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Sarah Smarsh’s Heartland

Poverty and politics in Kansas

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24 30 36 Hard Stories Degree in 3 Tan Man Returns With a blockbuster memoir, Partnerships between KU Wescoe Beach’s iconic sun Sarah Smarsh celebrates her Edwards Campus and local worshiper, John Schneider, Kansas roots and challenges community colleges and high aka Tan Man, came back to assumptions about poverty schools help working students Lawrence, this time to bask in and politics in America. get a quick start on their memories and celebrate a big careers. birthday with old friends. By Steven Hill By Heather Biele By Chris Lazzarino Cover photograph by Paul Andrews

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Publisher Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09 4 Lift the Chorus Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Letters from our readers Creative Director Susan Younger, f’91 Graphic Designer Valerie Spicher, j’94 7 First Word Associate Editors Chris Lazzarino, j’86 e editor’s turn Steven Hill Assistant Editor Heather Biele 8 On the Boulevard Photographers Steve Puppe, j’98 KU & Alumni Association events Dan Storey 10 Jayhawk Walk Advertising Sales Representative Schiefelbusch centennial, La Pia leaves, haunting Teri Harris humanities and more Editorial and Advertising Oce KU Alumni Association 1266 Oread Avenue 12 Hilltopics Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 News and notes: Chancellor Del Shankel remem- 785-864-4760 bered; freshmen receive bystander training. 800-584-2957 www.kualumni.org [email protected] 18 Sports Football snaps losing streak with a win on the KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE (ISSN 0745-3345) is published by the road; basketball enters season among national KU Alumni Association six times a year in January, March, May, July, title favorites. September and November. $55 annual subscription includes membership in the Alumni Association. O¡ce of Publication: 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. Periodicals postage paid at Lawrence, KS. 40 Association News Alumni donors fund new student scholarships; POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Kansas Alumni Magazine, 1266 Wintermote Award recognizes volunteer stalwarts. Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 © 2018 by Kansas Alumni Magazine. Non-member issue price: $7 49 Class Notes Proles of a decorated doctor, a beer pioneer, a determined therapist and more

Letters to the Editor: 68 In Memory Deaths in the KU family Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the editor. Our address is Kansas Alumni magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, 72 Rock Chalk Review Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. Email responses may be sent to Spencer’s Schwarm exhibition focuses on Kansas the Alumni Association, [email protected]. farm life; black literature project gets grant boost. Letters appearing in the magazine may be edited for space and clarity. For letters published, we’ll send a free gift of KU Campus Playing Cards, a $5 value. 76 Glorious to View Scene on campus

ISSUE 5, 2018 | 3 Lift the Chorus In the fall of 1968, my tribute to my mother, Audrey, then-girlfriend Lauren and I who had died of cancer the had another fond and personal summer before my senior year memory of Professor Tuttle, in high school. who was teaching an engaging I wanted to raise the results of both good planning class in black history during a awareness of students to the and bad! Your article and great tumultuous year with two health risks associated with photos made it clear what can assassinations and the Vietnam nicotine and referred to several happen when universities War ongoing. All of us in class medical studies funded by the employ great talent and marveled at Tuttle’s ability to American Cancer Society. One intelligent planning. help us understand current study stood out. I reported that It wasn’t that long ago that I events in light of history and nicotine was applied to the drove through campus and voices that we had not studied skin of mice, which resulted in pretty much ignored what in our high school classes. a high percentage of mice that appeared to be a big mess. Now He was a welcoming were a icted with skin cancer. I cannot wait to see the presence in the classroom, and As an eager journalism nished product when I visit we became friends, so much so student I had hoped my in September. anks to your that Lauren and I began to editorial would persuade some excellent reporting, I already babysit his daughter, Kate students to quit smoking and Central beauty know a great deal about the (now, among other things, a encourage other students to Central District and will be an prominent book critic for e never start. I concluded with a I educated visitor. I also intend Boston Globe). On one plea to students to make the you for your wonderful article to ask my friend and fellow occasion, Professor Tuttle intelligent decision regarding on KU’s Central District 1967 graduate of Topeka West invited us for dinner with his tobacco. [“Front and Center,” issue High School, Jim Modig, to family, and when we returned e journey for a tobacco- No. 4]. direct my tour! to my apartment and talked free campus has indeed been I spent eight of my best years Carl McFarland Jr. about the Tuttle family and our long. anks for reporting on at KU earning three degrees. c’71, g’73, PhD’75 own hopes for the future, I this welcome achievement. Back then, KU had a magni- Tucson, Arizona proposed marriage and Lauren Don Culp, j’60, l’65 cent campus and Lawrence was accepted. We were married in Overland Park one of the very best college August 1969, and to this day towns. It was a pleasure just Lifelong we feel connected to Professor Good sport walking to class among the connection Tuttle and his family. great beauty of Mount Oread Tim Averill, c’69 A L will and its great structures. And I to read of Beverly, Massachusetts remember Chancellor Del now, Lawrence is an even more Don Smith’s reconnecting with Shankel as a utility inelder on exciting college town and the Bill Tuttle in response to the Tobacco ban the fast-pitch soball team All famous campus even more 50th anniversary of Tuttle’s the King’s Men in the late ’70s beautiful and functional. service to KU and 80th I interest and early ’80s. e team was a As a longtime college birthday [First Word, issue your article “Banned by loosely based outt of KU professor, I have witnessed the No. 4]. popular demand” [Hilltopics] administrators and law school in the July issue of Kansas faculty who still had some Alumni tracing the transition serious game, along with a to a tobacco-free campus at the student or two to lower its Lawrence and Edwards average age. campuses. Mike Davis, then dean of the As a student in the William law school, was the third Allen White School of Journal- baseman, Bill Westerbeke ism, I wrote an editorial played a little rst base and published in the University roamed the outeld, Bob Daily Kansan in 1958 or 1959 Senecal was catcher and the informing students of the late great Bob Walters pitched. perils of smoking tobacco. e If Del was available, as he editorial was written as a frequently was, he played my

4 | KANSAS ALUMNI picture, he would have been Gift from teacher Your in it. opinion counts He was a delightful, I to Please email us a note self-eacing, and memorable connect the dots, but Lavon at [email protected] teammate. Brosseau, the “retired high to tell us what you think of Anthony Gauthier, c’69, d’70, l’82 school teacher from Concor- your alumni magazine. Grand Rapids, Michigan dia” [Hilltopics, issue no. 4] who le a $7.4 million estate Editor’s Note: Del Shankel, gi for scholarships with the longtime KU professor and chancellor emeritus, died July 12 UKanTeach program, was Thanks for the at the age of 90. For more on his better known to those of us life and work on Mount Oread, who attended Field Kindley memories see Hilltopics, p. 12. High School in Coeyville Shankel during the 1960s as Miss I Crawford. reading Kansas Alumni. I Fab four For several years Miss almost always recognize a regular position at second base Crawford taught junior English name, place or event that puts and I played shortstop. I N. great in a unique and slightly a smile on my face. My most memorable edition of Kansas Alumni. irreverent way. She was an How wonderful it is to impression from those games Steven Hill’s article on Capt. amazing teacher who brought simply return and stroll the was the sound of Del’s leg Liyue Huang-Sigle [“A Soldier a sense of humor to her classes beloved KU campus. Like most snapping when a younger, in Freedom’s Army”] tells a as she led us down the path of Greeks, my fondest memories overenthused opponent (Dean beautiful story in dramatic American literature. I loved are of our chapter house and Davis called them “atbellies”) fashion. I think the article is her class and looked forward the bonds I share with other slid hard into second base, timely as we discuss the role of each day to see what in the Pikes (who will be back on where our chancellor was immigrants in the history of world she might do or say that campus starting this fall), xing to apply a hard tag on the United States—the many invariably made her class a many of whom I stay in regular him. who made unbelievable highlight. Her approach to contact with. e Wheel, We played those games on sacrices to get here and teaching was one I attempted working at Mr. Guy and home the hard-packed dirt inelds thereaer helped make this to emulate during my years as KU football games. Oddly, I across from Summereld Hall. country what it is today. a high school teacher. never went to one KU basket- During the dry season, cracks Bernadette Gray-Little She le Coeyville shortly ball game during my stay in the earth as wide as 6 to 8 [“Pivotal Leader,” Association] aer I graduated from high at KU! inches created some anxieties is an outstanding recipient of school. I knew she had gone to I get especially sentimental and challenges as we tried to the Fred Ellsworth Medallion. Concordia and heard she had around a crisp fall day and a play defense, but they never ank you, and keep up the married, but until the reference rst winter snow. Of falling bothered Dr. Shankel. To him, good work! in the recent Kansas Alumni, I asleep in the German language they just made the game more Stephen Ellsworth, b’49 was unaware of her death—let lab during Hell Week and adventurous. Rock Hill, South Carolina alone her generosity to the getting a B- on my rst English I also remember a self- next generation of teachers in 101 paper! (A remarkable inicted strawberry about 4 Right on our state. achievement given that I wrote inches in diameter I suered Gene Neely, d’72 exactly one paper in high on my hip when I forgot a M , M, read Olathe school.) I still have that paper fundamental rule of survival “A Soldier in Freedom’s Army” by the way. And Professor on those elds: DO NOT in Kansas Alumni [issue No. 4] Richard DeGeorge, who was SLIDE INTO ANY BASE. at and told me I would like it. easily my favorite KU strawberry took at least 10 Well, she was right! Wow, professor. weeks to heal. Had the atbelly this young lady’s story is an I could go on and on, but remembered that rule, Del’s inspiration! thanks to Kansas Alumni it’s season would not have been anks for the details of this not necessary! You guys do it abruptly abbreviated on that story. Well done! for me. hot summer day, and had we Bill Penny, e’72 Steven Dillman, c’81 the presence of mind or sense Lawrence Kansas City of history to take a team Huang-Sigle

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ond memories and heartfelt tributes, along “I experienced a lot of explained that she and Del and a KU group with healthy doses of rousing laughter and visited China in 1980, and Ray’s mother, Qizhen, F firsts in the United gorgeous jazz, upli ed the Jayhawk family Aug. a professor at Nankai University in Tianjin, was 18, during the memorial for Chancellor States, all because of their guide. e Shankels visited the family on Emeritus Del Shankel, KU scientist, teacher, Dr. Shankel. I had my return trips to China. Qizhen came to KU to mentor and two-time chancellor, who died July teach Chinese, and eventually Robert, a surgeon, 12 at 90. first turkey leg at his and Ray and his sister, Li, followed. Just when the celebration seemed complete, house. I had my first eir move to the United States, when Ray Ray Chao, ’96, made his way to the Woodru was 23, marked a new chapter for the family. For Auditorium stage in the Kansas Union. bicycle—Jill or Kelley years they had suered during China’s Cultural Responding to an invitation for audience loaned it to me. ... The Revolution. e Red Guard terrorized them and members to share their stories, Chao added an Shankels helped me jailed Qizhen and Robert. Later the family was emotional postscript: “Hello, my name is Ray,” banished to small, remote villages until Qizhen he said. “I met Dr. Shankel in 1981, and every single way.” accepted a position at the university on the without him, I would not be here today. He —Ray Chao condition that the family could remain together. helped me, and he helped my family. He hired Years later, Ray, ’96, and his wife, Beth Merril my mom to teach at the University of Kansas. Chao, s’91, still live in Lawrence. He is a consul- “I experienced a lot of rsts in the United States, all because of tant for Jacobs Engineering, and his parents now live in Carroll- Dr. Shankel. I had my rst turkey leg at his house. I had my rst ton, Texas. bicycle—Jill or Kelley [Shankel’s daughters] loaned it to me. ... e Chao said he would always remember his mentor’s smile: “Dr. Shankels helped me every single way.” Shankel was such a well-known person, and yet he was willing to As the crowd settled in to hear the details, Chao explained how help me. It was remarkable. I know he helped many others like Shankel helped him nd a campus job as an electrician’s helper. m e .” Later, he connected Chao with an attorney to settle a squabble Indeed. In 2004, eight years into his retirement, Shankel came with an insurance company a er a car accident. He took Chao’s to the Alumni Association’s assistance as interim president. He father, Robert, to see his rst basketball game. “Whenever provided the calm, reassuring presence that sta members craved. someone asked why I was here, I would always say, ‘because of Dr. At rst, I felt awkward addressing the former chancellor, who had Shankel,’” Chao said. “Whenever I mentioned his name, it gave signed my diploma in 1981, by his rst name, but he insisted we me a lot of power. ... He helped me become what I am today. Dr. call him Del. In only a few months, Del steadied the organization Shankel changed by life and my family’s life. I miss him a lot.” and prepared us to begin a new era. e University’s leader, As we wrapped up this magazine and our story of Shankel’s scientist, teacher and mentor became our trusted friend and unmatched record of KU service (see Hilltopics, p. 12), I asked his favorite Jayhawk. wife, Carol, ’68, how the two families’ friendship began. She His legacy continues ever onward. h

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Spencer Museum of 27 KU Symphony Orchestra 29 Kibbutz Contemporary with special guest Blake Dance Company More than 500 students enjoyed Art exhibitions Pouliot, violin free lunch, games and giveaways 30 NOVEMBER at the Adams Alumni Center Aug. “Passage,” through Nov. 25 Steve Martin and Martin Short: “An Evening You Will 2 Jazz Ambassadors of U.S. 31 for Home Football Friday. “Soundings,” through Dec. 16 Forget for the Rest of Your Army Field Band Jessica Guardiola, president of the Student Alumni Leadership Board, Life” 4 Monty Python’s “Larry Schwarm: Kansas Farm- helped students download the KU “Spamalot” ers,” through Jan. 6 OCTOBER alumni app and join the Student 7 Elf the Musical Alumni Network at the event. “ e Ties that Bind: Haiti, the 4 Joshua Bell, violin 9 KU Wind Ensemble United States and the Art of 8 KU Wind Ensemble and Ulrick Jean-Pierre in Com- 17 Dan Zanes and Claudia Symphonic Band 30 parative Perspective,” through Eliaza Elizabeth Dole Women 11 Jazz at Lincoln Center in Leadership Lecture with Jan. 7 27 Orchestra with Wynton Jane Lynch: “A Swingin’ with Meg Kabat, Robyn Marsalis and World Pre- Little Christmas!” Loveland and Carolyn Lied Center events miere: 25th-Anniversary Tolliver-Lee Commission Honoring 15 Dole Institute SEPTEMBER KU Basketball Luminaries events OCTOBER 22 Trevor Noah 17 Loudon Wainwright III 4 “Better Angels: Can We 24, 25 Tootie Heath Trio 24 Amirah Sackett SEPTEMBER Depolarize America?” with Rob Robertson featuring Emmet Cohen 26 Phoebe Robinson 18 Celebrating the 150th 26 Anniversary of the 14th 30 “Unmasking the Spy: American Red Cross 28 Purna Loka Ensemble Blood Drive Amendment with Stephen Intelligence Gathering” with McAllister and guests Ron Marks

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI Humanities 23 Sunower Baroque Academic Calendar OCTOBER Lecture Series 24 KU Jazz Combos 2-4 Hawks and Highways OCTOBER 28 Faculty Recital Series: events (for complete SEPTEMBER Steven Spooner, piano 13-16 Fall break schedule, visit kualumni.org/highways) 25 “Frontline: Latinos and 28 Kansas Virtuosi Immigration from a Wom- 3 North Denver networking 29 Graduate Honor Recital Kansas Honor an’s Perspective,” Maria Scholar Program breakfast Hinojosa, e Commons 30 KU Choirs: Chamber 6 KU at West Virginia, Singers, Collegium Vocale 26 A Conversation with SEPTEMBER member tailgate Maria Hinojosa, Hall Center 17 Houston: Jayhawks & Java NOVEMBER 18 Pittsburg conference hall 20 4 Faculty Recital Series: KU at Texas Tech, member tailgate OCTOBER Michael Compitello, piano OCTOBER 27 KU vs. TCU, member 25 “Body Movements: 5 Visiting Artist Series: 2 Great Bend tailgate, Adams Alumni Positioning Sudanese Robert Benton, euphonium 3 Salina Center Women in an Age of 6 New Music Guild 15 Topeka Empire,” Marie Grace 7 NOVEMBER Brown, Lied Center Pavilion Cello Studio Recital 17 Garden City 13 KU Saxophone Quartets 18 Hays 1-30 KU Cares Month of NOVEMBER Service (for complete 17 Faculty Recital Series: 22 Colby schedule, visit kualumni.org/ 19 An Evening with Neil Teng Fu, piano 23 Manhattan monthofservice) Gaiman, Lied Center 19 KU Trombone and Horn 29 Wichita 3 Choirs KU vs. Iowa State, member Murphy Hall 30 Emporia tailgate, Adams Alumni 25 Faculty Recital Series: Center Steven Spooner, piano SEPTEMBER NOVEMBER 6 KU vs. Michigan State, 26 Viola Studio Recital Champions Classic pre-game 21 Faculty Recital Series: 7 Wichita 27 Intergenerational Choir activities, Indianapolis Kip Haaheim, composition 8 Hutchinson Concert 10 KU at Kansas State, 25 KU Brass Ensemble 27 Brass Chamber Music 14 Kansas City member tailgate OCTOBER 28 Lawrence 11 KU Vets Day 5K, Memorial Stadium 1 Faculty Recital Series: Drei Performances Bones, trombone ensemble Alumni Events 15 Denver: Jayhawks & Java OCTOBER 2 New Music Guild 16 Houston: Jayhawks & Java 4 KU Jazz Ensembles I, II, SEPTEMBER 4 KU Choirs: Concert Choir 17 KU at Oklahoma, III; Lawrence Arts Center 19 Houston: Jayhawks & Java and Women’s Chorale member tailgate 26 Visiting Artist Series: 20 Denver: Jayhawks & Java 23 KU vs. Texas, member 5 Visiting Artist Series: Emanuele Cardi, Bales 22 KU at Baylor watch tailgate, Adams Alumni Craig Rutenberg, piano Organ Recital Hall parties Center 8 Visiting Artist Series: George Speek, double bass NOVEMBER 22 KU at Baylor, member tailgate 18 Visiting Artist Series: 11 KU Symphony Orchestra, Ayano Kataoka Kauman Center for the 22-29 Homecoming (for complete schedule, visit Events listed here are high- 21 Double Reed Day Arts kualumni.org/homecoming) lights from the Association’s Concert 12 KU Jazz Ensembles, I, II, busy calendar. For complete 25 Happy Hour, Phoenix 22 Faculty Recital Series: III; Lawrence Arts Center listings of all events, watch for Daniel Velasco, ute; Boris 30 Vespers on the Road, 29 KU vs. Oklahoma State, emails about programs in your Vainer, viola; and Eric Wood, Carlsen Center, JCCC member tailgate, Adams area, visit kualumni.org or call harp Alumni Center 800-584-2957.

ISSUE 5, 2018 | 9 Jayhawk Walk La Pia’s summer sojourn “O ‘L P’”—as “La Pia de’ Tolomei” was so aptly described in a June Facebook post by the Spencer Museum of Art— nally got a break from her lonely brooding with a trip to San Francisco. e 19th-century masterwork by Dante Gabriel Rossetti is on loan through September to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco for the exhibition “Truth and Beauty: e Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters.” e forlorn beauty is frequently requested for worldwide Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian art exhibitions, but protec- tive Spencer curators rarely let her travel; not only is the painting irreplaceable, but its frame, designed by Rossetti himself, also is notably rare and fragile. e San Francisco exhibition, which also includes works from the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Uzi Gallery in Florence, Italy, proved momentous enough for the Spencer to let “La Pia” travel, which

LARRY LEROY PEARSON LEROY LARRY was celebrated on Facebook with a cheeky image of the fair lady—already full of “so much meaning and emotion and poetry,” in the estimation of curator Susan Earle—sporting her summer vacation Trick or treatise sunglasses. In her place, Earle and her colleagues o study the humanities—literature, humanities departments. It’s kind of a chose to exhibit “Portrait du Concert,” a Tlanguages, philosophy, history, science fair for the humanities with a 1910 portrait of virtuoso pianist Emil von religion, the arts and more—is to ponder Halloween theme.” Sauer, whose widow, Angelica Morales the big questions of the human condition. Supported by a Humanities Kansas von Sauer, herself a noted concert pianist, Why are we here? What is beauty? To grant, the all-in-good-fun activities joined the KU music faculty in 1955, 13 beer or not to beer? include an escape room inspired by a years aer her husband’s death. Believing such weighty debates should notorious Kansas murder, a literary lesson He is no beauty, but von Sauer, consid- not be restricted to ivory towers, the Hall on witches (with an optional witch ered a preeminent protégé of Franz Liszt, Center for the Humanities will host makeover), and “Shakespeare Possessed: still projects a compelling presence. at “Haunting Humanities” Oct. 24 at Abe & To Beer or Not to Beer,” which invites Jake’s Landing. The inventive showcase of partygoers to tap their inner Hamlet and spooky stories and ideas from the act out a ghostly scene under direction of research of KU humanities faculty will “Shakespeare coaches.” demonstrate how humanities research And the beer? Bishop says Jonathan

beneﬁts us all. Lamb, the English professor in charge of OF ART SPENCER MUSEUM “This is part of a trend called public the activity, might oer to reward really humanities,” says Sarah Bishop, associate good performers with a brew. “Put that in, director of the Hall Center. “It’s about then he’ll have to,” she says. “Lock him engaging the public in new, exciting ways in!” so they understand the work going on in Was that a cackle? That’s the spirit.

