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Bullish Persepolis, the ceremonial center of the Achaemenid Empire, boasted an immense palace complex featuring many slender columns—often topped with capitals like this one, which depicts a human- headed bull wearing an Assyrian-style crown. The limestone carving was excavated during the Oriental Institute’s Persian Expedition (1931– 39), as was the 10-ton bull statue shown on the cover. These are among the many treasures held by the OI, which celebrates its centennial this year. For more, see page 39. Cover and this page: Photos courtesy the Oriental Institute Oriental the courtesy Photos page: this and Cover

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Local interest By Jeanie Chung 22 After 40 years in the Illinois House, a veteran lawmaker steps aside.

Hermit philosophy By Lucas McGranahan 24 A course on exile, retreat, and homes away from home.

Listening to the world By Lydialyle Gibson 26 Rosanna Warren’s odes to woundedness.

American style By Brooke E. O’Neill, AM’04 32 Elizabeth Gordon, PhB’27, fought for “good” design in the Cold War era.

Toward a safer world By Laura Demanski, AM’94 34 At the first annual Hagel Lecture, Madeleine Albright and Chuck Hagel spoke from experience.

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Special recollections self, at least in the United States, has I was delighted by “No Key Required” been spurred by a perceived weaken- (Spring/19). As a student in the Gradu- ing of democracy. The reasons for this ate Library School, I had the privi- should also be examined. lege of working with Bob Rosenthal, Tom Schroder, AB’67, AM’69 AM’55, for a couple of years when Re- AVE MARIA, FLORIDA genstein was the new library. Along with general cataloging and editing, I served as exhibits coordinator. I had Comprehensive care the chance to work with a number of I read with interest “Primary Value” experts at the University to organize (Spring/19). When I graduated from and exhibit their specialties through the Pritzker School of Medicine in 1972 books, manuscripts, and artifacts. I and established a solo family practice, also put together a catalog for each it was glaringly obvious that I saved exhibit. It was a really fun job. I am The factors that are mentioned all Medicare money on hospital patients. eternally grateful for the experience line up to criticize Donald Trump. It happened every day. I was deeply of working with Rosenthal. While I’m no fan of his, the article ap- involved with my patients’ hospital Sadly, the University closed its li- pears one-sided. One factor negatively care and shared Ram Krishnamoor- brary school many years ago. I never impacting democracy in the United thi’s frustration with trying to get understood why. In the late 1960s, States has been the role of the courts in the attention of the narrowly focused the Library School was well ahead vastly expanding their power and cur- specialists, but it was worth it because of its time in recognizing the impact tailing that of voters and even elected I often was able to correct their false that computers were to have on the officials. This has led to a lot of frustra- understandings about the patients’ way libraries (and now the rest of us) tion and in fact fueled populism. medical conditions. It was frustrat- operate. I have benefitted in later ad- Another factor is the “deep state”— ing, though, because no one other than ventures from having been introduced or, more appropriately, a lack of neu- the patients valued the work I did. Not to the basic mysteries of computer trality on the part of the government the specialists; not the hospitals, who programming (running punch cards bureaucracy. Ginsburg and Huq think complained that I kept the patients in through the computer at midnight “bureaucratic rule of law” and a non- the hospital too long; and certainly not when time was available). My library partisan civil service are a pillar of the insurance companies. degree put me through law school a democracy. I agree yet believe that Knowledge of their medicine dos- few years later. these have been weakened a great ages, tolerances, and allergies often My position at Special Collections at deal in the United States due to parti- averted adverse medical outcomes the Regenstein is one of my most spe- sanship. This is not mentioned in the while in the hospital. And patients cial life experiences. article probably because it doesn’t were often loath to take new medicines Carolyn Whitmore Baldwin, AM’71 line up to get the bad guy. without approval of the family doctor. CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE In light of actions by the IRS and In my experience, unless you’re there FBI and the publicly expressed po- when they leave the hospital, patients litical opinions of officials in those simply don’t get those new meds filled. Democracy dims agencies, nonpartisanship has been Finally, I’ll comment on the eco- The article by Jason Kelly on Tom eroded and yet is not mentioned in the nomics of practice. I had a panel of Ginsburg and Aziz Huq’s book How article. It is hard to imagine that IRS over 2,000 patients, not the 200 de- to Save a Constitutional Democracy employees, who through their union scribed in your article, and I had no (University of Chicago Press, 2018; contribute close to 90 percent to one social workers, although my staff Yael Ana by Illustration “Saving Democracy,” Spring/19) leaves party, are nonpartisan. was adept at mobilizing community out at least two factors that are chip- I hope the book explores the role of resources. Seeing hospital patients is ping away at democracy in the United courts and partisan governmental bu- quite time intensive and often is not re- States. I don’t know whether this is the reaucracy in weakening democracy. imbursed by Medicare. I simply could fault of the book or the article. After all, the “populist” movement it- not continue to devote time to hospital

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UCH_Letters_v2.indd 4 8/2/19 3:22 PM patients and neglect those others, who value of continuity of care for patients Baron’s was one of several such queries were my bread and butter. I don’t see and physicians. I think they will find we received. The Alumni Association is how it could ever be so without radical cost-of-care savings as a byproduct of seeking out the artist for permission to restructuring of the payment system. continuity. If so, the application of the reproduce the T-shirt. To learn more, Hospitalists helped my bottom line, Meltzer model to the medical world visit mag.uchicago.edu/reg-rat.—Ed. although I sincerely regret that I gave at large will be challenging, at least in up my hospital patients to them. part because primary care physicians Louis L. Constan, SB’68, MD’72 are not focused specialists. One goal among many SAGINAW, MICHIGAN My 43 years as a focused specialist How far should one go in seeking di- in thoracic surgery involved care for versity? In “Toward a More Diverse David Meltzer seized the opportunity many patients who suffered because and Inclusive UChicago” (On the to study the impact of continuity of definitive care was delayed. Earlier Agenda, Spring/19), University vice care on outcomes for high-risk Medi- consultation could have led to better provost Melissa Gilliam tells us that care patients. His hypothesis is that outcomes. So, David Meltzer, I applaud the quest for diversity requires that continuity improves satisfaction and your work and wish you well. I encour- we “allow our individual assumptions quality of care and decreases cost. age you to give special emphasis to and biases to be challenged, our points In 1951 the University of Chicago teaching primary care physicians that of view to evolve and change, and our- School of Medicine curriculum in- ego and cost considerations should selves to be held accountable for the cluded a quarter of research in the not impair early consultation with a environment we create.” We are ad- freshman year. When I began clinical specialist. There should be pride, and monished that this can be difficult. medicine as a third-year student in no shame, in asking for timely help on The quoted words sound nice, but 1953, each of my patients was my pa- behalf of patients. what exactly do they mean? What as- tient day and night. I was to be called John R. Benfield, MD’55 sumptions and biases must be chal- “doctor,” even though I had not yet LOS ANGELES lenged to achieve diversity? I hope earned that degree, and I would be they don’t include the assumption that the first doctor my patients would see. a great university should select the in- Continuity was a theme. tellectually strongest, even at the cost During surgical residency, my ro- of some diversity. tations were six to 12 months long, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, compared to much shorter rota- Lise Meitner, Thurgood Marshall, tions in residencies elsewhere. Richard Wright, Oliver Wen- When I became the chief resi- dell Holmes Jr., Sandra Day dent and instructor in surgery, I O’Connor: there is a natural was on call and available every diversity in great talent, and day and every night of the year, it does not have to be forced. except for the three-day week- If one believes otherwise, it is end during which I excused proof that one does not really myself to wed my South Side believe that merit and diversity Chicago bride. So continuity was are compatible. And, to the extent a fundamental feature of my edu- that they may not be fully compat- cation. In none of the three medical ible at a given point in time, great schools I served thereafter did I find universities like the University of Chi- continuity like that at the U of C. cago should opt for intellect. The fun- Now we have what I call shift med- damental purposes of universities are icine, with duration-of-work restric- the advancement of knowledge and the tions for residents, routine changing development of educated citizens, and of the guard, and a continuous eye on these are best achieved by selecting the clock in virtually all settings. Phy- those of greatest intellect, especially sicians are distracted from patients by among the faculty. the need to type into computerized Ratty T-shirts wanted Perhaps there are some counter- medical records. Teaching physicians Having been a Reg Rat back in my arguments. In certain fields, such as are hampered in delegating responsi- school days, I quite loved the Reg Rat black studies, diversity is seen as a nec- Illustration by Ana Yael Ana by Illustration bility for patient care to their residents T-shirt on the cover of the latest is- essary predicate to effective teaching, by needing to prove that they are pres- sue (Spring/19). Any ideas on where learning, and understanding. In those ent. Medical education has suffered, I might purchase or procure such a circumstances, diversity is not a goal and continuity is not a theme. shirt? I would wear one proudly. in and of itself; it is a qualification for How about the future? I predict that Kenneth C. Baron, AB’87 the education of students and for the Meltzer will conclusively prove the NEW YORK CITY advancement of knowledge. It is also

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AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE OF DISCOVERY

BY ANGELA OLINTO DEAN, PHYSICAL SCIENCES DIVISION, AND ALBERT A. MICHELSON DISTINGUISHED SERVICE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS, ENRICO FERMI INSTITUTE, AND THE COLLEGE

hen I started as dean physical scientists collaborate with of the Physical Sci- statisticians, computer scientists, and ences Division (PSD) policy researchers to address climate in July 2018, NASA change. Our mathematicians and stat- was preparing to isticians develop fundamental struc- launch the Parker tures and concepts that inform new Solar Probe, a space- areas of science. Our physicists and as- craft designed to trophysicists work together to research make critical obser- new forms of matter and energy. And vations of the sun. chemists, physicists, computer scien- The probe is the first tists, and researchers from the newly NASA spacecraft to be named after a created Pritzker School of Molecular Wliving person, my colleague and a pro- Engineering collaborate to design new fessor emeritus at the University of Chi- materials and advance the science of cago, Eugene Parker. Parker developed As dean of the PSD, I have the unique quantum information. the theory of the solar wind in 1958 and opportunity to support the next gen- This fruitful intellectual environ- helped define the field of heliophysics. eration of field-defining scientists who ment would not be possible without The timing of this NASA mission are following in these esteemed foot- attention to equity, diversity, and in- seemed especially significant as I took steps. PSD is expanding our computer clusion (EDI) throughout the PSD. the helm of a division with a rich histo- science program and attracting new This fall we hired a director of EDI to ry of shaping and defining fields. There faculty members and students to lead build on the foundation established are countless University of Chicago advances in artificial intelligence, ma- by our departments, institutes, and physical scientists and mathematicians chine learning, internet security, and centers. We will continue to grow our who have paved the way for research- more. This past fall, the Department mentorship and pipeline programs ers across the globe, including Albert of Computer Science moved into the for students from underrepresented A. Michelson, whom my title honors. John Crerar Library, a newly renovated backgrounds and to promote a climate Michelson founded the Department of state-of-the-art academic building with where our diverse community feels Physics at UChicago and helped mea- space for experimental research and supported and valued. sure the speed of light, becoming the exploration. We are also spearheading As we look to the future, we plan first American scientist to win a Nobel a campus-wide data science initiative, to expand our master’s and continu- Prize. Chemist Willard Libby devel- which will bring together faculty and ing education programs so that more oped the technique for dating organic students from computer science, statis- students have the opportunity to study compounds using carbon-14 here. For- tics, and the social sciences. the physical sciences at UChicago and mer faculty member Maria Goeppert Interdisciplinary connections not to influence our world through busi- Mayer proposed the nuclear shell mod- only facilitate research in our fields, ness and industry. el of the atomic nucleus and became the but they also help us address the most I’m excited and proud to serve a second woman to win a Nobel Prize in important problems facing our world. preeminent division at UChicago that physics. And Leonard E. Dickson, PhD Our chemists partner with research- is driving innovation and discovery, 1896, who earned the first doctorate in ers in the Biological Sciences Division fostering an inclusive and creative in- mathematics from UChicago, was one and clinicians at UChicago Medicine tellectual environment, and helping of the earliest American researchers in to develop new therapies to prevent shape the next generation of physical

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Lauri Ramey, AM’75, PhD’96, traces African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to the present.

BY ANDREW PEART, AM’16, PHD’18

When Lauri Ramey was teaching Eng- lish and creative writing at Hamp- ton University in the late 1990s, she founded the school’s African American Poetry Archive. Gathering the historically black university’s rich holdings in poetry, she also acquired new materials from contemporary writers who were inspired by the idea of a central repository for their tradition and wanted their work to be preserved there. Two decades later, Ramey, AM’75, PhD’96, continues to advocate for a revised American literary canon, one that acknowledges the central place of African American poets. In A History of African American Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2019), a comprehensive account of a 400-year legacy, she makes the case for African American poetry’s fundamental place in Ameri- can culture by defining it as a tradition that predates the nation’s founding. What is it that makes African Amer- ican poetry one continuous tradition? Born free in Ohio prior to emancipation, Joshua McCarter Simpson published verse For Ramey, it’s the body of slave songs he meant to be sung on the Underground Railroad. In her history of African American like “I Know Moonrise” and “Nobody poetry, Lauri Ramey hopes to give free black poets like Simpson their due. Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen,” which she considers the origin point and Norris Schneider Collection, Ohio History Connection History Ohio Collection, Schneider Norris touchstone for the African American literary expression that followed. This, for Ramey, is the essence of Af- who wrote ironic parodies of minstrel “Poets are constantly talking to rican American poetry—the “tremen- songs, patriotic anthems, and other other poets,” past and present, says dously resilient core that preserves its venerated traditions; Chicago mod- Ramey, who now runs the poetry identity even in the face of a lot of po- ernist Fenton Johnson (1888–1958), centers she founded at both Califor- litical pressure to assimilate,” and al- who used call-and-response to experi- nia State University, Los Angeles, and lows it to embrace “an equally strong ment on Anglo-American lyric forms; Hunan Normal University. When Af- process of regeneration.” and avant-garde writer and composer rican American poets talk to the slave Ramey sees that tradition of preser- Russell Atkins (b. 1926), whose visual songs’ “black and unknown bards,” in vation and experimentation at work in poem “Spyrytual” reassembles the tra- New Negro Renaissance writer James the writings of lesser-known figures ditional song “Didn’t It Rain.” Weldon Johnson’s phrase, they speak including free black abolitionist poet These poets are not experimenting for

as both conservators and innovators. Joshua McCarter Simpson (1820?–76), the sake of experiment or simply to op- Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten [PhB 1903] Collection, LC-USZ62-42498

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pose a dominant culture, in Ramey’s view. The history of captivity and enslavement HEALTH sets the stakes much higher. They are “seizing workable material components from utter destruction,” and “adapt[ing] Wishful these remnants of psychic and material shrapnel of the past.” Their aim is to find authentic expression for experiences wellness that standard uses of language stifle. Say goodbye to Ramey places Simpson in the earli- sun salutations in the break room. est period of African American poetry, Workplace wellness lasting from the arrival of the first Af- programs—an $8 ricans in America until emancipation. billion industry—may Then followed an era roughly con- not actually improve temporaneous with its towering poet, James Weldon Johnson’s influential health. That’s the key Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906). anthologies of spirituals preserved finding of an April 16 Johnson and Atkins belong to the pe- material Ramey considers foundational study in the Journal riod of creative ferment Ramey calls to African American poetry. of the American the Twentieth Century Renaissances, Medical Association, which spans the New Negro Renais- coauthored by health sance, the Black Arts Movement, policy researcher and Harris Public Policy and the midcentury era in between. Her approach to retracing where dean Katherine The contemporary period, from the the process of canonization went Baicker. She and late 1970s to the present, rounds out wrong stems from what she learned her collaborator Ramey’s account. But these are only as a young literary scholar at UChi- analyzed health signposts in what she wants readers to cago immersed in Plato, Aristotle, and outcomes at a large understand as an uninterrupted history. other roots and branches in the history US warehouse retail Ramey knew a single book couldn’t of criticism. “That was quite formative company, which be exhaustive in its selection of poets. for me in trying to say, let’s not look at offered a wellness “So I tried to do little portraits,” she individual poets in isolation. Let’s not program at some says, with special attention to “people look at a decade in isolation. Let’s try to work sites but not that are not necessarily looked at so conceive of a tradition and some func- others. After 18 months, employees closely.” Of particular note for Ramey tional theories of a tradition.” at sites with the are Harlem’s Helene Johnson and A History of African American Po- program—which Chicago’s Margaret Danner, two over- etry concludes with contemporary provided guidance looked 20th-century poets she finds poets who, in Ramey’s view, carry on topics such noteworthy for their on and recast this as nutrition and originality and craft. tradition’s funda- exercise, as well Exhaustive is be- Progress and mental themes and as small financial side the point. Ra- reclamation go techniques. While incentives for mey’s book isn’t so exploring height- participation—were much a narrative hand in hand in this ened complexities no healthier than Norris Schneider Collection, Ohio History Connection History Ohio Collection, Schneider Norris history or a survey tradition. of voice and iden- those at sites without it, as measured by of poets as a critical tity, they still insist body mass index, genealogy: it offers on liberation and blood pressure, a framework for a complete and com- liberty, articulate a bond between the and cholesterol. prehensive canon of African American individual and the community, and But work sites with poetry by examining how we ended emphasize performance and orality. the program did up with the truncated one we have. And they do so with an often ironic have higher rates “A lot of figures that would have been sensibility born of being both insiders of employees who commonly accessible in the 1960s and and outsiders in American culture. reported engaging 1970s”—through anthologies that rare- Across four centuries, from the earli- in regular exercise ly drew camps based on differences in est period to the last, Ramey observes, and managing their style—“by the ’80s and ’90s had become “progress and reclamation go hand in weight.—S. A. ◆

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten [PhB 1903] Collection,unknown,” LC-USZ62-42498 Ramey says. hand in this tradition.” ◆

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UChicago Journal_v10.indd 11 7/31/19 3:54 PM INNOVATION Perfect pitch

There’s a new New Venture Challenge on the block. The Edward L. Kaplan, MBA’71, New Venture Challenge, established in 1996, has been around long enough to launch several household names, such as Grubhub and the payment processing company Braintree, and to generate offshoots, including the College New Venture Challenge for undergraduates and the Social New Venture Challenge for firms with a social mission. This year saw the debut of the Alumni New Venture Challenge, open to graduates of any UChicago school or division. On May 2 eight teams gathered at the Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago for a day of Shark Tank–style presentations: a 10-minute pitch followed by has developed a way to 13 minutes of grilling from the judges.—S. A. model how a particular patient’s cancer will respond to different treatment options. The team receives special scrutiny from judges who THE JUDGES know the biomedical industry Stephen Beitler, EX’78 RoseMary Safranek, AB’80, MBA’88 well; judge Lonnie Moulder Managing Director, Dunrath Capital Chief Investment Officer, Ninepeaks Jr., MBA’97, suggests the Capital Management Larry Berlin, AB’89, MBA’94 team allocate more funding CFO, Freedom Fries Michael Small, MBA’81 for clinical trials. Cofounder and CEO, K4 Mobility Waverly Deutsch 10:40 a.m. Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship, Samir Sood, MBA’01 Chicago Booth Founder, All Things Business, and The morning session begins, Chief Believer, Venture Highway Susan Hapak, MBA’89 appropriately, with Begin, a President, Current Technologies subscription service offer- Mark Tebbe Photography by Matt Marton, courtesy Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation ing organic ready-to-drink Jason Heltzer, MBA’02 Adjunct Professor of Partner, Origin Ventures Entrepreneurship, Chicago Booth infant and toddler formula. Cofounder Madeline Lauf, Immanuel Thangaraj, Amelia Maccoun Morris, MBA’86 AB’12, points out that many Director, Investments Group, AB’92, MBA’93 Brandes Investment Partners Managing Director, Essex competitors’ products contain Woodlands Health Ventures corn syrup. “Corn syrup! It’s Lonnie Moulder Jr., MBA’97 2019!” she says. Founding General Partner, Kevin Willer, MBA’10 Tellus BioVentures Partner, Chicago Ventures 1:05 p.m. 11:05 a.m. The child-focused language Cibus Health also focuses on learning company Duunokid THE FINALISTS nutrition, matching custom- is based in China, where many Madeline Lauf, AB’12 Monica Chang He, AB’06, and ers with meals that fit their families want their children to Begin Akinbiyi Lalude doctor-prescribed nutrition learn foreign languages such Duunokid Christopher Gay, MBA’08, plans through a Grubhub- as English and French. Duuno and Dawn Gay John Cole; Tushar Pandey, MBA’17; esque platform. “We are a offers short, frequent lessons Care Advisors and Joseph Peterson marketplace solution … at a with native speakers over SimBioSys cost-effective price point,” de- video chat. The process is de- Phaly Pichota, MBA’09, and Santanu Dasgupta, IMBA’04, and clares Phaly Pichota, MBA’09. signed to mimic the way tots Michael Siwinski, MBA’09 Cristina Guijarro-Cazorla, PhD’09 learn their native language Cibus Health Taplingua through conversation with 11:30 a.m. Chase VanSteenburg, MBA’12, Jeff Nelson, SB’15, and parents and caregivers. and Max Wong John Nelson, MBA’12 Next up: Tushar Pandey, In the Q&A period, Michael Den Living Vroom Delivery MBA’17, of SimBioSys, which Small, MBA’81, asks the

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UChicago Journal_v10.indd 12 8/2/19 2:20 PM founders what they’d do with “Social workers are the company could create a course of the company’s financial a million-dollar investment. secret weapon,” Gay says. tailored to the language needs projections. Moulder nods Is this a hint? Cofounders of Airbnb hosts. receptively as Jeff argues that Monica Chang He, AB’06, and competitors like Uber Eats Akinbiyi Lalude say they’d won’t expand to rural areas. expand to other markets. 2:30 p.m. “This is a product for under- Chase VanSteenburg, served markets,” he says. MBA’12, of Den Living kicks things off after a quick cof- fee break. His cofounder, Max Wong—the “Jony Ive of microspaces,” VanSteenburg jokes—has designed, essentially, a furnished bedroom in a box. All landlords or tenants 1:55 p.m. have to do is assemble it, Another language-focused plug it in, and voilà, they’ve company, Taplingua, takes got another private, rentable the stage. Santanu Das- space in their apartment. 1:30 p.m. gupta, IMBA’04, begins with The judges seem puzzled “Enrolling in Medicaid is a a scenario: Imagine you’re a but intrigued. “I would love 3:20 p.m. mess,” says Christopher Gay, business traveler arriving in to put one of my kids in a As the judges deliberate, the MBA’08. His company, Care your hotel room after a long pod,” Kevin Willer, MBA’10, finalists and audience head Advisors, aims to automate flight. You realize you need an muses. Immanuel Thangaraj, upstairs to sip wine and specu- the cumbersome process. outlet adapter to charge your AB’92, MBA’93, suggests late about who will win. They With patient permission, hos- phone—but you can’t commu- VanSteenburg show examples don’t have to wait long: in less pitals provide lists of people nicate with the hotel employee from other countries where than 30 minutes, the judges who are Medicaid eligible at the front desk. microspaces are popular. have made their decision. Staff or whose Medicaid cover- Enter Taplingua, which pro- members arrive with four over- age is at risk of lapsing. Care vides job-specific language sized checks to hand out. Advisors’ software searches instruction to hotel employees 2:55 p.m. It’s a good day for language through databases and gath- in an easy-to-use app. It’s not Brothers Jeff Nelson, SB’15, instruction companies: ers the information needed to just beneficial to travelers, and John Nelson, MBA’12, Duunokid walks away with complete the Medicaid enroll- Dasgupta says. It helps hotel created Vroom Delivery to $30,000 and second place, ment form. employees, who are often solve a problem for their dad, while Taplingua takes third The company has already underpaid or come from mar- who owns several convenience and $15,000. Brotherly partnered with several health ginalized populations, learn a stores in El Paso, Texas, and endeavor Vroom Delivery ties Photography by Matt Marton, courtesy Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation care providers—and found valuable job skill. wanted a delivery option for for third, ensuring the hasty fans and advocates in hos- A judge asks about threats his customers. Their product is arrival of slushies and chips to pital social workers, whose to the hotel industry—does designed especially for small homes everywhere. The big workloads are instantly Airbnb endanger their com- to midsize chains like his. winner? Health care coverage: reduced by the service Care pany? Dasgupta parries: if there During the Q&A, Waverly Care Advisors takes first place Advisors provides. were enough demand, the Deutsch questions some and a check for $65,000.

