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24 18 28 COVER STORY World View From Genesis Gold Standard You’ve heard of Google Earth, to Revelation likely even used the high-tech e Natural Cancer Institute At 105, e Garden of Eden in marvel to tour the globe. But designation earned by the KU Lucas looks better than ever, you may not know its roots lie Cancer Center in July caps a thanks to a makeover that in video game technology— mammoth 10-year e ort by transformed S.P. Dinsmoor’s and in the Pac-Man and the University to bring top folk art sculptures inside and Asteroids battles its founder quality cancer care to the state out. fought in the game room of a and region. Lawrence bowling alley. By Steven Hill By Chris Lazzarino By Chris Lazzarino and Jennifer Jackson Sanner
Established in 1902 as e Graduate Magazine Volume 110, No. 4, 2012 ISSUE 4, 2012 | 1 Lift the Chorus
Go teams! e Alumni Association honored two of these students, Your I , and Megan Ritter, c’12, and Hunter opinion counts I enjoyed the NCAA tourna- Hess, b’12, with the Agnes Please email us a note ment coverage of both the Wright Strickland Award in at [email protected] men’s and women’s basketball May as part of the Chancellor’s to tell us what you think of your alumni magazine. teams in the May issue [“When Student Awards. e Strickland the Going Gets Tough” and Award consists of a lifetime “On Angel’s Wings”]. membership in the Alumni ursday of each month in the I was, however, disappointed Association, which means we Malott Room of the Kansas in the coverage of the women’s all will have the opportunity to Union. Social time starts at 11 tournament. A lot of us fans know these incredible leaders a.m. and is followed by a and followers of the women’s and honor students. ey program and luncheon. e team would have enjoyed more the KU family how very special represent a very powerful theme for this year’s programs comprehensive coverage of these students are today. resource for KU and our will be “KU: Far Above, and their great run this past year. is generation is passionate country. I am impressed with Beyond.” Programs are both Maybe next year! about serving, committed, them and many others. educational and entertaining. Marilyn Williams, s’75 smart, sensitive, entrepreneur- rough KU Endowment We have more than 20 varied Kansas City ial, internationally aware, and Association, many members of interest groups, including focused on giving back to their the KU family have given antiques, art, book discussion, Editor’s Note: Indeed, our families and communities. generously for scholarships and bridge, cocktail fair, gardening, coverage did not match the women’s surprising NCAA In many ways they are special programs. We can do history, mahjong, walking and success. While also covering the similar to the KU students in more. Let us all give this TGIF. Interest groups are a men’s run from Omaha to New the 1960s and ’70s. e generation every break we can, wonderful way to meet people Orleans with a small editorial di erences are that these from student debt reduction to across the community. ere is sta and limited resources, we students are more aware of job leads and connections. something for everyone! simply found ourselves unable to social justice issues interna- ey have earned our con- e UWC Scholarship is the properly cover both tournaments. tionally, have been involved in tinual support. longest continuing scholarship We hope to join thousands of service learning programs, Kala M. Stroup, c’59, g’64, at KU. Scholarships have been Jayhawk faithful in expressing have volunteered extensively, PhD’74 awarded to graduate and renewed enthusiasm for women’s and are attuned to the struggles Lawrence undergraduate students since basketball next season as Carolyn of America in our schools and 1915. e scholarships are Davis, Angel Goodrich and neighborhoods. merit-based, emphasizing Chelsea Gardner lead what could ’Hawks welcome be the best KU women’s Teach for America, Coro, academic achievement and basketball team in years. Echoing Green, Partnership for T U W ’ community service. Public Service, AmeriCorps, Club (UWC) has changed its ose wishing to join should Peace Corps, Doctors Without membership bylaws to include meet in the Malott Room, 3 to Tribute to seniors Borders, Engineers Without KU graduates. UWC welcomes 5 p.m. Sept. 6, for refresh- Borders and many other such KU faculty and sta (current ments, registration and interest C ceremonies groups are places these or retired), their spouses and group selection. have always been a joyful time students want to devote some former spouses, surviving For more information, for me in my long association time and energy. spouses, house directors of contact: Sally Brandt, presi- with the academy, and as a Two of the most impressive sororities and fraternities, dent, [email protected]; former university president I student groups on the KU faculty from other institutions Mu Kelly, membership chair, have participated in many such campus are the Center for of higher learning, and, now, [email protected]; or joyful events. Community Outreach and all women KU graduates. We Nancy Hale-Martinko, interest When I participated in the Alternative Breaks. Both are hope this change will increase group chair, njhale@sun ower. Gold Medal Club luncheon in student-run and involve membership and that we will com. April, many KU friends asked thousands of KU students in see lots of new faces in Gwen Dobson, assoc. me about today’s students. So I volunteer events, serving September. UWC public relations chair thought I needed to share with hundreds of our communities. UWC meets the rst Lawrence
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nother Dave Matthews HY Aer hearing Monica’s RA P Aconcert is only two G diagnosis ve years ago, the days away, so Jay and HOTO Steiners traveled to Houston for Monica Matyak Steiner are S P a second opinion. “I owe
giddy at the prospect of a O HEART immense gratitude to M.D.
road trip with two other KU Y T W Anderson for the care they couples to see their favorite M provided me, but knowing that band. “We rst saw him in they evaluated Monica’s case, 1997, so we’ve seen and they said we were in the 30-something shows,” Jay best possible place and KU had says, with just a tinge of the clinical trials we needed, embarrassment. “It’s kind of was a huge relief to us.” insane.” News of the NCI designation “It’s tradition,” Monica gives the Steiners another says. “We get the group reason to celebrate this summer. together and go.” As they “We all know the NCI designa- prepare for the drive to St. tion will mean more trials, great Louis from their home in things overall,” Jay says. “It also Olathe, Jay, j’92, and Monica, j’92, have much to celebrate. Monica raises the perception in people’s minds: We’ve got the best care in especially cherishes these summer days with their daughter and Kansas City.” son, 10-year-old Lauren and 8-year-old Lance. For six blissful As you’ll read in our NCI cover story, the Steiners have weeks, she does not have to cope with chemotherapy. armed their faith in KU by raising $35,000 to endow a fund for “My family needs attention and energy, which most of the time research in metastatic cancer led by Danny Welch, associate I do not have,” she says. “I’m lucky and thankful to have this director of the Cancer Center and a Kansas Bioscience Authority break. It’s a little unnerving. I’ve had 74 chemo treatments ... so Eminent Scholar. Monica and Jay call their e ort the Ironteam you wonder, ‘I’ve done well; what happens if I take this break?’ Fund to honor their lifelong passion for triathlons. As she But you’ve got to enjoy the time and feel good.” continues to make the most of her break from chemo, Monica is Monica has stage IV metastatic breast cancer. Since her training for a summer triathlon. She laughs as she thinks about diagnosis in 2007, she has endured surgeries and multiple rounds the race: “I think I can nish; I certainly won’t be racing in. I just of radiation and chemotherapy, all at the University of Kansas want to see if I can nish.” Cancer Center, which July 12 announced that it has earned Cheering from the sidelines will be Jay, who began competing National Cancer Institute designation. She counts herself fortu- in his teens, only a few years aer beating leukemia. Last October nate to bene t from the most advanced surgery and, recently, a he won a coveted lottery slot for the Ironman in Kona, Hawaii. He clinical trial for her speci c type of metastatic breast cancer. nished the grueling 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike and 26.2-mile “ e Cancer Center is part of the routine,” she says. “ ere marathon in 13 hours, 19 minutes. “It was a bucket-list experience have been times where I was there every single day, whether for for him and for me,’’ Monica says, “because I’ve watched him do radiation, blood work, chemo.” triathlons now ever since we’ve been together. To go over and take “She’s like Norm on ‘Cheers,’” Jay says. “She doesn’t have to the kids and have them watch him accomplish this was check in and everyone says Hi.” incredible.” “I’ve got my own bar stool, and they have my bracelet ready,” e Ironman has become part of their family life—and a Monica says. “I know all the nurses and they take great care of metaphor for cancer battles past and present. Whether she is me. You get to know a lot of people when you’re in treatment.” braving chemotherapy or running, biking and swimming, Jay especially appreciates their good fortune in having a Monica’s determination sets an example for their children, Jay hometown resource for treatment. In the mid-1970s, when Jay says. “She wants to show our kids that even through the trials of was 4 years old, he was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic life, the challenges you face, if you set your mind to something, leukemia. At that time, treatment was not available in Kansas, you can do it.” so his family moved from Wichita to Houston, where And you can nd joy in the journey. As Dave Matthews sings in he received successful treatment at M.D. Anderson, an one of Monica’s favorite songs: “Celebrate we will because life is NCI-designated center. short but sweet for certain.”
ISSUE 4, 2012 | 5 On the Boulevard TEVE PUPP E S
22 Exhibitions e Intergalactic University Theatre The Robert J. Dole Institute of Nemesis Politics will host the “ e Ray of Hope: Aaron AUGUST Douglas-Inspired Quilts and “Herblock” exhibition through Murals,” Spencer Museum of Academic Calendar 24-25 “Greece Redux: Aug. 21, featuring political Art, through Sept. 16 Orestes,” Craon-Preyer cartoons by four-time Pulitzer eatre “Politics as Symbol/Symbol AUGUST Prize winner Herbert Block as Politics,” Spencer Museum (1909-2001). In his 20 First day of fall classes of Art, through Jan. 27 ’Hawk Days of distinguished career Block caricatured each U.S. “Sounding Circle,” by Jason SEPTEMBER Summer Charney, Spencer Museum president from Herbert 3 Labor Day Hoover to George W. Bush. of Art, through Sept. 30 JULY His “Room with a View” “Mary Sibande and Sophie 25 Fargo, N.D., Reception cartoon (above, right) Ntombikayise Take Central Special Events 27 Court,” Spencer Museum of Front Range Golf illustrates a major political Tournament, Littleton, Co. issue in post-World War II Art, Aug. 10 through Nov. 11 AUGUST 28 Bay Area Jayhawks in America: the Housing Act of 18 Traditions Night, Wine Country 1949, which replaced slum Memorial Stadium Lied Center events 30 Hugoton Reception housing with parks, 18 Ice Cream Social, Adams universities and middle-class 31 Dodge City Reception SEPTEMBER Alumni Center housing and forced the poor 31 7 Buckwheat Zydeco 19 Opening Convocation, Greensburg Reception to slums elsewhere. Lied Center 31 Kingman Reception 31 Portsmouth, N.H., Reception
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SEPTEMBER 22 Chicago Bus Trip to KU vs. Northern Illinois Football Game
“School Bell” was published Flying Jayhawks May 19, 1954, two days after the Supreme Court ruling in Brown vs. JULY Board of Education of Topeka. 23-Aug. 5 British Isles Odyssey More events online 26-Aug. 2 Cruising Alaska’s The events listed above are Glaciers & the Inside Passage highlights from the Alumni Association’s packed calendar, AUGUST which stretches far beyond 21-Sept. 3 Black Sea these pages. For more details Serenade about other Association events, watch for email SEPTEMBER messages about programs in your area, call 800-584-2957 AUGUST 4 Temecula, Calif., 15-23 England’s Cotswolds or visit the Association’s web- 1 Hutchinson Reception Reception 20-30 Sketches of Spain site at www.kualumni.org. 1 Ellsworth Reception 5 Boston Reception and Beer Tasting Directory 1 Abilene Reception 5 Los Angeles Reception 1 Worcester, Mass., n Adams Alumni Reception 9 Boise Family Picnic Center ...... 864-4760 2 Hartford, Conn., 10 Phoenix Career n Athletics .....800-34-HAWKS Reception Workshop n Booth Hall 3 Boat Cruise, Milwaukee, 10 Portland, Ore., Reception of Athletics ...... 864-7050 Wis. 11 KU Day at the National n Dole Institue of 3 Oklahoma City Wine Atomic Testing Museum, Las Politics ...... 864-4900 Tasting Vegas n Kansas Union ...... 864-4596 11 3 Reno Family Barbeque KU Night at the City n KU Info ...... 864-3506 Museum, St. Louis 4 KU Day at the American n KU main Museum of Natural History, 12 Albuquerque Beer Tasting number ...... 864-2700 Ne w York & Happy Hour n Lied Center ...... 864-ARTS 4 Chicago Museum of 14 KU Night with the n University Theatre Colorado Springs Sky Sox Block tackled environmental Contemporary Art Tour Tickets ...... 864-3982 subjects as early as the 1920s, and 4 San Diego Museum of Art 18 Northwest Arkansas n Spencer Museum Tour Museum Tour and Recep- in this Jan. 14, 2001, cartoon of tion, Bentonville gas-guzzling SUV drivers. of Art ...... 864-4710
ISSUE 4, 2012 | 7 Jayhawk Walk Lauridsen, ’12. “The traditions in the house are insane.” Formerly on Tennessee Street and now on Mississippi, Dewdville is known for its A flaming shot of awesomeness annual Halloween party, Ramp Day, a date night and the hile many of their 2003 road trip to Arizona— enigmatic “Keith Day,” during Wclassmates stumble during which the founders hit which they hand out Kool-Aid through Stop Day with rowdy upon a moniker with the on campus. That event was parties, bar shots and tipsy discovery of a box of “Mountain launched in honor of a Dewd taxis, KU’s Mountain Dewds Dewd” T-shirts—the Dewds who was usually too busy with zoom into their own booze- free marked Stop Day 2012 with school to leave campus for celebration with high-speed their signature year-end event: parties, so a Dewd holiday was downhill bike rides, a flaming taking turns aiming a brought to him. wooden ramp and Potter Lake, secondhand bicycle straight “It’s a great place and an in exactly that order. down the Hill, over a ramp set awesome environment,” As has been tradition since aflame with lighter fluid, and Lauridsen says. “What we do is their freestyle Christian into Potter Lake. With lots of pretty important, but I don’t brotherhood formed during a friends, laughs, and a grill think anybody is doing it to get loaded with hot dogs. recognized or whatever. It’s just “We’ve always wanted to do the best way to spend the crazy and awesome things,” weekend.” says Dewd alumnus Adam The Dewds abide.
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says Greene, director of educational support- Fence-napped! That old familiar ring ive services at Kansas State. “It just disap- peared. We always wondered what happened. O S. P’ D, opeka antique dealer Marc Lahr bought Bill was so proud of that ring.” someone played a bit of foul Tthe memento thinking he’d oer it at Lahr drove to Manhattan and presented the tomfoolery by tearing o a auction, knowing a KU football fan would jump long-lost keepsake to Bill’s widow and sons, ve-foot section from the at owning a piece of Jayhawk sports history: a Kelly and Jerey. Linemen like their father, historic iron fence surrounding 1968 Big Eight championship ring. they played together at K-State in the ’90s. Sprague Apartments, 14th and Then he noticed the initials inside: BG. “It meant so much to them to get their father’s Jayhawk Boulevard, a haven “I started to wonder who it belonged to, ring,” Greene says. for retired faculty. how it got away from a family it must have The meeting also was meaningful for Lahr, “ e next Monday, a piece of meant a lot to,” Lahr says. a KSU grad. “We’re always talking about the it came back, just leaned up A neighbor, Mike McCoy, e’72, m’75, a rivalry, and yet we’re all brothers and sisters,” against the fence,” says Monte center on the ’68 team, which lost a heart- he says. “It’s something to feel good about, Soukup, e’89, senior vice breaker to Penn State in the Orange Bowl, told helping a fellow Kansan.” president for property manage- Lahr the ring could belong to only one man: Lowrance, who says connecting alumni ment at KU Endowment. But Bill Greene, d’70, who died in 2006. (even the occasional K-Stater) So Lahr called the Alumni Association. is what her job is all about, Records Specialist Julie Lowrance passed his agrees: “I was just glad to be contact info to Greene’s widow, Kathleen, a small part of this. It’s the d’71. Thirty minutes later, Lahr and Greene coolest call
were on the phone, solving a mystery 40 years I’ve ever COURTESY MARC LAHR in the making. received.” “The mid-’70s was the last time we saw it,”
Jeªrey Greene, Marc Lahr, Kathleen Greene and Kelly Greene.
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ocer trainees. It was TEVE PUPP E S Sport afield demolished in 1959 for the construction of Sprague all of Fame running back Apartments; soon aer, HJohn Riggins negotiated today’s Templin Hall rose on the final contract of his 14- Daisy Hill. Y JOHN RIGGIN S S year NFL career with Wash- Fortunately, a solution is in RTE the works, regardless of
COU ington Redskins owner Jack whether the thieves have a Kent Cooke. change of heart. e depart- “He said, ‘John, what are ment of student housing you gonna do after foot- contacted Soukup with some ball?’” Riggins says, imitat- hopeful news: “When they ing Cooke’s growl. “I said, ‘Well, I’ve always liked to hunt built [the adjacent] Stephen- and fish.’ He said, ‘My God, man, you can’t hunt and fish the son Scholarship Hall, they rest of your life!’ I thought maybe he had a point.” took out the other side of the So after his 1985 retirement the Super Bowl MVP fence,” Soukup says. Appar- explored acting (o-o-Broadway and on TV in “Guiding ently those remnants exist, Light” and “Law & Order”), sports commentating and talk and can soon return to their radio. Now he’s combining broadcast experience and love post outside of Sprague with of the outdoors for a show debuting in January on The the help of Soukup—and a good blacksmith. Sportsman Channel. “Riggo on the Range” features the KU All-American hunting with celebrities from the worlds of sports, music, entertainment and food. It won’t end with the hunt but follows Riggo and guests to the kitchen (or backyard) to grill what they kill. “Basically, I’m hoping to complete the arc,” says the Centralia native, who grew up hunting Kansas pheasants drop extra change for a good and quail. Most hunting shows stress the thrill of the chase, cause. ignoring pre- and post-hunt preparation, Riggins notes. Unfortunately, the meters’ “After the hunt ends, there’s taking care of the game and merit remains mediocre. preparing it; I think that needs to be shown more.” Megan Watson, executive director of the KU Pediatrics The Diesel’s passion for the great outdoors is well docu- fundraiser KU Dance Mara- mented, but that he “loves to mix it up in the kitchen” was thon, in April told the Univer- news to us. Who knew The Diesel is so at home on a range? sity Daily Kansan that she thought the meters’ location Nice coin kept students from sharing. only parts of the bare frame survived Quantrill’s Raid in “I doubt many people are were returned, so Soukup 1863. e rst, H.W. Baker, T aware of the meters,” Watson posted a sign near the fence, was a Lawrence grocer; the makeover from Facilities told the Kansan, “or would requesting the rest be dropped second was Brinton Wood- Services, two campus parking know to look for them in order o “No Questions Asked!” ward, the druggist who meters have been converted to to donate.” e fence is worth saving. It’s founded Round Corner Drug, accept coin donations. e red Perchance the location is more than a century old and a downtown Lawrence and blue tickers have taken a side issue? True, many stands on ground once owned mainstay from 1855 to 2009. permanent residence on the students aren’t exactly looking by Charles Robinson, a e home later housed the fourth oor of the Kansas for a place to drop excess Lawrence founder and the rst Acacia Fraternity, and in 1940 Union, where student groups change, but we’d bet that even Kansas governor. e rst two it became Templin Hall, a can rent them to raise funds fewer enjoy feeding parking owners of the original home— men’s scholarship hall. Templin for their organization or event. meters (even if they do have a 24-room stone mansion— later housed women and, e hope is for passersby to a new M.O.).
ISSUE 4, 2012 | 9 Hilltopics by Steven Hill
ER (2) The first Replant Mount Oread event added 10 redbuds to Jayhawk Boulevard this spring. It’s just the UNG YO SUSAN beginning of a new campuswide strategy to maintain and expand KU’s stock of trees.
Gray-Little planted 10 redbud trees along a section of Jayhawk Boulevard dug up for a recent utility tunnel renovation. Launched 134 years to the day aer KU’s rst Arbor Day celebration, the ongoing e ort continues a long history of tree planting on the Hill and aims to unite campus departments, student organiza- Green for trees tions, community members and alumni to help plant trees and establish a “tree bank” Replant Mount Oread seeks seed money that relies on donor support to pay for to keep campus groves beautiful future plantings. Donations to the Replant Mount Oread Fund can be made through KU Endowment. ince the day Chancellor James Marvin to the 1870s, but there hasn’t been that e advisory board also is establishing Scanceled classes on March 29, 1878, to next wave to make sure we’re keeping pace guidelines for tree replacement and allow students to mark KU’s rst ocial with the loss of these trees,” says Je planting, setting up service-learning Arbor Day celebration by planting 300 Severin, c’01, g’11, who directs the Center projects to involve students in maintaining saplings, campus beauti cation on Mount for Sustainability and chairs the Campus Mount Oread’s greenery, and compiling a Oread has meant primarily one thing: Tree Advisory Board, a group formed in detailed inventory recording the number, trees, trees, and more trees. January to come up with a comprehensive species and condition of trees on campus. e new campus, like much of the valley policy for maintaining KU’s existing e idea is to avoid the kind of mass around it, was “bare save for tus of groves and planting new ones. die-o that happened with the Jayhawk prairie grass,” as this publication (then “We need to plant at least 40 to 50 Boulevard elms. known as the Graduate Magazine) trees a year just to keep up with what’s “We will look at what species we reported in KU’s rst decade. Marvin set cut down,” Severin says. “We have have that could be vulnerable to out to change that. His e orts kicked o a to be thinking not only about loss, and what species we should long tradition of tree planting that created replacing what we’re losing plant to have the best Marvin Grove and the grand tunnel of every year but also looking survivability in our climate elms that once shaded Jayhawk Boulevard. ahead to the future to make and still meet the historic e elms are long gone, felled by Dutch sure we’re sustaining this components of our campus,” Elm Disease, and other trees—like the e ort.” Severin says. owering redbuds planted in the 1950s e board took a step A class project in 2007 and ’60s—are approaching the end of their toward that goal with counted 29,525 trees on the lifespan. Each year trees fall to storms and Replant Mount Oread. e Lawrence campus, nearly construction. Arbor Day event led by 20,000 of them on West “We’ve had waves of planting going back Chancellor Bernadette Campus. Only a fraction are
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e advisory board hopes to develop a TEVE PUPP E S dedicated budget for tree maintenance. and other matters While tight budgets make funding competition erce, Severin believes trees represent a worthwhile investment in the n The 2012 legislative session brought University’s history and its future: victories for a number of KU proposals. “A lot of our campus environment has The $14 billion state budget finalized on historic elements related to trees, like the May 20 includes $3 million in new shaded sidewalks that we lost. We’re funding for hiring Foundation Profes- looking at how we can bring those back, sors, $5 million to fund the KU Cancer but also how we can create something like Center, $3.5 million for Phase II of the that in other areas of campus. School of Engineering expansion and “We’re oen touted as one of the most $1.8 million in new funding for the beautiful campuses in the nation,” Severin Kansas Medical Student Loan Program. says. “If we’re not putting into place The budget also increased deferred something that’s a sustainable way to maintenance funding for all Regents maintain our campus landscape, we’re universities and kept operations budgets going to start to lose that.” flat. However, tax cuts passed during the session could drastically reduce the state’s ability to fund higher education Cardiologist Ashley Simmons and registered in the future. Heart help nurse Karin Morgan lead A Change of Heart, n which seeks to boost women’s heart health So-Min Cheong, assistant professor Women’s health primary target of geography, received a Faculty Early through risk assessment and education. for Change of Heart program Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National
eart disease is the No. 1 cause of program director of A Change of Heart. Science Foundation. S ATION death in America for men and “We might call a doctor if our husband is Considered one of H ITY REL women. e risk factors can be measured having chest pains, but we pooh-pooh our the NSF’s most and most can be controlled. own symptoms.” prestigious awards Y UNIVER S S
Yet until recently women were not e program started ve years ago, and for junior faculty, RTE getting the message, says Ashley Simmons, a gi from Adelaide Ward recently funded the CAREER COU physician and medical director of Univer- a new space in the KU heart hospital that supports teacher- sity of Kansas Hospital’s A Change of is designed with women in mind (though scholars who Cheong Heart program. men are welcome, too). integrate outstanding research and “Fieen years ago women thought “I think hospitals intimidate women in teaching. A KU faculty member since breast cancer was the leading killer, and a general,” Simmons says, “so we wanted a 2005, Cheong will use the $410,000 lot of physicians did too,” Simmons says. welcoming atmosphere.” e space, which award to further her research into how “Only recently did more than half of opened in February, uses natural light to communities adapt to environmental women realize that it’s heart disease.” create an atmosphere Morgan describes as disaster. Raising women’s awareness about the more like a spa than a hospital. disease, assessing their risk factors and e 90-minute assessment costs $60. n A $1.2 million, four-year grant from turning them into advocates for better Patients have their blood pressure, weight the National Institutes of Health will heart health are the goals of the program and waistline measured. A nger stick fund a research collaboration between at the Adelaide C. Ward Women’s Heart collects blood for a cholesterol test, which Craig Lunte, professor of chemistry at Health Center at University of Kansas breaks down triglycerides, LDL (bad) KU, and Ivan Osorio, professor of Hospital, which uses cholesterol testing cholesterol and HDL (good) cholesterol. neurology at KU Medical Center. They and extensive education to motivate Results are available instantly. Within will study the eect of epileptic seizures women—and men—to make healthy minutes of checking in, a patient is on the brain to learn how seizures lifestyle changes. discussing the test with a nurse practitio- contribute to oxidative stress damage to “Women tend not to seek emergency ner, who explains optimum levels and brain cells, which could lead to better medical attention as early as men do,” says outlines the few risk factors that can’t be treatments for the 3 million Americans Karin Morgan, registered nurse and controlled (age, gender and family history) who live with epilepsy.
