texas. He lives in named 2015-’16 Lawrence Master Teacher rm’s business litigation and corporate Austin with his wife, Christine Hagstrom and was one of seven to win the statewide services group. Oelkers, c’95. distinction. She’s an English language arts Erin Streeter, j’96, was named to PR instructor at Lawrence High School. Michelle Holt Barkofski, b’00, is News’ annual list of Top Women in PR. Andrew Longstreth, c’98, is a content 00 standards manager for experience She’s senior vice president of communica- and client strategist at In nite Spada in planning and integration at the Walt tions at the National Association of New York City. Disney Company. She lives in Winder- Manufacturers in Washington, D.C. Patrick McGuire, g’98, g’05, joined mere, Florida, with her husband, Steve, Argus Consulting in Overland Park. and their two children, Keira, 4, and Stephen Hupp, c’97, professor of He and his wife, Nicole Wiviott McGuire, Oliver, 1. 97 psychology at Southern Illinois c’98, have three children. Nicholas Brown, c’00, m’06, is a surgeon University at Edwardsville, received the at Sumner Regional Medical Center in SIUE Alumni Association’s Great Teacher Sarah Zeller Anello, c’99, lives in Wellington. Award for 2015-’16. 99 Souderton, Pennsylvania. She is a Jack Martin, c’00, g’08, is senior director Sharyn Lewin, c’97, m’01, was inducted venue sales specialist at Center City of strategic communications at the in Lawrence High School Alumni Associa- District in Philadelphia. University of Washington in Seattle, where tion’s Hall of Honor. She is medical William Graham, g’99, is commander he lives. director of the gynecologic oncology and division engineer of the Army Corps Regina Polok, b’00, is an accountant at division at the Regional Cancer Center of of Engineers, North Atlantic division. the Federated Rural Electric Insurance Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, Scott Morrill, b’99, co-owns Cervantes’ Exchange in Lenexa. She lives in Fairway. New Jersey. Masterpiece Ballroom in Denver and the Devon Reese, l’00, is an attorney and Aggie eatre in Fort Collins. He makes partner at Reese Kintz and Guinasso in Gregory Dunlap, g’98, is president his home in Denver. Incline Village, Nevada. He and his 98 of Horizon Bank in Waverly, Richard Shearer, j’99, was named husband, Felipe Cisneros, assoc., live in Nebraska. partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Reno with their three children.

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Join today! kualumni.org/joinfj • 800-584-2957 A membership program for young Jayhawks Amelia Taylor, PhD’00, teaches math- in the NeuroDevelopmental Science CEO of Integrated Animal Health in ematics and coordinates mathematics and Center at Akron Children’s Hospital in Lawrence, where he makes his home. statistics curriculum at Oregon State Akron, Ohio. She makes her home John Patterson, c’02, l’05, is of-counsel University-Cascades in Bend. in Hudson. at Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice in Sharon Whyte, f’00, ’03, owns Renee Scholz Mercer, e’01, directs Kansas City. Sharon’s Paint and Pour. She makes her regional sales at Biogen. She makes her home in Vancouver, Washington. home in Overland Park. Edwin Aiken, b’03, g’10, is a global 03 project leader at Colgate-Palmolive. Steven Allton, c’01, f’02, l’04, g’14, Paul Dunscomb, PhD’02, He lives in Lawrence. 01 is an attorney at KU’s Legal Services 02 is professor of East Asian Barry Loudis, j’03, is senior director of for Students. history at the University of business and product development at Jessica Foster, m’01, g’07, is director Alaska Anchorage. Turner Broadcasting in New York City, of developmental behavioral pediatrics Blake Hawley, g’02, is president and where he resides.

PROFILE by Chris Lazzarino STEVE PUPPE STEVE

Female guards illuminated “It was really questions by Holocaust historian about human nature that struck me: what it is we’re helly Cline was a seventh-grader in capable of and why. And of SBelleville when her band teacher course that’s where my announced that before they could prepare research eventually went, for a USO-style show planned in honor of looking at these ordinary the 50th anniversary of the end of World people and trying to under- War II, the young musicians rst had to stand what happens when study the world at war in the 1940s. ordinary people get caught “She said, ‘You can’t play the music up in these extraordinary At the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Shelly Cline without understanding the history at the circumstances.” devises educational programs that encourage us “to act more time,’” recalls Cline, c’04, d’04, g’09, Cline’s journey into the responsibly in the face of the crises of our world today.” PhD’15, now public historian at the little-known topic of female Midwest Center for Holocaust Education guards, known as the Aufseh- in Overland Park. “Of course the Holo- erinnen, began with a caust was a signicant part of that, and it’s comment from Urie as Cline set out on lightly oat in their reality, in the sense of something that stayed with me.” her honor’s thesis. When Cline said she that physical space, understanding the Cline returned to the Holocaust during wanted to research both women and the geography of the camp, understanding her “life changing” junior-year Western Holocaust, Urie replied, “What do you that this space holds so much energy and Civilization course, taught by senior know about women guards?” so much memory,” Cline says. “ ere was lecturer Dale Urie, which included a Also supported by Jewish Studies denitely a toggling back and forth, Holocaust text. e course turned Cline lecturer Fran Sternberg, a daughter of between what I’m trying to nd out, on away from her intended career as a high Holocaust survivors, Cline deeply this intellectual plane, and then to be school history teacher and pushed her explored the Aufseherinnen. there, to think about it in terms of the real toward graduate school and research Her research took her to Germany, brutality and suering that happened. focused on what Cline refers to as “perpe- where she even lived for two weeks in a “Because I study perpetration, I try to trator history.” youth hostel that had been fashioned out enter the topic from their perspective, but For her dissertation, Cline studied the of barracks used by female guards at that doesn’t negate the reality of all the female prison-camp guards employed by Ravensbrück, a women’s concentration pain and suering that happened on the the Nazis, a subject previous historians camp north of Berlin. other side. Sometimes that was dicult to had yet to research in depth. “ at was, I would say, instructive, to deal with.”

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Jennifer Holtwick Harader, m’04, is Pringle, Oliver, Wallace and Bauer in Corporation in St. Louis. 04 a physician at Oasis Family Wichita, where she lives. Jesse Newell, c’06, j’06, works at the Medicine Associates in Topeka, where she Lisa Schmitz, g’05, manages marketing Kansas City Star, where he is the beat makes her home. and public relations for the annual writer for KU sports. He lives in Lawrence. Brian Konie, c’04, is manager at Bravo Principal Charity Classic PGA Tour event Michelle Lockhart Sundstrom, g’06, is Consulting Group in Reston, Virginia. He in Des Moines, Iowa. vice president for enrollment management lives in Arlington. Patricia Seymour, PhD’05, is professor at the University of Mount Union in and chair of the department of communi- Alliance, Ohio. BORN TO: cation disorders & sciences at California Jeremy Walling, PhD’06, lives in Cape Corey Fenwick, e’04, and his wife, State University in Northridge. Girardeau, Missouri, where he’s a profes- Abbey, daughter, Jordan, Oct. 13 in Robert Wenzl, PharmD’05, is CEO at sor of political science at Southeast Charlotte, North Carolina. Midwest Family Health in Phillipsburg, Missouri State University. Blair Lawrence Tyson, j’04, and her where he lives. Jana Zaudke, m’06, is an associate husband, Truss, daughter, Channing, professor at KU Medical Center in Aug. 12 in Prairie Village. MARRIED Kansas City. Tami Jae Alloway, n’05, to Josh Tinkey, Kevin Hunter, ’05, is president of Oct. 10 in Lawrence. She’s a clinical nurse Jerey Braun, f’07, lives in Fre- 05 inMarket in Venice, California. He at the University of Kansas Hospital in 07 mont, Nebraska, where he is a makes his home in La Jolla. Kansas City. ey reside in Overland Park. sports information assistant at Midland Christopher Morton, b’05, lives in University. Leawood, where he directs brand strategy Luka Kapkiai, g’06, teaches Alonzo Jamison, c’07, is a services at Tachikara Inc. 06 chemistry at Neosho County executive central region at Ricoh USA Inc. Anna Clovis Community College in Chanute. in Lenexa. Ritchie, c’05, j’05, is Jennifer Wilson Kissinger, e’06, is Dena Neuenschwander, c’07, j’07, is a an attorney and director of corporate sustainability and project leader at Boston Consulting partner at Martin, preconstruction manager at PARIC Group. She lives in New York City.