There are few good options for containing the spread of mosquito-borne BIOLOGY diseases like Dengue fever and West Nile virus. Vaccines aren’t always available, and insecticides can harm the environment. That’s why scientists are looking to genetic engineering to control populations of disease- Taking a carrying mosquitos. In a Nature Communications study published March 5, researchers including computer scientist and microbiologist A. Murat Eren identified a small circular piece of DNA known as a plasmid within a bite out bacterium called Wolbachia. Scientists had long hoped to find a plasmid—a useful tool for gene editing—in Wolbachia, which infects an estimated 60 QUICK STUDY of disease percent of insects and can affect their ability to reproduce. Although it’s still early days, the researchers say the discovery could lead to a powerful new way of controlling populations of disease-carrying mosquitos.—S. A. ◆

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UChicago Journal_v10.indd 13 8/1/19 1:16 PM Raghuram Rajan, William Howell, and Bret Stephens, AB’95, debated the nuances of contemporary populism at the April 4 event.

SOCIETY of modern globalized capitalism fuel The panelists agreed that the causes populism, which in turn corrodes deof populism are economic. Recent democracy. Preserving government by cades have brought deep structural the people means addressing people’s changes to society, such as massive It’s the economic needs. global population movements, the Howell, the Sydney Stein Professor in large-scale automation of jobs, and in- economy, American Politics, kicked off the discus- creased income and wealth inequality. sion by describing “populism” as a mis- Even as the economy grows, wealth undisputed nomer. Populists do not lodge critiques accumulates in geographical pock- on behalf of people in general—not even ets, with gains accruing mostly to A panel on capitalism and the downtrodden in general—but on be- those with specific training and back- the threat of mob rule. half of a specific cultural or racial group grounds. The failure of states to reckon that they identify with the true nation- with these challenges has given rise to BY LUCAS MCGRANAHAN al heritage. In the United States, he populist politics—or anti-politics—as a said, the populist demands justice for form of weaponized grievance. Are democracy, populism, and capi- “true Americans.” If Howell and Rajan agreed on the talism compatible? This was the When Rajan, the Katherine Dusak diagnosis, they had different prescrip- question put to a panel at the inaugu- Miller Distinguished Service Profes- tions. Howell’s proposal, which he ral event in the series A Meeting of sor of Finance, argued that Howell developed prior to the 2016 election the Minds: Business and the Human, was describing right-wing populism of Donald J. Trump, is a stronger US sponsored by the University of Chi- specifically, Howell acknowledged the presidency. “Have you had any reason cago Booth School of Business and the existence of a left-wing version that is to rethink your thesis?” asked Stephens Stevanovich Institute on the Forma- less nativist and more concerned with wryly, to an outburst of audience laugh- Zich John by Photography tion of Knowledge in April. By the eve- poverty. However, he countered that ter. Howell stuck to his guns, arguing ning’s end, moderator Bret Stephens, all brands of populism are prone to that strong presidential leadership—as AB’95, of the New York Times had becoming antidemocratic by attack- opposed to the disparate, parochial in- brought out one clear point of agree- ing such institutions as a free press, an terests of Congress and the courts—is ment between panelists William Howell independent judiciary, and the legiti- required for coherent and responsive

and Raghuram Rajan: the harsh effects macy of an opposition party. national policy. Bernier-Clarke Aubree by Photography

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UChicago Journal_v10.indd 14 8/1/19 8:39 AM Rajan’s vision is more bottom-up: because his affinities lie with his fellow at for long. No one—apart from one au- we need to strengthen communities, elites in financial capitals like Singapore dience member who cited Karl Marx— which are the “third pillar” of society and London, not with his own country, suggested that the system might be in addition to markets and the state— and because of his departure from tradi- going away any time soon. According an argument fleshed out in his recent tional positions on faith and morality. As to Rajan, this is for the best. “Capi- book The Third Pillar (Penguin Random Stephens remarked pointedly, “Probably talism and democracy go together,” House, 2019). “What we need is a strict very few of the children of the people in he said. “It’s very hard to imagine a principle of subsidiarity, which means, this room are going to serve in the Army socialist state which is democratic. I push down decisions to the lowest or the Navy.” challenge you to name one—and don’t level at which they can be handled,” Howell immediately pivoted back say Sweden.” Rajan said. As an example of what not to economics, suggesting that the fail- Rajan seemed to be saying that gen- to do, he cited French president Em- ure of people like those in the room erous social spending doesn’t make a manuel Macron’s unpopular top-down to fight hard enough for a progressive country socialist. That’s a matter of decision to reduce the national speed tax code is the more important issue. definition, and both socialism and capi- limit, which drew protests from rural And Rajan responded by challenging talism went undefined by the panelists. lower-income citizens who drive long the assumption that military service is They appeared to agree, however, that distances for work. the only legitimate service. “There are you don’t get a functional democracy Stephens pressed a cultural angle on so many ways of serving your nation,” without widespread economic security the issue of populism, identifying a cer- he said, citing growing interest in so- and that the classical core tenets of cap- tain class of professional elites—includ- cial entrepreneurship among business italism—free markets and private con- ing, he suggested, the event’s panelists school students. trol of production—are not sufficient and MBA-heavy audience—with a figure While capitalism was in some ways to guarantee that security. Until we called “Davos Man.” Moderate populists the villain of the evening, it was a lov- figure this out, populists will be here to resent Davos Man, Stephens suggested, able villain, one that you can’t stay mad remind us that something isn’t right. ◆

SCREEN SHOT HISTORY ON FILM

In 1958 a 19-year-old woman who came to be known as Agnes was referred to specialists at the University of California, Los Angeles, to be evaluated for gender confirmation surgery. UCLA researcher Harold Garfinkel got interested in Agnes’s case and in 1967 published the first sociological account of a transitioning person. But what no one knew until 2017, when associate professor of sociology Kristen Schilt and filmmaker and postdoctoral scholar Chase Joynt searched through Garfinkel’s archives, was that he’d also interviewed eight other trans and gender nonconforming people. They’ve brought these conversations to the screen in Framing Agnes, a short film that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival

Photography by John Zich John by Photography on April 28. The 19-minute documentary weaves reenactments of Garfinkel’s conversations with reflections from the actors who portray the interviewees. “We wanted to ask how the history informs the present—and how the present, in some ways, continues to rewrite the past,” says

Photography by Aubree Bernier-Clarke Aubree by Photography Joynt.—S. A. ◆

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UChicago Journal_v10.indd 15 8/2/19 2:19 PM On January 31, Greg Nance, AB’11, crossed the finish line of a marathon held near Novolazarevskaya Station in Antarctica. It was the first of seven marathons on seven continents in seven days he completed as part of the 2019 World Marathon Challenge.

ATHLETICS “That three hours in the morning is and Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amund- the perfect time. If you can spend sen”—fellow aficionados of extreme even 90 minutes without your phone suffering—“so that was just amazing.” glued to your hand, you’re capable Nance set out from the starting line Run, Greg, run! of much deeper concentration and running hard, and ultimately earned thinking than you realize.” seventh place in the race. It was a mo- A marathoner tests his limits. To the untrained eye, Nance ment of uncomplicated triumph. might appear to be fully optimized. But that finish stands in harsh relief BY LAUREN LARSON, AB’12 Moneythink, where Nance is chair- to the days that followed. Hours later, man, provides financial aid and on the flight from Antarctica to Cape It’s 7 a.m. in Shanghai and Greg Nance, college admissions guidance to low- Town, South Africa, when participants AB’11, has run 12 miles. “I’m just get- income high schoolers. In 2012 Nance were getting some much-needed sleep, ting back into training,” he says. He’s founded Dyad, a digital mentorship Nance woke in a cold sweat. A wave of Skyping from his office, which appears platform for students applying to nausea hit, heralding the arrival of a to be a sort of concrete bunker. He college and graduate school. And in stomach flu. It was 100 degrees in Cape wears a blue hoodie with the orange February he completed the World Town when he stepped off the plane.

logo of Moneythink, the organization Marathon Challenge, in which partic- Barely able to keep down water, Nance Photo courtesy Greg Nance, AB’11 he cofounded while he was a student at ipants run seven marathons on seven began his second marathon of the the University of Chicago. He doesn’t continents in seven days. week. His electrolytes were completely look tired. The first marathon was in Antarc- depleted from dehydration, and by mile “I get up early, before the day’s tica, and it was a high point for Nance. 10 his legs started to cramp. “Within a distractions have begun,” Nance “Landing in this Boeing 757 on an ice few miles, it was like a heartbeat in says. He usually sets off for his field in Antarctica was really a lot of my quadriceps in every step—convuls- morning run around 4 a.m., clocking boyhood dreams coming true. I grew ing. It was torturous.” He adjusted his

anywhere between 15 and 25 miles. up reading about [Ernest] Shackleton stride, trying to find a way to run that AB’11 Nance, Greg courtesy Photo

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protected his mid-mortis quads. He ran The most awe-inspiring thing the last 16 miles in a twisting waddle, about Nance’s ordeal in the World ASTRONOMY like a lizard on its back legs. Marathon Challenge—besides the ab- Over the next five days, his social surdity of attempting it at all—is that media dispatches became increasingly he doesn’t see it as an ordeal, but as a Rivers dire. “Famished and privilege. “I realize dehydrated with that all the limits ran burning quads and I realize that all the that I thought I had blistered feet slowed in my life are com- me to a hobble but I limits that I thought pletely arbitrary,” through lumbered to the fin- he says. “They’re ish!” he wrote from I had in my life are self-imposed.” it Santiago, Chile. He’d Now Nance must completely arbitrary. Fast-flowing rivers gotten through that up the ante once more. wider than the Mis- race listening to Ron In August he plans to sissippi crisscrossed Chernow’s biogra- run 206 miles around the surface of Mars phy of Ulysses S. Grant on audiobook at Mount St. Helens in the Bigfoot 200. much later than 2.5x speed—just shy of auctioneer pace. After that he’s set his sights on run- previously thought, (“Grant has to overcome a lot of physical ning coast-to-coast across the Unit- according to a study anguish and mental pains as he’s trying ed States, à la Forrest Gump. He’s by planetary sci- to win the Civil War,” Nance says of his currently training to run from one entist Edwin Kite book choice.) A day later, though, Nance Shanghai airport to the other. “I’m published March 27 made it to the finish line in Miami. His trying to become the fastest guy to in Science Advances. The discovery adds sponsor for the race, Wentworth Man- ever run across the city. That’s basi- to the scientific puz- agement Services, was there to dump cally to keep myself in shape, because zle of Mars’s climate: a bottle of champagne on him, and his I need a goal to work towards or else How could such a parents were there with Pedialyte. I get lazy.” Sure. ◆ cold planet with a thinning atmosphere sustain liquid water? Kite and his colleagues studied images of more than 200 ancient Martian riverbeds, measuring their width, steep- ness, and gravel size, and used this information to estimate how much water flowed through the channels and for how long. The analysis revealed rivers were still raging across Mars as recently as one billion years ago. Younger rivers were shorter Photo courtesy Greg Nance, AB’11 than older ones, but just as wide, suggesting that water continued to flow intensely even as the Red Planet’s atmosphere began to Nance recuperates on the plane between races. He battled through stomach flu to disappear.—S. A. ◆

Photo courtesy Greg Nance, AB’11 Nance, Greg courtesy Photo complete the challenge with an average time of 5:06:04 per marathon.

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UChicago Journal_v10.indd 17 8/1/19 8:40 AM EVOLUTION All in the family

New fossil analyses upend the old story of sloth evolution.

BY LOUISE LERNER

Sloths once roamed the Americas. Some were cat-sized tree dwellers, while others may have weighed up to six tons. The surviving species we know and love today are the two-toed and three-toed sloths—and paleontologists have been arguing about how to classify them, and their ancestors, for decades. A pair of studies published June 6 in Nature Ecology & Evolution and New studies reveal that sloths have much different family trees than once thought. Current Biology have shaken up the sloth family tree, overturning a long- standing consensus on how the major groups of sloths are related. Not only the University of Chicago who coau- study draws on a pioneering approach does the new research shed light on thored the Nature Ecology & Evolu- called paleoproteomics that uses pro- sloth evolution, it also provides evi- tion paper with Ross MacPhee of the teins in fossils to discover evolutionary dence that about 30 million years ago American Museum of Natural History relationships—marking the first time a short-lived land bridge connected and Samantha Presslee at the Univer- an entire lineage has been mapped South America and what would be- sity of York. “Not only do they rewrite with the method. come the West Indies—something sci- sloth classification, they suggest much As an alternative to DNA, which entists had suspected but been unable of what we thought we knew about needs specific conditions to survive in- to prove with existing fossil evidence. how sloths evolved may be wrong.” side fossils (“getting ancient DNA is a “The results are surprising on many Until now, the family tree was based bit of a lottery,” Slater says), scientists levels,” says Graham Slater, an assistant on how physically similar sloth fossils have been looking to proteins to under- professor of geophysical sciences at looked to one another. But Slater’s stand species’ evolutionary trajectories.

POLICY When nations impose tariffs, who benefits and who suffers? After the United States applied import duties to foreign-made washing machines, consumers were left holding the (laundry) bag, according to an April 18 Becker Friedman

Institute working paper from economists Ali Hortaçsu and Felix Tintelnot. The Photography by suendgraeme (CC BY-NC 2.0) The dirty United States had previously tried tariffs targeting individual countries, but that proved ineffective—manufacturers would simply move their operations laundry to other countries. Ultimately, the application of a global washing machine tariff in 2018 caused US washing machine prices to rise nearly 12 percent, the researchers found. (Interestingly, although dryers weren’t subject to the of import tariffs, they increased in price too.) While global tariffs did help US companies QUICK STUDY create new manufacturing jobs, the researchers estimate each new job cost duties consumers about $820,000. They argue policy makers should be delicate when considering global tariffs, because prices can spin out of control—and there’s no washing that away.—S. A. ◆ Photography by henryalien BY-NC (CC 2.0)

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UChicago Journal_v10.indd 18 8/1/19 8:44 AM W. R. HARPER’S INDEX Protein molecules are sturdier and hold Indies land bridge theory. It seems much of the same information as DNA. possible that wanderlust brought a The scientists extracted collagen group of sloths across the bridge, and samples from multiple sloth fossils, they became geographically isolated PUBLIC analyzed them to reconstruct the after it disappeared. GOOD sequences of amino acids, and compared Though revolutionary, the results the sequences to piece together square with a DNA analysis published Year the Law School’s relationships between the species. the same day by a group from the Pro Bono Service Initiative According to the French National was created results, three-toed Centre for Scientific sloths (recognizable What came out was Research and other for the cute black just remarkable. It institutions. That lines around their team was able to 2010 eyes) are not, as blew our minds—it’s pull mitochondrial previously thought, so different from DNA from several Hours per year students outliers that diverged critical fossils, and must work to fulfill the early in sloth anything that’s ever the two independent optional pro bono pledge evolution. Instead, been suggested. analyses align very they are related to closely. “Exceptional gigantic elephant- results demand 50 sized sloths that died off about 15,000 exceptional verification,” explains years ago. Meanwhile, two-toed sloths MacPhee, so the two groups agreed to Students who have are the last survivors of another branch publish simultaneously. completed the pledge of ground sloths previously thought to Slater and his colleagues are excited be extinct. about pushing the boundaries of the “What came out was just remarkable. field of paleoproteomics. Evolutionary 465 It blew our minds—it’s so different from paleobiology is hungry for more and anything that’s ever been suggested,” older data, and proteins could provide it. Host organizations and clients Slater said. “The very oldest DNA you can get benefiting from the Class of The protein analysis also revealed is 800,000 years old, but in theory we 2019’s pro bono work that the multiple extinct sloth species should be able to get protein data from living in the Caribbean were all specimens that are millions of years descendants of a common ancestor that old,” Slater said. “A whole bunch of 83 split from other sloths about 30 million questions suddenly come into reach. years ago—a discovery that provides It opens doors that we were only Total number of pro bono ◆ support for the South American–West dreaming of.” hours logged since the initiative’s inception 59,068

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Illustration by John Jay Cabuay ers have bad childhood memories associated with trying to use the semicolon and failing and being embarrassed.

Is there a way we could be using semicolons that we aren’t currently? One use that has fallen out of practice is using the semicolon as a colon or sometimes a comma. You see this a lot in the late 19th or early 20th century. Nobody liked the colon at the time, and everybody loved the semicolon, so they INTERVIEW wanted to stick it wherever they could. I think less about particular styles of semicolon usage and more about how Semiotics easy it is to be lazy and use catch-all punctuation marks. I’ll just put dashes An alumna examines the history—and occasional hatred— and ellipses for everything. Those are of punctuation’s most daunting mark. all points at which we could say, Would a semicolon actually provide some in- BY SEAN CARR, AB’90 terest here? Would it help create some new rhythms on the page? Would it “The semicolon is a place where our anxi- you’re giving an academic talk, every- make anything a little easier to read? eties and our aspirations about language, body does the super professional, very class, and education are concentrated, objective, I’m-detached-from-this- Your book ranges into broader so that in this small mark big ideas are topic type of performance. But when I questions about who gets to distilled down to a few winking drops would talk about the semicolon, people dictate the rules of language. of ink,” writes Cecelia Watson, AM’05, would tell me all of these personal sto- How did that happen? PhD’11. That’s a lot of baggage for a half- ries, even about falling in love because comma, half-colon, but in Semicolon: of conversations about the semico- Initially I was focused on where rules The Past, Present, and Future of a Mis- lon—not the usual thing you hear when come from. A lot of the people who in- Clockwise from left: photography by Jockey Cheung; photography by Jean Lachat; photo understood Mark (Ecco, 2019), Watson you’re an academic. That clued me in fluenced me when I was at UChicago shows it’s more than up to the task. that maybe there was a way to reach out taught me to see that even things we Tracing the hybrid mark from its to a broader audience. When we pitched wouldn’t think of as having a history origins among 15th-century Italian it to publishers, I think we ended up have a history, like a set of punctuation humanists, her story describes early with seven houses in the auction. rules. My discipline, history and phi- attempts to “scientize” language losophy of science, had a huge role in through grammar rules and raises Why do some people have such the history of the semicolon. A lot of questions about who made—and didn’t strong negative feelings about the history of grammar rules is a direct make—those rules. And with exam- this punctuation mark? function of this mid- to late-1800s obses-

courtesy Harry N. Abrams; UChicago News Office News UChicago Abrams; N. Harry courtesy ples drawn from literature, legal his- sion with being scientific and objective. tory, and her own life as a “reformed Distaste for the semicolon comes from a Grammar was not excepted from that. grammar fetishist,” Watson seeks to lot of different angles. Some people have One thing that I hope the book’s read- persuade readers to learn to love the a sheer aesthetic distrust of it. They just ers notice is that every single person in semicolon. Her comments have been like short sentences, for instance. They the section about the founding of gram- edited and condensed. think that’s more direct or more pleas- mar is an elite white male. That’s no ac- ing in some way, or more clear. The cident. It’s also no accident that when Why a book on the semicolon? semicolon, of course, can facilitate very grammar rules were invented, women, long sentences. Other people think it’s and to some extent people of color and What really surprised me when I was elitist, and a reader is going to roll their poor people, were gaining unprecedent- working on this as an academic topic eyes or feel alienated, and in some ways ed access to education. Grammar is, and was the emotional investment people belittled, by the author’s advertisement has always been, an incredibly effective

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LOCAL INTEREST

After 40 years representing Hyde Park’s district in the Illinois House, a veteran lawmaker steps aside.

