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VOLUME 112, NUMBER 2, WINTER 2020 CONSIDERATION EDITOR Laura Demanski, AM’94 SENIOR EDITOR Mary Ruth Yoe BY LAURA DEMANSKI, AM’94 ASSOCIATE EDITOR Susie Allen, AB’09 MANAGING EDITOR Rhonda L. Smith ART DIRECTOR Guido Mendez ALUMNI NEWS EDITOR Andrew Peart, AM’16, PHD’18 mong the highlights of this cinema-centric issue of the Maga- GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Laura Lorenz; Chloe Reibold zine is “Faculty Faves” (page 24), where we put four professors CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Jeanie Chung; on the spot to share their personal movie recommendations. I John Easton, AM’77; Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93; Lucas McGranahan; Brooke E. O’Neill, AM’04 enjoyed the results so much, I put the editors of the Magazine on that same spot. Editorial Office The University of Chicago Magazine, 5235 South Harper Court, Her favorite film(s), says senior editor Mary Ruth Yoe, are Chicago, IL 60615 documentaries. “I’ll never sing backup for rock stars but TELEPHONE 773.702.2163 I can rewatch 20 Feet from Stardom (2013). The late-life EMAIL [email protected] The University of Chicago Alumni Association documentaries by New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda—a favorite is Faces has its offices at 5235 South Harper Court, APlaces (2017)—show France through a lens both individual and uni- Chicago, IL 60615 TELEPHONE 773.702.2150 versal. I also love two documentaries from 1968: Frederick Wiseman’s ADDRESS CHANGES 800.955.0065 or High School puts me back in gym class and a baggy blue uniform, [email protected] WEB mag.uchicago.edu while Inquiring Nuns has UChicago roots. An early film by Kartemquin cofounders Gordon Quinn, AB’65, and Gerald Temaner, AB’57 (music by The University of Chicago Magazine Philip Glass, AB’56), it follows two 20-something nuns around Chicago, (ISSN-0041-9508) is published quarterly (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer) by the University including a stop outside the Hyde Park Co-op, as they ask strangers of Chicago in cooperation with the Alumni one question: ‘Are you happy?’” Association, 5235 South Harper Court, Chicago, IL 60615, and sent to all University of Associate editor Susie Allen, AB’09, casts her vote for Alexander Chicago alumni. Published continuously since Payne’s Election (1999). “Featuring a young Reese Witherspoon at her 1907. Periodicals postage paid at Chicago and Witherspooniest,” Susie enthuses, “the film gave us the (still debated, additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER Send address changes to The University of Chicago frequently misunderstood) character of Tracy Flick and the greatest Magazine, Alumni Records, 5235 South student council speech of all time. I have never hated Matthew Brod- Harper Court, Chicago, IL 60615. © 2019 University of Chicago erick more, but in a good way.” For alumni news editor Andrew Peart, AM’16, PhD’18, “the advantage Advertising Contact uchicago-magazine to having a favorite film that’s under 20 minutes is that you can easily @uchicago.edu or visit mag.uchicago.edu/ advertising. The Magazine is a member of the rewatch it.” His choice, he says, “still packs a wallop. The experimental Ivy League Magazine Network, whose clients film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) made a big impression on me at include other colleges and universities. These advertisements help the Magazine continue to a formative age. My local library had a Maya Deren compilation DVD, deliver news of the University of Chicago and and though I probably didn’t understand it then, her take on surrealism its alumni to readers. Please contact the editor with any questions. gave me a lasting appreciation for all things avant-garde.” IVY LEAGUE MAGAZINE NETWORK Rhonda L. Smith, the Magazine’s managing editor, declined to select Heather Wedlake, Director of Operations a title. Here’s why: “I love movies, but I don’t really have a favorite. I’m TELEPHONE 617.319.0995 WEB ivymags.com EMAIL [email protected] just as likely to go to a film noir double feature as to the latest Disney animation blockbuster. I don’t like all genres (I’ve never been to the The University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual theater for a single movie from the Star Wars franchise), but I’m usu- orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic ally game for an afternoon or evening at the movies—especially at the origin, age, status as an individual with a Music Box Theatre. I find there’s something magical about sitting in disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the dark watching the big screen with some Red Vines.” the law. For additional information, please see As for me? It’s hard to narrow the field, but one I keep going back equalopportunity.uchicago.edu. to—and can recite to you practically by heart—is Steven Soderbergh’s 1998 flick Out of Sight. I love that its pivotal scene casts Detroit, my much-maligned birthplace, in a romantic light, and the Elmore Leonard source material ensures that the dialogue snaps and crackles.

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Grab your popcorn MBA’87 Cleveland, M. Dwight courtesy Image Early cinemas attracted customers by depicting the moviegoing experience as a festival of entertainments. This circa 1910 French ad promised “illuminated moving pictures” of battleships, zeppelins, and more. It’s one of many treasures from the collection of Dwight M. Cleveland, MBA’87. For more, see “Poster Perfect,” page 44. On the cover: Doc Films attracted customers with these striking student-made posters. (Documentary Film Group, Records, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. Photography by Nathan Keay.)

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Features

Strawberry yields By Susie Allen, AB’09 30 The fruitful career of Herbert Baum, AM’51, PhD’06.

Inside out By Jeanie Chung and Mina Chung-Hawke 32 Postage stamps of North Korea afford a rare glimpse into a reclusive country.

Energy star By Laura Demanski, AM’94 As the leader of UChicago’s energy policy and economic research 34 institutes, Michael Greenstone, LAB’87, works to help the world confront the global energy challenge.

Family reunion By Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93 Haroula Rose, AB’02, MAT’02, put the work of Bonnie Jo Campbell, AB’84, 36 on the big screen. Last fall the two brought the film to Chicago.

Jazz as cri de coeur By Hannah Edgar, AB’18 The controversial 1959 film The Cry of Jazz could only have been made 42 in Hyde Park.

Poster perfect By Andrew Peart, AM’16, PhD’18 Dwight M. Cleveland, MBA’87, collects film posters with an eye for 44 high art. Image courtesy Dwight M. Cleveland, MBA’87 Cleveland, M. Dwight courtesy Image

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JOHN C. HEATON Faculty Codirector of Private Wealth More OI centennial refl ctions that when I was a student at the Uni- Management, Joseph L. Gidwitz In this year of centennial celebration versity from 1964 to 1968 I set foot only Professor of Finance (“The OI at 100,” Summer/19), it is an once in the OI, and that was to visit the honor to have had a hand in sprucing gift shop! Reading the article about the up some of the leaded glass windows OI in the Summer issue of the Maga- of the west facade of the building zine and the subsequent letters to the that houses the stunning collection, editor in the Fall issue, I rather wish I as well as administrative offices and had spent more time there. classrooms, at the Oriental Institute. However, when I read Mertz’s biog- In 2017 my stained glass studio was raphy and then her obituary on the in- chosen to help “set the standard for ternet, I was delighted to find out that window restoration on campus” as part she took full advantage of the OI. She of select masonry restoration on that was born Barbara Gross in Canton, Il- wall of the building. Being able to retain linois, and, according to her New York the original glass in these windows not Times obituary, became “fascinated by ry Schools and Northwestern University only helped maintain the beauty of the ancient Egypt when an aunt took her to Law School (although, after attending structure but was also consistent with the Oriental Institute of the University Lab since nursery school, I was trans- the approach to conservation embodied of Chicago when she was 13.” She re- ferred in my sophomore year to Hyde in the collection and in the goals of ceived her bachelor’s degree in Egyp- Park High School by my mother, daugh- the institute itself. Thank you for the tology from the University in 1947 and ter of Charles P. Schwartz, AB 1908, JD opportunity, and happy 100, OI! her doctorate in 1952. Her obituary says 1909). Stevens was recommended to Emily Carlson, AB’88 that she was unable to find work in aca- President Gerald Ford, who nominated CHICAGO demia because of sexism. She wrote on him, by Edward Levi, LAB’28, PhB’32, her website, “I recall overhearing one JD’35, known to me as the father of an- of my professors say to another: ‘At least other boy in my class at Lab. I was an undergraduate interested in we don’t have to worry about finding a You were so right to print remarks GAIN THE FRAMEWORKS TO PRIVATE WEALTH pursuing my love of drawing but un- job for her. She’ll get married.’” commending his independence. For able to manage an art course in my Well, she did get married, then this he was praised by both Chief Jus- PROTECT AND GROW YOUR WEALTH MANAGEMENT schedule. So, on many a Saturday or divorced, and never did work in aca- tice John Roberts and Justice Elena Exclusively for High-Net-Worth Sunday afternoon, I’d park myself demia, but instead wrote many best- Kagan. 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Photo courtesy National Museum of the United States Air Force - - - 2/5/20 3:14 PM2/5/20 3:14 PM ce ce ec ffi fl Up the Downthe Up e arrangedfore ffic , Fall/19). I wish, however, wish,however, I Fall/19). , Case history Case HOLLAND, MICHIGAN HOLLAND, . . Svetlana did not really un- Inquiry rst American winner of a Nobel fi At that time, the class was reading Consequently, the o the Consequently, At the time, inMichelson 1887, was HenryA. Ploegstra, AM’62, PhD’66 down to me or to the Intourist o theoriginalfollow to me itinerary, but travelingalone. After the initial shock and panic, I found this arrangement to be greatly to my advantage. For one thing, I got to know my local tour guides much more intimately than if I had been a member of a theseguides,Svetlana of One group. by name, was studying English lan - guageand literature. novel Kaufman’s1964Bel Staircase derstand the meaning of the title. She also said that she could not imagine what the English text was since the Russian translation was full of slang andlow-class idioms as, course, of the original told I is.Englishappropriately the of copy a her sendthat would her I English version—which I did. I do not know whether the book ever reached again. her fromheard never I since her, I was hoping to get her reaction and able never wasdisappointedwas thatI so. do to in Moscow. tion,” that Maclean had noted that the work that won the prize for Michelson, the Michelson-Morley experiment, was done in Cleveland, before UChicago wasborn. on the faculty of the Case School of Applied Science (later the Case In- stitute of Technology), and Edward Morley was a chemistry professor at Western Reserve University, where he remained until his retirement in 1906. (Case and Western Reserve combined in 1967 to become the awk wardly named Case Western Reserve University. An on-campus restaurant isMichelson and Morley.) PrizeAngle in science(“The Re of I enjoyed rereading Norman Ma 1975 articleclean’s (PhD’40) on Albert Abraham Michelson, the founder of UChicago’s physics department and the - - cially ffi ’s story, Magazine rst trip to the then Soviet fi Cultural exchange Cultural Uncommon landscape Uncommon Lawrence E. Cohen, AM’78 Cohen, E. Lawrence SCHWENKSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA SCHWENKSVILLE, While stationed in 2003 with In “Parks and Restoration,” Alex Incredibly, similar travertine- I made my Union Union in 1967 after a summer at Yale studying Russian (“To Russia with Love,” UChicago Journal, Fall/19). Because it was late in the season, my trip with Intourist had been o canceled without the news filtering The The establishment of Afghanistan’s first national park at Band-e-Amir and Afghan efforts to Afghanistan’s conserve threatened wildlife are indeed heartening, although unfinished, accomplishments (“Parks andRestoration,” Fall/19). the New Zealand–led Provincial Reconstruction Team in the town of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, I had the privilege of visiting Band-e-Amir. The region is extraordinarily stark and, as described in the isolated, even by Afghan standards. Bamiyan,From nearesttheairstrip and site of the Buddha statuary destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001, the80-kilometer trip westward to Band- e-Amir takes at least three hours on deeply rutted roads and challenges bothdriving skills and axles. Dehgan, SM’03, PhD’03, describes the Wildlife Conservation Society’s noteworthy species protection activities at Band-e-Amir. However, Band-e-Amir is perhaps most notable for its unique geology, especially its six seaabove meters3,000 at Locatedlakes. precipitationfromresultlakesthe level, over a long period of time of carbonate minerals into natural dams. Called tufa, also known as travertine, these limestone dams reach as high as 10 meters. Similar travertine formations are often found in caves although not grandsucha on scale. like structures appear to have been photographed by the Mars Recon naissance Orbiter. I leave it to the University’sastrophysicists geoland ogists to better describe and explain suchdiscoveries. WINTER 2020 WINTER | ------. shocked The Making John Hertz John LOS ANGELES LOS War reporters War LETTERS The Making of a JusticeMakinga Theof NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW NASHUA, THEUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE Please pass on to him that I hope in The The only time for momentsare there ever, as Today, Justice KaganJusticemodel also called a him AndrewTempelman,D. AM’66, PhD’72 8 8 Big thanks Big DavidChrisinger,to AM’10, airmenHarold on piece excellent his for Erwinand R. 1914, SB 1914, Goettler,AS Bleckley in the Argonne slaughter (“A Final Soldier’s Mission,” Fall/19). his book on Ernie Pyle he doesn’t fail to include Ernest Hemingway’s photo graph with Pyle as “old Ernie Hemor the rhoid, poorman’sPyle.” dissent, even strongdissent,thatdissent.evenWhen is necessary, let us keep in mind this Roberts,Justice Chiefboth man, whom conservative,Kagan,a Justiceliband a me was a manifest The set-up. title it hisentire cover can it how joke; a isself years1920–1975? the merely not andlife But he was famous for saying learning essentialwasjudging job theto (e.g., on his2006 article “Learning the on Job,” based2005a speech). on collegialityof another (which my of law school professors always deliberately pronounced “colleague-iality”). That showsin eral, also praised for kindness and hu mility. were You so right to close with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who in truth exhorted us all by saying, “Jus ticeStevens quick… as his mind… was, remainedgentle… and modest.” R. P. I. UCH_Letters_v5.indd 8UCH_Letters_v5.indd 8 New York Times Bestseller What It Takes From the Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Blackstone

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UCH_Letters_v5.indd 9 2/5/20 3:14 PM 200125_Blackstone_Chicago_new_1.6.20.indd 1 1/6/20 12:07 PM LETTERS The following spring, I found myself in in Deaths (Summer/19) was Victor Ira Mary Jean Mulvaney’s swimming class Carlson, AB’55, AM’59. We are grateful Seeking leaders who in the basement of Ida Noyes (Deaths, to Victor Ivan Carlson for alerting us to Fall/19). I knew she was the chair of the the error.—Ed. And was anyone else with a UChicago Women’s Physical Education Division, want to change the world. connection ever depicted in an episode and I was amazed that she was the one of Bonanza? to teach us non-swimmers. Although A warning note Erik M. Jensen, AM’72 she seemed ancient to me then, she was The mind of man has created, and with CLEVELAND, OHIO all of 44 years old. conventional technology has construct- Miss Mulvaney taught us to swim by ed, a synthetic parasite (“Instrumental,” Jensen refers to the 1962 Bonanza walking up and down the length of the Inquiry, Fall/19). Fortunately, it cannot episode “Look to the Stars,” in which pool, demonstrating the strokes in the reproduce. Will that be the next step in Douglas Lambert portrayed a 16-year- air as she paced. She wore a terry cloth this creative endeavor? old Michelson. We aren’t aware of any shift over a swimsuit, and her hair was This mind has also developed a other UChicagoans represented in the always styled in a bouffant with every technique to control the actions that television show, but would be delighted hair in place. people will perform against their will to be corrected on this point.—Ed. She was patient and encouraging, via electromechanical means. This ap- never gave up on our sputtering attempts, proach appears to be a follow-on to the and never let us give up on ourselves. I greatly deplored technique of brain- Survey says no learned to swim at age 19 solely due to her. washing used by some hostile military In “Survey Says” (Fall/19), you have a The only time I saw her ruffled regimes. However, it can be deployed graphic titled, “Are men better suited was one day when a classmate was in more rapidly than brainwashing. In for politics than women?” The graph water over her head, and was going my limited imagination, I cannot see then shows “Agree,” “Disagree,” and down. Miss Mulvaney didn’t hesitate how these developments could be em- “Not sure.” Those answers are about to jump into the water and rescue my ployed for the public good but only for as appropriate to the question in the poor classmate. Her bouffant hairstyle evil purposes. title as the answers “Yes” and “No” didn’t fare so well. Sydney K. Brownstein, PhD’55 are to the survey question, “What Linda S. Trytek, EX’74, AM’79 OTTAWA, ONTARIO Kate Coleman should cost less: a gallon of gas or a DEERFIELD, ILLINOIS gallon of milk?” MBA, UChicago Harold M. Buck, AB’88 NEW HOPE, MINNESOTA Greatly exaggerated I, too, was saddened to learn of my ALI, Harvard Does the reader raise an excellent point death in Hosea Martin’s (AB’60) lovely about our non-ideal wording? Agree. Or letter recalling our times running rather, yes.—Ed. together for the U of C (Fall/19). Fortunately for me, the Victor I. Carlson who passed away was another person Remembering Mulvaney (Deaths, Summer/19).