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI the rarely exhibited painting was a gi headliner but was forced to withdraw a er from a former faculty member and her undergoing a hernia repair: “e doctor

alumnus son, Franz von Sauer, c’63, g’64, YOUNGER SUSAN says I need to wait a couple more weeks is all the more reason to—in the words of before jumping o any buildings.” the Spencer’s Facebook page—“stop by Hawkins, assistant coach Kurtis and say hello!” Townsend and video coordinator Jeremy Case, c’07, ’09, were roped into duty, and were cheered on by Self, assistant coach Rock Chalk, Spideyhawk Norm Roberts and director of student- athlete development Fred Quartlebaum. A J H , c’06, lurched through Yes, vertical jumps were taken to the the early stages of his 90-foot descent of a extreme, but everyone went home safe and downtown Lawrence apartment building, Hawkins sound. Even Mavrick got a hug. his wife, Heather Plante Hawkins, j’06, the Alumni Association’s executive assistant to grinning, pointed at Mavrick. the president and coordinator of donor “I heard my son talking some smack,” he Bike share boom relations, looked on nervously—while said a er rappelling down 888 Lo s. “So 11-year-old Mavrick Hawkins made the we’re going to have a talk a er this.” W most of a request for comment from Voice Hawkins joined other Kansas Athletics the success of KU’s Bike Share program of the Jayhawks Brian Hanni, j’02. and community luminaries in the Aug. 25 than to roll out more rides on campus? “Stop being a scaredy-cat!” Mavrick “Over the Edge” fundraiser for the Boys & is semester the shouted to his father over the loudspeaker. Girls Club of Lawrence. Spectators University doubled its Dangling seven stories above the delighted in needling the less-than-elegant existing eet of 180 sidewalk, Hawkins, a former KU basket- rappellers who nonetheless showed their KU-branded bikes, ball guard, paused his already halting true grit in raising nearly $90,000. which rst arrived descent, turned toward the crowd and, Coach Bill Self was scheduled as the on the Lawrence

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DAN STOREY (3) STOREY DAN popular,” says Donna Connolly Hultine, c’80, director of KU Parking & Transit. “My oce sits on Irving Hill Road, and it’s just really fun to see these bikes go by.” Students, faculty and sta can rent the GPS-enabled bikes for as little as 50 cents for 15 minutes or purchase daily, month- Warren, c’74, g’75, PhD’77, University long or yearlong passes, all with the touch Sparkling life span Distinguished Professor and former vice of an app. chancellor of research. “He’s an amazing KU will continue its partnership with mid military tributes and the adoration guy,” Warren says. “He created a research VeoRide, the bike share company, and Aof family and KU friends, Richard model unlike any other, and it’s known plans to introduce 50 motorized e-bikes, Schiefelbusch, a World War II POW who around the nation.” much to the delight of those who pedal up returned home to become KU’s innovative Schiefelbusch’s daughter Carol calf-burning campus hills. e program leader of human development research, Schiefelbusch McMillin, ’79, chose King also expanded this summer to include celebrated his 100th birthday July 28 at the Arthur’s words to King Pellinore from rental stations throughout the city. Adams Alumni Center. “Camelot” to describe her father: “One of “All you need is your helmet,” says Schiefelbusch, g’47, founded the KU what we all are, Pelli! Less than a drop in Derek Rogers, c’88, an avid cyclist and Speech Language Hearing Clinic and the great blue motion of the sunlit sea. But, director of Lawrence Parks & Recreation. created the collaborations that led to the it seems, that some of the drops sparkle, “You can go somewhere, lock the bike and Institute for Life Span Studies; both entities Pelli! Some of them do sparkle! walk away. You don’t have to pay for a are named for him. For more than 50 years, “My father is one of those who sparkle, tune-up or worry about a at tire.” he guided researchers, including Steve and he has attracted many sparklers.” Hassle-free and fun to ride? Sign us up.

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Shankel’s abiding optimism and talent for uniting disparate factions earned the trust and respect of University colleagues, and his dedication to students set an example for others. When he hired David Ambler in 1977 SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY SPENCER RESEARCH as vice chancellor of student aairs, Ambler soon learned his boss was determined to ensure that KU provided outstanding undergraduate education as well as comprehensive research. “He didn’t just say that. He believed it,” Ambler said. “Everything he did reinforced it. Students of every stripe always knew they had a genuine voice and a genuine ear with them in Strong Hall.”

KU’s most trusted, steady administrative wrangler through the years. Soon aer he began his KU career in 1959 as an assistant professor of microbiology, he attained the Farewell to Del Kuo recalled that Shankel “literally rank of professor and became acting chair smiled 80 percent of the time,” a mark of of his department, followed by stints as: Two-time chancellor leaves the sunny demeanor that led doctoral • acting dean of the College of Liberal legacy of selﬂess service students to presume their professor, whom Arts & Sciences they always addressed as Dr. Shankel, was • the rst executive vice chancellor of ne of Chancellor Emeritus Del Canadian. “Being nice is almost a pejora- the Lawrence campus OShankel’s favorite sayings was, “If you tive in today’s hyperbolic world. It’s what • acting chancellor between Archie want to get something done, give it to a you are when you aren’t something else— Dykes and Gene Budig, 1980-’81 busy person.” As a leader, scientist and like dynamic,” Kuo said. “But Dr. Shankel • acting athletics director (twice) professor for nearly 60 years on Mount wielded being nice like a weapon a Shaolin • acting vice chancellor for academic Oread, Shankel himself proved the maxim monk would use. He was nice in a way aairs true time and time again. e beloved that involved hard decisions, selessness • acting executive vice chancellor and a Jayhawk, who twice guided the University and personal sacrice and, above all, second stint as executive vice chancellor as chancellor and answered KU’s call for through being nice, he made everyone’s • faculty athletics representative to the trusted leadership in numerous other lives, indeed the University community’s Big Eight Conference and the NCAA roles, including interim president of the lives, better and easier.” • interim chancellor between Gene Alumni Association, died July 12 at 90. Chancellor Doug Girod, like all of KU’s Budig and Robert Hemenway, 1994-’95 Simon Kuo, c’83, c’84, PhD’95, one of recent chancellors, relied on Shankel’s • interim president of the Alumni Shankel’s doctoral students in microbiol- counsel in conversations and written notes Association, from May to November 2004, ogy, shared his teacher’s favorite phrases that oen harked back to earlier challenges despite having “retired” in 1996. and enduring lessons Aug. 18, as the KU “usually in the context of, ‘We’ve seen this “I suspect his name always came up family gathered in the Kansas Union’s rodeo before; here’s what we did last time. because he was always willing to do the Woodru Auditorium to honor Shankel’s Good luck. And, by the way, it didn’t turn job, people knew he would do it well, and extraordinary life with memories—both out well last time.’” Girod told the crowd. he would do it with passion,” Girod said. reverent and irreverent—and soothing, “He always kept a great sense of humor “He would do it with integrity, with that soul-stirring jazz performed by virtuoso and it was delightful to interact with him incredible trust and credibility he had built clarinetist Robert Walzel, dean of the and have his perspective and guidance.” over the years.” School of Music, and the KU Jazz Combo. Shankel withstood many wild rides as Aer Shankel’s second term as acting

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI chancellor, the Kansas Board of Regents in author of Shankel’s 1995 declared him the University’s 15th biography, which STEVE PUPPE STEVE chancellor. In 2010, KU dedicated the Zenger wrote as Delbert M. Shankel Structural Biology his doctoral Center on West Campus, a rmation of his dissertation. international prominence as a research e two bonded scholar, author or co-author of more than over their shared 50 papers in professional journals, and a bachelor’s degrees fellow in the American Academy of in English litera- Microbiology. ture; Shankel Steve Benedict, professor of molecular earned his at Walla biosciences and Shankel’s friend for nearly Walla College in 30 years, explained that Shankel and his Washington, international colleagues broke new ground where he also in the study of antimutagenesis, the played hockey, processes through which repair systems followed by a brief stint playing semi-pro d’04, g’09, Alumni Association president, within our normal cells—and certain hockey. He earned his doctorate in who recalled how Shankel remained close elements in our food and environment— bacteriology from the University of Texas to the Association sta for years aer can counteract damage resulting from in 1959. A lifelong scholar, he also serving as the organization’s interim exposure to elements that cause mutations, remained a faithful sports fan, supporting president. He oen stopped by to catch up including cancer. “For example, we know all Jayhawks teams and advising many with sta members and to drop o a that vitamin C has antioxidants; it may student-athletes. Zenger also shared a Trader Joe’s Pound Plus Belgian dark help you prevent the mutations that cause little-known fact: Shankel’s devotion to chocolate on the kitchen counter as a cancer,” Benedict explained. “at’s what KU prompted him to turn down the mid-aernoon treat. “e greatest compli- Del and his colleagues were looking at. ... chancellorship of the University of ment I can think of for Del is that it was ey discovered ways to help us get Maryland to remain on Mount Oread. e never about him,” Peterson said. “It was through life a little better and watch out revelation prompted applause from the always about KU. Del focused on the for things in the environment that may Woodru Auditorium crowd. growth of the people on this Hill and the make us sick. ese principles are still “e Mount Rushmore of Mount Oread well-being of the KU community. used in agriculture and medicine.” would no doubt feature Del Shankel’s “And that, my friends, is the denition Former KU athletics director Sheahon smiling face among KU’s most loyal of servant leadership.”h Zenger, PhD’96, shared his insights as the servants and leaders,” said Heath Peterson, —Jennifer Jackson Sanner

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even students from the language skills, according to that promote global health Shumanities-based coILAB co-director Kathryn and development. In these

COURTESY EMILY RILEY EMILY COURTESY coILAB: Bridging East Rhine, associate professor occupations, just like in Africa’s Digital Health of anthropology. They lived business and medicine, Divide traveled to Tanzania with village families, spent foreign languages and field in August for a field school time in a clinic and school, experience are critical.” taught by KU faculty in and worked with NGO Mufindi Orphans is led by partnership with a management. Geo Knight, c’08, and nongovernmental “We see this as a first Jenny Peck, c’05. The NGO organization, Mufindi step for students,” Rhine provides social, educational Orphans, founded by two says. “Maybe they will and health care resources to Jayhawk alumni. develop thesis projects and vulnerable children in Students learned how go into graduate programs. Mufindi, a village hundreds technology aects access to Several plan to work for of miles inland from rural health care and governmental and Tanzania’s largest city, Dar improved their Kiswahili nongovernmental agencies es Salaam.

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students to think about their own experiences and equipping them with the skills PATENTLY IMPRESSIVE: With 30 to respond when they see behavior that patents granted in 2017, KU ranked puts others at risk for violence, victimiza- tion or perpetration. 87th in the world last year among Female students, or those who identify universities receiving patents, accord- as female, could request in advance to be assigned to an all-female training session. ing to a report from the National Acad- “We know that some women prefer to go emy of Inventors and the Intellectual through the training with other women, because they just feel more comfortable,” Property Owners Association. It’s the Uni- Struble says. versity’s highest ranking since 2014. KU now holds 240 In addition, SAPEC partnered with the Sexual Trauma and Abuse Care Center, a U.S. patents and has 146 applications pending. local nonprot organization, and KU’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), which provided trained advocates at the event to o er support for students facilitators and con- who have been directly or indirectly ducted the training a ected by sexual violence. STEVE PUPPE STEVE sessions, which ran “Unfortunately, we know that some of from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. our students have experienced sexual at Capitol Federal Hall, trauma prior to coming here, and we don’t Wescoe Hall and want this training to be a hindrance,” LEEP2 in the engineer- Struble says. “If they don’t feel emotionally ing complex. Students available to go through these workshops, were assigned to a we want them to be able to connect with location based on someone.” whether they live in a “Jayhawks Give a Flock” is one of six residence hall, a core programs created by SAPEC for fraternity or in o - students. Others include “Consent @KU” campus housing. and “Sex, Drugs and Alcohol.” “We’ve been working SAPEC was established in fall 2015 and Struble really hard on this for moved into its new home in Burge Union the past couple years,” in April. e center was one of 27 recom- says Dustin Struble, a mendations presented in 2015 to Chancel- Culture change prevention educator at SAPEC and a lor Bernadette Gray-Little by a task force doctoral student in higher education. created to examine how the University Bystander intervention training “We’ve trained over 200 people to be prevents and responds to sexual assault. aims to shift campus norms facilitators. To have close to 120 give up a SAPEC’s sta , which also includes portion of their Saturday before school Director Jennifer Brockman and Sony efore incoming freshmen could take starts is signicant. It shows that our Heath, c’07, j’07, g’10, a prevention Bpart in the festivities of Traditions community is really committed to helping educator, conducts campuswide training Night on Aug. 18, they were required to reduce and prevent sexual violence.” sessions for all KU students. is fall, attend “Jayhawks Give a Flock,” a Struble points out that although they’ll work with Kansas Athletics, which 90-minute bystander education and bystander intervention training is is requiring all of its student-athletes to prevention workshop developed by KU’s common on college campuses across the participate in a mandatory, one-hour Sexual Assault Prevention and Education country, this event was the largest of its academic course on gender-based violence Center (SAPEC). kind—and unique in its design. Rather prevention. Nearly 4,000 students participated in the than lecturing to students on the impor- “We want to change the culture on this event, which is based on the nationally tance of being active bystanders, KU campus,” Struble says. “is is tied into the recognized curriculum “Bringing in the facilitators worked in teams of two and led values of what it means to be a Bystander.” Approximately 115 KU faculty, groups of approximately 40 freshmen Jayhawk.”h sta and graduate students volunteered as through interactive discussions, asking —Heather Biele

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI to do both research and treat the commu- Milestones, money Recovery plan nity without having to carve out new resources.” and other matters New KU center targets research e center will be part of the depart- and treatment of addictions ment of psychology in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences; it is directed by dvancing the science of addiction Rich Yi, professor of psychology, who has treatment and making those worked at addiction centers at three other

A CHRIS LAZZARINO improved services available to people who universities, including Maryland, where need them will be the main focus of a new he took over the director’s role when research center at KU. Lejuez was hired as KU’s dean of the e Cofrin-Logan Center for Addiction College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Yi Research and Treatment, established this began work at the Cofrin-Logan Center summer with a $2 million gi from Daniel Aug. 20. n A $2 million gift from Cloud L. “Bud” Logan, c’75, and his wife, Gladys Cofrin, “One of my rst responsibilities is to Cray Jr., chairman emeritus of MGP will serve as an engine for addictions expand center membership to include the Ingredients in Atchison, and his wife, research, training and outreach. Plans call entire spectrum of scientists and investi- the late Sally Cray, will beneﬁt the for programs focused on addictions that gators at KU who are going to help us University of Kansas Health System’s include alcohol and smoking—which are address the issue of addiction,” Yi says. heart program. The gift recognizes the the subject of established research “ e people are here. We want to get these exceptional care given the Cray family programs by KU faculty members—as well folks together and have a centralized by cardiologist Charles Porter, m’77. as drug, gambling and eating disorders location where they can come together, The family’s Cray Foundation also pro- and other addictions. e new programs share ideas, stretch out of their conven- vided funding to open the Cray Diabetes are expected to be announced later this tional research program and expand to Center in 1979 and has supported it fall. incorporate the expertise of other people continuously since. e center is built on shared interests on campus.” between the couple and Carl Lejuez, Services could include therapy, support n Angelo Andres, a doctoral student in interim provost and executive vice groups and community outreach, but it medicinal chemistry, and Blake Peter- chancellor. Cofrin and Logan are both in will take time to develop the capacity to son, Regents Distinguished Professor recovery from addictions themselves and oer clinical services, Yi says. In the of Medicinal Chemistry, were among Lejuez founded and directed the Univer- meantime, the center will likely refer 45 doctoral student-adviser pairs from sity of Maryland’s successful addictions people seeking treatment to expert across the country awarded 2018 Gil- research and treatment center. providers at KU Medical Center or in the liam Fellowships for Advanced Study. “KU is known for the rigor of the Lawrence community. Designed to ensure that a diverse, research conducted, but not just research “Many of the research and clinical highly trained workforce is prepared for its own sake,” Lejuez says. “We want to opportunities will be in collaboration with to assume leadership roles in science, show how it’s making the communities in KUMC,” he says. the fellowship makes an annual award Kansas a better place, and that’s by helping One promising project, according to Yi, of $50,000 for up to three years that the people of our state. is gi allows us is an art therapy program led by the includes a stipend, a training allowance center’s artist-in-resi- and an institutional allowance. dence, John Sebelius, g’12. Developed for n A $1 million gift from the estate of combat veterans with speech pathologists Donald Robinson STEVE PUPPE STEVE post-traumatic stress and Mary Carpenter of Shawnee will disorder, the art-based establish the Carpenter and Robinson program worked well Epilogue (CARE) Fund at KU Medical when implemented by Center to help patients who need care the Veterans Adminis- for communication disorders but cannot tration in Topeka, Yi aord it. They both taught at the medi- says. “We hope to cal center, Carpenter for 35 years. She implement that as one died in 2016 and Robinson died in 2017. of our early agship programs,” he says.h Yi —Steven Hill

ISSUE 5, 2018 | 15 Hilltopics SCHOLARSHIP advisory board— emerged from STEVE PUPPE STEVE Trio earns distinguished title existing collaborations, says Michelle T were Hener Hayes, f’91, appointed University Distinguished professor and chair of Professors beginning this fall: Nyla the new department Branscombe, Michael Engel and Neal of theatre and dance. Kingston. “We had very “ ese faculty have pushed and dierent infrastruc- stretched the boundaries of their disci- tures to support plines to contribute meaningfully to our individual faculty understanding of the world around us and projects, and we to make it a better place,” said Carl Lejuez, realized that if we interim provost and executive vice were to combine, we chancellor, who made the appointments. Hayes would have an “ e title of University Distinguished infrastructure that Professor is signicant recognition of their HUMANITIES would make collaborations and interdisci- advances in scholarship and also of their School of the Arts departments plinary work by students more possible,” contributions to the University as educa- Hayes says. “We thought that was very tors and leaders.” of theatre, dance merge exciting looking at the future of the Branscombe, professor of psychology in disciplines in the various creative arts the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, D and industries, where everything is going joined the KU faculty in 1987. A social theatre welcomes a new co-star with the toward a more interdisciplinary feel.” psychologist with expertise in group merger this fall of the two departments in Auditions for University eatre and processes and intergroup relations, she has the College of Liberal Arts & Science’s the University Dance Company are explored in her research the role group School of the Arts. attracting more student interest than memberships play in shaping people’s e merger—which was proposed by before, Hayes says. emotions. She has received numerous the departments and planned over the past “We’re already seeing a lot more cross- research and teaching awards, including year in conversations with students, enrollment between our students. It has most recently the Balfour S. Jerey Award alumni and members of the professional widened their outlook on what is possible.” in the Humanities and Social Sciences, one

SPONSOR: First-Year ANECDOTE: Danticat’s title VISITOR Experience and Undergraduate comes from Albert Camus’ ﬁnal Studies lecture, in 1957, which dealt with what it meant to be an BOOK TALK BACKGROUND: Danticat’s ﬁrst artist in his time. “‘To create book, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was today is to create dangerously; Haitian-American writer and an Oprah Book Club selection every publication is an act and MacArthur Fellow Edwidge and her second, Krik? Krak!, was that act exposes one to the

Danticat discussed her essay a National Book Award ﬁnalist. passion of an age that forgives PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE BY PROVIDED MATERIAL collection, Create Dangerously: Her 2007 memoir, Brother, I’m nothing.’ That could have been Danticat The Immigrant Artist at Work, Dying, was also a National Book written yesterday, right? It chosen by a committee of Award ﬁnalist and won the could have been an op-ed in students, faculty and sta as National Book Critics Circle The Times.” and the experience of reading a this year’s KU Common Book. Award for autobiography. book is so personal and Create Dangerously tells stories QUOTES: “I’ve always thought intimate, but when you get to WHEN: Sept. 6 of artists who create despite (or that this is such a wonderful do it in community, as Martin because of) traumas that drove thing when so many people get Luther King said, it becomes a WHERE: The Lied Center them from their homelands. to read a book together. The beloved community around a experience of writing a book book.” —SH

16 | KANSAS ALUMNI of the Higuchi-KU He is a former high school science Milestones, money Endowment teacher and former director of research Research Achieve- at Educational Testing Service, and in and other matters ment Awards. 2015 he was recognized for outstanding Engel, c’93, c’93, contributions to educational assessment professor of by the National Association of Assessment n Precious Porras, director of the ecology and Directors. O ce of Multicultural A airs, added evolutionary assistant vice provost for diversity and biology and senior equity to her title, and Jennifer Ng, Branscombe curator for ENGINEERING associate professor of educational lead- entomology at the ership and policy studies, was named Biodiversity Boosting women and minorities director of academic inclusion. The Institute and goal of new recruitment e ort moves are part of the O ce of Diversity Natural History and Equity’s commitment to develop Museum, joined A from the and further a cultural shift that helps the faculty in 2000. School of Engineering proposes to identify KU better reflect the social diversity His research talented students as early as middle school and demographics of the country and focuses on and give them the support they need to to support students, faculty and sta in systematics, succeed at KU and in their careers. their e orts to successfully learn and Engel paleontology and KUEST (KU Engineering, Science and work. the evolution of Technology) will start as a pilot program insects, and his this fall at two Kansas City high schools n KU Libraries are breakthroughs and on the KU campus; the School of one of four libraries include the Engineering is seeking funding from nationwide select- discovery of giant companies and government agencies to ed earlier this year eas that likely fed expand the program, which aims to to serve as a pres- on feathered encourage and recruit young students in ervation steward for dinosaurs, listed engineering, computer science and the U.S. Government by Discover information technology. Publishing O ce. The libraries will be Magazine among “We’re targeting, as much as possible, responsible for preserving government Kingston the top 100 stories low-income, rst-generation students, publications, specifically congressional of 2012. He has because those students don’t always have materials, including hearings. earned numerous awards for scholarship the background knowledge about the and teaching and is a fellow of the college experience,” says Andrew n Kansas Public Radio, the NPR a li- Entomological Society of America. Williams, e’88, PhD’00, associate dean for ate located on the KU campus, won the Kingston, professor of educational engineering diversity, equity and inclu- 2018 Station of the Year award from the psychology and research in the School of sion. “ere’s a lot of untapped talent, if Kansas Association of Broadcasters. It Education, joined the faculty in 2006. He they can get over the barriers and obsta- marks the 17th time KPR has won KAB’s directs the Achievement and Assessment cles to getting to KU, but also getting top award, which is more than any other Institute, and his research focuses on interested in these elds.” Kansas station. large-scale educational assessment, e program is part of IHAWKe, which particularly on how assessments based on oversees the School of Engineering’s n Andrew Godwin, a leader in the field learning maps support student learning. diversity and women’s programs. of translational research and precision cancer medicine, and Charles Marsh, c’77, g’80, g’83, PhD’85, a longtime journalism professor and an expert on ethics in pubic relations, will be honored “Art is testimony; I believe that very strongly. I urge with 2018 Chancellors Club awards at a celebration in Lawrence Sept. 28. The you to think, what do you want your dangerous annual awards recognize KU faculty creations to be? Where do you want your ideals to members for significant scientific discoveries and commitment to teaching. { align with your destiny?” —Edwidge Danticat }

ISSUE 5, 2018 | 17 Sports by Chris Lazzarino in overtime and by two points at Geor- gia—and Beaty, while praising Nicholls in his game-week news conference, insisted his Jayhawks were ready. A frustrating, 26-23 overtime loss indicated otherwise.