BY JEANIE CHUNG

f a single day could be said to political figure in the state. She served Between David’s last year of law have spanned the spectrum of with six governors before retiring school at Harvard and clerkships, includ- Barbara Flynn Currie’s experience this past January, and will continue ing one for Supreme Court justice Felix as an elected official, it might to draw on her political expertise as a Frankfurter, the couple didn’t return to have been December 15, 2008. At member of Illinois’s Pollution Control Chicago until 1962, when David began 10 a.m., as a member of the Elec- Board, to which she was appointed in teaching at the University. By then they toral College, she cast her ballot April by Governor J. B. Pritzker. had a two-year-old son, Stephen, who for Barack Obama, who once As House majority leader for more was soon joined by a daughter, Margaret. served alongside her in the Illi- than 20 years, she helped pass bills “So I did finally finish college,” nois legislature. Two hours later establishing a state earned income tax Currie says, “but slowly, on the she announced an impeachment credit, outlawing the death penalty, motherhood plan.” investigation into then-governor Rod and legalizing gay marriage. Although she followed her IBlagojevich by an Illinois House panel, Quite a run for someone who fell into undergraduate degree at UChicago with which she would lead. (He was later a political career almost by chance. a master’s in political science, Currie removed from office and convicted on Currie grew up mostly in Hyde Park; wasn’t interested in an academic career. federal corruption charges.) her father, Frank Flynn, PhD’49, taught She was politically active—the Flynn AP Photo/Seth Perlman “It was the high and the low,” she says. in the School of Social Service Admin- family had always talked about current During her 40 years in the Illinois istration. She enrolled at UChicago in events around the dinner table—but House of Representatives, Currie, 1958 but left in 1959 and married David never considered running for anything. LAB’58, AB’68, AM’73, saw numer- P. Currie, AB’57, later the Edward H. Then one day in 1978, she ran into ous highs, weathered some lows, and Levi Distinguished Service Professor in Chicago attorney and activist Michael crossed paths with every significant the Law School until his death in 2007. Shakman, AB’62, AM’64, JD’66. Bob

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UCH_CVitae_Currie_v3.indd 22 8/2/19 2:02 PM Barbara Flynn Currie, LAB’58, AB’68, AM’73, at the Illinois State Capitol in 2013. Currie’s career helped pave the way for other female politicians in the Prairie State.

Mann, who represented the 24th District She also noticed that male legisla- As majority leader, Currie was re- in the Illinois House, had recently tors seemed relieved to let her and other sponsible for getting bills passed—not announced his retirement. Currie asked women take the lead on bills address- always exciting work. Most legislation Shakman, whose campaign she had ing sexual harassment, maternity leave, concerns what Currie calls “bread- worked on when he ran for constitutional and other so-called women’s issues, and-butter” issues that affect a spe- convention delegate, whether he planned about which Currie was passionate. cific interest group and simply involve to run for Mann’s seat. “People were really helpful with figur- working with that group to drum up “No,” he said. “Why don’t you?” ing out what legislation I might be inter- support among legislators. “I grew up in the benighted 1950s,” ested in,” she says, “but it was also fair to Horse-trading, in which legislators says Currie, “when there weren’t very say that they were delighted to get rid agree to support each other’s bills, does many women in public office, and of the ‘girl bills’ when they saw the girl.” happen for these bread-and-butter those who were generally inherited Currie was known for her diligent bills, but it is relatively rare on big issues the job.” But her children were nearly preparation to present a bill—a habit like gay marriage or the death penalty. grown, and after consulting with fam- she acquired at UChicago. “You did “They’re issues you really believe in or ily and with friends in local politics, learn to establish arguments for and you really don’t,” Currie says. she says, “we decided to go for it.” against your position. And to me that Passing significant legislation can, She won, “though not real handily,” was extremely valuable.” however, require time and grass- and entered a new world. She enjoyed the preparation but also roots activity to build the political At the time women made up just 13 found it necessary. Every legislator will of legislators to support it. She percent of the Illinois General Assembly, wields a different type of power, she be- remembers a failed bill she sponsored but “there were enough of us to make lieves. When she started, most women in the early 1990s to fund needle ex- people feel as if they had a responsibility in the legislature did not enjoy the pow- changes for intravenous drug us- to be doing good things for women.” She er of strong financial backing or party ers. One downstate Republican told remembers male legislators who would support. That’s still the case for many. her that the idea made perfect sense, cite their support of a specific domestic “What we have is knowledge,” she says. but he couldn’t vote for it because he violence bill while refusing to support “We know the bills, we know the issues, could never explain it at home. “In a the Equal Rights Amendment. we know how to make a case.” way, he was right,” Currie says. “He But she also found strong support When Currie became House majority probably couldn’t explain it at home.” networks. The bipartisan Conference leader in 1997, women made up just 26 A few months into her retirement, of Women Legislators began the year percent of the Illinois General Assembly Currie hopes to be remembered for she came to Springfield, giving new as a whole. The reaction of women in the her honesty, fair-mindedness, and abil- legislators like Currie a forum to try capitol—across party lines—was unani- ity to see other perspectives. Christian out their first bills, “so you could go mous, “whether they were secretaries, Mitchell, AB’08, a former representa- through the ropes without people lobbyists, or whatever,” Currie says. tive of Illinois’s 26th District who’s laughing at you, or get your arguments “They could not have been more pleased now a deputy governor of Illinois, used organized before you actually turned with the fact that one of us made it. Be- to drive Currie back to Chicago from up in a real committee hearing.” cause if one of us makes it, we all do.” Springfield legislative sessions. He considers her “the smartest person I’ve ever met in my life”—and one with MILESTONES a sense of humor. “Even in the most difficult floor debate, while someone 1978 Elected to the Illi‑ kindergarten, and more. House committee to is hurling invective at her,” Mitchell nois House’s 24th District, 1997 Becomes the first investigate then-governor says, “she’d smile and disarm the per- becoming one of just 23 woman to serve as Illinois Rod Blagojevich on son with her amazing wit.” women in the 177-member House majority leader. corruption charges. In turn, Mitchell and the newest General Assembly. 2000 Along with then– 2011 Cosponsors HB5687, group of incoming legislators make AP Photo/Seth Perlman 1985 Helps pass the state senator Barack outlawing the death pen‑ Currie hopeful for the future of poli- Educational Reform Act, Obama, cosponsors a alty in Illinois. tics, even as she laments the current a comprehensive funding bill establishing the state 2013 Cosponsors HB5170, climate of polarization. package providing state- earned income tax credit. legalizing gay marriage “I would never have been in politics funded preschool, full-day 2008 Chairs the Illinois in Illinois. all these years,” she says, “if I had not been an optimist.” ◆

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UCH_CVitae_Currie_v3.indd 23 8/2/19 3:39 PM COURSE WORK

HERMIT PHILOSOPHY Dieter Roelstraete’s course explored exile, retreat, and homes away from home.

BY LUCAS MCGRANAHAN

hose of you who think that graduate students. When Roelstraete we’re actually going to build asks for introductions, they list fields a hut, I’ll have to disappoint,” including art history and philosophy Dieter Roelstraete tells the 12 but also social work, neuroscience, and or so students who have ar- molecular engineering. If a classroom is rived at the Cochrane-Woods a machine for thinking, this one has an Art Center on Monday, April interesting set of moving parts. 1, for the first day of The Hut: That Roelstraete likes to introduce A Curating Case Study. When one stu- topics by testing the students’ knowl- Tdent points out that a construction edge (Who recognizes this building? project was mentioned in the course Who has read Adorno?) might seem in- description, Roelstraete wryly informs timidating if he were not also, disarm- her that it will be “spiritual construc- ingly, a big fan of birthdays. He opened tion work,” adding, “We’re not going to the class by projecting an image of build a hut, because I wouldn’t know 19th-century French writer Joseph de how to hold a hammer.” Maistre—because it’s his birthday. “Ev- A tall bearded man with a hard-to- ery morning I wake up—whose birth- pin-down Continental accent (Bel- We’re not going to day is it today?” he told the students. gium!), Roelstraete is the curator at the build a hut, because Who is this hutty professor? Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Roelstraete explains that, before Society. He designed the course as a I wouldn’t know how joining the Neubauer Collegium two companion to an exhibition he is curat- to hold a hammer. years ago, he worked on the curatorial ing at the Collegium through Septem- team of Documenta, an exhibition of ber 6. Titled Hutopia, it features models international contemporary art held Illustration by Daniel Hertzberg of the real or imagined retreats (“huts”) the same question: How do our living every five years in Kassel, Germany. of three giants of 20th-century phi- spaces shape our thinking? Prior to that, he was a curator at in- losophy: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mar- It’s an idiosyncratic course—what stitutions including the Museum of tin Heidegger, and Theodor Adorno. Roelstraete calls “an art-meets-philos- Contemporary Art Chicago. Teaching Hutopia follows up Roelstraete’s 2018 ophy course in the architectural con- is newer to Roelstraete than curating; exhibition in Venice, Machines à penser text of a hut”—and the students are an he is up front with the class that it is

(“machines for thinking”), and it asks eclectic group as well. About half are only his second time teaching a formal Heishman Robert by Photography

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UCH_coursework_Hutopia_v4.indd 24 7/31/19 1:09 PM Visitors take in the Hutopia exhibition at the Neubauer Collegium (left) as Heidegger sprouts some fresh ideas in a sculpture by London-based Polish artist Goshka Macuga.

left shoulder. (He mentions his ink but ric raises deep questions for the course. doesn’t show it.) The passage reads, How does love of hut and homeland, not “Not how the world is, is the mystical, to mention fatherland, shape one’s phi- but that it is.” losophy, or possibly taint it? Roelstraete turns to Heidegger by As for Adorno’s hut, it doesn’t exist. projecting a 1933 or 1934 image of the Or rather, it exists only as a sculpture, German philosopher, who sits unsmil- Adorno’s Hut, by late Scottish artist Ian ing before a wall of books and averts his Hamilton Finlay (the father of Hutopia eyes from the camera. “So what do you artist Alec Finlay). Roelstraete takes think is the punctum here?” he asks the this abstract doghouse-size structure class, explaining Roland Barthes’s term to be a kind of visual joke, since the left- for a striking detail that establishes a ist cosmopolitan Adorno—who once connection with the viewer. “The mus- dedicated an entire book to criticizing tache?” a male student guesses. “Good, Heideggerian ideas about authenticity— close,” Roelstraete responds. Hei- was “the last philosopher in the world degger’s dark, short mustache may call who would be caught dead in a hut.” to mind the ascent of Adolf Hitler and Roelstraete projects an image of the the Nazis at that time in Germany, but white two-story Los Angeles house it is the philosopher’s lapel pin—with a where Adorno lived in the 1940s, not academic course, saying that it will be Nazi eagle insignia—that Roelstraete far from other Weimar-era German an “experimental enterprise.” sees as crucial. Notoriously, Heidegger exiles such as Bertolt Brecht and Ar- He begins by walking the class was the most prominent German intel- nold Schoenberg. Adorno, like Witt- through the lives, works, and housing lectual to align himself with the Third genstein, came from an assimilated preferences of the course’s three phi- Reich, something for which he never partially Jewish family and had to flee losophers. Going by birth order (obvi- publicly apologized. Nazi rule. Thus, Adorno’s home in LA, ously), he first discusses Wittgenstein, Heidegger had a small ski hut built in if not a hut, was still a retreat. the neurotic Austrian polymath who, his native Black Forest region, where he Class wraps up with a trip to the Neu- upon becoming obsessed with a logical worked on his 1927 magnum opus, Be- bauer Collegium on the corner of 57th paradox, abandoned his career as an ing and Time, and returned throughout Street and Woodlawn Avenue. Here aeronautical engineer, came under Ber- his life. If Wittgenstein’s hut was for the students see Roelstraete’s exhibit trand Russell’s tutelage, and retreated escaping home—especially the dis- Kleine Welt, which ponders how specif- to a cabin at the edge of a Norwegian tractions of his wealthy upbringing ic artworks—by Paul Klee especially— fjord to attempt to solve all philosophi- and bourgeois academic career—Hei- have become ubiquitous on academic cal problems through logical clarifica- degger’s hut was for feeling at home. book jackets. That exhibition will soon tion. One early result of this effort was He even claimed in a 1934 essay that make way for Hutopia. Outside, Chi- the 1921 work Tractatus Logico-Phil- his philosophy belongs to the Black cago artist John Preus, MFA’05, has osophicus, whose mysterious passage Forest inextricably, much as the work already completed a half-size model of 6.44 is cited in a tattoo on Roelstraete’s of its peasant farmers does. Such rheto- Wittgenstein’s cabin on the patio. Roelstraete and his class walk the few blocks back to the Cochrane- SYLLABUS Woods Art Center and wrap up for the day. The students exit the room that The Hut: A Curating Students read works by 125th birthday, Roels-

Illustration Daniel Hertzberg will be their hut for the quarter—a hut Case Study (ARTV Wittgenstein, Heidegger, traete pointed out in his for reflecting on huts—and make their 20012/30012) was open and Adorno; gave group welcoming remarks). They way to their next classes, their homes, to undergraduates and presentations on the completed a final project and their homes away from home. ◆ graduate students and philosophers’ lives and of spiritual construction met once a week, whether works; and visited Hutopia work in the form of a phil- TO READ MORE ABOUT THE COURSE in a classroom, a hut, for its opening on April 25 osophical guide to the hut CONTENT, VISIT MAG.UCHICAGO

Photography by Robert Heishman Robert by Photography or a cemetery. (the eve of Wittgenstein’s of their dreams.—L. M. .EDU/HUT.

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UCH_coursework_Hutopia_v4.indd 25 7/31/19 11:07 AM POETRY

LISTENING TO THE WORLD Rosanna Warren’s odes to woundedness.

BY LYDIALYLE GIBSON

he place Rosanna War- and her annual “summer migration” to ren calls her “writing Vermont is winding down. In a week, shack” is a tiny box of she will be on her way back to Chicago. a building deep in the Warren is the Hanna Holborn Gray Green Mountains of Distinguished Service Professor in Vermont that sits on the John U. Nef Committee on Social a hillside at the edge Thought, and a poet and translator of a vast, tumbling whom critics invariably seem to wish woods. From the out- more people knew about. In 2017 the side, it looks about as large as a moder- Los Angeles Review of Books revisited Tately generous walk-in closet, but once Warren’s second poetry collection, you step inside, the whole place deep- the Lamont Poetry Prize–winning ens. There’s a small bench and book- Stained Glass (W. W. Norton, 1993), and shelf near the door, and on the other praised her “perspicacious vision that side of a thin partition, a built-in desk relentlessly seeks truth not despite but surrounded by windows that open out through the ‘stain’ of the full range of onto the forest. It feels like the world’s humanity.” In 2002 Stephen Yenser most private screened-in porch. Trees gushed that even Warren’s earliest unfold into the distance—beech, birch, work was “not only ‘promising’ but tru- white pine, elm—and if you sit still, ly precocious, proof of a talent already you can hear, amid the breeze and ripe.” Writing in the New York Review the birds and the gathering quiet, the of Books in 2011 about Warren’s Ghost sound of water in the stream below. in a Red Hat (W. W. Norton), released Warren stands here, listening. that same year, Dan Chiasson spoke of Photography by Anne Ryan “So,” she says finally, “this is where I the “shimmering shapes she devises,” sit and take dictation from the brook.” her “arresting” plainspokenness and, Today she has been taking dictation in her more outward-looking poems, a since about 8:30 in the morning. Now “significant contribution to the national it’s close to 2 p.m., and time for lunch. imaginary.” “Warren,” he argued, “is This is the last weekend of August 2018, not as well known as she should be.”

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True to form: Rosanna Warren approaches her poetry with a painter’s eye for color and shape.

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UCH_Warren_v2.indd 27 8/1/19 5:05 PM Her work is difficult to summarize. Other poems are overtly political. At 66, Warren has a quiet intensity The style and subjects change from Warren has written mournful, angry, that persists even after her guarded book to book, and from poem to poem. pungent lyrics about the depredations cheerfulness relaxes into warmth. Most of the time she sticks to free verse, of Wall Street and the war in Iraq. Af- “I think in the last few years, I have but not always. Some of her work is ter Hurricane Katrina, her younger wanted my poems to be permeable and deeply personal: bracing elegies to her daughter, now a social worker, went to even more wounded by experiences,” parents and to a close friend who died New Orleans to volunteer with the re- she says. That may sound like an ex- from breast cancer a few years ago. covery effort; Warren visited her there alted concept, but what she’s talking “Friendship is always travel,” Warren and helped rebuild homes that had been about is a kind of radical openness Folklife Southern Collection, Ferris R. William Ferris, William by Photography writes, en route to see her sick friend, destroyed. Afterward she wrote about to the world around her, a way of ap- Hill Chapel at Carolina North of University Library, Wilson The Collection, “from the far country of my provisional what she saw: “I lost count of slab after proaching what others might call the health, / toward you in your new estate cement slab / where bungalows used human condition, or the fallen world, of illness, your suddenly acquired, / to stand.” In “Earthworks,” a 15-page or the inherent strangeness and frac- costly, irradiated expertise.” poem loosely set during the planning ture of existence. It is also, for her, a Other work contemplates lost love, of New York’s Central Park, Warren way of setting aside the self to find a failing marriage, aging, illness, the imagines her way into the life and work something deeper. “I want my poems meaning of home, the comforts of mu- of landscape architect Frederick Law to be concerned, however obliquely, sic and poetry. In “Cotillion Photo,” Olmsted, weaving details from his per- with the lives of people besides my- a framed image from a bygone debu- sonal and professional experiences with self,” she says, “and with a sense of the tante ball (“These young women will meditations on civics and aesthetics, ur- larger relations that govern us, in jus- last forever, posed like greyhounds”) ban history, horticulture, the Civil War tice and injustice.” sparks a memory from childhood and and slavery. It is a poem about designing A lyric by the American poet Hart a meditation on time and transforma- a public park from the mud and muck of Crane helps illuminate what she tion, destiny and self-determination, 19th-century Manhattan Island, but it means. “The Broken Tower,” written in life and in art. “What was to come is also a poem about trying to design a shortly before Crane’s death in 1932, is / would come in its own good time / democracy from the “disunited, discor- a kind of sacred text for Warren. It’s outside the frame.” dant parts” of American life. one of the many poems she knows by

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UCH_Warren_v2.indd 28 8/1/19 5:06 PM Warren’s father, the poet Robert Penn Warren, hauls leaves at the family’s Connecticut home in 1978. Growing up, she says, her parents imparted “a sense of being responsible for the physical reality we were in.”

heart, and it helps guide her thoughts ren, and essayist and novelist Eleanor a trout using sewing twine, a safety and actions, and her writing. One Clark. (In fact, the family is full of pin, and a piece of bacon. Back in the middle stanza reads like this: “And so writers and artists: Warren’s brother, woods stood the spring where War- it was I entered the broken world / To Gabriel, is a sculptor; her nephew Noah ren’s father would trek to get water for trace the visionary company of love, its a poet; her niece Sofia a cartoonist; and everyone’s baths during the years they voice / An instant in the wind (I know her daughter Chiara makes a living as spent in the cabin, which had no run- not whither hurled) / But not for long a social worker but is also a poet and ning water or electricity then. “In the to hold each desperate choice.” To nonfiction writer.) From Warren’s ear- winter, if there was six feet of snow,” Warren, the poem speaks of “the sense liest memories, their home was full of she says, “he would have to dig a trench of crucifixion at the heart of life,” she words. Her father was always reciting to get to the spring and then break the says: “the wound that opens us to re- poems, she says, and for her and her ice off the top with an axe and bring ality, to the suffering of others, to the family, “telling stories was like breath- the water back in buckets.” One winter hugeness of being we cannot control.” ing.” She grew up with the idea that day, he carried in 27 buckets. Allowing that uncontrollable huge- writing was “just what people did.” This is the place Warren still mi- ness to break the surface of a poem grates to every summer. The writing leaves a mark—“wounds” it—and dis- shack where she works once belonged rupts the form, the normal symmetry I WANT MY to her father. Like her, he wrote every and sense of orderly closure. Warren’s day, from nine in the morning until work bears this out; in recent years, POEMS TO BE two in the afternoon. her poems seem increasingly cracked CONCERNED, Warren’s early life with her par- open and almost physically broken: ir- ents seems to have been remarkably regular lines, unpunctuated sentences, HOWEVER charmed. They were larger-than-life interrupted syntaxes, synaptic leaps, OBLIQUELY, WITH literary figures who were also loving voices that collide abruptly. In 2018 and attentive to their children. The Warren explained to the literary jour- THE LIVES OF upbringing they gave Warren and her nal Five Points that she was allowing PEOPLE BESIDES brother sounds almost mythical—“like more of the outside world into the ter- MYSELF. a peaceable kingdom of weirdly doc- ritory of her poems: “If something or ile geniuses, with a child in charge,” someone wants to knock on the door Chiasson writes—and yet also, in im- and enter a poem, why not let that Much of that growing up happened portant and intentional ways, deeply Photography by William Ferris, William R. Ferris Collection, Southern Folklife Folklife Southern Collection, Ferris R. William Ferris, William by Photography happen?” The poet’s job, she says, is here in rural Vermont, where her par- grounded. Both parents had grown up Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel at Carolina North of University Library, Wilson The Collection, to find the artistic “shapeliness” in all ents bought a small cabin in 1959, the poor: her mother in a “genteel but pov- of this wounding experience, the mu- year she turned six, and a few years erty-stricken family on a failed chick- sic. From that comes meaning, comes later built a house on the same lot. Dur- en farm,” Warren told Five Points, and beauty—and discovery. “That’s why ing the school year, the family lived in her father in a small Kentucky town on poetry matters. … If it discovers noth- Connecticut, where her father was the Tennessee border. His father had ing, it’s worthless.” a professor at Yale, but these woods gone bankrupt during the Depression. were where they spent long summers Those experiences stayed with them, and Christmas vacations, Easters and and even after they became famous, ike many poets, Warren is a Thanksgivings, and weekends in be- Warren says, her parents resisted glam- scavenger and inheritor, and tween (especially winter weekends— our. In the afternoons, when they fin- L her life has been shaped by two Warren’s mother was a fanatical skier, ished writing for the day, they usually powerful influences: the shared hu- and Mount Stratton, the highest peak turned to some kind of physical work, man legacy of classical literature—an- in the southern Green Mountains, her mother in the garden, her father cient Greek and Latin poetry infuse stands just five miles away). There was building a stone wall or something else her work at an almost cellular level— a tiny pond out front, where she and around the house. “There was a sense and her own family history. She is the her brother used to swim, swinging of being responsible for the physical daughter of two celebrated writers: the out over the water on tree branches. reality we were in,” Warren says. Life poet and novelist Robert Penn War- And a creek where she once caught was about making things: stone walls,