In 1970 I was one of “those” college In the late 1950s, the U of C track UChicago Photographic Archive,University apf1-00642, of Chicago Library freshmen who had not passed the re- team had a special sense of comradeship quired swimming test. In fact, I had under the coaching of Ted Haydon, not even bothered to attempt to take LAB’29, PhB’33, AM’54, whose social the test, knowing I would certainly fail. work skills were effectively put to use I couldn’t swim and was truly annoyed in bringing out the best in his athletes. Football past that this was a requirement to graduate. Everyone who ran track, no matter their Entering UChicago in 1963, I became level of skill, was made welcome. Natural aware of its tortured football history The Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative aims to deploy a new force of experienced leaders such as Hosea contributed to when a club was formed to play the first Miss Mulvaney this special sense of belonging. It will game since the sport was abolished on leaders tackling the world’s most challenging social and environmental problems. always remain an important and valued the quads in 1939 (College Review, No- didn’t hesitate to part of my life. vember 2019). Some of my classmates Learn more at advancedleadership.harvard.edu or 617-496-5479. jump into the water Victor Ivan Carlson, AB’59 weren’t thrilled, storming the field be- VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA fore, not after, the game, to prevent its and rescue my poor return. And, for one game at least, they classmate. Her We apologize for not catching the case of prevailed. It was hard to compare that mistaken identity in Martin’s letter. The sad resurrection with the early glory of bouffant hairstyle Victor I. Carlson who died November UChicago football: founding member didn’t fare so well. 25, 2018, and whose obituary appeared of the Big Ten in 1896; winner of seven

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Big Ten titles between 1899 and 1924 and the 1905 and 1913 national championships; and, most startling, home of the first Heisman Trophy recipient, “one-man football team” Jay Ber- wanger, AB’36, in 1935. Early in 1936 the floundering NFL instituted the college draft to spread college talent to the weak teams struggling to survive. Even tight-fisted Chicago Bears owner and head coach George Halas, who could outbid for the best talent, agreed the draft was needed for NFL survival. No surprise that Philadelphia Eagles owner Bert Bell used his worst- record first pick to draft Berwanger. But unlike today, sign-

And that first Heisman? Berwanger never gave it much thought, handing it off to his Aunt Gussie, who used it as a doorstop.

ing with the NFL in 1936, when most players received about $150 a game, was a fool’s bet. When Berwanger asked for $1,000, Bell refused, trading his negotiating rights to Halas, who lusted to make local hero Berwanger a Bear. But after waiting out a year, Berwanger upped his price to $25,000 for two years with a no-cut clause. Halas punted, leaving Berwanger to embark on a lucrative career manufacturing plastic car parts. Berwanger was not alone in passing on a shaky future with the dirt-poor upstart professional league. Fifty- six others in that first draft of 81 college stars took Ber- wanger’s path and stiff-armed unlikely future NFL wealth and glory. And that first Heisman? Berwanger never gave it

much thought, handing it off to his Aunt Gussie, who used AB’16 Mendez, Aguilar Ioanna by Photography it as a doorstop. At my UChicago reunion No. 53 in June, if still ambulato- ry, I’ll amble over to the University’s Athletics Hall of Fame to gander at the trophy (since saved from doorstop duty) that started the annual Heisman hoopla and signaled the last glorious gasp of the original Monsters of the Midway. Walt Zlotow, AB’67 GLEN ELLYN, ILLINOIS

For a photo essay on University of Chicago football through the decades, see “Six Score of UChicago Football” at mag .uchicago.edu/footballhistory.—Ed.

Paris mystery I always read with great interest the Magazine but perhaps even more keenly those times when I also receive my copy of the College magazine, the Core. [The Core is available on- line at mag.uchicago.edu/thecore.—Ed.] In the Summer/19

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UCH_Letters_v5.indd 12 2/5/20 3:15 PM Paris had to go through their auspices. Having said all that, I encourage the There was no centralized campus life assistance of anyone with knowledge back then, there were no University of of my classmate and fellow Chicago Chicago faculty involved, and there Parisian to come forward and help me were “0” arrangements for housing. put this decades-old mystery to bed. I So this should have read one program spent my fourth year abroad instead offered in ’83–84. And given the fact of the typical third year. And though that it behooved us all to find housing I processed in ’85 despite being Class on our own, we could have used an am- of ’84—and yes, I stomped gleefully on bassador that first year! that giant crest in Reynolds Club, but As for the “2” undergrads suppos- that’s an entirely different story—I am edly studying abroad in ’83–84, I be- speculating that Sandy must have been lieve that should be “3.” The first time part of the Class of ’85. So let’s put this that we were all assembled together in nagging postlude to my time in Paris to issue of that publication, I read avidly Paris was on the premises of Reid Hall an end and come forward and give me yet another feature regarding UChi- to determine academic readiness for that missing piece so long sought after. cago life beyond our shores: “Ask an the year ahead. It was there that I first Par consequent, où te trouves-tu cher Ambassador.” met Karen Ott, AB’85, a woman who Sandy? Perhaps the best part of this article subsequently became a close friend, Phillip M. Semrau, AB’85, AM’85 was on the last page where the author as well as another UChicago student WALNUT CREEK, CALIFORNIA included various pertinent stats in a who we only really knew as Sandy. No sidebar. And so I write to you to high- one was able to get his last name, only The Study Abroad office confirms that light a few discrepancies that give a that he was interested in political sci- there were two programs in 1983–84, somewhat skewed view of just how far ence, and so one assumed he was go- both run in conjunction with other we have come with study abroad pro- ing to study at les Sciences-Po uniquely schools: Sarah Lawrence’s Academic grams. Having been at the vanguard of while there. Year in Paris and Brown University’s this, I would like to address these er- “Sandy” would remain a shadow program at the University of Bologna. rors at this time. figure during my time in Paris. To add In a 1984 Chicago Maroon story, hu- Both mistakes occurred with stats to Sandy’s mystique, he participated manities professor Herman Sinaiko, that should have jumped out to the in “0” Sarah Lawrence College excur- AB’47, PhB’61, who was dean of students reader. Just two stats were single-digit: sions with us. During such times, we at the time, called these programs “new, “2” programs offered in ’83–84 and “2” visited le château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, experimental pilots.” undergrads studying abroad in that la cathédrale à Chartres, Mont-Saint- Semrau is correct that three students year. First, only the Paris abroad pro- Michel, the beaches at Normandy, and participated in the Paris program. The gram existed in ’83–84, and perhaps other places throughout the region in same number studied in Bologna, for a this was technically “0” programs, addition to les châteaux de la Loire. total of six. We regret the error and join given that Paris existed as a cobbled Let me reemphasize that there were Semrau in welcoming any light other arrangement with Sarah Lawrence “0” sightings of Sandy throughout this Maroons can shed on the identity of

Photography by Ioanna Aguilar Mendez, AB’16 Mendez, Aguilar Ioanna by Photography College, and any access to schools in time as well. Sandy.—Ed.

My favorite memory of a Doc projectionist’s dedication was the night Abby got her long red hair caught in the take-up reel (“Booth School,” UChicago Journal, Sept–Oct/11). To prevent either losing a hunk of hair or stopping the FROM movie, she sat through that reel carefully following the reel round and round with her head. This would have been about 1970—those 16mm years.

THE PAST Jim Jubak, AB’72

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UCH_Letters_v5.indd 13 2/5/20 3:15 PM Five years ago we launched The University of Chicago Campaign: Inquiry and Impact with a bold question:

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e launched the Universi- pectations for them or their families. ty of Chicago Campaign: We have also received many gifts that Inquiry and Impact— have dramatically increased our ca- the most ambitious and pacity to offer financial aid to interna- comprehensive cam- tional College students. Professional paign in University his- student scholarships and significantly tory—with the goal of expanded funding for doctoral stu- engaging our full com- dents have supported the University’s munity in support of effort to bring the highest caliber of the University’s aspirations, built upon students to campus independent of Wthe foundation of our distinctive and background and need, and to support enduring values. their work. About $800 million was Thanks to the dedication of that raised to support these enhancements community, I am pleased to announce to financial support for our students. that the campaign exceeded our am- The campaign has also enabled us bitious goals and helped lay a strong law, business, policy, education, and to dramatically expand careers pro- foundation for the University’s future. study of and impact on urban environ- grams that allow the University to Through the end of 2019, the campaign ments; or through analyzing cultures provide a broad array of experiences raised $5.43 billion, surpassing both and the creation of meaning through and opportunities that help students our original target of $4.5 billion and the humanities, arts, and the academic connect their distinctive University of our expanded $5 billion goal. study of religion. Importantly, facul- Chicago education to their future life. The University also announced a ty are also pursuing understanding Likewise, support for facilities public goal to engage 125,000 of our across these traditional boundaries. and activities of global engagement, alumni by 2019. During the campaign At the same time, working together particularly through our centers and over 134,000—more than 70 percent— with students, they provide a trans- campuses in Beijing, Hong Kong, Del- of our 182,000 alumni engaged with formative education, one that devel- hi, Paris, and London and in programs the University. ops in students the intellectual skills across the world; for our commitment Today and throughout its history, and habits of mind to enable them to to the city of Chicago and the South the University of Chicago has ben- confront complex problems across the Side; and for the enhancement of the efited from committed volunteers range of human endeavor. University as an intellectual destina- and generous philanthropic support- Critical to this campaign has been tion has been critical as a foundation ers. Their investments in research, a focus on expanded financial support for the University’s expanding reach in education, and impact reflect a shared for students. The basis for this focus education, research, and impact. commitment to the University and its was a deep commitment to making There is of course much more to do enduring values of intellectual chal- the University’s education available to in the future. But the results of this lenge, diversity of background and per- those who could most benefit from and campaign make evident the enthusi- spectives, and freedom of expression. contribute to our singularly rigorous astic support of the University of Chi- I want to express my deep apprecia- intellectual environment independent cago community. I am deeply grateful tion to our faculty, students, alumni, of their family’s financial situation. for your generosity and commitment. parents, friends, staff, and trustees. Central to this effort was the Universi- Your collective investment in the Uni- Your investment supports scholars ty’s flagship Odyssey Program, which versity lays the foundation for sup- who challenge assumptions, continu- started with an anonymous gift and porting our highest aspirations now ally push boundaries, define new fields which we were able to systematically and in the coming decades—in trans- of study, and have profound impact— increase in scope thanks to sustained formative discoveries and approaches, whether in understanding the natural philanthropy for its goals. Because of a deeply empowering education, and world through science, engineering, this cascade of gifts, we are now able impact on enriching human life—in and medicine; our social structures to meet domestic College students’ Chicago, across the nation, and around

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WEEKEND June 4–7, 2020 June 4–7, Register now: alumni.uchicago.edu/2020 now: Register Find yourself at Alumni Weekend at Find yourself FRIENDS, FAMILY, FACULTY, MAROONS OF ALL AGES: UCHICAGO’S ANNUAL CAMPUS-WIDE CAMPUS-WIDE ANNUAL UCHICAGO’S MAROONS OF ALL AGES: FACULTY, FAMILY, FRIENDS, CELEBRATION FEATURES MORE THAN 100 EVENTS, INCLUDING REUNIONS FOR COLLEGE AND AND COLLEGE REUNIONS FOR INCLUDING MORE THAN 100 EVENTS, FEATURES CELEBRATION ALUMNI ALUMNI UCHICAGO LAB ALUMNI AND SPECIAL EVENTS FOR ALUMNI OF SSA AND THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES DIVISION. AND THE PHYSICAL OF SSA ALUMNI FOR AND SPECIAL EVENTS LAB ALUMNI This behind-the-scenes shot of Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) is one of several seldom-seen images included in film historian Stephen Tapert’s (AM’02) book Best Actress.

FILM honor “have changed a lot in regard Ample room for progress remains. to visibility, inclusivity, modes of To date, only one African American self-expression, self-empowerment, woman has won Best Actress (Halle As good democracy, diversity, the list goes Berry for the 2001 film Monster’s Ball), on and on,” says Tapert, AM’02, who and the number of nonwhite women teaches film studies at the New York who have received nominations is as it gets Film Academy’s Los Angeles campus. appallingly low—writer Roxane Gay Tapert’s new book, Best Actress: notes in the foreword that the book’s

A new book celebrates the lives The History of Oscar-Winning Women publication is “also a valuable oppor- Corporation/Photofest Film Fox Century Twentieth and legacies of Best Actress (Rutgers University Press, 2019), re- tunity to consider who has been left Oscar winners. counts—in “textured and timeless” out of the conversation, to consider profiles, according to the New York the best of the women who have been BY SUSIE ALLEN, AB’09 Times—the lives and accomplishments overlooked on and off the screen.” of the Best Actress honorees from 1929 Tapert’s interest in the Best Actress As a barometer of social progress, the to 2018. In their stories he sees an echo Oscar goes back to his years at the Acad- Academy Awards are iffy at best. But of women’s history and advancement emy of Motion Picture Arts and Sci- there is one Oscars category that, in over the past century. To a person, the ences. (That’s the academy, of “I’d like film historian Stephen Tapert’s view, winners experienced Hollywood’s to thank the academy” fame.) He start- “come[s] closest to capturing the omnipresent sexism; many worked ed out working at the organization’s cultural zeitgeist”: Best Actress. As diligently to dismantle that and other library, then became a researcher for

a group, the winners of that coveted forms of discrimination. its museum, set to open later this year. Imagecourtesy Rutgers University Press

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UCJ Winter 2020 V22.indd 18 2/5/20 1:54 PM In the course of that work, Tapert Tapert spent several years assem- was struck by the enduring influ- bling the narratives and photographs ence of the Best Actress winners. A that make up Best Actress. He took few have faded from memory (Marie special care in finding images; since Dressler, Norma Shearer), but many the women in the book are among the remain household names (Audrey most photographed in the world, he Hepburn, Meryl Streep). They have wanted to identify shots that were gone on to become activists, philan- “special, unusual, and unexpected.” thropists, entrepreneurs, and in one His finds include a rare color image case, a princess (Grace Kelly). of Susan Hayward on the set of I Want Some took up social issues directly to Live! (1958) and an off-camera shot in their work, others in their off- of Maggie Smith in a scene from The screen lives. Jodie Foster’s perfor- Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969). mance in The Accused (1988) is widely The book also features more famil- credited with sparking public dis- iar Oscar images and stories, such as Attending the Oscars as an academy cussion of sexual assault and victim Sally Field delivering her often paro- employee was “incredible”—even from blaming; Jane Fonda, who won for died speech for Places in the Heart the nosebleed seats, says Tapert. “It Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978), (1984), and Mildred Pierce (1945) star was definitely a perk of working there.” has used her public platform to ad- Joan Crawford posing with her statu- He witnessed stars including Helen vance causes including Native Ameri- ette while sick in bed with pneumo- Mirren, Kate Winslet, and Sandra Bullock can rights and environmentalism. nia. Or so she said. To this day no one receiving their Best Actress statuettes. Still others made their mark simply knows whether she was really ill or by persevering in an industry that has not, but the stunt, Tapert says, “cer- often treated women as disposable. tainly got her what she wanted, which In the 1940s, Olivia de Havilland— was all the attention in the papers the Still, these commercial consider- like Fonda, a two-time winner, for To next morning.” ations and the forever-expanding red Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress Efforts to control the public narra- carpet spectacle haven’t erased the (1949)—refused to accept the ane- tive are a theme in Best Actress. The magic of the Oscars for Tapert. As an mic ingénue roles on offer at Warner first “for your consideration” ad—a academy employee, he got to attend Brothers, kicking off a contract dis- type of promotion aimed at encour- the ceremony and watched in person pute and lawsuit that she ultimately aging voting members of the acad- as eight of the Best Actress winners won. The so-called de Havilland De- emy to support a particular film or received their awards. One year in cision prohibited studios from keep- performance—dates back to 1948. particular stands out in his memory. ing actors under contract for more Contemporary Oscar campaigns rou- In 2009 the award was presented not than seven years—a change that many tinely cost millions and send actors on by the previous year’s Best Actor, as scholars argue reshaped Hollywood monthslong press tours, sometimes was customary, but by five former and contributed to the dismantling of launching rumors that awards have Best Actresses, who welcomed a new the studio system. been bought and paid for by studios. icon into the fold. ◆

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MUSIC now. “ ‘Why would you possibly want “Trad music,” as the old-fashioned to be Irish?’ ” jigs and reels of the Celtic territories The exchange set off a lifetime of are colloquially known, has long been thought about Irish identity—who a powerful patriotic symbol of Irish Reel culture claims it, who wants it, and why. The pride, in Ireland, abroad, and particu- beginner piano student, growing up larly in Chicago. In 2015 the Art Insti- An ethnomusicologist finds in a center of traditional Irish mu- tute of Chicago chose to accompany its multiple meanings in Irish sic, quickly found herself refracting Irish-art retrospective, Ireland: Cross- “trad music,” in Chicago these questions through a musical roads of Art and Design, 1690–1840, and globally. lens. Three decades and three de- with a musical album, a CD of tradi- grees later, she’s still asking them, as tional jigs, laments, and reels. BY SARAH CAHALAN an ethnomusicologist. With its green-dyed St. Patrick’s As a lecturer at the University of Day river and its famous mayors Dal- Aileen Dillane was nine years old when Limerick and in her doctoral stud- ey, Chicago has a unique relationship she met her first Irish American. ies at UChicago, Dillane, PhD’09, with its Irish population. The percent- A tour bus had pulled into a café in has examined Irish music’s perfor- age of Irish Americans in Chicago isn’t Templeglantine, County Limerick, her mance and consumption both in as large as in some US cities, but their Photography by Gavin Clarke (CC2.0) BY-NC Clarke by Gavin Photography western Ireland hometown. As she Ireland and abroad. In the diaspora presence looms large. “Unlike their walked by, young Aileen watched a vi- and at home, she says, major change counterparts in New York, Philadel- sion descend the bus’s steps. A tall gen- is underway. phia, and Boston,” according to the tleman in green chinos and a cable-knit As immigrants have streamed into Encyclopedia of Chicago (University of sweater surveyed his surroundings, Ireland from Africa and Eastern Eu- Chicago Press, 2004), “Chicago’s Irish spotted her, and leaned down to chat. rope, and as Irish emigrants have grew up with their city and exerted in- “Are you Irish?” he asked. Aileen told relocated across the globe, there is fluence out of proportion to their num- him she was, and he gave her a friendly increasingly “no one Irishness,” she bers.” Dillane’s current book project pat on the back. “I’m Irish too!” says—but the country’s traditional mu- sets out to explore that influence, with “And I remember thinking, ‘You sic has remained a vital soundtrack to one chapter covering Francis O’Neill,

are this exotic creature,’ ” she says multiple definitions of the term. the city’s Irish American police chief Committee Memorial O’Neill Francis Captain courtesy Photo

