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28 22 34 COVER STORY But Yet A Study in Jazz Paging Dr. Girod A Shakespeare scholar, an On the bandstand and in the aspiring young writer and academy, Nathan Davis called e right man for the critical long-ago lessons learned the tune in bringing jazz job of leading KU Medical outside the classroom. performance and scholarship Center, it turns out, was right in concert. here all along. By Robert Day By Steven Hill By Chris Lazzarino Cover image by Steve Puppe and Susan Younger

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Three cheers advocates for others to follow her example,” Class Notes, Your I major issue No. 4]. anks for a opinion counts stories in the summer edition wonderful story. Please email us a note [Issue No. 4] of Kansas Alumni: I have a personal experience at [email protected] the cover story on the KU with stem cell donation and cord to tell us what you think of your alumni magazine. women’s track championship, blood transplant. My late the KU Mini College essay and husband, Robert K. Dempski, the piece on “Tom Tomato.” was diagnosed with Chronic A tip of the hat to the Lymphocytic Leukemia in 2008 women’s track and eld team at the age of 50. Aer his rst fund is the annual Robert K. for winning the 2013 Outdoor remission, the cancer came back Dempski Memorial Golf Classic. NCAA Track and Field and was unresponsive to the e third annual event will be Championship [“Golden I’ of the Master chemotherapy. He moved his held at Adam’s Pointe Golf Club Girls”]. Gardener Association in treatment to the KU Cancer in Blue Springs, Mo., on Bob’s In Jennifer Lawler’s piece on Medford, Ore. I thoroughly Center bone marrow transplant birthday, Sunday, Oct. 6. KU’s Mini College [“Refresher enjoyed learning the history of team of Dr. Sunil Abhyankar, Dr. Visit www.robertkdempski. Course], readers get one the Green Zebra tomato, which Joseph McGuirk, Dr. Siddhartha com for more information on writer’s view of attending the is popular here. I plan to share Ganguly, and Dr. Omar Aljitawi. sponsorships and player special campus summer this information with others in Bob’s best hope for a cure was registration for this annual experience. our county Master Gardener a bone marrow transplant, but fundraiser. We would love to see e article on tomato grower newsletter. when his ve brothers and sisters KU alumni be part of the cure. Tom Wagner was full of Linda Larson Holder, n’65 were not a match, and there was Janet Dempski, p’84 interesting details and photos Medford, Ore. no match on the universal “Be Lee’s Summit, Mo. of “e Tater-Mater Man,” a the Match” registry, his last special summertime farmer The perks of hope was a double cord blood Spirit visit feature story. transplant. He received the As a Class of 1983 general membership transplant Jan. 3, 2011, with cord W in my studies student, former campus blood donated from the birth of home oce, I noticed a car had sportswriter and part-time I every word of two baby girls in Denver. stopped in front of my house produce farmer, these stories the alumni magazines that Aer 42 days, there was and a stranger got out and on KU track, KU Mini College have been loaned to me. Now excitement as the new stem cells walked towards my driveway. and special Tater-Mater Man that I am a new member and started to grow. But the cancer I ran downstairs and out the were my top three favorite have my own, I can even reread was too invasive and the stem front door only to see the car Kansas Alumni magazine them. cells didn’t survive. Bob passed pulling away. at’s odd, I articles this summer. Reading them always away at home on Feb. 23, 2011, thought. Imagine my surprise anks very much for the transports me back to KU, leaving me and our four when I found a note taped on stories. makes me smile, and makes children. It was the end of a my car’s windshield that read, Mark Lee, c’83 the world seem brighter. hard-fought battle. “Jayhawker, Hi. From the Bonner Springs e writing in the alumni During his hospitalization in Osawatomie Kid!” magazine is excellent, and the BMT unit at KU Medical I speculate the Osawatomie Smart tomato quite a rarity in today’s world. Center, Bob and I became very Kid saw my KU Life Member Marilyn Banholzer, d’63 interested in the promise and sticker on my car and decided to I “e Topeka potential of Dr. Aljitawi’s leave a little token of Jayhawk Tater-Mater Man” in the July research. Aer Bob’s death, the spirit. It made my day! issue. Made me think of this: Research hope Robert K. Dempski Cord Blood LaDonna Hale Curzon, j’79 “Knowledge is knowing a Research Fund was established Alexandria, Va. tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is C to with KU Endowment. e Fund not putting it in a fruit salad.” Kelly Allen on her wonderful has raised over $50,000 for Dr. Linda Houston, ’65 opportunity to save a life with Aljitawi’s research. San Jose, Calif. her stem cell donation [“Donor e major fundraiser for the

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Publisher Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 2 Lift the Chorus Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Letters from our readers Creative Director Susan Younger, f’91 Associate Editors Chris Lazzarino, j’86 5 First Word Steven Hill e editor’s turn Editorial Assistant Karen Goodell Photographers Steve Puppe, j’98 6 On the Boulevard Dan Storey KU & Alumni Association events Graphic Designer Valerie Spicher, j’94 Communications Coordinator Lydia Krug Benda, j’10 8 Jayhawk Walk A hundred hole hike, hot noodles now, dancing Advertising Sales Representative for monarchs and more David Johnston, j’94, g’06 Editorial and Advertising Oce KU Alumni Association 10 Hilltopics 1266 Oread Avenue News and notes: Recruiting expands in key re- Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 gions; digital data powers biodiversity research. 785-864-4760 800-584-2957 18 Sports www.kualumni.org [email protected] Heeney is football’s speedy man in the middle; volleyball sets up for another successful season. KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE (ISSN 0745-3345) is published by the KU Alumni Association six times a year in January, March, May, July, September and November. $55 annual subscription includes member- 40 Association News ship in the Alumni Association. Oce of Publication: 1266 Oread Black Alumni Chapter selects the 2013 class of Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. Periodicals postage paid at Lawrence, KS. African-American Leaders and Innovators.

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by Jennifer Jackson Sanner First Word

The KU Core spans six educational areas over four years. For detailed goal statements and outcomes, visit kucore. ku.edu.

faculty needed convincing. Other departments embraced the change, says Hau er, who hails the Humanities he newest campus catch phrase, KU Core, might not carry and Western Civilization program “as one of the best of the units Tthe emotional, tradition-rich clout of “Rock Chalk Jayhawk,” that have actually taken the opportunity to modify their courses.” but it already packs considerable punch among students and HWC created “course clusters” across departments that ful ll faculty. ree years in the making, the KU Core is the new multiple requirements. Universitywide undergraduate curriculum that will guide all Ultimately, the KU Core team distilled a daunting list of students in achieving six common educational goals. In a Sept. 3 potential goals down to a guiding list of six statements (kucore. message to students, faculty and sta , Provost Je Vitter said the ku.edu). “ ey are memorable and concise, and we recognized KU Core “positions KU as a national leader in undergraduate that they are all loaded,” he says. “ ey needed greater extrapola- education. Our students are pursuing fundamental learning goals tion, so we added outcomes. We explained—or exploded—them and outcomes that prepare them, regardless of their degree, for into explicit expectations. lifelong learning and success.” “ en, with that common framework, we took it to each school When Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little arrived at KU, she set and added the individual requirements for that discipline, so the her sights on improving rates of students’ timely graduation and curriculum is general and individually tailored.” freshman-to-sophomore retention. To study these critical A big change is the reduction of required general-education challenges, she assembled a task force and appointed Chris credit hours for students in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Hau er, professor and chair of ecology and evolutionary biology, from 72 to a maximum of 56. Gray-Little noted early in her to lead the group, which in 2010 recommended that KU revamp tenure that KU required 30 percent to 50 percent more general its undergraduate curriculum. is goal became part of the hours than other universities. “Now there is more exibility for University’s strategic plan, Bold Aspirations. students in the College to take new directions they couldn’t Hau er, a faculty veteran of more than 30 years, calls the KU pursue before because they were overburdened,” Hau er says. Core a gratifying achievement for the community. “ is was a In another important departure, the KU Core encourages Universitywide e ort to determine what KU graduates—across all students to achieve requirements through a combination of disciplines—should know. We got everyone at the table, and there coursework and “approved educational experiences” outside the was a sense that ‘We can do this.’ We recognized that college classroom, including undergraduate research, internships, graduates today should have expectations of knowledge, skills community projects or study abroad. Hau er says the KU Core’s and values that are common to all students.” exibility will help students in the workplace. “Employers today Of course, Hau er acknowledges that the three-year project, have a common set of expectations,” he says. “ ey are looking involving a dizzying number of committees, countless presenta- for skill sets that transcend disciplines, and these should be tions and dra a er dra of multiple reports, was not a cakewalk. common to all of KU.” Several departments balked at rst. “ e willingness was not While the KU Core begins a new chapter in academic life on always there,” he says. “ ere was a presumption that ‘You’re campus, it also can invigorate alumni. As we treasure our going to impose requirements on us,’ or ‘You’re going to tell us we University degrees and the life-changing KU experience, we can have to change.’” Hau er laughs now about his meeting with take pride in the fact that future alumni will share not only the physics faculty in a room dominated by a hideous poster for an KU experience—but also the core knowledge, skills and values of abysmal science- ction movie called “ e Core.” Clearly some even stronger KU degrees.

ISSUE 5, 2013 | 5 On the Boulevard COURTESY SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART (2) OF ART SPENCER MUSEUM COURTESY

In conjunction with KU’s selection of the The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan as the common book for the 2013-’14 academic year, the Spencer Museum of Art has selected a series of objects that chronicle the Dust Bowl, its aftermath and memory. “Conversation XV: Dust” runs through Dec. 15.

Above: John Vachon (1914-1975) Farm for Sale, Je erson County Kansas, 1938/ gelatin silver print. Left: Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985) Vernon Evans (with his family) of Lemmon, South Dakota, near Missoula, Montana on Highway 10. Leaving grasshopper-ridden and drought-stricken area for a new start in Oregon or Washington, 1936/gelatin silver print.

Exhibitions Lied Center events NOVEMBER DECEMBER “1 Kansas Farmer,” Spencer 9 red, black & GREEN: a 6-8, 10-12 “ e Maderati,” blues by Richard Greenberg, Museum of Art, through SEPTEMBER Dec. 15 12 Chamber Music Society directed by Jeanne Tiehen 20 KU Collage Concert “Conversation XV: Dust,” of Lincoln Center inspired by the KU Common 25 Omar Faruk Tekbilek 14 “MEMPHIS” Murphy Hall events Book e Worst Hard Time, 28 Armitage Gone! Dance 24 KU Symphony Orchestra Spencer Museum of Art, 29 Hermès String Quartet SEPTEMBER through Dec. 15 University Theatre 25 Brass Ensembles “Rockne Krebs: Drawings for OCTOBER Sculpture You Can Walk OCTOBER 1 KU Symphony Orchestra OCTOBER rough,” Spencer Museum 4-6, 18-20 “Dracula,” of Art, through Jan. 5 6 KU Wind Ensemble adapted by Dennis Chris- 20 Collegium Musicum “James Turrell: Gard Blue,” 22 KU Symphonic Band and tilles from the novel by Bram 27 Tuba/Euphonium Spencer Museum of Art, Chamber Winds Stoker Consort through May 18 24 AnDa Union 25-27, 29-31 “And I and Silence,” by Naomi Wallace, NOVEMBER “Diego Teo: International 25 Hal Holbrook in “Mark directed by Lynn Deboeck Artist-in-Residence,” Twain Tonight” 6 Trombone Choir Spencer Museum of Art, 27 17 Kansas Virtuosi Sept. 30 to Jan. 5 Naoko Takada, marimba NOVEMBER soloist 21 Saxophone Quartets 15-17, 22-24 “Adding 27 e Price is Right Live Machine: A Musical” based 30 KU Symphony Orches- on the play by Elmer Rice, tra Halloween concert directed by Mechele Leon

6 | KANSAS ALUMNI Performances Academic calendar Kansas Honors Alumni events Program OCTOBER OCTOBER SEPTEMBER 3 Jazz Ensembles I, II and 12-15 Fall break SEPTEMBER 27 Kansas City Chapter III, Lawrence Arts Center Dole Institute 18 Wellington Blood Drive, Overland Park 28 Jazz Combos I-VI, 23 Sedgwick County 29 KU Day at Sunset Zoo, Lawrence Arts Center events Manhattan 25 Leavenworth SEPTEMBER NOVEMBER 25 McPherson OCTOBER 7 Alaturka and Jazz Ensem- 23 Former Congressmen 3-5 J-School Generations ble I, Lawrence Arts Center Jim Slattery and Tom Tauke, OCTOBER “Can We Fix the De cit?” 5 School of Engineering 10 Wind Ensemble, Kau- 2 Dodge City Tailgate man Center for the Perform- OCTOBER 2 Hutchinson 10 Denver Networking ing Arts 2 Dole Forum, “Resolved, 2 Lawrence Breakfast 17 Percussion Group, the Death Penalty Shall Be 7 El Dorado 12 Dallas Chapter Bus Trip, Spencer Museum of Art Abolished,” Pedro Irigonega- KU at TCU 9 Garden City 18 ray and Ed Duckers Jazz Singer & Jazz Combo 12 Party in the Panorama, 9 Salina I, Lawrence Arts Center 10-11 Dole Institute 10th Natural History Museum Anniversary Fellows 9 Shawnee Mission 14 Invitational at Prairie Reunion Lectures 10 Hays Dunes, Hutchinson 22 David Morrissey, 16 Ottawa 16 An Evening with “Disabilities: e Evolution SEPTEMBER 23 Naismith: Artifacts of a KU of Equality” Southern Johnson Legend, Wichita 26 Author Timothy Egan, County 30 Mark Zwonitzer, “e KU Common Book keynote, 28 18 College Distinguished Work of Richard Ben Emporia Lied Center Alumni Award, Gen. Charles Cramer” 30 Independence Boyd, Lawrence OCTOBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 27 Tampa Bay Halloween 3 Gregory Hospodor, “Bitter 5K 10 Annual Veterans Gala 4 Manhattan Victory?”, Fort Leavenworth Series II 19 Alvaro Vargas Llosa, 4 Wichita NOVEMBER “Global Crossings: Immigra- 22 Historian Jill Lepore, 6 Eskridge 1-3 Black Alumni Chapter tion, Civilization and Humanities Lecture Series Reunion, Lawrence America” 6 Liberal 11 Blue Valley 1 African-American Leaders NOVEMBER and Innovators, Lawrence 12 Kansas City 7 John Curatola, “Whirl- Homecoming 2013 2 Wichita Jayhawk winds of Flame,” Fort 12 Topeka Roundup Leavenworth Series II Visit kualumni.org/homecom- 13 Chapman 7 An Evening with Nai- 18 ing or see the ad on page 56 for Author Junot Díaz, 13 Win eld smith: Artifacts of a KU Humanities Lecture Series a complete list of events Sept. 29-Oct. 5. Legend, Overland Park 10 Veterans Alumni Chapter Veterans Day Run, Lawrence More events online

Events listed here are highlights from the Association’s busy calendar. For complete listings of all events, watch for emails about programs in your area, visit kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957

ISSUE 5, 2013 | 7 Jayhawk Walk

Playing through STEVE PUPPE STEVE F - like Catherine Shenoy, 100 strokes in a day of golf may be nothing to crow about, but 100 holes in a day—well, that’s something to celebrate. Shenoy, director of the MBA program at the School of Business, organized a golf marathon at Lawrence Country Club June 24 as part of a national e ort by the nonprot group Hundred Hole Hike to enlist golfers to walk 100 holes in a day to raise money for charity. One of ve golfers (including Pat Hoppa, b’04, g’05) to complete the ve-and-a-half-round challenge, Shenoy teed o at 5:30 a.m and tapped in her last putt at 7 p.m. She walked 33 miles on the club’s hilly course, tallying 500-some strokes and several painful blisters. recipients of the more than $20,000 18 holes with her and golng partner “I just kind of limped through the last raised by the event—came out to support Kristen Samp, providing a much-needed 18 holes,” Shenoy says, “and for a couple of the golfers, as did homeowners on the mental boost—and a helping hand. days aer.” course. “It really helped,” Shenoy says of the Business school professors took shis “People gave us treats and cheered us impromptu gallery. “By that time, it was caddying, and sta from Douglas County on, and one guy brought us potato soup,” hard to bend over to pick the ball out of CASA and Dazzlers Christian Dance— Shenoy says. Well-wishers walked the last the cup.”

Hot Meatballs Now changer) and, now that it’s unusual sandwiches and tiny headed for a prime, central cartons of milk. Then came the he Basil Leaf Cafe has made Lawrence location, the cafe will chilling realization: “Hot Donuts Tit big—moving from a Sixth be a thrilling addition to the Now,” “egg salad on white” and Street gas station to roomier campus neighborhood’s “torpedo” mean absolutely digs on a famous stretch food scene. nothing to today’s students. of Ninth Street. We But here’s the rub: Joe’s closed in fall 2007, STEVE PUPPE STEVE cheer the local When the University when current KU seniors were cafe’s self- Daily Kansan reported sophomores in high school and proclaimed the news in its June 10 freshmen were squeaky little “grand exit from issue, it described Basil seventh graders. The hot-and- the Miller Mart,” Leaf’s future site simply delicious tradition is, we’re because the Basil guys as “616 W. Ninth St.,” forced to concede, a goner, and serve huge portions of never once referring to generations of Jayhawks who this time for good. some of the best it as the former home toted home grease-soaked Alas, only one question Italian food in town of Joe’s Bakery, a white paper bags ﬁlled with remains: Who’s up for a (Penne Abruzzi: game late-night mecca for gooey glazed doughnuts, Tortellini Cordon Bleu run?

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI love story

I the oddest little contraption, a sort of Hobbit garage peeking out from the west-facing slope along Mississippi Street, just north of the Kansas Union. Not attached to a particular home and never explaining itself by way of, say, being used for something, the tiny structure with a weathered wooden door was for decades prime gra ti canvas. Monarch minuet Until, that is, a few years ago, when the door was inexplicably painted red, which s a girl, Gwynedd Vetter-Drusch had a memorable encounter with monarch was shortly followed by what proved to be Abutterflies: Seeing a tree covered with the brilliant orange migrators, she a minor act of vandalism so delicate and bent a branch down and let it spring gently back. “Two hundred monarchs flew sweet that it became a campus icon: “love,” in the air all around me,” Vetter-Drusch recalls. “That launched my interest in spray-painted in black script. e “love their migration and what extraordinary creatures they are.” garage” became a favored spot for campus A decade later the 22-year-old New York City ballerina-turned-actress read a couples to grab phone-camera snapshots New York Times story about declines in the monarch migration that quoted and even o cial engagement and wedding Orley “Chip” Taylor, director of KU’s Monarch Watch. Inspired by his call to photos, and action, she decided to create a film and photo campaign, “Moving for Mon- unfailingly archs,” to raise awareness of the importance of pollinators and their precarious

induced NIKKI EPLEY plight. She visited campus during National Pollinator Week in June to be filmed quick smiles and photographed dancing in the conservation program’s butterfly garden from wearing silk monarch wings. passersby. Vetter-Drusch hopes the project—which “explores the dance of life that is And then, pollination”—inspires people to heed Taylor’s call to make the planting of sometime milkweed and nectar plants that sustain monarchs a national priority. around “By using dance, film and photography we hope to reach a broader range of Commence- people and help them understand they can take concrete action by planting ment, some PUPPE STEVE milkweed and pollinator gardens,” Vetter-Drusch says. “One person, one seed, tasteless one garden can make such a big impact.” troglodyte Call it the butterfly eect. painted a “G” in front of “love,” giving us the “Glove garage,” and soon thereaer SCHIRMER JAMIE somebody painted the door blue with “Risk for Adventure” scrawled in white. e changes sparked a story in the Lawrence Journal-World, in which the garage’s owner explained its history and a former student now in California claimed to have painted the “love,” and, in the process, entirely deated what was once a charming little mystery. Seems the poets were right all along: “love” can be found in the most unex- pected of places, and all too oen is all too eeting.

ISSUE 5, 2013 | 9 Hilltopics by Steven Hill

The expanded KU admissions team includes Liz Sperbeck (Minnesota), Megan Ritter (St. Louis), Elisa Krapcha (Colorado), Paige Gugat (Mid-Atlantic, based in Washington D.C.), Jon Samp (Chicago), Chris

CHUCK FRANCE, KU OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS CHUCK FRANCE, KU Paradies (Chicago), Annie Frizzell (Southern California) and Chelsea Allen (Texas). For information, or to apply before the Nov. 1 deadline, visit admissions.ku.edu.

to Kansas. Heidi Simon, g’00, associate director of freshman recruitment, says recent recruitment in California has paid o. “We have a great alumni base there, and those students are used to going National reach where two representatives now cover the places like KU, agship universities in city and the suburbs). good college towns. We have seen growth New admissions recruiters Expanding KU’s reach is the latest step in four or ve years of 400 to 500 percent.” in a new era of recruitment that began Annie Frizzell, c’10, a member of the make KU’s presence known three years ago with the arrival of Matt KU recruitment team, moved to San in key regional markets Melvin, vice provost for enrollment Diego this summer to recruit students in management. He led the eort to stream- California. She says KU oers the appeal y the time freshmen in the Class of line the admissions process and oer of “a quintessential college town and great B2017 found their way to classes in late four-year renewable scholarships, and he community and environment. I’m a fan of August, the O ce of Admissions already championed rigorous study of the compe- getting out of your comfort zone and had set its sights on prospective members tition and the markets for prospective trying something new, and KU is a safe of the Class of 2018. To bolster recruit- students. place to do that.” ment leading up to the Nov. 1 application Because the growth of high school Liz Sperbeck, j’12, a Minnesota native, deadline, six new regional representatives graduates in Kansas will be minimal over works for KU admissions in Minneapolis set up shop this summer in key territories, the next few years, KU needed to expand and helps lead the alumni chapter for the including traditional KU strongholds and its strategy to meet recruitment goals, Alumni Association. She recently surveyed promising new areas, as part of a pilot Kress says, and dispatching sta members local Jayhawks to enlist volunteers to help project funded by KU Endowment. to live in other cities will enable represen- her recruit in area high schools. She “We went from two regional reps to tatives to connect more oen with vividly remembers her own visit to eight in three months,” says Lisa Pina- prospective students. “We really can do Lawrence as a prospective student. “e monti Kress, g’98, director of admissions, more if we have representatives living in tour denitely sold me,” she recalls. “I who with her team hired representatives to those communities and being a presence,” withdrew my other applications. Walking recruit students full time in southern she says. “Before, even in the markets on campus and meeting students and California, Colorado, Minnesota, the where we have a good pipeline, we were getting the true story made such a Mid-Atlantic region, St. Louis and only there a couple of weeks in the year.” dierence. I remember getting answers to Chicago. In recent years, KU had dis- e new strategy broadens KU’s reach my questions at KU, and they really made patched full-time recruiters only in Texas in southern California, where increasing me feel at home.” and Chicago (a longtime KU hotbed numbers of families are sending students Simon emphasizes that the additional

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI out-of-state recruiters also will enhance Maxwell, c’03, j’03, director of legacy animals collected worldwide. e orts in Kansas, where eight admissions relations for the Alumni Association, will Now two KU researchers are leading representatives travel to all Kansas work with KU admissions sta to connect separate projects with a common theme: counties. With additional sta members with prospective students and assist in to take the data gathered in eld studies based in other regions, “we’re also able to recruitment. Alumni will receive emails and stored in museums and make it more cover Kansas in a way that will be even about upcoming college fairs in their area, easily accessible to researchers and the more benecial, because now we have reps and the Association’s website, kualumni. public via the Internet. who will only focus on areas in Kansas.” org, will feature proles of admissions Rafe Brown, associate professor of In fact, the fall recruitment season representatives in Kansas and other ecology and evolutionary biology and began with the annual Rock Chalk states. curator in charge of the herpetology Roadshow Aug. 25-29 to ve cities in —Jennifer Jackson Sanner division of the Biodiversity Institute, is Kansas. Elisa Zahn Krapcha, assistant helping lead a $200,000 e ort funded by director of freshman recruitment, was part the National Science Foundation to of the traveling team. An admissions sta Calls of the wild digitize and archive thousands of eld member since 2006, she recently moved recordings of animal sounds. Andrew from Lawrence to Colorado Springs, Push to digitize data about more Short, assistant professor of ecology and where she will recruit students from her than frog peeps and birdsong evolutionary biology and an expert on home state and those in western Kansas. aquatic beetles, is leading a project to She also supervises her fellow regional cientists who study the life of the build a richer understanding of water recruiters through daily phone and online Splanet spend big chunks of their beetles by putting online not only data meetings. Krapcha, c’05, j’05, g’11, who professional lives in the eld, gathering about where the beetles are found, but also graduated from Columbine High School specimens and documenting their nds photographs and eld notes compiled by in Littleton, Colo., says her visit to with eld notes, photographs, audio the researchers who found them. Lawrence in 2001 convinced her to choose recordings and other data. Much of it is Brown and his co-investigator on the KU. “I recall the hospitality, and I was cataloged in museums, where researchers NSF project, Mark Robbins, the institute’s completely surprised at what the campus must comb through massive collections— collection manager in ornithology, will looked like. e visit was very personal, oen in person—to nd the information convert old recordings of frog and bird and that’s why I will pull out all the stops they need. KU’s Biodiversity Institute, calls to digital les that can be down- until we get the ideal visit scheduled for the research institute that includes the loaded on the Internet. prospective students.” Natural History Museum, has more “In the past, if a researcher wanted to As recruitment continues, Joy Larson than 8 million specimens of plants and study the mating calls of a group of frogs,

