Chancellor Douglas Girod

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KU Med’s popular leader named University’s 18th chancellor

n NEW ASTRONAUT n CHEESE WHIZ n A LONG WALK

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22 18 30 32 COVER STORY Fly High Sweet Dreams Are Made Back to School Bright Outlook Meet KU’s newest star voyager, of Cheese e Commencement walk is As a leading cancer surgeon, NASA astronaut-in-training How did cheesemonger Sara the last leg in a long journey Doug Girod learned that Loral O’Hara. Knickerbocker ace her for graduates. For one woman, putting the patient rst is good industry’s toughest test? With it was a trip decades in the medicine. Focusing foremost By Chris Lazzarino serious study and a healthy making. on the student experience as appetite for fun. chancellor, he believes, will By Cyd Silvius Alloway also bring good things to the By Steven Hill University.

By Chris Lazzarino

Cover photograph by Steve Puppe

Established in 1902 as e Graduate Magazine Volume 115, No. 4, 2017 ISSUE 4, 2017 | 1 Lift the Chorus further reection I thought A the article him too busy to bother. on Franklin Murphy in the In 1960 Dr. Murphy le to current issue of Kansas mentioned that he was become chancellor of the Alumni, I realize that we KU attending a meeting on the University of California-Los students in the 1950s did not Lawrence campus and invited Angeles, and I had no further fully appreciate the man at the me to go along for a tour. contact with him, until he helm of the University. I was invited to his luncheon returned for the dedication of Of course, I received my meeting, which Chancellor the hall named in his honor. I aerial photo of the KU campus Murphy was chairing. I don’t attended the event and stepped (diplomas came aer turning recall all those to whom I was up to congratulate him. in the cap and gown) from his introduced in addition to Dr. Knowing that about 9,000 hand, but my best memory of Murphy, but I do remember students attended KU during him is from the senior break- meeting Alumni Association his tenure, I did not expect him fast at the Kansas Union director Fred Ellsworth, c’1922, to remember me. However I Ballroom. and Joyce Hall, one of the was quite surprised when, aer Not being smokers, my Thank you, BGL founders of Hallmark. I still I introduced myself, he said roommate and I were having remember the lunch entrée “You’re from Washington, trouble lighting the traditional T on your (chipped beef), which seemed Kansas.” at he remembered corncob pipes as directed. Dr. recent issue exempli es an odd choice for such an such a detail was testimony to Murphy leaned over from the courage, dignity and grace auspicious meeting. his great abilities as a leader head table and coached us to under pressure. I did enter KU as a freshman not only at KU, but at UCLA, success. We appreciated the I was fortunate enough to in fall 1957, and over the next e Times-Mirror Co., and the personal attention from him. meet and converse with several years I occasionally many boards on which he Carol Ann Houston Chancellor Gray-Little several considered stopping in to served over his career. Schneider, j’58, times, and I was always Strong Hall to reintroduce Merlin L. Stigge, b’61 Holiday Island, Arkansas charmed. My only regret is that myself to Dr. Murphy, but on Las Cruces, New Mexico I never had the opportunity to take a class from her. ank you, Madam, for all Teaford connect, Teaford supplied the magic that you have done for the All’s well that ends well word Musser wanted to hear to confirm the ring’s University of Kansas. ownership—Arby’s—and soon his treasured KU You will be missed. leveland pharmacist John Musser on May 17 memento had returned from its wayward journey. Linda Kerby, n’70, c’87 Cwas halfway to Cincinnati, where he planned “I never take the ring o because I have a big Overland Park to help his daughter move into her new home, knuckle,” says Teaford, retired from more than 30 when he pulled o Interstate 71 for lunch at years as an ocer in the U.S. Navy. “But ice Arby’s. On a sink in the men’s room, he spied a cream had gotten on my hands, so I took it o to Personal touch ring: University of Kansas, Class of 1952, inscribed wash. I left it on the sink and forgot about it.” with the initials “SJT.” To show his gratitude for his ring’s return, T F W article in Musser found the Alumni Association online Teaford sent Musser a $50 gift card, which issue No. 3 regarding the book and, heeding his grandmother’s advice to Musser used for an anniversary dinner with his on former Chancellor Franklin “always start at the top,” he emailed President wife. D. Murphy [ e Making of a Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09, seeking help to find “All’s well that ends well,” Teaford says. “And I Leader: Franklin D. Murphy, the owner. couldn’t be happier.” e Kansas Years by Nancy “The joy ‘SJT’ will have should be great,” Musser Neither could we, Sid, especially as we Kellogg Harper] brought back wrote of his quest, adding, “The joy I will have will welcome a kind and thoughtful honorary Jayhawk my own memories of him. In be great,” and, “It’s the right thing to do.” to the flock. summer 1956, I was a junior at Peterson turned to Stefanie Shackelford, vice “When I saw it was from the class of 1952, I Washington High School in president of alumni records, who found Sidney J. realized that whoever owned that ring had worn it Washington, considering Teaford, b’51, of Springfield, Virginia, in the alumni for 65 years,” Musser says. “I pictured how that college alternatives. Our family database. He appeared to be the likely owner, man must have felt when he realized it was gone, attorney, Farel Lobaugh, l’1920, despite the ring’s Class of 1952 inscription. so I wanted to do what I could to get it returned.” was an active KU alumnus and After the Association helped Musser and The right thing to do, indeed. wanted me to consider KU. He —Chris Lazzarino

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by Jennifer Jackson Sanner First Word UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES COURTESY SCOTT SEYFARTH SCOTT COURTESY

Scott Seyfarth (center above), organized the “Bathrobes and Baseball Caps” graduation procession (left) in December 1983, with the help of Jim and Diane Mielke. This year, the three reunited when Seyfarth greeted the Class of 2017 as the Association’s national chair.

s Scott Seyfarth, the Alumni Association’s 2016-’17 national the faculty, and he and Robinson wore academic gowns, adding a A chair, welcomed the Class of 2017 to the KU alumni family touch of class and credibility to the ragtag march. May 14, he couldn’t help but exult in his own unlikely journey Years later, Seyfarth was delighted to learn that as KU’s from Commencement desperado to dignitary. national alumni leader, he would continue the tradition of His rst walk down the Hill was far from regal. On Dec. 17, greeting the newest Jayhawk graduates. Before the May 14 1983, Seyfarth and classmate Steve Sachs organized “Bathrobes ceremony, he arrived in Strong Hall to dress for the occasion. and Baseball Caps,” an irreverent procession for Aer he had put on his regalia, in walked Jim Mielke, December graduates sponsored by the now associate dean of the College and professor of “Class of 1983 1/2,” aer learning that at anthropology, and Diane, who also were marching in that time there were no ceremonies for the procession. e surprise reunion le the three mid-year graduates. At high noon on momentarily speechless. “We stared at each other for a frigid Saturday, more than 50 hardy literally 10 seconds,” Seyfarth says, “and Diane just looked at souls dressed in unceremonial garb me with this proud, motherly expression on her face. en processed from the Campanile as she said, ‘Can I have a hug?’ “Pomp and Circumstance,” broadcast “I said, ‘Did you ever dream that 34 years later I would by KLZR radio, blared from boom nally get my cap and gown?’” D O U G boxes lining the sidewalk. G Diane then regaled Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and IR Seyfarth, b’83, and Sachs, b’83, both OD others with the tale of Seyfarth’s 1983 exploits. “is young man worked as orientation assistants, and as is responsible for the graduation ceremonies we have in Decem- Seyfarth recalls, they oen vented their disappointment to then ber,” she told them. admissions director Linda ompson (now Robinson), d’72, g’76, Diane calls the moment “very wonderful” and adds, “We and assistant director Diane Mielke, g’81. “Diane got sick of declared that we all look exactly the same” aer 34 years. hearing me gripe,” he recalls, “so she nally said, ‘Well, Seyfarth, Fiy years have own since Cyd Silvius Alloway began her stop whining and do something about it.’” freshman year. Aer following life’s detours, she returned to the e two enterprising accounting majors created “Bathrobes and Hill a few years ago, to complete her bachelor’s degree, and in Baseball Caps” and recruited Robinson and Mielke to participate. May she nally made her way from the Campanile into Memorial Mielke’s husband, Jim, then associate professor of anthropology, Stadium. As Alloway, j’17, describes in her heartfelt essay, the oered satirical yet sincere congratulatory remarks on behalf of transformation and triumph were well worth the wait.

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Nearly 5,000 graduates made the momentous walk down the Hill and into Memorial Stadium May 14 as the University celebrated its 145th Commencement. Jayhawks were inspired by remarks from William McNulty, c’01, a former Marine and founder of Team Rubicon, an international disaster relief corps of volunteers. McNulty received an honorary doctorate during the ceremony. Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little presented McNulty’s doctoral hood.

Exhibitions “ e League of Wives: Viet- OCTOBER nam’s POW/MIA Allies & 5 Juilliard String Quartet Advocates,” Dole Institute, “Engaged: Campus and com- 8 Underwater Bubble Show munity scholars working through December together for the public good,” 14 All e Way Live! Haricombe Gallery in Watson Lied Center events 17 United States Air Force Library, through Aug. 11 Concert Band & Singing JULY Sergeants “American Dream,” Spencer Museum of Art, through 27 An Evening with Lyle Sept. 3 Lovett and His Large Band

“And Still We Rise: Race, SEPTEMBER Culture, and Visual Conversa- 22 Black Violin tions,” Spencer Museum of Art, through Sept. 17 24 Kenny Rogers’ Final World Tour: “ e Gambler’s “Narratives of the Soul,” Spen- Last Deal” with special guest cer Museum of Art, through Linda Davis Sept. 17 28 KU Symphony Orchestra “Separate and Not Equal: A with special guest Simone History of Race and Education Porter, violin in America,” Spencer Museum 29 Tango Buenos Aires: of Art, through Oct. 1 “Spirit of Argentina”

McNulty

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25 KU Kicko at Corinth 16 KU at Ohio, member 20 “Dirty Dancing” 27 KU alumni networking, Square, Prairie Village tailgate 21 Béla Fleck and Abigail Los Angeles 26 Pikes Peak Habitat for 20 Dallas: Jayhawks & Java Washburn AUGUST Humanity, Colorado Springs, 21 COOP Ale Works Tour, 22 Chen Guang, piano Colorado 8 KU Night with the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 29 Susan Werner, Richmond Squirrels, SEPTEMBER 21 Denver: Jayhawks & Java singer-songwriter Richmond, Virginia 21 2 KU vs. Southeast Missouri KU alumni online 16 Houston: Jayhawks & Java Academic Calendar State, member tailgate, networking 17 KU alumni online Adams Alumni Center 23 KU vs. West Virginia, networking JULY 9 KU vs. Central Michigan, member tailgate, Adams 17 Alumni Center 28 Summer classes end KU Kicko , Wichita member tailgate, Adams 19 Baltimore-Annapolis Alumni Center AUGUST Annual Picnic 19 Hawk Fest, Traditions Night 21 Fall classes begin

Alumni Events

JULY 17 Happy Hour, 10 Barrel Brewing Company, Portland, Oregon 19 Dallas: Jayhawks & Java 19 Houston: Jayhawks & Java 19 Happy Hour, Fremont Brewing, Seattle 20 Happy Hour, Hayden Rooop Bar, New York City 20 Denver: Jayhawks & Java 20 KU alumni online networking 21 Happy Hour, Roy-Pitz Barrel House, Philadelphia 22 Summer Barbecue, Arlington, Virginia 22 Omaha Jayhawks Golf Tournament, Miracle Hill Golf Course Events listed here are high- 26 KU Night with the lights from the Association’s Isotopes, Albuquerque, New busy calendar. For complete Mexico listings of all events, watch for 26 Beer vs. Wine Smack- emails about programs in your down, Scardello Oak Lawn, area, visit kualumni.org or call Dallas 800-584-2957.

ISSUE 4, 2017 | 7 Jayhawk Walk would probably have ended the same.” On April 10, Helen and Walter “Hob” Crockett, c’47, professor emerita of social psychology, celebrated their 74th wedding anniversary. e Lawrence Journal-World speculated that they could be the longest-married couple in Kansas. e next morning their phone rang. It was a friend, Tim Miller,

LARRY LEROY PEARSON LEROY LARRY professor of religious studies, c’66, g’69, g’71, PhD’73. Turns out his parents, Margaret and Paul, celebrated their 75th anniversary last year in Wichita. It was the rst of many congratulatory calls and letters for Helen, now 93, and Hob, 96. e keys to their long, happy marriage? Growing together. Staying active. Portage at your own risk “And he would eat anything,” Helen says with a laugh. “I didn’t know how to cook U’s Concrete Canoe Team “The canoe never hits the water when we were married, but I was willing Kmembers (“dedicated to disregard- until the competition,” says co-captain to learn. He has never really complained ing convention by making sidewalks Brittany Multer, an Overland Park about any food I cooked, or anything float in style,” is their motto) rocked junior in civil engineering. “It all goes really. Very good-natured. So it was easy.” a first-place finish in April at the back to those cool engineering Mid-Continent Regional Concrete principles, where you gotta design Canoe Competition. something and you gotta design it Sponsored by the American Society of right, because sometimes you only get Civil Engineers, the contest challenges one chance.” engineering students to build concrete Winning the district race gave the canoes within an exacting set of rules. Jayhawks a second chance to cement Teams earn points for a technical paper their reputation at nationals in June,

and oral presentation explaining the where they finished 18th. They prepped TRAINING INSTITUTE FIRE & RESCUE KANSAS design and construction, and for the by improving their design report and overall quality of their canoe. presentation, and by practicing pad- Then comes the “swamp test”: The dling. The canoe (all 393 pounds of it) boat must refloat after total submer- couldn’t be modified in any way: This is Drivers, start your sion before teams are allowed to race. one design that’s set in stone. fire engines!

B brave the Long live love dangers of smoke and ame, they rst must conquer perilous hazards of city T when he was in the Air Force. streets. Her brother set them up. ree dates and anks largely to a Department of less than a year a later they married aer Homeland Security grant, Kansas courting mainly through letters. reghters can now train for their sorties “ e war,” Helen Crockett explains. “It in a state-of-the-art emergency vehicle NICK KRUG/LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD NICK KRUG/LAWRENCE was a time when the men were all leaving driving simulator purchased and operated and didn’t know if they’d return.” by the Kansas Fire & Rescue Training It was 1943. She was 19. He was 22. Institute, based at KU’s Professional and “I think we would have taken more time Continuing Education unit. Hob and Helen Crockett in a dierent situation,” she says, “but it e new simulator, housed in a large

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI trailer, features realistic physical elements science activities and presentations, feast NASA of a truck cabin—including a steering on food-truck fare, and view the phenom- wheel, safety restraints, foot pedals and enon through telescopes—while wearing dashboard controls and dials—in front of their party favors: free eclipse glasses. computer screens that mimic varied street Anthony-Twarog predicts her depart- scenarios as well as the handling charac- ment will be closed that day, giving teristics of re engines, SUVs, pickup witness the rst total solar eclipse since students a once-in-a-lifetime excuse to trucks, ambulances and police cruisers. 1918. skip classes and gaze at the sky. Rookie drivers and veterans statewide e Aug. 21 phenomenon will sweep can safely learn new skills, train on the nation from Oregon to South Carolina, unfamiliar equipment or practice the latest leaving a portion of the Plains in complete techniques to eliminate bad habits, all in darkness. Although Lawrence falls just an eort to reduce a truly frightening south of the eclipse’s path of totality, locals {Heard by the Bird} statistic: Vehicle crashes cause 12 percent can still expect a signi cantly darker sky, of U.S. re ghter fatalities. says Barbara Anthony-Twarog, professor dating-app-themed comment on “Whether in response to an emergency of astronomy and astrophysics. AApril 24 pushed the University or not, driving in the line of duty is one of “e sun will be more than 99 percent Daily Kansan’s the most dangerous parts of re ghting,” covered from our location,” she says. anonymous Free for says institute director Glenn Pribbenow. “ere’s going to be very, very little sun All text-in column to “e new simulator adds many realistic disc le exposed at the maximum time, situations and factors to the training that which is a little aer 1 p.m.” its high-water mark of are too dangerous or expensive to create in Anthony-Twarog will be among those the spring semester: eld training.” attending e Eclipse @ KU, a public event “sometimes I only hosted by the department of physics and swipe right on people A sight to see astronomy and the KU Biodiversity in hopes that if we Institute & Natural History Museum from match I can correct F M O’ astronomy 11:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the Shenk Sports enthusiasts, the rst day of fall classes this Complex, near 23rd and Iowa streets. their grammar in their bio.” year takes a backseat to the chance to Eclipse enthusiasts can take part in art and

Something phishy

hishing emails from hackers try to trick users into spilling CHARLIE PODREBARAC Pconfidential information such as passwords, account numbers or the exact location of that coee can stued with Krugerrands buried in the backyard. In its never-ending crusade to protect us from our cyberselves, the KU Information Technology Security O ce (ITSO) tempts faculty, sta and students with “self-phishing” emails—fake phishes by our tech guardians—to find out exactly how gullible we are. Answer: Pretty darn. ITSO’s latest phishing expedition congratulated us on getting a parking ticket and urged the use of a credit card to pay the fine. The experts hoped we’d see through the scheme and forward the suspicious communique to [email protected]. Instead, reported a follow-up missive from ITSO, “a great many” faculty, sta and students “called KU Parking, some called the Lawrence Police Department, and some even went down to Municipal Court o ces. We regret any stress and inconvenience ...” And we appreciate the apology. Reburying all those coee cans was a real pain.

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“ e reason I started with Chinese students is that I was so impressed by that DAN STOREY DAN evening,” Sivan says of the January celebration, which included art, food and artifacts from home that the students brought in to share with the Lawrence community. “ ey were so eager to share their culture.” Sivan also hopes to highlight the contributions international students make to the campus and the city. “We don’t only confer on them the advantages of American education, but they bring us so much of their own culture that perhaps we don’t take enough advantage of,” she says. “ ey’re not only eager to take, they’re eager to give.” e project is also designed to shine a light on the unique problems that international students encounter, in the hope that e professional historian also saw an solutions can be found. World views opportunity to bolster the historical Jinhang Jiang, sophomore in accounting record. from Jinan, China, noted during his History project documents “I have noticed a growing population of interview that the isolation and loneliness international student experience foreign students, and it’s a wonderful international students sometimes feel addition to the University on all levels. takes not only a social toll, but also an ooking for something to do back in And I think that perhaps we don’t do as academic toll. LJanuary, Hagith Sivan, professor of much as we can to ask them to share their “ e rst semester, every class I took history, checked the event listings on KU’s experiences.” was a big challenge,” he said. “ e instruc- web page. ere she saw a notice for a Sivan launched an oral history project to tors talk so fast. And the students around Chinese culture evening at the Kansas document the international student you, classmates, change very frequently. Union hosted by the KU Chinese Students experience at KU. She conducted two You never meet the same people every day, & Scholars Friendship Association. group interviews with international so it’s hard to make friends. It means you Sivan, whose professional focus is students before summer break, and plans have no access to [group] study. No one ancient history, has long had a personal to do more aer classes resume in the fall. can help you. You have to do all the stu interest in Chinese art and culture. She All of her interviews have been with on your own.” attended the event, and what she found Chinese students so far, but the project Food—no shock—was among the resonated with another personal experi- will expand to include other nationalities. challenges interviewees mentioned most. ence: Born in Israel, Sivan attended college Nearly 2,400 students from more than 100 Perhaps more surprisingly, limited public in the United States, and she knows what countries currently attend KU. transportation was also a chief concern. it’s like to be an international student, living far from home and family while wrestling with a new language and a new culture. “I think once you recruit students—which we’re “I never quite felt at home, and I doing on a larger scale with each passing year—it’s thought perhaps more could be done to accommodate people who come here, absolutely crucial to also connect with the parents.” because they really feel it’s a wonderful –Hagith Sivan, professor place to grow and contribute,” Sivan says. { }

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI And contrary to cultural stereotypes, She hopes that students gain something the School of Business at Trinity Univer- international students do embrace many from the experience, as well. sity in San Antonio, began her tenure as KU traditions—including our love of “I think they realize that they are not Henry D. Price professor and dean of the basketball. alone, that once they come here there are KU School of Business July 1. “It’s absolutely heartwarming to see how people who care,” Sivan says. “ at we care Fields will lead a school with more than enthusiastic they all are about KU,” Sivan how they are accommodated, that we care 110 faculty and sta members and 2,200 says. to learn more about their experiences, that bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral students; e interviews are posted online so we care to understand what they like and a newly opened $70.5 million home, students can share them with friends and where we can help. Capitol Federal Hall, brimming with the family back home. Sivan would like to “I want them to understand that they latest technology; and an annual budget of eventually expand the project to link the are welcome and that there’s always an $25 million. parents of international students with KU open ear to listen to them.” alumni. International students interested in “I think once you recruit students— joining Hagith Sivan’s oral history project which we’re doing on a larger scale with can email her at [email protected]. each passing year—it’s absolutely crucial to also connect with the parents,” she says. “I can foresee a wonderful exchange where we create a parental network of alumni New leaders and parents all over the world whose children are at KU, to give whole families Changes at the top the sense that it’s not just the children who as key leadership positions ﬁlled are getting an education, but they, the MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS KU COURTESY parents, are really appreciated as well.” he Chancellor’s suite in Strong Hall In the meantime, the interviews, Sivan Twon’t be the only oce with a new believes, allow students to improve our occupant when students return to campus understanding of the international this fall: e KU community welcomes experience at KU and help potential two deans, two vice provosts and a new international students see “how wonderful director of student housing to leadership it is to be a foreign student in the United positions this summer. States, and particularly at KU.” L. Paige Fields, professor and dean of Fields

UPDATE

wo campus building buildings category. Tprojects won American Given by The Chicago STEVE PUPPE STEVE DAN STOREY DAN Architecture Awards this Atheneum Museum of spring. The DeBruce Center, Architecture and Design, the three-story home of the European Center for James Naismith’s original Architecture Art Design “Rules of Basket Ball” and Urban Studies and designed by Gould Evans Metropolitan Arts Press, [“A tradition is born,” the American Architecture Hilltopics, issue No. 3, Awards “are dedicated 2016], was highlighted in to the recognition of the the schools and university excellence in architecture category. The Spencer Architects [“The Big and urbanism in the United Museum of Art renovation Reveal,” issue No. 5, 2016] States.” More information is designed by Pei Cobb Freed was honored in the available at americanarchi- & Partners and Sabatini museums and cultural tectureawards.com.