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UCJ Winter 2020 V22.indd 20 2/5/20 1:54 PM W. R. HARPER’S INDEX at the turn of the 20th century. O’Neill and in Chicago. (Considering her compiled an anthology of 1,800 Irish work on everything from police chief tunes in his time off from the force. That O’Neill’s anthologizing to the global BUILDING 1903 collection, Music of Ireland (Lyon influence of pop star Sinead O’Connor, and Healy), is thought to be the most the book will hardly be the first time KNOWLEDGE significant in the history of Irish music. that Dillane has trained her attention Dillane’s book, “Displacing Nostal- on the United States.) And though reels Age of the oldest University gia: Irish-American Musical Imagi- being used as a soundtrack to racism is building, Cobb Hall naries,” has been in progress for troubling, the development represents several years. She expects it to appear one more iteration of ethnomusicol- in late 2021—a delay she finds fortu- ogy’s universal truth: music changes 128 itous, given the changing political cli- with the contexts of its listeners. mate in the United States since 2016. Dillane performs in Irish music Cobbs associated with “My view on the place of Irish music groups when she’s not in the class- Cobb Hall (architect and in race relations has changed a lot,” she room, and she’s seen firsthand the dif- namesake) says. The book explores the ways in ferent impacts of her country’s music which ethnic music has played a posi- in different spaces. A well-known tune tive role for Chicago’s Irish diaspora, like “Danny Boy,” for instance, might 2 but it also reveals a dark side—one she draw jeers from an Irishman in Ire- believes has always been there, but land but tears from the same person Campus buildings by that she fears is gaining ground. Amid on a visit to Australia. The genre can Henry Ives Cobb a rise of white nationalism in the Unit- be many things to many people—so if ed States and abroad, certain factions you’re an Aran-sweatered tourist look- conflate “Irish pride” with “white ing to hear a reel in a Limerick pub, 18 pride,” she says, leaving Irish arts vul- your Irishness is still valid, even if a nerable to manipulation by those who local wee’un finds it strange. Rooms on the historic would use them for exclusionary ends. “People should be allowed to ask for main quadrangle What Irish music means to those who and enjoy what they want, as long as love it has always been a guiding ques- they don’t force it upon other people,” tion for Dillane. Answering it requires Dillane says. “Wouldn’t it be great if 5,246 examination of the Irish in America, we lived in a world like that?” ◆ Buildings on campus with LEED certifi ation 17 New buildings added to the Hyde Park campus since 2010 19 Campus buildings that are Photography by Gavin Clarke (CC2.0) BY-NC Clarke by Gavin Photography UNESCO World Heritage sites (Robie House) 1 Tallest campus structure in feet (Rockefeller Chapel tower)

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UCJ Winter 2020 V22.indd 21 2/5/20 1:54 PM “The real job of a scientist is to come up with a way to solve a problem that nobody else knows how to solve,” says Giulia Galli, Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering.

MOLECULAR ENGINEERING “Problems like water and energy are For example, her group can use the- much more complicated than what I ory to predict which of several mate- was trained for in condensed matter rials will make a cheaper solar cell or physics,” says Galli, a theorist who uses to suggest a new configuration for a Big questions, computational models to figure out the quantum bit made from electron spins. behavior of molecules and materials. “Energy and water are incredibly im- tiny scale “All of my work is driven by problems.” portant problems—even a small im- The focus of Galli’s research is to provement from your science can have Giulia Galli uses computer predict molecular behavior and un- a huge impact,” she says. models to predict the behavior derstand how to harness it to improve Galli, who also heads the Midwest of molecules and materials. technology—particularly in the areas Integrated Center for Computational of purifying water, speeding up com- Materials, has earned international BY LOUISE LERNER, AB’09 putation and sensing with quantum recognition for her work. She recently technology, and perfecting renewable received the Feynman Theory Prize,

There are few scientists who would energy technology. an annual honor highlighting extraor- Photography by Jean Lachat describe condensed matter physics— “Essentially, we predict how atoms dinary work in harnessing quantum a branch of physics that studies the arrange themselves,” says Galli. “We mechanics for the public interest. It behavior of solids—as “simple.” But to do this by developing theoretical al- was her fourth major award this year. Giulia Galli, Liew Family Professor of gorithms and powerful codes and “It is not difficult to understand Molecular Engineering, it’s less com- simulations in order to understand why Giulia has been recognized as a plex than what she now works on at the the quantum mechanics at play in a scientific leader by a diverse set of sci- University of Chicago. given material.” entific organizations,” says Matthew

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The simulations may take months, depending on the problem; in fact, Gal- MATERIALS li’s group is constantly running simulations on as many machines as they can: “We probably have 15 projects running Film right now,” she says. Since joining Pritzker Molecular En- gineering from the University of Cali- studies fornia, Davis, in 2014, she’s been able Electronics have to work much more closely with sci- gotten smaller entists on the experimental side, cre- in part because ating a loop where their experiments scientists found explore and validate her theoretical ways to squeeze predictions, and her insights suggest circuitry onto ultrathin new avenues for experimentation. layers of inorganic One frequent collaborator is David materials. Now a team Awschalom, Liew Family Professor of of scientists have Molecular Engineering and director of developed a method the Chicago Quantum Exchange. Last of growing equally year the pair devised a new way of con- tiny layers of organic necting quantum states of matter using (that is, carbon sound waves. Galli’s team developed a containing) materials. computer model that helped Awscha- The atoms-thick films lom’s team better understand what they have a variety of were observing in their experiments. possible applications, Recently she’s become interested including use in in addressing a problem in science novel fabrics, water known as the data reproducibility filters, or sensors. The crisis. All good experiments and cal- researchers, including culations have to be able to produce chemist Jiwoong consistent results, no matter who’s do- Park of Argonne ing the experiment or carrying out the and the Pritzker simulation—but as simulations grow School of Molecular Tirrell, the Robert A. Millikan Distin- more complex and the amount of data Engineering, guished Service Professor and dean of skyrockets, it becomes harder for oth- published their fin ings in Science the Pritzker School of Molecular En- er scientists to check their peers’ work. December 13. Creating gineering. “She wields powerful and Galli began providing links for in- the films involved versatile computational tools that she terested parties to download the data injecting ingredients has deployed to learn about many im- and codes from her work, but that was in the space between only a local solution. To address the portant scientific matters.” two liquids that don’t Quantum mechanics describes the problem on a larger scale, she created mix—think of the line rules of atomic behavior at incredibly an open-source tool called Qresp that that forms between tiny scales—a world full of the unex- provides a framework for researchers oil and water. Then pected, which Galli seeks to explain to share their data and workflows, so the researchers using computer codes. But the chal- that others can see how the results were evaporated or lenge of modeling the interactions be- reached—and try to poke holes in them. drained the liquids, tween hundreds of thousands of atoms She sees this as essential for science leaving behind only

Photography by Jean Lachat in a material is a Herculean task. Of- and for scientists. “The job of a good the flat, delicate ten she uses the University’s Research scientist is to constantly doubt your an- fi m. Among other Computing Center, but for more com- swers,” Galli says. “The minute you get intriguing properties, plex simulations, her team turns to the results, you have to think about how to the material is able extremely powerful supercomputers validate them. How to find a different to effectively store at the UChicago-affiliated Argonne way to evaluate them. To push and chal- electrical energy. National Laboratory, where Galli has a lenge yourself. To do what you don’t yet —S. A. ◆ joint appointment. know how to do.” ◆

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We asked four scholars to tell us about their all-time favorite movies. Here’s what we’re adding to our watch lists.

SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION DUCK SOUP PARASITE ANATOMY OF A MURDER (3) Collection Everett 4), © Neon/courtesy and (2 Collection Everett courtesy (1), Collection Everett Pictures/courtesy © Columbia

Scott Snyder Edward “Rocky” Kolb Elaine Hadley Richard H. McAdams Professor, Department Arthur Holly Compton Professor, Department Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Chemistry Distinguished Service of English Language of Law, UChicago Law School Professor, Department of and Literature Outside of organic chemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics Based on a novel written by I never have a favorite I am a big fan of movies and a trial judge and directed by anything, not least “of all probably watch at least five a My all-time favorite movie is time”! Now if you asked me Otto Preminger, Anatomy of week while cooking or trying Duck Soup (1933). I saw it as about my favorite film of the a Murder (1959) has the best to unwind. Many references an undergraduate and laughed last few years, I’d say the trial scene in any American to them end up in my classes so hard I couldn’t breathe. Korean film Parasite (2019). film and the courage to deny in one form or another; I Groucho became my hero; I What I like about that film the audience cheap certainties mentioned both Good Will grew a mustache (still have it), is the way that it asserts the about the events. In depicting Hunting (1997) and the first but my parents wouldn’t let radical failures of community small-town lawyers defending Harry Potter film in class this me change my name to Rufus that emerge in unequal a murder charge with an week, in fact. Without question, T. Firefly. A must-see if you societies. And by “radical,” insanity defense and a rape I mean its willingness to though, my all-time favorite is want to know the answer to the accusation, the film shows the go right to lurid violence The Shawshank Redemption question “What has four pairs among children and families peculiar ugliness of criminal (1994). I have probably seen it of pants, lives in Philadelphia, in order to argue the real trials before the advent of rape more than 25 times, and though and it never rains but it pours?” costs of inequality—profound shield laws. Shot on location I can quote most of it verbatim, epistemological as well as in the Upper Peninsula of the storyline always holds my economic difference. It starts Michigan, Anatomy has a interest; its cadence, plot lines, with what I take to be static magical jazz score and cameo and ending create, for me, a tableaus of the rich and appearance by Duke Ellington, perfect and highly engaging poor, established by distinct and a great leading cast story, and I do not think there is domestic settings, then that includes Joseph Welch, shifts to a sort of submerged anyone with a better narrating the lawyer who stood up to suspense plot with the poor voice than Morgan Freeman. infiltrating but not actually Joseph McCarthy. taking over the lives of the rich in a menacing climatic (as well as climactic) series of events

gone awry. photographer Flerlage, Raeburn ICHi-118845; Museum, History Chicago

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FOLK HISTORY PSYCHOLOGY Failed by ego

Failure is not always the great teacher it’s cracked up to be. That’s according to a paper from Chicago Booth’s Ayelet Fishbach, published November 8 in Psychological Science. Fishbach and her coauthor found that failure actually diminished the ability to learn. Across five experiments, 1,674 study participants © Columbia Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection (1), courtesy Everett Collection (2 and 4), © Neon/courtesy Everett Collection (3) Collection Everett 4), © Neon/courtesy and (2 Collection Everett courtesy (1), Collection Everett Pictures/courtesy © Columbia received a set of unfamiliar questions (in one instance, about ancient languages) with two possible answers, followed by feedback on their responses. When presented with the same questions later, participants who had failed the fi st time around did not improve—even though they had all the information they needed to ace the test. The phenomenon stems from bruised n 1962 Mavis Staples, above, and her family took the stage at the second annual egos, the researchers University of Chicago Folk Festival. The Staple Singers proceeded to “completely propose: when our destroy the audience with their singing,” festival chair Mike Michaels, EX’61, later balloon is punctured, I we lose interest in the recalled. “In the years that I was involved with the festival, there were no performers task and don’t retain whom I remembered having such an overpowering impact.” (In a bit of serendipity, information. But it is the Staple Singers’ performance was captured by Raeburn Flerlage, a noted possible to learn from photographer of the Chicago blues scene in the 1960s.) failure when this ego Over its 60-year history, the Folk Festival has welcomed many musical icons, threat is removed: including Maybelle Carter, Earl Scruggs, and Muddy Waters (and rejected one—a the study found that then-unknown Bob Dylan auditioned unsuccessfully for the inaugural event), in its participants did learn mission to bring the best in American traditional music to campus. This year’s festival, from watching other which was held February 14 and 15, continued that legacy, featuring performances people’s struggles. by Cajun accordionist Jimmy Breaux, roots ensemble Bill and the Belles, and the all- —S. A. ◆

Chicago History Museum, ICHi-118845; Raeburn Flerlage, photographer Flerlage, Raeburn ICHi-118845; Museum, History Chicago female mariachi group Mariachi Sirenas.—S. A. ◆

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UCJ Winter 2020 V22.indd 25 2/5/20 1:55 PM This painting by Ben Pease depicts an Apsáalooke woman in a traditional dress covered with elk teeth, holding her baby. It’s one of many works by contemporary Native artists that will be featured at the Field Museum and the Neubauer Collegium.

MUSEUMS The tradition of “counting coup” is Native artifacts curated by a member one of many aspects of Crow life that of the featured tribe. will be highlighted this spring in Ap- For philosopher Jonathan Lear, the Beyond natural sáalooke Women and Warriors, an exhi- Roman Family Director of the Col- bition at the Field Museum of Natural legium, Apsáalooke Women and War- History and the gallery at the Neubau- riors continues an interest in the Crow history er Collegium for Culture and Society. that began at a lecture just over 30 years Both sites will spotlight Crow arti- ago. The speaker quoted Plenty Coups’s An exhibition upends facts, including a tipi at the Collegium stark summary of life after the tribe’s traditional representations of and 21 never-before-displayed war 1868 confinement to a reservation: “Af- Native American cultures. shields at the Field. Juxtaposed with ter this, nothing happened.” Years later, the artifacts will be beadwork, paint- the quote clicked into Lear’s brain like a BY DAVID CHRISINGER, AM’10 ings, photography, fashion, and other record in an old jukebox. works by contemporary Crow artists. He read Plenty Coups’s biography Apsáalooke warriors began their train- The goal of the exhibition, guest and was struck by the courage the

ing as children. To prepare for the acts curated by Apsáalooke artist and chief had displayed in telling his story Life of Beauty the Lies - Wherein Pease © Ben of bravery they would one day need to scholar Nina Sanders, is simple: to to a white writer named Frank B. Lin- perform in battle, the boys of the tribe, show visitors that Native Americans derman. After all the injustices he and pronounced “Ahp-SAH-luh-guh” (also have a present and a future, not just his tribe had suffered, Plenty Coups known as Crow), practiced what they a past. As Sanders told WTTW, “This had no reason to trust Linderman, yet called “counting coup” on game ani- is a celebration of our culture and he found peace in sharing his story. mals. Counting coup involved touching our resilience and how the things “You have felt my heart, and I have felt an enemy but not otherwise harming we were making in the very begin- yours,” Plenty Coups told Linderman. him; to achieve the feat, according to ning are still the things we are mak- Lear’s interest in Plenty Coups and the the great chief Plenty Coups (1848– ing today.” It’s also the first time the Apsáalooke resulted in Radical Hope: 1932), “a warrior would often display Field—and perhaps any natural history Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devasta-

great bravery.” museum—has hosted an exhibition of tion (Harvard University Press, 2006), Field© Museum photo Johnby Weinstein

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about the tribe’s endurance after the Like the Field’s show, the Neu- destruction of its nomadic way of life. bauer Collegium’s exhibition aims to CLIMATE To continue the conversation the deepen viewers’ understanding of the great chief had initiated, Lear joined Crow’s origins, cultural worldviews, forces with Alaka Wali, the curator and egalitarian gender roles—but at a Stormy of the North American Anthropol- more intimate scale and taking a more ogy collection at the Field Museum. conceptual approach. Visitors “will Wali had worked with the Neubauer literally step inside a Crow tipi that outlook serves as a womb of sorts,” says Dieter Collegium before—in 2015, she par- The destructive power ticipated in Open Fields, a collabora- Roelstraete, the Neubauer Collegium’s of hurricanes extends tive research project focused on the curator. “They will get a chance to im- deep into the ocean, representation of Native American merse themselves in the exhibit and according to a recent art and artifacts in US museums. That gain an even better understanding study by scientists project brought together scholars, art- of the themes the Field Museum is at the Marine ists, and indigenous leaders; their con- focusing on.” versations helped lay the groundwork Placing historical artifacts along- Biological Laboratory. for Apsáalooke Women and Warriors. side pieces that show contemporary Published August 16 in (Wali and Sanders are also current Crow culture “transforms the mean- Geophysical Research Neubauer Collegium visiting fellows.) ings of the artifacts themselves,” Lear Letters, the paper Rethinking how Native cultures are says. “They will no longer be viewed provides evidence presented at the Field had long been a as remnants of ‘natural history.’ Be- that hurricanes affect goal of Wali’s. The collection began cause of this show, they will be seen as the ocean’s biological with artifacts displayed at the World’s evidence of a living cultural vibrancy pump—the process Columbian Exposition, at a time when among the Crow people.” that transports carbon anthropologists and archaeologists For her part, Sanders hopes the ex- into the deep ocean, believed they were salvaging the re- hibition will inspire other museums to where some of it mains of dying civilizations—not “open space for indigenous people” to remains sequestered. realizing that by separating tribes participate in the sharing of their cul- By analyzing samples from their material history, they were ture. “What is being seen as revolution- from sediment traps in harming the very cultures they sought ary is really just common sense.” ◆ the deep ocean near to preserve, and losing crucial context. Bermuda, the site of Wali’s efforts to bring Native per- Hurricane Nicole in spectives into the Field’s work have in- 2016, the researchers cluded partnering with contemporary found that hurricanes artists to develop exciting and respect- supercharge the ful ways of repurposing the museum’s carbon cycle, pushing collection. In 2013 she invited Pawnee much more organic artist Bunky Echo-Hawk to create an material into deep exhibition that paired his paintings with waters. With the the museum’s Pawnee artifacts; in 2018 number of severe Kanza artist Chris Pappan’s drawings hurricanes on the were displayed as transparent overlays rise, that’s potentially on glass cases of Native artifacts. The worrisome news.

