FOR UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN–MADISON ALUMNI AND FRIENDS WINTER 2017 Vision A floppy-eared smiley face greets the sunrise on Picnic Point on a December morning in 2016. UW students need to keep a sense of fun in the cold: since 2000, Lake Mendota has been iced over for an average of 85 days out of the year. Photo by Jeff Miller

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Badger QB Gregg Bohlig ’75 made history in 1974. See page 32. UW ATHLETICS DEPARTMENTS CREDIT 2 Vision Guest Rooms • Events • Dining • Catering • Conference Packages 7 Communications 9 First Person Go Badgers!! OnCampus

11 News 13 Bygone 6 Classes 14 Calculation Snow Removal 17 Conversation Shilagh Mirgain 18 Exhibition 7 Unusual Gifts 20 Contender James White

OnAlumni 22 FEATURES 50 News 53 Tradition Winter Carnival Praise to Thee We Sing: TH 54 Class Notes SMITTY’S STUDY PUB | ON THE 8 FLOOR 61 Diversions 30 U-Rah-Rah Lists Destinati on Botany We’ve scoured the campus — past and present OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: 4:30 pm – 11:00 pm | Open at 2 p.m. for All Badger Football Home Games 66 Greenhouse — for events, people, and places that capture the essence of UW–Madison. What we found may bring back fond memories and, in some cases,

UW ARCHIVES ALDOLEOPOLD.LEO0748.BIB surprise you.  5 Quiet Places on Campus Jeff Iseminger MA’93  7 Objects of Affection Doug Erickson  4 Photos in Search of a Caption Riley Vetterkind ’17  6 Surreptitious Science Lessons in Alumni Park John Allen  5 Great Plays in Badger Sports History Dennis Chaptman ’80 See page 37.

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*Subject to restrictions. Please call for more information. 4 On Wisconsin SPRING 2018 On Wisconsin 5 Communications 4 INSTAGRAM PICKS UW–Madison social media Football Reform Furthermore, it seems that both specialist Nate Moll ’13 selected I thought I knew everything about passages relate to the person some of his favorite Instagram [Frederick Jackson Turner] until I praying for the ill person trying images from Badger alumni and read your wonderful article. Many the fasting — not the sufferer. the campus community. “Photos thanks. James Golz ’69 that say, ‘On, Wisconsin!’ from a Donna Shalala Wausau, Wisconsin unique perspective really cap- Former UW–Madison chancellor ture my eye,” Moll says. Coral Gables, Florida Favorite Traditions My favorite UW tradition [Fall Thank you for your incredible 2017 Tradition, Marching Band story about the 1904 effort to Auditions] was the fun at football rid the university of football games between the band and [“Football Fight,” Fall 2017 On cheer squad, as well as the Statue Wisconsin]. If only the reformers of Liberty on the lake (see page had succeeded! Today’s football 37). What I remember most is culture, as it was back in 1904, is just walking around campus, anathema to an academic mission. enjoying the architecture and the Lower standards, glorification of lake. There was always some- a certain male identity, and appro- thing going on. When I visit, I @_kylehulse priation of campus facilities as a have to stop at the Rathskeller to minor league for the NFL provide enjoy another favorite place. just a short list of the problems, Ron Wiliams not to mention the brain injuries. Baraboo, Wisconsin I don’t deny the appeal of Camp Randall on a crisp Saturday morn- Muir Knoll Refuge ing, but, as with any addiction, we Thank you for the story on Muir would be better without it. Knoll [Summer 2017, Destina- John Wengler ’84 tion]. I transferred from another Nelson, New Hampshire state school and attended the UW from 1974 to 1977. Those [Frederick Jackson] Turner’s crit- were difficult times for me, and icisms of football are just as valid when things got rough, Muir today. Snap courses for jocks? Knoll was my refuge. Sitting on @tpayneful17 Special perks? I’m shocked, the hill and looking out at the shocked! I am like the ESPN lake always made me feel calmed announcer who recently quit, and restored. Good memories! saying he could not be complicit Luanne Bethke Redmond ’77 anymore. I’m not a UW football Chicago fan anymore. Now, if the UW really wanted to go “forward,” Thanks, Mr. Mayor it could prioritize concussion What a great issue! [Summer studies and related research on 2017.] The broad range and permanent injuries from football. perspective of the articles was John Wagner impressive — well done. @manzeck.photography Joel Skornicka ’59, MS’64 High-Fat Diet Madison mayor, 1979–83 In “A High-Fat Diet that Heals” [Fall 2017], your expert seems X-planation wrong about the Bible using What does the x mean before fasting to stop seizures. Modern someone’s graduation year? translations either omit Matthew Walter Weirich MS’70, 17:21 (“this kind comes out only PhD’71 with prayer and fasting”) or note Tucson, Arizona that it is absent from the oldest Biblical manuscripts. Mark 9:29 Editor’s Note: An x preceding has a similar verse, but again, a degree year indicates that the modern translations either omit person did not complete, or has “and fasting” or note that it is not yet completed, that degree at absent from earlier manuscripts. UW–Madison. @tessaruid

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8 On Wisconsin SPRING 2018 On Wisconsin 9 OnCampusNews from UW–Madison Witness to History Professor has a front-row seat to U.S. counterterrorism efforts. SARAH MORTON Cheers to Wisconsin! Featuring wines made from CHRISTINE KNORR grapes, honey, cherries, cran- berries, and more, UW–Madison hosted the first “Wine Is Wis- consin” competition in August, and the winner — called Spar- kler — was an effervescent wine produced by Parallel 44 Vineyard and Winery in Kewaunee. Wisconsin has more than 120 wineries and adds two or three UW military each year, says Nick Smith, history professor an outreach specialist with the John Hall (left) grew up in Department of Food Science. Wisconsin and “There are opportunities to grow Military history professor John Hall spent 15 years on active duty as an served in the grapes in places that have not infantry officer and strategic planner for the U.S. Army before joining the Army. been available historically, and so UW–Madison faculty in 2009. Now he is recording history as it happens. we’re seeing an expansion across In a new Pentagon appointment as a historian for the Joint Chiefs of the Upper Midwest,” he says. Staff, he follows the development of counterterrorism plans and strategy

Enjoy the Nature of at the highest levels of the U.S. government and then writes the official BRYCE RICHTER history of these efforts. While counterterrorism may be a relatively new subject to docu- Great Retirement ment, the armed forces have been recording military happenings in real time since World War II. “The U.S. military has been very good for a very long time in recog- nizing the importance of faithfully capturing details of what transpired, OAKWOOD’S TWO CAMPUSES are distinct thriving as it transpired, so there’s an accurate historical record,” Hall says. communities in beautiful natural surroundings. Oakwood The job’s requirements — among them a PhD in history, top security clearance, and an Army reservist rank of colonel or lieutenant colonel HONORED GUEST also has best-in-class life enrichment programming to support — fit Hall’s background and his dedication to both scholarship and ser- The International Division pre- vibrant social activities, opportunities to learn and grow and vice. After growing up in southeastern Wisconsin, Hall left the state to sented Ian Khama, president of be a part of a close-knit community. attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the second half of the Republic of Botswana, with a his military career, he embarked on what he calls “the military version Global Citizen Award in July. Since of academia,” earning a master’s degree and PhD in history at the Uni- taking office in 2008, Khama versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before returning to West Point has worked to build Botswana to teach. into one of Africa’s most stable At the UW, Hall has taught a variety of classes on military history, nations and championed sus- including advanced courses on the American military experience since tainable growth and responsible 5565 Tancho Drive, Madison 6205 Mineral Point Road, Madison the early 20th century. He also teaches Native American and early conservation. While in Madison, he met with 25 Mandela Wash- 608-230-4000 608-230-4266 American history and has earned several distinguished teaching and writing awards. ington fellows — a group of young Hall’s work at the Pentagon over the next several years will be highly Africans who spent six weeks classified, but he plans to bring his experience to the classroom upon on campus as part of a program www.oakwoodvillage.net his return to campus. designed to prepare them to be KATIE VAUGHN ’03 future leaders in their countries.

10 On Wisconsin WINTER 2017 On Wisconsin 11 OnCampus Bygone 6 Classes 3 Kinds of Smiles UW–MADISON ARCHIVES S02485 The smile may be the most common and flexible expression, used to reveal some emotions and cover others. But how do we know what a smile means? UW psychology professor Paula Niedenthal ’81 studied smiles and found that they IMMIGRANT MYTHS fall into three broad categories, each of which uses the facial Public debate on immigration law muscles differently to communicate different things. has outpaced research, prompting

UW sociology professor Michael PAULANIEDENTHAL (3) Light to launch a series of studies on undocumented immigrants and public health and safety. His most recent findings debunk claims that undocumented immi- gration increases drug and alcohol problems. Light and a team of research- ers at Purdue University, where he Reward Smile was on the faculty when he began “Probably the most intuitive,” Niedenthal says, this is “the kind of smile the work, used immigration data you would use with a baby, so he will smile back or do things you like.” spanning 1990 to 2014 to examine It’s a symmetrical hoist of facial muscles plus a dash of eyebrow lift and the relationship between undocu- some sharp lip pulling. mented immigration and drug and alcohol arrests and deaths. Despite having less education and wealth — factors associated with drug and alcohol problems — undocumented immigrants engage in less crime and stay healthier than expected, Light says. And yet undocumented immi- gration is often stirred into debate of social ills such as opioid use. If you had been a female student As a result, the Female College, Higher Arithmetic tion reached its zenith … in 1870 Affiliative Smile Mental and Written It’s unquestionable that drugs are at the UW in the late 1860s, your located in South Hall, opened in and 1871, and particularly through Used to communicate tolerance, acknowledgment, or a bond, this smile first year would have included the 1867 with its own headmistress the senior girls of the class of ’70. smuggled across the border be- Grammar shows that you’re not a threat — it comes with a similar symmetrical not-so-challenging courses listed and curriculum. The innovation A quartette of forceful, brainy, tween the United States and Mex- upturn to the mouth, but spread wider and thinner with pressed lips and Verbal and in red at right. For a brief period was not popular with its students. Sentential spirited young women, they were ico, Light says, but it doesn’t mean no exposed teeth. drug smuggling and unauthorized in its early days, the University of Jennie Field Bashford 1874 wrote, Analysis pronounced leaders in denouncing immigration are one and the same. Wisconsin had a special college “The feminine mind was kept in a offensive rules and regulations, in known as the Female College. constant state of irritation by the Geography and scheming to obtain larger liberties, “If you want to fight the opioid Map Drawing epidemic or reduce drunk driving, Although the university began subordinate position assigned to it and in general mutinous conduct.” deporting undocumented immi- welcoming women in 1863 — at the University.” History With Chadbourne’s departure United States grants residing in the U.S. is likely partly to boost enrollment when Jennie Muzzy Covert 1872, in 1871, the university soon reaf- many male students enlisted in writing in the March 1901 Wis- firmed its commitment to coed- not going to be the most effective General Exercises policy,” he says. the Civil War — the practice was consin Alumni Magazine, noted, ucation, partly because it was Reviews CHRIS BARNCARD short-lived. “When I entered, the experimental inefficient to maintain two separate When the UW recruited Paul policy of a ‘ladies’ department’ had colleges. The newly constructed Chadbourne, an opponent of coed- given rise to a most anomalous and Ladies Hall (shown above) served Dominance Smile ucation, to serve as president in unsatisfactory condition of affairs. as the women’s dormitory, but they Used to signify status and manage social hierarchies, this smile dispens- 1867, he made it a condition of his … The young women were coming, were once again allowed to attend es with symmetry, pairing a bit of lopsided sneer with the raised brows employment that the university craving opportunities for growth classes with men. Ladies Hall was and lifted cheeks typically associated with expressing enjoyment. segregate by gender. He believed and mental development, and later named Chadbourne Hall by that in allowing men and women finding the restrictions imposed acting president Edward Birge to to study together, “you have an upon them more and more irk- commemorate “Dr. Chadbourne’s element of incalculable mischief some and galling. This feeling of contumacy regarding coeducation.” introduced into the institution.” turbulent unrest and dissatisfac- NIKI DENISON

12 On Wisconsin WINTER 2017 On Wisconsin 13 Calculation OnCampus DANIELLE LAWRY BRYCE RICHTER

SNOW REMOVAL When winter pummels Madison, UW grounds sidewalks are most likely to be empty. If crew department crews work long hours to clear path- members are too tired after a long shift, or travel Fresh Eyes ways for faculty, staff, and students. Snow clearing is treacherous, it’s not unusual for them to sack The UW is taking a second look at its history. usually begins at 1 or 2 a.m., when streets and out on air mattresses in the grounds shop. Chancellor Rebecca Blank has appointed a study group to research two student organi- The Job zations that were active during the 1920s and named after or otherwise affiliated with the Ku Labor Klux Klan. The study will examine the extent to 13 50+ 101 90 which the campus organizations were aligned miles of miles of parking bus full-time maximum road sidewalk locations stops employees shift hours with the national KKK movement, their actions, 43 16 and their legacies. Equipment Dow: 50 Years Later “UW–Madison rejects the ideologies of On October 18, 1967, student activists at UW–Madison amassed white supremacist groups and all groups that to protest Dow Chemical Company’s recruiting efforts on campus. express hatred of people because of their iden- The company made napalm, a flammable gel used as a weapon in tities,” Blank said in a statement announcing the Vietnam War. the move. “These organizations are antithetical What began as a peaceful act of civil disobedience turned vi- to the values of respect and inclusion that our 15pickups with front-end2 3Bobcat 6tractors 3dump olent as city police officers in riot gear forcibly removed students university strives to represent.” plows/sanders loaders Toolcats trucks from the Commerce Building (today’s Ingraham Hall), where they The study group — cochaired by UW history were blocking the Dow interviews. The clash involved thousands professor Stephen Kantrowitz and Floyd Rose, Other tons of tons of and injured dozens, hardened campus relationships, and became a who leads 100 Black Men of Madison, Inc. — Tools salt* sand catalyst for a new wave of emboldened pacifists. includes students, faculty, staff, and alumni. 125–150 100 Demonstrations against Dow had begun on campus the prior Blank asked the group to advise her how the winter, but it was the fall 1967 conflict that propelled the UW to campus can best acknowledge and respond the forefront of the national antiwar movement. Demonstrations to this history. The university is also exploring would roil the campus for years to come. naming and signage that will reflect the Native Bob Grueneberg ’71 (pictured above) was a bystander when history of the lands on which the UW sits. a tear gas canister hit his bike. “[The police] were basically treat- In addition, Blank has asked the Wisconsin ing the crowd as if everybody was involved in the protest,” he says. Union to identify space within the renovated