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insurance and capital structure. Michelle Mohr Carney, professor and director of the School of Social Work at GOOD VEGGIES: Common Harvest, the Arizona State University in Phoenix, became dean of the KU School of Social network of alumni farmers who provide Welfare in July. produce for Crops to Campus, KU’s local, Carney takes over a school that is ranked among the top 20 public programs organic produce subscription program nationally but was roiled by student for faculty, sta and students, was named to protests against its former leader, Paul Smokowski, who resigned as dean in 2016 Black Board Eats’ list of 10 best CSA (Community but remains on the faculty. Supported Agriculture) programs in the country. Crops Carney joined ASU in 2014 to direct the School of Social Work. She oversaw to Campus is in its third year on campus. expansion of degree program o erings, increases in enrollment, and development of two new research centers. Before joining ASU she held faculty and leadership roles at the University of Georgia for 10 years and was at the University of South Carolina for six years. “I am very excited to join such a prestigious university and school,” Carney said in May. “I can’t wait to start working with the engaged and productive faculty and the dedicated sta . e KU School of

COURTESY KU MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS KU COURTESY Social Welfare is poised to be an even greater leader in social work education in the next decade.” Carney completed a bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in social work from e Ohio State University; her master’s degree in social administration is from Case Western Reserve University. Her research interests include intimate partner violence, at-risk youths, community practices, Carney leadership development, and collaboration and conict resolution. She has also “I am honored to be joining the KU University and a doctorate in business worked as a social worker or director at family,” Fields said in May. “With Capitol administration from the University of several agencies in the Midwest. Federal Hall as our home, outstanding South Carolina. She joined Trinity in 2012 Also stepping into new roles recently: opportunities for the School of Business as the Dick and Peggy Prassel Professor of J. Christopher Brown, c’89, g’92, abound. I am absolutely thrilled to begin Business Administration and served as professor and director of the environmen- the process of working with the KU chair of the department of nance and tal studies program, will succeed Mary Lee community to develop strategies, new decision sciences from 2013 to 2015, when Hummert, PhD’87, as vice provost for ideas and cutting-edge programs that will she was named dean of the School of faculty development; enhance the school’s already outstanding Business. Jennifer Hamer, professor of American reputation. We should look to invest, Fields held academic and leadership Studies, was named vice provost for innovate and grow, and I am eager to help positions at Texas A&M from 1994 to diversity and equity aer lling the position KU’s incredible group of faculty, sta , 2012, taught as a visiting professor at the on an interim basis for three months; students, alumni and business community University of Arizona from 1991 to 1994, Sarah Waters, director of residence life members do just that.” and also taught at the University of at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, Fields earned bachelor’s and master’s Kentucky. Her research interests include succeeds Diana Robertson as director for degrees in nance from Louisiana State corporate governance, banking, KU Student Housing.

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI Nursing need working with Salina Regional Health Center and the Salina community to Milestones, money Salina campus to address deliver a curriculum that will help meet and other matters the health care needs of this area.” nursing shortage in underserved e curriculum will be identical to the areas of Kansas program in Kansas City, and students n A $1.2 million grant will be trained by faculty in Kansas City from the National ix years a er the School of Medicine (through distance learning) and on site Cancer Institute will Sopened a Salina campus as part of an in Salina. e nursing program will allow researchers from eort to attract more doctors to the state’s share space with the School of KU Cancer Center to continue development of underserved small cities and rural areas, Medicine-Salina. Zeng the School of Nursing will launch a similar “We can share the lessons learned from an innovative “lab-on-a- eort to address a nursing shortage. the creation of a rural medical school chip” technology for noninvasive biopsy Starting this fall, the new campus will campus and the opportunity to share for children with Ewing Sarcoma. Yong accept 12 students for the Bachelor of resources and to participate in interpro- Zeng, assistant professor of chemistry, Science in nursing, a program for students fessional educational activities,” said and Andrew Godwin, c’82, Chancellors who have already completed the rst two William Cathcart-Rake, m’74, dean of the Distinguished Chair in years of their undergraduate education at School of Medicine-Salina. Biomedical Sciences at any regionally-accredited college or Mike Terry, CEO at Salina Regional KU Medical Center, are university. Health Center, noted that providing developing a technology Plans call for expanding the program to clinical training in a rural setting can that allows doctors to 18 students in 2019 and 24 students in encourage medical professionals to diagnose Ewing 2020. Maximum program capacity will be choose a rural practice once their training Godwin Sarcoma, the second 48 students. is complete. most common bone cancer in children e new program will operate in “We’ve already seen promising results and adolescents, using only a small partnership with Salina Regional Health toward rural recruitment with the drop of a patient’s blood. Center, a 365-bed Level III Trauma Center University of Kansas School of Medicine that serves as a regional referral center for and the Smoky Hill Family Medicine n Three new buildings in the Central patients and critical access hospitals from Residency Program here in Salina,” Terry District redevelopment project have 14 counties in north-central Kansas. said. “is new endeavor has the potential been named for KU historical ﬁgures. “ere is great need in western Kansas to help alleviate demands for baccalaure- A 545-bed residence hall will be called for BSN-prepared nurses,” said Sally ate nurses in Salina, for our partner Cora Downs Residence Hall in honor of Maliski, dean of the School of Nursing, in hospitals in the Sunower Health Net- the ﬁrst woman to receive a Ph.D. from a media release announcing the new work in north-central Kansas, and in rural KU. Downs, c’1915, g’1920, PhD’1924, campus in May. “We are fortunate to be communities across the state.” taught science at the University for six decades, retiring in 1963. The 33,000-square-foot Burge Union, scheduled to open in 2018, honors Frank Burge, who served as director of the Kansas Memorial Union from 1952 to 1983. Stouer Place Apartments honors Ellis Stouer, who served KU for 41 years as a teacher, scholar and administrator.

COURTESY SALINA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER HEALTH REGIONAL SALINA COURTESY n David Murﬁn, b’75, e’75, who has served on the Kansas Board of Regents since 2015, was appointed chairman of the board in May. He is CEO of Murﬁn Inc. and is active with KU advisory KU’s Salina medical campus, which this fall adds the School of Nursing, is currently housed at boards and numerous professional the Salina Regional Health Center. In fall 2018, the schools of Nursing and Medicine will move associations. into 40,000 square feet of renovated space in a former downtown bank (rendering above), which will accommodate continued enrollment growth.

ISSUE 4, 2017 | 13 Hilltopics ere was good news for students, too: 2017 graduates set a school record for resi-

STEVE PUPPE STEVE dency matches and nished far above the national match rate. KU PharmD students matched at a rate of 87 percent; nation- The School of ally, only 67 percent of graduates seeking a Pharmacy, led by year-long residency received a match. Dean Ken Audus, ranked fourth nationally in NIH SERVICE funding in 2016 and Steeples award honors faculty ﬁnished above the national average for contributions to Kansas residency matches. T were recognized for public service with annual PHARMACY Steeples Service to Kansans Awards. the only Big 12 institution in the top 10. Established in 1997 by Don Steeples, School earns high marks Twenty faculty members attracted NIH professor emeritus of geology, and his for research, residency rates funding, an average of more than wife, Tammy, PhD’00, to honor his $640,000. Decreased federal funding and parents, Wally and Marie Steeples, the S increased competition make the accom- award provides recipients $1,000 and an show the School of Pharmacy continues to plishment all the more impressive. additional $1,000 base adjustment to their fare well nationally in key areas. “Elite pharmacy researchers from across salaries. For the 22nd consecutive year, the the country compete for this money year is year’s recipients are: school ranked in the top 10 in the nation aer year,” said Ken Audus, PhD’84, dean Mary Banwart, c’90, director of the for National Institutes of Health research of the School of Pharmacy. “e fact that Institute for Leadership Studies and funding, according to data collected by the we are consistently among the nation’s associate professor of communication American Association of Colleges of most successful speaks to the talent and studies. Banwart is the founder and Pharmacy. KU ranked No. 4, earning more expertise of our faculty. It’s something that director of the Kansas Women’s Leader- than $16 million in scal 2016, an increase they and the state of Kansas should be ship Institute, which annually brings of $4.5 million from 2015. e school is very proud of.” women from around the world for a

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he Good Catholic,” the Leonardo Da Vinci’s Horse ary Spicer, in more than Award for Best Screenplay at 20 cities and via video-on- “Tindependent film written BROSHER JAMES and directed by Paul Shoulberg, the Milan International Film demand services like iTunes c’04, [“Honor the Father,” issue Festival and was named Best and Amazon. No. 1, 2017] will be distributed Film at New Jersey’s Grove “Broadgreen is highly re- by Broadgreen Pictures, with a Film Festival. spected, and we’re one of their release in select theatres and “It has been a nice surprise,” smaller films,” Shoulberg says. video on demand Sept. 8. Shoulberg says. “You get so “It feels really good to get dis- Inspired by Paul’s parents, personal with a film that you tributed by the same company Don, PhD’75, and Gini Shoul- don’t know if it’s going to make that did Terrence Malick’s last berg, g’72, and written in sense to other people. So it’s film. It validates things a lot, but homage to Don after his death nice to find out people like it.” you have about five minutes to in 2013, the film premiered at Broadgreen will release “The enjoy it, then you realize you Plans are underway for a the Santa Barbara Film Festival, Good Catholic,” which stars gotta keep working. If we don’t Lawrence showing in Septem- where it won the Panavision Danny Glover, John C. McGin- continue to hustle and fight for ber. For more information, visit Spirit Award. It also won the ley, Wrenn Schmidt and Zach- the film, it’ll disappear.” facebook.com/tgcmovie.

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI six-week program that allows them to explore women’s leadership and history, Milestones, money gain leadership skills, learn about civic and other matters engagement and interact with Kansans across the state. Jennifer Ng, associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies. STEVE PUPPE STEVE Ng works with Kansas school districts on OF ENGINEERING SCHOOL COURTESY diversity, equity and inclusion. Most recently, she helped advise Garden City schools on their work with culturally and linguistically diverse youths. She also is active with Leadership Kansas and is a n A $400,000 gift from the late Jane member of the Kansas Advisory Council Wo ord Malin, c’45, g’47, will beneﬁt to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. the School of Music and the department Sean Smith, professor of special of dance at KU. The estate bequest education. Smith works with the Kansas establishes the Malin Opportunity Department of Education to support Zahner Funds for Dance and Music. Malin, who educators, represent parents and help died in 2016 at the age of 90, was a implement technology for students with won the 2017 Distinguished Engineering longtime actor and advocate of commu- disabilities. He’s also active with Families Service Award, the school’s highest honor nity theatre in Lawrence. Together, a Kansas organization that for alumni or engineers. supports families of people with disabili- Kohlman, e’59, g’60, worked at Boeing n Six Jayhawks were selected for ties, and the Down Syndrome Guild of early in his career and in 1964 returned to prestigious Fulbright awards for Kansas City, which serves parents, family KU, where he taught and helped establish research, study or English teaching members and people with Down Syn- the Flight Research Laboratory. He abroad for 2017-’18. Barry Ballinger, drome across the state. co-founded Kohlman Systems Research, PhD’17, Lawrence, who will travel to an expert ight-test group supporting Turkey; Matthew Fahrenbruch, Law- ight simulator development. He is also a rence doctoral student in geography, ENGINEERING world-renowned expert in aircra Nicaragua; Abigail Fields, c‘17, Min- accident investigation. Two alumni receive neapolis, Minnesota, France; Robert Zahner, e’79, helped transform his Jameson, St. Paul, Minnesota, doctoral school’s highest honor family’s business from a regional sheet student in history, Czech Republic; metal contractor into an internationally Zachary McCarter, c’16, Marysville A known known fabricator; the company’s complex master’s student in education, for his innovative work with ight forms distinguish iconic buildings such as Germany; and John “Ike” Uri, c’17, simulators and a civil engineer whose the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, the Concordia, Tajikistan. unique approach to sheet Smithsonian’s National metal fabrication has Museum of the American n Tuition will rise 2.5 percent this fall helped some of the world’s Indian in Washington, D.C., on the Lawrence campus and 5 percent most recognizable and the Kauman Center at KU Medical Center under a plan buildings soar, were for the Performing Arts in approved in June by the Kansas Board honored by the School of Kansas City. of Regents. Most undergraduates will Engineering in May for “Each of these men has pay an additional $120 per semester for their dedication to the made amazing contribu- the coming academic year. profession and their OF ENGINEERING SCHOOL COURTESY tions to the engineering contributions to the industry and advanced their n Lied Center of Kansas earned a industry. respective elds,” says $30,000 grant from the National Dave Kohlman, a Michael Branicky, dean of Endowment for the Arts. The grant world-renowned aeronau- engineering. “We’re supports a multidisciplinary performing tical engineer, teacher, honored to have them as Kohlman arts series during 2017-’18, “Exploring consultant and entrepre- part of the Jayhawk Identities through Music, Movement neur, and L. William Zahner III, leader of engineering family—and we’re pleased to and Word.” the A. Zahner Company in Kansas City, bestow them with this award.”

ISSUE 4, 2017 | 15 Sports by Chris Lazzarino JEFF JACOBSEN Bittersweet bronzes After winning 7 Big 12 events, track and ﬁeld ‘Hawks tally four thirds at NCAA meet

lthough their June trip to the NCAA I was hoping for,” Lokedi said aer the AOutdoor Championships at the NCAA race. “Even though I wanted to win University of Oregon’s Hayward Field the race, I’m still happy with the failed to turn up any gold, the men’s and performance.” women’s track teams racked up four Conley, a repeat champion at the Big 12 bronze medals and, for the rst time in the meet, went from fourth to third with a long history of KU track and eld, top-20 nal jump of 21 feet, 2 inches. NCAA nishes for both teams. “I wanted the gold and I know I was Led by third-place nishes by freshman capable of getting it, but today just wasn’t Gleb Dudarev in the hammer throw and the day,” Conley said. “I’ve come a long sophomore Hussain Al Hizam in the pole way to get third at this meet. It’s my vault, the KU men placed 11th in Eugene. highest nish since I’ve been coming here e women’s team, which entered the so I have to look at that as a positive.” national rankings for the rst time all Al Hizam, whose gold-medal vault season in the nal poll before the national of 18 feet, 2.75 inches was the best in the that challenged pole vaulters. meet, placed 18th, paced by bronze medals history of the Big 12 Outdoor Champion- “I feel like that’s what made the dier- from junior Sharon Lokedi in the 10,000- ships, failed to clear 18 feet, 2.5 inches ence,” he said. “Some guys were fortunate meter run and senior Sydney Conley in while battling swirling winds in Eugene to get the tailwind and others didn’t. at’s the long jump. just part of this sport, though, and it’s Lokedi’s school-record time of 32 something that you have to deal with.” minutes, 46.10 seconds, was nearly a As with his three bronze-medal-winning minute better than her second gold-medal teammates, hammer thrower Gleb performance in the Big 12 Outdoor JACOBSEN LAURA Dudarev also entered the NCAA meet as Championships May 12 at Rock Chalk the Big 12 champion. Unlike the others, he Park, where she also won the 5,000 meters was ranked No. 1 in his event. He and was named Big 12 Outstanding improved with each of his nal four Female Performer of the Year. throws in Eugene, ultimately vaulting from “It was a personal record, which is what sixth to third with a nal toss of 240 feet, 11 inches. Dudarev won the Big 12 title by unleashing a school-record throw of 243

JEFF JACOBSEN feet, 5 inches. “I feel more con dent aer this throw and claiming this title,” Dudarev said aer his Big 12 victory in west Lawrence. “is throw proves, one more time, the condi- tion I am in.”

Bronze-medalists Gleb Dudarev (left), Sydney Conley (above) and Hussain Al Hizam (top) at the NCAA championship meet June 7-10 in Eugene, Oregon.

16 | KANSAS ALUMNI Other Jayhawks to win Big 12 titles at Rock Chalk Park were senior Mitch Cooper, a repeat champion in the discus and the rst Jayhawk to score league-meet “I’ve come a long way to get third at this meet.” points in all four throwing events, and —long jumper Sydney Conley, after winning NCAA bronze senior Strymar Livingston in the 800 meters. Livingston is the rst Jayhawk to {} win the 800 at the league’s indoor and outdoor championship meets in a single season since Jim Ryun, j’70, in 1967. strong Jr., who joined Beaty on a summer trip to meet with alumni at a rally in his native Houston—along with stops in LAURA JACOBSEN LAURA Big D Dallas, Phoenix, Atlanta and New Orleans—was named to Athlon Sports’ Armstrong among the stars eager Preseason All-America Team. to energize football turnaround Armstrong was a unanimous rst-team All-Big 12 selection in 2016, aer leading ntering the third year of coach David the Big 12 in sacks (10), tackles for loss EBeaty’s tenure, the football Jayhawks (20) and forced fumbles (3). He plays return 48 lettermen, including 14 starters, alongside an equally imposing presence on and head into fall camp with soaring the defensive line, junior tackle Daniel enthusiasm. Wise, who last season recorded three “It hasn’t been easy these rst two years,” sacks, 10 tackles for loss and 38 total Armstrong Beaty says. “Our numbers situation that tackles. we have struggled with is no secret. But we “In the past, I felt like I needed to spend di erent feeling. We nally have some have recruited and developed the players a good chunk of time explaining our plan legit playmakers to talk about.” in our program, and I am excited because and what we were trying to establish for KU opens its season Sept. 2 in Memorial our babies are growing up.” the program,” Beaty says of his preseason Stadium, with a 6 p.m. game against Junior defensive end Dorance Arm- alumni rallies. “is year, there is a Southeast Missouri State.

UPDATES d’14, placed third in the triple jump but did not

Senior closer Stephen JEFF JACOBSEN reach the world-meet’s qualifying standard of Villines, whose 40 career saves 46 feet, 3.25 inches, a mark she could attempt is the best mark in KU baseball to hit in July. ... Rowing advanced all five of its history, was named first-team boats to the Grand Finals of the Big 12 All-Big 12 and was drafted by Championships in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the New York Mets. The earlier topped Kansas State, 12-10, in the Pittsburgh Pirates tabbed junior Sunflower Showdown on the Kansas River. After reliever Blake Weiman and the season, Rob Catloth, f’85, rowing coach junior shortstop Matt since the varsity program launched in 1995 (and McLaughlin went to the Villines the club program coach before that), announced Colorado Rockies. Other than his retirement. ... Sophomore golfer Andy missing two games this season with a hand injury, McLaughlin Spencer won the Watson Challenge at Milburn Country Club, played every inning of every game in his three seasons at KU. “He topping former teammate Chase Hanna, b’17, by seven strokes. ... had an outstanding career,” coach Ritch Price said of McLaughlin. Keith Loneker Sr., ‘94, an All-Big Eight guard on the 1992 Aloha ... Mason Finley, ’14, defended his discus title at the U.S. Bowl team, three-year NFL lineman, actor, screenwriter and movie Championships in Sacramento, California, with a throw of 206 and music producer, died of cancer June 22. His son, Keith feet, 9 inches. Michael Stigler, c’16, rallied to finish second in the Loneker Jr., is expected to be a starting linebacker this season. ... 400-meter hurdles. Both earned spots with Team USA for the A new policy limiting the size and type of bags that can be brought World Championships Aug. 5-13 in London. Andrea Geubelle, into athletics events will be enforced beginning in August.

ISSUE 4, 2017 | 17 Fly

After roaming high seas and ocean depths, NASA astronaut candidate aims for the heavens

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he is an aerospace engineer, ight suits and perched in front of the marine research technician, pilot, next-generation Orion spacecra, at a advanced scuba diver, sailor, rousing introduction ceremony for the surfer, certied wilderness rst new class of astronaut candidates vying to responder,S spelunker, painter and shade- join the current corps of 44. “I’ve been tree mechanic. fortunate that the experiences that I’ve And, nally, astronaut. always gravitated toward are also those Well, not quite. Astronaut candidate for that helped me get up here today, things now, but, aer completing two years of like xing engines and ying and diving.” training, Loral O’Hara, e’06, in 2019 will Born in Houston, O’Hara grew up in report for duty in NASA’s astronaut oce nearby Sugar Land. Her parents, Steve and to await her rst ight assignment. Cindy, took Loral and her sister, Caroline, “I’ve always been really curious and on visits to Johnson Space Center, and her loved learning new skills,” the KU aero- second-grade class grew tomato plants space engineering graduate and crew team that ew aboard the space shuttle. alumna said June 7 in Houston’s Johnson “I’ve wanted to be an explorer ever since Space Center, where she joined 11 I was a little kid,” O’Hara says. “I never classmates, decked out in their blue NASA really lost that.”

by Chris Lazzarino Photographs courtesy of NASA

ISSUE 4, 2017 | 19 O’Hara brieﬂy tasted space-ﬂight life while a KU student (above), testing an experiment aboard the “vomit comet,” and in June joined 11 others as the latest group of adventurous Americans chosen for astronaut training.

