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The James Joyce Collection Take a minute to remember your days at TU. the university of

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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. 11th Quarterly, we are reminded, again, that this is a place of extraordinary ity of an interpreter, five to seven days 21 at 7:00 p.m. in the Great Hall, Steve Largent’s (BS ’76) bid for attacks. The story references a notice is needed; 48 hours is recommended scholarship and learning; that TU has stellar resources — from for all other accommodations. Allen Chapman Activity Center. office. consortium of five universities renown faculty to James Joyce’s gravy-stained tie to behind-the-scenes Over the years, Trillin has com- • Hartford Courant, Nov. 5 (UT, Texas A&M, Kansas, benefactors whose generosity throughout the University’s long history CONTACT US: bined a reporter’s work ethic, a wry Report on James Ronda, Colorado School of Mines, and makes it all possible. (918) 631-2309 wit and an eye for colorful stories Barnard Professor of Western TU) that lost students who were Even if Joyce’s “Jim” doesn’t leave you teary-eyed, visit campus this E-MAIL: to take his place among the coun- History, delivering annual Betts to have come to the U.S. in a spring — there is a bit of exhilaration here just waiting for you. [email protected] try’s foremost social commentators. Lecture at Yale University. partnership with an Iranian oil His work includes magazine company. Deanna J. Harris, Executive Editor columns, comic novels, short sto-

2 TU winter 2003 TU winter2003 3 Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences College of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Accolades for Art TU Grad Wins National From Lab to Medicine gene in the human genome. That’s about 40 degrees Fahrenheit. news Professor Book Critics Award Cabinet the exciting thing,” Collier says. “When hydrates plug a news The microarray reader is the pipeline, the loss of production can Virgil Lampton received the B.H. Fairchild’s Early Occult The time-consuming and risky only one of its kind in Oklahoma. be costly, and the plugs can be a Governor’s Arts Award for Memory Systems of the Lower path of discovery and development Eun-So Han, assistant professor safety issue,” says Mike Volk, direc- Excellence at the State Capitol in Midwest won the National Book of new medicines was the subject of of biological science, will be the tor of the research project and TU’s Oklahoma City. Critics Award for poetry this year. a lecture last October by Robert primary operator of the new reader manager of research and technol- On the faculty of the School of In a NY Times review of Fairchild’s Fromtling. A microbiologist who campus Collier says. She will be using the ogy development. campus Art for more than 30 years, work, Michael Hainey wrote: “. . . manages international regulatory instrument in conjunction with her Volk says workers unaware of Lampton has been significantly B. H. Fairchild’s poems resonate issues for several Merck Research ongoing studies of the genome of the stoppage have been killed dur- involved with the Scholastic Arts with loneliness, like the wide-open Laboratories product lines, he says old mice that have been subjects of ing the downstream venting opera- and Writing Awards for Oklahoma’s plains and small towns where he only one in 10,000 discoveries ever dietary restriction. tion because the plug partially high school seniors. The competi- sets so many of them. . . . This is makes it to the pharmacist’s shelf. “Perhaps we can identify those melts, dislodges from the line and is tion has continually produced the American voice at its best: con- In his lecture, “From a Pond to genes that will help us live better propelled like a bullet by the high- New Dean Named national winners. fident and conflicted, celebratory Life-Saving Antifungal Medicine?” longer,” says Collier. pressure gas trapped in the pipe. Lampton was also honored by and melancholic.” Fromtling discussed a new FDA- Studies will be conducted using Dale Thomas Benediktson has the Oklahoma Art Education Fairchild (Ph.D. ’75) frequently approved medicine for treatment of a $1.5 million “flow loop” that is been named dean of the Henry New Research Facility on Association for Distinguished presents poetry readings on cam- aspergillosis, which he says can be a 162 feet long. The oval-shaped Kendall College of Arts. North Campus Service within the Profession of Art pus. severe, life-threatening fungal loop is on an 80-foot-long steel “We are delighted to have Tom Education. infection in patients who are North Campus has a new platform that rests on a 10-foot tall continue his distinguished work at Tracking Lewis and Clark immuno-compromised. research facility aimed at finding pivot. This seesaw-like arrangement The University of Tulsa in his new Fromtling, who has been with ways to eliminate and prevent pipe- Hosanna to Hip-Hop “The Lewis and Clark expedi- permits continuous rocking to sim- position as dean of arts and sci- Merck for 20 years, earned bache- plugging, ice-like hydrates in oil Popular music has seen a fasci- tion took shape in government ulate the flow of oil, water and gas. ences,” TU Provost Roger Blais lor’s and master’s degrees in biology and gas pipelines. nating trend toward the spiritual, offices and country houses but View ports allow investigators said. “His service to this institution at TU in 1974 and 1976. Hydrates form when oil and gas says Teresa Reed, professor of played itself out in worlds of mud to look inside the 3-inch pipe, and has been of immeasurable value.” flowing through a pipeline music and author of a new book, and water, cold rain, and blistering temperature and pressure can be Benediktson, who has served as encounter the right combination of The Holy Profane: Religion in Black sun,” writes James P. Ronda, TU’s Enhancing Gene Study controlled to simulate conditions in associate dean of the College since temperature and pressure, such as Popular Music. Reed argues that H.G. Barnard Professor of Western Last fall a new microarray a pipeline. Initially, four types of 1997, joined TU in 1982 and on the ocean floor. themes once reserved for gospel American History in his essay, reader was installed in Oliphant crude oil will be used in the became full professor in 1999. He The ice-like solids often form and Christian music are increas- “Counting Cats in Zanzibar, or Hall. The reader, which has the research. was chairman of the foreign lan- in pipelines on offshore wells, ingly found in mainstream songs, Lewis and Clark Reconsidered.” capacity for scanning an entire The flow loop was donated to guages and comparative literature where the temperature of seawater and that while spirituality may be a Ronda is one of the country’s genome, can detect which genes in TU by Marathon Oil Company. department from 1990 to 1993. at a depth of 2,000 feet would be Benediktson will assume his new relatively new phenomenon in the foremost authorities on the explo- a genome are active and which are position in June, replacing Tom worlds of rock ’n’ roll and pop, it rations of Meriwether Lewis and not according to Glen Collier, pro- Horne, who will resume teaching has been fundamental to African William Clark. Twice nominated fessor of biological science. political science at TU. American musicians for nearly a for the Pulitzer Prize for his writ- “The reader uses half-inch “This is a great opportunity century. ings on the American West, Ronda square glass slides. There are because of the high quality of the The Holy Profane explores the was the keynote speaker at the first 10,000 ‘spots’ on each slide, and students and faculty at TU,” strong presence of religion in the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial com- each spot represents a gene that is Benediktson said. “I look forward secular music of 20th-century memorative held January 17, 2003 deposited there through a robotics to working with them in conjunc- African American artists. at Monticello. A total of 15 events process. We might compare a sam- tion with a very supportive adminis- By analyzing lyrics and the his- will be held over the next four years ple of tissue from a person with tration as well.” torical contexts that shaped those celebrating the explorers’ adven- cancer and one without. The reader Benediktson earned a master’s lyrics, Reed examines the link tures. will indicate which of the genes is degree and a Ph.D. in classics from between West African musical and “Willa Cather said there are active in each tissue sample. In that the University of Texas in Austin in religious culture and the way really only two stories, and we all way, we can compare samples and 1977 and 1982, respectively. African Americans convey religious tell versions of them over and determine, for instance, which sentiment in secular styles such as over,” says Ronda. “One of them is genes might be contributing to the blues, rhythm and blues, soul, the story of the journey.” breast cancer. Theoretically, we can funk and rap. do it on a global basis for every

4 TU winter2003 TU winter2003 5 College of Business Administration College of Law

NABA Members Attend BKD Sponsors Mentoring Profs Appointed to Mitchell Price (JD ’80) and Wm. news Regional Convention Program Organizations Stuart Price (JD ’82) as well as news Michael C. (BS ’72, JD ’74) and Eighteen student members of Tulsa accounting firm Baird, Two CBA professors have been Wm. Stuart Susan Turpen. Norma and the College’s chapter of the Kurtz and Dobson (BKD) is spon- named to appointments with lead- Price (JD ’82) Richard Small also provided fund- National Association of Black soring a new mentoring program ing certification agencies. and Linda ing, as did numerous alumni and Accountants attended NABA’s matching TU business students and Greg Gardner, associate direc- Mitchell Price friends who have contributed to regional conference in Austin, last BKD professionals. tor of the School of Nursing and campus (JD ’80) join the Annual Giving Fund of the campus October, participating in profes- About a dozen students were director of the athletic training and Dean Martin College of Law. sional skills workshops and listening selected — half accounting majors exercise & sports science programs, Belsky in the to motivational speakers. They also and half from other disciplines, said has been selected as a member of renovated had opportunities to be interviewed accounting Professor Tracy Manly. the Commission for Accreditation OBA Honors Clinic for courtroom. by companies such as IBM, Students will have the opportu- of Allied Health Education Pro- Pro Bono Work PriceWaterhouseCoopers and nity to learn from mentors through grams’ Joint Review Committee for Major Facelift for Courtroom The Boesche Legal Clinic has Conoco Phillips. job shadowing and through ongoing Athletic Training. The committee been named the recipient of the TU’s chapter was founded in informal meetings. reviews athletic training programs Nine judges from district, state With one touch, presenters can Oklahoma Bar Association’s award 1987, said accounting professor BKD has said it plans to continue against CAAHEP standards and and regional courts will preside control the lighting, screen and for Pro Bono Legal Services for Dennis Hudson, who has sponsored the mentoring program with next makes accreditation recommenda- over the dedication of the Wm. projector, and display images from 2002. Since its inception in 1993, the group since the early 1990s. semester’s sophomore accounting tions to the parent organization. Stuart Price and Michael C. Turpen computer, VCR, DVD or docu- the clinic has provided legal ser- NABA is open to anyone class while encouraging current stu- Patrick Hagerman, visiting clin- Courtroom in the College, April ment camera (a modern-day over- vices to over 4,000 indigent, regardless of race, Hudson said. dent participants to stay involved. ical instructor in exercise and sports 15, 10:00 a.m. Judge Robert Henry, head projector, minus the distor- elderly or mentally ill clients in science, was elected to the board of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th tion). The document camera capa- the Tulsa area. directors of the National Strength Circuit will be the keynote speaker. bility includes three-dimensional “Here, students are intro- Friends of Risk and Conditioning Association. The $600,000 renovation cre- objects such as weapons and other duced to clients without ated a versatile space that is archi- pieces of evidence. “You can’t do The Friends of Risk organiza- agement, and pricing models for TU’s programs in athletic train- resources,” said Leslie Mansfield, tecturally appealing and technologi- that with PowerPoint,” Chapman tion brings together professionals gas power plants. ing and exercise and sports science clinic director. “Without the legal cally advanced. The main space, or said. from different fields to explore Friends of Risk events are are fully accredited by CAAHEP representation provided by these “gallery,” can seat 87 people; the Four cameras make it possible how companies can assess and open to the public and typically and NSCA, respectively. students, many of these individu- court area, or “well,” an additional to broadcast or record presenta- minimize their risk exposure in occur during lunch on a Friday. als would not have access to jus- 16. The gallery accommodates two tions. The system also receives everything from financing to pub- There is a small fee to cover Magazine Notes OM tice.” wheelchairs, and a ramp offers commercial networks such as Court lic relations. lunch costs. The clinic serves “some of the Group’s Productivity access to the well. TV. This technology makes video- Sponsored presentations this most vulnerable members of our Ken Parker of RiskMetrics Group, Inc., The Operations Management A flexible wall system provides conferencing via Internet or phone society,” Mansfield said. “Our stu- year have focused on hospital risk explains some of his firm’s services at a group posted a solid ranking in a “three-rooms-in-one” versatility. lines a reality, creating the possibil- dents get the opportunity to learn management, PR and crisis man- Friends of Risk meeting. recent survey of research productiv- With the wall stowed, the space is a ity of virtual job interviews between through service to the community. ity conducted by OR/MS Today. courtroom setting. When deployed, law students here and law firms We teach them the importance of The survey examined quantitative/ the wall creates two independently anywhere in the world. their professional duty to provide technical departments in schools of functional and soundproof areas, The courtroom also will func- pro bono legal service – and we business. which can serve as a small court- tion as the main auditorium for law hope this will develop into the The magazine’s December 2002 room or seminar room and a large school events. habit of a lifetime,” she added. issue listed TU at # 21 worldwide classroom. What can’t be seen is Participants in the project Dean Martin H. Belsky, who for the amount of research pub- even more impressive: wireless net- included Martina Gangel, ASID, of started his academic career as a lished in four top-tier journals since work access and state-of-the-art Woody Design Associates, interior clinic teacher, stressed the value of 1997. TU’s ranking rose to # 18 audio/visual systems. designer (also the interior designer the clinic to the reputation of the among U.S. programs. “The room is designed for the for the Mabee Legal Information College of Law and the legal pro- TU was the only Oklahoma future of law teaching,” said Ben Center); Jim Most, Inc., general fession. “The law school cares school in the ranking, which mea- Chapman, director of computing contractor; MCSi, Inc., audiovisual enough about the community to sured publications in Management resources at the law school. “The contractor; and Dan Dillingham, provide not just day-to-day public Science, Operations Research, technology here makes it the most who provided technology design service, but also role models for INFORMS Journal on Computing, advanced presentation system on services. service by all present and future and Information Systems Research. campus.” Major donors were Linda lawyers.”