DAN STOREY (4) STOREY DAN “ ey came out ready and prepared,” said senior defensive tackle Daniel Wise. “ ey executed and we didn’t.” Added senior linebacker Keith Loneker Jr., “ ey’re probably a little bit better than we anticipated. ey came out and played better than us.” ree days aer the loss, which ran Beaty’s KU record to 3-34, Athletics Director Je Long, in a statement released by Kansas Athletics to area newspapers, said, “We all expected a dierent outcome Saturday but I continue to support our student-athletes and coaches and ask all Jayhawks to do the Fresh start same. Our evaluation of the program is After ﬁrst-game loss, football halts road losing streak ongoing without a predetermined timeline.” he fourth season of David Beaty’s e Colonels are a rising Long’s decision to Ttenure as football coach did not begin program within the FCS support his football as hoped: e Jayhawks on Sept. 1 lost at ranks—they were tied with coaches proved prescient, home to Nicholls State, a Football Cham- Texas A&M in the fourth quarter as the Jayhawks on Sept. 8 pionship Subdivision (formerly known as before losing by 10 last season, and in won at Central Michigan, 31-7, Division I-AA) university in Louisiana. 2016 lost to South Alabama by one point nally crushing a 46-game road losing

Against Nicholls State, Kerr Johnson Jr.’s fourth-quarter touchdown reception (left) accounted for 15 of Peyton Bender’s (above) 187 passing yards. Heralded sophomore Miles Kendrick completed two of three passes for 12 yards, and coach David Beaty indicated Kendrick would continue to see playing time, but Bender conﬁrmed his status as the No. 1 quarterback by completing 19 of 35 attempts for a pair of TDs and rushing for 30 yards.

18 | KANSAS ALUMNI streak and injecting much-needed enthusiasm into the postgame locker room, where senior linebacker Joe Dineen “For our program, for our fans, for our stakeholders, Jr. handed Beaty the game ball. Beaty, it was really important we ended that.” always known as a humble and friendly gentleman despite frustrating results, —coach David Beaty, on the Jayhawks snapping a 46-game road losing streak beamed as he cradled the precious {} memento of victory, and he joined his players, and Long, in a rousing rendition of the Rock Chalk Chant. defense’s improvement might be KU’s Big 12/SEC Challenge matchup with “For our program, for our fans, for our notable change in fortune. e Jayhawk Kentucky in Rupp Arena. stakeholders, it was really important that defense created six turnovers, including KU begins defense of its 14 consecutive we ended that,” Beaty said of the road four interceptions, and held the Chippe- Big 12 titles against Oklahoma Jan. 2 in losing streak. “Our fans deserve better. I’m was to 103 yards rushing. Dineen led the Allen Field House. e schedule includes glad it’s over.” team with 14 tackles. two games on CBS—Feb. 2 against Texas A week earlier, opening night’s As Kansas Alumni went to press, the Tech and March 2 at OSU—and four announced attendance of 24,305 was Jayhawks were preparing for a Sept. 15 ESPN Big Monday contests: Texas on Jan. perhaps higher than feared, and KU fans home game against Rutgers before 14, Iowa State on Jan. 21, at TCU on Feb. were hotly supportive of the Jayhawks opening Big 12 play Sept. 22 at Baylor, 11 and Kansas State Feb. 25. when they took a brief three-point lead on followed by the Sept. 29 Homecoming In its annual “Candid Coaches” series, a 15-yard touchdown pass from senior matchup with Oklahoma State.h CBS Sports on Aug. 20 published anony- Peyton Bender to senior Kerr Johnson, mous commentary from national coaches, followed by a two-point conversion. who pointed toward Duke, Kentucky and When the Jayhawks fell in overtime, Kansas as likely contenders for the 2019 however, they le a stadium stunned into a Hoops almost here NCAA Tournament title. deafening silence. Kansas features a top returning big man “ e sun is going to come up tomor- Sept. 28 Late Night in the Phog in junior center Udoka Azubuike; talented row,” Beaty said aerward, “and this team to launch anticipated season transfers who are now eligible aer sitting is going to continue to work toward the out a season, including junior forward goals that they have set.” he clock is ticking. By the time this Dedric Lawson and his brother, sopho- Opening day’s rst disappointment Tissue of Kansas Alumni reaches more guard K.J. Lawson; and a bountiful arrived just moments before kicko, with members’ mailboxes, basketball season freshman class led by Quentin Grimes, distribution of a news release announcing will be but a few short weeks from lio: Devonte’ Graham’s likely successor at that freshman running back Anthony Late Night in the Phog is Sept. 28, the point guard. “Pooka” Williams, a star during August evening before football’s Homecoming “Kansas is talented, deep and old,” one training camp, was “working through a showdown with Oklahoma State. coach told CBS Sports. “ ey have to be non-disciplinary matter” and would be Men’s basketball, ranked among the elite the favorite to win it all. Dedric Lawson is “unavailable for competition today.” Four national contenders in every preseason going to dominate that league.” days earlier, Dineen said of Williams, “I poll, opens its nonconference schedule Said another coach, “When Bill Self likes haven’t seen anybody like him since I’ve against Michigan State Nov. 6 in India- his team, you’re in trouble. I think he likes been here. He’s really a one-of-a-kind guy. napolis. Aer two anksgiving-week this team. Deep, big and can He’s a rare talent.” games in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, overwhelm you at a lot of at rare talent was on full display at against Marquette and either positions.” Central Michigan, where Williams—can Louisville or Tennessee, As early fall we drop the last-name second reference the Jayhawks get workouts got and just go with Pooka?—rushed for 125 a Dec. 15 underway, Self yards and two touchdowns, both of which Allen Field wasn’t yet ready came in the third quarter. He rushed 20 House to praise his yards into the end zone with 10:31 le in rematch with squad. the quarter; less than 2 minutes later, he Villanova, broke loose for a 41-yard touchdown, set which beat KU in

up by senior linebacker Joe Dineen Sr.’s the seminal game JEFF JACOBSEN rst career interception. of last spring’s NCAA Pooka grabbed the headlines, but the Tournament, and a Jan. 26 Dedric Lawson

ISSUE 5, 2018 | 19 Sports “Our conditioning is awful, which you’d Soccer opens hot said of her rst career goal. “I just remem- anticipate it to be,” Self said Aug. 25, three ber getting my head down and hitting it as weeks before the Sept. 17 start of his team’s ‘Hawks earn national ranking hard as I could into the back of the net “Boot Camp” conditioning program. “I’ve with the outside of my foot. I saw a gap said it hundreds of times and I’ll say it with ﬁve wins in ﬁrst six matches and I took the shot.” some more: We’ve got a lot of really nice unior forward Katie McClure on Sept. Aer opening the season 5-0-1, the players. Unless we have a couple of guys J4 was named Big 12 Oensive Player Jayhawks were ranked 19th nationally and emerge as knockdown shooters, nice of the Week for the second time in the sure to move up. e Jayhawks open Big players can be guarded pretty easily. We’ve young season. McClure scored twice in a 12 play against Oklahoma Sept. 21 at Rock got to nd some guys who can consistently 2-1 double-overtime victory over Utah Chalk Park.h stretch it.” Aug. 31 at Rock Chalk Park Aer Late Night, men’s basketball’s eld and recorded an assist on the house debut is an Oct. 25 exhibition game game-winning goal Sept. 2 against Emporia State. against Butler. MIKE GUNNOE Women’s basketball opens with seven “She came out today and consecutive home games before traveling was dangerous,” 20th-year to LSU Nov. 29, followed by a Dec. 5 trip coach Mark Francis said of to Nebraska. e Jayhawks open Big 12 McClure aer the Utah game. play against Iowa State, Jan. 5 in Allen e lone goal in their 1-0 Field House. victory over 25th-ranked KU’s 10 returners include senior guards Butler was scored on an Jessica Washington, last season’s Big 12 85th-minute corner-kick set Newcomer of the Year, and Christalah piece by junior Elise Reina. Lyons, All-Big 12 honorable mention “I don’t even remember the in 2017.h beginning of the play,” Reina McClure

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Chris Harris Jr., c’12 (above left), a freshman cornerback on KU’s 2008 Orange Bowl team and an All-Pro with the Denver Broncos’ victorious Super Bowl 50 squad, joined Memorial Stadium’s Ring of Honor after the ﬁrst quarter of the Jayhawks’ season-opening game. At halftime, Chancellor Doug Girod and Athletics Director Je Long (above) thanked David Booth (red tie) for his $50 million renovation gift, at which time the war- memorial venue was ocially renamed David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium.

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24 | KANSAS ALUMNI Hard Stories Drawing on her background as a daughter of rural Kansas, one writer is challenging America to face up to its class divide

arah Smarsh is out to greater e ect than hard work and

demolish your stereotypes SMARSH SARAH COURTESY ambition on a person’s economic Sand assumptions. About fortunes, even as it relays a personal Kansas. About the white working story of hard-won triumph over class. About so-called red state professional rejection and Smarsh’s politics in general and the Trump devotion to the place that shaped her. Train in particular. About life in the e pre-publication buzz has been vast American middle that she substantial: Publisher’s Weekly and believes is too readily derided as Kirkus Reviews gave Heartland yover country. starred reviews, and Scribner is In searing personal essays, pointed getting behind the book with a newspaper reportage and her rst national advertising campaign and book, published Sept. 18, Smarsh 12-city author tour that includes challenges the awed idea at the heart Wichita (Sept. 18), Lawrence (Sept. of our national identity: that America is 25) and Kansas City (Oct. 3), as well a classless society, a meritocracy where as New York, St. Louis and Wash- anyone who works hard will be ington, D.C. e Wichita and rewarded with a giant leap on the Lawrence readings were moved to socio-economic ladder. By drawing on larger rooms (Abode Venue and her own life growing up “below the Liberty Hall) to meet high demand. poverty line” in southeastern Kansas, Smarsh, c’03, j’03, recalls. “And they were In the run-up to publication, Smarsh has surrounded by family and friends who like, ‘at’s the one!’” been busy. She spent ve months as a worked their bodies from rst light to late e book chronicles the cycle of fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, night and still struggled to pay the bills, intergenerational poverty and Smarsh’s Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s she has established herself as a champion determination to avoid its causes and Kennedy School of Government. She of those on the losing side of the cultural e ects—teen pregnancy, school dropouts, wrote several articles for national publica- divide that is economic inequality. Sarah alcohol abuse—as she strives to escape her tions, including an op-ed piece for e Smarsh is, to put it plainly, calling bullshit hometown and her family’s fate. At the New York Times—her rst accepted on the American Dream. same time, Heartland pushes back against submission in several attempts—that e Wichita journalist is fond of plain the dominant portrait of rural America, became the top trending story on talk. Describing how she arrived at the one painted in the broadest brushstrokes nytimes.com, generated some 1,600 book’s title, Heartland: A Memoir of to portray the heartland as monolithically comments and prompted the paper to Working Hard and Being Broke in the conservative in culture and politics. It invite Smarsh to respond to readers in a Richest Country on Earth, she recalls examines Smarsh’s awakening—starting at second piece, “a dreamy, rare opportunity bandying about ideas with her editors at KU—to the larger factors that have a far for a journalist in the comment era,” she Scribner. Nothing was sticking. tweeted. “Liberal Blind Spots Are Hiding “I just said to hell with it, how about I the Truth About ‘Trump Country,’” just say what it is in my family’s language?” by Steven Hill published July 19, showcases Smarsh’s

ISSUE 5, 2018 | 25 penchant for equal opportunity call-outs: underdog who doesn’t much care what Ocasio-Cortez’s tough Bronx background, It takes to task college-educated white you think of her (or her family, who o en Smarsh noted that “a hard story o en liberals, corporations, the Koch brothers’ appear in her stories to debunk widely comes with hard language.” political network, middle- and upper-class held stereotypes about the denizens of e ghting spirit the two aspiring white conservatives who voted for Donald Trump Country) even as she systemati- legislators share, she argued, is not mere Trump in numbers rivaling his support cally dismantles misconceptions about bluster or political posturing, but “a among working-class whites, and the who she is. Stereotypes, she notes, are one knowing of one’s own strength” and a media—for its skewed portrayal, a er result of a cultural divide caused by moral conviction that some things are decades of indierence, of the white economic inequality, and they allow the worth ghting for. working class. powerful to make harmful decisions in “It is,” she wrote with a superbly turned ere’s a erceness to Smarsh’s journal- public policy and politics. She is deter- phrase that could also describe her own ism, which tends to out the convention mined to set the record straight because back story, “the Statue of Liberty looking a that every story has two sides, each to be she’s determined to bridge that divide. bully in the eye in a barroom and saying to presented with equal weight in the name In July, Smarsh reported a story for the someone standing behind her: ‘Hold my of balance. In commentary and reporting English newspaper e Guardian on a torch.’” her voice is that of the advocate, but the Wichita visit by progressives Alexandria advocacy doesn’t come from a place of Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, who privilege: Pieces such as “Poor Teeth” and headlined a campaign rally in support of marsh grew up in Kingman and “Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media congressional candidate James ompson. SWichita, a h-generation farm girl elite failed working-class Americans,” ring Drawing parallels between ompson’s who was both deeply rooted and peripa- with the deant authenticity of the hardscrabble Midwestern upbringing and tetic. As she proudly recounts in Heart-

“I rode tractors on the same COURTESY SARAH SMARSH (2) SARAH COURTESY land where my ancestors rode wagons.”

land, “I rode tractors on the same land where my ancestors rode wagons.” But her family’s constant struggles with money meant that she moved o en, living at 21 dierent addresses before she nished high school, bouncing from school to school and between her parents’ homes and her grandparents’ farm. She was the rst in her family to attend college (the rst in her farm household to even nish high school), and she got to KU on her own initiative, landing a scholarship and juggling multiple jobs, mostly in the food-service industry, while Smarsh and her father, Nick, gardening in southern Kansas in 2017 and on the family farm near enrolled full time. It was on Mount Oread Kingman (previous page) circa 1982; working at the Kingman grain elevator (opposite page) that she rst became fully aware of the before coming to KU, summer 1998. concept of class.

26 | KANSAS ALUMNI “When I was growing up, the United States had convinced itself that class didn’t “The defining feeling of my childhood exist here,” she writes in her book. “Class was not discussed, let alone understood. was that of being told there wasn’t a is meant that, for a child of my disposi- tion—given to prodding every family problem when I knew damn well there secret, to siing through old drawers for was.” clues about the mysterious people I loved—every day had the quiet underpin- ning of frustration. e de ning feeling of my childhood was that of being told there wasn’t a problem when I knew damn well at its publication comes at a time there was.” when the media have since the 2016 Coming to KU solidi ed a vague, but election been “ xated,” as Smarsh has long-held feeling that her family was written, “on this version of the aggrieved dierent. laborer: male, Caucasian, conservative, “For me, KU was like the fanciest place racist, sexist,” is perhaps tting. that I could ever dream,” Smarsh recalls. “ere’s a Greek word, kairos, that “When I arrived on campus, it was means ‘right timing,’” she notes. She’s probably by and large kids from pretty smiling, but it’s a rueful smile: She tried for middle-class backgrounds, but juxtaposed 10 years to get an agent and a book deal, with my experience it appeared to me as she explains. “So maybe it’s not so much wealth. My friends might have jobs for kairos as I kept knocking on the door until beer money, but their parents were helping it opened.” pay their tuition. Or they might be taking “Even at 18 she was very tenacious and out a few loans, but they didn’t spend h committed,” says Mary Klayder, associate college journalism, followed by a tenure- grade without lunch, as I did.” director of undergraduate studies and track position as a non ction professor at e culture shock set her apart from her University Honors lecturer in English, a small university. family, too. who taught Smarsh in her freshman It was then, she writes in Heartland, that “It was the rst time in my life that I had honors seminar on creative writing. “She she realized she’d truly escaped poverty, this experience of what felt like moving was committed to the people in her life that “that amorphous goal I’d set as a between two dierent worlds. I’d see and understanding them and having other child—to break the painful cycles I’d been Desmond Tutu speak at Allen Field House people understand.” handed by my family before I had any and then be on the phone with my Later, when Smarsh was a senior, child of my own—had been reached.” grandparents when they were done with Klayder asked Smarsh to be her assistant All the while she’d been continuing her farm chores. It’s a dierent language that is for the seminar. “I wanted these freshmen work on the book and as a freelance used in those two dierent spaces, but it to see some of that tenacity and see how journalist, and she eventually le aca- also felt like two dierent selves that I she’d made writing really important to her demia and now works full time as a couldn’t gure out how to reconcile. It and really personal.” freelance journalist and speaker focusing creates this sad kind of distance where it’s Her experience in the McNair Scholars on issues of class. like, ‘Now in some ways I’m never gonna Program, which helps underrepresented “She takes risks that other people are not be the same as the very people who loved minority and low-income, rst-generation willing to take to tell the story and to get at and raised me.’” college students prepare for doctoral study, the ideas that she is discovering and wants Smarsh had known since she was a kid introduced Smarsh to other students from other people to discover,” Klayder says. that she would someday write a book her socio-economic background. It also Klayder regularly leads her students on about her family. As a senior in KU’s pushed her to consider graduate school: trips abroad, and she remembers Smarsh’s McNair Scholars Program she took She went on to earn an MFA in non ction response to one such trip. advantage of a summer research institute from Columbia University’s creative “e Western Civ program used to do a to begin piecing together, “from the writing program. Aer returning from trip to Florence and Paris, and she went in ill-documented chaos that poverty begets,” New York City, she worked as a grant the fall of 2001,” she recalls. “It was right her tangled family history. She conducted writer for Kansas Legal Services in Topeka aer 9/11. People were dropping out, and in-depth interviews to nail down stories and as development director for Van Go, she said, ‘I’m going.’ She waited until the and timelines. It was the beginning of a the arts-based social service agency for planes would go, and then she went. book 16 years in the making. teens in Lawrence. She took a job teaching “at’s Sarah. No hesitation.”