© Ben Pease - Wherein Lies the Beauty of Life of Beauty the Lies - Wherein Pease © Ben museum has also begun a large-scale renovation of its Native North Ameri- The global climate can Hall, to be completed by 2021. and the health of the With Sanders, Lear and Wali origi- seas depend on a nally envisioned creating another delicate balance of small exhibition that would pair con- carbon in the deep temporary art with the Field Museum’s ocean—and it’s not collection of sacred Crow shields—but clear how the addition Wali’s colleagues were so excited by of so much extra the idea that they proposed having carbon will affect that Sanders curate a major exhibition in equilibrium.—S. A. ◆

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UCJ Winter 2020 V22.indd 27 2/5/20 1:55 PM UCJ Winter 2020 V22.indd 28 15, from President page Agenda, the On see more, For world. the and Chicago of city the with gagement en University’s the fostered and impact; faculty; supported research, education, and It enabled investments in students and division, school, department, and institute. every in priorities supported and history, was the most ambitious in the institution’s alumni. The University of Chicago Campaign 125,000 engage to goal its exceeded also campaign The goal. billion $5 expanded and billion $4.5 of target original its surpassing and Impact concluded on December 31, The University of Chicago Campaign: Inquiry CAMPAIGN CONCLUSION For the record 28 28 11 of consists program new the engineering, molecular in programs PhD and dergraduate industries. Complementing the school’s un engineers for leadership positions across engineering program, designed to prepare has launched a master of science in molecular The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering MASTER’S MICRO the chancellor of Vanderbilt University in July. in University Vanderbilt of chancellor the becomes and 2016 in provost named was who publications. She succeeds scholarly 125 than more of coauthor or author the is she and biophysics, membrane of area the in lies focus research Lee’s Kong. Hong in Campus Yuen Rose and Francis Chicago of Chicago Academic Complex | The University of University Club Jockey Kong Hong The for Board Advisory Faculty the chairs and years, past the over Kong Hong in partnerships and activities University’s the in role a leading played has Lee institutes. and schools, sions, divi across cut that fic initiatives scienti as well as computing, and safety, support, ment University research administration, develop oversaw Lee 2018, since research for provost vice As January. in appointment her nounced THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE MAGAZINE CHICAGO OF UNIVERSITY THE Robert J. Zimmer Robert J. Zimmer PROVOSTIAL PROVOSTIAL February February 1. President PROMOTION ty’s 14th provost on on provost 14th ty’s Ka YeeLee Ka C. came the Universi the came Daniel Diermeier Chemistry, be Department of the in professor an . - fi , - - ve ve - - - , - | WINTER 2020 Fellowship program. program. Fellowship new Office of Science Distinguished Scientist its of part as researchers Chicago of University two selected has Energy of Department The BOOST ENERGY Compton Distinguished Service Professor of than 4,500 students annually. more serve which courses, other and programs and other major gatherings. posia, lectures, performances, celebrations, and will include spaces for conferences, sym trustee University of honor in named is Forum Rubenstein David opportunities focused on the artwork. The exhibitions as well as scholarship and teaching Rubenstein program, which will include public fi Grif from opens loan on this autumn. Items when the building o David Rubenstein Forum the at exhibit on be will Kenneth C. Gr trustee UChicago of from the collection works of A selection FORUM FOR ART THE the Graham School’s cert oversee will Flack At UChicago nationwide. work has been performed by leading theaters whose playwright and guitarist a jazz also is education technology start-up. He a higher BestMatch, of CEO Humanities Festival and director of the Chicago executive the previously was Flack sectors, public , private, and nonprofi the in experience of years 30 With UChicago. at ing the center of lifelong learn Liberal and Professional Studies, Continuing of School Graham the of 2 December On LIFELONG LEARNING LEADER and systems bioengineering. and water resources, immunoengineering, tracks in areas such as sustainable energy add may program the future the In neering. engi and science polymer and modeling, als courses in two tracks: computational materi n’s collection will inaugurate the Art at the the at Art the inaugurate will collection n’s iffi became Flack dean Stuart n

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Illustration by John Jay Cabuay him. Well, why did someone at NASA think that we should do this? Following that thread inevitably led back to dreamers. Before we can have a policy goal, someone has to dream up the idea, and then it needs to move into the public consciousness. That’s how I found my way back to the science fiction writers and editors who planted the wild idea of going to the moon in the public imagination.

You started in print journalism. What’s different about audio? INTERVIEW When you write a print piece you have to do a lot of work to make sure people get what you mean. In audio, a lot of Moonshot that can be done with your intonation. If you want people to really let a line An alumna’s podcast explores the origins of the space race. sink in, you just say it slowly and then leave a pause. You can force some- BY SUSIE ALLEN, AB’09 one to not glaze over something, just by controlling the rhythm. You can When she began work on the podcast this made the United States wake up be in some ways more sparse in your Moonrise, Lillian Cunningham, AB’06, and realize, “We’re in a space race.” script, because you can bring all of that knew she wanted to tell a different kind If you listen to the podcast, Sputnik through in your tone. of story about the Apollo program. comes about halfway through. There Much of what she’d read explored are so many interesting seeds of the How did UChicago influence how the United States got to the moon. dream of going to the moon that hap- your career? Cunningham wanted to understand pen long before Sputnik. why. The result is a sprawling 12-part Another was John F. Kennedy being Without it being a conscious effort of story about the eccentrics, geniuses, the most important president involved mine, I’ve crafted this career that lets me Photography by Jean Lachat (Lee and Flack); illustration courtesy Diller Sco Diller courtesy illustration Flack); and (Lee Lachat by Jean Photography and dreamers who made the moon a in the moon decision. Of course he is continue to be a student and get paid for national goal. Cunningham compares majorly important, but it was interest- it. I feel very lucky that I get to do these it to “a Russian novel with a million ing and surprising to me the great ex- projects that require research, writing, characters to keep track of.” tent to which Lyndon Johnson was the and critical inquiry. They’re stories that Telling familiar American stories in real political driver of that goal. we’re all expected to know as citizens, surprising new ways is Cunningham’s Not to discredit Kennedy, but it’s but that we all would benefit from taking specialty as a reporter and podcaster worth thinking about the ways that we a more critical eye to studying. for the Washington Post. Her 2016 attach things to presidents. It’s an easy, podcast Presidential was a week-by- convenient shorthand but ends up cre- How did you decide on studying week frolic through the life of each US ating a mythology that doesn’t neces- English? president. Cunningham also hosted the sarily reflect who was more responsible 2017 podcast Constitutional, about the for that achievement. I had a million thoughts about my con- people who created and recreated the centration. I had too many interests, nation’s founding document. Her com- You focus on how science fiction and I couldn’t make a commitment ments have been edited and condensed. shaped the space program. Why to any one of them. I was so indeci- is that important? sive that in my dorm we actually had What are some myths about the a bracket going, where people voted Apollo program? It was following a chain of questioning: on what my concentration should be. fi dio + Renfro dio Why did Kennedy say we should go to The bracket finally came down to an- One of them is where the story starts. the moon? Because Johnson told him thropology and literature. I went with A classic starting point is Sputnik—the we should. Why did Johnson say it? anthropology and then after a little bit

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STRAWBERRY YIELDS The fruitful career of Herbert Baum, AM’51, PhD’06.

BY SUSIE ALLEN, AB’09

egal proceedings in the strawberry Else. (Of course, when it comes to strawberries, business—and there are more of the enemy of your enemy is occasionally your them than you’d expect—tend to friend: Driscoll’s and its chief rival in strawberry resemble celebrity divorces, with breeding, the University of California, have each both sides throwing around ac- sued their mutual competitor, California Berry cusations of treachery and neither Cultivars, for patent infringement.) But he won’t one looking good in the end. disparage their product: “I regret to say it, but In May 2017 Judge Vince Driscoll’s still has a monopoly on flavor and fre- Chhabria, fed up with two indus- quently a monopoly on appearance.” try players that had spent years sparring over the If anyone has the right to make bold declara- Lownership of several strawberry varieties, is- tions about fruit, it’s Baum, whose family has sued an exasperated rebuke. “Both sides profess been in the produce industry for four generations. to care a great deal about strawberries,” he said. But when he enrolled at Ohio State University, But if their concerns were genuine, he went on, his interests pulled him away from agriculture they would “figure out a way ... to avoid subject- and toward economics. Initially Baum planned ing them to this custody battle.” No luck there: to study the relationship between the economy by March 2019 strawberries—a $3 billion annual and the labor movement, but soon, “I became in- enterprise—were back in court once again, with trigued just with the subject alone.” Driscoll’s, the biggest name in the berry game, su- In part, that’s what drew him to the Univer-

ing a competitor for patent infringement. sity of Chicago for his graduate work—then, as Commission Strawberry California courtesy Photo Herbert Baum, AM’51, PhD’06, is a veteran of now, it was seen as the best place to study pure the strawberry wars but, at 93, no longer on the economics. (Baum was also a longtime fan of the front lines. These days, he’s mostly an observer University, thanks to an alumna aunt, Minnette of the crop that was his livelihood for nearly four Baum, PhB 1911, and his admiration for Robert decades—as CEO of Naturipe Berry Growers and Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer Adler’s great later as two-term chair of the California Straw- books program.)

berry Commission, a state government agency. Baum had finished all the coursework for his ce Still, Baum hasn’t retired from having strong PhD when he moved to Washington, DC, to work ffi opinions. The strawberry world splinters into for the Office of Price Stabilization. After a few two loose camps—berry behemoth Driscoll’s years he headed west and took his first job in the and everybody else. As a former Naturipe execu- California produce business. By 1958 he’d started

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UCH_HerbBaum_v6.indd 30 2/5/20 2:44 PM Herbert Baum, AM’51, PhD’06 (below), worked in the California strawberry industry for decades before returning to UChicago to complete some unfinished business: his dissertation.

He had plenty to occupy These include innovations him—at the time, berries in packaging—the plastic were in a slump, due to clamshells familiar to many overproduction and plant consumers today were in- disease—but occasionally troduced by Driscoll’s in the felt a pang about his un- ’90s—and a revolution in completed doctorate. Dur- how prices are negotiated. ing his time at Naturipe, he Traditionally individual accumulated records and strawberry producers es- materials he thought might tablished prices on a daily be useful later. “I had file basis; today they often enter boxes full of stuff,” Baum into contracts with retailers, recalls. “Because I always setting prices and volumes knew I wanted to do this. I in advance. Environmental wanted to complete my doctorate, and I wanted concerns loom larger than ever before too: grow- to write a serious study about the industry and ers can no longer use certain chemicals that were how it developed.” their go-tos for years, and climate change threat- He met both goals when he independently ens important growing regions. published Quest for the Perfect Strawberry: A While the majority of California strawberries Case Study of the California Strawberry Commis- are public varieties, which anyone can purchase sion and the Strawberry Industry: A Descriptive and grow, proprietary varieties—those developed, Model for Marketing Order Evaluation (2005), an owned, and cultivated exclusively by private com- excerpt of which became his PhD thesis. panies and their approved growers—are increas- At his 2006 dissertation defense, Baum arrived ing in dominance. In the early 2010s, it looked to with a crate of strawberries (Driscoll’s, alas— some insiders like the University of California, the he couldn’t find Naturipe) and faced a murderers’ primary producer of public strawberry varieties, row of economists: his committee included the was on the verge of ending its breeding program. It late Milton Friedman, AM’33, and Gary Becker, would have been a disaster for independent grow- AM’53, PhD’55, along with Roger Myerson, the ers; Baum and others agitated behind the scenes David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Profes- to prevent that berry apocalypse. (According to sor of Global Conflict Studies at The Pearson his industry sources, things are back on track, and Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global in July 2019, the University of California released Conflicts in the Harris School of Public Policy five new public varieties. One, the “Royal Royce,” is and in the Griffin Department of Economics. named for a hero and mentor of Baum’s, the late UC The group was convened by James Heckman, Davis pomologist Royce Bringhurst.) the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Profes- Undergirding many of these changes is the

Photo courtesy California Strawberry Commission Commission Strawberry California courtesy Photo sor in Economics, who was supportive of Baum’s gradual consolidation of the strawberry industry. work and said his thesis was “in the best tradi- Small independent farmers operating with funds tion of empirical price theory at Chicago” and “a from their local bank or credit union are all but serious piece of research on a major agricultural gone. Today’s growers, Baum says, “are almost 100 industry.” The all-Nobelist committee accepted percent financed and controlled” by large com- Baum’s dissertation; at 79, he was, at that time, panies—like Driscoll’s, Naturipe, and jam giant the oldest person to be awarded a doctorate by Smucker’s. This is a broader trend in agribusiness,

ce the University. and he is not a fan: monopolization of any industry, ffi In Quest for the Perfect Strawberry, which he he argues, will lead to higher prices for everyone. believes is the definitive history of the California Despite these concerns, Baum has not soured strawberry business, Baum recounts the many on the sweet fruit that is his life’s work. “Some- changes that helped make the industry the valu- times they taste better than others,” he says, but

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UCH_HerbBaum_v6.indd 31 2/5/20 2:44 PM Stamp acts (clockwise from top left): A 1982 stamp commemorates the first anniversary of the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales and shows Princess Diana with Prince William, born in June of that year. A stamp issued in 2003, with a picture of P’yŏngyang cold noodles, is one of 14 stamps in the collection issued in the 2000s that feature traditional Korean foods. A serpentine blue-and-orange dragon with frog legs—one of four guardian deities representing the cardinal directions—adorns a 2000 stamp; the dragon is part of a sixth-century

tomb painting from Korea’s Goguryeo kingdom. The painting is evidence of close artistic ties between Korea and China. UniversityChicagoof Library East Asian Collection and Visual Resources Center

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UCH_OS_Stamps_v9.indd 32 2/5/20 2:38 PM ORIGINAL SOURCE

INSIDE OUT

Postage stamps from North Korea afford a rare glimpse into a reclusive country.

BY JEANIE CHUNG AND MINA CHUNG-HAWKE

hen the Democratic Peo- North Korea issued its first stamps Western imagery shows up too: ple’s Republic of Korea for postal use in 1946, but after 1970 it soccer’s World Cup trophy, Italian was established in 1948, started to produce more for export to Renaissance art, and Britain’s Princess separating itself from the Asian and European countries. Park, who Diana. Park says the Diana stamps may southern part of the Ko- grew up in South Korea, was expecting reflect interest in world cultures and rean peninsula, its citizens the stamps to be political in nature, and events despite the country’s insular lost most of their access many of them are, emphasizing the reputation—or just recognition of what to the rest of the world. At country’s leaders, flags, and patriotic would sell in the early 1980s. the same time, those outside the borders songs. But some of them also suggest With material directly from North Wwere shut out from the sights and sounds everyday interests not so different from Korea in short supply, even the of North Korea. those of South Koreans. information on a tiny stamp has value to The University of Chicago Library’s re- One series features traditional foods researchers, Park says. “A stamp is a kind cently acquired collection of North Korean including kimchi and a cold noodle of means to show yourself to the outside stamps—the largest such collection in North dish called P’yŏngyang naengmyŏn. world,” and these examples provide America—opens the window just a crack. Many stamps focus on Korean arts: evidence of how the country strove A few years ago Korean studies librarian celadon pottery, musical instruments, to represent itself to an international Jee-Young Park was collecting books and portraits of famous artists. There audience—fulfilling what the collection and periodicals from North Korea, much are tourist sites like Mount Kumgang— website calls “a dual commercial and of them poorly reproduced, when she especially meaningful for Koreans who propagandistic function as an instrument came across some books of stamps emigrated and can no longer visit. for the transmission of popular culture in good condition, with bright, clear There are scores of animal stamps, and national identity.” ◆ images. She tracked down more from including a series done in collaboration dealers in China and a private collector with the World Wildlife Fund, depicting in Germany, ultimately finding more than endangered species like the Amur TO SEE MORE, VISIT leopard and the black-faced spoonbill. MAG.UCHICAGO.EDU/NKSTAMPS. UniversityChicagoof Library East Asian Collection and Visual Resources Center 2,000 stamps for the library.

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UCH_OS_Stamps_v9.indd 33 2/5/20 2:38 PM GLIMPSES

ENERGY STAR As the leader of UChicago’s energy policy and economic research institutes, Michael Greenstone, LAB’87, works to help the world confront the global energy challenge.