ISSUE 4, 2012 | 11 Hilltopics and the many that can. ese factors are “We’ve had women who’ve brought their enrolled and graduate in four years. used to compute a numerical estimate of a college-age daughters back, women who Kansas students who pay the standard patient’s risk of a “cardiovascular event” in sign up their husbands,” Morgan says. rate (not covered by the compact) will the next 10 years. “Our goal is to make people go out there also see a 4.9 percent increase for under- A meeting with another nurse practitio- and talk about [heart health],” Simmons graduate and graduate tuition and fees. ner focuses on speci c strategies for says. “Sometimes that’s all you need to Nonresidents will pay 6.7 percent more for lowering those risk factors, primarily by h e ar.” undergraduate and 5 percent more for improving diet and exercise. graduate tuition. A full listing of tuition “We want to have an assessment that is TUITION rates and course fees for individual schools geared toward women, so it’s easy for them is available at tuition.ku.edu. to come in and at least get their risk factors Tuition rises for fall, e Regents also approved higher assessed,” Simmons says. “Because we admissions standards to follow admissions standards for KU. Under the know that much of coronary artery disease new standards, which go into e ect in fall is preventable, with things that are easier I will face tuition 2016, freshmen will need a 2.5 grade point said than done: healthy lifestyle, good rates 5 percent higher than last year’s average in the Kansas Quali ed Admis- nutrition, getting your blood pressure and freshmen class under a plan approved in sions Precollege Curriculum and must cholesterol treated.” June by the Kansas Board of Regents and meet one of two GPA/ACT thresholds to Ninety percent of women who complete e ective this fall. gain automatic admittance: a minimum the program show at least one risk factor First-time freshmen will pay $4,839 for 3.0 high school GPA and a 24 on the ACT for heart disease, and 75 percent have two tuition and fees per semester (a 4.9-per- (1,090 SAT), or a minimum 3.25 GPA and or more. Some have identi ed serious cent increase over last fall’s four-year rate) a 21 on the ACT (980 SAT). cardiovascular problems that required if they are Kansas residents who elect the Students not meeting the automatic immediate surgery. Four-Year Tuition Compact. Nonresidents admissions criteria will have their applica- Inspiring these women to make will pay $11,874 (a 5-percent increase) tions reviewed by a committee. healthy changes in their own lifestyle can under the compact. e new standards were developed at have a profound ripple e ect, Simmons e Tuition Compact sets a xed tuition the request of the Regents and with input and Morgan say, because women also rate for four years and establishes in from students, parents, alumni and tend to make nutrition and health care advance the course fees for each year. at educators. decisions for their families. rate does not increase if students remain Continued on page 15
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Campanile winner program to support minority and Maggie Kankam, also students as they move to co-founded Project Africa, a TEVE PUPP E arafina Kankam of Lenexa is medical school, and to improve nonprofit organization that S Sthe recipient of the 2012 health in ethnic communities. serves underpriviliged children Campanile Award, which She also founded Phi Delta in Africa. Under her leadership, recognizes a graduating senior Epsilon Medical Fraternity and the group raised money, who has displayed remarkable served as vice president of collected dental supplies and leadership, character and programming for the group, organized a trip to Ghana to respect for KU. which connects pre-med donate these items to the Kankam, c’12, completed her students with interests in Adullam Orphanage and local bachelor’s degree in human philanthropy, education, village schools. biology in May. While at KU, fellowship and mentoring. The Campanile Award, she founded and served as Kankam will begin study at the established as the Senior Class president of the Minority KU School of Medicine this fall. Gift from the Class of 2000, is Association of Pre-Medical Kankam, who is the daughter presented by the Board of Class Students. She designed the of Ghanian immigrants, Martin O¢cers. Sarafina Kankam
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n KU will have three new University Distinguished Professors when classes begin this fall: Je Aubé, in the School of Pharmacy; Ann Cudd, in the depart- ment of philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences; and Maryem- ma Graham, in the department of Continued from page 12 English in the College of Liberal Arts & “Having these new standards will help Sciences. The first University students be prepared and hopefully avoid Distinguished Professors were named the initial challenges some students in 1963, and until now professorships experience when they start college,” said have been awarded only when a Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little. “We’ll position became vacant. From now on, also be able to direct the right support KU will accept nominations for the services to students when they arrive distinguished professorships h e re .” biannually.
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KU racers win first OF REG first Formula car championship in June. The elected Tim Emert, D Formula car championship student-built racer outperformed a field of 80 j’62, l’65, of OAR Independence as international opponents at the Formula SAE
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Engineering student group that gives nine-member board RTE upperclassmen hands-on experience in in June. Emert had COU Emert project design by building and racing Members of the team designed and built been vice chair and Formula One cars, captured its rst two cars—the traditional internal combus- is a former majority leader of the championship in June, taking rst place in tion engine car that competed in Lincoln Kansas Senate. Fred Logan, ’74, of the Formula SAE West competition in and a battery-powered hybrid—as part of Leawood is the new vice chair. Lincoln, Neb. their senior capstone projects in the School e team used a strong showing in both of Engineering. e hybrid also took rst n Doug Ward, associate professor of on-track and o -track competitions to place in the electric-only category during journalism and the Budig Professor of take the overall trophy over 80 college the Formula Hybrid International competi- Writing, received the Charles E. Scripps teams from around the world. tion at the New Hampshire Motor Speed- Award from the Scripps Howard On the track, Jayhawk Motorsports way in May. Foundation in April naming him the nished rst in the endurance competi- Twenty-six mechanical engineers and national journalism teacher of the year. tion and second in autocross. O the seven electric engineers participated in the The Scripps Howard awards honor track, they took second place in design yearlong project, assisted by another 25 excellence in journalism education and and third for presentation. student volunteers. Motorsports alumni administration. e win marks a breakthrough for the contributed their expertise, too, working as team, which has competed in the annual advisers, critiquing designs and giving n Paul Schumaker, professor of competitions sponsored by the Society of feedback to students. political science, will serve as the Gene Automotive Engineers for 19 years. “I really have to thank our alumni,” A. Budig Teaching Professor for “We’ve been ninth, fourth, third, Sorem says. “[ e championship] is not 2012-’13. The award, established by second,” says Robb Sorem, e’86, g’88, just the result of this team; it’s the result of former Chancellor Gene Budig and his PhD’91, associate dean of undergraduate every person who has worked in this wife, Gretchen, honors an outstanding studies and the faculty adviser and course program to this point. Every year it’s a new faculty member in the social or behav- instructor for the team. “We nally got it car for us, but we’re using the experience of ioral sciences who has made a profound this year.” the previous teams and building on that.” contribution to teaching.
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Geubelle loses NCAA gold to late JEFF JA protest; teammate Dixon dashes her way to Summer Olympics he triple jump allows success only Tgrudgingly. It is one of track and eld’s toughest events, requiring speed, strength, coordination, durability and focus. Sprint, hop, bound and jump, with an unnatural cadence of twice leaping from the same leg before long-jumping with the opposite leg; violent impacts punish knees and demand mental tough- ness and physical ability. KU junior triple jumper Andrea Geubelle was a multi-sport star in high school in University Place, Wash. Despite standing just 5-4, she had a huge vertical high this spring. She won the Big 12 and Shortly after posing for track and leap and was an outside hitter in volley- NCAA indoor triple jump titles, domi- ball. When she was a sophomore sprinter nated the Big 12 Outdoor Championships field’s traditional championship on the Curtis Senior High track team, a by nearly a foot, and even nished second portrait, Andrea Geubelle learned veteran volunteer coach who specialized in in the Big 12 long jump to teammate meet o©cials upheld a previously jumping events told her that he could see Francine Simpson. by the bounce in her step that she could When the triple jump competition undisclosed protest lodged by her become an outstanding triple jumper. She concluded at the NCAA Outdoor Champi- competitor’s coach. Her gold-medal didn’t listen, until he promised her the onships June 9 in Des Moines, Iowa, triple jump had been disallowed, following summer that if she took up triple Geubelle jubilantly celebrated victory. jumping she would win a track scholarship She’d soared 46 feet, 11.75 inches on her costing Geubelle the NCAA title. to the school of her choice. fourth attempt, topping Southern Missis- On her very rst attempt at the long sippi’s Ganna Demydova by more than 4 out on her nal two attempts and fouled jump, Geubelle ew 18 feet, which would inches. NCAA gold and an Olympic-stan- both times. (Her nal jump, also a narrow have been the best mark in the country for dard qualifying mark seemingly in hand, scratch, went for 47 feet, 11 inches.) her age group. Geubelle established herself as a top Her next-best jump, set in the prelimi- “I started training with him, but never contender for the U.S. Olympic Trials; as nary rounds, was good only for third, and really took it seriously until ... actually, I long as she could make the team by Geubelle had tears in her eyes as she stood never really took it seriously until this nishing third or better, she’d already on the podium to accept the bronze medal. year,” Geubelle says. “Coming in my jumped far enough to qualify for the “Sunday [the day aer the meet] was a freshman year, I was still going o natural London Olympics. really hard day for me,” Geubelle says. “I talent. Because I was getting stronger and But Geubelle did not have the gold in had his little ounce of hope that somebody faster with the training we do, I improved hand. Or the Olympic qualifying mark. would call me and say that what happened going into my sophomore year. But then in In a stunning reversal, NCAA meet was wrong, and that they’re giving it back my sophomore year I wasn’t really ocials, acting on a protest led by the to me or we’re splitting it or something. improving at all. at’s when I gured out Southern Mississippi coach, examined “So when I woke up on Sunday I was I needed to do more than just strength video of Geubelle’s winning leap and pretty upset. I called my mom and dad just training and running. is year I took it a declared it a foul—by millimeters. Because bawling.” lot more seriously. I got my head into it.” she thought she’d already secured victory Geubelle says she intended to put it e results showed, and Geubelle ew aer her fourth jump, Geubelle went all behind her that night and begin focusing
16 | KANSAS A LUMNI on the Olympic Trials, but the controversy ignited again the following day with published reports that the Southern Miss coach claimed he had told KU coach “I had this little ounce of hope that somebody Stanley Redwine shortly aer Geubelle’s would call me and say that what happened was leap that he thought Geubelle had fouled and intended to lodge a protest. e earlier wrong.” —triple jumper Andrea Geubelle version had the Southern Miss coach {} waiting until aer the event was concluded to protest. (Incredibly, track rules allow 30 minutes aer an event ends to do so). Redwine, Geubelle counters angrily, 400-meter nal, setting personal and KU surprise winner of the men’s 400-meter wasn’t even in the stadium. records with a time of 50.88 seconds. By hurdles at the Big 12 meet, then made it all “No KU personnel knew that it was nishing h Dixon landed a spot on the the way to the event nals at the U.S. being protested,” she says emphatically. six-member U.S. 4x400 relay team. Olympic Trials, where, competing as the “It’s hard for me to read that. at hurt me “I’ve accomplished my dream,” Dixon youngest runner in the eld, he nished a lot.” said aer the race, “and I’m just so seventh. Stigler claimed silver at the Geubelle plotted her revenge for the U.S. grateful.” international under-23 meet in Mexico. Olympic Trials, but it was not to be. Her pursuit of Olympic gold will cap a e Jayhawks’ exciting track and eld Although she nished third at the Olym- remarkable season for Dixon. She won the season held yet more personal honors: e pic trials, and technically made the U.S. Big 12 and NCAA Indoor 400 and U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country triple jump team, her best jump, 45 feet, 3 successfully defended her Big 12 outdoor Coaches Association named Wayne Pate, inches, did not meet the Olympic mini- title. She also ran the anchor leg for the who is in his h season coaching mum standard. (Had her NCAA jump not KU 4x400 team that won the league horizontal jumps and multi-events for KU, been overruled on protest, Geubelle would crown, helping the KU women to a as the women’s assistant coach of the year. have quali ed for London.) second-place Big 12 nish. ey went on Pate won the same national honor But she’s not done trying. Geubelle to nish fourth at the NCAA Outdoor following the indoor season and twice rebounded from the Olympic disappoint- Championships, and earlier placed second while at Indiana. ment to win gold for Team USA at an at the NCAA Indoor. “ ere’s no doubt that Coach Pate international under-23 meet in Mexico, Also winning gold at the Big 12 outdoor deserves every bit of this award,” Redwine and insists her best jumps are still to come. meet in Manhattan were seniors Alena said. “ e awards he has won this season “I’m still not doing things right. I’m Krechyk in the hammer throw and Rebeka have proven that he is one of the elite carrying my speed through my jump but Stowe in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. coaches in the nation and it’s great to see not putting distance on it. ere’s actions Freshman Michael Stigler was the his hard work paying o .” you can do that are awkward; they’re not something your body naturally does. At rst it hurts. It’s the worst. Your knees are just killing you because you’re not doing EN (2)
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triple jump, where your technique is LAU awless. [Olympics in] 2016 and 2020 are my prime.” When Geubelle was in tears at the NCAA meet, teammate Diamond Dixon, a superstar 400-meter sprinter, comforted her by reminding Geubelle about the bigger things yet to come. “You’re going to be holding my hand,” Dixon told her, “all the way to London.” Freshman Michael Stigler won the men’s 400-meter hurdles at the Big 12 Championships Unfortunately, Dixon is the only and went on to earn a spot in the event finals at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Sophomore Jayhawk who will make the trip. Diamond Dixon anchored KU’s championship 4x400 relay team at the Big 12 meet and Dixon, a sophomore from Houston, ran h as the lone collegian in the trials’ made the U.S. relay team bound for London by placing fifth at the Olympic trials.
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18 | Kansas Alumni Brian McClendon guides Google Earth’s orbit to heights even he could not have foreseen
by Chris Lazzarino
t’s never cool to break the bosses’ stuff. Especially when you’re still fairly new on the job. And most especially when your bosses are IGoogle founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and the gizmo you nearly redlined is their Internet search engine, which is worth, well, quite a lot of money. OK, so Brian McClendon was never in danger of actually busting Google, but he did come close to placing it in a certain amount of peril—even if only for moments—on June 28, 2005.
Issue 4, 2012 | 19 he ocial debut of Google Earth, the we couldn’t a ord a big blowout.” “They wanted more, Thigh- ying digitization of planet “A ord,” as in accessing reams of Earth, unleashed expensive satellite and precious computing power from Google’s better, faster, and they aerial imagery and all the mighty power of monetary mainstay, the Internet search Google’s massive computing resources to engine. wanted it to be free and provide never-before-seen planetary tours Seven months later, in June 2005, available for all. From their computers. McClendon and his engineering team they wanted everybody For free. were con dent they were ready. e day McClendon, e’86, had dreamed of this arrived. Google unleashed Earth, and to have it.” moment, or something like it, since 1998, earthlings responded. —Brian McClendon when he and the other three founders of a By the millions. gaming soware startup created their rst “Overwhelming,” McClendon says. “In demonstration graphic to dazzle potential the rst few days we used more than half investors, and the demo—the now-iconic of Google’s bandwidth. We actually put science, exploration, education and even Google Earth zoom from near-Earth orbit Google Search at risk a couple of times. human rescues. Lives weren’t just straight down to rooops and sidewalks— at part wasn’t good.” changed; they were saved. dazzled its creators even more than the McClendon immediately restricted All thanks to a game-soware demo that money guys. access to new downloads of the Google Brian McClendon refused to leave behind Shortly aer acquiring the technology Earth operating soware to six to 12 hours in the dot.com dust bin. and brainpower that became Google a day. ey brought in “a lot more Earth, Google in early November 2004 machines,” and, in McClendon’s calm teased techies with a low-wattage press description, he and his engineers “got o those who really know McClendon, announcement and a free trial of the smarter about serving to large numbers of Tthe fact that Google Earth was born dazzling new toy; even that tightly people in one of the biggest re drills of in the quest for a huge leap in video controlled mini-rollout created a huge our lives.” gaming is not such a surprise. increase in online trac whizzing through Six days later, the re drill was done. e son of a KU mathematics professor Google’s servers. Google Earth opened up full-throttle. who lived in the same Meadowbrook “We survived that launch,” McClendon “We were in the millions of users in the apartment from 1968 until he moved to recalls from his Mountain View, Calif., rst week,” McClendon says. “And it went Daisy Hill as a KU freshman in 1982, oce, where he works as vice president of up from there.” McClendon passed endless hours with his engineering in charge of Google’s world- And nearly as quickly, Google’s cool buddies playing video games in Hillcrest wide suite of geo-related products, “but we new toy began to change the world it so Bowling Alley. He was a wiz at Asteroids, actually kept it pretty low-key. We knew magically represented, forever altering and Hillcrest’s unquestioned champ at
20 | KANSAS A LUMNI Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man and Missile interests in photography and wine Physics. Mastery of Einstein’s theories of Command. making and remains faithful to his weekly special and, even more challenging, His lifelong best friend, Steve Dinneen, poker game. general relativity. Analog and digital recalls the day he and McClendon nally McClendon maintained a newspaper design. had their big Asteroids showdown. route while growing up in Lawrence, and In EE 642, a senior design project led by ey played side-by-side machines for worked aer school at the Zarda Dairy Professor Gary Minden, e’73, PhD’83, ve straight hours, scoring so far o the convenience store on 23rd Street. He took McClendon and the other three students charts that extra-play rocket ships waiting advanced placement mathematics and on his team built a central-processing unit to be called into battle were “wrapped computer courses, grabbing opportunities by hand, then programmed it with a set of around the back of machines to where you provided by attending high school in a 27 instructions, each of which required couldn’t see them.” college town. microcode to implement those instruc- Finally, they called a truce. Walked “He got up early, he went to school, tions, and cranked it up to 2 megahertz, away, bowling alley big shots as co-con- and he worked,” Dinneen says. nearly equivalent of the era’s commercially querors of Asteroids. “He was always working.” constructed personal computers. ere didn’t have to be a quarter slot Before he graduated from Lawrence “So we were playing with what at the and onslaughts of space invaders for High School, in 1982, McClendon had time was a pretty fast computer,” McClen- McClendon to enjoy his free time. He already completed computer program- don says, “and then connecting it to a collected baseball cards with a certain ming courses in BASIC and Fortran, system and showing that we knew how to amount of organizational mania, the taught by enthusiastic and talented debug all the soware and hardware issues treasures secured in protective sleeves and LHS faculty who arranged for a to make it work. at class alone had a led by the hundreds in table-top boxes dial-up modem linked directly to the huge impact on me.” that ran the length of his room. KU Computing Center. Says classmate and Google Earth He was always tall and lean and played “To be able to take Fortran in high colleague Dan Webb, e’86, “ at was the basketball, oen walking to and from school is crazy talk,” McClendon says. very grounding in our careers. It was the Hillcrest Elementary and West Junior “You just couldn’t do that. at was all most-fun project I worked on, and I think High with a basketball tucked under his because KU was right next door. We had Brian would agree.” arm. Basketball remains a passion, both as e ectively free access to a mainframe, McClendon and Webb both accepted a player and spectator, and he catches KU which was a huge value.” jobs with a Huntsville, Ala., company games whenever and wherever possible. At KU, where he majored in electrical called Intergraph, where they wrote Despite constant demands of worldwide engineering, with a then-new computer soware for high-performance graphics travel to oversee engineering teams engineering emphasis, McClendon applied that powered computer-aided design. providing Google Geo products for users himself with unwavering determination. “Within a year or two,” Webb says, “the in 184 countries, McClendon maintains Semiconductors. Electromagnetics. manager who managed both of us told me,
ISSUE 4, 2012 | 21 ‘You know what? Brian is going to be a Clark’s offer to become director of coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. millionaire someday.’ That comment stuck engineering for @Home Network, a Keyhole made a good and innovative with me. Our manager saw in Brian this startup developing high-speed residential product, and appeared to be on the verge entrepreneurial spirit. He knew that he cable modems. Although intrigued by the of hitting big, but still lacked one critical would seek out opportunities and relent- opportunity to figure out how the Internet resource: money. Without lots of it, lessly pursue them.” might be used in homes, McClendon says Keyhole could not purchase enough he eventually gauged that @Home’s satellite imagery. prospects were limited by the controlling Eleven months after McClendon joined he favored success story of tech-mad interest held in the company by the Keyhole, he received a call from a former Tmodern America is the visionary lethargic cable industry; after two years he @Home officemate, who by then had youths who rock the world even before joined three former SGI colleagues to joined Google: Would Keyhole be inter- framing their college diplomas. Not so for create Intrinsic Graphics. ested in discussing a sale? McClendon, who took 18 years to get from “Our goal was to offer a development What Keyhole executives didn’t know at KU to Google, embracing each stop along platform that made game development the time was that Google’s Page and Brin the way as a learning experience to expand easier,” McClendon says, “and in 1998 we were already sold on the product’s both his engineering talents and personal created our very first demo, showing the potential. A year before selling to Google, networks among colleagues and investors. zooming from the globe all the way down Keyhole landed a $500,000 investment by He left Intergraph after two years to join to a high-resolution location in Santa allowing its program to be distributed free a Silicon Valley company called Silicon Cruz. This was a demo to show that we on powerful new G-Force processors. Graphics, Inc., the industry leader in 3D could now do on software what could only That’s how the Google founders discovered graphics. At SGI, Webb says, McClendon be possible on Silicon Graphics hardware it, and they used Keyhole in presentations “looked for missing pieces in the engineer- in the past. So that got us funded—as a they prepared for board meetings. ing process and proceeded to fill them in. startup focused on game middleware.” McClendon recalls that he and Hanke Somebody who accomplishes that actually McClendon and his three partners in spent hours debating the risks and ends up building up new processes, and he Intrinsic Graphics immediately sensed rewards. They were concerned that eventually got into an engineering possibilities far beyond gaming for their Google’s aggressive valuation might not management role because of that.” Earth-graphic demo. Investors insisted prove to be entirely accurate; Google SGI designed and built custom they focus on game applications, so the executives assured them the company’s machines, ranging in price from $100,000 four Intrinsic Graphics founders spun the financial resources would only grow, and to $250,000, that revolutionized such zoom-around-the-globe Earth viewer the Keyhole team was convinced. More diverse fields as special film effects, technology into yet another startup, which difficult was the issue of control: Would automobile and aircraft design, fluid they named Keyhole. Keyhole get lost in the Google behemoth? dynamics for oil refineries, and hyper- Intrinsic Graphics was sold in 2003 (the Keyhole needed super-fast servers; realistic flight simulators. McClendon software it created is still used by Activi- Google’s were clearly the best. It also immersed himself in graphics technology, sion) and McClendon, who maintained a needed money for a massive stockpiling of but was displeased that, in his estimation, position on Keyhole’s board of directors, up-to-date satellite images. Google assured SGI maintained its intense focus on pricey, intended to take a much-needed vacation. McClendon and the other Keyhole execs stand-alone machines while paying little It didn’t last long. Keyhole’s CEO, John that they would get whatever they needed. heed to possibilities offered by the next big Hanke, asked McClendon to join the An agreement was quickly reached, in thing: the World Wide Web. company he helped found as vice presi- spring 2004, but Google was then in the “I ran the first large-scale Web server dent of engineering. midst of going public with its first stock inside SGI,” McClendon says, “and I Keyhole was realizing some limited offering, so the sale was not finalized until pushed them very hard toward the success in selling modestly priced sub- October, and then not announced until Internet. When [SGI founder James Clark] scriptions to its Earth graphics service to November—at which time Google Earth’s left SGI to go start Netscape, I had talked such customers as real-estate developers, initial free trial put its first strains on the to him about it. I interviewed and wanted urban planners, state highway commis- Google servers. to go there, but I couldn’t commit. Bad sions and even the U.S. Army. But Keyhole “They actually let us live as a separate choice.” gained fame—and unwieldy momentum— unit for a year,” McClendon says. “They let In 1996, eight years after he joined when CNN began incorporating the us use whatever Google services we Silicon Graphics, McClendon accepted global imagery and flight graphics in its wanted and to get help whenever we
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needed it, and they did in fact very quickly write checks for data. ey didn’t pressure us too much, but they did push us in a couple of dimensions: ey wanted more, better, faster, and they wanted it to be free and they wanted everybody to have it.”
