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When Carnegie Calls World Premiere Draws Student Ensemble to Music’S Biggest Stage No 3, 2013 I $5 When Carnegie Calls World premiere draws student ensemble to music’s biggest stage I ATHLETICS UPGRADE I ART PARTNERS Contents | May 2013 24 36 32 24 32 36 COVER STORY Level Playing Fields Warp and Weft The Big Stage Olympic sports, especially In a campus exhibition, artists women’s athletics, will get a Ann Hamilton and Cynthia e journey to Carnegie Hall much-needed boost with the Schira weave their creative for a 9/11 symphony’s world construction of long-awaited response to the Spencer premiere concluded months of Rock Chalk Park. Museum’s collection, their KU intense preparation by the KU history and each other. Wind Ensemble. But in some By Chris Lazzarino ways, it was just the beginning. By Steven Hill By Jennifer Jackson Sanner Established in 1902 as e Graduate Magazine Volume 111, No. 3, 2013 ISSUE 3, 2013 | 1 Set your new graduate up for success with a KU Alumni Association membership! He or she will receive: • Invitations to young alumni networking events • Access to career/professional development programs • Discounts on Alumni Collection merchandise • Access to the online alumni directory and Kansas Alumni magazine • Invitations to athletic and academic programs Recent grad rates are available for the first five years after completion of the most recent degree. Special rates for new graduates: Membership Single Joint Half-Price Life Membership $500 $750 12-Month Installment Plan $41.66/month $62.50/month Recent Grad Annual $25/year $30/year Membership May 2013 44 Publisher Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 4 Lift the Chorus Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Letters from our readers Creative Director Susan Younger, f’91 Associate Editors Chris Lazzarino, j’86 7 First Word Steven Hill e editor’s turn Editorial Assistant Karen Goodell Photographers Steve Puppe, j’98 8 On the Boulevard Dan Storey KU & Alumni Association events Graphic Designer Valerie Spicher, j’94 Communications Coordinator Lydia Krug Benda, j’10 10 Jayhawk Walk Top twirler, elite eats, a beauty on loan and more Advertising Sales Representative David Johnston, j’94, g’06 12 Hilltopics Editorial and Advertising O­ce KU Alumni Association News and notes: Students win the Goldwater; 1266 Oread Avenue professor takes a hike for research. Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 785-864-4760 20 Sports 800-584-2957 Women’s track wins rst Big 12 team title; soball www.kualumni.org [email protected] 400-hitter leads race for conference batting crown. KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE (ISSN 0745-3345) is published by the KU Alumni Association six times a year in January, March, May, July, 44 Association News September and November. $55 annual subscription includes member- Rock Chalk Ball rocks Kansas City; Class of ’63 ship in the Alumni Association. Oce of Publication: 1266 Oread reunites on the Hill. Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. Periodicals postage paid at Lawrence, KS. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Kansas Alumni Magazine, 1266 50 Class Notes Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 © 2013 by Kansas Alumni Proles of a medical missionary, a persevering Magazine. Non-member issue price: $7 writer, a budding star and more 68 In Memory Letters to the Editor: Deaths in the KU family Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the editor. Our address is Kansas Alumni magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, 72 Rock Chalk Review Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. Email responses may be sent Engineer nds creative calling; professor’s proles to the Alumni Association, [email protected]. help teachers identify creative kids. Letters appearing in the magazine may be edited for space and clarity. For letters pub- 76 Glorious to View lished, we’ll send a free gift of KU Campus Scene on campus Playing Cards, a $5 value. ISSUE 3, 2013 | 3 Lift the Chorus Your editorial [First Word] revenue when parents visit persuaded me to write, but I their children. was thrilled to read of the In other words, legacy historic designation on campus students are a win-win for [“e Long View”]. I was everyone! Much encouragement to keep appointed by Gov. Brownback When I do volunteer up the good work. to the Kansas Historical Sites recruitment in the Chicago Doug Hill, c’77 Board of Review in January. area, I stress to parents and Norman, Okla. Imagine my great excitement students that a degree from KU and honor to attend the does not stop at graduation. It KU connections February meeting (my rst) can lead to meaningful and get to vote to approve the contacts, friendships and I KU designation! I was thrilled! legacies of their own. the wonderful article on Terry