6 TU winter2003 TU winter2003 7 Eye of the Beholder Cooling Earth A True Pen-guin U The possible causes of earth’s drop in Six-feet tall and balanced delicately on one foot, dozens of With a face that only a bug mother could love,

average temperature from about 75 fiberglass penguins landed on Tulsa streets last year in celebra- the a Malaysian stick insect has won the grand prize in this degrees Fahrenheit 50 million years ago tion of the Tulsa Zoo’s 75th Anniversary and the opening of a year’s Ugly Bug Contest sponsored by the Oklahoma compared to today’s average of approxi- new penguin exhibit at the zoo. Microscopy Society (OMS), Conoco-Phillips and Kerr mately 64.6 degrees was the topic of a Art students from TU’s Third Floor Design studio — Andra McGee. lecture by geologist William W. Hay. Trotter and Ashleigh Clemmer (squatting); Matt Britton, Eric from A poster showing the winner and three runners-up and In a lecture that was part of the Gapsch, Meaghan Burns and Ashley Walters — decorated this 15 photographs, including a web worm, a tarantula and a Department of Geosciences observance fine fellow, dubbed “Penchant for Hercules beetle, were displayed in Keplinger Hall through of Earth Sciences Week last October, Formal Attire” for Pengaro’s. Pen- January. Hay reported that the planet’s cooling is chant was purchased and now lives at a OMS members selected the winners from 115 entries one of the most important trends in the private residence in the city. His received from Oklahoma public and private elementary earth’s climate history and has resulted in compatriots are schools. Paige Johnson, who is president of the society and the different regional climates seen today. on various visiting instructor in chemistry at TU, says the goal of the “We are in one of the brief periods of street corners, contest is “to promote the awareness and use of global warmth of the last 2.5 million shopping cen- microscopy.” years. Most of that time large ice sheets ters and else- Each school submitted one bug with an essay describing have covered much of eastern North where. the bug’s habitat and behavior. Bugs were then pho- America and western Europe.” Photographs tographed with scanning electron microscopes, which use Why is it colder? Possible reasons electrons instead of light to create a magnified image. Hay cited include Carbon 4 plants and This year’s winning school, Indian Meridian Elementary their impact on atmospheric carbon diox- of the in Choctaw, received a high-quality stereomicroscope for ide and aridity and volcanic emissions. use in their classrooms. Runners-up received books and Hay recently retired from GEO- other uglies videos about microscopy. MAR, a marine geological research insti- tute attached to Christian-Albrechts can be seen at www.uglybug.org. University in Germany.

Physics a la Mode E-mazing Electric Vehicle Moran won second place in the American Society of Mechanical Engineering’s (ASME) The 75 college kids, professors, high schoolers Able to move on land or float on water. national competition for her oral presentation and teachers who gathered in Keplinger’s Room It’s a car. It’s a boat. about the vehicle. She qualified for the contest by 241 are trading thoughts about cosmic rays and winning the “Old Guard” competition for Region black holes: But, they aren’t reviewing the latest It’s E-Craft — the award-winning, two-per- 10 of ASME. sci-fi flick, they’re talking physics — passionately son, all electric fishing boat that earned a team of — at TU’s Physics Journal Club meeting. TU students the Oklahoma Outstanding Club members shoot the breeze by arguing Engineering Achievement Award. the origin of solar winds — a sure sign that sci- Created in a senior-level mechanical engi- ence isn’t just a subject for them, it’s life. neering class at TU, the E-Craft is a four- When refreshments are served, bubbling like wheeled, fiberglass vehicle. Students in the class something from a Mel Brooks’ movie lab, it’s just form teams to build and design projects a super cool recipe for ice cream quick frozen by requested by clients. The prototype E-Craft was liquid nitrogen. presented to Tulsa’s Zebco, the fishing tackle According to Journal Club organizer and company. Physics faculty Jerry McCoy, “The Journal Club is Team members, all May 2002 graduates, were attracting some of the best and brightest from all Rusty Macklin, Bartlesville; Seth Conaway, over northeastern Oklahoma and beyond. It’s Edmond; Jake Stoetzner, Oklahoma City; Marie amazing to see just how many have an avid inter- Moran, Tulsa; Robert Bucher, Houston; and est in leading-edge physics!” Tommy Denney of Anchorage, Arkansas.

8 TU summer 2001 TU winter2003 9 TU at the Diorama: A London Odyssey Unfinished Treasure U

Creativity and community meld at London’s Diorama. “The Diorama gives students the opportunity by Deanna J. Harris the Diorama Arts Centre located in Regent’s Park. The to learn about all aspects of running an arts organiza- Diorama is a collective of individuals and organizations tion from gallery work to daily administrative tasks.” Before she was a well-known dedicated to the arts and the artistic well-being of its This spring, TU interns Chanelle Ford and Tasha journalist, novelist and political com- mentator, Rebecca West was a femi-

from surrounding community. The collective’s artists and Karsk are curating the Diorama’s “Oklahoma in performers as well as educators and therapists have London” exhibit, which will be on display from April nist with keen powers of observation. developed a cooperative approach to the arts, and each 24 to May 16 at the Diorama. Ford and Karsk have also The West archives that are part of member of the organization brings talent and skill that been coordinating publicity. In announcing the show, McFarlin Library’s Special add strength and depth to the overall collective. The the British New Exhibitions of Contemporary Art publica- Collections attracted then-Oxford University graduate stu- Diorama encompasses arts as far reaching as massage tion noted: “‘Oklahoma in London’ is an excellent vari- dent Kathryn Laing. therapy and counts among its members the well-known ety of contemporary work that displays the creativity In 1996, while browsing through boxes in the West abstract painter Denis Bowen as well as Justin and regional impressions of the Oklahoma artists.” Collection, Laing noticed something familiar about the hand- Mortimer, who was commissioned to paint a portrait of Featured artists include TU faculty Mark Lewis, writing in a series of school notebooks that were marked as an the queen. The organization boasts a theatre venue that painting; Michelle Martin, printmaking; and M. Teresa autograph manuscript draft of a novel titled, The Sentinel. produces award-winning plays, a resident ceramics stu- Valero, graphic design. Works from current students West, who was born Cecily Isabel Fairfield, often used dio, media agencies, musicians, and the London and alumni will also be featured. pseudonyms. Although the notebooks were ostensibly written Disability Arts Forum. Ford and Karsk are responsible for every aspect of by “Isabel Lancashire,” Laing recognized the handwriting as Arts management majors from TU may elect a the show — from publicity to framing and lighting. West’s and the story as one she had never read. semester of internship at the Diorama as a capstone The Arts Management program in the Division of “I was very excited when Ms. Laing brought the manu- experience within an undergraduate arts management Fine and Performing Arts began three years ago with script to my attention,” says Lori Curtis, director of TU’s degree. The degree itself is an interdisciplinary pro- five students. Among the nearly 40 students currently Special Collections. “We both realized this was the earliest gram in business, arts administration and an area of enrolled in the program, more than half elect the work of Rebecca West and would have a significant impact on artistic specialization. internship. scholars’ understanding of her work.” “The Diorama Arts Centre of London has collabo- Ron Predl, director of the program, says TU soon What Laing had uncovered was West’s first known novel, rated with TU in many different aspects throughout will have interns in the Diorama throughout the year. which chronicles the turn-of-the-century tribulations of a the past four years,” says Mark Ross, director of young English suffragette. “We are thrilled that the manuscript that Kathryn and I worked on for so long is now being published,” notes Curtis. The “Oklahoma in London” exhibit will be up April 24 - May 16, 2003 at the Diorama Arts Centre, Regent’s Park, London, England. “It’s like the birth of a child. Taking a work from manuscript to print is not an easy task, especially when the author is no longer available to help you decipher her handwriting. Kathryn and I squinted and puzzled and debated over many, many words and phrases, and in some cases had to be satisfied Michelle Martin with our best guess. Rebecca West would often use archaic Dinner with the Devil English and this sent us running to the Oxford English and the Fox Dictionary to see if what we saw was actually a word!” Color Monotype In a Times of London article, Professor Martin 2002 McLaughlin, director of the European Humanities Research Centre at Oxford University, notes: “This work is not just a fragment, but a substantial document of more than 250 pages which backdates the beginnings of West’s creativity by almost a decade and sheds important light on both her journalism and her fiction.” The EHRC recently pub- lished the novel. Curtis notes: “The publication of this manuscript Mark Lewis is not only of great importance to the scholarly world, Tall Grass Prairie 1 but to The University of Tulsa as well. A discovery Oil on Canvas such as this emphasizes the importance of institu- 2002 tions acquiring and preserving the papers of such individuals so that they will be there for students, faculty and others to study and to make important discoveries of their own.” Illustration by Julia Hangs 10 TU winter2003 TU winter2003 SHARPEN YOUR #2 A Test Worth Taking RAW & Order In school, you had to memorize equations and know the date of Shakespeare’s birthday. Now, TU is offering By Jane Zemel a prize for your good memory. By completing this form and testing your skills, you The light bulb goes off when ing legal analy-

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12 TU winter2003 TU winter2003 Gottesman’s Gift

By Nathan Halverson How many stories are lost in the making of history? And of those lost, how many are recovered?

LUCJA FREY GOTTESMAN, a Polish doctor who is that we attend to those whose stories have been lost,” died in the Holocaust, was very nearly one of the mil- Knight says. lions of Jews whose stories were erased from history as Since the early days of their search for the fate of part of the Nazis’ master plan. But over the past two Lucja Frey Gottesman, the number of people who have years, Tulsa attorney Todd Singer (JD ’90) and TU become interested in the story has multiplied exponen- Chaplain Henry Knight have spearheaded efforts to tially. “It has been like a detective story with pieces of unearth the identity of Gottesman — a doctor, a wife, information from many different places,” he says. a mother and a Jew — whose life and life’s work had One of the first things they found was an article been buried during World War II. from a medical journal by John D.C. Bennett which The rediscovery of Gottesman began with revealed that Gottesman was not simply a doctor, Singer’s purchase of a Fragebogen, a document but a renowned scientist who discovered a med- used by German authorities to gather per- ical condition that bears her name — Frey’s sonal data on Jewish Syndrome or gusta- citizens for the pur- tory sweating syn- pose of issuing work drome. They contacted permits in occupied Bennett in England, who Poland during the war. sent all his materials and Singer bought the document another photo. It’s not yet on e-Bay as a gift for his wife, clear, Knight says, but there is Kelley, herself a doctor who col- some indication that lects memorabilia on women Gottesman did work on in medicine. multiple sclerosis and Lou In the top right corner Gehrig’s disease that was of the Fragebogen is a pic- so advanced that it ture of a woman whose may be comparable gaunt face and dark to work developed eyes so haunted Singer that he as recently as the 1990s. felt compelled to find out more about her life More pieces of the puzzle came together. and death. Who was the woman who had filled They had learned who Gottesman was, but out the document and sat for what was likely her still knew little of her fate, except that she did last photo more than half a century earlier? Was the not survive. And through their process, they had document a forgery? come to realize they held a document that may have Singer brought the Fragebogen to a Jewish- helped lead to Gottesman’s death. What was ostensi- Christian dialogue group that met at TU — a group bly a work permit in all likelihood had served as a cer- which included TU Chaplain Henry Knight who has tificate of death. researched and written extensively on the Holocaust. “The Fragebogen was part of the bureaucratic real- To discover what kind of questions the document ity of the Holocaust,” Knight says. It was a necessity. raised for them, Knight says the group decided to write Without this kind of document, which was used to letters as if to Gottesman herself. “Part of our group’s identify and target members of the Jewish intelligentsia, work and of work encouraged regarding the Holocaust the Holocaust wouldn’t have been possible.”