BY LAURA DEMANSKI, AM’94

ichael Greenstone’s Hyde Park roots run were academics, deeply committed to research and un- deep. He represents the third generation derstanding the world, and my mom was a social worker. of his family to serve on the UChicago fac- Looking back, I think I was trying to find a way to navigate ulty, and he’s been here at three stages of between both of those. I wanted to find a way to do research his education and career. The grandson of that improves understanding about the world and can be psychology professor Erika Fromm and son used to make the world better; the University of Chicago is of political scientist J. David Greenstone, a perfect fit because it’s focused on inquiry and impact, as AM’60, PhD’63, and social worker Joan the tagline says. Fromm Greenstone, AB’62, AM’65, PhD’84, he graduated All academics wake up each morning thinking about how Mfrom the Laboratory Schools. He later held an assistant pro- to understand the world better, but there’s no playbook or fessorship in the UChicago economics department. cookbook for how to turn those ideas into action in the real In 2014, after 12 years during which he was the 3M Profes- world—we’re inventing the model as we go along. But that in- sor of Environmental Economics at the Massachusetts Insti- tersection is where I try to spend my time, and what BFI and tute of Technology and served as chief economist of President EPIC try to facilitate. Barack Obama’s White House Council of Economic Advisers, Greenstone, LAB’87, returned to UChicago as professor of eco- How did you decide to study economics? nomics and director of the Energy Policy Institute at the Uni- versity of Chicago (EPIC). In 2016 he was appointed director I couldn’t grow up in Hyde Park at the time I did without of the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI). Today being deeply aware of differences in opportunity. So I went he holds both of those positions and is the Milton Friedman to graduate school thinking that I would work on pover- Distinguished Service Professor in the Kenneth C. Griffin De- ty, welfare, education, the labor supply, and making sure partment of Economics, the College, and Harris Public Policy. there were more equal opportunities. I was really animated Last December the University launched EPIC-China, a by that, but I could never quite find a question that I had research center based at the University of Chicago Center something really important to add to. Then I wandered into in Beijing. EPIC-China is conducting “frontier research on environmental questions. I never took an environmental how to ensure access to inexpensive and reliable energy economics class; there weren’t any offered at Princeton Uni- while meeting China’s ambitious goals to reduce pollution versity, where I got my PhD. My adviser joked that I was the and confront climate change without unnecessarily com- greatest environmental economist ever produced by Prince- promising economic growth,” Greenstone says. It builds on ton. Since I was the only one, I was also the worst. He took a similar model of research he leads at UChicago’s Center in great joy in saying that. Delhi, EPIC-India. Greenstone spoke to the Magazine about the new venture in China, his intellectual path, and the meet- What makes economics the best lens? ing of scholarly research and practical policy. This interview has been edited and condensed. Science and technology are critically important; our global energy challenges cannot be solved without innovation. But What led you to work on environmental economics? economics teaches us that, without properly designed markets, those new technologies will all too often stay on the shelf or It sounds terribly corny, but I wanted to figure out a way to maybe never even be invented. And I think economics has a lot

make a difference in the world. My dad and grandmother to add here by emphasizing the power of markets. Photocourtesy the Becker Friedman Institute

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UCH_Glimpses_v4.indd 34 2/13/20 12:20 PM In India this model is working: we’re now working in states that I think include more than half the country’s population. In China we haven’t been at it as long, but we’ve already launched a series of research projects in collaboration with the University of the Chinese Academy of Sci- ences, and I’m very optimistic about what we’re doing there.

What is EPIC working on here in Chicago? One project is the Air Quality Life Index, which provides people around the world with a tangible measure of how much longer they could live if air pollution were reduced (aqli.epic.uchicago.edu). The AQLI tool we developed has had users from every country in the world. Another major project is the Climate Impact Lab (CIL), which is developing the first empirically founded global estimate of the social cost of carbon—a measure of the monetary damages associated with the release of an additional ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that is critical for setting policy—and Also, a lot of the most interesting problems involve trade- producing hyperlocal estimates of what climate change will offs. I believe economics has the best tools to help society mean physically and economically around the planet. understand the nature of the trade-offs. These are almost Those are just two projects that I’m heavily involved with always political choices, but facts lead to better choices. at EPIC. But EPIC is made up of a community of affiliated scholars from around the University who are in many cases Why launch EPIC-China, and why now? leading their fields in topics ranging from the future of the US and global natural gas markets to the cost and effective- There’s the old joke about the bank robber Willie Sutton. ness of conservation efforts. They asked him, “Why do you rob banks?” and he said, “That’s where the money is.” If you want to study the global How does your experience in the policy world energy challenge, you’ve got to go to China. It’s had amaz- affect your work as an academic? ing success at increasing incomes in the last several decades, and a critical ingredient was inexpensive and reliable en- When I showed up in Washington in January 2009, I thought ergy. It also had a massive increase in air pollution. Yet in the the policy world would be dying to know what economists last five years, China has dedicated itself to reducing pollu- have learned about the world. I imagined that maybe not tion, and has done so at a historically unprecedented rate. It Nancy Pelosi and maybe not John Boehner, but somebody will play a central role in determining the degree of global on their staffs was reading my papers and knew that in col- climate change we must all face. India is also grappling with umn five of table eight, the policy answer existed. It was eye- how to balance the needs for inexpensive and reliable en- opening that this was very, very far from the truth. I came to ergy and clean air while avoiding disruptive climate change, understand how badly economists communicate. We have and this is why we launched EPIC-India in 2014. developed a very precise language that makes it easy for us to If you want to tackle the jugular and not the capillaries of talk to each other but keeps almost everyone else out. the global energy challenge, you’ve got to be in China and So finding ways to better communicate with people who India. They aren’t the easiest places to start doing research. aren’t economists is something I’m deeply committed to. And It probably took me 10 to 12 years to write my first paper on BFI and EPIC are continually looking for new ways to make China, because of the difficulty of getting access to data and insights from economics research broadly accessible and things like that. To put together continuing research and powerful. Policy makers may never read table eight in my pa- have a sustained influence there, the University can’t ap- pers, but I shouldn’t be asking them to do so in the first place. pear just once in a while. The idea is to develop long-lasting In exchange for these jobs that allow us to spend time relationships with researchers and with government offi- learning about the world, I think we owe it to society to

Photocourtesy the Becker Friedman Institute cials so that a level of trust develops. make our ideas accessible and useful. ◆

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UCH_Glimpses_v4.indd 35 2/13/20 12:21 PM FILM

FAMILY REUNION Haroula Rose, AB’02, MAT’02, put the work of Bonnie Jo Campbell, AB’84, on the big screen. Last fall the two brought the film to Chicago.

BY CARRIE GOLUS, AB’91, AM’93

here are too many people at the then sexually assaulted by her uncle at a family front and not enough micro- party. A year later, Margo takes revenge on him phones to go around. “That’s at another family gathering: as Uncle Cal is OK,” Bonnie Jo Campbell, AB’84, relieving himself, she carefully aims and shoots bellows, her voice easily carrying him, leaving him wounded. to the back row of the theater. “I Campbell first explored that narrative in don’t need one.” “Family Reunion,” a story in the collection On a rainy Monday afternoon American Salvage (Wayne State University Press, in October, the theater at AMC 2009). The details differ slightly, as does the River East—the venue for the Chicago Interna- name of the teenage girl, Marylou Strong. The Ttional Film Festival—is three-quarters full. We’ve story ends just after Marylou wounds her uncle: just watched the Chicago debut of Once Upon “She closes her eyes to lengthen that perfect and a River, a film adaptation of Campbell’s book of terrible moment and hold off the next, when the the same name, written and directed by Haroula air will fill with voices.” Rose, AB’02, MAT’02. (The film is currently on Once Upon a River is the tale of what happens the festival circuit; by early 2020, it had won 14 after that. Uncle Cal is shot at the end of chapter awards at 25 festivals.) Rose, Campbell, and sev- three (which closes with a near-identical sentence eral members of the film crew have lined up along to “Family Reunion”). During the confusion, Mar- the screen to answer questions. go’s father is shot dead by her cousin Billy. Margo, Once Upon a River (W. W. Norton, 2011) tells blaming herself for her father’s death, runs away. the story of Margo Crane, a quiet, beautiful The book opens with a map of the Stark River—

teenage girl, abandoned by her mother, who is an imaginary tributary of the Kalamazoo River in Klutznick Daniel by Photography

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UCH_OnceUponARiver_v6.indd 36 2/5/20 2:46 PM Margo Crane, the protagonist of Bonnie Jo Campbell’s (AB’84) novel Once Upon a River and Haroula Rose’s (AB’02, MAT’02) film of the same name, journeys down the fictional Stark River.

southwestern Michigan—showing where Margo templative B-roll moments, when we see the wild or hides during her wanderings: the marijuana domestic creatures that live along the river—what house, Brian’s cabin on stilts, Pokagon Mound Margo is seeing. “It felt like we were trying to be Na- picnic area. A sure shot with a rifle, she survives tional Geographic photographers at times.” by hunting, fishing, and sheltering with men who The next question is for Campbell: Was Rose take her in. true to the story? Before reading Once Upon a River I asked a “Can you even believe this movie?” Campbell well-read friend what he thought. “That book says, as enthusiastic as she is loud. “The movie messed me up,” he said. It messed me up too. does everything that I hoped to do in the book. … When a pregnant Margo—whom I’d come to care It’s not the book, and that’s fine.” about deeply—feels so exhausted she lies down Another woman in the audience asks about the in the snow, I found myself saying, “Oh no, no no title, which “conjures up a fairy tale,” she says. “Is no” out loud. Talking to Margo or to Campbell, that what you were aiming for?” I’m not sure. “I liked the double meaning of it, that it’s literal Watching Rose’s film, I felt snagged on my and metaphorical,” says Rose. “I didn’t think there own mental adaptation of was a choice to change it. I Campbell’s book. Signifi- really loved the title.” cant characters are cut out. Actually, Campbell points Sometimes actors bluntly THE STRANGE out, her original title was state things that Campbell THING ABOUT “Margo Crane,” after the took pages to build up to MARGO’S name of its main character: and hint at. (One favorite “That’s what I wanted it to line from the book did sur- WANDERINGS— be.” vive: “I just can’t get enough INSPIRED “I didn’t know that!” says of a girl who don’t talk.”) Rose. In the book, Margo forms BY BOTH “See, we have to have quick, intense relationships HUCKLEBERRY more drinks together,” with the men she meets by FINN AND THE says Campbell. “American chance along the river; in books that are about mythic the film, logical explana- ODYSSEY— characters are called by the tions are given for how this IS THAT SHE character’s name—Huck is possible. Finn, Tom Sawyer.” But her Like the book, the film DOESN’T REALLY publisher did not agree. is a love letter to the subtle GO ANYWHERE. “I was a little angry in my beauty of rural Michigan. At heart,” Campbell says. “I the screening, the modera- wanted Margo to have that tor’s first question for Rose is about nature, which mythic element.” But she made her peace with he sees as “a character in the film.” Once Upon a River. “It allowed me to make the “I’m glad that came through,” says Rose. story a little more fantastical.” Her voice is high and sweet and, despite the handheld microphone, soft. “I wanted it to feel like you’re really in her shoes—that it’s always a he strange thing about Margo’s wander- subjective experience.” ings—inspired by both Huckleberry Finn “Could you talk a little louder?” yells a woman T and the Odyssey—is that she doesn’t really from the audience. go anywhere. Along the Stark River she meets one “Oh! Yeah,” says Rose. “Charlotte, my cinema- random man after another, all the while travers- tographer—any time there was anything happen- ing well-known territory. The relationships are ing within the environment we were in, we would the equivalent of the monsters Odysseus has to

Photography by Daniel Klutznick Daniel by Photography just shoot it.” The film is punctuated by these con- battle, Campbell says: “The men come and go and

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UCH_OnceUponARiver_v6.indd 37 2/5/20 2:46 PM Margo remains. I don’t know if people are used to the woman remaining.” Rose (whose given name is Haroula Rose Spyropoulos) came across Once Upon a River by chance too, in the pages of the University of Chi- cago Magazine. The Nov–Dec/11 issue included a short article about Campbell, written by Christina Pillsbury, AB’14, then a Magazine intern. Camp- bell had just won a Guggenheim Fellowship. “What I remember most was Bonnie Jo’s picture,” Rose says. We’re sitting at a table in the Andersonville bookstore Women and Children First, chatting before a promotional event later Rose (center) and Campbell (right) on the set. that evening. “She looked like she has some things to say.” Campbell laughs explosively, as she does often. food. … I remember, I thought I should feed you.” “Were you judging a book by its cover?” A different “I don’t remember hunger, and I don’t metaphor comes to my mind: “You swiped right remember the guy,” Rose says. “I do remember on Bonnie?” us having this really cool thing where we were “Well, it was a little deeper than that,” Rose finishing each other’s sentences very easily says. “After looking at so many actor headshots, I without interrupting. I felt like we were seeing can tell who’s interesting and who’s not. … I don’t eye to eye on how to treat the subject matter and know how bad that sounds, but I’m usually right.” the character.” Rose immediately ordered a copy of Once Upon It was the character of Margo that attracted a River (“In hardback?” Campbell chides. “You Rose so strongly. “I could just see some things don’t have the money for hardbacks.”), read it, about me in her,” she says. “Then the logistical and read it again. brain was like, oh, I’ll get to learn about guns, and Rose’s career has had its own meandering path: sex on camera, and boats, and a period piece” (the she went to Spain on a Fulbright, attended film novel is set in the late 1970s) “and just make it school at the University of Southern California, really hard for myself.” made several successful folk records and licensed The hardest part, it turned out, was finding her music, and helped produce films such as someone to play Margo. When Rose read the Fruitvale Station (2013). She’d been searching for book, she understood Margo to be Native something to make into her first feature-length American, something Campbell had implied but film. Here it was. hadn’t stated overtly. Rose wanted to find a young Rose visited Campbell in Michigan in the Native American actor who could express all of fall of 2013. “I remember it was kind of chilly,” Margo’s emotion with very little dialogue. At the says Campbell, “and we were at the river”—the eleventh hour—when all the other roles were St. Joseph River, upon which the fictional Stark cast—Rose found a near-unknown performer, is based. Rose may or may not have had a man Kenadi DelaCerna.

with her. “She brought a guy, and she swears she But why would Campbell allow her book to Photography by Daniel Klutznick doesn’t remember,” says Campbell. “I remember be made into a movie at all, when film adapta- it was a pretty good-looking guy.” tions can be so terrible? “You know what, I don’t “Really?” says Rose. “Interesting.” have any children,” Campbell says. (In a talk ar- “Guys always show up along the river, if you no- chived on her website, Campbell urges aspiring ticed in the story,” says Campbell. “I also thought writers to think about what they might have to you looked hungry.” She means literally hungry, sacrifice for a writer’s life: a nice house, travel, a not ambitious hungry. “I’m a person who always family. “Say this aloud: ‘I will live a literary life. I has some food with me. Even now, I’ve got some read books and write.’ Repeat daily as needed.”)

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UCH_OnceUponARiver_v6.indd 38 2/5/20 2:47 PM “What I have are my books,” she continues. “And Campbell is chatting with a burly gray-bearded if my books are my children … what a foolish man who’s brought his mother along. It’s H. B. thing to keep them to yourself, exactly as you cre- Ward, who has a few lines in the film; he plays ated them. Isn’t it better to have your children Margo’s mother’s ex-boyfriend. “You really cried grow up and go into the world and know other at the movie?” Campbell asks. He did. people and change? By 7:30 all the chairs are full. Linda Bubon, one “Haroula actually did a few kindnesses to of the store’s owners, introduces Campbell and Margo that I didn’t do,” Campbell adds. “That Rose, as Rose softly strums her guitar. Bubon saw was really nice of Haroula to not make her kill the movie yesterday, she says, “and I can’t get the Paul.” Paul and his brother Brian loom large in characters and the images out of my head.” Campbell’s version of Margo’s story; in Rose’s, Rose plays a song called “Moon and Waves,” she meets them only in passing. her gentle voice filling the room. Afterward, “I did have a scene where she shot him, and it she tells the audience about a screening at just didn’t fi ,” Rose says. “When I took it out, she Efebo d’Oro, an Italian festival dedicated to film was a lot more sympathetic.” adaptations of literary works. Once Upon a River “That was a beautiful scene,” says Campbell. “I won its top prize. got to see that scene.” In the book, Campbell sets “Were there any comments about the rural up the murder so it seems unavoidable; Margo is poverty that you show?” Bubon wants to know. protecting a man she loves, a From the back, Campbell’s gentle man who doesn’t un- aunt Kathy speaks up: “I derstand the danger he’s in. think the beauty of the nature “She had no choice.” SO MUCH OF scenes in there kind of cancels That man, and their re- WHAT I’M TRYING out that it was so poor.” lationship, are left out of “Well that’s interesting,” the film entirely. “I saw the TO DO AS A says Campbell, “because so screenplay at a couple differ- WRITER IS BRING much of what I’m trying to ent points. When I first saw it, DIGNITY TO do as a writer is bring dig- I was in the head of the book, nity to places where— Most so everything that was dif- PLACES WHERE— people would just scoff at the ferent stood out,” says Camp- MOST PEOPLE kind of people I write about.” bell. “I learned the difference “There’s this question of, between a movie and a book.” WOULD JUST where is she poor and where SCOFF AT THE is she rich?” adds Rose. KIND OF PEOPLE When Margo finally finds t’s very unusual for her mother, she’s living in a a novelist to love the I WRITE ABOUT. fancy lakefront house. By us- I film,” Sheryl John- ing harsh, clinical lighting, ston, Campbell’s publicist, Rose makes the space seem remarks as we’re waiting for the Women and soulless. “Where there is all this wealth, she’s ac- Children First event to start. It’s been billed as tually poor.”