rom its earliest incarnations, the FGoogle Earth default setting—where the zoom from the startup-screen takes you on its descent from space—has been McClendon’s boyhood apartment in O Building of Lawrence’s Meadowbrook Apartments, near Mount Oread’s west entrance at 15th and Iowa streets. When McClendon, shown here atop Memorial Stadium before a football game last fall, and his wife, Dan Webb joined Google Earth to write Beth Ellyn, last year gave $50,000—a donation matched in February by Google—to purchase soware for Mac compatibility, he snuck Android tablets for freshmen in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “Beyond the in a bit of soware code that made the future of computing,” he says, “it’s also something that students can carry around and share Mac version’s default setting downtown their ideas with their friends.” Chanute, his hometown. Such cheekiness is part of Google Earth’s charm. Zooming from space to your house possible trouble spots, such as a detached doubt, huge, ginormous sea changes and then setting out on a light-speed tour garage next to an alley. coming. e advances in network band- of cities and landmarks around the globe When Haiti was devastated by the 2010 width, computer vision, imagery and makes Google Earth a captivating comput- earthquake, Google quietly commissioned photography, and also human-derived erized plaything. fresh images to aid rescue teams negotiat- intelligence and arti cial intelligence, are But it’s not a toy. While McClendon ing the rubble of Port-au-Prince. Profes- going to produce products in the next ve and his fellow futurists say they had no sional and armchair scientists have used to 10 years that are not even imaginable. earthly idea how users would apply the Google Earth satellite photos to search for e phone that you have in your hand is tool, they were certain that they’d be remote archeological sites, measure global going to be completely di erent in eight astounded. deforestation, and even nd previously years. Maybe ve.” What they’ve discovered is that the unknown meteor craters in the Sudanese Because of the immense computing genius of Google Earth pales next to the desert. (McClendon bought 3 grams of power now available to anyone with a brilliance of its applications. that nd on eBay. “It was discovered in computer and access to Internet-based In the aermath of Hurricane Katrina, Google Earth,” he explains. “I thought I soware and storage, Silicon Valley desperate New Orleans residents ghting had to have a piece of that.”) startups no longer require $5 million for for their lives used cellphones to call for What’s next? Nobody knows, but they equipment and manpower; anyone with help from their rooops. But with street can sure dream. vision and determination who is willing to signs and urban landmarks washed away, Webb, now senior soware engineer at work without a salary can reach their rst how could rescuers nd them? at’s when Google, envisions a time 50 years (or less) set of product releases, McClendon says, the Coast Guard hit on the idea of in the future when tiny, unmanned ying “literally without spending a dime.” punching the addresses into Google Earth, machines will zip overhead, constantly “‘If you build it they will come’ is a very then identifying rescue sites by the same transmitting fresh aerial imagery through accurate statement,” McClendon says. aerial view shared by helicopter pilots. a network of servers to allow Google Earth “You can’t think of all the ideas yourself, so Police dispatchers have begun using or its successor to operate in something the goal is to build platforms and let other similar strategies: If they receive a mid- close to real time. “A re ection,” he says, people build on top of your platform to night call about a backyard prowler, for “of the real world in incrementally more create amazing new ideas.” instance, they can use Google Earth and more detail.” Even if they might crash a server or two imagery to alert responding ocers to Says McClendon, “ ere are, without a along the way.
ISSUE 4, 2012 | 23 really big deal demands a really big have the resources and prestige to attract unplugged me every Saturday morning I Ashow, and you only had to scan the the country’s elite cancer scientists and would be virtually dying. It was torture. I front of the room to judge that KU was physicians and expand bene ts statewide can’t put it into words.” about to make one of the biggest through the Midwest Cancer Alliance. Whitaker survived, and dedicated announcements in its history: a member Patients will have access to clinical drug himself to helping others wage their own of the president’s cabinet. A U.S. senator trials only available at NCI-designated battles. He volunteers in the Cancer and representative. e president of the centers, and they’ll be able to get the best Center’s treatment unit and formed a Kansas Senate and speaker of the House. cancer treatments closer to home. No head-and-neck cancer support group. e lieutenant governor. Mayor. Chancel- more grueling trips to Houston or e motivation he imparts is simple in lor and former chancellor. Hospital CEO. Minneapolis or the coasts. concept but complex in execution: hope. GOLD STANDARD Luminaries from Washington, D.C., e journey toward NCI designation “You can live 40 days without food, you Topeka, Kansas City and the University, already has generated, according to KU can live eight days without water, you can cancer survivors, honored guests, donors, calculations, more than 1,100 jobs and live four minutes without air, but without employees, families, friends and reporters contributed more than $450 million to hope you can’t live at all. gathered July 12 in the Robert E. Hemen- regional economies. “Eight years ago I didn’t know what way Life Sciences Innovation Center on Every aspect of cancer research and care cancer was, I didn’t know what NCI was, I the campus of KU Medical Center to will be boosted by the KU Cancer Center’s didn’t know what a clinical trial was. Now celebrate years of strenuous e ort and NCI designation. And yet despite the I know how important NCI designation is. unprecedented cooperation, culminating impressive lineup of leaders attending the More money, more treatment, more in the announcement made 27 minutes announcement, there wasn’t a single pair research, more nds, more people having into the event: of scissors anywhere in sight. birthdays, and that’s what we’re here for.” “I am here,” said Kathleen Sebelius, g’80, ere were no ribbons to cut, because secretary of the U.S. Department of Health the celebration did not include any ancer research has long been a and Human Services, “to formally award dedications or openings. A gold standard Cmainstay on the Lawrence campus, the University of Kansas Cancer Center of cancer care is already in place. where faculty and researchers have with the prestigious designation as a excelled in drug discovery and formula- National Cancer Institute Cancer Center. ight years ago, construction sales tion; of 17 small-molecule drug therapies Congratulations.” Erepresentative Bill Whitaker of developed in the rst 50 years of the NCI’s ough not a surprise, the big news Shawnee was diagnosed with cancer at the clinical therapeutics, eight were formu- prompted a standing ovation, one of ve base of the tongue. It was declared, in his lated at KU. in less than an hour. words, terminal and non-operable. “Our proven track record in drug “We promise you our absolute best “My life was right ahead of me,” says discovery and formulation on the Law- e ort in ghting this disease and becom- Whitaker, a tall, powerfully built grandfa- rence campus makes us fairly unique from ing one of the best NCI cancer centers in ther of 10 and husband of 40 years. “I other cancer centers,” says Val Stella, the country,” said Roy Jensen, director of thought I knew everything. Until they tell distinguished professor of pharmaceutical the KU Cancer Center and the unstop- you that you have cancer, and all that chemistry. “It separates us from the rest.” pable force behind a quest that began in disappears.” Stella has 36 patents in drug formula- earnest with his arrival at KU in 2004. KU Cancer Center oncologists told tion, the most recent of which are associ- “You have my word of honor and pledge.” Whitaker about one of his few options: a ated with Velcade. Stella, PhD’71, and With ocial designation by the National Phase II trial for patients with cancers of research assistant Wanda Waugh devel- Cancer Institute—a Maryland-based the head and neck, investigating the oped a formulation that gives Velcade, a cancer research agency within the U.S. e ectiveness of chemotherapy combined highly successful medication for treating government’s National Institutes of with ve di erent medications. blood cancers, long shelf-life and stability. Health—the University of Kansas Cancer Whitaker spent half of every week being KU’s work in developing stable formula- Center is now eligible to conduct the ooded with “a torture chamber of all tions helps speed the long process of highest priority cancer research and will di erent kinds of things. Aer they getting new drugs into clinical trials and
24 | KANSAS A LUMNI nally into general use for treating biology, and he wanted to integrate me as well as Kansas City. In her department, patients. In the case of Velcade, Stella into the big picture of the NCI e ort,” she three cancer biologists who joined the sta estimates that KU’s formulation shortened recalls. “He wanted a cancer biology class in the past seven years now help bridge the the process by about two years. to be taught, so he and I and Leanne gap between her scienti c research and the He credits the “troops in the trenches” Wiedemann at the Stowers Institute translational research that can lead to drug in Lawrence and Kansas City for pursuing designed a graduate-level class taught by discovery, she says. this dream for the past 38 years—since live video conferencing on the three “When we talk about the KU Cancer KU’s initial NCI application, in 1974, campuses—KU Med, Stowers and Center, it’s not just at KU Med. It was failed. He also praises the pursuit’s leader, Lawrence. is was a step to integrate all important for our application to include director Roy Jensen. the cancer biology work in the area. e the contributions of the Lawrence c ampu s .” Long-sought NCI designation certifies anny Welch, a renowned researcher Din cancer metastasis, came to KU in KU’s top-tier cancer research and treatment January 2011 from the University of and sets stage for more advances Alabama-Birmingham, where he directed a National Foundation for Cancer Research center. For the KU Cancer Center, he is associate director of basic science and chair of cancer biology. He also is a Kansas Bioscience Authority Eminent Scholar, in recognition of the KBA’s nancial support of his hiring. His presence demonstrates not only the nancial cooperation among public and private agencies across the region, but also dedication to research and treatment for every stage of cancer. Metastasis, or the spread of disease from one organ to another, is dicult to halt and is oen terminal. “Dr. Welch is the only doctor who looked me in the eye and said, ‘I would like to make this a chronic disease for you, not a terminal disease,’” says Monica TEVE PUPP E S Jensen and Stella Matyak Steiner, j’92, who is battling stage IV metastatic breast cancer [see First “Roy did a very good job of including class has been very successful.” Word, p. 5]. researchers on the Lawrence campus in In addition to the graduate-level class, Monica and her husband, Jay, j’92, the NCI e ort,” Stella says. “He made us all Neufeld teaches an undergraduate class in created a fund for metastasis research at part of the team.” cancer biology as well as a senior seminar. the KU Cancer Center. So far they have One of those in the trenches who met She currently oversees eight students in raised about $35,000. Of the millions of early with Jensen was Kristi Neufeld, her Haworth Hall lab. In 2009 Jensen dollars available for cancer research, less associate professor of molecular biosci- asked Neufeld to become a co-leader of than 5 percent is designated for metastatic ences in Lawrence. She studies a particular the cancer biology program, one of four research, Welch explains. “ is research is protein (adenomatous polyposis coli, research tracks at the KU Cancer Center. very hard to do and it is expensive, as is all known as APC) that suppresses tumors in She co-wrote and edited a 60-page cancer research,” he says. “ ere is a big emphasis the colon. In 80 percent of colon cancer biology section of the NCI application. in our eld on prevention, because if you patients, the APC protein does not Neufeld says the NCI e ort has can prevent cancer, you never have to function properly, she says. increased collaboration and made possible worry about metastasis.” “Roy recognized that I was doing cancer the hiring of key researchers in Lawrence But he chooses to focus on nearer-term goals for patients like Monica. “People can by Chris L azzarino and Jennifer Jackson Sanner live with cancer if it’s not destroying their bodies. ey can keep it under control—
ISSUE 4, 2012 | 25 TEVE PUPP E much like people live with diabetes.” S $500 million goal a year ahead of Welch credits the Steiners for their schedule, and the mood was jubilant. support of promising young scientists on e Masons’ pledge funded the recruit- his team. eir endowment will fund the ment of cancer researcher Roy Jensen, research of Keke Pounds, a physiology who helped Vanderbilt achieve NCI cancer graduate student in the cancer biology designation in 1995 and, in 2001, elite department. “It’s humbling to know they status as an NCI comprehensive cancer want to help us, when the whole eld of center—which is now his next goal for KU. cancer research hasn’t yet done enough for Jensen and his family were reluctant to them,” Welch says, emphasizing his goal to leave Nashville. ey had just remodeled personally connect researchers with their house, they enjoyed great friends and patients. “I am going to involve grad schools, and Jensen was dedicated to students with as many patients as we can Vanderbilt’s mission. so their work becomes more real.” Sebelius KU o ered an opportunity to return During his career, Welch and his team home: Jensen and his wife, Linda, grew up have discovered six of the 30 known 2003, when the then-new School of together in Gardner. But fond memories metastasis suppressors—genes that Nursing building hosted a festive weren’t enough to lure Jensen back. It was produce proteins to halt cancer growth. announcement: the Kansas Masonic about the work, the drive toward yet He came to KU for the chance to build a Foundation had pledged $15 million— another celebratory day at KU Medical cancer center, he says. “It’s important to which was soon upped to $20 million—to Center. build a team and train the next generation fund the launch of the KU Cancer “ ere’s no question that a huge element who can continue this work.” Center’s quest for NCI designation. e of the success of this e ort was recruiting Masons’ generosity thrust KU Endow- back to Kansas a native-son superstar, Dr. he last large-scale public celebration ment’s fundraising campaign, Roy Jensen,” Sebelius said. Chancellor Tat KU Medical Center was Nov. 20, KU First: Invest in Excellence, over its Bernadette Gray-Little recalls Jensen NCI Designation Timeline 1969 2004 2005 2006 KU Medical Center launches cancer With $20 million Chancellor Robert Kansas Legislature program with first professor of clinical commitment from E. Hemenway approves first annual oncology. the Kansas Masonic announces that $5 million Foundation, KUMC attaining NCI appropriation for renames its cancer designation is KU’s Cancer Center. Drug 1970s research top research Discovery, Delivery With National Cancer organization the priority. and Experimental Institute funding, KUMC Kansas Masonic Therapeutic program formed, leveraging investigates feasibility Cancer Research ON world-class cancer biology research at KU, of establishing clinical Institute and HAR DS KUMC and the Stowers Institute for cancer research center recruits nationally RI C Medical Research with KU School of in Kansas. recognized EAR L Pharmacy programs in medicinal and researcher Roy pharmaceutical chemistry. Under an NCI 1990s Jensen to lead contract held by Val Stella, professor of Cancer Center experiences steady growth University’s cancer medicinal chemistry, eight of 17 NCI in research funding and discoveries. program. small-molecule cancer drug therapies advancing to clinical trials have been formulated at KU. 2002 Hemenway Cancer Center establishes NCI designation as chief goal.
26 | KANSAS A LUMNI vowing, “I’m going to do this and I will not we’ll get it done.’ And they did.” TEVE PUPP E be denied or deterred.” She added, “So e “original vision” of Jim and Virginia S now I listen to Roy.” Stowers “woke this community to the Said Kansas House Speaker Mike possibility of what biomedical research O’Neal, c’73, l’76, “He knows full well that conducted at a very high level could sometimes the cure can be worse than the mean.” State and federal legislators disease when dealing with bureaucracies. provided consistent support, Jensen said, Not only has he done it e ectively, he’s and without the Kansas Bioscience done it with class, and his positive Authority, “this would not have enthusiasm for the mission, and expertise h app e n e d .” in both medicine and administration, have By all accounts, Jensen has broken only really made the di erence.” one pledge along the entire journey to NCI “Roy,” said Kansas Senate President designation: his promise to his family that Steve Morris, “has been the force that’s he wouldn’t single them out for thanks. Whitaker and Gray-Little allowed us to get to where we are today.” “I took them from an idyllic life in Jensen was greeted at the July 12 event Nashville, Tennessee,” Jensen said, choking chancellorship to invigorating KU Medical with a standing ovation, and quickly back tears, “and told them that we were Center and the University of Kansas de ected praise. Kansas Masons, he said, moving back to Kansas City. at was a Hospital. In 2005 he declared the NCI “believed in us before we may have been big sacri ce. And they supported me.” designation KU’s No. 1 research priority. worth believing in. But they told us that Greeting friends and colleagues, we could do it and we set our mind to it.” s the news conference cleared, people Hemenway enjoyed the moment. Not for KU Endowment fundraisers asked how Amingled in the atrium of the Robert himself, but for what it meant: A momen- much money needed to be raised, then did E. Hemenway Life Sciences Innovation tous goal had been achieved. it—despite the recession. “ ey didn’t bat Center. Among them was Robert E. “It’s a great day,” he said. “Everything is an eye,” Jensen says. “ ey just said, ‘OK, Hemenway, who dedicated much of his as it should be.”
2007 2008 2010 KUMC launches Midwest Cancer Alliance, Johnson County Hall Family Foundation of Kansas City a regional network dedicated to research voters pass an commits $18 million to recruit top scientists and increased access to clinical trials and Education and and fund Phase I clinical trials facility in cancer care. By 2011 it includes 15 research, Research Triangle Fairway. Researchers advance promising education and health care institutions sales tax that funds 2009 leukemia therapy to Phase I trials. $1 million across Kansas and the KC metro. Cancer KU Clinical $8.1 million gift from Burns & McDonnell Foundation Center combines with University of Kansas Research Center, Kauªman launches Prostate Cancer High Risk Hospital to oªer region’s largest blood and site of Phase I Foundation grant Prevention Program, and $12 million NIH marrow transplant program, and opens clinical trials. One (matched by KU grant funds bid to improve cancer region’s largest outpatient cancer center. such trial tests Endowment) forms prevention in rural, Latino and American Nanotax, a less- Institute for Indian communities in Kansas. toxic, more eªective Advancing Medical chemotherapy drug Innovation to for ovarian cancer streamline 2011 developed by KU development of Cancer Center researchers. $20 drugs and reaches $61 million million gift from biomedical devices. fundraising goal. Annette Bloch Kansas Bioscience Report a¢rms benefits cancer Authority awards excellent patient survival rates. The services. NCI invites $29 million to University of Kansas Hospital’s cancer KU to apply for support cancer program named one of the nation’s best by cancer center center. U.S. News and World Report. On Sept.19, designation. University submits NCI application.