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kualumni.org • 800-584-2957 Jeremiah Randall, d’07, is head athletic BORN TO: Year. He plays for the San Diego Chargers. trainer for the Houston Astros. He makes Alan, c’08, and Ashley Darling Miner, Andrew Wank, b’09, is a wealth manager his home in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, ’09, son, Turner William, March 18, 2015, at Blooom Inc. in Kansas City. with his wife, Kelly. in Oklahoma City. Alan is a physician in the U.S. Navy. MARRIED MARRIED Matthew Metz, b’09, to Jamie Pickett, Patrick Bliven, e’07, and Brenna Jonathan Benevides, l’09, is a Dec. 19 in Warrensburg, Missouri, where Spurgeon, c’09, Aug. 21 in Kansas City, 09 member at Baker Sterchi Cowden they make their home. He’s a partner at where they live. He’s an electrical engineer & Rice in Kansas City. He lives in Over- Integrity Tree. at Burns & McDonnell, and she’s a global land Park. bene ts associate consultant at Lockton Will Clausen, e’09, is CEO and founder Rieta Drinkwine, c’10, is director of Companies. of Cartogram in Seattle. He lives in 10 the Union County Carnegie Library Renton, Washington. in Union, South Carolina. She makes her BORN TO: Allyn Denning, c’09, lives in Ellsworth, home in Mount Pleasant. Danielle Laerty Hoover, c’07, and her where she is a eld organizer for the Stephen Hicks, g’10, is a chaplain in the husband, Darrick, assoc., daughter, Harlow Hillary for America campaign. U.S. Navy at Tinker Air Force Base in Margaret, Jan. 17 in Wichita, where she Christine Hartigan Falk, j’09, g’15, is Oklahoma City. joins a brother, Hudson, 5. Danielle is interim marketing and public relations Dagoberto Rodriguez, l’10, is an assistant director of Wichita programs for director at KU’s Edwards Campus. She attorney at Rodriguez & Sanabria in the KU Alumni Association. lives in Olathe. Manassas, Virginia. Lincoln Lewis, a’07, ’08, and his wife, Alison McAfee, f’09, is a graphic design Irene, daughter, Eleanor Ari n, Oct. 5 in professional at HOK in Kansas City. MARRIED Singapore. Lincoln is an architect at Darrell Stuckey, c’09, was nominated for Annie Frizzell, c’10 and David Mills, MKPL Architects. the 2015 Walter Payton NFL Man of the c’10, June 13 in La Jolla, California. She is Erin Wiley Quakenbush, j’07, g’09, and her husband, Cory, daughter, Avery, Oct. 28 in Lafayette, Colorado. Michael Sloop, c’07, and Jacquelyn Bowlin-Sloop, b’07, son, Koa, Feb. 24, 2015, in Kansas City, where he joins a brother, Kai, 3. Aaron, b’07, g’08, and Ashley Kerr St. Clair, PharmD’08, son, Gavin Alexander, Jan. 13 in Olathe, where he joins a brother, Trevor, 3. Aaron is a CPA at Hollis Kuckelman Van De Veer in Olathe, and Ashley is a pharmacist at CVS. Megan Talburt, c’07, and her ancé, Aaron Powell, daughter, Gretchen, Oct. 1 in Wrangell, Alaska. Megan is secretary and travel coordinator at Wrangell High School.

Andrew Baker, j’08, is a sales 08 executive at Travelers Insurance. He makes his home in Fairview, Texas. Peter Marples, c’08, l’11, is a realty specialist at General Services Administra- tion in Denver. He lives in Golden, Colorado. Jessica Kibbe Webb, c’08, is a senior recruitment coordinator at KU. She makes her home in Lawrence.

ISSUE 2, 2016 | 65 student conduct at the University of engineer at Airbnb Inc. in San Francisco, Maryland in College Park. He lives in where he lives with Linsee Addington Silver Spring. Hendrix, PharmD’14, a pharmacist at Ashley Wanger, c’11, manages On the Walgreens. a regional admissions representative for Border in Lawrence, where she lives. Andrew Simon, b’12, is a work ow KU, and he’s a regional admissions consultant at Wolters Kluwer in Wichita, representative for Arizona State University. MARRIED where he lives with his wife, Sarah. ey make their home in San Diego. Deena Finer, n’11, to Jonathan Gluck, Keniesha Thompson, m’12, is an Julia Groeblacher, c’10, to Daniel Nov. 7 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ey live in internist at Mercy Clinic Adult Hospitalist Castillo, Jan. 20 in Washington, D.C., Nashville, Tennessee. in St. Louis. where they live. She is a foreign service Christine Laskowski, d’11, g’13, to ocer at the U.S. Department of State. Alexander Cate, June 21 in Lawrence, Stephen Dagrosa, g’13, is a per- Ashley Petitjean, c’10, to Brandon where they live. She teaches English as a 13 former at Di Stefano’s Victor Cafe in Braaksma, Sept. 26 in Lawrence. ey second language in the Lawrence school Philadelphia. He resides in Haddon reside in Sheldon, Iowa. district. Heights, New Jersey. Michelle Sprehe, j’11, and Michael Jarom Schmidt, g’13, is an associate Scott Durham, c’11, is a senior IT Goodrich, assoc., Dec. 4 in Mexico. She’s a administrator and ethics and compliance 11 support technician at KU. marketing coordinator at Riverview ocer at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Alex Oyler, e’11, ’14, is a senior Health in Noblesville, Indiana. ey make Center and Sunrise Children’s Hospital in specialist for connected car technologies their home in Carmel. Las Vegas, where he lives. at SBD North America. He lives in Nicholas Self, b’13, owns Universal Kansas City. Elizabeth Berland, PharmD’12, is a Windows in Bonner Springs. Sarah Kelly Shannon, j’11, is a proof- 12 clinical pharmacist at Colmery- Valerie Switzler, g’13, received the reader at Sullivan Higdon & Sink in O’Neil VA Medical Center in Topeka. She Linguistic Society of America’s 2016 Wichita, where she makes her home. commutes from Lawrence. Excellence in Community Linguistics Mathew Shepard, c’11, is coordinator of Noah Hendrix, e’12, is a soware Award. She’s the director of the culture