Rock Chalk! ank you for recognizing Evans and her amazing Sharron Hamilton, assoc. that future KU generations will photography and body of work Salina be coming from around the [“Landscape Perspectives,” United States, and rewarding Editor’s Note: And more issue No. 2]. I was lucky to the families who continue to It’s all good exciting news arrived in April: see have been included in the story, p. 19. call KU home. I’ opening of the retrospective Laurie Forst Russell, f’73 and your sta on the March of her life and work at the Wheaton, Ill. issue, what may be the best Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Next generations Kansas Alumni magazine ever. last October, mostly because All too brief I’ve been an Association Life my sister is Elizabeth Farn- A RCJH for the KU Member for over two decades, sworth, who is collaborating Legacy program and the Y M so that’s saying a lot. with Terry on the North Howard and Helen Gilpin briey notes in the obituaries Terry Evans’ magnicent Dakota oil fracking project. Legacy Relations Fund [“Boost section the death of Dean photos [“Landscape Perspec- Elizabeth has many Kansas for legacies,” Association, issue Francis H. Heller [In Memory, tives”] with their highly ties. We grew up in Topeka, No. 2]. University Community, issue attractive page layout are and our father was H. Bernerd My sons from Chicago and No. 2]. Surely you will soon nothing short of breathtaking. Fink, a 1931 graduate from the their cousin from California publish a feature article about e “Tribal Counsel” article School of Business. He served joined their Kansas relatives as Dean Heller, a KU icon whose focuses on some of our Haskell on the school’s advisory board fourth-generation Jayhawks. inuence on the many Indian Nations University for many years. She is married Although they graduated from hundreds of his advisees in the neighbors who I believe are so to a KU alumnus, Charles E. KU before the legacy program Honors Program and countless oen overlooked as being an Farnsworth, a 1960 graduate was established, our extended thousands of liberal arts important and attractive part who is an avid KU supporter family has long advocated for students in the College was of Lawrence. and never fails to miss a the initiative. immeasurable. e KU Historic District fraternity or class reunion. Legacy students are one of During my time as a student piece [“e Long View”] anks for a wonderful story the University’s best invest- in the program in the early to brought back many fond on an outstanding KU alumna, ments. eir involvement with mid ’60s (I was one of the recollections, including one of Terry Evans. future recruits, along with KU’s lucky ones to be a Dean Heller when I was an undergraduate Marcia Fink Anderson, n’60 superb credentials, are real-life advisee) at least three Rhodes summer employee with KU’s Salina advertising for why a high Scholars and one Marshall physical plant department in school senior should consider Scholar participated in the 1975 as a full-time window The ayes have it KU. Legacy parents gain the rigorous educational experi- washer. I had the opportunity benet of an aordable and ence he orchestrated. Few to climb the ladder all the way J how competitive tuition rate while universities—public or to the top of Fraser Hall and much I enjoyed your March maintaining ties to the private—can match those gaze out the hatch next to the issue of Kansas Alumni University. I believe this in results. ags across the magnicent magazine! Every article was turn leads to greater alumni But more than just a dean, Wakarusa Valley. well written and of great membership and participation, an author, and an administra- anks for the memories interest to me. Keep up the and the city of Lawrence gains tor, Francis Heller was a and an excellent magazine. good work! from hotel and restaurant mentor to his students and a 4 | KANSAS ALUMNI transmitter of the civic values Wild ings Are,” issue No. 1] 24, with disappointment, the that bind us all together. My brought back happy memories reference “... and periodically guess is that there are thou- from the 1950’s, when my enhanced from the 1950s Your sands of women and men father was working on his through the 1970s” with no opinion counts nationwide whose lives were doctorate degree and I spent mention of E. Raymond Hall, shaped by Dean Heller during many hours at the museum. c’24, father of my two brothers Please email us a note at [email protected] his 60 years at KU and who A generation later it was a and me. to tell us what you think of now yearn for your magazine pleasure to see my own son Our father dedicated his life your alumni magazine. to give his extraordinary life equally fascinated by the to building up the museum as the recognition it deserves. Panorama. a whole so as to rank among Jonathan R.
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