ISSUE 4, 2012 | 27 28 | Kansas Alumni From to GenesisA head-to-toe Revelation cleanup leaves a Kansas arts wonder better than new— and ready for its next 100 years
ve’s cheeks glow a group that owns the site. healthy pink, and the “Over time he got much Eapple she holds in her better with his anatomy right hand, just beyond reach and his modeling. But by of the looming serpent, the time he got to Labor blushes crimson. ree Cruci ed, he was going American ags blaze red, blind and his anatomy and white and blue. From the modeling are su ering Goddess of Liberty’s stripes to again.” the tongue on Abel’s Dog, Dinsmoor began creating color has come back to the the site that is now on the garden. National Register of Freed from a decades-deep Historic Places in 1907, crust of lichen and mold and when he was 64. Between bolstered by a painstaking then and 1928, when restoration funded and glaucoma and encroaching performed by the Kohler age nally brought his EN (2) Foundation of Wisconsin, the artmaking to an concrete sculptures in the end, the Garden of Eden in Lucas look better than they Civil War veteran and former OF THE GAR D have in 60 years, as good, perhaps, as they Populist Party member RIEN DS looked when S.P. Dinsmoor created them a transformed his Lucas yard
LSON, F LSON, century ago, improvising and perfecting his and home into what has
A NE technique (as folk artists oen do) as he went. been declared one of the top RI K “You see that he kept developing his method,” 10 folk art sites on the planet E, E says John Hachmeister, f’72, associate professor by Raw Vision, the magazine
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EFT, BY STEVEN HI STEVEN BY EFT, by Steven Hill PHOTO AT L AT PHOTO is was, he continued, “modern described as “oen miserable” working civilization as I see it. If it is not right I conditions: “heat, rain, snow, bugs, am to blame, but if the Garden of Eden is occasional snakes, and strong Kansas not right Moses is to blame. He wrote it winds, which are a dicult thing when up and I built it.” you need to work 50 feet in the air.” Built it to last. By 1927, Dinsmoor Dinsmoor, of course, endured the reported, he’d poured some 113 tons of same—into his 80s and without bene t of Fiy major sculptures cement into his sculpture garden, hydraulic lis, space-age epoxies, specially form a fantastical tableaux of making more than a dozen trees the world according to rising 30 to 40 feet above the Lucas Dinsmoor, a sometimes sharp, streets. Yet his improvised tech- EN (3) sometimes sly commentary niques and make-do materials
that mixes Bible stories and created long-term challenges that OF THE GAR D 19th century progressive would test the various caretakers who political thought. Cain’s slaying of owned the site over the years. RIEN DS
Abel, the rst murder, is depicted next to a at the installation still stands aer a F LSON, high-arching panorama showing a chain century of Kansas wind and weather is A NE RI K of exploitation that starts with trusts testament to both the ingenuity of a E (depicted by an octopus with its tentacles self-taught artist and the determination of greedily strangling the globe) and ends those who followed to preserve this odd with a caterpillar eating a plant. bit of paradise on the plains. “ e dog is aer the fox, fox aer the bird, bird has its mouth open aer a little worm eating a leaf,” Dinsmoor wrote in s several dozen friends of the garden Pictorial History of the Cabin Home in Agathered May 18 to eat barbecue and Garden of Eden, Lucas, Kansas, his book celebrate the completion of the most that details the Populist and Biblical ambitious restoration the site has ever imagery that informs the sculptures. “ is seen, Kohler executive director Terri Yoho shows how one animal is aer another praised conservators Shane Winter and down to the leaf.” Ben Caguioa, who put up with what she
The Garden of Eden sculptures were inspired by Dinsmoor’s views on the political issues of the day. One tableaux addresses universal suªrage, while another (opposite page) critiques social Darwinism as a chain of exploitation with big trusts at the top. Changes wrought by the Kohler renovation are cosmetic (a dramatic return of color to the Garden) and structural (Eve’s rebuilt arm, p. 28, restores Dinsmoor’s original lines to the work).
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“If it is not right I am to blame, but if the Garden of Eden is not RIEN DS LSON, F LSON,
right Moses is to blame. He wrote it up and I built it.”—S.P. Dinsmoor A NE RI K E coated rebar, stainless steel fasteners and still right here in my hands—that was other modern marvels Kohler relied on. really powerful. It really increased my “He didn’t have regular sca olding,” respect for the sculptures.” Hachmeister says, a touch of wonder in his Dinsmoor envisioned the garden and voice as he mentions that Dinsmoor stood the Cabin Home built of native post rock only 5-2. “He had ladders and 2x4s limestone as a showplace people would propped together and he’d carry concrete pay to see. He cobbled together loans to up a bucket at a time.” buy Portland cement and used any casto ough he sometimes had help mixing metal he could nd—gas pipes, bed concrete, Dinsmoor did the sculpting springs, window screen—to reinforce it. himself, modeling the human gures as e heavy sculptures balanced on long, nudes and tting their concrete clothes on thin spans reveal the boldness of an later—something conservators discovered untutored artist free to learn as he worked. when they began working up close with “You see a building built by an engineer, the pieces. and they’ve learned all the formulas and “Having your hands on them you feel all the physics of how far they can push the process of building come through the concrete, and they build everything in a sculptures,” says Erika Nelson, g’01. An very safe manner, within tolerances,” says artist who maintains the World’s Largest Shane Winter. “With something like this, Collection of the World’s Smallest Ver- Dinsmoor doesn’t necessarily know, when sions of the World’s Largest ings in her he starts out, how far he can push it. So he packed house next door to the Garden of does things you won’t see anywhere else, Eden, Nelson was hired along with just to see how far he can push the sculptor Matt Farley, f’09, to help with the medium. at’s what I like: He pushed it.” conservation work. “Repairing and But sometimes the artist’s triumph is the rebuilding and going through old photos conservator’s nightmare. and seeing Dinsmoor with them, you “Like anyone who is self-taught, he realize this is a hundred years old and it’s didn’t understand how thorough he should HER RA P G ITH PHOTO —DAN S M —DAN ATION, INC.ATION, ER FOUND L KOH
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Painstaking work by conservators included (counterclockwise from top right) reconstructing a detail to reproduce the wings and head. It’s garment and braids for an American Indian, removing and reinforcing Eve’s apple-bearing arm, astonishing what they’ve done.” deploying hydraulic lifts to clean and repair the highest pieces, poring over old photographs to Conservators fashioned new braids for design long lost parts like the Indian’s arrows, and collecting a palette of sandstone for matching the bow-shooting Indian and reset Adam’s Dinsmoor’s original concrete tints. The dramatic results speak for themselves: Cain before and after. broken foot. But perhaps the best example of the new level of care and know-how Kohler conservators brought is their repair of Eve’s right arm. be,” Hachmeister says. “He was just a little disintegrated metal with a coated rebar Aer decades holding the fateful apple, overly optimistic about what concrete that resists rust, and scrutinized old Eve’s arm nally cracked under the could do.” photographs to gure out where to t pressure. Call it the burden of original sin. Piecemeal construction created cold salvaged parts or mold replacements from Previous owners had fastened metal joints, seams that let in rain and snow. e scratch. To match the original colors, strapping on the outside of the arm, then reinforcing metal expanded as it rusted, which Dinsmoor achieved almost entirely plastered ready-mix concrete over the blowing out the surrounding concrete with tinted concrete rather than paint, repair. e bulky x held, but it destroyed from within. Wind, snow, ice, rain and they traveled the county taking sandstone the original lines of Dinsmoor’s sculpture. biological growth—lichen, weeds and samples until they found red stone that Eve looked like a muscle-bound Amazon vines—wore at Dinsmoor’s work from matched Dinsmoor’s tints. rather than the rst mother. without. For decades the sculptures “One of the things that had totally Soon she would look more like Venus, su ered this dual assault. Pieces fell o . blown apart was the serpent pool in the as conservators removed the arm entirely. Details were obscured. Dinsmoor’s grand front yard,” Hachmeister says. “ ere was Chipping o the Sakrete to get back to creation faded as his eyesight had, to a a stump in the pool and a couple of pieces Dinsmoor’s original form, they drilled out time-dimmed shadow of former glory. of what had been a snake. How he did it I the arm and used stainless steel rods to e Kohler team assessed the site, then can’t imagine, but Dinsmoor smeared strengthen and reattach it. carefully cleaned the sculptures. “We don’t concrete on window screen and rolled it e repair is seamless. Other xes—like stand there with power washers and zoom, up like a jelly roll to arrange the snake.” Adam’s reattached foot—are more evident. zoom, zoom,” Yoho says. “Some of this was As the screen rusted over time, the “ ere’s a bit of debate about do you done with toothbrushes and Q-tips.” e snake crumbled and pieces were piled in a show a restoration or do you hide it,” artworks weren’t touched up or painted, storeroom with other odd bits from Hachmeister says. “Around here there’s a she notes. “Once that lichen was gone, the around the site. “It seemed overwhelming little of both.” color was there. at’s pretty amazing.” to try to put that back together, but Kohler Conservators resisted the temptation to Next, conservators applied a consoli- did it. ey even found the bird the snake rectify design aws, such as a concrete tree dant, a polymer that soaks into the porous is trying to get—only the body, but they misaligned with its mates, like a wall out concrete and strengthens it. ey replaced found photographs that gave them enough of true. ey let the mistake stand.
ISSUE 4, 2012 | 33 With the restoration complete, John Hachmeister sets his sights on recruiting the next generation of caretakers for the Garden of Eden. “It’s in the best shape since it was built,” says Hachmeister, HER (2) who has agreed to lead Friends of S.P. Dinsmoor’s Garden of Eden another five years. “What we RA P need now is a much younger group of people willing to get involved, a good mix of local and state people who are really committed.” G ITH PHOTO —DAN S M —DAN
“ ere’s always a question of how far his death, Emilie was unable to pay the back do we go,” Winter says. “We usually property taxes during the Great Depres- INC.ATION, stop with the day the artist died.” sion, and the Garden of Eden passed out ER FOUND of the Dinsmoor family. L Hachmeister rst saw it in the 1950s, a KOH hough he stopped creating sculptures preschool kid on a day trip with his mom Tin 1928, Dinsmoor continued to give from their home in nearby Natoma. tours until his death, at 89, in 1932. His “ e house was no longer rented, and body was preserved in a glass-covered the place was pretty much abandoned,” he con in a mausoleum in a corner of the recalls. Trees and vines had overgrown the property, where he joined his rst wife, site. “As a kid you don’t see that; you see who died in 1917. Aer her death he had the sculptures peeking out of the vines and hired Emilie Brozek as his housekeeper, trees, and wonder, ‘What is this all and they later married, when she was 20 about?’” Years later, in Lucas for a high and he was 81. ( ey had two children— school dance, he snuck into the still-aban- “Everything was cleaned up and you one of whom, John Dinsmoor, attended doned site for a moonlight stroll with could really see the sculptures,” he recalls. the rededication in May. Hachmeister met friends. In the late ’60s, Wayne and “By that time I was thinking about Emilie once, and asked about their LouElla Naegele, owners of a Lucas majoring in art, and I was really intrigued.” unlikely union. “She said, ‘He was the hardware store, had bought the garden He credits the Naegeles for having the funniest man I ever met,’” Hachmeister and reopened it to the public. On a visit vision to see the Garden of Eden’s value as recalls. “‘No matter if it was a good day or home from KU, Hachmeister stopped by a folk art site and tourist draw for Lucas. a bad day, I was always laughing.’”) Aer for a tour. And when they decided to sell in 1988,
34 | KANSAS A LUMNI Hachmeister stepped in and bought it. “He was the funniest man I ever met. No matter if it was Newspaper accounts reported that 10,000 to 12,000 people a year toured the a good day or a bad day, I was always laughing.” site, but Hachmeister says it was not —Emilie Dinsmoor turning a pro t. He bought the garden to preserve it for Kansas. was from Lucas, Kansas, guaranteed, at weather, to defy for another 100 years, “ e art had no real value here,” he says. some time during the day, someone would perhaps, gravity’s tug. “If you cut up the sculptures and sold come up to me and say, ‘Lucas, Kansas. Sold to the Kohler Foundation before them in New York City, you could make a Isn’t that where the Garden of Eden is?’” the renovation, the site is now once again couple million dollars. It happened. Bates took to carrying Garden of Eden in the hands of e Friends of S.P. Grassroots art sites have been dismantled promotional brochures in her briefcase. Dinsmoor’s Garden of Eden. John and sold piece by piece. I hated the idea “ e garden is Lucas.” Hachmeister, who has shouldered the that something like that could happen to Named one of the 8 Wonders of Kansas responsibility of maintaining Dinsmoor’s this place.” Art by the Kansas Sampler Foundation, quirky garden of delights for more than 20 A neighbor told Hachmeister about a the site still draws 8,000 or more people a years, can focus now on building support deal a former owner of the site o ered him year, from across the country and around for the ongoing maintenance needed to in the late ’50s or early ’60s. the world, and the town has embraced its keep it sound. ose demands will be “Hey, you’ve got a bulldozer, right?” the role as a folk art mecca by starting a considerable: Rust never sleeps, aer all, owner told the neighbor. “I tell you what Grassroots Art Center that features the and storms are forever brewing on the I’m gonna do; I’m gonna sell you that lot kind of outsider art Dinsmoor practiced Kansas plains. for a thousand dollars,” he said, indicating long before it was called such. In June the But for now its caretakers can draw the weed-choked Dinsmoor place, “and town dedicated its new public restroom, satisfaction from knowing that Samuel you can push that stu down and put up a Bowl Plaza, a tile-studded, toilet-shaped Dinsmoor’s eden is as strong as the days couple of houses. It would make a good building that re ects folk art principles: he built it, by hand, one bucket at a time. building lot.” funky, funny, visionary. “I feel really happy that we’ve found a e neighbor gave the idea some Dinsmoor’s sculptures and home way to make this work,” Hachmeister thought, but decided $1,000 was too steep not only look great now, but they also says. “When the thunderstorms roll a price for the land. Had the asking price are structurally sound, ready to face through now, I don’t worry about it like instead been $800, who knows? another century of Kansas wind and I used to.” Hachmeister laughs as he tells the story, HER
which illustrates the community division RA P the garden has inspired at times. “Some of the town didn’t appreciate it at all,” he says. “When we bought it, I think it changed G ITH PHOTO everybody’s perception a little bit—that —DAN S M —DAN somebody from outside sees value in this.” At one point, Dinsmoor had approached the town council with a request. Too many INC.ATION, people were gawking for free from the ER FOUND sidewalk. He wanted to build a wall to L KOH encourage them to pay for a tour. According to newspaper accounts, the council denied his request. en one commissioner moved to declare the property blighted and have the sculptures torn down. e motion failed. By one vote. For want of a single vote (or a thousand bucks), Lucas held onto a folk art treasure that is now its No. 1 claim to fame. Mayor Jennifer Bates has traveled to nearly every U.S. state in her job as an insurance company trainer. “When I said I
ISSUE 4, 2012 | 35 Association ON S helped build the Jayhawk TAF Roundup into an annual HER CLAR K TEVE PUPP E P S
TO event that draws approxi- BRET GUS HRI S
C mately 500 KU alumni, fans and friends to support the University. Fellow Wichita alumnus Je Kennedy, j’81, credits Watson not only for her KU service on the national level, but also in her local commu- nity. “Sue was the obvious choice to be the rst presi- Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway Sue Watson David Wysong dent of the Wichita Chapter,” Kennedy says. “She was absolutely instrumental in getting the initial Jayhawk University of Kansas Hospital and set in Roundup o the ground, and she has Ellsworth tradition motion KU’s quest to receive National remained active in volunteering her time Association to honor 3 who Cancer Institute designation, declaring it to make the event a success. When I think KU’s top research priority in 2005. of KU in Wichita, I think of Sue Watson.” follow longtime leader’s example During Hemenway’s tenure, KU Watson is a member of the Presidents Endowment completed a $653 million Club of the Alumni Association and the hree dedicated Jayhawks will receive capital campaign, KU First, and fundraisi- Chancellors Club for KU Endowment. She Tthe Fred Ellsworth Medallion this fall: ing reached record heights in support serves on the advisory board for Women former Chancellor Robert Hemenway, from private donors, the number of Philanthropists for KU, and she has helped assoc.; Sue Shields Watson, d’75; and donors and the amount of privately guide the School of Education as a David Wysong, j’72. funded scholarships for students. member of its advisory board. e medallions, which the Association Kevin Corbett, c’88, KU Alumni Wysong, who lives in Mission Hills, has bestowed since 1975, recognize KU Association president, praises Hemenway’s leads Wysong Capital Management and volunteers who have displayed outstand- commitment to the extended KU commu- the Wysong Family Foundation. Wysong ing service, following the example set by nity. “I cannot ever recall Bob declining a represented northeast Johnson County in the Association’s longest-serving chief request from KU Endowment or the the Kansas Senate from 2004 until he executive, Fred Ellsworth, c’22. is year’s Alumni Association to drive or y across retired in 2009. Earlier in his career, he recipients will be honored Sept. 14 during the state or nation to speak at alumni or worked in advertising, founding the rm the fall meeting of the Association’s donor events,” Corbett says. “Bob had a of Wysong, Quimby and Jones. His family national Board of Directors. unique ‘Midwestern’ way with people that and foundation have provided scholar- Hemenway led the University from 1995 endeared himself to many—particularly ships for KU journalism students. to 2009, a period of signi cant growth. KU students.” He chairs the Advancement Board, an Enrollment grew by 9 percent during his Watson, who lives in Andover, served 85-member organization of business and tenure, and research expenditures grew by on the Association’s national Board of community leaders formed in 2005 to 140 percent. New buildings and renova- Directors from 2004 to 2011, chairing the promote the interests of KU Medical tions on the Lawrence, Edwards and group from 2009 to ’10. She and her Center, University of Kansas Hospital and Medical Center campuses totaled $746 husband, Kurt, d’75—who received the University of Kansas Physicians. million, including improvements in Ellsworth Medallion in student housing, research laboratories, 2011—currently are athletic facilities and new structures for co-chairs of Far Above: The Fred Ellsworth Medallion recognizes KU the Dole Institute of Politics and the Hall e Campaign for Kansas. volunteers who have displayed outstanding service, Center for the Humanities. Watson has been a Hemenway, who now lives in Lenexa, leader of the Association’s following the tradition of Fred Ellsworth. also spearheaded independence for the Wichita Chapter and
36 | KANSAS A LUMNI Wysong also has volunteered for two aer completing their terms. New direc- chief operating ocer of e Loxahatchee KU fundraising campaigns: Campaign tors are: Club and president of the National Board Kansas, from 1988 to 1992, and KU First, Donald Brada, c’61, m’65, Lawrence, of Club Managers Association of America. from 2001 to 2004. He served on the recently retired as associate dean of the Carroll was the rst general manager of steering committees for both campaigns KU School of Medicine-Wichita. Brada is a the Adams Alumni Center’s Learned Club and led the intercollegiate athletics 1990 Mildred Clodfelter Award recipient from 1983 to ’91. He is a Life Member and committee for Campaign Kansas. For KU as a longtime KU local volunteer in a Presidents Club donor. First, he chaired the communications Hutchinson and Wichita. He is a Presi- Marci Deuth, e’05, Washington, D.C., committee. Wysong is a member of the dents Club member and Life Member. is the commercial vehicle product o er Chancellors Club and the Alumni Associa- Luke Bobo, e’82, m’88, Ballwin, Mo., is adviser for ExxonMobil. Deuth is a tion’s Presidents Club. department chair and assistant professor member of the Alumni Association’s “Without exception David has taken an of Christian ministry studies at Linden- Washington, D.C., Chapter and actively ‘all-in’ approach to serving KU, his wood University. He led the KU Black recruits future Jayhawks. She participated community and his state,” says longtime Alumni Chapter as president and received in the Chicago Chapter before moving to friend Douglas C. Miller, b’71, l’73. “Once the 2008 Dick Wintermote Chapter Washington, and she is an annual member. on board as a volunteer, he stands com- Volunteer Award for guiding numerous Gregory Ek, b’76, Overland Park, is the mitted with his time and money. And his chapter activities. He is a longtime annual rst vice president and branch manager dedication to advancing education, member of the Association. for Wells Fargo Advisors. Ek is a Dick medical care and athletics at KU has truly Kevin Carroll, assoc., while not a KU Wintermote Chapter Volunteer Award been remarkable.” alumnus, is a Jayhawk at heart. A resident winner for his service as board member of of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Carroll is the Greater Kansas City Chapter. He has Pass the gavel Terms for new Board ocers, KC Jayhawk Open directors began July 1 BECK(2) he Alumni Association’s Board of
TDirectors met May 4-5 at the Adams M RO TERRY Alumni Center and elected new leadership and members. Ray Evans, Leawood, was elected as national chair for 2012-’13. Evans, b’82, g’84, is managing partner of Pegasus Capital Management in Overland Park. He was elected to the national board in 2007. He has served on the Greater Kansas City Chapter board, and he and his wife, Sarah Rossi Evans, j’86, chaired the 2012 Rock Chalk Ball. Evans also has served on the School of Business Board of Advisors. Je Kennedy, j’81, Wichita, will succeed Evans as national chair-elect. Kennedy is the managing partner of the law rm of KU alumni and friends competed June 15 in Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Bauer. the KC Jayhawk Open golf tournament at He has led the Wichita Chapter as Prairie Highlands Golf Course in Olathe. president and chaired the School of Winners of the tournament were Jigger Medicine’s “4-Wichita” board of directors, James, Pat Brooks, George Brett and Mitch which guided the transition from a Benjamin (above). The event was sponsored two-year to four-year medical curriculum by the KU Alumni Association and its Kansas on the Wichita campus. City Chapter. Chapter president Ryan Pfeiªer Board members also selected ve new (left) helped organize the event. directors to begin ve-year terms July 1, succeeding members who retired June 30
ISSUE 4, 2012 | 37 Association led membership recruitment e orts and hosted a legislative reception for Jayhawks STEVE PUPP E STEVE for Higher Education. He volunteered for the Kansas Honors Program when he lived in Emporia. He is a Life Member. Je Briley, d’74, Overland Park, con- cluded his one-year term as national chair and will remain on the Executive Committee. Jay Howard, b’79, Austin, Texas, retired aer serving as national chair from 2010 to ’11. Howard began serving on the board in 2003. ree directors retired aer completing their ve-year terms: ey are Paul Burke, b’56, Lawrence; Karen M. Humphreys, c’70, I’73, Wichita; and James A. Trower, b’77, Salina. e board meets three times annually in Six Jayhawks have joined the Association ranks or changed roles this summer. From left, Leah Lawrence. Each year the Association Kohlman, records specialist; Heather Heideman, receptionist; Joy Maxwell, director of legacy invites nominations for new directors programs; Betsy Winetroub, assistant director of Kansas City programs; Brad Eland, assistant through March 1, and the Nominating director of Kansas programs; and Caitlin Wise, coordinator of student programs. Committee meets in April to review all nominees and submit a slate to the entire board for consideration at the May meeting. summer, KU unveiled a more generous programs. Jacob Strecker, d’06, resigned and simpli ed program of four-year his position as assistant director to become renewable scholarships, increasing the development director for e Cedars in New players maximum Jayhawk Generations scholar- McPherson. Strecker organized activities ship to $36,000 over four years. (Scholar- for alumni groups statewide for more than join the team ship information is available at a ordabil- three years. e new assistant director of Association adapts to changing ity.ku.edu.) Kansas programs is Brad Eland, b’09, g’11. “In recent years our national Board of A native of Hoxie, Eland returns to his programs for students, alumni Directors has urged KU to implement a home state from Chicago, where he more aggressive recruitment program, and worked for Gallup Consulting. He s another step in the Association’s it has been gratifying to work with campus previously worked for Kansas Athletics Apartnership with KU leaders to boost leaders to make it happen,” says Kevin in marketing and promotions. student recruitment, Joy Larson Maxwell, Corbett, c’88, Association president. “Joy’s Student programs are now guided by c’03, j’03, assistant director of Kansas City new position underscores our commit- coordinator Caitlin Wise, b’11, who programs since 2006, began duties July 1 ment, especially in recruiting students returns to the Association full time aer as the Association’s director of legacy from KU families.” serving as an intern earlier this year. Wise, programs, a new part-time position. She Filling Maxwell’s former role as assistant a Mulvane native, succeeds Stefani Gerson will work in the Association’s Lawrence director of Kansas City programs is Betsy Buchwitz, c’06, g’08, now coordinator of oce Mondays, Tuesdays and ursdays. Winetroub, c’05, who returns to the student life at KU Medical Center. Maxwell, who worked for the KU Oce Association sta aer four years as e recent retirements of longtime of Admissions before joining the Associa- development ocer for membership at the alumni records sta member Betty Otto tion’s sta , has continued to help recruit Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Before and receptionist Colleen Winner (“Asso- students from KU families throughout her moving to the Nelson, Winetroub worked ciation,” issue No. 3) resulted in the hiring years at the Association. Now recruitment for the Association as a new graduate, of new sta earlier this summer. Leah will be her sole focus, as KU continues to coordinating membership programs. Her Kohlman, c’11, joined the alumni records promote the Jayhawk Generations main oce is at the KU Edwards Campus, sta , and Heather Heideman, ’07, now Scholarship for out-of-state freshmen and she will divide time between Kansas greets visitors to the Association’s head- from KU families, which the Alumni City and Lawrence. quarters on the third oor of the Adams Association helped create in 2009. Last July also brought changes in Kansas Alumni Center.