’Hara came to KU’s School of space,” O’Hara battery power in case sea conditions OEngineering as a National Merit says from might delay retrieval at the surface, all Scholar; although she was more than 700 Johnson Space Center, lights onboard Alvin were shut o . miles from Houston, she did not leave early on her rst full, ocial day at NASA. “We were a mile deep, so it was com- NASA far behind. O’Hara won an intern- “And then I went on my rst research pletely pitch black,” O’Hara says. “But ship at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion cruise with the Alvin submersible, the looking out the window you saw this Laboratory and, supported by the School manned research sub, and I was hooked. whole array of bioluminescence. It looked of Engineering and the Kansas Space Going to sea, I loved it. It was the perfect like the night sky; everything was just Grant, she completed the intensive NASA t. Everything about it was great.” twinkling. Academy at Goddard Spaceight Center. O’Hara joined Woods Hole as an “At that point, I was like, this must be O’Hara also designed and built a micro- engineer working on mechanical systems what it feels like to be in space, looking out thruster satellite propulsion system that on the workhorse Alvin, which rst a window and seeing all those lights.” she tested on NASA’s reduced gravity entered the Woods Hole eet in 1964. “vomit comet.” Aer years of upgrades, Alvin in 2013 Aer graduation, O’Hara worked for a began a series of sea trials, from tethered ’Hara rst applied for the astronaut year as a project engineer at Rocketplane dives to harbor trials in shallow water, Ocorps in 2009, before she even met Limited in Oklahoma City, then entered then to the open ocean. the minimum requirement of three years graduate school at Purdue University, For Alvin’s third open-ocean test, of work experience. She applied again earning a master’s degree in aeronautics O’Hara climbed aboard as the engineer- when applications were accepted for the and astronautics. In 2009, O’Hara’s natural observer for a seven-hour dive to 1,600 2013 class, and this year nally achieved curiosity led her on a detour away from meters, or a mile below the ocean’s surface. her dream as one of 12 astronaut candi- aeronautics, to the Woods Hole Oceano- Once the deep tests concluded, the team dates chosen from more than 18,300 graphic Institution in Massachusetts. dropped steel ballast weight and Alvin applicants. “My plan was to come back to aero- began its ascent. In order to conserve Her classmates, four other women and

20 | KANSAS ALUMNI “I’ve always been really curious and loved learning Jayhawk new skills. I’ve been fortunate that the experiences that I’ve always gravitated toward are also those that astronauts helped me get up here today, things like ﬁxing engines and ﬂying and diving.”—Loral O’Hara

seven men, include test pilots, a submarine years, according to Eric Berger, senior ocer, an Antarctic researcher, a SpaceX space editor at Ars Technica. engineer who worked as a sherman in “ e question becomes whether or not Alaska, a special forces helicopter pilot NASA actually goes ahead with plans for and surgeon, and a former Navy SEAL deep space exploration,” Berger says. turned emergency room physician. “Despite what’s said, there’s just not a lot of “In those 12 you see people who came certainty about what’s going to happen.” from all these demanding subsets of Once they’ve earned their astronaut Joe Engle, e’55, NASA Class of 1966, culture, and here they are assembled to do pins, O’Hara and her classmates could nd commander of the second space a new thing,” says Mark Carreau, c’72, themselves launching for the moon, shuttle flight contributing writer for Aviation Week & whether for a landing or long-duration Space Technology. “I saw people who were orbits from which deeper journeys could Ron Evans, ready to embrace the future. eir future.” be staged, but any excursions toward Mars e’55, NASA What that future might be, though, is likely wouldn’t happen until the 2030s. Class of 1966, anybody’s guess. Many in the current Despite the uncertainty, O’Hara is eager command astronaut class might one day be sent to for the adventure. She is willing to leave module pilot the International Space Station, but all are behind her summer home aboard the on Apollo 17 envisioning travel beyond low-earth orbit. 25-foot sailboat Muirgen (Gaelic for “born NASA is planning its rst launch of the of the sea”), and she’ll miss tinkering with Orion spacecra for 2023, although the her pickup truck, being outside with the next manned NASA ight aer that likely ocean and mountains, and lingering over wouldn’t happen for another two to three an espresso in cozy coee shops. “ e biggest challenge would be leaving everything we know and everyone we love behind,” O’Hara says, “but it’s extremely Steven Hawley, exciting. I would be thrilled to go on a c’73, NASA Class longer-duration mission, whether it’s to of 1978, mission ISS or somewhere else in the solar system. specialist on five I’ve always loved exploration, and that’s space shuttle really what led me to Woods Hole flights and Oceanographic. current KU “Going to sea taught me the value of a professor of good team and careful preparation, having physics and to solve problems in challenging environ- astronomy ments with limited resources. at’s basically what you have to do in space, as well, and that’s the kind of environment I thrive in.” Loral O’Hara, e’06, NASA Class of Ready to embrace the future. Her 2017, in August begins two years of future. training as an astronaut candidate

ISSUE 4, 2017 | 21 Surgeon Doug Girod moves his practice from KU Medical Center to Strong Hall as the University’s 18th chancellor

by Chris Lazzarino

Portrait by Steve Puppe

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ometimes secrets hold. is one Chancellor Gray-Little describes her successor as sure did. From Sept. 22, when “a person who is easy to work with, someone who is well Chancellor Bernadette Gray- Little announced that she would organized, someone who is collaborative, a big cheerleader concludeS her eight-year KU tenure on for KU, someone who has a good business mind.” June 30, until the May 25 campus meeting called that morning by the Kansas Board of Regents to reveal her replacement, not a single name came forward. before the news became public, nothing Girod, a world-renowned microvascular Certainly not ocially: e search— about which candidate the Regents had head-and-neck cancer surgeon, was the organized by a consultant and overseen by chosen. Regents’ choice to succeed Chancellor a committee of 25 alumni, faculty, students “I knew before I sat down, but only a Bernadette Gray-Little. Bill Feuerborn and sta from across the University few minutes before I sat down,” said quickly seconded omas’ motion, and the community—was closed to the public, Dillon, b’73. “ e committee was not board unanimously armed Girod. with no open meetings or presentations. aware of the choice.” “ e work we do changes lives,” Girod A genuine mystery was unfolding in the Four and a half minutes into the Lied said to his rst audience as the next Lied Center, and even David Dillon, the Center meeting, gaveled to order promptly chancellor of the University of Kansas, retired chairman and CEO of e Kroger at 1 p.m. by Regents chair Zoe Newton, “and it improves our world in very Co. who chaired the chancellor search Regent Daniel J. omas was the rst to meaningful ways.” committee, was in the dark until moments make the governing board’s intention Given relentless nancial pressure before the Regents’ public meeting began. clear: “Aer holding many leadership roles placed on all Regents institutions because Dillon knew which “three to ve”—he at the University of Kansas Medical Center of the state’s budgetary travails, it seemed would be no more specic than that—can- over the last 23 years …” at least plausible that KU’s chancellorship didates his committee forwarded to the And with that, the secret was out. might no longer attract a large pool of elite Regents, of course, but, until moments Executive Vice Chancellor Douglas A. candidates. Not so, Dillon emphasized.

24 | KANSAS ALUMNI “In fact, it was just the opposite,” he said. until today he still saw patients. We’ll see.” he day a er his introduction as KU’s “People see that Bernadette has taken us a As for how Girod’s training and experi- Tnext chancellor, Doug Girod’s email long way in a very positive direction, but ence as a surgeon might inuence his crashed. Twice. e following day, a they also see lots of opportunity. Good ability to be a successful KU chancellor, Saturday, it crashed again. More than 200 leaders typically believe that they can help Simari replied, “It’s all about planning. It’s text messages swamped his phone and his make a dierence, and they lined up to all about execution. at’s how he’s made Facebook and LinkedIn accounts were show us that they could do that.” his living as a surgeon. ooded. As Doug and Susan Girod greeted “It’s also about teams. No 12-hour “It’s kind of come on all fronts, which campus colleagues and community surgery happens just because the surgeon has just been delightful,” Girod says, two members who lled the Lied’s airy lobby, is there. It happens because there’s a team.” weeks and a day a er the big announce- Robert Simari, m’86, whom Girod hired away from the Mayo Clinic in 2014 as dean of the School of Medicine, and Roy Jensen, director of the KU Cancer Center, lingered long enough to soak in what had (2) STOREY DAN just transpired. Both were members of the chancellor search committee, and both had presumably been enthusiastic supporters of Girod’s name being forwarded to the Board of Regents, but now it was real, and the Kansas City, Kansas, campus where they work would be in for big changes. “It’s an exciting day for KU,” Jensen said. “As the broader KU community gets to know Doug, they’re going to be extraordinarily impressed with what a great guy he is. He’s just so dedicated to the University and the state of Kansas, and I think he’s an outstanding choice.” Girod is the third dean of KU’s School of Medicine to be promoted to chancellor, following a popular tandem whose combined tenures in Strong Hall stretched from 1951 to 1969: internist Franklin Murphy, c’36, and pharmacologist W. Clarke Wescoe. Girod is the rst surgeon to serve KU as chancellor. “Surgeons tend to be people who can make a decision,” Jensen noted. “I think he does a really good job of collecting all the data that’s possible to make sure that it’s a well-informed decision, but he doesn’t hem and haw around once he thinks he has a sucient body of evidence to move forward.” Unlike the vast majority of academic medical deans across the country, Simari still makes time for his clinical practice— following the lead set by his boss. “Doug is one of the highest-respected Well-wishers greeting Doug and Susan Girod May 25 in the Lied Center lobby, shortly after the ENT cancer surgeons in the world, he’s Kansas Board of Regents introduced Girod to alumni and campus colleagues as the University’s been the head of national societies and he 18th chancellor, included search committee chair David Dillon (top) and Roy Jensen (above), still sees patients,” Simari said. “Or, up director of the KU Cancer Center.

ISSUE 4, 2017 | 25 which came from new donors; about $470 million in design and construction, DAN STOREY DAN including the massive Central District complex, is underway on Mount Oread, all of which Girod is already up to speed on as a member of the chancellor’s Capital Projects Council; and the $75 million Health Education Building, which will reinvent health care education at KU Medical Center, will open before the start of fall classes. And, of course, there are the people. For Girod, it’s always the people. “To see ve years of growth of the freshman class, to see your most academi- cally talented freshman class ever, to see the growth of diversity we’ve experienced within our classes, and to see the continued success of our alumni, I think we’re extraordinarily fortunate,” Girod says, crediting Gray-Little. “ere is not an element of this job that I believe she did not excel at. I think we owe her a debt of gratitude.” ment. It was a few minutes from the end of buoyed his spirits, Girod is realistic about a long week, late on a Friday a ernoon, the job that awaits. “Higher-ed nationally and Girod’s enthusiasm had not dimmed is in a relative state of crisis at the hat skills can a surgeon bring to a in the slightest. moment,” he says. at’s due to post-reces- Wchancellorship? Decision making, He explains that he’s heard from old sion budget strains “that we’ve not teamwork, sure. But for Girod, it’s also friends and people he has never met, from recovered from” and what Girod sees as about focusing on the patient. faculty and deans from the Lawrence “the national shi of mentality away from “We look at patients like we need to look campus and from alumni across the a fairly universal perspective that educa- at students,” he says, explaining that country, including former U.S. Sen. Bob tion is good for the country and good for surgeons must develop the skill of empa- Dole, ’45. the economy to one where now education thy so they can see the world through their “He said, ‘You may not be aware, but we is a personal privilege and obligation.” patients’ eyes. When educators develop a have this little institute over in Lawrence,’” Girod continues, “at shi of cost from similar empathy for students, Girod says, Girod recalls with a laugh. “I said, ‘Yes, I’m being funded at the state and federal level “we learn to think dierently about how very aware, and what a great asset it is.’” to more of the individual has been pretty we do things. I rmly believe that if a As he has assuredly done with all of dramatic, but it’s been national. It’s student has just an absolutely outstanding Girod’s predecessors for the past half- certainly not unique to us.” experience, that pays dividends in century, Dole also told Girod, “I’m here for Given those factors, Girod says, he is everything we care about. It continues to you if there’s anything you need.” e same fortunate to lead a university faring as well provide growth in the student population, sentiment was expressed countless times as KU. it continues to allow you to grow your in countless emails and phone calls, and KU Endowment’s Far Above: e faculty, it allows you to grow your research Girod took it all to heart. Campaign for Kansas last year topped out programs, it gets you your best and “You know, it’s pretty remarkable, and I at more than $1.6 billion, 49 percent of brightest kids. do believe it’s relatively unique to KU,” he says. “I’m sure there are other universities like that, but I will tell you, none of my alma maters are like that. e fact that “I ﬁrmly believe that if a student has just an absolutely people are even paying attention is pretty remarkable, and the speed with which that outstanding experience, that pays dividends in everything happened ... Yeah, remarkable.” we care about.” —Chancellor Girod Beyond the crimson-and-blue cheer that

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Callie (l-r), Katelyn and Jimmy Girod traveled extensively with their parents on worldwide medical missions, especially to Central America. “Frankly, selﬁshly, I got into it because I wanted my kids to have that experience,” Chancellor Girod says. “I wanted them to know what most of the world lives with, and lives without, and to have that opportunity to see that ﬁrsthand and to have that opportunity to participate and give back.”

“If we focus on that, the rest will follow.” ecient, and post-operative recovery larger role he’ll play in Strong Hall. Gray-Little agrees. “I’m very pleased to rooms were mere strides away. Susan Twombly, professor of higher see that he would carry through that “is is an opportunity to learn what education and chair of the department emphasis into his new role, which is you have to have to get by,” Girod said at of educational leadership and policy overseeing the experience at the entire the time. “e reality is, we don’t need studies, told the Lawrence Journal-World, University.” nearly as much as we have to work with “I think he’s a ne leader, and I was In 2004, while leading a group of back home.” impressed with what he was able to do at medical students on a medical mission to Girod maintains an active schedule of the medical center, but that was a very Antigua, Guatemala, Girod delighted in traveling on medical journeys across the limited role ... I don’t think he knows the spartan operating suite the KU globe—he’s recently been to India and much about undergraduate education.” doctors, nurses and students found deep China to establish exchange programs for Girod is eager to erase such doubts, and within Obras Sociales del Hermano Pedro, faculty, residents and students—and those says his experience at KU Medical Center a church, orphanage, hospital and resi- experiences continue pushing him to help should be seen not as limited, but expan- dent-care facility that sprawls across an invent better health care delivery here. sive and applicable to the job of chancellor. entire block of the old mountain city. Even with a dramatic evolution toward “e complexity of our health system is When the O.R.’s only computer broke patient-centered health care, though, the like none other in the world,” he says, “and down on the rst morning, Girod cheer- system remains in nitely dicult to grasp, having to learn how to navigate that fully drew up the surgical schedule by let alone manage. at, Girod contends, successfully and to morph with it— hand. Racks of supplies were hardly should be noted by those who argue that because it’s also changing incredibly overowing, but everything was clean and his experience might not translate to the quickly—has given me a very practical

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Girod and Alumni Association president Heath Peterson shared a few laughs at the KU Alumni Invitational, June 26 at Hutchinson’s famed Prairie Dunes Country Club. “He’s done a great job connecting with the alumni base even prior to this role,” Peterson says. “I know statewide outreach will be a huge priority for him, and we have the infrastructure to help him be eective.”

experience of being able to address importance of teamwork and bringing that for 10 years into his chancellorship, Girod rapidly changing challenges, I think, right back to the beginning, where that replies rather bluntly, “I don’t particularly e ectively. teamwork can take place from day one in care what I’m known for, but what I would “And, through graduated responsibility, the classroom.” like is for KU to be the destination. Not I’ve been able to get better at it over time. just in the Midwest, but one of the top e issues get bigger, but they’re the same destinations in the United States, if not the issues.” er leaving active duty in the U.S. world, for faculty and students. And we Lawrence-campus faculty who have not ANavy, Girod in 1994 accepted an have everything we need to be that, stayed abreast of what Girod terms appointment at KU for the opportunity to we really do. “generational change” at KU Medical build a world-class department of otolar- “Not that it’s not going to take work; it Center risk being slow to respond to the yngology-head and neck surgery; at the absolutely is. But because of the health of new chancellor’s priorities. At the very time, no other hospital in the region the University and the great job Berna- least, it’s a smart bet that the culture shi o ered the reconstructive surgery in dette has done of weathering the storm of he experienced as the schools of medicine, which Girod specialized. the last seven, eight years, and doing so in nursing and health professions merged Girod rose to department chair in 2002 a very scally responsible and strategic their curricula ahead of the opening of the and, among numerous other leadership fashion, we are well positioned to Health Education Building will inuence positions, he also served as senior associ- become that.” his thinking as chancellor. ate dean for clinical a airs and interim Girod insists that his primary motiva- “at has really broken down so executive dean. In 2013 Gray-Little tion for accepting leadership positions is many silos on this campus,” Girod says appointed Girod executive vice chancellor to help others succeed, a pledge that rings of the changes brought by the Health of KU Medical Center. true to those who know him. Education Building. “Not just between “He’s a Jayhawk, through and through,” “It’s not about him, and that’s why he’s medicine, nursing and health professions, says Alumni Association president Heath been so successful,” says John Ballard III, but also between departments, because the Peterson, d’04, g’09. “He’s proven that. e b’73, a member of the Alumni Associa- education is no longer department based. growth and progress that the Med Center tion’s national Board of Directors. “He’s a It is sort of disease based and activity has made under his leadership speaks for great listener, and he’s always so positive based. itself, and there’s no doubt he will be a and energetic and warm.” “It’s a completely new philosophy on great partner to the Alumni Association Says Peterson, “With Doug, it’s 100 health professions education, taking what and KU Endowment.” percent about the institution and the we’ve learned in the hospital about the Asked what he would like to be known people, no question.”

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI Asked what the broader KU community “I don’t particularly care what I’m known for, but what I will nd in the leader those at KU Medical would like is for KU to be the destination. Not just in the Center already know well, Dean Simari— later named KU Medical Center’s interim Midwest, but one of the top destinations in the United executive vice chancellor—replies, “His States, if not the world, for faculty and students. And we genuine nature and his high integrity. He have everything we need to be that, we really do.” is who he is. ere is no pretext.” —Chancellor Girod

native of Salem, Oregon, Doug Girod Agrew up racing motorcycles across Olathe Public Schools, Callie is a neurosci- e Outlook and its rather expansive rugged backcountry timber roads, funding ence nurse at KU Medical Center, and grounds, Mount Oread, which she plans to his hobby by working in a motorcycle Jimmy, c’14, works with autistic children at further explore during long walks with her shop. inking he might want to become KidsTLC in Olathe—but they still honor dog, Noe. an electrical engineer, Girod ventured to the Girod family tradition of spending “Kansas is home to me,” she says. Silicon Valley, where he enrolled in junior Sundays together. “People say to me, what about the West college and took a job assembling Pong “One of the best things—and of course Coast, going back? And the Regents asked video-game consoles. at lasted four it was Susan’s idea, like all good ideas— me about that, too, about wanting to go days, but Girod then found work on a was that Sundays are family days,” Doug back. I was like, ‘Nah, I’ll never go back to production line that manufactured Girod says. “And we’re still pretty rigid California.’ I had a background of moving, pizza-sized memory platters that held an about it. Unless somebody is traveling, you moving, moving, so to be in that space for astonishing 20 megabytes of data. just don’t plan anything else on Sunday.” 17 years, raising our family, really Factory work failed to win Girod over to Whatever playfulness already existed in cemented the idea that Kansas is home.” the digital revolution, instead pushing him Doug Girod’s personality before he met “She’s really embraced it,” the chancellor toward the other eld he had considered Susan, it has, without doubt, been ampli- says of Susan’s eagerness to nd her place as a viable career. Medicine, though, was ed by his bride. in a KU community beyond the comfort not the best discovery he made in He and Jimmy both own Harley- zone of KU Med. “She’s excited. A little California. Davidsons and they try to make time for nervous, but very excited. Like both of us.” “I met Doug ...” annual pilgrimages to the famous rally in When Girod accepted Gray-Little’s oer Susan Girod interrupts herself, smiles Sturgis, South Dakota, where they decamp to become executive vice chancellor, he and says sweetly, “Look at him, he’s in a friend’s house alongside a stream worried he might have to give up his peeking at me.” She is standing in the plentiful with trout. Susan is encouraging medical practice. Helping sick people heal driveway of e Outlook, their future him to bring the big bike to Lawrence. had, to that point, been his professional home, watching her husband have a bit of “I told him it would give him street cred life. Assured that he could continue to see fun while posing for photographs on the with the kids,” she says, grinning, “if he patients for half a day each week, he grand porch. rode the Harley through campus.” embraced the leadership opportunity “I met Doug when we were just 18 years Once they’ve sold their Mission Hills with vigor. old, on a blind date, and he’s … he’s never home and moved to Lilac Lane, the Girods Girod felt the same concern when he surprised me. It’s always been … how do I plan to buy a small place in Kansas City to and Susan agreed that he should stand for want to say this? … I always knew he had keep as a base where her father, his mother chancellor, and the Regents allayed his fear it in him. He’s always been that guy, and their kids, all of whom live in the by allowing him to maintain the same looking ahead, and we’ve been a team Kansas City area, can connect, but e clinical schedule to continue tending his from the very beginning.” Outlook will be their home—for Susan cancer patients, some of whom he’s treated Susan’s father, Jim Pirtle, worked in Girod, home No. 21. for 20 years. construction and the family followed his “When we came to Kansas City for “When he was looking at making this work travels around the West, circulating Doug to work at KU Med, we had our rst transition, I think he was ready to take through California, Arizona, Colorado home here for 17 years,” she says. “at’s that step if he needed to,” Susan Girod and back again. She paid attention as her the longest I’ve been anywhere in my life.” says. “But I think he was extremely pleased late mother, Frances, supported Jim with KU’s 18th chancellor says the biggest that he gets to hang onto it, because that everything she had to give, and Susan shi will be for his wife, who steps into was, you know, his rst real love.” brought that same spirit of togetherness more of a public role than has previously She pauses, smiles, and adds, into her own marriage and family. been asked of her. She consulted Shade “Besides me.” Her children are grown now—Katelyn is Keys Little for advice, and gratefully It happens because there’s a team. From Hispanic community services adviser for accepted his oer to lead her on tours of the very beginning.