14 TU winter2003 TU winter2003 15 Deciphering a date: 1.4.1942 and a number: 144 was sentenced as a capitalist by the N.K.V.D. to five Bashert is Fate Singer asked Inga and Arno Kahn, local German- years in a labor camp. History tells us that when the “The Hebrew word is ‘bashert’,” Singer says. “A Jewish Holocaust survivors to translate the document Nazis entered Lvov on June 4, 1941, the day after sense of fate, a sense that things were meant to be.” He and learned that Gottesman had a daughter, Danuta. Marek was tried, one of their first actions was to kill all thinks often, he says, of the unlikely way he came across Singer and Knight received help interpreting prisoners. the Fragebogen and of how it has affected his life and Gottesman’s answers and the registration markings on On line three of the Fragebogen, Gottesman lists the lives of others. the Fragebogen as well as valuable historical back- her last place of residence as 6 Bolonawa Street, which It was fairly early in their search, after Singer and ground information from many others including a med- would’ve placed her in the middle of the Lvov ghetto. Knight initially located the Bennett article and began ical research team at the University of Florida, scholars The Germans divided Lvov into three districts: Jewish, uncovering Gottesman’s identity, that Singer brought at Yad Vashem (the official Israeli Holocaust memorial German and non-German “Aryans” (Poles and the article describing Frey’s syndrome home to his wife and research center) and the United States Holocaust Ukrainians). Gottesman’s home was in this third sec- who could scarcely believe her eyes. Memorial Museum. Along the way, Knight and Singer tion, and it seems that even after the Nazi occupation, That same day, Kelley Singer met a patient frus- even received a letter of encouragement from legendary she and Danuta were allowed to reside there for a short trated by the lack of a diagnosis from other doctors Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. time before they were moved into the ghetto. The about a condition that made her face sweat when she In analyzing the Fragebogen, two numbers revealed buildings they lived in are still standing today in what is ate. Kelley had no idea what the patient was talking (L to r): Kelley and Todd (JD ’90) Singer with TU much. The first was the date listed just below now the Ukraine. about, but the article describing Frey’s syndrome Chaplain Henry Knight during the ceremony dedicating the Gottesman’s picture: 1.4.1942 — April 1, 1942 — Asked to identify her employer on question 30 of seemed to match her new patient’s symptoms exactly. Gottesman exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Passover. the Fragebogen, Gottesman wrote: “Jewish “It’s like she [Lucja] was teaching me,” she later told “The fact that there was a major roundup on this Community,” which likely meant the Jewish Council. interviewers from the Holocaust Museum. “She contin- parents had to guess which one their child had written. date, specifically on a holy day, was on purpose,” Like others, she had little choice but to work for the ues to teach, despite what had happened to her.” It was fairly easy to recognize which belonged to his Knight says. “It’s another example of how the Nazis same organization that would ultimately facilitate the Each day, Todd Singer comes to work, looks at the son: “He’s the only Jewish kid in the class,” Singer says tried to turn things around.” deportation of most Jewish residents of Lvov. framed pictures of Lucja Frey Gottesman beside his with a smile before recalling several of the lines from The second number on the Fragebogen, the permit On the date the Fragebogen was issued, Gottesman desk and says hello. And each day when he leaves his his son’s poem: “I wonder if everything in the Torah is number, was an indication of how important that per- survived. But from that day until the eventual destruc- office, he says good-bye. “I want to acknowledge her true.” “I say that time travel is possible.” “I hope for son was judged to be by the Jewish Council of Lvov tion of the ghetto in June 1943, she might have been existence, her humanity,” he says, “because for so long world peace.” (now L’viv). The council was set up by the Nazis to killed at any time. She may have died following the sec- there were those who chose not to.” Singer says his son’s writing made him remember establish order and compliance after they occupied the ond set of mass deportations begun in August 1942 “Not only was there this vibrant life unearthed, Gottesman’s daughter, and it reminded him of the city. when the Nazis shot or deported to Belzec roughly reaching so far and having such a huge impact on my scope of their quest. “I feel we are, in some ways, her On April 1, 1942, Gottesman received a ranking of 50,000 Jews after announcing that only Fragebogen life,” he continues, “but her work has continued to help spiritual heirs,” he says. “Not just us, but our families 144. Translators and historians told Singer and Knight issued by the SS were valid. The SS required their own others.” and our community. After all the work we had done, that the number was one of the lowest numbers seen in black seals to be present for a worker to be spared. Singer is amazed by what Gottesman was able to my son summed it up for me. Like him, I do hope for their experience. As a doctor, Gottesman was probably Despite its age, Gottesman’s Fragebogen still clearly accomplish as a doctor and researcher. “For her to have peace, and with Lucja we had traveled through time to judged a highly valued citizen, and this may have pro- bears the red stamp of the civil administration. attained the level she reached in medicine in the 1920s rescue her memory and share it with the world.” tected her from being killed for some time. However, as Individuals without papers bearing the black seal were — and earlier — in spite of the social pressures she Gottesman’s story has put a face on the Holocaust time passed, the Nazis limited the number of work per- rounded up. Those capable of work were sent to the must have faced as a woman is almost unfathomable,” for many people in the Tulsa community. “I think it has mits issued, and they became harder to get. Those who Janowska forced labor camp; the rest were deported to he says. had a profound effect on interfaith relations in Tulsa,” did not receive a permit were likely sent to Belzec, the Belzec where they were killed. The SS also stormed the Singer says the idea of finding such a powerful and Singer says. “This document, this story, forced us to nearest concentration camp. Those who were judged fit medical facilities at that time, rounding up medical staff important document under these circumstances made challenge our strictly held doctrines of exclusivity and to work were fit to live. and patients alike, deporting most of them to Belzec. him more conscious of the concept of bashert and how made us recognize the humanity of everyone.” Despite the horror she witnessed and the pain she In November 1942, more than half of Lvov’s 25,000 it can apply to all aspects of one’s life. Singer hopes the group travels to Lvov soon. They endured — losing her husband, Marek; protecting her remaining Jews were taken to the sand pits at Gora “After we’d turned the Fragebogen over to the plan to send a letter along with Gottesman’s photo to daughter; and living and treating patients in the over- Piaski, where they were shot and buried in mass graves. museum and watched them handle it with white gloves the Jewish residents there in hopes of getting more crowded ghetto — one expert told Singer and Knight Gottesman could have been among these victims. Or, at and special tongs, I thought: Our interfaith group had information. that Gottesman’s answers on the Fragebogen were any time, she may have been the victim of random been passing [the Fragebogen] around over coffee and The efforts of the Tulsa Jewish-Christian dialogue brave, clever and even evasive, possibly shielding the street violence. chocolate chip cookies, and then to see them handle it group and the Singers’ donation of the Fragebogen to existence of a son. By the beginning of 1943, only a few thousand of as gently as one would a baby was an humbling experi- the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will In answering question seven of the Fragebogen, Lvov’s original 150,000 Jews were still alive. There is ence,” Singer says. enable millions to see and experience their discovery. which asks for marital status, Gottesman did not no evidence to indicate that Gottesman and her daugh- But it was another event that brought the story full The museum launched an exhibit dedicated to Lucja respond meekly, but wrote: “Married, husband arrested ter were among the very small number of Jews who circle for Singer. Both his children, he says, had Frey Gottesman in September 2002. by the N.K.V.D. [the Soviet secret police] as a counter survived by hiding in the homes of Gentiles, in the sew- become aware of the Gottesman search and had seen revolutionary.” Before the Nazis arrival, Lvov was in a ers, or in the forests near Lvov until the end of the war. her pictures around the house. Singer’s son, Oskar, had For more information, see the United States part of Poland occupied by Russia. But Lucja Frey Gottesman’s story does not end to write a self descriptive poem as an assignment for Holocaust Memorial Museum website at http://www.ushmm.org. Singer learned of documents that suggest Marek here. class. The poems were hung on the wall at school and

16 TU winter2003 TU winter2003 17 Educating the Maasai Girl Child

by Jane Zemel

A MAN SHOWS UP AT A FAMILY’S HUT WITH SOME SUGAR AND A BLANKET. WHEN HE LEAVES, THEIR 10-YEAR OLD DAUGHTER IS ENGAGED. THAT’S THE CUSTOM IN THE MAASAI CULTURE, A PEOPLE NUMBERING AROUND 500,000 IN LOWER CENTRAL KENYA AND TANZANIA. OR RATHER IT WAS BEFORE ONE BRAVE GIRL CHOSE ANOTHER OPTION FOR HERSELF.

Nancy Kireu was 16, older than most, when her parents removed her from school to be sold into an arranged marriage. But she refused. She stood up to her father (something not done in the Maasai culture), saying she wanted to finish her education. His response: She was no longer welcome in his house. “I ran into the bush because I didn’t know where to go,” she said. “I saw my rescue as the nearest tree.” And that’s where she hid. Eventually, Kireu became an inspiration to other Maasai young women and ultimately, in a weird plot twist, educated members of her family and her tribe on the real value of a Maasai girl child. Her struggle and others’ are the subject of a new documentary, “Educating the Maasai Girl Child” by Susan Smith, an adjunct professor in communication at The University of Tulsa. When asked why she got involved, Smith replies simply, “they asked me,” referring to the World Council of Churches’ Committee on Indigenous People. She wasn’t a random choice. It was a colleague and former TU professor, Dr. Richard Grounds, who first met Nancy Kireu and thought of Smith for the project. Smith had completed 30 previous documentaries, 10 about indigenous peoples and women’s issues. “There’s this pattern of oppression and consequences to the way women have been treated,” Smith said. “In the majority of the world (Kenya included), women are treated like second-class citizens, and among many indigenous cultures, women don’t vote or own property. We’ve made a big deal about educating girls in Afghanistan, but this kind of thing goes on all over the world.” Yet, changing traditions “is a very sophisticated discussion,” Smith explains. “One school of thought advocates leaving indigenous cultures alone, which is surprising considering the Maasai have dealt with colonial issues for 200 years.”

18 TU winter2003 Stat-wise, it took two trips to Kenya and four weeks plies, texts, room and board. Not much by U.S. stan- of videotaping to get 30 hours of footage, then five dards, but a year’s wage for most Maasai people. Maasai weeks of editing by Smith and Kireu to create the fin- men may have as many as five wives and 50 children, so ished product. The editing process went smoothly, with it’s not surprising that it’s the mothers who bring these struggles coming only when considering the video’s girls to school in the first place, hoping their daughters’ three audiences: Maasai, non-Maasai; and interested lives will offer more options than their own. Western venues. Until Kireu’s rebellion, the value of a Maasai girl The video will be distributed in the U.S. and inter- child was calculated in her ability to be traded for live- nationally to raise awareness and funding (Rock musi- stock or a few yards of cloth. Her worth came in leav- cian Lenny Kravitz donated $30,000) for the cause. ing the family so they could get something back. In The Maasai version will be used in Kenya as an educa- fact, it was a Maasai girl child’s duty. tional tool for children and adults. In the Tulsa area, “If she chooses (a mate) for herself, what will I excerpts from Smith’s documentary will be featured in a get?” was the conventional wisdom among Maasai men, new Maasailand display at the Tulsa Zoo, scheduled to regarding educating their daughters and allowing them open in late fall. to choose their own suitors. But to get an idea of how fundamental the fundrais- Among these pastoralists, or cattle people, livestock ing effort is, the first items on the wish list are televi- is the commodity of their culture. Semi-nomadic, they ONE THING SUSAN SMITH (ABOVE) OBSERVED sion sets and VCRs. Without these (and mobile genera- herd their animals to the wetlands or dry lands, tors to run the equipment), the Maasai would have no depending on the season, so they have little use for pos- ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHING THE MAASAI IS THAT way to watch the documentary in the classroom. sessions beyond blankets and sticks. They sleep on beds The Maasai-language version includes a discussion made from cowhides, the same materials they use to THE CHILDREN — UNLIKE THEIR WESTERN about HIV/AIDS, targeted at uneducated adults. construct their homes. Traditionally, they have no crops Because they can’t read, written materials on the subject (although many are now growing corn). No fruits or COUNTERPARTS WHO HAVE LEARNED TO LINE are lost on them. Most have no idea about the disease vegetables. Strictly meat-and-milk people. or how it is spread. “They don’t know HIV. They say The other fear of investing in a young girl’s educa- UP AND SAY “CHEESE” FOR THE CAMERA — this man or that woman died of tuberculosis,” Smith tion was that she would leave the tribe and never come said. And, in another ironic turn, this illiterate genera- back. But Kireu and the other educated women in the INSTINCTIVELY HUDDLE AT THE SIGHT OF A LENS tion is making decisions about whether a young girl will film keep coming back, and each time they bring neces- get an education. sary resources to build and benefit their community. (LEFT). Years after evicting his daughter, Kireu’s father TO GET AN IDEA OF HOW FUNDAMENTAL THE sounds almost enlightened when he says, “She has shown us the light, and we see it as something good — FUNDRAISING EFFORT IS, THE FIRST ITEMS ON the freedom to decide for herself. She always comes THE WISH LIST ARE TELEVISION SETS AND VCRS. back to assist us, she assists everyone.” WITHOUT THESE (AND MOBILE GENERATORS TO Although Kireu’s father and mother may have come around to her way of thinking, those realizations came RUN THE EQUIPMENT), THE MAASAI WOULD too late for her sisters, whom she hasn’t seen since they HAVE NO WAY TO WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY were married off. IN THE CLASSROOM. But the more girls educated, the greater the likeli- hood that more will return to Maasailand with the Now 35, Kireu started an organization called resources and knowledge to make things better for NAWODEN, a Maasai acronym for “network of everyone. They see the opportunities education can women” or “unity of women.” NAWODEN educates bring, and they are aware of the responsibility it carries. the Maasai girl child about her choices regarding “When you educate a girl, you educate a family, a peo- arranged marriages and continuing her education. The ple,” Smith said. group also offers information about female genital Each girl who followed Nancy Kireu’s lead has her mutilation and circumcision, as well as HIV/AIDS edu- own new visions, dreams and expectations. Testament cation. to this shift in thinking comes at the end of the docu- In Kenya, the government pays for school buildings mentary when one young Maasai girl child is asked and teacher salaries, but that’s where state education what she hopes to be when she grows up. “A pilot,” she funding ends. The cost of educating a Maasai child is answers quietly, her eyes and smile confirming that, for $200-$400 a year for uniforms, soap, school fees, sup- her, now, the sky is truly the limit.