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amount and types of data available, but also creates more seamless links among Medical excellence: KU Hospital di erent kinds of data to allow researchers placed nine programs in the 2013 U.S. to gain a richer, more holistic understanding of species, he notes. News and World Report “Best Hospitals” “CReAC was designed with the needs of rankings, led by the cancer program, researchers in mind, not just collections,” Short says. “It is meant to be a tool to which rose to No. 27 on the list, up 10 explore and visualize those collections— places from last year. The annual list is geographically, temporally, ecologically— to address research questions or uncover compiled by analysis of some 5,000 hospitals across the previously unknown patterns.” country in categories that include patient survival, staffing Both projects are examples of how natural history museums are expanding levels and physician reputation. their role and shiing their mission in the Internet Age. “Natural history collections are becoming increasingly global, not only in what they hold but how they are contributed to STEVE PUPPE STEVE and how they are accessed by researchers and the public,” Brown says. He points to devoted birdwatchers who know as much or more about birdsong than some professional ornithologists as a reason to encourage public access to museum databases. “Museums have to change and are changing how they go about studying the natural world, because they are not just basements full of objects anymore; now they are incredible sources of data.” e grants are just two of several projects that bring specimen data into the digital realm at the institute, which also created a soware program, Specify, that Converting research data from analog sources—like tape recorders, film cameras and field manages museum holdings online. Specify notebooks—for digital access on the Internet is the goal of grant-funded projects led by the holds tens of millions of records and is used by 475 biodiversity collections Biodiversity Institute’s Andrew Short and Rafe Brown. worldwide. Last month KU’s entomology department marked the capture of its 1 they had to go to di erent museums scans of biologists’ handwritten eld notes millionth Specify record, out of 5 million around the country, sit down with curators and photographs, maps, and records of specimens in its collection. and si through drawers and drawers of collection data. He has already scanned “For 15 years, it’s been a priority at the cassette tapes to nd the relevant record- the eld notes of Paul Spangler, a former Biodiversity Institute to bring this enor- ing,” says Brown, who has made many Smithsonian Institution researcher—some mous volume of essential data on the such trips himself. “en they’d take it to 2,000 pages of additional information that planet’s insects into currency for science another room, copy it and take the copy provides a richer context for the speci- and society,” says Leonard Krishtalka, home for their research.” mens he gathered over a long career. director of the institute. “Serving the data Short’s project, CReAC (Collection “You have a list of what he collected, but on the web paves the way for powerful Resources for Aquatic Coleoptera), also also water quality information, how deep research and knowledge discovery in funded by the NSF, looks to broaden the the water was, the water temperature, order to inform smart public policy.” information provided by online databases, plants that were in the water,” Short says. Convincing the public of the value of which oen include descriptions from “You unlock a huge amount of museum collections will be increasingly specimen tags but little else. Short wants to information.” important, Brown predicts, and making build an online database that incorporates at database not only increases the the data accessible to all is a good way to

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI demonstrate that value. In a world where are meant to immerse users in a super- Milestones, money citizen scientists can teach professionals a charged virtual ight around the globe, thing or two, it’s also good science. under the sea or into space. An ABC News and other matters “ ere’s all this information and report called it “Google Earth on Steroids.” knowledge about evolution and natural Installed in a computer lab in Eaton Hall history that will be fostered by having this since December, KU’s Liquid Galaxy is

data available to whoever wants to use it in open to anyone who wants to grab the PUPPE STEVE the future,” Brown says. “ ere are all sorts control puck and go for a spin. anks to of uses we can’t even conceive of yet.” a touch screen with preprogrammed destinations, it’s possible to visit the Mount Everest summit, the Eiel Tower or a Mars landing site with the touch of a Liquid launch button. And the visual surround almost makes it feel like you’re really standing on n A $10 million gift from the estate of Donated installation showcases the roof of the world. David and Stata Norton Ringle, former power of Google Earth Already Blanchard has heard professors dean of the School of Allied Health and students brainstorming ideas for (now the School of Health Professions), aron Blanchard knows what he’d do adding objects, basically plug-ins that can will fund scholarships for students in Awith the Liquid Galaxy setup donated be created to work with the Earth browser. health professions and provide money to the School of Engineering if he were In fact, a soware coder with Jayhawk for library acquisitions and maintenance still a student: “Take advantage of the spirit created a 3-D interior of Allen Field at the medical school and Lawrence opportunity to try it out, and then walk House that allows users to y around the campuses. Ringle was a faculty mem- away and think of something to build.” stands and sail over Naismith Court. ber and administrator at KU Medical As director of information technology “I’m sure it’s going to inspire quite a few Center from 1962 to 1990, and David for the school, Blanchard, e’00, g’09, graduate students and who knows what was a research psychologist at Midwest oversees the cluster of seven linked the faculty might come up with,” Research Institute. computers that run Google Earth. e Blanchard says. “I know there have been dedicated computing speed and bank of some interesting ideas bandied about.” n Ann Cudd began new duties as vice seven big screens arranged in a semicircle Inspiration is the point. provost and dean of undergraduate studies Aug. 1. A University distinguished professor of philosophy and former associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Cudd has STEVE PUPPE STEVE been a faculty member since 1988. She leads a unit that will oversee the launch of the KU Core, the University’s new undergraduate curriculum. Undergradu- ate Studies also includes the oces of experiential learning, ﬁrst-year experience, undergraduate research and academic support services.

n A $2 million gift from an anonymous alumna donor will establish KU’s ﬁrst counseling psychology professorship. Established in 1955, the counseling psychology doctoral program uses a “scientist-practitioner” approach to train psychologists who can engage in a broad range of activities, from clinical treatment to academic research. The Engineering student Thomas Dunn, a Roeland Park senior, explores the view from Mount gift is the second largest in School of Everest in Liquid Galaxy, the installation at the School of Engineering that uses clustered Education history. computers and a big-screen display to create a more intense Google Earth experience.

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“is school does a lot of bragging, if you look around,” Blanchard says, noting STEVE PUPPE STEVE that students are encouraged to display project posters to explain to other students the research they are working on. “Hope- fully someone sees that and goes to the student and says, ‘I like what you’re doing; I’d like to build on your project.’” Liquid Galaxy, he believes, has the potential to be a high-tech version of these project posters: a spark to new ideas and creative partnerships. Liquid Galaxy was created as part of Google’s 20 percent time policy, which lets employees spend up to 20 percent of their work week on special projects. e soware company has installed Galaxy in its oces around the world and publishes instructions on its website for do-it-your- ENGINEERING cut down on the dangerous act, which in selfers who want to build their own. KU’s 2011 caused 676 fatalities in the United Liquid Galaxy was donated by Google vice Researchers’ trac study States, according to the Federal Highway president Brian McClendon, e’86, one of targets red light topic Administration. the creators of Google Earth, and his wife, Researchers and students installed blue Beth Ellyn. T blue lights in con rmation lights at four intersections in e Liquid Galaxy in Eaton is also a the rearview mirror helps deter drivers Lawrence and Overland Park. e lights potential recruiting tool—for the school from running red lights. But Steve turn on the instant a trac signal turns and the company. Schrock, associate professor of civil, red; any car that enters the intersection “It’s something that shows students what environmental and architectural engineer- aer that point will be bathed in blue light. being an engineer can do for them,” ing, and Eric Fitzsimmons, postdoctoral “e idea is to make it easier for a police Blanchard says. “And it doesn’t hurt that researcher, are conducting a study to nd ocer to see that the driver has run a red it’s really, really cool.” whether blue lights of a dierent sort will light,” Schrock says. “And hopefully drivers

UPDATE

he Panorama rescue is much more to be done—the silent auction and music by Tunderway. As reported assessment will only judge the Truckstop Honeymoon. in issue No. 1 [“Where the specimens and displays, not ﬁx “The Party in the Panorama is STEVE PUPPE STEVE Wild Things Are”], the KU or restore—so now the both a hearty ‘thank you’ to our Biodiversity Institute had hoped fundraising begins in earnest: many friends and contributors,” to raise $100,000 to fund a Enter “Party in the Panorama,” a says Biodiversity Institute restoration inspection of its “science soiree for adults” set director Leonard Krishtalka, beloved Panorama, parts of for Oct. 12 in the Natural “and a community ‘welcome which are 120 years old. That History Museum. Tickets are back to the museum’—whether money has been raised from $20 or $35 for a couple and can they remember the Panorama private donors, and the be purchased at kualumni.org/ from childhood ﬁeld trips or assessment will begin with a panoramaparty. visit the museum regularly for preliminary visit in December, The fundraising party, which the many programs we oer followed by the complete work organizers hope will become an today.” in March and April. But there is annual event, will also include a —Chris Lazzarino

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will make the connection that it’s easier for very good example of that.” o cers to see them running red lights, and Ginsberg says that all ve departments Milestones, money hopefully it will have a deterrent eect.” in the school may oer online classes and other matters Schrock says several cities outside of eventually. e project will also include Kansas have already installed the systems, research into how eective online classes which are much cheaper to operate than are at KU and other schools. n A $2 million gift from an alumnus red-light cameras that automatically ticket “As a research university, we feel an who worked three jobs while earning cars caught in an intersection aer the imperative to make sure we’re also his chemistry degree during the Great light changes. “But no one has evaluated studying what we’re doing,” Ginsberg says. Depression will fund scholarships for what kind of eect it has,” he says. “We are “We are going to set up a research agenda students in nursing and physics. Gene collecting data to determine what impact to examine what we’re doing here at KU, Feaster, c’40, g’53, established two if any these things might have.” but also what else is out there to determine $500,000 scholarships and the $1 Schrock says red-light cameras are not what really works well in online classes.” million Ida Feaster Professorship in the part of the “tra c safety toolbox” in School of Nursing, which honors his Kansas, because the Legislature has not late wife. Feaster invented “Superﬂab,” authorized their use. “Now we’ve found a gel that protects cancer patients this tool, but the question is how well does undergoing radiation therapy. He lives it work?” in Leawood.

EDUCATION n Steve Warren, c’74, g’75, PhD’77, vice chancellor for research and gradu- Online course expansion starts ate studies and professor of applied with special education master’s behavioral science, received the 2013 Edgar Doll Award from the American KU online course Harden Broz Psychological Association Aug. 3. The oerings by adding 15 online graduate award honors substantial contributions degree and certicate programs in the BUSINESS to the understanding of intellectual or School of Education over the next three developmental disabilities throughout years. New building progresses a career. Warren’s research interests e rst classes, in the school’s No. 1 as architects chosen and include early communication and lan- ranked special education master’s degree donations roll in guage development and remediation, program, begin in January. Registration early intervention, prevention of mental opened in August on the school’s website; T will lead retardation and prevention of child the classes are designed for educators a partnership between rms in Kansas neglect. seeking graduate-level qualications in the City and Chicago to design a new home eld, not initial teacher licensure. Students for the School of Business. n A $1.3 million gift will complete 11 three-credit-hour courses A team from the Kansas City rm of from the estate of to earn a master’s of science in education. Gastinger Walker Harden + Bee Triplett John, j’51, and Mary e school plans to oer a certicate Buck, led by Kevin Harden, a’79, a’80, will Kaiser will bolster program in special education by next work with a team from the Chicago o ce the John P. Kaiser spring, and a master’s degree in curricu- of the San Francisco rm M. Arthur Journalism Scholar- lum and instruction by next August. Gensler Jr. & Associates led by David Broz, ship Fund. The Kaisers e classes are part of a deal with a’97. Both have served on the School of established the fund in 2005 with a online-education company Everspring that Architecture, Design and Planning’s board $500,000 gift; the additional funding became public in June. e company helps of advisers. will double the number of journalism schools put entire programs online and e design process is underway, and students the scholarship supports. splits tuition revenue with the schools construction is expected to begin by 2014. instead of charging a fee. KU is Ever- e 166,000-square-foot building should n The School of Nursing in July was spring’s rst major client. be ready for the fall semester in 2016. designated a Center of Excellence in “e key is we are going to be oering Austin Falley, j’11, communications Nursing Education by the National KU quality,” says Rick Ginsberg, dean of director for the School of Business, says League of Nursing. Since the Washing- the School of Education, “and special $51.5 million has been raised for the ton, D.C., group created the designation education—the highest ranked special project, which is expected to cost $60 nine years ago, only 20 schools have education program in the country—is a million. earned it.

ISSUE 5, 2013 | 17 Sports by Chris Lazzarino

Hard work in practice paid o

STEVE PUPPE STEVE in game one for team captain Ben Heeney, who recorded four tackles to help KU secure a 31-14 victory over South Dakota Sept. 7. The Jayhawks have won 26 of their last 28 non-conference home games.

done. Even though the KU captain has been named to the Lombardi Award watch list, honoring the nation’s top linebackers, he’s still a newcomer to the position. Bowen reviewed every defensive play of 2012 with Heeney, and had no trouble pointing out subtle improvements for Speed bracer Result: school records in yards (2,083) Heeney to focus on making in 2013. and touchdowns (39) on 246 carries. He “He seems like a veteran to us, but in Hard-hitting Heeney’s rise ran for a school-record 333 yards against reality, he’s a one-season linebacker,” Salina Central, and scored four touch- Bowen says. “ere’s still a lot of little to stardom mirrors his game: fast downs and rushed for more than 200 quick reads that he can make, all those yards in the rst half of a 42-14 drubbing little things we talk about. Are you en Heeney has a secret. KU’s junior of Derby, at which point the game was continuing to play at [shoulder] pad level? Bmiddle linebacker was named called o—not as a mercy ruling, but for Are you taking great rst steps? Are you in second-team All-Big 12 as a sophomore, in lightning. position to get o a block a little faster? his rst season as a starter and, remark- ough built like a rectangular chunk of Did you read it quick enough? ably, his rst as a linebacker. All of which muscle at 6-foot, 227 pounds—coach “ere were de nitely a lot of plays, as is well known. But if he didn’t play Charlie Weis calls him a “cave man,” and he and I looked back, that he missed. linebacker before last season, what not only in reference to Heeney’s thick ere was more production out there for position did Heeney play? beard—Heeney can cover more turf than him. ere were more plays. A false step Promise not to tell? Running back. most middle linebackers. at’s how he here or there that got him out of a tackle; Record-setting running back, in fact. recorded 112 tackles as a sophomore, there was a lot of that over the year.” And what do Heeney’s teammates think third-most in the Big 12. Junior tight end Jimmay Mundine once about their tough-guy man-in-the-middle “When you put on our practice lm,” pulled Heeney aside aer practice and carrying a running back pedigree? says linebackers coach Clint Bowen, d’96, pointed out the techniques he was using to “ey don’t really know about it,” “you can point to Ben Heeney anytime manipulate Heeney into reacting to the Heeney says. “A couple do. But not many. and he’s guaranteed to be going 100 miles play as the oense hoped he would, either It’s not something I talk much about.” an hour. e guy doesn’t take a play o, by staying put and allowing a passing He played only on special teams as a and that’s very important to him. He is a route to slip behind him or chasing a freshman, unable to crack the lineup on a football guy. He puts a lot of work into it, a decoy receiver to open up the running 2-10 team. He was a strong safety for lot of pride into it. If you watch us practice lanes. Mundine says Heeney listened state-championship teams as a sophomore every day, like our kids see every rep, you closely and said, “Yeah, that’s pretty true.” and junior at Hutchinson High, but, with can’t help but appreciate what the guy e next time Mundine faced Heeney in the Salthawks short on runners, coach brings.” seven-on-seven drills, Heeney threw Randy Dreiling stationed Heeney at It’s a good thing Heeney is a hard moves on him that Mundine wasn’t fullback for his senior year. worker, because there is still work to be expecting.

18 | KANSAS ALUMNI “Ben is a guy who’s just fast and out of control. And that’s a good thing at middle linebacker,” Mundine says. “One of the big “Ben is a guy who’s just fast and out of control. things for Ben this year is that mentally, he knows a lot more about the little angles, And that’s a good thing at middle linebacker.” about how guys are trying to leverage him —tight end Jimmay Mundine, on middle linebacker Ben Heeney so he can’t get his hands on them. at’s { } going to allow him to mess up the timing of the route and get his hands on people.” “Last year,” Heeney says, “I was going on instinct: see the ball and go make the play.” school safety and running back to nd motivation, a little eort, to maybe do one is year, Heeney says, he’s more himself in the middle of a Big 12 defense, more rep or one more li to maybe extend comfortable, and not only with himself. rather than at safety or outside linebacker. our season a little longer this year.” With Jake Heaps at quarterback, a cadre of “You think about [middle linebackers], e Jayhawks return more than 80 explosive and tough running backs, and some people have this image of some big percent of their oense from a 2012 team improved receivers, a better oense can guy standing in the middle, thumping that was ranked among the Big 12 leaders and likely will make the defense better. heads all day,” Bowen says. “And he’s more in assists, blocks, digs and kills per set, as than willing to do that. But the thing about well as attack percentage and winning him, when he takes o to run, he has percentage. e seven-member senior

STEVE PUPPE STEVE legitimate speed. class includes middle blocker Caroline “He can be really good. ere’s not Jarmoc, a second-team All-American; much football-wise that you don’t like libero Brianne Riley, KU’s all-time digs about the guy. He’s tough as nails, gives leader; Big 12 assists leader Erin McNor- unbelievable motor, is smart, and knows ton; and outside hitter Catherine Carmi- what he’s doing. e guy really is talented.” chael. Jarmoc, McNorton and junior at secret is already out. outside hitter Sara McClinton were all named preseason All-Big 12. “We’ve had expectations set by a senior class that understands how they want their Next year is here careers here to end,” Bechard says. “Yes, that senior class had a great junior year, Volleyball hopes to build from a win-loss standpoint, but I think “I think it’s everything,” Heeney says of on 2012’s highs and lows prospects for an improved oense. “Last year, a lot of times the defense would be y nearly any measure, 2012 was the on the eld a lot. e oense would go Bbest season in the history of KU JEFF JACOBSEN three-and-out or turn the ball over, and it volleyball. At 26-7, the Jayhawks set school would kind of take the wind out of the records for most wins and highest winning defense’s sails. Like, ‘What are we making percentage. ey advanced to the NCAA these stops for if we’re not going to get any Tournament’s second round for just the points on the board?’ When the oense third time in program history, and starts scoring a little bit more, it’s just attendance in Allen Field House was the going to make the defense that much more highest of any tournament site for the motivated to get some more stops and get NCAA’s opening weekend. some turnovers. ey play hand-in-hand.” But the remarkable season ended in It might be little-known among the tears. Aer KU fought to a 25-23 rst-set players that the starting middle linebacker victory over Wichita State, the Shockers set rushing records as a senior at one of stormed back to take the match, 3-1, and the state’s best high school programs, but advance to the Sweet 16. it’s not lost on Heeney’s position coach. “As good as last year was, the thing that Bowen isn’t sold that the experience probably our team and coaching sta Redshirt senior and second-team All-American gives Heeney any edge in reading a play remember the most is how it ended,” says Caroline Jarmoc leads a volleyball attack that developing in front of him, but he does 16th-year coach Ray Bechard, 2012 Big 12 returns more than 80 percent of its oense concede that it’s unusual for a former high Coach of the Year. “ at will add a little from last season.

ISSUE 5, 2013 | 19 Sports they want to be remembered going out as “It will allow me to a senior class in the right way.” improve, and I ough the Jayhawks nished third in trust my team- JEFF JACOBSEN the Big 12, they were two matches away mates to help me from winning the conference. Had they carry the oensive reversed a ve-set loss to eventual national load. I don’t see champion Texas at home and a four-set myself as the only loss at Baylor, the Jayhawks would have attacker in the won the Big 12. It was that close. f ront .” “Volleyball certainly comes down to one e Jayhawks or two plays in a close match,” Bechard benet not only says. “and maybe experience and hard from returning work and preparation will help us to jump top-ight talent, Join the KU Alumni Association all season long for over that line a little bit.” but also from the All-time digs leader Brianne Riley is one of seven seniors looking to It’s a safe bet that every opponent will experience of improve on the Jayhawks’ record-setting 2012 season. Game Day at the Adams tailgates! key on Jarmoc, who last year became the playing together rst Jayhawk to record 400 kills (424) and for years. e 150 blocks (157) in a season. Jarmoc says players appear to enjoy the sort of sincere McNorton says. “It was a kind of shock, Mark your calendars! The parties start three hours prior to kicko and she is working to add variety to her oense unity that can launch a good team to a almost. But now we know what to expect 9/21 vs. Louisiana Tech (Family Weekend) include a buet from Biggs BBQ or Salty Iguana, by nding new ways to spread her attacks great season—and ultimately withstand and we’re ready for it, so hopefully we’ll 10/5 vs. Texas Tech (Homecoming) around the court, and she’s condent that the sort of match-swinging momentum get that opportunity again. 10/12 @ TCU soft drinks and two drink coupons for those any added pressure put on her will be an that ended the 2012 season against “You could ask any of the 15 of us: 10/19 vs. Oklahoma opportunity teammates will capitalize on. underdog Wichita State. Without a doubt, deep down inside, we age 21 or older. 10/26 vs. Baylor “It’s not something I’m fearful of; it’s “When you’re on a stage like that, it just know we can do something special this more of a motivator for me,” Jarmoc says. wasn’t anything we had experience with,” y e ar.” 11/2 @ Texas Members 11/9 @ Oklahoma State KU Alumni Association Members - $12 save $10! 11/16 vs. West Virginia Nonmembers - $22 11/23 @ Iowa State UPDATES 11/30 vs. Kansas State Children ages 5-12 - $5 Children 4 and under - no charge Please join us for on-site tailgates omen’s track and field’s Kansas, especially on the football achievement: Although ceremony. When he retired in at all away games! WNCAA outdoor women’s side, because that’s they finished 5-0-3 overall and 1997, Smith was the winningest championship and Big 12 indoor our first national championship. tied for third at 3-0-3 in the coach in college basketball Members, be sure to show your membership card and outdoor titles I think that sets Missouri Valley Conference, the history. ... James Naismith, at tailgates to receive a free members-only gift! continue to resonate. the tone for this 1923 Jayhawks did not allow a inventor of basketball and KU’s “Expectations year.” Says senior single touchdown. Two games first coach, this summer was

obviously start at the PUPPE STEVE volleyball setter ended in 0-0 ties, and one of ﬁve inductees into the top,” says soccer Erin McNorton, Oklahoma and Missouri both Kansas Hall of Fame. ... The coach Mark Francis, “When they won scored single ﬁeld goals. The men’s basketball team will “and [Athletics the championship, season also included an 83-0 make four appearances this Director Sheahon all of us saw how victory over St. Louis’ season on Big Monday, ESPN’S Zenger, PhD’96] has exctiting it was, Washington University, still the signature college basketball made it very clear to that hard work largest winning margin in KU TV tradition. KU’s home Big the coaches that he really does pay history. ... Dean Smith, d’53, a Monday games are Jan. 20 Francis wants all of us to o and it is guard on KU’s 1952 NCAA against Baylor and Feb. 24 compete to win a Big 12 possible for us to do that.” ... championship team who went against Oklahoma. The championship. And I think Freshman guard Andrew on to win two national Jayhawks will play Big [coach Stanley Redwine’s] Wiggins this summer was championships as coach at Monday road games Jan. 13 at group made everybody else named Gatorade High School North Carolina, will receive the Iowa State and Feb. 10 at realize that it’s possible to have Athlete of the Year at a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Kansas State. KU’s March 1 that kind of success. The ceremony in Los Angeles. ... At the time of the early August game at OSU will be ESPN’s women’s track team made that This year marks the 90th announcement, the White Saturday forum, College statement for every athlete at anniversary of a most unusual House had not set a date for the Game Day. To join, or for more information, 20 | KANSAS ALUMNI visit www.kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957.ISSUE 4, 2011 | 1 Join the KU Alumni Association all season long for Game Day at the Adams tailgates!

Mark your calendars! The parties start three hours prior to kicko and 9/21 vs. Louisiana Tech (Family Weekend) include a buet from Biggs BBQ or Salty Iguana, 10/5 vs. Texas Tech (Homecoming) 10/12 @ TCU soft drinks and two drink coupons for those 10/19 vs. Oklahoma age 21 or older. 10/26 vs. Baylor 11/2 @ Texas Members 11/9 @ Oklahoma State KU Alumni Association Members - $12 save $10! 11/16 vs. West Virginia Nonmembers - $22 11/23 @ Iowa State 11/30 vs. Kansas State Children ages 5-12 - $5 Children 4 and under - no charge Please join us for on-site tailgates at all away games! Members, be sure to show your membership card at tailgates to receive a free members-only gift!

To join, or for more information, visit www.kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957.ISSUE 4, 2011 | 1 22 | KANSAS ALUMNI 50 years later, a lesson in life and literature still rings true

he year is 1964. e scene is a large oce on the rst oor lecture course from him, nor did my friends know anyone, nor … of old Fraser Hall (now defunct) at the University of and so it went: campus folklore. TKansas. e man sitting at his desk is framed in morning And it was also folklore that his celebrated seminar on Shake- light and lawn by the campus behind him. His name is Professor speare’s tragedies was by invitation only. While this prerequisite Charlton Hinman and among the literary lessons I learned from had made its way to the gossip among the student writers him was that Shakespeare did not always observe the classical drinking our tomato beers at the Gaslight Tavern just o campus, unities of time, place and (about to come) action. But yet ... it has not stopped me from being in Professor Hinman’s oce this e door to Professor Hinman’s oce was usually closed; morning because I had the impertinence to attend the rst however, he had told his students they were welcome, just knock. meeting of the seminar with an “Add” slip for him to sign. Which We had developed a story about him (one among many) that he he did. As result, we are to talk about King Lear. liked the ourishes that opening doors created. Yes, come in —Now, Mr. Day, is it? Professor Hinman says as he sits down, please, you would hear him say in a baritone not (yet) diminished checks his appointment book, then gets out a single sheet of paper by his smoking (was it a pipe, or cigarettes?). Yes, do come in and on which I had the week before typed three questions (Professor take a chair, he would say, and curiously enough, stand to greet Hinman is to pick one) for me to address on my nal exam you, as if you were more important because you were one of his toward the end of April. He studies the list, pu s his pipe (or takes students than was he, being your professor. I walk in and sit a drag on a Camel), leans back, then forward. down. —Mr Day, is it? In those days Professor Hinman taught only seminars, and the —Yes. rude rumor was that he did so because he was a poor teacher in ere is a phone on a table near the window behind him; it is large lecture halls. Not that anyone I knew had ever taken a going to ring.