38 | KANSAS A LUMNI (3) BER S TER MEM CHA P NI STAFF AN D NI STAFF BY KU ALUM KU BY S The second edition of the Association’s summer sojourn will
PHOTO feature 150 events in 90 days, including a variety of activities throughout Kansas and from coast to coast nationwide. By season’s end, staª members will travel an estimated 80,000 miles, hosting more than 10,000 alumni and friends.
Great Plains Golf Tournament ITH . S M SEAN R
New York Boat Cruise East Kansas Wine Tasting KU Day in St. Louis
Life Members ’Hawks and Helmets e Association thanks these Jayhawks, who began their
LL Life memberships May 1 through June 30. For information, WE visit kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957. OY MAX OY J David M. & Linda Noland Scott R. Burrus Aikins Meredith M. Burtker Jeremy M. Allen Chadd W. Clary & Karen Curtis R. & Debra A. Butler-Clary Anderson Brady Childress & Shawn Virgil S. Angleton Howard Rubina Anwar-Khan Judith Christiansen Whitney A. Bloom Hilary A. Cook-Borg Margaret C. Brake Christopher S.R. & Charese The Greater Kansas City Chapter and the Wichita Chapter host Eric E. Brown Donovan Dakhil ’Hawks and Helmets events in the spring to promote bicycle safety J. Warren Burge for young Jayhawks. Michael Burke Continued on page 40
ISSUE 4, 2012 | 39 Everything we do strengthens KU. Your member- Continued from page 39 ship in the KU Alumni Association is the single most powerful way to make all of KU stronger, including the value of your own degree. Life Members Board of Directors n DIRECTORS TO 2017 Donald R. Brada, c’61, m’65, Lawrence Christine M. Davis Alan A. & Nikkel D. Nisbet n CHAIR Luke B. Bobo, e’82, Ballwin, Bradley R. Dillard Stephen J. Pack Ray D. Evans, b’82, g’84, Leawood Missouri Bess S. Drum Stephen B. & Melanie Slentz Kevin E. Carroll, assoc., Palm Beach Hilary E. Ferguson Peltier n CHAIR-ELECT Gardens, Florida Adeline M. Fike Mark P. & Ashley Hallagin Je Kennedy, j’81, Wichita Marci K. Deuth, e’05, Washington, D.C. Charles M. Forsythe Perry Gregory E. Ek, b’76, Overland Park n EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Robert L. Gomez Jess T. Randall Jerey P. Briley, d’74, Overland Park Jeªrey M. Gordon Katherine A. Reed Ray D. Evans, b’82, g’84, Leawood Administrative Sta Anne O. Greer Kyle D. & Briana Donovan n Sheri Welter Hauck, b’81, Arroyo PRESIDENT Samuel L. Gurney Richards Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 Grande, California Trista Hageman Andrew J. Roelofsen n Je Kennedy, j’81, Wichita ALUMNI CENTER Nicholas G. Harbert Alex Ross Timothy E. Brandt, b’74, Director of Douglas C. Miller, b’71, l’74, Steve D. Hauck Richard L. Rothfelder Adams Alumni Center Mission Hills Daniel R. Hawkins Aaron L. & Ashley D. St. Clair n Camille Bribiesca Platz, c’96, g’98, ALUMNI, STUDENT & Rowena L. Henderson Alexandra M. Schriner Dallas, Texas MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS Matthew G. Henry Jessica R. Sheahon Michael Davis, d’84, g’91, Senior Scott R. Seyfarth, b’83, Hinsdale, John M. Hensel Jr. Samuel W. Simpson Illinois Vice President for Alumni, Student and Membership Programs Amelia M. Hund Michael W. Smith Nikki Epley, Director of Reunion Zachary D. Huntley Aaron M. Speier n DIRECTORS TO 2013 Gary A. Johnson Hannah L. Sturgeon Sheri Welter Hauck, b’81, Arroyo Programs Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09, Lisa A. Jones Shane A. Thompson Grande, California Sonya L. Jury Jelindo A. & Lindsey Fisher Je Kennedy, j’81, Wichita Assistant Vice President for Monty W. & Avona B. Tiberti Henry Menghini, c’87, Pittsburg Alumni and Student Programs n COMMUNICATIONS Kasselman Nathan W. & Miranda Spini n DIRECTORS TO 2014 David Johnston, j’94, g’06, Director Rachel H. Kesselman Urbauer Douglas C. Miller, b’71, l’74, of Internet Services and Marketing Chris C. Knoll Frances Valentine Mission Hills Chris Lazzarino, j’86, Associate Grace A. Lancaster Andrew W. & Barbara Doxon Debbie Foltz Nordling, d’79, Hugoton Editor, Kansas Alumni magazine Lance Larson Vaupel Camille Bribiesca Platz, c’96, g’98, Jennifer Sanner, j’81, Senior Vice Lance M. & Jamie Schmitz Hannah C. Vick Dallas, Texas President for Communications and Larson Catherine S. Ward Richard E. Putnam, c’77, l’80, Corporate Secretary Michele R. Latta Ryan W. West Omaha, Nebraska Susan Younger, f’91, Creative Director Jordan Ferguson Lisher James C. & Candice Eberle Larry D. Stoppel, c’73, Washington n DEVELOPMENT Karen L. Loudon Westphal Angela Storey, b’04, g’07, Lauren D. Mall Rebecca S. Crane White n DIRECTORS TO 2015 Associate Development Director Tricia L. Martin Mark P. Wilkins Paul L. Carttar, c’76, Lawrence n FINANCE Paul G. Matthews Taylor B. Williamson Scott R. Seyfarth, b’83, Hinsdale, Jodi Nachtigal, Controller Ian J. McGonigle Ryan C. Wing & Amanda K. Illinois Dwight Parman, Senior Vice David L. Meall Applegate Brenda Marzett Vann, c’71, g’72, President for Finance and Human Ellen E. Meinen Kansas City Resources and Treasurer Elizabeth A. Miller Je L. Wolfe, b’83, Meridian, Idaho n HOSPITALITY SERVICES Bryan Greve, Senior Vice President Timothy D. Miller n DIRECTORS TO 2016 for Hospitality Glen M. Mills James Bredfeldt, c’70, m’74, Bellevue, Patrick J. & Megan n LEGACY PROGRAMS Washington Joy Larson Maxwell, c’03, j’03, Director Hunziker Mulvihill John Jeter, c’77, m’81, Hays n RECORDS Shannon Murphy Shelle Hook McCoy, d’73, Topeka Bill Green, Senior Vice President for Lori Anderson Piening, b’92, Austin, Information Services Texas Stefanie Shackelford, Vice President Mark Randall, j’03, Englewood, for Alumni Records Colorado
40 | KANSAS A LUMNI Lloyd Woodburn, c’43, is retired in by Karen Goodell Class Notes 43 Topeka.
Eugenia Hepworth Berger, d’46, 46 retired as a professor at the Metro- Joe Engle, e’55, is an engineering James Schmitendorf, e’56, wrote Lex politan State College of Denver. She lives 55 consultant and technical adviser for Ferenda, a book about how to modernize in Littleton, Colo. the National Aeronautics and Space the U.S. Constitution. He lives in Administration in Houston. He recently Piedmont, S.D. John Sacks, e’49, makes his home in attended the 50th anniversary of the 49 Mason, Ohio, where he’s retired founding of the Hutchinson Planetarium, Jerry Jones, e’57, is retired from a from a career with A-K Steel. which later became the Kansas Cosmos- 57 career with Boeing. He and his wife, phere and Space Center. Claudette, live in St. Charles, Mo. Warren Barrand, b’50, teaches 50 ballroom dancing in Lawrence, Harold Finch, e’56, EdD’71, was the Eugenia Leasure Bryan, c’59, l’77, where he and Shirley Jo Robertson 56 inspiration for the movie Unlimited, 59 works as a nurse at Lawrence Barrand, ’87, make their home. which began lming last spring in El Paso, Memorial Hospital and as a senior J. Bryan Sperry, d’50, g’55, a former Texas. Harold, who lives in Lee’s Summit, medical technician at Providence Medical math teacher and coach, takes students Mo., was a principal engineer at Midwest Center in Kansas City. Her home is in from the College of the Ozarks to Europe Research Institute and vice president of Lawrence. each year. He lives in Pittsburg. Johnson County Community College Richard Chatelain, d’59, is a retired before changing careers to devote himself property-casualty commercial underwriter Karin Stack Winn, c’51, keeps busy to helping children in a low-caste orphan- for Farmers Insurance Group. He lives in 51 during retirement working as a age in rural India. Prairie Village and plays the tuba in four volunteer in the Kansas City area. She lives Susan Brown Hollinger, c’56, is a bands, a brass quintet, a jazz ensemble and in Overland Park. hospital volunteer in Prairie Village. the Kansas City Civic Orchestra. James Zimmerman, e’51, makes his home in Topeka, where he’s retired.
Paul Arrowood, b’52, and his wife, 52 Cathie, make their home in Wil- liamsburg, Va., where Paul is retired. Donald Overend, g’52, m’54, manages IT for e Travel Group in Spring eld, Mo., where he and his wife, Linda, live. He retired from a 49-year practice as a pediatrician.
Eugene Kermashek, p’53, lives in 53 Bella Vista, Ark., where he’s a retired pharmacist. John Witmer, p’53, retired owner of Witmer Drug Store, makes his home in Phillipsburg with his wife, Helen.
Wayne Fling Jr., e’54, received the 54 2012 Laurance S. Reid Award from the International School of Hydrocarbon Measurement. Wayne retired from OXY/ Cities Services as a senior technical adviser in 1987 aer more than 35 years in oil and gas engineering measurement, meter station design and ow research. He and his wife, Patricia, live in Tulsa, Okla.
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Rebecca Feldman Foster, f’63, owns Donald Atkinson, c’68, m’72, is a Becky Foster Designs in Independence. 68 surgical oncologist and vice chair Charles Hostetler, l’63, received the KU of surgery at the West Penn Allegheny School of Law’s Distinguished Alumni Health System in Pittsburgh, Pa. He Award for his service to the legal profes- received the Courage Award from the sion. He is former chairman of First National Pancreas Foundation for his Robert Lida, ’59, former chairman and Savings Bank in Manhattan, where he commitment to improved management CEO of e Lida Group in Wichita, set currently serves as president of Charlson of patients with neoplastic pancreatic two indoor world records earlier this year & Wilson Insurance. disease. He also received the Dean’s in the 75-79 age bracket, running 60 Special Award for Excellence in Clinical meters in 8.49 seconds and 200 meters in Stephen Peters, d’64, is treasurer of Teaching from Drexel University, and he 27.03. 64 the city of Nolanville, Texas. He and directs Drexel and Temple medical Carole Burrichter Peters, ’67, live in students in surgery at West Penn Marilyn DeLashmutt Harlan, d’60, Salado. Allegheny. 60 makes her home in St. Louis. LaRoux Gillespie, e’65, g’68, Mary Heider, g’68, PhD’70, assistant 65 received the KU School of Engi- dean emerita at the University of Cincin- Kathryn Freshley, e’61, was named neering’s Distinguished Engineering nati, continues to make her home in 61 the 2011 Nancy Oliver Founder’s Service Award. His career was with Cincinnati. Award winner by the Executive Women’s Bendix Corporation and Honeywell, Charlie Roth, c’68, announced earlier Golf Association for her long-term where he managed quality assurance. this year that he will not seek a h term volunteer leadership and service to the LaRoux and his wife, Karen, live in Derby. as a representative of Salina’s 71st district organization. She lives in Laguna Woods, John Lastelic, e’65, is retired in Seattle, in the Kansas House. Charlie and Mary Calif., and worked at General Electric for where he and his wife, Joleen, live. Sauer Roth, d’68, plan to travel more aer 23 years before opening an ice-cream Correl Robinson III, c’65, g’70, teaches at he leaves oce. ey continue to make distribution company. Language Success. He makes his home in their home in Salina. John McElhiney, e’61, g’63, and his McAllen, Texas. wife, Annette, live in Littleton, Colo. Bryan Shewmake, c’65, e’70, g’71, and Jim McMullan, a’61, wrote Flocks, his wife, Cheryl, recently joined the Herds, Litters and Schools, a children’s Traveler’s Century Club aer visiting more School Codes Letters that follow names non ction book published by Aerodale than 100 countries and all seven conti- indicate the school from which alumni earned Press. Jim lives in Island Heights, N.J., nents. eir home is in Blairsden- degrees. Numbers show their class years. and has worked as an actor for more Graeagle, Calif. a School of Architecture, than 40 years. Design and Planning Mary Scott Eggleston, d’66, is b School of Business Timothy Emert, j’62, l’65, was 66 retired in Fort Collins, Colo., c College of Liberal Arts 62 named chairman of the Kansas where she and her husband, Dale, and Sciences Board of Regents. He practices law with make their home. d School of Education Emert, Chubb & Gettler, and lives in Susan Sheaks Hammons, c’66, a retired e School of Engineering Independence with his wife, Barbara mental health, alcohol and drug counselor, f School of Fine Arts g Master’s Degree Meitner Emert, ’64. makes her home in Pittsburg. h School of Allied Health Ronald Rubin, c’62, m’66, lives in West Paula Heide Hirsch, d’66, is a j School of Journalism Newton, Mass., where he’s a retired special-education and reading teacher l School of Law pediatric surgeon. in Montgomery County. She and m School of Medicine Charlie Thurston, e’62, is retired in her husband, Roland, live in n School of Nursing Win eld, Ill. Germantown, Md. p School of Pharmacy Carl Reed, e’66, g’69, DE’85, is senior PharmD School of Pharmacy s School of Social Welfare James Andrews, e’63, g’65, PhD’70, vice president of DRG Engineers in u School of Music 63 was awarded a Distinguished Bonner Springs, where he lives with his DE Doctor of Engineering Engineering Service Award from the KU wife, Melody. DMA Doctor of Musical Arts School of Engineering. He founded EdD Doctor of Education Picosecond Pulse Labs, a world leader in Verlyn Peterson, c’67, is a professor PhD Doctor of Philosophy time-domain technologies. Jim and Janet 67 of surgery at the University of (no letter) Former student Middleton Andrews, ’67, live in Boulder, Colorado Health Sciences Center in assoc Associate member of the Alumni Association Colo. Denver.
42 | KANSAS A LUMNI Keith Culver, b’69, g’70, retired Maribeth, make their home in Montie, live in Parsons. 69 earlier this year from McKinsey & Rhinelander. Company. He lives in Palm Springs, Calif. Robert Chudy, g’73, directs the George Matthews, b’69, was honored in Joan Jespersen Alfaro, f’71, works as 73 international center at the Univer- June for 30 years of ordained ministry in 71 a sta occupational therapist at NHC sity of Connecticut in Storrs. the Evangelical Lutheran Church of in McMinnville, Tenn. She and her Michael Droge, c’73, was named the America. He and his wife, Jean, live in husband, Jose, recently celebrated their 2012 Distinguished Alumnus by the Benkelman, Neb. 40th anniversary. University of Texas Medical Branch Stewart Tubbs, PhD’69, was honored Cyd Silvius Alloway, ’71, is vice presi- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. for outstanding teaching by Eastern dent of Marsh & McLennan. She and her He and his wife, Molly, live in Kansas City, Michigan University, where he is a husband, Gordon, j’72, g’10, live in and he is president of Park University in professor of business. Overland Park. He is a consultant with Parkville, Mo. Kyle Vann, e’69, was honored in May KU Telehealth. Janet Santos Hallford, d’73, does with a KU Distinguished Engineering Joe Pierron, l’71, received the Burnham substitute teaching at Hutchinson Com- Service Award. He has had a long career “Hod” Greeley Award last year from the munity College, where she was a former with Koch Industries and is a member of American Bar Association Judicial journalism teacher and visual communica- KU’s Chemical and Petroleum Engineer- Division for his contributions in promot- tions coordinator. ing Hall of Fame. Kyle and his wife, ing awareness of the importance of an Steven Hawley, c’73, a KU professor of Barbara, live in e Woodlands, Texas. impartial and independent judiciary. He physics and astronomy, recently attended serves on the Kansas Court of Appeals and the 50th anniversary of the founding of Rick Eichor, l’70, makes his makes his home in Lawrence with Diana the Hutchinson Planetarium, which later 70 home in Honolulu with his Carlin Pierron, d’72, g’74. became the Kansas Cosmosphere and wife, Susan. Space Center. Timothy Vocke, c’70, a retired judge, Candyse Hill Taylor, d’72, Timothy Rake, c’73, teaches at Lane serves on the Wisconsin Government 72 teaches Title 1 math and reading Community College. He and his wife, Accountability Board. He and his wife, for USD 503. She and her husband, Marie-Helene, live in Eugene, Ore.
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Jerry Smith, e’73, directs project Kathleen Turner, c’74, is a professor of husband, Jim, live in Webster Groves, Mo. controls for Spectra Energy Corp. in communication studies at Davidson Kevin Carver, b’75, is a senior attorney Houston. He and Joy Meyen Smith, g’86, College. Last year, the National Communi- for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corpo- make their home in Sugarland. cation Association’s Communication ration in Dallas. He and his wife Francie, Centers section gave her the inaugural live in Plano. Jon Jamison, c’74, c’75, is a retired Kathleen J. Turner Award for Advocacy. Doris Scheibmeir Hammeke, d’75, is 74 senior manager with Abbott She lives in Cornelius, N.C. vice president of client services at Hall- Laboratories. He and his wife, Vicki, mark Cards in Kansas City. She and her assoc., make their home in Lawrence. Debra Spruk Carpenter, j’75, teaches husband, Charles, live in Stilwell. Byron Myers III, j’74, owns Ammo 75 public relations and strategic John Hawks, j’75, is president of J.K. Specialties in Grand Island, Neb. communication at the Webster University Hawks & Associates in Orinda, Calif. He Patrik Neustrom, c’74, practices law School of Communications, which she and his wife, Jacquelyn Hunter, ’77, live in with Neustrom & Associates in Salina, served as dean for 16 years until recently Walnut Creek. where he and his wife, Barbara, live. returning to the faculty. She and her Catherine Kaney, n’75, is an associate
PROFILE by Lydia Benda ER AR M LL F Y BI S RTE Since he voiced his first o¢cial Actor keeps Goofy closer to me all the time.” COU in fine voice Goofy had been semi- “A-hyuck!” Bill Farmer has retired (and mostly silent) seen Goofy evolve from a n this fast-paced world, it seems all that since the 1960s, but with quiet, clumsy huckster to a Iremains timeless are taxes and Disney Farmer, he has seen a major prolific, layered (yet no less cartoons. Well, hold on to your hat— resurgence in popularity, hilarious) staple of Disney’s according to Bill Farmer, these days even including the 1990s TV mainstream media. Goofy has a Twitter feed. With Web series “Goof Troop” and the cartoons, talking Goofy toys, clocks and hit children’s lm “A Goofy watches, “the technology is changing all Movie.” Famous Phone Friends and Make-A-Wish the time,” Farmer says. “ ere was a lot of evolution involved in Foundation. ankfully, Farmer, j’75, is there to the movie because he’d never been a single In addition to Goofy, Farmer has voiced ensure the lovable, clumsy, 80-year-old dad before,” Farmer says. “We had to show more than 3,000 projects for characters pooch keeps up. e Pratt native has been a lot of layers to him—he had to be caring such as Pluto, Bugs Bunny, Da y Duck, the ocial voice of Goofy for more than and serious at times, with a lot more Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam and 25 years aer his big break came at Disney personality.” Sylvester the Cat. He’s done background in 1986. Soon thereaer, Goofy got jiggy with it, voices in more than 50 movies including “ ey said, ‘Can you do any of the and Farmer has made more than 30 “Space Jam,” “ e Lorax,” the “Toy Story” Disney characters?’ and I said, ‘Well I can CDs—including a rap movies, and “Monsters, Inc.” He runs a kind of do a Mickey,’ [insert uncanny “Oh, album—singing as voice demo-recording studio, Toonhouse, boy, wow!” Mickey impression here], ‘and Goofy. He also Inc., in Los Angeles with his son; tours as a my Donald Duck is not very good,’ but speaks with hospi-hospi- public speaker; and has a sketch comedy [as Goofy], Gawrsh! Goofy was right in talized group, “MoHos,” with actor Fred Willard. the pocket.” children In the last couple of years he has won a Disney hired Farmer on the spot—and through Disney Legend Award, a Lifetime Achieve- he has remained the only person ment Award from the International Family to consistently voice Goofy since Film Festival, and was nominated for an Pinto Colvig in the 1960s. Emmy. “At rst, I was just doing an ough his career is hectic, Farmer impression of the original voice from manages to keep Goofy young, and says the ’30s,” Farmer says. “But then I started he can only hope for more of the same. putting a little more of myself in the “Because, gawrsh! I never have to grow up. character, and I think he gets closer and I get to be a kid a forever.” NEY
DI S | ® ISSUE 4, 2012 45 Class Notes professor of nursing and psychiatric Cynthia Meyer Mackey, d’77, is mental health at the University of Virginia retired from the U.S. Air Force. She in Charlottesville. She received the 2012 and her husband, Glenn, live in Hildegard Peplau Award for her signi cant O’Fallon, Ill. contribution to nursing practice through Michael Masterson, c’76, is associate Judy Sudtelgte, g’77, takes classes part scholarly activities, clinical practice and registrar at Air University in Montgomery, time and works each tax season for the policy development. Ala. He lives in Grady. local branch of the IRS. She lives in Patricia Galinski Kuester, c’75, g’06, Kevin McCusker, m’76, practices Lansing. directs post award services at KU’s Center medicine at Quincy Medical Center in for Research. She and her husband, Quincy, Mass. Jamie Wycko Boersma, c’78, is Dennis, ’80, live in Lawrence. Rex Niswander, c’76, is executive 78 chief executive ocer of the Girl Thomas Siegele, b’75, g’76, retired as director of the Laughing Buddha Founda- Scouts of Greater Iowa. She lives in Clive director of human resources with PPG tion in New York City. with her husband, Dale. Industries. He and Dana Thompson LaDonna Smith Salyer, g’76, a former Jeanne Harmon Bronoski, g’78, is an Siegele, c’75, live in Wexford, Pa., but plan elementary-school teacher, makes her adjunct professor of education at Baker to move to Loudon, Tenn., this year. home in Salina. University. She and her husband, Michael, Kenneth Stone, j’76, is associate regional g’88, live in Overbrook. Michael Go, j’76, received the editor of Patch. He lives in La Mesa, Calif. Kevin Chestnut, c’78, is assistant 76 Arthur E. Lowell Award from the Molly Wood, c’76, l’91, is a partner in administrative director of at Uppity Kansas City chapter of the International the Lawrence law rm of Stevens & Brand. eatre Company in St. Louis. Association of Business Communicators. Lloyd Kilmer, g’78, is a professor of He works independently as a marketing Steven Geiger, b’77, g’90, recently education at Western Illinois University in strategist. Mike and Bobbi Toalson Go, 77 became associate director of Moline. He lives in Davenport. c’79, live in Leawood. administration at the National Radio Georgia Klein, g’76, continues to make Astronomy Observatory in Charlottes- Joann Cole Wood, s’79, is a clinical her home in Shawnee. ville, Va. 79 social worker in Wichita.