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UCH_Warren_v2.indd 29 8/1/19 4:53 PM vegetable gardens, art, stories, poems. This intimate literary inheritance connected to a more universal one. Warren first encountered Greek and Latin poetry—and French and Ital- ian literature, another influence—as a child traveling with her parents. Trips to foreign places gave her an early and sustained exposure to worlds and lives far outside her own, an awareness of wider human experiences. Usually the family went to tiny corners of Europe that were remote enough to be relatively inexpensive but also, in part because of their re- moteness, somewhat fantastical. Every summer until she was five, the family rented space in a ruined fortress near an Italian fishing vil- elegy, her mother appears, 10 years lage, owned by an old woman who THESE after her death, as a vanishing orphic was such a miser, Warren says, that ANCIENT vision. A poem recalling long-ago air- she ate moldy spaghetti. The family POEMS, TO port goodbyes as a way of fathoming cooked on a charcoal stove and ate in a sick friend’s passage into death (“we what had been the stables for the sol- ME, HAVE didn’t know / we were practicing”) is diers’ horses; they slept on cots in the A CONCRETE named after Charon, the underworld barracks. Chickens and scorpions and ferryman of Greek mythology. Even a goat roamed the courtyard. DRAMATIC poems without overt allusion carry the When Warren was 12, the family POWER. classics in their bloodstream. Warren spent a year living in a village in south- explained why to an interviewer from eastern France. For her, this was a stories. Her published work contains Columbia University a few years ago: turning point. She learned French and straight translations (a verse rendering “As much as I love poetry in Italian, began memorizing poetry in school. of Euripides’s The Suppliant Women, French, English, these ancient poems, She wrote poems in French too, imitat- for example) and plenty of looser in- to me, have a concrete dramatic pow- ing the rhythms and forms she saw in terpretations (a string of prose poems er that I don’t see anywhere else,” she works by La Fontaine and Baudelaire titled “Odyssey”). But mostly the clas- said. “So, I want to steal that power. … (and later, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, Rim- sics are just simply everywhere in her It’s like putting your finger in an elec- baud—“these were my gods”). Perhaps poetry: they animate her metaphors tric socket.” even more crucially, she began studying and sharpen her sense of irony, lend Latin and translating ancient poems. her work an understanding of tragic The stanza shapes in Horace and Catul- limits, of the complexity of moral and or a long time, Warren resisted

lus were what thrilled her early on, and political meanings, of what it means to becoming a writer. Her earliest Photography by Lydialyle Gibson that excitement led her to other Roman write “in the light of death” and to try F ambition was instead to paint. poets, and to the ancient Greeks—Hom- to wring something permanent from Looking back now, she says, the incan- er, Sappho, Alcaeus, Alcman. what is temporary. descence of her parents’ careers would Becoming a translator helped War- And so an elegy that compares War- have been too much pressure for her ren internalize the classics—the beau- ren’s dying mother to a “crack Aus- younger self. But also, she fell in love ty of their language and idiom and trian skier” staring, petrified, down with the work of Henri Matisse. From meter, but also their sensibilities and a plunging slope turns out to be an the time when she was a child looking perceptions. And their imperishable extended Homeric simile; in another through art books and going to muse-

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UCH_Warren_v2.indd 30 8/1/19 5:06 PM The world’s most private screened-in porch: Warren’s “writing shack” in Vermont was originally built for her father in 1964 by a neighbor who was a woodsman and carpenter. Like her father, Warren writes every day, from morning until midafternoon.

ums, paintings like French Window at of the Matisse contemporary André the book: womanhood, sexual identity, Collioure, Goldfish and Palette, and The Derain, she ran across a mention of art and power, the damage we suffer Red Studio astonished her: Matisse’s Jacob’s name and was intrigued. and inflict. “There are many ways / to sculptural sense of form, his “abstract- Jewish and gay, Jacob underwent throw oneself away,” Warren reminds ing force,” his sumptuous, dramatic col- a mystical conversion to Catholicism readers in “A Way,” about Faithfull. So ors and subtle shades of black and white. and spent two seven-year periods liv- Forth, Warren says, “is deeply about And so Warren spent thousands of forms of woundedness and wounding, hours filling up hundreds of canvases, remorse, and perhaps healing.” investigating shape and shade, the I WAS ALMOST Those themes play out sharply in mystery of light and color and space, another poem from the book, “For Chi- working to connect her inner world TRYING NOT ara,” a deceptively slight lyric that re- to the external one in front of her. TO WRITE. turns to the woods of Vermont. On an At Yale she majored in painting and I WAS TRYING evening walk, Warren and her daugh- comparative literature and spent col- ter—who, the poem tells us, wants “to lege summers in painting programs in TO PAINT. hold each wounded soul”—come across Paris and New England. “I was almost a garter snake injured by a passing car. trying not to write,” she says. “I was ing in a Benedictine monastery before Helpless to heal its agony, which they trying to paint.” And Warren never being taken by the Nazis in 1944; he also cannot help but witness, they completely surrendered her first art. died from pneumonia in Drancy in- nudge the animal into the grass be- Its principles remain visible in her ternment camp. Two early poems side the road. It is autumn, and like the writing, and she still draws from time Warren wrote and dedicated to Jacob snake, the season bursts with a final to time, “very privately, as a way of were the first she ever showed to any- wild vigor as death closes in: “fevered” connecting with reality.” one besides her parents, and their pub- and flaring, the crab-apple tree a “crim- But in her early 20s, she came to the lication effectively marked the start of son pointilliste nimbus,” the crackling realization that she wasn’t a painter. “It her professional writing career. Fasci- leaves underfoot “tinder, kindling” broke my heart,” she says. Unwittingly, nated with Jacob’s life and work, she ready to catch fire. she’d been spending more of her time has spent the past 30 years working on But autumn, Warren writes, “croons on poetry, a practice she had also never his biography. As both a painter and a an old song,” and dust scuffs their feet surrendered. And there were “internal poet, “he was divided in a way that I as they walk. Alluding briefly to a story pressures that I couldn’t control,” she was feeling divided,” she says. about the Gorgons, the snake-haired says, ideas and experiences she couldn’t This September she will also re- women of Greek mythology, the poem express except in words. Three years lease a volume of selected poetry in gestures toward an inherent, unavoid- after graduating from college, she en- French translation, De notre vivant able connection between the power to rolled in the creative writing graduate (Æncrages & Co.), and a book of new heal and the power to kill. After War- program at Johns Hopkins University poems, her fifth. Titled So Forth ren and her daughter edge the snake and afterward spent 30 years teaching (W. W. Norton), it compiles nearly a de- off the road, the poem asks, “Do we literature, creative writing, and transla- cade’s worth of writing. A sequence of stop seeing / when we walk away?” tion at Boston University, before com- poems called “Legende of Good Wom- That question hangs in the air as the ing to UChicago in 2012. en” is at its core, the title borrowed final lines exhale: “The brook prattles In 2020, Warren will publish a long- from an unfinished work by Geoffrey on. / Home’s far off. Dusk settles, slow-

Photography by Lydialyle Gibson term writing project that bridges—and Chaucer that narrates the lives of 10 fa- ly, among leaves. / That’s not mercy, in fact helped spark—her transition mous women from antiquity and my- scattering from its hands.” ◆ from painting to poetry. Max Jacob: A thology. Warren focuses on an updated Life in Art and Letters (W. W. Norton) cast: Renaissance poet and translator Lydialyle Gibson is an associate editor at is a biography of the French painter Mary Sidney, fashion designer Coco Harvard Magazine. and poet, whom she first discovered as Chanel, singer and songwriter Mari-

a college student still intent on becom- anne Faithfull, harpsichordist Sylvia TO READ TWO POEMS BY ROSANNA ing a painter. While working in a Paris Marlowe. The poems wind themselves WARREN, VISIT MAG.UCHICAGO library to archive the painting papers around concerns that run throughout .EDU/WARREN.

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AMERICAN STYLE

As editor in chief of House Beautiful magazine, Elizabeth Gordon, PhB’27, fought for “good” design in the Cold War era.

BY BROOKE E. O’NEILL, AM’04

wo ways of life stretch before us. One leads to the the ‘pure’ form of their rectangles—no overhanging roofs to richness of variety, to comfort and beauty. The shade you from the sun; the bare minimum of gadgets and other, the one we want to fully expose to you, re- possessions so as not to spoil the ‘clean’ look. … No children, treats to poverty and unlivability,” declared House no dogs, extremely meager kitchen facilities—nothing hu- Beautiful editor in chief Elizabeth Gordon, PhB’27, man that might disturb the architect’s composition.” in a controversial 1953 essay, “The Threat to the Gordon’s blistering words won her critics and admirers Next America.” alike, most notably Prairie School pioneer and fellow In-

The road to perdition? International Style archi- ternational Style detractor Frank Lloyd Wright, who wired Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. tecture. For Gordon, an Indiana native who for more than this response: “Surprised and delighted. Did not know you Ttwo decades brought her vision of good design to America’s had it in you. From now on at your service.” That message middle-class homemakers, the work of architects such as marked the start of a lifelong collaboration. Calling her of- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier was nothing fice “an extension of Taliesin,” after Wright’s design studio, less than an affront to reason. Gordon would go on to produce two special issues celebrat- Embracing modular forms, mass-produced industrial ing his work and hire a Taliesin apprentice architect as materials, and flat glass surfaces, the style had emerged in House Beautiful’s architectural editor. Europe in the 1920s, and by 1932 was being lauded by cura- While the essay brought Wright and Gordon closer, it tors at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Gordon took a prompted much criticism. Architect William Wurster, for dimmer view, accusing its architects of shunning comfort, example, penned a letter of opposition, cosigned by 30 fel- convenience, and functionality, all necessities of home life— low California designers and sent to several architectural a stance that “sparked an instant and enduring controversy,” magazines and schools. They rejected the suggestion that according to Gordon’s biographer Monica Penick, author of modern architects were attempting to “undermine Ameri- Tastemaker: Elizabeth Gordon, “House Beautiful,” and the can freedom” and “regret[ted] deeply the attack on European Postwar American Home (Yale University Press, 2017). art and architecture … [and] the implication that all ‘good’ art In House Beautiful’s pages, Gordon pulled no punches. has its roots in America and all that is European is subversive, “The much-touted all-glass cube of International Style perverted or sick.” Editor Peter Blake at Architectural Forum architecture,” she wrote of Mies van der Rohe’s famous was particularly incensed and suspected Gordon had cast a Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, “is perhaps the most die that would end her career. “Here lies House Beautiful,” he unlivable type of home for man since he descended from wrote, “scared to death by a chromium chair.” the tree and entered a cave. You burn up in the summer and The only child in a devout Methodist family, Gordon de- freeze in the winter, because nothing must interfere with veloped her critic’s eye—and rebellious streak—early. In an

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unpublished autobiography, she would in design. “When she covered a topic, deride her cluttered, dusty two-story she did it in staggering depth,” Louis Carpenter Gothic childhood home Oliver Gropp, a former House Beautiful in Logansport, Indiana, as “best seen editor, told the New York Times when from the outside.” As a young woman, Gordon died in 2000. Two special is- Gordon briefly escaped the small farm- sues introducing traditional minimalist ing town, enrolling at Northwestern Japanese design to American readers University for a single semester before in 1960 reflected five years of research her parents forced her to leave because and seven trips to Japan. A later edi- she attended a school dance. tion dedicated to Scandinavian styles A year later she enrolled at the Uni- earned her a Finnish knighthood. versity of Chicago—with her mother Her vision of the best in aesthetics accompanying her as a campus chaper- Here lies House and quality focused on craftsmanship one. Much to Gordon’s relief, her moth- Beautiful, scared and materials, regardless of style or er soon began taking classes and was country of origin—a distinction that too engrossed to monitor her daugh- to death by a explains how she could laud, say, the ter’s every move. Exulting in her new- chromium chair. minimalism of Japan while skewering found freedom, Gordon threw herself that of the International Style. into her studies and joined the Maroon Writing at the height of the McCar- staff, setting the stage for her future career. thy era, Gordon borrowed freely from the rhetoric of the After graduating she spent a year teaching high school times, assailing the International Style’s brand of minimal- English in Janesville, Wisconsin, saving enough money to ism as an insidious influence that threatened American move to New York. In Manhattan she wrote freelance home life by spreading “something ... rotten” into our homes. For columns for New York World and the New York Herald Tribune Gordon, the offending style was “clinical” rather than liv- before joining Blaker Advertising Agency, first as a copywrit- able and humanistic, two key qualities she sought in “good” er, then as an account executive. Applying her reporting skills design. While she saw the polarizing essay as part of a larger to the growing field of consumer research, Gordon investigat- mission to empower consumers with the knowledge needed

Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. ed women’s purchasing habits. Her work caught the attention to create their own beautiful living spaces, its political over- of one of her clients, Good Housekeeping, which hired her to tones clearly reinforced a nativism that had taken root in cover building and decorating. Gordon quickly made a name the country. for herself in the field. At age 35, when the editor-in-chief In Tastemaker, Penick argues that Gordon’s “motiva- position at House Beautiful opened up, she stepped in. tions—why she worked so vigorously to discredit a small Gordon transformed the magazine into a powerful ve- group of modernists—were complex.” They were, Penick hicle for rallying like-minded designers and bringing their believes, driven at least in part by her professional inter- work to the average American consumer. Its broad audience ests. Being “inextricably tied to the consumption-centric included housewives and design professionals who shared business of American design,” the biographer writes, “the an interest in improving domestic life through architecture, International Style’s minimalism and its lack of storage for interiors, furnishings, and gardening. Under her leadership, household goods was actually a ‘threat’ to her own industry the magazine’s readership exploded from 226,304 in 1940 to and livelihood.” nearly a million at her retirement in 1964. As one of only a After leaving her post in 1964, Gordon continued to es- few women leading a mass-circulated publication, Gordon el- pouse her views through public lectures and consulting. evated House Beautiful into a serious architectural and com- Though her positions were not universally shared, their in- mercial influence. fluence was indisputable; endorsement letters for Gordon’s “I used House Beautiful as a propaganda and teaching honorary membership in the American Institute of Archi- tool—to broaden people’s ‘thinking-and-wanting’ apparatus,” tects noted her years of advocacy and “indefatigable pursuit Gordon wrote later. That meant introducing everyday home- of good domestic architecture.” makers to concepts such as the California ranch house and Indeed, for Gordon, the pursuit was about more than home climate control through green design. design. It was a battle for the aesthetic soul of America. ◆ Sporting bold hats and even bolder opinions, Gordon crisscrossed the globe to bring readers what she deemed the best Brooke E. O’Neill, AM’04, is a freelance writer in Chicago.

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TOWARD A SAFER WORLD

At the first annual Hagel Lecture, Madeleine Albright and Chuck Hagel spoke from experience.

BY LAURA DEMANSKI, AM’94

he world’s a mess,” said Mad- duction to CPOST, a nonpartisan center Another project, led by CPOST as- eleine Albright. On this eve- that “generates authoritative, advanced sociate director Paul Staniland, AB’04, ning late in May, more than knowledge to improve security and associate professor of political sci- 900 people had filled Man- prosperity in practical ways.” Gathering ence, asks why terrorist groups in del Hall to hear the former and analyzing masses of data, CPOST’s South Asia sometimes work against secretary of state and Chuck teams of faculty and students aim to an- and sometimes in concert with the Hagel talk foreign policy and swer questions critical to international region’s governments. To answer that world politics in the first an- politics, security, and trade. question, Staniland’s team is building nual Hagel Lecture, named for the The project’s origins trace back to a database cataloging all instances of Tformer secretary of defense and Re- Pape’s Suicide Attack Database, be- and changes in state-insurgent rela-

publican senator from Nebraska. gun after 9/11 as a comprehensive tions in the region since 1945. Illustration by Phil Bliss/Theispot The lecture was hosted by the Chi- record of attacks and attackers. Regu- Benjamin Lessing, also a political sci- cago Project on Security and Threats larly updated, it remains an essential ence associate professor and CPOST (CPOST). Introducing the two politi- tool for scholars and government and associate director, studies organized cal heavyweights (who are also good is one of many ongoing projects based armed violence by gangs and drug friends) was CPOST’s founder and at CPOST today. Among them is Pape’s cartels in Latin America. The database director, Robert Pape, PhD’88. In his current collaboration with psychology Lessing’s team is at work on will help remarks, the UChicago political science professor Jean Decety to study online them estimate how many people are

professor also provided a brief intro- terrorist propaganda and recruitment. effectively under criminal governance, Jones Jason by photography All

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UCH_marketplaceCPost_v4.indd 34 8/2/19 3:58 PM including by criminal gangs operating suits and dresses, they chatted about doing.” And I say, yes, you should, be- from inside prisons. final exams and papers as they waited cause there need to be people there Data is one sine qua non of CPOST’s for Albright and Hagel to arrive. Fol- who are interested in foreign policy, work. The other essential, says Pape, lowing a group photograph, the duo national security policy, and all the is “building real bridges and connec- settled in to take questions. elements of it. tions.” That means making CPOST’s I hate to say this to you, but I say to data accessible to other scholars and my students that when they first go in, establishing connections to Washing- they are not going to be making policy, ton. Reaching out to the broader public they’re going to be stamping visas. is a priority too, and is where the Hagel There’s value in being in the system Lecture comes in. and learning how it works, and then, The relationship with the former as you rise up in it, having the oppor- defense secretary, and others like it, tunity to state your views clearly and are indispensable to what Pape and show why you believe in them. CPOST want to achieve. As Albright I don’t think people should forget told the Magazine, a pipeline from the MADELEINE ALBRIGHT what they believe in. National secu- academy to the policy world is “exactly rity policy has to be based on values what needs to be happening in terms and ideas. What any system needs is to of putting the intellectual rigor into have people with different ideas who getting data, and then making it avail- are figuring it out— not always saluting able to government decision makers. … and saying, I’m going to do everything This is a remarkable exercise and very, that I’m told to do. very useful.” On the other side, Hagel added, “it gives our academic friends Chuck Hagel You always have to re- some balance and perspective on how member that our country, our Constitu- CHUCK HAGEL policy is made.” tion, our institutions, are much, much At Mandel Hall, Albright kicked off bigger than any one individual. We’re the evening with brief remarks before all just fleeting stewards of the same. Pape moderated a conversation between The following extracts from There will be another president, and her and Hagel. Pape then invited stu- this session have been edited and then another president. Your loyalty is to dents in the audience to ask questions condensed. the country. We all take an oath of office about global problems and policies. How when we enter government. It’s to the to better the messy, dangerous, and en- What is your advice for those Constitution. It’s to our country, it’s to dangered world of Albright’s opening of us in the younger generation people, America. We don’t take an oath comment? The two drew on their own who want to be future policy of office stating loyalty to a president, to a experiences at the highest levels of gov- makers, who may be slightly political party, or to a philosophy. ernment to advocate for bipartisanship, naive currently but at the If you believe you can make a contri- diplomacy, and the deep engagement of same time want to make a bution to our country to make it better, young people like the evening’s ques- better future? that’s where it starts. That’s the funda- tioners. View the entire program at mag mental anchor, and then you go from .uchicago.edu/hagellecture. Madeleine Albright If you are going to there. I’m often asked, as Madeleine

Illustration by Phil Bliss/Theispot That wasn’t the only chance for enter public service, you have to know is, by a lot of young people, should I go UChicago students to ask questions your value system and try to figure out into politics, should I run for office? that day. A few hours earlier, across how you are going to make your views And I say, that’s your decision. I can’t University Avenue, two dozen or so known. I have students [at George- tell you if you should do it or not do it. graduate students and undergradu- town University, where Albright is a But I would give you this advice, and I ates who work with CPOST gathered professor of diplomacy] now who are think it applies to all things: you’ve got in the bright, intimate setting of the coming to me and saying, “Do you to ask yourself some pretty fundamen- Quadrangle Club’s second-floor so- think we should go into this govern- tal questions that only you can answer.

All photography by Jason Jones Jason by photography All larium. Exuberant yet businesslike in ment? We disagree with what they’re The most fundamental is, why do you

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UCH_marketplaceCPost_v4.indd 35 8/2/19 3:59 PM want to do it? If the answer is not to a difference? In those particular cases some kind. Then the question is more make a better world, then I tell them, I think I came out on the right thing. like, should I resign over that? You do don’t do it. That should be the answer The one that I find the hardest to go over things, there’s no question. If down deep in you. deal with happened when I was am- you don’t, then you shouldn’t have the bassador at the United Nations, over job. It’s worth analyzing why you did Is there anything in your tenure Rwanda. We did not go in with a it, especially if it doesn’t have a happy that, if you had a chance, you peacekeeping operation in Rwanda. I ending or it’s a difficult issue. Asking would do differently? can explain why we didn’t. I won’t take yourself about do-overs is an essential the time to do it, but it made a lot of part of a decision-making process. Albright I second-guess myself about sense at the time. But given what hap- everything. I am often asked if we did pened, I think it would have made a big Hagel I agree with everything Sec- the right thing in Kosovo, for instance, difference to go in. retary Albright said. You can second- or did we do the right thing in expand- Usually you’re not the only person guess yourself into paralysis, and you ing NATO. I think it is worth thinking making the decision, especially a big can talk yourself into anything. Now, about, and what would have happened one. It comes as a result of a principals you should always be second-guessing if you didn’t do it. Would it have made meeting or an interagency meeting of yourself—not to paralysis, but you’ve got to come at it from all the different perspectives: Is this the right thing? Why isn’t it? Go back and review it. Albright wore a pin depicting the Chicago skyline for the occasion. That’s part of a process that I’ve tried to maintain in every job I’ve had. Take inventory. If you’re doing that honestly with yourself, then you’ll come to the right decision on almost everything. There are situations where I could have done something better, I should have said it differently, I should have said it better, maybe made a better decision. But you build on those experiences and learn from them, and hopefully you get better.