66 | KANSAS ALUMNI and heritage program of the Confederated attestation and business advisory sta at leader and GOLD associate at Catalent Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon. MarksNelson in Kansas City. Pharma Solutions in Kansas City. Corinne Christensen Todd, d’13, is a Brandon Wurz, b’14, is an analyst at Joseph McGroder, l’15, is an attorney at vaccine specialist at VaxServe in Dallas, Goldman Sachs in Irving, Texas. He lives Graves Garrett in Kansas City. He resides where she lives with her husband, Patrick. in Justin. in Lenexa. Joshua Rankin, d’15, teaches physical MARRIED MARRIED education at Dwight D. Eisenhower Andrew Petz, e’13, to Hannah Jones, Tamara Gaynes, e’14, and Maxwell Elementary School in Abilene. He also Dec. 5 in Kansas City. He’s a civil engineer Lemieux, ’15, June 13 in Hilton Head coaches cross country at the middle school at Black & Veatch in Overland Park, where Island, South Carolina. ey make their and high school in Abilene, where he they make their home. home in Wichita, where she is an electrical makes his home. engineer at Textron Aviation, and he Courtney Schupp, c’15, is a tour Dillon Davis, c’14, lives in Topeka, works at Intrust Bank. consultant at EF Tours in Cambridge, 14 where he is a communications Massachusetts. She lives in Somerville. specialist at Payless ShoeSource. Zachary Carnahan, j’15, is a recre- Brandon Starkel, g’15, is a management Tara Hammer, g’14, is an energy 15 ation program specialist for the City and program analyst for the U.S. Army in sustainability specialist for the Citizen of Olathe. Fort Leavenworth. He and his wife, Laura, Potawatomi Nation in Shawnee, Okla- Dalen Fink, e’15, is a eld engineer at live in Overland Park with their three homa. She lives in Seminole. Chesapeake Energy. He lives in North children. Christopher Nicholson, c’14, manages Canton, Ohio. Kevin Staten, g’15, is a design profes- Jos. A. Bank in Lawrence, where he makes Matthew Huderle, g’15, is an athletic sional at HOK in St. Louis. his home with his wife, Alexandra, d’13, trainer at UBMD Orthopaedics & Sports Jonathan Wilson, g’15, lives in operations manager at Heartland Commu- Medicine in New York. He resides in Osage Beach, Missouri, where he’s an nity Health Care. Cheektowaga. audiologist at Lake Regional Ear, Nose Phoenix Trees, b’14, g’15, is part of the Tom Hung, e’15, is a DAS manufacturing and roat.

ISSUE 2, 2016 | 67 In Memory Christopher, b’71, and Andrew, b’79; nine grandchildren; and seven great- grandchildren. Vernon McKale, e’43, 93, March 21, Rose Stach Sizemore Burton, Bertha Mendenhall Con, c’40, 96, 2015, in Sonoma, California. He was 30sd’39, 97, Nov. 5 in Santa Rosa, Dec. 28 in Shawnee, where she was a president of McKale’s Service Stations. California, where she was a homemaker. retired legal secretary. A son, a daughter, Surviving are a son, a daughter, a brother She is survived by three sons, Michael seven grandchildren and ve great-grand- and seven grandchildren. Sizemore, l’67, Patrick Sizemore, l’70, and children survive. Kenneth Miller, c’49, g’51, 89, Jan. 15 in Herbert Hadley Sizemore Jr., l’73; a Mary Shepard Diehl, d’49, 89, Jan. 16, Madison, New Jersey, where he was retired daughter, Sarah Sizemore, f’73; seven 2015, in Kirkwood, Missouri, where she professor and chair of political science at grandchildren; and 12 great- was a retired teacher and competitive Rutgers University. During his time at KU grandchildren. golfer. She is survived by her husband, he edited Co-ops on Campus. He is M. Orville Johnson, g’38, 103, Aug. 19 Walter, d’50, g’55; a son; and a grandson. survived by two daughters, four grandchil- in Raymore, Missouri. He was supervisor Eleanor Fry, c’43, 94, Nov. 28 in Pueblo, dren and two great-grandchildren. of music for the Independence public Colorado, where she was a local historian R. Elvin Miller, g’48, 93, Nov. 15 in school district. Survivors include a and editor of the Pueblo Chieain for Overland Park, where he was a retired daughter, Sherry Johnson Unruh, d’73, several years. A sister, Helen Fry Wiens, teacher and counselor in the Shawnee g’76; ve grandchildren; and six great- j’52, survives. Mission school district. Survivors include grandchildren. Warren Grist, e’49, 92, Dec. 20 in his wife, Margaret; a daughter; a son; two Elon Torrence, j’39, 98, Nov. 11 in Wichita, where he was a retired research brothers, one of whom is James, p’65; and Topeka, where he was a retired Associated and development manager at the Burke a sister. Press reporter. He is survived by a Company. His wife, June Pond Grist, c’48; Arthur Nelson, c’43, 92, Nov. 28 in daughter, Mary, c’71, l’74; three sons, one two sons, William, e’74, and omas, c’75; Weston, Massachusetts, where he founded of whom is Charles, ’83; ve grandchil- a daughter, Barbara, d’80; two sisters; and several companies and nonpro t organiza- dren; and nine great-grandchildren. six grandchildren survive. tions in the Boston area. He is survived by E. Eugene Innis, e’49, 88, Oct. 19 in a son; two daughters; a brother, Stanley, Jo Ann Roberts Allegre, ’49, 91, Nashville, Tennessee, where he was a c’50, l’50; and seven grandchildren. 40sNov. 25 in Lebo. She worked at retired patent attorney for Phillips 66 and Curtis Ottinger Sr., e’49, 89, Jan. 7 in the Kansas City Kansas Chamber of Air Products Corporation. Two sons and Leawood, where he owned his own Commerce. Surviving are her husband, three grandchildren survive. construction company. He is survived by a Jack; two sons, William, p’80, and Peter, Harwood Kolsky, c’43, g’47, 94, Nov. 5 son and four grandchildren. p’80, g’81; two daughters, one of whom is in Saratoga, California. He worked at IBM Ruth Bird Santee Swander, c’46, n’49, Ann, m’77; a brother, John Roberts, c’51; for several years and later was professor 90, Nov. 22 in Lawrence, where she was a nine grandchildren; and a great- emeritus of computer engineering at the retired nursing instructor and consultant. granddaughter. University of California, Santa Cruz. He is Surviving are a daughter, a son, a stepson, Virginia Ochs Becker, ’43, 93, Dec. 11 in survived by two sons, one of whom is nine grandchildren and two great- Wichita, where she was a homemaker. She Franklin, c’70; a daughter; two grand- grandchildren. is survived by three sons, Karl Jr., c’65, daughters; and two great-grandsons. Ruth Gibson Thomas, f’41, 95, July 19 in Paul, ’68, and Bruce, c’75; a daughter, Nelda Budde Kubat, g’46, 93, Nov. 12 in Greeneville, Tennessee, where she was a Ruthie Becker Gillespie, f’75; eight Ithaca, New York, where she was a retired music instructor. Two sons and two grandchildren; and 12 great- volunteer and retired teacher. Her hus- grandchildren survive. grandchildren. band, Daniel, g’57, survives. Marjorie Machin Tonkin, c’41, 97, Nov. Charles Benton Jr., c’48, 89, Sept. 26 in Mary McBee Kuhlmann, c’45, c’47, 93, 30 in Council Grove. She and her late Kingsport, Tennessee, where he was Nov. 17 in Dallas, where she was a Girl husband managed nurseries before retired director of health and nutrition Scouts leader and member of several retiring. Several nieces and nephews research at Eastman. Two daughters and square dancing clubs. Surviving are her survive. three grandchildren survive. husband, Joseph, a’50; a son; a daughter; Lois “Polly” Pollom Torrence, c’42, 95, Marjorie Neumann Carlson, b’41, 96, and a granddaughter. Nov. 9 in Topeka, where she was a teacher. Nov. 21 in Modesto, California, where she Charles Lear, b’48, 91, Dec. 19 in She is survived by a daughter, Mary, c’71, was a retired social worker. Survivors Topeka, where he was retired from a l’74; three sons, one of whom is Charles, include a daughter, a son, two grandchil- longtime career in banking. He is survived ’83; a brother; ve grandchildren; and nine dren, ve great-grandchildren and four by his wife, Mary Varner Lear, ’49; a great-grandchildren. great-great-grandchildren. daughter, Marcia Lear Nigg, s’73; two sons, Joan Elliott Winn, ’44, 92, Nov. 3 in