ISSUE 5, 2018 | 27 eartland is foremost a family history. HIt details the dicult path blazed by “If a person could go to work every Smarsh’s mother and grandmother, both teen mothers who worked hard all their day and still not be able to pay the lives to secure a modicum of success in a bills and the reason wasn’t racism, tough job market that cut them no breaks. It’s the story of multigenerational family what less articulated problem was farmers who stuck it out on the farm and their sons and daughters, who, seeing a afoot?” decline in prospects due to market forces and public policy decisions in agriculture, trade and banking, chose to try their luck elsewhere. And it’s a memoir of Smarsh’s she loves. In one powerful story, she work every day and still not be able to pay own life, the one she lived as well as an recounts how her grandmother, forced to the bills and the reason wasn’t racism, alternate, what-if scenario that serves as a move repeatedly to protect her daughter what less articulated problem was afoot?” narrative device: She oen tells her story from a violent ex-husband, loses a custody e answer, of course, is class. to August, a spiritual presence that battle for her son because her frequent “ at we could live on a patch of Kansas embodies the daughter she determined address changes convince a judge that she’s dirt with a tub of Crisco lard and a $1 early on that she would not conceive, in incapable of providing a stable home. rebate coupon in an envelope on the order to break the cycle of poverty. Smarsh Smarsh is careful to note that such kitchen counter and call ourselves middle sees August as both a stand-in for the societal forces oen hit nonwhites even class was at once a triumph of contented- child within her and “the formless power harder. But she also insists that for the ness and a sad comment on our country’s that I rode out of a hard place.” It’s this white working class “both racial privilege lack of awareness about its own economic ghost life—a continuation of generational and economic disadvantage ... can exist structure,” Smarsh writes. “Class didn’t poverty that probabilities and statistics simultaneously.” e struggle of her family exist in a democracy like ours, as far as suggest were Smarsh’s most likely outcome and others like it, she argues, “forced a most Americans were concerned, at least and that she both escapes and carries question about America that many were not as a destiny or an excuse. You got what always—that haunts the book and lends it not willing to face: If a person could go to you worked for, we believed. ere was a more reective, elegaic tone than her some truth to that. But it was not the journalism. whole truth.” “I’d like to honor you,” Smarsh says to A KU sociology course, during junior August early in Heartland, “by trying to year, “dismantled my political views about articulate what no one articulated for me: scal policy,” Smarsh writes. She says now what it means to be a poor child in a rich there was nothing remotely political about

country founded on the promise of SMARSH (2) SARAH COURTESY the course: “It wasn’t because the professor equality.” Late in the book, Smarsh was on some sort of liberal crusade, which concludes that America has failed its Fox News would love to take as the spin children. Determined not to fail hers, she on that,” she says. “It was just that she was made not bringing another child into oering information that I had never had poverty her primary goal. b e fore .” But Heartland is also a book about the Study aer study that Smarsh encoun- American family, and the story it tells is tered in her course research, she writes, one of deep dysfunction and division. By “plainly said in hard numbers that, if you focusing on her relatives she dramatizes are poor, you are likely to stay poor, no the eect that public policy decisions have matter how hard you work.” Feeling she’d on people. e budget cuts that hollow out “I started writing Heartland 16 years ago, been sold a bill of goods, she bemoaned schools, the prot-driven criminalization signed with publisher over three years ago,” the fact that her family kin—who dis- of poverty that turns parking tickets and trusted government programs and Smarsh tweeted in August. “That’s a lot of late utility payments into a cascade of debt believed it was possible to bootstrap your believing you’ll one day hold a book that and escalating legal woes, the rise of way to living the American dream—were for-prot health care and predatory doesn’t exist.” With an advance reader’s copy missing that information. lending, the ascendance of industrial in spring (above); recording the audio book for But, she notes, the liberal people she met agriculture to the detriment of family Simon and Schuster Audio in July (opposite in college were also missing information: farming—all take their toll on the people page). “What it feels like to pee in a cup to qualify

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI for public benets to feed your children. A teenager’s frustration when a dilapidated textbook is missing a page and there’s no computer in the house for nding the lesson online. e impossibility of paying a citation for expired auto insurance, itself impossible to pay despite y hours a week holding metal frying baskets at KFC.”

eartland’s great triumph is that it Hprovides that missing information to both audiences: the disadvantaged who rarely see their story told, and the rest who rarely hear it. “She listens,” says Mary Klayder. “In class she really made her points, but she also listened to other people, and I think that’s a big part of her journalism. One of ere is personal healing, for sure, in her frustrations in her work I’ve read is confronting harrowing memories of that people just generalize and they don’t growing up poor, and the physical and listen to what is really the issue.” psychic dangers poverty exposed her to. Indeed, one of Smarsh’s chief beefs with (As reviewers have noted, Smarsh admits the national press is that coastal reporting that some of the challenges the family on middle America too oen sets out to faced were self-created, but many more conrm preconceived notions—that all resulted from systemic problems sparked working class voters in red states are by government policy and driven by conservative Republicans, for example, stereotypes—either misunderstandings or who deserve outsized credit (or blame, cynical distortions for political gain— depending on your political stance) for far beyond any family’s control.) Donald Trump’s election. Focusing on Beyond that, however, the healing only one group renders vast swaths of any Smarsh has in mind involves the extreme spectrum—be it the electorate or certain polarization and divisiveness that marks levels of the socio-economic strata—invis- the post-2016 election period. Book Tour ible. And that makes rapprochement nigh “ at was denitely in my mind, writing Sept. 18 Wichita impossible. that in early 2018,” Smarsh says. “But in a Sept. 19 Austin, TX “If something I’ve written can validate bigger way, that election and the ssures Sept. 20 Houston, TX the group that feels unseen and open eyes that have been revealed, it’s all just a Sept. 22 St. Louis in the group that has the privilege of oen manifestation of unresolved aspects of Sept. 23 New York, NY being seen,” Smarsh says, “that’s the sweet class structure in this country that have Sept. 24 Washington, D.C. spot I’m going for.” been there all along. Sept. 25 Lawrence In a letter included in the advance “I guess in the bigger scheme of things Oct. 1 Cambridge, MA reader’s copy sent to critics, booksellers I’m talking about validating people who Oct. 2 Wellesley, MA and other opinionmakers, Smarsh says her have felt like their story wasn’t told—I Oct. 3 Kansas City, MO book “is not an argument” but “an hope not to be so presumptuous as to Nov. 12 Columbus, OH invitation to heal.” speak for anyone else, but if someone feels Nov. 13 Cleveland, OH seen, then that’s a healing. If someone feels like they had a stereotype or false narrative Videographer Dan Storey’s dissolved or obliterated, that’s a healing.” coverage of Sarah Smarsh can be Near the end of Heartland, Smarsh tells A willingness to listen. A longing to be seen at kualumni.org/extras. August, “My life’s work was to be heard, heard. and the poor young mother will have a Hard stories oen come with these hard row at that.” things too.h

ISSUE 5, 2018 | 29 by Heather Biele Photographs by Steve Puppe | Illustration by Susan Younger Degree in3 KU Edwards Campus’ accelerated program fast-tracks students for success

hen Eric Fecteau turns 21 next signed up for Degree in 3 when he was a elor’s degree at the Edwards Campus two year, he’ll have far more than a sophomore in high school. Aer watching years later. milestone birthday to celebrate. his two older brothers move away from the e savings can be substantial: For a WHe’s on track to graduate from KU in Kansas City area and rack up the steep freshman pursuing a liberal arts and December 2019 with a degree in business costs associated with traditional four-year sciences degree on the Lawrence campus, administration, thanks to Degree in 3, an college degrees, Fecteau knew he wanted in-state tuition, course fees and books accelerated undergraduate degree path at to explore other options. KU’s accelerated exceed $12,000 for 30 credit hours; room KU Edwards Campus in Overland Park program t the bill. and board can add as much as $14,500. By that helps qualifying students earn a “Degree in 3 allowed me to still be at comparison, Kansas students registered in bachelor’s degree one year early. Fecteau, home and take advantage of the business Degree in 3 can expect to spend an the rst Jayhawk expected to graduate that I’ve got and keep that going, pay for average of $4,100 on tuition, books and from the program, will earn his in two and school as much as I can, and keep costs fees during their rst year at one of the a half—a hey accomplishment for a down,” says Fecteau, who also saves money Kansas City-area community colleges student who already owns his own by living at home with his parents. “All the before transferring to KU Edwards business. KU classes are in the evenings, so I’m still Campus to complete their last two years Fecteau runs Cutting Edge Lawn & able to work and have a lot of freedom of study. By living in the metro area, Landscape, a full-service lawncare and during the day.” students can save even more. landscaping provider in Olathe. e With the Federal Reserve reporting our e program began about four years enterprise began about ve years ago, nation’s outstanding student debt at an ago when the Edwards Campus teamed when he and a friend started mowing all-time high of more than $1.5 trillion, up with Blue Valley Center for Advanced neighbors’ yards to bring in extra cash. Degree in 3 is an especially appealing Professional Studies (CAPS) in Overland Business quickly took o, and Fecteau time- and cost-ecient option for students Park to create an accelerated degree now manages his own routes and has hired interested in pursuing high-demand path that would take advantage of the a part-time employee. For at least eight careers. Rather than committing to a dual credits students were already months of the year, Fecteau works 40 to four-year college degree plan, students in earning in high school, as well as address 55 hours a week, seven days a week while Degree in 3 earn dual credits in high the immediate workforce needs in the earning his KU degree. school, complete an associate’s degree one greater Kansas City area and across the e 2017 Blue Valley West graduate year aer graduating and nish a bach- nation. e program’s rst oering was

ISSUE 5, 2018 | 31 a bachelor’s degree in information formalized in June with a signing event at ensure they’re completing the coursework technology. the Edwards Campus. needed to nish on time. “Students also Since then, Degree in 3 has expanded to “e fact that we had this event where work with their high school counselors include the following degrees: the heads of community colleges were in and their community college counselors, • biotechnology the same room with a number of superin- once they reach that level,” she says. “I tell • business administration tendents and leadership from all these students we’re a three-person team.” • exercise science dierent school districts, I think that was Dual credit courses or concurrent • law and society really unique,” says David Cook, g’96, enrollment options for high school • literature, language and writing PhD’99, vice chancellor at the Edwards students vary from school to school, even • molecular biosciences Campus. “I would venture to say that within the same district, explains • public administration. hasn’t happened before where all of us McEnaney, g’13. “ey’re mostly what you e program also has grown to include were in the same room. And I think it might think of as traditional educations: 10 educational partners in the Kansas City speaks to what everybody thinks is the English composition, college algebra or metro area: power or the potential of this program.” calculus, American history, biology,” she • Blue Valley Schools says. “When you’re looking at one of the • Johnson County Community College auren Roberts McEnaney, Degree in career academies, those get a little more • Kansas City Public Schools 3 adviser and education program speci c, which is great for students.” • Kansas City Kansas Community coordinator at the Edwards Campus, At Blue Valley CAPS, students sign up College explainsL that the name “Degree in 3” is for courses in a variety of disciplines, • KU Edwards Campus derived not only from the three diplomas including biosciences, engineering, • Metropolitan Community College students will earn in three years, but also business, human services, and medicine • Olathe Public Schools from three core elements of the program: and health care, all while learning real- • Raytown Quality Schools educational partners, student services and world, project-based skills. • Shawnee Mission School District industry associates in Kansas City. “We want them emulating whatever • Summit Technology Academy. As soon as students register for Degree their future career choice may be,” says ough Degree in 3 rst started taking in 3, they work closely with McEnaney for Chad Ralston, director of Blue Valley shape several years ago, the program was guidance and academic counseling to CAPS, which has been in Kansas City

32 | KANSAS ALUMNI since 2009 and is the rst of 39 CAPS nonpro t organizations, and area medical her to engage in valuable hands-on labs programs nationwide. “We’re giving them centers and universities, including KU. and health care courses. She nished her an opportunity to try it out, maybe rule it “At the very beginning we learned: Get experience shadowing several local out. at way, before they even get to the the students out of here,” says Ralston, physical therapy professionals, all while university level, they’re able to articulate a d’94, g’98. “Get them into industry; get earning credits toward her undergraduate little bit more clearly what kinds of careers them connected to what’s out there.” degree at KU. might align to their strengths, their Fecteau participated in CAPS his senior Summit Technology Academy (STA) passion and their purpose.” year in high school, taking courses in joined KU Edwards Campus last year as a Ralston explains that all of the CAPS economics and global business and partner in Degree in 3. For the past 20 curriculum is built in partnership with working on a team with two other years, the STEM-based school has been industries, as well as high schools and students to organize a donation drive for preparing students from 30 area high postsecondary learning institutions. at Goodwill in Kansas City. “What was nice schools for high-wage, high-demand means students work directly with local about CAPS is that they tie in the real- careers in engineering, computer science, and global clients, which include small world experience,” he says. “I’ve seen a lot human services and nance, and arts and startup companies, large corporations, of material in my college courses that communications, but it hadn’t yet devel- relates back to CAPS.” oped a health care path. By opting to enroll in Degree in 3, an Kelechi Ofodu, a 17-year-old Missouri Jeremy Bonnesen, director and principal accelerated degree path at KU Edwards resident who signed up for Degree in 3 at STA, was eager to add another degree two years ago, had a similar experience at option to the academy’s portfolio. “With Campus, Eric Fecteau (opposite page) can Summit Technology Academy in Lee’s KU’s tremendous reputation for health devote more time to his lawncare business Summit, Missouri. e 2018 Lee’s Summit care,” he says, “this provides a great while earning his undergraduate degree. High School graduate, who starts classes at opportunity for students. It was a great Lauren McEnaney, David Cook and Carolyn Metropolitan Community College this fall opportunity for us to grow.” McKnight believe the program oers career- and plans to become a physical therapist, STA also participates in the Missouri oriented students in Kansas City a cost- participated in the career academy’s Innovation Campus program, an intensive, ecient way to attend KU. yearlong allied health path, which allowed two-year accelerated degree path that

ISSUE 5, 2018 | 33 requires students to take courses o -site at the local community college and participate in internships as seniors in high school. Bonnesen appreciates that KU o ers a comparable, but less rigid, experience for students. “e nice thing about Degree in 3 is that it provides a little more exibility,” he says. “Students can still go to their high school during their senior year.” Students like Ofodu can also take advantage of Edwards Campus’ MetroRate, which o ers in-state tuition costs for Missouri residents. “at drops my tuition Chad Ralston, director at Blue Valley CAPS in Overland Park, visits with high school students even more,” she says. With one older sister who just com- participating in a bioscience lab (above) and creating a “mockumentary” for a ﬁlmmaking class. pleted law school in California, another in Kelechi Ofodu (opposite), a 17-year-old Degree in 3 student from Lee’s Summit, Missouri, starts medical school at the University of classes at Metropolitan Community College this fall. She’ll take advantage of KU Edwards Missouri-Kansas City and a third earning Campus’ MetroRate to pay in-state tuition costs.

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI a degree in lm from Georgia State solution for students looking to reduce “ e trend that we’ve seen here is that Universitynot to mention twin brothers their college costs. when students engage with a business in high school—it’s important for Ofodu “It’s not for everybody, but there’s a lot partner, be it through a project or a to reduce the cost of her education as of students who are focused on just getting traditional internship, they are very likely much as possible and relieve some of her their degree and moving on in the career to continue that relationship and eventu- parents’ nancial burden by working while world,” says Sopcich, PhD’05, who uses ally create a job opportunity or a future pursuing her degree, something that Fecteau, the rst student to attend JCCC career with that same company,” Chad taking classes at KU Edwards Campus will on the second leg of the Degree in 3 path, Ralston says. allow her to do. as an example. “Degree in 3 isn’t meant to Degree in 3 students are exposed to “My parents do help,” she says. “ ey cannibalize anything; it’s just meant to even more industry professionals once just don’t want us to break our backs doing provide another opportunity for students.” they arrive at KU Edwards Campus. “Most anything; they’d rather break theirs. But By creating degree paths for relevant, of our professors are professors of prac- that makes me want to say, ‘OK, I’ve got to regionally high-demand careers, David tice,” says Carolyn McKnight, director of save up and make my own money, so I can Cook hopes that Kansas City students will community relations and business take a little bit of stress o of them.’” want to stay in the metro area—for work development at the Edwards Campus. or graduate school—aer completing the “ ey’ve been out in the industry working, ith more than 4,000 area high program. “We’re identifying these smart, they come back, get their PhDs and start school students currently talented kids when they’re here and teaching here. ey have great connec- enrolled in dual credit courses exposing them to opportunities locally,” he tions out in the workforce.” Wthrough Johnson County Community says. “Certainly, part of what we’re hoping For students like Eric Fecteau and College in Overland Park, Joe Sopcich, for is keeping great talent close to home.” Kelechi Ofodu, who will graduate from the president of the college, knows the value of e industry partners that students program in just a few short years, those getting a head start on postsecondary work with at professional secondary- connections—and the Degree in 3 education. ough not all of these learning centers like Blue Valley CAPS or experience itself—could create the students will register for Degree in 3, he Summit Technology Academy help ultimate foundation for future considers the program an excellent strengthen those community ties. success.h

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36 | KANSAS ALUMNI Tan Man Returns Campus icon renews friendships at Lawrence birthday bash

ohn Schneider chose his own nothing but shorts and shoes; a popular then as a custodian in the First National birthday—June 21, the explanation was that Tan Man had been in Bank Tower and Lawrence Memorial summer solstice—and for his the Vietnam War and had somehow been Hospital, where he worked for more than 75th he returned to Lawrence exposed to a nerve agent, or was perhaps 40 years, with breaks along the way for an to party with a bunch of his traumatized in combat, and had lost all unsuccessful move to Corpus Christi, oldJ pals. His birthday fell on a ursday sensitivity to extreme temperatures. Texas, and a failed rst attempt at this year, so the celebration was set for “Yeah, I heard that,” Tan Man says with retirement. Saturday, June 23, at Johnny’s Tavern. a chuckle. “Not so.” In 1973, he wandered up to campus. “Today is kind of a Tan Man day,” Perhaps the real explanation was far “To see the girls and guys go by,” observed one of his friends. “It’s beautiful. simpler: Was it merely that Schneider was he explains. “And, it was sunnier up there.” It’s sunny.” a free spirit, doing his own thing, groovin’ O came the shirt and on went the at’s right: Tan Man was back. A bit on the sun? legend. John Schneider bicycled up the overdressed for the occasion, perhaps, He smiles and replies, “Yeah.” Hill; Tan Man rode back down. wearing a Caribbean-blue tank top along “Johnny just wanted to be around with his trademark shorts, rather than chneider was so much of a xture on people,” says longtime family friend Nancy going shirtless, but the matching blue lei S campus then that he appeared in McEwen, who drove in from Augusta for was a nice touch, and Tan Man worked the pizza-joint advertisements and was room with the ease of a celebrity among featured on the kitschy “Surf Kansas” adoring fans, accepting greetings with a postcards. He attended fraternity parties, beaming smile. sometimes invited, sometimes not, and For Jayhawks of a certain generation, during the day he could almost always those of us who roamed campus in the be spotted on a Wescoe Beach bench, 1970s and early 1980s, Tan Man was a leaning back, face tilted toward his constant presence on Wescoe Beach, constant companion, the warm always with his shirt o, even on frigid Kansas sun. ARCHIVES LIBRARY SPENCER RESEARCH winter days. Rumors circulated as befud- He came to Lawrence in 1968, from dled students tried to rationalize his odd Augusta, his hometown. He stayed busy but endearing insistence on wearing with a variety of jobs, rst in restaurants,

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the party. “He loved the sun and Lawrence course, sunned himself on campus. the worst. at’s when they recalled that accepted him. He basically made friends “He was a competitive tanner,” says Jasperson’s fraternity brother David Jervis, everywhere he went.” Lawrence mayor Stuart Boley. “He was c’77, had been close friends with Tan Man, One of those friends in 1978 suggested the king.” so they reached out to Jervis in Wichita. that if Schneider loved the sun so much he “I met Johnny at Harbour Lights tavern should try Texas. Schneider agreed, and a hen college sweethearts Marc, b’78, on Mass Street,” says Jervis, who also made job was arranged for him on the Gulf Wand Celeste Carrier Jasperson, ’79, the trip to Lawrence for his buddy’s Coast. Schneider returned to Lawrence, reconnected in recent years—and married birthday party. “It must have been ’75. and Wescoe Beach, in 1980. this summer—they naturally reminisced We’d sit on the juke box every Saturday “He said the cops hassled him and about their KU days. Poring over party night, and I guess one night he was sitting people weren’t nice, so he came back,” pics, they found one from Phi Gamma there by himself. He looked like an recalls Barney Hubert, c’77, g’88, who met Delta’s 1975 Fiji Island party, with Tan interesting guy, I’d seen him on campus, so Schneider while working an oce job in Man smiling for the camera right along- I thought, ‘I’m going to chat him up and the downtown bank tower. side them. Tan Man kept coming up in see what he’s all about.’ Hubert laughs at the memory of how conversation, so they decided to nd out “ at’s how we became friends, and it’s they became pals: When Schneider what became of the mysterious guy who lasted a long time. John and I have written bumped into Hubert during his evening seemed to occupy an outsized part in letters back and forth for 30 years.” cleaning duties, he’d teasingly call Hubert a their—and others’—campus memories. Jervis told the Jaspersons that Schneider hippie and oer to vacuum his long hair. “We needed to go nd him,” Carrier now lives in Rose Hill, where he’d moved He circulated around town then on an Jasperson recalls, “but we hit dead ends.” in 2011 aer retiring from LMH for good, old red bicycle, which he later traded in When one of Tan Man’s former neigh- to live with his sister, Donna. She died two for a spiy 10-speed, met up with buddies bors in the trailer park behind the hospital years ago, but Schneider still makes her for beers or outings to the movies, and, of said Tan Man might have died, they feared house his home. Aer speaking with

38 | KANSAS ALUMNI Off came the shirt and on went the legend. John Schneider bicycled up the Hill; Tan Man rode back down.