ISSUE 4, 2017 | 29 Sweet Dreams are Made of Cheese

he rst hint is the baseball almonds and sweet and spicy pickles a covers every corner of the industry, cap. It’s bright yellow and small, black-and-white sign proclaims including raw ingredients, cheesemaking, emblazoned with a bold “Cheesemaster Sara’s ocially a CCP.” storage and handling, nutrition, sanitation, nickname: “Big Cheese.” No doubt about it: Sara Knickerbocker government regulations and marketing. T en there’s the re-engine red chef’s is a certied cheese whiz. Cheesemongers, cheesemakers, importers, jacket. Embroidered above the pocket, just CCP (Certied Cheese Professional) is exporters, restaurateurs, food writers and under the Murray’s Cheese Shop logo, “I the highest standard in the U.S. cheese anyone else serious about cheese pass know cheese.” industry, according to the American stringent requirements to even sit for the Flanked on three sides by cases holding Cheese Society. e nonprot trade industry equivalent of the bar exam. more than a hundred varieties of dairy association, which bills itself as the leader ere are only 740 CCPs in the deliciousness, a smiling young woman in promoting and supporting American United States, Canada and Europe. works behind a counter crowded with cheeses, administers the Certied Cheese Knickerbocker, ’15, is one of only three good things that go well with cheese. Professional Exam each summer; the in Kansas. Tucked among the g jams and Marcona rigorous three-hour, 150-question test As cheesemaster at Murray’s Cheese

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Village, oering daily samples of cheese Better Cheddar needed help. She fell in with accompaniments and knowledgable love with the cheese-shop smell (“old suggestions for pairings with wine or beer. books and sunshine,” she calls it) and was Emphasis is on personal taste, not rigid undeterred when Broadbooks, himself a rules or restrictions. CCP, told her she couldn’t talk to custom- In the animated Pixar lm “Ratatouille,” ers until she tried every cheese in the shop. Remy, a young rat with a gied palate, “He was probably joking, but I’m very learns about complex avors when he competitive,” Knickerbocker says. Like her combines a bite of strawberry and a bite of father, twin sister and other siblings, she cheese. Later, he hits upon the idea of swam competitively growing up, and she smoking a mushroom, rosemary and still savors take-no-prisoners Uno games cheese over a chimney pot. Blasted by with her niece and nephew. lightning, he groggily nibbles his melted e same competitive streak that would concoction and exclaims to his dubious later push her to take the CCP exam— brother, Emile, “You gotta try this!” twice—spurred her to accept Broadbooks’ Helping others experience their own challenge. “ ere were like 300, so it took “Ratatouille moment” is Knickerbocker’s a while, but I ate every cheese.” favorite part of the job. One in particular impressed her. “ ere’s this light that comes on in “Humboldt Fog changed my life. When people” when they try a perfect pairing. I tried it and heard the story behind it, I “It’s a recognition in their eyes, this was like, wow!” experience they have that you can feel Widely saluted as one of the rst great coming o them, this excitement they’ve American cra cheeses, Humboldt Fog never had before. ey’re like, ‘Whoa, I was created by Mary Keehn in the 1980s. didn’t know you could do that.’ She wanted to make a classical chevre that “Giving someone the chance to fall in was quintessentially American, using love with something I love too is the best.” French techniques while paying tribute to A curd connoisseur e light came on for Knickerbocker in the unique terroir of her Humboldt culinary school, where she was studying to County, California, home. e idea for goes gaga for Gouda— be a pastry chef. Lincoln Broadbooks, Humboldt Fog—which uses vegetable ash manager of e Better Cheddar in Prairie to playfully evoke the coastal county’s and Brie and Swiss and Village, came to class with samples. frequent fog—came to Keehn in a dream. cheddar too “I thought, ‘Uh-uh, I don’t want that,’” Knickerbocker also dreams about Knickerbocker recalls. “I grew up with cheese. It’s a passion, apparently, that can’t Kra singles. Pepper jack was like the be constrained to waking hours. coolest thing to my mom. Still is. So when “Because my brain can’t stop working, Lincoln came in with his big box of smelly I’ll dream about cheese pairings and then Shop in the Dillons grocery at 6th and cheese, I wasn’t interested.” come in here and try them out. And Wakarusa in Lawrence, she takes her But she was interested in a job, and e people like it. cheese seriously but herself less so. (An “Not all the time,” she says. “But I irreverent condence rare in 25-year-olds usually hit it out of the park.” and Midwesterners is her default mode: Struggling to explain her job descrip- tion, Knickerbocker quips, “The CCP is serious business, but “I’m pretty much the center of the everything else is all fun,” Sara universe in the cheese shop.”) e Knickerbocker says. “I wear a chef’s coat “curd nerd” and her sta, the “curd herd,” strive to recreate the that says, ‘I know cheese.’ I mean, neighborhood feel of the shop’s c’mon!” A few of her favorites (from l

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ISSUE 4, 2017 | 31 Back to School A new graduate takes the long way down the Hill

ne of the joys of returning to KU is that the essence of Mount Oread doesn’t change, even though new buildings Oalter the landscape. Limestone, red-roofed landmarks and longstanding traditions provide a rootedness, a sense of coming home. I relied heavily on this rootedness my rst day back on campus as a student in January 2014. However, unlike my fellow students, my return was not aer a month’s winter break—mine occurred Cyd Silvius ﬁnished her freshman and aer a break of 45 years. sophomore years before leaving KU in 1969. I had begun my KU freshman year in We returned to Kansas in 2006 for She and Gordon Alloway attended the Phi 1967 and le mid-semester in fall 1969 Gordon to attend graduate school at KU; a Kappa Tau Dream Girl formal in spring 1968. because of illness. I had planned to return year later our youngest son, Stewart, u’12, the next fall to complete my journalism began his music studies at KU. A few years degree, but instead I got married. I always later, I happily watched both of them walk campus. Faculty and sta who saw me in intended to complete my degree, but life down the Hill. Two months aer I retired, the halls thought I was a lost parent or kept getting in the way. My husband, I decided it was time I followed suit. It someone who didn’t belong; they would Gordon, j’72, g’10, and I moved around took all of 48 hours for me to be back in ask if they could help me, to which I the country and reared our family. I class in the School of Journalism and Mass responded, “No, thank you. I’m just on my explored other schools and even managed Communications in Lawrence. way to Strong 320” (a lecture hall whose to take additional courses, but still I did KU refers to students over the age of 24 location hasn’t changed since I was last in not nish. I enjoyed a successful business (a criteria I obviously more than met) as school). Some of the younger faculty career, from which I retired in November non-traditional students—“non-trads” for seemed uncomfortable or perhaps 2013, but it had always rankled me that I short. In my rst week, I quickly learned intimidated by my mere presence. e had not graduated. how much non-trads stand out on more established faculty usually made an

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eort to talk with me outside of class; most more cynically or to pick our battles more ers, returning to school with her husband’s were curious as to why this “old lady” (my carefully. Our perspectives are o en hard support and blessing. reference, not theirs) was back in school, for idealistic 20-year-olds to comprehend. In my classes, I met fascinating single pursuing a degree. Other faculty encour- Eventually, I met non-trads from all mothers: aged me to speak out in class discussions walks of life. Riding the commuter bus • a 34-year-old with two sons who because they felt my perspective would between the Overland Park and Lawrence supported her family working as a provide a dierent dynamic. It did. ere campuses, I became acquainted with: hairdresser but still managed, over eight is a denite generation gap—or two. By • a 50ish man who was downsized in his years, to complete her degree; our 60s, most of us have journeyed down career and returned to KU in search of a • a 32-year-old U.S. Army veteran of the many paths, and our decades of experi- new career in museum management; wars in Afghanistan and Iraq who juggled ences might cause us to view situations • an immigrant mother of two teenag- the demands of her young daughter and

ISSUE 4, 2017 | 33 It was important to me that at graduation I be recognized by my full name: rst, maiden and married; I had started at KU under my maiden name and wanted my graduation and diploma to represent the full scope of my KU experience. Once my name was called, I don’t remember hearing anything else (although my family told me they hooted and hollered loudly). Professors Kerry Benson and Genelle Belmas, as they had promised me earlier, hugged me hard and cried, which started my own waterworks owing. By the time Dean Brill hugged and congratulated me, I not only wasn’t hearing anything, I also wasn’t seeing much either. Walking the Hill on Sunday was an amazing experience. e graduates, many fueled by lots of shared bottles of cham- pagne, were wired and jubilant. I thought The Alloway celebration included (l to r) sons Clay and Stewart; Cyd and Gordon; their daughter, about how they were just beginning the Christine Alloway Remming, and her husband, Je Remming; and Clay’s daughter, Kaley. uncharted journeys of their adult lives, while I was on the back side of mine. As I exited the Campanile, complete strangers shouted to me, “Congratulations!” and planned to work with the U.S. Department By May 2015, I had six hours le to “Wow! Good for you!” I worried I might of State; graduate when illness again interrupted trip and fall as I navigated the stairs and • two women in their early 20s, each my education. I was diagnosed with breast bumps (ah, the perils of age), but two of with a toddler, trying to survive nancially cancer. Aer 15 months of chemotherapy, my fellow J-school graduates kept their on student loans, grants and part-time surgery, radiation and recuperation, I eyes on me, oering an arm or shoulder if campus jobs. returned to school in fall 2016. Last I needed it. Despite our varied circumstances, all the December, at long last, I graduated with a When at last I stepped inside Memorial non-trads I encountered shared a commit- bachelor of science in journalism. My last Stadium, my mind suddenly ashed back ment to complete our college education. week of class, J-school dean Ann Brill to my rst time on that eld, as a nervous We helped one another discover creative asked me whether I intended to return and 13-year-old performing in KU Band Day. ways to study, completed group projects walk the Hill in May. In the words of the Suddenly all of my KU experiences came and supported one another while tending popular 1960s TV show “Laugh In,” I into focus: elementary-school eld trips to to our day-to-day responsibilities outside replied, “You bet your sweet bippy I do!” the Natural History Museum, Band Days of school. We did not view a college Commencement weekend 2017 featured and other music and journalism events in diploma as a rite of passage to be taken for picture-perfect Kansas weather: a cloud- high school, my rst years as a student, granted. less KU blue sky, gentle breezes and Gordon’s graduate school and his career at College has traditionally been a time of temperatures in the 70s. Fiy years aer KU Medical Center, Stewart’s undergradu- maturing and nding one’s self, both enrolling, I could nally celebrate ate years, when we regularly attended his inside and outside the classroom, and that graduation. music performances and Jayhawk football does not change with age. Professors and As I walked into the Saturday morning and basketball games, and nally the my fellow students provided fresh views J-school ceremony to the strains of an recent years of my return to college. on many issues and challenged me to Elgar processional march played by the I realized that a signi cant part of my think dierently. KU Brass Quintet, I spied two familiar life has intertwined with this incredible My classes also stretched me in practical music faculty faces in the quintet: our son University. It is an integral part of who I terms. I have always been “technologically Stewart’s former French horn professor, a am. I guess I really do bleed Crimson and challenged,” but at least I could work in man who had nurtured and inspired him Blue. Rock Chalk! Microso Word and Excel. Suddenly I had for ve years, and another professor who Alloway, j’17, and her husband have been to master InDesign, Blackboard and had participated in most of Stew’s perfor- Alumni Association Life Members since Google Docs to complete my assignments. mance juries. What a small world. 1972. ey live in Overland Park.

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI Travel with the Flying Jayhawks on a Big 12 Adventure Glacial Adventures of Alaska JULY 13–23, 2018

Itinerary Join fellow Jayhawk Day 1 Seattle, Washington Scot Pollard and his Day 2 Cruising the Inside Passage wife, Dawn, for a special Day 3 Ketchikan, Alaska cruise with other Big 12 Day 4 Juneau, Alaska alumni travelers! Day 5 Skagway, Alaska Day 6 Icy Strait Point (Hoonah), Stand in awe of massive Alaska glaciers and spectacular Day 7 Hubbard Glacier scenery as you cruise Day 8 Sitka, Alaska up the Alaskan coast. Day 9 Cruising the Outside Explore Alaska’s breathtaking natural beauty, unique native Passage culture, abundant wildlife and more on this 10-day trip starting Day 10 Victoria, British Columbia, and ending in Seattle. Canada Day 11 Seattle, Washington

To see the complete 2018 schedule of Flying Jayhawk destinations, visit kualumni.org/travel or call 800-584-2957. Association humble, unassuming manner in which he makes his contributions, whether it be time, talent, treasure–or frequently and just as likely—all of the above.” Dicus served on the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee to Athletics from 1990 to ’94, and he contributed to the KU First campaign as a member of its athletics COURTESY JOHN MIZE COURTESY COURTESY JOHN DICUS COURTESY committee. e Dicuses are Williams Education Fund members. Mize, c’72, Salina, is an attorney at Clark, Mize & Linville and vice president and general counsel at Salina Regional Health Center. His dedication to KU and the Alumni Association spans decades and dates back to 1975, when he rst volunteered for the Kansas Honors Program. He served on the Association’s national Board of Directors from 1999 to 2004, and in 2005 he received the Mildred Clodfelter Dicus Mize Award for his volunteer service in Salina. Mize and his wife, Karen Shumacher Mize, g’85, are Life Members and Jayhawk Dedicated ’Hawks Society members and have participated in several KU activities in their local commu- Ellsworth medalists honored for longstanding service to KU nity, including Senior Sendo and KU Days. ey also have attended 17 Rock wo outstanding Jayhawks, John Dicus and fundraisers, including the Rock Chalk Chalk Balls in Kansas City. Tand John Mize, are recipients of the Ball in Kansas City. As a member of Jayhawks for Higher 2017 Fred Ellsworth Medallion. Dicus helps guide the School of Business Education, Mize advocates for the Since 1975, the Association has pre- as a member of its Board of Advisors, and University and promotes the advancement sented medallions to alumni who have in 2014 he was honored as a Distinguished of higher education in Kansas. He also shown exemplary service to KU, a Business Alumnus. As a trustee of the serves on the Hall Center Advisory tradition that celebrates the late Fred Capitol Federal Foundation, the bank’s Board and has contributed to the Kansas Ellsworth, c’22, the organization’s longest- charitable arm, Dicus was instrumental in Honors Program. serving chief executive. Dicus and Mize facilitating the foundation’s $20 million For KU Endowment, Mize is a 20-year will be honored at the Sept. 8 fall meeting contribution in 2012 toward the school’s trustee and an audit committee member. of the Association’s national Board of new building. He also has contributed to He is a Chancellors Club Life Member and Directors and introduced at the home the Kansas Honors Program. Watkins Society member, and he served football game Sept. 9. For KU Endowment, he is a trustee and on the Campaign Kansas fundraising Dicus, b’83, g’85, Topeka, is chairman Chancellors Club Member, and he serves committee from 1988 to 1992. He also is a and CEO of Capitol Federal Savings. He on the executive and investment commit- member of the Greater University Fund comes from strong Jayhawk lineage—his tees. He has helped lead the University’s advisory board. parents and grandparents attended KU. fundraising eorts as a member of the Far “His deep knowledge of local politics, His father, Jack, b’55, received the Fred Above campaign organizing committee. community culture and the regional health Ellsworth Medallion in 1990, and his He also serves on the Greater University system provided invaluable advice to KU grandfather, Henry Bubb, ’28, received the Fund advisory board. administrators and KU Endowment honor in 1977. “From his KU fraternity to the business fundraising sta in building a critical level Dicus served on the Association’s school to KU Endowment to educational of community support for not only the national Board of Directors from 1996 to institutions across Kansas, John has been a initial founding of the School of Medicine 2001. He and his wife, Brenda Roskens ready and willing participant,” says Neeli in Salina, but for the future expansion and Dicus, b’83, are longtime Life Members Bendapudi, PhD’95, the University’s growth of the permanent facilities for KU’s and Presidents Club donors, and they provost and executive vice chancellor. presence in Salina,” says Dale Seuferling, regularly participate in local alumni events “What sets his engagement apart is the j’77, president of KU Endowment.

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI A NOTE FROM HEATH the increasing number of Jayhawks who are leading and transforming DAN STOREY DAN Alumni board ready to assist new chancellor many industries. Several are joining our national Board of Directors, he KU Alumni Association team is excited to begin our making the 2017 class of new Tpartnership with Chancellor Douglas A. Girod. He brings directors one of the most diverse in experience and proven leadership, a tremendous track record our history. These new volunteers as executive vice chancellor of KU Medical Center and strong represent key geographic areas, relationships in the Kansas Legislature. Many challenges lie including western Kansas, Seattle ahead for the University of Kansas and higher education, but and Florida, and their professional the opportunities are plentiful with a strong leader who is willing experience includes small to take bold yet calculated risks in a rapidly evolving world. businesses, the U.S. military, health Chancellor Girod and his team will guide KU’s continued growth Peterson care, technology and data startup and achievement. companies, and large corporations. Like all previous KU chancellors, Chancellor Girod can rely on a Most important, our talented board members represent the voices tremendous resource: the thousands of dedicated alumni and of 350,000 alumni, and they challenge the Association sta to friends who serve as volunteer leaders, advisers and donors to improve every day. These alumni leaders will be among KU’s most strengthen KU. Since the University’s founding, generations of trusted ambassadors and advisers for Chancellor Girod. loyal, dedicated and generous Jayhawks have helped lift KU to Our best days are ahead. Rock Chalk! prominence. This proud tradition will continue—as long as your —Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09 alumni association builds a strong pipeline of future alumni KU Alumni Association president leaders and donors. Equally important is our ability to identify

For Kansas Athletics, Mize in 2011 cations, Marketing and Records Commit- Board as immediate past chair. served on the University’s search committee. He also led the Association’s Task John Ballard III, b’73, Overland Park, is tee to hire a new head football coach. He Force on the Strategic Facility Planning for chair-elect. He is principal owner of and his wife also contribute to the Wil- the Alumni Center. He and his wife, Lisa, Property Specialists Inc. in Leawood. With liams Education Fund. assoc., are Life Members and Presidents his wife, Cindy, assoc., he chaired the 2011 Club donors, and have hosted several KU Rock Chalk Ball in Kansas City; they have student recruitment events in Atlanta and hosted and attended numerous KU events New leaders Florida. Carroll is chief operating ocer through the years. ey are members of and general manager of the Atlanta the Williams Education Fund for Kansas National Board elects Athletic Club. Athletics and, as a former KU football ocers, directors for 2017-’18 Carroll succeeds Scott Seyfarth, b’83, player, Ballard has served as a Jayhawk of Chicago. He will remain on the Mentor for student-athletes. He is a Life he Association’s Board of Directors Tmet April 28-29 in Lawrence and

elected ocers and new directors, who STOREY DAN began their terms July 1. Kevin Carroll, assoc., of Johns Creek, Georgia, joined the Board in 2012 and will lead the Association as national chair. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, he became a Jayhawk in 1983, when he was hired as the rst director of the Adams Alumni Center and manager of e Learned Club for the Association. As a Board member, he has served on the Executive Committee, the Alumni Programs Committee and the Communi- Carroll, Seyfarth, Ballard

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Member of the Alumni Association. e Winnebago Industries. He has led Win- design and her master’s in architecture. Ballards are donors to the Presidents Club nebago since 2016, aer 20 years in senior She volunteered for the Lawrence Network and benefactors of KU Libraries. In 2000 leadership positions with e Toro and served ve years as the Association’s they donated to Spencer Research Library Company. He majored in broadcast news representative on the KU Memorial a 3,000-year-old Egyptian scroll, now at KU and earned his MBA from the Unions board. e Pohls are Life Members known as the “Ballard Papyrus.” University of Minnesota. He is married to and Presidents Club donors. e six new directors on the Board Shannon Fitzsimmons-Happe, j’94, and Adam Wray, c’93, of Medina, Washing- include: they are Life Members and Presidents ton, who leads Basho, a cloud database Steve Dillard, c’75, of Wichita, who Club donors. company, as CEO. As a longtime entrepre- earned his bachelor’s degree in personnel Rosa Aguirre Mitchell, s’85, of Elkhart, neur and executive, he also serves on the administration and is president of Pickrell who is a social worker and directed the boards for several other technology rms. Drilling Company. He is a longtime Geo Psychiatric Unit in Elkhart for 15 He earned his KU degree in English and volunteer for the Wichita Network and years. She continues her involvement in went on to complete his MBA at the served on the network’s board as well as mental health services at Morton County University of Washington. Working with committees for the Jayhawk Roundup. As Health System. Rosa and her husband, the Association and KU Endowment, a member of Jayhawks for Adam and his wife, Higher Education, Steve Amanda Stroth Wray, is involved as a Steering d’93, hosted in their Committee member. He home a gathering for is also a member of the more than 20 alumni Williams Education Fund executives with major for Kansas Athletics. He is companies and the married to Gena Gunn Gates Foundation. Dillard, ’77, and they are ey are donors to the Life Members and Presidents Club. Presidents Club donors. Five directors Michael Flowers, c’77, Dillard Flowers Happe retired from the Board of Apollo Beach, Florida, June 30: who is president of Luke Bobo, e’82, Leadership, Defense, Asia m’88, Shawnee; Consulting, where he Donald Brada, c’61, assists customers in m’65, Lawrence; leader development and Marci Deuth, e’05, defense contracting. He Chicago; also is vice president of Gregory Ek, e’76, aerospace and special Wichita; and operations for DigiFlight Richard Putnam, Inc. He retired in 2008 as c’77, l’80, Omaha, a brigadier general in the Mitchell Pohl Wray Nebraska. U.S. Army aer 31 years e retirements of of service, including deployments in Brian, b’86, are Life Members and Presi- Deuth and Putnam le two open positions Grenada, Desert Shield, Desert Storm and dents Club donors and longtime volun- on the Executive Committee. e Board Kosovo. In addition to his bachelor’s teers with the Southwest Kansas Network. chose Carrie Coulson, b’02, l’05, New York degree in general studies, he earned a For KU Endowment, she served on the City, and Dave Roland, e’80, Excelsior, master’s in public administration from advisory board for Women Philanthropists Minnesota, to join the group. Shippensburg State University, and he is a for KU. She also volunteered for the Each year the Association invites graduate of the U.S. Army War College School of Social Welfare advisory board. nominations for new directors. Nomina- and the U.S. Army Command & General Keturah Harding Pohl, f’04, a’08, of tions will be accepted from Jan. 1 through Sta College. He is an advisory board Findlay, Ohio, who co-owns and manages March 1, 2018. e Nominating Commit- member for the Veterans Alumni Network Putnam Family Dental, with her husband, tee meets in April to review all nominees and a mentor for KU Oce of Graduate Brad, a 2005 KU graduate. ey moved to and select a slate for individual consider- Military Programs. Ohio from Lawrence, where Keturah was ation and election by the Board at its May Michael Happe, j’94, of Eden Prairie, an architect with Treanor Architects. She meeting. e Board meets three times Minnesota, who is president and CEO of earned her bachelor’s degree in industrial annually in Lawrence.