TU winter2003 21 James Joyce positive critique of Joyce’s oeuvre and the conversation to September 1915. In 1917 Weaver became the first and tone of their meeting must have confirmed English publisher of A Portrait, which she had pub- Connolly’s estimation of the author. The article com- lished under The Egoist’s imprint. Weaver became not plemented Joyce’s fans, derided his foes, applauded his only Joyce’s publisher, but his patron as well. At first realism and validated his parodies; it was sensitive to she sent Joyce small monetary gifts anonymously but the cultural traditions that influenced the man, the lit- soon began to send much larger sums so that Joyce erary traditions that influenced his works and to the could continue to write in an atmosphere as free of author’s innovations, especially in language, that chal- financial worries as possible. Joyce responded to her The James Joyce Collection lenged those traditions. Connolly remained an ardent generosity with gifts of inscribed copies of his works. supporter of Joyce’s works. His tribute to the author These signed editions form the basis of Harriet Shaw whose works had engaged him as a young student and Weaver’s James Joyce Collection of more than 200 vol- as an established critic appeared in the New Statesman umes. in McFarlin Library on 18 January 1941, just five days after The collection consists of works by and about Joyce Joyce’s death. as well as all first editions of Joyce’s writings published The University of Tulsa acquired in his lifetime, with the exception of Finnegans By Lori N. Curtis Connolly’s library of some 8,000 volumes Wake. Included are 18 different edi- and his personal papers housed in approx- tions of Ulysses and vari- n the 40 years since Thomas F. Staley, then a young assistant professor of English, taught the imately 42 document boxes in 1976. ous critical studies, which first course on James Joyce to students at The University of Tulsa, the commitment to Joyce While Edmund Wilson’s library was a were given to Weaver by I studies here has remained strong. One result of that commitment has been the development of working library with many of the vol- publishers and other one of the world’s premier James Joyce collections, housed within the Department of Special umes containing his notes, Connolly authors. Among the more Collections in McFarlin Library. To be accurate, the Joyce collection should be described as a collec- was much more the collector. His unusual items within the col- tion of collections — an assemblage of the libraries, papers and single items from individuals who library contains collectible editions lection is a copy of Joyce’s influenced James Joyce, his writing and its reception in the world, and who in turn were influenced by of many of Joyce’s works, including “Plan of Ulysses,” copied in him. Included within this assemblage are figures such as Harriet Shaw Weaver, Edmund Wilson, Cyril #454 of 800 limited edition copies Weaver’s hand from a type- of Anna Livia Plurabelle, bound in script sent to her by Joyce in Connolly, Paul and Lucie Lèon, Lucia Joyce, Richard Ellmann, Rebecca West and even Joyce’s Aunt brown leather and #10 of the 1922, written on the verso of her Josephine. While it would be impossible to give an account of every volume, each letter or photograph first 100 copies of Ulysses. But Burglary, Theft and Fire insur- that makes up the University’s outstanding James Joyce collection, we can mention a few of the more also included is the manuscript ance policy from Lloyd’s of notable acquisitions, highlighting a few particulars. draft and typescript of London. Also included is a copy of Connolly’s article “The Contact Collection of Contemporary Position of Joyce”, together Authors (Paris: contact Editions, 1925) Edmund Wilson with his letter to Sylvia Beach; inscribed to her by 17 of its 20 contrib- n 1976 two very important collections were writer of the 20th century. Among the some 10,000 material and correspondence regarding the utors, including James Joyce, Ernest I acquired: the library of American author and critic books in Edmund Wilson’s library are his copy of book Joyce in Paris and much more. Hemingway, Dorothy Richardson, H.D., Edmund Wilson, and the library and personal papers Ulysses (Shakespeare & Co., 1922, #610), which Ford Maddox Ford, Ezra Pound, Edith of literary critic and essayist Cyril Connolly. Edmund includes a schema for the work, typed onto several Sitwell, Gertrude Stein, and Mina Loy, to name a few. Wilson commands a central position in the study of pieces of paper and taped together to form a sheet Harriett Shaw Weaver Also present is a signed lithograph of Augustus John’s modern literature as one of the most influential men of some 40 inches long, and his heavily annotated copy U’s reputation as the repository of a major James crayon portrait of Joyce and six signed Henri Matisse letters in the 20th century. Although Wilson did not of Finnegans Wake (Viking Press, 1939), which he used T Joyce collection was firmly established in 1977 lithographic proofs for the illustrations for the 1936 confine himself within a specific literary boundary — in preparing his reviews. with the acquisition of the Harriett Shaw Weaver James Limited Editions Club edition of Ulysses. writing poetry, plays and fiction; travelogues, biographies Joyce collection. Weaver is well known for her associa- In addition to the copies of his own works that and inquiries into the historical method; anthropologi- tion with such figures as Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Joyce inscribed for and gave to Harriet Shaw Weaver, cal investigations; polemics on contemporary social Cyril Connolly T. S. Eliot and many other major British, European and he also sent her books by other authors, often as yril Connolly, a Londoner of Irish descent, was an consciousness and cultural myths; and reflexive studies American writers through her editorial connections Christmas presents. Fourteen such works, including editor of the New Statesman and the literary mag- of the critic’s role in a modern technological society — C with the magazine The Egoist. However, it is her asso- Giambatista Vico’s Principi du una Scinza Nova, are azine Horizon, in addition to being a novelist, accom- he is probably best known as a book reviewer and literary ciation with James Joyce for which she is most included in the collection. plished literary critic, essayist and collector. During a critic. And it is in this role that he had an impact on remembered. visit to Paris, shortly after Joyce had published the frag- Joyce studies in a profound way. Through his review of Weaver began her support of Joyce with her finan- ment Anna Livia Plurabelle, Sylvia Beach introduced Joyce’s Ulysses in the New Republic, of Joyce’s poetry in cial and editorial support of The Egoist, which first seri- Paul and Lucie Noèl Lèon Connolly to Joyce. Connolly had already begun work 1925, and two reviews of Finnegans Wake in 1939, alized Joyce’s semi-autobiographical first novel, A n 1984, The University acquired the collection of on his essay “The Position of Joyce,” an engaging and Wilson helped establish Joyce’s importance as a key Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man from February 1914 I Paul and Lucie Noèl Lèon. The Lèons had moved

22 TU winter2003 TU winter2003 James Joyce to Paris via London in the 1920s as Russian exiles after copies of Joyce’s works, correspondence, the Bolshevik Revolution and there established a close candid photographs of Lèon and Joyce, and the annotated friendship with James and Nora Joyce. This friendship final page proofs of Finnegans Wake, previously thought lasted until World War II dispersed them tragically. not to be extant. Still together in 1940 as refugees in the unoccupied zone of Vichy France, they were separated toward the end of that year: the Joyces went into exile in neutral Rebecca West Collection Switzerland; the Lèons returned to Nazi-occupied ollowing close upon the acquisition of the Lèon Paris, lured back by Lucie’s job at the New York Herald F Collection were the acquisition of the Rebecca West Tribune. Paul Lèon was arrested by the Gestapo and Collection in 1986 and the Richard Ellmann Collection died in a concentration camp in Silesia in 1942. During in 1987. The Rebecca West Collection includes not only his imprisonment, the Gestapo raided the Lèon apart- several hundred books selected from her library, but ment searching for valuables, first editions of Joyce’s approximately 262 document boxes of correspondence, works which were already worth a great deal, but Lucie manuscripts, photographs and personal memorabilia. had hidden them away. Part of this valuable collection Rebecca West once described Harriet Shaw Weaver as of Joyce works and memorabilia is what the University “the Saint Bernard in human form who kept on and on acquired through Paul and Lucie’s son, Alexis. rescuing James Joyce from the continuous alpine storm Paul Lèon worked with Joyce, reading proofs and of misfortune which raged around him.” West was a for- assisting in the transcription of “Work in Progess,” the midable journalist and essayist. People took note of her work that would become Finnegans Wake. Lèon also reviews. So when she wrote several articles about Joyce served as a buffer between the very private James Joyce including “James Joyce and His Followers” in the New and the increasingly attentive public attempting to York Herald Tribune, people read it with interest. In one interview, photograph, and attach themselves to the of her manuscript notebooks, dated 1927, there is a draft now-famous writer. Included in the Lèon collection are of a piece entitled “A Hypothesis” which was the begin- many items that speak to the close relationship between ning of a review of Joyce’s Pomes Penyeach. West didn’t Lèon and Joyce, such as James Joyce’s blue and white admire Joyce’s poetry and perhaps this is why the review striped tie, a porcelain lion that Joyce gave to Lèon was never finished. (See page 11 for more on the West making a play on the words lion and Lèon, inscribed Collection.)

24 TU winter2003 25 TU winter2003 James Joyce Post-Industrial Joyce The James Joyce Richard Ellmann knowledge, there is only one other instance of an n 1987, on the day before the University was to inscription in which he signed his name “Jim”. The 2003 North American Quarterly I close for the Christmas holiday, 22 large shipping Other significant single purchases have taken place James Joyce Conference cartons arrived from England containing the papers of over the years. In 1985, the University acquired at auc- noted scholar Richard Ellmann. His library and the 36 tion the Beach-Gilvarry manuscript of Joyce’s Chamber The University of Tulsa he James Joyce Quarterly was founded in boxes of additional material from his office at Emory Music poems. This autograph manuscript of 33 of the T 1963 at The University of Tulsa by University would arrive later. The collection, now Thomas F. Staley, who was the journal’s editor 36 poems published in 1907, is the earliest known set of housed in several hundred document boxes, contains June 16-20, 2003 for its first 25 years. Beginning as a modest publi- manuscript for the suite. Written in Dublin probably the life work of a man who wrote the definitive biogra- cation of 40 pages, the JJQ grew in size and between 1902 and September 1904, the little poems are phy of James Joyce, together with books on W. B. Yeats quality under Staley’s guidance and was soon centered on large sheets of expensive writing paper ivian Mercier coined the term “the Joyce and Oscar Wilde. Within the boxes are thousands of industry” when he first encountered American unchallenged as the journal of record on the life with the outer sheet showing traces of finger-soiling at V letters between Ellmann and the family, friends, and critics’ intense fascination with the Irish author and and writings of James Joyce. From 1989 to 2001 acquaintances of Joyce, individuals who for whatever the edges and a few tears. Several individuals who knew his work. For the past four decades, The James Robert Spoo edited the journal, overseeing its reason were important in building the story of Joyce’s Joyce at the time would later remark about seeing him Joyce Quarterly has been at the center of this continuing expansion by encouraging a wide vari- life and work. Together with the letters are pages and with a large sheaf of papers in his hand which when industry, disseminating scholarly work to a large ety of theoretical, critical and historical work on pages of interview notes, photographs, Joyce memorabilia unrolled showed the diminutive verses daintily written and diverse audience of readers. Joyce. In 2001, Sean Latham succeeded Spoo as — including his library card from the Bibliotheque in the center of each page. We like to think that our editor and has served in that capacity since. Nationale — and letters. Of all the books and letters The 2003 North American James Joyce conference sheaf of pages is that roll. and notes, the items that struck me most were will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the JJQ by Another significant and poignant acquisition was The first issue of the JJQ appeared in the fall of Ellmann’s tattered copies of Finnegans Wake and looking back on how this industry has taken shape, 1963 and carried only eight advisory editors on Ulysses; not first editions, these copies were working that of the first English edition of Pomes Penyeach, and looking forward to where it might be headed. its masthead. But, as the community of Joyce copies and he had several. Held together with cellophane published by the Obelisk Press, Paris in 1932. The The conference will be held on TU’s campus, June scholars expanded and specializations proliferated, tape, the pages hold not only Joyce’s words but also initial letters for this beautiful edition were designed 16-20. almost every margin is filled with Ellmann’s notes, and illuminated by Lucia, James Joyce’s daughter. that number grew. Currently the JJQ boasts more than 40 advisors from North America and Europe. comments, and questions. One has only to open them Unfortunately, Lucia suffered from what some have Conference highlights include the following: to discover the thoughts of a man who during his life- described as schizophrenia, and in a fit one day, she A roundtable discussion of the past, present, The journal has a strong base of academic library time held tremendous sway over what was known and tossed a copy of this work into the fire. It is this copy, and future of The James Joyce Quarterly with subscriptions, and its total subscriptions number what was written about James Joyce. Someone once said with burned edges and Lucia’s handwritten note Thomas F. Staley, Robert Spoo, and Sean that Richard Ellmann’s biography of Joyce was not as approximately 1,500, with readers in North explaining the incident that the University acquired. Latham; important for what it included, but for what he chose to Keynote addresses by Shari Benstock, Karen America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. leave out. And what was left out can be found in the One of the JJQ’s traditional strengths has been he University of Tulsa continues to make signifi- Lawrence, and Robert Scholes; boxes of his notes housed in McFarlin Library. A gala Bloomsday banquet at the Philbrook its special issues, which allow for both intense cant additions to its James Joyce collection; only T Museum; focus and creative expansion of topics, and the recently we were able to acquire a copy of Joyce’s JJQ “In Good Company,” a major exhibition of the journal’s special issues have made signal contri- broadside Gas From a Burner, one of only a few items Other Significant Additions Joyce materials held by the McFarlin Library at butions to criticism and theory within and he same year that the University acquired the the collection lacked. Through the generosity of donors The University of Tulsa curated by Lori Curtis, beyond Joyce studies. T Harriet Shaw Weaver collection it also acquired a and the Chapman Trust, the University has been able Luca Crispi, and Stacey Herbert; very unique copy of the first edition of Ulysses, published to build a phenomenal collection for use by its students, An exhibition highlighting the history of the JJQ; For information on The James Joyce Quarterly, in Paris by Shakespeare and Company in 1922. Joyce faculty and the broader scholarly community. This A wide array of tours and cultural events visit: inscribed this copy, an unnumbered press copy, to his summer when the 2003 North American James Joyce including trips to the Gilcrease Museum, the http://www.utulsa.edu/JJoyceQtrly/default.htm. aunt Josephine. The inscription reads: “To Aunt conference comes to Tulsa, the collection will be Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Price Tower in Josephine / Jim / 2 March 1922 / Paris.” What is highlighted in a major exhibit. A catalog of this Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and the OK Mozart unusual about this inscription is that Joyce almost exhibit will be available for purchase. festival. always signed his full name, James Joyce. To our There will be the usual round of receptions and par- ties offering a chance to meet Joyceans old and new. ditor’s note: Lori N. Curtis is Head of Special Collections and Archives, McFarlin Library, The conference is sponsored by the National where she has worked for the past 15 years, coming to TU from the University of California, Endowment for the Humanities and The University of Tulsa. For more information on the conference, visit: JJQ Los Angeles. While she would not call herself a Joyce scholar, in administering the collection, E http://www.utulsa.edu/JJoyceQtrly/JJ2003.html. working with scholars here and abroad, she reports that her knowledge of Joyce and the publication history of his works has deepened tremendously.