I I “Well, that was the beginning of what might be called my radical- Memorial Union that could be used to docu- ization.” His experiences on campus kindled his commitment to ment the history of these student organiza- fairness, and he went on to become a lawyer and an assistant U.S. tions on campus, rather than hide it away. The BASCOM HALL attorney. “That was one of the best things that ever happened in building’s Fredric March Play Circle and Porter my life,” he says of attending the UW during the ’60s. Butts Gallery are named for alumni who were J J Read more Dow stories from UW alumni at 1967.wisc.edu. members of a KKK–affiliated group. DOUG ERICKSON JENNY PRICE ’96

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UW scientist and entre- A federal judge ruled Supreme Court Justice preneur Mark Cook passed in July that Apple had Elena Kagan visited away in September. Cook infringed on a UW campus in September and L L taught Animal Science patent and ordered spoke about the experience 101 for many years, but he the computer firm of becoming a high-court also received more than 40 to pay the Wisconsin judge, saying, “There was no patents and launched three Alumni Research justice school … They throw startup companies. He was a *on hand at any given time on campus Foundation $506 mil- you into the deep end of the M M leader of the UW’s D2P (Dis- lion. Apple has filed pool and say, ‘Swim, why

SEVIE KENYON; BRYCE RICHTER BRYCE KENYON; SEVIE covery to Product) initiative. notice to appeal. don’t you?’ ”

14 On Wisconsin WINTER 2017 On Wisconsin 15 OnCampus Conversation Shilagh Mirgain UW–MADISON SSEC/CIMSS Shilagh Mirgain wants you to to guide your life. What do we a half ago. The climb was very create a bucket list. She first tend to remember at the end of hard, and near the end I wasn’t wrote hers long before the hit our life? It’s not work, usually. sure if I was going to make it movie of the same name arrived — but that sense of “this is on in 2007 — and the UW Health How can we follow through my bucket list” allowed me that psychologist has been encourag- on our bucket list items? extra oomph to get to the top ing people to develop their own Coming up with an actual and achieve it. ever since. Bucket lists, she says, list can be really fun. I really are about more than traveling the recommend having it some- How do you feel about the world. They can contain child- place visible, where you see rise of bucket lists on social hood dreams, things you’d like to it regularly. We can’t do it media? learn, and what you want to be all at once, and there I can imagine that those are remembered for. are some things that definitely post-able moments. the you today can’t However, I think there’s proba- Bucket lists can seem very achieve, but that the bly a downside, like, “Oh, every- light-hearted. What’s their you 10 years from one else is achieving this and it value? now, or 20 years looks easy.” I think it’s impor- In the business of life, it’s easy to from now, can tant to keep believing in your- just get on autopilot. Over time, achieve. It’s what self, keep listening to what’s you can lose touch with those matters to you, right for you, and know that deeper yearnings, those curios- not to anyone these things don’t happen over- ities, those longings that may else. … I climbed night and that’s okay. have been with you in child- Mount Kiliman- hood. Reflecting on a bucket jaro a year and Can you explain the list helps us get back to psychology of bucket the core of who we lists? are and what really There will be naysayers, so I helps make our think you want to be a little pro- life meaningful. tective of who you share it with. I think about People who bring to your aware- bucket lists as ness all the reasons why it’s not a North Star going to work or why you don’t have what it takes — those would not be the people to share it with. There will be obstacles. Right before we achieve it, we’re tested. So we have to reaffirm our commitment to it.

EYE ON IRMA: Before Irma turned into a Category warnings to the public. “You have to take a little pride in Interview conducted, edited, 5 hurricane, UW–Madison’s Tropical Cyclone Research being a small slice of the process that lets people know and condensed by Madeline Group was the first to spot the then tropical storm off the what will happen — so they can get out of the way,” senior Heim x’18 coast of Africa. The UW scientists share such findings with scientist Chris Velden MS’82 told the Milwaukee Journal Photo by Bryce Richter National Hurricane Center forecasters, who then release Sentinel. news feed

A new three-week pro- Chancellor Rebecca Blank Best. Internship. Ever. Ali gram called gALPHA+CS has proposed a new program Walton x’18 and Ryan Holtz is supporting student to encourage first-generation x’18 worked as interns COURTESY OF ALI WALTON entrepreneurs. As a part- college students to attend for CBS television, ending nership among the startup UW–Madison. Badger Promise their time by attending the accelerator gener8tor, will offer two years of free Primetime Emmy Awards WARF, and the university, tuition to in-state, first-gen- in September. Holtz’s faculty and experts help eration college students who internship was created by students develop ideas transfer from a two-year pro- Kelly Kahl ’89, president of into marketable products. gram at another state college. CBS Entertainment.

16 On Wisconsin WINTER 2017 On Wisconsin 17 Exhibition 7 Unusual Gifts OnCampus JEFF MILLER A-maze-ing Angie Treinen ’88, DVM’93 received a novel idea this year from the UW’s Geology Museum for her family farm’s award-winning corn maze: a giant trilobite. The now-extinct marine creature — and the state’s official fossil — once cruised GIVE WHAT YOU GET the planet’s seas, including those that covered Wisconsin. The maze, cut into corn If it’s the thought that makes a gift planted by Treinen’s husband, Alan Treinen ’79, also features the honeybee, count, here’s a thought that can the state insect; cubes of galena, the lead ore that drew miners to Wisconsin and make your gesture count extra: get made it the home of the Badgers; and a rendering of the field microscope used by a little something for yourself. Charles Van Hise 1879, 1880, MS1882, PhD1892, a geologist, University of Research by Evan Polman of Wisconsin president from 1903 to 1918, and father of the Wisconsin Idea. the Wisconsin School of Business shows that recipients are happier ANGIE TREINEN with presents when givers get themselves the same thing — a phenomenon he calls companion- izing. “The fact that a gift is shared with the giver makes it a better gift in the eyes of the receiver,” he says. “They like a companionized gift more, and they even feel closer to the giver.” Polman’s subjects rated the likability of various gifts — and how likable the offerings would be if an attached card said, “I hope you like the gift. I got myself the same one, too!” Scores went To thank the university that launched Birge Hall and belongs to the UW Zoo- Brains up for presents that also found a you into the real world, sometimes writ- logical Museum’s permanent collection. Donations to the Wisconsin Brain Donor home with the giver. ing a check doesn’t feel like enough. Program, part of a research center at “When you receive a gift that That was certainly the case for Tom Nurses’ military uniforms the School of Medicine and Public someone has also bought for Koehler MS’96, who gave his 40-acre Decades after military nurses tended Health, provide an important look at the themselves, you feel more like yak farm to UW–Madison in 2012. The to wounded World War II soldiers, the differences between cognitively healthy “That most of these women remain unknown them,” Polman says. “That leads aptly named “Green Bay Yakkers” prop- UW’s School of Nursing displays a few adults and those who suffered from you to like your gift more.” erty in Door County will eventually be of the nurses’ uniforms during special impairments such as Alzheimer’s dis- has nothing to do with their demonstrated CHRIS BARNCARD sold, with proceeds benefiting the School events. Former faculty members and ease. of Medicine and Public Health. alumni of the school donated the uni- skills and everything to do with their Gifts come in all shapes and sizes forms, which they wore while serving Thai Pavilion valuation as citizens in the 20th century.” from alumni who want to give back to in the Army Nurse Corps and the Navy. The 30-foot-high ornate structure, their alma mater, says Scott McKinney donated to the university by the gov- Marie Hicks, a UW assistant professor of history and author of Programmed Inequal- GAFFERA/ISTOCK JD’98, chief operating officer of the UW Hair wreaths ernment of Thailand and the Thai ity: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing, in Foundation. “They want to put it toward Of the 14 examples of hair art in the chapter of the Wisconsin Alumni response to a Google software engineer’s memo that claimed women are less likely to something that was very meaningful to School of Human Ecology’s Helen Louise Association, was constructed in its pursue leadership roles in the tech industry because of “biological differences.” them: the university,” McKinney says. Allen Textile Collection, one was owned home country, carefully taken apart Of course, there are gifts just too by Allen herself — a small tribute to the for shipping to Madison in 2001, and unusual to accept. McKinney recalls overtly sentimental styles of the 19th reassembled at Madison’s Olbrich a fishing boat, timeshares, and a coin century, when it was common for hair Botanical Gardens. collection, among others. Most often, to be exchanged as a gift. news feed though, the UW can find ways to use Edison’s gramophone such gifts, no matter how unconven- Although inventor Thomas Edison never UW freshman Sam Step lively! A research Pets might be good at pre- Leaded glass Jeschke x’21 handed team led by materials venting allergies, a School of tional, on campus. Here are some — The bright yellow shard of glass is a frag- set foot on campus, he donated a gram- out 43,000 packages of science professor Xudong Medicine and Public Health from a very long list — that we found ment from a window at the Hanford Site, ophone to physics professor Benjamin Mentos gum during his Wang installed a new floor study suggests. Professor particularly fascinating. a nuclear production complex in Wash- Snow in 1919 after hearing that the first week on campus. at Union South — one that James Gern led the study, ington State that made plutonium for the department would be opening a museum. His prize: a year of captures energy from the which found that infants who Polar bear Manhattan Project during the mid–20th Today, the piece serves as an occasional tuition and a concert for footsteps of people walk- were exposed to high indoor Legally hunted and imported by a private century. The shard was donated to the teaching tool for physics students — and UW students by hip-hop ing on it. The floor then levels of pet or pest allergens citizen years ago, the 12-foot-tall taxi- university in 2013 by the Friends of the it still plays records. star DJ Khaled at the converts that energy to have a lower risk of asthma

EVAN TAYLOR; IVANKO_BRNJAKOVIC/ISTOCK TAYLOR; EVAN Kohl Center in October. electricity. during their first seven years. dermic bear now perches atop a foyer in Geology Museum. MADELINE HEIM X’18

18 On Wisconsin WINTER 2017 On Wisconsin 19 Contender James White COURTESY OF THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS/ERIC J. ADLER.

“It sucks to lose the last game, player to score a game-winning mance, though, brought a trip to was ripe for a feature gig, the man.” touchdown in overtime of a Disney World and a new pickup UW’s Melvin Gordon stole the That may sound like an odd championship game.) truck from talk-show host Conan spotlight with a breakout quote coming from a Super “I heard the play call and O’Brien. Patriots quarterback season. Bowl hero. But for James White knew the ball was coming to Tom Brady, who was officially White once again settled x’14, a running back for the New me. I was just trying to find a named Super Bowl MVP, first into a backup position, but his England Patriots, losing the last way in,” White says, recall- suggested that White deserved steady production (fifth-leading game was an all-too-familiar ing the moment. “After the truck formerly gifted to rusher in UW history) proved reality during his time at the UW. that, I can’t even really MVPs. But the NFL had stopped enough for the Patriots to draft Each of his four college seasons describe the feeling.” the promotion, so O’Brien, a Pa- him in the fourth round in 2014. ended with a postseason loss, White is actually a triots fan, happily filled the void His receiving skills and versatil- including three consecutive two-time Super Bowl and surprised White on national ity out of the backfield fit New Rose Bowl defeats. champion, although he TV with a new truck. England’s offense, which promi- “Whenever I have a chance was inactive for the Perhaps as improbable as nently features “passing backs.” to go back, I just preach to those championship game in New England’s historic come- “[The UW] prepared me very guys at Wisconsin to finish that his rookie season. His back was White’s leading role in well. We were asked to do a season strong, because I can’t MVP-worthy perfor- the Super Bowl. When On Wis- lot of things as running backs, say that I ever did,” White says. consin last caught up with him mostly my junior and senior But you’d be hard-pressed in fall 2013, White was entering years, catching the ball out of to find a player who’s finished his senior season at the UW and the backfield,” White says. “I’ve a season better than White did looking to emerge from a more always been able to do it. I used in February, when the Patriots familiar role: a change-of-pace to catch the ball in the front yard overcame a 25-point deficit to backup to a star running back all the time as a kid. We threw beat the Atlanta Falcons in the (first Giovani Bernard in high the ball to running backs in high Super Bowl. White’s 14 recep- school, and then John Clay x’11 school, too.” tions and 20 points scored and Montee Ball x’13 in college). As White sets his eyes on — three touchdowns and a But just when it appeared White a third Super Bowl ring, he’s two-point conversion — both keeping another goal in mind: broke previous Super Bowl his UW degree. “I still have, like, records. And his game-winning 10 more credits. I have to finish two-yard dive marked the first that up soon before they change overtime touchdown of the the curriculum on me,” he says, Super Bowl era. (Before then, laughing. former Wisconsin running back White’s breakout perfor- Alan Ameche ’56 was the only mance may keep him away from the books for a few more years, but he insists his life hasn’t changed very much: “I’m still going to be the same person.” The same person, perhaps. But now, finally, winner of the last game. PRESTON SCHMITT ’14

James White broke records in the 2017 Super Bowl.

20 On Wisconsin WINTER 2017 22 On Wisconsin WINTER 2017 On Wisconsin 23 5 Quiet Places 4 2, MILLER, JEFF 1,3,5; RICHTER, BRYCE on Campus BY JEFF ISEMINGER MA’93

Campus life is managed tumult — whether a full-throated football game at Camp Randall or a live band on the Memorial Union Terrace on a summer evening. But there are coves of unexpected calm and seas of serenity on campus that can paradoxically quicken one’s life with quiet. They can, that is, if you know where — and when — to look. 3

1. The Class of 1918 Marsh Not far from University Hospital, this swamp might look static, but it’s actually inching through a slow-motion restoration to its former marshy glory. The best way to enjoy it, short of pulling on a pair of waders, is to catch a looping trail at Parking Lot 130 near the entrance to Picnic Point, then walk to a weathered-wood overlook. Sit on the bench and ponder this panorama spiked by a forest of cattails, and tune in to a soundscape layered with the conk-la-ree! of epauletted red-winged blackbirds nesting along the edge.

2. Nancy Nicholas Hall The third-floor terrace of the School of Human Ecology’s home on Linden Drive lets you sit on lacy wrought-iron chairs that are bathed in — you choose — dappled light beneath an arbor or full-bore sun, all graced with deep green ground cover. The wide- angle view sweeps across a swath of rooftops, including the terra-cotta tiles of Agricul- ture Hall next door. In the distance, you can even see a slice of Camp Randall Stadium.

3. The Memorial Union Terrace (early morning) It doesn’t just matter where you go, but also when: The Union Terrace is crowded at brats- 1 4 and-beer-and-music time, but the morning after is the flip side of the Terrace’s split personality. And it’s glorious. The water is like blue, exquisitely rippled glass, and the nautical woods of sailboats sway at anchor. A jogger glides by — pad-pad, pad-pad — accompanied by birdsong instead of bandsong. The iconic sunburst chairs are lined up in long rows, composing a rhapsody of yellow and green and orange backlit by the rising sun.