How does cooperation between the State Department and the Department of Defense play out, and how can diplomatic solutions still play into an evolving security situation We are the most when you do need stronger military forces on the ground, powerful country in as in Syria?

the world, but there Albright In a course I teach called The are not a lot of tools in National Security Toolbox, I say foreign policy is just trying to get somebody to the toolbox. do what you want. That’s all it is. So what are the tools? We are the most powerful country in the world, but there are not a lot of tools in the toolbox.

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UCH_marketplaceCPost_v4.indd 36 8/2/19 3:59 PM In almost every case the military should be used only if there’s a diplomatic agenda.

Hagel has worked with CPOST for the past few years. “I was appreciative they’d let a poor Nebraska boy” help, he joked.

There’s diplomacy, bilateral and multi- sury, walked by and he said, “Aha: force What are the current lateral; economic tools of aid and trade and diplomacy.” Shali said, “And which challenges of dealing with and sanctions; the threat of the use of is which?” Because I was more inclined the Middle East, especially force; the use of force; intelligence; and to use force, and he was inclined to use in situations where national law enforcement. That’s it. diplomacy. I do often think that the security interests dictate The reason I started teaching the State Department is more prepared to what the United States does? course is that I remember what it was use force than the Defense Department. like in the Carter administration when Albright I think we don’t fully under- the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. We Hagel In almost every case the military stand all of the complications of the had an interagency meeting and it was should be used only if there’s a diplomat- Middle East. In addition to artificial insane. We knew we couldn’t get the ic agenda. Now, if America is attacked, countries having been created, most Soviets out, but we were trying to fig- that’s different. But when you use your Americans don’t know much about Is- ure out how to punish them. So it was military, you want to use it with as much lam, much less the difference between like show-and-tell, saying, well, we can precision as you can. It should follow Shia and Sunni. And they don’t focus cut off their fishing rights or we’ll have the ultimate objective, and that’s got to on the centuries-old struggle between a grain embargo or we’ll have a call-up be led by the State Department, in con- Arabs and Persians and that compli- of the draft. Ultimately somebody said, junction with the White House and the cated aspect of it. we’re not sending our athletes to the president. Ultimately, where does the The issue is always whether Ameri- Olympics. I thought, this is the most president want to go with this? What can foreign policy is idealistic or real- disorganized way of trying to figure does the president want to accomplish? istic. That’s a false dichotomy. I never out how to do this. The relationship between a secre- could figure out if I was an idealistic The toolbox is what’s discussed tary of state and secretary of defense realist or a realistic idealist. You need in these meetings. Diplomacy is the is important to make it all work. When both. And as hard as it is to say, especial- bread-and-butter of things, but it’s I was secretary of defense, [Secretary ly to young people, our policy is inconsis- viewed as weak. Sometimes force is of State John] Kerry and I would meet tent because we look at various countries used at the end, because it’s strong. once a week. That was very helpful. and realize we need them for X. And an awful lot of times you use eco- We could clear our own thinking with My problem at the moment would nomic tools. But the discussion is of- each other, and then we would meet be Saudi Arabia. They have, from ev- ten ultimately about the relationship when everybody was in town once a erything that one can tell, committed between State and Defense. week with the national security ad- murder on the orders of the highest I’ll never forget this: I was outside the viser. The interests of all three don’t echelon. On the other hand, I think it’s Situation Room standing with General always come together, but Kerry and I very important to have relations with [John] Shalikashvili, who was chair- had a relationship where he never sur- Saudi Arabia. I personally would not man of the Joint Chiefs at the time, and prised me, I never surprised him, and sell them arms at this moment, espe- [Robert] Rubin, secretary of the trea- that was really important. cially with what’s going on in Yemen

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At the Quadrangle Club, undergraduate and graduate students had an hour to question the former secretaries.

and the Houthi, but I think it’s crazy we can—ways to solve problems. If you to respond to this, but let’s think this to break off relations. give away the idealism of your foreign through. When you say, “pull the plug,” So one makes certain allowances for policy, and if that’s seen by other coun- what do you mean? They wanted to cut having a pragmatic relationship. When tries as walking away from it, then this off everything—everything. I remem- I was in office, I always believed in the world is in for a real tough time. ber turning to President Obama and pragmatic, but I never gave up on hu- We are seeing more and more of saying, “Mr. President, if we do that, man rights. No matter where I was, a drive toward authoritarianism in we have just lost any influence and any talking about whatever, especially in the world. Xi [Jinping] probably is a instrument of influence we might have China, I would say, you know, you’ve master, with as much power as any left in Egypt. Plus the Suez Canal.” got to do something about your human Chinese leader since Mao [Zedong]. As you start thinking about the con- rights policy. We need to do both. Obviously [Vladimir] Putin, [Recep sequences of that action, it’s a difficult Tayyip] Erdoğan in Turkey. You’re situation always, and there are never Hagel Every nation always responds looking at Western democracies in any good options that the secretary of in its own self-interest, and its foreign Europe, like Hungary and Poland, that state has to work through. Probably the policy is conducted on that basis. At the are moving in those directions. same as the secretary of defense. But I same time, as Madeleine mentioned, We have been the one country that think the secretary of state has more there’s always a struggle between the more than any other has stood for val- bad options that come to him or her idealism and realism in the principle of ues and tried to implement idealism than anybody in the cabinet, because foreign policy. The principle, I’ve always and “let’s do this right.” Now, we’re they wouldn’t come to her if it was good thought, is a foreign policy that includes more powerful. We’ve got more author- news. Figure it out, Madame Secretary. our self-interests, that has a strong de- ity. Maybe you could say, well, that’s our fense of human rights, liberty, values, responsibility. But it’s easy to forfeit Albright It’s still a pretty good job. and that melds that with the reality of an that too. imperfect world and the imperfections I’ll give you one example. I was sec- Hagel No, there are some privileges to of what the Middle East represents: un- retary of defense when the president that. So, anyway, that’s the way I’ve al- fortunately, authoritarian governments. of Egypt was overthrown in a military ways seen it, and I’ve seen it up close. ◆ As for Madeleine’s mentioning of coup by [Abdel Fatteh el-] Sisi. I’d been Saudi Arabia, that’s exactly where I am in Egypt a month before that, and we CPOST researchers will appear on a Sep- too. We couldn’t walk away from that met with the president and Sisi, who tember 26 live broadcast of Freakonom- relationship, because there’s too much was defense minister at the time. I re- ics Radio Live! at Chicago’s Harris Theater at risk. But there are things we can do. member the National Security Council with Stephen J. Dubner and UChicago The Congress did pass a law not allow- meeting with the president [after the economics professor Steven D. Levitt. ing funding for the Yemen war, but the coup]. A lot of the conversation was, president vetoed that. let’s pull the plug on Egypt and Sisi. I TO READ MORE OF THE CONVERSA- The essence of diplomacy is finding was, I think, the only voice that said, TION, VISIT MAG.UCHICAGO.EDU smart, realistic—but yet as idealistic as we’re going to have to do something /ALBRIGHT.

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FROM THE GROUND UP BY SUSIE ALLEN, AB’09, AND LAURA DEMANSKI, AM’94

n July 1919, this publication re- Those artifacts tell scholars much about ported the establishment of the the Egyptians, Babylonians, Persians, and Oriental Institute at the Univer- other past peoples but also inspire and sity of Chicago. “The ultimate inform larger questions: How do humans aim of all its work,” the editors build and structure their societies? How wrote, “will be to furnish a basis do people’s physical environments shape for a history of the origins and their ideas about mortality, nature, iden- development of civilization.” The tity? And how are those ideas embodied in OI’s scholars would discover and their material culture? examine millennia-old evidence that could The OI’s home within a major research Iilluminate collective human life in the university has enabled still other kinds of past—and, by that means, our present lives. contributions. Willard Libby’s development With a century of exploration, excava- of radiocarbon dating in the 1940s relied on tion, scholarship, and education now behind testing artifacts of known age from the OI’s it, the OI has achieved a deep history of its collection. Its ancient language dictionar- own, and a singular one. ies—Assyrian, Hittite, Demotic—are mas- Both a robust academic research cen- sive, decades-long efforts requiring the ter, creating knowledge about the earliest concerted work of generations of scholars. societies in the ancient Middle East, and a The people, excavations, and objects that museum for the public, it holds treasures. shaped the OI over its first century are too Uniquely, most of them were excavated by numerous to present here exhaustively. In the OI’s own archaeologists in its early years the following pages we highlight a few that for study by experts and the education and just begin to capture its illustrious first hun-

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Bottom right: UChicago Photographic Archive, apf1-09116, University of Chicago Library Giants Among the many archaeologists and scholars who made the OI what it is today are these pioneers.

JAMES HENRY BREASTED The first American to earn a PhD in Egyptology, James Henry Breasted (left, with his family) was a titan of the field. Alongside scholarly works, he wrote popular histories of Egypt and the ancient world, which sparked enduring public interest in Egyptology. Despite these successes, his greatest ambition, to form a research institute devoted to the ancient Middle East, remained unfulfilled until John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s 1919 gift created the Oriental Institute. Breasted wasted no time, traveling that year to Europe, Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria to explore and document ancient sites and acquire artifacts still held by the OI today, securing the institute’s—and his own—legacy.

ROBERT AND LINDA BRAIDWOOD The marriage of Robert Braidwood, PhD’43, and Linda Schreiber, AM’46 (top right), in 1937 marked the beginning of a personal and intellectual partnership that would shape the field of prehistoric archaeology. To- gether, the Braidwoods documented the human shift from hunting and gathering to settled life. In 1947 they founded the OI’s Prehistoric Project, recruiting bota- nists, zoologists, and geologists and introducing interdisciplinary, scientific methods that were previously unknown to archaeology. The Braidwoods discovered in southeastern Turkey the world’s oldest piece of cloth and some of the earliest known buildings. Collabora- tors until the end of their lives, Robert and Linda Braid- wood died within hours of each other in 2003.

ROBERT MCCORMICK ADAMS In 1950 Robert McCormick Adams, PhB’47, AM’52, PhD’56 (right), joined the Braidwoods on an expedition to Iraq. (“I think he wanted to take along someone who could fix his cars,” Adams joked later.) The trip transformed Adams from an aspiring journalist into an archaeologist. Among the first to use aerial photography and satellite images in his work, Adams focused on the relationship between geography and civilization, arguing that how societies adapt to environmental change defines their trajectories. After serving as OI director and University provost, Adams went on to lead

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Places Excavation sites past and present reveal settlement patterns, artifacts, and more.

NIPPUR The Mesopotamian religious center Nippur lies in modern-day Iraq, 100 miles south of Baghdad. The seat of the supreme god Enlil and considered the bond between heaven and earth, Nippur was settled around 5000 BC and endured almost 6,000 years, remaining relatively protected from the region’s wars because of its religious and cultural significance. The OI first excavated the city’s trove of artifacts and clay tablets in 1948, focus- ing on the historically important religious quarter. In 1972, under the direction of McGuire Gibson, AM’64, PhD’68, professor of Mesopotamian archaeology, these efforts expanded to a residential part of the city before all work on the site ceased at the time of the first Gulf War. This year Tell Edfu, Egypt the OI returned to Nippur, restored its expedition compound, and prepared to fully resume excavating the city’s rich remains.

TELL EDFU Ruins beneath ruins characterize the Egyptian archaeological site Tell Edfu, where the OI has worked since 2007 under the direction of Egyptol- ogist Nadine Moeller. The site comprises the well-preserved Temple of Horus and a nearby settlement whose growth from a provincial town to a regional capital is recorded in archaeological layers going back to the third millennium BC. Last year Moeller’s team discovered a large villa of the early New Kingdom (1500–1450 BC), among whose features was a rare domestic shrine to the residents’ ancestors. The site illuminates broad patterns of ancient urban development.

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PERSEPOLIS The tens of thousands of ancient tablets discovered in Persepo- lis in 1933 by OI archaeologists contained an overwhelming cache of records of the inner workings of the Achaemenid or Persian Empire of Darius I and his succes- sors—but much of it is encrypted in the extinct Elamite language, known by few living scholars. To decipher the tablets, the OI brought them to Chicago on loan, where they have been studied by generations of scholars given the rare opportunity to learn about the empire from Persian sources. Most recently, Matthew Stolper, professor emeritus of Assyriology, and a team worked intensively to transliterate the tablets for further research prior to their upcoming return to Iran.

Persepolis, Iran

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This copper alloy hand mirror, excavated from a tomb at Qustul in Egypt, dates from 1390–1352 BC. The figure of a young woman that forms the handle, about six inches high, is elaborately detailed, with earrings, a decorative collar, and even fingernails on her hands. Her curled hair suggests the goddess Hathor, associated with dance, love, music, and fertility. The disk she holds aloft was reflective when polished.

Excavated at Istakhr, just north of Perse- polis, the six-inch inscribed clay bowl dates from AD 800–900. It boasts an early Islamic glazing technique thought to have been developed in imitation of Chinese ceramics. Opaque white wares like this were new to the Middle East at the time it was made. The cobalt blue in- scription, in Arabic, is illegible.

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Painted limestone with stone inlays for the eyes, these statues of a woman and man, researchers think, may portray ancestors of the statues’ owners. On their heads is bitumen, a tar-like adhesive, that once attached hair or headdresses. The sub- stance also holds the eye inlays in place. Excavated in modern-day Syria, they date back 9,000 to 11,000 years ago to the early Neolithic period.

This six-inch-tall portable Egyptian healing stela was used to treat ailments, possibly including animal bites, which were common in the ancient Middle East. Dat- ing from the Ptolemaic period (fourth century BC), it depicts the sky god Horus stepping on crocodiles, signifying his domination over the beasts and hopefully auguring the patient’s recovery. Water was poured over the stela, then consumed by the patient.

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FOUND IN TRANSLATION

With an eye to reaching a broader public, Sumerologist Christopher Woods leads the Oriental Institute into its second century.

BY SHARLA A. PAUL

hrough the very nature of his work, Ori- By local, he means for the OI to become a destination on ental Institute director Christopher Woods the South Side, a hidden gem that’s hidden no more. To that uses the word isolate a lot. In philological end, the OI is adopting its initials as its brand and moving terms—after all, Woods is a philologist—a away from its outdated moniker, which Woods admits can linguistic isolate is a language that is unre- be jarring to contemporary ears, though it’s actually a geo- lated to any other known language. graphic term—oriental, as opposed to occidental—that was Sumerian, the language that Woods stud- used to describe the Middle East when the OI was founded. ies, is an isolate. It was spoken by the Sume- Woods also means to increase the OI’s visibility on cam- rians, a people in ancient Mesopotamia who pus. Building on a surge of new hires to the OI faculty in created one of the earliest civilizations. They farmed the recent years, he anticipates a corresponding surge in inter- richT land along the Tigris and Euphrates valleys in present- disciplinary projects, with faculty drawing in colleagues day southern Iraq, established the world’s first cities, built from departments such as classics and art history. temples and palaces on a monumental scale, and created a Increasing visibility is an apt task for an isolate specialist. canon of literature that includes stories about Gilgamesh, the Woods, the John A. Wilson Professor of Sumerology, ma- legendary Sumerian king of the city of Uruk. jored in physics at Yale and in his early 20s found his way into We know so much about the Sumerians because they also Sumerology by way of a lunchtime Akkadian class he took wrote. Around 3300 BC, roughly the same time that the at Columbia University while working at a patent law office. Egyptians developed hieroglyphs, the Sumerians invented He earned his PhD at Harvard and applied for a UChicago cuneiform, possibly the world’s first writing system. “Mak- faculty position while still a graduate student. Since then, ing language visible” is what Woods calls this remarkable he’s spent his career at what he considers the field’s premier moment. “What you’re writing right now”—he gestures at institution worldwide, the last two years leading it. my jotted notes—“has its origins in what was invented in His work deciphers what he calls the “conceptual frame- Sumer nearly 5,500 years ago.” work of Mesopotamian culture,” the mechanics of how It’s early May, and Woods is fresh off visiting the OI’s the Mesopotamian mind conceived its world, as recorded archaeological dig in Nippur, Iraq, where work has recom- on hundreds of thousands of extant clay tablets bearing menced this year for the first time since the outbreak of the the Sumerian language. These tablets have been dug up by first Gulf War. Woods has applied to the Iraqi Ministry of archaeologists for more than a century, and the vast ma- Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities for the archaeological jority remain unpublished and untranslated. The ancient concession to open new sites, heralding what he hopes will Sumerians shaped them from the alluvial clay of river beds be a “new golden age for the OI” in the region. and made styli from reeds to record economic transactions, Dressed in suit and tie, his desert attire retired for now, he literature, law codes, religious hymns, and historical nar- sits in a maroon upholstered armchair in the ornate, wood- ratives in wedge-shaped markings. During the third mil- paneled director’s office. Asked about his vision for the OI lennium BC, Semitic populations that dominated northern at this centennial mark, Woods’s answer is immediate: to Babylonia mingled with Sumerians in the south, and by the increase its visibility and profile—not necessarily academi- early centuries of the second millennium BC, after a long

cally, which needs no burnishing, but nationally and locally. period of bilingualism, Sumerian died as a vernacular lan- Photography by John Zich

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UCH_Woods_FoundinTranslation_v3.indd 48 8/1/19 11:49 AM erations of philologists and epigraphers around the world, including OI faculty Miguel Civil, who died this past Janu- ary at age 92, and Thorkild Jacobsen, PhD’29, a Sumerolo- gist who also served as OI director. Such work is often done from museum collections, including the 350,000-plus-artifact research collection housed in the OI HE MEANS FOR THE (more than 5,000 of them are on display). Woods is complet- ing a monograph on early cuneiform writing and has another OI TO BECOME A planned on Gilgamesh in the Sumerian literary tradition. His DESTINATION ON THE 2008 book, The Grammar of Perspective: The Sumerian Con- jugation Prefixes as a System of Voice (Brill), analyzes an im- SOUTH SIDE, A portant but little-understood feature of Sumerian verbs: their HIDDEN GEM THAT’S conjugation prefixes. For well over a century, Sumerologists have proposed various, often incompatible, hypotheses to ex- HIDDEN NO MORE. plain individual prefixes, but their basic functions and meanings remained ill-defined or unknown. Woods proposed that they constitute a complex system of grammatical voice that provided Sumerian speakers with a linguistic means of alter- ing the perspective from which events may be viewed and ways to approximate in language the infinitely graded spectrum of human thought and experience. Lining one of the built-in bookcases in his office is a massive set of blue hardbound books. The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary “took 90 years of scholarship to produce and res- urrected the Babylonian and Assyrian languages that were the lingua franca of the ancient Middle East. There’s something very UChicago about that,” Woods says. Similarly, the epigraphic survey in Luxor, Egypt, has been in the field for 95 years, recording the hieroglyphic inscriptions and art of Luxor’s ancient monuments. As esoteric as the OI’s projects might seem, the work, says Woods, stays relevant because it’s actually the work of more deeply understanding ourselves. “Indirectly we are the cultural descendants of the people in the areas the OI studies. Mathematics, literature, political and religious institutions, how empires rise and fall—all of these things have their beginnings or a very early data point in this part of the world,” he says. Christopher Woods, director of the Oriental Institute. To anyone who ventures through its doors and stands face to face with its colossal Assyrian winged lamassu, Woods believes the OI provides a distant mirror revealing how people lived, how they loved, what they believed in. guage and Akkadian became the language of the land. “The parallels connect us to the past, but the differences All evidence of the Sumerian language was swallowed are enlightening as well,” says Woods. “They tell you some- up by the earth in the multicentury process of municipal thing about what it means to be human, aboutHere’s the looking scope at of upkeep: constructing new mud-brick buildings atop erod- the human experience.” you, kid: Boy meets ed and fallen ones, layer upon layer, until conquerors came He invites all of Chicago—all of the world,girl even—tomeets pizza come along, towns were abandoned, and finally giant earth-cov- see for themselves. ◆ in Claire Scanlon’s ered mounds, or tells, dotted the river valleys. Recovering (AB’93) romantic

Photography by John Zich the lost isolate of Sumerian has been the work of three gen- Sharla A. Paul is a writer in Chicago. comedy Set It Up.

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PAST AND FUTURE A lot changes over 100 years— instruments, laws, politics, and the very questions archaeologists ask.

BY LAURA DEMANSKI, AM’94

From satellite imagery to international politics, the world in which the Oriental Institute’s archaeologist-scholars and museum professionals do their work is very different from that in which the OI was founded. The Magazine spoke to three Near Eastern languages and civilizations faculty members and the OI Museum’s chief curator about how archaeological excavation and inquiry have evolved since 1919. This conversation has been edited and condensed.