68 | KANSAS ALUMNI Kansas City, where she was a homemaker. Joan Bigham Frieling, c’51, 86, Nov. 20 president of Myron Green Cafeterias Surviving are her husband, Larry Winn Jr., in South Bend, Indiana. She was an Company. Surviving are her husband, c’41; two sons, E. Larry Winn III, c’66, elementary-school teacher. Her husband, George, a’55; a son, John, c’88, l’92; two l’68, and Douglas, c’68, g’76; two daugh- Gerald, e’51; two sons; a daughter; a daughters; and seven grandchildren. ters, Janet Winn Payne, d’71, and Cynthia brother, Frank Bigham Jr., ’67; nine Conrad McEwen, e’50, 86, Nov. 1 in Winn Burr, ’73; eight grandchildren; and grandchildren; and two great-grandchil- Lantana, Florida. He was plant manager at 16 great-grandchildren. dren survive. Deshler Products. He is survived by a Virginia Ruse Wright, c’41, 96, Jan. 1 in William Hall, b’53, 84, Jan. 1 in Scotts- daughter, a son, two grandsons and three Eugene, Oregon. She served in the U.S. dale, Arizona, where he was retired from a great-grandchildren. Navy as a ight simulator instructor. 35-year career with General Electric. He is Carleton McMullin, g’58, 83, July 17 in Survivors include two sons, a daughter, survived by his wife, Diane Hornaday Bend, Oregon. He had a longtime career seven grandchildren, three great-grand- Hall, c’53; a son; a daughter; and four in city management and also chaired children and a great-great-grandchild. grandsons. Keystone Enterprises Inc. His wife, Jane, Keith Zarker, e’45, g’48, 91, Nov. 27 in Larry Horner, b’56, 81, Dec. 29 in San two daughters, a stepdaughter, a stepson, Houston, where he was an executive at Jose del Cabo, Mexico, where he was three grandchildren, three great-grand- Shell Oil Company and later chaired Kezar retired CEO and chairman of KPMG children, three stepgrandchildren and a Consulting. He is survived by his wife, International. He also served on several great-stepgrandchild survive. Mary, four sons, a daughter, a sister and corporate boards. A memorial has been Harold Metz, j’57, 81, Nov. 4 in Kansas nine grandchildren. established with KU Endowment. Surviv- City, where he worked as an insurance ing are his wife, Donna, assoc.; three sons; agent for more than 35 years. He is Warren Andreas, c’52, l’54, 84, two daughters; and 11 grandchildren. survived by his wife, Ruth, two daughters 50s Nov. 23 in Wineld, where he was Howard Hurwitz, ’51, 88, Dec. 23 in and three grandchildren. a retired attorney. He is survived by his Grove, Oklahoma. He owned Lawrence Marilyn Marks Miller, j’51, 85, Dec. 24 wife, Colleen; two sons, one of whom is Sanitary Milk and Ice Cream Company in Madison, New Jersey, where she was David, b’77, l’80; a daughter, Alisyn before starting a career in insurance. retired assistant dean of Rutgers University Andreas Edwards, c’82; two stepsons; two Survivors include two daughters, Barbara, School of Law. Surviving are two daugh- stepdaughters; a brother, Ronald, e’61, ’80, and Mimi, ’81; and a son. ters, four grandchildren and two great- g’63; nine grandchildren; and 11 great- Theodore Ice, c’56, l’61, 81, Nov. 23 in grandchildren. grandchildren. Newton, where he was a retired district Monte Miller, c’51, m’55, 85, Oct. 28 in M. Dale Atwood, m’51, 95, Sept. 10 in judge for the State of Kansas. He also Crozet, Virginia, where he was a retired Topeka, where he was a retired physician served on the board of governors for KU’s surgeon general in the U.S. Air Force. He and nancial planner. Surviving are ve School of Law. He is survived by his wife, is survived by two sons, one of whom is sons, Steven, c’75, m’78, Michael, c’78, Sue Harper Ice, d’56; two daughters, Mitchell, ’80; a daughter; a sister, Marilyn m’82, Larry, m’80, Eric, c’81, and Je, c’83, Laura, d’80, and Nancy Ice Schlup, d’83; a Miller Woods, n’55; nine grandchildren; m’87; nine grandchildren; and four great- son, Evan, e’86, l’93; and three and two great-grandchildren. grandchildren. granddaughters. Carroll Mock, c’57, 81, Oct. 21 in Utah. Melford Bartz, e’50, 91, Jan. 7 in Lila Tessendorf Johnson, d’52, 84, Nov. He was regional vice president at Penn Brownsburg, Indiana. He worked at 11 in Denver, where she was a retired Mutual Life and a volunteer for Rocky Millers National Insurance Company. music teacher and choir director. A Mountain National Park. Surviving are his Survivors include a daughter, a son, ve memorial has been established at KU wife, Babs; a stepson, Keith Heaton, c’85, grandchildren and four great- Endowment. She is survived by her m’89; two stepdaughters, Laurie Heaton, grandchildren. husband, Morgan, ’56; a son, David, e’79; b’88, and Julie Heaton Medlock, j’89; a Burton Brewer, j’58, 79, Dec. 22 in two daughters, one of whom is Amy sister, Norma Mock Woody, d’53; a Tequesta, Florida, where he was publisher Johnson Smith, j’89; and a granddaughter. brother, Clark, c’58; and seven and editor of e Beacon Magazine. Lawrence Jones, a’55, 86, Sept. 10 in grandchildren. Surviving are four sons, one of whom is Prairie Village. He was principal of Kathleen “Kakie” Larson Raney, c’50, Randy, ’91; eight grandchildren; and four Lawrence W. Jones Architects & Associates 87, Nov. 19 in Lawrence, where she great-grandchildren. for more than 45 years. Survivors include volunteered and served on several boards. Larry Campbell, d’58, g’66, 80, Jan. 8 in his wife, Laura; two daughters, Laura, c’79, She is survived by her husband, Richard, Leawood, where he was a retired elemen- g’93, and Ferrell Jones Hansen, b’80; a son; b’50, p’52; two grandsons; and three tary-school principal. He is survived by a and three grandchildren. great-grandchildren. daughter; a son; a brother, Ed, ’54; six Jann Duchossois Lund, d’55, 82, Nov. 28 Cliord Reusch, c’52, m’56, 84, Dec. 17 grandchildren; and four great- in Overland Park, where she was a retired in West Valley City, Utah, where he was a grandchildren. elementary-school teacher and vice retired pathologist. Surviving are a son; a