4. The School of Education Building Make that a double order of third-floor terraces with a view, because the School of Ed on Bascom Hill has one, too. This view features Muir Woods, Lake Mendota, and an edge of Helen C. White Hall. The terrace offers up wooden furniture, sun umbrellas, two big sumacs, and ground cover dotted with yellow blossoms, plus the nearby Crossroads Café. The seamless integration belies a striking fact: the terrace is just an architectural kid, having opened in 2010, 109 years after the first students walked into the then-named Engineering Building.

5. Elizabeth Waters Residence Hall Overlooking Lake Mendota, this dorm hides a rear courtyard complete with tables and chairs and birds and trees, suffused with a large measure of silence. You’re cocooned by the hall behind you and the woods, sky, and lake before you. On a sunny summer morning, there may even be a sense of Italian villa in the air. This, you decide as you sip a cup of coffee, is how a courtyard can turn tense into tranquil.

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PROFESSOR: Daniel Young, entomology Objects DOUG ERICKSON (6); CHAZEN MUSUEM OF ART 1OBJECT: Beetle-mania “Most everything in my office probably would be considered creepy or gross to of Affection many people, but not to me,” says Young, 7 BY DOUG ERICKSON whose officemates are thousands of dead insects. His research collection of fire- colored beetles — his specialty — is esti- mated to be the third-largest in the world. OBJECT LESSONS

PROFESSOR: Harry Brighouse, BY STACY FORSTER 2 philosophy The late James Baughman’s office was as iconic as the professor himself. OBJECT: Doctor Who art He greeted you with a joke inviting you to sit in his “endowed chair” — a Forty-four years ago, Brighouse, age 10 and ratty seat wedged in a nook near his filing cabinets. He’d offer you a piece living north of London, ran to a newsstand of Pez candy. and bought three copies of Radio Times, a Once he’d warmed you up this way, your eyes would wander around 1 TV Guide-like publication with Doctor Who his office, where the beloved teacher and journalism historian spent 37 on its cover. Today, he’s known for an office years on the faculty of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. full of objects related to the British televi- Baughman’s office was equally intimidating and warm, recalls Caitlin Cieslik- sion series, including a reproduction of that Miskimen ’07, MA’14, because tucked onto its shelves and the surfaces were 1973 cover. “The show influenced my values various objects that hinted at his life story: a baseball emblazoned with and views on society, even teasing me into the Cleveland Indians mascot, a black-and-white photo of Babe Ruth with 2 abstract thinking, which is what I ended up President Warren Harding (an Ohioan, like Baughman), a needlepoint pillow doing for life,” he says. blaring, “I Was Misinformed.” No matter who you were, you could find a way to relate to him through those items. PROFESSOR: Carrie Sperling, law Baughman passed away in March 2016 after a brief illness. A few months 3 OBJECT: Needlepoint house later, when it came time to clean out his office, his treasured mementos were Soon after Sperling successfully helped offered up to his colleagues and made their way to new homes in offices a client through the Wisconsin Innocence across Vilas Hall. Project, the man thanked her with this “Maybe it’s just a way of reminding ourselves that being a little bit like needlepoint house made in prison. Students Jim Baughman wouldn’t be a bad thing,” says associate professor Mike 7 who take the time to look it over are reward- Wagner, who has Baughman’s “sifting and winnowing” paperweight, a 3 ed: Sperling stocks its numerous secret symbol of the late professor’s commitment to the Wisconsin Idea. 5 compartments with candy. Assistant professor Katy Culver ’88, MA’92, PhD’99 ended up with PROFESSOR: John Valley, geoscience a small toy TV truck — complete with a tiny standup camera and tiny cameraman — that reflects Baughman’s love of television. Professor Dhavan 4 OBJECT: Rock that contained the oldest known piece of Earth Shah ’89 has a collection of presidential Pez dispensers. Baughman’s “God Valley extracted the rock from an outcrop is a Packer Fan” button is now pinned to my bulletin board. in Australia. In 2014, he and a team of re- “It speaks volumes about Jim that lots of people wanted a memento, and searchers reported that it contained a speck they wanted something really specific,” Culver says. “They wanted their of zircon — a tiny, hardy crystal — that is connection with Jim.” 4.4 billion years old. That’s the oldest known Stacy Forster is an instructor in the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication bit of Earth’s crust. Alas, the priceless zircon is stored elsewhere on campus under lock and key. But Valley keeps in his office the rock it came from, itself one of the oldest PROFESSOR: Bill Tracy, agronomy PROFESSOR: Sandra Adell, objects on campus at three billion years old. 6 OBJECT: John Steuart Curry 7 Afro-American studies reproduction OBJECT: Painted mannequin legs 4 PROFESSOR: Emily Stanley, Curry, one of the great painters of American While jogging years ago, Adell rescued the 5 integrative biology Regionalism, served as the first artist- discarded legs from a curb. They languished, OBJECT: Lake sediment in-residence at the agricultural college. In unpainted, in a corner of her office until As pioneers of freshwater science, UW lake 1941, he painted Dean Chris Christensen in 2004, when student Brody Rose ’99, MFA’05 ecologists Edward Birge and Chancey Juday a field of sweet corn. The original hangs at stopped by. “You have to paint my legs,” Adell analyzed hundreds of Wisconsin lakes. the Chazen Museum of Art, but a 72-by- told him. They now rise prominently from her Stanley cherishes one of their sediment 48-inch reproduction that once­­ graced the desk, capped with high heels from her clos- 6 samples, passed down to her from a pre- dean’s residence ended up in a warehouse, et. “What I hope the legs convey,” she says, decessor and marked “Aug. 7, 1907, Lake where Tracy, agronomy department chair- “is that this professor is a bit unconventional Manitowish.” It’s now just dried mud in a dis- man, rescued it. “I’m very proud that it’s in a and a lot of fun.” colored bottle, but it’s also a point of pride. place of honor again,” he says.

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10 Most Popular Names Among UW Veterinary Care Patients* Bella Buddy Max Daisy Lucy Bailey Molly Jack Charlie Maggie

*During the last five years. Since 1983, 252 patients 2 have been named Bucky or Badger. UW ARCHIVES S16479

24 UW–Madison Firsts 1875 Nation’s first Scandinavian studies department 1890 First test of butterfat content in milk 1910 Country’s first genetics department 1913 Discovery of vitamin A 1916 Discovery of vitamin B 1919 Oldest educational radio station 1924 Discovery of method to enrich food with vitamin D 1926 First university dance program 1933 Synthesis of blood-thinner dicumarol, paving way for warfarin 1930s Discovery of methods to iodize salt 1936 First university artist-in-residence program 1 1939 First university department of wildlife management 1959 First space-based weather camera 4 PHOTOS IN SEARCH OF A CAPTION 1966 First poverty-research center 1968 First bone marrow transplant

RILEY VETTERKIND ’17 1968 First graduate program in arts administration UW Archives to manage records, digital archivist Catherine Phan UW–Madison’s Steenbock Library has a vast col- is looking for ’00, MA’09 says it is able to devote only about 10 1970 Creation of the first synthetic gene lection of science books and journals, but a room help identifying hours per week to scanning photos for use in an 1987 Development of Wisconsin Solution, used in on its top floor contains the little-known heart of the people and online format. That works out to about 400 to 500 transplant surgery campus history. events depicted in these and images per month. 1998 First cultivation of embryonic stem cells in a lab Two million photos, more than 4,000 hours of other images So far, 13,640 total materials have been scanned. 3 2005 First National Stem Cell Bank oral histories, plus posters and correspondence that are now And even when images are digitized, archivists hit documenting life at the state’s flagship institution part of its digital a roadblock when they try to catalog them, since so 2007 First human skin cells genetically reprogrammed UW ARCHIVES S17494 are housed in boxes that rest upon dozens of book- collection. many of the photos lack information such as subject, to create cells indistinguishable from embryonic shelves at the UW Archives. time, and place. stem cells Archives staff is working to digitize each piece On Wisconsin magazine wants to help fill in these 2007 First “naming gift” given to a U.S. business school of UW history for people to both use and share, but gaps in the UW’s story. If you can identify any of the to preserve its name (see page 60) with limited resources, that’s easier said than done. people, places, and events in the photos on these 2014 First endowed fellowship in feminist biology UW Archives first began uploading images to its pages, drop us an email at onwisconsin@uwalumni. website in 2003, but the staff has only begun doing com. 2014 First master’s program in energy conservation so at a high volume in the past few years. Because the Responses may be published in a future issue, office is charged with aiding researchers, developing and UW–Madison will be a small step closer to the collection, and working with UW departments bringing its collection fully into the digital age.

28 On Wisconsin WINTER 2017 4 On Wisconsin 29 S = 1/((1–P) + (P/N)) Carved in a steel plate near the middle of the park is this odd collection of letters and 6 Surreptitious Science symbols: it’s the formula for Amdahl’s law BY JOHN ALLEN of parallel computing. Gene Amdahl MS’49, Lessons in Alumni Park PHOTOS BY JEFF MILLER PhD’52 was a UW graduate who helped When the Wisconsin Alumni Association opened Alumni Park in advance the world’s knowledge of how to October, it offered more than a green space on the Lake Mendota harness multiple computers to speed their shoreline. It also included dozens of exhibits that feature hun- work. When you’re parallel-computing, dreds of UW alumni and the things they’ve done to leave a mark be sure to obey this law, unless you want on the world. Tucked in among those exhibits are several trouble with the computer police. science lessons — to be found by those who look carefully. 855 Feet On a small brass plaque honoring the work of Florence Bascom 1882, 1884, MS1887— the first woman to serve on the U.S. Geological Survey and the daughter of John Bascom — you might see this figure. It’s the elevation of Madison above sea level. We can’t all make it to the beach, so if you want to be at sea level, you’ll need a shovel.

Vitamin D On the Badger Pride Wall, along the park’s eastern edge, you’ll find an arrangement of dots and lines: it’s the molecular model of vitamin D. Harry Steenbock 1908, MS1910, PhD1916 discovered how to enrich foods with vitamin D, thus ending the scourge of rickets. If you want to make vitamin D at home, arrange your carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms thusly.

Explorer 7 Near the Langdon Street side of the park, situated just a little above ground level, there’s a small, white, resin lighting ele- ment in the shape of a satellite — the Explorer 7 satellite, to be exact. This was the spacecraft on which legendary UW pro- 9,181 Miles Three-Electrode Circuit fessor Verner Suomi placed his At the north end of Alumni Way — the Element radiometer (an instrument that sidewalk that runs through the center of the On the stone panels along Alumni Way, measures radiation), giving rise park — a series of lines radiates out from a one section is devoted to John Bardeen to the age of satellite meteorol- circular numen lumen seal. One notes the ’28, MS’29. Look closely to see etchings ogy. The park’s version of Explorer exact distance from Madison to the South of his original plans for the transistor, the 7 is just six inches above Earth’s Pole, where the UW has research staff at electrical device that earned him the first surface, some 311 miles closer the South Pole Research Station. of his two Nobel Prizes. You now have all than the original. the information you need to build your own transistor.

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12 Custom Confections The Babcock Hall Dairy Plant makes special ice cream flavors to honor notable Badger people and events, and we think their creativity is pretty sweet. Here is a partial list of Late some of the dairy’s commemorative concoctions. 8Literary Giants Alumni Park After Dark: Grainger Granite Crunch with Saul Bellow x’41 Chocolate ice cream with Academia Nuts: Vanilla ice Humboldt’s Gift, The Adventures caramel swirl and white choc- cream with a blend of maca- of Augie March; Bellow was olate chips; created in honor of damia nuts, chocolate chips, awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize Alumni Park’s grand opening and English toffee pieces; in Literature this past October named after Grainger Hall, home of the Wisconsn School August Derleth ’30 Bec–Key Lime Pie: A Key of Business, when it opened The Sac Prairie Saga lime–flavored ice cream with a in 1993 Zona Gale 1895, MA1899 graham-cracker ribbon; named Miss Lulu Bett, Friendship Village after UW–Madison chancellor IceCube’s Blue Neutrino: series of short stories Rebecca Blank Vanilla ice cream with brown candies representing neutri- Lorraine Hansberry x’52 Berry Alvarez: A berry-flavored no detectors, blue ice cream A Raisin in the Sun, The Sign in ice cream with strawberries, representing ice, and marsh- Sidney Brustein’s Window Great Plays in Badger Sports History raspberries, and a blueberry mallow swirl representing the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1918 ribbon; named after Barry Alva- streaking neutrinos; named The Yearling rez, the former Badger football after the IceCube Neutrino BY DENNIS CHAPTMAN ’80 Delmore Schwartz x’35 5 coach and current director of Observatory In Dreams Begin Responsibilities Bronson Koenig On the run: The Badgers returned to the Rose upset victory. Gilreath took the kick, slashed through the UW athletic department launches a Bowl for the first time in 31 years on New Year’s Day a seam on the left side, and left defenders in the dust In the Dark: Chocolate ice Jean Toomer x’18 buzzer-beater to 1994, and left with a 21–16 victory over UCLA. The as the crowd roared. Gilreath later said he didn’t hear Berry Proud Parent: Vanilla cream with malt background Cane, The Collected Poems of send the Badgers to the Sweet 16 in key was a 21-yard, fourth-quarter touchdown run the roar. “I just remember thinking, ‘Whatever you ice cream with raspberries and flavor and pecans, fudge, Jean Toomer by slow-footed quarterback do, don’t get caught.’ ” chocolate chips; created at the chocolate chips, and brownie the 2016 NCAA Darrell Bevell ’96. Eudora Welty ’29 What started as a pass play became a scramble as request of the Parent Program pieces; named after the annu- tournament. The Optimist’s Daughter, which UCLA defenders blanketed UW receivers. Bevell After painful years as a football laugh- in appreciation of UW parents al Wisconsin Film Festival Redemption: won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize; short ran left, picking up a block and making his own slick ingstock, Wisconsin captured respect in a hard-hit- story “Why I Live at the P.O.” move. “There was a guy there and I somehow made ting game against fourth-ranked Nebraska in 1974 Cherrity: Black-cherry ice MadGrad Medley: Vanilla ice him fall down,” Bevell said. “I was laughing, the play- under coach John Jardine. The Badgers hung with cream made with Door County cream with Door County cher-