Of all that’s changed in This is the kind of thing one only un- 100 years, what would you derstands at a regional scale, and since emphasize? the midcentury, new technological advances—aerial photography and de- James Osborne A huge new discipline classified spy satellite imagery—have began in the mid-20th century: land- tremendously benefited archaeologists photo courtesy the Oriental Institute Oriental the courtesy photo scape archaeology. That didn’t exist of all stripes. In terms of regional set- Cabuay; Jay John by illustrations All at the time of the OI’s founding. It in- tlement patterns, we can identify the volves understanding ancient societies presence of thousands and thousands at a regional scale as opposed to what a of tiny sites that are completely invisi- single site looks like when you excavate ble otherwise. What you see in the sat- it. What’s the larger sum of patterns? ellite image is like a shadow—the soil What’s the hierarchy between its ur- JAMES OSBORNE color’s a little bit different than the soil ban center, smaller second-tier cities, Assistant Professor of Anatolian surrounding it. It’s promoted a whole and third-tier rural villages? And so on. Archaeology series of research questions that we

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UCH_OI_marketplace_v2.indd 50 8/2/19 3:57 PM didn’t know we could ask, and allowed chemical signature by grinding a sherd monitoring of cultural heritage sites in into dust and sending it to a lab for neu- combat zones. We can track what sites tron activation analysis. Sure enough, it are being destroyed and what sites we corresponds with the signature of clay need to prioritize for preservation. sources found in Cyprus. We confirmed David Schloen I would start with that indeed those pots were imported what’s the same. What is still being DAVID SCHLOEN from that island. This would not have done since the 1920s is the recovery Professor of Near Eastern even crossed the minds of the archae- of primary evidence for the construc- Archaeology ologists who excavated the sherds. tion of historical, chronological, and Schloen There has been a paradigmat- cultural sequences correlating vast ic shift among archaeologists in the amounts of material evidence in space Jean Evans From the perspective of the OI and more broadly. As Near Eastern and time and linking it to the growing museum, there’s both continuity and archaeologists became more famil- understanding of the political, eco- change. For continuity, we have a vast iar with social theories that had long nomic, and social history of the region. collection of some 350,000 artifacts. It’s been known in other circles but took a That follows fundamentally similar mostly an archaeological collection, and while to percolate into our discipline, methods to what had been worked the bulk of that came into the museum we began to imagine the social groups out in the 19th century. The methods, in the early days of the OI. Part of what to which we link the primary data of techniques, and interpretive strate- we do is to continue to make that ma- these artifacts in a different way. gies for disentangling the complex terial available for people to study and The old tendency was, to put it sim- layering and disturbances of ancient work on. I think it’s a reflection of the ply, that pots equaled peoples. In other sites are better understood by far than way the early digs were conducted that words, a certain style of material cul- they were. But still—the old results are people can still come here to do research ture, whether a production technique or usable and understandable within our and ask questions of that material. And style of decoration, would be correlated DAVID A. STRAUSS frame of reference. I would say it’s a challenge for us to with some bounded ethnic group— Nadine Moeller If you look back to 1919, make the displays in the museum both some social group imagined as having or even 50 years ago, the main focus in represent the solid foundations that the a monolithic character and interacting Egyptian archaeology was a top-down archaeology rests on and also commu- with other monolithic social groups. But approach. You would start with king- nicate to the public the ways that the in recent decades, scholars are much ship and anything that’s glamorous: research questions have changed. more nuanced in their understanding pyramids, tombs, temples. A lot of that of the relationship between patterns had to do with nicely visual objects. How have these questions and styles in material culture and the When James Henry Breasted put to- changed? social interactions to be inferred from gether our museum collection, he went those. For example, the question of so- to Egypt and bought a bunch of really Osborne I can give one example. In the cial identity is a very complicated one. wonderful things, but without con- 1930s the OI excavated several sites in People today and in the ancient past text—it was all about the objects. That Turkey’s Amuq Valley, which is right have multiple, contingent, and fluid has very much changed. The work that on the border of northwest Syria. They I do today is on settlements. We’re try- collected several thousand ceramic ing to understand more about how an sherds, which are now in the OI base- WE CAN TRACK ancient city develops: How do settlement, primarily for purposes of typol- photo courtesy the Oriental Institute Oriental the courtesy photo All illustrations by John Jay Cabuay; Cabuay; Jay John by illustrations All ment quarters evolve, what are the ogy building and chronology. WHAT SITES long-term processes? It’s a bottom- A couple of years ago I took some of ARE BEING up approach. We’re looking at all the these sherds that stylistically resem- people, not only at the kings and elite. bled sherds excavated on Cyprus. We DESTROYED AND Most of the time, what we see more used a technique called portable X-ray WHAT SITES easily is the elites, so there’s always fluorescence, which zaps the sherds WE NEED TO going to be a bias, at least in my field. with a laser and provides you with the We still have not grown out of the top- chemical signature of the clay used to PRIORITIZE FOR down approach entirely. make that pot. I then confirmed that PRESERVATION.

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UCH_OI_marketplace_v2.indd 51 8/2/19 2:06 PM identities, to use a triad of description generations of American and Euro- that is quite common now. You can go pean excavators, there was a very well back 100 years and see philosophers worked out and quite explicitly negoti- and social theorists talking that way, but ated division that was trying to serve there was a tendency in archaeology to the interests of both sides. think in more reductive terms. Evans In terms of the museum collection, we find ourselves taking in Why was archaeology longer in NADINE MOELLER archaeological materials that were getting there? Associate Professor of Egyptian exported legally for study and are not Archaeology necessarily meant to go back to the Schloen It had to do with the mode country of origin. Say a faculty mem- of training and the academic back- ber here or at another university is grounds of the people involved. Few major excavations in those countries, retiring, and they’re done with the ar- scholars who became experts in ma- which are strictly for scientific purposes chaeological material they’ve worked terial evidence and its excavation and and not museum acquisition purposes. on. Because of the restrictions, that classification had any systematic edu- Schloen This speaks to the challenges material has become valuable for re- cation in fields like social philosophy or of continuing to do at a very high pro- search in a way that couldn’t have economics. So there were critiques and fessional standard all the work we been anticipated. We bring the mate- interactions and people in other dis- did before, but not being able to ship rials into our own collection, because ciplines saying what about this, what all the artifacts back here to work on we see ourselves as a center for re- about that? As we keep exploring and with students. In most of the countries search and we want those materials to reading in a university like this—that’s in which we work, we have to replicate be available for other people to come why we’re in a university—we adapt our labs and storage facilities on-site. We study and ask questions about. own modes of interpretation in order to have limited time to study and publish Schloen In Turkey I’ve helped with make more persuasive arguments. the materials that we’ve excavated. developing museum exhibits involving Osborne I don’t think anyone’s men- Each of us who works on long-term material we’ve excavated. They’re look- tioned what may the most obvious field projects accumulates enormous ing for expert help, which we’re happy change between 1919 and now. At that quantities of material that simply to provide. Sometimes we find funding time we could take objects from Middle can’t be removed from the countries inside the host country for site conserva- Eastern countries and use our own ex- anymore, so we have the extra logistic tion and public presentation, even resto- cavations to create the museum galler- and financial challenges. ration of ancient structures for purposes ies that are now visible downstairs. This Moeller: In Egypt I can’t even take out of tourism development. For the sake of is no longer possible in any of the coun- a small sample for scientific analysis. public education as well as for being sym- tries where we work today. We’re still Everything has to be done in Egypt. pathetic to the needs of the host country, funding and sponsoring a half dozen we try to help as much as we can. When did this shift take place? How have the tools and methods Schloen It started after the Second you use in the field changed? THE PHYSICAL World War. The old system was called REALITY OF partage, a division of the finds between Schloen The physical reality of digging the host country and the foreign team. up the dirt and mapping what you find in DIGGING UP That lasted for many decades in the space and time hasn’t changed. But the THE DIRT AND Middle East but pretty much dried up techniques have changed quite a bit. We by the 1960s. no longer map architectural features on MAPPING WHAT We all sympathize with the desire a certain site by hand, for example. In my YOU FIND IN on the part of these sovereign nations case, about 10 years ago we changed to SPACE AND to assert some control over this mate- using drones. These lightweight, small rial, which was in the past subject to quadcopters that you can buy at Best Buy TIME HASN’T a kind of quasi-imperial appropriation for maybe $500 had developed enough CHANGED. or expropriation. To be fair to the older to where we could use them to create

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CHALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN Armed with crayons and string, the OI’s next generation continues a tradition of fearless inquiry.

BY SUSIE ALLEN, AB’09

n the Oriental Institute base- long piece of string in chalk, then snap- tea, a small red onion, ham.) Were there ment, the next generation of ping it across the paper to create a line. chickens in ancient Egypt? (Unclear. Egyptologists is hard at work. Eloise, 7, treats this task with the Dad pulls out his phone to investigate.) They started the day with a tour seriousness it warrants. She carefully The program, titled “One. Big. of the museum’s Egypt collec- dips a piece of string in an etched ves- Egyptian. Mural.” is part of the mu- tion; now they are recreating sel filled with pulverized blue chalk, seum’s effort to engage the public one of the items they saw, an then looks up at facilitator Catie Witt, through kid-friendly offerings, includ- inscribed slab, or stela, of the AM’18. “Is this a real Egyptian jar?” ing school tours and learn-while-play- nobles Mn and Riya, on several pieces she asks. (Though meant to look au- ing activities. This one is heaven for Iof butcher paper taped to the floor. thentic, it’s not; archaeologists will be Eloise, who is in a hot and heavy Egypt The first order of business, explains relieved to know no ancient artifacts at phase. Her mom, Melissa, has no idea OI youth and family programs coordi- the OI are being repurposed as chalk where the fascination came from but is Photography by Anne Ryan nator Calgary Haines-Trautman, AB’17, buckets for elementary schoolers.) happy to encourage it. the wrangler of today’s group of nine The children have more questions After the event, Witt, a PhD student junior archaeologists and their par- as they transition from grid creation in Near Eastern languages and civili- ents, is to create a grid on the paper, to drawing: What color should this zations, says she gets why some of the using essentially the same method the flower be? (Blue.) What food items kids are so excited to be here. After all, Egyptians would have used: covering a do they see in the stela? (A pot of mint she’s still in her Egypt phase too. ◆

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OFFICIAL MAROON Jay Berwanger, AB’36, was college football’s first Heisman Trophy winner in 1935. The top pick a year later in the first NFL draft, he turned down the Chicago Bears to start his own manufacturing business but stayed involved in football as a Big Ten referee. That trajectory made Berwanger an early example of the balanced student-athlete Lester Munson, JD’67, describes in this issue’s alumni essay (page 56).

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BRAINS BESIDE BRAWN

At the 50th anniversary of football’s return to UChicago, a sportswriter reflects on the right way to run a college athletics program.

BY LESTER MUNSON, JD’67

arly in September 1985, our performance that put Montella in a cal school demonstrate what a college son’s first year at the Col- group of University football greats athletics program ought to be. The lege, my wife, Judy Munson, that includes Jay Berwanger, AB’36, a University’s program is part of what AB’66 (Class of 1963), and I running back who won the first-ever is known as Division III in the no- found ourselves traveling Heisman Trophy in 1935. menclature of the National Collegiate downstate to Galesburg, A week after Montella’s performance Athletic Association (NCAA), the gov- Illinois, on a cold and rainy at Knox, we joined other football par- erning body of college sports. Within Saturday. We arrived just ents for the lunch hosted by the direc- Division III, there are 443 schools of- in time to watch him and tor of athletics, at the time Mary Jean fering intercollegiate competition in his football teammates Mulvaney, before each home game. A 25 sports. The students who compete finish their warm-ups for a crowd was gathered around Montella’s engage in a pursuit of excellence in game against Knox College. (The Uni- parents. “Isn’t that nice,” I thought. academics, teamwork, discipline, per- Eversity of Chicago resumed intercol- “They’re congratulating the Montellas severance, and leadership. legiate football in 1969 and has grown on the awards and recognition Bruce At the other end of the spectrum is into a program with 93 young men in received after the Knox game.” These Division I, in which large universities uniform last season.) honors included, for instance, Sports stage massive spectacles for public The field at Knox nestles within Illustrated College Player of the Week. entertainment. Within Division I, 130 grassy slopes. The rain was run- I walked over to offer my own con- schools play big-time football and 353 ning down to the field and leaving gratulations. To my surprise, the other schools compete in men’s basketball. puddles of water and mud on the parents were not talking about the These two Division I intercollegiate playing surface, perfect conditions Knox game. They were congratulating sports have become a major American for the Maroons’ star running back, the Montellas on Bruce’s early admis- industry that produces billions of dol- Bruce Montella, AB’86, MD’90. While sion to the University’s Pritzker School lars in revenue each year. There is noth- the Knox defenders were sliding and of Medicine. ing like it in any other culture. falling in the mud, Bruce pounded The breathtaking performance on It is increasingly difficult to see any through them for big yardage. the field and the admission to medi- connection between these Division I I grew up in a family with season extravaganzas and the objectives of tickets to the Chicago Bears. I saw Gale higher education. The driving force Sayers at Wrigley Field and Walter It was a historic in Division I is money—money in the Payton at Soldier Field. Neither Sayers form of television contracts, corporate nor Payton ever achieved what Mon- performance that sponsorships, ticket revenue, sky- tella achieved that day. There is no of- put Montella in a boxes, shoe contracts, sideline apparel ficial record of the number of times he contracts, naming rights, and other carried the ball, but my recollection is group of University deals and gimmicks designed to in- that he ran at least 25 times and maybe football greats crease revenue. more. It is official that he ran for a total The income from these two sports of 305 yards. That’s an incredible 12 or that includes Jay has produced salaries for coaches and

more yards per carry. It was a historic Berwanger, AB’36. administrators that can be incom- UChicago Athletics

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come one of the nation’s most successful Division III athletic programs. The NCAA maintains standings for the 449 schools competing in Division III. The University’s success in its 20 sports has put it in the top 20 for the past six years, and it is now ranked ninth among all schools for 2018–19. For the past 16 years, I have served as the master of ceremonies at the annual induction ceremony for the Uni- versity of Chicago Athletics Hall of Fame. Each year we award this honor to several highly successful former prehensible. Top coaches are paid as Players and former players have student-athletes. The achievements of much as $10 million per year. A con- tried to use American antitrust laws these elite athletes in competition are tract with a manufacturer to wear to obtain a share of the money. They remarkable, but what they have done its apparel in televised games can have a strong argument. The NCAA is after graduation is equally impressive. produce additional hundreds of thou- clearly a monopoly (as the only game Our son, Lester Munson III, AB’89, sands of dollars each season. There in town, it’s actually a monopsony), for example, played left tackle for are now at least 20 assistant football and its rules against payment are an four years on the offensive line. With coaches who are paid more than $1 obvious restraint of trade. But the his political science degree, he went million per year, two or three times players have been rebuffed in two ma- to Washington and worked on Capi- the salary of their schools’ presidents. jor court decisions. tol Hill for 25 years, concluding his In addition to the Brobdingnagian The US Supreme Court had a chance career as staff director to the Senate coaches’ salaries, the schools are in- to address the issue a few years ago. Foreign Relations Committee. He is vesting huge sums in workout facili- Although the matter involves hun- now a principal in BGR, the lobbying ties, dormitories, and other amenities dreds of colleges and universities, firm founded by Haley Barbour, the for the athletes. The phrase “arms thousands of athletes, and millions of former governor of Mississippi and race” is frequently used to describe the fans, the court inexplicably declined to longtime chair of the Republican Na- rush to build these palaces. Attempt- accept the issue for consideration. tional Committee. ing to justify such expenditures, some The student-athletes of our univer- What is it about competing in Divi- suggest that the income from Division sity and all Division III schools do not sion III sports that puts the student- I sports supports the school’s academ- receive athletic scholarships, although athletes of the University on a pathway ic efforts. But economists who have they may be the beneficiaries of grants to success? For four years, they prac- studied the budgets of these universi- based on academic merit or need. tice, they train, and they compete at ties have concluded that only 20 of the Their training, practice, and perfor- a demanding level while succeed- schools produce athletics income that mance are a proportional part of their ing in one of the most challenging could be used elsewhere in the univer- lives on campus. If there is a conflict academic programs anywhere. They sity. The others struggle to break even between a class and a team practice, show up, they work, they help others on athletics; many of them suffer loss- the Division III athlete goes to class. on their teams, and they learn leader- es and must be subsidized by student That is often not the case for football ship. Along the way, they wake up one fees and other budgetary maneuvers. and basketball players at Division I morning and discover that they have The outsized revenues prompt many powerhouse schools. become educated men and women, to ask why some of the money cannot UChicago athletes go to class, and ready for citizenship in full. be paid to the athletes who produce they graduate. Bruce Montella’s big In short, they demonstrate what the income. It’s a good question. The day at Knox College was an indication a college athletics program can and NCAA insists that its athletes must of what was to come as the University should be. ◆ remain “amateurs” to preserve the began to attract student-athletes in wholesome image of college sports and multiple sports. Under the leadership Journalist Lester Munson, JD’67, has served to continue to draw the vast TV audi- of director of athletics and recreation as a senior editor at ESPN.com and Sports

UChicago Athletics ences that these games enjoy. Erin McDermott, the University has be- Illustrated. He lives in Chicago.

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P IS FOR PRIZE At the Mystery Writers of America’s 73rd Annual Edgar Awards in April, Sara Paretsky, AM’69, MBA’77, PhD’77, received the inaugural G. P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award. The award recognizes Paretsky’s Shell Game (William Morrow, 2018) as the year’s best novel in a mystery series featuring a female protagonist. Named for the late crime novelist whose best-selling “alpha- bet series” featured the female detective Kinsey Millhone, the prize honors fiction showing “the hallmarks of Sue’s writing and Kinsey’s character.” Paretsky wrote, “We worked on such similar themes and AN OPERA UNFORGOTTEN subjects that Sue liked to say she and I Conductor and Bard College president Leon Botstein, AB’67, led the American must have been conjoined twins in an Symphony Orchestra and a nine-member cast in the US premiere of Julietta, a 1938 earlier life.” Shell Game is the latest novel surrealist opera by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů, at Carnegie Hall in March. in Paretsky’s V. I. Warshawski detective Martinů’s dream-like opera centers on a Parisian bookseller named Michel and the series and has the protagonist investigat- coastal town where he searches for a girl whose voice has lingered in his memory ing a stolen-antiquities scheme. for years. Botstein has been musical director of New York City’s American Symphony Orchestra since 1992, earning praise from the New York Times as a “tireless champion STANLEY LEADS MICHIGAN STATE of overlooked works.” Awarded the 2012 UChicago Alumni Medal, he is credited In August Samuel L. Stanley Jr., AB’76, with revitalizing both the ASO and Bard, where he became president in 1975. became president of Michigan State University. A physician and researcher specializing in infectious diseases, support services to help clients pursue TWO IN THEIR TWENTIES Stanley comes to the school from Stony full and meaningful lives after an arrest or Crain’s Chicago Business named Rachel Brook University, where he had been conviction, Franco-Payne also advocates E. Zemke, JD’16, and Chicago Booth president since 2009. At Michigan State, for policy reform. “My aim is to elevate student Yang Zheng to this year’s “20 his appointment ends a succession of the voices of those who are not always in Their 20s,” a list of Chicago-area acting and interim presidents in the wake heard in an effort to ensure that decisions “change-makers” in their professions. of former MSU physician Larry Nassar’s made about their lives and communities Zemke, an attorney at LAF (formerly the sexual abuse scandal and subsequent are inclusive, equitable, and fair,” she told Legal Assistance Foundation of Metro- criminal convictions. Stanley aims to the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation. politan Chicago), represents domestic restore confidence in the institution’s violence survivors in consumer law cases. stature as a leading research university. COMMUNITY DEVELOPER In 151 cases since 2016, Crain’s noted on His message to incoming students, he In April Ghian Foreman, MBA’01, was May 10, Zemke has focused on financial Photography by Matt Dine/American Symphony Orchestra told NPR in May, is that “Michigan State named chief executive of Chicago’s problems survivors experience in over- University is working to develop a culture Emerald South Economic Development coming abuse, “protecting $300,000 for of safety that’s going to be as inclusive Collaborative, a nonprofit focused on clients facing foreclosure and eliminating and diverse as possible.” coordinating development projects in nearly $411,000 in consumer debt.” the South Side neighborhoods of Wood- Zheng has cofounded two biotechnol- A VOICE FOR JUSTICE lawn, Washington Park, and South Shore. ogy start-ups, the cancer treatment devel- Esther E. Franco-Payne, AM’99, execu- A native of Hyde Park and Kenwood, oper MicroQuin and Oxalo Therapeutics, tive director of Cabrini Green Legal Aid, Foreman previously directed the Greater a 2018 New Venture Challenge winner he received the Jane Addams Social Justice Southwest Development Corporation, fa- launched with UChicago Medicine’s Hatim Ally Award in May from the University of cilitating investment in southwest Chicago Hassan to develop a kidney stone preven- Illinois at Chicago’s Jane Addams College communities. As Emerald South’s first tion drug. The former real estate investor of Social Work. Franco-Payne’s organiza- chief executive, Foreman wants to ensure says he found his “niche” in science ventures tion is dedicated to serving individuals that economic growth from the planned at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and families affected by the criminal jus- Obama Presidential Center in Jackson and Innovation’s Collaboratorium. tice system. Overseeing legal and social Park benefits local residents. —Andrew Peart, AM’16, PhD’18

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’s fourth SUMMER 2019 SUMMER | —Andrew Peart, AM’16, PhD’18 Kalisha Buckhanon Kalisha novel is a literary thriller about women women about thriller literary a is novel whose suffering is ignoredby society. RABBIT’S BLUES: THE LIFE AND MUSIC HODGES JOHNNY OF By Con Chapman, AB’73; Oxford 2019 Press, University “He was the Calvin Coolidge of the jazz world never of his saying day, three words when two would do,” writes novelist, playwright, and humorist Chapman Con (1907–70). Hodges Johnny saxophonist of Because of the musician’s reticence, mys tery has shrouded much of his life and legacy. Filling gaps and dispelling myths, full-length first the is account Chapman’s biography of the Massachusetts-born sax soloist and Duke Ellington collaborator. Hodges reputation the explores Chapman held as the greatest jazz altoist until Charlie bebop. with swing upended Parker SPEAKING OF SUMMER: A NOVEL By Kalisha Buckhanon, AB’99, AM’07; 2019 Press, Counterpoint disappeared Summer, sister, twin Her from their Harlem apartment, but Autumn pur to authorities on count can’t Spencer sue her missing person claim. Searching on her own, Autumn contacts detectives in their Illinois hometown, trawls for news about killings of Harlem women, and spirals into vexed family memories. Centered on the sister who vanishes and the sister left alone grapple to with the mystery,

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- - ALUMNI BOOKS, FILMS, AND RECORDINGS - Norton, 2019 Norton, PhD’98; , highlights painter Jeff painter highlights Charles Wheelan Charles For additional alumni releases, use the link to the Magazine THEY PLAYED THE GAME: MEMORIES FROM MAJOR 47 LEAGUERS By Norman L. Macht, University PhB’47; of Nebraska Press, 2019 things did “smart, was Schoendienst Red that don’t ever show up in the box scores,” first Braves Milwaukee power-hitting as his remembers Adcock Joe baseman 1950s teammate. The same goes for many of the players who figure as storytellers or subjects in this collection of oral histories Norman historian baseball L.from Macht decades’ three than more Gathering worth of interviews, Macht’s collection covers the game from 1912 1981 to and tell, don’t records the stories captures with Hall of Famers Williams like Ted shar ing memories alongside Adcock, Harvey stars. lesser-known other and Haddix, ARTISTS SAKE: PEOPLE’S FOR ART AND COMMUNITY IN BLACK CHICAGO, 1965–1975 By Rebecca Zorach, AM’94, PhD’99; Duke University Press, 2019 Extensively illustrated artworks, with docu other and photographs, archival ments, this book chronicles the achieve ments of visual artists associated with the Black Arts Movement in Chicago. art historian University Northwestern Rebecca Zorach Jones- Barbara printmaker Donaldson, along Beall, DeWitt filmmaker and Hogu, with such groups as the Organization of Black American Culture the (OBAC), African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AFRICOBRA), and Art & Soul, examining their vision of a black community united across class divisions art. by NOVEL A RATIONING: THE By an for prepared was government US The epidemic. biomedical Then a contractor’s cost-saving schemes decimated the na tional stockpile of Dormigen, a cure-all drug. avoid rationing To the available supply, can the government rely on cooperation among a variety of actors— diplomats, lawmakers, congressional Notes and Releases_Layout_Sum 19_v5.indd 59

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UChicago P Bookstore on 57th Street, near what is now 57th Street Books.