By Robert Day

Archival photographs courtesy of Spencer Research Library

ISSUE 5, 2013 | 23 mong the stories about Professor Hinman was that he had past the Gaslight to stop next door at the Abingdon Book Abeen a bombardier in World War II (in one version, he was Shop—not a bad bookstore, to be sure, but not Shakespeare and the bombardier on the Enola Gay), and it occurred to him later, Company. One of us (I won’t say who) thought we might invite when he was at the University of Virginia or Johns Hopkins (as a her in for a red beer; it was not an invitation we would have made student, a professor? And we were never sure if there was an “s” to Professor Hinman, but to Mrs. Hinman it seemed possible. on John or not), it occurred to him … that … what? Well, we were ere were 12 of us admitted into the seminar on Shakespeare’s not sure what, but it had something to do with looking through tragedies (well, 11 plus one gate crasher). My colleagues were very the Norden bombsight, but instead of seeing Hiroshima, Profes- serious graduate students, some of them well on their way to

sor Hinman was looking at Quartos or Folios, or First Quartos or PhDs; one had just been signed to a three-year contract to teach First Folios or Bad Quartos—but to what purpose those of us at at a Great East Coast University. the Gaslight Tavern never quite understood. We did, however, During the semester each of us was to present a seminar paper understand he was a famous Shakespeare scholar of a special which was mimeographed (it was that long ago) and handed out kind: a Textual Scholar. And again, we were not sure what that the week before so that the following week the author could be meant; only it must mean something about the footnotes he questioned (“grilled” was more like it, when it came to the used.1 Remember, we were not only the kin of Falsta at the graduate students—but never Professor Hinman). Mine had been Gaslight, we were trying to be writers at the expense of being on “false hope” in King Lear. It, alone among all the papers English majors. presented, was bere of footnotes. (I didn’t quite know how to do en there was Professor Hinman’s wife, Mrs. Hinman. She had footnotes; also, I had contracted a chronic aversion to literary been a friend of Hemingway’s in Paris. She had known James research.) But I wrote well enough to be amusing: Joyce. ere were photographs of her (not that we had seen them) “It would be as if a Western Kansas rancher fenced o his High inside Shakespeare and Company, where she had surely met Plains free-range pastures and cut out 10 sections for one Professor Hinman. Maybe Professor Hinman knew Joyce. Or Ezra daughter, 10 sections for another, and 10 sections for a third. Pound. My private hope was that he had seen Josephine Baker at’s a lot of fencing, and even (maybe especially) among dance. siblings, it will most surely make for spite fences and not good In any case, Mrs. Hinman (she never had a rst name to us) neighbors.” could be seen on campus, a milkmaid of a certain age (always en there was my take on Mrs. Lear: “Where in all this family wearing aquamarine) with a braid wrapped around the top of her food ght is Queen Lear? She’d put a stop to it. ‘Just drop dead head for a hairdo. She looked like an elegant version of Gertrude and leave me the ranch,’ you can hear her say to her old fool of a Stein. If anyone in Lawrence, Kansas, could have known Heming- husband. But no. Hers is an entrance blocked by a bear of a bard way, Mrs. Hinman could have. who doesn’t want the trouble. Very convenient.” Still, those of us who drank at the Gaslight felt a bit sad for her. —I see there are no footnotes to document these bizarre What must it be like for a woman who once walked up and down opinions, the graduate student with the three-year contract said. Boulevard Montparnasse stopping for a champagne cocktail at the Professor Hinman smiled. Dome or the Select with Jake Barnes or Lady Brett Ashley; a Among the other un-footnoted bizarre opinions I expressed woman who probably bought and borrowed books from Sylvia was that “… what woman in her right mind would want 50 Beach, but who we could see walking along Jayhawk Boulevard hunters traipsing through her kitchen on opening day of pheasant

24 | KANSAS ALUMNI season—or any day for that matter? When you give up the home Textual Scholar, when the phone on the table behind him rings. place, you’d better buy a ranch house in Kansas City and take up He looks at it as if it is a contrivance designed to interrupt his golf. And aren’t we being a bit editorial with the name ‘Goneril?’ concentration. We all took Health in high school: Goneril-Gonorrhea. We get it. —Hello, Charlton Hinman. How may I help you? … No, it is Clap, clap, clap.” not too early here. You have reached me at my o ce. … In At some point I did get around to the thesis of my title: Kansas. At the University. … Yes, I suppose it must seem very “Abandon Hope All You Who Enter Lear,” with examples: that remote. I am a professor here. In fact I am just now meeting with (Lear hopes) Cordelia will win the attery contest with her sisters; a student. No, not Virginia. Kansas. that Gloucester will smell the moral rot of Edmund; that Kent will (we really hope) bring Lear to his senses; and on and on until the end when there is this from Lear himself: “Lend me a looking glass. / If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, / why then

… it had something to do with looking through the Norden bombsight, but instead of seeing Hiroshima, Professor Hinman was looking at Quartos or Folios … she lives.” All of it quoted, but none of it footnoted, nor cited by act and scene. When my nal dra was returned, Professor Hinman noted (among more than a few corrections in my appalling spelling) that the word “expectations” might have been a better choice than It turns out that on the line is an editor for the Times Literary “hope.” But he also observed that “Abandon Expectations All You Supplement in London. At the Gaslight Tavern we would mock Who Enter Lear” did not have quite the right ring. Even then, I those students at Harvard or Yale or John(s) Hopkins or the understood sly irony, and was attered. University of Virginia for knowing less than we did, because we On my exit through the door of the seminar room the night I knew they existed while they did not know about us. Later this read my paper, Professor Hinman’s smile turned to a small pat on aernoon I will expand that jest to London, but not to the Times my back. A man forbidden by his calling to use ibid or ff 2 was Literary Supplement, about which we did not know. Nor had it perhaps pleased—or at least amused—at my scholarly irreverence. occurred to us the importance of 1964 in the world of Elizabethan at’s the twist we put to it over beers at the Gaslight late into the letters. night. —at is very kind of you, says Professor Hinman. He looks out the window onto the lawn while listening (I —Mr Day, is it? Professor Hinman says again looking at my suppose) more intently to the voice from London. It was a very sheet of paper. long distance for a call to travel in those days. —Yes. —Again, you are very kind to say so, but I am afraid I must —Yours are very curious topics: But yet … ; Something decline. I want to make some corrections to a recently published does come of nothing; and ere is cause in nature that makes book of mine for a possible second edition. But more important, I these hearts hard. am this spring teaching a number of good students who deserve Professor Hinman pauses, then says: my attention. en there are exams to read the end of the month —I think you have it wrong. Not that I don’t catch your change … No. Not in Maryland. In Kansas. Yes. We are reading the of wording from “Is there no …” to “ere is …” in order to make tragedies. In fact, I have a student in my o ce now with some a point, but I think it ends with … “hard hearts?” Not “… hearts curious topics for his nal exam. h ard .” Professor Hinman smiles at me, then, aer a long pause, says: I am about to ask Professor Hinman if he had caught my —Well, again, thank you, but I’m afraid not. Such an “apprecia- mistake (which I had not caught) because of his training as a tion,” as you call it, would require … Another long pause. —Alas, I am not the kind who “dashes things o.” I would be 1. We had concluded Textual Scholars did not use ibid or . pleased to make a recommendation if you like. Just a moment 2. Ibid. while I concentrate my thoughts. …

ISSUE 5, 2013 | 25 STEVE PUPPE STEVE

Marvelous Machine

harton Hinman invented photographs for evidence of Folio—a collection of Washington, D.C., and Cthe Hinman collator long bomb damage in the Pacific Shakespeare’s plays publish them in 1968 as The before he joined the KU Islands during World War II, published in 1623, just seven Norton Facsimile of the First faculty in 1960. “It was his Hinman realized how years after the Bard’s Folio of Shakespeare. The work as an ocer in the valuable it would be to have death—and determine which London Times acclaimed United States Navy … that led a machine that would pages were true to Hinman’s work “the most to his invention of the superimpose two Shakespeare’s text and which important and spectacular marvelous collating corresponding images and, by were bastardized versions contribution to English instrument that now bears means of alternating flashes caused by printers’ errors. studies this century.” The his name,” wrote Shakespeare of light, distinguish any Hinman used his findings to Hinman collator acquired by Quarterly editor John variations between one image select the most accurate1 KU in the early 1960s and Andrews after Hinman’s and another.” The collator pages from around 80 First now stored in KU’s Spencer death in 1977. “Comparing allowed him to analyze the Folios owned by the Folger Research Library was one of a aerial reconnaissance many versions of the First Shakespeare Library in half-dozen then in existence. —The Editors

26 | KANSAS ALUMNI Yes. You might ask Mr. O.B. Hardison of the Folger Library in Washington or Professor Fredson Bowers at the University of obert Day’s new novel, Let Us Imagine Lost Love, will begin Virginia. … You’re very welcome. Rserialization in the online literary magazine numero cinq in Professor Hinman puts down the phone and aer a moment September. Other recent literary pieces by Day, c’64, g’66, says: including the series Chance Encounters of a Literary Kind, are —Imagine wanting a “dash-o essay” on the meaning of archived at the magazine’s website, numerocinqmagazine.com. Shakespeare 400 years out. And in two weeks. What do you think, Mr. Day? Not knowing who had called, I thought I might give it a try myself since Professor Hinman didn’t. Most of my writing for the I am about to ask if he had seen Josephine Baker dance when English department was dash-o, and usually the night before. Professor Hinman continues, explaining in some detail how he With two weeks’ notice, I could read many of the plays and get came to build the Hinman collator (out of scraps and spare parts), Monarch Notes for the rest. how it works (by some optical magic), what it does ( nd words that “jiggle”), and that there is one in the basement of Watson Library, where our seminar meets. —Maybe I should take our class downstairs to see it one evening, Professor Hinman says, more to himself, I thought, than to me. en again, looking at the lawn outside his window, he continues: We had such a lawn at the University of Virginia where I was a graduate student. Lovely. Turning back to me he says: —We need to talk about your topics, Mr. Day. I am curious about “But yet … .” What do you have in mind? —I noticed it twice in Lear, I say. Toward the beginning Cordelia uses it about her father, and later Lear uses it about Cordelia. I can’t quote the passages, but I wrote them in my notebook. —“But yet, alas, stood I within his grace.” Professor Hinman says. —Imagine, Professor Hinman says again. —Yes, I say. —Who wants the essay? I ask. —And “But yet thou art my esh, my blood, my daughter.” —e Times Literary Supplement in London, he says. ey —Yes. seem not to know the location of Kansas. And I suspect they —You, Mr. Day, have committed scholarship. think there are Indians in wigwams on the lawn. How provincial. I was hoping the Falstas at the Gaslight wouldn’t hold Profes- He looks at the phone and shakes his head slightly. sor Hinman’s observation against me, but I wasn’t sure. —Is it true, sir, that you were a bombardier during the war? —I think “But yet …” is your best choice, says Professor I ask. Hinman looking again at my list. Yes, by far the best because it Professor Hinman laughs. To this day I remember it as a deep, will be the most dicult to expand into a coherent essay, and I prolonged laugh. He puts his right hand over his mouth and take it from your previous work you rather like dicult topics. touches the top of his forehead with his ngertips, tapping it. He He folds my list in half and hands it to me. turns to look out the window at the wigwams on the lawn. At —Yes, he says. “But yet …” Anything else Mr. Day? least I had not asked if he had dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. —It’s about footnotes, sir. —Well, he says at last. I had not heard that one. Very odd these —I notice you don’t use them, he says. stories that go around the students. I wonder what you say of ere is a knock at the door. Jane? Don’t tell me. But since you asked, no, I was not a bombar- —Is it true, I ask, that Textual Scholars use only special dier, but I was in the Navy and knew about the attempt to collate footnotes? reconnaissance photographs which I thought might work to I am about to be an exit pursued by a professor’s standing up. collate Shakespeare’s plays. Do you know about collating, Mr. Day? But before he says “Come in, please,” he says: Mr. Day does not. —My colleagues in the English department tell me you are a —Well, if you admire a writer as much as I admire Shakespeare, writer. What an amusing idea you have about textual scholarship. you want to know what words he used and not what, by a printer’s You must use it in a story sometime. Come in, please. accident, was substituted. It would be later the same problem with On my way out I pass the graduate student with the three-year Joyce. contract who enters with a ourish but—seeing me—no —James Joyce? smile.

ISSUE 5, 2013 | 27 Paging Dr. Girod

Popular surgeon and administrator answers the call again at KU Medical Center, this time as executive vice chancellor

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI welve minutes into what was likely the most important public presentation of Douglas Girod’s Tdistinguished and varied career as a head and neck surgeon and medical center administrator, the unthinkable happened: a pager sounded. His colleagues on Nov. 20 lled a Kansas Popular surgeon and administrator answers the call again at City lecture room to hear Girod’s “town hall” speech, in which he made his case for KU Medical Center, this time as executive vice chancellor why Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little should name him the next executive vice chancellor for KU Medical Center, one of the most critical leadership positions at the University. Since arriving at KU in 1994, Girod had established himself as a gied surgeon and popular administrator with a reputation for intelligent, compas- sionate and fair-minded leadership. He was—and is—one of the good guys, so Girod was talking to a friendly audience; they wanted him to do well. Regard- certainly didn’t hurt Doug Girod. Girod recently enjoyed a visit from Boi, a less, top-level higher education leadership In those unscripted 10 seconds, he Malian boy who came to KU Medical Center positions are rarely lled from within, so showed his ability to think quickly, react four years ago for a 23-hour operation to Girod still had to lay out a strong argu- appropriately, and, critically for a job that remove a massive facial-skeleton tumor. Boi ment for why he was the man for the job. would require endless rounds of public returns each summer to visit his hosts and His presentation was crisp, informative, outreach, win over a room. He paused doctors. Girod and his team encountered Boi even humorous, and it was owing along long enough to read the beeper’s screen, during a medical mission trip to West Africa; about as smoothly as these things can making sure there was not a critical images behind Girod on the cover photograph when somebody’s beeper beeped. emergency, and slipped eortlessly back are from a medical trip to Antigua, Guatemala. Girod was in the midst of explaining into his talk. growth in residencies and fellowships in ose unscripted 10 seconds also otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, the reminded everybody in the room, and department he had chaired for more than those watching the video feed at School of a decade, when the electronic chirping Medicine outposts in Wichita and Salina, recalls, “was no longer king.” e mid- forced him to halt. e room went still for that when it comes to the enormous task 1970s hatched the emergence of a new age an awkward moment, everyone wondering of delivering patient care, medical in electronics and computing, and Girod who among them had forgotten to silence education and life-saving research at KU wanted in on the action. “I had a four- their ever-present pagers, when Girod Medical Center, few are in any greater function calculator,” he says with a laugh. pushed a hand inside his suit jacket and demand than the man standing before “It was mind-boggling.” reached toward his hip. them, asking for the opportunity to do He headed to Silicon Valley, enrolled in “ at isn’t really mine, is it?” he asked in even more. night school at a local junior college with that exasperated tone that both admits an eye toward becoming an electrical minor transgressions and begs forgiveness. engineer, and went hunting for work. For Pulling the device from his belt, Girod n the Salem, Ore., of Doug Girod’s four less-than-glorious days, he assembled answered his question: “It is.” He chuckled, Iyouth, where he zoomed around Pong video game consoles, but even a turned to his audience and, with an logging roads on dirt bikes and funded his break room lled with Atari games was endearing grin, cracked, “ e disadvan- passion for speed by working in motor- not enough to hold his interest, so Girod tage of the internal candidate, right?” cycle shops, lumber was king. By the time moved on, relishing the opportunities he None but the decision-maker really he graduated high school, the local saw in a place that was literally inventing knows how jobs are won, but the moment economy had collapsed. “Lumber,” he itself by the day. By the time he was 20, Girod was running the manufacturing department for a startup company with by Chris Lazzarino | portraits by Steve Puppe about 40 employees.

ISSUE 5, 2013 | 29 Girod (left) still occasionally performs surgery, but largely gave up his practice to become executive vice chancellor. Mentor Mark

COURTESY DR. GIROD COURTESY Richardson, now a dean in Oregon, says few outside of medicine appreciate the sacriﬁce doctors make to become administrators: “Your rewards have to come from taking that energy and putting it into the system. It’s really hard to do.”

then reported to his long-delayed o cer training, aer which he was posted to the Navy’s teaching hospital in Oakland, Calif. e end of his three-year commitment coincided with base and force reductions, so Girod le the military and in 1994 began looking elsewhere. He secured job oers in Minnesota, Iowa, Alabama and “I think he went through a period in his to me that school wasn’t so bad aer all.” even at Johns Hopkins University in life, early on, when he sort of got some Girod zoomed through junior college Baltimore, but chose KU. bugs out, got some things out of his and completed his chemistry degree at the ere was nobody in the region doing system,” says Mark Richardson, dean of University of California, Davis. He his specialty, micro-vascular reconstruc- the school of medicine at Oregon Health enrolled in medical school at the Univer- tion of tissues and bones for head-and- & Science University and a mentor during sity of California, San Francisco, nding neck cancer patients. (Girod says that Girod’s residency at the University of himself in yet another nexus of modern while the number of hospitals performing Washington. “He denitely brought a level America: the then-unnamed HIV-AIDS the surgeries has doubled since 1994, to of maturity with him that I clearly epidemic tearing through the San Fran- about 40, KU remains the only such recognized.” cisco Bay area. Half of all patients at San provider between St. Louis and Denver.) Girod jokes that his wife, Susan, whom Francisco General, where Girod trained, He and his wife liked what they saw in the he met on a blind date arranged by a had AIDS symptoms. “It was,” he says, “a local schools, and appreciated the mon- co-worker shortly aer arriving in fascinating time in public health.” etary boost available to their young family California, reminded him for years about Girod joined the U.S. Navy scholarship in Kansas City, in contrast with the how long it took him to earn a salary program during his second year at UC San nancial burdens of California or the East better than the one he le behind as a Francisco and graduated as both a medical Coast. KU’s winning pitch has stayed with manufacturing supervisor back when doctor and Navy lieutenant. He deferred Girod as he continues to lure top-ight 20-megabyte memory drives the size of a his three-year military commitment for a surgeons and researchers to Wyandotte pizza platter sold for $10,000. But despite postgraduate residency at the University of and Johnson counties. its allure, Silicon Valley never convinced Washington in Seattle, where he studied “You know what to sell, and it gives you Girod to embrace the electronics revolu- otolaryngology and won National Insti- some credibility in saying why you should tion; as much as he liked science and tutes of Health funding for audiology be here,” Girod says. “And, from my math, being stuck in an o ce working on research. perspective, we make sure that when computer designs was not for him. “When Doug was part of the training candidates come to interview, they see not Around the same time that he rst program,” Richardson recalls, “we all just the institution and the job and the started thinking he might be an electrical wanted him [in their programs] and we all partners and the environment, all of which engineer, back when he was racing tried to give him condence about his are a big plus, but also the standard of motorcycles across Oregon’s expansive leadership capacity.” living that you can oer a faculty member back country, Girod had also considered Just months before he completed his and their family.” medicine, but chafed at the prospect of residency, the U.S. launched its rst war At KU, Girod established himself dedicating himself to so many years of against Iraq and Girod was summoned to as a star physician and surgeon as education. active duty. e Navy, however, reconsid- well as a valued faculty colleague and “e beautiful thing about working for a ered and chose not to activate its medical administrator. A complete listing of his living is, school starts to look a lot more residents, so Girod remained in Seattle leadership positions runs two single- attractive,” he says. “Suddenly it occurred and completed his medical education. He spaced pages, and even a scant listing of

30 | KANSAS ALUMNI highlights can be overwhelming: at the University of Kansas Medical that part of the decision a lot easier; it was A year aer his 1994 arrival, Girod was Center,” says Chancellor Gray-Little, a little tougher to give up the other part.” named vice chair of the department of “playing crucial roles over the last several e Girods’ eldest daughter, Katelyn, 28, otolaryngology-head and neck, and rose to years as we saw dynamic growth in all of a Head Start educator for the KU-aliated interim chair in 2000 and permanent chair our educational, clinical, research and Project Eagle, in Wyandotte County, says in 2002. He was named senior associate community engagement missions. that when her father decided to pursue dean for clinical aairs in 2008, and “He is enormously respected by his KUMC’s top job, everyone in the family previously served as physician in chief of colleagues, his students, his fellow asked him how he felt about giving up his KU Cancer Center and chaired the clinical physicians and our community, and his practice. She says the joy he nds in the strategic planning committee for the vision will undoubtedly lead to more snippets of time he still nds for patients is School of Medicine. He led three national signicant transformation in the years evidence of his sacrice, but she’s also otolaryngological organizations and a h e a d .” condent that he sees it as worthwhile. published 65 manuscripts or book Girod’s hiring as executive vice chancel- “ e way he’s spun it to me and to the chapters. He joined the board of Univer- lor represents a national change in family is, the reason he’s in academic sity of Kansas Physicians in 1997, and was attitudes, says Oregon’s Mark Richardson, medicine is because there’s always some- treasurer from 2002 to ’09. Girod was a as immensely complex organizations like thing else to pursue, there’s always a key player in the creation of the KU academic medical centers begin to trust direction to be moving in, there’s always Hospital Authority, lending his expertise and develop their own future leaders growth to be had, both personally but also in both medicine and nance to help the rather than reexively looking elsewhere for the institution you’re working with,” hospital and medical center forge bright for saviors. she says. “ at’s what appealed to him futures as an alliance of two organizations. “If you’ve got somebody who has the about academic medicine in the rst place, “He’s the hardest working person that I trust of the faculty and who has the grasp so I see this step in his career as an know,” says daughter Callie, 24, a nurse at of the culture of the institution, you extension of that.” KU Medical Center who tends to ear- automatically gain the 12 or 18 months nose-throat, neurology and progressive- that it would take for an individual to gain care patients. “He’s always looking to knowledge, and Lord knows how long it f he thought micro-vascular facial improve himself, always looking to would take to gain the trust of the faculty Ireconstruction was complex, intricate improve the department. He told me that and the other administrators within the and dicult to master, the new executive throughout his career he would set university,” Richardson says. “So yes, if you vice chancellor might have found its equal personal goals for himself, and then when have a talented individual, it’s a huge in wrangling with the Kansas Legislature. he would meet those goals he would set advantage.” A particularly cantankerous spring in more goals for himself, and then he’d meet Girod concedes that his new job came at Topeka resulted in $48.7 million in cuts those and set more goals. And he said, a high price: Despite an administrative for higher education in Kansas over two ‘You know, it got to the point where I set workload that seems nearly superhuman, years, including $5.26 million for KU’s these goals and I met them and our he always maintained a half-time clinical Lawrence and Edwards campuses and department was in a great spot and my practice. Becoming executive vice chancel- $8.27 million at KU Medical Center. career was in a great spot and I was ready lor brought that nearly to a halt. He still Girod has promised no across-the- to move on and take the next step and sees his long-term patients for a half-day a board cuts at the medical center, but the meet higher goals.’ week and performs surgery as needed, budget setbacks mean 20 fewer graduate “He needed a dierent career path to set perhaps once every other week or so, but and advanced-practice nursing students, goals that he wanted.” otherwise, Girod is now a full-time ve fewer health professions students, four With extensive experience and leader- administrator. fewer residencies and elimination of two ship in organizational structure, nance, “ at’s a pretty big decision when you slots in the MD/PhD program. Employees, education, research, philanthropy, spend your whole adult life training for including faculty, residents and fellows, outreach, community engagement, something that you’ve become reasonably will receive no pay raises for the sixth time legislative outreach, and an elite reputation procient at, to think about hanging that in seven years. Tuition rose 5 percent. for delivering the best health care possible, up and focusing in a dierent area,” he e state continued its $5 million in Girod overcame higher education’s says. “But the people at KU are great. It’s a annual funding of the KU Cancer Center, traditional reluctance against hiring great team. e leadership is amazing, and much of which supports the Midwest in-house candidates for boss jobs and that’s the advantage of being an internal Cancer Alliance, built across 19 hospitals proved himself the strongest candidate to candidate: You know all that, and it’s not statewide, and, somewhat oddly, autho- be the next executive vice chancellor. always true as an external candidate. You rized $2 million over two years for a “Dr. Girod has been a steadfast leader know who the players are, and I had great mandated stem-cell research center, which during a time of profound transformation condence in the players. So that made KU prizes but did not request.

