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the university of TULSmagazinea 2003 winter The James Joyce Collection Take a minute to remember your days at TU. the university of TULSmagazine First . a You took classes. You took notes. You took on the challenge. Then, features departments You took root. Gottesman’s Gift You took stock of your potential. 14 2 Editor’s Note 2003 By Nathan Halverson You took notice of the experience. From the Nazi-era paper that Todd Singer (JD ’90) purchased as a gift for his 3 Campus News wife emerged a rare treasure — a window into the life of a Jewish woman doctor winter whose discoveries impact medicine today. 8 From the U Finally . Educating the Maasai Girl Child 18 12 Research By Jane Zemel You took credit for hard work. TU professor Susan Smith has documented the beginning of a dramatic cultural shift among the Maasai. 34 Athletics You took possession of your diploma. You took charge of your future. 22 The James Joyce Collection 36 Partners in Education contents contents By Lori N. Curtis The phenomenal James Joyce Collection in McFarlin Library routinely attracts 38 Alumni News scholars from around the world. Curator Lori Curtis provides a brief “tour” of the collection, which will be a focal point when Joyce scholars convene here for 40 Class Notes And now . the 2003 North American Association of James Joyce Conference. 47 In Memoriam 28 Potential Realized It’s time to give back. By Heather Hale, Class of 2003 48 Calendar Collegian editor Heather Hale profiles the three Grayson sisters, who have Luckily, you were able to take advantage of excelled at TU in spite of poverty and their mother’s debilitating disease. 49 Book End everything TU had to offer because someone like you made a gift to the Annual Fund – 31 Solving 8,500-Year-Old Puzzles which bridges the gap between the actual By Donald O. Henry cost of a quality TU education and the price Professor Don Henry’s explorations at Ayn Abû Nukhayla unearth surprising facts about an ancient people and their environment. of tuition. Today, you can return that favor. With a Cover: Items from the James Joyce Collection in McFarlin. checkbook or credit card. To direct your gift to a specific college or department, contact Kerry Willmann at (918) 631-3514 or [email protected]. You The Annual Fund. can take pride in your pledge because it’s Your new take on giving. more than giving; it’s giving back. Visit us online at www.utulsa.edu/development/giving. p.8 p.11 p.43 The University of Tulsa University Woozy Magazine There is a scene in the Volume 7, Number 1 ries, a travel book, family memoirs • Dallas Morning News, Nov. 8 movie Jurassic Park where Helping Teach Tulsa Winter 2003 and three books on eating collected NELPI director Dobie editor paleontologist Alan Grant When state funding for Tulsa The University of Tulsa Magazine is in the single volume, The Tummy Langenkamp quoted in a story grows dizzy when he first Public Schools dwindled, one of the published four times a year by Trilogy. on the prospect of war with Iraq sees genetically manufactured The University of Tulsa, 600 areas most affected was the substi- the Trillin began his career as a South College Avenue, Tulsa, tute teacher program. The and the future of Iraqi oil. dinosaurs. Confronted with the Oklahoma 74104-3189. writer for Time magazine. He then Publication dates mary vary University responded with a pro- • San Franciso Chronicle, Nov. 8 flesh-and-blood reality of some- became a staff writer for The New according to the University’s cal- gram that enables TU employees Law Professor Paul Finkelman thing he’s studied and loved for a endar, events and scheduling. Yorker, and later a columnist for Periodical nonprofit postage is and students to volunteer as substi- testified in trial over the owner- from life-time, the fictional Dr. Grant The Nation. His columns have been paid at Tulsa, Oklahoma, tute teachers. ship of Barry Bonds’ 73rd home nearly faints. collected in five books. More “We’re getting a nice response run ball. In 1987, at the Smithsonian, I was POSTMASTER: Send change of recently, he has explored father- address to The University of Tulsa from our students,” said Jim Vander similarly woozy. Although I’m a word- Magazine, Office of Development, hood in Messages From My Father • San Antonio Express-News, Nov. Lind, dean of University and smith, I have long loved the work of The University of Tulsa, 600 (1996) and Family Man (1998). His 13 South College Avenue, Tulsa, Community Service, who also said Paul Gauguin, collecting catalogs, vari- Oklahoma 74104-3189. latest book, Tepper Isn’t Going Out, Ray Yasser comments on St. the program allows for specific ous posters, and coffee table books of may very well be the only novel on Mary’s University potential vio- UNIVERSITY RELATIONS requests. “They’re able to meet the parking. lation of Title IX. his paintings over the years. ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT needs of volunteers in terms of Barbara Sorochty Trillin lectures widely and has • New York Times, Nov. 15 By the time I entered the second gallery their availability, but also a volun- EXECUTIVE EDITOR appeared often as a guest on televi- of the exhibit, I was crying so hard that I teer can request a specific class or Article on TU football legend Deanna J. Harris sion programs including “The had to sit down. The size and brilliance of teacher to substitute for,” he said. Glenn Dobbs. (See page 43 for CREATIVE DIRECTOR Today Show” and “Late Show with the paintings were simply overwhelming. No reproduction spoke so Leslie Cairns, MFA ’99 TU’s program allows faculty TU’s In Memoriam.) David Letterman.” boldly or beautifully of Gauguin’s life. PHOTOGRAPHER and staff members to volunteer up • Los Angeles Times, Nov. 17 The Darcy O’Brien Endowed I never expected to feel so moved by art again. Then, one morning Walt Beazley to one day a month while being Chair and the annual lecture at TU Feature article on the Cyber while working on this issue, I received a CD of images from Lori CONTRIBUTING WRITERS compensated at their regular pay Corps program with detailed Doug Fishback were established in memory of Curtis, Head of Special Collections in McFarlin. Lori wrote the arti- Nathan Halverson rate by TU. Participation in a writer, scholar, educator and critic profile of Sujeet Shenoi, cle (page 22) describing a fraction of TU’s James Joyce Collection. Rolf Olsen short, one-time training program is Don Tomkalski Darcy O’Brien. A member of the Oliphant Professor of (My first encounter with Joyce was as a bored 17-year-old flipping Jane Zemel required for all volunteers and, in University’s English faculty from Mathematical Sciences, and sev- through Finnegan’s Wake. I have since concluded that life needs to DESIGN ASSISTANTS accordance with state law, appli- 1978 until 1996, O’Brien died in eral of his students. Israel Adrian Lopez, ’03 cants must submit to a background wash over you a few times for Joyce’s work and genius to be appar- Eric Gapsch, ’03 1998 at the age of 58. • University Wire, Nov. 19 Diamond Percivill, ’04 check administered by TPS. ent.) Article about TU, in conjunc- As I clicked through the images of first editions and photos of the Angela Henderson, Director, Alumni Relations TU in the News tion with OU and OSU, receiv- artist as a not so young man, I was stopped by a simple autograph that Janis Zink, Vice President of American Humorist ing an $800,000 grant from the Institutional Advancement • Business Journal (NY), Nov. 1 bore Joyce’s characteristic “J” — “2 March 1922 Paris, To Aunt Robert W. Lawless, President, The Coming to Campus Oklahoma Memorial Institute Josephine, Jim.” Gauguin all over again. I closed my office door University of Tulsa The journal noted that the Air Anyone who knows anything for the Prevention of Terrorism because, frankly, it is too embarrassing to explain to colleagues that The University of Tulsa does not Force Research Laboratory discriminate on the basis of personal status about New York City knows that to continue research in chemical or group characteristics including but not awarded contracts and grants to you’re bawling over the fact that a few hundred yards away, in parking spaces on the street are processes that could save mil- limited to the classes protected under federal TU for techniques of forensic McFarlin Library’s Special Collections there is a personal note from a and state law in its programs, services, aids, treasured. American humorist lions of lives. or benefits. Inquiries regarding implementa- database analysis. 20th-century literary icon, who signed his name, “Jim”. tion of this policy may be addressed to the Calvin Trillin, whose latest book • Dallas Morning News, Nov. 29 As the University prepares for an onslaught of Joyce scholars who Office of Legal Compliance, 600 South • Washington Times (D.C.) Nov. 4 College Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104- examines parking turf in the Big Story of the complications that will convene here for the 2003 North American James Joyce 3189, (918) 631-2423. Requests for accom- modation of disabilities may be addressed to Apple, will be the third annual Detailed story on Oklahoma foreign students have encoun- Conference and to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the James Joyce the University’s 504 Coordinator, Dr. Jane Darcy O’Brien lecturer at TU April governor’s race focused on Corso, (918) 631-2315. To ensure availabil- tered since the Sept.