ers were laughing at me, a television guy walks by Nebraska and with less than 4 minutes left, UW quar- cherries and chocolate fudge ries and chocolate chips and HARRY SCULL JR./ NCAA PHOTOS VIA GETTY IMAGES and he’s laughing. … It was the most amazing play.” terback Gregg Bohlig ’75 rolled right from his own swirls; created to help kick off flakes; named in honor of the 23-yard line and fired a pass to flankerJeff Mack the university’s charity (get Wisconsin Alumni Associa- Halfcourt heaven: Facing the Magic Johnson– ’76, just beyond the reach of a Cornhusker defender. it?) 2016 Partners in Giving tion’s 150th anniversary led Michigan State basketball team on March 3, Mack gathered in the pass and streaked untouched for campaign 1979, Badger Wes Matthews x’81 delivered the a 77-yard touchdown, tying Nebraska 20–20. Vince Morgridge Medley: Vanilla ice Spartans a stunning defeat — their last en route to Lamia ’78’s extra point sealed the victory. ABC com- Chocolate Chryst: Chocolate cream, butterscotch and fudge an NCAA title. Matthews took an inbound pass with mentator Duffy Daugherty raved, “This’ll go down in ice cream with Rice Krispie swirl, brownies, and pecans; seconds left, dribbled to halfcourt unchallenged, and Badger history as one of the great plays.” pieces and a cream cheese served at the Wisconsin Union heaved the winning shot with a second to play, as the swirl; named after Badger head in 2014 to celebrate a $100 10 NCAA Hockey Titles UW won, 83–81. Matthews told the Sporting News Sweet shot: Wisconsin guard Bronson Koenig ’17 football coach Paul Chryst ’88 million gift from John ’55 and years later that he expected a Spartans press, which propelled the Badgers to the Sweet 16 of the 2016 Tashia ’55 Morgridge BADGER BADGER never materialized. “There was nobody there,” he NCAA tournament with some cold-blooded shooting Crazy Legs: A Badger-red MEN WOMEN said. “I thought, ‘They’re going to sit back and watch against Xavier. With 11.7 seconds to play in St. Louis, vanilla ice cream full of choc- Union Utopia: Vanilla ice 1973 2006

this? Okay.’ The basketball gods were on my side.” Koenig sank a three-pointer to tie the game at 63–63. olate-coated, caramel-filled LAWRY DANIELLE cream with a swirl of caramel, 1977 2007 Then the UW’s Zak Showalter ’17 took a charge footballs, with a marshmallow peanut butter, and fudge; 1981 2009 Happy return: The college football world’s atten- with 4.3 seconds to play and the Badgers regained swirl; named after Elroy Hirsch named after the Babcock Hall 1983 2011 tion was glued to sold-out Camp Randall Stadium on the ball. After a timeout, Koenig took the inbound x’45, former UW athletics Dairy Plant’s largest ice cream October 16, 2010, as the Badgers faced top-ranked pass, wheeled to the deep right corner and popped director and Badger football customer — the Memorial 1990 Ohio State under the lights. An already electric in the game-winning three-pointer as time expired star known for his frenzied Union 2006 atmosphere erupted as the UW’s David Gilreath and teammates mobbed him. “I just tried to channel style of running x’13 took the opening kickoff 97 yards — untouched my inner Steph Curry,” Koenig said, referring to the — for a touchdown that triggered the Badgers’ 31–18 NBA great.

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UW faculty have brought home an impressive collection Neil Steinberg, a colum- of Missouri students “nuked” nist for the Chicago Sun-Times Madison by dumping 500 of hardware over the years, including seven Nobel Prizes. Most recently, Jonathan and something of an expert on pounds of manure on the front Patz of the Global Health Institute shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along college pranks, devoted a whole steps of Memorial Union); host- with other members of the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change. But the chapter (and the cover) of his ing an Animal House–inspired UW very nearly hired two others who were destined to win Nobels. Both of them 1992 book, If at All Possible, toga party for 10,000 people Involve a Cow: The Book of (complete with an endorsement slipped through the university’s fingers in a two-year period. BY JOHN ALLEN College Pranks, to the UW’s call from actor John Belushi); culture of comedy. He credits and employing a full-size con- legendary campus pranksters struction crane to unveil a five- Milton Friedman Richard Feynman Leon Varjian x’83 and James inch replica of the Washington (UW 1940–41, Nobel 1976) (UW 1942, Nobel 1965) Mallon ’79 for “creat[ing] some- Monument on Library Mall. In the first half of the 20th century, In July 1942, the University of thing even rarer than a single But not all campus humor the University of Wisconsin had one Wisconsin Press Bulletin — essen- great prank — an atmosphere of has aged well. The UW was of the nation’s leading economics tially a collection of press releases great pranking. A Golden Age.” home to the earliest college departments. Under John Commons, that the UW compiled for state Within a week of arriving at “panty raid” on record, UW economists wrote some of the most influential doc- newspapers — included a small blurb: “Two appoint- the UW in 1977, Varjian started according to Steinberg’s book. uments of the Progressive Era. Among other things, ments were made to the department of physics,” it read. a petition to formally change the In 1899, hundreds of male Commons’s disciples — including Edwin Witte 1909, “Felix Adler and R. P. Feynman, now at Princeton uni- UW’s name to the University students had planned a visit PhD1927; Arthur Altmeyer 1914, MA1920, PhD1931; versity, will come to Wisconsin in the fall as assistant of New Jersey. His pitch? UW to Ladies Hall (later renamed and Wilbur Cohen 1934 — helped to create the Social professors.” graduates could finally boast Chadbourne) to serenade its Security System. The “Wisconsin school” of economic Feynman would never take up the post, and the UW of receiving an elite East Coast residents. Some of the students thought helped to guide the New Deal. would not be able to send a press release explaining education. Together, Varjian went rogue, breaking into the In 1940, the UW’s prominence attracted a bright, why. The university had granted him leave so that he and Mallon formed the Pail hall’s laundry room and stealing young academic who was still finishing his doctorate at could work on the greatest national secret of the age: and Shovel Party and took over more than 200 garments. The Columbia. Milton Friedman came west at the invitation of the Manhattan Project. student government from 1978 women responded with a threat Selig Perlman 1910, PhD1916, one of the country’s leading As an undergrad at MIT, Feynman had made a name to 1980. The party’s name was of “no social relations with the labor historians. for himself as a brilliant nuclear physicist. Even before adopted from an early proposal men of the University” until It soon became apparent that Friedman was a diffi- earning his bachelor’s, he was already developing the to convert the government’s full budget into pennies, only the offenders were brought to justice. Much of the clothing cult fit with the rest of the faculty. Steeped in statistics, theories about the behavior of subatomic particles that to be sprinkled over Library Mall and collected by students was eventually returned, and 13 male students were either he found Wisconsin’s emphasis on studying institutions would earn him a Nobel Prize in physics in 1965. with pails and shovels. suspended or expelled. and policy to be unsophisticated and unscientific. His That reputation also drew the attention of Robert Varjian and Mallon pulled off the two most recognizable The university itself has occasionally joined in on the fun. UW colleagues, in turn, sneered that he was merely a Oppenheimer, who recruited him to join the effort to pranks in UW history: bringing the Statue of Liberty On April 1, 2013, the UW’s social media accounts announced mathematician. build an atomic bomb. Instead of going to Madison, (submerged in ice and first replicated using chicken wire, a controversial campus construction project: turning a In 1941, the conflict came to a crisis. Perlman nom- Feynman relocated to Los Alamos, New Mexico, and plywood, and papier-mâché) to Lake Mendota and Bascom Hill sidewalk into an outdoor escalator, or inated Friedman for an associate professorship. But he spent the rest of the war solving problems in atomic introducing a flock of more than 1,000 (plastic) pink “Bascavator.” One of the many mixed responses on social Friedman had recently put together an informal assess- fission. flamingos to Bascom Hill. media read: “Really??? We’ve become THAT lazy that tax ment of the department, and it wasn’t complimentary. In June 1945, an impatient Mark Ingraham, dean of In between, the Pail and Shovel Party provided consis- dollars and education funds need to be used for laziness?! A George Sellery, dean of the College of Letters & Science the College of Letters & Science, sent Feynman a letter tent comic relief: proposing to change all students’ names sad day in education … ” and a Wisconsin-school economist, objected to hiring demanding that he return to campus and start teaching to Joe Smith so instructors could finally know their large The Bascavator, of course, was an April Fool’s Day prank. Friedman. He warned Witte, the department chair, classes. that Friedman would “arouse extreme bitterness in the Feynman stayed in Los Alamos and, a month later, department of agricultural economics and the School of watched as the first atom bomb detonated. After the 8 LIONS OF THE LECTURE HALL Commerce,” according to a Daily Cardinal story that May. war, he easily found work with Cornell and then Cal When Friedman insinuated that the UW’s reluctance Tech. Over its 17 decades, the UW has taught hundreds of thou- Michael Leckrone • Music • 45 years to hire him was due to anti-Semitism, the relationship During the decades after the war, Feynman became sands of students — some 600,000 have earned degrees, Antony Stretton • Integrative Biology • 46 years was poisoned. He left Madison to work as a statistician a star in the field of QED, or quantum electrodynamics. each one influenced in one way or another by at least one Warren Porter ’61 • Integrative Biology • 46 years for the War Department through World War II, then His work was recognized by the Nobel Prize committee, instructor. Some faculty members come and go; others Grace Wahba • Statistics • 47 years joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, helping to which granted him a joint prize along with other QED stick around and become legends. According to the Sec- Oliver Ginther MS’66, PhD’67 • Veterinary Medicine • 47 years establish the Chicago school of economics, which is today pioneers Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. retary of the Faculty’s Office, eight current UW–Madison Robert Krainer ’57 • Business • 49 years one of America’s most influential. In 1976, he received Years later, Feynman finally returned to Madison. professors have served for more than 45 years. The odds Vernon Barger • Physics • 50 years the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his “It’s great to be back,” he told the crowd, “at the only work on consumption analysis and the history of money. university that had the good sense to fire me.” are pretty good that you took a class with one of them. Juda Shohet • Electrical and Computer Engineering • 51 years

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SPENCER WALTS SPENCER Campus 12 Statues Suomi NPP BY MADELINE HEIM X’18 satellite Named after Verner Some of them are so integral to the UW–Madison Suomi, who founded the KBC void experience that you saw them most days on campus UW’s renowned Space Sci- Named for Ryan Keenan ence and Engineering Center MS’08, PhD’11, UW astronomy (and likely rubbed a foot for luck). Others are tucked in 1965 and is often called professor Amy Barger ’93, and into places less frequented by the average Badger. the father of satellite the University of Hawaii’s Lennox meteorology Cowie; their research showed that The statues of the UW, a collection that spans a full the Milky Way resides in an enor- century of creative work from multiple sculptors, 2 mous void — a region of space containing far fewer galaxies, are just a small portion of the more than 100 pieces stars, and planets than of public art that bring color to campus. Each has its expected own unique story to explore — from the fierce bad- 729 Watsonia ger near Camp Randall to the pigeon perched at “The An asteroid named after Roost” in Union South. The next time you’re here, James Watson, the first director of the UW’s Washburn Observatory; look up, look around, and find them all. Watson, who died before the obser- 7 vatory’s completion in 1881, discov- ered 22 asteroids and was a strong believer in the existence of a planet, called Vulcan, thought to exist between Mercury and the sun Reynolds Layer 3 4 A massive atmosphere of ionized hydrogen gas 75,000 8 light years in diameter and 6,000 light years thick, named for the former UW–Madison astrophysicist Ron Reynolds 872 Holda MS’67, PhD’71, who dis- An asteroid named after covered it Edward Holden LLD1886, the second director of Washburn Observatory (1881–85), where he studied Saturn’s rings and cata- 9 10 logued stars in the southern sky; he also trained a woman — Alice Lamb 1884, ML1885 — as an astronomer, a rarity at the 1 5 6 time 92891 Bless A minor planet named after UW astronomy professor Name Artist Year made Location Robert Bless, who died in 2015; Bless was the founder of UW Space 1. Well Red Douwe Blumberg 2017 Alumni Park Place and was the designer and prin- 2. Abraham Lincoln Adolph Alexander Weinman 1909 Top of Bascom Hill cipal investigator for the High Speed 3. William Dempster Hoard Gutzon Borglum 1922 Henry Mall Photometer (HSP), one of the 4. Barry Alvarez Lou Cella 2006 Kellner Hall (next to Camp Randall) original instruments launched in 5. Girl with Bird John Robinson 1998 Waisman Center 1990 with the Hubble Space 6. Boy with Lego Bricks John Robinson 1998 Waisman Center Telescope 7. Time Out Boy and Time Out Girl Gary Lee Price 2010 Education Building 8. The Fighting Wisconsin Badger Oscar Leon 2011 Outside the Shell by Camp Randall 9. Martha Emily Belknap MFA’13 2012 Union South 10. Between Classes J. Seward Johnson Jr. 1994 Engineering Hall 11. Pat Richter Sean Bell 2006 Kellner Hall (next to Camp Randall) 12 12. Mother and Child William Zorach 1927–30 Courtyard behind Elvehjem Building 11