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Mark Parkinson, l’84, president and CEO of the American Health Care Association, received the KU School of Law’s Distinguished Alumni Award last spring for his exemplary professional service. Mark and Stacy Abbott Parkin- son, c’81, l’84, live in Potomac, Md. He is a former governor of Kansas and current co-chair of KU Endowment’s Far Above fundraising campaign. Christopher Rockers, l’84, is a partner in the Kansas City law rm of Husch Blackwell. He was installed as the 2012-13 president of the American College of Finance Lawyers.
Shawn Caradine, e’85, works as an 85 engineer with Ameren Missouri. He and his wife, Angela, live in St. Louis. Karin Gallet, c’85, s’89, serves as executive director of Coordinated Behav- ioral Care in New York City. Craig Hensley, c’85, is director of community development for the city of Duarte, Calif. He and his wife, Tina, live in La Verne. Michael Smith, ’85, is a corps member of Teach for America in Newark, N.J. His Kevin Kearns, PhD’80, was named is in Overland Park. home is in Shawnee. 80 interim provost and vice president Robert Hockett, c’83, l’99, is a professor for academic a airs at SUNY-Fredonia, of law at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Venida Chenault, s’86, s’90, PhD’05, where he has been a professor of commu- He recently became a fellow of e 86 wrote Weaving Strength, Weaving nications disorders and sciences and the Century Foundation, a progressive, Power: Violence and Abuse Against associate vice president for graduate nonpartisan think tank. Indigenous Women, which was published studies and research. His home is in Therese Mufic Neustaedter, j’83, works last year by Carolina Academic Press. She Orchard Park, N.Y. as a business strategist at Neustaedter & is vice president for academic a airs at Associates. Her home is in Prairie Village. Haskell Indian Nations University in Kathleen Gallagher Barlow, g’81, Rodger Payne, c’83, recently became Lawrence. 81 works as a speech and language chairman of the political science depart- John Egan, j’86, managing editor of the pathologist with the Palatine School ment at the University of Louisville in websites owned and operated by Bankrate’s District in Rolling Meadows, Ill. She and Louisville, Ky. insurance division, won an award in the her husband, William, g’82, live in Anthony Thompson, e’83, a’83, is feature category of the 17th-annual Best in Schaumburg. president and CEO of Kwame Building Business competition sponsored by the Barbara Lantis Basel, d’81, directs Group in St. Louis, where he and his wife, Society of American Business Editors and human resources for the South Dakota Kim, make their home. Writers. His home is in Austin, Texas. Board of Regents in Pierre. Carol Schutte Buchanan, l’84, Jeanne Fawcett, l’86, works as a broker Carol Beier, j’81, l’85, a justice of the 84 directs senior/visiting judges and for Live Local Real Estate Group in Kansas Supreme Court, was inducted into alternate support sta for the Jackson Glendale, Mo. She lives in St. Louis. the KU Women’s Hall of Fame. She lives in County Circuit Court. She and her Susan Glatter Gallagher, h’86, owns Topeka with her husband, Richard Green. husband, Mark, j’80, l’84, live in Kansas Gallagher Fitness Resources in Salem, City. Ore., where she lives with her husband, Elizabeth Graham Chaney, Douglas Douthit, m’84, practices John. 83 d’83, is an assistant teacher at medicine and is a partner in Wichita Julianne Greene, b’86, g’99, works as a Phoenix Montessori School. Her home OB-GYN Associates. temporary document clerk at Qualsta
48 | KANSAS A LUMNI Resources in Leawood. She lives in Bashar Antoun Hanna, e’87, g’89, is a Sunday Ubokudom, g’87, PhD’94, is an Mission. program manager for Ford Motor Com- associate professor of political science at Joyce Havercamp, c’86, works as a pany in Dearborn, Mich. He lives in the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, freelance television and documentary Farmington Hills with his wife, Souha. where he and his wife, Mfon, live. His editor in New York City. Dave Harder, l’87, works as a trial book, United States Health Care Policy- Susan Wachter, g’86, retired this year as attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice making: Ideological, Social and Cultural chief nancial ocer at Kansas Athletics. in Denver. Di erence and Major In uences, was Susan and her husband, John, continue to Christopher Rhodes, c’87, g’89, was published earlier this year. make their home in Lawrence. named a principal with Edward Jones’ holding company, the Jones Financial Amy Lucas Blankenbiller, Meng Hong Chen, g’87, is a Companies. He lives in Queen Creek, 88 c’88, owns AJB Strategies in 87 mechanical engineer with EMC. Ariz. Topeka, where she and her husband, He lives in Palo Alto, Calif., with his Steven Rogers, g’87, manages the town Duane, make their home. wife, Linda. of Yountville, Ca. Maj. Jerey Burbank, s’88, serves as a
PROFILE by Tom King
spikes in business. San Fran diners rely GENEVIEVE SHIFFRAR on Bauer’s refined tastes Bauer visits each restaurant three ow does Michael Bauer know he’s times and uses a Hbeen spotted? ey change the four-star rating waiter. system. Food counts “It’s almost impossible to be anonymous for two stars, with the Internet,” says Bauer, the San ambience and Francisco Chronicle’s executive food and service for one each. wine editor and restaurant critic. “I was “I put the empha- outed by the SF Eater in 2009 when they sis on food,” Bauer put my picture online. But I oen get says, “because Here portraying his quest for anonymity as a Magritte-esque invisible seated without being recognized.” ultimately that’s man, San Francisco restaurant critic Michael Bauer carefully conceals San Francisco last year hosted more what it’s all about, his identity to avoid preferential treatment. than 16 million visitors, many attracted by especially in its food and restaurants. Bauer, j’73, likes California where to blend with the crowd, preferring an menus are so ingredient-driven.” country, into a separate building behind early seating, usually around 6 p.m., when He lists inexperienced hosts, excessively the Chronicle headquarters: “We have a the tourist trade is thick and restaurants loud music, warm red wine and too-small 10,000-bottle wine cellar, we’re growing least expect a critic to visit. tables among his top peeves. grapes in the kitchen garden on the roof, “We have a list of pseudonyms and “ e complaints I hear are from people and we now have three beehives.” phone numbers,” Bauer says. “But it’s hard not feeling like they’ve been treated well,” But such luxurious perks don’t come to go completely unnoticed when you’ve he says. “It’s so important that the cus- easily. Bauer oversees the paper’s Home been eating out in the same community tomer feels special.” section and monthly magazine, and writes every night of the week for over 25 years.” Food has always been a big part of two reviews a week for print. Online, he Restaurant critics, particularly those of Bauer’s life. He worked in his father’s publishes a daily restaurant review, a Bauer’s pedigree, are the guides, ambassa- Chanute meat market during high school biweekly column, a monthly newsletter dors and occasional kingmakers of food and college. He began his food reporting and frequent social media updates. cultures of their communities. Bauer’s career at the Kansas City Star in 1975, then Does he ever get sick of food? annual “Top 100 Restaurants in the Bay joined the Dallas Times Herald in 1981 “I try to take one trip a year that isn’t Area” is an internationally respected and the Chronicle in 1986. food-related,” he says. “Last year, I went to foodie guidebook, and restaurants that In 2003, Bauer moved his Food & Wine Antarctica.” make the grade can expect signi cant sta , the largest of any newspaper in the —King is a Lawrence freelance writer.
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U.S. Army chaplain at Fort Eustis, Va. He Education Fund at the KU Field Station. He and his wife, Kathleen, live in and Leslie Carter Burbank, ’85, live in ey live in Lawrence, where they both Overland Park. Williamsburg. taught high-school biology for many years and led students along nature trails all over BORN T O: Michael Harmelink, c’89, g’91, and the country. Michael, b’90, and Christine Fleming 89 his wife, Ann, make their home in Curtis Stubbings, e’89, directs strategic Walrod, b’03, twins, a son, Connor, and a Olathe. eir son, Michael, was 1 in sales for Praxair in e Woodlands, Texas, daughter, Addison, March 24 in Overland March. where he lives with his wife, Kelley. Park, where they live. Kelly Milligan, j’89, is vice president and Deborah Hoeschele Wilkerson, c’89, Dallas area counsel for Chicago Title of l’93, CEO of the Greater Kansas City Mary Kate Burress Blankenship, Texas. He and his wife, Jennifer, make Community Foundation, lives in Leawood 91 p’91, p’12, works as a clinical their home in Plano. with her husband, Kevin, c’89. pharmacist at McPherson Hospital. She Jaime Prieto Jr., e’89, g’91, lives in and her husband, Michael, live in Aliso Viejo, Calif., and works for Agile Phyllis Budin, g’90, is a communi- Hutchinson. Communications. 90 cations specialist with the Visiting Clayton Janicke, e’91, owns Janicke David Ratner, g’89, works as lead Nurses Association in Kansas City. Farms & Alfalfa in Bird City, where he and soware developer for ANSYS Inc. His Albert Cinelli, g’90, PhD’95, teaches Lori Wright Janicke, s’91, live. home is in Evanston, Ill. philosophy at Sierra College in Rocklin, John Raymond, s’89, retired manager of Calif. He makes his home in Fair Oaks Jonathan Broz, c’92, l’95, is vice community pubic health for the Texas with his wife, Alyson. 92 president and assistant general Department of Health, makes his home in Andrew Halaby, e’90, g’92, l’96, a counsel for litigation at Family Dollar Kansas City. partner in the Phoenix law rm of Snell Stores in Matthews, N.C. He and Anne Stan, ’89, and Janet Beckner Roth, ’77, & Wilmer, was featured in the February Budde Broz, c’93, make their home in were honored earlier this year when the edition of Student Lawyer magazine. Cornelius. Kansas Biological Survey established the Patrick Kaufman, b’90, was named Jennifer Raines Johnson, h’92, directs Stan and Janet Roth Trail and Nature chief nancial ocer of Kansas Athletics. occupational therapy at Hoover, Bachman
50 | KANSAS A LUMNI & Associates in Junction City. Her home is a’93, make their home. Sara Budin Stokle, f’95, works as a in Abilene. Lance Johnson, e’93, g’94, is an associate designer for Old Navy. She lives in San Eric Wahl, c’92, coordinates program- with Colliers International in Lawrence, Francisco with her husband, Brian. ming and Web marketing at the University where he and Jennifer Thompson John- Julie Faust, j’96, directs wellness of Washington’s Surplus Store in Seattle. son, c’94, make their home. 96 communications for the state of Jerey Woods, c’92, was appointed Jennifer Steere-Oermann, s’93, works Kansas. She lives in Lawrence. department head of history and political as a treatment clinician at Stormont-Vail Jennifer Jones, c’96, is director of science at Arkansas Tech University in Healthcare Center in Topeka. nursing at Loving Touch Home Health in Russellville. He and Andrea Grimes Wichita, where she lives. Woods, c’93, live in Conway, where she’s Megan Brackney, c’95, l’98, is a John White, j’96, directs market vice president and corporate counsel at 95 partner in the New York City law planning for Level 3 in Broom eld, Colo. Nabholz Construction. rm of Kostelanetz & Fink. She also is His home is in Denver. secretary of the Section of Taxation of the Shu-Yi Yu, g’96, teaches English at the Christina Castillo, n’93, is a regis- American Bar Association and chairs the Chang Gung Institute of Technology in 93 tered nurse with Select Specialty. New York County Lawyers’ Association Chungli City, Taiwan, where she lives. She lives in Shawnee Mission. Committee on Taxation. Megan and her Kimberly Hays, l’93, practices law in husband, Jonathan Detrixhe, c’97, make Jerod Haase, b’97, g’01, recently Tulsa, Okla., where she and her husband, their home in Brooklyn. 97 became head baskeball coach at the Michael Souter, l’93, make their home. She Matthew Hydeman, j’95, g’97, works as University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received the 2011 Outstanding Family Law a records specialist for the University of had been an assistant coach at the Univer- Attorney Award from the Family Law Arizona Foundation in Tucson. sity of North Carolina. Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association. John Pepperdine Jr., c’95, g’04, is Raja Iyengar, g’97, works as an executive Nancy Epp Hohmann, d’93, is a commu- associate vice president of development for consultant for EBizLabs Inc. in Manassas, nity development specialist for the the University of Colorado Foundation in Va. He and Jayanthi Kandadai Iyengar, A ordable Housing Commission in St. Boulder. He and Carrie Homann ’96, live in Centreville. She is president of Louis, where she and her husband, Paul, Pepperdine, e’96, live in Broom eld. EBizLabs.
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Charles Barland, g’98, is an named volunteer of the year by the MARRIED 98 associate professor of music at the Je erson County American Red Cross. Megan Englebrake, c’00, to Brian University of Dubuque in Dubuque, Iowa. Stacie Frain Borjon, d’00, g’05, teaches Zorbini, Feb. 27 in Riviera Maya, Mexico. Cory Feinberg, c’98, practices law with science at Shawnee Heights Senior High She is a human resource generalist for JE Bank of America in Plano, Texas, where he School in Tecumseh. She and her husband, Dunn, and he’s a project engineer for US and his wife, Suzanne, make their home. Jesse, live in Topeka. Engineering. ey live in Prairie Village. Jianhua Li, g’98, PhD’01, works as a Alison Murry Brown, e’00, works as Edward Sykes, j’00, to Jillian Rocko , senior controls engineer for FS-Elliott a senior market analyst for Kiewit in Sept. 24 in Hingham, Mass. He works at Company, where his wife, Cuiping Zhao, Lenexa. She and her husband, Travis, live Public Consulting Group in Boston, and g’01, is a soware engineer. ey live in in Olathe. she works at Orthopaedic Physical Delmont, Pa. Victor McNerney, c’00, m’09, works as erapy Services in Wellesley Hills. ey Anthony Stanislav, c’98, manages medical director of behavioral health at St. live in Boston. production applications for GE Energy in Bernards Medical Center. He lives in Kansas City, where he lives. Jonesboro, Ark. Shannon Clements, g’01, is a senior Nichole Jeter Wheeler, b’98, is assistant Terry Nooner Jr., c’00, g’03, was named 01 technical project manager at Cerner treasurer of HMT in Spring, Texas, where assistant coach of the KU women’s in Kansas City. He and his wife, Skye, live she lives with her husband, Jonathan, c’96. basketball team. Terry served as an in Grain Valley, Mo. assistant at Southern Illinois University Deena Kay Hardie, c’01, works as a Gwendolyn Allen, a’99, is an last season. learning specialist for the Children’s Aid 99 associate with Reno & Cavanaugh Terese Bergmann Shepley, f’00, is a Society in New York City. She and her in Columbia, Md. She lives in Washington, personal banker at First National Bank of husband, Michael Vallone, live in Union D.C. La Grange. She lives in Indian Head, Ill. City, N.J. Emily Winkleman, s’00, s’04, Michael Kobe, b’01, Nancy Blume, PhD’00, directs manages youth cases at manages operations for 00 graduate nursing studies at Lamar Hillcrest Transitional Hous- Staples. He and his wife, University in Beaumont, Texas. She was ing. She lives in Kansas City. Laura, live in Keller, Texas.
52 | KANSAS A LUMNI Audrey Hickert, c’02, g’03, is a Erik Roesh, c’02, supervises regional his home in Kansas City. 02 research assistant professor at the marketing for McDonald’s USA. He and Emily Jones, j’04, is an associate at University of Utah. She and her husband, his wife, Denise, live in Tomball, Texas. Sneed Lang Herrold in Tulsa, Okla., where Jason Franchuk, j’01, live in Salt Lake City. she lives. He’s a journalist with the Provo Daily Kimberly Splichal, e’03, is a senior Lindsay Nicholson, c’04, m’98, is a Herald. 03 systems engineer for Lockheed clinical lecturer at the University of Jaimee Dixon Johanning, s’02, joined Martin. She lives in Littleton, Colo. Michigan. She lives in Ann Arbor. the Omaha, Neb., law rm of Gross & Joseph Rexwinkle, c’04, g’05, works as a Welch as of counsel. She will practice in Amanda Wolfe Bertholf, j’04, is senior planner for the city of Leawood. He the areas of family law and mediation. 04 managing editor of UMKC’s and his wife, Amanda, live in Lenexa. Paula Spreitzer Oxler, c’02, j’02, directs alumni magazine. She and her husband, public relations for the YMCA of Greater Matthew, j’02, live in Kansas City. Karissa Reimer Bratcher, p’05, Kansas City. She and her husband, Paul, James Clarke, g’04, a partner in 05 manages the pharmacy at make their home in Kansas City. Fiduciary Research & Consulting, makes Wal-Mart in Wichita. She and her
PROFILE by Terry Rombeck ANZ
Speaker ‘spreading “Taking care of employees and customer Y BARBARA G L Y BARBARA service are two prongs of the same S
contagious enthusiasm’ RTE thing—there’s the internal customer and arbara Glanz once led a workshop to creating a culture of joy, and the external COU Bteach surly policemen in Singapore customer, where you’re reaching out and how to improve their customer service. spreading that to them.” “I love a challenge,” the motivational Glanz travels to 50 to 60 companies speaker says. “Everybody has a heart. It and other organizations a year, meeting just takes longer to get through to some with executives and front-line employees than others.” alike to identify issues and nd ways to Glanz, d’65, is one of the best motiva- produce a positive work environment. tional speakers in the world, according to Among her suggestions: Start every her peers. In 2010, she was voted a meeting with three minutes of good news, “Legend of the Speaking Profession” at or have bosses call employees’ mothers if the annual Veteran Speakers Retreat. they’re doing a good job. Barbara Glanz says human interaction is a key “It’s a wonderful armation that what She also delivers keynote speeches, oen to happiness. “We know how to be happy in I’m doing makes a di erence,” Glanz says. relying on her signature story, “Johnny the our hearts; we’ve just forgotten some of the Aer graduating from KU, Glanz spent Bagger.” Years ago, a grocery store bagger simple things we can do to connect with several years teaching high school English with Down syndrome heard Glanz speak another human being.” in California (where she also directed and was inspired to give each of his David Hasselho ’s acting debut in “Once customers an inspirational thought of Upon a Mattress”). She then took nearly the day. speaker to have presented on all seven two decades o to be a stay-at-home mom. “My whole message is what one indi- continents—the last coming during a In 1988, with her children o to college, vidual can do,” says Glanz, whose tagline is Flying Jayhawks trip to Antarctica in 2007 Glanz returned to the workforce as a “spreading contagious enthusiasm.” sponsored by the KU Alumni Association. training manager for the Times Mirror “Wherever they nd themselves, they can Glanz, who says her Christian faith Co. en, in 1995, she launched her have the spirit to make a di erence. If a guides her messages, insists she’s the same own company as a customer relations grocery store bagger with Down syndrome person o stage as she is on. And though consultant and motivational speaker. In can turn an organization upside down, any she’s had her share of pain—one of her addition to serving hundreds of clients, one of us can do that.” children died young, and her husband Glanz also has authored or co-authored Glanz’s long list of previous clients died in 2000—she says she chooses to a dozen books. includes Southwest Airlines, Nordstrom, be happy. “My focus is employee engagement— Ford Motor Co. and General Mills. She “Every person, regardless of circum- creating workplaces of joy,” Glanz says. also claims to be the only professional stances, has that choice,” Glanz says.