Jervis, the Jaspersons jumped in the car Mike Boresow, d’81, saw the party want to keep with Lawrence today. You and road-tripped from Overland Park to announcement on Facebook. He’d never have to be more accepting of things that Rose Hill, southeast of Wichita; they were met Tan Man, but dashed over from maybe you’ve not experienced before.” delighted to nd Schneider in good health Olathe anyway. e truth, though, is that the campus and spirits and eager to receive visitors. “We saw him so much on campus for all scene wasn’t always entirely welcoming to He shared with them a scrapbook of his those years,” Boresow says, “so I called up John Schneider, and in 1984 he stopped KU days, and when they found out a bunch of my friends and said, ‘We’ve got coming to campus. His decade-long run Schneider’s 75th birthday was soon to go to this.’” on Wescoe Beach was done. approaching, party plans were hatched. Boley, c’77, came to Lawrence from “People didn’t speak to me anymore,” he Johnny’s owner Rick Renfro, b’80, knew Lenexa in 1972. It wasn’t far in distance, says. “ at’s probably the reason.” Schneider as a favored regular of the old but Lawrence of the 1970s was a dierent Schneider retreated into his quiet life far bar, but he’d lost track of him over the planet from what Boley knew in Johnson from Mount Oread, working at the years. When Renfro learned of the request County. People here embraced that hospital and visiting friends. e legend of to host a Tan Man party at Johnny’s, his decade’s spirited lifestyle, none with more Tan Man faded. He was gone from campus rst reaction—as was the case for others easygoing, sunny sincerity than the odd for good. who knew Schneider back in the day— guy who biked up to Wescoe Beach and Any lingering hard feelings, though, had was, “You mean he’s still alive?” en, sat around with his shirt o. long ago dissipated by the time Schneider Renfro says, he became “a little leery.” Was Tan Man, Boley learned, was an integral returned to celebrate his 75th birthday. somebody playing a prank on Schneider? element of campus culture. As mayor, e brilliant summer sun outside was “A lot of the locals knew John,” Renfro Boley hopes John Schneider can remind us beckoning, but so was the opportunity to says. “ ey never called him Tan Man; it of important lessons in civics and civility. greet friends old and new. was always Johnny. He was always well “He was such a wonderful part of “I like it when people want to talk about liked here, and I was worried that it was Lawrence, and for those of us who came those days,” Schneider says. “I like to share maybe a hoax of some kind, making fun of from other places, it was really a good my memories.” him, as some people used to do.” introduction to what Lawrence was,” Boley Schneider talks soly, with a sweet lilt in Assured by the Jaspersons that their says. “Lawrence was so welcoming to him, his voice, but one question in particular intentions were good, Renfro gave his OK, and there are a lot of other places in this perked him up and brought his most and on June 23 he joined a crowd of world where he wouldn’t have had the enthusiastic response. well-wishers at the island-themed bash. reception that he had here. at’s what we Might he one day return to Wescoe Beach? Beaming, Schneider replied, “I don’t know. Might. Never can tell!” So maybe the legend of Tan Man isn’t CHRIS LAZZARINO done aer all. Maybe one ne sunny day there he’ll be, shirtless, a bit paunchier but happy as ever, chatting with friendly college kids while soaking up the rays, a free spirit doing his thing.h

Schneider at his 75th birthday party (left), and in 1982 on Wescoe Beach (opposite), striking his surﬁng-with-a-pizza-box pose that helped stoke the Tan Man legend.

ISSUE 5, 2018 | 39 Association rebrand the program as Kansas Honor Scholars, and in 2017 rolled out a revamped format of a dozen events (down from 36 in 2016). e programs include prominent Scholars honored speakers from the University, an awards ceremony that recognizes each honoree by New program rewards incoming Kansas freshmen name and punch-and-cookie receptions, but no longer feature KU musicians who traveled to each event from Lawrence and complete makeover initiated by the that honored the top 10 percent of every elaborate meals prepared for students and Aprospect of budget cuts that loomed senior class in Kansas—the board formed their families. Also gone are the traditional over the Kansas Honors Program—as it a task force to reconsider KHP’s future. dictionaries, replaced by custom Kansas had been known since 1971—happily “I think it was a good thing, from the Honor Scholar medallions, and students resulted in ve $1,000 scholarships for standpoint that it made us look at the can attend any of the events that suit their high-achieving freshmen from across current program, which had been in schedules and family needs. Kansas. existence since the early 1970s,” says Signicantly, KHP’s many longtime Al Shank, b’77, a member of the Shank, who led the board’s KHP task volunteers and alumni statewide, who for Association’s national Board of Directors force. “So it was not only deciding how to years gave generously of their time and from Liberal, recalls that when it became do it without being a cost burden, but it money, were oered the opportunity to clear that budget cuts facing all of higher also became about, how do we make it continue their nancial contributions by education would imperil the popular more relevant for today’s students and supporting operating costs, a new scholar- KHP—which for decades had relied upon honor scholars?” ship program or both. signicant nancial support from the Aer nearly a year of work by the task “Our goal was to preserve the best of the University for ceremonies across the state force, the Association’s directors voted to program while creating new scholarship opportunities for students pursuing their education at KU,” says Association president Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09. “I DAN STOREY DAN think we found the right balance to sustain the program long term.” With reduced costs and strong support from volunteers who embraced the fresh format, the Association and KU’s Oce of

“Our goal was to preserve the best of the program while creating new scholarship opportunities for students pursuing their education at KU. I think we found the right balance to sustain the program long term.” —Heath Peterson KU Alumni Association President

Scholars (l-r) Javier Mendoza, Ralph Dayacap, Laura Malagon-Palacios, Alexis Villanueva, Raylynn Wartman and Erika Landes. (Not pictured: Lindsay Nichols)

40 | KANSAS ALUMNI Admissions and Scholarships this fall awarded $1,000 scholarships to Kansas Honor Scholars Ralph Dayacap, of Wichita; Erika Landes, of Mulvane; Laura Malagon-Palacios, of Garden City; Lindsay Nichols, of Augusta; and Alexis Villanueva, of Lyons. “I wanted to attend a school that would not be such a struggle to pay for,” says Malagon-Palacios, “so this scholarship helped me choose KU. It was denitely a factor.” Brickler Caram Longino Dayacap, too, says his scholarship sealed his decision to become a Jayhawk. “ese scholarships make a big dierence for some people,” Dayacap says. volunteers, the annual e Association had committed to award honors alumni providing $5,000 in scholarships, regard- who have demonstrated less of alumni donations; support proved extraordinary leadership so strong, however, that the scholarships of their network and the were fully funded without the Association Association. needing to dip into the operating budget Paul Brickler, a’02, a for Kansas Honor Scholars—which this St. Louis native and year adds two sites to the calendar, for a Jayhawk Society annual total of 14 events (see calendar, p. 8). member, has participated “It’s exciting to see that $1,000 in with the St. Louis Network nancial support,” Landes says, “and it’s since 2006. In 2012, he Nolan Pulley KU alumni who make it possible.” became a member of the Also honored this fall were freshmen leadership team, and in Javier Mendoza, of Liberal, and Raylynn 2014, he stepped into his current role as Insurance Crime Bureau and also volun- Wartman, of Ulysses, who were named the network leader. He’s a designer, 3D teers as a YMCA basketball coach. latest recipients of the Herbert Rucker rendering specialist and Building Informa- Andy Nolan, c’95, l’98, a longtime Woodward Memorial Scholarship, which tion Modeling (BIM) expert at Kuhlmann Wichita resident, is president of the for more than 20 years has awarded $1,000 Design Group. Wichita Network and has attended the renewable four-year scholarships to Mary Ann Porch Caram, c’04, j’04, Jayhawk Roundup, the network’s largest Kansas Honor Scholars.h has volunteered with the Oklahoma City fundraising event, for the past 10 years. He Network since 2016 and has attended is a partner at Foulston Siein, where he numerous network events. An annual leads the rm’s recruiting committee and Jayhawk Society member, she is the North the tax and business team. He also served Network leaders American marketing and events senior on the KU School of Law Board of manager for IWC Scha ausen and lives Governors and is a member of Jayhawks Alumni recognized for steadfast in Oklahoma City with her husband, Joel, for Higher Education. Nolan and his wife, service to Association and their son, Jack. Sheryl, are Life Members and have two Chris Longino, b’06, is a fourth-genera- children, Charlie and James. ive dedicated Jayhawks are the tion Jayhawk and Life Member. He lives in Joyce Davis Pulley, c’77, is a third-gener- Frecipients of the 2018 Dick Winter- Tampa with wife, Kelley, and has partici- ation Jayhawk and Life Member. As a mote Volunteer of the Year Award. ey pated in several local network events, member of the Richmond Network in are Paul Brickler, Mary Ann Porch Caram, including a holiday toy drive for foster Virginia, she hosted several KU watch Chris Longino, Andrew Nolan and Joyce children, a food drive to support victims parties before moving to California with Davis Pulley. of Hurricane Irma and a fundraising her husband, Glenn. She currently leads Named for Dick Wintermote, c’51, event to support a local elementary the Sacramento Network and has orga- who served as executive director of the school. He has led the Tampa Network nized several watch parties and other Association from 1963 to 1983 and helped since 2016. Longino is a senior eld alumni events for local Jayhawks. She is a establish a dedicated network of Jayhawk information analyst at the National travel consultant at the TravelStore.h

ISSUE 5, 2018 | 41 Association KU Mentoring Alumni invited to become mentors to fellow Jayhawks

he Alumni Association’s Jayhawk TCareer Network is one step closer to helping students and alumni make professional connections at every life stage. e new initiative, which includes an online campus units to launch the new initiative, assisting students and fellow graduates. mentoring platform, and is currently inviting KU alumni, “ e great thing about the mentoring events that wunite faculty and sta to join the networking platform is anybody who’s not in Lawrence students with alumni platform and participate as mentors. can still connect back to campus in a experts in various elds, During Homecoming week, students will meaningful way” Laclé says. and opportunities for job be asked to join as well. To learn more about the Jayhawk Career shadowing, internships and is summer, Laclé worked closely with Network and to sign up to be a mentor, employment with alumni, is on target for a several campus organizations, particularly visit mentoring.ku.edu.h campuswide launch during Homecoming, those with strong alumni bases, to help Sept. 22-29, says Kristi Durkin Laclé, c’99, spread the word about the new program. who leads the program. She hopes that with the University’s 106th Videographer Dan Storey’s video e Association collaborated with the Homecoming approaching, alumni will University Career Center, the Schools of want to make a meaningful connection about the Jayhawk Career Network Business and Engineering and other with their alma mater and give back by can be seen at kualumni.org/extras.

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42 | KANSAS ALUMNI kansas honor scholar

The Kansas Honor Scholar Program, which recognizes the outstanding academic achievements of Kansas high school seniors, has been a University of Kansas tradition since 1971. Nearly 140,000 students—from all 105 Kansas counties and approximately 360 high schools—have been honored for ranking academically in the top 10 percent of their class.

Last year, more than 3,600 students were recognized at 12 regional ceremonies throughout the state. Two students received the Woodward Scholarship, and ﬁve students received a one-time, $1,000 Kansas Honor Scholar Scholarship, funded entirely by alumni donations. Since 1985, more than 17,000 Kansas Honor Scholars have attended KU.

The program is made possible by KU Endowment, alumni donations and proceeds from the Alumni Association’s Jayhawk license plate program, and allows the University and the Alumni Association to create more scholarship opportunities for students. To see how you can contribute, visit kualumni.org/khs.

A commemorative program that recognizes the 2018-’19 Kansas Honor Scholars will be available for students, parents and schools to order online at kualumni.org/khs. The keepsake program includes the names of the scholars, listed by high school, along with photos from several of the regional events celebrating their achievements. Association

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44 | KANSAS ALUMNI Board of Directors n DIRECTORS TO 2023 Life Members Sasha Flores Boulware, c’98, g’00, n CHAIR Fairway John W. Ballard III, b’73, Overland Park F. Taylor Burch, p’88, g’98, PharmD’09, e Association thanks these Jayhawks, who began their Life Lantana, Texas memberships July 1 through Aug. 31. For information, visit n CHAIR-ELECT Dave B. Roland, e’80, Shorewood, Brenda Roskens Dicus, b’83, Topeka kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957. h Minnesota Eric Edell, c’76, m’81, Rochester, Minnesota Paul F. & Marcia Hahn Stephen F. McCammon n EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE David Hoese, e’86, Chicago, Illinois Anderson Zachary T. Mendenhall John W. Ballard III, b’73, Overland Park Peter Johnston, c’94, l’97, Salina Joe B. Aniello Robin J. & Dara Trum Miles Kevin E. Carroll, assoc., Jupiter, Florida Pamela Gibson Bauer Aaron J. Miller Carrie W. Coulson, b’02, l’05, Senior Sta Members Miami Beach, Florida Crystal L. Bencken Cammie Mitchener n Chancellor Douglas A. Girod, Lawrence PRESIDENT Laurie Lomeli Bishr MacKenzie L. Mitchener Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09 Douglas E. & Linda T. Brooks Kevin M. & Jenlyn Werner Jay Kerutis, c’82, Mesa, Arizona Cory L. Lagerstrom, c’94, g’98, l’98, n Charlotte Burriss Mosier ADMINISTRATION Prairie Village Heather Hawkins, j’06, Executive Egemen K. & Rebecca Kristen A. Mosier Janet Lusk Murﬁn, d’75, Wichita Assistant & Coordinator, Donor Crosthwait Cetinkaya Mark L. & Jane E. Mosley Dave B. Roland, e’80, Shorewood, Relations James & Sandi Coast John D. Mullies Minnesota Scott M. & Tasha Pearson Stephen C. Palmer n ALUMNI & STUDENT Cook David C. & Jennifer L. n DIRECTORS TO 2019 MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS Ed Coulter Peterson Carrie W. Coulson, b’02, l’05, Brad Eland, b’09, g’11, Vice Rebecca Andes Crain Mathew A. Petersen & Miami Beach, Florida President, Alumni & Student Cory L. Lagerstrom, c’94, g’98, l’98, Programs Sarah N. DeVries Amanda Q. Gress Prairie Village Cindy S. Dietrich Christopher A. Post n PUBLIC AFFAIRS Cindy Emig Penzler, c’81, m’85, Dinah V. Dosdos George E. & Jeannene E. Rider Jennifer Sanner, j’81, Senior Vice Lawrence President, Public Aairs; Secretary Emmet J. Eby Christopher E. Schild Albert I. Shank Jr., b’77, Liberal Kenneth E. Emley Daniel R. Schmidt II Timothy T. Trump, b’80, l’83, Tulsa, n DEVELOPMENT Karoline K. Felts Lynn Madras Schwaab Oklahoma LaRisa Chambers, c’95, Rebecca D. Goenner Shawna Seed Senior Development Director Tracee J. Hamilton Troy W. Shaw n DIRECTORS TO 2020 Missy Hodge McCarthy, c’86, s’88, n DONOR RELATIONS Brett Harlow & Annabelle G. J. Strom Sloan Rancho Mirage, California Angela Storey, b’04, g’07, Oss Annette M. Smith Ellen O. Remsing, c’00, Manhattan, Vice President Kesa Swadley Herlihy Lisa Perry Snodgrass Kansas n Rich & Jenifer Dreiling Matthew J. Thierolf FINANCE Dave B. Roland, e’80, Shorewood, Dwight Parman, Senior Vice Holderman Savannah Thomas Minnesota President, Finance and Human David L. & Kerri Shafer Bradley W. & Karen K. Trees Resources; Treasurer Holtzman John T. Tricks n DIRECTORS TO 2021 Ryan Colaianni, c’07, j’07, Arlington, Annette C. Jardon Masayo & Jeannine Kreker n HOSPITALITY SERVICES Virginia Jerey L. Johnson Watanabe Bryan Greve, Senior Vice President, Jay Kerutis, c’82, Mesa, Arizona Hospitality Cameron T. King Michael D. Watts Janet Lusk Murﬁn, d’75, Wichita n Richard C. & Rebecca Lake John S. Weaver Portia Kibble Smith, c’78, COMMUNICATIONS King Kristen Weiter Webb Overland Park David Johnston, j’94, g’06, Vice Kelly G. Knopp Kirk A. Whitmer President, Strategic Communications n DIRECTORS TO 2022 Ryan C. & Erika K. Knopp Steven K. Wiens & Digital Media Steve M. Dillard, c’75, Wichita Deborah George Ramirez Brad T. Williams Michael C. Flowers, c’77, Apollo n MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS Koch Adam C. Yoerg Beach, Florida Teri Harris, Vice President, Nikki Koppers Michael J. Happe, j’94, Eden Prairie, Membership, Marketing James F. Kreycik Minnesota & Business Development W.P. Leonard Rosa Aguirre Mitchell, s’85, Elkhart n RECORDS Stuart D. Lindeman & Anne Keturah Harding Pohl, f’04, g’08, Corkle-Lindeman Bill Green, Senior Vice President, Findlay, Ohio Information Services Je Long Adam J. Wray, c’93, Medina, Stefanie Shackelford, Vice President, James F. & Bonnie S. Lowe Washington Alumni Records Juliene A. Maska

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52 | KANSAS ALUMNI Paul Pierce, ’99, will be inducted in the Aaron Swarts, b’00, c’00, g’01, is Park, where she makes her home. Kansas Sports Hall of Fame during a 00 assistant director of career services ceremony this fall in Wichita. He played at Houston Baptist University. He and his Emilie Hagen, a’02, lives in San basketball for three seasons at KU before wife, Lacey, live in League City, Texas. 02 Francisco, where she’s associate being dra ed by the Boston Celtics in director at Atelier Ten. She leads the 1998. He became a 10-time NBA All-Star Rodney Hanley, PhD’01, is president group’s daylight practice. and, in 2008, an NBA champion. Paul, 01 of Lake Superior State University in Susan Romine Harvey, d’02, g’06, who is popularly known as “e Truth,” Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. PhD’09, lives in Lawrence, where she’s an retired from professional basketball in James Krause, b’01, works at LoanDe- assistant professor of health, sport and 2017. pot in Foothill Ranch, California, where exercise sciences at KU. In April she Darrin Tangeman, c’99, g’18, is chief he’s an underwriter. received the University’s 2018 Faculty administrative ocer at Pueblo West Andrea Troutman Seimears, b’01, g’03, Excellence in Service Learning Award. Metropolitan District in Pueblo, Colorado. owns Cloud Tree Accounting in Overland Beau Hudson, j’02, is principal at B3

PROFILE by Julie Mettenburg STEVE PUPPE (2) STEVE Architect’s eye led Frick mostly regulars looking for a good cup of Joe,” Frick says. “At night, it’s wonderful: to her dream adventure It’s a wide array of people,” including s a student with a new driver’s license, visitors on cross-country treks and Kansas AKate Frick set out on country roads Citians “looking for something o the outside Lawrence to see where they would beaten track.” take her. She was intrigued by the Kansas She and Marchesi live at the inn, to help vernacular and architecture, as a young ensure the business pencils out. Finding artist and future architect herself. the right enterprises to operate in the A small 1879 inn in Tonganoxie caught historic building has been a challenge and her imagination. Frick learned it had been a joy, for which Frick’s background in operated by a woman, Mollie Myers, for its architecture is a guide. rst 30 years. “I le for a while, and would “When you have a mindset with the come back for a drive to check on old intention of designing, you buildings, and that was an old building design everything around you, that piqued my interest.” which for me looks like e- “The passion originated with the A er earning a master’s in architecture ciency or creating beauty or building for sure,” says Kate Frick of and working as a design-build contractor, presentation. I’m always creating the historic inn she made her home Frick, g’09, bought the old inn with her something that challenges my and business, but it extends to her partner, Stephanie Marchesi, c’05. ey perceptions. I think that’s what ﬂair for designing seasonal cocktails operate it as e Myers Hotel Bar. good design always does, like a lemon basil gimlet using herbs “e building has had a lot of incarna- regardless of the form it takes.” from an on-site garden. tions,” Frick says. “A hotel, a restaurant, a Case in point: Frick has been hair salon, a banquet hall: It’s played a lot getting noticed for, of all things, of dierent roles.” her cocktails—botanical creations Now they’re shaping it into a business informed by her experience interning on a eating, which is to see what you have that serves the community and preserves a Vermont organic farm. Whether morning around you and what’s fresh, because that’s piece of the past while charting a future for coee cocktails or more traditional fare, what’s going to taste best,” she says. “So the old building. ey oer Airbnb rentals, her mixology features produce from area having a sensitivity to what’s available in cocktails with a weekend charcuterie farmers and from her on-site garden Kansas and working with farmers to create board—serving local veggies, fruits, and plots in the Tonganoxie Public a dierent drinking culture is, I think, the cheeses and baguettes—and daily coee Library community garden. future of drinking.”h with pastries. “It felt right to me that you would —Mettenburg, j’91, is a Lawrence “During the day, we’re the local hangout, approach cocktailing the same way as freelance writer.