38 On Wisconsin WINTER 2017 On Wisconsin 39 UW ARCHIVES S03832 1. Nielsen Tennis Stadium 7. 1410 Engineering Drive (front entry) Building 2. Walnut Street Greenhouses 8. Susan B. Davis Residence Hall (portions only) 9. Zoe Bayliss Residence Hall 3. Natatorium 10. 215–217 N. Brooks Street 5 4. Carl Schuman Shelter Building Campus 1 5. Navy ROTC 11. Air Force ROTC 6. Science House 12. Rust-Schreiner Hall Rivalries 4 13. 45 N. Charter Street Building 2 BY JENNY PRICE ’96 3 5 11  12 Lakeshore versus 6 8 7 13 Southeast residence halls For the last five years, the two 9 sides of campus have met each winter in an epic snow- 10 ball fight that typically draws hundreds of students. The event has become known as the “Battle for Bascom.” Par- ticipants use cunning, as well UW law students rained rotten eggs on the 1938 Saint Patrick’s Day parade of engineering students. Campus Buildings as dining hall trays, to defend the honor of their on-campus of location: the engineering would stop trading vulgarities, the UW schools of law and Due for the homes. In 2016, the battle school sat across Bascom Hill but for many students, the medicine have competed in a was held at night for the first (in what is now the School of tradition is as much a part six-week series of competi- Wrecking Ball time, which didn’t stop one Education building) from the of game day as the Chicken tions to raise money for local 13 student from showing up in a law school. The two groups Dance and “Varsity.” charities. The contest was Speedo. of students disrupted the the brainchild of Tim Stewart annual parade on State Street  ’93, JD’97. Each school forms UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN–MADISON | CAMPUS INSTITUTIONAL DISTRICT MASTER PLAN  by throwing rotten eggs at Dean’s Cup teams to compete in numer- Badger Herald versus one another, and the enmity Each fall since 1995, faculty, ous contests, from a bake-off Daily Cardinal escalated in 1938 with van- staff, and students at to chess to flag football. BY PRESTON SCHMITT ’14 moving. Sellery and Witte residence The UW considers many factors Since the Herald was dalism done to both buildings. halls are beginning renovations to add before deciding whether to keep, reno- launched in 1969, a rivalry By 1940, university officials Gary Brown ’84, UW director of floors, aiming to accommodate resi- vate, or remove a building. Paramount with the Cardinal (founded in brought the parade to an end, campus planning and landscape archi- dents from the soon-to-be-removed among them are cost efficiency and 1892) was destined to take replacing it with the annual tecture, describes it as a life-size chess Susan B. Davis and Zoe Bayliss houses. the ability to adapt to emerging needs. shape between the two inde- Engineering Expo, which con- game. Move a department here. Knock That will open up an area just south Some buildings — such as Witte and pendent student newspapers. tinues today. 5 Winter Olympians to Watch over a building there. Protect the land- of Grainger Hall for a new academic Sellery residence halls — still serve Reporters spend each semes- When the Winter Olympics open February 9 in Pyeongchang, scape. And consider all possibilities at building that could house the history the same purpose for which they were ter trying to out-scoop one  South Korea, these Badger alumni will represent the Unit- all times. The result? A comprehen- department, which currently shares originally built and have the capac- another, but the Cardinal and O versus P ed States as members of the U.S. women’s hockey team. sive, ever-evolving, carefully calcu- space in the Humanities Building. ity to be renovated easily. Others, Herald also meet twice a year The taunting between these The squad won silver in the last two winter games, but is lated Campus Master Plan. The long-range plan (2029 or later) including the recreational facilities, to test their athletic prowess two student sections in Camp coming off of its fourth consecutive world title. The UW’s latest plan, initially is to then replace the Brutalist-style would be substantially more expensive in a fall flag-football game Randall Stadium took hold developed in 2015, calls for the Humanities (which frequently leaks) or physically impossible to renovate and a spring softball game. during some of the leaner Brianna Decker ’10 — 2014 silver medal removal of 13 campus buildings with modern academic buildings and a (or bring up to code) rather than to The losing newspaper must years of the Badger football Meghan Duggan ’11 — 2010, 2014 silver medals (or portions of them) over the next pedestrian mall. rebuild. run a story about the matchup program. “In my freshman Hilary Knight ’12 ­— 2010, 2014 silver medals Another divisive building slated for Meanwhile, the unlucky 13 due written by a reporter from the year, we’d go and chant, ‘Go, decade (not including the Southeast Annie Pankowski x’18 — First Olympic appearance Recreational Facility, or SERF, which eventual removal is Van Hise Hall, the for the wrecking ball may meet their winning newspaper. Go, Section O,’ because there Alex Rigsby x’14 — First Olympic appearance is in the process of being removed). tallest building in Madison after the demise sooner than anticipated. In wasn’t much of a team,” Each of the projects, Brown says, state capitol. Many campus buildings July, the Madison Common Council  Donald Lipski ’70 said in a will serve the plan’s big picture: from the 1960s and 1970s were rashly approved the UW’s whole Campus Engineers versus 2005 interview following the Badger men’s hockey coach Tony Granato ’17 — who skated for better managing space while protect- constructed in response to skyrock- Master Plan. The move could save six Lawyers installation of his sculpture Team USA at the 1988 Calgary Olympics — is the head coach ing historic buildings and campus eting enrollment and built to last only to nine months in the approval process In the 1920s and ’30s, Saint Nail’s Tails outside the stadi- for the U.S. men’s team, and Chris Chelios x’83 will serve as an landscapes. about 50 years. “And now it’s 50 years — as well as millions of dollars — for Patrick’s Day brought may- um. Parents might prefer that assistant after four Olympic appearances. The chess pieces are already later,” Brown says. each new building, Brown says. hem that was a byproduct today’s occupants of O and P

40 On Wisconsin WINTER 2017 On Wisconsin 41 Things Aldo Leopold Used in the Field 9 10 Badger Hall of Famers UW professor Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac is one of the most beloved and respected Pro Football Hall of Fame books about the environment ever published. The Leopold Collection — housed within UW Archives Elroy Hirsch x’45: In 12 seasons, — documents the noted ecologist’s path to becom- including nine with the Los Angeles ing the most influential conservation thinker of the Rams, he was named to three all- 20th century, as well as the history of conservation league teams and three Pro Bowls. and the emergence of the field of ecology from the Mike Webster x’74: “Iron Mike” early 1900s until his death in 1948. The collection Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, by Frank M. Chapman played more seasons — 15 — and includes student notebooks and course materials more games — 220 — than any from Leopold’s early studies, copies of his inspection other player in Pittsburgh Steelers reports on many national forests in the Southwest, history. and hundreds of family photos, as well as images he captured to illustrate aspects of wildlife ecology and Naismith Memorial Hunting bow Leopold UWARCHIVES (CLOCKWISEFROMPHOTO OF LEOPOLD): ALDOLEOPOLD.LEO0555.BIB; 0752.BIB; 0739.BIB; 0753.BIB; 0744.BIB; 0748.BIB; 0733.BIB; 0740.BIB; 0741.BIB; 0744.BIB Basketball Hall of Fame land management. made with bowstring Walter “Doc” Meanwell: The UW’s first basketball coach (a practicing Slide rule and planimeter, used to measure distances physician) lost only one game in his and land areas on maps Light meter, used to measure the light first three seasons. intensity at which different species of Harold Olsen 1919: A first-team birds first began singing at dawn All-American at Wisconsin in 1917, he later spearheaded efforts in 1939 to create what is now known as the NCAA Tournament. Chris Steinmetz LLB1905: At 5’9” and 137 pounds, he scored nearly Pipes 70 percent of the team’s total of- fense during the 1904–05 season. Harold “Bud” Foster ’30: The Badger captain went on to serve as head coach, leading the UW to the 1941 NCAA title.

Hockey Hall of Fame Bob Johnson: Coached the Badgers to three NCAA titles, the U.S. na- Field glasses tional team from 1973 to 1975, and the U.S. Olympic team in 1976. He also led the Pittsburgh Penguins to Aldo Leopold near his Baraboo shack in 1946 their first-ever Stanley Cup in 1991. Chris Chelios x’83: A member of the 1983 NCAA men’s ice hockey championship team, he played for

A Field Guide to the Birds, by Roger Tory Peterson the United States in four Olympics ISTOCK: CHIPSTUDIO; FILO (2); DASJAKOMAN and won three Stanley Cups in 27 NHL seasons before retiring at age 48.

Baseball Hall of Fame Allan “Bud” Selig ’56: The ninth commissioner of Major League Base- ball, he also brought baseball back to Milwaukee after the Braves left for Atlanta.

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42 On Wisconsin WINTER 2017 On Wisconsin 43 Beowulf Club 6 Things The club kicked off in 1987 as a supplement to the only Old English literature course on campus. Every BUCKY BADGER MUST DO Friday, medieval buffs gather to read a variety of Old Student Clubs English texts and discuss modern interpretations. you wish you would have belonged to She’s the First The campus chapter of a national organization, She’s 9 the First UW–Madison raises funds through book drives, spin-class fundraisers, and a nationwide

JEFF MILLER PUSH-UPS cupcake sale to sponsor girls in countries where it is difficult for them to access education.

Alexander Hamilton Society The society promotes debate on world affairs, national security, and the economy by hosting nonpartisan discussions — such as one on President Trump’s foreign policy — for the campus community.

Sign Language Club The close-knit group meets weekly to learn the basics of conversing with American Sign Language, STAY SILENT DANCE one of the most commonly used languages in the (Bucky does NOT talk) world.

Tango Club Whether it’s teaching beginner lessons or hosting a formal milonga, the club provides an opportunity for dancers to have fun while honing their Argentine tango skills.

Improv Comedy Looking for a laugh? Head to a performance by one of the UW’s two improvisational comedy groups — Iceberg Improv or the Understudies — which both use fast-paced, creative action to captivate STAND ON HIS HEAD IMPROVISE audiences.

Campus Kitchens Project Born from a passion for food sustainability, the group recovers roughly 150 pounds of leftover food BY MADELINE HEIM X’18 per week from UW dining halls to serve at weekly community meals, which are open to the public. Members of the At a school as sprawling and vibrant as UW–Madison, the range of student UW’s Tango Club clubs is so extensive that even the most dedicated Badger couldn’t attempt Fandom Club gather weekly Harry Potter, Marvel, Doctor Who, Star Wars, and at Union South to give them all a try. From more serious academic, athletic, and artistic more — the club celebrates all things fan-related and to practice their pursuits to the essential Wisconsin wild cards — such as Cheese Club or the skills. creates community in geek culture. Badger Brewing Association — students are hard-pressed to find an interest or activity that doesn’t already have some sort of organization on campus. Insight Wisconsin We’ve compiled some of the most unusual contenders to give you a taste of After an Intro to Engineering Design class was phased out of the curriculum, engineering under- today’s extracurricular life. graduates wanted more real-world design experi- T.M. DETWILER ence. Now, more than 50 student inventors complete projects such as zero-gravity simulators and con- vertible crutch scooters. TOP A HUMAN PYRAMID

44 On Wisconsin WINTER 2017 On Wisconsin 45 RYAN KOCH PHOTOGRAPHY 1 20 5 Astonishing Discoveries Badger Bastions Ever wonder which parts of the BY TERRY DEVITT ’78, MA’85 world have the highest concen- tration of UW–Madison grads? Almost every day, UW–Madison research makes news. Whether it’s the discovery of the Zika-carrying Asian tiger mosquito a few miles from one image. campus, or the first-ever detection of a cosmic neutrino from an icebound TOP 10 CITIES telescope at the South Pole, the world is paying attention and scooping with the most alumni use Chance up these discoveries. Madison metro area Developments such as the advent of human embryonic stem cells, Milwaukee metro area the Rapper finding the genes that make influenza deadly, and the fossil haul that gave Minneapolis/St. Paul us Homo naledi (a new addition to the human family tree) are predictable Chicago photos front-page news. But the UW’s ideas factory churns out remarkable find- New York City ings that don’t always get the notoriety they deserve. In no consequential Green Bay available order, here are five astonishing things you may have missed: Appleton, Wisconsin Seattle or get??? From the teeth of skeletons excavated at a long-vanished town founded San Francisco 1by Columbus on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, UW anthropologists Mequon, Wisconsin extracted chemical isotopes that reveal the early life histories of the individuals, some of whom may have been among Columbus’s crew, and possibly the first Africans in the TOP 10 COUNTRIES Americas. with the most alumni (other than the United States) Legendary Concerts Cats prefer their own music. For China 11 South Korea 2 enrichment, many people play music for their pets. Some think Canada Mozart might appeal to felines, India BY JENNY PRICE ’96 Chance the Rapper performed on but a UW study has shown that Malaysia OCTOBER 2, 1959 OCTOBER 19, 1978 Library Mall in May 2015. Indonesia Ella Fitzgerald Itzhak Perlman cats prefer music composed Japan FEBRUARY 14, 1927 Wisconsin Union Theater Wisconsin Union Theater the Streets Have No Name” is now to a pitch and tempo that Singapore Sergei Rachmaninoff The “First Lady of Song” headlined Perlman, once a child prodigy, a staple of Badger football game matches their own sensory Stock Pavilion the UW’s first campus jazz festival “doesn’t play a violin, he works it,” days, returned to Camp Randall on system, not ours. United Kingdom The 6’6” piano virtuoso migrated with the Oscar Peterson Trio, on the a reviewer wrote for the Capital June 25, 1997. Germany from Russia in 1917 and extensive- heels of her performance at the Times following the then–32-year- Computers may seem like Playboy Jazz Festival in Chicago. ly toured the United States before old’s concert, his fifth visit to the APRIL 23, 2010 the ultimate arbiters: dispas- She returned to the UW for a Union Theater in a decade. He 3  his death in 1943. He returned Janelle Monáe sionate and objective. But the algo- to Madison for a performance on November 9, 1962, Homecoming returned for performances in Memorial Union Terrace

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Anders Holm ’03 @ders8 Actor, cocreator, writer, and executive producer of Workaholics Dan Katz ’07 @BarstoolBigCat Cohost, Pardon My Take podcast Jacquelyn Gill MS’08, PhD’12 @JacquelynGill Cohost, Warm Regards podcast; ice age ecologist, University of Maine Andy Katz ’90 @TheAndyKatz Former ESPN college basketball reporter; named to the Sports Illustrated “Twitter 100” list 4 Snowiest Snow Days Gwen Jorgensen ’08, MAcc’09 BY CHELSEA SCHLECHT ’13 @gwenjorgensen Olympic triathlete The city of Madison has an average annual snowfall of 53 inches — nearly four and a half feet — which spans seven months of the year. Madison’s record-break- JJ Watt x’12 ing season in 2007–08 saw a whopping 101.4 inches dumped on the city. If the @JJWatt NFL player numbers don’t speak for themselves, just ask anyone who’s endured a Wisconsin winter — it’s a very snowy place. Which is why you may find it surprising that, Tammy Baldwin JD’89 @SenatorBaldwin in the past 50 years (52, to be exact), UW–Madison has shut down completely for U.S. senator snow just four times. Greta Van Susteren ’76 The St. Patrick’s Day Blizzard The Battle: Part 2 @greta Political analyst; former TV host of March 17, 1965 February 2, 2011 On the Record Storm total of 6.9 inches 14.3 inches in 48 hours Chancellor Robben Fleming LLB’41 can- The 2011 snow day was Martin’s second Manu Raju ’02 celed classes, which proved to be prescient cancellation in just four semesters — and @mkraju when the day’s record-high temperatures it wouldn’t be her last. This snow day Senior congressional reporter, CNN caused the snow to turn into freezing rain. also secured the Battle for Bascom as an Lynsey Addario ’95 annual campus tradition (see page 41, “Five @lynseyaddario The Inaugural Battle Campus Rivalries”). Photojournalist; author December 8, 2009 Alex Wehrley ’09 14.1 inches in 48 hours The Exam Stopper @AlexWehrley As snow began to pummel campus the December 20, 2012 Former Miss Wisconsin USA; evening prior, students asked Chancellor 15.2 inches in 48 hours cohost, 2015 Miss USA pageant; Carolyn “Biddy” Martin PhD’85 on Twitter For her final snow day, Martin did some- advocate for empowering women’s if she would cancel classes. At 7:45 p.m. thing no UW chancellor had done before: career advancement the chancellor tweeted that all classes and she canceled all in-person final exams for Bill Cronon ’76 operations the next day would be canceled. the Fall 2012 semester. @wcronon And at 7:46 p.m., students began planning UW professor of history; environ- for the inaugural “Battle for Bascom” snow- mental historian; writer ball fight. When the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research asked Hollywood heavyweights to contribute to its archives, comedian, writer, and film star Groucho Marx sent this reply. He eventually donated correspondence and copies of scripts for Animal Crackers, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, and eight other Marx Brothers films.