38 | KANSAS ALUMNI Tailgate with fellow Jayhawks at the Adams Alumni Center! Join us for family-friendly activities before all KU home football games.

$15 per person Free for kids 5 and younger

Enjoy: Home Games: • A delicious meal Sept. 2, Southeast Missouri State, 6 p.m. • Non-alcoholic beverages Sept. 9, Central Michigan, 3 p.m. • Drink specials Sept. 23, West Virginia • Marching band, Spirit Squad Oct. 7, Texas Tech (Homecoming) and mascots Oct. 28, Kansas State • Kids coloring and activity sheets Nov. 4, Baylor • TV broadcasts of other college games Nov. 18, Oklahoma

Tailgates start 3 hours before kicko. Kick-o times have not been determined for all home games. Visit kuathletics.com for KU football updates.

Tailgating space at the Adams is limited; reserve your tickets early to guarantee your spot. To sign up, visit kualumni.org/gameday, or call 800-584-2957. ISSUE 4, 2011 | 1 Association

Prairie Dunes golf tournament Life Members e Association thanks these Jayhawks, who began their Life memberships May 1 through June 30. For information, visit kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957. DAN STOREY (3) STOREY DAN Darren K. Angell Steven D. & Lisa A. Gough Michael P. Barber Andrew L. & Eva Pottruck David M. & Lori Marshall Gryszowka Barbosa John L. & Carol Fagre Joseph G. Bateman & Kiran Hampton Ladhani Bailor L. Hardman Justin D. Bennet Dennis K. Harman D. Wayne Boster Holli M. Hartman Killian C. Brown Bryan R. & Krystal Richard Molly B. Brown Hay Jo Ann McMillan Burhart Nicholas Hay Ryan J. Camenzind Nickalas J. Hill Michael A. & Lauren Ariel Andrew J. & Elizabeth J. Cerier Hineman The top team prize at the William E. & Karen J. Samantha M. Holcomb annual KU Alumni Invitational, Cheatham Frederick D. & Barbara June 26 at Prairie Dunes Jack S. Ciciora Osborn Humpert Country Club, was won by Brian J. Clarke Gary R. Iversen (above, l-r) Markus Hilger; Ken Donna Marie Clausen Braeden D. Johnson Eland, c’81; Cole Nondorf; and Kelsey A. Collins Nicholas P. Joslin Frankie M. Davis Michael K. & Teresa Leckie Tom O’Keefe. Robert Simari Alexandra Deeter Kelly (right), m’86, dean of medicine Anna Marie Dempsey John H. Killen Jr. and KU Med’s interim executive Christopher W. Dixon Erin S. Klotz vice chancellor, again joined Christopher L. Dodds Marmaduke G. Lambert the fun in Hutchinson, as did Jan E. Downing Erich J. Lanz (below, l-r) Michael Orth, e’88, Andrew F. Dracon Matt R. Lefkovits g’89; Don Gray; Aron Witt; and Robert J. Druzynski Gregory A. Leimkuehler Je Selby. Lauren E. Dunn Bentley L. Leonard Dan L. Fager Meghan C. Lewis Henry H. Falcon Kelly A. Long Kelsey A. Fall Nathan Long Andrew D. Fillmore Brandon J. Luber Richard T. & Cynthia G. Conrad P. Maier Flanders Mara L. McAllister Sarah Ehlen Gilbreath Robert L. McCauley

KU Homecoming The University of Kansas will celebrate its 105th Homecoming Oct. 1-7, 2017, culminating in the KU football game against Texas Tech University Oct. 7 in Memorial Stadium. This year’s theme is “Jayhawks of the Galaxy.”

40 | KANSAS ALUMNI Board of Directors Michael C. Flowers, c’77, Apollo Beach, Florida Fanfare for freshmen n CHAIR Michael J. Happe, j’94, Eden Prairie, Kevin E. Carroll, assoc., Atlanta, Georgia Minnesota Rosa Aguirre Mitchell, s’85, Elkhart n CHAIR-ELECT Keturah Harding Pohl, f’04, g’08,

SHARON BREIT SHARON John W. Ballard III, b’73, Overland Park Findlay, Ohio n EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Adam J. Wray, c’93, Medina, John W. Ballard III, b’73, Overland Park Washington Kevin E. Carroll, assoc., Atlanta, Georgia Carrie W. Coulson, b’02, l’05, New York, Senior Sta Members New York Cory L. Lagerstrom, c’94, g’98, l’98, n PRESIDENT Mission Hills Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09 Jill Simpson Miller, d’01, Webb City, n ADMINISTRATION Missouri Heather Hawkins, j’06, Executive Dave B. Roland, e’80, Excelsior, Assistant & Coordinator, Donor Minnesota Relations Scott R. Seyfarth, b’83, Hinsdale, n ALUMNI & STUDENT Illinois MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS n DIRECTORS TO 2018 Brad Eland, b’09, g’11, Vice John W. Ballard III, b’73, Overland Park The Alumni Association and KU Admissions in May launched President, Alumni & Student Aaron R. Brinkman, j’98, Dallas, Texas Programs KU’s ﬁrst yard sign campaign, planting “Rock Chalk Ready” Debi Dennis Duckworth, d’79, Houston, n COMMUNICATIONS signs as surprises for incoming freshmen in Lawrence, Kansas Texas Jennifer Sanner, j’81, Senior Vice City, Topeka and Wichita. Sharon Bearce Breit, m’88, snapped Jill Simpson Miller, d’01, Webb City, President, Strategic Communica- a shot of the sign while out walking her dogs, Bleu and Gemma, Missouri tions & Advocacy; Secretary in Wichita. Jerry D. Skillett, b’81, New York, New York n DEVELOPMENT Calvin McConnell, j’11, n Christine Stanek McDonald Joseph D. Simmons DIRECTORS TO 2019 Associate Development Director Kinsey N. McKenrick Korak Simmons Carrie W. Coulson, b’02, l’05, New York, n DONOR RELATIONS Jason P. Miller Cooper Sims-West New York Cory L. Lagerstrom, c’94, g’98, l’98, Angela Storey, b’04, g’07, Darrell J. Mueller Reed A. Smalley Prairie Village Vice President Kaydee Smith Myers Gerald B. Stephanz Jr. & Cindy Emig Penzler, c’81, m’85, n FINANCE David E. Oliver Nancy G. Ahlstrom Lawrence Lisa K. Oller Tom C. Stevens Dwight Parman, Senior Vice Albert I. Shank Jr., b’77, Liberal President, Finance and Human MacKenzie J. Olson Shari L. Stimetz Timothy T. Trump, b’80, l’83, Tulsa, Resources; Treasurer Thomas F. Pearson Jr. Michael C. Stolle Oklahoma Stacy L. Pickering Abigail L. Stuke n HOSPITALITY SERVICES Ellen S. Ragan Prudence A. Thompson n DIRECTORS TO 2020 Bryan Greve, Senior Vice President, Missy Hodge McCarthy, c’86, s’88, Jenifer A. Randle Jerey A. Trower Hospitality Rancho Mirage, California Benjamin Rapp Kerri A. Troyer n Ellen O. Remsing, c’00, Manhattan, MARKETING & DIGITAL Cena V. Rasmussen Tray F. & Lisa G. Vedock Kansas MEDIA Perry N. Rea James J. Waggoner Jr. Dave B. Roland, e’80, Excelsior, David Johnston, j’94, g’06, Vice Andrew P. & Sara Wenzel Craig M. Waggy Minnesota President, Marketing & Digital Riley Todd Walters Media Tanner J. Riscoe Beth M. Whittaker n DIRECTORS TO 2021 Ryan Colaianni, c’07, j’07, Arlington, n MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS Hannah L. Rivas Paydon S. & Christine Virginia Teri Harris, Vice President, Christopher T. Rooney Perinchery Wilson Jay Kerutis, c’82, Mesa, Arizona Membership & Business Harrison M. Rosenthal David L. Wing Janet Lusk Murﬁn, d’75, Wichita Development Morgan E. Scheckel Patrick T. Witthaus Portia Kibble Smith, c’78, n RECORDS Sandra J. Seaton Nicholas C. & Carrie Shaw Overland Park Bill Green, Senior Vice President, Christian T. Senecal Woods Information Services John M. Sergent Craig A. & Nita E. Wymore n DIRECTORS TO 2022 Steve M. Dillard, c’75, Wichita Stefanie Shackelford, Vice President, Emily M. Shipman Ellen Badgley Zibell Alumni Records

ISSUE 4, 2017 | 41 Class Notes by Heather Biele Association and the editorial board of Diabetes Care. He’s a physician at Hellman & Rosen Endocrine Associates in Kansas City. Gary Padgett, b’55, in April received Comfort Food: Meanings and Memories, Gregory McMillan, e’69, works part time 55 the KU School of Business Distin- which was published in April by Univer- as a modeling and control consultant at guished Alumni Award. He’s chairman of sity Press of Mississippi. He and his wife, MYNAH Technologies. e Citizens National Bank in Greenleaf, Susan, live in Venice, California. where he lives with Sue Summerville Russell “Rusty” Leel, c’70, l’73, is Padgett, f’56. George Fletcher, b’66, e’66, is 70 an attorney and street photogra- 66 retired and lives in Greenville, pher. He lives in Mission Hills with Paula Forrest Hoglund, e’56, CEO and South Carolina, where he was recently Hauser Leel, f’70. 56 chairman of SeaOne Holdings, was elected an at-large representative of the Larry McElwain, c’70, in May was honored with the Maguire Energy Institute city council. inducted in the Lawrence Business Hall of Pioneer Award at Southern Methodist Fame. He is president of the Lawrence University in Dallas, where he and Sally Margo Lyman Thompson, n’67, g’74, Chamber of Commerce and a funeral Roney Hoglund, c’56, make their home. 67 EdD’84, an online instructor at the director at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. University of Central Missouri School of Donna Schafer, c’70, g’74, PhD’85, Jack Wortman, c’58, m’62, in May Nursing, has been a registered nurse and serves on the board of governors of the 58 was honored as a distinguished nurse educator for 50 years. She and her Accreditation in Gerontology Education alumnus and spoke at commencement at husband, Pat, make their home in Univer- Neosho County Community College in sity Park, Florida. Chanute, where he grew up. Jack is a Letters that follow names Marc Carlson, School Codes retired physician and lives in Hutchinson d’68, an estate- indicate the school from which alumni earned with Donna Oates Wortman, d’59. 68 planning attorney in Longmont, degrees. Numbers show their class years. William Yarnell, e’58, was inducted in Colorado, in January joined the American the Helias Catholic High School Hall of Law Society. a School of Architecture, Fame in Jeerson City, Missouri. Bill Edward Gordon, c’68, retired as owner Design and Planning retired from the Missouri Department of of International Sports Data. He makes his b School of Business College of Liberal Arts Transportation as a state design engineer. home in Berkeley, California. c and Sciences Carl Koenig, g’68, PhD’72, and Connie d School of Education Dave Kohlman, Knachel Sanders, e’59, g’60, an g’74, g’88, are retired e School of Engineering 59 aeronautical engineer and co- teachers and live in Sarasota, Florida. f School of Fine Arts founder of Kohlman Systems Research, in Robert Nyquist, p’68, is a pharmacist in g Master’s Degree May received KU’s 2017 Distinguished Lawrence, where he makes his home with h School of Health Professions Engineering Service Award. He and Linda his wife, Mary. j School of Journalism Norris Kohlman, n’72, g’80, live in Colo- Loneta Wilson Schmollinger, d’68, lives l School of Law rado Springs, Colorado. in Platte City, Missouri, where she’s a m School of Medicine retired social-studies teacher. n School of Nursing Boyd Beutler, d’62, g’64, chairman Roger Viola, c’68, l’74, retired last year p School of Pharmacy School of Pharmacy of First State Bank in Ness City, was a er 18 years as executive vice president, PharmD 62 s School of Social Welfare recently honored for his 50 years of service general counsel and secretary of Security u School of Music by the Kansas Bankers Association. His Benet in Topeka. He also served as AUD Doctor of Audiology wife, Julie Meis Beutler, ’64, and his president of the Topeka Community DE Doctor of Engineering children, Kevin and Karen, also work at Foundation. Roger and his wife, Karen, DMA Doctor of Musical Arts the bank. assoc., split their time between Topeka and DNP Doctor of Nursing Practice Dale Taylor, d’62, g’71, PhD’84, profes- Maricopa, Arizona. DPT Doctor of Physical Therapy sor emeritus of music therapy at the Thomas Williamson, a’68, wrote e EdD Doctor of Education University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, First Book of Why: Why I Am Me!, which OTD Doctor of Occupational recently gave a presentation on racial and was published in March. Therapy cultural stereotypes for an online forum. PhD Doctor of Philosophy SJD Doctor of Juridical Science Richard Hellman, m’69, received his (no letter) Former student Michael Jones, c’64, professor 69 third Distinguished Reviewer assoc Associate member of the 64 emeritus at UCLA, co-edited Award from the American Diabetes Alumni Association

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Council. She makes her home in Healds- Carolina State University and Arizona Paul Post, l’74, a retired attorney, resides burg, California. State University. He resides in Phoenix. in Topeka. Linda Ireland Elderkin, d’73, lives in Laurel Hargan Wessman, c’71, is Melbourne Beach, Florida, where she’s vice David Murﬁn, b’75, e’75, was named 71 retired from the U.S. Navy. She lives president of Elderkin Inc. Her husband, 75 chair of the Kansas Board of Regents in Arlington, Virginia, where she volun- Robert, is president of the construction for 2017-’18. Dave is CEO of Mur n Inc. teers at the Smithsonian Institution and is company. in Wichita, where he lives with Janet Lusk a member of Daughters of the American John Gladson, p’73, retired from Murﬁn, d’75. Revolution. Lindburg Pharmacy in Pittsburg. He David Theel, e’75, is pastor of First Thomas Zampano, c’71, lives in e resides in Girard. Christian Church of Spearman in Texas. Villages, Florida, where he’s a retired He makes his home in Borger. marriage and family therapist. Michael Boman, c’74, l’78, directs 74 the Kansas City Tax Clinic at Marti Schovee Byers, e’76, m’79, Eldonna Christensen Johnson, g’72, University of Missouri-Kansas City School 76 was named a 2016 and 2017 Top 72 retired in July aer 41 years as an of Law. Doctor in Overland Park. She’s a cosmetic- elementary-school teacher. She and her Ann Kris Drach, c’74, is a volunteer medicine physician and surgeon at KMC husband, Bruce, live in Clinton, Missouri. instructor and president of the board of Revelage MD. Mike Thompson, b’72, vice president directors at the Literacy Council of Nancy Dejmal, d’76, is retired and splits and branch manager of Wells Fargo Southwestern Pennsylvania. She makes her time between Lawrence and Belgrade, Advisors in Mission Woods, was honored her home in Sycamore. Montana. in April with the KU School of Business John Gurche, c’74, g’79, is an artist-in- Edgar Heap of Birds, f’76, a visual artist Distinguished Alumni Award. He makes residence at the Museum of the Earth in and professor of Native American studies his home in Leawood. Ithaca, New York. He also wrote Shaping at the University of Oklahoma, in May Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagina- received an honorary doctorate from the Roger Berger, c’73, retired in May tion Help Us Understand Our Origins, Emily Carr University of Art and Design 73 aer 40 years as professor of which was published in 2015 by Yale in Vancouver, British Columbia. statistics at Florida State University, North University Press. Rees Hughes, b’76, g’79, received the

44 | KANSAS ALUMNI Cardinal Citation Award from Labette in Beverly Hills, California, where he lives. wrote Where the Water Meets the Sand, Community College in Parsons for Laura Cook, d’77, retired from the FDA which in April won the Gold Award for outstanding service to his community. A Oce of Criminal Investigations. She best memoir in the 2017 Benjamin native of the southeast Kansas town, Rees makes her home in Spring Hill. Franklin Awards. retired aer 23 years as director of student Bill French, j’77, was elected second vice Marilyn O’Hearne, s’77, is a certi ed life at Humboldt State University in president of the Tulsa Men’s Club. He lives team coach. Her latest book, Breaking Free Arcata, California, where he now lives. in Bixby, Oklahoma. From Bias, was published in May. Mark Watson, c’76, g’78, makes his Denise White Gilmore, b’77, manages home in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he’s the historic properties redevelopment Alan Lewis, m’78, is a physician and city manager. program for the National Trust for 78 surgeon at Premier Orthopedic Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C. Specialists of Tulsa in Oklahoma. Steven Chucovich, a’77, a’78, is She lives in Alexandria, Virginia. Thomas Paget, b’78, is controller at 77 principal and founder of ArcS Inc. Tyra Decker Manning, g’77, EdD’79, Greystone Healthcare Management

PROFILE by Steven Hill STEVE PUPPE STEVE

New doc extends family’s wanting to care for long health care legacy p e op l e .” Bradley Sullivan is an ichael Sullivan can’t recall a time OB-GYN at Midwest Mwhen he wanted to be anything Women’s Healthcare in other than a doctor. Kansas City, and Michael “My mom remembers me telling her says he oen met his from a very young age that I would carry father’s patients when on the family tradition,” says Sullivan. dining out or running “I never really considered doing errands with his father anything else.” as a kid. at tradition—a century-long family “Growing up, I saw Fourth-generation doctor Michael Sullivan. “I’m very proud of him legacy in health care launched with how much they respected and what he’s accomplished,” says his father, Bradley Sullivan. “I medical degrees from KU—began with him and liked him, and I just hope he’ll enjoy being a physician as much as I have.” Sullivan’s great-grandfather, Henry really looked up to him Bradley Sullivan Sr., c’18, m’20, and in that aspect and kind of continued with his grandfather, Bradley wanted the same thing.” Sullivan Jr., c’49, m’52; and father, Bradley Sullivan says he felt no family pressure “I would have been ne without any of Huse Sullivan, c’76, m’79. to choose medicine. my kids doing this, but this is just icing on In May, Sullivan, c’13, m’17, became the “What my father did that I really liked is the cake,” Bradley says. “I was always fourth generation in his family to earn a he never pushed me one way or another. proud that I was a third generation, and degree from the KU School of Medicine. He and my mom would have supported I think this just adds to it. I enjoy talking He credits his family’s caring ethic for my siblings or me in anything we wanted to him about medicine, so that’s made it shaping his career choice. His mother, to do.” a lot of fun.” Sandra; sister, Megan, n’14; and aunt, Julie e hands-o policy extended even to Michael began his residency in internal Sullivan Foster, c’80, n’82, also work in medical school. medicine this summer at—where else?— health care, as nurses. “He never really gave me too much the University of Kansas Hospital. “I think empathy is a big thing in terms advice,” Sullivan says. “He kind of let me “I know my dad is extremely proud of of being a doctor,” Sullivan says. “It helps carve my own path and go through my me,” Michael Sullivan says. “He’s obviously to have the right tools and to want to go own struggles.” very happy that somebody is extending into the medical profession and want to Bradley Sullivan believes that’s probably the legacy. And hopefully one day when help people. I give a lot of credit to my because his own parents never pushed him I have kids, they can extend the legacy parents and how they raised me for toward medicine. a s w e l l .”

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his wife, Ann, make their home in McGregor, Texas.

Keith Harris, g’84, manages theatre 84 productions at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha. Howard Shaw, c’84, m’88, resides in Denton, Texas, where he’s chief medical o cer at Medical City Denton. Je Stehney, j’84, owner of Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que, will be inducted in the Barbecue Hall of Fame at the American Royal in September.

Leeann Carter Fitzgerald, d’85, 85 EdD’11, retired as a principal from the Leavenworth School District. She lives in Lawrence. Brian Rock, e’85, a’85, in April was honored by KU’s Center for Sustainability with a Faculty Leadership Award. He’s associate professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering.

J.T. Harding, c’86, is a Boeing 787 86 pilot and captain for United Airlines. He and his wife, Sandy, assoc., live in Montgomery, Texas. Corporation in Tampa, Florida. He makes Nina Schloesser McKenna, l’81, is his home in Apollo Beach. 81 chief legal o cer and general Elizabeth Hunter Ashley, f’87, is an counsel at Advisor Group. She and 87 international vocalist and private Peter Brown, b’79, is chairman and Douglas, l’73, live in Mission Hills. voice teacher. In January, she was named 79 founder of Grassmere Partners, a Thaine Shetter, j’81, makes his home in 2016 Professional of the Year by Strath- private investment rm in Kansas City. Pennington, New Jersey, where he’s a more’s Who’s Who Worldwide. She makes Joe Bussell, f’79, is an artist in Rose- content editor at Accenture. her home in Danville, California, with her dale. He recently exhibited his work at the husband, John. Evelyn E. Jorgenson Fine Arts Center in Julie Downs Bettis, d’82, retired Moberly, Missouri. 82 aer nearly 35 years as a teacher and Michael Grillot, m’88, is an ortho- Brett Steenbarger, g’79, PhD’82, is a principal in the Wichita School District. 88 pedic hand- and microvascular- trading coach and clinical associate She and Walt, j’82, a customer relations surgeon at Valley View Hospital in professor of psychiatry and behavioral and event coordinator at Foley Industries, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. He makes sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical live in Wichita. his home in Carbondale. University in Syracuse, New York. Ray Evans, b’82, g’84, is senior partner Cynthia Guerrera Kuhn, c’88, professor L. William Zahner III, e’79, in May was at Pegasus Capital Management, which of English at Metropolitan State University honored with KU’s 2017 Distinguished recently merged with several nancial in Denver, won an Agatha Award for her Engineering Service Award. Bill is CEO of rms to form Innitas in Overland Park. debut novel, e Semester of Our Discon- his family’s business, A. Zahner Company, Steven Koppes, g’82, is a science writer tent, which was published last year by in Kansas City, where he lives with his on contract at Argonne National Labora- Henery Press. Her second book in the Lila wife, Meg Bruggen Zahner, d’86, ’92. tory. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. Maclean Academic Mystery series, e Art Nancy Zurbuchen, d’79, g’05, was of Vanishing, was published in February. appointed Midwest regional advocate for William May, PhD’83, retired aer Gerald Swift, e’88, directs program the O ce of Advocacy of the U.S. Small 83 teaching music for 48 years. He management at the Naval Air Warfare Business Administration. She owns recently served as professor of music Center Aircra Division in Patuxent River, Motional Multimedia in Kansas City. education at Baylor University. Will and Maryland.