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Development. He and his wife, Diana, the center since last September. Topeka. Megan is a senior graphic make their home in Andover. Laura Clark, j’05, is associate director of designer at Pennington & Company in tutoring at ArborBridge, an SAT and ACT Lawrence. Adam Charlsen, c’03, is an attorney test-prep service in Los Angeles. She 03 at Husch Blackwell in Omaha. recently returned to the United States aer Meghan Bahn, g’06, lives in Heather Gibbs, g’03, an assistant teaching English in Madrid for the past ve 06 Lawrence, where she’s a talent professor of dietetics and nutrition at KU years. acquisition recruiter at the Results Medical Center, in May won the 2018 Stata Mark Ernst, e’05, is an estimator at Companies. Norton Distinguished Teaching Award. Merrill Steel. He lives in Olathe. Jessica Fergen, j’06, is modern-media Nick Krizmanic, c’05, directs gas sales at director at Brown-Forman Corporation. Katherine Crowe, c’04, received the Mueller Company. He and Kylee Welling She makes her home in Floyds Knobs, 04 Robin Morgan Outstanding Krizmanic, f’05, creative director at Indiana. Woman Faculty Member Award for Meredith Corp., make their home in Reed Knobbe, e’06, g’18, is a project promoting and enhancing the concerns of Indianola, Iowa. engineer at MorningStar Partners in Fort women at the University of Denver, where Andrew Walter, d’05, g’18, teaches at Worth, Texas. she’s curator of special collections and Shawnee Mission East High School in Kelcie Longaker, c’06, l’09, works at O t archives in the university libraries. Prairie Village. Kurman in Fulton, Maryland, where she’s Cody Wamsley, b’04, l’08, is an associate J. Bret Winblad, e’05, m’09, is a diagnos- principal attorney. attorney at Dorsey & Whitney in Minne- tic and interventional radiologist at apolis, Minnesota. MidSouth Imaging in Germantown, Jessica Alexander Hartsaw, c’07, Tennessee. 07 lives in New Caney, Texas, with her Saida Boniﬁeld, c’05, g’10, is husband, Kennith, and their daughter, 05 the new director of KU’s Center BORN TO: Sophia. Jessica is a psychotherapist in for Sexuality and Gender Diversity. Megan Meyers Starbuck, f’05, and her private practice. She has served as interim director of husband, Brett, son, Grayden, March 26 in Paola Galaviz Ponce, PharmD’07, is a

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clinical pharmacist at Wesley Medical Chad Davis, c’09, ’13, recently nished director at Friends University in Wichita. Center in Wichita. his radiology residency at the University of He previously served as athletics director Missouri-Kansas City and has started an and vice president of student development John Comerford, PhD’08, is interventional radiology fellowship at at Hesston College. 08 president of Otterbein University in Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Brian Schmid, j’10, g’18, is a senior Westerville, Ohio. Kevin Kalm, d’09, is an athletic trainer at marketing manager at Cox Automotive. Jaime Hornbaker Dupy, j’08, directs Pittsburg State University. He and his wife, He lives in Mission. investor and strategic development for the Morgan, live in Pittsburg. Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce. Will Seitter, e’09, works for PRIER Ashley Montgomery Billam, c’11, j’11, She and Matt, b’07, g’08, live in Wichita Products in Grandview, Missouri, where 11 l’18, makes her home in Kansas City, with their two children, Hailey and Adam. he’s a research and development engineer. where she’s an associate attorney at Jason McGlynn, b’08, is vice president of Benjamin Smith, g’09, is an analyst at Shamberg Johnson & Bergman. strategic planning, investor relations and MAK Capital in New York City. Timothy Cooper, c’11, is a cooling tower treasury at Midstates Petroleum. He and Beth Zupec, c’09, lives in Chicago, specialist at Data Power Technology his wife, Ashley, make their home in Bixby, where she’s an assistant business represen- Group in Omaha. Oklahoma, with their two children, Ronan tative at United Scenic Artists Local USA Austin Falley, j’11, g’16, manages and Harper. 829. development at the International City/ Alexander Treaster, f’08, g’18, directs County Management Association in communications at Second Presbyterian Lauren Cunningham, j’10, g’17, g’18, Washington, D.C. Church in Kansas City. He resides in 10 directs communications for KU Jade Freeman, l’11, makes his home in Prairie Village. School of Business. She and Ryan Wag- Needham Heights, Massachusetts, where goner, a’11, creative services manager at he’s an account executive at WLNE-TV/ Lisa Chauvin Bollinger, c’09, l’12, is the Spencer Museum of Art, live in ABC 6. 09 a claims attorney at AmeriTrust in Lawrence. Brianne Pfannenstiel, c’11, j’11, was Overland Park. Paul Ramseyer, g’10, is the new athletics promoted to chief politics reporter at the

56 | KANSAS ALUMNI Des Moines Register, where she has April at the Great Plains Ecotourism Sarah Bubash Thomas, ’12, teaches worked since 2015. She and Joe Preiner, Symposium in Kearney, Nebraska. He’s essential skills at Champaign Unit 4 c’10, j’10, live in Des Moines. assistant professor of geography at Schools in Champaign, Illinois, where she Northwest Missouri State University in lives with her husband, Eric. Jonathan Ahrens, b’12, g’13, was Maryville. Janene Gier Wood, j’12, ’18, manages 12 promoted to manager in the business Kirin Arnold Dowden, j’12, is a producer digital sales at Great Plains Media in advisory services group at RubinBrown, a at Cosmo Street, a Kansas City rm that Lawrence. national accounting and consulting rm. specializes in commercials and content for He works in the St. Louis o ce. TV and web. MARRIED Daren Chesbrough, b’12, g’13, works at Sarah Salazar Huxall, d’12, a former KU Marissa Rittof, j’12, l’15, and Cory Bell, RubinBrown in Kansas City. He was soccer player, was inducted in the Athletic ’12, May 5 in Overland Park, where they recently promoted to manager in the Hall of Fame at Broken Arrow High make their home. Marissa is an assistant assurance services group. School in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. She district attorney with the Johnson County Brett Chloupek, PhD’12, presented in resides in Tulsa. District Attorney’s O ce in Olathe.

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Machen relishes rewards four years,” he says. “And, 35 years of small-town medicine later …” Machen is a partner in Quinter’s COURTESY KU MEDICAL CENTER KU COURTESY ichael Machen, in July honored as Bluestem Medical along with MKansas Family Physician of the Year physicians Doug, m’03, and Shelly by the Kansas Academy of Family Physi- Steeples Gruenbacher, c’95, m’99, and cians, greets his work days with a clarity of they’ll be joined next year by another purpose that results from forging the right pair of School of Medicine Salina career in the right place and never graduates. e dynamic physicians’ doubting a minute of it. group reects the vigor of Gove “I get up in the morning and look in the County Medical Center, which draws mirror and I have no idea what I’m going employees from ve counties to ll its to do that day, from delivering babies and 160 jobs. taking care of major trauma, to taking care Health care in Quinter—pop. of ear infections and runny noses,” says 960—is so good, Machen says, that Michael Machen says he’s energized by medical Machen, c’77, m’83. “But, I know I’m former residents who might have students he hosts: “They’re bright-eyed, they’re going to have good people to work with spent years working in distant states excited, everything they see is incredible to them, and and I’m going to have people who really oen move back for the ease of access that kind of ﬂakes o on you.” care helping me out. at makes a big to medical care. dierence.” “To have a vibrant medical Machen and his wife, Susan Schirmer community, it means everything,” He is proud of KU’s record of educating Machen, ’83, Alumni Association Presi- Machen says. “at—and a good school primary care physicians (95th percentile dents Club members, decided aer he system—means a town survives and nationally), producing doctors working in completed his family practice residency in thrives.” rural settings 10 to 15 years aer gradua- Tulsa to accept an oer to join Quinter’s Machen is a champion not just for tion (96th percentile) and family medicine Gove County Medical Center. He owed Quinter and Gove County, but for all of physicians (98th percentile). four years of service in an underserved Kansas—specically, primary-care “If you look at primary care placement Kansas community in exchange for his education that lls gaps in underserved and the percentage of graduating students School of Medicine scholarship, and the areas across the state. He has served as a who are placed in rural areas, it’s huge. Machens gured Quinter was probably as preceptor to more than 150 KU medical You don’t want to train the physicians and good as anywhere to check that box before students and for 20 years has directed the just have them leave the state, and we’re moving into the next phase of his career. preceptorship program for the School of doing that. We’re successful in keeping “We gured we could do this for Medicine’s Northwest Kansas Network. them here.”h

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Help us get in touch with your future Jayhawk: interested.ku.edu Kaston Anderson-Carpenter, g’13, including Starting and Managing a Pennsylvania. ey make their home in 13 PhD’15, is an assistant professor of Nonpro t Organization: A Legal Guide, Wilmington, Delaware, where she’s an psychology at Michigan State University in which was published last year. associate attorney at Richards, Layton & East Lansing, where he lives. Kylee Kennedy, b’16, lives in Topeka, Finger. Virginia Brown, j’13, is a senior consul- where she’s a communication specialist at tant at Pennington & Company in Westar Energy. Amy Bartle, g’17, is a learning-solu- Lawrence. She commutes from Roeland Jacqueline LaBarge, d’16, g’18, coordi- 17 tion manager at Sprint. She lives in Park. nates events for the Kansas City Chiefs. Lawrence. Maggie Fey Cardonell, m’13, is a She resides in Overland Park. Maggie Anderson Bowen, b’17, was pediatric ophthalmologist at University of Daniel Peterson, g’16, is an academic promoted from director of operations to Missouri Health Care in Columbia, where advisor at KU. He lives in Lawrence. assistant coach of Kansas volleyball. She she makes her home with Bradford, c’09, Marcy Shadden, s’16, s’18, is team lead was a setter for the Jayhawks from 2012 to m’13, and their daughter, Caroline. at Comprehensive Mental Health Services ’16, and helped the team reach their rst Aadish Gupta, e’13, is a eld engineer at in Independence, Missouri. She has two Final Four in 2015 and win the Big 12 title Halliburton in Alberta, Canada. sons, Tyree and Terrell. in 2016. Alex Hyler, e’13, resides in Christians- Megan Teahan, e’16, makes her home in Erin Lanigan, e’17, lives in Huntsville, burg, Virginia, where she’s a research Glendale, California, where she’s a Alabama, where she’s a materials engineer scientist and engineer at CytoRecovery soware engineer at the Walt Disney for NASA at Marshall Space Flight Center. Inc. Company. Marc Nunes, l’17, works at Rose, Klein Zachary Logan, c’13, lives in Kansas Elizabeth Weis, b’16, is a district service & Marias in Ontario, California, where City, where he’s a senior account manager and parts manager at Toyota Motor North he’s an associate attorney who specializes at Lockton Companies. America in San Ramon, California. in workers’ compensation. Doug Quinones, c’13, is a professional Dominic Pitts, e’17, makes his home in golfer. He makes his home in Medford, MARRIED New York City, where he’s a soware Oregon. Kinsey McKenrick, l’16, to David engineer for Google. Lenehan, April 14 in Honey Brook, Roseann Pluretti, g’17, is a visiting Lydia Young, c’14, j’14, was pro- 14 moted to earned-media manager at MBB Agency, an advertising rm in Kansas City.

Callista Buchen, PhD’15, assistant 15 professor of English and creative writing at Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana, received the Faculty Excellence in Scholarship Award at the college’s com- mencement ceremonies in May. Eryn Doran-McHenry, e’15, is a mechanical engineer at Arup in San Francisco. Amanda Gress, c’15, g’18, directs the early childhood team at the Kansas Department of Education in Topeka. She commutes from Lawrence. Mary Hauder, a’15, lives in Dallas, where she’s art director at Sliquid.

Krista Eckels, h’16, g’18, who 16 recently received her master’s degree in occupational therapy from KU, in May received the James P. Cooney Leadership Award. Bruce Hopkins, l’16, is an attorney and author in Kansas City. He has written more than 30 books on nonprot law,

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assistant professor at Hamilton College in Grove, California, where he’s a meteorolo- her husband, Sam, live in Ulysses. Clinton, New York. gist for the U.S. Navy. Brenton Del Chiaro, c’18, is a hitting Matthew Chomicky, g’18, is a geo- coach for the Milwaukee Brewers. He and Thomas Apuzzo, h’18, lives in graphic information systems (GIS) his wife, Lindsay, have a son, Beckett. 18 Leawood, where he’s a consultant at specialist at Black & Veatch in Kansas City. Abby Marsh Dillow, c’18, is a path nder Cerner. Ashley Coman, ’18, is a vocal-music scout at United Service Organizations Inc. Dua’a Alwawi, ’18, and Ahmad Bakeer, teacher at Topeka High School. in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. She lives in ’18, live in Kansas City with their son, Cailin Coker, j’18, coordinates email Alexandria with her husband, Justin, and Qutaibah, who turns 1 in September. marketing at MMGY Global in Kansas their son, Christopher. Sarah Bethel, e’18, is a product design City. Megan Docherty, g’18, is an intensive- engineer at Amazon. She makes her home Lonnie Colbert, g’18, is a cyber-opera- needs teacher at International School Basel in Bellevue, Washington. tions ocer in the U.S. Army. He lives in in Reinach, Switzerland. Jesse Bunge, g’18, is a vocal-music Grovetown, Georgia, with his wife, Jayce Donnelly, c’18, works at Shamrock teacher at Eagle County Schools in Montia. Trading Corp. in Overland Park, where Gypsum, Colorado. Jared Coltharp, e’18, lives in Overland he’s a client operations specialist. Judith Bunting, DNP’18, is a psychiatric Park, where he’s an electrical engineer at Tara Dunn, g’18, lives in Harrison, mental health and family nurse practitio- Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Nebraska, with her husband, Josh, and ner at Katie’s Way in Manhattan. Technologies. their two sons, Jesse and Seth. She’s a Elizabeth Carroll, d’18, teaches at Jack Cozzi, e’18, is an engineer at MGA special-education coordinator for Sioux Douglass Elementary School in Kansas Research in Troy, Michigan. County Schools. City. Mackenzie Cremeans, PhD’18, works at Janee Osborn Duran, c’18, is a case Rebecca Cates, n’18, is an introductory Geosyntec Consultants in Boca Raton, manager at Arrowhead West in Dodge sta nurse at Children’s Mercy Hospitals Florida, where she’s a senior sta geologist. City. She lives in Cimarron with her and Clinics in Kansas City. Kimberly Darrough-Hayden, s’18, is a husband, Dallas, and their son, Easton. Rodney Chai, g’18, resides in Paci c counselor at Ulysses High School. She and Kaylee Edwards, s’18, works at Ameri-

60 | KANSAS ALUMNI can Century Investments in Kansas City, Chelsey Faulkner, c’18, is a research director at the Kansas Commission on where she’s a client services representative. assistant at a clinical and forensic neuro- Disability Concerns in Topeka. She lives in Mission with her husband, psychology rm in Brea, California. Shane Garrison, g’18, is an audit Leon, and their son, Leon III, who just Gabrielle Finkelstein, c’18, is a costume associate at Grant ornton in Overland turned 1. rental specialist at Kansas City Costume in Park. Abigail Eisenhutt, s’18, is a day-treat- Raytown. Nicholas Geidner, b’18, lives in Antioch, ment specialist at Cornerstones of Care in Haley Flickinger, c’18, resides in Illinois, where he’s an accountant at Uline. Kansas City. Wichita, where she’s a research technician David Goodman, c’18, works in sales at Maria Ernst, j’18, lives in Geneva, at Wichita State University. Internet Brands in El Segundo, California. Illinois, where she’s a customer service Rebecca Fowler, b’18, makes her home Jacob Hartley, g’18, teaches in the North coordinator at ShopperTrak. in Overland Park, where she’s a manage- Kansas City School District. He makes his Garrett Farlow, c’18, j’18, is a second ment consulting associate at RSM US, an home in Gladstone. lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He’s based in audit, tax and consulting rm. Joshua Herzog, g’18, is a U.S. Army Alabama. Martha Gabehart, g’18, is executive operations ocer at Fort Bliss, Texas. He

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Stevens brews up a hit with Also awkward is the JEFF STEVENS COURTESY nonalcoholic craft beer prospect of ordering and drinking the mass-mar- s a veteran of the hotly competitive keted NA beers belched Aworld of beer marketing, Je Stevens out by North America’s knew that untapped beer niches no longer big breweries. Not only exist; then a few London colleagues shared do they fail to deliver their research on England’s market for anything close to an nonalcoholic cra beer. authentic beer “I immediately got it,” Stevens, j’91, Life experience, but Member, says from the St. Louis head- it’s embarrassing quarters of his Wellbeing Brewing Co., when a grumpy Je Stevens says he regularly hears from Wellbeing patrons which brews and distributes nonalcoholic bartender has to who ﬁnally feel comfortable socializing: “All of sudden, cra beer. “I understood every angle of it. hunt down a there’s this idea of being able to connect over beers again.” It felt very comfortable to me.” dusty six pack. Stevens understood every angle because “As a person he’d been marketing beer for decades who doesn’t without drinking it: He was 24 when he drink alcohol, you’re an underserved Working in partnership with O’Fallon gave up alcohol for good. market,” Stevens says. “at’s why, with Brewery, Wellbeing’s secret is to rst brew He says he never felt uncomfortable this product, from day one, I totally “fully nished beer,” then “gently remove navigating social and professional situa- understood its role. It’s going to give the alcohol in a vacuum at room tempera- tions that included beer, wine and people who don’t drink something fun and ture, so nothing is ever boiled, nothing is cocktails; others, even if well-intentioned, exciting to order so they feel like they’re ever ruined.” were not always as accepting. there to have as much fun as anyone else.” Now that he’s brewing his own, Stevens “I’ve been there so many times where Stevens and his wife, Genevieve Barlow, can nally experience the cra beer everyone orders some amazing drink or founded the company in January 2017 and explosion that he’d previously missed. some killer new cra beer, and you order launched Hellraiser Dark Amber and “NA beers are aerthoughts for brewers whatever they have, a Diet Coke, and Heavenly Body Golden Wheat a year later. that brew alcohol beer. All we focus on is there’s this awkward situation where they He says that while some wholesalers and this. at’s why we have a brand called think, ‘Is it OK if I drink in front of you? distributors are tough sells on the allure of Hellraiser, because we literally wanted Are you going to be OK?’ nonalcoholic cra beer, retailers like Total everyone to know, ‘I’m here to raise “And then you’ve just killed some buzz, Wine & More, Whole Foods, Hy-Vee and as much hell as you; I’m just not going which you didn’t want to.” Schnuck Markets “instantly get it.” to drink.’”h

ISSUE 5, 2018 | 61 Class Notes and his wife, Lauren, live in El Paso. Jose Leon, c’18, directs public works for Elizabeth Schraeger Hirt, c’18, teaches the city of Roeland Park. kindergarten at St. John Catholic School in Megan Lewis, g’18, is a club host for Lawrence. She commutes from Olathe. Sporting Kansas City. Robert Hisle, g’18, is a teacher in Brandon Lombardino, c’18, b’18, is a Topeka, where he lives with Kayleen business specialist at Cerner in Kansas Fleming Hisle, d’10, g’12. at First Call in Kansas City. City. He commutes from Lawrence. Ashley Hocking, j’18, is a communica- Tanner Hyland, g’18, makes his home in Debabrata Majhi, g’18, is a research tions specialist at KU School of Law. New York City, where he’s a designer at informatics developer. He resides in Megan Utter Hocking, e’18, is a design Woods Bagot. Overland Park. engineer at Saint Gobain in Ravenna, Kristin Considine Ianno, g’18, lives in Jennifer Manka, s’18, works for Johnson Ohio. She makes her home in Uniontown Dubuque, Iowa, with her husband, Philip, County in the department of human with her husband, Nicholas. and their son, Luke, who turns 1 in services. She and her husband, Keith, live Sarah Hogan, e’18, works at Henderson October. in Shawnee and have two children, Caleb Engineers in Overland Park, where she’s a Nicholas Jenia, e’18, works as a code and Athena. mechanical designer. consultant at FSC Inc. in Overland Park. Quentin McClung, b’18, is a supply Stephanie Paulsen Honn, g’18, is a Dylan Jones, c’18, is a eld director on chain supervisor at JCPenney in Lenexa. media strategist at Meredith Corp. She and the committee to elect Steve Watkins, Joseph McConnell, c’18, is a second her husband, Jesse, live in West Des who’s running for U.S. Congress. lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He and his Moines, Iowa. Alex Kong, PharmD’18, lives in Law- wife, Anne, live in Council Blu s, Iowa. Kailey Horosz, d’18, teaches rst grade rence, where he’s a researcher at the Access Kelley McQuillen, a’18, lives in Los at Madison Elementary School in Gardner. to Medicine Foundation. Angeles, where she’s a presentation Ryan Hunt, b’18, resides in Wichita, Jaclyn Landis Hall LeMaster, g’18, designer at MullenLowe. where he’s a business development analyst teaches special education at OK Elemen- Nolan Medley, b’18, is an analyst at at Koch Industries. tary School in Wichita, where she makes American International Group. He makes Jason Hurd, s’18, is a recovery advocate her home with her husband, Jeremy. his home in Topeka.