26 TU winter2003 TU winter2003 27 soon endured a sudden and bitter daughters graduate from high divorce, leaving her alone with school.’ That was the only thing I Potential Realized three daughters to raise. Three ever asked God for.” months later, she was diagnosed with a fatal form of lupus, a chronic Special abilities inflammatory disease that can affect From early on, Ruthie recog- Faith, persistence and talent help various parts of the body. nized special abilities in her daugh- That was 1992. Brandy was 12, ters. By the time each was in TU family overcome lupus Britney was 10, and Brienne was 8. kindergarten, they were reading on From that point on, it seemed, all a third to fourth grade level, adding By Heather Hale, Class of 2003 of life’s lessons would come the and subtracting and doing one-digit hard way. multiplication. There were days Ruthie was so On what she thought would be a typical Sunday morning back “In first grade, Britney’s teacher sick she couldn’t get out of bed. in the summer of 1991, Ruthie Grayson visited the Jerseyville would split the kids up into groups, Ruthie Grayson Much of the time, Brandy was in Baptist Church in Houston with her three young daughters, and Britney always wound up doing Baccalaureate program, which com- charge. Brandy, Britney and Brienne. Throughout the service, she couldn’t the work for everyone. She learned bines college-level study and a “I was doing laundry, trying to help noticing the pastor looking at her from the pulpit with what everything so quickly and always global perspective. When the time scrape together meals, taking care appeared to be a mix of puzzlement and concern. pushed for the top,” Ruthie said. came, Britney and Brienne did the of the girls, and managing a house- “The girls and I always joke same. Each remained at or near the hold. When I wasn’t doing that, I that mom raised us to be nerds,” top of her class. was studying,” she said. said Brienne, “because when we The Graysons describe them- “There was no way any of us were in elementary school, she had selves as goal-oriented, dedicated could have understood what we workbooks ready for us when we and extremely driven. They all were tackling,” Britney said. “We got home. Those workbooks really wanted to go to college, but knew were taking turns staying home put us ahead, and we liked doing the only way that would be possible from school to take care of mom, them because she made it fun. but it only became a reality when she was in the hospital and nearly died.” Each Grayson sister was a National Merit Scholar and The Graysons’ life in Texas became unbearable, as the girls admitted to TU’s Honors program. missed day after day of school and money got tighter. “I remember digging in the sofa Looking back now, I’m really grate- for coins to buy Spaghetti-O’s,” was if they got full scholarships. ful she did that for us.” Brandy said. “Britney and Brienne “We knew going into the SATs would walk to the store, and the what scores we needed, and we three of us would split two cans.” Making changes knew we had to be in the top 10 On days like that, when two With medical crises and grind- percent of our class. That kept us cans did not quite stretch for four ing financial hardship taking their focused and out of trouble. And we Brandy, Britney and Brienne Grayson people, Ruthie would take an extra toll on the family in Texas, the did it,” said Britney. After the service, he approached the family and stated, “I dose of medication and find refuge Graysons moved to Tulsa, where All three Graysons graduated in don’t normally do this, but I have a message for you. You have a in sleep. Ruthie’s parents could help more. the top 5 percent of their class at very hard time ahead of you, but don’t worry. God has his hand After she had undergone three With a newfound stability in Washington, enrolled at The on you and your children. Your daughters will all persevere and chemotherapy treatments and sev- Tulsa, the girls developed the indi- University of Tulsa and, as a result come out victorious.” eral hospital stays, one doctor gave vidual and collective momentum of of their advanced high school work, Ruthie was shocked. The news was as unexpected as it was Ruthie the worst news yet: She had an academic freight train, distin- tested out of more than 30 hours of unimaginable. After all, she was happily married, had three beau- only five years to live. guishing themselves as they credit, giving them immediate tiful daughters and a teaching job she loved. The pastor must “I refused to accept it,” Ruthie devoured subject after subject. sophomore status. In addition, each have confused them with someone else. What could possibly go said. “At that moment, I said, ‘God, Brandy enrolled in Booker T. was a TU National Merit Scholar, wrong? I don’t care what happens to me as Washington High School, taking and admitted to TU’s Honors The prediction, however, proved uncannily accurate. Ruthie long as I can see all three of my the rigorous International Program.

28 TU winter2003 TU winter2003 29 The village of Ram wakes early as morning light begins to play on the mountain wall that skirts the eastern, The future — one step at a time “God, it’s yours.” star-filled sky. Brandy, who majored in Spanish, graduated from The Graysons’ faith has been their firm anchor in Coupled with the dramatic sunrise, a cacophony of cock crows TU in May 2002 and was one of only three students troubled times. and the melodious muezzin singing the morning call to prayer, admitted to Notre Dame University’s highly competi- “These girls have had to raise themselves, and they begin well before five, the time when the TU research team of tive graduate program in Spanish. After so many years have really been led by God,” Ruthie said. “It took me archaeologists and associated scientists crawls out of sleeping bags. at her mom’s side, the move away was a big step. Ruthie a while to get to the point where I could say, ‘God, it’s Ram is nestled in a broad canyon, the Wadi Rum, framed by admits she was the one pushing Brandy to take advan- yours.’ But I have, and He has led them to make very sheer, 1,000-foot high sandstone cliffs. As part of this spectacular tage of the opportunity. wise decisions.” inselberg landscape of southern Jordan the Wadi Rum forms a “I’m so incredibly proud of her, and it’s time for “Faith has pulled us together and made us 10 times natural, ancient passageway from the Nefud Desert of Saudi her to fly,” she said. stronger,” Britney said. “We know we’re not on our Arabia north to the high Ma’an Plateau and westward to the Rift Britney’s academic interests have developed along own. He guides us in everything we do.” valley (Wadi Araba) and Gulf of Aqaba. History buffs may recall an understandable path — medicine. In fact, as a young Brienne sees the divine in her mother’s surprising that T.E. Lawrence and his Bedouin army used this route to girl, when she found out her mother was sick, she persistence against lupus, which defied the doctors’ rea- attack and drive the Turkish forces from Aqaba. And, in fact, the immediately wanted to be a doctor. She told her mom soning. Lawrence of Arabia movie account of this campaign was filmed on she was going to find the cure for lupus, which both “God knew we weren’t ready to face the world location here. surprised and honored Ruthie. “To have this little 10- alone. My mom asked for just 10 years to see us all year-old girl so completely sure of what she wants to do graduate, and she got it. And she’ll get even more than with her life was mind blowing,” she said. that,” said Brienne. True to her goal, Britney launched a research pro- Just as her third daughter has left home to pursue ject this summer at TU, studying the role of ion chan- college, a new mission is opening up for Ruthie, whose nels in autoimmune diseases such as lupus. prognosis is essentially day to day. She is working on “I may not find the cure for lupus, but the work I’m translation projects with a local Christian publisher, doing may be a link in the chain to make it go away,” “He Calls Me By Name,” and recently finished trans- she said. lating Bible verses into Spanish for a daily inspirational Along with continuing her research and her studies, calendar. As a native speaker of Spanish and a devout she is involved in several campus organizations. Not Christian, she enjoys the work and is able to do it out surprisingly, she attacks her extracurriculars with as of her home. Her next project will be putting together much energy as she does her studies. a book of healing scriptures, to be published in both “Britney doesn’t just join an organization. She English and Spanish. becomes an officer,” Ruthie said. Recently Britney was But having outlived her prognosis by double, named TU Mortar Board Woman of the Year. Ruthie must devote some days simply to dealing with Brienne, who is in her first year at TU (officially a the chronic pain of her disease. The latest round of sophomore), has the rest of her life planned, and it all tests and X-rays have returned bad news: Within the leads to becoming a trainer at Sea World. She plans to last couple of months, the lupus has entered a new graduate from TU with a biology major and a psychol- round of activity. Most of her organs are shot through ogy minor, then get a master’s degree in marine biology with lesions. at Texas A&M University in Galveston. Whatever else life throws at her, however, Ruthie “My goal isn’t just to become a trainer at Sea Grayson takes comfort in knowing she has done her job World. It’s to prepare myself so well that I will be irre- as a mother, raising three outstanding daughters against sistible to them,” she said. unbelievable difficulties. In that respect, she counts her- With all three daughters having found their callings self triply blessed. Finding Answers at and set their sights on independent adulthood, they “Everyone says I should be so proud of them, and now can begin to have some perspective on the difficult believe me, I am,” she said. “They have accomplished Ayn Abû Nukhayla years behind them. Although they have had a much more than I could have ever dreamed. But pride hardly harder life than most and have grown up faster than begins to describe how I feel. What I really am is by Donald O. Henry others, they know their experience has ultimately made thankful. Without them, I wouldn’t be here today. them stronger. They are my heroes.” “These experiences have made me a better person. When I get out in the real world, I’ll know how to han- Editor’s Note: Heather Hale is a senior dle serious obstacles,” said Brienne. communication major at The University of Tulsa and is editor of TU’s student paper, The Collegian. Doug Fishback contributed to this story. Solving 8,500-Year-Old Puzzles 30 TU winter2003 TU winter2003 31 Today, as in the past, the area is used principally by Bedouin herders to pasture sheep, goats, and camels. With its school, clinic, police post, and dependable water, Ram serves as the region’s main service center and a place where Bedouin tent groups have estab- lished permanent or seasonal houses. Increasingly, however, the spec- tacular scenery of the area is attracting tourists. Many of them trek or are taken by Bedouin on camels and four-wheel drives to tent camps established in remote desert locations. Although as interesting as Ram is, our reason for being there really centers on another village located about a mile to the south, called Ayn Abû Nukhayla (“the spring of the father of the young palm”). The villagers of Ayn Abû Nukhayla, however, last awakened about 8,500 years ago during the Early Neolithic period. Ayn Abû Nukhayla has drawn our attention because it presents several archaeological puzzles. From what we can tell in three years of research, the village was occupied for a relatively brief span of 180 to 260 years centered on about 8,500 years ago. It consisted of over 200 semi-subterranean, rock-lined pithouses and storage facilities covering an area of some 1,200 square meters, about three acres. All of this indicates a considerable degree of permanence which is hard to understand in the context of the hyper-arid environmental setting of today. Rainfall here averages less than 50 mm (that’s two inches) annually, and many years go without rain at all. What is surprising, is that we are finding numerous and varied artifacts indicative of grain collection and processing when such farming requires some 300-400 The combination of herding, cereal cultivation, and setting. Groups would have inhabited the site from mm of rainfall annually. Querns, other grinding stones and flint sickle hunting and gathering is thought to have enabled Early mid-late autumn through winter and into mid-late blades point to the cultivation of cereals (barley or perhaps wheat), Neolithic groups to establish a seasonal village at Ayn spring in order for cereal crops to be sown, monitored, which is further confirmed by the recovery of cereal phytoliths Abû Nukhayla during a brief moist, but not really wet and harvested. Following the harvest and during the (microscopic silica bodies of plants) and fossil cereal pollen. episode about 8,500 years ago. Data from micro- dry season, they would have moved their herds to Another major question of the research has to do with the degree botanic and geologic studies show the setting at this higher pastures on the plateau. The importance of to which herding of sheep and goats (ovicaprids) may have con- time to have been in steppe vegetation, as opposed to cereal cultivation to herding rests in the fodder that tributed to the village economy. the drier desert cover of today, with occasional areas of would have been provided from cereal chaff as evi- The age of the earliest evidence for sheep/goat domestication is drift sand. Given modern analogs, precipitation would denced at the site by the fluorescent parts of phytoliths debated, but most archaeologists believe that ovicaprid herding first have been unlikely to have exceeded 200 mm annually, and pollen laden anthers. Stores of chaff at Ayn Abû emerged in the northern reaches of the Fertile Crescent (Zagros- a level that would have been necessary for successful Nukhayla would have been especially important in the Taurus ranges of Iran and Iraq) about 9,400 years ago and was intro- cereal farming. How then can the evidence for cereal autumn when, at the end of the dry season, grasses duced later to the Levant. This prevailing model also holds that it farming in such a dry setting be explained? would have largely died off in the vicinity of the site. In was only after horticulturally dependent, Neolithic village communi- The answer may rest in the use of the nearby mud- being able to support their herds with chaff from the ties began to fail within the more lush areas of the Levant that herd- flat or Qa for cultivating barley with water from upland previous spring’s harvest, groups would have been able ing was adopted and introduced to the steppe and desert zones. run-off rather than local rainfall. According to two of to reoccupy the site in the autumn when it would have However, contrary to this theory, sheep and goats would appear to the older workmen, residents of Ram farmed the Qa as been necessary for them to sow a new cereal crop on have been herded by the inhabitants of Ayn Abû Nukhayla as early as recently as the mid-1960’s, but since then conditions the Qa. in the better watered areas. Although we have yet to find the direct, have been too dry. A review of rainfall data, in fact, The moist pulse that watered the Qa was appar- often elusive osteological evidence to confirm the presence of domes- confirms that 1967 was a record rainfall year. Moreover, ently short-lived, lasting for only 100 to 200 years. And ticated sheep or goats, several lines of circumstantial evidence point a study of diatoms (microscopic algae) contained in sed- even this interval was likely to have been a mixture of to their presence. The identification of sheep and goat remains out- iment cores from the Qa indicates the presence of shal- good and bad years, prompting episodic discontinuity side of their natural habitats indirectly suggests that the animals were low seasonal lakes during the time Ayn Abû Nukhayla in settlement. Sometime after about 8,300 years ago, being herded. Similarly, the very high proportions of ovicaprid was inhabited. the on-set of dry conditions caused the final abandon- remains, accounting for over 75 percent of all the bones, is consistent The practice of farming the Qa may also have pro- ment of Ayn Abû Nukhayla. with other Neolithic sites for which domestication has been con- vided the key to successful herding in the area. A strat- firmed. Finally, the presence of high densities of fecal spherulites egy of transhumance in which herding, farming and Editor’s note: Donald O. Henry is professor of (microscopic calcic bodies formed in the intestines of sheep and foraging were interwoven through seasonally scheduled anthropology at TU. He has written numerous articles goats) in the site’s deposit can really only be explained as coming movements from locations on the floor of the Wadi and several books about his more than 30 years of from dung accumulations, another confirmation of herding. Hisma to the uplands of the Ma’an Plateau would have archaeological research in the Near East. enabled early Neolithic groups to occupy the marginal