Photography by Daniel Klutznick an “author conversation” between Campbell and “The way you directed this scene is so Rose. Rose is also scheduled to perform several beautiful,” says Bubon. Margo’s mother is polite of her songs, including the one that ends the film. but heartbreakingly distant. “She’s a tender We’re sitting in the children’s section, where teenage girl and there’s no hug.” four rows of folding chairs have been lined up. “Yeah, my folks got really baffled by that,” says Rose’s parents are in the back row, next to Bonnie’s Rose. “They’re like, no hugs?” The audience is aunt and uncle, Kathy and Terry Herlihy; with his laughing. “No kisses? They’re from Greece.” weathered face and flannel shirt, he looks like he The discussion turns to the flawless late-1970s walked straight off the film set. look of the film, complete with a vintage police

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UCH_OnceUponARiver_v6.indd 39 2/5/20 2:47 PM In an early scene from the movie that’s a prelude to Margo Crane’s river journey, Uncle Cal’s two young sons play with sparklers during a family gathering.

car and the $20 bills then in circulation. Camp- “That was part of the deal” with Rose, says Camp- bell’s aunt asks about the location. “My dad was bell. “You can’t make this movie unless you learn the one who said, if you’re looking for the late ’70s how to shoot.” She changes the subject, asking and you need this rural town,” Rose says, “you Rose, “Are you going to try to play ‘Rachel’s Song’?” should check out Antioch.” The northern Illinois “I was hoping you could read the beginning of town is near the Chain O’Lakes. “He’s the one the book,” Rose says. Campbell laughs. who turned me on to it.” “Who’s Rachel?” someone in the audience Bubon asks Rose to play another song. “Dad’s wants to know. favorite,” Rose says. “‘Margo.’” As she begins “You don’t have to know it, but it’s the song at to sing, her father listens intently; her mother the end of the movie that we all cry through,” says shoots a video on her phone. Campbell. “I’ve seen the movie six or so times, and I still cry every time.” Rachel is Margo’s “Your home is on the water unborn daughter, and one of the characters in You are the river’s daughter Campbell’s book Q Road (Scribner, 2002). Once Now that you’ve learned how to kill, Upon a River “is technically a prequel,” adds Rose. Can you ever be still?” Campbell pushes round tortoise-shell glasses from the middle of her nose up to her eyes. “The killing part doesn’t make sense anymore,” “The Stark River flowed around the oxbow Rose says in a quiet aside to Campbell, meaning at Murrayville the way blood flowed through now that Paul’s murder has been cut out. Margo Crane’s heart,” she reads aloud. “She “She kills the animals,” Campbell points out, rowed upstream to see wood ducks, canvasbacks, kindly. and ospreys and to search for tiger salamanders

Though the song was inspired by the book, it in the ferns. … Her feet were toughened against Photography by Daniel Klutznick isn’t in the film either. “It didn’t fi ,” says Rose. sharp stones and broken glass. When Margo “You have to kill your darlings sometimes.” swam, she swallowed minnows alive and felt the “Haroula?” It’s Campbell’s uncle. “How did Stark River move inside her.” you guys teach— You said you interviewed As Campbell reads, my eyes wander the wall Margo, or the actress, in New York City. How did of books behind her: Sunny Day; Make Way for she get so proficient with firearms?” Ducklings; I Want a Dog; Hello, Crow!; What Is a “She joined a rifle club right when she got the Refugee? Off to the side, a point-of-sale display part,” says Rose, who had firearms training herself. declares, “There’s magic in the pages you read.”

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UCH_OnceUponARiver_v6.indd 40 2/5/20 2:47 PM “The way I started that book is not how you’re book: “I fell in love with the way she puts words supposed to,” Campbell says as Rose re-tunes her together,” she says. “There’s something kind of guitar. “You’re supposed to start books with the magical about the world.” action, so everything I was taught I had to unlearn The moderator turns to DelaCerna, who’s mak- to write that.” ing her film debut. “I read the In the scene where “Ra- screenplay, and then I read chel’s Song” plays, Margo the book three times,” she is alone, heavily pregnant, I FELL IN LOVE says. “As soon as I read it, I floating on her back in her WITH THE WAY knew I wanted to do it.” Mar- beloved river. It’s hard to ex- SHE PUTS WORDS go was the reason. “There’s plain, but something about this quiet loudness about her her contented solitude, the TOGETHER. that was just screaming from sparkling water, and Rose’s THERE’S the page.” angelic voice make the scene “This might be a good mo- profoundly moving. SOMETHING ment also to acknowledge It’s a happy ending, sort KIND OF that filmmaking is never a of. Or is it? MAGICAL ABOUT solo effort,” Rose says. She “With her carrying a asks the producers and crew child, I do think that’s the THE WORLD. members to stand up. She perfect ending,” Rose said names the musicians who during our interview ear- contributed songs: Zac Rae lier. “The unfolding of womanhood, motherhood, of Death Cab for Cutie, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, the future, whatever all of those things mean. It’s Rodney Crowell. She credits her father again for dark and beautiful—” suggesting Antioch. “And scary,” Campbell added. “We’re scared “Is that a hand up for a question?” asks the for her.” moderator. “The young man right there in the As Rose begins to sing, the burly actor—the back?” one who cried when he saw the finished film— A tiny voice squeaks out a question. The moder- reaches over and takes his mother’s hand. He ator repeats: “What was the hardest scene to film?” doesn’t let go until the song is over. “Thank you, Peter. That’s a great question,” Rose says to the child, as sweetly as a kindergarten teacher. The crowd laughs. few days later, on a Saturday at noon, “We have the two sparkler boys in the audi- Once Upon a River screens for the third ence,” Rose explains. More laughter from the A and final time at the festival. room, mixed with “Awwww.” This time, having been tipped off, I spot Camp- It’s a brief, poignant scene early in the film. Uncle bell in her cameo, buying minnows in the back- Cal’s young children are waving sparklers at the ground of the bait shop. I laugh again at Smoke family party, while Margo—alone, excluded from (played by John Ashton, unrecognizable from his the family, while Uncle Cal remains—looks on. best-known role in Beverly Hills Cop), the cranky The hardest scene to film, as Rose explains in a

Photography by Daniel Klutznick old man Margo meets toward the end of her jour- minute, came soon after the sparkler scene, when ney. The music, especially now that I’ve heard it a Margo’s father is shot dead. Shooting scenes are few times, is transporting. I’m able to see the film difficult, and the fact that the shooting occurs at as its own beautiful thing, with its own integrity, night made it even more technically challenging. not a pared-down version of the book. But before she answers, Rose says to the boys, Rose, Campbell, and several actors—including “Can you stand up?” the star, Kenadi DelaCerna—are here for today’s They do, and receive a warm round of ap- Q&A. As they make their way toward the front, plause. In the world of Once Upon a River, even Rose explains again why she chose Campbell’s the sparkler boys get their moment to shine. ◆

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JAZZ AS CRI DE COEUR

The controversial 1959 film The Cry of Jazz could only have been made in Hyde Park.

BY HANNAH EDGAR, AB’18

alph Ellison despised it. Amiri Baraka said it in- “[The film] really seemed to get at what must have been fluenced his thinking. The late documentarian the feeling among many people when the processes of ur- Willard van Dyke called it “the most prophetic ban renewal were in motion,” says Stewart, who directs the film ever made.” Preceding the Black Power University’s Arts + Public Life initiative and preserves work movement and the widespread founding of Af- by local amateur filmmakers through the South Side Home rican American studies departments, The Cry Movie Project. “There was a lot of concern about where Af- of Jazz articulated an incisive view of black per- rican Americans could live and work and socialize on the sonhood that has been dissected, decried, and South Side and whether or not Hyde Park was going to be debated since its 1959 premiere. this model for interracial community, and whether white RProduced by an all-black creative team in and around people were really ready to have African Americans as so- Hyde Park, the 34-minute independent film depicts an in- cial and intellectual peers.” terracial jazz club meeting that turns tense after Alex, the The Cry of Jazz is even more remarkable given that it was a club secretary, asserts that only African Americans could novice attempt by four self-taught filmmakers: composer Ed- have created jazz. A heated debate ensues, interspersed ward Bland, EX’50, who studied music and philosophy at the with South Side scenes and early footage of Sun Ra and his University on the GI Bill; Nelam Hill, a Purdue graduate who Arkestra. What so chafed civil rights era audiences was The met Bland in the Navy and worked at Chicago’s Department of Cry of Jazz’s damning conclusion: if the African American City Planning; Eugene Titus, SB’46, SM’47, a childhood friend experience is inseparable from the intergenerational trau- of Bland’s and former Southern University professor then do- ma of racism and slavery, then white Americans, in turn, ing research at the Museum of Science and Industry; and Mark must be defined by their sins. Kennedy, author of the 1953 novel The Pecking Order. All were Throughout, The Cry of Jazz takes up music as a meta- drawn into the University of Chicago’s vibrant intellectual mi- phor for race in America. Though never named, Hyde Park lieu—but, Bland later recalled, their “real education” happened itself seems to extend the metaphor: everything from the after hours in Hyde Park bars. Copyright: Deep in the Pocket, 2018. Pocket, the in Deep Copyright: heady seminar-like style of the debate scenes to the name of “We’d hang out a lot at a bar called Jimmy’s, and get in the fictional music society (the Parkwood Jazz Club, whose these arguments with all these jazz-critics-to-be,” Bland meeting was filmed at an apartment at 51st and Greenwood) said in a 2007 Wax Poetics interview. “They were mostly makes the film’s setting all but obvious, its script a pointed White, and I felt there was a racial angle too; I felt they were nod to the community’s own roiling racial tensions. Cin- trying to, shall we say, wipe the Blackness out of jazz. And ema and media studies professor Jacqueline Stewart, AM’93, they wouldn’t listen to us, so we decided to put it in stone.” PhD’99, who grew up in Hyde Park and has studied The Together the four formed KHTB Productions (taken from Cry of Jazz for more than a decade, says she is struck by its the first letters of their surnames) and pooled their talents to “knowing and caustic view” of the neighborhood. bring The Cry of Jazz to life. Working closely with Bland and

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Hill, Kennedy supervised the script We’d hang out a would rather rent than purchase it, remotely from his new home in New lot at a bar called concluding that the University “[did] York City. As director, Bland brought not foresee frequent use sufficient to a distinctly musical approach to the Jimmy’s, and get in justify expenditure of money for one film’s structure, plotting out shots based these arguments given title.” (That didn’t stop Doc Films on the pacing of the Arkestra’s record- from independently screening the film ings—which the little-known ensemble with all these two years later as part of a series called allowed them to use gratis, in exchange jazz-critics-to-be. Image of the American Negro on Film.) for exposure. Hill managed the proj- Shortly after The Cry of Jazz’s com- ect’s finances, sourced entirely from the pletion, Bland and Hill joined Kennedy founders’ own salaries (with help from their wives). The film’s in New York City to begin work on a sequel, “The American all-volunteer cast and crew included Second City cast mem- Hero.” The film was written but never produced: with an es- ber Andrew Duncan, EX’58, and journalist Gavin MacFadyen, timated budget of $375,000, the project needed a major dis- who portrayed cynical white male interlocutors; actress Me- tributor, but no studio was willing to take the risk. It “went linda Dillon (credited as Linda Dillon) played a white female out to about 109 production companies and I got 109 rejec- jazz club member; and filmmaker Howard Alk, EX’49, offered tions,” Bland later told Wax Poetics. editing and technical assistance. Though it ended up being KHTB’s only film, The Cry of Ultimately The Cry of Jazz’s expenses (nearly $8,600) Jazz has had a more lasting impact on cinema studies and far outstripped its profi s ($2,300). However, its aims were black studies than its creators could have ever anticipated. more ideological than commercial. As New York Univer- The film’s 50th anniversary sparked a resurgence of schol- sity cinema studies professor Anna McCarthy argues, the arly interest, and in 2010, the National Film Preservation film’s didactic script and acting might have been influenced Board—on which Stewart serves as chair of the task force on by Cold War cultural television programming. (The Ford diversity, equity, and inclusion—recommended it for preser- Foundation’s Omnibus may be the most famous example, vation in the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry. but University professor Mortimer Adler’s The Great Ideas According to Stewart, the board cited The Cry of Jazz’s in- was another likely precedent.) clusion of Sun Ra, noncommercial aims, and deviance from Still, Stewart says, The Cry of Jazz defies easy categoriza- “traditions of black filmmaking, as we knew them.” It was tion, made at a time when so-called race films created for seg- inducted that same year. regated audiences were on the wane and blaxploitation was Bland was the only KHTB member who lived to see the still years off. “As a black-film historian, we really thought film’s renaissance. Mark Kennedy seems to have left no re- about the kind of late 1940s to late 1960s as a dead period of cord of his fate; Eugene Titus died in 1972. Nelam Hill was black filmmaking,” she says. “It does seem anomalous: It’s not a successful urban planner in the New York metropolitan narrative; it’s not a documentary either. So it’s doing some- area until his death in 1992. Bland became a successful com- thing else. It’s not exactly an essay film. It’s an argument.” poser, producer, and arranger—for Sun Ra as well as Dizzy At the time, The Cry of Jazz’s provocative pronounce- Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, and others—and wrote classical ments that “the Negro is the only human American” and music. He was working on a percussion suite when he died not “like everybody else” made both black and white critics in Smithfield, Virginia, in 2013. irate. Not unlike the film’s imagined debates, public screen- As for how Hyde Park remembers The Cry of Jazz? Inside ings all but devolved into screaming matches. One panel Jimmy’s, a faded, yellowing panorama hangs to the left of discussion at Cinema 16 in New York City—which included the bar. The ink cartoon, completed in 1955 by artist Arthur Bland, Kennedy, Ralph Ellison, and jazz critic Marshall Castillo, captures a clamoring night at the dive, featuring Copyright: Deep in the Pocket, 2018. Pocket, the in Deep Copyright: Stearns—was even briefly interrupted by a police officer. real-life regulars of all races. But it also captured history. Correspondence between Bland and Hill suggests that Front and center in the tableau, Ed Bland and Nelam Hill several colleges and universities across the country, both sit opposite each other, deep in conversation, Hill’s palm historically black and predominantly white institutions, emblazoned with the word “PEACE.” Behind them, at the screened The Cry of Jazz. However, John Fritz, director of bar, Mark Kennedy is already writing, observing the bac- the University of Chicago’s Audio-Visual Center, declined chanal all around with a knowing smile. ◆ to do so, writing in a 1960 letter to Hill that he feared vio- lent disruptions to an on-campus screening. He added that Hannah Edgar, AB’18, is a writer and editor in Chicago. Ella Hester, he found the film’s argument “somewhat questionable” and AB’19, provided research assistance.

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In this Polish poster for Midnight Cowboy (1969), Dwight M. Cleveland, MBA’87, sees artist Waldemar Świerzy using “creative ways of communicating the message of the movie” to evade censors. 2/5/20 2:40 PM UCH_DwightClevelandSTLA_v11.indd 45 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE MAGAZINE CHICAGO OF UNIVERSITY THE

FILM | WINTER 2020 POSTER PERFECT Dwight M. Cleveland, MBA’87, collects film posters with an eye for high art. 45 2/5/20 2:40 PM BY ANDREW PEART, AM’16, PHD’18 UCH_DwightClevelandSTLA_v11.indd 46 46 46 hen Dwight M. Cleveland, MBA’87, Poster artists “captured the soul” of

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE MAGAZINE CHICAGO OF UNIVERSITY THE sees a film poster that has as- the films they represented, he writes cended from advertising to art, in his 2019 book Cinema on Paper: “it’s just really kind of a visceral The Graphic Genius of Movie Posters thing,” he says. “Most of the stuff (Assouline). “The best posters in my that I buy, it’s like a chemical re- mind,” he continues, “are those that action when I see it.” reduce the entire essence of a movie That deep-seated intuition into a single, vivid sheet.” Cleveland goes back to his earliest days has distilled his collection to 3,500 as a collector. He was a senior works on paper that meet this high at Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts, aesthetic standard. (He amassed a whenW an art teacher who collected posters returned separate archive of 45,000 posters, from a buying trip with something special. In a stack all of them now sold or donated, for | WINTER 2020 of lobby cards, the smaller-scale advertisements that their historical rather than artistic once greeted moviegoers inside cinemas, Cleveland value.) The culled pieces are Cleve- saw a portrait card for Wolf Song, a 1929 silent film land’s argument that film posters starring Gary Cooper and Mexican actress Lupe belong in the worlds of both com- Vélez. The image, he says, “just screamed out at me, mercial and fine art. They were the ‘Take me home.’ I had to own this thing. I loved it.” basis of a major exhibition last year He could only get it by offering an acceptable trade. at the Norton Museum of Art in West With its hand-tinted art deco graphics, this lobby card for So with his teacher’s want list in hand, he spent the Palm Beach, Florida, the largest-ever Wolf Song (1929) catalyzed Cleveland’s collecting passion. next eight months during a gap year in Los Angeles museum show of film posters and a acquiring posters that won him Wolf Song. landmark for the art form. We’ve stepped into the kitchen of Cleveland’s Lin- Reaching from the earliest days of cinema to the 21st insight into the romance that inspires collectors and coln Park home, an Italianate row house he restored in century, Cleveland’s collection is exceptional for its in- keeps the posters themselves alive. Not long after his the early 1980s. Since graduating from Chicago Booth, ternational scope. “I’ve been to every continent other Wolf Song days, Cleveland received an ad response Cleveland has run a Chicago real estate company that than Antarctica hunting this stuff down,” he says. For from a Minnesota woman with a box of 27 film post- does historic renovations of homes like this one. Vin- more than 40 years he’s traveled regularly to France, ers. She had received them from a movie theater em- tage fixtures and décor, like the art nouveau chande- where illustrator Marcellin Auzolle created perhaps ployee who courted her in high school. He was one of lier inside the front door, hearken back to the home’s the world’s first film poster in 1895 for the Lumière the people Cleveland calls the “first curators” of film post–Great Chicago Fire era. brothers. He took his search to Italy in 1985, finding poster art. “He wanted to romance this woman,” so Cleveland gathers these pieces before they become posters by such celebrated artists as Luigi Martinati he saved a special selection of the hundreds of post- impossible to find, as with many of his prized posters. and Angelo Cesselon. In the 1990s he became an early ers Cleveland figures he would have handled at the Never sold to the public and never meant to outlast collector of Japanese posters, some with distinctive theater in the late 1920s—including a vibrant stone local theatrical runs of the films they advertised, the two-panel designs, and a trip to Cuba that same decade lithograph poster, one of two known surviving copies, ephemera Cleveland collects live on the edge of loss. “If deepened his focus on Latin American works. In 2017 for the lost 1926 silent film Men of Steel. “He was like an image haunts me a little bit,” he says, “then I know he donated more than 1,000 Argentinian posters to a great art critic,” Cleveland says. And her stashing that I should own it.” the University of Texas at Austin, one of the institu- them away for decades was part of the miracle collec- For Cleveland, the art of the film poster, like the art tions that he’s found share his collecting interest. tors like Cleveland depend on. “It’s completely an act of collecting, comes from maximum concentration. In an early find closer to home, Cleveland gained of God that these things survived.” ◆ 2/5/20 2:40 PM