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Robert Bergman PhD’66 Jim Berbee ’85, MS’87, MBA’89 Robert Bergman is a pioneering organic chemist whose find- A four-time Ironman triathlete, Jim Berbee once broke his 14 DID-YOU-KNOW 4 Distinguished ings have led to numerous commercial applications. Now collarbone during training, and the care he received inspired the Gerald E. K. Branch Distinguished Professor Emeritus an interest in emergency medicine. Berbee is now a clinical DISTINGUISHED Alumni in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, he dis- assistant professor at the UW School of Medicine and Public covered a reaction known as the Bergman Cyclization that has Health and an emergency physician at the William S. Middle- ALUMNI had major implications for the pharmaceutical industry. He ton Memorial Veterans Hospital. WAA recognizes 2017’s 1. Dance-education pioneer has also done innovative research in the field of organometallic But he started his career as an IBM systems engineer, and Badger honorees. Margaret H’Doubler 1910 chemistry. In 1981, Bergman led a team in the discovery of an in 1993, he founded Berbee Information Networks Corporation Since 1936, the Wisconsin unusual new group of organometallic complexes that sever in his basement. As the business grew, clients included IBM, 2. Feminist leader Kathryn Alumni Association has pre- carbon-hydrogen bonds, which created an entirely new sub- Microsoft, and Cisco. After selling his company to CDW in Clarenbach ’41, MA’42, sented Distinguished Alumni field of chemistry virtually overnight. 2006, he attended Stanford University’s School of Medicine PhD’46 Awards to the most prestigious Bergman began teaching at the California Institute of and earned his MD in 2010. He then completed his residency 3. Founder of Earth Day and graduates of UW–Madison to Technology in 1967, moving on to Berkeley in 1977. He has in emergency medicine at the UW Hospital and Clinics. U.S. senator Gaylord Nelson honor professional achieve- been named a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Berbee is also the founder of the Berbee Derby Thanks- LLB’42 ments, contributions to society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Califor- giving Day 10K run and 5K run/walk. Proceeds support the and support of the university. nia Academy of Sciences. He has more than 575 publications Technology Education Foundation, which provides technology 4. Apollo 13 astronaut Altogether, that adds up to some and eight patents to his name. Bergman has earned some two resources and education to help alleviate the digital divide. He James Lovell x’50 328 awards. dozen awards for his research and teaching, including hon- and his wife, Karen Walsh ’81, MA’89, support human health 5. Attorney, judge, and first This year’s honorees are orary doctorates from Texas A&M University and Carleton and welfare projects through the BerbeeWalsh Foundation, female Wisconsin Secretary leaders in fields ranging from College, and the 2017 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. including a $10 million gift to the UW medical school’s Depart- of State Vel Phillips LLB’51 technology, medicine, and He founded the Bay Area Scientists in Schools program, ment of Emergency Medicine that has been transformational 6. Former Cisco Systems chemistry to social services which provides science outreach for elementary school stu- for faculty, staff, and patients. Berbee is a trustee for the Wis- president and CEO John and the entertainment industry. dents in the Berkeley area. Although he has emeritus status, consin Alumni Research Foundation, the Morgridge Institute Morgridge ’55

For more on the awards, visit SKORPINSKI PEG Bergman remains active in research, teaching, and outreach. SOLUTIONS MEDIA for Research, and WiCell Research Institute. uwalumni.com/awards. 7. Educator Tashia Morgridge ’55 WAA is now accepting nominations for Danae Davis JD’80 Kelly Kahl ’89 8. Former Wisconsin senator the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Awards Danae Davis has devoted her career to promoting education It’s very possible that Kelly Kahl is responsible for one of your Herb Kohl ’56 at uwalumni.com/go/nominatedaa. and helping the most vulnerable in society. She worked as favorite TV shows. As senior executive vice president for CBS The deadline is December 1, 2017. 9. Former Major League legal counsel for former Wisconsin governor Tony Earl and Primetime, he oversaw planning and scheduling of primetime Baseball commissioner sought to promote diversity as an executive at Miller Brewing programming for more than two decades. He helped build a Bud Selig ’56 and Kraft Foods. She was a member of the UW System Board schedule that included huge successes such as Survivor, Blue of Regents from 2003 to 2011, and in 2008, she earned the Bloods, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Big Bang Theory, CSI, 10. Former Wisconsin governor Outstanding Woman of Color in Education Award from the and three editions of the NCIS franchise, ensuring that CBS Tommy Thompson ’63, JD’66 UW System. ranked number one in viewership for 14 of the past 15 seasons. 11. Epic Systems founder Judith As the executive director and CEO of PEARLS for Teen Kahl was promoted to president of CBS Entertainment Faulkner ’67 Girls, Davis served at-risk African American girls in Milwau- in May. He now leads the network’s entertainment division, 12. Jazz pianist Ben Sidran ’67 kee. In 2014, 97.6 percent of the 1,300 girls in the program where he oversees programming, research and scheduling, graduated from high school and were accepted to at least one marketing and promotion, digital-interactive, diversity, and 13. Chair of Hong Kong college; 99.9 percent avoided teen pregnancy. publicity. Kahl signed on at CBS in 1996 after several years at Exchanges and Clearing In 2015, Davis became executive director of Milwaukee Warner Brothers Television. Prior to that, he was with Lori- C. K. Chow ’72 Succeeds, a collaborative community effort to improve edu- mar Television, starting as a research intern and quickly rising 14. Actress Jane Kaczmarek ’79 cational outcomes through focusing on children’s readiness through the ranks as a research analyst and manager. to learn, from kindergarten through college and career. The Kahl, whose Twitter handle is @calibadger, is well known organization, which is part of the Greater Milwaukee Founda- for his love of Wisconsin sports, and he serves on the Commu- tion, has shown promising results, particularly in improving nication Arts Partners board for UW–Madison. He often hosts third-grade reading skills. Davis was recently named a Woman UW events at his home and at the bar he owns, the Under- of Influence by the Milwaukee Business Journal and attended ground Pub, and he has established a successful internship a prestigious program for nonprofit leaders at the Harvard program at CBS for UW students. Senior Ryan Holtz, this Business School. Davis also chairs the board for 88Nine Radio year’s intern, says, “Kelly is extremely hands-on with his

JIM MOY JIM Milwaukee, which seeks to make the city more inclusive, and VY/CBS JOHNNY interns. His promotion happened just as I was arriving at CBS StriveTogether, a national, nonprofit network to improve U.S. for the summer, but he was still able to keep his door open for educational outcomes from cradle to career. each and every minute question that I had.”

50 On Wisconsin WINTER 2017 On Wisconsin 51 OnAlumni Tradition Winter Carnival BRYCERICHTER (3) ANDYMANIS (3) Alumni Park Opens Alumni Park welcomed more than 2,600 visitors at a grand opening on the weekend of October 6–8, despite intermittent rain on Friday and Saturday. The park is a 1.3-acre green space located between the Memorial Union and the Red Gym that celebrates the Wisconsin Idea with exhibits honoring alumni contributions and the university’s positive impact around the world. Spearheaded by former WAA pres- ident and WFAA chief alumni officerPaula Bonner MS’78, it is believed to be the first park of its kind in the country. The festivities included the unveiling of a statue of Bucky Badger (top right), arts activities, an appear- At the Alumni ance by the UW Marching Band, and an opportunity Park grand open- to explore the park’s more than 50 artful exhibits and ing in October, nearly 200 stories of alumni achievements and UW from top, visitors innovations and traditions. admired the new The park’s exhibits were designed by museum- statue of Bucky exhibit firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates, whose Badger, watched other projects include the Smithsonian’s National the real Bucky Museum of African American History and Culture zoom into the and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. event on a Harley Davidson motor- Many exhibits, such as the Badger Pride Wall and cyle, and listened Alumni Way panels, were fabricated by Wisconsin to remarks from companies and artisans. WFAA’s Paula Visitors also enjoyed exploring other facets of the Bonner. project, including a rooftop terrace that overlooks the park; One Alumni Place — a welcome and visitor center and the new home for grads as they return to When frigid temperatures have Those were the days when FLASHBACK Jam, where several hundred stu- campus, and Goodspeed Family Pier, which features settled in and sunny skies are much of the student body could View more dents gather at the top of Obser- public boat slip access. rare, what could bring UW stu- fit into one large building for an images of UW– vatory Hill to cheer on classmates Alumni Park will feature special programming on dents out of their homework-in- all-school dance — but as the Madison Winter who attempt daring tricks on a ski a year-round basis. Following opening weekend, vis- duced hibernation for some university’s population rapidly Carnival fun from jump. years gone by itors enjoyed a Day of Learning panel with Park-fea- frozen fun? expanded in the decades since, at onwisconsin. “The goal of Winter Carnival tured alumni, coinciding with the 50-year reunion That’s the puzzle that the Wis- the carnival itself has kept pace, uwalumni.com. has always been to encourage for the class of 1967; a Homecoming block party with consin Hoofers solved when the adding new activities and devel- everybody to go out and have fun music and a fish fry; Wisconsin Science Festival pro- student group took over the uni- oping twists on old ones to keep in the winter,” says Yiqun Ma x’19, grams, and more. Can’t make it to see the park in versity’s Winter Carnival in 1940, students engaged. who organized last year’s event person? See alumnipark.com for a virtual tour and drawing the campus community Now cohosted by Hoofers, for Hoofers. expanded content on the stories featured in the park. together for ice sculpture contests, Recreational Sports, and the Ma says he hopes to push the a ski jump, and a Snow Ball. Wisconsin Union, last winter’s envelope further for carnivals to Skate cabarets and broom carnival boasted a broomball come and experiment with activi- Ice Cream Truck hockey were among the events tournament, a make-your-own- ties that were “not possible logis- Julia Kinsey ’14, left, a WFAA senior marketing on deck for the first few carni- kite event, nighttime fireworks tically or technologically back in

JEFF MILLER JEFF 3,917 coordinator, serves Babcock Hall ice cream from scoops of ice vals, when organizers flooded the over Lake Mendota, and human the day,” such as hosting a live a refurbished 1957 International Harvester Metro cream have been Terrace to create a makeshift ice bowling, with students sitting in concert on the ice. Van. As part of an effort to thank residents of served to Wis- rink. The Central Ski Association inflatable tubes that sail across But no matter the decade, Wisconsin’s 72 counties for supporting the consin residents hosted an official championship the ice to knock over giant inflat- Winter Carnival provides a yearly university, the #ThankYou72 truck has been as part of WFAA’s meet each year — and if Madison able bowling pins. excuse to bundle up — maybe don traveling around the state, serving free ice ThankYou72 snow was in short supply, more And in a nod to the carnival’s a cozy red Wisconsin hat — and cream at events and festivals. campaign. was shipped in on railroad box- beginnings, Hoofer Ski and Snow- go play outside. cars from northern Wisconsin. board Club hosts the annual Rail MADELINE HEIM X’18