ISSUE 5, 2013 | 31 painless 1 percent. at’s because, Girod “He’s the hardest working person that I know. says, some lawmakers don’t recognize distinctions among the hospital budget He’s always looking to improve himself.” that pays clinical faculty, federal research —Callie Girod funding that must be used only for research, and KU Endowment funds “We wanted to build the lab that they Regents that both the FICA refund and the pegged for specic projects. funded for us, so we’re pretty excited about health education building remain priori- “It’s less than 1 percent for the total it,” Girod says. “Given our priorities, that’s ties for KU; the Regents’ response, budget,” Girod says, “but not for the things not how it would have played out, but it is detailing what the board will propose to we need to use those dollars for. In all useful and helpful.” the governor and Legislature for 2014, is honestly, we still have a lot of work to do e next site visit for KU Cancer Center, expected to be announced in early fall. with those folks. We are working hard to which last year achieved hard-won ocial e health education building is the meet with people and help them under- designation by the National Cancer hottest priority at KU Medical Center stand us better, run through budgets with Institute, commences in four years; while because it represents the very future of them, and explain why we can’t use NIH KU yearns to achieve an even-more health care education. Current medical dollars to pay for student education, those prestigious designation as a comprehen- education at KU consists of about 75 sorts of things. sive cancer center, the immediate goal is to percent lectures and 25 percent small- “No question it’s a big learning curve for maintain its current designation. Girod group, active learning; that’s now seen as me. Not only understanding how things says that while losing $4.2 million from an outdated model that does little to work, but really understanding the the KUMC budget for the current scal prepare new doctors and nurses for the importance of doing a better job of telling year and $4 million next year can be collaborative, interdisciplinary work our story. It’s not just a story of, ‘Look at expected to crimp the cancer center in the environment that will be their professional the wonderful things we’ve done.’ It’s a same manner as every department on reality. story of what our core missions are, this is campus, he is not particularly concerned “We need to invert that relationship,” how we meet them, and this is how we that the cutbacks are an imminent threat Girod says of the current 75/25 split. “We utilize the resources we have.” to NCI designation. know it’s the right thing to do, we know it’s A particular sore point for Girod is Of immediate concern is the October the appropriate direction to go, and I think hearing charges that “your spending is out visit by the School of Medicine’s ocial we frankly could be national leaders in of control” because the medical center has accreditation organization. Preparation for that, but we also know the expectation is increased its research funding. that visit has been one of Girod’s pressing going to be there from our accrediting “Well, you know, we should want to tasks since Gray-Little announced his bodies that we are headed that way.” double that. We shouldn’t want to cut it,” promotion Dec. 26, and Girod had dearly Girod warns that with antiquated Girod says. “ at brings jobs. It brings hoped that the centerpiece of KU’s facilities and an out-of-date educational money to the state that otherwise wouldn’t presentation would be an authorized and platform, the School of Medicine and be in the state. And it brings talent. It’s funded plan to construct a $75 million other educational components within KU about helping people understand what health education building. Medical Center will lose top students and we’ve done in the face of fewer state Girod, the chancellor and the Kansas will be unable to increase class sizes to dollars. If you look at the return on Board of Regents had hoped the Legisla- meet growing needs for doctors, nurses investment, we’re leveraging those dollars ture would authorize $15 million for the and other caregivers across the state. better than we ever, ever have. project and also remit to KU Medical “It is a little ironic that they want you to “ at should be a positive. Not a Center $25 million in federal payroll tax do more, they want you to raise your negative.” refunds, delivered this year from the rankings and they want you to meet the federal government to state coers aer a demands of their communities, and then decade of uncertainty in the 1990s over turn around and do this to you,” Girod t the time of her 2012 departure, how to classify medical residents. ( e rest says of lawmakers’ refusal to move ahead ABarbara Atkinson had been both of the project would be funded with $20 on the health education building. “But the executive vice chancellor and executive million from private giving and $15 realities are two-fold: One is, they created dean of the School of Medicine. Chancel- million from tuition and other KUMC an $800 million decit for themselves; the lor Gray-Little chose to return to KU’s sources.) second was really a lack of understanding traditional structure separating those two Instead, the state chose to allocate only of who we are and what we do.” leadership posts. Now that Girod is in $1 million for ongoing planning, and the He explains that some lawmakers view place as executive vice chancellor, one of $25 million FICA refund remains up for the cuts not as 4 percent of the medical his primary tasks is identifying the next grabs. e chancellor has already told the center’s budget but rather as a relatively dean of medicine.

32 | KANSAS ALUMNI e rst half-dozen candiates began visiting KUMC in August. Girod hopes to bring three nalists back in October and hire a dean by Nov. 1. Girod is eager for a new leadership partner, not to lessen his burdens, but because there is important work to be done, quickly and well. And whatever the stresses, none within his inner circles are concerned that Girod could nd himself overwhelmed. roughout his career, while establishing himself as a nationally recognized surgeon and a respected administrator willing to tackle thankless chores with zeal, he has maintained his good humor, prized relationships and free-time passions—all the stu that makes life grand. ough he recently gave up sports car racing as a tad too dangerous and expen- Daughters Katelyn (left) and Callie both chose careers helping others thanks in part to the sive, Girod is still a Porsche enthusiast and example set by their father. “I’m just really proud of my dad,” Katelyn says, “and he continues participates in rally events at Kansas to be such an inspiration. I know it sounds kind of cheesy, but it’s just incredible to watch him Speedway and team-structured endurance grow in his career.” racing. He and his family have long cherished annual ski trips to New Mexico. Fly shing is the latest hobby to capture where his faculty feel supported in their where you think your opinion is really his attention, and he and his son, Jimmy, endeavors.” valued. I think that’s how he approaches ’13, chart for themselves elaborate “ e most important thing about this,” professional relationships, too. It’s just his motorcycle roadtrips. Richardson says, “is that it wasn’t about character.” “It’s always been extremely impressive to Doug. It was about the department and “He’s exactly the kind of leader I’d like to me, and it still is to this day,” Callie Girod the individuals who constituted the work for,” Richardson says, “and I mean says of her father’s ability to maintain a department, and his ability to make sure that sincerely. He’s a great guy with a good balanced life. “He’s so passionate about his they were developing professionally and sense of humor who I think has a great career, and the job that he has and the that they were moving ahead together as a vision and direction. e people who work work that he does and his patients, but he’s department to become better as a unit. I for him really like him, and that’s because also passionate about his family. e two think he’s bringing to the table that very he wants them to be better. have never gotten in the way of each other, same skill for the University as a whole.” “And that’s terric.” and I have no idea how he’s done that. It Katelyn Girod says her interest in Cancer surgeon Doug Girod has blows my mind, but he’s done it. He’s helping families build strong educational extensive training and long experience in succeeded. foundations for their children grew in part delivering bad news. But because he’s “Our family is extremely close, and the from the many medical mission trips she prepared and skilled and dedicated, he can foundation of that is our parents. ey’re made to Guatemala with her father, whose then move along to a message of hope: an incredible team. eir marriage is annual itineraries also include Mexico, Here’s what we can do. Together. Here’s something that I strive to have in my Africa and the Philippines. He helped her how we can ght this thing. Together. marriage, whenever that day comes.” understand the good fortune we enjoy Ultimately, the news can be good. at’s Katelyn Girod says her father “really here and inspired her to help others build the message Doug Girod delivers with a wants to hear what you have to say” and better worlds for themselves. hopeful and sincere smile, whether to a that he “was always looking to meet me He gained her trust not by demanding scared patient, a nervous medical center or where I was at” rather than impose his it, but by being a man in full whom she a cash-strapped state starved for physi- own goals and ambitions on her life. ree could admire. By asking her to accompany cians willing to work here. decades ago, Dr. Mark Richardson saw in him to the hardware store and then “Challenges,” he says, “are opportuni- young Dr. Doug Girod “somebody who is extending their getaway with a stop for ties—opportunities to think about doing fun to be around,” and now knows him as lunch, where he would “spark up a things dierently.” a leader who “creates an environment conversation that engages you on a level Advantage, in-house candidate.

ISSUE 5, 2013 | 33 Nathan Davis was a key player in the jazz golden age that was Paris in the ’60s. He left it behind to make a case for the music’s place in American culture and the academy. KU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ARCHIVES ASSOCIATION ALUMNI KU

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neighborhood homes—there was music. “Right next door from us were two preachers: One who loved jazz and one phone.’ He said, ‘Oh, no, no, no. No who hated it,” Davis recalls. “ e one who saxophone here.’” loved jazz, Rev. Kid, he’d call me over and Davis laughs now, but at the time it was say, ‘You like to play horn? Well, these are a shock. “I said, ‘What do you mean no the guys you need to listen to.’” e good saxophone?’” reverend spun records by the great Jazz may have been embraced as t freshman orientation in 1955, saxophonists of the day: Coleman popular culture (Dick Wright’s “ e Jazz Nathan Davis was feeling pretty Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet, Don Byas. Scene” was an immediate hit when it Agood about his saxophone chops. Years later, in Paris, where he lived and debuted on KANU in 1956), but it was not Born only a couple of blocks from worked for most of the 1960s as a jazz considered worthy of serious academic Charlie “Bird” Parker’s Kansas City, Kan., musician in the city’s thriving club scene, study. “Real music is from Europe,” Davis birthplace, Davis, d’60, grew up steeped in Davis would meet Coleman Hawkins; he says of the attitude that ruled academia at music. His mother was a gospel singer. His would play and record with Don Byas and the time. “Concert, classical, Western father owned every record ever made by many other jazz greats. European music, that’s what KU was Norman Granz (the eminent jazz producer But at KU in 1955, he faced a more teaching—KU and every other school in and founder of Verve records), including immediate problem. In high school he’d the country.” classic sides by Parker, the most inuential already jammed with the legendary Jay Fortunately for Davis, he’d played some jazz player to come out of Kansas City. McShann’s Kansas City big band. He won clarinet at Sumner High School. Finding Long before he took an aer-school job a talent contest and used the money to go that the band had no room for more answering phones at Brownie’s Cab to save to Chicago, where he played nightly in the saxophonists, he learned trombone and half the cost of his rst saxophone (his city’s jazz clubs. But none of that mattered clarinet to secure a spot. KU admitted him mother paid the other half), Davis had when Davis stepped up to answer a as a clarinet major, but it wasn’t Benny begun teaching himself to play and read question at freshman orientation: What’s Goodman-style swing that he would study. music whenever he could borrow a horn. your major? “ ey used to have a rule,” Davis says. And always—in his mother’s church, in “I said, ‘Music.’ e guy said, ‘OK, what “In Hoch Auditorium, where the practice his father’s record collection, in the instrument do you play?’ I said, ‘Saxo- rooms were, they had a guard. He’d sign

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“I came here planning to stay three years, but it got good,” says Nathan Davis, who founded one of the country’s ﬁrst jazz studies programs at the University of Pittsburgh in 1969. Davis (circa 1992, page 34, and in the 1970s, opposite page) made it good, building the Pitt program into an academic powerhouse while maintaining his own career as a performer and composer.

you in and out. He would also monitor jazz legends to campus for lectures and “He was at that time one of the rst practice. If he heard you playing jazz, he’d performances. He began a jazz ensemble— people to not just be teaching a teacher to write you up. If you got three writeups for open to all Pitt students, not only jazz teach a teacher,” Baker says. “Because he playing jazz, they’d kick you out.” studies majors—that grew into one of the had worked with all these people in No saxophone. No jazz. Not in the most respected student jazz groups in the Europe, because he was himself a major academic world of the 1950s. country and became the rst college group player, he was able to share that informa- By the time Davis retired in May aer 43 to play the prestigious Montreux Jazz tion with students.” years as founding director of the jazz Festival. He launched an academic journal Davis put together a rigorous course of studies program at the University of and established the International Academy study that emphasized improvisation, Pittsburgh, the music to which he devoted of Jazz-Hall of Fame, which preserves a composition and technical mastery—and a lifetime of performance and teaching trove of jazz artifacts in the Sonny Rollins made the implicit argument that jazz had become rmly established in the International Jazz Archives. Perhaps most history and performance could be as academy. According to the elonious important, colleagues say, Davis helped worthy of study as classical music. Monk Institute of Jazz, more than 120 U.S. change the concept of what an education “I think absolutely he deserves credit for colleges and universities (KU among in jazz music should be. helping get jazz into the academy,” says them) now oer bachelor, master’s or “Because he was working in Europe up Josh Kohn, program ocer for jazz & doctoral degrees in jazz studies. But when to the time he came to the University of traditional arts at the Mid Atlantic Arts Davis agreed to leave a thriving career Pittsburgh, he brought a dierent kind of Foundation, which in October will present performing, composing and recording in value to jazz education,” says David Baker, Davis the BNY Mellon Jazz 2013 Living Europe to teach at Pitt in 1969, the distinguished professor of music at Legacy Award at the Kennedy Center in program he designed was only the third Indiana University. Founder of the rst Washington, D.C. e award honors headed by a working jazz musician. program led by a jazz musician, he musicians for their contribution to jazz He built a model program, starting with recommended Davis for the Pittsburgh job education and performance. “Part of what the Annual Jazz Seminar, which brings aer the school’s initial search failed. he did was ght for recognition for jazz as

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI “KU, at that time, though they didn’t have jazz, a high art form. at’s what you nd with it was a wonderful place to give me a good strong base a lot of these guys: ey really wanted it to in music. They were all classical people, be looked at as equal to classical music.” Equal, perhaps, but not the same. and not just classical but the best.” “What Nathan brought to the table,” Baker says, “is the whole business of have to do, and give me a chance.” down and play for the Lord!’ So I’d get teaching what it is that jazz musicians do.” Aer he and a friend won rst place in a myself down there and join the sisters. It talent contest at Kansas City’s Orchid was really something.” Room, he took his half of the $50 prize Davis kept up his studies in Chicago, ike most jazzmen of his era, Davis got and bought a bus ticket to Chicago. eventually returning to Kansas City to his musical education on the band- “I went home and said, ‘Mama, I’m nish high school. A musician in his Lstand. It was sometimes a far broader going to Chicago,’” Davis told Pittsburgh neighborhood, a trumpeter with the schooling than he bargained for. Quarterly in 2007. “Aer she stopped Marching Jayhawks, inspired his interest His rst gig, with a band of buddies crying, she phoned my aunt, whom we in KU. He won a scholarship and showed from his Troup Avenue neighborhood, called ‘Big Mama.’ She was a big lady— up in Lawrence to nd that any jazz he was a Saturday aernoon date at Frenchy’s something like 6 feet tall, 300 pounds— played would be extracurricular. Pool Hall on Fih Street in Kansas City. and a self-ordained Pentecostal minister!” at turned out to be ne with Davis. “We’re all 15, not even supposed to be in Davis’ mother, who worked as a nurse, “I say this out of sincerity, KU, at that there,” Davis recalls. “I think we knew also sang at churches and tea parlors, and time, though they didn’t have jazz, it was a about four songs. Well, the second or third Davis would accompany her. “Mostly wonderful place to give me a good strong tune in, a guy was drunk, messing with gospel songs,” he recalls. “Occasionally we base in music,” he says. “ey were all people, and Frenchy came out and pistol did ‘Deep Purple’ or ‘Somewhere Over the classical people, and not just classical but whipped him right in front of us. Just beat Rainbow.’ She was really religious, so we the best.” him down to the ground.” couldn’t get too far out there.” He received classical training on piano, “We packed up and that was that,” Davis She let her son go to Chicago, under the oboe, English horn, violin and clarinet says, laughing. “We said, ‘You don’t even watchful eye of Big Mama, a wealthy while earning a degree in music education. have to pay us. We’re out of here.’” entrepreneur whose church was located in And he found an eager audience for jazz As he got more serious about music, his the basement of her home. on campus and around town, putting mother called a family friend, Kansas City “Big Mama let me go to the clubs at together his own band by recruiting to KU trumpeter Orville “Piggy” Minor, a cohort night, but when I’d come home early in the such Kansas City musicians as trumpeter of Bird and a regular in Jay McShann’s morning aer hanging out and playing in Carmell Jones, ’60, who went on to a famed bands. Minor became a mentor for the clubs until dawn, she’d jingle her proli c recording career. ey played the Davis, taking him to jam sessions at Troost tambourine and say, ‘Lord have mercy, student union, where Wilt Chamberlain, Lounge presided over by McShann, the here comes Nathan! He’s been playin’ for ’59, would sit in on conga drums. (Cham- dean of the Kansas City jazz scene. the devil all night. Now he’s gotta come berlain oen had Davis stop by his KUOK “McShann would introduce me, make radio show to talk music, and they me feel good,” Davis says. “One time he remained tight over the years, with Wilt said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, here’s little looking up his old friend when he visited Nathan Davis from over in Kansas, and Paris.) he’s going to play “Cherokee.” One, two, Davis and his band played at segregated three.’” fraternity and sorority parties for whites Davis mimics McShann counting o a and blacks. He recalls shows at the TeePee blistering cadence the young saxophonist ARCHIVES ASSOCIATION ALUMNI KU where he and his bandmates were the only had no hope of matching. blacks allowed in the door. Some of that “I was so shaken up I decided I was changed aer Chamberlain arrived. “I was going to be able to play as fast as anybody there when Wilt went to go to the theatre,” and I went home and worked on it.” To Davis says. “We always had to sit in the this day he’s known for his blazing speed. balcony. He went to the show, they turned at was the line on Davis: Whatever it him away, and that was the end of that. He took—even if it meant soaking a junk must have said something to Phog, trombone in the bathtub for a week to because the next morning, ‘Everyone earn a spot in the marching band—he’d do Welcome.’ We heard it through the it. “My thing was always this: Just tell me grapevine, but it was veri ed in the paper.” the rules,” Davis says. “Let me know what I Segregation based in racism was the

ISSUE 5, 2013 | 37 social norm of the day, greats as Cannonball they’d be doing, the great trumpeter but it didn’t completely Adderley and Chet Baker, hummed a handful of notes. account for jazz’s exclu- then joined the 298th “I said, ‘I don’t think I know that one, sion from the curriculum, Army Band, a showcase Dizzy.’ He said, ‘One, two, three,’ and they Davis believes. “I don’t outt in Berlin. An did it. I watched and listened and played think that was pure arrangement he wrote won my solo and got it while they were going racism; I think it was just the All-Army contest for along. And then a erward Dizzy turned cultural bias, which is Europe, “and a er that it around and said, ‘Now you know another broader than racism.” Jazz Happy Girl, 1965 was civilian clothes and s on g .’” wasn’t taken seriously as USO shows,” Davis recalls. an art form worthy of He taught arranging in the study, he says, but it mornings and was free to y 1969, Davis had a thriving career in wasn’t the only music play the Berlin clubs at Paris. He was playing clubs seven excluded from the night, jamming with Dizzy Bnights a week, touring Europe as a academy. “I mean, they Gillespie drummer Joe leader and sideman, and composing didn’t teach country and Harris and Lionel Hamp- musical scores for state-run radio stations western in colleges ton trumpeter Benny in several countries. He’d released four either.” Bailey. At the end of his studio albums with his own band, starting two-year tour, which was with “Happy Girl” in 1965. Downbeat Rules of Freedom, 1967 extended briey by the rise praised his “boundless enthusiasm” and azz acionados talk of of the Berlin Wall, he “impressive improvisation,” and Cre- Paris in the 1950s and elected to take his separa- scendo hailed him as “constantly inventive, J ’60s as a golden age. tion in Germany. “I got my a restless explorer” who was producing What did it feel like at the discharge at 3:00,” Davis “some of the most invigorating and time? says, “and that night I was inspired sounds on the current Paris jazz “A golden age,” says on the bandstand playing.” scene.” Davis. “at’s why I He soon le for Paris to Headlining nightly at Le Chat Qui s t ay e d .” play for drummer Kenny Peche, one of the famous cave clubs in the Many black musicians “Klook” Clarke, a founding Latin Quarter, Davis performed for movie were eeing discrimina- I’m A Fool To Want You, father of bebop. He would stars and jazz greats such as Elizabeth tion and indierence to 1995 become Davis’ musical Taylor and Miles Davis. their music in America father as well. “It was a hell of a time,” Davis says. for the greater social freedom and rever- Clarke revolutionized jazz drumming in “Why leave that? I wasn’t about to leave ence for jazz Europe oered. Paris became the 1940s while playing with bebop that. I was in hog heaven.” the artistic home for black American pioneers like Charlie Parker, Dizzy en came the call from Pittsburgh, writers and musicians, who formed a Gillespie and elonious Monk. In Paris, enlisting Davis to start a jazz studies thriving black expatriate community. everyone who was anyone stopped by to program at the university. Davis found his way there by the same jam with Clarke and his band. Uncertain what to do, he consulted two route as many of the postwar expatriates— “Dexter Gordon would come in and men he respected highly: Donald Byrd and via military service. play for an hour. Johnny Grin would Clarke. Byrd, an acclaimed trumpeter who Dra ed shortly a er graduation, he show up and they’d both be playing. en had bachelor and master’s degrees and quickly learned that, even in the military, Sonny Criss and Don Byas would show up would later earn his PhD, had been urging music was his ticket. During basic and they’d both play. Davis to return to the states. He’d gone training, he was rescued from a nighttime “Here I am, 23, 24 years old, two years back himself to start a jazz program (the live-re drill a er a colonel roared up in a out of the Army, three years out of KU. second oldest) at Howard University. “He jeep and called him out of the ranks. A Everybody in the world who was a jazz used to write me in ’68 and say, ‘OK, you general was throwing a party and he’d musician wanted to play with him, and I’m gotta come back. ere’s stu going on heard Davis played a mean horn. Could he his saxophone player.” here; stu is opening up.”’ Even Dizzy get a band together for the shindig? Davis recalls a show when Gillespie Gillespie told Davis, “America is where the “I said, ‘Yes sir,’ jumped in the jeep and climbed onstage to play with the band. ght is; you should come back.” But it was said, ‘See you guys.’ I missed the whole “I got ready to move, and Kenny said, Clarke who nally convinced him. thing!” ‘No, you stay up here, Nat, you’re in my “Everyone else was saying don’t do it, you A er basic, Davis attended the Naval b an d .’” won’t t in,” Davis recalls. “But Klook said, School of Music, which nurtured such jazz When he asked Gillespie what tune ‘Go back. Go back and tell the truth about

38 | KANSAS ALUMNI the music. at’s all I ask.’” been about proving the doubters wrong. Davis (who never stopped recording and So Davis returned to set up the jazz His career as a teacher, performer and performing) does: All three oors of his program at Pittsburgh with the under- composer has been a long battle to Pittsburgh-area home, tucked down a long standing that he would teach students champion the music and the musicians. driveway in a shady grove perfect for what he himself had learned about jazz by “e whole thing was about dignity and rehearsing at all hours, brim with horns, playing it. He met resistance from all sides. equality and respect,” Davis says. “When I guitars, utes, pianos and all manner of “e jazz musicians said, ‘You can’t started, you had people making decisions indigenous instruments from around the teach it,’ so they were against it,” Davis about how jazz was going to be taught and globe. He schedules time for each daily. recalls. Academics balked as well. “‘Oh they didn’t know a damn thing about jazz, e karate enthusiast who long ago earned those guys with the reefers and the which means there was no respect there.” a black belt still runs through the kata each whiskey bottles? In higher education?’ So He taught students to hold themselves morning, too: It’s a matter of keeping his you had to ght to nd a place.” and their profession in the same high hand in, his mind and body engaged. Fight he did. Excluded from decision- esteem as other scholars and researchers in “I had a philosophy: On a bad day, if making, he asked why and was told the the university community. To get respect, you walk into a club, you’re gonna say, problem was his lack of a PhD. So he his mother taught him long ago, you’ve got ‘Boy, that guy can really play his horn.’ On earned one, in ethnomusicology at to give respect—so he urged students to a bad day. On a good day you’re gonna say, Wesleyan University, in 1974. He founded respect their music, their instrument, their ‘at guy can play his horn and he a peer-review journal to combat criticism talent. at attitude put him at odds with touched hands with God.’ To do that, you of the lack of serious research in the eld. some proponents of free jazz and inspired really have to really practice your scales, And he was inspired to make the jazz one of his best albums, “e Rules of your arpeggios, your foundation—the seminar an annual event aer overhearing Freedom,” a response to what he saw as a same as a classical musician or anybody a condescending remark during the rst lack of technical mastery that marred else. ere’s no excuse for not being impromptu visit by Art Blakey. some experimental approaches to jazz. technically procient on the instrument. He’d been at Pitt a short time when he “One excuse guys would use playing free “You may have a bad day and don’t got a call from Blakey, jazz, when you point out their touch hands with God, that’s acceptable. with whom he toured in tone was bad, they’d say, ‘Well, I But the other part, no.” 1965. Blakey’s Jazz wanna sound like that. I wanna In retirement, Davis will spend more Messengers were playing sound like a moon racing with the time composing. A duet he wrote for cello Pittsburgh’s Crawford sky,’” Davis says. “Well, then, get a and piano premiered this year at Carnegie Grill, and he asked Davis moon horn and leave the damn Hall, and he’s pondering more pieces that to sit in. saxophone alone!” explore connections between jazz and During the gig, If you play saxophone, learn to classical music. He’ll continue performing, Blakey—like Kenny play it right. Practice religiously. maybe even teach a master class here and Clarke an early pioneer there. He’ll probably pick up another of bebop and an absolute armful of awards to go with the bunch he’s jazz legend—introduced already earned. “e one thing I won’t be his former saxophonist doing,” he says, “is attending faculty and implored his audience to support the meetings. I hate faculty meetings.” new jazz program at Pitt, lending Davis No more academic tussles for Nathan instant credibility with the local jazz (2) STOREY DAN Davis. ose battles have already been community. Davis invited Blakey to bring won. his band to campus to talk and play, and a thousand students and faculty members turned out. He overheard one professor Davis continued to pile up the albums (and the say to another, “ese guys speak really honors) while teaching and touring; he has a intelligently for jazz musicians.” full slate of recording and composing planned e comment angered Davis and for retirement, including an album with his son, spurred him to make the one-o event an Pierre, a drummer; a new classical piece for a annual thing. “What went through my mind at that point was, ‘I’m gonna show Russian ballet company; and a concert at these guys that we’re just as serious as they Kansas City’s American Jazz Museum in April. are about what we do. I’m gonna organize “I’m just going to be freelancing,” he says with this.’ at got us going.” a laugh, “and trying to enjoy my life before I In some ways his whole journey has get out of here.”

