SPORTS SCHEDULE
17 Northwest Missouri State University, 7 p.m. ICHABOD FOOTBALL 19 Truman State University, Kirksville, Mo. 7 p.m. LADY BLUES SOCCER AUGUST 20 Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph, 2 p.m. AUGUST 28 Colorado School of Mines, 7 p.m. 24 University of Nebraska-Omaha, 7 p.m. 29 Hawaii Pacific University, Kaneohe, Hawaii, TBA 26 University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, 7 p.m. 31 Brigham Young University, Hawaii Laie, Hawaii, noon SEPTEMBER (HST) 4 Missouri State University, Springfield, 7 p.m. OCTOBER 13 Fort Hays State University, 7 p.m. 3-4CALENDAR Lady Blues Volleyball Fall Classic OF EVENTSSEPTEMBER 20 University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, 1:30 p.m. 3 East Central University, 11:30 a.m. 5 Metropolitan State College of Denver, (Colo.), 5 p.m. 27 Missouri Western State University, 1 p.m. (Family Day) 3 Midwestern State University, 7 p.m. 7 Regis University, Denver (Colo.), noon OCTOBER 4 University of the Incarnate Word, 11 a.m. 10 University of Central Oklahoma, Wichita, Kan. TBA 4 Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, 2 p.m. 4 University of Central Oklahoma, 7 p.m. 13 University of Central Missouri, 7 p.m. 11 Emporia State University, 1 p.m. (Homecoming) 8 Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, 7 p.m. 18 Truman State University, 7 p.m. 18 Truman State University, Kirksville, Mo., 2 p.m. 10 Southwest Baptist University, 7 p.m. 20 Missouri Western State University, 7 p.m. 25 Northwest Missouri State University, 1 p.m. 11 Pittsburg State University, 5 p.m. 25 University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, 7 p.m. 15 Fort Hays State University, 7 p.m. 27 Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, Mo., 4 p.m. NOVEMBER 17 Emporia State University, 7 p.m. 1 Pittsburg State University, 2 p.m. 21 Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, 7 p.m. OCTOBER 8 University of Nebraska-Omaha, 1 p.m. 24 Truman State University, 7 p.m. 1 Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Mo., 7 p.m. 25 Missouri Western State University, 5 p.m. 4 Missouri Southern State University, 7 p.m. All games in bold played at Washburn in Yager Stadium 29 University of Nebraska-Omaha, 7 p.m. 9 Northwest Missouri State University, 7 p.m. at Moore Bowl. 31 University of Central Missouri, 7 p.m. 11 University of Nebraska-Omaha, 6 p.m. 16 Emporia State University, 7 p.m. NOVEMBER 18 Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, 4 p.m. LADY BLUES VOLLEYBALL 4 Missouri Southern State University, 7 p.m. 23 University of Nebraska-Omaha, 4 p.m. AUGUST 7 Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, Mo., 7 p.m. 25 Southwest Baptist University, 6 p.m. 29-30 Colorado State University-Pueblo Tournament 8 Pittsburg State University, 2 p.m. 30 Truman State University, Kirksville, Mo., 2 p.m. 29 Dixie State College of Utah, noon 12 Fort Hays State University, 7 p.m. 29 University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, 4 p.m. 14 Emporia State University, 7 p.m. NOVEMBER 30 Colorado State University-Pueblo 11 a.m. 20-23 NCAA Volleyball South Central Region Tournament, 1 Emporia State University, 7 p.m. 30 Angelo State University, 3 p.m. TBA 6 Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, TBA 9 Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph, 1 p.m. SEPTEMBER DECEMBER 5-6 University of Missouri-St. Louis Tournament, St. Louis, Mo. 4-6 NCAA Volleyball National Championship All games in bold played at 5 University of Southern Indiana, 10 a.m. 4 National Quarterfinal, TBA Washburn in Yager Stadium at Moore Bowl. 5 Colorado School of Mines, 3 p.m. 5 National Semifinal, TBA 6 University of Missouri-St. Louis, 11:30 a.m. 6 National Final, TBA 6 Quincy University, 2 p.m. 12-13 Dowling College Tournament, Oakdale, N.Y. All games in bold played at Washburn in Lee Arena, 12 Adelphi University, 2 p.m. Petro Allied Health Center. 12 Dowling College, 6 p.m. 13 Bentley College, 11 a.m.