ISSUE 4, 2012 | 53 Class Notes husband, Scott, live in Milton. live in Leavenworth. coordinates education for eatre Under Michael Kricsfeld, g’05, owns Cupcake Robert Rosasco III, e’06, practices law the Stars in Houston, where she and her Construction Company in Lawrence. His with Energizer Personal Care. He lives in husband, Eric, c’07, make their home. He’s home is in Leawood. Woodbridge, Conn. a research coordinator at MD Anderson. Kyungioo Park, l’05, has a law practice Tracy Smith, l’06, teaches Spanish in Jariat Oyetunki Darboe, p’07, works as a in Englewood Cli s, N.J. He and his wife, Edmond, Okla. pharmacist at the University of Kentucky’s Hyoil Lim, live in Tena y. Chandler Medical Center. She lives in MARRIED Lexington. MARRIED Michelle Grittmann, j’06, c’07, and Matthew Dupy, b’07, g’08, is lead Robert Johnson, j’05, l’08, and Nicole Shawn Howard, j’08, April 28 in Kansas accountant at Koch Industries in Wichita, Lafond Johnson, c’08, Sept. 24 in Law- City, where they live. She works for Grey where he and Jaime Hornbaker Dupy, j’08, rence. He practices law with Floyd, Healthcare Group, and he works for AMC make their home. She’s campaign coordi- P ueger and Ringer in Seattle, where she eater’s District Oce. nator for the Wichita Chamber of works in the marketing department at Jenna Ness, f’06, to Matthew Haws, Commerce. Nordstrom’s. Oct. 8 in Edina, Minn. She’s a meeting and Sue Hamon Kollho, p’07, was recog- events planner at Carlson Wagonlit, and nized as a Distinguished Young Pharma- Adriel Alstrom, c’06, works as a he works in healthcare marketing at cist by the Kansas Pharmacists’ Associa- 06 registered nurse at the Albany Target. ey live in Minneapolis. tion for her work with wounded warriors Medical Center in Albany, N.Y. She lives in at Fort Riley. She and her husband, John, Coxsackie. Leyia Cannon, c’07, is a clinical p’05, live in Abilene. Leanne Breiby, j’06, manages communi- 07 research associate with Quintiles. Gregory Levy, c’07, is a clinical opera- cations for the Greater Kansas City She lives in Phoenix. tions specialist for the HealthPoint Community Foundation. C. Tye Crowder, c’07, works as a quality Medical Group. He makes his home in Joshua Goetting, c’06, l’10, serves assurance consultant for Farmers Insur- Pinellas Park, Fla. as a judge advocate in the U.S. Army. ance. He lives in Overland Park. Lindsay O’Bryon Linker, d’07, teaches He and Renee Klinges Goetting, e’07, Elizabeth Lorkowski Crowder, c’07, high-school social studies in Irving, Texas. She lives in Grand Prairie. Je Miller, c’07, m’11, is a medical resident at Indiana University. He and Carolyn Blatchford Miller, c’07, live in Indianapolis, where she is a practice administrator at Indiana University Health Physicians.
MARRIED Matthew Feldman, c’07, to Abby Ruahr, Dec. 31 in Kansas City, where they live. Matthew is a senior account manager for Freightquote.com in Lenexa, and she is a graphic designer for the Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contem- porary Art and for the Charlotte Street Foundation.
Blake Cripps, j’08, works as a sports 08 announcer for KGSO/KQAM in Wichita. Matthew, j’08, and Sarah Strathman Lindberg, c’09, live in Montrose, Colo., where he’s news editor of the Montrose Daily Press. eir son, David, is 1. Cameron Manuel, b’08, g’08, is an internal audit senior at Layne Christensen in Mission.
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Rachel Peart, f’08, works as consign- Insurance. eir home is in Centerton. with Graves Bartle Marcus Garrett in ment director at Heritage Auctions in New Dallas. York City. Kyle Carter, j’09, is an admissions Eric Wyer, b’09, g’10, works as an auditor Daniel Pierron, e’08, practices patent law 09 counselor at Ashford University. for the USDA. His home is in Kansas City. with Zies Wideman & Malek in Mel- He lives in Littleton, Colo. bourne, Fla. He and Allison York Pierron, Jesserend Conrad, e’09, was promoted MARRIED c’07, live in Rockledge. to project engineer with Manhard Con- Christine Allen, d’09, and Taylor Scott, sulting in Vernon Hills, Ill. He lives in d’11, Oct. 1 in Lawrence, where they both MARRIED Libertyville. work for the Navigators. Amy Borovetz, b’08, to Seth Hane, Patrick Lewallen, c’09, toured with the Whitney Samuelson, d’09, to Zachery Sept. 24 in Shawnee. She is a merchandis- cast of the Broadway play Rock of Ages. Schneider, March 13 in Las Vegas. ing senior planner at Wal-Mart, and He lives in New York City, where he is ey live in Lawrence, where Whitney he’s the northwest Arkansas regional an actor. is sports-performance coach at property claims adjustor for Hanover Daniel Moskowitz, l’09, practices law Studio Alpha.
PROFILE by Steven Hill ON
Rose director’s legacy: Shakespeare’s plays, “it has a nice historical LAR S Y JAMES top-rate children’s theater signi cance, too” S e $300,000 budget soared to $3 RTE ames Larson didn’t set out to make his million, and Larson built classrooms that COU Jcareer entertaining children. brought children to the theater, while Aer earning a bachelor’s in creative launching outreach e orts that grew the writing at Iowa and a master’s at Nebraska, company into one of the largest profes- Larson completed a PhD in theater at KU. sional children’s theater troupes in His specialty: the American avant-garde. the world. While writing his doctoral dissertation A national touring program introduced he took a part-time job at what was then Rose productions to millions nationwide, the Emmy Gi ord Children’s eater in making stops at the Brooklyn Academy of Omaha, Neb. Not long aer, the theater’s Music, the Kennedy Center and 1,000- to board red the director and senior sta 2,000-seat performing arts venues from and asked Larson and other support sta if coast to coast. they’d do the jobs. Larson brought top playwrights and “I said, ‘Sure,’” Larson recalls. “I didn’t children’s book authors to Omaha and “When a child comes to the theater, you have know anything; I had to learn everything.” launched an extensive education program, an opportunity to aªect the rest of their life,” Twenty-eight years later, Larson, including Every Single Child, which works says James Larson, who led Omaha’s Rose PhD’88, retired as artistic director in May with every child in all 66 elementary Theater for 28 years. “It’s a big responsibility.” aer transforming the children’s theater schools in Omaha and Council Blu s. He company into one of the world’s largest. started the Teens ’N’ eater program, the e company changed its name to the Summer Actor’s Conservatory, which Omaha eater Company and in 1995 introduces teens to classical drama, and a and scenery, so do children’s plays. “ ere raised $10.5 million to renovate the multicultural theater program for African- are lots of things you can do [in children’s historic Rose eater in downtown American and Latino teenagers. theater] that you can’t in adult theater, and Omaha. e new space gave the group Along the way, Larson discovered that I found that to be very freeing. As a result, room to grow and another new name. experimental avant-garde and children’s I’ve had tremendous artistic satisfaction.’” “Outside the city we’re known as the theater aren’t so far apart. Aer adapting many works for the stage, Omaha eater Company, but in Omaha “Children’s theater more oen than not Larson now turns his writing energies to a everybody knows us as e Rose,” is based on fantasy rather than realism,” he trilogy of young-adult novels. “I did so Larson says. Since the Rose is also the says. Just as avant-garde productions many things I wanted to do, and beyond, name of the rst theater to perform experiment with form, costume, settings that retiring is not hard.”
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Meghan Daniels, c’10, is a human- Resort in Mexico. ey live in Leaven- department of design. She makes her 10 resources associate at the Downtown worth, and Morgan works for Perceptive home in Lawrence. Women’s Center in Los Angeles. She lives Soware in Shawnee. in Culver City. Torrance Parkins, c’10, to Ann Elliott, MARRIED Harrison Hems, c’10, is a coordinator Aug. 12 in Lawrence, where they make Megan McGinley, d’11, to Peter Toth, with the Kansas Department of Transpor- their home. Oct. 15. ey live in Topeka, and Megan tation in Topeka. He commutes from coordinates alumni programs for the KU Lawrence. Chad Blackweider, d’11, works as an Alumni Association in Lawrence. Daphne Hiatt, c’10, is a legal support 11 inside sales representative for World assistant with Wagsta & Cartmell in Wide Technology in Maryland Heights, MARRIED Kansas City. Mo. He lives in St. Louis. Elizabeth Durkin, g’12, to Kris Brendan Jackson, b’10, serves as an Daniel Buller, l’11, is an associate at 12 Hutchcra, March 24 in Baldwin economic development facilitator for the Foulston Siein in Wichita. City. ey live in Kansas City, where Peace Corps in Costa Rica. Jordan Caby, c’11, lives in Kansas City, Elizabeth is a grant writer for the Frances Valentine, n’10, is director where he’s a mutual fund and corporate Metropolitan Organization to Counter of nursing at Deseret Health Group. securities representative for DST Systems. Sexual Assault. Kris is a nancial ocer She lives in Iola. Evan Cloar, a’11, works as an industrial for State Street. Samantha Danna Varnadore, j’10, designer for Green Dot Holdings in works as an executive team leader at Cottonwood Falls. His home is in ASSOCIATES Target. Her home is in Sacramento, Lawrence. Judy Billings, assoc., retired as president Calif. Nathaniel Mayhew, e’11, is a system and CEO of Destination Management in engineer for the Wolf Creek Nuclear Lawrence, where she earlier served as MARRIED Operating Corp. in Burlington. director of the Convention and Visitors Morgan McMichael, c’10, and Chad Katherine McCown, g’11, coordinates Center. She and her husband, David, j’81, Schimke, ’06, March 2 at Moon Palace undergraduate recruiting for KU’s continue to live in Lawrence.
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Kansas Union Level 2 • 1301 Jayhawk Blvd. • Lawrence, KS 66045 • (785) 864-4640 In Memory Lumber. A memorial has been established with KU Endowment. He is survived by his wife, Patricia White Jarrell, assoc.; two daughters, Judith Jarrell Pallett, j’70, and Jane Jarrell Vink, f’78; four grandsons; Sarah Cook Carpenter, d’36, c’40, and surgeon. He is survived by his wife, and two great-grandsons. 30s96, Nov. 30 in Oxnard, Calif. She Peggy Roberts Browning, c’43; a son, Ogden Jones Jr., ’43, 86, April 1 in had been dean of women at New Mexico William, m’73; three daughters, one of Oakland, Calif., where he was a retired State University at Las Cruces and later whom is Anne Browning Wilson, l’78; U.S. Army colonel. He later worked as an was an institutional parole agent at the nine grandchildren; and two engineer at NWL Abex in Kalamazoo, California Youth Authority’s Ventura great-grandchildren. Mich. Survivors include his wife, Jean School. She is survived by two nephews. Mark Costello, e’44, 90, March 3 in Murray Jones, ’45; a daughter; two sons; a Dale Corson, g’35, 97, March 31 in Houston. He is survived by two sons; a brother, Richard, c’51; and four Ithaca, N.Y., where he was a professor daughter; a brother, John, b’50; two sisters; grandchildren. emeritus of physics and the former and one grandchild. Eleanor Smith Kennedy, d’46, 87, Dec. president of Cornell University. He is C.F. Delano, e’46, 89, April 8 in Topeka. 11 in Wichita, where she was a retired survived by his wife, Nellie, a son, three He is survived by two sons, one of whom elementary-school teacher. Surviving are a daughters, six grandchildren and six is Douglas, j’71; a daughter, Patricia, h’77; son; two daughters; one of whom is great-grandchildren. six grandchildren; and four Maureen, c’81; and a granddaughter. Lulu Tillman Hunter, c’38, 97, Dec. 21 in great-grandchildren. Harold Lefmann, c’46, 92, April 13 in Bella Vista, Ark. She is survived by her Bernard Domann, p’49, 87, April 11 in Colby, where he was a retired history and husband, Jack; a son, Donald, j’67; a Lawrence. He owned Domann Drug in German teacher. He is survived by a daughter, Sandra Hunter Bates, j’73; two Atchison for many years. Surviving are his daughter and two brothers, one of whom grandchildren; and two wife, Kay; three sons, one of whom is is Delbert, ’50. great-grandchildren. David, p’76, g’78; three daughters, two of Robert Moore, e’40, 93, April 3 in Francis O’Neill, c’35, m’39, 97, April 4 whom are Patricia, d’76, g’99, and Sara Chapel Hill, N.C., where he was retired in San Antonio, where he was a retired Domann Ryan, ’81; two stepsons, one of from a long career with Eastman Kodak. physician, scientist and educator. He is whom is Jon Shipman, e’00; 12 grandchil- He is survived by his wife, Eleanor, four survived by a son; a daughter; a brother, dren; and three great-grandchildren. sons, two daughters, 16 grandchildren and James, c’39, m’42; ve grandchildren; and Elizabeth Mize Elicker, ’42, 92, Jan. 25 19 great-grandchildren. ve great-grandchildren. in Chevy Chase, Md. She ran gi stores in Edward Moses III, b’43, l’48, 91, March Margaret Colman Wulfkuhle, c’37, 98, Georgetown, Annapolis and St. Michaels. 29 in Sun City West, Ariz., where he April 24 in Lawrence. She taught in A son, a daughter, four grandchildren and retired aer practicing law in Great Bend elementary school and in KU’s Continuing eight great-grandchildren survive. for 40 years. He is survived by his wife, Education department. She later was a Emily Stacey Evanow, c’47, d’51, 86, Joan; ve sons; ve daughters, three of supervisor in KU’s audio and visual Oct. 19 in Williamsburg, Va. She is whom are Jessica Moses Harrison, c’72, department. Surviving are two daughters, survived by two sons, one of whom is Joell Ireland, s’80, and Nancy Moses, s’98; Linda Wuluhle Cecchini, c’68, and Peter, g’81; and two grandsons. 19 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; Virginia, c’69. Albert Goodpasture, b’49, 89, Jan. 28 in and three great-great-grandchildren. San Antonio, where he was retired from Marion Pierpont, ’49, 84, Dec. 4 in Des Vernon Berkey, c’40, m’43, 94, Panhandle Eastern Pipeline. He is survived Moines, Iowa, where she was a former 40sMay 3 in Pittsburg, where he was by his wife, Marilyn, two sons, a daughter, rst-grade teacher. Two daughters, six a retired physician. Survivors include three a brother, seven grandchildren and seven grandchildren and three great-grandsons daughters, one of whom is Carolyn Berkey great-grandchildren. survive. Mott, ’80; ve grandchildren; and two James Gray, e’49, 86, Feb. 13 in St. Paul Renich, g’44, g’49, 92, Feb. 16 in great-grandchildren. Joseph, Mo., where he was co-owner, Hesston. From 1948 to ’73, he was a James Bernard, c’41, l’48, 91, Feb. 8 in engineer and senior ocer at Gray professor of chemistry at Kansas Wesleyan Kansas City, where he had practiced law Manufacturing. He is survived by a University, where he also served as with Slagle, Bernard and Gorman. Among daughter, Karen, s’84; three sons; a academic dean and president. He volun- survivors are a son, James Jr., c’73; a brother, Joe, e’44; two sisters; six grand- teered at the Bethel College chemistry lab daughter, Susan Bernard Lawrence, d’76; children; and a great-granddaughter. from 1984 until retiring in 2009 at the age and two grandchildren. Clarence “Jerry” Jarrell, ’48, 87, April of 90. Surviving are his wife, Roberta Enns William Browning, m’43, 95, Jan. 15 in 13 in Leawood, where he was retired vice Renich, assoc.; two sons; a daughter; a Wichita, where he was a retired physician president and treasurer of Frank Paxton brother, Waldo, ’53; four grandchildren;
60 | KANSAS A LUMNI and three great-grandchildren. Cronemeyer, e’45; two grandsons; and two Microbiology Laboratory. He is survived Dorothy Catlett Smith, ’46, Nov. 30 in great-grandchildren. by his wife, Gertrude, a daughter and two Beverly Hills, Fla., where she was a lifelong granddaughters. homemaker. She is survived by a son, Dean Banker, b’50, 86, April 16 in John Ferguson, b’50, 83, March 11 in Stephen, c’68, m’78; and two grandsons. 50sRussell, where he was retired Mission Woods. He was retired vice Barbara Heinsohn Somers, f’46, 87, president and general manager of L. president of Townley Metal & Hardware. Dec. 6 in Wichita. She was active in Banker Mercantile Company. He is He is survived by his wife, Patricia community service, and for more than 50 survived by his wife, Aldean; four daugh- Watkins Ferguson, ’52; three sons, Robb, years she opened her home to foster ters, three of whom are Zoann Banker ’80, John Jr., ’76, and Chipp, b’84, g’87; a children and foreign-exchange students. Merry eld, j’79, Sarah Banker, h’90, and daughter; Jennie Blair Ferguson, ’87; a She is survived by her husband, Marvin, Amy Banker, c’86; and four grandchildren. sister; and nine grandchildren. m’48; a daughter; two sons; two sisters, William Bradshaw, m’54, 84, April 22 in Ronald Gaugh, p’55, 80, April 25 in Meredith Heinsohn Austin, c’49, and Kansas City. He practiced family medicine Maryville, Mo., where he had co-owned Judith Heinsohn Guinn, g’46; eight in Clinton, Mo., for 22 years and later Gaugh Drug Store and Hillside Pharmacy. grandchildren; and seven became director of continuing medical He is survived by his wife, Marilyn, a great-grandchildren. education at the University of Missouri, daughter, a son, ve grandchildren and Jack Steineger, c’48, l’49, 87, May 1 in where he retired as dean emeritus of the seven great-grandchildren. Kansas City. He served in the Kansas medical school. He also served as vice Jay Hardy Sr., e’56, 78, Feb. 4 in Senate for many years and had earned president of medical a airs for Blue Cross Midland, Texas, where he worked for wide recognition for his environmental and Blue Shield. He is survived by his wife, ARCO and later for Sage Energy, where he e orts. He was named 1972 Outstanding Dorothy, two daughters, three grand- retired as vice president. He is survived by State Senator by the Eagleton Institute of daughters and ve great-grandchildren. his wife, Edith, a son, two daughters, a Politics at Rutgers University, and 10 years Ann Allen Briley, ’50, 84, April 29 in brother, 15 grandchildren and four later he received a Legislative Improve- Tulsa, Okla. She was active in her commu- great-grandchildren. ment Award from the Ford Foundation. nity and is survived by two sons and a Bernard “Bud” Hentzen, b’51, 83, Nov. He is survived by his wife, Margaret Leisy brother. 30 in Wichita, where he founded Hentzen Steineger, ’49; two sons, John III, b’72, and Walter Cowell, e’52, 81, April 20 in Contractors and served as a Sedgwick Chris, g’92; two daughters, Cynthia Saint Charles, Ill. He was retired from the County commissioner. He is survived by Steineger Blair, a’74, a’75, and Melissa Western Division Naval Facilities Engi- his wife, Joanne; ve sons; four daughters, Steineger, j’77; and a grandchild. neering Command in San Bruno, Calif. He one of whom is Ann Hentzen Page, m’94; Barbara Breidenthal Sutherland, ’43, is survived by his wife, Patricia; a daugh- and 52 grandchildren and 88, Jan. 6 in Overland Park, where she was ter; a brother, Forrest, e’48; and two great-grandchildren. active in civic and church a airs. She is grandchildren. Paul Hill, ’50, 88, March 24 in Pittsburg, survived by her husband, John, ’46; four Roy Craig, b’51, 88, Dec. 20 in Fenton, where he was president, director and sons; a daughter; 21 grandchildren; and 46 Mo. He is survived by his wife, Martha board chairman of First Federal Savings great-grandchildren. Rose Craig, d’51; three sons, one of whom and Loan Association. He is survived by Robert Wehe, e’48, 90, March 16 in is Charles, j’76; a sister; nine grandchil- his wife, Mary Kay Kottmann Hill, ’50; a Ithaca, N.Y., where he was a retired dren; and 16 great-grandchildren. son, Stephen, b’84, c’84; three daughters, professor of mechanical engineering at Mary Sue “Suzie” Glanville Croker, two of whom are Candyse Hill Taylor, Cornell University. Survivors include three d’57, 76, Dec. 1 in Nashville, where she d’72, and Sherris Hill Bellamy, g’85, g’99; a sons, two daughters, a sister, four grand- was active in charitable organizations. She brother; a sister; seven grandchildren; and children and a great-grandson. is survived by three sons, two of whom are two great-grandchildren. Harriett Weil, c’40, 94, Dec. 13 in Richard Jr., ’79, and Joseph, c’87, g’90; and Arnold Jennings, b’50, 86, Jan. 10 in Jamaica Plain, Mass. She was a home- six grandchildren. Raymore, Mo., where he was retired from maker and an avid traveler. Survivors Joseph Culver III, ’54, 78, Jan. 29 in a 32-year career with Butler Manufactur- include two sons, a daughter, three Wichita, where he was retired from a ing. He is survived by his wife, Rosemary; grandchildren and four career in business. He is survived by three a son, Stephen, b’76; a daughter, Sharon great-grandchildren. daughters; two sons, one of whom is Jennings Holt, d’71; four grandchildren; Helen Cronemeyer Williams, d’42, 91, Christopher, b’80; and eight and ve great-grandchildren. April 14 in Wichita. She had worked for grandchildren. Ellison Lambert, d’54, 78, Dec. 13 in the YWCA for many years and later was a Marvin Dyck, g’50, 90, Jan. 16 in Kansas City, where she was active in civic drug and alcohol abuse counselor for the Topeka, where he was retired from a and charitable organizations. She is U.S. Army. She is survived by a stepson, 40-year career with the Kansas Depart- survived by her husband, Sanders; three Edward Williams, m’69; a brother, Donald ment of Health and Environment’s Water sons; two brothers, one of whom is Hal