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Leaders, innovators through theatre. Floyd, who lives Chapter honors African-American in Harrisburg, Pa., alumni who made their mark was among the rst African-Americans ine alumni whose KU eras span from in the 20th century Nthe 1920s to the 1980s are the 2013 to play on KU’s recipients of the KU Black Alumni football team. He Chapter’s African-American Leaders and won All-Conference Goodseal Floyd Lewis Innovators award. e chapter will honor honors in the Big them Nov. 1 during its biennial reunion. Eight and was e honorees include: co-captain, the rst • Wilbur D. Goodseal, d’53, g’62 black player to serve • Homer C. Floyd, d’61 in this role. Floyd • Chester I. Lewis Jr., c’51, l’53 devoted his career • La Vert Murray, c’71 to civil rights • Julie Robinson, j’78, l’81 enforcement. • Marie Ross, c’44 During the 1960s, • Leslie Meacham Saunders, c’73 he directed the Murray Robinson Ross • Cheryl Warren-Mattox, f’72 Topeka Human • Lynette Woodard, c’81 Relations Commis- Five of the recipients will attend the sion, the Omaha campus events Nov. 1; four will be Human Relations honored posthumously. Board and the “KU has a rich history of accomplish- Kansas Commission ments by its African-American alumni, on Civil Rights. As says chapter president Rita Holmes-Bobo, executive director of b’82, g’84. “Our chapter is in a unique the Pennsylvania position to recognize and acknowledge Human Relations our leaders and innovators, who have Commission from Saunders Warren-Mattox Woodard made their mark in a variety of ways. e 1970 until his Class of 2013 brings our total to 29 retirement in 2011, individuals whom we have honored with he led the resolution of cases that beneted City of Wichita, which refused blacks this award since 2006.” millions of racial minorities, women and admission to the municipal swimming Goodseal, who died Aug. 5 this year, people with disabilities. In 1999 and 2002, pool; and numerous businesses, including distinguished himself during a 42-year he received the U.S. Equal Employment Boeing Aircra, for employment career with the Kansas City, Mo., School Opportunity Commission Outstanding discrimination. District. He achieved local, state and Achievement Award. Murray, of Kansas City, has excelled as a national recognition, including the 1994 Lewis, who died in June 1990, was an leader in economic development. A prestigious Rolland Van Hattum Award attorney and a local, state and national certied economic development profes- from the American Speech-Language and leader in the movement for equality. He sional, he played a major part in bringing Hearing Foundation for his leadership in graduated third in his KU law school class signicant developments to Kansas City creating and implementing curriculum and was a leading campus civil rights and Wyandotte County, including the and cultural awareness programs for activist, president of his fraternity and a Village West/Legends shopping district students from culturally and linguistically member of Student Senate. As an attorney, and four of the top tourist attractions in diverse backgrounds. Goodseal, an avid he challenged racial segregation in the State of Kansas: the Kansas Speedway, supporter of the arts, also performed in Wichita. He successfully sued Wesley Cabela’s, Nebraska Furniture Mart and numerous ensembles to promote the Hospital, which had decreed that black Great Wolf Lodge. He and others orga- arts and community relationships patients could not have private rooms; the nized the city’s rst Martin Luther King Jr.

40 | KANSAS ALUMNI birthday celebration in 1984. and Let’s Get the Rhythm of the Band, woman to play for the Harlem Globetrot- Robinson, who lives in Topeka, ful lled which were honored by the American ters. A er working as an assistant coach her childhood dream of becoming a Library Association and featured on the for the KU women’s basketball team, she lawyer. She served as a law clerk for federal Emmy award-winning PBS children’s played for two years in the WNBA when it bankruptcy judge Benjamin E. Franklin, a program “Reading Rainbow.” She received was created in 1997. When she retired in U.S. assistant prosecutor for the District of a master of arts in music from San 1999, she returned to KU as assistant Kansas, and a judge in the U.S. Bankruptcy Francisco State University. coach and served as interim coach in 2004. Appellate Panel of the 10th District. In Woodard now lives in Houston. She Since 2005, Lynette Woodard has worked 2002, when she was sworn in as the 26th played basketball at KU from 1977 to 1981 as an investment adviser for Cornerstone district judge in the federal district of and was a four-time All-American, Securities. She is a member of 10 di erent Kansas, she became the rst African- averaging 26 points a game and scoring a halls of fame, including the Naismith Hall American woman to serve as a federal school-record 3,649 points during her KU of Fame (2002), Women’s Basketball Hall judge in the state. career. She was the rst KU woman to of Fame (2005), and the African-American In 1927, Ross was the rst black woman have her jersey hung at Allen Field House. Sports Hall of Fame (2006). to enroll in journalism classes at KU. In 1984, she led the U.S. women’s gold- For a list of previous African-American When one of her professors tried to medal Olympic team as captain at the Los Leaders and Innovators and details of the dissuade her from pursuing a career in Angeles Olympic Games. In 1985, she Black Alumni Chapter Reunion Nov. 1-3, journalism by claiming no white newspa- made headlines when she became the rst visit kualumni.org. per would hire her, she brought him examples of many African-American- owned newspapers where she could nd employment. In 1929, she le KU to work as a full-time member of the sta at e Call in Kansas City, Mo. During World War II, she moved to Des Moines to work for the Iowa Bystander. While continuing her career, Ms. Ross completed her undergraduate work to earn her KU diploma in 1944. She returned to e Call in 1959 to serve as manager and editor of Up and Away its Kansas City, Kan., o ce. She died in up, July 2001. Jayhawk Round Saunders, of Roswell, Ga., served as the University’s rst coordinator of special 6:30 p.m. projects/assistant director of admissions and helped lay the foundation for what is Saturday, November 2, 2013 now the KU Black Alumni Chapter. She was the executive director of Kaw Valley Murﬁ n Stables Girl Scout Council and one of the young- 14515 E. 13th North, Wichita, KS est executive directors in the Girl Scouts’ (13th and 143rd streets) national history. For her innovative approach to managing the organization, the IBM Corp. recognized her as one of Register online the nation’s top 1 percent among and look for event nonpro t leaders. She is now president information at of LMS Management Consulting in www.kualumni.org/ Roswell. jayhawkroundup Warren-Mattox died in February 2006 or contact Lynn Loveland at a er a career as a renowned classical 316-308-3515, pianist, composer and arranger. She also or [email protected] hosted a radio show, taught elementary- school music and, with her husband, wrote Please respond by two critically acclaimed children’s books. Friday, October 18, 2013 Shake It to the One at You Love the Best

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he Association’s annual summer tour Tincluded 112 events and attracted DAN STOREY (5) STOREY DAN more than 12,000 Jayhawks. Alumni cruised the harbor of Charleston, S.C., on The Schooner Pride, sampled wines in San Francisco and visited the Chicago History Museum for a reception and summer exhibition. In Kansas, alumni and friends savored Kansas fare at the Salina Steakout, and thousands converged on Corinth Square in Prairie Village for the traditional fall kicko celebration.

Charleston Harbor Cruise San Francisco Winery Tour

Black Alumni Chapter in Chicago

Salina Steakout KC Kicko

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he Association thanks these Jayhawks, who began their Life Tmemberships July 1 through Aug. 31. For information, visit kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957. Danielle Adam Richard W. Hall Wendi K. Albert Christopher A. & Ellie Heath Jonathan I. & Jody Allison Oscar C. Herrman Joshua A. Baden Kristen A. Hodnik Ashley Reynolds Barta John F. Humphreys Scott L. & Deann Rahija Patricia L. Hunter Bingaman Thomas M. & Linda Diane Douglas E. Boland Jindra Robert M. & Stephani C. Boyd Joshua S. & Leslie P. Katz After working as a student intern and leading the Student Alumni Leslie E. Branz Sarah J. Keeny Leadership Board as president, Tyler Rockers, d’13, joined the Laura E. Bronson Thomas J. Kennedy Association full-time sta in August as alumni programs coordinator. Amy L. Brown E. Paul Kerens Paige Pendarvis Hofer, d’90, is the new student programs coordinator. Leslie D. Brown Stephanie Bingman Kice She previously served as a sorority adviser and for eight years she Morgan K. Brunelli Brian E. Konie volunteered for the Lawrence Schools Foundation, serving as president Charles W. Bryan Matthew G. Koontz and event coordinator. Kendra E. Buscho Michael G. & Pam Koontz Katie A. Cevera Robert G. Kuller Kevin D. & Karen Cunningham Allan W. Kurki Cook Richard E. & Alma Moreno Creighton D. Coover Lahm Brandon S. & Alaina Nesmith Elizabeth A. Lembeck Cunningham Sean M. Leon Robert W. Dammann Jr. & Marti Nixon Levy Rose S. Dammann Randall K. Liefer Jana L. Dawson Lance A. Luther Kyle R. Derstler Sheila C. & John N. John C. Devins Maksimowicz Emily M. Ellison Kelly K. Marshall Mitchell F. & Susan A. Escher Jeery A. & Nona Duerksen Charles D. & Cheryl J. Mason Everhart David R. Masoner Raymond J. Felbinger Anthony S. Mattingly Edward C. Fensholt Brett D. McClellan Angela Mills Filardi Scott D. & Kathryn Goodson Elaine Flory Fleenor McLaren Molly J. Fogarty Rusty L. Monhollon & Sonja L. Michael D. Fonkert Erickson Michael P. Foulston Max S. & Karlin S. Morris Brian L. Francis Charles E. Neal II & Sally L. Mark L. Garrett Neal John M. & Tara Tarwater Gatti David N. O’Brien Robert W. Givens Erin L. O’Grady Meghan C. Gockel Perry L. & Joyce Parks Perkins Jessica Casterline Gregory Robert L. Phelps II & Mary Herbert C. Gwaltney Ann Phelps Suni K. Haberland Kevin L. Randell Megan Randall Hall continued on page 44

ISSUE 5, 2013 | 43 Association continued from page 43 Timothy T. & Melanie L. Everything we do strengthens KU. Your member- Mary L. Ray Trump ship in the KU Alumni Association is the single most powerful way DeRoy L. Rogge John P. Warren to make all of KU stronger, including the value of your own degree. Sonja M. Ryan Samuel M. & Tanya M. n DIRECTORS TO 2018 Barbara Schell Rodecker Wendt Board of Directors John W. Ballard III, b’73, Overland Park, n Amy Schmidt Janice Keller Williams CHAIR Kansas Matthew H. Schons Kenneth L. & Diane Eatwell Je Kennedy, j’81, Wichita Aaron R. Brinkman, j’98, Dallas, Texas Sarah B. Schwyhart Williams n CHAIR-ELECT Debi Dennis Duckworth, d’79, Houston, Ann Burrows Seymour Ellen Sexton Wingenter Camille Bribiesca Nyberg, c’96, g’98, Texas Albert I. Shank Jr. Edward Wolcott Wichita Jill Simpson Miller, d’01, Webb City, Jason M. Spencer Andrea L. Wolf Missouri n EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Elizabeth Knight Spotts David S. & Mary Connolly Ray D. Evans, b’82, g’84, Leawood Jerry D. Skillett, b’81, Altadena, Jennifer Young Sprague Wooding Je Kennedy, j’81, Wichita California Cory D. Starr Dee M. Woods Douglas C. Miller, b’71, l’74, James E. Sumaya Kyle J. Young Mission Hills Administrative Sta Kenneth J. Swadley Sr. Sandy Zook Debbie Foltz Nordling, d’79, Hugoton n PRESIDENT Camille Bribiesca Nyberg, c’96, g’98, Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 Wichita n ALUMNI CENTER Richard E. Putnam, c’77, l’80, Timothy E. Brandt, b’74, Director of Omaha, Nebraska Adams Alumni Center Scott R. Seyfarth, b’83, Hinsdale, Illinois n ALUMNI, STUDENT & MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS n DIRECTORS TO 2014 Michael Davis, d’84, g’91, Senior Douglas C. Miller, b’71, l’74, Vice President for Donor and Mission Hills Membership Programs Debbie Foltz Nordling, d’79, Hugoton Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09, Camille Bribiesca Nyberg, c’96, g’98, Vice President of Alumni Programs Members of the Dallas, Texas Richard E. Putnam, c’77, l’80, n COMMUNICATIONS Presidents Club provide Omaha, Nebraska David Johnston, j’94, g’06, Director annual gi s of $1,000 or more Larry D. Stoppel, c’73, Washington of Internet Services and Marketing Chris Lazzarino, j’86, Associate to support the Association’s n DIRECTORS TO 2015 Editor, Kansas Alumni magazine Paul L. Carttar, c’76, Lawrence work in building a powerful Jennifer Sanner, j’81, Senior Vice Scott R. Seyfarth, b’83, Hinsdale, President for Communications and network of alumni and friends Illinois Corporate Secretary Brenda Marzett Vann, c’71, g’72, to strengthen the Susan Younger, f’91, Creative Director Kansas City University. Je L. Wolfe, b’83, Meridian, Idaho n DEVELOPMENT Angela Storey, b’04, g’07, n DIRECTORS TO 2016 Associate Development Director James Bredfeldt, c’70, m’74, Bellevue, Washington n FINANCE John Jeter, c’77, m’81, Hays Jodi Nachtigal, Controller Shelle Hook McCoy, d’73, Topeka Dwight Parman, Senior Vice Lori Anderson Piening, b’92, Austin, President for Finance and Human Texas Resources and Treasurer For more information, visit Mark Randall, j’03, Englewood, n HOSPITALITY SERVICES www.kualumni.org or contact Colorado Bryan Greve, Senior Vice President Angie Storey, KU Endowment, n DIRECTORS TO 2017 for Hospitality [email protected] Donald R. Brada, c’61, m’65, Lawrence n LEGACY RELATIONS or 785-832-7483. Luke B. Bobo, e’82, Ballwin, Joy Larson Maxwell, c’03, j’03, Director Missouri n Kevin E. Carroll, assoc., Palm Beach RECORDS Bill Green, Senior Vice President for Gardens, Florida Information Services Marci K. Deuth, e’05, Washington, D.C. Stefanie Shackelford, Vice President for Gregory E. Ek, b’76, Overland Park Alumni Records

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by Karen Goodell Class Notes

Robert Kenney, e’52, will be entire 1960 U.S. Olympic team was Robert Wuthnow, b’68, was elected 52 inducted in October into the Kansas enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall 68 to the American Philosophical Sports Hall of Fame in Wichita. He was a of Fame in 2010. Al and Barbara Hampton Society. He’s a professor of sociology and member of the 1952 KU basketball Kelley, ’56, live in Lawrence. director of the Center for the Study of national championship team, the 1952 Religion at Princeton University in Olympic gold medal team and the 1955 William Oborny, d’56, received the Princeton, N.J. Pan American Games. Bob lives in 56 2013 Kiwanis Award for Outstand- Scottsdale, Ariz. ing Citizenship earlier this year in Marys- Michael Delaney, c’69, l’76, is a William Lienhard, b’52, will be inducted ville. He was a teacher, assistant superin- 69 retired partner at Spencer Fane Britt in October into the Kansas Sports Hall of tendent, superintendent of USD 364 and and Browne. He and Kathleen Gibbons Fame in Wichita. He played on the 1952 was active on many Marysville boards and Delaney, c’82, live in Overland Park. KU national championship basketball committees. team and on the 1952 Olympic gold medal John Lungstrum, l’70, received the team. Bill and Jeanine Joseph Lienhard, Larry Welch, c’58, l’61, wrote 70 American Inns of Court Profession- assoc., live in Lawrence. 58 Beyond Cold Blood: e KBI from alism Award for the 10th Circuit earlier Ma Barker to BTK, which was named a this year. He’s a senior judge on the U.S. Allen Kelley, d’54, will be inducted 2013 Kansas Notable Book by the State District Court, and he lives in Lawrence 54 in October into the Kansas Sports Library of Kansas. Larry, former director with Linda Ewing Lungstrum, c’69, c’70. Hall of Fame in Wichita. He played of the KBI, lives in Lawrence. Kenneth Salyer, m’70, wrote A Life at basketball for KU from 1952 to 1954 and Matters: Transforming Faces, Renewing was an Olympic gold medalist in 1960. e Gary Underhill, c’59, former Lives, which was published earlier this 59 president of Underhill Interna- year. Kenneth, founder and chairman of tional, makes his home in Laguna Beach, the World Craniofacial Foundation, lives Calif., with Dolores Arn Underhill, d’59. in Dallas. School Codes Letters that follow names indicate the school from which alumni earned Bryan Shewmake, c’65, e’70, g’71, Kathy Kirk, d’71, was named degrees. Numbers show their class years. 65 and his wife, Cheryl, completed a 71 treasurer and Eagles chair for the cruise from Los Angeles to Sidney, Kansas Association of Justice. She prac- a School of Architecture, Design and Planning Australia, that included a stop in Ameri- tices law with Jerry Levy Law O ces in b School of Business can Samoa. ey have now visited all ve Lawrence. c College of Liberal Arts U.S. territories, all 50 states and Washing- and Sciences ton, D.C. ey live in Blairsden, Calif. Chris Dunﬁeld, c’72, recently d School of Education Gregs Thomopulos, e’65, chairman of 72 became a Municipal Court judge in e School of Engineering Stanley Consultants, was elected chairman Corvallis, Ore., where he and Dianne f School of Fine Arts of the American Council of Engineering Scifres Dunﬁeld, c’72, make their home. g Master’s Degree h School of Health Professions Companies. He and his wife, Mettie, live in j School of Journalism Iowa City, Iowa. Michelle Vaughan Buchanan, c’73, l School of Law 73 was named director of the Chemical m School of Medicine David Burckhalter, c’66, wrote Baja and Analytical Sciences Division at the n School of Nursing 66 California Missions: In the Footsteps Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge p School of Pharmacy of the Padres, which was published earlier National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn. PharmD School of Pharmacy this year by the University of Arizona She and her husband, A.C., make their s School of Social Welfare u School of Music Press. He lives in Tucson and also took home in Knoxville. DE Doctor of Engineering some of the photographs that appear in David Healy, j’73, serves as president of DMA Doctor of Musical Arts the book. National Capital Area Garden Clubs and EdD Doctor of Education as a director of National Garden Clubs, PhD Doctor of Philosophy Ivan Goldman, g’67, wrote Sick Inc. He and his husband, William Dean, (no letter) Former student 67 Justice: Inside the American Gulag, live in Washington, D.C. assoc Associate member of the published by Potomac Books. He lives in Alumni Association Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., with his wife, Rick Kendall, j’76, is branch man- Connie. 76 ager of Wells Fargo Advisors in

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Bloomington, Ill. Joe Morrison, c’79, g’84, is a Kermit Daniel, c’82, recently became Kenneth Stone, j’76, won rst place for 79 vice president and senior analyst chief analytics o cer at Context Matters in feature writing earlier this year in the San at Moody’s Investors Service in New York City. Diego Society of Professional Journalists Hong Kong. contest. He and his wife, Chris, live in La Douglas Shane, e’83, has been Mesa. Bill Graves, ’80, is president and 83 appointed executive vice president 80 chief executive o cer of the and general manager of Virgin Galactic’s Margaret LeFlore, c’77, joined the American Trucking Association in Spaceship Company in Mojave, Calif. 77 board of directors at Family Services Arlington, Va. He was inducted into the Inc. in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. KU Hospital Hall of Fame for his role MARRIED in supporting legislation creating the KU Natalie Ellis, d’83, to Mark Drake, July 7 Mark Boyer, j’78, is president of Hospital Authority while he was governor in Danforth Chapel. She’s an instructional 78 Tippin’s Gourmet Foods in Kansas of Kansas. resource teacher in Olathe, where they City. Thomas, b’80, and Teresa Keith Walsh, live. Lawrence Heaney, g’78, PhD’80, is assoc., are co-chairs of Silpada Designs in curator and head of the division of Lenexa, where she is also a director. Craig Nauta, b’84, is foundation mammals at the Field Museum in 84 director of the Texas Society of Chicago. Sheila “Katie” Conboy, c’81, recently CPAs in Dallas. He and Jill Pearson Nauta, Marc Jasperson, b’78, recently became 81 became provost and senior vice ’87, live in Plano. executive director of Habitat for Humanity president of Simmons College in Boston. Robert Wolcott, j’84, is an educational in Lawrence. specialist at the College Board in Boston. Betty McKenzie, n’78, recently became Barbara Bichelmeyer, j’82, c’86, clinical supervisor at the Mid Kansas 82 g’88, PhD’92, serves as interim Terry Bryant, c’86, j’86, g’00, Women’s Center in Wichita, where she chancellor at Indiana University Southeast 86 accepted a nine-month appoint- lives. in New Albany, Ind. ment as professorial lecturer at American

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University in Washington, D.C. His home is in Lawrence. Todd Cohen, c’89, j’89, directs Shane Bangerter, l’91, has been Roger Graham, b’86, is president of 89 communication and outreach for 91 appointed to the Kansas Board of Mylan Speciality in Canonsburg, Pa. the Great Outdoors Colorado Trust Fund. Regents. He’s a member of the Dodge City James Moise, e’86, is senior vice He and Stacy Smith Cohen, j’91, g’08, law rm of Rebein, Bangerter, Rebein. president and chief sourcing ocer at PhD’11, live in Westminister. Jerey Davis, a’91, is vice president of Fih ird Bank Corporation in David Morse, g’89, was elected vice development at L&L Holding Company in Cincinnati. president of the California Community New York City. He lives in Millburn, N.J. Colleges’ Academic Senate. He’s a profes- Scott Schuetz, b’91, is vice president of Brig. Gen. Richard Hayes, c’87, was sor of English at Long Beach City College. growth delivery and operations at e 87 appointed assistant adjutant general Phoenix Companies in Hartford, Conn. of the Illinois National Guard. He lives in Jana Gregory Dawson, j’90, is a Thomas Thompson, c’91, g’93, is chief Bualo Grove. 90 business-development strategist for operating ocer at Bloom eld Knoble in Jennifer Gardner Love, j’87, is chief Miller Meiers in Lawrence. Irving, Texas. He lives in Rockwall. member relations ocer for the Kansas William Fowler, c’90, directs marketing John Westfall, m’91, g’93, recently City Chamber of Commerce. and client service for American Realty became chief medical ocer of Colorado Tammy Steele Norton, b’87, recently Advisors in Chicago. Healthop. He’s a clinical professor of became a managing director of Alvarez & Philip Michelbach, c’90, g’93, taught family medicine at the University of Marsal. She lives in Long Grove, Ill. American politics and culture this Colorado, and he lives in Greenwood Marie Parker Strahan, l’87, practices law summer at the University of Potsdam, Village with his wife, Audrey Yee, m’91. in Lawrence. Germany. He’s an associate professor of political science at West Virginia Univer- Susan Frantz, g’92, received the Kenneth Sewell, g’88, PhD’91, has sity in Morgantown. 92 American Psychological Associa- 88 been appointed vice president for Kris Wittenberg, c’90, is CEO and tion’s Excellence in the Scholarship of research and economic development at the founder of SayNoMore! Promotions/Be Teaching and Learning Award. She’s a University of New Orleans. Good to People in Eagle, Colo. professor at Highline Community College,

52 | KANSAS ALUMNI and she lives in Renton, Wash. Andrew Hodges, j’93, l’96, has a private Cynthia Cogil, e’95, directs engi- Gina Meier-Hummel, s’92, s’97, is a law practice in Greenwood, S.C. 95 neering for SmithGroupJJR in commissioner of community services for Chicago. the Kansas Department of Aging and Michael Berblinger, g’94, recently Disability in Topeka. She lives in 94 became superintendent of USD 313 Chadwick Ball, c’96, p’01, is a Lawrence. in Buhler, where he and Sarah Larson 96 pharmacist at CVS. He lives in Jack Yeo, j’92, recently became senior Berblinger, j’85, make their home. Derby. vice president at FleishmanHillard Brad Estes, d’94, directs wind Bart Peters, c’96, is a geolocation International Communications in operations for BTI Wind Energy in specialist at BIT Systems in Aurora, Colo. Chicago. Greensburg. Jerey Mayo, j’94, serves as president William DeWitt, c’97, g’09, recently Christopher Beal, c’93, is an of the Oklahoma Press Association. He’s 97 became assistant principal and 93 associate with Dillon & Gerardi in associate publisher and general manager of athletics director of Lawrence High Carlsbad, Calif. the Sequoyah County Times in Sallisaw. School.

PROFILE by Lydia Benda

New business revives says Wittenberg. “You can’t be core values wearing a Be Good to People shirt and be rude to somebody;

ntrepreneur Kris Wagner Wittenberg you just can’t.” KRIS WITTENBERG COURTESY Eturned a rude encounter in 2008 into Although Wittenberg says her a kindness epidemic with one simple company gives away more phrase: Be Good to People. products than it sells, Be Good to “I just remember saying, ‘Why can’t People o cially allocates 5 people just be good to people? How hard percent of revenues to reward is that?’” says Wittenberg, c’90, of the kindness worldwide, provide tide-changing event. “As soon as the words classroom supplies for teachers, le my mouth, I thought, ‘I’m going to put and support kindness events, like that on a T-shirt.’” e Kindness Center’s 24 Hours Kris Wagner Wittenberg says being good to people is President and CEO of the Eagle, Colo., of Kindness, which include easy: “Teeny tiny little things can change somebody’s day product company SayNoMore! Promo- deliveries of owers and meals. around, and you never know where that kindness is going tions, Wittenberg channeled her frustra- When she travels, Wittenberg to go from there. “ tion into founding Be Good to People, a gives shirts to benevolent gate company that seeks to “change the world, agents or travelers. one person, one kind act, at a time.” Oen, the good comes full circle. situation—‘Is that being good to people, or e economic downturn nearly halted Wittenberg has seen people from Kansas is that not being good to people?’—and he Wittenberg’s eorts to get Be Good to City to San Lucas, Mexico, wearing the could make that call.” People o the ground until she attended a shirts. She’s heard of people taking o their Be Good to People has changed Witten- stressful meeting wearing one of her shirts. own shirts to give to those who need or berg’s life immensely, too, and she is “e meeting went horribly, but I had like them. “We need this. People need this. thankful for the opportunity be a part of several people ask me where I got my And it really resonates with pretty much something greater. “Maybe it’s just because shirt. e next day, we kicked it into gear,” everyone,” Wittenberg says. I’m getting older and this is my time in she says. She hopes to grow Be Good to People to life,” she says, “but I really feel like there is Now “Be Good to People” is spread include a curriculum for schools and to a shi going on in the world, and as much across unassuming black and white shirts, encourage kids to proudly wear the as there is hatred and anger and intoler- hats, coee mugs and other daily items to message. “What’s beautiful about Be Good ance, I also feel that there is a vast, vast remind people to, well, be good to people. to People is it’s a message that everybody amount of good that is erupting and “Having that very simple message around understands,” Wittenberg says. “When my spreading and it’s very powerful. It wins all you causes you to pause before you react,” son was 2, I could ask him about a when you’re kind.”