Non Profit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Topeka, KS Permit No. 689
1700 SW College Ave. Topeka, KS 66621
Address Service Requested SPORTS Schedule
TM
Summer 2008
Winning at WU: Washburn celebrates student achievements CONTENTS 12 8 FEATURES
8 Winning at WU: Washburn celebrates student achievements
12 Whiting Field House: Home court advantage remembered as renovation begins
24 Lost and found: Biology professor finds and preserves Washburn Herbarium
26 A Washburn lawyer in federal court: Brandon Mayfield’s journey from terror suspect to justice advocate on the cover The medallion symbolizes the many celebrations and awards ceremonies in Washburn Alumni Association conjunction with spring commencement excercises at Washburn. This issue focuses Alumni director Alumni magazine editor on a few students who represent the many Susie Hoffmann, bba ’87 Joy Thompson outstanding students in all majors and fields of study. Contributors Dena Anson, ba ’01 Scott Sewell, director, university relations communications officer, Washburn Endowment Association Katy Browne, Contact Us! secretary, aa ’07 Jeremy Wangler, assistant sports information/marketing director Your news, thoughts and questions are important Gene Cassell, sports information director Vickie Waters, to us. Please write, telephone or send us an e-mail. office assistant, university relations Letters to the editor and news of jobs, honors, Amanda Hughes, ba ’00 weddings, anniversaries and births are always assistant director, university relations FryeAllen, Inc., Topeka, Kan. design and layout welcome. Please include your name, class year, Martha Imparato, address and daytime phone number. Letters to Mabee Library special collections librarian the editor may be edited for length and clarity. Robin Kruschinska, ba ’99 Address: 1700 SW College Ave., Topeka, Kan., assistant director, Alumni Association 66621 Telephone: (785) 670-1641 The Washburn Alumni magazine is published quarterly by the Washburn Alumni E-mail: [email protected] Association for alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the university. Subscription is by dues-paid membership in the Washburn Alumni Association. Third-class postage paid Web site: www.washburn.edu/alumni at Topeka, Kan. To the editor: attention to Joy Thompson, (785) 670-1657, [email protected] From the President 5
On a college campus, one prominent rite of spring is the flurry of celebrations and Winning at WU: awards ceremonies. Virtually every department, Washburn celebrates student achievements activity, athletic endeavor, campus organization DEPARTMENTS and honor society has a culminating event to acknowledge students’ achievements. Each Jerry Farley 2 CALENDAR OF EVENTS event is a heartwarming occasion. Thousands of times, we look into the eyes of students 4 ALUMNI NEWS Lost and found: who have triumphed and achieved and we know the Washburn University experience has changed their lives. Biology professor finds and preserves 7 COMMENCEMENT Washburn Herbarium Our culture focuses on winning. We have “Each event is a a need to favorably compare ourselves to 14 WASHBURN ENDOWMENT A Washburn lawyer in federal court: heartwarming others. Our athletic teams compete. Our Brandon Mayfield’s journey from terror suspect academic teams, such as debate and mock occasion.” 17 CAMPUS NEWS & SPORTS to justice advocate trial, compete. Our students present their research at conferences and vie for honors. 23 FACULTY Along with the accolades are the intrinsic values of hard work, talent,
dedication and enthusiasm which are the hallmarks of winning efforts. 28 CLASS NOTES Long after the celebrations are over and the accolades have faded to distant echoes, the values that distinguish Washburn graduates from the crowd continue to make the Washburn family a community of winners. You will see in the pages that follow wonderful examples of outstanding winning efforts. This has been a great year for Washburn University.
Jerry Farley 10
www.washburn.edu/alumni | summer 2008 | 1 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
31 – Nov. 8 Alumni Association- Jenny Freestaone, ALUMNI EVENTS sponsored travel to Morocco “Vessel (Recycle),” drypiont, 24” x 18” JULY NOVEMBER 11 After Hours 8 Alumni Association tailgate, Washburn vs. University of AUGUST Nebraska-Omaha, 11:30 a.m. 1 After Hours 28 Wake Up With Football tailgates are located in the parking Washburn, area north of Yager Stadium at Moore Bowl. Kevin Sweeney, ba ’71 and bba ’71, Southlake, All other alumni events are in the Texas, 7:30 a.m. Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center, unless 28 Alumni Association tailgate, noted. For information, call (785) 670-1641. Washburn vs. Colorado School