ISSUE 2, 2016 | 69 In Memory daughter; a sister, Joyce Reusch French, Peterson, ’59; and three grandchildren. one of whom is Gregory, c’02; a sister, d’55; a brother, Timothy, ’61; and two William Calhoun II, b’66, 71, Oct. 9 in Anna Stucky Jones, d’65, g’68, ’96; a grandchildren. Lawrence, where he was retired CEO and brother, Eric, e’72, m’75; and eight Roland Roepe, a’50, 90, Dec. 1 in secretary of the Emporia Community grandchildren. Overland Park, where he was retired from Foundation. Survivors include his wife, Alice Meyer Linck, PhD’61, 83, Oct. 27 a career with TWA. He is survived by his Judith Cartright Calhoun, PhD’96, ’97; in Dallas, where she was a retired English wife, Dorothy; a daughter, Allison, f’81; two daughters, Stephani Calhoun Davis, professor. A son and a grandson survive. two sons, one of whom is Steven, ’72; a c’88, and Melissa Calhoun Sottoway, j’91; David Stahl, e’61, 76, Nov. 25 in Spring, stepdaughter; a stepson; six grandchildren; two sisters, one of whom is Kay Calhoun Texas, where he was retired from a 28-year four stepgrandchildren; and seven great- Mehrer, ’62; and four grandchildren. career with Shell Oil Company. He is stepgrandchildren. Margaret Phipps Conlan, c’67, 70, Dec. survived by his wife, Karen, a daughter, a James Ross, c’54, 83, Nov. 19 in 15 in Marietta, Georgia. She was a case son, a sister, a brother and ve Greensboro, North Carolina, where he was worker at the Division of Family and grandchildren. retired from a 23-year career with Ciba- Children Services in Georgia and also Penny Mann Sumrall, d’68, 68, Nov. 18 Geigy. Surviving are his wife, Susan served as a court advocate for children. in Independence, Missouri, where she was Sohlberg Ross, c’56, c’57; a son; a daugh- She is survived by her husband, Gary, e’74; a surgical nurse. Surviving are her ter; and ve grandchildren. two sons; a sister, Pamela Phipps Wilton, husband, Phil; two daughters; two sons; Rodrigo Solera, g’58, PhD’64, 87, Nov. d’61; and a granddaughter. two brothers, one of whom is Benjamin 16 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He was Charles Douglas, PhD’67, 84, July 31 in Mann, c’73; a sister; and two professor emeritus of language, literature Honaunau, Hawaii, where he was a retired grandchildren. and civilization & culture at Millersville senior research scientist. He is survived by Carroll Kincaid Twiss, c’64, 72, May 7, University in Millersville, Pennsylvania. A his wife, Karen, two sons, a brother and six 2015, in Kirkland, Washington. She was a brother survives. grandchildren. member of the King County Democrats Gary Westhusin, d’57, 80, Nov. 18 in Karen Atkins Epps, n’64, 72, Oct. 6 in and the National Women’s Political Caucus Plainville, where he was a retired teacher. Fulton. She was a nurse and also worked at of Washington and served as chair of the He is survived by a sister. the family business, Epps Seed Company. 45th District Democrats of Washington Donaldeen Woods Wray-Newton, ’50, Surviving are her husband, James, ’65; two State for several years. She is survived by 87, Nov. 13 in Brooksville, Maine. She was daughters, one of whom is Lisa, l’97; a her husband, Charles, e’65; three daugh- a homemaker. Four sons, a daughter, a brother, Kent Atkins, p’62; and two ters; two brothers; and six grandchildren. stepson, a stepdaughter, 13 grandchildren granddaughters. Byron Van Dyke, b’68, 68, July 25 in and nine great-grandchildren survive. Anita Esplund Fillingim, d’60, ’92, 77, Lockport, Illinois. Two sisters and a Martin Yocum, b’57, 82, Dec. 27 in Nov. 12 in Wichita. She was a vocal music brother survive. Moraga, California, where he was retired instructor and also directed community Mary Fassnacht Whitaker, d’62, vice president and general manager of theatre. She is survived by her husband, W. EdD’96, 74, Nov. 18 in Overland Park, operations at Heublein Inc. He is survived Claude; two daughters, one of whom is where she was a retired special-education by his wife, Darlene, assoc.; a son; a Debra Fillingim Ra ety, d’92, ’98; a son, teacher. She is survived by a daughter, Lori daughter; two sisters; ve grandchildren; David, ’99; a sister, Linda Esplund Barnes, Whitaker Chandler, b’90; a stepson; a and a great-grandchild. ’79; and two grandchildren. stepdaughter; a sister, Janet Fassnacht Fred Hamilton, e’65, 73, Dec. 12 in Baumhover, d’66, g’79; and ve David Branine, p’67, 71, Jan. 2 in Houston, where he worked for Texaco. grandchildren. 60sGoddard. He was president of Surviving are his wife, Nancy Lintecum Raymond Douglas Yocom, j’60, 77, Dec. Branine Inc. His wife, Della, a son, a Hamilton, c’63, d’64, g’66; a daughter; a 7 in Lake Oswego, Oregon. He was an daughter and three grandchildren survive. son; a sister; a brother; and a editorial writer for e Oregonian and Ronald Broun, c’61, l’67, 75, Oct. 20 in granddaughter. later owned Dusty Cover Books. A son, a Lawrence. He was a litigator for the James Hutchison, g’60, PhD’63, 85, daughter and four granddaughters survive. National Labor Relations Board and also Nov. 3 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, where he wrote classical music reviews for e was a retired professor of botany at William Fisher, g’71, PhD’81, 73, Washington Post. A daughter and four Arkansas State University. Survivors 70s Jan. 7 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, grandsons survive. include his wife, Sallye, two sons, a sister where he was an exploration geologist. He Darrel Burri, a’62, 76, Nov. 2 in New- and four grandchildren. is survived by his wife, Jane Hyldahl port News, Virginia. He was chief of Constance Stucky Lewis, c’68, d’68, Fisher, g’71; a daughter, Muriel Fisher facility requirements in the U.S. Air Force. g’74, 69, Oct. 22 in Norfolk, Virginia, Folsom, c’97; a son, Joshua, c’01; a sister; Survivors include his wife, Sally; a where she was a teacher. Survivors include and four grandchildren. daughter; a son; a sister, Carol Burri her husband, Albert, e’68, g’74; three sons, Sara “Sally” Ternstrom Hultquist, g’70,