In the flow: Neurosurgeon and self-taught sculptor Emil Seletz, SB’26, poses for a UChicago Magazine shoot in his Los Angeles–area studio in 1956. Chief of neurosurgery at what is now Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and later professor of neurological surgery at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, Seletz turned to sculpture, particularly portrait busts of historical figures, to restore himself after stressful surgeries. “I lose myself in it. And the body relaxes, the nerves come back into place and I am myself again,” he told the Magazine. A bust he made of Albert Einstein, like

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Calling all Maroons: In 1969, the year this rally took place, the University relaunched aunders, U football as a varsity sport, giving Maroons a milestone to celebrate on campus this September. For alumni who played a sport in the 1960s or ’70s, special festivities S ldon are planned for the September 7 home game against Washington University in St.

E loyd Louis. Come back to Hyde Park for a lunchtime presentation by Jeff Rasley, AB’75;

y L an afternoon address by head football coach Chris Wilkerson; and tributes honoring late athletic director and head football coach Wally Hass. Join parents and fans for pregame tailgating, and stick around for a postgame gathering at Jimmy’s Woodlawn Tap. For details, contact assistant athletic director for development Katie Britton at [email protected]. b Photography

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AlumniNews_Summer19_v12.indd 62 8/2/19 10:32 AM Took ’em to school: Basketball players Laura Silvieus, AB’78, MBA’83 (left), and Vadis “Vicky” Cothran Mandrell, AB’78 (right), celebrate a victory with head coach Patricia Kirby at the Brown University Invitational in 1976. Silvieus became the team’s MVP the following year; in 2003 she was inducted into the University’s Athletics Hall of Fame for her achievements in basketball, softball, and volleyball. Mandrell, who died in 2009, also played three varsity sports at UChicago and was one of the all-time leading scorers in basketball. UChicago P hotographic A rchive, a pf1-03466, U niversity o f C hicago L ibrary

Analog mode: Lynn Reed-Povlsen, AB’88, chair of Doc Films and a math major in the College, works the projection booth. The country’s oldest student-run film society hosted

Photography by Adam Nadel, AB’90, Copyright 2019, The C hicago M aroon . All rights reserved, reprinted with permission. the first Doc Films Festival in May, featuring six films and postfilm Q&As with the directors.

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AlumniNews_Summer19_v13.indd 63 8/2/19 4:16 PM You can become a lifetime member by HONOR Phoenix Society members lead the way in supporting the University’s funding a life-income gift or simply notifying ROLL students, faculty, programs, and facilities. The names below represent new members welcomed into the society from July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019. us that you’ve planned a gift to the University in one of the following ways: All names are listed per member request and also located in the online Leaders in Philanthropy Honor Rolls at give.uchicago.edu/leadersinphilanthropy. • Included the University in your will or trust • Named the University as a beneficiary of a retirement plan, life insurance policy, or financial account

Anonymous (9) Anne L. Gehring, MLA’13 Judith K. Morhar, AB’65 As a Phoenix Society member, you will enjoy Richard Abram, SB’66, SM’70, and Paul Norma Gernon, AB’61 Thomas Mossberg, AB’73, and Colleen Chandler Phyllis Joy Gestrin, SB’60, SM’60 McKillip several exclusive benefits. Here are just a few: Gene H. Albrecht, PhD’76 David Goldman, MD’62, and Elizabeth John Mulhearn, AM’69 Kathleen Atlass, AB’70, AM’73 Goldman Daniel Murray • Complimentary admission to Harper Lectures Philip Bayer, AM’77, PhD’84 Constantine Gonatas, SM’85, PhD’90 Harold Nelson, AM’69 Deborah Berger, AB’72, and Richard Berger, Isabelle Czarkowski Goossen, MBA’78 Kiersten Neumann • Invitations to exclusive University events, AB’69, MD’73 David Greenapple, MBA’92, and Donna Karen Northup, MBA’95 including the annual Phoenix Society Bonnie J. Blackburn, AM’63, PhD’70, and Greenapple Kathleen O’Connor and Michael O’Connor Jr. Leofranc A. Holford-Strevens Susan Elizabeth Grosser, AB’69 John O’Keefe, MBA’62, and Patricia O’Keefe luncheon Renato V. Bosita Jr., MD’96, and Dr. Judith Robin Langfan Hammer, AB’77, and Jay Marjorie Pearson, AB’70, AM’72 W. Hsu Hammer, AB’76 Nancy V. Peltzman, AB’75, AM’76, AM’01, and • Personalized assistance from gift planning M. Phyllis Bourque Susan Harper, PhD’88, and Dennis Lynch Sam Peltzman, PhD’65 professionals Elaine Lockshin Boxer, AM’62, and Baruch Leah Havener, AB’74, and Edward Finn, AB’74 Elizabeth Plocharczyk, AB’02, and Geoffrey Boxer, AM’57, PhD’61 Marcia Hermansen, PhD’82 Callander, AB’97, AM’99 Mark Brickell, AB’74, and Anita Jarmin Eric Heyer, SB’68, and Diana Steele Helen Lois Poorman, MBA’87 Brickell, AB’75, MBA’76 Doris A. Hightower, JD’84 Douglas Wilmot Roblin, AM’78 Become a member today. Katherine Bukolt, AM’03 Lisa E.M. Himonas, AM’87, and Deno Salvatore G. Rotella, AM’56, PhD’71, and Pilar Gerald Burns, MBA’61, and Mary Ann Burns Himonas, JD’89 Vives Rotella, AM’62, PhD’71 Visit phoenixsociety.uchicago.edu/join Richard K. Caputo, PhD’82 John J. Huggins, AB’80 John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Jennifer H. Caskey, AB’72 Barbara Schubeler Jillson Ellen Rudnick, MBA’73, and Paul Earle, [email protected] The Phoenix Society Email Cindy Castaneda, MPP’95 Rebecca Johnston, MBA’95, and Jeffrey Maling, MBA’66 Call 866.241.9802 Raymond William Ciacci, AM’84, PhD’90, and MBA’95 John Ryder, MBA’67 honors individuals Katherine Jane Ciacci Dorthea Juul, AB’72, PhD’89 Charles Schilke, AB’81 Barton J. Cohen, MBA’73, and Phyllis G. Tatsuji Kambayashi and Mami Kambayashi Jeffrey Schvimer, AB’79, MBA’86, and Esther who make estate Cohen Bonnie Kaplan, AB’68 Buchbinder Thomas A. Cole, JD’75, and Constance W. Cole Samuel Kaufman Susan Schwartzwald commitments or life- Carolyn Curtis, PhD’74 David W. Keer, AM’84, and David J. Martin Sharon Seidler and Marc Seidler, AB’70, JD’73 Marcia Dam and Kenneth Dam, JD’57 Kenneth Alan Kelly, MBA’98 Richard Shaker, SB’62, SM’63, PhD’68 income arrangements Membership goal met! Susan Upton Douglass, AB’77, and K. Scott Peter Kolker, JD’66 Robert Shelton Douglass, MBA’77 Elizabeth Kontio and Peter Kontio, JD’73 Steven Shoelson, PhD’84, MD’85 to support the Dennis C. Duling, AM’67, PhD’70, and Alice Kraus and Douglas Kraus, JD’73 Michael David Sorkin, AB’69 Gretchen A. Duling Lorrie Kurfman and Daniel Kurfman, AM’82 Naomi Stern, AM’70 University of CURRENT Brian A. Dursum Richard Lansing and Carleen Kreider Johan Stohl, PhD’72, and Donna Stohl 1,931 MEMBERS Erika Erich Elise Lennard, AM’73, and Jeffrey Lennard, Claude Summers, AM’67, PhD’70, and Dr. Ted S. Kent Fannon, MBA’76, and Diane Chace JD’75 Larry Pebworth Chicago. Such gifts Fannon Mary Lindberg Barbara Svoboda and Thomas Svoboda provide important Katherine Sophia Fichter, AB’95 Marylou Lionells Schimel, PhD’67 Roger Thompson, MBA’72 MEMBERSHIP Frances Field and Thomas L. Sipusic, AB’68, Harold Thompson Little, MBA’72, and David F. Tillotson, AB’64 1,900 GOAL SM’71 Cassandra A. Little Allen Unsworth, AM’63 ways to strengthen Laura Horstman Fisher, MBA’81, and J. Mark Adam Mark Lutynski, JD’71, and Joyce Bowden Steven Untracht, PhD’80, MD’81 Fisher Robert E. MacRae, AB’53, SM’56, PhD’61, and James S. Vandermade Jr., MBA’74 and sustain the Constance Fitzgerald, MBA’81, and Jay Sara J. Hollander, AB’54, AM’57 Doris Wells, AB’53 Stevelman Vincent Marchi, AB’02 Al Wilunowski, MBA’76 University’s future. Margaret Foorman and James Foorman Starla Joyce Medaris, AM’76 Evelyn Jeanbeck Yee, MBA’04, and Nimesh M. Jeffrey Foreman, AB’82, and Kelly Foreman Philip George Meguire, AB’76, MBA’82, Patel, MBA’03 Norma Fowler, AB’73 PhD’95 STARTING Maurice J. Frank, SB’65, and Patricia Grady Chauncey J. Mellor, AB’65, AM’67, PhD’72, 1,200 MEMBERS Frank and Doris Gove Jeffrey Fulton, MBA’77 Janis Mendelsohn Denise Chan Gans and Daniel A. Gans Melvin Miles, AM’75

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AlumniNews_Summer19_v12.indd 64 8/2/19 10:33 AM You can become a lifetime member by HONOR Phoenix Society members lead the way in supporting the University’s funding a life-income gift or simply notifying ROLL students, faculty, programs, and facilities. The names below represent new members welcomed into the society from July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019. us that you’ve planned a gift to the University in one of the following ways: All names are listed per member request and also located in the online Leaders in Philanthropy Honor Rolls at give.uchicago.edu/leadersinphilanthropy. • Included the University in your will or trust • Named the University as a beneficiary of a retirement plan, life insurance policy, or financial account

Anonymous (9) Anne L. Gehring, MLA’13 Judith K. Morhar, AB’65 As a Phoenix Society member, you will enjoy Richard Abram, SB’66, SM’70, and Paul Norma Gernon, AB’61 Thomas Mossberg, AB’73, and Colleen Chandler Phyllis Joy Gestrin, SB’60, SM’60 McKillip several exclusive benefits. Here are just a few: Gene H. Albrecht, PhD’76 David Goldman, MD’62, and Elizabeth John Mulhearn, AM’69 Kathleen Atlass, AB’70, AM’73 Goldman Daniel Murray • Complimentary admission to Harper Lectures Philip Bayer, AM’77, PhD’84 Constantine Gonatas, SM’85, PhD’90 Harold Nelson, AM’69 Deborah Berger, AB’72, and Richard Berger, Isabelle Czarkowski Goossen, MBA’78 Kiersten Neumann • Invitations to exclusive University events, AB’69, MD’73 David Greenapple, MBA’92, and Donna Karen Northup, MBA’95 including the annual Phoenix Society Bonnie J. Blackburn, AM’63, PhD’70, and Greenapple Kathleen O’Connor and Michael O’Connor Jr. Leofranc A. Holford-Strevens Susan Elizabeth Grosser, AB’69 John O’Keefe, MBA’62, and Patricia O’Keefe luncheon Renato V. Bosita Jr., MD’96, and Dr. Judith Robin Langfan Hammer, AB’77, and Jay Marjorie Pearson, AB’70, AM’72 W. Hsu Hammer, AB’76 Nancy V. Peltzman, AB’75, AM’76, AM’01, and • Personalized assistance from gift planning M. Phyllis Bourque Susan Harper, PhD’88, and Dennis Lynch Sam Peltzman, PhD’65 professionals Elaine Lockshin Boxer, AM’62, and Baruch Leah Havener, AB’74, and Edward Finn, AB’74 Elizabeth Plocharczyk, AB’02, and Geoffrey Boxer, AM’57, PhD’61 Marcia Hermansen, PhD’82 Callander, AB’97, AM’99 Mark Brickell, AB’74, and Anita Jarmin Eric Heyer, SB’68, and Diana Steele Helen Lois Poorman, MBA’87 Brickell, AB’75, MBA’76 Doris A. Hightower, JD’84 Douglas Wilmot Roblin, AM’78 Become a member today. Katherine Bukolt, AM’03 Lisa E.M. Himonas, AM’87, and Deno Salvatore G. Rotella, AM’56, PhD’71, and Pilar Gerald Burns, MBA’61, and Mary Ann Burns Himonas, JD’89 Vives Rotella, AM’62, PhD’71 Visit phoenixsociety.uchicago.edu/join Richard K. Caputo, PhD’82 John J. Huggins, AB’80 John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe [email protected] Jennifer H. Caskey, AB’72 Barbara Schubeler Jillson Ellen Rudnick, MBA’73, and Paul Earle, The Phoenix Society Email Cindy Castaneda, MPP’95 Rebecca Johnston, MBA’95, and Jeffrey Maling, MBA’66 Call 866.241.9802 Raymond William Ciacci, AM’84, PhD’90, and MBA’95 John Ryder, MBA’67 honors individuals Katherine Jane Ciacci Dorthea Juul, AB’72, PhD’89 Charles Schilke, AB’81 Barton J. Cohen, MBA’73, and Phyllis G. Tatsuji Kambayashi and Mami Kambayashi Jeffrey Schvimer, AB’79, MBA’86, and Esther who make estate Cohen Bonnie Kaplan, AB’68 Buchbinder Thomas A. Cole, JD’75, and Constance W. Cole Samuel Kaufman Susan Schwartzwald commitments or life- Carolyn Curtis, PhD’74 David W. Keer, AM’84, and David J. Martin Sharon Seidler and Marc Seidler, AB’70, JD’73 Marcia Dam and Kenneth Dam, JD’57 Kenneth Alan Kelly, MBA’98 Richard Shaker, SB’62, SM’63, PhD’68 income arrangements Membership goal met! Susan Upton Douglass, AB’77, and K. Scott Peter Kolker, JD’66 Robert Shelton Douglass, MBA’77 Elizabeth Kontio and Peter Kontio, JD’73 Steven Shoelson, PhD’84, MD’85 to support the Dennis C. Duling, AM’67, PhD’70, and Alice Kraus and Douglas Kraus, JD’73 Michael David Sorkin, AB’69 Gretchen A. Duling Lorrie Kurfman and Daniel Kurfman, AM’82 Naomi Stern, AM’70 University of CURRENT Brian A. Dursum Richard Lansing and Carleen Kreider Johan Stohl, PhD’72, and Donna Stohl 1,931 MEMBERS Erika Erich Elise Lennard, AM’73, and Jeffrey Lennard, Claude Summers, AM’67, PhD’70, and Dr. Ted S. Kent Fannon, MBA’76, and Diane Chace JD’75 Larry Pebworth Chicago. Such gifts Fannon Mary Lindberg Barbara Svoboda and Thomas Svoboda provide important Katherine Sophia Fichter, AB’95 Marylou Lionells Schimel, PhD’67 Roger Thompson, MBA’72 MEMBERSHIP Frances Field and Thomas L. Sipusic, AB’68, Harold Thompson Little, MBA’72, and David F. Tillotson, AB’64 1,900 GOAL SM’71 Cassandra A. Little Allen Unsworth, AM’63 ways to strengthen Laura Horstman Fisher, MBA’81, and J. Mark Adam Mark Lutynski, JD’71, and Joyce Bowden Steven Untracht, PhD’80, MD’81 Fisher Robert E. MacRae, AB’53, SM’56, PhD’61, and James S. Vandermade Jr., MBA’74 and sustain the Constance Fitzgerald, MBA’81, and Jay Sara J. Hollander, AB’54, AM’57 Doris Wells, AB’53 Stevelman Vincent Marchi, AB’02 Al Wilunowski, MBA’76 University’s future. Margaret Foorman and James Foorman Starla Joyce Medaris, AM’76 Evelyn Jeanbeck Yee, MBA’04, and Nimesh M. Jeffrey Foreman, AB’82, and Kelly Foreman Philip George Meguire, AB’76, MBA’82, Patel, MBA’03 Norma Fowler, AB’73 PhD’95 STARTING Maurice J. Frank, SB’65, and Patricia Grady Chauncey J. Mellor, AB’65, AM’67, PhD’72, 1,200 MEMBERS Frank and Doris Gove Jeffrey Fulton, MBA’77 Janis Mendelsohn Denise Chan Gans and Daniel A. Gans Melvin Miles, AM’75

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AlumniNews_Summer19_v12.indd 65 8/2/19 10:33 AM Finder’s fee: In 1996 Joshua Reisner, AB’99, received a $500 reward from then University president Hugo Sonnenschein for helping recover the portrait of Sonnenschein's predecessor, Hanna Holborn Gray. The portrait by realist painter Philip Pearlstein had been stolen from Hutchinson Commons. After 60-some days, a never-identified thief left the painting next to a dumpster in a Hyde Park alley, where Reisner chanced upon it. The theft was a prank accompanied by a series of “manifestos” in the Chicago Maroon declaring an aesthetic intent: displeasure with

Top minds: In a 1994 graduate seminar, Department of Physics professors Melvyn Shochet (standing) and Henry Frisch (seated, center) explain the intricacies of the heavy and fleeting subatomic particle known as the top quark, observed for the first Photography by Matthew Gilson, Copyright The C hicago M aroon . All rights reserved, reprinted with permission . time the following year at Fermilab. Library Chicago of University apf4-03830, Archive, Photographic UChicago Saunders, Eldon Lloyd by Photography