32 TU winter2003 TU winter2003 33 Student-Athletes Excel Academically A New Start Bledsoe, a Pro Football Staff TU was a big winner in the USA by Don Tomkalski Bowl quarterback, Today/NCAA Academic Achievement Awards: said about Steve Kragthorpe, 37, is the 26th OFFENSIVE COACHING STAFF the only school to be ranked among the top-10 Kragthorpe: “Tulsa C

athletics head football coach for TU. He is getting a great in all three categories — overall 1995 freshman comes to Tulsa from the Buffalo coach and unfortu- • Charlie Stubbs - Offensive student-athlete graduation rate; percentage-point Bills and brings 13 years of nately we are losing Coordinator and Quarterbacks difference between graduation rate of athletes coaching experience to the Tulsa a great coach. First Coach, 1st year (was passing and student body, and percentage-point football program, including 11 of all, he is very game coordinator and quarter- improvement from the freshman entering in years on the collegiate level and intelligent and has a backs coach at Alabama from 1994. two years of professional football. very creative football 1998-2000) For Division I-A schools, Tulsa was 10th in “I’m very excited for my family mind. Second, his • Spencer Leftwich, Offensive overall graduation rate, with 80 percent, accord- and thrilled about this golden attention to detail is Line Coach, 1st year (spent last ing to the NCAA Official Division I Graduation opportunity to be the head foot- outstanding. His 9 years as offensive line coach at Rates Report; second in improvement from the ball coach at The University of Tulsa,” said Kragthorpe at his attitude and North Texas) year before (1994), a 23 percent increase; and introductory news conference on December 19, 2002. approach to coach- • TiAndre Sanders, Running ninth in the difference between athletes and the Kragthorpe spent the past two seasons (2000-01) as quar- ing the game every- Backs Coach, 2nd year (was run- overall student enrollment, a difference of 19 terback coach with the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. In 2001, he tutored day is tremendous. ning backs coach at Tulsa last percent. Rob Johnson, now with Super Bowl Champs Tampa Bay Bucs; He is always positive year) Among the top-10 Division 1-A schools as well as Alex Van Pelt and Drew Bledsoe this past season. listed for the best graduation rates, Tulsa is and upbeat.” • Bob Schultz, Receivers and joined by Rice, Stanford, Notre Dame, Duke, Prior to the Special Teams Coach, 1st year Vanderbilt, Northwestern, SMU, Virginia and Bills, Kragthorpe (spent the past three seasons as Penn State. spent four years offensive coordinator at Tulsa’s 23 percent increase from the fresh- (1997-00) as an Tarleton State) man class of 1994 was one point below first- assistant coach at • Matt Wells, Tight Ends Coach place Eastern Michigan’s +24 improvement. The Texas A&M, including the final three seasons as offensive coordinator. and Recruiting Coordinator, student-athletes’ graduation rate at Tulsa is 19 He also coached the wide receivers from 1997-99, before becoming the 2nd year (was tight ends coach percent better than that of the overall student quarterback coach for the 2000 season. The Aggies posted a four-year at Tulsa last year) population’s 61 percent. mark of 35-16 and participated in four Bowl games, including the In 2001-02, 17 of Tulsa’s 18 intercollegiate Cotton Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Alamo Bowl and Independence Bowl. C DEFENSIVE COACHING STAFF teams maintained at least a 2.7 grade point aver- Kragthorpe broke into the coaching ranks in 1990 as the quarter- age, including 11 teams with over a cumulative back coach at Northern Arizona and remained in that position until • Todd Graham - Assistant Head 3.0 GPA. being elevated to offensive coordinator for the 1992 and ’93 seasons. He Coach and Defensive “We’re excited that our student-athletes’ aca- was the offensive coordinator at North Texas for the 1994 and ’95 sea- Coordinator, 1st year (spent last demic achievements have been recognized by the sons, and served as the quarterback coach at Boston College in 1996. two years at West Virginia, NCAA and USA Today,” said TU Athletics As a college coach, he tutored Boston College’s Matt Hasselbeck, including 2002 as co-defensive Director Judy MacLeod. “The high graduation now with the Seattle Seahawks, and Jeff Lewis at Northern Arizona. coordinator) rate is something we’ve worked for, and are Lewis was a five-year NFL quarterback with the Denver Broncos and • Sammy Lawanson, Secondary extremely proud of. Carolina Panthers. Coach, 4th year (spent last 4 “It is our mission in athletics to provide our As a collegiate player, Kragthorpe played quarterback for two sea- years at Tulsa as defensive assis- sons at Eastern New Mexico (1983-84) before transferring to West student-athletes with the opportunity to compete tant coach) Texas A&M. He started 11 games as a senior and completed 179 of 344 at the highest level while making progress • Keith Patterson, Linebackers passes for 1,980 yards and nine TDs. toward completion of a degree in an environ- Coach, 1st year (spent last three Kragthorpe earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration ment with high academic standards, a commit- years as assistant coach at Allen from West Texas in 1988. He also received his master’s degree in busi- ment to equity and diversity, sportsmanship, per- [Texas] High School) ness administration, while serving as a graduate assistant coach at sonal growth and development and ethical con- • Danny Phillips, Defensive Line, Oregon State in 1988 and ’89. duct. This award signifies that we are accom- 1st year (spent last year as a Kragthorpe and his wife, Cynthia, have three sons: Chris (13), Brad plishing our goal of graduating student-athletes defensive assistant coach at West of a prestigious academic institution at a very (10) and Nik (8). Virginia) high level.”

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partners Sharp Chapel Restoration Service The University officially closed Sharp Chapel for renovations with a formal ceremony. Celebrants gathered in the sanctuary to pray for the success of the renovation. As the service concluded, participants symbolically lit candles then carried them from the church to the plaza outside, where they were extinguished.The lights will go on again once the renovation is complete in approximately one year.

CIRCLE SOCIETY The Michael D. Case Tennis Center was transformed into an elegant hall for members of the Circle Society, alumni and friends whose substantial support guarantees the high quality of a TU education.The February 14th gathering The annual Thanks for Giving Celebration for members of TU’s President’s Council was held in the Great Hall of included (bottom left) Brook and Jill the Allen Chapman Activity Center. Don and Rita Newman enjoyed the festivities with Pres. Bob and Marcy Tarbel; (left) Barbara and Jim Houghton; Lawless. Seated are (left to right): Keith and Pat Bailey; Bob and Sandy West; and Mike and Sharon Bartlett. (middle) Pres. Bob & Marcy Lawless with Sharon Bell and Greg Gray; and (right) Sandra and Donne Pitman.

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class Emeritus of The University of Tulsa, was inducted into of the Environment and social column for the the Oklahoma Higher Land Use Committee, thus Anchorage Times to the Education Hall of Fame on utilizing his TU training. Corpus Christi Caller-Times. She currently writes a October 8. The award rec- Robert J. LaFortune (’48), monthly column for the ognizes individuals for meri- lives in Tulsa with his wife, Rockport Pilot (Texas) and The Game Adj. torious service to higher Jeanne. They have six chil- The Herald and has just pub- White Hat ...... $18.00 education in Oklahoma. Dr. dren and 16 grandchildren. lished When Angels Weep, the Henneke was a professor of Robert is the former mayor story of Martha Luigi. Mary humanities and speech at of the City of Tulsa and past is a widow with two married TU as well as academic vice chairman of the Oklahoma chilren and five grandchil- president of The University Ethics Commission. He and dren. She lives in Rockport, of Tulsa before retiring in Jeanne are members of Texas, on Key Allegro, a 1967. Christ the King Parish. small island on the Texas Elbert N. (Bull) Durham George (’49) and June Gulf Coast. (BS ’37) lives in Fayetteville, Megill (’49) enjoyed the vis- Ron Butler (BS ’68) received Willis B. Wood (BA ’57) Arkansas. He graduated with its of all their grandchildren *MV Sport Royal Blue T-Shirt (S-XXL) ...... $11.95 the John W. Hartman has been named chairman of a degree in petroleum engi- in 2002, the youngest of *Also available in White and Gray* Leadership Award on November the AAA Board of Directors. neering and retired from whom came all the way from 8 from the Oklahoma Chapter He has served as vice presi- Shell Oil Company. Brazil where the Megills of the National Multiple dent and director of the *Shorts w/Tulsa on Rear (XS-XL) ...... $12.00 served for 28 years as Sclerosis Society. The award was AAA Board since May 2001. *Also available in Gold, Navy, and Gray* United Methodist mission- presented by Hartman’s widow, 1940s He has also been a member aries. They keep busy in Pat, above, at the annual meet- Ralph L. Langenheim, Jr. of the Automobile Club of Raleigh, North Carolina, ing for the Oklahoma Chapter (BS ’43) was reelected to the Southern California Board with volunteer work. in Oklahoma City. Ron has Champaign County Board of Directors since 1993. served on the MS board and (Illinois) for a second term advisory board for more than 15 in last November’s election. 1950s 1960s years. He and his wife, The first-time ever Mary Hudgens Taylor (BA L. Lowell Lehman (MA Margaret, live in Tulsa. Democratic majority on the ’53) has put her journalism ’60) was inducted into the board now stands at 16-ll, as degree to good use through opposed to 14-13 for the Oklahoma Higher Educa-