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Brent, ’56; and ve grandchildren. and six grandchildren. Sept. 5 in Gainesville, Fla., where she was a Ruth Pyle Nasby, d’58, g’63, 76, Feb. 6 James Flaherty, b’68, 65, April 10 in retired teacher. She is survived by her in Mukilteo, Wash., where she was a Owasso, Okla., where he was chief husband, John, c’60, d’61, g’63; a daughter; retired teacher. Among survivors are her nancial ocer of Panther Energy. He is a son; a sister, Barbara Hines Belt, d’68; a husband, David, ’62; two daughters; and survived by his wife, Mona; a son; his brother, William Jr., l’61; and two three granddaughters. mother; two brothers, Larry, e’66, and grandsons. Mary Lou Petrie, ’57, 76, Feb. 26 in Richard, b’66, g’68, PhD’71; and four Mary Foster Sullivan, n’65, 69, Dec. 1 in Covina, Calif., where she was retired from grandchildren. Cameron, Mo. She was a nurse at Menorah a 40-year career as a special-education Milton Freiberger, g’61, 81, Dec. 9 in Medical Center and Trinity Hospital in teacher. ree sisters survive. Allen, Texas. He was a chemical engineer Kansas City. Surviving are a daughter and William Roberts, b’55, 78, Jan. 24 in in the petroleum industry for 30 years. A two sisters, Julie Foster Graham, n’61, and Centerville, Ohio. He retired as an daughter, a son, a brother and seven Laura Foster Wilson, ’76. underwriter and auditor for the Ohio grandchildren survive. Jerry Thornton, ’65, 68, Jan. 16 in Bureau of Workers Compensation and had Edwin Goebel, PhD’66, 88, May 7 in Charlotte, N.C., where he directed owned Roberts Business Services. He is Kansas City, was a professor emeritus of partnership development at the Charlotte survived by three sons, a daughter, six geosciences at UMKC. He also was Kansas Regional Visitors Authority. He is survived grandchildren and three senior state geologist and technical by his wife, Susan, three sons and seven great-grandchildren. director of the U.S. Federal Power Com- grandchildren. John Weaver Jr., ’50, 85, March 15 in mission. For more than 20 years, he Carolyn Young Wright, s’69, 81, Feb. 6 Medford, Ore., where he had a long career volunteered as head scorekeeper for the in Kansas City, where she worked at the in the lumber industry. He is survived by KU basketball program. He is survived by Veterans Administration hospital from his wife, Lois, two sons, two stepsons and his wife, Beverly Carlson Goebel, ’68; two 1971 until 2009. She is survived by two four grandchildren. sons, one of whom is Je , ’77; and ve sons, a daughter, three grandchildren and E. Dean Werries, b’52, 82, April 25 in grandchildren. three great-grandchildren. Oklahoma City, where he was retired CEO Cheryl Boelte Hatfield, d’67, 67, March of Fleming Cos. and director emeritus of 26 in Silver Spring, Md. She taught school Allan Dodge, g’77, 62, March 25 Sonic Drive-In. He is survived by his wife, in Fairfax County, Va., for 25 years and is 70sin Kansas City, where he directed Marijean, two stepsons and a survived by two sons and a brother, the school at the Rainbow Mental Health stepdaughter. Kenneth Boelte, c’72. Facility. He is survived by his wife, Wilbur White, e’59, 76, April 25 in Edith DeEtte Page Human, f’64, 89, Virginia, three sons, two brothers, two Lawrence, where he was a retired chemical Jan. 17 in McPherson, where she was a sisters and two grandchildren. engineer at FMC. He is survived by his retired occupational therapist. She also Mark Hendricks, b’78, 56, Jan. 31 in wife, Leta; a daughter, Beth White Ott, ’02; was involved in environmental issues. Overland Park. He worked for MD a son, David, l’99; a brother; four grand- Surviving are two sons, omas, c’73, and Management in Mission. Surviving are his children; and a great-grandchild. Stephen, ’67; two daughters, one of whom wife, Eileen; two stepdaughters; a stepson; is Louise Page Otero, c’76, g’78; 10 a sister, Martha, f’78; four stepgrandchil- Pauline Moore Bysom, d’62, g’66, grandchildren; and seven dren; and a stepgreat-grandchild. 60s89, April 22 in Lawrence, where great-grandchildren. Thomas Holstrom, c’70, 63, April 19 in she taught common learnings at Central Steven Johnson, b’67, 66, April 2 in Los Blue Springs, Mo., where he was retired Junior High School for 25 years. She is Gatos, Calif. A brother, Jerry, e’78, vice president of operations for the Patco survived by her husband, Clyde, ’40; a survives. Products division of C.J. Patterson. He is daughter, Terri Bysom Stringer, ’84; two Janelle Haury Karras, c’63, 70, March survived by his wife, Gloria Schneider sisters, Nancy Moore Boozer, d’51, and 21 in Halstead. A brother survives. Holstrom, c’70; a son; a brother; and three Virginia Moore Tucker, ’43; a brother, Arthur “A.B.” Preston, c’65, g’67, 84, grandchildren. Robert Moore, c’47; three grandchildren; Dec. 16 in Wellington, where he was Paul Kapp g’76, PhD’84, 86, March 30 and ve great-grandchildren. retired city manager. He is survived by his in Olathe. He was an ordained minister in Robert Durie, m’61, 75, May 2 in wife, Pat; two daughters, one of whom is the United Methodist Church, and in Prairie Village, where he was director Deborah Preston Bean, d’75; and four addition to serving as a pastor, he had of pulmonary disease at Trinity Lutheran grandchildren. been a clinical pastoral education supervi- Hospital and had a solo private practice, William Sheer, e’63, 75, Dec. 14 in sor at several hospitals. He later was a Consultants in Pulmonary Medicine. Prairie Village. He worked for Selex professor of pastoral care at the St. Paul He is survived by his wife, Patricia Systems Integrations in Overland Park for School of eology in Kansas City. Salmon Durie, g’81; two daughters, one many years. Survivors include his wife, Maureen; three of whom is Amy, ’82; a son, Ted, b’87; Susan Hines Sommerville, d’64, 69, sons, two of whom are Kenneth, c’71, and
62 | KANSAS A LUMNI Paul, c’96; a sister; seven grandchildren; in the Benedictine monastery of Mount St. Kyle Bunselmeyer, g’08, 34, Jan. 5 in and six great-grandchildren. Scholastica for nearly 60 years. She is Shawnee. He was a project manager at Amanda Mock Livingston, j’73, 62, Jan. survived by the sisters of her monastic Arnold Imaging in Kansas City. His 13 in Spokane, Wash., where she was community. parents and two brothers survive. membership director for KSPS Public Mavis Paterson Wiseman, ’82, 94, April Rachel Harvey Hammers, c’03, 32, May Television. She earlier had been an 1 in Lawrence, where she was retired from 12 in Lawrence. She is survived by three administrator with the Kansas Commu- a career in federal civil service. While in daughters; a son; her parents; two sisters, nity Arts Council. Among survivors are Lawrence, she helped founded Small Rebecca Harvey Todd, f’05, and Anna her husband, Gary, and a son. World, a volunteer organization for Harvey Vinson, b’06; ve brothers, one of Ron Pavicic, c’76, 57, Jan. 15 in Kansas teaching English to spouses of foreign whom is Caleb Harvey, ’09; and her City, where he practiced dentistry and had students. She is survived by her husband, grandmother. been named Kansas City’s Favorite Dentist Gordon, g’42, g’47, PhD’50; two sons, one Irina Puscariu, m’02, 46, Jan. 13 in numerous times. He is survived by his of whom is Alan, c’81, g’85; and four Gladstone, Mo. She practiced psychiatry at mother and three sisters, one of whom is grandchildren. the Kansas City Veterans Administration Elaine Pavicic Ferguson, d’86, g’92. Medical Center and at North Kansas City Richard Walter, h’78, 55, Dec. 12 in Patrick Burke, d’98, 37, Aug. 14 Hospital. Her mother survives. Lenexa. He worked in the nutrition 90sin Chicago. He had taught in the services department at Shawnee Mission Kansas City Public Schools and is survived Peter “Skip” Skahan, ’12, 30, April Medical Center for 20 years. Surviving are by his wife, Jessie, his parents and three 10s15 in Lawrence. He is survived by his mother; four brothers, three of whom sisters. his parents, Robert, b’68, EdD’79, and are Steven, ’75, Jim, c’77, and Matthew, Charlotte Peppard Dultmeier, g’92, 61, Patricia Gregory Skahan, s’88; a sister, a’88; and a sister, Sarah Walter Nash, c’97. Dec. 20 in Kansas City. She lived in Carrie Skahan Fitts, l’11, and his Col. Michael Weiss, c’70, 64, Sept. 29 in Topeka, where she was former administra- grandmother. Old Bridge, N.J. He served in the U.S. tor for the children’s division at the Marine Corps, where he received a Menninger Foundation. Surviving are her THE UNIVE RSITY COMMUNITY commendation medal for assisting in the husband, Ronald, and two cousins. Julian Holtzman, 76, April 23 in Austin, humanitarian evacuation of Saigon and Steven Jenkins, m’92, 51, Dec. 19 in Texas. He was a KU professor emeritus of Cambodia in 1975. Surviving are his wife, Wichita, where he practiced emergency electrical and computer engineering. He is Maria, two sons and three granddaughters. and occupational medicine. He is survived survived by his wife, Aline Henderson Dolph Welch, g’75, 81, Oct. 3 in by his wife, DeAnn Bronson Jenkins, m’88; Holtzman, ’81; two stepsons, one of whom Choctaw, Okla. He is survived by his wife, a son; a daughter; his mother, Lois Jenkins, is Steven Holtzman, c’95; a sister; and a Doris Hudson Welch, ’80; a daughter, d’56; and a brother. grandson. Sharon Welch Larman, g’78; a son; two Jennifer Shaer West, n’92, 60, March Wilmer Linkugel, 83, May 10 in Law- grandsons; three stepgrandsons; and eight 22 in Kansas City, where she was a nurse at rence, where he was a speech and commu- stepgreat-grandchildren. KU Medical Center. A memorial has been nication professor at KU from 1956 to ’99. established with KU Endowment. She is A memorial has been established with KU Vincent Conner, g’83, 56, Oct. 27 survived by her husband, Chuck; a son, Endowment. He is survived by his wife, 80sin Colorado Springs, Colo. He Michael, ’99; a daughter; a brother; two Helen Motyka Linkugel, g’67; two daugh- was president of Vince Conner & Associ- granddaughters; and two ters, Kristin Sue, ’95, and Leann Linkugel ates and a managing partner in Conner- great-granddaughters. Ward, c’86; and a brother. Wolf & Associates. He is survived by his Aimee Elizabeth Ziegler, s’97, 40, April Ronald McGregor, c’41, g’47, PhD’54, wife, Pamela, two stepsons, his parents, 2 in Lawrence, where she was a social 93, April 21 in Lawrence, where he was a two sisters and a brother. worker and a guidance counselor at Free retired KU professor of botany. e David Hennier, b’85, 48, Dec. 8 in State High School. She is survived by her Ronald McGregor Herbarium is named Kansas City, where he had a 20-year career husband, Aaron Polson, g’04; three sons; for him and a memorial has been estab- at DST Systems. He is survived by his her parents; a brother; a sister; and her lished with KU Endowment. His wife, parents and three brothers. grandmother. Dorothy Du er McGregor, g’53, survives. Brian Warford, m’89, 45, March 25 in Charles “Chuck” Reese, 74, April 26 in Halstead. He had been a radiation Weesam Al-Khatib, m’03, 34, Lawrence. He lived in McClouth and was a technician at Hertzler Clinic and Hospital 00sApril 14 in Palo Alto, Calif., KU professor of mechanical engineering for many years. A son, three daughters, his where he was a clinical instructor of from 1969 until 1999. Surviving are a son, parents and 13 grandchildren survive. surgery at Stanford University. He is Orla, g’88; two daughters, one of whom is Sister Frances Watson, PhD’82, 93, survived by his parents and two sisters, Diana Reese Vansickle, f’86; two brothers; April 23 in Atchison, where she had been Cheen, ’10, and Aveen, ’08. two sisters; and eight grandchildren.
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country, typically traveling many grueling hours, or even days, by bus. Most patients TEVE PUPP E S KU surgeons see are children su ering from maladies such as tonsillitis and, almost invariably, terrible ear infections. Treatments and surgeries are usually not complicated for the experienced doctors and nurses, and there’s never been a concern about outcomes. Anecdotal evidence, however, isn’t enough for science. With funding provided by the depart- ment of otolaryngology, Sykes last year accompanied the KU group to Antigua. While doctors and medical students treated patients, Sykes pored over patient charts for 197 of the 204 tonsillectomies performed by KU surgeons from 2004 to 2010; records for seven could not be found. Sykes found that just three reported any post-op complication: two experienced bleeding, which can be serious if le Kevin Sykes untreated, and one was dehydrated. All were treated e ectively by Obras physi- cians. e analysis con rmed that tonsil- Job well done then it needs to also be done when we’re in lectomies were successful and safe, and Guatemala,” says Nicklaus, m’84, clinical that patients and their families had New study arms benefits associate professor and director of KU’s followed instructions to remain in Antigua of KU medical missions pediatric ENT fellowship. “It was an for at least 10 days. omission that needed to be corrected.” While preparing his study for publica- he operating room, nestled deep Kevin Sykes shared Nicklaus’ dissatisfac- tion, Sykes searched for similar papers Twithin a sprawling Catholic hospital tion the lack of post-mission analysis. “If examining outcomes for international and residential-care facility called Obras you don’t evaluate what you’ve done,” he medical missions. He found about 1,200, Sociales del Hermano Pedro, is hardly says, “then you haven’t done anything, but only 28 were actual studies. e rest high-tech. KU doctors, nurses and technically.” As clinical research director were commentary, opinion and ethical students who travel each summer for for the department of otolaryngology, pieces arguing how the authors thought weeklong medical mission trips to the Sykes, g’03, has extensive experience in missions should be conducted, but without hospital in Antigua, Guatemala, bring medical and church-aliated mission data. When Sykes and Nicklaus published medicines and equipment, striving to trips. He spent two years tracking HIV their paper in an otolaryngology journal, provide a standard of care as close as epidemiology for the state and is complet- he was quickly contacted by others with possible to the health care back home. ing his KU doctorate in health policy similar concerns—including organizers of Ear, nose and throat surgeon Pam management. Last year he set out to ll the construction and religious missions. Nicklaus, a veteran of every trip since the research void by tracking the records from Everyone wanted to know how they missions began in 2004, takes pride in the KU mission trips. could better evaluate the e ectiveness of level of care, but she has long wanted to e setting in Guatemala makes analysis their mission work. add the one missing element: analysis of challenging. Patients and their families “Dr. Nicklaus was con dent that this post-operative outcomes. “If [analysis] is arrive in Antigua, an old mission town was what was going to be found, but it’s the standard of care we have here, and it is, high in the mountains, from across the important to have the data to be certain,”
64 | KANSAS A LUMNI the class walked to the marsh. eir trek, during low tide, was easy for “ The concept of evaluating tonsillectomy outcomes the rst 50 yards, but then the group hit is not innovative, but the setting is. This gives doctors the deep mud. “I sank down to my waist,” Droge says. confidence in the procedures they are conducting.” Droge, c’12, could feel the sharp shells {} —Kevin Sykes of oysters under his feet. (Like all the students, he wore thick-soled shoes.) He pushed forward. e worst moment came Sykes says. “ e concept of evaluating e walk is part of Kamola’s biennial at the edge of the marsh when he was on tonsillectomy outcomes is not innovative, Sapelo Island eld trip. In April Kamola his hands and knees. “I thought I was but the setting is. is gives the doctors and Associate Professor Anthony Walton going to drown in mud.” con dence in the procedures they are led 13 students through marshes, beaches, But he didn’t. Droge says the slog taught conducting.” sandbars and tidal ats. e students are him more about salt marshes than any Sykes hopes to collect data and analyze learning sedimentology, which studies lecture ever could. “I de nitely think it was outcomes on future KU trips, and a fund modern sediments and interprets sedi- worth it.” to assist otolaryngology’s medical outreach mentary rocks and structures. Among the —Diane Silver has been established at KU Endowment. most important of those structures are Silver is a Lawrence freelance writer. “Personally, I feel like I have an obliga- aquifers that store groundwater and tion,” Sykes says. “We have it better than so reservoirs that hold oil and natural gas. many others in the world, and I feel that in Preserving much of the world’s drinking some ways that means I need to do my water and nding new sources of fossil part to attempt to address some of that fuels depend on geologists’ understanding su ering.” of sediments. —Chris Lazzarino Kamola began her lesson by discussing marsh anatomy: inch-deep mud, short grasses and certain animals near dry land; ankle-deep mud in the middle; and A sticky lesson thigh-high grasses, waist-deep mud and Students wade knee-deep other species at the tidal creek, which funnels seawater to the marsh at high tide into geology field trip and drains water at low tide. Aer the talk,
leven hundred miles from KU, senior VER (2) Jake Droge drags himself through
E IANE SIL deep, sticky mud. His legs sink in to his D thighs. His hands plunge down to his forearms. He grimaces and nally pulls himself out of the muck of a tidal creek and staggers, grinning, onto dry land. Droge is the eighth student in Geology 761, Regional Field Geology, to make it through Associate Scientist Diane Kamo- la’s unique lesson on salt marshes. e rest of the class will soon follow. While other teachers con ne such lessons to lecturing about the interaction of tidal ooding with grasses, oysters and other beasties, Kamola takes her class for a one-hour walk through a marsh on Sapelo Island, Ga. “It felt very much like something I would be doing if I were still in the Army,” Jake Droge, c’12, was among 13 geology students who slogged through their salt-marsh lesson on says Brian Gibson, a geology master’s Sapelo Island, Ga., in April. student.
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OREA D REA DER transformed. “She would owe this under- standing to her time in New York, and The Chaperone The Chaperone even more to Louise,” Cora re ects. “ e by Laura Moriarty young can exasperate, of course, and Novel’s heroine broadens, blooms frighten, and condescend, and insult and while accompanying a legend Riverhead Books cut you with their still unrounded edges. $26.95 But they can also drag you, as you protest n 1922, when Louise Brooks was 15, she and scold and try to pull away, right up to Ispent ve weeks in New York City with the window of the future, and even push a 36-year-old housewife from Wichita. you through.” Brooks, the black-bobbed, gypsy-eyed lm e Chaperone describes Brooks’ icon of her generation, was well read, ascension to fame in the 1920s, yes, but it witty, cultured—and mean, self-destruc- already has tested Cora’s patience and ultimately portrays the story of Cora: an tive and sti ingly arrogant. “When I mocked her moral high ground by irting intelligent woman who is learning, learned this, right away I thought, ‘Oh, my with older men and boldly proclaiming growing and thinking beyond her precon- gosh, that would make an interesting the uselessness of propriety, marriage and ceived notions and her culture. Her book. I would like to know what that trip chastity. unfolding heart entreats readers with looked like,’” says Laura Moriarty, author “I’m here to protect you, even from every page, and the glamour of the setting of e Chaperone, her fourth novel. speculation,” Cora tells Louise. “My very only adds to the delight. Because the housewife’s true story presence on this trip ensures that no one Moriarty has gained signi cant acclaim vanished into history, Moriarty, s’93, g’99, could even suspect a compromising for e Chaperone, including reviews in assistant professor of English at KU, began situation.” “Oh,” Louise responds. “ en e New York Times and e Washington to imagine her. She thoughtfully you can relax. I don’t care about that.” Post and an interview with USA Today. researched accurate historical details e tug-of-war between Cora’s e novel will be translated for release in including her participation in the “Parade unheeded warnings and Louise’s rebellious Poland, Norway, Germany and Spain, and of Lady Drivers” and her experience on an nature escalates until a wild night forces a there’s talk of a lm version, starring orphan train. conversation so raw that it shatters Louise’s Elizabeth McGovern of TV’s “Downton e Chaperone chronicles the story of bravado and Cora’s resolve, nally Abbey” as Cora. e Chaperone seems Cora Carlisle, the homemaker who escorts allowing room for candor between them. destined for the spotlight. Louise to the avant-garde Denishawn Cora’s evolution continues and by the School of Dancing and Related Arts only time she returns to Wichita, her world is —Lydia Benda to recalibrate her own mind and achieve a new sense of self. On the surface, Cora’s life appears TEVE PUPP E perfect. She has a handsome husband, two S grown boys and standing among the society women of Wichita. But inside, Cora is a well of hidden truths. Acting as Louise’s chaperone o ers her an aperture to see beyond her pretenses and nally learn the truth about her own past. But bridling the headstrong Louise proves no easy task. Before their train arrives at Grand Central Station, Louise
David von Kampen and Brian Scarborough both won DownBeat magazine Student Music Awards, a top honor in the jazz arena. “KU has a history of winning, so it’s exciting for the School of Music and especially the Jazz Studies department,” says von Kampen.
66 | KANSAS A LUMNI studies, guided the submission process for von Kampen and Scarborough, and he Unplug outdoors apparently has a knack for recognizing ability. Under his direction, 12 KU students have won DownBeat awards Getting outdoors is good for the soul. since 1992. And now there’s proof. “When Professor Gailey told me he Using word-association exercises wanted to submit this piece I had written for the band he directs, Jazz Ensemble 1,” given to more than 100 hikers in four von Kampen pauses, “well, I wasn’t going Western states before and during their to say no.” Gailey also helped Scarborough choose excursions, psychology chair Ruth Ann Atchley and submit his winning trombone solos. and colleagues from KU and the University of Utah found that “I walked by Dan’s oce in March and within just four days of nature immersion, creativity levels he hollered at me to come in. He told me he’d gotten this email from DownBeat soared nearly 50 percent. saying I’d won Outstanding Performance The great outdoors soothed the hikers, especially because for my jazz improvisation,” Scarborough says. “I was completely shocked.” electronic gizmos fell silent. Within what Atchley calls In addition to playing with the Boule- “that softly fascinating environment,” intellectual capacity vard Big Band in Kansas City and with a flourished. jazz quintet at Ingredient restaurant in Lawrence, Scarborough recently nished “We constantly shift attention from one source to another, his second CD and plays for musical getting all of this information that simulates alarms, warnings theatre groups. He has been named a KU School of Music Presser Scholar for and emergencies,” Atchley says. “Nature is a place where our 2012-2013, and he hopes to pursue a mind can rest, relax and let down those threat responses. master’s degree in jazz studies. Von Kampen is a Doctor of Musical Arts Therefore, we have resources left over—to be creative, to be candidate in music composition, and since imaginative, to problem solve—that allow us to be better, August 2011 he has directed the KU Jazz happier people who engage in a more productive way Singers and taught music theory courses. Along with his DownBeat honor, von with others.” —Chris Lazzarino Kampen also has received many accolades for his choral and instrumental composi- tions, winning the Morningside College Out,” in the Graduate Division. Choral Composition Contest, the Vancou- In the swing Brian Scarborough, ’13, received the ver Chamber Choir Composers Competi- Outstanding Performance distinction in tion (three times), and the Vreeland Award Jazz students capture the Undergraduate Division for his for “exceptional creative ability” from the sought-after awards trombone solo. Both von Kampen and University of Nebraska School of Music in Scarborough are thrilled with their wins, 2007 and 2011. he de nition of “good” music is a but they admit to a bit of unease with As far as post-graduation plans, von Tmatter of taste. But there is one competing against fellow musicians. Kampen is optimistic but matter-of-fact. distinction in the jazz world that all can “Maybe competition is not the right “I’d just like to get a job,” he says. He hopes agree de nes talent: the coveted Down- word,” Scarborough says. “We all do our to teach music theory or direct a jazz Beat magazine Student Music Awards. own thing; we make our individual music.” ensemble. “Whatever is a possibility I’ll be “ at’s one of the ways you can measure “In a way, the whole thing is sort of silly glad to take on.” if a jazz program is doing well—if they’re for music or creative arts because it’s so Despite real-world concerns, von winning DownBeats for student writing subjective,” agrees von Kampen. “With Kampen and Scarborough have con dence and student performance,” says David von that said, it’s really nice to have your work in the cra in which they excel. “No Kampen, ’14, one of two KU music receive some form of validation, and the matter what,” Scarborough says, “it’s all students to win the award. Von Kampen DownBeat awards are really exciting.” about the art and the music.” won for his original composition, “Sneak Professor Dan Gailey, director of jazz —Lydia Benda
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Sixty-six years after its formal dedication in 1946, Danforth Chapel has witnessed the wedding vows of more than 5,000 couples. The chapel, quietly nestled behind Fraser Hall on Lilac Lane, will host about 50 weddings this summer alone. After a 2006 storm damaged the picturesque building, the chapel and its future brides welcomed new flooring, heating and air conditioning units, and an addition that includes a bride’s room with direct access to the chapel. It is the perfect place for Jayhawk couples to begin their future—at the very place it all began.
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