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With a PhD in nu- Roothaan, LAB’78; and five grandchildren. tory.luptatium A fellow latus of eumquibus the American iur, core Academy vellenda of SCHOOLclear physics, OF SOCIAL Cox did SERVICE research in fiber-optic KennethGRAHAM J. SCHOOL Northcott OF, professorGENERAL emeritusSTUDIES of Microbiologyque iunturi officiis. and member “Ducimolupta of the National doluptati- ADMINISTRATIONand laser technology for several manufactur- NameGermanic Teekay studies,, AB’37, died cus June acescillaut 4 in Chicago. ende Academyum latus eumquibus of Sciences, iur, he core is survived vellenda bylorem his Nameers, including Teekay American, AB’37, cus Optical acescillaut Corporation; ende nullesHe was debiscimi, 96. Northcott ut voloratur served aliqui in therae sumeBrit- wife,ipsum Dominiqueque iunturi officiis?!” Missiakas, professor of nullescontributed debiscimi, to US ut governmentvoloratur aliqui safety rae sumestan- sitaturish Army’s magnia Corps simo of conectur,Royal Electrical quam ipist, and microbiology; and three daughters, includ- sitaturdards for magnia color television, simo conectur, microwave quam ovens, ipist, Mechanical Engineers during World War ingHARRIS Daphne SCHOOL Schneewind OF PUBLIC, LAB’16, and Chloe amenisand medical eosandesequi X-ray systems; consecati and helped repellab devel int,- II and then worked for the British Intelli- SchneewindPOLICY STUDIES, LAB’18. quiop the de nimusamsensor system ut liquae. for a DucimoluptaNASA booster dolup rock- gence Corps, interrogating suspected war Name Teekay, AB’37, cus acescillaut ende tatiumet. His expertiselatus eumquibus in radiology iur, core also vellenda led to work que criminals in Germany. A translator, stage 1940snulles debiscimi, ut voloratur aliqui rae sume iunturias a health officiis. physicist “Ducimolupta in Florida. He doluptatium is survived la- actor, and expert in medieval German lit- sitatur magnia simo conectur, quam ipist, tusby his eumquibus wife, Isabella; iur, core three vellenda daughters; que a iunturi son; 10 erature, he beganTOP teaching 5 TRACKS at UChicago in Eugeneamenis eosandesequiR. Mindell, SB’43, consecati MD’45, repellab died Febru int,- officiis?!”grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. 1958, thrice chairingFROM the UC Department of aryqui 15de innimusam Amherst, ut NY.liquae. He Ducimoluptawas 96. A former do- HarrisName L. TeekayWofford, AB’37, Jr., AB’48, cus acescillaut died January ende Germanic LanguagesRADIO and STATIONLiteratures. He Veteransluptatium latusAdministration eumquibus iur, physician core vellenda who 21nulles in Washington, debiscimi, ut DC. voloratur He was aliqui 92. Arae former sume translated fiction and drama by 20th-cen- focusedque iunturi on boneofficiis. cancer “Ducimolupta surgery during dolupta his- legalsitatur counsel magnia for thesimo US conectur, Civil Rights quam Commis ipist,- tury Austrian writerIN Thomas1975 Bernhard, as UChicagotium latus residency,eumquibus Mindell iur, core was vellenda recruited que sionamenis who eosandesequi joined President conliquae. John F. Kennedy’s Ducimo- well as scholarly works on Goethe, Western byiunturi the University officiis?!” at Buffalo’s medical school stafflupta doluptatiumas a civil rights latus assistant, eumquibus Wofford iur, helpedcore European urban design, and East German to found its Department of Orthopaedics, foundvellenda the que Peace iunturi Corps officiis. and served “Ducimolupta as its rep- intellectuals. His dramatic performances whichLAW SCHOOL he chaired from 1964 to 1988. He pio- resentativedoluptatium in latus Africa. eumquibus After advising iur, core Martin vel- 1.included PINK FLOYD roles in a Hull House Theater pro- neeredName Teekay limb-sparing, AB’37, surgicalcus acescillaut procedures ende Lutherlenda que King iuntur Jr. during lorem sipismthe Selma odlor. March, he Luamduction zzriliqua of Harold tum Pinter’s velit ingThe est Dumb ea feuWaiter fornulles bone debiscimi, cancer patients ut voloratur and aliquireceived rae manysume became president of the State University of feuiand numeroussi am, quatuer Court at Theatre vullutem productions. ve ndreet honors,sitatur magnia including simo a Distinguished conectur, quam Service ipist, New York College at Old Westbury and then ipsucortioHe is survived by his wife, Patricia John, Awardamenis eosandesequifrom the UChicago consecati Medical repellab andint, of Bryn Mawr College, later serving as Penn- AB’81, MBA’89; four children, including Biologicalqui de nimusam Sciences ut Alumniliquae. Ducimolupta Association. Hisdo- sylvania’s secretary of labor and industry. As Victoria2. BEATLES Northcott, LAB’68, and Michael wife,luptatium June latus (Abrams) eumquibus Mindell, iur, EX’45, core vellenda died in a US senator from that state from 1991 to 1994, NorthcottExerss uscillutat, LAB’77; wis six num grandchildren; quat is et and 2010.que iunturi Survivors officiis. include “Ducimolupta two sons, a sister,dolupta- he crafted the National and Community Ser- sevenloreetumisl great-grandchildren. incilis nonsed temagn e it, eui threetium latusgrandchildren, eumquibus and iur, a coregreat-grandchild. vellenda que vice Trust Act, which founded AmeriCorps Jayveneugiam M. Goldberg , SB’56, AB’56. PhD’60, pro- Carolyniunturi officiis?!” Grace Brinkerhoff, AB’45, died No- and other initiatives under a federal agency he fessor emeritus in the Department of Phar- vemberName 2 Teekay in Frankfort,, AB’37, cusIL. Sheacescillaut was 95. ende An led until 2001. He is survived by his husband, macology3. BOB DYLAN and Physiological Sciences, of Englishnulles debiscimi, major at UChicago,ut voloratur Brinkerhoff aliqui rae sume ded- Matthew Charlton; a daughter; two sons; a Chicago,Goreet luptat died June escapa 17. Heolanomu was 83. itsu A member icatedsitatur much magnia of hersimo life conectur, to raising quam her family. ipist, sister; a brother; and six grandchildren. ofeskada the UChicago isla abarm. faculty since 1963 and a pio- Sheamenis is survived eosandesequi by two conliquae. daughters, Ducimolupta a son, six James E. Furlich, PhB’49, AM’52, died April neer in the field of vestibular neurophysiol- grandchildren,doluptatium latus and eumquibusfive great-grandchildren. iur, core vel- 1 in Charlottesville, VA. He was 91. Furlich ogy,4. DURAN Goldberg DURAN codirected an influential 1969 Fredericlenda que C. iunturi Cimerblatt officiis., EX’45, “Ducimolupta died Decem do- served in the US Army between earning studyTuam zzriliquatumof the neurons velit in ingan animal’sest ea feu hind - berluptatium 10 in Pinehurst,latus eumquibus NC. He iur, was core 93. vellenda A US his UChicago degrees in European history. brainfeui si that am, enablequatuer sound at vullutem localization. ve ndreet With Navyque iuntur veteran, lorem Cimerblatt sipism odlor. spent Name his Teekay career, A gifted linguist, he worked in the US De- theipsucortio late UChicago surgeon Cesár Fernán- asAB’37, an investment cus acescillaut banker ende at nulles the firm debiscimi, Paine partment of State and did tours throughout dez, he later mapped the pathways in the Webber,ut voloratur which aliqui later rae merged sume sitatur with UBS. magnia He Southeast Asia. After retiring in 1987, he took vestibular5. THE VELVET system UNDERGROUND that underlie spatial ori- issimo survived conectur, by his quam wife, ipist, Rita. amenis eosande- up federal government contract work for a entationAuam zzriliquatum and movement. velit A ing scientific est ea feu adviser Zoesequi Wise consecati Mikva ,repellab PhB’47, AM’51, int, qui died de nimusam January decade. He is survived by his wife, Betty; a forfeui NASA, si am, Goldbergquatuer at worked vullutem at the agency’s 19ut inliquae. Chicago. Ducimolupta She was 90. doluptatium An educator latus and daughter; two sons; and seven grandchildren.

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Layout_Deaths_Sum19_v6.indd 77 8/5/19 7:35 AM KurtName Lang Teekay, AB’49,, AB’37,AM’52, cus PhD’53, acescillaut died endeMay and folk singer, Paton cofounded Folk-Legacy sitaturMiller, AB’36,magnia JD’37, simo she conectur, was a biology quam major ipist, nulles1 in Cambridge, debiscimi, MA.ut voloratur He was aliqui 95. Lang rae sume fled Records in 1961, collaborating with her late amenisat UChicago, eosandesequi later earning consecati her JDrepellab from theint, sitaturNazi Germany magnia atsimo age conectur, 12, served quam in the ipist, US husband, Sandy, and a business partner to re- quiJohn de Marshallnimusam ut School liquae. of Ducimolupta Law. She is dolup sur- amenisArmy during eosandesequi World War consecati II, and thenrepellab worked int, lease more than 100 albums by folk musicians tatiumvived by latus a daughter, eumquibus a son, iur, core two vellendasisters, andque quion the de nimusam US military’s ut liquae. denazification Ducimolupta efforts dolup -in including Frank Proffitt and Hobart Smith iunturifour grandchildren. officiis. “Ducimolupta doluptatium la- tatiumGermany. latus At eumquibus UChicago heiur, married core vellenda fellow que so- before the Smithsonian Institution acquired tusWilliam eumquibus B. Shew iur,, AB’63, core vellendaAM’66, died que iunturiFebru- iunturiciology officiis.graduate student“Ducimolupta Gladys doluptatium Engel Lang, la- the label last year. Her contributions to folk aryofficiis?!” 3 in Washington, DC. He was 76. An eco- tusPhD’54, eumquibus with whomiur, core he vellenda pioneered lorem the ipsum exit music also involved arranging performances nomicName consultant Teekay, AB’37, who wrote cus acescillaut about market ende quepoll iunturiin the 1950s.officiis?!” The couple’s MacArthur and appearing at major US folk festivals, regulation,nulles debiscimi, telecommunications, ut voloratur aliqui and rae media, sume DayName study, Teekay published, AB’37, in their cus bookacescillaut Politics ende and developing music education programs, and Shewsitatur taught magnia at the simo University conectur, of quamLondon ipist, be- nullesTelevision debiscimi, (1968), isut regarded voloratur as aliqui a classic rae aboutsume making albums as a recording artist with foreamenis serving eosandesequi as a vice consecatipresident repellab at National int, sitaturthe medium magnia and simo its influence conectur, on quamperceptions ipist, her husband. She is survived by two sons, Economicqui de nimusam Research ut liquae. Associates. Ducimolupta After dolup di- amenisof public eosandesequi events. In 1984consecati Lang’s repellab teaching int, two brothers, a sister, five grandchildren, and rectingtatium latus economic eumquibus studies iur, at core the vellenda accounting que quicareer de nimusam took him ut to liquae. the University Ducimolupta of Washdolup- a great-grandchild. firmiunturi Arthur officiis. Andersen “Ducimolupta in Washington, doluptatium DC, la- tatiumington, latus where eumquibus he directed iur, the core school vellenda of com que- Hague D. Foster, AB’57, PhD’66, of San Shewtus eumquibus ran a consultancy iur, core vellenda affiliated lorem withipsum the iunturimunication officiis. and retired“Ducimolupta in 1993. Hisdoluptatium wife died la- Leandro, CA, died May 22. He was 83. Foster Hudsonque iunturi Institute. officiis?!” He is survived by his wife, tusin 2016. eumquibus He is survived iur, core by vellenda a daughter, lorem Glenna ipsum taught philosophy at California State Univer- LeslieName Wheelock, Teekay, AB’37,and a daughter.cus acescillaut ende queLang iunturi, AB’72; officiis?!” a son; three grandchildren; and sity, Fresno, from 1966 until retiring in 1998. nullesFrances debiscimi, L. Moser ut, SB’65, voloratur SM’67, aliqui PhD’77, rae sume of a great-grandchild.Name Teekay, AB’37, cus acescillaut ende Trained in the philosophy of science, he sitaturBurbank, magnia CA, died simo March conectur, 29. She quam was ipist,75. A nulles debiscimi, ut voloratur aliqui rae sume later did research in social and political phi- amenismedical eosandesequi physicist, Moser consecati worked repellab in radiol int,- sitatur1950s magnia simo conectur, quam ipist, losophy. He is survived by his wife, Lorraine quiogy de and nimusam radiation ut therapyliquae. Ducimolupta and taught science dolup- amenis eosandesequi consecati repellab int, “Lorri”Iqui eugiametuer (Katz) Foster iustrud, AB’57; do three cood daughters; st tatiumand mathematics. latus eumquibus She is iur, survived core vellenda by a sister que quiRuth de L. nimusam (Stevenson) ut liquae. Leder Ducimolupta, AB’50, died Febru dolup- esseda son; a essi brother; bla con and henibh four grandchildren. ea faciduis am iunturiand a brother. officiis. “Ducimolupta doluptatium la- arytatium 1 in latus Leeds, eumquibus MA. She iur, was core 95. vellenda Trained que as iritDemetrios num et, G.quis Tsoulos nummy, SB’58, nu. Elis MD’62, nonseni died tus eumquibus iur, core vellenda lorem ipsum aiunturi nurse officiis. in Detroit “Ducimolupta before earning doluptatium her bach -la quamMarch zzriliquatum. 16 in Savannah, GA. He was 81. que1970s iunturi officiis?!” elor’stus eumquibus at UChicago, iur, core Leder vellenda went lorem on to ipsum work Tsoulos retired as a colonel after 30 years atque the iunturi former officiis?!” Saint Joseph Hospital in Flint, as a surgeon in the US Army Special Forces, SusanSOCIAL Z. SCIENCES Diamond, AB’70, died of esophageal MI,Name until Teekayher retirement., AB’37, cus Her acescillaut husband, Cyrilende including two tours of duty in Vietnam and cancerName onTeekay April, 25AB’37, in Bensenville, cus acescillaut IL. She ende was M.nulles Leder, debiscimi, AB’50, utAM’53, voloratur died aliqui in 2009. rae She sume is tusparticipation eumquibus in iur, the coreDesert vellenda Shield queand iunturiDesert 69.nulles As debiscimi,president of ut her voloratur own consulting aliqui rae sumefirm, survivedsitatur magnia by a grandson. simo conectur, quam ipist, officiis?!”Storm phasesName of Teekay the Gulf, AB’37, War. cusIn retirement acescillaut Diamondsitatur magnia taught simo seminars conectur, on finance quam for ipist, the amenisOscar K. eosandesequi Reiss, SB’50, consecati PhD’54, diedrepellab March int, endehe worked nulles asdebiscimi, an emergency ut voloratur room aliquidoctor rae in nonfinancialamenis eosandesequi managers consecati of organizations. repellab int,Her qui21 in de Denver.nimusam He ut liquae. was 97. Ducimolupta A Jewish dolup refu- sumeGeorgia sitatur and magnia Alabama. simo Survivors conectur, quam include ip- clientsqui de nimusam included Deereut liquae. & Company Ducimolupta and Archer dolup- tatiumgee who latus fled eumquibus Nazi Germany iur, core and vellenda served que in ist,his ameniswife, Lawanna; eosandesequi a daughter; consecati two repellab sons; a Danielstatium latus Midland. eumquibus Devoted iur, core to vellendacommunity que iunturithe US officiis.Army during “Ducimolupta World War doluptatium II, Reiss la- int,brother; qui de and nimusam two grandchildren. ut liquae. Ducimolupta service,iunturi officiis. she led the “Ducimolupta Bensenville doluptatiumCommunity la- tusworked eumquibus in the iur,dairy core industry vellenda before lorem ipsumtrain- Evedoluptatium Leoff, AB’59, latus died eumquibus in August iur, 2018 core in Sanvel- Library’stus eumquibus board ofiur, trustees. core vellenda She also que held iunturi inves- queing asiunturi a biochemist officiis?!” at UChicago under the Diego.lenda que She iunturi was 80. officiis. Leoff earned“Ducimolupta her doc do- titureofficiis?!” in two Sherlockian literary societies, GI Bill and pursuing medical research. At torateluptatium at Columbia latus eumquibus University, iur, core graduating vellenda theName Baker TeekayStreet Irregulars, AB’37, cus and acescillaut the Adventur ende- theBIOLOGICAL University SCIENCES of Colorado Medical School’s duringque iunturi the 1968officiis?!” student uprising. Her book essesnulles of debiscimi, Sherlock utHolmes. voloratur She aliqui is survived rae sume by Webb-WaringName Teekay, AB’37,Lung Institutecus acescillaut (now ende the A Study of John Keats’s “Isabella” (1972) hersitatur husband, magnia Allan simo Trace conectur, Devitt, EX’60.quam ipist, Webb-Waringnulles debiscimi, Center), ut voloratur he headed aliqui rae the sume bio- wasHUMANITIES based on her dissertation. She taught amenis eosandesequi consecati repellab int, chemistrysitatur magnia division simo and conectur, led early quam research ipist, EnglishName Teekay at Hunter, AB’37, College, cus acescillaut developing ende its qui1980s de nimusam ut liquae. Ducimolupta dolup- on emphysema and smoking. In retirement creativenulles debiscimi, writing program ut voloratur and aliqui helping rae create sume tatium latus eumquibus iur, core vellenda que he helped develop the PSA test for prostate itssitatur women’s magnia studies simo curriculum conectur, beforequam retiripist,- iunturiDavid S. officiis. Kuhl, MBA’88, “Ducimolupta died of doluptatiumlung cancer la- cancer. He is survived by his wife, Diane; ingamenis in 2005. eosandesequi She is survived consecati by her repellab husband, int, Februarytus eumquibus 12 in iur, New core York vellenda City. loremHe was ipsum 58. three daughters; and two grandchildren. Gregqui de Wassil, nimusam and ut a liquae. sister. Ducimolupta dolup- Kuhlque iunturi worked officiis?!” at what is now Pricewater- Richard G. Thompson, SM’54, MD’54, died tatium latus eumquibus iur, core vellenda que houseCoopers in Los Angeles before earning AdvancedFebruary 4 in Colorado Degrees Springs, CO. He was 1960siunturi officiis. “Ducimolupta doluptatium la- hisBOOTH MBA SCHOOL and beginning OF BUSINESS a career in the petro- 91. After serving as a US Army surgeon in tus eumquibus iur, core vellenda que iunturi leumName industry, Teekay ,eventually AB’37, cus serving acescillaut as finance ende Okinawa and helping develop new cardio- Maryofficiis?!” A. Endres, AM’61, of Colorado Springs, leadernulles debiscimi,at Esso Benelux ut voloratur in the aliqui Netherlands. rae sume amenisvascular eosandesequi surgery techniques consecati repellabin Chicago int, CO,Name died TeekayJanuary, AB’37, 30. She cus wasacescillaut 84. Endres ende Hissitatur work magnia in finance simo laterconectur, brought quam him ipist, into quiand de Pittsburgh, nimusam ut Thompsonliquae. Ducimolupta established dolup a- lednulles a career debiscimi, as a writer, ut voloratur editor, aliqui and educator. rae sume senioramenis roleseosandesequi at such consecatiorganizations repellab as theint, tatiumpractice latus in Colorado eumquibus Springs. iur, core He vellenda performed que Withsitatur a master’s magnia insimo English, conectur, she taught quam at Zion-ipist, technologyqui de nimusam company ut liquae. Diebold Ducimolupta Nixdorf. dolup He- iunturisurgeries officiis. at area hospitals“Ducimolupta for 25 doluptatium years, then la- Bentonamenis eosandesequiTownship High consecati School repellabin Zion, int,IL. istatium survived latus byeumquibus his wife, iur, Diane core Nelson vellenda Kuhl que, tusearned eumquibus a JD and iur, worked core vellenda for several que iunturi insur- Shequi de is nimusamsurvived utby liquae. her lifelong Ducimolupta friend Janicedolup- iunturiMBA’88; officiis. two daughters; “Ducimolupta and his doluptatium mother. la- anceofficiis?!” companies in Boise, ID, and Albuquer- Burtontatium latus and aeumquibus brother. iur, core vellenda que tus eumquibus iur, core vellenda que iunturi que,Name NM. Teekay Survivors, AB’37, include cus acescillaut his wife, ende Lee Jackiunturi A. officiis.Lees, SM’63, “Ducimolupta PhD’67, died doluptatium April 23 in la- officiis?!”1990s Annnulles Hammond; debiscimi, uta daughter; voloratur aliquiand two rae sons. sume Chapeltus eumquibus Hill, NC. iur, He core was vellenda 77. An expertlorem ipsum in to- Name Teekay, AB’37, cus acescillaut ende Victorsitatur I. magnia Carlson simo, AB’55, conectur, AM’59, quamof Chicago, ipist, pology,que iunturi Lees officiis?!” taught mathematics at universi- nullesDragica debiscimi, “Drew” utBalac voloratur, AB’92, aliqui of Chicago,rae sume amenisdied November eosandesequi 25. He consecatiwas 84. An repellab art histori int,- tiesName in Denmark, Teekay, AB’37,the United cus acescillaut Kingdom, ende and diedsitatur April magnia 1. She simo was conectur,49. A trial quam lawyer ipist, for quian and de nimusam curator, Carlsonut liquae. specialized Ducimolupta in dolupprints- thenulles United debiscimi, States, ut becomingvoloratur aliqui the namesake rae sume 20amenis years, eosandesequi Balac was a founderconsecati of repellabthe medical int, tatiumand drawings latus eumquibus by 18th- iur, and core 19th-century vellenda que forsitatur Lees’s magnia immersion simo theoreomconectur, onquam topologi ipist,- malpracticequi de nimusam defense ut liquae. firm Ducimolupta the Balac dolupGroup.- iunturiFrench officiis.artists, working “Ducimolupta first at thedoluptatium Baltimore la- calamenis manifolds. eosandesequi In 1979 consecati he began repellab working int, in Shetatium is survived latus eumquibus by a brother iur, core and vellendaher mother. que tusMuseum eumquibus of Art iur, and core then vellenda at the Loslorem Angeles ipsum thequi depetroleum nimusam industry, ut liquae. developing Ducimolupta software dolup- iunturiRosalyn officiis. “Roz” M. Kriener“Ducimolupta, CER’99, doluptatium CER’01, of la- queCounty iunturi Museum officiis?!” of Art. His major exhibi- andtatium analytical latus eumquibus tools for undergroundiur, core vellenda energy que tusChicago, eumquibus died December iur, core vellenda 31, 2017. lorem She was ipsum 68. tionsName included Teekay Matisse, AB’37, cusas aacescillaut Draughtsman ende exploration.iunturi officiis. He later“Ducimolupta cofounded doluptatium a company la- queA director iunturi ofofficiis?!” programming at the National nulles(1971); debiscimi,Regency to ut Empire: voloratur French aliqui Printmak rae sume- totus design eumquibus 3-D data iur, visualization core vellenda andlorem geologic ipsum AssociationName Teekay of Realtors,, AB’37, cus where acescillaut she worked ende sitaturing, 1715–1814 magnia (1984); simo andconectur, Visions quam of Antiqui ipist,- modelingque iunturi technology. officiis?!” He is survived by his nullesfor more debiscimi, than 25 ut years, voloratur Kriener aliqui helped rae sume cre- amenisty: Neoclassical eosandesequi Figure consecatiDrawings repellab(1993). He int, is wife, Emily Jo, and two daughters. sitaturate and magniamanage simo programs conectur, for thequam associa ipist,- quisurvived de nimusam by a sister ut liquae. and a Ducimolupta brother. dolup- TheresaPHYSICAL Miller SCIENCES, AB’63, died February 26 in amenistion’s annual eosandesequi conferences, consecati midyear repellab legislative int, Carolinetatium latus (Swenson) eumquibus Paton iur,, AB’56,core vellenda of Sharon, que NameSandy Spring,Teekay ,MD. AB’37, The cus daughter acescillaut of Byron ende quimeetings, de nimusam and trade ut liquae. expos. Ducimolupta She is survived dolup by- CT,iunturi died officiis. March 18.“Ducimolupta She was 86. doluptatium A folklorist la- nullesS. Miller, debiscimi, AB’35, utJD’37, voloratur and Jeanettealiqui rae Rifassume tatiumthree sisters, latus eumquibus six brothers, iur, and core her vellenda mother. que

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What surprising job have you had in the past? When I was younger, I worked at the legendary ice cream parlor Margie’s Candies, up on Armitage and Western near where I grew up. I also worked at a call center for a while. I was really good at politely reading a script to people over the phone.

What’s your least useful talent? I do a really good imitation of Lumpy Space Princess from Adventure Time as well as a pretty good Princess Peach.

What advice would you give to a brand-new Maroon? Chicago has 77 neighborhoods. Pick one, look up a restaurant or bookstore to check out, and go there without using a ride-share.

What book—or other work or idea—do you relish teaching? I absolutely love teaching about Fred- erick Douglass. Any class I teach about education begins with the excerpt from his autobiography where he talks about learning to read and write while enslaved. I think it’s an important way to begin a conversation about what education represents for people.

What book changed your life? Rice Lucie by Illustration Blacks, the collection of Gwendolyn Brooks’s poems.

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