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40 TU winter2003 Buy from The University of Tulsa Bookstore by calling (918)631-2206. notes tion Hall of Fame on (BA ’66) is senior legal a partner in the Tulsa law October 8. He was honored counsel for Hilti Corpora- firm of Doerner, Saunders, The Legacy of Glenn Dobbs for his work at Northeastern tion. A former naval officer Daniel & Anderson, L.L.P. State University where he and a Vietnam veteran, John Doug was a member of the TU football legend Glenn Dobbs died November 12, Hurricane class founded the jazz program serves as a deacon for St. Tulsa Public Schools Board 2002, at his home in Tulsa. Known as the greatest football head foot- and the NSU Music Hall of Benedict Parish in Broken of Education for 11-1/2 player in school history, over the years Dobbs (BS ’43) ball coach Fame. He served as a profes- Arrow. He and his wife, years, serving two terms as sor of music education and Peggy, have five children. president. He also was the received numerous awards during and after his collegiate and from 1961 director of instrumental national chairman of the professional career. to 1968. Helen F. Howerton (BS music at NSU for 30 years. Board for the American From 1940 to 1942, he played at Tulsa and was a consen- Dobbs led ’66) is the 2002-2003 Diabetes Association. Barbara Cook Holman (BA national advertising director sus All-American as a triple threat tailback and safety, and Tulsa to ’62) celebrated her twenty- for Women Artists of the Cherry Jones Blaker (BS Heisman Trophy contender. As a pro, he was Rookie of the Bluebonnet fifth year of teaching for West. She is included in the ’73, MA ’75) is a school psy- Year and All-Pro selection in two professional leagues. Bowl games Tulsa Public Schools. Her 2002-2003 Who’s Who of chologist with Owasso Dobbs earned his All-America merits in 1942 after lead- in 1964 and book, Lockes of Lockesburg a American Women, and is fea- Public Schools. She received ing the Golden Hurricane to a 10-1 record and final national 1965. His teams Research Journal, was tured in the winter issue of her school psychology certi- ranking of fourth in the Associated Press poll. He led Tulsa led the nation for accepted in the genealogy Oklahoma Heritage fication in 2002. Cherry is collection of the national Magazine. married and lives with her to appearances in the 1941 Sun Bowl and 1942 Sugar Bowl. five consecutive sea- library of Daughters of the husband, J. Scott Blaker, in A three-time Missouri Valley Conference performer, Dobbs sons in passing, 1962- Steve Turnbo (BA ’67), American Revolution in Owasso, Oklahoma. president of Schnake led the Hurricane to an overall 25-6 record during that time 1966. Washington, D.C. Turnbo Frank Inc., has been Anne Morand (BA ’73) span. Dobbs, a TU Distin- John Allphin Moore, Jr. elected to the College of conducted a traveling exhi- In 1942, Dobbs completed 63 percent of his passes for guished Alumnus, was elected to the (BA ’62, MA ’64) is pleased Fellows of the Public bition, “Poetry of Place: 1,066 yards and led the nation in punting with a 48.3 yard National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame in to announce the publishing Relations Society of Works on Paper by Thomas average. As a team, the Hurricane led the country in passing 1980, and in 1982 was an inductee into TU’s inaugural class of his ninth book, America. Steve was one of Moran,” in Jackson, offense with an average of 233.9 yards per game. To this day, of the Athletic Hall of Fame. He was also inducted into the Encyclopedia of the United 16 new members who were Wyoming, on behalf of Amy O’Leary Geraci (BSN Nations, which was co- inducted during PRSA’s Tulsa’s Gilcrease Museum. Dobbs still has four of the top-five longest punts in school Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame. On October 21, 2000, ’97) and Joe Geraci (JD ’98), authored with Jerry Pubantz International Conference history — 87, 79, 78 and 77 yards. During his playing days, Eighth Street between Harvard and Florence Avenues was Steve W. Shores (BS ’73) are pleased to announce the and published by Facts on Nov. 16 in San Francisco. he led Tulsa in passing, pass efficiency and punting in 1941 renamed Glenn Dobbs Drive. On June 5, 2001, the All- has joined Gulf Interstate birth of their daughter, Kathryn File of New York in Election to the college is an Engineering Company in and 1942, and was the team leader in interceptions in 1942. American Football Foundation honored Dobbs with its Anna, born July 26, 2002. October. He teaches at honor awarded to senior Houston as vice president of His No. 45 is one of seven retired jersey numbers. Pioneer All-America Award. California State Polytechnic practitioners and educators engineering. He was previ- After starring in both the American and Canadian “Coach” as he was most endearingly known, continued University in Pomona and based on professional Joal P. Stockton (BS ’99) was ously senior vice president lives in nearby Claremont achievements. Steve, a mem- Football Leagues, Dobbs returned to The University of his involvement with the TU athletic department through married to Amy M. Patten (BS and general manager of with his wife, Linda Christ ber of TU’s Board of Tulsa in 1955 as athletics director. He was the Golden the years in the areas of fundraising and support. ’00) on June 8, 2002 in the Willbros Engineers in Tulsa Moore (BA ’63), a CPA. Trustees, began his career as bride’s home town of Chatfield, and manager of interna- “We are deeply saddened by the passing of the sports information direc- Minnesota. The couple resides Linda Tillis (BS ’62) retired tional business development Coach Dobbs. He has been such an integral figure tor at the University. in the Minneapolis suburb of December 23 from for Willbros USA in in Tulsa athletics from the early 1940s to present New Hope. Other TU alumni Northern Illinois University Gary Collins (BS ’68, MS Houston. day,” said TU’s Athletic Director Judy MacLeod. in the wedding party include as associate director of stu- ’74) is a manager at Bob Okrzesik (BA ’77) was “As a player, he set standards difficult to duplicate; Sonja Allen (BS ’98), Justin dent housing and dining ser- Oklahoma Farmer’s Union promoted to corporate vice as a coach, he was instrumental in developing a Wise (BS ’99) and Scott vices. She will continue to Mutual. president of sales and mar- Russell (BS ’99). teach some passing offense that today’s game is patterned after; Scott Cherry (BS ’68, MS keting for NS Group in English classes. as athletic director, he oversaw the expansion of ’74) writes “Eat Drink and Houston. He was featured in Skelly Stadium to over 40,000 seats; and, as a per- Tom King (BS Be Cherry,” the food, wine the August issue of Pipeline ’65) retired and restaurant column for and Gas Technology Magazine. son, he was one of the best — a perfect gentleman from the Air the Tulsa World. who loved this University and community dearly. Don H. Hockenbury (MA Force and holds He will be deeply missed by the TU community.” ’78) and Sandra E. a management Hockenbury published the When Tulsa played San Jose State the week of position with 1970s third edition of their text- Dobbs’ death, the Golden Hurricane team honored Walgreen’s in Lee Ratcliff (BS ’70) retired book, Psychology, in August Tulsa. He and from Eastman Chemical in him by wearing his number 45 on their helmets 2002. The text is the basis of his wife, Longview, Texas, after 32 and by observing a moment of silence. the Emmy Award-winning Claudia L. years with the company. He Born on July 12, 1920 in McKinney, Texas, he national introductory psy- Matney King currently lives on Lake chology telecourse, played his prep football in Frederick, Oklahoma. (BS ’65, MS Cherokee in Longview. “Psychology: The Human A memorial service was held for Dobbs November ’72) reside in Doug Dodd (BS ’71, JD Experience,” produced by 18, 2002 at the Donald W. Reynolds Center on Tulsa. ’81) currently resides in Coastline Community campus. John Donnelly Tulsa with his wife, Elaine College. In August, Don Elsloo Dodd (BS ’71). He is

42 TU winter2003 TU winter2003 43 notes received the Tulsa have an eight-year-old son. previously worked as assis- Community College Faculty tant district attorney for Beth Kladar Kelly (BS ’87) Dream Catcher Award. Tulsa County and in a pri- resides in Houston with her vate law practice. class Tim Raburn (BSCE ’79, husband, Mike, and stays Love for the English language and people fuels Brenda Lloyd-Jones BSPE ’82) was named vice busy with their four chil- Diana L. Williams Snider (Ph.D. ’92), who pours her energy into motivating others. Her passion for profile president of ConocoPhillips dren: Michael, 9; Caroline, (BS ’92, MS ’96) married Gas and Power. He is 7; Andrew, 5; and Jack, 2. Daniel H. Snider on August people is evident the minute she begins to talk: “Once I had a student who responsible for expanding 31. They reside in south wanted a particular type of book, but he couldn’t find it. I advised him to Clay W. Smith (BS ’88) and the company’s natural gas Florida, where Diana teaches write it himself, and 18 months later, he brought the published book back his wife, Theresa, celebrated marketing business. high school mathematics. the first anniversary of their to me.” Previously Tim was assistant

new company, Paragon Auto Tracy Glisson-Fisher (BSN A self-described “closet performer,” she is president of the People alumni general manager of com- Group, this year. The cou- ’93) lives in Seminole, modity services and general Interaction Institute and professor of human relations at the University of ple lives in Tulsa with their Oklahoma, with her hus- manager of gas origination Oklahoma-Tulsa campus. two children, Renae and band, Chayne, and their two for Aquila, Incorporated. He Lloyd-Jones’ motivational talks to organizations generate enthusiastic Trent. children, Cody and Bailey. and his wife, Marna, (BS Tracy owns a cheerleading and grateful e-mails from people she doesn’t know personally. “I help peo- ’84) have four children and Margaret Sposato gym where she teaches all- ple acknowledge their own brilliant ideas and then put them into action,” reside in Houston. Douglass Paul (BS ’88, MS star competition cheerlead- she says. ’90) and her husband, Chip ers. W. Paul, have three boys: As a mentor, she provides one-on-one coaching, helping her clients 1980s Eric, 14; Hunter, 11; and Heather A. Britt Leinen focus, then mapping out the steps to help them achieve their goals. As a Eva-Marie Haig Gooden (BA Paul Cleary (JD ’81) was Casey, 6. Margaret is a tenth (BS ’94) and Jeff Leinen professor, she conducts graduate-level classes in professional consulting, ’90) was married to John Andre sworn in as U.S. Magistrate grade geometry teacher at (’95) celebrated their eighth Gooden on December 22, 2001 creative problem solving and organizational leadership. Judge for the Northern Owasso Mid-High in wedding anniversary this in Ambler, Pennsylvania. She is A decade ago, Lloyd-Jones’ passion for volunteerism led her to the District of Oklahoma on July Owasso, Oklahoma. Chip year. Jeff is the travel coordi- marketing coordinator for Junior League of Tulsa. She was impressed by the organization’s work and 22. Prior to his appointment, works for Paul Magnetics. nator and ticketing and cus- Wave3 Communications. Her he was a shareholder with tomer service manager for by the members who managed to juggle the demands of work, childrearing husband is a maintenance the Tulsa law firm of Boone, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. and other volunteer obligations. instructor for Omni Air Smith, Davis, Hurst, and 1990s “These are exceptional human beings,” she says of the Tulsa league International. They reside in Dickman. He resides in Jere Iwata (BSBA ’90) and Daniel Webster Munley Tulsa. Tulsa with his wife, Julia. his wife Donna, welcomed (JD ’94) of Munley, Munley members. “I am inspired by these women who make room in their the newest additions to their & Cartwright, P.C., has been busy lives to help others.” Patrick Freeman (BA ’81) family: Kristin Elizabeth on appointed a member of the Last year, Lloyd-Jones was elected the first African American joined Bank One Securities May 1, 1999, and Katherine executive committee of the Corporation as a senior president of the 80-year-old Tulsa Junior League. One of her goals Anne on August 13. American Trial Lawyers for the organization is to publicize the work the members accom- investment advisor. He was Association’s (ATLA) previously an attorney for a Charles Stephen Eckelt Interstate Trucking plish. “The Junior League has had a reputation as an organization private law practice in Tulsa (BA ’91) is a psychotherapist Litigation Group. He is the of wealthy women with time on their hands,” she says. “However, and a financial advisor for at Children’s Medical recipient of the American 80 percent of our members are employed outside the home; the Morgan Stanley Invest- Center, Tulsa Regional Jurisprudence Award for ments. He also ran his own Medical Center, and Brown majority have children at home; and their careers range from Excellence in Trial Advocacy. teachers to attorneys to women who’ve returned to school media production company, Schools of Oklahoma. He Daniel resides in Clarks themselves. The best thing about the members is that each one First Take Productions, Inc. and his wife, Susan Lynette Summit, Pennsylvania, with in Tulsa and Burbank, Eckelt, have three children. his wife and two children. can be counted on to follow through on whatever they under- California. take.” She cites the Junior League’s impressive list of local volun- Karen Gibbs-Hiller (BM Amy Whinery Osborne Manuel Felipe Rosales ’91, MFA ’93), and her hus- (BSBA ’94, JD ’97) joined teer achievements as evidence of the member’s can-do ethic: initi- (MS ’81) is currently living band, Paul, announce the Jenny W. Clark (BA ’99) and the law firm of Wilson & ating the funding for the construction of the Ronald McDonald in Venezuela with his wife, birth of their first child, Ratledge in Raleigh, North House; founding members of the Child Abuse Network and Wade Clark (BSBA ’98) are Marta. Victor, on April 26. pleased to announce the arrival Carolina. The practice Leadership Tulsa; and working with Domestic Violence of their first child, Riley, born Marianne Bolders Fincher Danielle Quku-Rutnik includes workers’ compensa- Intervention Shelter (DVIS). on March 30. (BS ’83) retired as informa- (MFA ’97), married Paul tion defense, corporate and Through the years, Lloyd-Jones also has served as a consultant tion systems manager from Rutnik, September 29, 2001. business law, estate planning, ChevronTexaco after 35 Danielle works for Morgan tax issues and civil litigation. for the Association of Junior Leagues International — work that has years with the company. Stanley as a senior sales She resides in Pittsboro, taken her around the country and abroad. assistant. The couple resides North Carolina, with her Married to mortgage broker Edward Jones and the mother of 16-year- Jim (BS ’86) and Carol in New York. husband, Steve. old E.J., Lloyd-Jones’ speaking engagements keep her on the road once or Send your updated Drayton Searles (BS ’86) twice a month. information to: recently relocated to the Paul Wilkening (JD ’91) is Alan Prokop (BA ’94) is the Indianapolis area where Jim director of operations for a “My belief is that your ideas are as unique as your fingerprints,” she [email protected] first deputy for the Board of is employed by Ely Lilly and Tulsa County Commission- wireless communications says. “If you don’t do what you’re meant to do in life, it won’t get done.” Company. Jim and Carol ers, serving as the chief company in Southern administrative aide. Paul California. Alan credits the