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kustudentalumni.org Alexandra Krzemian Mejia, g’18, Sarah Murphy, g’18, makes her home in speech-language-hearing at KU. produces and edits video for Sporting Wichita, where she’s a senior accountant at Rose Perkins, g’18, teaches at State Kansas City. Koch Industries. Street Elementary School in Topeka. Rose-Bertine Mercier, d’18, is a research Tammy Nguyen, e’18, is a chemical Laveda Peterlin, PhD’18, lives in assistant at KU Medical Center. She engineer at Honeywell International in Leavenworth, where she’s an assistant resides in Kansas City. Kansas City. professor of digital communications at the Kayla Moore, g’18, is an associate wealth Edward Nixon, g’18, lives in Port University of Saint Mary. advisor at Mariner Wealth Advisors in Orchard, Washington, where he’s a Amanda Sewell Prosser, g’18, coordi- Overland Park. lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. nates special projects at Kansas Healthcare Joseph Muiller, g’18, is an administra- Kyle Oglesbee, b’18, is an inside-sales Collaborative in Topeka. tive fellow with the University of Kansas adviser at Spring Venture Group in Rebecca Reilly, e’18, is a civil engineer Health System. He and his wife, Lisa, live Kansas City. in training at Black & Veatch in Lake in Lenexa with their daughter, Julia, who Kristin Grosche Pedersen, g’18, Oswego, Oregon. just turned 1. is a clinical associate professor of Brogan Reitz, e’18, resides in Houston,

PROFILE by Heather Biele

Alumna’s graduation Pettersson and her husband, Jeremy, enlisted the help of an occupational

is a family victory SHANNON PETTERSSON COURTESY therapist, who visited their home in Utah hen Shannon Pettersson was a and showed them ways to meet their son’s Wyoung girl, the second oldest in a special needs. Pettersson was intrigued by family of six children in Orem, Utah, she the interventional assistance they received suered from an undiagnosed vision and began researching options for a career disorder. But rather than let it hinder her in occupational therapy. KU’s graduate ability to learn and participate in activities, program topped the list. she developed new skills to compensate. “Everything seemed to point toward “It didn’t get in the way of me being Kansas,” she says. “We just got in the car “It’s very fulﬁlling,” Shannon Pettersson says of successful,” insists Pettersson, who nally and drove, hoping that it would work out.” her job as a pediatric occupational therapist. “I got her rst pair of glasses when she was A er all, Pettersson didn’t think things will be helping a lot of parents who are in the 26. “It just meant that I had to adapt.” could get worse. e family, which same place that I was six years ago.” Years later, Pettersson’s drive to succeed included newborn daughter Kylee, had and overcome struggles continues to pay been struggling to make ends meet a er o. In May, the 30-year-old wife and Danny was diagnosed with a congenital KU, or working more hours and having mother of two earned her master’s degree heart condition and needed surgery. more money for food,” Pettersson says. in occupational therapy from KU and Petterson’s husband had been laid o a er e family pushed through, getting by landed a job at Reach Pediatric erapy in only a few months in a new job. on just two meals a day for the next eight Houston, where she’ll work with children But while a move to the Midwest—and months, until Pettersson was accepted into who suer from a wide range of challenges the hope of Pettersson’s acceptance into KU’s master of occupational therapy and disorders, including autism. graduate school—seemed promising, the program. Her graduation this year was a It’s a job that seems handpicked for family’s diculties continued. Her celebration for the entire family. Pettersson. When her son, Danny, was 2 husband’s new sales job required long “I would never say, ‘When I graduate,’” years old he was diagnosed with Asperger’s hours and barely paid the bills. Pettersson, says Pettersson, who’s saving for a down syndrome, a condition on the autism who was still trying to nish her under- payment on a house and has promised her spectrum. “He struggled a lot,” says graduate degree online while taking care children a dog. “It would always be, ‘When Pettersson, h’16, g’18. “He had a lot of of two young children, took on a part-time we graduate,’ because it was a family eort. meltdowns, a lot of tantrums. We had job to help. Even then, they could only “We had to have a lot of faith and hope, diculty with feeding and dressing and aord two modest meals a day. even when things didn’t look like they riding in the car. I didn’t realize that so “At that point I had to choose between were going to turn out. We just couldn’t many things were uncomfortable for him.” nishing my degree so I could apply to fail. We had to keep trying.”h

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For the latest dates and detailed trip descriptions, visit kualumni.org/travel or call 800-584-2957. where he’s an engineer at Exxon Mobil Aliana Souder, j’18, is a national stylist BORN TO: Corp. at Trunk Club in Chicago. Zach Butler, c’18, and his wife, Abbie, Jeani Rice-Cranford, g’18, is a science Deandre Steele, c’18, lives in Lawrence, daughter, Saydie, March 17 in Artesia, lab technician at Nashville State Commu- where he’s a correctional o cer at Douglas New Mexico, where Zach directs human nity College in Waverly, Tennessee, where County Department of Criminal Justice resources at J.S. Ward & Sons. she lives with her partner, Sandra. Services. He has a son, Braylon, who Ashton Lee Kendall, ’18, and her Maria Richardson, ’18, teaches Spanish turned 1 in May. husband, Lee, daughter, Kenlee, April 26 at Bonner Springs High School. Stephanie Suppes, g’18, is an elemen- in Pratt. Ashton is a physical therapist at Laura Sadowski, s’18, lives in Dodge tary school teacher in Hutchinson, where Key Rehab. City, where she’s a therapist at Compass she lives with her husband, Ryan, and their Stephen Moll, m’18, and his wife, Behavioral Health. children, Madison, Makenzie and Lincoln. Hayley, son, Lincoln, Dec. 22, in Salina, Chanel Scott, c’18, is a human-rights Benjamin Tschudy, d’18, works in where Stephen is a resident physician. assistant for the city of St. Paul, partner services at Jayhawk IMG Sports Melissa Gomez Mulich, PharmD’18, Minnesota. Marketing in Lawrence. and her husband, Dustin, son, Cohen, Ashley Shepherd, e’18, is an o cer in Lauren Vaughan, g’18, lives in Wichita, April 8 in Kansas City, where he joins a the U.S. Navy. She resides in Staord, where she’s a speech-language pathologist sister, Isabella, 7. Virginia. at Heartspring. Jake, c’18, and Megan Hessel Wenzel, Lauren Sherwood, e’18, lives in Chicago, Michaela Walker, g’18, coordinates c’18, son, Kobe, April 14 in Olathe. where she’s a consultant engineer at FM clinical research at KU Medical Center. Global. Jeremy Willard, c’18, lives in Lawrence, ASSOCIATES Abigail Smith, c’18, is a lighting where he’s an IT support technician at KU. Shawn Jurgensen, assoc., is special assistant at Two River eatre Company in Katherine Wipﬂi, e’18, is a technology counsel to the chief justice at the Kansas Red Bank, New Jersey. analyst at Accenture in Overland Park. Judicial Branch in Topeka. He and Laura, Cozetta Smith, g’18, works for KMBC- Whitney Wrestler, c’18, is a substitute assoc., make their home in Lawrence and TV in Kansas City, where she’s a news teacher with Morgan Hunter in Overland have two sons, Owen and Lucas. producer. Park. She lives in Lawrence.

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ISSUE 5, 2018 | 67 In Memory great-grandchildren survive. Carol Brumﬁeld Chatelain, f’57, d’57, g’70, 83, June 9 in Prairie Village. She taught music at Tomahawk Elementary Kathryn Martin Aldis, n’45, 95, sister, ve grandchildren, ve step-grand- School for more than 30 years and was a 40s June 12 in Mission. She was children and 15 great-grandchildren. longtime member of the Kansas City Civic president of her local P.E.O. Sisterhood Ruth Prentice Schroll, c’45, 94, March 2 Orchestra. She is survived by her husband, chapter and a member for more than 50 in Hutchinson, where she was president of Richard, d’59; two daughters, Jeanne years. ree grandchildren and four the local music club and a member of Chatelain Townsend, b’79, g’80, and great-grandchildren survive. P.E.O. Sisterhood. She also taught Sunday Cherie Chatelain Fowler, ’83; a brother; a Geraldine Crago Allen, c’43, 95, April 1 school. She is survived by her husband, grandson; and a great-grandson. in Overland Park. She lived in Houston for Jack, c’45, m’49; three daughters, Nancy Edith Evelyn Audas Crouse, p’54, 87, many years, where she was a social worker. Schroll Buda, d’68, g’69, Kathryn Schroll May 29 in Basehor. She was a pharmacist Survivors include a son, David, c’73, g’75; Graves, c’71, m’74, and Barbara Schroll at several locations in Kansas City. and four grandchildren. Saatho, b’76; a son, John, c’73, m’76; eight Survivors include a daughter, Amy, d’84, William Allen, c’44, m’46, 95, May 19 grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; g’92; a son, Je, ’15; and two grand- in Leavenworth, where he retired aer 50 and ve great-grandchildren. children. years as a radiologist. Surviving are three Gordon Sondker, b’49, e’49, 91, May 13 Charles “Doc” Cunnick, c’51, g’53, 92, sons, William Jr., c’68, m’78, Timothy, in Longview, Washington, where he June 19 in McPherson, where he was a m’76, and Mark, m’80; ve grandchildren; worked for the Longview Fiber Company. physician and served as the county and eight great-grandchildren. Surviving are a daughter, two sons and six coroner for more than 25 years. He also Robert Bailey, c’48, 90, May 10 in grandchildren. was a pharmaceutical sales representative. Springboro, Ohio. A memorial has been Marjory Stroup Walters, c’46, c’47, 93, Surviving are his wife, Gloria Angotti established with KU Endowment. He is June 19 in Bridgewater, New Jersey. She Cunnick, c’52; ve daughters, one of survived by his wife, Betty; two sons, one worked at Philip Levine Laboratories in whom is Mary Cunnick Tinsley, d’83; of whom is Lorne, c’87; a daughter, Laura, Raritan. Several nieces and nephews three sons, one of whom is Paul, ’83; and ’90; a stepdaughter; three grandchildren; survive. six grandchildren. two step-grandchildren; and two Vera “Slats” Hodges Wilson, b’49, 92, Clarice Gertson Emig, c’57, 82, May 10 great-grandchildren. April 26 in Fort Worth, Texas. She was a in Abilene, where she managed her Aubrey Bradley, c’47, l’49, 94, June 13 nancial analyst at the Western Company husband’s optometric practice and was a in Cameron Park, California. He practiced of North America. Survivors include two member of P.E.O. Sisterhood. She is law for 55 years. Surviving are his wife, daughters, three sons, a brother, 13 survived by her husband, Dale, ’56; a Audrey Bacon Bradley, c’70; a daughter; grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and daughter, Cindy Emig Penzler, c’81, m’85; ve grandchildren; and two great-grand- a great-great-grandchild. a son, Mark, c’84, m’88; six grandchildren; children. and four great-grandchildren. Elizabeth “Joan” Schindling Cook, j’48, Richard “Dean” Bauer, p’58, 82, Joel Fitzgerald, c’52, 88, June 23 in Ness g’75, 91, March 6 in Lansing, where she 50sJuly 2 in Coeyville, Kansas, City, where he was a funeral director and was a teacher at Leavenworth public where he was a pharmacist and owned owned Fitzgerald Funeral Home. Surviv- schools. Survivors include a daughter, Layton-Bauer Drug and Cherryvale ing are his wife, Ann; a son, Joel Jr., d’91; a Nancy Cook Farrar, d’75; three sons, one Pharmacy. He is survived by two sons, one daughter; a sister, Mary Fitzgerald McKee, of whom is Charles, c’76; nine grandchil- of whom is Brad, d’90, g’94; seven grand- n’68; and six grandchildren. dren; and a great-grandson. children; and ve great-grandchildren. Emily Hartman, c’53, g’55, PhD’57, 85, Elizabeth Austin Hensley, c’44, 94, May Marcia Droegemueller Blumberg, d’59, April 4 in Grand Junction, Colorado. She 11 in Wichita, where she taught ute and 83, June 12 in Wichita, where she was a was a professor of botany at the University performed internationally with the Kansas retired loan ocer. Survivors include a of Colorado in Denver. Several nephews Arts Commission. She is survived by three daughter, two sons, a sister, ve grandchil- survive. sons, Doug, c’70, Bill, c’73, l’76, and Larry, dren and four great-grandchildren. Wilbur Dale Hawley, ’51, 90, May 29 in d’77, b’81; nine grandchildren; and eight Robert Brownlee, g’51, 94, May 2 in Overland Park. He was a retired dentist. A great-grandchildren. Loveland, Colorado. He was a retired memorial has been established with KU William Miller, b’49, 95, June 15 in Fort nuclear weapons scientist at Los Alamos Endowment. He is survived by a son, Dan, Dodge. He was president of Hancock Real National Laboratory in New Mexico. In m’00; a daughter; a brother; and two Estate in Dodge City and later founded 2015, an asteroid, 15970 RobertBrownlee, granddaughters. Miller Appraisal Service. He is survived by was named in his honor. Two sons, three David Hill, c’56, 83, May 26 in Boulder, two sons, a stepdaughter, a stepson, a daughters, 18 grandchildren and 21 Colorado, where he was an attorney and

68 | KANSAS ALUMNI co-founded the law firm Berg Hill homemaker and longtime volunteer in her Rouse, c’85; a brother, William Salome, Greenleaf & Ruscitti. Surviving are his community. A daughter, two sons, four ’51; four grandchildren; and two wife, Joan Scholes Hill, c’56; a daughter; a grandchildren and a great-granddaughter great-grandchildren. son; two brothers, Stephen, c’59, and survive. Marilyn McIntire Schulte, d’58, 82, May Justin, c’66; and three grandchildren. William Lytle, ’51, 89, June 1 in Over- 22 in Pittsburgh, where she was a home- Donald Hopkins, c’58, 81, April 22 in land Park. He had a long career in maker and active in several philanthropic Emeryville, California. He was an attorney broadcasting and negotiated the sale of organizations. She is survived by her and served as district representative for several radio stations nationwide. A husband, William, b’54, g’61; two daugh- Congressman Ronald Dellums from 1972 memorial has been established with KU ters; a son; a brother, Mason McIntire, to ’94. Survivors include a daughter; two Endowment. Survivors include his wife, c’67, g’69; a sister; and nine grandchildren. sisters, one of whom is Anita Hopkins Nancy, assoc.; four sons, one of whom is Philip Smith, c’50, 89, June 30 in St. Walker, g’76; two brothers; and a Michael, c’78; three daughters, two of Louis. He was a language professor at granddaughter. whom are Catherine Humphreys Spencer, several universities and community Joan Sanders Jaimes, d’50, 89, May 12 c’83, and Christina Lytle Stephens, c’86, colleges in the Midwest. A son, a daughter, in St. Louis. She lived in Overland Park for ’02; 16 grandchildren; and seven two grandchildren and a great-grand- several years, where she was an elementary great-grandchildren. daughter survive. school teacher and directed the Shawnee Joseph McClelland, ’55, 85, March 2 in Jim Stinson, e’50, 91, May 18 in Mission Women’s Chorale. A memorial Independence. He received a Bronze Star Madisonville, Kentucky, where he retired has been established with KU Endowment. Medal for his service in the Vietnam War. after more than 40 years as a civil engineer. Two sons and two grandchildren survive. Several nieces and a nephew survive. He is survived by two daughters, Julie Robert Jones, a’53, 87, June 14 in Steve Mills, c’51, 88, Feb. 27 in Los Stinson Castor, b’78, and Janet Stinson Topeka, where he was an architect. Angeles, where he was retired vice Buie, c’86, b’01; a son, Jeff, e’82, g’85; a Surviving are his wife, Norma; two president of motion pictures for television stepdaughter; a stepson; nine grandchil- daughters, Karen Jones Miller, ’81, and and miniseries at CBS. Surviving are his dren; two step-grandchildren; and a Shelley Jones Krane, g’93; a son, Martin, wife, Barbara Nash Mills, d’51; four sons; a great-grandson. ’83; a brother; nine grandchildren; and a sister, Marian Mills Godfrey, d’50; and 11 Nan Mosby Thompson, ’54, 86, great-grandson. grandchildren. June 16 in Greenwood Village, Colorado, William Justus, m’55, 88, May 29 in Harold Morgan, c’59, 81, June 8 in Blue where she was a homemaker and active Overland Park. He was a physician in Springs, Missouri. He worked in radio and in her community. Surviving are her Pleasanton for more than 50 years. A television before becoming director of husband, Clyde, b’52; three sons, two of memorial has been established with KU travel and tourism at the Iowa Develop- whom are Mark, l’80, and Todd, b’85; Endowment. A daughter and a sister ment Commission. He is survived by his seven grandchildren; and three survive. wife, Shirley Clark Morgan, ’58; three great-grandchildren. Eugene Keller, c’54, l’55, 90, May 26 in sons, one of whom is David, ’80; nine Serilda “Pete” Clapp Thompson, d’50, Phoenix. He had a long career as an grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter. 88, June 19 in Wichita. She managed her attorney. Surviving are a son, a sister, four Ivy Conderman Powell, b’50, 88, March husband’s medical practice and was a grandchildren and two great-grand- 11 in Santa Cruz, California. She was financial officer for the Kansas-Oklahoma children. assistant to the president at Crown Prince Conference of the United Church of John Keller, b’52, 87, June 23 in Winter Inc. A daughter and two sons survive. Christ. She is survived by two daughters, Haven, Florida. He was a business owner Jack Roach, b’51, 88, May 10 in one of whom is Martha Thompson Stroot, and active in several organizations in the Leawood, where he was an employment n’72; and two sons. Kansas City area. He is survived by his specialist for the American Association of Roy Wilbur, b’52, 87, May 8 in Salina, wife, Nancy; two sons, one of whom is Retired Persons (AARP). where he was a retired flight instructor Gib, c’79; two stepdaughters; a stepson; Mary Flournoy Rotor Sailor, g’58, 90, and president of Wilbur Construction Inc. four grandchildren; six step-grandchil- June 14 in Davenport, Iowa. She was a He is survived by two sons, Thomas, b’77, dren; and a great-grandchild. special-education teacher. Surviving are and Paul, b’80, g’82; two brothers, one of Harold Lee, e’50, 91, June 5 in Idaho her husband, Loren, two daughters, a son, whom is Raymond, EdD’73; five grand- Falls, Idaho, where he was a retired five grandchildren and four great- children; two step-grandchildren; and two mechanical engineer. Surviving are a grandchildren. great-grandchildren. daughter, two sons, three stepdaughters, Carolyn Salome, c’52, 87, July 1 in Bel J. Robert Wilson, c’50, l’53, 90, May 21 five stepsons and several grandchildren Aire. She was an office assistant at Wichita in Centennial, Colorado. He was an and great-grandchildren. State University. Survivors include a attorney and retired as president and Beverly Emerson Locke, c’50, 89, May daughter, Anne Rouse Maraccini, c’80, chairman of KN Energy in Lakewood. A 24 in Rapid City, South Dakota. She was a d’82; three sons, one of whom is John memorial has been established with KU

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Endowment. Survivors include his wife, Joanne Morrison Howard, g’66, ecology and evolutionary biology at the Marguerite, and a son. PhD’70, 77, Feb. 23 in Charlotte, North University of Toronto. Surviving are his Deanne Phillips Wright, c’59, 80, May Carolina. She was an adjunct professor at wife, Trudy Kite Rising, g’68; two sons; 15 in Wellington, Colorado. She hosted a the University of Miami School of two brothers, Dean, c’62, m’66, and John, radio program on KSAC/KKSU, a division Medicine. She is survived by her husband, d’68; and three grandsons. of K-State’s Cooperative Extension Service. Cleve, c’63, m’67; two sons; and three Frances Dunwell Kokrda Russell, d’66, A memorial has been established with KU grandchildren. g’75, 89, May 26 in Overland Park, where Endowment. She is survived by her Charla Jenkins, j’69, 70, July 25 in she taught at Shawnee Mission Health’s husband, Earl; a daughter, Heather, c’90; a Lawrence, where she had directed public Britain Infant Development Center. She is son; two brothers; and three grand- relations for KU’s theatre department. A survived by her husband, Gary, b’58; two children. memorial has been established with KU sons; ve grandchildren; and four Sam Zuercher, c’58, 84, May 12 in San Endowment. A sister survives. great-grandchildren. Diego, where he was retired director of Richard Mattingly, c’60, 80, April 3 in Elizabeth Curran Warren, g’65, 90, May human resources at Fiatallis North Columbia, Missouri. He was professor of 10 in Egg Harbor, Wisconsin. She was an America and the Hesston Corp. A philosophy, dean of faculty and vice assistant professor of political science at memorial has been established with KU president for academic a airs at Westmin- Loyola University in Chicago. Survivors Endowment. Surviving are his wife, Evelyn ster College in Fulton. Survivors include include four daughters, one of whom is Hall Zuercher, j’58; a daughter; a son; ve his wife, Susan Shotli Mattingly, c’63; a Kathryn, c’72; six grandchildren; and six grandchildren; and ve great- son; and a sister. great-grandchildren. grandchildren. Joe Morris, b’61, 78, Aug. 5 in Leawood, Garrett Wheaton, g’66, 85, June 11 in where he was retired chairman of Western McPherson. He was a teacher and coach at George Brenner, p’66, PhD’71, 74, Financial Corp. He served as national several Kansas high schools, including 60sMay 11 in Richmond, Virginia. chair of the KU Alumni Association from Lyons High School, where he also served He was a professor and chaired the 2007 to ’08, and also served on the as athletics and activities director for department of pharmacology and physiol- steering committee for KU Endowment’s nearly 30 years. Surviving are his wife, ogy at Oklahoma State University Center Far Above fundraising campaign. In 2006, Patricia, assoc.; two sons, David, ’80, and for Health Sciences. Survivors include his he received the Fred Ellsworth Medallion Sheldon, ’80; a stepson, Corwin Lusk, c’92; wife, Mary Ann Robinson Brenner, ’67; a for his service to the University. A a stepdaughter; a sister; two grandsons; son, John, ’05; a daughter; a sister, Brenda memorial has been established with KU and several step-grandchildren. Brenner Grasmick, c’69; a brother, James, Endowment. He is survived by his wife, c’75; and four grandchildren. Susan, assoc.; three sons, Joe, b’88, David, L. Scott Banks, c’77, 62, June 13 in Charles “Chuck” Elvin, ’60, 80, June 20 a’91, and Scott, j’93; and six grandchildren. 70sWichita, where he founded Red in Olathe. He had a long career with Nels Royce Nelson, b’69, l’72, 70, May Oak Energy and Banks Resources. He is TWA/American Airlines. He is survived 21 in Salina. He was an attorney in estate survived by his wife, Michele; two daugh- by his partner, Sandy; three sons, two of planning and tax law at Hampton and ters, Carly, j’11, ’12, and Olivia, ’13; a son; whom are Brian, b’86, and Bill, ’94; a Royce. Surviving are his wife, Linda Krell a stepson; his father; a brother; and a brother; seven grandchildren; and four Nelson, c’69, g’71; three daughters, Polly sister. great-grandchildren. Nelson Peters, c’97, g’99, Amy Nelson Melvin Barber, g’74, PhD’80, 77, June Don Eversmeyer, e’65, 75, April 25 in Friedel, c’98, and Carrie Nelson, c’00, ’05; 27 in Jacksonville, Florida. He was a Kansas City. He was a systems engineer at his mother; a sister, Dana Nelson Hale, professor of sociology at several universi- IBM and retired aer 30 years with the n’71, g’95; a brother, Douglas, b’72, g’74; ties, including Florida A&M University. company. A sister survives. and three grandsons. Survivors include his wife, Rowena, three Dorothy Meyer Gerhardt, b’68, 74, May Arthur Piculell, l’65, 82, April 28 in daughters and a sister. 27 in Topeka, where she was an executive Scottsdale, Arizona. He was a residential Robert Fambrough, c’70, 70, May 30 in secretary for the Kansas chapter of the property developer and owned the Piculell Lawrence. He worked for Diamond Appraisal Institute. Survivors include her Group and Homesite Development. A Everley Roong. Surviving are three husband, Ed, EdD’71; two daughters; a daughter, a son and a sister survive. daughters, two of whom are Francesca, son; two sisters, one of whom is Jean James Ranson, c’60, 80, July 2 in ’02, and Veronica Fambrough Shallcross, Meyer Barta, n’67; a brother, Warren Wichita, where he was a retired attorney ’02; a son; a brother, Preston, c’68; and Meyer, m’74; and two grandsons. with the IRS. Several nieces and nephews four grandchildren. Howard Homan, a’67, 74, Aug. 12, survive. Dale Friesen, m’74, 71, June 26 in 2017, in Manalapan, New Jersey. He was a Jim Rising, c’64, PhD’68, 75, March 13 Lawrence, where he was an anesthesiolo- retired architect who spent 35 years at in Toronto. He was an ornithologist and gist at Lawrence Memorial Hospital for SLCE Architects in New York City. had a 40-year career as professor of nearly 40 years. A memorial has been