70 | KANSAS ALUMNI 102, Sept. 1 in Bonner Springs. She was a is Mark, ’84; six grandchildren; and six Jimmie, g’95, ’15; a brother, Clayton, c’15; retired teacher. Surviving are two sons, great-grandchildren. and her grandparents. Larry, c’64, and Timothy, ’75; seven Kent Press, c’83, 55, Nov. 3 in Overland Joseph Ralston, a’14, 35, Nov. 6 in grandchildren; and three great- Park, where he owned Press Insurance Lawrence. He served on the board of grandchildren. Services. He is survived by his wife, Julie directors of the Lawrence Social Service Jamie Mangan King, f’76, 60, Jan. 10, Smith Press, j’85; two sons, Andrew, ’09, League for several years. His parents, a 2015, in Burr Ridge, Illinois. She was an and Alexander, ’12; his mother; a sister, brother and a sister survive. interior designer and home builder and Brenda Press Harden, j’81; and a brother. president of Mangan King Associates. She Stephen Sapp, c’86, l’89, 55, Dec. 11 in THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY is survived by her husband, Geary, b’74, Dallas, where he was an attorney and Maynard Paul Bauleke, ’46, 90, Dec. 6 g’76; a daughter; a son; three brothers, Jim, partner at Schi Hardin. Surviving are his in Lawrence, where he worked for the ’72, John Mangan III, c’73, and Jerald, c’79; wife, eresa Barton Sapp, ’84; a son; and Kansas Geological Survey and was a and a granddaughter. a daughter. professor of mechanical engineering at Robert Medford, EdD’73, 82, Dec. 29 John “Jay” Scott, c’85, 51, Sept. 16 in KU. He is survived by a son, Howard in Golden, Colorado. He worked for Chicago, where he was a portfolio man- Bauleke, c’81. the National Education Association. ager at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. He Dennis Dahl, c’56, m’61, PhD’63, 85, Survivors include his wife, Donna; a is survived by his parents, John, and Sarah Dec. 21 in Lawrence. He was a physician at daughter, Jerre, j’90; a son; a sister; and Heindel Scott, c’55; two sisters and several Watkins Memorial Health Center. A a granddaughter. nieces and nephews. memorial has been established with KU Elizabeth Vandever Titus, PhD’71, 97, Endowment. Surviving are a daughter, June 21 in Kansas City, where she was a Roger Robben, c’92, 46, Nov. 30 Kathleen Dahl Nuckolls, c’94, g’98, retired attorney and professor of history. 90s in Wichita, where he coached PhD’11; a son; and two granddaughters. She is survived by her husband, Ellsworth; freshman football at Bishop Carroll Patricia Howard, PharmD’89, 64, Dec. three sons; a stepdaughter, Marian Titus Catholic High School and also taught 16 in Kansas City. She was a professor and Mills, b’79; four stepsons, three of whom mathematics at Augusta High School. He vice chair in the department of pharmacy are Paul Titus, b’82, David Titus, c’82, and was captain of the KU football team. practice. She also was a professor of Martin Titus Jr., ’77; ve grandchildren; Survivors include his parents, Robert, cardiovascular medicine at KU Medical and a great-granddaughter. d’65, b’65, and Sherry; two daughters; a Center and a board-certied pharmaco- Robert Wilson, d’74, 71, July 7 in son; two brothers, one of whom is Robert therapy specialist. A sister survives. Kansas City. He is survived by his wife, Robben Jr., ’92; and three sisters. E. Jerome Niebaum, d’61, 76, Jan. 5 in Rosalyn Hooks Wilson, s’70, s’99; and a Rev. J. Timothy White, PhD’96, 64, Lawrence, where he was retired assistant daughter. Sept. 3 in Garland, Texas. He was pastor at vice provost for information technology Central Church of the Nazarene in Dallas. and also served as president of the Larry Bernstein, ’81, 56, Sept. 27 He is survived by his wife, Kathryn Endacott Society from 2008 to 2009. He is 80sin Edwards, Colorado, where he Reinking White, ’86; a son; a daughter; survived by his wife, Judith Johnson worked in the electronics industry. and a grandson. Niebaum, d’62, ’93; a son, Richard, f’86; a Surviving are his wife, Marcia Gelb daughter, Jerri Niebaum Clark, j’88; a Bernstein, d’83; a son, David, c’10; and Lucinda “Cindy” Butler White, sister; and four grandchildren. two sisters, Marilyn Bernstein Krug, ’72, 00sd’00, 73, Dec. 21 in Overland and Alyse Bernstein Vernon, c’79. Park, where she was a retired paraprofes- ASSOCIATES Edward Gillette, c’81, 56, Jan. 6 in sional in the Shawnee Mission school Enid “Bud” Larson, assoc., 95, Oct. 31 Kansas City, where he was an attorney and district. A memorial has been established in Lawrence. He was a system operator at principal at Gillette Law Firm. He is with KU Endowment. She is survived by Kansas Gas & Electric for 35 years. He is survived by his wife, Janice Monslow her mother, Rubye Butler, assoc.; a survived by his wife, Gwendolyn, assoc.; a Gillette, ’85; two stepdaughters, one of daughter, Susan White Nenonen, j’95; a son, Warren, p’71, g’73; a daughter, Jill whom is Kathryn Steinbrink Case, c’11; son; a sister, Rosemary Butler Garrett, Larson Bradney, d’81, g’90; a sister; four two brothers; a sister; and two d’73, ’98; a brother, James Butler Jr., b’65; grandchildren; and four grandchildren. four grandchildren; and a great- great-grandchildren. Gail Medsker Miller, ’81, 79, Nov. 26 in granddaughter. Violet Strank Lehman, assoc., 102, Oct. Kansas City, where she was a retired editor 22 in St. Joseph, Missouri. She served on and writer at the United States Army Kelly Cosby, c’12, 25, Nov. 15 in the board of the Atchison Public Library Command and General Sta College at 10sNew York City, where she was an for several years and also was involved in Fort Leavenworth. Survivors include her attorney at Duane Morris. Survivors the PEO Sisterhood. She is survived by her husband, Ray, b’81; two sons, one of whom include her parents, J. Mark, g’95, and daughter, Barbara, f’70.

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A writer’s life yanked her across the icy street, Black-Eyed Susans Heaberlin landed hard, and a Ballantine Books, $26 Heaberlin’s ‘Black-Eyed Susans’ gloved hand splatted into dog rewards years of rejections poo. Tears began again, and in that moment, facing the very real ulia Heaberlin dreamed of writing prospect of psychological Jpsychological thrillers. Unlike the vast collapse, Heaberlin told herself: In Black-Eyed Susans, majority of her journalism colleagues Quit now or see this thing Heaberlin found the success harboring similar literary fantasies, through. she spent years toiling Heaberlin acted. With encouragement “I can’t tell you why I decided toward. e Washington from her family and a nancial plan in to go which way, because it was Post hailed it as “a masterful place, she unshackled her “golden hand- very close,” Heaberlin says from thriller that shouldn’t be cu,” a secure job as assistant managing her Texas home, the day aer missed.” Simon Mayo, host editor for features at the Fort Worth her best-selling third novel, of the BBC’s Radio 2 Book Star-Telegram, ensconced herself in her Black-Eyed Susans, had been Club, raved that Black-Eyed home oce and began writing. optioned by writer-director Rod Susans was “maybe the Her rst manuscript, Playing Dead, Lurie. “Once you get along a thriller of the year.” attracted literary agent Pam Ahearn, but path so far, there’s always a little Black-Eyed Susans tells editors’ rejection letters “ew back.” bit of hope hanging out there the story of Tessa Cart- Ahearn told Heaberlin, j’83, to keep for you. It was about a month or wright, who, as a teenager, working on her second manuscript, Lie two aer that that the manu- was the only survivor of a Still. Again came the rejections. e only script was bought.” serial killer’s rampage on hope Heaberlin could cling young girls. With the killer to came in the rejections closeted safely away on that delivered bad news death row, Tessa grows into nicely. JILL JOHNSON a talented woman raising an More than three years in, endearing teenage daughter, with family debt mounting, Charlie. She remains Heaberlin headed out one haunted by her traumatic bitterly cold morning to past—“my monster” is walk her 90-pound dog, Tessa’s description of her Ollie. She’d already cried turmoil—but her life is progressing better into her pillow once that than might be expected. morning, “vaguely wonder- And then one morning she nds freshly ing whether I needed a planted black-eyed Susans—the haunting therapist.” When Ollie trademark of her terrifying past—outside her bedroom window. Is the killer free? Will he return to nish his horrible crime? Is the wrong man facing execution? Julia Heaberlin was 45 when she Unspooling painful memories while seeking the truth of what really happened, set out on her quest to become a Tessa faces her inner demons as well as the published novelist; she expected terror suddenly confronting her family. it to be tough, but now concedes When she nally meets with the man she had no idea what awaited: convicted of the crimes, whose innocence “What is it Bette Davis said, ‘Old Tessa no longer doubts, she tells him about age is not for sissies’? Publishing the black-eyed Susans. “It’s OK if you is not for sissies.” think I’m crazy,” she says. “I would.”