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David Morantz, j’98, l’05, was MARRIED and Sarah Mahoney Kennedy, c’01, live in 98 selected as legislative chair of the Molly McNearney, j’00, to Jimmy Olathe. Kansas Association for Justice. He’s an Kimmel, July 13 in Ojai, Calif. ey live in Hesse McGraw, f’02, has been associate member of Shamberg, Johnson & Los Angeles, and Molly is head writer at appointed vice president for exhibitions Bergman in Kansas City. Jimmy Kimmel Live! and public programs at the San Francisco Art Institute. BORN TO: David Mitchell, c’01, g’03, is a Brady Pollington, c’02, recently became Tisha Ritter Armatys, d’99, and 01 visiting assistant professor at Indiana economic development project manager 99 Michael, daughter, Dylan Genelle, University’s school of public and environ- for the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. Jan. 15 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she mental aairs in Indianapolis. Brian Powers, b’02, is a so ware joins a sister, Peyton, 5. John Stinnett, e’01, works as a process developer for Gallup Inc. in Omaha, Neb. engineer with Harris Group Inc. He lives Diana Toman, l’02, was promoted to vice Zora Mulligan AuBuchon, g’00, in Sachse, Texas. president, assistant general counsel and 00 l’03, is executive director of the assistant secretary at General Cable in Missouri Community College Association. BORN TO: Highland Heights, Ky. She lives in Jeerson City. Beth Wagoner Traynor, c’01, and Mark Wiles, m’02, is medical director John Gates, l’00, is a partner with Christopher, son, Carl John Micah, Feb. 14 and a primary care physican at Immanuel Baty, Holm, Numrich & Otto in in Lincoln, Neb. Pathways in Council Blus, Iowa. Kansas City. BORN TO: Seth Homan, j’00, g’04, chairs the Gerald “Lee” Cross, c’02, was Brett McClellan, c’02, and Ashley, son, Metro Denver Economic Development 02 selected membership chair of the Spencer Dudley, Jan. 18 in Dallas, where Corporation Professionals. He’s deputy Kansas Association for Justice. He’s he joins a brother, Brooks, 5. city manager of Lone Tree, Colo. founder and managing member of Cross Chandler, b’02, and Reina Rodriguez Javier Perez, s’00, is a high-school Law Firm in Westwood. Poore, c’05, daughter, Gabriella, April 13 principal with AuSable Valley Central Christopher Kennedy, e’02, is a senior in Stilwell, where she joins a sister, Elliot, School District in Keeseville, N.Y. sta so ware engineer with ARRIS. He who’s nearly 2.

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September 29–October 5 Join the Jayhawks for the 101st-annual Homecoming celebration in Lawrence! With more than 20 events on and o campus, it is sure to be an exciting week.

Don’t miss the parade, 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, downtown Lawrence, featuring Grand Marshal Brian McClendon, e’86, co-creator of Google Earth.

To view the full schedule, visit www.homecoming.ku.edu #kuhomecoming Aaron Edwards, j’03, recently Eagle Outtters in Ottawa. director at the University of Phoenix, and 03 became vice president of business Jana Smoot White, j’03, c’03, is an she’s a user interface designer at Sprint development at Plattform in Lenexa. associate at Gunderson Palmer Nelson & Nextel. ey live in St. Louis. Josh Henningsen, c’03, joined South & Ashmore in Rapid City, S.D. Associates as an associate attorney. He BORN TO: lives in Omaha, Neb. MARRIED Megan Wood, s’03, and Kevin, son, Jack Mary Mothershead Kaiser, b’03, Stephanie Russell, d’03, to Scott Simon, Paul, April 8 in Manchester, N.H. eir manages human resources at PayneCrest Dec. 15 in Kansas City. She is a physical family includes a daughter, Emma, 2, and Electric and Communications in St. Louis. therapist at Marquette Physical erapy in they live in Bedford. Patrick Wenke, e’03, is vice president of De Soto and at the Olathe Medical Center. business intelligence at Uhlig LLC in He’s a technical service manager for ADM Harlan Altman, b’04, is a director at Overland Park. He and Sara Hernandez in Overland Park, where they live. 04 Cushman & Wakeeld in Dallas, Wenke, b’03, live in Lawrence. She’s senior Adam Wright, c’03, and Lisa Kennedy, where he and Kayla Hu man Altman, j’05, manager of human resources at American f’03, May 11 in Kansas City. He’s a campus live.

PROFILE by David Garfield

Weatherman sets legacy home to raise his family. He coached for loyalty in Sylvan Grove football for 38 years (until 2011), boys’ basketball for six years and girls’ basketball MIKE WEATHERMAN COURTESY from 1985 to 2012. He compiled a 267-113 ike Weatherman was an Elkhart record in football and won 550 games in Mninth-grader when he started basketball. coaching youth baseball and knew that it His Mustangs were the state’s winningest would be his profession. At KU, where he football program in the 1990s and studied physical education under such Weatherman’s eight straight trips to the inuential mentors as Bob Lockwood, girls’ state tournament was one year shy of d’61, his passion for coaching only grew. tying the state record. Aer teaching and coaching basketball Other opportunities came his way as in Lakin for two years, Weatherman, Weatherman continued to win games and d’72, in 1974 accepted a job as head championships, but he chose to bypass football coach and teacher at Sylvan bigger coaching jobs. He loved the “Friday Mike Weatherman coached players to respect Unied (now Sylvan-Lucas). He has lived Night Lights” atmosphere, and says living details. “That goes a long way in everything, in Sylvan Grove ever since. Recognized as in central Kansas allowed him to both visit not just football,” says former QB and current one of the best multi-sport coaches in family in Elkhart in the southwest and Sylvan-Lucas football coach Ben Labertew. Kansas, Weatherman led teams to ve attend KU games in Lawrence. His wife, state championships: three in eight-man Kathy, also had a longtime career at the football and two in girls’ basketball. bank. “I always had so many good kids “I had a lot of dedicated kids and I coming back,” he says, “it’s hard to walk father-son duos in football. demanded discipline, and the kids bought away.” “You just don’t see guys stay in one place into it,” he says. “A lot gave everything they Weatherman, 64, who served as mayor as I have,” Weatherman says. had. I have a lot of kids coaching right for 10 years and also coached track and e eighth-winningest coach in Kansas now, having success because they took the baseball, continues to coach golf and high school football history knows how things we did and put them to work.” substitute teach while spending more time he’d like to be remembered: Weatherman was attracted to Sylvan with his two kids and three grandchildren. “ at I was pretty dedicated. at’s all Grove because he could coach football He calls himself the “luckiest person in the I’ve ever done. I’ve enjoyed it. I tried to be while also pursuing his passion for shing world” to fulll his professional dreams in loyal to the kids and school.” at Wilson Lake. Once there, Weatherman Sylvan Grove while inuencing genera- —Gar eld, c’88, is a Lawrence realized immediately that he had found a tions of athletes by coaching many freelance writer.

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Ryane Kelly Delka, ’04, is co-president of Silpada Designs in Lenexa. Kandace Creel Falcon, c’04, recently became a trustee of the Blandin Founda- tion. She’s an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Minnesota State University in Moorhead. Andrew Marso, j’04, won rst place in the project and investigative reporting category at the Great Plains Journalism Awards in Tulsa, Okla. He’s a reporter for the Topeka Capital-Journal, and he lives in Lawrence. Edward Shafer, c’04, d’06, EdD’13, is director of theatre for Olathe USD 233. He and Meghann Martin Shafer, g’08, live in Kansas City. Anita Gilpin Strohm, j’04, supervises accounts for Crossroads. She and her husband, Bob, live in Kansas City.

Andrew Belot, c’05, g’13, works as a 05 nancial adviser for Morgan Stanley in Washington, D.C. His home is in Arlington, Va. Lauren Brownrigg Esbensen, d’05, is associate athletic director and senior woman administrator at Paci c University in Forest Grove, Ore. Ashley Stallbaumer Pierson, c’05, m’09, practices medicine with Women’s Health Group in Lafayette, Colo.

BORN TO: Stephanie Kroemer Arribas, b’05, and Jason, c’06, daughter, Elizabeth Ellie, April 28 in Lee’s Summit, Mo.

Jennifer Ebel, a’06, is a senior 06 transit planner for the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority in Burnsville. She lives in Minneapolis. Stacey Knowles, j’06, manages plasma sales for McKesson Plasma & Biologics. She lives in Omaha, Neb. Brandon, c’06, and Kayla Buehler Lundgren, d’08, g’11, celebrated their rst anniversary Aug. 25. He’s a captain in the U.S. Army, and she’s a physical therapist at Good Samaritan Hospital. ey live in Puyallup, Wash. Meghan Miller, j’06, works as a content development assistant with the Seattle Storm women’s basketball team.

58 | KANSAS ALUMNI Lacy Szuwalski, d’06, volunteers with nia Norman Lear Center, and she’s an Ritchie Price, c’08, is an assistant the Peace Corps in Gambia, where she account executive at Myriad Travel baseball coach at KU. He lives in Lawrence works with teachers to encourage reading Marketing Agency. ey make their home with his wife, Katie. and literacy in their classes. in Los Angeles. Meghann Martin Shafer, g’08, teaches in Park Hill, Mo. She lives in Kansas City BORN TO: Diane Basore Borys, e’08, is a with her husband, Edward, c’04, d’06, g’13. Mark, c’06, and Emily Huhines 08 senior lighting designer for Michael Caitlin Von Liski, c’08, g’11, is a career Webster, j’06, daughter, Caroline Kate, Wall Engineering in San Diego. counselor and coach with the University of April 14 in Leawood. John Comerford, PhD’08, lives in Texas Alumni Association in Austin. Carlinville, Ill., where he’s president of Olivia Pfannenstiel, b’07, g’08, is a Blackburn College. MARRIED 07 senior nancial reporting analyst Ryan Glessner, e’08, is a civil engineer Julie Dreier, f’08, to Darren Pappas, for Ascend Learning. She lives in Olathe. with Young & Associates. He makes his June 8 in Columbia, Mo. She teaches home in Derby. middle-school and high-school choir in MARRIED Matthew Goble, j’08, c’08, l’11, was Mexico, Mo., and he’s a social-studies Christopher Wheatley, c’07, to Jenna promoted to captain in the U.S. Army. He teacher at Mexico Middle School. Markowick, May 25 in Moorpark, Calif. is stationed at Camp Casey, South Korea. Jay Kasten, d’08, to May Kammer He manages nance and oce administra- Sur Ah Hahn, s’08, Phd’13, is an Avant, June 1 in Mountain Brook, Ala. tion at the University of Southern Califor- assistant professor of social work at He’s senior operations director for Western Carolina University in Cullo- Bruno Event Team, and they live in whee, N.C. Birmingham. Christopher Kelliher, b’08, manages Jayme Lisher, d’08, to Blake Savage, strategic sourcing for Oldcastle Materials Dec. 15 in Lawrence, where she teaches in Stilwell. physical education at Free State High Kelsey Walsh Perry, c’08, j’08, is School. He works for Burlington Northern co-president of Silpada Designs in Lenexa. Santa Fe Railway.

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Brennan Bechard, d’09, was ey live in Wichita, where he’s an auditor South Dakota in Vermillion. 09 promoted to director of basketball at BKD and she’s an associate attorney at Drew Heidrick, c’10, works for IBT. His operations at KU. He lives in Lawrence. Hinkle Law Firm. home is in Lawrence. David Chon, c’09, g’13, is a research Bradley Eland, b’09, g’11, and Laura Travis Messer, d’10, g’13, is a physical associate at the University of Kansas Frizell, c’09, j’09, May 25. ey live in therapist with Pinnacle erapy. He lives School of Medicine in Wichita. Lawrence, where he’s director of academic in Wellsville. Richard, c’09, and Brittany Dodson programs for the KU Alumni Association Melissa Malone Veltri, c’10, works as a Davis, ’11, live in Wellington, Fla., with and she’s an account coordinator with geologist at Schlumber. She and her their son, Milo, 1. Richard is a senior Callahan Creek. husband, Kevin, d’07, live in Richmond, associate with Greenstein and Associates. Melissa Farr, c’09, to Steven Lewis, June Texas. Nathan Mack, c’09, works as a U.S. 28 in Kansas City. She’s a nurse at St. Luke’s Chris Worley, c’10, c’11, works as an Midwest regional admissions counselor at Hospital, and he’s a senior soware administrative assistant in the environ- Franklin College Switzerland in New York engineer at Cerner. ey make their home mental studies program oce at KU. City. in Prairie Village. Jade Martin, c’09, l’13, is an associate at Tara Simmons, g’09, to Jacob Yost, June BORN TO: Klenda Austerman. She lives in Wichita. 22 in Topeka, where they live. She’s a James, g’10, PhD’10, and Angela Wendy Yung, c’09, s’11, s’13, works as a physical-education teacher with USD 450 Verbenec McGuire, c’10, son, James, Dec. targeted case manager at Community in Shawnee Heights, and he’s a HVAC 27 in Shawnee. James is a medical writer Living Opportunities in Lawrence. technician with the P1 Group. for PRA International, and Angela is a Tri n Zecy, e’09, was promoted to human-resources specialist with YRC senior project manager at Paric Corp. in Lauren Cunningham, j’10, is a Freight. St. Louis. 10 communications specialist at the Washington University Foundation in Samuel Daube, c’11, is a marketing MARRIED Topeka. 11 specialist with Dish Network. He Stephen Burtin, b’09, g’12, and Jessica Chad Gerber, d’10, works as an athletic makes his home in Denver. Shannon, j’09, l’12, June 22 in Lawrence. academic adviser at the University of Jennifer Kirmer, c’11, works as a digital

60 | KANSAS ALUMNI archivist at Washington University in St. Frank Young, b’11, is a media buyer at Amanda Akin, b’12, g’13, is an Louis. She lives in St. Peters. Adknowledge. He lives in Leawood. 12 assurance associate at Pricewater- Staci Klinginsmith, b’11, was crowned houseCoopers in Chicago. Miss Kansas USA earlier this year She’s an MARRIED Sparkle Ellison, l’12, works as a patent analyst for Cerner in Kansas City. Maggie Sealright, c’11, and Spencer attorney at Boulware & Valoir in Houston. Nicolas Miller, c’11, works as an account Lamborn, ’11, June 15 in the Virgin Sara Miller, j’12, is an associate producer services representative for Security Bene t Islands. She studies medicine at KU at e Sing-O. She lives in Los Angeles. in Topeka. School of Medicine, and he’s nishing his Michael Plagge, b’12, is a sta accoun- Kathleen O’Neill, d’11, g’13, teaches paramedic certi cation at Johnson County tant at Ernst & Young. math and science at St. James Academy in Community College. ey make their Lenexa. home in Kansas City. MARRIED Mathew Shepard, c’11, is an assistant Jordan Watson, d’11, and Kimberly Self, Joseph Brown, c’12, and Kelsie Lange, director of student life at Loyola University e’12, June 1 in La Selva Beach, Calif. ey s’12, March 23 in Lawrence. ey live in in Baltimore. live in San Jose. Littleton, Colo.

PROFILE by Kate Lorenz

Attorney relishes appeal season. She contributed on

of semi-pro tackle football special teams and subbed at LARA GUSCOTT COURTESY receiver when the Tribe was ara Guscott works as a research “ahead by a million points.” Lattorney on the Kansas Court of She improved quickly, Appeals. But for a few months each spring, becoming a rst-team Guscott boasts a second occupation: slot All-American the following receiver and kicker for the Kansas City year, when she also began Titans, a women’s semi-professional tackle working as an attorney for football team. Judge G. Joseph Pierron of American football has led Guscott—a the Kansas Court of Appeals. Canadian—around the world and back Pierron, l’71, was initially home. Last fall, she drove 17 hours from nervous about hiring a Kansas City for national football team football player, but he says Appeals attorney and semi-pro football player Lara Guscott tryouts in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. “I Guscott “continued to show admits that when she joined the K.C. Titans, she “only knew just had to see if I could make it,” she says. up for work with no notice- some of the rules.” She’s now an all-star receiver and kicker. A slot on Canada’s team would mean able limps, slurred speech or another journey—this time, to the cleat marks on her face.” He Women’s World Championship in Finland. adds, “She assured me that as Growing up in Grande Prairie, Alberta, a receiver she ran away from danger as before playing in three Women’s World Guscott, l’11, played soccer, basketball and much as possible.” Championship games: victories against eld hockey, but was discouraged from In 2012, Guscott again earned rst-team Spain and Finland before a loss to the joining her high school football team. All-America honors. She was also named dominant American team in the nal. Instead, she focused on soccer, eventually the American League’s Oensive Player of “It was hard to compete against some of playing for Graceland University in Iowa. the Year, an award she collected at the my American teammates,” she says, “but In 2009, Guscott started at the KU All-Star game in Pittsburgh from Steelers I’ve always wanted to play for my country.” School of Law. During her rst year, she great Franco Harris—who is a part-owner Today, other football hopefuls from learned that a teammate from Graceland of the Pittsburgh Passion, a mainstay of Guscott’s hometown have that opportu- had joined a women’s football team in the Women’s Football Alliance. nity: ere is now a league for girls, so Kansas City. Aer attending one game, Her biggest honor, though, came aer they can start preparations early for their Guscott wanted to take the eld—“I’m not her trip to Moose Jaw, when Guscott was own semi-professional careers. a spectator,” she says—and she joined the selected for Team Canada. In June, she —Lorenz, c’05, is a Lawrence team, then known as the Tribe, the next traveled to Finland for a week of training freelance writer.

ISSUE 5, 2013 | 61 Elizabeth Orzulak, c’12, to Steven Leawood. She lives in Kansas City. Philip Bennett, g’13, works as an Lenhart, May 17 in Lawrence. ey live in Akintunde Bakare, ’13, founded Bodies admissions counselor at Rockhurst Overland Park, and he works for Burling- by Bakare, which helps high-school and University in Kansas City. ton Northern Santa Fe Railway. junior-college athletes who hope to play at Elizabeth Beverlin, p’13, is a pharmacist Catherine Schuetz, ’12, and Andrew Division 1 schools. He makes his home in at CVS. She lives in Rosemead, Calif. Pittel, c’13, Sept. 22 in Wichita. eir Lawrence. Ali Bishr, p’13, works as a pharmacist at home is in Lawrence. Jessica Barnes, c’13, manages client Target. He lives in Eudora. Morgan Seaman, c’12, to Pilar D’Asto, accounts for Favorite Healthcare Stang Stacy Blagg, b’13, is an accountant at May 11 in Lawrence, where they live. in Overland Park. INVISTA. She lives in Wichita. Morgan is a case manager at O’Connell Ryan Bartholomew, g’13, is a certied Kayleigh Brooks, p’13, works as a sta Youth Ranch in Lawrence, and Pilar is a registered nurse anesthetist at Liberty pharmacist at Scott City Healthmart case manager at the Elizabeth Leyton Hospital in Liberty, Mo. He and his wife, Pharmacy in Scott City, where she lives. Center for Mental Health in Ottawa. Rebekah, live in Riverside. Ariele Brownﬁeld, e’13, is an engineer Abbey Bauman, n’13, is a perioperative trainee at Oneok. She lives in Topeka. Fisher Adwell, c’13, works at the nurse at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Michael Bryson, b’13, is a manager at 13 Lawrence Public Library. His home is Clinic in Kansas City. She lives in Lenexa Bryson Pro Sealers. He lives in Paola. in Lawrence. with her partner, Casey Stalder, who’s a Kelsey Carothers, a’13, works as an Jordan Armenta, b’13, is a nancial- senior technical analyst at Oneok Kansas intern at Amy Funk-Knoll Textiles. She institution specialist at the FDIC in St. Gas Service. makes her home in Leawood. Louis, where she lives. Jeerson Bauer, b’13, manages accounts Maneekwan Chandarasorn, PhD’13, Staci Ashcraft, e’13, is a mechanical receivable for DataFile Technologies in works as an economist for the ailand engineer at Glumac in Irvine, Calif. She Kansas City. He lives in Lawrence. Ministry of Finance. She lives in Bangkok. lives in Tustin. JoEllen Belcher, c’13, is a meeting Beth Charlton, c’13, j’13, coordinates Alexa Backman, d’13, works as a manager at Chief Executive Network. She marketing and is an agent for Kansas licensed agent at Spring Venture Group in lives in Kansas City. Insurance in Lawrence. She makes her

62 | KANSAS ALUMNI Michelle Gerstner, a’13, works as an associate designer for IMM in Boulder, Colo. Kaleb Gilmore, b’13, is an analyst for AIG. His home is in Hoyt. Megan Godwin, n’13, works as a clinical nurse at KU Medical Center in Kansas City, where she lives. Angelisa Goodrich, ’13, was chosen by the Tulsa Shock last spring as the 29th overall pick in the WNBA Dra . Jordan Gray, b’13, coordinates human resources for Omni Hotels and Resorts. She lives in Dallas. Aadish Gupta, e’13, is a eld engineer for Baker Hughes. He lives in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Jennifer Harris, b’13, is a senior specialist in supply-chain management with Cardinal Health in Montgomery, N.Y. She lives in Middletown. Kelli Hawkins, g’13, works as a designer for CGL Ricci Greene Associates in Lexington, Ky. Megan Hinman, j’13, edits copy for the Lawrence Journal-World. Clyde Hoggatt, c’13, is a rental agent for Property Management Services in Lawrence. home in Kansas City. Austin, where she and her huband, Xavier Karina Holtzman, g’13, coordinates Marta Christie, c’13, is an appointments Abril, l’13, make their home. activities for KVC Hospitals in Olathe. She specialist for the University of Kansas. She Allison Edwards, m’13, practices lives in Mission. lives in Lawrence. medicine at the University of Colorado Christine Holyﬁeld, g’13, works as a Katherine Collins, l’13, is an associate Hospital in Aurora. speech-language pathologist for Commu- for Morris Laing Evans Brock & Kennedy Alexander Elting, e’13, does so ware- nity Unit School District 300 in Carpen- in Wichita. Her home is in Andover. development consulting for AJI So ware. tersville, Ill. She lives in St. Charles. Shannon Collins, c’13, works as a GATE He lives in Olathe. Scott Howell III, g’13, is a systems associate for Wyndham Jade. She lives in Lindsay Young Ewing, h’13, is a respira- engineer for the Universal Group. His Woodbridge, Va. tory therapist at KU Medical Center in home is in Independence, Mo. Kendra Coop, s’13, is a community- Kansas City. She and her husband, Marcus, John Hunninghake, m’13, serves as a support specialist at Truman Medical live in Lawrence. resident physician with the U.S. Air Force Center in Kansas City. She lives in Lee’s Gabriel Fajardo, g’13, works as a in San Antonio. Summit, Mo. geologist for Oxy in Bakerseld, Calif., Joseph Ingolia, c’13, manages projects Jordan Crawford, c’13, works as a where he and his wife, Valeria, live. for the Frank Cooney Company. personal trainer at Next Level Fitness in Anthony Fanello, b’13, owns Auto-Matic He lives in Arlington Lawrence. He lives in Topeka. Credit Acceptance in Cameron, Mo. Heights, Ill. Bradley Crenshaw, b’13, is a nancial Kelsey Fortin, d’13, coordinates nutri- analyst for HPC Puckett & Co. in Topeka. tion services for Harvesters Community His home is in Lawrence. Food Bank in Topeka. Jerod Davis, e’13, works as a so ware Marcus Gardner, a’13, supervises valets Jayhawk ﬁgurines have engineer for Merso in Overland Park. at Hotel Phillips in Kansas City. been donated by alumni Lindsay Dudley, g’13, coordinates public Jessica Geiss, n’13, is a nurse at and are in the collection engagements for the Teresa Lozano Long Shawnee Mission Medical Center. She at the Adams Alumni Institute at the University of Texas in makes her home in Olathe. Center.