52 On Wisconsin WINTER 2017 On Wisconsin 53 OnAlumni Class Notes Recognition Jenni Radosevich ’05 JON MATTRISCH 30s–50s Green Bay’s Central Pharmacy, Now they help others to cherish the role and work of the news Mary Jane Ihle Clark ’39’s which he owned for many years. the kinds of experiences they media” and his perceptive writing birthday party in December Now 85, he “retired” long ago but missed. Jun is the longtime pres- about the presidential campaign must have been a lot of fun: still works as a pharmacist at the ident of SRI Design. and changes in the electorate. we hear that passing the 100- Oneida Clinic — even after four The columnist has covered media year milestone has not slowed surgeries for bladder cancer. 70s and TV — the “greatest beat the active, social San Antonio, Clothier continues to brighten BOOK NEWS? “Today — Friday, June 2, 2017 in the world,” he says — for Texas, resident. Happy century! lives, says his son, with his See page 61. — was the last day of my run- the Baltimore Sun since 1989. Fashion and interior “contagious, upbeat personality.” every-day streak that started Zurawik is also a Goucher designer Iris Barrel Apfel ’43 CLASS NOTES on September 10, 1976,” College professor and the author of New York City — now 96 and 60s SUBMISSIONS William Stark MA’70, of The Jews of Prime Time. as flamboyant as ever — has uwalumni.com/ reported to Streak After nearly 40 years at John Kutzbach ’60, MS’61, go/alumninotes PhD’73 been busy collaborating on a PhD’66 garnered a 2016 Runners International and the the Chicago Sun-Times, sports- new jewelry collection called International Science and Class Notes, United States Running Streak writer Herb Gould ’74 and AW17 Atelier Swarovski by Iris Technological Cooperation Wisconsin Association. (His 14,876-day fellow not-quite-retirees Mark Apfel, and she greeted patrons Award — China’s top science Foundation span is the world’s sixth-longest Blaudschun of the Boston Globe and Alumni in June during an exclusive pre- honor for international collab- Association, retired streak.) Following sur- and Chris Dufresne of the L.A. view of the line. The maverick orators — during a May cere- 650 N. Lake gery, the Saint Louis [Missouri] Times have embarked on season style maven shared her life story mony in the Chinese embassy Street, Madison, University biology professor two of their college-football and her “more is more” mantra in Washington, DC. It all began WI 53706-1476 was following his doctor’s order website, TMG (The Media DIY CAREER on the big screen in the 2015 during the 1980s, when the to rest, but Stark hopes to re- Guides). Gould, a Daily Cardinal Jenni Radosevich ’05 (above, center) was crafting long before it was cool documentary Iris. UW–Madison professor who DEATH NOTICES turn to daily running, previously veteran who still visits Camp — before Pinterest and the do-it-yourself (DIY) deluge in pop culture. During his 39-year career directs the UW’s Center for AND NAME, about 40 miles per week. Randall as a Sun-Times contrib- She has many fond memories of visiting the craft store with her mom, as an Associated Press writer, Climate Research welcomed two ADDRESS, After “four tumultuous utor, quips that he “sincerely dipping her hands in tie-dye, and giving thrift-shop clothes new life. In reporter, and editor — and a visiting Chinese scientists to TELEPHONE, years” at the UW, David hopes the structural engineers the last decade, she’s turned her hands-on approach and eye for design father of six — Milwaukeean campus. Since then, Kutzbach’s AND EMAIL Collins PhD’73 drove south; are right about ‘Jump Around.’ ” into a personal brand that includes a blog, a publishing deal, and now, a Robert O’Meara ’48 still pioneering work in ancient- UPDATES began teaching at Westminster Kathleen Blee MS’76, television pilot. alumnichanges@ made time to pursue his art. climate modeling and climate College in Fulton, Missouri; and PhD’82 is now leading the After graduating, Radosevich worked as a graphic designer for InStyle uwalumni.com These days, he and his daughter numerical simulation has assist- remained there for 40 years, University of Pittsburgh’s magazine. Noticed for fabricating her own fashion inspired by high-end Anne O’Meara Stillwell ’83 ed China’s global climate-change Alumni Changes, retiring in 2015. The Pineville, Dietrich School of Arts and designs, she developed a DIY column for the publication that morphed go out weekly to sketch, and research. “We are doing this Wisconsin North Carolina, resident has Sciences and its College of into her I Spy DIY website and book. Foundation this summer, at 95, he had a not for our generation” he says, published widely, but no books General Studies as their new Missing Wisconsin, Radosevich returned to the Midwest three years and Alumni retrospective of his watercolors “but for the future of our two Association, until now. His first, Accidental dean. She arrived at Pitt in 1996, ago and turned her focus from food and fashion to something bigger: houses. and sketches. Stillwell, who countries.” 1848 University Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic was designated a distinguished She had always had an interest in home décor, blogging about wine directs business and technology The Renaissance Society Avenue, Madison, Holmes, and Their Fight for professor of sociology in 2007, racks, wall art, and workspaces. So the transition to home renovation programs in UW–Milwaukee’s of America’s Kristeller Life- WI 53726-4090 Marriage Equality in Texas, tells has chaired its sociology depart- seemed natural. Radosevich was weighing the viability of flipping houses School of Continuing Education, ment, and was most recently time Achievement Award is in 608-308-5420 the story of one of his first West- when a friend suggested she share her talents with a television audience. is already planning her dad’s the deserving hands of Paul or 800-443-6162 minster students, Mark Phariss. Pitt’s associate dean for gradu- The unique concept — a cast of five friends instead of a family, set in a next art exhibition. Grendler MA’61, PhD’64 The University of New ate studies and research. city that hasn’t gotten a lot of airtime on cable — intrigued HGTV. Last Bernard Schechterman for his devotion to scholarship Hampshire (UNH) in Durham Who’s the newest Badger summer a production crew followed the friends for three months while ’48 — a semiretired professor and outstanding achievements will soon be without the lead- inductee into the National In- they flipped a house in Milwaukee. emeritus of political science and in Renaissance studies. The ership of its longest-serving ventors Hall of Fame? He’s Iver Radosevich describes the floor-to-ceiling renovation as a Cinderella international studies in Boynton University of Toronto histo- president: Mark Huddleston Anderson MS’77, PhD’82, story. “We found the worst-of-the-worst house and made it a really beau- Beach, Florida — still consults ry professor emeritus lives in MA’73, PhD’78 took charge a senior metallurgist at the U.S. tiful home,” she says. The My Flippin’ Friends pilot first aired in April. at the government level, lectures Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and in 2007 and will retire in June Department of Energy’s Ames The production crew used plenty of drone footage to capture the city in elder-learning and higher- has published his 10th book, The 2018. This will coincide with the [Iowa] Laboratory who holds Radosevich describes as a hidden gem. “Watching the pilot, I thought, education settings, and writes Jesuits and Italian Universities completion of the institution’s 39 patents and has invented ‘Wow, they’re making Milwaukee look sexy!’ ” about Middle East political ter- 1548–1773. largest fundraising campaign, on lead-free solder. This revolu- Some of the less appealing characteristics typical of older homes in rorism. His 15th book is A Hand- Madison’s Overture Cen- track to raise $275 million. UNH tionary tin, silver, and copper the region (think maroon walls and orange cabinets), along with vintage book of Contemporary Radical ter for the Arts has gratefully has also launched the Granite alternative to the traditional dark wood trim and built-ins, present Radosevich with some interesting Islamic Movements: Graphically named Jun Lee ’68, MS’69, Guarantee: a program ensuring tin-and-lead alloy reduces envi- design challenges, but she strives to find balance. “I pepper in more and Textually Illustrated. “All PhD’73 and Sandra Kwan that Pell Grant–eligible in-state ronmental hazards and man- modern elements, while respecting what’s classic,” she says. this is very stimulating and feels Lee ’69 Local Legends for their students will pay no tuition. ufacturing costs and advances Milwaukee’s also an ideal environment for flipping, Radosevich like a second or third career,” pledge of $100,000 to its spring A National Press Club ruggedness. Today 70 percent of says, with lower prices making everything from minor changes to a full Schechterman says. fundraising match campaign. honor is a big deal, and David the world’s electronic items con- remodel within reach for the average viewer. A UW professor gave Elton The music-loving couple grew up Zurawik MA’73 now holds two tain Anderson’s solder. (Wow!) “In New York or California, the cost of flipping is so astronomical that Clothier Jr. ’58 his nickname in Hong Kong but met in college: Rowse Awards for Press Criti- The Waupaca [Wisconsin] people can’t really relate,” she explains. “[In Milwaukee], the cost is more of Frosty, but Clothier was any- a time when they couldn’t afford cism — the first came in 2015 — Foundry proudly calls itself the manageable, so we’ve gotten lots of positive feedback.” thing but icy to customers of tickets to live performances. lauding “excellence in examining world’s largest iron foundry and WENDY HATHAWAY ’04

54 On Wisconsin WINTER 2017 On Wisconsin 55 OnAlumni Class Notes Recognition Mike Splinter ’72, MS’74 COURTESY OF MIKE SPLINTER lauds two of its own who have the brand. The Bothams’ son, functions, oversaw its IT group, in university-connected and earned accolades from the Mills Botham x’19, is a Hoof- and was dedicated to employees’ Badger-run companies. Jason American Foundry Society ers sailing commodore at the career development. Jacobsohn ’96 is the fund’s (AFS). Retired CEO Gary UW who’s raising funds for new In gratitude for Madisonian VP; Bryan Jurewicz ’97 is its Gigante ’78 of Wausaukee, Hoofers piers. Linda Mintener JD’82’s venture partner; and its invest- Wisconsin, received one of the Bruce Dale ’79, MS’80 14 years of pro bono legal ment committee comprises metalcasting industry’s top hon- will call both Houston and Door assistance, the National Flute Chris Kozina ’92 and Nidhi ors — the Simpson Gold Medal County, Wisconsin, home now Association has given her its Aggarwal MS’06, PhD’08. — for his environmental stew- that he’s retired as chief sub- 2017 Distinguished Service Cal Beyer ’86 shared ardship, technological advances, surface engineer after 36 years “Today … Award. A private flute instruc- the sobering statistic that the and professional-development with ExxonMobil. His career was the tor and performer herself, she construction industry has the contributions. Greg Miskinis spanned, he says, “R&D to field last day of also taught the instrument second-highest rate among ’81, MS’83, the foundry’s direc- operations all over the world” during her Peace Corps service all industries for suicides — tor of research and process de- and included technical-leader- my run- in Guinea, West Africa. Until her something he’s working hard velopment, garnered an Award of ship and management roles as every-day retirement, Mintener had spent to change through founding the Scientific Merit for his research, an inventor, developer, and ad- streak that 28 years litigating large-claim Construction Industry Alliance mentorship, and service to his viser in well-optimization tech- sales-tax cases for the Wiscon- for Suicide Prevention and pro- AFS chapter. nologies. He holds 25 patents. started on sin Department of Revenue. viding volunteer leadership to Mark Samels ’78, Steve September The National Association of the National Action Alliance for Levitan ’84, and Carrie Coon 80s 10, 1976.” Regional Councils’ 2017 Schei- Suicide Prevention. Engineering TAKING STOCK OF SUCCESS MFA’06 were all nominated Speaker and consultant William Stark ber Award belongs to David News-Record has honored him When Mike Splinter ’72, MS’74 (above at Rheinfall, Switzerland) joined for 2017 Emmy Awards. Samels, Paul Gibbons ’80 is a new MA’70, PhD’73 Preece MS’84 for leadership accordingly as one of 2016’s Top the board of Nasdaq, Inc., known for its U.S. stock exchange, he pre- of Boston — a 19-time nominee fellow of the Royal Society for excellence in advocating regional 25 Newsmakers for the global dicted the company’s high-tech edge could be a game-changer for finan- and six-time winner — was the Encouragement of Arts, approaches and programs at all construction industry. Beyer cial-market services. That was in 2008. Nine years later, he’s been elected considered in the exceptional Manufactures, and Commerce: levels of government. As the re- is the director of risk manage- chair of the board. Nasdaq technologies are now behind the business of merit in documentary filmmak- a 260-year-old, London-based, cently retired executive director ment for the asphalt-paving firm more than 70 of the world’s stock exchanges. And the advent of inno- ing category for his work as the global organization that seeks of the Southern New Hampshire Lakeside Industries in Issaquah, vations such as blockchain technology, which enhances the security of executive producer of PBS’s to “enrich society through ideas Planning Commission in Man- Washington. transactions, is proving Splinter’s prescience. American Experience produc- and action.” Gibbons, of Fort chester, his focus on community President Donald Trump has “Artificial intelligence and deep learning [a technology that provides tion “Oklahoma City.” Modern Collins, Colorado — a former engagement — especially his nominated several Badgers to advanced AI processing power] are going to be everywhere, but they’re Family, created by the Los UW educator — was also named work to create the state’s Hous- new posts: International Repub- going to be especially pronounced in the financial-services field,” he says. Angeles–based Levitan, earned to Global Gurus’ 2017 Top 30 list ing and Conservation Roundta- lican Institute president Mark Splinter’s futurism follows a 40-year career at the nexus of business, its eighth straight nomination in of organizational-culture pro- ble — has revitalized his region’s Green JD’87 of Falls Church, engineering, and innovation. the outstanding comedy series fessionals; is a champion chess, collaborative planning efforts. Virginia, to lead the U.S. Agency After graduation, he took his UW degrees in electrical and computer category, and won it every year poker, bridge, and backgammon Joining the Wisconsin for International Development; engineering straight to a research center at Rockwell International. He from 2010 until 2014. Levitan player; and is writing his fourth Army National Guard Hall of Heather MacDougall ’91 of then headed to Silicon Valley, where he was an executive at Intel, which also gave the May 2017 UW book, Truth Wars: How We Will Honor is new inductee Colonel Jupiter, Florida, as a member became the epicenter of microchip technology during his tenure. Next up commencement address. Coon, Survive Fake News, Post-Truth, AJ (Darrel) Feucht ’85 of of the Occupational Safety and was high-tech equipment maker Applied Materials. After being named of Chicago, was nominated as and the War on Science. Monona. Prior to his 2013 re- Health Review Commission, CEO in 2003, Splinter identified solar energy — particularly photovoltaic an outstanding lead actress in a Congratulations — and thank tirement after 30 years’ service, of which she was previously cells — as an area rich with opportunity. The Semiconductor Industry limited series or movie for por- you — to Jeffrey Gross ’80 for he commanded the Wisconsin the acting chair; and Annie Association credits him with transforming the production of these cells traying Gloria Burgle in Fargo. being a stellar special-education Army National Guard’s 64th Penner Caputo ’96 of McLean, from a “boutique industry to a meaningful source of renewable energy Peter Botham ’79 — the teacher. His work to broaden Rear Operations Center and Virginia — a senior policy ad- power to the world.” Splinter retired from Applied Materials in 2015 as founder of Botham Vineyards the horizons of students with 64th Troop Command. Feucht viser to Wyoming senator John chair and CEO, receiving an honorary doctorate from UW–Madison that in Barneveld, Wisconsin — has severe developmental delays at also established and led the first Barrasso — as a Nuclear Regula- same year. a new wine-distribution chan- Philadelphia’s Edison/Fareira Wisconsin Agribusiness Devel- tory Commission member. This past February, Splinter’s peers honored him again, this time as nel through his wife, Sarah High School garnered him a opment Team, which deployed And the 2017 Regional a fellow of the National Academy of Engineering. Engineers who want to Botham. She’s the founder and 2017 Lindback Award for in 2012 to Afghanistan. Theatre Tony Award goes to … succeed in today’s team-based business world, Splinter says, need to president of WiscoBoxes, which Distinguished Public Teachers. Most recently the president the Dallas Theater Center and understand how to relate to people, and “there’s no place better to learn offers themed gift boxes of prod- Sandra Sponem ’80, and CEO of 2D2C, Greg Baker its artistic director, Kevin those social skills than in college or out on the Union Terrace.” ucts from Badger State growers, MBA’84’s drive and dedica- ’86 is now the founder and Moriarty ’89, who accepted Splinter serves on several boards, including the UW Foundation’s. He’s producers, and artisans. (She’s tion are surely missed at M. A. managing partner of the new the art form’s highest honor also a general partner in WISC Partners, an investment collective that also a longtime faculty asso- Mortenson Company in Min- venture-capital fund Bascom at the Tony ceremony in June. supports Wisconsin-based startups with both funding and expertise. ciate in the UW’s College of neapolis following her recent Ventures. Though not affiliated The award committee praised Splinter shares his Silicon Valley experience to help these Midwestern Agricultural and Life Sciences.) retirement as senior VP and with UW–Madison, it seeks to the ways in which the nonprofit businesses think big and stay competitive through constant reinvention. WiscoBoxes’ brand manager, longtime CFO. She led the support the UW’s “entrepre- professional regional theater But the Horicon, Wisconsin, native also knows that Badger State Megan Madsen Stock ’11, and growth of the construction and neurial ecosystem and the next company produces new works, entrepreneurs bring a unique edge to business: “There’s a kind of a intern Alise Mintz x’19 have real-estate-development com- generation of UW entrepre- supports a resident acting com- naturalness about leadership style and people from Wisconsin,” he says. designed, curated, and launched pany’s finance and accounting neurs” by enabling investment pany, uses space in surprising KATE KAIL DIXON ’01, MA’07