of Mines, 5:30 p.m. Edward Balda, “Then and Now,” etching with hand drawn effects, 3” x 5” SEPTEMBER MULVANE EXHIBITS 5 After Hours AND EVENTS 27 Alumni Association sponsored MAY AUGUST 5K Fun Run and Walk, starting 3 - July 13 2008 2 - Sept. 28 “The Printed Image II: at Bradbury Thompson Alumni Washburn Art The Second Biennial Midwestern Center, 8 a.m. (Family Day) Student Exhibition Graphics National Juried 27 Alumni Association tailgate, 17 - Aug. 24 Exhibition,” a collaboration with Washburn vs. Missouri Western “Persian Visions: the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery State University, 11:30 a.m. Contemporary (Family Day) Photography from Iran” SEPTEMBER 6 - Oct. 3 “Artworks: The Magic OCTOBER of Mirrors” 9 Wake Up With Washburn, JULY 25 - 27 7:30 a.m. OCTOBER 10 Alumni Fellows luncheon, Mulvane Women’s 4 “Artworks: The Magic of Mirrors” 11:30 a.m. auction, Washburn Room, 10 After Hours, 5 p.m. Board Antique Show Memorial Union, 6:30 p.m. 11 Alumni Association tailgate, 11 - Jan. 25 “Liquid Fire: Works from Washburn vs. Emporia State and Sale, Lee Arena, the Ansley, Sheafor and Kintner University, 11:30 a.m. Collections” (Homecoming) Petro Allied Health Center 18 - Jan. 18 Washburn Art Faculty 25 Alumni Association tailgate, Exhibition Washburn vs. Northwest Missouri State University, A vase photographed at the The Mulvane Art Museum is located in 11:30 a.m. 2007 Mulvane Women’s Board Antique Show and Sale Garvey Fine Arts Center. For information, call (785) 670-1124. 2 | summer 2008 Volunteer Opportunities
• Aug. 13: WU Move Crew. Alumni and friends are needed to welcome incoming students and assist with their move into campus residence halls 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Volunteers will be assigned to work at Kuehne Hall and West Hall, the Living Learning Center or Washburn Village. To sign up, contact Brittany Hinegardner, at (785) 670-2545 or e-mail [email protected]. • Sept. 5 - 14: Alumni and friends are needed for four-hour shifts at the Mary Hood, Washburn booth at the Kansas State “Mandala #2,” Fair in Hutchinson. Please contact crayon lift intaglio, 15” x 15” Amanda Hughes at (785) 670-2153 or e-mail amanda.hughes@ washburn.edu, by Wednesday, Aug. 6, with the day(s) and time(s) you would like to assist. For more THEATRE OCTOBER information about the fair, visit 2 - 5 Fall break www.kansasstatefair.com. 11 Homecoming, Washburn vs. SEPTEMBER Emporia State University • Sept. 27: 5K Family Day Fun Run. 4 - 6 “Doubt,” Alumni and friends are needed to 8 p.m. help with event. Please contact the 7 “Doubt,” Alumni Association office, 2 p.m. SPECIAL EVENTS (785) 670-1641 or e-mail Barbara Waterman-Peters [email protected]. “Doubt,” by John Patrick Shanley, • Dec. 6: Quest High School explores questions of innocence and JULY Academic Competition needs culpability. 25 Board of Regents public budget volunteers to quiz high school hearing, location TBA, 4 p.m. participants at Super Saturday Located at the Andrew J. and event, 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. To sign Georgia Neese Gray Theatre, SEPTEMBER up, contact Amanda Hughes, at (785) 670-2153 or e-mail Garvey Fine Arts Center. 5 - 14 Washburn booth at the State [email protected]. Schedule subject to change. Fair, Meadowlark Building, Hutchinson, Kan. For information, call (785) 670-1639.
Mark your calendars for Homecoming 2008! ACADEMICS AND STUDENT LIFE Theme: “Give My Regards to Bodway” • Oct. 9: Wake Up With Washburn, 7:30 a.m. AUGUST • Oct. 10: Alumni Fellows luncheon, 16 Fall classes begin 11:30 a.m. 22 All University Convocation, • Oct. 10: After Hours, 5 p.m. Andrew J. and Georgia Neese • Oct. 11: Homecoming parade, 10:30 a.m. Gray Theatre, Garvey Fine Arts • Oct. 11: Tailgate with the Alumni Center, 3:30 p.m. Association at 11:30 a.m. and cheer 25 School of Law classes begin for the Ichabods vs. Emporia State University, 1 p.m. SEPTEMBER 1 Labor Day holiday (WU closed) Dan Kirchhefe, 27 Family Day, Washburn vs. “How Many Boats Does It Take to Get to Heaven,” Missouri Western State monotype, 6” x 4” University www.washburn.edu/alumni | summer 2008 | 3 ALUMNI NEWS
Winter and spring cruises
n Washburn alumni and friends on the Alumni Association-sponsored cruise to Nassau, Bahamas, Feb. 22-25: Gary and Deborah Haag, Michael and Heather Harper, Charles Hoelzel, Jared and Debbie Holroyd, Januea Howell, Michael and Amanda Hughes, Robin Kruschinska, Scott Moser, Joe and Tina Reintjes, Francis and Lisa Scheve, Marc Sena and Arthur Wong.
n Washburn alumni and friends at the port in Budapest, Hungary, during the April 5-13 Alumni Association-sponsored Danube River cruise: Mary and Gary Adkins, Amanda Agan, Carol and Chris Armstrong, Dorothy Armstrong, Jean and George Barbee, Vi and Charles Beall, Tim Bethel, Karen Bowen, Peggy Brown, Sandy and Jim Brown, Shirley Carpenter, Donna Drumm, Fern and Ross Freeman, Pat Gabel, Julie and Ed Glotzbach, Jeanne and Paul Hoferer, Bob Hoffmann, Linda and Lee Hoffmann, Susie Hoffmann, Kay and Ralph Howard, Brenda and Steve Kitchen, Kris and Wayne Kitchen, Lizz Laett, Linda and Larry Livingston, Lona and Phil Morse, Donna and Fred Pinkham,Terry Schonlaw, Fulva and Herm Simon.
4 | summer 2008 | www.washburn.edu/alumni Try something exotic this fall
Fall 2008: Morocco | Oct. 31-Nov. 8 Looking for something exotic? Visit Casablanca, Morocco’s largest city, and Rabat, the “Imperial Garden City.” Explore the extensive Roman ruins in Volubilis and enjoy Meknes, one of the kingdom’s imperial sites. Discover Fès, the oldest of Morocco’s ancient imperial cities. Travel through the spectacular Atlas Mountains, visiting Berber villages and experience Djemaa el-Fna Square and the souks in Marrakech. Priced at $2,779 per person double occupancy, this trip includes roundtrip airfare, hotel, 15 meals and sightseeing. All Washburn alumni, their family and friends are welcome to travel with us. For more information on any of these trips, visit www.washburn.edu/alumni.