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Kristen Jarvis, g’13, is a nurse at Gregory Lindholm, g’13, is clinical integrator for gbaSI. His home is in Children’s Mercy South in Leawood. director at NuVita in McPherson, where Lawrence. Andrew Johns, c’13, is a branch man- he and his wife, Keri, make their home. Casey McNeil, PhD’13, is an assistant ager for Stanion Wholesale Electric. His Wenhui Liu, b’13, works as an invest- professor of biology at Newman University home is in Eudora. ment representative for American Century in Wichita. He lives in Derby. Jordan Jurczak, ’13, is a multimedia Investment. Her home is in Kansas City. Abby Montgomery, c’13, works in claim sales executive for Republic Media. She Jordan Loftus, b’13, coordinates logistics operations at Travelers Insurance. She lives lives in Scottsdale, Ariz. for Ryan Transportation in Lenexa. He in Lawrence. Kevin Kenn, b’13, works as an accoun- lives in Lawrence. Nontalie Morrow, g’13, is a post-second- tant in KU’s Comptroller’s Oce. He lives Nealy Lutz, p’13, works as a pharmacist ary adviser at the Kau man Foundation in in Lawrence. at CVS. She lives in Nortonville. Kansas City. Ethan Kent, s’13, is a mental-health Wanping Ma, b’13, is a velocity analyst Luke Nitchals, b’13, works as a real- assistant at KU Medical Center in Kansas for Cerner in Kansas City. She commutes estate analyst for AMC eatres. He lives City. from Lawrence. in Leavenworth. Christopher Klockau, p’13, works as a Thomas Mabry, c’13, is a sales executive Nanami Ohata, g’13, is an assistant sta pharmacist at City Market. He lives in for Schaltenbrand-Mabry Insurance in product manager for Hill’s Pet Nutrition in Fraser, Colo. Belleville, Ill. He lives in Fairview Heights. Topeka. She lives in Lawrence. Ashley Knedlik, s’13, is a functional Amanda Maly, b’13, works as a contract Abbey Oliver, b’13, works as a consul- family therapist at Intensive Family and supplier enablement specialist for tant for Perceptive Soware in Shawnee. Counseling. She lives in Overland Park. KU’s Purchasing Oce in Lawrence. Elaine O’Neill, n’13, is a registered nurse Sarah Legg, g’13, is editor-in-chief of Jennifer Marino, l’13, is an associate at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics Living Wellness Kansas City in Prairie attorney for Erise IP in Overland Park. in Kansas City. Village. Dorothy Matheny, s’13, works as a case Joseph Pacheco, g’13, is a research Christina Lewis, g’13, serves as a major manager for the Johnson County Mental associate at the KU Medical Center in in the U.S. Army. Her home is in Smoke- Health Center. She lives in Kansas City. Kansas City. He and his wife, April, live in run, Pa. Brian McInnes, e’13, is a system Blue Springs, Mo.

64 | KANSAS ALUMNI Brooke Anderson Parker, g’13, is a trative assistant for IPC in Overland Park. cal Survey. She lives in Lawrence. performance consultant for Black & He and his wife, Brandy, live in Olathe. Eric Ray-Snyder, c’13, works as a Veatch. She lives in Olathe. Kelsey Ploeger, g’13, is assistant director distributor at KC Event Marketing in Ashley Peaches, s’13, is a behavioral of KU’s Career Center. He makes his home Overland Park. He lives in Lawrence. health intervention specialist at Kansas in Lawrence. Matthew Rissien, c’13, was named to City Care Clinic. Matthew Pottor, ’13, works as the second annual 36 Under 36 list by the Nidia Columna Perez, g’13, works as an assistant director of compliance at the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of education specialist for OEI in Santo University of Miami’s athletics depart- Metropolitan Chicago’s Young Leadership Domingo, Dominican Republic. ment. He lives in Miami Beach, Fla. Division and Oy!Chicago. Alyce Reneberg Peterson, p’13, is a Margaret Powell, b’13, is a human- Richard Robba, b’13, is a credit analyst pharmacist at Midwest Family Health in resources generalist at the Fellowship of for Colorado State Bank & Trust. He lives Phillipsburg, where she lives with her Christian Athletes in Kansas City. in Grapevine, Texas. husband, Seth. Jennifer Raney, g’13, is an assistant Jackie Romero, g’13, is senior interactive Andrew Peterson, b’13, is an adminis- project manager at KU’s Kansas Geologi- project manager for MMGY Global. She

PROFILE by Steven Hill

Love beer, will travel Devine practice it means touring national parks and SLIDERMAGAZINE.COM n 2010, Maria Scarpello and Brian other tourist destinations IDevine had a brilliant idea: ey quit with stops at cra breweries their jobs, sold everything they owned and along the way. e number set out to explore America in a 29-foot of destinations has exploded recreational vehicle named Stanley. since they began. “We had done a lot of European travel, “Cra beer is in an but we’d been to more countries than U.S. awesome state of growth states,” Scarpello says. “I’d never driven right now, which is great for through a mountain range. We thought us since we consider them we’d try it for six months.” our visitor centers,” Devine Because both were fans of cra beer, says. In 2010, 1,615 U.S. “Our mission is to travel and see this big country we have,” say they stopped rst at a Colorado brewery. breweries existed. Now there Devine and Scarpello, founders of theroamingpint.com. “Beer Devine thought it would be a good place are 2,514 with another 1,500 gives us a focus to get beyond the tourist routine.” to pick up sightseeing tips from the locals, planned. and he wasn’t disappointed. “ere’s also a unique “ey gave us great advice on what to convergence in terms of see, including another brewery we visited social media,” Scarpello says. Facebook point to meet up the next time you’re in the next day,” he says. “It created a cycle.” and Twitter not only help small breweries the same part of the country,” Devine says. ree years and 300 breweries later, compete with corporate beermakers, but “e longer we travel, the more places we Scarpello, f’06, g’10, and Devine, f’07, are they also let like-minded beer acionados can go where we know someone.” still rolling, documenting their travels on nd one another. In fact, the couple soon Scarpello works full time for a website e Roaming Pint, a website and blog will launch an online community, the company and Devine does freelance dedicated to the nomadic “beer travel” Society of Beer Travelers, to aid that design work and handles the brewery lifestyle. process. proles and reporting on e Roaming “e Roaming Pint started because we e friends they’ve made along the Pint, including an interactive map of beer really enjoyed this kind of travel and were road—including several encounters with destinations. eir ability to balance work getting all these great tips on how to do it,” fellow Jayhawks—is a highlight for and travel makes the unconventional Devine says. “We thought we should share Scarpello and Devine. lifestyle sustainable, Scarpello says. so other people could try it.” “It’s kind of neat how you meet someone “I see no reason to stop. As long as we A blend of cra beer and RVing in a bar and hang out, and with social keep nding new breweries, we’ll keep subcultures, beer travel as Scarpello and media you can stay in touch and make it a adding to the number.”

ISSUE 5, 2013 | 65 Class Notes and her husband, Jason, c’06, l’09, g’09, Tabernacle Homes in Lenexa. He lives in live in Westwood. Olathe. Jessica Romine, s’13, is a social work Javier Valerio, g’13, is a professor of specialist at Larned State Hospital. She saxaphone at the University of Costa Rica. lives in Great Bend. His home is in Miami. Daniel Rose, c’13, works as a GIS analyst Ruthie Baumann Vega, g’13, teaches at for WaterOne in Lenexa. He lives in A Deere Place. She and her husband, Lawrence with his wife, Chelsea Taylor. Services of Blue Springs. He and his wife, Richard, live in Leavenworth. Lacey Rozycki, g’13, teaches special Shawna, live in Kansas City. Kristopher Velasco, c’13, coordinates education for the Lee’s Summit R-7 School Ayrat Sirazhiev, g’13, works as a development for e Supply. His home is District in Missouri. geophysicist at WesternGeco-Schlum- in Brooklyn, N.Y. Michael Rusche, c’13, directs asset berger in Houston, where he and his wife, Matthew Visser, c’13, serves with the management for EPR Properties in Kansas Victoria Romanova, live. U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps in City. Lisa Smith, g’13, is a speech-language Williamsburg, Va. Emily Coonﬁeld Saatcioglu, PhD’13, is a pathologist at Helping Hand. She lives in James Walsh III, b’13, manages opera- learning coach for USD 497 in Lawrence, Lemont, Ill. tions for P1 Group in Lenexa. He and his where she lives with her husband, Argun. Jacob Snider, b’13, works as a major wife, Kathleen, live in Leawood. Eric Sader, s’13, l’13, is executive account executive for the Sacramento Bee Dana Whetter, c’13, teaches math at director of Jana’s Campaign Inc. in Hays. in Sacramento, Calif. Free State High School in Lawrence. Her Hillery Samskey, h’13, works as a Matthew Snively, e’13, is a Java devel- home is in De Soto. medical-records coder for the KU Medical oper for Assurant Employee Benets. He Eric White, d’13, directs recruiting Center in Kansas City. She lives in Olathe. lives in Leawood. operations for Syracuse University Hailey Saunders, n’13, is a registered Melissa Galitz Sorrick, g’13, works as an Athletics in Syracuse, N.Y. nurse at Shawnee Mission Medical Center experience designer for DST Systems. She Laurie White, s’13, works on the house in Overland Park. She and her husband, and her husband, John, h’09, live in Kansas sta at the House of Hope. She lives in Smoky Hill Golf Insurance Planning, Inc. Comfort Specialists Main, Palmer Family Kevin, ’04, live in Shawnee. City, where he’s a respiratory therapist at Overland Park. Tournament & Pig Roast Je and Connie Curtis Commerce Bank Dentistry Maddie Scheve, n’13, is a clinical nurse the KU Medical Center. Bradley Wilson, g’13, is choir director HAYS, KS Jeter Law Firm, LLP Jack & Marsha Crook Mr. Pool at KU Medical Center. She lives in Ashley Spencer, c’13, is an assistant for the BCLUW School District in Conrad, Smoky Hill Country Club Kansas Natural Gas Rick & Bonnie Erwin Plaza Medical Center Overland Park. coach at Tabor College in Hillsboro. Iowa. Adams, Brown, Beran, Kippes Insurance Fry Eye Associates Premier 4 Farms Shannon Meisenheimer Schreiner, n’13, Samuel Stallbaumer, e’13, designs roads Ariel Wituszynski, b’13, coordinates and Ball Oil Company of America Garden Pharmacy Kurt, Sharon & Bette Jo works as a charge nurse at HaysMed in for Parsons Brinckerho in Lenexa. digital media for MMGY Global. She lives Production Drilling Dale & Delores Gillen Roberts Hays, where she and her husband, Brian, Patrick Strathman, j’13, is sports in Kansas City. Alan and Lori Moore live with their son, Shawn, 14. director for KAIR Radio. He lives in Debra Wray, g’13, is a civil engineer America’s Best Steaks Realty Executives of Hays Randy & Darren Glenn Scott City Healthmart Samuel Schroeder, e’13, is a graduate Lawrence. with Burns & McDonnell in Kansas City. Anderson and Wichman Steinert Liquor Golden Plains Credit Pharmacy completions engineer for ConocoPhillips. Aishah Sutherland, c’13, played John Ziegler, c’13, works as an associate Auto World of Hays Stewart Tank and Well Union Smith Auto & Truck Parts He lives in Houston. basketball on the U.S. team at the Four sales representative for Shaker Recruit- Bank of Hays Service GMCN Architects Inc. Amy Schrumpf, p’13, is a pharmacist at Nations Tournament last summer in ment Advertising and Communications. Brungardt, Hower, Ward, The Meckenstock Group Chris & Robin Harman Tatro Plumbing Bellevue Speciality Pharmacy. She lives in China, where the national team joined He lives in Elmwood Park, Ill. VSR Financial Services Jayhawk Farms The Watering Hole Brentwood, Mo. teams from Australia and Hungary. She Elliot, and Pﬁefer Keller Leopold Insurance Tim & Jerri’s Auto Sales Tyler Schuessler, p’13, is a pharmacist at lives in Corona, Calif. MARRIED Carrico Implement Balls Food Stores. He makes his home in Valerie Switzler, g’13, manages the Katherine Schuller, s’13, to Andrew Crawford Supply Great Plains Golf Keller Miller CPAs Vollertsen Family Overland Park. Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in Dettmer, June 15 in Manseld, Ohio. She’s Company Tournament Lansdon & Company Dentistry Nathan Schwermann, e’13, works as a Warm Springs, Ore. a social worker with Correct Care Solu- Curt and Jennifer Kitson GARDEN CITY, KS CPAs Walmart Pharmacy GC Delarius Tarlton, soware developer for Sprint Nextel g’13, serves as a tions, and he serves with the U.S. Coast Dan Schippers Southwind Country Club Lewis Automotive Group Western Irrigation Corporation. He and Samantha Moore- logistics ocer with the U.S. Army in Guard. eir home is in Owls Head, Downing and Nelson Oil A-1 Sign Company Lewis, Hooper & Dick Western Motor Company Schwermann, ’04, live in Lawrence. Pensacola, Fla. Maine. CPAs Western State Bank Amanda Shaw, d’13, teaches elementary Blair Taylor, p’13, works as a Walgreen’s Eagle Communications Centera Bank school in Shawnee Heights. Her home is in pharmacist. She lives in Alma. ASSOCIATES Hays Medical Center Clarion Inn Linenberger Jewelry Overland Park. Jenna Thomas, c’13, writes for Amazon. Nikki Epley recently joined the College David Sheeley, b’13, is a business Her home is in Olathe. Football Playo, where she’s director of information technology analyst intern at Michael Tinio, e’13, works as a project stadium and game operations in Irving, H&R Block. He lives in Lenexa. management intern at Bayer Healthcare. Texas. She had been director of reunions, Nicholas Shields, g’13, is a certied He lives in Lawrence. anity programs and academic societies registered nurse anesthestist at Anesthesia Steel Trued, b’13, is a bookkeeper for for the KU Alumni Association.

66 | KANSAS ALUMNI Smoky Hill Golf Insurance Planning, Inc. Comfort Specialists Main, Palmer Family Tournament & Pig Roast Je and Connie Curtis Commerce Bank Dentistry HAYS, KS Jeter Law Firm, LLP Jack & Marsha Crook Mr. Pool Smoky Hill Country Club Kansas Natural Gas Rick & Bonnie Erwin Plaza Medical Center Adams, Brown, Beran, Kippes Insurance Fry Eye Associates Premier 4 Farms and Ball Oil Company of America Garden Pharmacy Kurt, Sharon & Bette Jo Alan and Lori Moore Production Drilling Dale & Delores Gillen Roberts America’s Best Steaks Realty Executives of Hays Randy & Darren Glenn Scott City Healthmart Anderson and Wichman Steinert Liquor Golden Plains Credit Pharmacy Auto World of Hays Stewart Tank and Well Union Smith Auto & Truck Parts Bank of Hays Service GMCN Architects Inc. Brungardt, Hower, Ward, The Meckenstock Group Chris & Robin Harman Tatro Plumbing Elliot, and Pﬁefer VSR Financial Services Jayhawk Farms The Watering Hole Carrico Implement Keller Leopold Insurance Tim & Jerri’s Auto Sales Crawford Supply Great Plains Golf Keller Miller CPAs Vollertsen Family Company Tournament Lansdon & Company Dentistry Curt and Jennifer Kitson GARDEN CITY, KS CPAs Walmart Pharmacy GC Dan Schippers Southwind Country Club Lewis Automotive Group Western Irrigation Downing and Nelson Oil A-1 Sign Company Lewis, Hooper & Dick Western Motor Company Eagle Communications Centera Bank CPAs Western State Bank Hays Medical Center Clarion Inn Linenberger Jewelry In Memory government service. e last 20 years of her professional life were spent with the General Services Administration. She is survived by a son, Bruce, c’74; two Walter Claassen, b’39, 96, June 21 Mission Hills, where he was retired from a daughters, Susan Keplinger Heninger, g’73, 30sin North Newton, where he had career with McCormick Distillery. He had and Nancy Keplinger Topper, c’69, m’73; served on the board of the Hesston been active in many civic and philan- nine grandchildren; and four Corporation for many years. He also was a thropic activities as well as KU Endow- great-grandchildren. member of the USD 373 Board of Educa- ment and the KU Business School Board Gordon McCune, e’48, 87, April 4 in tion and had received the Jaycee’s Distin- of Advisors. Survivors include his wife, Tulsa, Okla., where he was an engineer, a guished Service Award and the Newton Laura Shutz Cray, c’54; two sons, one of real-estate developer and a partner in the Chamber’s Citizen of the Year Award. whom is omas, ’86; a daughter, Patty architectural and engineering rm of Surviving are two sons, one of whom is Cray Mach, c’80; a stepson; a stepdaughter, McCune, McCune & Associates. He is Robert, c’76; two daughters, Patty Claassen Susanne Slough Bryan, ’84; a brother, survived by his wife, Anne, a daughter, a Purvis, d’69, g’75, PhD’90, and Susan, c’80; Cloud Jr., assoc.; a sister; 14 grandchildren; son and seven grandchildren. two grandchildren; and three and six great-grandchildren. H. Lee Nelson, e’47, 92, June 11 in great-grandchildren. Louis Culp, c’49, m’53, 88, June 28 in Newark, Calif., where he was retired from Betty Shawver Reitz, ’39, 94, June 18 in Kansas City, where he was retired from a Morton Salt Co. A memorial has been Lawrence. She lived in Kansas City for 47-year career as a general practitioner. He established with KU Endowment. He is many years, where she was a volunteer is survived by his wife, Marion Eide Culp, survived by his wife, Virginia Griswold with the Mattie Rhodes program and at assoc.; three daughters, Nancy Culp Nelson, c’44; a daughter; a son; a sister, Research Hospital. Surviving are her Ninon, f’75, Cynthia Culp Maute, f’79; Gladys Nelson Haun, assoc.; and three husband, Harry, b’37; a son, Harry Jr., b’60; and Rebecca Culp Johnston, c’85; two grandchildren. ve grandchildren; and 12 sons, Louis, j’77, and Steven, c’78; 12 Harold Phelps Jr., e’46, 88, July 6 in great-grandchildren. grandchildren; and four Santa Maria, Calif., where he was retired great-grandchildren. aer a career as a civil engineer with the Polly Roth Bales, ’42, 92, June 28 Norman Hanson, b’48, g’51, PhD’86, 91, Central Intelligence Agency. He is survived 40sin Lawrence. She lived in Logan June 24 in Newton, where he was a veteran by two sons, a daughter, 10 grandchildren for many years, where she was an ocer of numerous posts in federal and state civil and ve great-grandchildren. and board member for the Kansas State service. He had been director of adminis- Austin Pickering, b’49, 84, Jan. 5 in Historical Society, P.E.O., the Phillips tration for the Radiation Control Division Bradenton, Fla. He was retired manager of County Hospital Guild, Logan Commu- of the Environmental Protection Agency manufacturing with Quaker Oats in nity Concerts and the Logan Library and was a consultant with the National Chicago and later was administrator of Board. She also served on the board of the Council of Governments. Surviving are Asbury Towers in Bradenton, Fla. He is Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum for three daughters, Joy Hanson Robb, c’82, survived by his wife, Mary Ellen; a son; two more than 30 years. She and her late g’86, Jennifer, b’85, g’87, and Janet Hanson grandchildren; and ve husband, Dane, gave more than $4.1 Dodson, assoc.; and two granddaughters. great-grandchildren. million to KU during their lives, support- Dennis Hardman, c’46, m’49, 87, June Wanda Baker Rueger, c’47, 87, June 26 in ing cancer research and the Dole Institute 25 in Louisville, Colo. He practiced McMinnville, Ore., where she was a retired of Politics and establishing the Bales medicine in Smith Center and at the medical technologist. She is survived by Organ Recital Hall, which is attached to Veterans Administration Hospital in three daughters, a grandson and a the Lied Center. She was a recipient of the Grand Island, Neb. A memorial has been great-grandson. KU Alumni Association’s Fred Ellsworth established with KU Endowment. He is Marvin Small Jr., c’49, 90, June 16 in Medallion and the Distinguished Service survived by three sons, John, c’75, Stuart, College Station, Texas. He had a 35-year Citation and is a member of the KU d’77, and Philip, c’78; a sister, Donna career as a pilot, sales manager and Women’s Hall of Fame. A memorial has Hardman Hallewel, n’57; three grandchil- public-relations ocer with Beech Aircra been established with KU Endowment. dren; and four stepgrandchildren. in Wichita. Surviving are three daughters, She is survived by a sister and 12 nieces Eleanore Aikins Jones, c’47, 87, Jan. 1 in one of whom is Susan Small Williams, and nephews. Poulsbo, Wash., where she was active in assoc.; a son; a sister; nine grandchildren; Nancy Petersen Berkely, c’44, 90, Dec. community and church activities. A son and two great-grandchildren. 5 in Sarasota, Fla. She is survived by her and two daughters survive. Virginia Smith, c’42, 92, June 20 in husband, Joe, a daughter, a grandson and Janet Viets Keplinger, c’42, 91, July 24 Shawnee. She worked in the Federal two great-grandchildren. in Overland Park, where she was retired Printing Oce in Washington, D.C., for Richard Cray, b’49, 85, July 23 in from a career in journalism, education and many years. Several cousins survive.

68 | KANSAS ALUMNI Raymond Thompson Jr., p’48, 87, Dec. wife, Anne; and two brothers, one of d’77; and three grandchildren. 18 in Westminster, Colo., where he was whom is Anand, g’65. Dee Roy, c’51, 84, June 26 in Bella Vista, director of pharmacy at Valley View Paul Culp, j’57, 77, March 26 in Dallas, Ark., where he was retired from a career Hospital. He is survived by his wife, where he was retired from a career in practicing dentistry. He is survived by his Margie, two sons, a daughter, a sister, ve television and radio, selling advertising wife, Georgia; two sons; one of whom is grandchildren and two and producing and hosting local progams. William, ’83; and four grandchildren. great-grandchildren. He is survived by his wife, Loretta, a son, a George Sheldon, c’57, m’61, 78, June 16 e Hon. Rosalie Erwin Wahl, c’46, 88, daughter, a sister and four grandchildren. in Chapel Hill, where he chaired the July 22 in Lake Elmo, Minn. In 1977 she Wilbur Goodseal, d’53, g’62, 83, Aug. 5, department of surgery at the University of became the rst woman appointed to the in Kansas City, where he retired as North Carolina. He had served as presi- Minnesota Supreme Court, retiring in administrator of speech and language with dent of the American College of Surgeons, 1994. She received the Distinguished the Kansas City Missouri School District. the American Surgical Association and the Service Citation from KU and the Alumni e KU Black Alumni Chapter named American Association for the Surgery of Association in 1998. She is survived by him an African-American Leader and Trauma. He is survived by his wife, Ruth three sons, one of whom is Christopher, Innovator, and he received the Rolland Guy Sheldon, d’58; three daughters; two ’75; two daughters; a sister; six grandchil- Van Hattum Award from the American brothers, William, c’60, and Richard, c’54; dren; and ve great-grandchildren. Speech-Language Hearing Foundation. and four grandchildren. Survivors include his wife, Charlotte, and a Max Starns, p’58, 78, July 4 in Odessa, Vernon Ashby, c’50, 89, Feb. 28 in daughter. Mo., where he had owned Starns Phar- 50sAlbany, Ore. He was a retired John Gorman, m’54, 85, Feb. 7 in macy. Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth; microbiologist and virologist with the Fredericksburg, Va. He was a retired three sons, two of whom are Arthur, b’86, Washington State Department of Health commander in the U.S. Navy and later and Gregory, ’90; and eight grandchildren. Services. Survivors include his wife, worked at Fredericksburg Emergi-Care Ann Kelly Steele, j’56, 79, July 4 in Jeanette Bolas Ashby, c’50; three daugh- Center until retiring. He is survived by his Kansas City, where she had been director ters; a son; six grandsons; and one wife, Dottie, a daughter, two sons, a sister of publications at the University of great-grandson. and eight grandchildren. Missouri-Kansas City. She was a docent at Elizabeth “Betty” Baurer, j’52, 83, June Walter Hastings, c’50, l’52, 87, July 18 the Kansas City Museum. Surviving are 23 in Chicago, where she was a soprano in Cameron, Mo. He lived in Kansas City, her husband, Don, and a son. soloist with the Chicago Chamber Choir. where he worked for Farmers Insurance Carl Sundborg, l’50, 91, Feb. 7 in She also taught voice privately and for the Group for 35 years. Two sons and four Concord, Calif., where he lived for 54 Academy of Music in Oak Park. Several grandchildren survive. years. He worked for Travelers Insurance cousins survive. Phyllis Ward Hettinger, b’54, 80, June Company and is survived by his wife, Bob Brooks, p’51, 94, July 3 in Salem, 22 in Northville, Mich. She is survived by Mary, a son, a daughter and a grandson. Ore., where he was director of pharmacies her husband, Robert, c’53, l’55; two Jack Sutton, b’53, 82, Feb. 3 in Reading, at Salem Memorial Hospital. He is children; and three grandchildren. Pa., where he had a long career in the survived by two sons, a daughter, a Robert Lenagar Jr., e’51, 89, July 1 in insurance business. He is survived by two grandchild and two great-grandchildren. Leawood, where he was retired from sons, a daughter and eight grandchildren. James Bryant, e’52, 86, July 11 in Bayer. He earlier had worked for King John Switzer, c’55, 85, May 28 in Kansas Kansas City, where he had been a service Radio and Kansas City Structural Steel. He City, where he had a 32-year career with manager at R&W Distributing. He is is survived by his wife, Lottie, a son, a the Kansas City Star as a writer, reporter, survived by three sons, one of whom is daughter and ve grandchildren. photographer and photo-lab technician. Jerey, e’72; a brother; four grandchildren; Thomas Lovitt, d’52, g’60, EdD’66, 82, He is survived by his wife, Caroline; a son, and eight great-grandchildren. June 25 in Kirkland, where he was a Larry, ’93; a stepdaughter; a stepson; a Denny Carder, c’56, 78, July 12 in Las professor emeritus of special education at sister; and a stepgranddaughter. Vegas, where he was a retired captain in the University of Washington. A memorial Joan Salisbury Tannahill, d’53, 83, July the U.S. Navy. Several cousins survive. has been established with KU Endowment. 14 in Davenport, Iowa, where she was a Lord Pratap Chitnis, g’58, 77, July 12 in He is survived by three sons, a daughter, a retired teacher at the Kansas City Middle rural France. He was a prominent xture sister, six grandchildren and six School of the Arts. She is survived by three in England’s center-le politics from 1960 great-grandchildren. sons, a daughter, a brother, a half brother, through the 1980s. He became head of the Betty Crawford Rossman, d’52, 83, his stepmother, seven grandchildren and Liberal party in 1966 and later was chief July 15 in Olathe, where she was a three great-grandchildren. executive of the Joseph Rowntree Social retired elementary-school teacher. Ruth Hurwitz Wagy, c’51, g’58, 83, Service Trust. He was awarded lifetime She is survived by her husband, Richard, March 22 in Boca Raton, Fla., where she peerage in 1977 and is survived by his c’53; a daughter, Ann Rossman McCort, headed the computer department at St.