All images courtesy Dwight M. Cleveland, MBA’87 , Doña Diabla Doña lm fi MenSteelof survives rareina poster Cleveland lm fi artistJosé Spert created this image screenof icon María Félix with the airbrush. an of use masterful considersthe epitome stoneof lithography. Its artist isunknown. Above:Forhis poster advertising the 1950 Mexican Left:The lost 1926

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UCH_DwightClevelandSTLA_v11.indd 47 2/5/20 2:40 PM (1967). Below: AnArgentinian poster Le Samouraï Le lm (1945) anartist by known asEssex. fi The Lost Weekend Lost The Working more independently than art department staffe department art than independently Hollywood more at s Working studios,European and Latin American poster designers often used anartist’s signature.Left: Cuban artist Antonio Fernández Reboiro’s silkscreen poster forthe French crime for

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UCH_DwightClevelandSTLA_v11.indd 48 2/5/20 2:41 PM (1925). (1947). Right: Dolly Dolly KissRight: Deathof (1947). Battleship Potemkin Battleship lmnoir fi Two expressionistic Two posters Dutch by artists show the art form’s avant-garde side. Starkangles and vivid colors deliver powerful emotional statements. Below: Kik Berg’sdesign for the Henry Hathaway Eisenstein’s Sergei for poster Rudeman’s

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UCH_DwightClevelandSTLA_v11.indd 49 2/5/20 2:41 PM , puts, James Bond in tatekan (1942), and tookit Cleveland rsttripJapan to with 2,000 handpicked fi Casablanca (1965) two-panel, or Thunderball Left:Cleveland returned from his posters.This anaction-packed composite. copies areAbove: known Two exist to Italian of artistLuigi Martinati’s poster for 10years negotiatingof acquireto his.

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Below: Marilyn Monroe was not a star when Ladies of the Chorus, a B movie musical, was first released in 1949. By the time it reached Italy, though, her glamour alone could sell tickets. Artist Angelo Cesselon, who brought a portraitist’s flair to his posters, reinterpreted the film through Marilyn’s aura. 2/5/20 2:41 PM UChicago Photographic Archive, apf3-03034, University of Chicago Library Chicago of apf3-03034,University Archive, Photographic UChicago

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REPORTING FOR DUTY During World War II, Burton-Judson Courts housed a US Navy radio and signal training school, one of several military programs hosted by a mobilized University. Service members and civilian students alike lived in BJ. In this 1944 photo, College student and future journalist Roderick MacLeish, EX’46, shows the sentry his entry pass. Exiting the gate are two unidentified Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service).

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BUSINESS SAVVY Fortune magazine named Satya Nadella, MBA’97, its 2019 Businessper- son of the Year. Nadella, a UChicago trustee, has led Microsoft since 2014; under his leadership, Microsoft’s rev- enues have increased steadily and its share price has quadrupled. Fortune cited Nadella’s focus on cloud services and willingness to delegate as key ele- ments of the revitalized company’s success. “CEOs can only do what they do if they have an amazing team,” Nadella said. “I’m blessed to have that.”

A DIRECTOR’S LEGACY The late Mike Nichols, EX’53, is the CINEMATIC HISTORY subject of the book Life Isn’t Every- Director Kimberly Peirce’s (AB’90) Boys Don’t Cry (1999) was inducted into the thing: Mike Nichols, as Remembered National Film Registry on December 11. Each year the Librarian of Congress (cur- by 150 of His Closest Friends (Henry rently Carla Hayden, AM’77, PhD’87) selects 25 films for the National Film Registry Holt and Co., 2019), a portrait based on on the basis of their cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance. Boys Don’t Cry interviews with collaborators including was inducted alongside Purple Rain (1984), Coal Miner’s Daughter (1990), and Real Meryl Streep and Lorne Michaels. The Women Have Curves (2002). Based on the life and murder of Brandon Teena, Boys book follows Nichols from his arrival in Don’t Cry was a landmark for transgender representation in film. Peirce described the United States as a seven-year-old the honor as “unimaginable and wonderful,” saying, “It still feels like a miracle that Jewish refugee to his comedy partner- Boys Don’t Cry got made.” ship with Elaine May and his celebrated career as a film and theater director. Written by Ash Carter and Sam Kash- Service Administration, becomes execu- ending life sentences without parole for ner, Life Isn’t Everything takes its title tive director of the National Center for juveniles. “The Senate is a collection of from one of Nichols’s favorite phrases Lesbian Rights. Founded in 1977, the diverse views and diverse experiences and sheds new light on the mind behind San Francisco–based legal organization but consistent purpose—to best rep- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) advocates for the civil and human rights resent the citizens who send us to the and The Graduate (1967). of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgen- Capitol, to collaborate, to compromise, der people. Rupert-Gordon previously and to create better opportunities, bet- PROMOTING PUBLIC RADIO served as the executive director of two ter outcomes, and greater faith in the In October John McGinn, AB’90, Chicago nonprofits: Affinity Community honor and integrity of our state,” Har- MBA’93, was elected to a three-year Services, a social justice organiza- mon said. term as chair of the NPR Foundation’s tion serving black LGBTQ people, and board of trustees, which provides fund- Broadway Youth Center, helping home- TOP BILLING raising support for NPR and its member less LGBTQ youth. “As we continue the Anna Chlumsky, AB’02, will star in stations. He also serves on the boards fight for legal protections to achieve writer and producer Shonda Rhimes’s of New York Public Radio, Radio Diaries, LGBTQ equality, I’m excited to be part of new Netflix series Inventing Anna, set and the American Friends of Covent creating a more inclusive LGBTQ move- for release later this year. The 10- Garden. McGinn, who previously held a ment that centers racial, economic, and episode series is based on the sensation- variety of senior roles in consumer lend- political justice,” she said. al story of “Soho grifter” Anna Sorokin, ing and risk management at Citigroup, convicted of larceny in April 2019 for was a member of the University’s Alumni LEGISLATIVE LEADER conning hotels, restaurants, and banks Zich by John Photography Board from 2001 to 2008 and received Don Harmon, JD’94, MBA’94, was out of hundreds of thousands of dollars the Alumni Service Medal in 2018. sworn in as president of the Illinois Sen- while posing as socialite Anna Delvey. ate on January 19. A Democrat from Oak Chlumsky, a six-time Emmy nominee for ADVOCATE FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS Park, Illinois, Harmon was elected to the her performance in Veep, will play a jour- On March 16 Imani Rupert-Gordon, Senate in 2002 and has sponsored laws nalist investigating Delvey. AM’13, an alumna of the School of Social limiting campaign contributions and —Susie Allen, AB’09

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The great 28: Maroon lineman Robert E. Johnson, AB’40, shows what the original Monsters of the Midway were made of in an action shot taken during the 1936–37 academic year. Johnson, who died in 2009, worked for more than four decades at Argonne National

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Photography by Archie Lieberman, UChicago Photographic Archive, apf4-01196, University of Chicago Library Chicago of University apf4-01196, Archive, Photographic UChicago Lieberman, Archie by Photography Noyes Hall gym for Orientation Week Activities Night in 1959. Athena Inst. Braefield Rd Chester Spgs, PA 19425 UCM

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Magician Simon Aronson, AB’64 (Class of 1965), AM’65, JD’73, shown performing at a children’s party at age 16, died in December (see Deaths, page 77). The retired Chicago real estate lawyer began practicing magic at age 8 with a Mandrake the Magician set and by age 11 was providing entertainment at festivities like this one. “It’s the Thought That Counts,” the mind-reading act he refined over decades with his wife, Virginia Aronson, AB’69, AM’73, JD’75, took inspiration from the 1956 Broadway production of The Great Sebastians—a melodramatic comedy featuring husband-and-wife mentalists in postwar Prague—and a mind-reading duo he saw at a Chicago Woolworth’s in 1965. The Aronsons’ act became known as one of the greatest of its kind in the world. He UChicago’s monthly earned similar fame in the realm of card magic, inventing widely used tricks like Red See e-newsletter for parents.

Ar onson V irginia and S imon c ourtesy Photo Passover and creating the Aronson stack, a popular memorized deck. Subscribe today. alumni.uchicago.edu/ parental-guidance Photography by Archie Lieberman, UChicago Photographic Archive, apf4-01196, University of Chicago Library Chicago of University apf4-01196, Archive, Photographic UChicago Lieberman, Archie by Photography

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Works and days: The names of these construction workers, photographed on their Regenstein Library job site in October 1968, are lost to history. But the Reg has endured for nearly half a century. Then under construction for just over a year, the new library, in the words of the Chicago Maroon, would “utilize some of the latest and best concepts on information retrieval and research.” Readers replaced builders in October 1970, when the brutalist structure was dedicated and the first fl or opened to students. Next autumn quarter, the Reg will celebrate its 50th anniversary with an exhibition featuring rarities

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AlumniNews_Winter20_v23.indd 59 2/5/20 2:17 PM Before there was e-registration, there was Sleepout: In 1986 more than 800 College students camped out overnight on the main quadrangle in advance of course . All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. with Reprinted reserved. rights All M aroon . C hicago The registration. As the Magazine reported that year, some students whiled away the time by taking part in “Bottles across America,” attempting “to create a line of beer bottles reaching from Harper [Memorial Library] to the Joseph Regenstein Library.” Write to [email protected] if you can tell us whether they made their goal—a

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AlumniNews_Winter20_v23.indd 60 2/5/20 2:18 PM For the seekers: Ads for job, volunteer, internship, and educational opportunities greeted visitors to the University’s career advising office in 1997, a program that originated 70 years earlier as the Board of Vocational Guidance and Placement. “A large number of undergraduates in every college have no idea where they are . All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. with Reprinted reserved. rights All M aroon . C hicago The vocationally headed,” the office’s executive secretary wrote in 1929. “To help these students solve their problem is what one means by vocational guidance.” Rechristened in 2012 as Career Advancement, the office continues to help students find where they are headed in their lives after college, most recently establishing

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AlumniNews_Winter20_v23.indd 61 2/5/20 2:18 PM Electromagnetic specs: As a doctoral student researching the photophysics of proteins, John E. Hansen, PhD’91, worked in the spectroscopy laboratory of chemistry professor Graham R. Fleming, who cofounded the University’s Institute for L ibrary hicago C o f U niversity ap f4-09779 chive, Ar P hotographic U Chicago Wright, Jim Biophysical Dynamics. The ultrafast laser equipment Hansen used would send pulses through a sample, bringing it to an excited state to reveal its properties and behavior. Hansen now teaches chemistry at the University of West Georgia, where he helps run a laser-based spectroscopy lab and directs the laboratory for low temperature studies

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TRUSTEE chairing the geophysical sciences depart- A certified trainer and yoga instructor, in ment, he served as master of the Physical 2008 she joined the staff of UChicago’s group Stanley M. Freehling, EX’46, trustee emeri- Sciences Collegiate Division and associate wellness program and as a fitness instructor tus, died September 20 in Highland Park, dean of the Physical Sciences Division and taught cardio-kickboxing and yoga. Having IL. He was 95. An investment banker and the College. Through a partnership between received her master’s in social work from philanthropist, Freehling was for decades the PSD and the University of Chicago Harris Loyola University Chicago in August, she a senior partner at the Chicago brokerage School of Public Policy, he cofounded and co- also worked at that school’s affiliated Em- firm Freehling and Company. Elected to directed the environmental science and pub- powering Counseling Program and at Hart- UChicago’s Board of Trustees in 1983, he lic policy master’s program. Among other grove Hospital. Survivors include a son, her became a trustee emeritus in 1989, also serv- publications, he wrote the textbook Princi- mother and father, and three sisters. ing as a life member of the Smart Museum ples of Atmospheric Science (2008). A win- Board of Governors and as a member of the ner of the Quantrell Award for Excellence in 1940s Court Theatre Board of Trustees and the Undergraduate Teaching, he also received Division of the Humanities Council. Known the Physical Sciences Division’s Arthur L. Gertrude Himmelfarb, AM’44, PhD’50, died as Chicago’s “patron saint of the arts,” he Kelly Prize for Exceptional Faculty Service. December 30 in Washington, DC. She was actively supported the Ravinia Festival, Frederick retired in 2015. He is survived by 97. A leading scholar of 19th-century British the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Good- his partner, Genevieve LaGreca. intellectual history, Himmelfarb was known man Theatre. In 1985 he was appointed by Alexei M. Khokhlov, professor in the Depart- for examining and defending the moral and President Ronald Reagan to the President’s ment of Astronomy and Astrophysics, died of social thought of the Victorians. With her Committee on the Arts and Humanities. complications from esthesioneuroblastoma husband, Irving Kristol, whom she met at a He is survived by two daughters, a son, five May 4 in Fairfax, VA. He was 65. Born in Trotskyite gathering, she became a framer of grandchildren, and a great-grandchild. Moscow, Khokhlov worked as a researcher the neoconservative movement. She taught at at what is now the Institute of Astronomy of City College of New York, Brooklyn College, FACULTY AND STAFF the Russian Academy of Sciences, at the Max and the City University of New York Gradu- Planck Institute for Astrophysics, and at the ate Center. Among other works, she wrote in- Jonathan Kleinbard, former vice president of US Naval Research Laboratory before join- tellectual biographies of Lord Acton, Charles University news and community affairs, died ing the UChicago faculty in 2003. A theoreti- Darwin, and John Stuart Mill; her book October 16 in Philadelphia. He was 80. A jour- cal and computational astrophysicist, he also Victorian Minds: A Study of Intellectuals in nalist and editor early in his career, Klein- held positions at the Enrico Fermi Institute Crisis and Ideologies in Transition (1968) was a bard joined the University’s development and the forerunner of the Flash Center for National Book Award finalist. Her many hon- and public affairs department in 1965. After Computational Science. His many scientific ors include the National Humanities Medal, a brief stint at the Children’s Foundation in contributions include the delayed-detona- the University of Chicago Alumni Medal, and Washington, DC, in 1971 he returned to the tion model of thermonuclear-powered su- more than a dozen honorary degrees. She is University, serving as a key administrator pernovae, which helped astronomers better survived by a daughter, a son, five grandchil- and spokesperson until 1997. Overseeing ef- understand a category of white-dwarf ex- dren, and five great-grandchildren. forts to strengthen the University’s commu- plosions used to ascertain the cosmological Charles H. Cooley, PhB’47, died November nity relations, he formed local partnerships parameters of the universe. Khokhlov also 3, 2017, in Randolph Center, VT. He was 91. and helped community leaders establish created some of the first three-dimensional Initially intending to continue his education organizations to spur revitalization in the computer simulations of these astronomical at UChicago as a medical student, Cooley left Woodlawn and North Kenwood–Oakland events. He is survived by his wife, Almadena to serve in the US Navy and then, during the neighborhoods. His efforts included restor- Chtchelkanova; two daughters; a son; a sis- Korean War, in the US Army. After taking ing the Midway Plaisance. He is survived by ter; and two grandchildren. over his father’s Vermont dairy farm, he be- his wife, Joan; two sisters; and two brothers. Sarah Jane Love, AB’88, AM’96, of River- gan a new career as an educator, first teach- Paul B. Moore, SM’63, PhD’65, professor side, IL, died of complications from a heart ing high school math and then in Vermont emeritus in the Department of Geophysical condition December 10. She was 54. Love Technical College’s pretechnology program. Sciences, died March 2, 2019, in Houston. earned her UChicago degrees in English Cooley later served in local government. He He was 78. A leading mineralogist for whom language and literature, specializing in Old is survived by three sons, a brother, a grand- the lead arsenite known as paulmooreite English and medieval literature. A member child, and a great-grandchild. was named, Moore traveled to the Swedish of the University’s Alumni Relations and William F. Johns, LAB’45, PhB’48, SM’51, National History Museum in 1965 on a post- Development staff for nearly a decade, she died September 22 in Bonita Springs, FL. doctoral fellowship and did field research in worked in prospect research, stewardship, He was 89. With a doctorate in chemistry, the mineral-rich Långban mining area, on donor relations, and communications. She Johns worked at G. D. Searle to develop new which he became an expert. He joined the later joined the staff of the Brookfield Zoo, pharmaceuticals, particularly steroid com- University faculty in 1966. Over the next running a one-person research operation in pounds. After serving as director of medical three decades, he named and described the zoo’s development office. Deeply com- chemistry research at the company, he took dozens of new minerals, and his research mitted to animal welfare and wildlife pres- a senior position in the same research area at transformed how scientists analyze crystal ervation, Love volunteered with the Tree Sterling Drug. In retirement he was a master structures. His honors include the Quantrell House Humane Society and belonged to the gardener and taught driver safety for AARP. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Brookfield, IL, chapter of the American As- He is survived by his wife, Patricia; a daugh- Teaching and the Mineralogical Society of sociation of Zoo Keepers. She is survived by ter; two sons; four grandchildren; and five America Award. two sisters and a brother. great-grandchildren. John E. Frederick, professor emeritus in the Sidra E. Newman, a personal trainer in the Robert B. Riley, LAB’46, PhB’49, died August Department of Geophysical Sciences, of Car- Department of Athletics and Recreation, 21 in Urbana, IL. He was 88. Riley studied ar- mel, IN, died January 30, 2019. He was 69. An died September 25 in Chicago. She was 51. chitecture under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe atmospheric scientist, Frederick worked at Newman served in administrative roles at at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center before UChicago since 2000, holding positions at ogy, served in the US Air Force, and worked coming to UChicago in 1985. In addition to International House and later in athletics. at architectural firms in Maryland and New