Alumni Association Save the date: Sept. 27 Board of Directors 2008-2009 5K Fun Run and Campus Walk
Board Members In conjunction with Family Day, the Washburn Alumni Association is sponsoring a 5K Fun Run Ann Adrian, b ed ’67 and Two Mile Campus Walk to support the Alumni Kirsten Allen, ba ’88 Association Scholarship Fund, which has provided scholarships for Washburn students since 1944. Richard Barta, ba ’86 Have fun while raising money for a worthy cause. Dennis Bohm, bba ’04 Bring the entire family and don’t forget the dog. Walk Stacey Calhoon, ba ’89 or run at your own pace. No matter your age or athletic skill, you are welcome to join the morning event and Ray Killam, bba ’70 then stay on campus to enjoy Family Day activities. Dave Moore, bba ’70 Want to help? The Alumni Association needs volunteers to assist with the event. Contact Stacey Vossen Calhoon at (785) 246-1597, or e-mail [email protected]. All volunteers will Cindy Rogers, ba ’69 receive a complimentary Fun Run T-shirt commemorating the event. Jim Sloan, ba ’50 and jd ’52 Sponsorship opportunities are also available for individuals or businesses. For more information about event sponsorship, contact Susie Hoffmann at (785) 670-1643, or e-mail Leo Taylor, ba ’75 [email protected]. Roger VanHoozer, ba ’72 For registration details, visit www.washburn.edu/alumni or call (785) 670-1641.
www.washburn.edu/alumni | summer 2008 | 5 ALUMNI NEWS
n “If it’s green or wiggles, it’s biology; if it stinks, it’s chemistry; if it doesn’t work, it’s physics,” said Darrell Parnell, bs ’56, professor emeritus of physics, speaking of his 39-year teaching career in Stoffer Science Hall. Parnell was among a number of science faculty members who spoke to those attending an Alumni Weekend reunion luncheon held in conjunction with the ribbon cutting and open house for the newly
renovated Stoffer Science Hall. photo by Joy Thompson
n Seniors on the Student Alumni Association Board traveled to Massachusetts during spring break in March to visit the grave of Ichabod Washburn and tour Worcester Polytechnic Institute, which was co-founded by Washburn. Pictured (L to R) above: Chelsea Chaney, Independence, Kan.; and photo by Peggy Clark Elise Short, Topeka; n Retiring faculty members (L to R) Dave DePue, Jean Dimmitt and Tom below: Annie Brevitz, Topeka; Kennedy, at the luncheon in their honor during Alumni Weekend. Melissa Boetig, Leavenworth, Barbara Bowman and Joan Denny were also recognized for their Kan.; and Robin Kruschinska, service to Washburn. SAAB adviser and assistant director, Washburn Alumni Association.
n ’76 nurses reunite (L to R): Lynn (Durstine) Weaver, bsn ’76, Topeka; Alice Young, Topeka, former dean and professor emeritus, School of Nursing; and Arlene (Shipshee) Wahwasuck, bsn ’76, Horton, Kan., at the Alumni Weekend reunion luncheon for alumni with degrees in natural sciences or health-related fields. Weaver and Wahwasuck were members of the first graduating class of the School of Nursing. Wahwasuck was honored by Washburn as an Alumni Fellow in 2002.
photo by Joy Thompson
6 | summer 2008 COMMENCEMENT
Three receive honorary degrees at spring commencement Approximately 860 Washburn students celebrated graduation during commencement exercises May 17, and Topekans John Adams, Anderson Chandler and Dr. Bill Roy, jd ’70, received honorary doctorates.
Anderson Chandler received an honorary doctor of commerce degree from the School of Business. He is chairman and president of Fidelity State Bank and Trust Co. of Topeka, and was inducted into the Topeka Business Bill Roy, jd ’70, addresses the 2008 Hall of Fame. He supports Washburn College of Arts through the Anderson Chandler/Fidelity and Sciences graduating class. State Bank Business Scholarship and President Jerry B. Farley and Gordon McQuere, dean was a lead donor of the School of Bill Roy, jd ’70, who practiced of the College of Arts and Sciences, hood John Adams Business Technology Center, where the medicine in Kansas 1955-89 and during May commencement excercises. Chandler Boardroom was christened in represented the 2nd District in the An honorary doctor of humane letters his honor. His community service also U.S. House of Representatives 1971-75, degree was conferred on John Adams includes the Kansas Bankers Association, received an honorary doctor of public by the College of Arts and Sciences. Kansas Chamber of Commerce and service during the College of Arts and Adams is a registered architect and Industry, Greater Topeka Chamber of Sciences commencement. Additional owner of e architects, formerly Ekdahl, Commerce, Boy Scouts of America, Kaw service to the community includes Davis, Depew, Persson Architects. He Valley Girl Scouts, YMCA, Downtown terms on the Kansas Board of Regents was lead designer of the Henderson Topeka Rotary Club, Kansas University and the Washburn Board of Regents. Learning Resources Center at Washburn Endowment and the United Way of Since 2004, Roy has volunteered at and was also involved in the design of Topeka. Washburn as an honorary visiting the Fidelity Bank downtown location, professor of political science and Topeka West High School and the leadership. He is a diplomat of the original plan for Washburn’s Stoffer American Board of Obstetrics and Science Hall. Adams has supported Gynecology, a fellow of the fine arts at Washburn for 20 years, American College of Obstetricians and the student gallery at the art and Gynecologists and a member building is named in his honor. He of the Institute of Medicine of the has also served on the boards of the National Academy of Sciences. Mulvane Art Museum and the Topeka David Sollars, School of Business dean and Maggie Symphony. Warren, ba ’74, Topeka, a member of Washburn’s Board of Regents, hood Anderson Chandler. www.washburn.edu/alumni | summer 2008 | 7 FEATURE
Winning at WU Debate, Volleyball, Basketball, Psychology: How does WU spell success?