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Jackie Zoucha, e’88, is a senior engineer ink Big Partners in Kansas City. vice president of Crunch Fitness in New at Juniper Networks. She and Mike York City. He and his wife, Elizabeth, live McKinley, e’82, g’84, live in Sunnyvale, Richard George, c’90, is vice in New Canaan, Connecticut. California. 90 president of global emerging markets and enterprise divisions at Grasp Mike Nicco, c’92, is a meteorologist BORN TO: Technologies. He and his wife, Susan, live 92 for ABC7 Morning News in San Michael Frakes, c’88, and his wife, in Villa Rica, Georgia. Francisco. Malisa, son, Charles, Feb. 19 in Mans eld, David Peacock, j’90, is president and Massachusetts, where they make their chief operating ocer of Schnuck Markets Ranjit Arab, j’93, g’09, is senior home. Inc. in St. Louis, where he makes his home 93 acquisition editor at the University with his wife, Jane, and their three of Iowa Press in Iowa City. Mark Heinrich, g’89, retired rear children. Thomas Barrett, c’93, is president and 89 admiral in the U.S. Navy, serves on CEO of 7Signal Solutions in Indepen- the Academy Securities advisory board. John, p’91, and Carol Parkison dence, Ohio. He lives in Westlake. He’s a general manager at Microso. 91 Smasal, f’91, l’98, recently celebrated Kimberly Hays, l’93, is an attorney Derek Locke, b’89, is chief strategy their 30th wedding anniversary. John specializing in family law in Tulsa, ocer at CSG International in Elkhorn, manages the Health and Wellness Oklahoma, where she makes her Nebraska. Market at Walmart in Camas, home. She’s president-elect of the Forrest MacDonald, j’89, lives in Tampa, Washington. ey live in Oklahoma Bar Association. Florida, where he’s a mixed-media artist Washougal. Harry Herington, l’93, was and photographer. Nicole Vap, j’91, is an investiga- honored by Government Greg Pasley, e’89, g’91, PhD’97, tive producer for KUSA Channel Technology magazine as one of makes his home in Kansas City, where 9 in Denver. In April, she won its “Top 25 Doers, Dreamers he’s vice president of sales and marketing three regional awards from the Radio and Drivers” of 2017. He’s at Butler Manufacturing. Television Digital News Association. CEO and chair of NIC Inc. in Herb Sih, ’89, is managing partner at Chad Waetzig, b’91, is executive Olathe.

48 | KANSAS ALUMNI Mark Hubble, c’93, ’94, is CEO of Elizabeth Green Coons, c’94, Tracy Gaulding Weis, b’94, lives in Meskwaki Inc. in Marshalltown, Iowa. 94 wrote her rst children’s book, Olathe with her daughter, Ashlyn, who Sean, c’93, and Alison Gilley Kentch, e Bravest Adventure, which was pub- just turned 1. ’94, live in Chesapeake, Virginia. eir lished in December by Archway daughter, Madison, has been accepted into Publishing. She and Scott, e’91, live Chad Lawhorn, j’95, editor of the the University Honors Program and will in Lawrence. 95 Lawrence Journal-World, in April attend KU in the fall. Vince Haines, a’94, is president of received the Clyde M. Reed Jr. Master Prigmore Krievins Haines Limon Archi- Editor Award from the Kansas Press MARRIED tects in El Dorado, where he was recently Association. Lawhorn joined the paper in Kristopher Koeller, b’93, to Jessica elected mayor. 2001 and served in several roles before Chiang, April 15 in Valley Cottage, New Kimberly Hobbs, j’94, is vice president becoming editor last August. York. He’s chief operating ocer at Flight of marketing at Sprint Center in Kansas David Stras, c’95, l’99, g’99, is a circuit Club in New York City, where they live. City, where she makes her home. judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in

PROFILE by Chris Lazzarino

From local TV to ‘Springer’ become an associate producer for “ e to 30 Rock, Bergman soars Jerry Springer Show,” in Chicago. “He’s been a touchpoint throughout my etsy Bergman, who is in her second career,” Bergman says of Springer. “We BERGMAN BETSY COURTESY Byear as senior vice president for used to go on these college tours, and Jerry marketing and brand strategy at NBCUni- would say, ‘ e path to being successful is, versal TV Distribution, found her way into no matter what you’re doing, be the best at television from an unlikely starting point: it, dedicate yourself to it, distinguish the Washington, D.C., law rm she joined yourself in it. at’s going to get you aer earning her political science degree. noticed and that’s going to qualify you to Her rm was handling a case that go to the next level to do whatever’s next. involved the local Fox aliate, WTTG, “And he’s right. It’s about work ethic, where Bergman, c’88, spent hours taking paying attention and developing skills to notes for witness interviews. When the be the best at what it is you’re doing at case settled, a WTTG station executive the moment.” commented, “If you’re interested in When Universal Television bought the working in television, give us a call.” Springer show, Bergman was chosen to “And the next day,” Bergman recalls move to Los Angeles and oversee its from her oce at NBC’s famed 30 Rock, marketing eorts as the bridge between NBC executive Betsy Bergman says TV “I gave them a call.” Universal and the Chicago production marketing only gets tougher: “There’s a lot She jumped at a temporary position in base. She rose through the ranks and in more choices out there, so how do we keep our the programming department, then 2004 was named vice president for shows front and center with consumers?” moved into a production assistant’s job for marketing for TV distribution at a new political roundtable show, “O the NBCUniversal. R e c ord .” Bergman in 2010 le for Sony Pictures “It was a fantastic opportunity to learn Television as a marketing vice president, Distribution Group, which sells Universal’s about television production,” she says. “It then returned to NBCUniversal, in New television and lm content to platforms played to strengths I didn’t know I had. York City, in 2016. such as Netix, Hulu, Amazon and cable. at’s probably the headline for me.” Among her varied duties, Bergman “If you can nd that secret sauce that Bergman then joined the PBS series oversees marketing for the TV Distribu- delivers on the promise of a show, making “ is is America & the World with Dennis tion Division—which includes “ e Jerry sure that your marketing eorts are Wholey” as associate producer and lead Springer Show”—as well as marketing and targeted toward the right audience, then booker, and nally le Washington to sales support for the TV New Media that’s a recipe for success.”

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Minneapolis, Minnesota. He and Heather Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. at the University of North Carolina in Siegel Stras, c’95, s’99, live in Wayzata. Kelly Hale, d’98, makes her home in Chapel Hill. Kansas City, where she directs public Mindie Miller Paget, c’99, g’01, directs Joanne Eden, c’96, ’98, a grant relations for the Kansas Speedway. communications and marketing for KU 96 ocer for the KU Oce of Lee Johnson, d’98, g’00, is CEO of USA School of Law. She makes her home in Research, in January was named Employee Diving. He lives in Fishers, Indiana, with Lawrence. of the Month. Heather Stoehr Johnson, d’97, g’00, and Paul Pierce, ’99, on April 30 retired a er Holli Hartman, c’96, e’14, is a civil their ve children. 19 seasons as a professional basketball engineer at CDM Smith in Indianapolis, Trent Tucker, b’98, is founder and coach player in the NBA. An NBA Finals MVP where she resides. at Tucker Tennis Academy in Tulsa, and 10-time All-Star, “e Truth” nished Oklahoma, where he lives. his career as the NBA’s 15th-most prolic Howard Keim, PhD’97, is a senior scorer with 26,397 points. 97 lecturer in business at Bluon Diana Buller, s’99, is a behavioral Kevin Pritchard, c’99, was promoted to University in Bluon, Ohio. 99 health consultant at Health Minis- president of basketball operations for the Melissa Vancrum, b’97, l’11, g’12, lives tries Clinic in Newton. She makes her Indiana Pacers. e former KU basketball in Leawood, where she’s an attorney at home in Halstead. player, who was part of the NCAA Douthit Frets Rouse Gentile & Rhodes. Rosemarie Boyer Chun, g’99, resides in national championship team in 1988, Camas, Washington, where she volunteers previously served as the Pacers’ general Je Bourgeois, g’98, earned his as an English tutor. manager. 98 doctorate from the School of C.B. McGrath, c’99, g’01, in April Jo Lynn Snyder Scobee, b’99, is chief Leadership and Education Sciences at the was named head coach of men’s basketball nancial ocer at Kansas Trucking in De University of San Diego. at the University of North Carolina- Soto. Russell Caldwell, c’98, commands the Wilmington. He served 14 seasons as Bryan Van Deun, g’99, was promoted to USS Ross in the U.S. Navy. He lives in assistant coach under Roy Williams senior executive service of the FBI in

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Washington, D.C. He has served as a live in Bettendorf and have three children. BORN TO: special agent since 2001. Stephen Hardy, c’00, is CEO of mySide- Molly McNearney Kimmel, j’00, and her walk, a so ware company in Kansas City. husband, Jimmy, son, William, April 21 in Bruce Berglund, PhD’00, wrote He lives in Leawood. Los Angeles, where he joins a sister, Jane, 00 Castle and Cathedral in Modern Melanie Levering, e’00, makes her home who’s nearly 3. Prague: Longing for the Sacred in a in Pratt, where she’s an architectural Skeptical Age, which was published in engineer for the Kansas Department of Matthew Kenton, c’01, lives in February by Central European University Wildlife, Parks and Tourism. 01 Nolensville, Tennessee, where he’s a Press. He’s a professor of history at Calvin Jerey Redhage, e’00, in January was regional sales executive at Connexall. College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. inducted in the Lincoln East High School Season Titus Lentz, c’01, g’04, is vice Eric Dippel, m’00, is a cardiologist at the Athletic Hall of Fame in Nebraska. He president and marketing director at the Vascular Institute of the Midwest in manages construction at Hunt Midwest Bank of Blue Valley in Overland Park. She Davenport, Iowa. He and his wife, Missy, Real Estate Development in Kansas City. lives in Olathe with her husband, James,

PROFILE by Heather Biele

Longtime sports fan living one-year appointment teaching RAINS ROB COURTESY dream as beat writer sports writing at Arizona State University, Rains returned to St. s a young boy growing up in Spring- Louis, where he launched a daily Aeld, Missouri, Rob Rains couldn’t get sports radio show with his son, enough of sports. He joined sandlot ball B.J., j’09. games and intently studied professional “We started a website at the sports coverage on TV and in newspapers. same time as a way to promote the He was a fervent baseball fan, following in radio show and put the content his father’s footsteps and supporting the St. and interviews on our site,” Rains Rob Rains recalls several memorable moments in his Louis Cardinals, a team that captured the says. 37-year career as a sports reporter, including the St. World Series pennant when Rains was 8 at was ve years ago, and Louis Cardinals’ wild run to the World Series in 2011. years old and again three years later. although Rains and his son are no Despite his passion for playing, Rains longer on the air, the website, knew he didn’t have a promising future on stlsportspage.com, is still going Cardinals news stories, in addition to the eld. “I always tell people I wanted to strong. Rains writes the majority of the writing more than 30 books, including be involved in sports and had to nd a way content, which includes coverage of the biographies of St. Louis Hall of Famers to do it, because I knew I wasn’t going to Cardinals and the St. Louis Blues, the city’s Ozzie Smith and Jack Buck. be an athlete,” he says. professional hockey team, as well as His hard work has paid o, and on May For Rains, j’78, the next best thing was updates on local college and high school 25, Rains joined an elite group of athletes, becoming a sports reporter. He started teams. coaches, media and other contributors building his résumé in high school, when Running a website has been fun, yet with his induction in the Missouri Sports he landed a gig at the local Springeld challenging, Rains admits. “When I was Hall of Fame. newspaper. During his senior year at KU, coming up through school and becoming Recalling his speech at the ceremony, he became sports editor of the University a reporter, print was the thing and you had Rains reiterates that even a er 37 years in Daily Kansan and campus correspondent a lot of time to write a story,” he says. “It’s a the business, he’s never grown tired of his for United Press International, which led dierent world now; there’s deadlines job. “I enjoy going to the park every night,” to a full-time position a er graduation. every ve minutes. It’s made it harder to be he says. “I like the World Series games and In 1984, Rains landed a dream job a sports reporter, because you have the the playos, but I’m just as excited to go to covering the Cardinals for the St. Louis pressures of being available 24 hours a day, a Tuesday night game in June. You just Globe-Democrat and later became the seven days a week, whenever news breaks. never know what you’re going to see. And National League beat writer for USA You never want to get beat on a story.” that’s enough reason to keep me going to Today’s Baseball Weekly. Following a Over the years, Rains has broken several the ballpark.”

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and their two children, Avery and Tyler. language arts in the Olathe School founder of Nashville Vascular and Vein William McNulty, c’01, on May 14 was District. Institute in Tennessee. awarded an honorary degree at KU’s 145th Jaeson Sik, c’03, manages business Commencement. He’s a former Marine David Abrams, c’02, is vice presi- development at Hoe Hoe Engineering in and co-founder of Team Rubicon, a 02 dent of sales and marketing at Singapore, where he lives with his wife, nonpro t agency that recruits military deVan Sealants Inc. in St. Louis, where he Christine, and their son, Lucas. veterans to provide global disaster relief. and his wife, Melissa, make their home. Michael Sweeney, g’03, PhD’11, works David Moskowitz, PhD’01, is professor Kelly Springs Kelley, j’02, directs at the American Jazz Museum in Kansas of musicology at the University of South marketing at EventPro Strategies in City, where he’s director of collections. He Dakota in Vermillion. Scottsdale, Arizona. She and her husband, makes his home in Mission. J. Curtis Sloan, c’01, l’04, is vice presi- Steven, live in Phoenix with their two dent of GoRail in Alexandria, Virginia. He children, Natalie and Cameron. Brett Ballard, d’04, a former KU lives in Washington, D.C. Rachel Baellow Muller, c’02, is an 04 basketball player, in April was Khemarat Suthiwan, c’01, is a senior admission adviser at National American named head coach of men’s basketball at regulatory analyst at QEP Resources in University in Overland Park, where she Washburn University in Topeka. Denver, where he resides. makes her home with Shawn, c’99, and Eric Braun, b’04, lives in Pittsburgh, Jana Ross Woodson, d’01, makes her their two children, Maya and Noah. Pennslyvania, where he directs global home in New Orleans, where she’s Sara Ott, g’02, lives in Aspen, Colorado, nancial planning and analysis at Emerson associate athletics director for external where she’s assistant city manager. Process Management. relations at Tulane University. Angie Stutte Grant, e’04, is vice Anne Hytrek, g’03, is a dietician at president of Henderson Engineers in BORN TO: 03 Hy-Vee in Des Moines, Iowa. Overland Park. Brooke Briley Robison, d’01, g’04, and Pamela Hipp Riordan, d’03, is a consul- Cody Wamsley, b’04, l’08, is an associate her husband, Scott, assoc., daughter, tant for children’s catechesis for the attorney at McDonald Hopkins in Chi- Stella, March 24 in Olathe, where she joins Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas. cago. He practices in the rm’s national a brother, Samuel, 2. Brooke teaches Patrick Ryan, m’03, is a physician and data privacy and cybersecurity group.

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with Zachary, g’09, and their three children, Micah, Millie and Macklin.

BORN TO: Je, c’06, and Heather Plante Hawkins, j’06, son, Atticus, Dec. 18 in Lawrence, where he joins a brother, Mavrick, 10, and a sister, Sienna, 5. Je is a recreation programmer for the City of Lawrence, and Heather is executive assistant to the president and coordinates donor relations at the KU Alumni Association.

Kathryn McKinley Corona, c’07, 07 is a registered nurse at the Colmery-O’Neil VA Medical Center in Topeka, where she makes her home. Ashley Goodrich, d’07, ’11, lives in Kansas City, where she’s partnership manager at the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. Kaley Hattrup, j’07, c’07, directs marketing for Sporting KC in Kansas City. Zachary Huntley, b’07, lives in Los Angeles, where he manages talent analyt- ics at Live Nation Entertainment. Kelsey McCabe McClasky, c’07, Andrew Wymore, ’04, is a real-estate Right for Your Personality Type, which was directs survivor services at Willow agent at Keller Williams. He resides in published in February by Harmony. She’s a Domestic Violence Center in Lawrence, Prairie Village. tness expert, trainer and diet consultant where she makes her home with on the NBC shows “American Gladiators” Matthew, c’03, g’08. BORN TO: and “e Biggest Loser.” Jen lives in Los Trevor Nohe, b’07, is president of Inside Darnelle Puser Bevins, d’04, and her Angeles. Ventures in Overland Park. husband, Ronnie, daughter, Emma, Nov. 5 Gary Woodland, c’07, a professional in Reidsville, North Carolina. Darnelle is a Sarah Roberts Anderton, c’06, b’07, golfer and two-time PGA tour winner, in physical therapist at Advanced Home 06 is a contracts supervisor at General April returned to Augusta, Georgia, to Care. Dynamics Information Technology in play in his h Masters Tournament. Lawrence, where she lives with her James McIntosh, m’05, in January husband, Brett, and their two daughters, Jordan Altman, c’08, produces 05 was inducted in the Truman High Abigail and Kasey. 08 social media for the CBS show “e School Hall of Fame. He’s a physician at Steve Eck, g’06, manages the production Talk.” He lives in Los Angeles. Advanced Urologic Associates in Indepen- center at Hallmark in Lawrence. Heiko Heppner, l’08, resides in Frank- dence, Missouri. Paul Rankin, e’06, is an engineer at PFC furt, Germany, where he’s partner at Kathy McVey Meitl, d’05, g’09, is a Brakes in Clover, South Carolina. In May, Dentons law rm. substitute teacher for Norwalk Commu- he won the Louis Schwitzer Award for Heather Riel Musselman, j’08, is a nity School District in Norwalk, Iowa, excellence in innovation and engineering marketing administrator at Peavey where she makes her home with Gregory, in racing technology. Corporation in Lenexa. She makes her a’06, a commissioning agent at Critical Joey Richmeier, b’06, lives in Hyattsville, home in Gardner with Zachary, ’10, and Solutions Group. Maryland, with his son, Oliver, who just their daughter, Ashlyn. Jill Jamieson Misener, l’05, is a tax turned 1. attorney and of counsel at Blank Rome in Alicia Veirthaler Stoltenberg, d’06, g’09, BORN TO: New York City. is a curriculum and assessment specialist Michael, b’08, and Meg Stockton Jennifer Widerstrom, d’05, wrote Diet at KU. She makes her home in Tonganoxie Adkins, d’08, son, John, Nov. 9 in Prairie

56 | KANSAS ALUMNI Village, where he joins a sister, Nora, who’s Jesse Conrad, e’09, is associate vice political science at Park University in nearly 2. president at Manhard Consulting in Kansas City. In April, she received the Megan Schottman Cole, c’08, and Vernon Hills, Illinois. Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award at Nicholis, ’09, daughter, Emilia, Sept. 1, Rachel Debes Hart, c’09, is a senior the university’s honors convocation. 2016, in Overland Park, where she joins a team lead at Cerner in Kansas City. She sister, Eliza, 2. Megan is a speech-language commutes from Lawrence, where she lives MARRIED pathologist for Kansas City Kansas Public with Jarod, g’11, PhD’13, and their son, Carly Rodgers, j’09, to Eric Sorenson, Schools. Charles. Oct. 29 in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Brian Schneweis, j’09, c’09, works at the She’s assistant vice president and leads Katlin Brosious Bradshaw, j’09, American Academy of Family Physicians marketing at PNC Midland Loan Services 09 g’11, is a nance manager at in Leawood, where he’s a marketing in Overland Park. Textron Systems in Hunt Valley, Maryland. copywriter. She makes her home in Shrewsbury, Debra Sheer, PhD’09, is professor and Alyssa Aude Bernard, c’10, g’17, is Pennsylvania. chair of the department of history and 10 an attorney at Waddell & Reed in

PROFILE by Ronnie Wachter COURTESY KIP REISERER COURTESY Reiserer uses new media to journalists seeking employ- share World War II stories ment; @KCJournalismJobs grew to 1,349 followers, and he very time he came to the “Hitler and quickly saw that a key to social ENazi Germany” class led by Instructor media success is speci city. He Sam Newland, g’81, PhD’83, Kip Reiserer put that lesson to use for his drilled further into the textbook—and next online hobby. further away from his classmates. Aer devouring Don “I had friends in the class, and nobody McCombs and Fred Worth’s else read it,” Reiserer says. “I read really, World War II: 4,139 Strange really close to the whole thing.” and Fascinating Facts, Reiserer Kip Reiserer, pictured above with Auschwitz survivor Eva Kor Reiserer, j’10, now combines the degree was so excited that he wanted at her Terre Haute, Indiana, museum, discovered a passion he did earn (broadcast journalism) with to share his ndings. In for World War II history after watching “Saving Private Ryan” the interest he could not leave (World War summer 2012, aer moving to and VHS documentaries purchased for him by his mother. “It II) for a social media following that has Chicago to work in social was so foreign to me, and I didn’t know anything about reached more than 150,000 on Twitter, media advertising, he realized Europe or the Paciﬁc.” Facebook and Instagram. he could. With WorldWar2HistoryPics on “What if I created a Twitter Instagram (89,000 followers), account and started tweeting facts and professional World War Twourist. @WW2Facts on Twitter (55,000 followers) photos?” e intent remains the same: Reiserer and Facebook.com/WW2Facts (11,000 So he tweeted his way through most of hopes to repeat for others the experience likes), Reiserer illustrates for the young Strange and Fascinating Facts, then began he felt in Newland’s History 341 class and minds of the 21st century the conict that looking for new sources. No problem: e help someone nd an answer to the ripped humanity in half 75 years ago. internet is overowing with people who question that drives him as he digs up “I do it because I think it’s important,” want to talk about World War II. another online rabbit hole. he says. “I don’t fully understand how the “I had a seemingly unlimited amount of “How could it happen?” majority of an entire country could be content that appealed to people all over —Wachter, j’00, is a reporter for the swept by madness and change the world the world,” he said. Chicago Tribune and a freelance writer. that much.” WW2Facts and WW2HistoryPics are Shortly aer graduating from KU, hobbies, but Reiserer would love to turn Editor’s note: An expanded version Reiserer moved to Kansas City. Needing a them into a career. e dream job: of this proﬁle, including photos and Reiserer’s job, he put his J-School degree to use by Sponsors would pay him to visit historic tips for social media success, can be found at starting a Twitter account for other sites and tweet about what they hold. A kualumni.org/news.