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Andrew’s School. Earlier she had been two sisters and 12 grandchildren. Colo. He was a partner in Hodges/Marvin head of math and science at Bedford Brent Reppert, c’68, g’71, 68, July 18 in Architects. A memorial has been estab- Junior High School in Westport, Conn. Neenah, Wis. He had been an auditor and lished with KU Endowment. He is Survivors include two sons and a brother. a communications analyst at Kimberly survived by his wife, Julie Belsaas Hodges, Earl Windisch, e’51, 85, June 1 in Clark, where he worked for 30 years. d’68; his mother; and two sisters. Overland Park, where he was a retired Surviving are his wife, Carla; two sons; a Vera Ellerman Hurst, g’76, 79, July 15 in partner at Black & Veatch. He is survived daughter, Elizabeth Reppert Kastl, c’05; a Atchison. She was a retired special-educa- by his wife, Mary; two daughters, one of sister, Brenda Reppert Johnson, d’61; and a tion teacher. Surviving are her husband, whom is Gail Windisch Odgers, ’93; a son, granddaughter. Van; two daughters; a son; two sisters, one Paul, b’84, b’85; a sister; and six Lowell Renz, m’64, 75, May 27 in Post of whom is Esther Ellerman Willis, assoc.; grandchildren. Falls, Idaho, where he was retired a er 12 grandchildren; and 10 practicing medicine for many years in great-grandchildren. James Beauchamp, m’63, 75, Sacramento, Calif. He is survived by his 60sNov. 2 in Orinda, Calif., where he wife, Virginia, three daughters, a brother Paul Dry, b’81, 54, June 23 in was retired a er practicing medicine for and 10 grandchildren. 80sLenexa, where he was a retired 34 years. He is survived by his wife, Kay; a David Straub, c’62, m’66, 72, July 5 in accountant. A memorial has been estab- son; a daughter; two brothers, Glen, e’53, Joplin, Mo., where he practiced medicine lished with KU Endowment. He is and Gary, c’66, m’70; a sister; and two until 2012. He is survived by his wife, survived by a son; a daughter; his parents, grandchildren. Myra; two sons, one of whom is Jonathan, omas, s’80, and Marilyn Dry; and a Johnny Brown Jr., e’66, g’67, 70, July 1 ’94; a daughter; a brother; and six sister, Karen Dry Narula, b’83. in Fremont, Calif., where he owned Alcor grandchildren. Brent Lupton, c’81, 54, June 20 in Consulting, a so ware programming James Tidwell, b’68, g’69, 66, May 30 in Kingwood, Texas. He had been executive consulting rm. A daughter and a grand- Houston, where he was retired vice director of global commodities for son survive. president and chief nancial ocer for JPMorgan Chase. Surviving are his wife, Martha Peterson Brummett, ’61, 79, WEDGE Group Inc. He is survived by his Anita Brack Lupton, b’81; two daughters, June 30 in St. Louis. She was a teacher and wife, Ann, a son, a daughter, a brother, two one of whom is Kathryn, d’13; two sons, volunteered for many years in church, sisters and four grandchildren. Kevin, b’11, and Gregory, ’15; and three schools, community aairs and politics. sisters. Surviving are her husband, Richard Sr., Jack Barnes, p’73, 69, May 13 in Loren Moll, c’83, l’86, 56, July 14 in c’56, m’64; a daughter, Christine Brum- 70sHutchinson, where he had been a Overland Park where he specialized in mett Baker, ’80; three sons, Richard Jr., pharmacist at Walgreens. He is survived real-estate litigation and was a partner in c’81, m’87, Darin, b’92, m’96, and David, by his wife, Paula; a daughter, Heather the rm of Caldwell & Moll. He is sur- c’92, m’96; and 10 grandchildren. Barnes Lagergren, j’96; a brother, Michael, vived by his wife, Noelle; two daughters; Patrick Cigich, g’61, EdD’77, 87, June 13 j’64; and two grandchildren. his mother; and two sisters, one of whom in Raymore, Mo. He had been lay superin- Wayne Clark, EdD’75, 85, June 25 in is Carol Moll Krska, e’83, g’97. tendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Bella Vista, Ark., where he was retired Vicky Liechti Myers, s’89, 56, May 11 in Kansas City. He is survived by his wife, from a career as a teacher, coach and Savannah, Mo. She was a clinical social Eileen, assoc.; two daughters, Leah Cigich administrator. He is survived by his wife, worker with Family Guidance Center and Moulder, d’77, and Mercedes Cigich Shirley Morley Clark, assoc.; two sons; a later worked at Northwest Health Services. Gieringer, ’84; a son, Barry, e’78; and nine daughter, Debra Clark Hadix, ’80; eight Surviving are her husband, Rollin, a grandchildren. grandchildren; and ve daughter, a son, a stepdaughter, two John Meriwether, g’63, 79, June 27 in great-grandchildren. stepsons, two brothers and a Little Rock, Ark., where he had been city Donna Farney Gazda, g’74, 80, Feb. 17 granddaughter. manager and later vice president of the in Houston, where she lived. Among Cliord Smith, ’88, 83, June 16 in University of Arkansas. He earlier had survivors are her husband, Edward; a son, Overland Park. He worked for Allied been general manager of the Arkansas Jerey, c’86; and a daughter. Signal for more than 30 years and later Gazette and vice president of development Margaret Nickless Hage, s’79, 92, July 5 worked for the General Services Adminis- of the First National Bank of Paragould. in Leawood. She was a social worker and a tration. Surviving are two daughters, He is survived by his wife, Judy, a stepson, family counselor. Surviving are a son, Kimberly Smith Baker, d’78, and Marilyn a stepdaughter and two stepgrandchildren. James, ’66; two daughters, one of whom is Smith Hayes, c’83. Howard Pierson, g’69, 78, May 8 in Kathleen Hage Hardin, g’73; seven Portland, Ore., where he was retired a er grandchildren; and nine Bo March, a’93, 49, April 8 in teaching history and English for 22 years. great-grandchildren. 90sLawrence, where he was an He is survived by two sons, two daughters, John Hodges, a’71, 65, July 23 in Dillon, architect, cra sman, designer and contrac-

70 | KANSAS ALUMNI tor. He is survived by his wife, Carol father; three brothers; and three sisters, THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY Shipley March, b’87; two sons; his father; one of whom is Aretha Weaver, ’86. Alan Lichter, 82, July 6 in Orcas, Wash. three brothers, one of whom is Stanimir, Mark Weddle, b’90, 46, July 27 in He had been a professor of creative d’01; and a sister. Overland Park, where he was a manager in writing and modern American literature Stephen Maxwell, b’94, 42, April 16 in the tax department at Sprint Nextel. He is at KU for 26 years and also was a guest Olathe. He had worked for California survived by his wife, Gina Sciara Weddle, professor at universities in Sweden, Casualty Insurance and is survived by his n’90, g’95; a son; a daughter, Holly, ’15; a Germany and Poland. While in Orcas, wife, Molly McCarthy Maxwell, j’93; two twin brother, Paul, b’91; his parents, he had served on the San Juan County daughters; his parents, Edd, e’63, and Forrest, assoc., and Ruth Weddle, assoc.; Council and is survived by his Shirley; three sisters, two of whom are and two sisters, Donna, c’87, g’90, and wife, Kate. Jennifer Maxwell Gibson, ’95, and Mary Janice Weddle Gales, n’89. Philip Montgomery, 77, July 6 in Maxwell Patterson, d’61, g’03; and a Randel Wolfe, g’99, 52, April 14 in Lawrence, where he had been a KU brother, John, ’99. Reading, Pa., where he was director professor of math from 1964 until Ronald Mersch, EdD’95, 57, Feb. 5 in emeritus of music and the arts at Trinity 2003. He is survived by two daughters; Overland Park, where he was a teacher, a Lutheran Church. While at KU, he o en a son, Philip Jr., e’84, g’89; two step- coach and an administrator. Among sang the national anthem in Allen Field daughters, Melissa McCauley, c’86, g’04, survivors are his wife, Lynne Smith House before men’s basketball games. He and Catherine Colyer, ’99; and 12 Mersch, h’82; a son; a daughter; his is survived by his partner, David Kersley, grandchildren. mother; three sisters; and two brothers. his mother and two brothers. Stanley Nelson, 84, May 29 in Fairway. John David Robertson, g’93, l’93, 55, He joined the faculty at the KU School of April 12 in Iowa City. He had been a social Makenna Rose Bartel-Heaney, Medicine in 1966 and was a member of worker and a family therapist in Kansas 00sf’08, 28, April 22 in Overland the departments of pharmacology, City for 12 years and later began a private Park, where she owned a jewelry design neurosurgery and anatomy. He later law practice in Iowa City. A son, his and fabrication business. A memorial has chaired the anatomy department and was mother and two sisters survive. been established with KU Endowment. named a professor emeritus when he Brian Roeder, j’96, 40, July 2 in Los Her husband, James, e’09; her mother; and retired in 1994. Surviving are his wife, Angeles, where he had a career in event a sister, Devon Bartel, ’13, survive. Ann, assoc.; three sons, two of whom are management. He is survived by his Stephanie Schauer-Redhair, c’01, 35, Reid, l’86, and Peter, c’82, m’86; four mother, Brenda Jacobs, b’99; his father and March 7 in Overland Park. She is survived sisters; and three grandchildren. stepmother; a brother; and his by her husband, Bryan, ’11; her parents; a e Rev. Alan Pickering, b’49, 85, June grandmother. sister; a half-brother; and her 29 in Sun City Center, Fla., where he was a Michael Slama, m’91, 53, April 21 in grandmother. retired Presbyterian minister. He had been Coon Rapids, Minn., where he was an Hai Tran, c’01, 36, April 26 in Wichita. an adjunct professor of religion at KU and obstetrician-gynecologist at Coon Rapids He is survived by his parents. a visiting lecturer in Middle Eastern Women’s Health and divisional medical languages and linguistics. He later was a director for Allina Medical Clinics. He is Brian Boyd, ’14, 21, May 17 in national training director for the YMCA survived by his wife, Anne, a son, a 10sLawrence, where he studied music in Chicago. Surviving are his wife, Kay; a daughter, his mother, a brother and three at KU. He lived in Leawood and is daughter, Nancy, ’75; two sons, one of sisters. survived by his parents, Chris, c’81, and whom is Keith, ’77; a stepdaughter; and Charles “Chuck” Smith, c’92, 44, May Nina Simpson Boyd, b’81; three brothers, ve grandchildren. 27 in Mission. He is survived by his wife, one of whom is Taylor, ’14; a sister; and his Clyde Stoltenberg, 65, July 24 in Mary Lou, a son, a daughter, his parents grandparents. Wichita, where he was the Barton Distin- and a brother. Courtney Newman, ’13, 22, Feb. 28 in guished professor of international business Gregory Smith, b’91, 50, May 7 in De Lawrence, where she studied psychology at Wichita State University. Earlier he was Soto. He was vice president of Cassidy- and sociology at KU and was a resident a professor of international business and Turley Commercial Real Estate and had adviser at Ellsworth Hall. She lived in business law at KU, where he taught for been president of the Dream Factory. He is Leavenworth. Surviving are her parents, nearly 20 years. He is survived by his survived by his wife, P.J., two daughters Lori Carrell and Hubert Newman, and her mother, Gloria, a brother and a sister. and two sisters. grandmother. Carol Dinsdale Worth, g’73, 83, July 19 Tilia Weaver Thomas, d’94, 46, Feb. 11 Nicholas Pennipede, ’14, 22, June 23 in in Lawrence, where she taught German at in Kansas City. She taught second grade at Leawood. He was majoring in cellular KU for many years. She is survived by her ree Trails Elementary School in biology and minoring in Italian at KU. husband, George, assoc.; a daughter, Indpendence, Mo. Surviving are her Surviving are his parents, Vince and eresa Worth Wilkinson, ’78; a son, Paul, husband, Lorn, ’91; a daughter; a son; her Sandy, and a brother. j’80, g’80; a sister; and four grandchildren.

ISSUE 5, 2013 | 71 Rock Chalk Review meeting with h graders at the East Heights neighborhood Boys & Girls Club. “Some of the kids really wanted to get into the clay as much as possible, and some did the projects because they felt like they had

STEVE PUPPE STEVE to, as quickly as possible,” Gold says of the students. “For me, it was a very big project.” Gold’s studio peers selected the “Elepot,” a teapot bearing elephant ears and a trunk by Asjah Harris, for Gold to recreate. He spent 200 to 300 hours fabricating the teapot in $800 worth of sterling silver sheets, and added green enamel to the handle and emeralds for eyes. “Silver was always the realm of the wealthy,” says Gold of his choice of media. “And the teapot is the most loaded object of the silversmith- ing lineage. It’s a very visually complicated object and it’s dicult to make, so it takes a lot of time and crasmanship.” Gold also craed aluminum versions of the 19 remaining students’ teapots so they could take something home from the Silver and Gold able monetary value, as well as time,” project. says Gold. is spring, the silver “Elepot,” its wax Art student researches ese relationships inspired the master mold, Gold’s aluminum renderings and of ne arts student in the spring of 2012 to photographs of his work with the children perceptions of “value” propose “From eir Hands to Mine” for a were on display at the Lawrence Arts School of the Arts Interdisciplinary Center. “e real culmination will be li Gold is fascinated by value relation- Research Grant. He would work with when the piece is sold, and that’s some- Eships: the value a child has for his students to help them create clay teapots— thing I’m negotiating now with the Kamm scribbles on a page, the value that child’s one of which he would fabricate in silver Teapot Foundation,” Gold says. e mother has for those stacks of scribbled and sell for their bene t. “It activated a foundation, created by Los Angeles art pages, and the value of the time or money discussion of value and how we value enthusiasts Sonny and Gloria Kamm, that went into those scribbles. “It’s kind of materials and time and children’s ideas,” boasts the world’s largest teapot collection, a powerful idea to take the very whimsical, says Gold. numbering more than 17,000 items. abrupt way a child understands an Aer winning the grant, Gold began —Lydia Benda assignment—which ends up having a little bit of value to the family and a little bit of value to the kid—and turning it into something that has fairly understand- COURTESY ELI GOLD (2) COURTESY

Sculptor and School of the Arts student Eli Gold transformed a clay teapot created by a ﬁfth grader into the silver “Elepot” as part of his “From Their Hands to Mine” project.

72 | KANSAS ALUMNI Tiny survivor imminent peril and rushed into action. Working in a specialized operating Newborn’s rare brain aneurysm room equipped with the latest in 3D imaging, the surgeons snaked the tiniest successfully shut with superglue microcatheter they could nd into Ashlyn’s blood vessels. Once they pro- or her rst two weeks, little Ashlyn gressed from the child’s thigh to the MEDICAL CENTER (2) KU COURTESY FJulian was, according to the KU aneurysm in her brain, they inserted into neurosurgeon who saved her life by the catheter a micro-wire, about the repairing an extremely rare ruptured brain thickness of a human hair, with which aneurysm, “very rambunctious and Ebersole delivered a drop of surgical attentive and full of energy.” When she superglue to seal the rupture. suddenly began sleeping and feeding Both Reeves and Ebersole say that poorly, her parents took her to their local although the procedure was exceedingly Kansas City-area hospital, where doctors unusual because of the patient’s tender age, suspected the child was suering from they approached it as they would any other typical maladies, most likely an upset surgery and felt no added pressure with an stomach. But symptoms persisted, and infant’s life in their hands. Ashlyn even had a seizure, with her body “For me, personally, my anxiety about contracting and stiening. any procedure has to do with whether or She promptly returned to normal, but her parents, Jared and Gina Julian, were concerned enough to take her to Chil- dren’s Mercy Hospital, where doctors found that the so spots on Ashlyn’s skull had become tense. An ultrasound detected what was rst thought to be a tumor, until pediatric neurosurgeon John Clough, m’94, concluded that a tumor would probably not have caused her symptoms. Clough ordered an MRI, which revealed bleeding in the child’s brain, an event so rare in infants less than 28 days old that medical literature had recorded a mere 17 such cases since 1949; Ashlyn was No. 18. He brought the case to the daily neurosurgery conference at KU Medical Center, where it was agreed the best course of treatment would be to access the KU doctors Alan Reeves and Koji Ebersole led a surgical team that used superglue to successfully aneurysm through the baby’s vascular repair a brain aneurysm that threatened the life of infant Ashlyn Julian. The extremely rare case system. Ashlyn’s body had stopped the attracted worldwide attention in June. bleeding by forming a clot, but the clots are delicate and can rupture when the brain is jostled during a typical open-skull not it’s the right thing to do,” Ebersole says. for sealing aneurysms. For the surgeons surgery; and, because her body was so “Once I’ve decided that I’m doing the right and their colleagues, the intriguing aspect tiny, any loss of blood might well have thing, then there’s no nerves at all. ... of the case was the fact that Ashlyn was been more than Ashlyn could endure. [And] once she experienced the second just 3 weeks old at the time of the proce- As the KU team—including assistant bleeding, I was strongly compelled that dure. e KU doctors will detail their professor and endovascular neurosurgeon there was not a better solution, so I was experience in medical literature so Koji Ebersole and assistant professor and not nervous thereaer.” professionals worldwide can learn from interventional neuroradiologist Alan Although the use of superglue captured the case, but they don’t anticipate that it Reeves, c’93, m’97—went through a nal the public’s attention when news about the will be needed anytime soon. discussion of surgical options, the child surgery went out around the world, “ at’s not just a once-in-a-career case,” seized again. ey knew her life was in superglue is actually now a standard tool Reeves says, “it’s a once-in-a-career case

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expect to see a case like this ever again.” PUPPE STEVE Maid’s Version hits e KU surgeons emphasize that the close to home for parents did everything right, as did Daniel Woodrell (with physicians who initially failed to suspect a his wife, novelist Katie brain aneurysm; it is simply too rare of an Estill, at KU last event to expect it to be immediately September). The novel diagnosed. For that reason, too, they is based on a 1929 caution parents who have heard about dance hall explosion in Ashlyn’s case not to immediately fear a brain bleed if their infant has a turn in his Ozarks hometown health that proves di cult to diagnose. and draws heavily on “ at is not the point of broadcasting Woodrell’s own family this situation with this baby,” Reeves says. history. “It’s just very unique and interesting, and thankfully with a good outcome.” e relieved Julians brought 3-month- old Ashlyn back to KU Medical Center for a visit in late August, and her doctors say unfolds in the West Table, Mo., milieu that dancing? A band of gypsies run rudely out the bright, happy baby can be expected to Woodrell, c’80, has portrayed so memora- of town? St. Louis gangsters planning to enjoy normal childhood development. bly in his previous work. But this time rob the bank? Or was it Glencross himself, “I wasn’t even thinking about anything around he selects a larger swath of this devastated by the end of his extramarital we went through,” Ebersole said while Ozarks town for examination. a air with the wild Ruby and desperate to cradling Ashlyn, who sported a lacy His narrator, a young boy named Alek, win her back? headband and a “My Daddy Rocks” bib. “I is sent to stay with his grandmother, Alma Weaving all these strands together as was just thinking that she just seems DeGeer Dunahew, for the summer. An Alma slowly reveals her theory of the fantastic. I forgot about all those things illiterate maid who once worked for one of explosion’s cause to Alek over the course that we went through.” the town’s most prominent citizens, a of a long, lazy summer, Woodrell brings to —Chris Lazzarino banker named Arthur Glencross, Alma is his tale the familiar elements of suspense- privy to secrets and insights into the kind ful mystery, dark fairy tale and the rich of lives that Woodrell’s characters have mix of southern gothic and noir that traditionally glimpsed only from afar or by distinguish his earlier work. What the maid breaking and entering. e de strokes of characterization, long e heart of the novel—and the heart of the engine of Woodrell’s ction, are also as knew Alma’s long nurtured bitterness—is a strong as ever. (Consider the book’s Woodrell’s ninth novel welds mysterious explosion at the Arbor Dance haunting opening image of Alek watching Hall in 1929 that killed 42 of the town’s his grandmother brush her hair, which taut prose and expansive plot citizens, including Alma’s beloved sister works both as a vivid physical description Ruby. and a striking symbol of her long-held aniel Woodrell has carved out a Suspects abound. Was it an itinerant burdens: “She frightened me every dawn Dhard-won and richly deserved preacher who rails against the evils of the summer I stayed with her. She’d sit on reputation for himself in the literary world the edge of her bed, long hair down, down by focusing his lean, lyrical writing on the to the oor and shaking as she brushed kind of folks not usually spotted at book and brushed ... Her hair was as long as her fairs and writing conventions. story and she couldn’t walk when her hair In eight novels and a collection of short The Maid’s Version was not woven into dense braids and stories, he has brought to life a rogue’s pinned around and atop her head. gallery of hapless thieves, addled addicts, by Daniel Woodrell Otherwise her hair dragged the oor like and self-deceiving ne’er-do-wells with Little, Brown; $25 the train of a medieval gown and she had whip-smart characterization and jolts of to gather it into a sheaf and coil it about lightning-vivid prose that hit American her forearm several times to walk the oor letters like a shot of adrenaline to the without stepping on herself.”) jugular. But e Maid’s Version also delivers e Maid’s Version, his ninth novel, something more, as Woodrell’s powers of

74 | KANSAS ALUMNI characterization are brought to bear on a “We were looking at the elderly outsider eventually dubbed Civil War on Wheels. broader segment of society and a longer artist. e young fashion designer. “ e drivers did not like each other,” span of time, providing a more complete African-American cowboys of Kansas Sumner says. “But instead of being like the picture of West Table as a town with a City. Historical stu like the Monroe old days, when they were shooting it out history—in a sense, as a fully developed school, the Brown vs. Board school in with guns, they were crashing cars into character in its own right. e result is a Topeka,” says Sumner, c’97, g’05. “We each other.” novel that seems slightly subdued by didn’t have just one avor. Whenever we e demolition derby footage shot in Woodrell’s standards, but a plot that is found something to be of interest, whether 2004 remained unused, as Brandon moved richer and more complex. it was historical or subcultural, we would on to New York and Patrick pursued his Woodrell has long specialized in just go aer it and start shooting.” lifelong passion for social justice by showing how the other half lives. With his ey got in on the early days of Kansas working at a homeless drop-in center, the ninth novel, he brings both halves together City’s Crossroads Arts District, which was Frank Williams Outreach Center, which to a greater extent than before, and the the starting point for a “long, strange” he now manages. He never forgot about result is a book that’s well-written, richly journey that resulted in this year’s release the derby footage, though, and returned to plotted and wholly successful. of “Civil War on Wheels,” a lm about the project in 2012. —Steven Hill Kansas and Missouri drivers playing out Working in partnership with Lawrence old feuds at dusty demolition derbys. lm editor Chris Snipes, Sumner pulled While gathering footage for a documen- the footage into a narrative, shot follow-up tary on underground fashion shows, interviews, created transitions to weave Border crashes which eventually aired on KCPT in 2005, together the story themes of “We Ain’t the Sumners discovered an oddity they Stupid” and the “Civil War on Wheels,” Filmmaker with eye for unusual could not ignore: a demolition derby team and wrote and recorded narration, at one documents demolition derby launched by Kansas City Art point using his cellphone Institute students and when he couldn’t get atrick Sumner and his brother, alumni who billed them- Snipes’ high-end recorder PBrandon, then owners of a commer- selves as “We Ain’t Stupid.” to work properly. Aer cial video production company, spent at led them to promoter eight months of work, the much of the early 2000s knocking around Greg Clemons, who, sensing completed lm—which various underground scenes throughout opportunity when he saw a features a soundtrack with Kansas City and across the region. Nevada, Mo., crowd get riled music from such regional Wherever they could nd something new up over a derby victory by a favorites as Split Lip and raw and high-energy happening, they driver from nearby Fort Rayeld, Molly Gene and grabbed their Sony MiniDV camera and Scott, created a Jayhawks vs. Sin City Disciples—pre- headed out in search of footage. Bushwhackers series that he miered last spring at the Free State Film Festival and Sumner was shown at Kansas City’s Tivoli eater, and in August aired on KCPT, which is helping promote the lm to other public television outlets. e DVD is expected to be COURTESY PATRIC SUMNER (2) SUMNER PATRIC COURTESY released in September. “I’m very happy with the nal product. I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done,” says Sumner, who, while still an American Studies undergrad at KU, produced a documentary on Lawrence alleyways, “Rear Entry,” that took top honors at the 1996 Kan Film Festival. Next up for Sumner is a book about the 1980s punk music scene in Kansas City, and lm editor Chris Snipes is hard at work on a lm about Lawrence subcultures titled “Our Town.” Old cars—and old rivalries—collide in Patrick Sumner’s documentary ﬁlm “Civil War on Wheels.” —Chris Lazzarino

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For the KU-South Dakota football game Sept. 7, students sported “Far Above” T-shirts—fashion statements announcing the start of the faculty, sta and student phase of Far Above: The Campaign for Kansas. Since July 2008, donors have contributed $923 million to KU Endowment’s comprehensive drive to raise $1.2 billion to educate future leaders, advance medicine, accelerate discovery and drive economic growth. The campaign will end in 2016.

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