Debate
Washburn’s debate squad had the best year ever, placing second at the National Parliamentary Debate Association National Championship and placing first at the inaugural Lincoln Douglas Open Championship tournament.
Marcus Schultz-Bergin, Olathe, Kan., was one of four seniors in the United States named a 2008 All-American of the National Parliamentary Debate Association. The honor recognizes scholarship and service as well as excellence in debate competition.
Sibberson Award In addition to the many Washburn students who were recognized for academic achievement by such honor societies as Sagamore, Nonoso, Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, Mortar Board, Order of Omega and Phi Kappa Phi, Washburn University confers a unique honor, the Sibberson Award, given to the highest ranking graduate from each commencement ceremony. Finalists for the substantial monetary award are listed in commencement programs, and winners are chosen at a later time, with the honor awarded at the next commencement ceremony. The award was established through the trusts of Erna Sibberson and Gretchen O.A. Sibberson, both 1937 Washburn graduates. President Jerry Farley congratulates Sabrina Goss, ba ’07, Topeka, as she receives the Sibberson Award in May. Goss is pursuing a master’s degree in English with a concentration on creative writing at Emporia State University. In her spare time, she focuses on completing her first novel. (See page 14 for a story on her Iowa Summer Writing Festival scholarship.)
Psychology
Senior Megan Casey, Rossville, Kan., received a first place award for presenting “Eating Behavior, Stress and Happiness” at the Great Plains Student Psychology Conference at Emporia State University in March. Four other seniors also earned first place awards: Lauren Albin, WaKeeney, Kan., “Media and Men: Do Images of Supermodels Effect Perceived Female Partner Attractiveness?”; Valerie Grose, Lawrence, Kan., “Effects of Chocolate and Cheese on Mood”; Elise Short, Topeka, “Social Anxiety and Career Readiness: How High Levels of Anxiety Influence an Individual’s Preparation Behaviors”; and Trent Wilkerson, Johnson, Kan., “Detecting Sex of Heterosexual and Homosexual Men and Women Using a Point Light Movement Display.”
Megan Casey all photos on this page by Peggy Clark Math Senior Brandy Mann, Topeka, a senior majoring in math and business, received an award at the mathematics honor society Kappa Mu Epsilon north central regional convention for her paper and PowerPoint presentation of “Where Do We Hunt for Ichabods?” Two other Washburn seniors also presented at the conference: Tamela Bolen, Johnson, Kan.,”Where Math Meets Music”; and Alexandria Jeannin, Bonner Springs, Kan., “The Road Not Taken: Explorations in Urban Geometry.” Brandy Mann History
Washburn sent eight seniors and a junior to present at the annual conference of the Kansas Association of Historians in Winning at WU Independence, Kan. Amy Billinger, Topeka, examined Albert Einstein’s religious ideas; Sara Heckman, Lawrence, Kan., spoke on the neoclassical art of Angelika Kauffmann; Kathryn Marshall, Nortonville, Kan., discussed recently declassified documents Debate, Volleyball, Basketball, Psychology: about the Tonkin Gulf incident; Jennifer Mills, Kansas City, Kan., spoke about H.L. Mencken and the Scopes trial; Bethany Mowry, Topeka, dealt with Grand Tourist responses to Naples’ secret cabinet of Popeiian erotica; Whitney Philippi, Moscow, How does WU spell success? Kan., discussed Thomas Gray’s change of opinion on traditional English anti-Catholicism; Jessica Rezac, Topeka, examined the decline of Igbo women’s status in relation to the 1929 Women’s War and the Biafran conflict in Nigeria; ReAnne Utemark, Parsons, Kan., addressed the Jerry Falwell vs. Hustler trial; and Brandon Wentz, Walton, Kan., looked at the crossing of the color line in semi-pro baseball.
Athletic Training
Johnathon Blake, Parsons, Kan., was honored as Athletic Training Major of the Year by the health, physical education and exercise science department. A senior, he will continue studying at Washburn after graduation to fulfill prerequisites for medical school, where he plans to specialize in sports medicine or orthopedics. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Mortar Board honorary societies.
photo courtesy of John Burns Art
Daniel Billen, bfa ’07, Topeka, with mixed media collage, “Blue Collar Self Portrait.” Billen was chosen by the art faculty to receive the 2008 Charles and Margaret Pollack Art Purchase Award, which places his work in the permanent collection of the Mulvane Art Museum. photo by Michael Hager
Law
Jennifer Zook (center), Topeka, assembles before Washburn School of Law graduation ceremonies with Topekans Eryn Wright and David Wolfe. Zook was one of 10 Washburn law students to receive the Order of Barristers Award, which recognizes graduating law students who have excelled in moot court and mock trial activities in their respective law schools. The Order of Barristers is a national honorary organization.