70 | KANSAS ALUMNI established with KU Endowment. Surviv- Carolyn Fitzpatrick Harrison, ’74; and two chancellor for academic a airs, executive ing are his wife, Connie, ’85; two sons, Je , sisters, one of whom is Alicia, m’04. vice chancellor and interim president of b’94, and Ryan, c’96; and four Joseph LeMark, c’18, 23, May 19 in the Alumni Association. He twice served grandchildren. Gravois Mills, Missouri. Survivors include as interim chancellor from 1980 to ’81 and Betsy Wigner Holste, ’74, 65, June 13 in his parents, a brother, a sister and his 1994 to ’95 before being named the Union Township. She and her husband grandmother. University’s 15th chancellor in 1995. In were farmers, and she also was a member MacKenzie Payne, c’17, 22, June 26 in 2010, the Shankel Structural Biology of P.E.O. Sisterhood. Her husband, Roger; Wichita. She recently had been accepted Center on West Campus was named in his and a brother, Harry Wigner, c’77, survive. into the KU School of Medicine. Her honor. A memorial has been established William Manning, c’73, 75, June 3 in parents, a brother, her grandparents and a with KU Endowment. Survivors include Washington, D.C. He had been a city great-grandmother survive. his wife, Carol Mulford Shankel, ’68; two planner in New York, Washington, D.C. Katie Pudas, c’18, j’18, 21, July 19 in daughters, Jill Shankel Lopez, ’88, and and Kansas. Survivors include a brother, Vietnam. She was a volunteer at the Emily Kelley Shankel Hahn, ’93; two brothers; Michael, c’66; and a sister, Nora, ’60. Taylor Center for Women and Gender and two grandchildren. Donald Sneegas Jr., b’79, 60, June 10 in Equity. Survivors include her parents, two Ange Butler Stalcup, d’57, h’81, 83, May Dallas, where he was a senior estimator at sisters and her grandparents. 23 in Lawrence. She was an occupational Alpha Insulation. He is survived by his therapist at KU Medical Center. A wife, Edye; his father, Donald, b’55; and UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY memorial has been established with KU two brothers, Randy, b’78, and Steve, f’83. Charles Hoag, 86, June 19 in Lawrence, Endowment. She is survived by three sons, where he was professor emeritus in the two of whom are Kirk, ’82, and Scott, a’86; Neal Edward Hinton, g’81, 74, School of Music. A memorial has been a sister, Barbara Butler Hazen, d’57; 10 80s June 7 in Lawrence. He taught established with KU Endowment. He is grandchildren; and six great- English and science ction literature. A survived by his wife, Mary Tuven, g’70; grandchildren. memorial has been established with KU two daughters, one of whom is Andrea Robert Weber, c’47, m’49, 91, May 11 in Endowment. He is survived by three sons, Hoag, c’95; a sister; and four Kansas City. He was an internist in Salina one of whom is Joshua, c’12; a daughter; grandchildren. and taught at KU School of Medicine- two brothers; a sister; and two William Hogan, 75, May 15 in Min- Salina aer retiring from practice. A grandchildren. netonka, Minnesota. He was professor of memorial has been established with KU J. Mark King, b’88, 53, July 4 in Mis- electrical engineering and assistant dean of Endowment. Survivors include his wife, souri. He was a former resident of Over- minority a airs, now known as KU Patricia Strang Weber, c’49; a daughter, land Park. Engineering Diversity & Women’s Pro- Carol Weber Linnens, d’72; three sons, one Jeanne Leonard, ’85, 74, April 11 in grams. Survivors include his wife, Shadra, of whom is William, ’76; a sister; four Overland Park. She was a retired high ’84; a daughter, Shalaun Hogan Newton, grandchildren; and ve great-grand- school teacher. Her husband, William, ’65; b’91; a son, William III, c’01; a sister; and children. and two sisters survive. two grandchildren. Steven Miller, h’84, 62, June 22 in Richard Kay, assoc., 87, July 13 in ASSOCIATES Kansas City. Surviving are his wife, Kathy; Lawrence, where he was professor James Adkins, assoc., 90, July 16 in a daughter; his mother; a brother, James, emeritus of history. He is survived by his Cottonwood Falls, where he was a retired c’87; and a sister. wife, Sherry Needham Kay, c’70, g’74; a major in the Kansas Highway Patrol. Kate Brosnahan Spade, ’86, 55, June 5 son; a daughter; two stepdaughters, one of Surviving are his wife, Elaine, assoc.; two in New York City, where she was a fashion whom is Gail ursz, ’83; and a sons, David, c’83, l’86, and William, ’85; a designer and founded two international granddaughter. sister; and a granddaughter. brands, Kate Spade New York and Frances Marlin Rein, g’63, 81, May 4 in Kansas Clarence Boyer, assoc., 89, May 11 in Valentine. Survivors include her husband, City. He held several roles at KU, retiring Olathe. He is survived by a son, Michael, Andy; a daughter; four sisters, two of in 2002 as director of budget and govern- d’70, g’74; two daughters, one of whom is whom are Ann Brosnahan DiVita, ’82, and mental a airs. Surviving are two sons, one Kim Boyer Gordon, c’76; a sister; four Eve Brosnahan, ’88; and a brother. of whom is Mark, ’87; a daughter; a sister; grandchildren; and four great- and ve grandchildren. grandchildren. Bridget Harrison, m’10, 34, May 5 Delbert “Del” Shankel, assoc., 90, July Wilma Jean Vasquez, assoc., 84, May 2 10s in Houston. She was an assistant 12 in Lawrence. He began his career at KU in Olathe. She was a psychiatric aide at the professor of plastic surgery at Baylor in 1959 as an assistant professor of Osawatomie State Hospital. Surviving are College of Medicine. A memorial has been microbiology and was promoted to full her husband, Joe, s’77, s’78; a son, Joseph, established with KU Endowment. Survi- professor, while also assuming interim c’89; a daughter; four grandchildren; and vors include her parents, Paul, m’74, and roles as dean, athletics director, vice three great-grandchildren.

ISSUE 5, 2018 | 71 Rock Chalk Review LARRY SCHWARM (3) SCHWARM LARRY

“Laurence and Baxter, Kiowa County, Kansas, November 2010”

“Piles of milo in Greensburg, Kansas, “Weighting tarp with old tires, Brookover Ranch Feed Yard, May 2012” October 2015”

farm near Greensburg, to shoot the land. horizon line and anything that broke that Farmworks “Until then I’d been photographing horizon line was monumental. I think on people and trying to be an urban photog- an unconscious level it’s just embedded in Exhibition, book continue artist’s rapher, because that was the model I was my brain.” long focus on Kansas landscapes emulating from the famous photographers e assignment this time was the result at that particular moment,” Schwarm says. of a National Science Foundation funded arry Schwarm, f’69, g’76, was in “When I was assigned to photograph research project, “Biofuels and Climate Lgraduate school when he was assigned Kansas landscapes, it was like this door Change: Farmers’ Land Use Decisions,” to photograph Kansas landscapes in 1974 opened up. Like, ‘My god, of course this is that enlisted three Kansas universities— for a documentary art project designed by what I should be doing, because this is KU, Kansas State and Wichita State (where James Enyeart and funded by the National what I know best.’” Schwarm is Distinguished Professor of Endowment for the Humanities. Schwarm’s newest project, “Kansas Photography)—to study impacts of Enyeart was curator of photography at Farmers,” an exhibition of 50 photographs climate change and biofuels on farmers what was then the University of Kansas that depict farm life across the state, is a and farmland. Schwarm’s commission Museum of Art, a precursor of the Spencer continuation of the work that has proved grew out of discussions between study Museum of Art. A native of Washington to be a constant in his career. e show director Dietrich Earnhart and Saralyn state, he visited western Kansas to see runs through Jan. 6 at the in-laws who lived on a farm homesteaded Spencer. by their ancestors. “It was that drive west,” “I think what keeps drawing Enyeart, g’72, told Kansas Alumni in 2016, me back is that on a very Kansas Farmers “that began to form a very dierent view unconscious level it’s the of what I thought Kansas was all about and reference that I was born into,” by Larry Schwarm that needed to be recorded for a much Schwarm says of his enduring Edited by Kate Meyer broader audience.” fascination with a visual Enyeart documented architecture for subject—Kansas’ wide open University Press of the project, “No Mountains in the Way,” spaces—that, he admits, many Kansas, $29.95 and assigned Terry Evans, f’68, to focus on people describe as boring. “As people and Schwarm, who grew up on a a kid, I knew nothing but a at

72 | KANSAS ALUMNI LARRY SCHWARM (2) SCHWARM LARRY

“Wheat stubble about three miles west of Colby, Kansas, 2012” “Armadillo and quail in window, Kiowa County, Kansas, August 2011”

Reece Hardy, c’76, g’94, the Marilyn human presence up front. In other photos soon be able to expand its e orts to build Stokstad Director of the Spencer, who people are merely glimpsed, silhouetted the rst searchable digital collection of urged Earnhart to include a visual artist in behind the sun-ared window of a tractor, previously unavailable and understudied the interdisciplinary project, part of the hidden in the cockpit of a low-ying African-American novels. e database museum’s focus on integrating art into cropduster, or strolling down the main was originally developed to help bridge a campus research. street of a desolate rural town. In others “digital divide,” the gap that exists between By photographing farms at all scales and the hand of man is implied, deduced by its technological advancement and the study locales—family farms and factory farms visible impact on the land: in the neat of black-authored texts. from Atchison to Elkhart—Schwarm grids of stubble and looping windrows of BBIP is the brainchild of the Project on followed his own research interests, cut alfalfa, in the bobbing pumpjacks, the History of Black Writing, a research according to Kate Meyer, g’04, PhD’11, drizzling irrigation rigs and rusting program brought to KU nearly 20 years curator of the exhibition and editor of the graveyards of old equipment. ago by Maryemma Graham, University accompanying catalog, Kansas Farmers, Above all, in these 50 photographs— Distinguished Professor of English and published by University Press of Kansas. every last one a horizontal—the wide lead investigator for BBIP. “He would reveal the faces of the kinds of Kansas sky dominates. Some of the “It was an idea I had started when I was farmers whose land-use decisions were loveliest of Schwarm’s many beautiful a grad student,” she says. “We were just being studied,” she writes. “He would compositions are abstract studies that beginning to think about a whole eld capture the ways those decisions were and contrast the broad blue expanse with called African-American literary history are made.” equally vast elds of wheat and cotton— or literary culture. I was just zeroing in on “During the rst meeting where I shared two immense plains separated by a ribbon what I loved, and that was reading novels.” photographs with the group, I said, ‘I sort of train cars or green corn or that at Back in the early ’80s, Graham traveled of see my mission as putting a face on your horizon line that has fascinated Schwarm across the country, working with a team of project,’” Schwarm says of his work with since childhood. Now as then, what stands scholars to collect books from libraries the research team. “Because what they apart from that long, thin border between and other sources and make photocopies were doing was creating a lot of data and earth and sky is indeed monumental.h that could be compiled into a usable scientic information that seems very —Steven Hill collection. abstract to most people. e lay person is “Years go by, and we realized that we not gonna get much information out of had this precious cargo that nobody else that; they need to see that there’s really Digital asset had,” Graham says. “But nobody knew human beings doing this and this is what about it because we had it.” they’re going through.” Black Book Interactive Project Since its intial funding in 2014 by KU In portraits of a farmer and his dog, a furthers work with ACLS grant and the National Endowment for the morning meeting on a 27,000-acre Humanities, the Black Book Interactive megafarm in Colby, three generations of hanks to a $150,000 digital extension Project has scanned more than 1,250 farmers lling a stock tank, and a chain of Tgrant from the American Council of books for its database. Another 415 have workers tossing tires to weight a tarp Learned Societies (ACLS), the University’s already been converted to Optical Charac- covering a silage pile, Schwarm frames the Black Book Interactive Project (BBIP) will ter Recognition (OCR) text, a form of

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Over the years, Earle has enlisted the help of student interns to conduct some of STEVE PUPPE STEVE the research. Tyler York, g’12, a doctoral student in art history and last year’s Spencer’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ Loo Family Intern for European and American Art, picked up where his predecessor, Chassica Kirchho , g’11, PhD’18, le o . By searching digitized records in British archives, the two determined that Annetta died just a few years aer marrying omas, narrowing the time frame when the portrait could have been commissioned. In addition, A $150,000 grant will help KU’s Black Book Interactive Project create a searchable online they uncovered a business connection database of African-American literature. Assisting University Distinguished Professor of English between the Vanderbanks and the Maryemma Graham (middle) on the project are Arnab Chakraborty, Hamza Rehman, Mona Pelhams: John Vanderbank’s father was a leading tapestry maker in England, and Rashida and Christopher Peace (l-r). omas Pelham was a prominent tapestry merchant. John Vanderbank’s brother also searchable, machine-encoded text. nearly life-size portrait of Annetta Pelham, named one of his sons Moses Pelham Graham is working closely with Arnab the wife of a prestigious textile merchant Vanderbank. Chakraborty, a doctoral student in English in 1920s England. York points out that stylistically, the and the project’s full-time manager, who e unsigned painting, which anchors painting matches other works by Vander- explains that KU has partnered with the the museum’s exhibition “e Empire of bank, which oen included a uniquely University of Chicago to transform the ings,” was acquired from a New York rendered background, an emphasis on remaining scans into OCRs, something gallery in 1950 and had originally been textiles and distinct facial details. “ere the ACLS grant will help fund. attributed to William Hoare. Decades later, are all these connective tissues,” he says. e project has also partnered with the sometime before the 1980s, the portrait “ere wasn’t one aha moment.” College Language Association, the was reattributed to Joseph Highmore, Condent that years of research now Historically Black Colleges and Universi- though there had always been doubt about reveal a strong enough link between John ties Libraries Alliance, and KU’s Institute that as well. Susan Earle, Spencer’s curator Vanderbank and the Pelhams, Earle and for Digital Research in the Humanities. of European and American “Hopefully, this model is something that art, has spent several years can grow and other people can emulate,” researching the painting’s says Graham, “if not for this project, then origin. adapt it to something else.” “We’ve done work on and h WAGGONER RYAN —Heather Biele o for years,” she says, “trying to gure out the attribution of the painting, but also just trying to give it more context to understand how unusual Mystery solved this portrayal is.” e eye-catching painting Spencer researchers reveal depicts Annetta Pelham artist behind popular portrait suggestively posed in a revealing, richly embroidered ollowing decades of speculation, Turkish gown, a subtle, Fresearchers at the Spencer Museum of knowing smile on her face. Art have nally determined that British “She seems incredibly portrait artist John Vanderbank likely self-possessed and mysteri- painted one of the museum’s most beloved ous,” Earle says. “I just nd and intriguing works of art: “Mrs. omas that quite extraordinary for Pelham,” a stunningly provocative and this time period.” Earle and York

74 | KANSAS ALUMNI York wrote a proposal this summer for the Natural History, who reports that one of reattribution of the painting and created a the museum’s most-renowned eld The Bone Field new object label, which now hangs on the scientists, Peter Marchand, has gone wall next to the portrait. missing in Wyoming and they’d like by Leonard “I’m happy to have the new attribution Przewalksi’s help in nding him. Krishtalka out there,” Earle says, “because even if Przewalksi had once worked with Gatekeeper Press, someone proves it wrong, it’s much more Marchand, “digging up the past, excavat- $11.98 likely that someone will nd it.”h ing the intrigues le by a vanished world —Heather Biele imperfectly preserved.” e same can be said for the present world, the detective discovers as he thrusts himself into the midst of a chaotic eld scene at the site of Novel science an important, and interrupted, dig in the questions. So that combination of seduc- Wyoming badlands. tive landscape and ultimate questions, that Krishtalka uses detective ﬁction “e rule of thumb is, you write what was it. I needed to be a paleontologist. to explore badlands mysteries you know. And this is what I know and And, in many ways, it’s the same motiva- know best,” Krishtalka says. “I know tion for writing the book.” rofessor Leonard Krishtalka, director science, I know paleontology, I know eld A side bene t, Krishtalka adds, is that a Pof the KU Biodiversity Institute and work, I know museums. I know the novel allows him to explore “wild think- Natural History Museum, has devoted his characters who are involved, I know what ing” about earth’s natural forces that would career to exploring the earth’s eternal and their personalities are like, what drives never have a chance of being published in futile eort to reach equilibrium. Plates on them.” scienti c literature. the planet’s crust shi and grind, moun- Many amateur fans of detective ction “I can put the science that I write about tains rise, wind and weather and water have tried and failed to mimic their in the novel into the much larger context wear them down, and new geologic favorites. Krishtalka’s novel, though, of humankind and society and the human formations and lifeforms emerge from succeeds. He does not allow his passion condition, and why it matters. Why does the chaos. for the genre to devolve into fan ction, the science we do matter? How does it “e earth is always trying to stay in instead cooking up an intriguing detective integrate itself into, one would hope, the equilibrium, and failing,” Krishtalka says. story that adds fascinating science to the common good, or improving society? “e earth is never in equilibrium. It’s typical ingredients of sexual intrigue, What are the lessons learned?”h always changing. It’s always subject to greed and betrayal. —Chris Lazzarino terri c topographic changes because of Krishtalka began work on e Bone these forces. For me, it’s the same meta- Field about the time he le his eld work phor for humans on the earth. at the Carnegie Museum to become “We’re always trying to stay in equilib- director of KU’s Museum of Natural STEVE PUPPE STEVE rium with our situation, our condition, History. Two more volumes in the Iron our relationships, and in some areas failing City Mysteries series—one of which will and in some areas succeeding, depending bring Przewalksi to KU—are already on our adaptations.” completed and await a publisher. In hopes of exploring that human His fascination with paleontology condition, the fervent scientist 20 years began, Krishtalka says, when he was ago began turning toward a private pursuit “instantly seduced” by the “raw, primeval” of creative writing. A lifelong fan of badlands he rst encountered in Alberta, mystery and detective novels, Krishtalka Canada: “I always wanted to get that turned to the genre to help him weave a seduction across, how beautiful that story blending his passions for paleontol- landscape is, how awesome.” ogy, North American badlands and human e second thing that attracted conict. Krishtalka to paleontology is “that it asked In June, Krishtalka published e Bone ultimate questions. How do you explain Field, featuring paleontologist-turned- the diversity of life on earth and how it private-detective Harry Przewalksi. e changed from 3 billion years ago to the story opens with the Pittsburgh detective present? How do you explain the extinc- answering a call from an assistant to the tion of dinosaurs, the rise of mammals, director of the Carnegie Museum of and hundreds of thousands of other Krishtalka

ISSUE 5, 2018 | 75 Glorious to View Photograph by Dan Storey

Unfurled early on the morning of Aug. 31 by Adams Alumni Center director Ben Shepley and the Association’s facility associates, Super Jay made its fall semester debut for the Student Alumni Network’s Home Football Friday tailgate lunch buet and the Sept. 1 Game Day at the Adams pregame tailgate celebration.

76 | KANSAS ALUMNI CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE For decades, Kenneth Spencer Research Library has stood as a pillar of knowledge throughout the state of Kansas and beyond. Researchers, students, and community members alike have gathered in the hallowed spaces of the library to surround themselves with world-class collections and resources.

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