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Visit the App Store or Google Play to download, or go to kualumni.org/app Overland Park. She lives in Lenexa with where she’s a recruiting specialist at in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. She lives in Jamie, c’10, ’14, and their son, James III, Lockton Companies. Kansas City with her husband, Paul. who’s nearly 1. Briana Comstock Searight, c’16, is a case Kate Renner, g’10, g’12, was named to Lauren Taulbee Gallagher, c’13, manager at Sumner Mental Health Center Building Design and Construction’s 40 13 teaches in the Blue Valley School in Wellington. She and her husband, under 40 list. She’s an architect and District. She and Daniel, c’13, live in Austin, make their home in Oxford with medical planner at HKS Architects in Lenexa. their son, Reece. Washington, D.C., where she lives. Ashley Willson, c’16, lives in Patricia Ryberg, PhD’10, in April Michael Cerier, c’14, is a manage- Fremont, California, where she’s an received the J.L. Zwingle Award at Park 14 ment trainee at Enterprise Holdings. air tra c controller for the Federal University’s honors convocation. She’s an He and Lauren Osdoby Cerier, d’13, a Aviation Administration. assistant professor of biology. physical therapist at erapy Works, live William Wilson, PharmD’16, is a Chelsea Andrews Wojtowicz, a’10, is a in Lawrence. pharmacist at the University of North user-experience designer at Enterprise Abby Simmons Edwards, g’14, DNP’16, Carolina Medical Center in Chapel Hill. Holdings in St. Louis. She and her is a nurse practitioner at Urgent Care for husband, Ryan, live in Ballwin, Missouri. Kids in e Woodlands, Texas. BORN TO: Ross Laughlin, c’14, works at Commerce Rachel Hilger Sipe, PharmD’16, and her Lisa McDermott Billman, l’11, is an Bank, where he’s a personal banker husband, Christopher, son, Elliott, April 11 associate attorney at SouthLaw in specialist. He resides in Overland Park. 15 in Russell, where she’s a pharmacist at Overland Park. Shannon Thompson, c’14, wrote July Gregwire Drug Store. Tyler Cini, g’11, makes his home in under, which was published in April by Dallas, where he’s an architect and project Clean Teen Publishing. e author of the Douglas Jenkins, b’17, lives in leader at GFF Architects. Timely Death trilogy and the Bad Bloods 17 Chicago, where he’s a private wealth Christopher Koch, g’11, is an architect at series for young adults, she lives in analyst at Merrill Lynch. BNIM Architects in Kansas City. Gardner. Sydney King, e’17, is an engineer at Erin Lustig, d’11, g’17, teaches in the Honeywell International in Olathe, where Shawnee Mission School District. She lives Julie Etzler, j’15, lives in Wichita, she resides. in Olathe. 15 where she coordinates consumer James Tyrrell, g’17, makes his home in Reece Petty, d’11, ’12, coaches football marketing at INTRUST Bank. Houston, where he’s a geologist at Concho at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. He James Hennahane, c’15, is a systems Resources. was a wide receiver and special-teams analyst at Centralized Supply Chain player at KU. Service in Kansas City. ASSOCIATES Brianne Pfannenstiel, c’11, j’11, is a Mike Kautsch, assoc., in April was statehouse reporter for the Des Moines Timothy Bents, g’16, is a geographic inducted in the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Register in Iowa. 16 information systems specialist at Fame. He’s a professor at KU School of Andrew Posch, j’11, creates content for DGR Engineering in Rock Rapids, Iowa. Law and former dean of the William Allen Sullivan Higdon & Sink in Kansas City. He He and Alyson, e’16, live in Sioux Center. White School of Journalism and Mass lives in Roeland Park. Erin Browne, d’16, teaches sixth grade at Communications. Mike and his wife, Virginia Strother Walker, d’11, ’12, Roesland Elementary School in Roeland Elaine, assoc., live in Lawrence. teaches at Pinellas County Schools in Park. Terry Rombeck, assoc., manages social Clearwater, Florida, where she makes her Melissa Chavira-Molina, c’16, is a media for the Kansas Leadership Center in home with her husband, Damon, and their recovery coach at Truman Medical Wichita. He makes his home in Andover son, Covi. Centers in Kansas City, where she lives. with Jana Gruver Rombeck, c’00, and their Therese Diederich, c’16, makes her two children, Carly and Nolan. BORN TO: home in St. Louis, where she’s a designer at Miles Schnaer, assoc., owns Crown Jordan, d’11, g’13, and Julia Cummings Savvy Surrounding Style. Automotive in Lawrence. In May, he was Scott, d’12, g’14, daughter, Harper, Feb. 17 Sara Gentry, c’16, is an auto-claims inducted in the Lawrence Business Hall in Lawrence. adjuster at Farmers Insurance. She lives in of Fame. Shawnee. Amanda Baxa, m’12, is a physician at Thomas Plummer, c’16, resides in 12 St. Luke Hospital in Marion. Chicago, where he works at Dash Finan- Lauren Summers, c’12, l’16, is a prosecu- cial Technologies. tor for the City of Lawrence. Hannah Wilson Prather, AUD’16, is an Taylor Teague, c’12, lives in Dallas, audiologist at Professional Hearing Center

ISSUE 4, 2017 | 59 In Memory Connie Achterberg, l’53, 87, May 50s11 in Manhattan. She practiced law in Salina for nearly 60 years and was partner at Achterberg, Angell & Cra. In Margaret Wenski Amini, c’46, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. He had a 1996, she received the Distinguished 40s 92, May 5 in San Antonio. 40-year career with Bell Telephone Alumni Award from KU School of Law. She and her husband, K.K., started the Laboratories. Survivors include his wife, Surviving are a stepdaughter, Diana Amini Foundation and built the K.K. Evelyn Ho man Hamilton, f’49; two Hartmetz, ’57; seven grandchildren; and Amini and Margaret Amini scholarship daughters; two sons; and ve grand- 11 great-grandchildren. halls at KU. ree sons, a daughter, nine children. George Bartlett, b’55, 86, April 20 in grandchildren and four great- Eleanor Thompson Hinchman, c’47, 90, Tampa, Florida, where he worked for grandchildren survive. March 19 in Overland Park, where she was Coldwell Banker and founded the com- Rozanne Cro Blake, n’48, 96, April 26 a retired teacher. A son, a daughter, three pany’s Tampa oce. Two sons, a daughter in Silver Spring, Maryland. She was a grandchildren and two great-grandchil- and four grandchildren survive. nurse and established hospices in India dren survive. Douglas Beene, c’56, 83, March 28 in and Washington, D.C. Surviving are her Virgil Hollenbeck, c’49, m’53, 93, May 1 Lawrence, where he had a 46-year career husband, Melville, two sons, three in Leawood, where he was a physician. He with Kansas Geological Survey. He was an daughters and seven grandchildren. is survived by his wife, Dorothy Hogan ocial scorer at KU men’s basketball James Chuculate, b’49, 92, April 9 in Hollenbeck, j’50; three sons, John, c’75, games and he also volunteered for Kansas Camdenton, Missouri, where he retired as Larry, c’78, m’82, and Brad, a’84, a’85; nine Relays. He is survived by three daughters, chief of the nancial division for the grandchildren; and four great-grand- Sharon Beene Gardner, b’79, g’80, Carolyn Federal Small Business Administration. children. Beene Johannsen, ’80, and Leslie Beene Four daughters, six grandchildren and ve Donald McCaul, e’47, 92, Jan. 21 in Ahlert, ’85; a son, Steven, b’87, g’89; two great-grandchildren survive. Olathe, where he was a retired engineer. brothers, Don, f’58, d’58, g’64, and Daryl, Charles Clinkenbeard, b’43, 95, April 28 Survivors include his wife, Carolyn; two b’61; 10 grandchildren; and six in Lawrence. He was a CPA at Hardesty, sons, Kevin, g’75, PhD’78, and Bryan, b’80, great-grandchildren. Batz & Clinkenbeard in Topeka. Surviving g’86; a daughter; seven grandchildren; and Morris Birnbaum, g’52, 95, April 5 in are his wife, Ann; a son, Kirk, c’83; a two great-grandchildren. Pasadena, California. He was an engineer stepdaughter, Elizabeth Smith Scheib, f’81; Lucille Steckel Mulroney, f’47, 92, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Two a stepson, Richard Smith, e’86, g’91; ve March 14 in Manhattan, where she was an daughters, a son and a granddaughter granddaughters; a great-granddaughter; art teacher. In 2003, she received the survive. and six step-grandchildren. Alumni Association’s Mildred Clodfelter Frank Bradley, b’50, 96, March 24 in Mary Dolores Collins Crum, c’49, 89, Award for her volunteer service to the Hays, where he retired aer more than 30 April 30 in Wichita, where she worked for University. She is survived by two sisters, years as a CPA. He is survived by a son, Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland for 47 one of whom is Patricia Steckel MacBlane, Bruce, c’74; a brother; and ve grand- years. She is survived by her husband, d’56; a grandson; and two great-grandchildren. Charles; two brothers, one of whom is children. Dean Campbell, ’50, 88, Jan. 11 in Robert, l’61; and a sister. Betty Lou Current Nesbit, c’42, 96, Wickenburg, Arizona. He was president John Crutcher, d’41, 100, March 12 in March 25 in Rock Hill, South Carolina. A and owner of Campbell Distributors. Je erson, North Carolina. He was a Kansas daughter, two grandchildren and two Survivors include his wife, Sondra; three state senator and served two terms as great-grandchildren survive. daughters, one of whom is Susan Camp- lieutenant governor. He later retired from Patty Lockwood Snowden, f’44, 93, May bell Heddens, g’84; a son; a stepson; and the federal Postal Rate Commission. 17 in Atchison. She is survived by three nine grandchildren. Surviving are his wife, Edith, assoc.; a daughters, Susan, d’71, Katherine Richard Dulaney, e’57, 82, Feb. 23 in stepson; a stepdaughter; four grandchil- Snowden Olauson, d’73, and Dinah Mountain Home, Arizona, where he was a dren; 12 great-grandchildren; and a Snowden Moulden, d’80; a son; nine retired engineer. His wife, Roberta, two great-great-grandchild. grandchildren; and 16 great-grandsons, a daughter, a brother, a sister, seven Mary Noel Grant, c’40, 98, April 8 in children. grandchildren and three great-grandchil- Prairie Village, where she volunteered in Geldard Woerner, e’45, 91, Feb. 22 in dren survive. her community. She is survived by her Eagle River, Wisconsin. He worked for the Leonard Duroche, c’55, g’57, 83, April 2 husband, Bill, c’39; a son, Tom, c’72; a Naval Facilities Engineering Command in in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was daughter; seven grandchildren; and 17 Washington, D.C. Surviving are a daugh- associate professor emeritus of German great-grandchildren. ter, a son, four grandchildren and six language and literature at the University of Bill Hamilton, e’49, 89, March 25 in great-grandchildren. Minnesota. Surviving are his wife,

60 | KANSAS ALUMNI Deborah, three sons, two daughters, six memorial has been established by KU Mesa, California, where he was a licensed grandchildren and two great-grand- Endowment. Surviving are his wife, Nancy real-estate broker and partner at Larsen & children. Jo Hutton Hodges, d’55; a son, Merle Risley. His wife, Susan, two sons and two John Egle, c’59, 82, April 27 in Kansas “Boo,” c’79, m’83; a brother, Ervin, ’50; grandsons survive. City, where he published books. His wife, four grandchildren; and two great- Janette Pollom Roberts, c’50, d’67, g’81, Mary, and a brother survive. grandsons. 88, April 15 in Lawrence, where she was a Roth Gatewood, b’55, l’58, 83, March Darrell Houk, b’51, 87, May 2 in special-education teacher. Survivors 27 in Topeka, where he was a retired Bartlesville, Oklahoma. He spent his entire include two sons, William III, j’76, and attorney. He is survived by his wife, Joan, career with Phillips Petroleum Company. Scott, ’82; a daughter, Megan Roberts ’83; a daughter, Mary Gatewood Boatright, Survivors include his wife, Darlene Allin, n’82; a sister, Marilyn Pollom e’83, g’88; two sons, Matthew, c’84, g’86, Demeritt Houk, d’52; three daughters; two Adams, f’55; 10 grandchildren; and two and Adam, ’87; three stepsons; seven grandchildren; and six great-grand- great-grandchildren. grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. S. David Ross II, c’56, m’60, 83, April 2 children. Arthur James, b’50, 90, March 20 in in Springfield, Illinois, where he was a Stan Hamilton, j’55, 83, May 26 in Chicago, where he was a financial analyst. retired physician and associate clinical Lawrence, where he retired after a 47-year Two nieces survive. professor at Southern Illinois University career in journalism in Washington, D.C. Jeanne Carpenter Morris Johnson, c’50, School of Medicine. He is survived by He also wrote Machine Gun Kelly’s Last 88, March 28 in Houston. She was a three sons, two of whom are Erich Stand, which was published in 2003 by businesswoman and volunteer in her Bloxdorf, b’81, and S. David III, j’91; four University Press of Kansas. Survivors community. Surviving are her husband, daughters, two of whom are Heidi Ross include two sons, two daughters and four Andrew; three daughters, two of whom are Kerz, c’83, and Jennifer Ross Hughes, c’92; grandchildren. Nancy Morris Cox, d’77, and Anne a brother; 10 grandchildren; and a Ronald Hardten, e’59, 80, April 5 in Simmons Cox, j’78; a son; a brother, great-granddaughter. Kansas City, where he was an engineer at William Carpenter, assoc.; 11 grandchil- Robert Shoemake, c’56, 82, April 14 in Black & Veatch for 36 years. He later dren; and 12 great-grandchildren. Altoona, Alabama. He was president of owned a travel agency. Surviving are his Robert “Boots” Nagel, f’50, 92, Feb. 27 Vulcan Rehab Services. Survivors include wife, Carol Potter Hardten, n’61; a son, in Warrenton, Missouri, where he was a two daughters and two brothers, Thomas, David, c’83, m’87; two daughters, Lisa retired industrial designer. Two daughters, b’69, g’78, and James, g’71, EdD’74. Hardten Corder, c’87, and Michelle two sons, a sister, eight grandchildren and Jerry Smith, c’54, l’57, 87, April 10 in Hardten Lawson, d’91, ’96; a brother, two great-grandchildren survive. Tribune, where he was an attorney. He is Gerald, ’67; and eight grandchildren. David Ontjes, c’59, 79, May 7 in Chapel survived by his wife, Elinor Rice Smith, Walter Hicks, a’54, 87, Feb. 25 in Hill, North Carolina, where he was Eunice ’53; two daughters; two granddaughters; Lawrence, where he was an architect at Bernhard Distinguished Professor of and two great-grandchildren. Hicks-Messick and Associates. A memo- Medicine at the University of North Ronald Smith, b’51, 87, Aug. 4, 2016, in rial has been established with KU Endow- Carolina. He was selected as a Rhodes Clay Center, where he was executive vice ment. Survivors include two sons, James, Scholar during his senior year at KU. A president and director at Peoples National ’79, and Jeffrey, ’83; two daughters, Jo memorial has been established with KU Bank. Surviving are a daughter, Julie, ’90; a Ellen Hicks Kasson, ’88, and Jan Hicks Endowment. Surviving are his wife, Joan; son; two granddaughters; and a great- O’Neill, ’95; a sister, Mary Hicks Gensler, three sons, one of whom is Jason, c’91; a granddaughter. ’57; eight grandchildren; and four daughter; a stepson; a stepdaughter; a Russell Stanley, c’50, l’52, 92, March 17 great-grandchildren. sister, Carolyn Ontjes Falletta, c’62; a in Aurora, Colorado. He was a retired U.S. Mary Kottmann Hill, ’50, 88, April 24 in brother, Sam, ’67; eight grandchildren; and Air Force colonel and maritime attorney. Overland Park, where she was a home- four step-grandchildren. A memorial has been established with KU maker and member of P.E.O. Sisterhood. Carl Pingry III, e’57, 81, July 8, 2016, in Endowment. Two sons and two daughters She is survived by three daughters, two of Yellowstone National Park. He was a survive. whom are Candyse Hill Taylor, d’72, and systems engineer at IBM for more than 30 Norman Storer, c’52, g’56, 86, March 10 Sherris Hill Bellamy, g’85, g’99; a son, years. A brother, Thomas, ’60, survives. in San Diego, where he was retired Stephen, b’84, c’84; a brother; seven Dwight Reece, b’59, 88, April 12 in professor of sociology and anthropology at grandchildren; and four great-grand- Prairie Village, where he had a longtime the City University of New York. He is children. career as a CPA. He is survived by his wife, survived by two sons; a stepson; a brother, Merle Hodges, c’55, m’58, 83, April 24 LuEllyn; a daughter, Venetia, c’83; two David, c’65; four grandchildren; two in Salina, where he had a 40-year career as sons; a granddaughter; and two great- step-grandchildren; and a step-great- an obstetrician and gynecologist. He also grandchildren. grandchild. served as city commissioner and mayor. A Robert Risley, l’56, 86, April 7 in Costa Ruth Ann Marsh Weimer, d’53, 85,

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April 17 in Charlotte, North Carolina, Anne; two sons, Steven, c’86, and Scott, Clayton, e’96; a daughter, Dana Hess where she was an elementary-school c’91, g’95; and two granddaughters. Davis, c’97; a brother, James, b’71; and ve teacher. Survivors include a daughter, Ann Caryl Wilen Herman, n’65, 74, April 27 grandchildren. Weimer Hannah, d’80; a son; and three in Overland Park, where she was a nurse Jon Josserand, b’76, l’79, 62, May 23 in grandchildren. in the Shawnee Mission School District. Lawrence. He was assistant secretary of Survivors include her husband, Roger, state in Kansas and later became assistant Mary Dee Morsbach Adam, ’60, assoc.; a son, John, e’87; a daughter, Susan for governmental aairs at KU, where he 60s78, March 25 in Olympia Fields, Herman Shepard, j’91; a sister, Salli Wilen lobbied on behalf of the University for Illinois, where she was a volunteer and Freudenthal, d’59; and three grand- nearly 20 years. He also served several assistant director of religious education. children. terms on the Lawrence Sister Cities She also co-founded a consignment William Howard, EdD’63, 94, Feb. 16 in Advisory Board. Surviving are three store to bene t a local cancer center. Fairway, where he was a teacher and held sisters, Linda, p’74, Jeri Josserand Buch- She is survived by a daughter, Nancy Yeo several administrative roles in education. holz, ’75, and Jodell, c’85; and two Reazin, ’88; two sons, one of whom is A daughter, a brother, four grandchildren brothers, Emery, p’68, and Lance, ’85. Jack Yeo, j’92; ve stepdaughters; a and eight great-grandchildren survive. Marc Mitchell, b’74, 64, March 31 in stepson; a sister, Nancy Morsbach Winter, Rollin “Buzz” Quinn, c’60, g’64, 78, Feb. Lawrence. He owned a nancial consulting ’54; 11 grandchildren; and two 23 in White sh, Montana, where he was a company. Survivors include his mother great-grandchildren. retired mathematics teacher at Flathead and three sisters, two of whom are Terry Ball, p’65, 76, April 26 in Atchi- Valley Community College in Kalispell. A Meredith, c’72, and Melanie Mitchell son, where he was a pharmacist and son and a sister, Lilburne Quinn Laidlaw, Key, b’75. owned Ball Brothers Drug Store. He later n’63, survive. Vivian Monack Moore, c’79, 95, April became a real-estate agent. A memorial Frederick Slicker, c’65, l’68, 73, Oct. 3 20 in Leawood, where she retired from a has been established with KU Endowment. in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was an longtime career at the Dwight D. Eisen- Surviving are his wife, Mary, assoc.; two attorney and president of Slicker Law hower VA Medical Center in Leavenworth. sons, Brad, d’92, ’93, and Chad, c’96, Firm. Surviving are his wife, Claudia She is survived by two sons, Lyle, l’71, and PharmD’01; a sister, Kathy Ball Hines, ’89; Fincham Slicker, ’68; a daughter; a son; Craig, ’79; and four grandchildren. and ve grandchildren. two brothers, one of whom is Richard, John Oblak, PhD’71, 74, March 23 in John Casson, b’60, 81, April 13 in d’70; and two grandsons. West Chester, Pennsylvania, where he was Independence, Missouri, where he was retired president of Notre Dame de Namur president of Casson Construction Com- Barbara Berger, c’74, n’76, 64, University in Belmont, California. He also pany. He is survived by his wife, Jane 70sDec. 12 in Oak Park, Illinois. She spent several years directing summer Coolidge Casson, d’59; four daughters, was clinical assistant professor of nursing theatre productions. Survivors include his three of whom are Julienne Casson Fritz, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. wife, Janiece Bacon Oblak, g’67; two sons; ’83, Laurian Casson Lytle, g’87, PhD’93, Survivors include her mother, Margaret two daughters; and eight grandchildren. and Leslie Casson VanderVeen, b’93, g’96; Henry Berger, ’69; a sister, Elisabeth, c’75; David Reavis, c’73, 74, March 22 in a son, Charles Joe, b’85; a brother, Dan, and two brothers, James, c’77, g’79, and Baldwin City. He was an ocer and e’59; 16 grandchildren; and two great- William, c’77, m’80. detective for the Lawrence Police Depart- grandchildren. Thomas Bulger, b’79, 59, April 18 in ment and later opened a private detective Fred Exline, d’64, g’68, 75, March 24 in Wichita, where he co-owned a car agency. A son, Joel, ’98, and a stepson, Englewood, Colorado. He was a sales dealership and later was a CPA. Surviving Todd Fitzpatrick, ’92, survive. manager and worked for several hotels in are two sons, one of whom is Ryan, ’09; a Alice Berggren Stone, d’76, 69, April 11 Kansas City and Denver. A memorial has daughter; a brother; two sisters; and a in Overland Park. She was a homemaker. been established with KU Endowment. He grandson. Surviving are her husband, Ron; two sons; is survived by a sister. Lanny Gaston, g’75, 67, March 26 in a brother, John, c’73; and four grand- Gerald Goldstein, PhD’62, 85, April 8 in Kansas City, where he directed personnel children. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a senior and human resources for the State of Mary Lindsey Treece, d’70, g’74, 92, research scientist for the VA Pittsburgh Kansas. He is survived by his wife, Feb. 1 in Lawrence, where she taught at Healthcare System and professor at the Marguerite Amyx Gaston, d’78; a son, Lawrence High School for 19 years. She is University of Pittsburgh. A sister survives. Joshua, g’17; two brothers, one of whom is survived by two daughters, Virginia Treece Charles Lee Hageman, f’66, g’67, 81, Douglas, b’81; and a sister. Crane, d’68, and Joan, d’72; four grand- Dec. 1 in Maryville, Missouri, where he William Hess, g’73, 79, March 5 in children; and three great-grandchildren. was a professor and chaired the depart- Olathe, where he was a retired colonel in ment of art at Northwest Missouri State the U.S. Army and later worked at Kansas Smain Mebarek, e’80, 62, May 10 University. He is survived by his wife, Geological Survey. Surviving are a son, 80sin Lawrence. He is survived by a