Amy Taylor, Topeka, with her stepfather, the Honorable William Helsper, ba ’67 and jd ’73, Arlington, Texas. Taylor received the John K. Kleinheksel Prize for Excellence in Oral Advocacy and was one of 10 Washburn law students to receive the Order of Barristers Award.
photos by Chris Crumm, Mathews Communications www.washburn.edu/alumni | summer 2008 | 9 FEATURE
Winning in Washburn’s Greek community While focusing on the founding values of leadership, service, academics and friendships, the Washburn Greek community strives to increase service hours completed, academic grade point averages achieved and leadership involvement opportunities. During the spring 2008 semester, the community also increased in membership.
Greek Week Zeta Tau Alpha Sigma Phi Epsilon Washburn’s sororities and fraternities • Chapter of Excellence Rising Star • Highest fraternity grade point average organize service projects and social Award for spring 2007 events to promote Greek unity, • Outstanding Leadership and Wellness • Highest fraternity grade point average leadership and friendship. Each spring, Award for fall 2007 Greek chapters and members are • Sadye Mages, Ottawa, Kan., Greek • Vincent Bowhay, Hoyt, Kan., Greek recognized and honored during the Woman of the Year Man of the Year annual banquet in April. • Paige Siegel, Overland Park, Kan., Greek Council President Award Sororities Sigma Phi Epsilon’s Vince Bowhay, Hoyt, Kan., and • Diane (Burkett) Sneed, Auburn, Kan., Zeta Tau Alpha’s Sadye Mages, Ottawa, Kan., are Alpha Phi bs ’79, Alumnae of the Year Award Greek Man and Woman of the Year. Bowhay served as • Highest sorority grade point average president of Washburn Student Government Association and is a member of the Order of Omega Greek honor for spring 2007 society and Sigma Tau Delta English honor society. • Most improved sorority grade point Fraternities He is pursuing a master’s degree in higher education average for spring 2007 at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. Mages, a Delta Chi senior majoring in accounting, is president of • Outstanding Greek presentation award • Chapter of Excellence Rising Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, treasurer of Star Award Mortar Board and a member of Washburn Accounting Society • Most improved fraternity grade point Delta Gamma and Phi Kappa Phi honor society. average for fall 2007 • Chapter of Excellence Rising Star • Outstanding Philanthropy and Award Community Service Award • Highest sorority grade point average • Outstanding Membership for fall 2007 Development and • Outstanding Philanthropy and Recruitment Award Community Service Award • Outstanding Greek • Danielle Hunter, Lenexa, Kan., Presentation Award Panhellenic Spirit Award • Kylie Gilstrap, Topeka, New Member of the Year Phi Delta Theta • Lucas Mullin, Eureka, Kan., New Member Kappa Alpha Theta of the Year • Most improved sorority grade point average for fall 2007 • Brianna Towne, Manhattan, Kan., Panhellenic President Award
10 | summer 2008 | www.washburn.edu/alumni 33 MIAA Titles and Counting Washburn made the jump to NCAA Division II and the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association in the early 1990s and experienced immediate success. Since then that success has continued to sustain and grow as Washburn’s athletic teams have won 33 conference championships and one national championship in women’s basketball in 2005. Only one other MIAA team has more MIAA titles since WU became eligible for conference championships in 1990-91. The Ichabod and Lady Blues athletic teams won three MIAA championships during the 2007-08 school year. The Lady Blues volleyball team won the MIAA West Division for the second straight year and the women’s basketball team won its fifth title in the last six years. The men’s golf team wrapped up the season with its fifth title, also in the last six years. National Team Championships (3) Men’s Basketball (2) 1925 (AAU), 1987 (NAIA) Women’s Basketball (1) 2005 (NCAA)
MIAA Team Championships (33) Men’s Basketball (9) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 Women’s Basketball (6) 1993, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008 Men’s Golf (5) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 Women’s Tennis (3) 1991, 2000, 2004 Volleyball (4) 2002, 2005, 2006 (west), 2007 (west) Men’s Tennis (2) 2006, 2007 Football (1) 2005 Women’s Soccer (1) 2006 Softball (1) 2002 Lady Blues Volleyball Baseball (1) 1991 (north) NCAA Appearances (62) Women’s Basketball (12) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Women’s Tennis (12) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Men’s Basketball (10) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 Men’s Tennis (9) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 Men’s Golf (8) 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Volleyball (5) 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Softball (3) 1998, 2006, 2008 Lady Blues Basketball Football (2) 2005, 2007 Women’s Soccer (1) 2006
Overall MIAA titles since Washburn joined league* Central Missouri 38 Washburn 33 Northwest Missouri 26 Emporia State 17 Truman 15 Southwest Baptist 15 Pittsburg State 11 Missouri Western 11 Missouri Southern 9 *since 1990-91
Ichabod Golf
www.washburn.edu/alumni | summer 2008 | 11 HISTORY & TRADITIONS