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Layout_Deaths_Winter20_v7.indd 76 2/5/20 2:33 PM Mexico before embarking on an academic the collection of the City University of New and coedited an anthology of work by Sac- career. At the University of New Mexico, he York’s QCC Art Gallery. ramento writers. Jointly named to the city’s started as a campus planner, then taught ar- Carol Henderson Ganzel, AM’54, died Oc- first poet laureateship, he received the Po- chitecture and directed the school’s Center for tober 27 in Oberlin, OH. She was 88. Ganzel etry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Environmental Research and Development. was editor of the Oberlin College faculty and Award and earned Guggenheim and Nation- In 1970 he joined the University of Illinois at staff newspaper the Observer for 15 years al Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. His Urbana-Champaign, heading the landscape and served on the board of the American wife, Loretta (D’Agostino) Schmitz, EX’60, architecture department and later cofound- Civil Liberties Union of Ohio. She published died in 2016. He is survived by three daugh- ing a joint PhD program in architecture and scholarly writing on Anthony Trollope in ters, two sons, and 10 grandchildren. landscape architecture. He is survived by a the journal Nineteenth Century Fiction. Her Michael A. Oppenheimer, AB’62, died Sep- daughter, a son, and four grandchildren. husband, Dewey A. Ganzel, AM’54, PhD’58, tember 4 in Bainbridge Township, OH. He Liane Brauch Russell, PhD’49, died July 20 an English professor at Oberlin, died in was 77. During his more than 50 years in in Oak Ridge, TN. She was 95. Fleeing Vi- 2011. She is survived by three daughters, the rabbinate, Oppenheimer served at the enna after the Anschluss, Russell worked at including Emily Frances Ganzel, AB’85; and Tree of Life Congregation in Columbia, SC, Maine’s Jackson Laboratory before she and three grandchildren. where he was the first Jewish president of her husband, William L. Russell, PhD’37, George E. Massay, DB’55, died September 1 the Columbia Ministerial Association, and joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory and in Virginia Beach, VA. He was 92. A World went on to become the longtime rabbi of built a colony of lab mice, the famous “Mouse War II US Navy veteran and a minister, Cleveland-area Suburban Temple-Kol Ami, House,” to study genetics. Her research on Massay served Christian Churches (Dis- introducing Hebrew language instruction, embryology and radiation exposure led to ciples of Christ) and Churches of Christ in family education, and programs for inter- guidelines adopted worldwide for X-ray use Canada, England, and the United States, in- faith couples. Returning from retirement on women of childbearing age. She also dis- cluding Grafton Christian Church in York- to lead a congregation in Mansfield, OH, he covered that the Y chromosome determines town, VA. He is survived by his wife, Alice; taught courses on Judaism and Jewish his- maleness in mammals. A member of the a son; and a granddaughter. tory at John Carroll University. He is sur- National Academy of Sciences and the first Katherine Biddle Austin, AM’57, died August vived by his wife, Carolyn; a daughter; a son; woman to receive the Roentgen Medal, in 26 in Hanover, NH. She was 89. After earn- and four grandchildren. 1994 she earned the Enrico Fermi Award, the ing her master’s in human development, Joyce Turner Hilkevitch, AM’63, died April US Department of Energy’s highest research Austin became a clinical psychologist in 19 in Chicago. She was 97. Hilkevitch raised honor. Her husband died in 2003. She is sur- Chicago, working in mental health services a family before earning her master’s from vived by a daughter, a stepdaughter, a son, and eventually in private practice. A life- the School of Social Service Administra- two stepsons, and four step-grandchildren. long amateur archaeologist, Austin worked tion. She went on to work at Hull House and Edwin “Ted” P. Wiley, AB’49, JD’52, died with Mayan hieroglyph epigraphers in in public health and to serve on the Illinois October 4 in Milwaukee. He was 89. Wiley Central America and was a docent at the Governor’s Commission for the Advance- spent his legal career at Foley & Lardner in Field Museum for more than two decades. ment of Women. In 1973 she founded the Milwaukee, founding its intellectual prop- She is survived by three daughters, four organization Mostly Music and directed erty department and helping establish its stepchildren, seven grandchildren, and six numerous series of chamber music concerts practice in technology law. An award in his step-grandchildren. until her retirement in 2001. Her husband, honor was created at the firm to recognize Donald R. Sanders, MBA’58, died July 1 in Aaron A. Hilkevitch, SB’33, died in 2008. outstanding client service. The recipient of Mount Joy, PA. He was 84. Sanders was a She is survived by a daughter, Susan Turner a UChicago Alumni Public Service Award, vice president of marketing at the Philadel- Jones, LAB’73; a son, David B. Turner, Wiley was a past member of the College Ad- phia advertising agency N. W. Ayer & Son and LAB’65; three step-daughters; 13 grandchil- visory Council and the Law School Council. then at Scott Paper Company. In retirement dren; and two great-grandchildren. He is survived by three sons, Edwin M. Wiley, he developed his talent for carving song- Simon H. Aronson, AB’64, AM’65, JD’73, AB’72, MBA’74, Clayton A. Wiley, AB’76, birds. He is survived by his wife, Margaret; a died December 10 in Chicago. He was 76. and Stephen P. Wiley, AB’80, MBA’85; and daughter; two sons; and four grandchildren. An inventor of magic tricks from an early four grandchildren. age, Aronson practiced real estate law and 1960s became a partner at the Chicago firm Lord, 1950s Bissell & Brook before retiring to pursue Mary D. Griffin, AM’61, PhD’63, of Ashland, magic full time. He earned an international William E. Rattner, LAB’52, died March MA, died May 23. She was 95. A member of reputation for his innovations in close-up 16, 2019, in Evanston, IL. He was 82. After the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin magic, publishing numerous books on the a long career as a commercial attorney and Mary for 25 years, in 1965 Griffin joined the subject and introducing some now-classic litigator with several Chicago firms, Rattner faculty of Boston College and for nearly a de- card tricks. With his wife, Virginia “Ginny” became executive director of Lawyers for cade served as dean of what is now its Lynch L. Aronson, AB’69, AM’73, JD’75, he became the Creative Arts, a pro bono legal services School of Education and Human Develop- well known as a performer of the mind- organization. During his 15 years there, he ment. In addition to creating and codirecting reading act “It’s the Thought That Counts.” expanded the organization’s board, broad- the school’s teacher corps program for Bos- He is survived by his wife and his brother, ened its sources of funding, and developed ton and Lowell, MA, she initiated and led a Bernard W. Aronson, AB’68. (For more, see new programs. He is survived by his wife, fellowship program at Boston College to pre- Alumni News, page 60.) Gale; a son; a sister; and two grandchildren. pare teachers for work in urban areas. She is Fred G. Steingraber, MBA’64, died July 4 in Rachel Winston Rippy, AB’53, died August survived by her husband, James McGahay. Charleston, SC. He was 80. A former execu- 27 in New York City. She was 89. An artist Dennis M. Schmitz, AM’61, died September tive at Chicago-based management consult- and an educator dedicated to the philosophy 12 in Oakland, CA. He was 82. An acclaimed ing firm A. T. Kearney, Steingraber led its of self-directed learning, Rippy, along with poet, Schmitz taught at several colleges and European and Middle Eastern operations her husband, taught at New York City’s Fif- universities in the Midwest before joining before becoming the company’s chair and teenth Street School before they both joined California State University, Sacramento, managing partner, guiding its expanding the Bank Street College of Education, where where he was an English professor for more global presence during a period of dramatic she served on the graduate faculty, advised than three decades. His first book, We Weep growth. Active on the boards of many cor- a program in museum education, and di- for Our Strangeness (1969), was selected for porations and nonprofits, he helped estab- rected a program in administration and the Big Table Series of Younger Poets; he lish Chicago Booth’s Fred G. Steingraber/ supervision. 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Layout_Deaths_Winter20_v7.indd 77 2/5/20 2:34 PM learning among alumni. He is survived by his use of computer-based graphics, later serv- he oversaw administration and finance. Af- wife, Veronika; a daughter; a son; two broth- ing as LaSalle Bank’s first in-house graphic ter retiring, he served for more than three ers; and three grandchildren. designer. A former president of the Society decades as a director of Micron Industries. Marc R. Cogan, LAB’61, AB’65, PhD’74, died of Typographic Arts, he was a member of He is survived by his wife, Joyce; two sons; September 18 in Paris. He was 74. A scholar the UChicago alumni clubs in Chicago and a sister; and five grandchildren. of philosophy, history, Romance languages, Indiana. He is survived by his wife, Jo; a Frank L. Ellsworth, PhD’76, died October 20 and literature, Cogan spent his career in daughter; a sister; and a brother. in Palm Springs, CA. He was 76. An assis- the humanities department at Wayne State J. Aidan O’Reilly, MBA’70, of Cork, Ireland, tant dean at the University of Chicago Law University, where he also served as chief died September 15. He was 82. O’Reilly was School (1971–79), Ellsworth wrote a history faculty negotiator with the administration. head of business and professional studies at of the school’s founding, Law on the Midway His books include The Design in the Wax: the inception of Northern Ireland Polytech- (1977), and lectured in the Social Sciences The Structure of the Divine Comedy and Its nic, later becoming dean of faculty. When Collegiate Division. He then served for a Meaning (1999). Recently he had been at the school merged to form the University dozen years as president of Pitzer College, work on a project about Saint Augustine. His of Ulster, he helped expand its faculty and where he also taught political science, before first wife, Sarah Wallace Cogan, AB’66, died develop its undergraduate, professional, and becoming head of the Independent Colleges in 2004. He later married Ann McConnell, graduate degree programs. He eventually of Southern California. Ellsworth later held LAB’63, who died in 2018. served as pro-vice-chancellor and provost of leadership positions at several organiza- Daniel S. Blumenthal, MD’68, died July 25 the Coleraine campus. As a consultant with tions, including the Art Center College of De- in Atlanta. He was 77. After joining the Vol- the International Trade Centre, he advised sign and Capital Research and Management unteers in Service to America and opening governments in Southeast Asia and Greece Company. Survivors include a daughter. a cooperative health clinic in Lee County, on starting national training centers in ex- Thomas J. McLean, AB’77, died August 14 in AR, Blumenthal worked as an epidemiolo- port and trade. He is survived by his wife, Okemos, MI. He was 71. With a degree from gist with the Centers for Disease Control Rita; three daughters; and a son. the University of Pittsburgh Law School, and Prevention and with the World Health Ronald Dean Heveran, MBA’71, of Fairhope, McLean worked as a contracts attorney Organization’s smallpox eradication pro- AL, died July 4. He was 87. At companies in- and became a partner at the Philadelphia gram in India and Somalia. In 1980 he joined cluding US Steel, Transunion, and Vulcan, firm Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis. the Morehouse School of Medicine, where Heveran held management positions in ac- A self-taught computer programmer in he founded the community health and pre- counting, computer systems, and marketing. retirement, he designed and built several ventive medicine department, served as as- Active with his local Episcopal church in re- robots, including autonomous ones. He is sociate dean of community health, and led tirement, he also served on environmental survived by his wife, Athena (Barthelmess) the school’s Prevention Research Center, advisory boards for Fairhope and Baldwin McLean, EX’70; a daughter, Thea H. McLean, retiring in 2014. He is survived by his wife, County, AL. He is survived by his wife, AB’06; a son; and a sister, Susan McLean Marjorie Speers; a daughter; two sons; his Rose Mary; a son; a sister, Judith G. Bemis, McGrath, AM’67. stepmother; a sister; and two brothers. AM’66; a brother; and two grandchildren. Lawrence F. Fisher, MBA’68, died March Peter A. Trace, MD’71, died July 30 near 1980s 29 in Winston-Salem, NC. He was 81. A US Manchester, IL. He was 73. After serving as Navy veteran with a bachelor’s in mechani- a chief resident in obstetrics and gynecol- Seth E. Cogan, AB’89, died October 5 in Cae- cal engineering, Fisher earned his MBA ogy at Chicago’s former Columbus Hospital, sarea, Israel. He was 52. Cogan worked as while working at International Harvester Trace spent several years as an attending a financial adviser. Passionately dedicated and then joined IBM as a systems engineer. physician at Cook County Hospital and an to his family, he was proud to live in Israel He is survived by two daughters, a son, a associate professor in the Chicago Medical and serve as a licensed tour guide there. He brother, and six grandchildren. School’s obstetrics and gynecology depart- is survived by his wife, Lainie; a daughter; a Leah Webb Schroeder, AM’68, of Wash- ment. He later opened a community practice son; his parents; and three brothers. ington, DC, died November 11. She was 75. in Jacksonville, IL, where he was a clinician A Woodrow Wilson Fellow from Louisiana for more than three decades. He is survived 1990s State University and a political science stu- by his wife, Konnie; a daughter; four sons; dent at UChicago, Schroeder built a life of two brothers; and 12 grandchildren. Pat E. Garrett, MBA’91, of Crystal Lake, IL, public service with her husband, Richard Elizabeth “Betty” Brummall Balanoff, died September 5, 2018. He was 69. After E. Schroeder, AM’65, PhD’75. She worked PhD’74, died May 28 in Chicago. She was serving in the US Army, Garrett studied on the Louisiana gubernatorial campaign 92. Professor emerita of history at Roo- computer science at Roosevelt University. of US Representative Gillis Long, served as sevelt University, Balanoff worked for Earning his MBA while working at North- his congressional chief of staff, and man- Richard Hatcher’s historic 1968 election ern Trust, he later became a sales executive aged his reelection campaigns while living as the first black mayor of Gary, IN, and at IBM. He is survived by his wife, Karen; a in Western Europe, where her husband was wrote her dissertation on the history of daughter; a son; two sisters; a brother; and a CIA officer. In Washington, DC, she later Gary’s African American community. four grandchildren. worked as vice president of government af- She directed Roosevelt’s Labor Oral His- fairs for the Health Industry Manufacturers tory Project, assembling interviews with 2000s Association and as director of development Chicago-area union members and leaders. at the Field School. She is survived by her Balanoff was later honored for her environ- Mark P. Jenkins, PhD’01, died September 26, husband and a son. mental advocacy by the US Army Corps of 2017, in Nevada City, CA. He was 59. After Engineers and the Environmental Protec- working for several years as a trader in the 1970s tion Agency. She is survived by a daughter, deutsche mark options pit at the Chicago two sons, seven grandchildren, and nine Mercantile Exchange, Jenkins earned a Oscar E. Anderson, AB’70, died October 26 great-grandchildren. bachelor’s degree from Northwestern Uni- in Crawfordsville, IN. He was 71. A graphic Donald K. Groneberg, MBA’74, died Sep- versity. While completing his doctorate, he designer at the Field Museum early in his tember 1 in Sheridan, WY. He was 86. A US became an adjunct philosophy professor at career, Anderson did design and market- Air Force veteran, Groneberg earned his Beloit College. Jenkins later taught philoso- ing work for the museum’s 1977 blockbuster undergraduate degree in accounting and phy at Johns Hopkins University, Franklin exhibition Treasures of Tutankhamun. He worked for the firm Arthur Andersen. He & Marshall College, the University of Puget then became a partner in the Chicago design was later a vice president at the medical sup- Sound, and the University of Washington firm Weingart/Anderson and a leader in the ply company Hollister Incorporated, where Tacoma. He is survived by a sister.

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Questions for the writer, director, and Marvelous Mrs. Maisel actress.

What surprising job have you had in the past? I cater-waitered at Martha Stewart’s house in Connecticut, where she turned to me during cocktail hour as I was refilling her wine glass and asked, “Are you trying to get me drunk?” Then added, “Just kidding, thank you” when I’m sure she saw the terror on my face.

What do you hate that everyone else loves? Cilantro.

What do you love that everyone else hates? Tell us the best piece of advice Herring. you’ve received—or the worst. I tear up every time I read this quote from Cheryl What was the last book you put Strayed: “I’ll never know, and neither will you, down before you finished it? of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest whatever that sister life was, it was important and Predator by Timothy C. Winegard. beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it What UChicago course book left from the shore.” the biggest impression on you? The Wedding of the Dead: Ritual, Poetics, and Popu- What advice would you give to a lar Culture in Transylvania. I’ve never forgotten brand-new Maroon?

the detail of how you were supposed to carry the Allow yourself to have some fun. I like to say that Illustration by Annick Poirier dead out of the house feet first. If you carried them my roommate, Savannah “Annah” Gregory, AB’95, out head first, their spirit would stay in the house and I single-handedly raised the U of C from 300 and haunt it forever. on the Top 300 Party Schools to 298.

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