44 TU winter2003 TU winter2003 45 notes TU Study Abroad Program position in the tax depart- ’99), live in Austin. Michele is a In Memoriam O. Preston Lowrey (BS 1960s Medicine and of Boise State and his travel to Malaga, ment of Maxwell Locke & program manager. ’48), December 8. Walter James Philp (BS University, Dec. 17. Spain, as a defining time in Ritter in Austin, Texas. Kevin Thompson (BS ’99) Bill Swanson (BA ’48) ’60), November 30. Albert Bernard Fanfulik his life. 1930s class Chris Lopp (BSBA ’96, works at ONEOK in Tulsa as a November 22. (BS ’73), October 17. Eleanor Newblock Sharon “Sam” Gary (’61), Medea G. Bendel (BA ’95) MBA ’99) serves as the programmer-analyst. He is also McAlphin (BA ’33), Jean G. Finlayson, (’49), September 28. Susan Simons Burke (BS is the recipient of the James director of corporate devel- pursuing his MBA at the September 11. July 18. ’74), November 24, 2001. 1,001 Good Reasons to Madison Memorial fellow- opment for Liberty University of Phoenix. Kevin Richard D. Stem (’61), Think “TU” ship. The grant will under- Broadband Interactive returned from his sixteenth trip Wilma Del Rees Morgan Mary Lou Fallen Johnson, October 26. John Anthony Johnston write her master’s degree Television in Tulsa. He also with Old Rochester Regional (BS ’35), May 25, 2001. (’49), November 7. Herbert D. Stauber (’62), (BS ’74), October 19. studies in U.S. began a three-year term on Junior School where he led the A few things have changed since H. Paul Rogers (BA ’38), Charles E. Thornton (BS October 18. Evelyn Ruth Sartain (’77), Constitutional history, which the Golden Hurricane Club annual survival program. The you attended TU: We’re listed November 19. ’49), November 14, retired November 20. will include a four-week Board of Directors. Chris week-long program was held in Micheal Lynn Wilson (BS president of Reading & among the top 130 national univer- course in Washington, D.C., and his wife, Jennifer the northern Appalachian ’63), October 27. Bates Corp., TU Distin- sities in U.S. News & World Report, next July. Medea is currently Garrett Lopp (BSBA ’98, Mountains for more than 100 1940s guished Alumnus and mem- Shirley L. McElfresh 1990s we boast brand new facilities, and pursuing a separate master’s MBA ’00) also are members seventh-graders. Donald Dean Ellis, Sr., ber of the TU Board of Crawford (BS ’64), Linda Dobbs (BS ’91), an state-of-the-art technology is com- degree in U.S. and Western of the TU Alumni (’40), October 26. Trustees. September 1. assistant professor of com- monplace throughout the campus. history at TU. She also Association Board of munication at TU, 2000s Mary Hinckley Gold, (BM • And then, the good things about teaches pre-advanced place- Directors. David Edward Files (BS December 15. ment world history, pre- Michael Krause (BS ’00) mar- ’40, BS ’69) December 3. ’66), October 19. TU are as true today as when you Chris Harmon (BS ’98) is advanced placement ried Emily Shell in June. Kevin 1950s Patricia Ann Thomas were in school: We have terrific the legal specialist for the Marian Lois Burline Patrick A. Conner (BS European history, and Thompson (BS ’99) was the Charles George Anderson McClellan (BA ‘92, MA ‘ U.S. Department of Justice. Raymond, (BA ’40), ’67), October 27. professors; we have winning athletic Oklahoma history at Bishop best man. Michael works for (’50), October 30. 94), July 12. In his spare time, he pro- November 18. teams, and this is still a great place Kelley High School in Tulsa. the Bakersfield Blitz arena foot- to form lifelong friendships. • duces and remixes electronic ball team in California. Joe Gibson (BS ’42), Francisco S. Madrigal (BS 1970s Father Stuart Crevcoure dance music. ’50), July 4. Friends and Faculty PLUS, children of TU alumni October 19. Colin David Ritchie (BS (BA ’95) is the administrator Jason Townsend (BS ’00) and Linda Huang Mei (BSBA Benjamin Dritch (BS ’51) ’70), November 26. are eligible for the $1,000 of Sacred Heart Church in his wife, Amy, celebrated the Kenneth L. Gibson (BS John P. Dratz, former pro- ’98) married Bing Mei in October 18. Alumni Grant, which is awarded Sapulpa. He attended semi- birth of their daughter, Rylee ’42) August 16. Elizabeth Ann Hildy fessor of Health, Physical May 2000 and celebrated to new undergraduate students who nary at St. Vincent’s Brooke, on July 7. Lowell B. Deckert (BS Vilott (’70), November 27. Education and Recreation at the birth of their first child, Glenn Dobbs (BS ’43), have at least one parent with a Seminary in Latrobe, '52), March 27, 2002. TU, December 7. Parker, last September 22. Susan Elizabeth Cook (BA November 12. (See page 43.) Ralph F. Keen (JD ’71), degree from the University. The Pennsylvania, and upon ’01) married Seth Alan Jewell (Judy) Ann Linda and Bing work for Mary Virginia Ketchum former chief justice of grant, which is renewable as long as graduation, returned to Conway (BS ’01) on October Paul E. Garrison (JD ’53), McElroy, who retired from Accenture in Houston. Eisenhour, (’44), October 6. September 28. Cherokees, November. the student attends full time and Tulsa to be ordained. He 12, 2002 in Ft. Smith, Arkansas. TU in 1993 after years of became the administrator of Michael W. Boutot (BA, Neila A Wood Poshek remains in good academic standing, Anne Senyard Lisko (BA ’01) Glenn A. “Art” Patterson, Angelo Prassa (BS ’54, MS service as administrative sec- Sacred Heart last spring. ’99, JD ’02) graduated from and Christopher Nelson (BA D.O. (’46), November 7. ’73) November 15. (Ed.D. ’72) retired dean of retary for the graduate may be applied toward tuition only. The University of Tulsa nursing at the University of Meredith Lee (BA ’95) was ’01) were members of the wed- schools of theatre art and • Shouldn’t you encourage your Law School last May while Florence Ann Sharp (BA James R. Glenn (BA ’55, Tulsa, Georgia College of named manager of Theatre ding party. The couple resides modern letters, October 20. high schooler to consider TU? • concurrently receiving an ’48), November 13. MA ’62), October 13. Arts, Inc., a performing arts in Houston. Susan works for That’s the first 1,000 reasons. The M.A. in Russian history. He Horace “Pete” Mann, TU studio in Broken Arrow, Gremillion & Company Fine lived in Moscow during the dean of student services from other? Who do you know who Oklahoma. Meredith has Art. Seth is a design engineer summer of 2001 while Clyde Goodnight (BS ’46) was an outstanding August 1974 to January might like information about TU? been an instructor at for Schlumberger. attending the University of end for the Golden Hurricane who played from 1991, October 28. Someone in your extended family? Theatre Art for the past 15 San Diego’s Pericles Chris Weatherl (BS ’01) 1942-1944. A superb defender and an out- years and performed in stage Betty Jon Williams Shell, The child of a neighbor or co- Institute, which presented accepted a job in Houston with standing receiver, he helped lead his team to productions including former TU student, October worker? • Send us their name him with a certificate in Apache Corporation after grad- the 1942 Sun Bowl and the 1943 Sugar “Blithe Spirit,” “Big”, 6. and address, or e-mail address (and international and compara- uation. He was transferred Bowl. An outstanding student, Goodnight was “Annie”, “The Secret year of high school graduation if tive law. back to Tulsa. selected to be in Who’s Who in American Colleges Warren J. Jackman, attor- Garden,” and “Joseph and you know it), and the admission and Universities. ney with the firm of Pray, the Amazing Technicolor Michael Catterson (BS ’99) Walker, Jackman, William- office will be in touch with them. • Dreamcoat.” is the head athletic trainer at Send your updated He was selected as a member of the All- son, and Marlar, and friend For more information, or to Southwestern Oklahoma American squad for two years and was a sec- Tushar Shah (BS ’95) and information to: of TU, November 27. arrange for a visit to campus to see State University in ond-round draft pick by the Green Bay Packers his wife, Julie Edwards Weatherford. He also is [email protected] in 1945. Subsequently, he played for the first-hand how we’ve changed and Shah (BS ’95), are pleased to involved in the development Washington Redskins and attended the stayed the same, call toll-free 1- announce the arrival of their of the undergraduate ath- University of Tennessee Medical School in the 800-331-3050, or locally 918-631- son, Ajay Tyler Shah on letic training degree pro- off-season, receiving an MD degree in 1956. 2307. The Office of Admission, April 10. Tushar is attending gram at the university. Goodnight was a family practice physician in the University of Texas University of Tulsa, 600 S. College, Holland and Little River Academy, Texas for 30 McCombs School of Michael R. Horn (BS ’99) Tulsa, OK 74104-3189. years. Business and expecting to is a web developer with Dell complete his MBA in May Computer Corporation. He He was inducted into The University of Tulsa 2004. Julie has accepted a and his wife, Michele (BS Hall of Fame as a member of the class of 1989.

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bookend DEWITT AND BOBBYE POTTER The summer of 1943 was memorable for Dewitt Potter because he spent the whole season on horseback. As a veteran surface geologist for Phillips, he was looking for signs of oil and gas structures in northeast British Columbia and found plenty. After serving two years in the Army Engineers, he returned to Canada in 1949 where he spent 12 of his 18 years with Phillips Petroleum. Two things happened while the Potters and their four children lived in Calgary, Alberta: They fell in love with Canada, establishing a summer home on the edge of Banff National Park in Canmore, Alberta; and Dee developed a friendship with an executive with Reading and Bates who enticed him from Phillips to a position with Reading and Bates in 1961. The Tulsa move was fortuitous for Bobbye who entered TU to complete her undergraduate degree. “My children were well along in school, and I decided it was time for me to finish.” She received three degrees from the University: a BS in Library Science, a BA in French and an MA in history. The couple’s love for Tulsa is reflected in their service to a host of community organizations — the Tulsa City County Library, Tulsa Opera, Tulsa Ballet, Tulsa Historical Society, Salvation Army and the Nature Conservancy. Last year, Bobbye received the 2002 Marcus Tower Service Award from the Tulsa Library Trust. Over the years, the Potter’s generosity to a variety of TU organizations has included gifts to the Ed Cadenhead Memorial Fund for History, the Annual Fund, the Hurricane Club, Nimrod, McFarlin Fellows and Skelly Stadium. For an enduring gift, they have established the Dewitt and Bobbye Potter Endowed Fund for the McFarlin If you have included TU in your estate plan, please Library to purchase books and periodicals in history. let the University know so we can appropriately thank you. You may call (918) 631-2092. For information on Planned Giving contact Jan Zink at 918-631-2092.

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