56 On Wisconsin WINTER 2017 On Wisconsin 57 ways, and deeply engages the tember when he became the first Sims MS’93, PhD’97. The Accessories Benefit Ball in May. at Via Licensing Corporation, the Universidad Especializada Dallas community. Hispanic president of a four-year associate professor of medicine The Vince Lombardi Cancer which promotes innovation de las Américas. When President Barack State University of New York at the University of Mississippi Foundation and Annex Wealth using IP rights in partnership Obama famously “dropped the (SUNY) institution. Formerly the Medical Center in Jackson is Management bestow their with universities and tech and 10s mic” during his final White founding provost and executive now the chief science officer Know the Difference Award on entertainment companies. SCORE, a nationwide network House correspondents’ din- VP for academic affairs at the of the Jackson Heart Study, someone who gives uncommon Joe Paulsen ’07 joined of business mentors, has named ner, it was one made by Niles, University of Texas–Rio Grande an analysis of cardiovascular assistance to those dealing with President Barack Obama’s team Kyira Hauer ’10, MS’17 of Illinois–based Shure — which Valley, he’s now planning for disease in 5,000-plus African cancer. Their second annual in 2007, has been a favorite golf Middleton, Wisconsin, a 2017 also counts Common, Bono, and expansion and enhancement of Americans in three Mississippi accolade has gone to Milwau- buddy, and became Obama’s American Small Business Cham- Mick Jagger among its custom- the SUNY–Albany campus. counties. Sims will promote keean Andrew Lawson ’03, “body man”: a special assistant pion. Her prizes include a trip ers. Now Shure’s CEO, Chris- The 2017 U.S. Open golf tour- research collaborations, scien- who, following a craniotomy, who was constantly at his side, to a training and networking tine Kern Schyvinck ’89, is nament — held at Erin Hills near tific productivity, and men- radiation, and chemotherapy quietly doing whatever was event in Dallas, mentoring, and advancing many new concepts, Hartford, Wisconsin — was big toring African Americans in the for a brain tumor, began helping needed and knowing when to publicity for Kinda Kreative including revolutionary ceil- news around here, but especial- biomedical sciences. others by talking through their inject some levity. Paulsen — — a commissioned-artwork, ing-tile microphone technology. ly in Cambridge. That’s where While earning her 2017 MFA similar diagnoses with honesty, who continues to travel with public-speaking, workshop, She joined Shure in 1989 as a Beverly Anderson Semmann in dramatic writing at NYU, Jen compassion, and humor. and assist Obama as part of his and consulting firm that she mechanical engineer, was named ’91 and her Rowe Pottery Works Rudin ’94 earned three writing Matthew Desmond Washington, DC, staff — was in- founded. Hauer also runs the to the 2017 Crain’s Chicago Busi- created signature souvenir awards, including one from the MS’04, PhD’10 is just plain big terviewed in April on Minnesota #ReclaimBeauty project, which, ness Tech 50 list, and plays her crocks, jugs, plates, and mugs Sloan Foundation for her TV- news. In 2015, he was awarded Public Radio (mprnews.org/ she says, seeks to “change the French horn at company events. for the tournament as one of two pilot script Lucy in the Sky. The a MacArthur “genius grant.” In story/2017/04/25/minnesotan- conversation in our society Wisconsin vendors. Semmann New Yorker is a studio executive 2016–17, the UW’s Go Big Read reflects-on-work-with-obama). about beauty and self-worth.” 90s joined Rowe in 2007, bought it and longtime casting director common-reading program stud- For his early-career achieve- The Newcombe Doctoral One grad is following another in 2013, and has transformed it who used her experiences to ied his book Evicted: Poverty “From the ment, Devin Berg ’08 now Dissertation Fellowship at the at the Madison-headquartered from a well-known (but on the write Confessions of a Casting and Profit in the American City; holds a Beer and Johnston Out- Woodrow Wilson National TDS Telecom: chief operat- verge of ruin) company into a Director: Help Actors Land Any and in 2017, he won a Pulitzer classroom, standing New Mechanics Edu- Fellowship Foundation is the ing officerJames Butman profitable, growing enterprise. Role with Secrets from Inside the Prize for it. Now Desmond has to the cator Award from the American nation’s largest award for PhD MBA’90 — with the company As the facilities director Audition Room, her comprehen- left his posts as Harvard’s Loeb laboratory, Society for Engineering Educa- candidates who are addressing for 32 years — will succeed re- for Madison’s Common Wealth sive guide to breaking into film, Associate Professor of the Social to the tion. The UW–Stout associate questions of ethical and reli- tiring president and CEO David Development, Sarah Hole TV, theater, and commercials. Sciences and codirector of the professor helped to create that gious values, providing $25,000 Wittwer MS’96 at the end of MBA’92 has been instrumental Thomas Crofts III MA’97, Justice and Poverty Project to Lakeshore university’s mechanical-engi- for each dissertator’s final year. the year. Wittwer has a 34-year to the success of its two business PhD’03 — an Arthurian become a full professor of sociol- Path, I neering program, serves as its Among the 21 fellows for 2017 tenure, became CEO in 2006, incubators — the Madison En- scholar, English professor, and ogy at Princeton University. learned undergraduate director, and is Arthur Zárate ’10, who’s and will continue to serve on the terprise Center and Main Street director of the classical studies Kristin Aquilino ’05 works so much champions applied learning. completing “Disciplining the TDS board. Industries — and the 137 start- minor at East Tennessee State as an assistant project scientist Scott Hollander ’08 has Soul: Materialities of Belief and The winners of UW–Mad- ups she’s helped through them. University in Johnson City — in the White Abalone Captive about being a UW engineering degree and a Moral Technologies of Self on ison’s 2017 Entrepreneurial Now that she’s retiring after 22 stumbled across a little footnote Breeding Program at UC–Davis’s a scientist JD from Northwestern, but he’s the Eve of Islamic Revival in Achievement Awards both began years, we — and incubator grads that led to something big. Years Bodega Marine Laboratory in and the left behind his subsequent law Egypt, 1947–1967” at Columbia their careers by selling T-shirts such as ShopBop, Virent Energy of research followed his discov- Bodega Bay, California — and importance practice to open the Thunderbolt University in New York City. on campus. Michele Oxman Systems, Full Spectrum Solar, ery, including manuscript study she’s now earned a Species in Chicago ax-throwing range. At The next time you wake up in Boal ’91 cofounded Quotient Artful Home, and Just Coffee — at the Vatican Library, and he’s the Spotlight Hero Award from of working the UW, Hollander was a GUTS Chicago, tune in to WCIU-TV’s Technology (formerly Coupons. wish her happy trails. now published the first English the National Oceanic and Atmo- to make a tutor, a Taekwondo Club mem- The Jam, a new morning show com) in Mountain View, Califor- Lucinda Treat ’92 prob- edition of an obscure, 307-line spheric Administration for it. difference.” ber, and a founding voice of the that Danielle (Willerman) nia, and is now its chief philan- ably meets a lot of cool people poem called The Old Knight in Aquilino credits the UW, in part, Fundamentally Sound a cappella cohosts. Termed Kristin Aquilino ’05 Robay ’13 thropy officer. She also started as the new executive VP and OBITUARIES the journal Arthurian Literature. for her drive to save the endan- group as its first vocal percus- “bold and unfiltered,” The Jam Coupons for Change to help end general counsel of Independent Brief death Originally in Greek, it’s about gered mollusk from extinction: sionist. What will he do next? serves up local and national childhood hunger and serves on Sports & Entertainment: a New notices for a beating that King Arthur and “From the classroom, to the lab- Christine Esche ’09 is one headlines, weather coverage, Wisconsin Alumni the board of visitors of the UW York City–headquartered sports, Association his men took at the hands of a oratory, to the Lakeshore Path, of 140 Americans selected for and kudos to those who make College of Letters & Science. media, entertainment, and (WAA) members mysterious, 125-year-old knight. I learned so much about being a the U.S. Department of State’s Chicagoland great. This is a Troy Vosseller ’06, MBA’09, management company that rep- and friends scientist and the importance of 2017–18 English Language Fel- return home for Robay after JD’10 is the cofounder and resents 300 NBA, NFL, and MLB appear in Badger 00s working to make a difference.” low Program. Through projects work in Los Angeles as a host managing director of gener8tor, athletes. She’s also held senior Insider, WAA’s We’ve never written about an Congratulations to Thom- developed by U.S. embassies in and producer of CBS’s Enter- a startup accelerator in Madison posts at Revlon, Palace Sports magazine for its inductee into Accessories Mag- as Chia ’05 for making the 80-plus countries, fellows work tainment Tonight Online and a and Milwaukee. He was also an & Entertainment, the Madison members. You azine’s Merchants Hall of Fame, Intellectual Asset Manage- to enact meaningful and sustain- contributor to HLN’s Dr. Drew, assistant clinical professor and Square Garden Company, and may also submit but thank you, Ellen Minga ment Strategy 300: a list of the able improvements in the quality plus stints with NBC–4, ITV’s supervising attorney at UW Law New England Sports Ventures. full-length obit- of Dallas, for affording us world’s leading 300 intellectual of English-language instruc- Good Morning Britain, and Fox. uaries (with one ’02 School’s Law and Entrepreneur- “I’ve always been fascinated photo each) for the chance. The senior buyer property (IP) strategists. The tion abroad. Esche is currently Stephanie Wolf ’13 earned ship Clinic. by the process of teasing out and online posting at of handbags and wallets for Walnut Creek, California, res- using her experiences teaching a Medal of Excellence from the Havidán Rodriguez dismantling the social determi- uwalumni.com/ JCPenney was lauded — and ident is the director of patents English as a second language American Bankruptcy Institute PhD’91 made history in Sep- nants of health,” says Mario go/alumninotes. applauded — at the Fashion and corporate development during 10 months in Panama at before finishing her JD in May

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JEFF MILLER at the Illinois Institute of Tech- Book lovers can find so much more about works by nology’s Chicago-Kent College Badger alumni and faculty at goodreads.com/wisalumni — of Law. The honor extols her our UW–Madison section of the book website Goodreads. outstanding bankruptcy course- work and contributions to the only U.S. team to qualify for the A Sand County Alma- Crossing Rivers: Jour- oral rounds of the 2017 Fletcher nac made environmen- nal of an Integral Hos- International Insolvency Law tal conservationist pice Worker arose from Moot, held in Australia. Aldo Leopold’s the daily journal that With a bachelor’s degree rural-Wisconsin shack John Hughes IV ’79 from the Royal Conservatory in famous. Now his kept during a year of Toronto — where he cofounded youngest child, Estella spiritual caregiving at a the Annex Quartet — and a UW Leopold ’48, has Milwaukee hospice. He master’s degree in violin perfor- written Stories from shares his “harrowing, mance, Teddy Wiggins MM’14 the Leopold Shack: hilarious, heart-rend- has performed across the U.S. Sand County Revisited ing, and comforting” and in Europe and Asia. Now about her family’s visits experiences and the he’s taking Florida by storm: there. She’s a conser- practices that help him this fall he joined the Miami vationist, paleobota- to respond to death. New World Symphony. OUR CAPITOL AT 100 nist, and University of Investment-banking analyst No matter their political leanings, surely visitors Washington professor “A gripping drama David Blauzvern ’15’s “act of to our capitol agree on its remarkable beauty. In emerita of botany. about three lives irre- outstanding civilian heroism” The Wisconsin Capitol: Stories of a Monument and vocably changed when has garnered him a Carnegie Its People, Madisonian Michael One reviewer describes a gun is accidentally Hero Fund Commission medal. Edmonds JD’85 tells how this Stuart Friebert fired on a busy Los 15 NAMES YOU WON’T SEE ON THIS SCHOOL He was jogging near New York spectacular icon came to be. MA’53, PhD’58’s Angeles street, SHOT … This fall marked the 10th anniversary of the Wisconsin Naming Partner- City’s East River in June 2016 Starting with territorial gover- Decanting: Selected & unflinchingly explores ship — an unusual gift, given that 13 donors together gave $85 million when he saw a man bobbing in nor Henry Dodge, Edmonds tells New Poems, 1967–2017 the consequences to the Wisconsin School of Business (WSB) with the understanding that the water. Of the three people inspiring and entertaining tales as “a lifetime of poetry of gun violence in the school would not bear anyone’s name. It would remain the WSB, not who jumped in to prevent a of those who built Wisconsin’s … brimming with life America,” says Dave become the Smith School or the Jones School or the Any-Other-Person drowning, Blauzvern reached four capitols. The first structure, and exuberant expres- O’Brien ’00 about College of Commerce, for at least 20 years. the by-then-submerged man made of wood, was in Belmont, sion.” The longtime the indie feature film Over the decade, four more people have joined the ranks of first, but swift currents carried where the state was born in 1836. The second — Oberlin [Ohio] College that he’s coproduced unnamed Naming Partners. And several thousand Badgers contributed them all downstream before a ramshackle affair in Madison — housed pigs in professor founded its starring Noah Wyle, small amounts to the fund, as well. With assistance from those funds, they could reach a police boat its basement. The third was a grand Victorian build- creative-writing pro- Sharon Leal, and Jorge the school has added about 45 faculty members in the last nine years. for a successful rescue. ing constructed during the Civil War that burned gram and cofounded the Lendeborg Jr. O’Brien WSB also nearly doubled its undergraduate student body, from 1,361 to Andrew Debbink ’15, down in 1904. After that, no expense was spared to Oberlin College Press. teaches film produc- more than 2,500. MAcc’16 and Sarah Stang engage architects, designers, artists, and artisans, tion at USC in Los Today, the number of naming partners stands at 17, though two of ’15, MAcc’16 are most defi- who toiled for more than a decade to complete the The parents of Fay Angeles. them have chosen to keep their identities anonymous — even more un- nitely CPA superstars. Of the awe-inspirer that celebrated its centennial in 2017. Hoh Yin ’54, MS’56, named than the rest. The 15 identified Wisconsin Naming Partners are: 102,323 people who sat for the Edmonds tells how today’s capitol was designed PhD’60 left China to In Eating to Learn, American Institute of CPAs’ and decorated — and then restored, from its mag- study (her mother may Learning to Eat: The 1. Paul Collins ’58 9. Sheldon Lubar ’51, LLB’52 2016 exam, they were among nificent murals to its specialty spittoons, through a have been the UW’s Origins of School 2. Wade Fetzer III ’59 10. John Morgridge ’55 only 58 who met the criteria massive 1990s conservation effort. He introduces first Chinese woman Lunch in the United 3. Pete Frechette ’61 11. Ab Nicholas ’52, MBA’55 to earn a 2016 Sells Award: not only those who built the four capitols, but also student); and their States, A. R. (An- 4. Phillip Gross ’82, MS’83 12. John Oros ’71 passing all four exam sections governors, lawmakers, cleaners, guards, clerks, return gave her an drew) Ruis MA’04, 5. Jon Hammes MS’74 13. H. Signe Ostby ’75, MBA’77 on their first attempt and all protestors, tour guides, pioneering women, and improbably happy war- PhD’11 explores the 6. Ted Kellner ’69 14. Fred Petri ’69, MBA’70 within 2016, and with a cumu- legislative rascals. Historical images and modern time childhood. Later difficulty in estab- 7. Mike Knetter (honorary) 15. Michael Shannon ’80 lative average score above 95.5. photos adorn the work, including pictures of the in the U.S., Yin lost her lishing school meal initiatives that satisfy 8. Paul Leff ’83, MS’84 Debbink works at the Financial statue that stands atop the capitol’s dome: a gilded husband, Theodore Accounting Standards Board in woman who really does have a badger on her head. Yin PhD’60, at age kids, parents, schools, Norwalk, Connecticut; Stang is With Samantha Snyder 13, MA’15 — a refer- 37. Intimate stories of health authorities, with KPMG in Chicago. ence librarian affiliated with George Washington’s hardship, perseverance, politicians, and the Mount Vernon, Virginia, estate — Edmonds has and women’s changing food industry. He has This is Paula Wagner Apfelbach ’83’s recently coauthored another work. Warriors, Saints, roles fill the Brooklyn, appointments in the swan song as the Class Notes and and Scoundrels: Brief Portraits of Real People Who New York, author’s Wisconsin Center for Diversions editor. After 21 years — Shaped Wisconsin is based on the 500-plus “Odd Riding with the Wind: Education Research it’s been grand! — she welcomes her Wisconsin” pieces that he wrote for a syndicated Three Generations of as well as in two UW successor, Stephanie Awe ’15. newspaper column between 2006 and 2015. My Family in China. departments.

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