Washburn’s campus 24 years after Lee Arena became the primary game site. The tin wall, still painted blue, covers up what used to be a stage, and the support poles still rise up out of the bleachers. The building has served its purpose well the last quarter century as a practice gym for basketball and volleyball and any outdoor sport that cares to use it when the weather is bad. Starting this summer, the outside will remain the same, but the inside of 1962 Whiting Field House will never be the same again after renovations on the 80-year-old building begin. Whiting Field House: The $5.3 million project will turn the out-dated building into a state-of-the-art, Home court advantage modern facility that will create a new remembered as renovation begins weight room, locker rooms, practice courts, offices, classrooms and an entry By Jeremy Wangler that will house the Washburn Athletics Hall of Fame and trophy cases. pair of free throws with charity baskets. The Spartans launched The success of the Ichabods and Lady one second left and then a a desperation shot at the buzzer that Blues basketball programs has continued desperation shot at the buzzer slammed off the backboard and fell to A to grow since moving into Lee Arena, brought 56 years of history to an end. the ground. and the renovations to Whiting, expected Gary Howard missed the front end Since Dec. 18, 1928, Whiting Field to be complete by November 2009, will House stood as the home court to the only make things better. Ichabods and later the Lady Blues. With “I like buildings that are used their 58-56 win over Marymount 56 everyday,” said Bob Chipman, years later to advance them to the NAIA Washburn’s men’s basketball coach since District 10 championship, the Ichabods 1979. “When that whole building gets brought to an end an historic home redone, it’s going to be a huge part of court advantage that featured a gigantic everybody in the department.” The student section was in the north balcony. and distracting blue wall behind one of of a one-and-one, and with a second the baskets, view-blocking poles and left, Dennis Brady was fouled by Los Angeles Lakers-like fan seating near Marymount on March 5, 1984. With the the team benches. score tied at 56-56, Brady stepped up to The native stone building, that many the free throw line and calmly hit both say resembles a fort, still stands on
The east side of Whiting Field House is packed during a game played in the 1930s. 12 | summer 2008 | www.washburn.edu/alumni Chipman saw his fair share of exciting Field House seemed to games in the eight years he coached in be a part of every the field house, five as a head coach. Washburn win. He recalled an experience he had with Or maybe it was a Betty Casper, a ticket seller at Whiting giant blue wall. during his first game. When Whiting was “My very first game as head coach built, it included a large she was selling tickets. I went to her stage on the south end and said I was really nervous and she of the court that was used gave me some gum and we won,” for concerts and plays. Chipman said. “We won our first three When it wasn’t in use, games there so I actually thought that a curtain covered it up, The stage on the south end of the court is covered by a curtain in this 1940s photograph. was pretty lucky so I’d come to her and and then later, the curtain ask for gum. After a while she would was replaced with a blue tin wall. The The Ichabods defeated the Jayhawks actually just give it to me and she’s been wall seemed to throw off opponents 25-24 in that game as Washburn opened giving me gum now for 29 years before shooting on that end. the $200,000 facility. Now, 80 years later, every game.” “The opposing teams hated that,” it is being renovated. Chipman said. “I don’t know what the “Whiting seemed like the greatest stats are for opposing teams shooting place in the world, but we knew that on that end, but they aren’t very good.” we needed something new,” Chipman Chipman had a 105-46 record in said about losing his home court early Whiting, and he was coach when in his career. He was glad to see Lee Gary Carrier became Washburn’s Arena built to give the University more all-time leading scorer on Feb. 18, facilities, and now he’s glad to see his 1984. Washburn won seven conference old stomping grounds see much-needed titles there, and seven different All- improvements, even if it means tearing Americans called it home. Women’s up the old floor and balconies and Members of Kappa Sigma fraternity play in an intramural basketball began in 1969, and the Lady replacing them with a multi-level facility game in the 1930s. Blues enjoyed a 152-145 home record with a weight room on the bottom and Casper not only provided Chipman until moving to Lee Arena in 1984, and practice courts on the top. with his lucky gum, she also helped they won their first ever conference “I think it’s neat that they’re keeping provide him with the raucous home championship in their last year the outside the same. With that and the court advantage Washburn was used to. in Whiting. dressing up on the inside, I think it’s a “Playing against Fort Hays, their coach When Whiting was dedicated on great combination,” he said. would hold up a different colored towel Dec. 18, 1928, in a game against Kansas, for each defense,” he recalled. “So Betty, Jayhawk coach Forrest “Phog” Allen Cheerleaders in front of the student section watch a game in 1962. as smart as she was, brought a bunch called the new structure “the finest field of different colored towels. Their kids house in the state.” would be looking over and there would be four or five different towels waving with different colors right behind their bench.” Whether it was the uncontrollable student section in the north balcony that cost the Ichabods a few technical fouls in the five years Chipman coached there, or the life-long season ticket holders that passionately cheered on their Ichabods and Lady Blues, the tight- knit 2,500 or so fans that packed Whiting
www.washburn.edu/alumni | summer 2008 | 13 WASHBURN ENDOWMENT
Passion for writing leads to scholarships