72 | KANSAS ALUMNI Terrell Goodwin, who has found faith and serenity while awaiting execution,

replies, “I don’t think you’re crazy. Evil YOUNGER SUSAN sneaks up on little cat feet. ... I know that ain’t the way the poem goes. It’s supposed to be fog on little cat feet. Fog. Evil. It works either way.” Heaberlin explains that her favorite thrillers “have a bigger theme going on, maybe a bigger social theme,” citing, among others, the dysfunctionality of marriage that Gillian Flynn, c’93, j’93, portrayed “in uncomfortable ways” in her blockbuster Gone Girl. “In the case of Black-Eyed Susans,” Heaberlin says, “it’s the death penalty,” which Heaberlin researched intensively, interviewing DNA scientists, one of the nation’s leading death-row attorneys and even an exoner- Dyche Hall ated Texas man who served 18 years on death row a er being wrongly convicted of killing a family of six. victims and heroes, guring out their importantly, why it matters,” Krishtalka Weaving larger social themes into a lives,” Heaberlin says. “I don’t know if says. “It’s not enough to tell the stories of psychological thriller is a daring test of a there will ever be another Clarice Starling, what we know, but how does it matter for writer’s skill. Heaberlin succeeds where so but I’m aiming for that.” current day-to-day lives and how does it many others fail because her story remains Strong women guring out their lives? matter into the future?” taut and its cast of fully drawn supporting As Heaberlin proves, sometimes the real e zeal Biodiversity Institute scholars, characters, reminiscent of the charming thing is even better than ction. students and sta show for answering why oddballs populating the works of Richard —Chris Lazzarino their work matters was recently recognized Russo and Michael Chabon, lls the novel by Best College Reviews, which ranked with zestful energy. Dyche Hall’s Natural History Museum the Despite its dark heart and chilling turns, best among all U.S. public universities. Black-Eyed Susans holds true to one of Mighty museum Placing fourth out of 30, KU trailed only Heaberlin’s rules: “I don’t like to have a lot private schools Harvard, Drexel and Yale. of gore in my novels. I like to leave it to the Passion for science pushes KU was cited for its collection of about 9 reader’s imagination.” e charming Dyche’s displays to top honor million living and fossil plants and animals Charlie shines as “the hope of the novel,” and 1.5 million archaeological artifacts, as and Tessa stands tall as its champion. cience matters. And yet, Leonard well as research and teaching programs Drawing inspiration from omas SKrishtalka, director of the KU spread across 13 divisions. Harris’ enduring Clarice Starling—“e Biodiversity Institute and Natural History In order to qualify, museums had to not most kick-ass heroine there ever was,” in Museum, is not content to rest on the only be the hub of vigorous research but Heaberlin’s estimation—Heaberlin delivers obvious validity of that simple statement. also welcome public visitors. KU’s—which a leading woman strong enough to drive a “We want to tell the stories of what we annually attracts 3,000 participants in complicated and dicult story. discover about the life of the planet and hands-on science programs, 5,000 “I like to have females who are both the cultures of the planet, and, very children on school trips and a er-school programs, and 6,000 Kansans in a variety of campus and community events for adults and families—was also cited for honoring its founding mandate to benet “Once you get along a path so far, there’s always a the entire state. little bit of hope hanging out there for you.” “We in many ways connect KU to the community,” says Teresa MacDonald, —author Julia Heaberlin PhD’15, associate director of public { } programs. “We’re the public face of not

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neighborhood association launched a Face-to-Facebook Facebook page, a Twitter account and an

SUSAN YOUNGER SUSAN email listserv. ey delivered doorhangers Researchers ﬁnd neighbors to every home advertising the new communication options, then awaited the long to connect, just not response. necessarily online “It was crickets, basically,” Johnson says with a laugh. “We got ve Facebook likes, hen Bonnie Johnson tried to three Twitter follows and two new email Wreverse the trend of dwindling addresses. Out of 550 households!” participation in her once-thriving Law- Wondering why social media was no rence neighborhood association, she rst more eective than ice cream socials, turned to that old standby of community Johnson turned to colleague Germaine building, the ice cream social. Only 10 Halegoua, assistant professor of lm & people came, in a neighborhood with 550 media studies. An expert on digital media, Leonard Krishtalka refers to the Natural households. she could also point to studies in her eld History Museum’s four ﬂoors of public exhibits Neighborhood meetings drew even that suggested social media jump-starts as “this place of quiet contemplation, this place fewer people, despite attracting 75 community engagement. “In that respect, of reverence for the environment and why attendees in years past. it was surprising that there wasn’t more it matters.” “Myself and other members of the activity,” Halegoua says, “because if you steering committee were at our wit’s end, take the studies at face value social media wondering what could we do,” says seems like a universal thing that is Johnson, c’90, g’92, PhD’07. “We can’t bene cial more oen than not.” even get people to come for homemade ice ey decided to survey the neighbor- only the Biodiversity Institute, but really cream and the balloon man? A lot were hood to nd out how people preferred to the public face of the University, in terms ready to call it quits.” communicate—if at all. What they found of being an accessible, fun place to go to Instead, the associate professor of urban was surprising. see these incredible collections. planning at KU turned to the academic “When we asked how they prefer to “Science is for everybody, and we hope literature in her eld for ideas. Urban communicate with neighbors, they said that we make that connection for people.” planners and city managers oen use face-to-face,” Johnson says. Many felt that Dyche Hall and its museum are popular social media to solicit citizen input, and Facebook is for staying in touch with destinations for KU classes in diverse studies on the topic were encouraging. e friends and felt uncomfortable with the elds such as art and design, dance, American studies and theatre. e 50 to 55 graduate students enrolled each year in

biodiversity and archaeological sciences PUPPE STEVE are part of what KU faculty and sta consider the best such biodiversity graduate-school enterprise in the country; even undergraduates are invited to participate in high-level research expedi- tions around the world. Krishtalka also notes that the Biodiver- sity Institute’s state-of-the-art computer modeling and information collection resources “uniquely” train KU students to harness the latest computational sciences in analyzing data and creating “what-if” modeling scenarios. Says Krishtalka, “Why does this matter? Why are we doing it? It’s for the bene t of earth’s environment and human well-being.” —Chris Lazzarino Johnson and Halegoua