62 | KANSAS ALUMNI daughter, Mimi Mebarek Long, c’10, and a A memorial has been established with KU established with KU Endowment. His son, Scooter, b’14, g’15. Endowment. Surviving are his wife, Vera, wife, Linda, and a sister survive. Kevin Samms, c’80, 61, April 11 in a daughter, two sons, 10 grandchildren Gaylord Richardson, assoc., 80, March Lawrence, where he had a 40-year career and ve great-grandchildren. 28 in Lawrence, where he was associate at Allen Press. His mother and a brother Edmund Eglinski, 85, May 7 in Law- professor of architecture and urban design. survive. rence, where he was professor emeritus in In 2009, he received the Jack and Nancy Bernard Vercoglio, c’87, 85, March 29 in the Kress Foundation Department of Art Bradley Award for Excellence in Teaching. Lee’s Summit, Missouri, where he was a History. A memorial has been established Survivors include a son, Aaron, ’87; a supervisor at American Ingredients with KU Endowment. Survivors include daughter, Paula, f’05; a brother; and two Company. He is survived by several nieces his wife, Pam Boles Eglinski, g’82; two grandchildren. and nephews. sons, Michael, c’85, and Stephen, ’88; a Edward Irwin Shaw, assoc., 90, May 5 in daughter, Summer, c’05, g’09; and two Lawrence, where he was professor of Rick Honan, c’94, 46, April 27 in grandchildren. radiation biophysics and biology. Surviv- 90s Kansas City. He had a 17-year Lenoir Delight Sjogren Ekdahl, 98, ing are his wife, Cynthia Blackhall Shaw, career in the U.S. Navy and later became March 24 in Lawrence, where she retired d’62; a son, Daniel, c’83; two daughters, president and CEO of his father’s com- as director of food services aer 35 years one of whom is Jennifer, f’98; a stepson; pany, American Trailer and Storage. of service. She was inducted in the KU and four grandchildren. Surviving are his wife, Kourtney Flynn Women’s Hall of Fame in 1987. In 1993, Arthur Thomas, 87, April 4 in Lawrence, Honan, c’94; a daughter; a son; his parents, the Lenoir D. Ekdahl Dining Commons, where he was a retired counselor in the Richard, c’57, and Kathleen Strayer popularly known as Mrs. E’s, was named School of Education. He is survived by his Honan, c’67; three sisters; and a brother. in her honor. A memorial has been wife, Barbara Butters omas, ’82; three established with KU Endowment. She is sons, Ross, ’78, Scott, ’83, and Kirk, c’86; a Lisa Donnelly, c’02, 37, April 7 in survived by a sister. sister; six grandchildren; and two 00 San Francisco, where she was a Rose Coughlin Greaves, c’46, g’47, great-grandchildren. singer-songwriter. Survivors include her PhD’52, 92, April 9 in Lawrence, where Charlene Tilford, ’84, 79, May 11 in parents, Jerry, l’67, and Ileene Mayer she was professor emerita of history and High Ridge, Missouri. She was assistant Donnelly, g’69, and a sister, Tara Donnelly professor of Russian and East European director of executive education for the Voogt, c’97. Studies. A niece survives. School of Business. Survivors include her John Jenkins, j’08, g’15, May 7 in L. Martin Jones, b’46, g’47, 94, April 3 husband, Lewis, g’72, ’92; three sons, two Oregon. Survivors include his parents, in Lawrence. He taught accounting and of whom are Todd, j’86, and Keith, b’90; Robert, c’93, and Lynn ornton Jenkins, retired as director of business and scal and ve grandchildren. c’73, n’76, ’00. aairs at KU. Surviving are a son; a Joseph Prott, c’06, 36, March 22 in brother, Harold, b’49; and two ASSOCIATES Eureka, California, where he was a granddaughters. Nancy Mauree Mitchell, assoc., 79, musician and studied martial arts. He is Daniel Merriam, c’49, g’53, PhD’61, 90, April 17 in Bonita Springs, Florida. She survived by his parents, the Rev. Darrel, April 26 in Lawrence, where he was senior was a real-estate agent. A memorial has d’78, and Julie Mills Prott, d’74, g’76; a scientist emeritus at Kansas Geological been established with KU Endowment. sister, Emily Prott Holtzclaw, c’06; a Survey. A memorial has been established Surviving are her husband, Paul, e’62; two brother, John, ’14; and a grandmother. with KU Endowment. Survivors include sons, one of whom is Paul Todd, j’91; a his wife, Annie Young Merriam, ’62; two daughter; a sister; six grandchildren; and UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY sons; two daughters; ve sisters; and a seven great-grandchildren. John Augelli, 96, March 20 in Lawrence, brother. Evelyn Greathouse Phillips, assoc., 88, where he was professor and chaired the Charles Neuringer, g’56, PhD’60, 85, March 20 in Prairie Village, where she was department of geography. He also estab- May 15 in Lawrence, where he was a homemaker. A memorial has been lished the Center for Latin American professor emeritus of psychology. He is established with KU Endowment. She is Studies. A memorial has been established survived by two daughters, Miriam, f’83, survived by two daughters, Natalie Phillips with KU Endowment. He is survived by and Helen Neuringer Bene el, c’84, ’12; a Hagan, j’73, and Meridee Phillips Jordan, two sons, John, c’72, and Bob, c’78, g’82, brother; a sister; and three grandchildren. d’76; a sister, Beth Greathouse Tedrow, PhD’98; two sisters; two granddaughters; Ross Randall, 71, April 21 in Boynton d’59; three grandchildren; and three and two great-grandchildren. Beach, Florida. He had a 28-year career as great-grandchildren. John Doull, 94, March 24 in Olathe. He head coach of KU men’s golf and later was professor emeritus of pharmacology became director of golf operations. In and toxicology at KU Medical Center and 2014, he was inducted in the Kansas Golf past president of the Society of Toxicology. 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“Without their legacies I don’t know that I would be playing the piano professionally,” STEVE PUPPE STEVE Steven Spooner says of the pianists he honors on “Dedications.” “So I felt I owed them quite a lot.”

soundtrack of my life,” he says. “It’s kind of autobiographical.” In addition to classical pieces from each pianist’s repertoire, Spooner performs hymns like “Amazing Grace” and “How Great ou Art,” popular tunes like “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” and traditional songs such as “Shenandoah,” an homage to his favorite jazz pianist, Keith Jarrett. “at’s just me,” Spooner says. “I’m a kid from New Orleans who grew up playing in church, and I really love jazz, too.” Reviews have been positive, with major publications like International Piano and Grand piano Fanfare praising “Dedications” aer Professor records ‘monumental’ tribute to classical greats overcoming initial reluctance to review a 17-hour recording. “Such a breadth and variety of dicult pieces by a pianist I nticipating the centennial of two of Richter, three to Russian-born Vladimir never heard of made me wonder at rst if A his favorite classical pianists, Steven Horowitz, and one each to Gilels and this was a hoax,” wrote a reviewer for Spooner conceived a project while on American virtuoso Van Cliburn, Spooner American Record Guide. “But, no, the sabbatical in 2014 that would pay tribute put together a tribute that’s “monumental” DVD proves that Steven Spooner is the to his musical heroes. in more ways than one: It’s an exceptional real deal, a pianist of apparently limitless Soviets Sviatoslav Richter, born in 1915, achievement of colossal size and scope and raw technique that’s almost note-perfect.” and Emil Gilels, born in 1916, “were a memorial to the pianists who shaped A highlight is Spooner’s tribute to leading gures in the art of the piano and Spooner’s own piano performance career. Horowitz, who was known for playing his two of the best pianists who ever lived,” Two additional CDs titled “Memories own unique arrangements—called says Spooner, professor of music. and Dedications” and a special DVD of a transcriptions—of other composers’ e idea started small—Spooner recital Spooner gave in Swarthout Recital works, including renditions of Franz Liszt’s originally planned a ve-disc collection— Hall round out the 16-disc set, which also “Hungarian Rhapsodies” and a lively but soon grew into something much includes Spooner’s spoken thoughts on reading of John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and larger: the 16-disc set “Dedications.” many of the pieces he tackles. “When I reected on their legacies, Born and reared in Louisiana (also the especially Richter, who played more birthplace of Cliburn), Spooner moved to “Dedications” repertoire than any pianist before or since, Tbilisi and Moscow at 20 to study with I thought, ‘is has to be larger. If I’m pianist and composer Nodar Gabunia, by Steven Spooner going to dedicate something that encapsu- whose work is also among the dedications A Life of Music Records lates his art form, I need to do something in the set. e Russian school of piano that alifeofmusic.com/records grand.’ So I just challenged myself to see dominates the recording is the school $29.95 how monumental the set could be.” Spooner trained in. With eight volumes dedicated to “Listening to these records is like a

64 | KANSAS ALUMNI Stripes Forever” that was a popular encore in some spirituality and explore these him far beyond his expectations. at his concerts. drastically di erent views. “We speak subject-verb-object, and in Spooner considered doing his own “I’m sure my freshman-year self would Hindi they go subject-object-verb, with transcription of the 15th “Hungarian be scong at me now.” the verb at the end of every sentence, and Rhapsody,” one of his favorites. “But I Seeking something a bit more adventur- that changes the way you think. You don’t thought, ‘No, we already have Mr. Horow- ous than Spanish, eisen decided to try realize it at rst, but when you change how itz playing that. We don’t need to be doing Hindi for his required language study. you speak, it actually changes how you it again.’” rilled with the immersive style of his perceive and think about the world. Instead, he decided to do something rst Hindi instructor, Geetanjali Tiwari, “Being a neurobiologist and someone di erent: Figuring that if Horowitz were coordinator for South Asian Studies, who is interested in the mind, it really alive today he’d tackle a piece familiar to eisen soaked up culture, mythology and fascinated me and drew me in.” contemporary audiences, Spooner chose a spirituality. He rst visited India on a —Chris Lazzarino song “almost universally known”: Queen’s summer trip with KU Study Abroad, then “We Are the Champions.” returned for an immersive stay. e result, which reects Spooner’s own Before reporting for work as a study of Horowitz’s transcription tech- researcher in a bio-materials lab in Camp counsel nique and suggestions made by a critic Bangalore, eisen lived with the family Grad students explore careers who is an expert on the great pianist, is a soaring, virtuoso reimagining of the rock beyond academe at ‘boot camp’ anthem that Horowitz would appreciate.

“Rubinstein said, ‘If you’re a second PUPPE STEVE eaghan Kelly recalls her struggles to Rubinstein you’re a rst nothing,’” Spooner Mexplain her graduate studies in says of another lauded classical pianist, English to outsiders. “It was like watching Arthur Rubinstein. “Every pianist I people who were watching a horror dedicate this project to had their own movie—I could see them physically wince individual voice. So I wanted to do the longer I went on, but I didn’t know something individual and at the same time how to save the conversation,” she says. tip my hat to Horowitz.” Kelly attended a weeklong workshop at —Steven Hill KU’s Hall Center for the Humanities to learn how to translate her academic interests and explore potential careers. “e biggest takeaway from the program- New world view ming was that I already had the skills that nonprots were looking for; I just hadn’t Hindi study gives neurobiologist developed the language to articulate them fresh insights—and debate prize successfully as being useful to an organization,” Kelly says. “e way I was discussing resh o his April victory in the my higher education was unintelligible to Theisen Fprestigious Yale University Hindi people outside of my eld.” debate and his KU graduation, Danny of a KU friend. His hosts took him on the Henry Fortunato, Hall Center visiting eisen, c’17, chuckles as he reects on Vaishno Devi pilgrimage and introduced fellow, calls the weeklong sessions the how far he has come in his four years on him to their food and customs. Applied Humanities Boot Camp, which Mount Oread. “It was a life-changing experience. completed its third year May 15-19. “I’m a completely di erent person, and ere’s a lot of things I learned about my Funded through 2018 by the Hall Family one of the key things was getting involved own culture by going to a culture that’s Foundation, the initiative is the brainchild in Hindi,” says eisen, of Overland Park, completely di erent than mine.” of Fortunato, a former Simons public who graduated this May with a degree in At the April 14 Yale debate, which is humanities fellow at KU; Victor Bailey, neurobiology. “I was a very objective, in its 10th year, eisen competed in the director of the Hall Center and Charles W. scientic, one-track, hardcore atheist type “Non-Native, Non-Heritage” category Battey Distinguished Professor of Modern of kid freshman year. en I got involved against students from across the Ivy British History; and Sally Utech, associate in Hindi and saw there are world views League and other elite institutions. director of the Hall Center. drastically di erent from my own and His triumph was a thrill, eisen says, “e program is a response to the suddenly I soened. I’m not about this but his studies of Hindi language and national conversation about what to do awless objective reality. I’m willing to let Indian culture had already rewarded with a graduate degree in humanities,

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the value of a humanities degree in the public sphere and the nuts and bolts of

STEVE PUPPE STEVE running an arts or nonpro t organization. In the aernoons, students work in small groups to plan public celebrations of historical anniversaries. is year’s choices included: • the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 eses and the beginning of the Protestant Reformation • the 125th anniversary of the Treaty of Medicine Lodge • the 125th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth • the 50th anniversary of urgood Marshall’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court Humanities Boot Camp for graduate students included tours and discussions with senior sta Students must work within budgets and members at Kansas City nonproﬁts such as the American Jazz Museum at 18th and Vine. consider ways to stir public interest in learning about the original event and its impact. On the nal day of camp, students particularly a Ph.D.,” says Utech, g’05, became clear that we needed to do a better present 15-minute pitches to a panel of PhD’11. Full-time, tenure-track positions job of helping graduate students imagine judges, just as they might try to sway a are declining, and Bailey estimates that possibilities beyond the university. group of potential sponsors. Judges weigh fewer than half of Ph.D. students will nd Because of my background, I knew that each program’s likelihood of generating full-time teaching positions. public humanities organizations value participation and media exposure, then Conversely, most graduate students humanities degrees,” he says. oer their critiques. No one “wins,” but all intend to pursue tenured teaching e boot camp is part of the Hall camp participants receive $500 stipends. positions, at least when they begin their Center’s Applied Humanities Initiative, ree aernoons also include “speed studies. If they decide to look elsewhere, which won the 2016 Award for Excellence dating”—panels of professionals share they oen don’t know where to start. KU’s and Innovation in Graduate Education their work, then move from table to table, boot camp oers a guide. from the Midwestern Association of answering students’ questions. is year, Kelly, g’16, g’16, originally planned a Graduate Schools. In addition to the boot one panel included four freelancers who college-level teaching career. “But that’s camp, the initiative includes panel each gave their take on how to succeed as just not how you survive in the academic discussions led by directors and managers one’s own boss. Other panels focused on world. Publish or perish, right? I decided of arts and cultural organizations and arts, historical and cultural nonpro ts. to make sure I would be doing something other nonpro ts, with my life that was contributing to a along with six to 10 larger cause,” she says. “I needed to see the paid summer

practical implications of my work.” fellowships in such STOREY DAN Her boot camp experience led to her organizations. Each role in grants and development for e 10-week fellowship Rabbit hOle, a startup nonpro t in Kansas focuses on a speci c City committed to building an immersive project. museum to celebrate children’s literature. e camp oers 12 Fortunato, g’07, who previously graduate students in directed public aairs for the Kansas humanities or social City Public Library and led the creation sciences a week to of KUHistory.com for the KU Memorial immerse themselves Unions as a graduate student, says he oen in possibilities. For employed Hall Center interns at the four days, morning library. He thought there must be a way to sessions feature talks connect academia and the public sphere. by professionals on “In conversations with Victor and Sally, it subjects that include Bailey, Utech and Fortunato

66 | KANSAS ALUMNI Hearing from Mary McMurray, PhD’17, “e things he’s been teaching so many now director of learning and engagement of us for so many years get worked into the STEVE PUPPE STEVE for the Truman Library Institute, made all story,” Page says. “It’s not just science the di erence for Kelly. “She basically gave ction references; he works in classic us a how-to manual for speaking practi- literary references which are really cally and coherently about our experi- indicative of his career as an English ences in academia for people outside of professor. ere’s a high-literature aspect it,” Kelly says. “In fact, I reviewed the to Jim’s work that other science ction notes from her presentation when I went writers don’t necessarily incorporate.” on my rst non-academic job interview, Page was among the guests at KU’s to help me remember some of the Gunn Center for the Study of Science keywords and connections she made. I Fiction’s annual Campbell Conference and ended up landing that job!” Awards, which celebrated Gunn’s 80 years e h day of each camp features a in science ction in June. Reecting on the eld trip to Kansas City for tours of completed trilogy, Gunn noted his nonprot entities and discussions with satisfaction in seeing through his big idea. senior sta members. is year, students “It feels good,” he says. “I can sort of sit visited the American Jazz Museum, the Gunn back and relax because I’m sort of cleaning Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, KCPT up loose ends of other projects now.” public television and Nonprot Connect, Asha and Riley, heroes of the trilogy’s rst e result, remarkably, is a dozen books an association of nearly 500 nonprots two books, Transcendental (2014) and scheduled to publish over the next few that o ers networking opportunities. Transgalactic (2016), volunteer to nd the years, starting with his memoir, Star- Kelly says the experience helped her source of the invasion and stop it. Begotten, this fall; new Chinese transla- accomplish her goals as a graduate Gunn, j’47, g’51, who began writing tions of his illustrated history of science student. “I’m kind of astounded that I science ction in 1948, delights in sly ction, Alternate Worlds, and his six-vol- found a position within the humanities literary references. Transcendental ri ed on ume anthology e Road to Science eld, especially one that is so close to my Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Transga- Fiction; and his KU master’s thesis from heart,” she says. “I love that my work is to lactic borrowed its structure from the 1951, Modern Science Fiction, which Page make literature more present in the lives Odyssey. Transformation plays with the is editing and annotating. Even Transcen- of others.” classical myth of Jason and the Golden dental is getting new life: Gunn reworked —Jennifer Lawler Fleece, as the argonaut-like crew of the and expanded the personal tales each of Lawler, c’88, g’94, PhD’96, is a Lawrence spaceship Adastra encounters a succession the pilgrims tell during their long journey, freelance writer. of strange creatures while crossing space to and Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine is investigate the conquered worlds. e serializing the nine stories and an essay book also takes up ideas about articial starting this summer. intelligence that Gunn’s late friend Isaac “It’s rather odd that in my 93rd year Transformer Asimov explored in his robot novels. all this is happening,” says Gunn. “But “All these references are a kind of tribute I’m honored and humbled by the notion Gunn ends trilogy with classic to the fact that I’m writing in a tradition that people think it’s worth discussing tropes and tributes to a genre that has been built over the generations,” for a day.” he helped deﬁne Gunn says. “All of these other writers I —Steven Hill wanted to give credit to, very subtly perhaps, who have contributed not only to ransformation, the nal book in my own understanding and reading of Tscience ction Grand Master James science ction, but also the kind of Gunn’s Transcendental trilogy, entertains concepts they’ve contributed to the genre. a central theme of the genre: invasion by “I don’t know if people will pick up on it, Transformation an alien species. but it amuses me. It’s the way that I found by James Gunn e most distant planets in the Galactic interesting to sort of deal with my origins.” Federation, a sprawling association of Michael Page, who recently published Tor Books, $26.99 civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy, fall the rst full-length biography of Gunn, silent, gradually alerting the federation’s Saving e World rough Science Fiction, central bureaucracy that some malign says Gunn’s role as a teacher and scholar force is wiping out alien races one by one. stands out in his latest novel.

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Balloons and cheers ﬁlled Memorial Stadium May 14 as new graduates and their families and friends celebrated the University’s 145th Commencement. Nearly 5,000 Jayhawks participated in the traditional walk down the Hill to kick o the ceremony.

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