74 | KANSAS ALUMNI Grand galaxy STEVE PUPPE STEVE he second book in a projected trilogy, professor emeritus TJames Gunn’s Transgalactic picks up of English here ri s where his critically acclaimed 2013 science on Dante’s Inferno. fi ction novel Transcendental [“Masterwork,” But instead of issue No. 6, 2013] left o . Having abandoning all hope, successfully discovered—and used—the Gunn’s heroes resist Transcendental Machine that is the object and confront the of their quest in book one, war veteran all-knowing Pedia, a Riley and his lover and partner-in-arms god-like computer Asha fi nd themselves perfected by their that’s programmed to protect human trip through the device, which transmits beings at all costs. The novel fi nds the matter across great distances, leaving 92-year-old science fi ction Grand Master fl aws behind. in a refl ective mood, musing on the Unfortunately, their separate journeys contradictions of human nature and the through the machine leave them separated, promises and drawbacks of utopian and Transgalactic (Tor Books, $26.99) societies. Ending on a hopeful note, with a follows their quest to reunite and use their setup that will leave readers eagerly After producing more than 40 books in his newly developed intellectual and physical awaiting the trilogy’s conclusion, lengthy career, science fi ction Grand Master superiority to save the galactic civilization Transgalactic with its many strange worlds of myriad alien races from the oppressive and alien species is ultimately—like all James Gunn says writing his fi rst sequel—book bureaucracy that rules it. great science fi ction—an inventive, two of his Trans trilogy—was a new experience. Where Gunn, j’47, g’51, borrowed the provocative examination of what it means “It’s sort of like juggling,” he says of his foray literary tropes of Geo rey Chaucer’s to be human. into long-form storytelling. “You have to keep a Canterbury Tales in Transcendental, the —Steven Hill lot of the balls in the air, and they all matter.” idea that neighbors would be able to see that would allow them to communicate detoured tra c through their neighbor- their Facebook page. “ ey said, ‘It’s only with a lot of neighbors at once but maybe hood. Social media and door-to-door for my friends, and if my neighbor isn’t not share as much information as they visits helped them make their voices heard my friend I’m not gonna get on Facebook would on Facebook.” at city hall. with them.’” So while social media did not turn out And they were encouraged to nd that At the same time, people who had the to be a panacea, as many studies have the rise of online communities in no way most interest in having a neighborhood suggested it can be, the researchers say signals the demise of neighborhood social association identi ed social media as their their ndings show that it does have a networks. preferred means of communicating, even place in bringing neighbors together, “One of the things that was striking as they indicated that Facebook isn’t a especially when used in concert with a was just how much neighbors still wanted neighbor-to-neighbor mode that works strong human touch. It’s not a replacement to communicate and still wanted to know for them. for active leadership and face-to-face who was living next door,” Halegoua says. “You can read that as they’re asking for a contact, as Johnson discovered when her “But even more striking was the huge new system,” Halegoua says, “some other neighbors banded together to deal with drive toward sharing and helping: ‘I want social media network or digital system problems caused by road construction that to know if you need my help, and I want you to know I’m here to help you.’” Adds Johnson, “We heard so many people saying, ‘I found out later his wife had cancer and they were having trouble, and if only I had known I’d have taken a casserole over.’ ere is still a real longing for that.” —Steven Hill

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Halls of academe suited to each other. A er Jabez’s death in 1921—two Latest in KU history series years a er they had PUPPE STEVE preserves stories of the completed construction on e Outlook, the hilltop remarkable Mrs. Watkins, home she later donated to the scholarship halls she built the University as the and the scholars she inspired chancellor’s residence— Mrs. Watkins began distributing her wealth. ince its debut with the 1984 publica- She gave 26,000 acres of Stion of Old Fraser, Historic Mount Kansas farmland to KU Oread Friends’ “Biography of a Building” Endowment, proceeds from series followed a template that proved which continue to bene t endearingly successful: Relying entirely on KU in countless ways; archived photographs, architectural plans $175,000 for construction Collaborators (l-r) Shala Stevenson, Barbara Watkins, Norma and commentary contemporary to the era, of Watkins Memorial Hoagland and Carol Shankel in Watkins Hall. the books told the histories of Old Fraser, Hospital and $200,000 to Dyche and Spooner halls. build Lawrence Memorial e fourth volume, Watkins and Miller Hospital; and, dearest to her heart, $75,000 and Barbara Watkins, g’78, PhD’71, the Halls, follows the same structural format, to build Watkins Hall, whose unique energetic team that compiled the three yet meanders along a slightly di erent organization Mrs. Watkins herself devised previous “Biography of a Building” books. avenue for its storytelling. as a means to help young women without When they agreed to assist as editors and “It’s less about the architecture and more nancial means pursue their KU dreams. advisers, Kitchen 8, the halls’ alumnae about the people who were there,” says With the 1926 opening of Watkins Hall, society, raised nearly all the money series co-creator Carol Shankel, one of the KU’s innovative scholarship hall model required for publication. founding members of HMOF in 1981. “It’s was born; 11 years later, a er another With research assistance from Mary more about the reason for those buildings, $75,000 gi , Miller Hall, named for Mrs. Dresser Burchill, c’62, retired associate and Mrs. Watkins’ vision and generosity in Watkins’ brother Frank, opened next door. director of the law library, Hoagland starting them.” “We have a special sense of gratitude to compiled campus maps and photographs, Elizabeth Miller Watkins was, indeed, a her,” says rancher and Watkins Hall historic quotes about the scholarship halls woman of vision and generosity. e alumna Norma Decker Hoagland, c’75. and their founder, as well as reminis- daughter of a country doctor, Lizzy was 13 “She thought ahead and really planned for cences. Also contributing were graphic when she entered KU’s preparatory high us, almost in a parental way.” designer Shala Stevenson, of the Lied school in 1874. Finances forced her Pursuing her dream to create a book Center; novelist and scholarship hall withdrawal less than two years later. that would help preserve Mrs. Watkins’ alumna Sara Paretsky, c’67, who wrote the She found work as a clerk at the J.B. legacy, Hoagland approached Shankel, ’68, foreword; and the University Press of Watkins Land and Mortgage Company, Kansas, which again serves as distributor. and her skills and trustworthiness merited “I’ve worked on this for three years, and promotion to secretary for the wealthy every time I read it I still love the story,” entrepreneur (and eligible bachelor) Jabez Hoagland says. “ e words of the women Bunting Watkins. ey traveled together through the decades just really ring true. on business—scandalous at the time—and ey’re timeless.” in 1909, when she was 47 and he 64, they e public is invited to the book’s April returned from a trip to New York City as a 23 launch party at the Union Paci c married couple. Depot, where partygoers will savor Mrs. ough Lawrence and KU society types Watkins and Miller Halls Watkins’ favorite treats: champagne, shunned Jabez and Elizabeth, by all chocolate and Jordan almonds. Biography of a Building series reports they ourished as a couple truly —Chris Lazzarino

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