Maggie (Sever) Warren, ba ’74, Several years ago, Warren took Warren has committed to funding Topeka, has a passion for writing, and a creative writing class from Averill. these scholarships through 2009 and she wants to share that passion with Averill said Warren’s scholarship offers hopes others will come forward and others. For the past two summers, a tremendous opportunity for students support the program. Warren has provided a scholarship that interested in writing. As a member of the Washburn Board allows a Washburn student to attend “The atmosphere at the Iowa Summer of Regents, Warren had the opportunity the Iowa Summer Writing Festival in Writing Festival is very stimulating for to meet Goss at fall commencement in Iowa City, Iowa. students and teachers,” said Averill. December 2007. “As Washburn began to implement “When you are there, you “I was able to the Transformational Experience feel like writing is a natural congratulate Sabrina as program, I thought of the Iowa thing to do. You think of “Not only is it an she received her diploma,” Summer Writing Festival as the perfect yourself as a writer, and said Warren. “It was honor to be chosen, opportunity for a writing student you are surrounded by tremendously exciting to in the English department,” Warren other writers who think of but it is a wonderful feel like I had contributed said. “After visiting with Tom Averill themselves as writers, too.” to the success of a writing opportunity to improve (professor, writer in residence, English) Sabrina Goss, student. I encourage about the idea, I made arrangements to ba ’07, Topeka, was as a writer and to others who share my provide funds for a student to attend a the first Washburn passion for writing to gain the experience week-long session at the Iowa writer’s student to receive help give other writing conference.” Warren’s scholarship. of working with students a transformational “Not only is it an honor experience.” other writers from to be chosen, but it is a “I am thrilled to learn wonderful opportunity to around the country.” that two students are able improve as a writer and to receive funding Sabrina Goss to gain the experience of to attend the festival this working with other writers year,” said Goss. “The from around the country,” said Goss. festival is such an excellent experience “The week of the festival was one of the for a writer of any age or level of most enjoyable experiences of my life. experience, but it’s especially valuable to It was fun and exciting, and it provided young, budding writers.” me with the tools to become a better James Jung, a junior from Shawnee, novelist. and Rachel Wholer, a junior from
Sabrina Goss, the first student to receive a scholarship to “The people I met during the week Lawrence, will be attending the writing attend the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, also received I stayed in Iowa were amazing,” she festival this summer. Both are majoring the Sibberson Award, given to the highest ranking graduate from each commencement ceremony. added. “They are dedicated writers in English with an emphasis on writing. (See page 8 for more on the Sibberson Award.) whose opinions I know I can trust.”
14 | summer 2008 | www.givetowashburn.org Annual gifts provide for WU needs Annual giving is alive and well at Washburn University due, in part, to the generosity of alumni and friends. Washburn Endowment Association staff, volunteers and students coordinate the many elements of Washburn’s annual giving program, which takes a significant amount of planning and hard work.
calling are now honored in a Phonathon Amounts Raised through the Annual Fund Hall of Fame, started in fall 2007. Caron Fiscal Year 2006 Fiscal Year 2007 Current Fiscal Year Handcock, bfa, ’07, Topeka, and Joseph Muiller, Lawrence, Kan., were the first $553,208 $731,626 $921,951 two students inducted into the Hall of * NOTE: The Washburn Endowment Association fiscal year begins July 1 and ends June 30. Fame. Handcock, who has been working Joel Lauer, director of WEA’s annual because it shows faculty and staff believe with the Phonathon program since giving program, said the annual giving in its mission,” Lauer said. September 2006, has raised more than program includes the faculty/staff “When we seek corporate and $23,000. Muiller started working with campaign, phonathon and direct mail. foundation support, their representatives Phonathon in September 2007 and Lauer said the annual giving frequently ask about the level of support raised more than $10,000 in his first program, unlike major or planned gifts, Washburn University receives from those semester as a caller. He is studying is consistent and steady and can be who work at the university,” he added. biology and hopes to attend medical counted on from year to year. Because “These organizations realize that such school. the gifts are typically unrestricted, he support is a critical benchmark because added, they help provide support for these are the people most familiar with Direct Mail a wide range of needs on campus, the work of the university.” The Washburn Endowment from scholarships and classroom Association also coordinates several materials to modern equipment and Phonathon direct mail campaigns throughout the campus beautification. Phonathon involves Washburn year. People who respond to these “Annual gifts to Washburn offer students who raise money for Washburn mailings, combined with the other invaluable flexibility in meeting areas by calling more than 20,000 alumni and campaigns of the annual fund program, of the greatest need or when special friends throughout the country. work together to increase financial opportunities arise,” Lauer said. “They This also provides an opportunity for support for Washburn. are also a major source of scholarships alumni to connect with the university as So far, more than $920,000 has and student aid, and help ensure a they visit with current students. been raised through all annual fund measure of excellence in programs Student callers who individually raise campaigns this year. benefiting students, faculty and academic $10,000 or more in one semester of initiatives.”
2007-08 Faculty/Staff Campaign Phonathon The faculty/staff campaign on campus Hall of has grown significantly in the last few Fame years, with $104,126 raised in fiscal year students 2006, $168,387 in 2007 and a record $306,389 raised to date in 2008. This campaign plays a vital role in the overall fundraising efforts for Washburn. “Potential donors look to the participation of those closest to the university to see if they should give, Caron Handcock Joseph Muiller www.givetowashburn.org | summer 2008 | 15 WASHBURN ENDOWMENT
Hal Jensen, third from left, with other executives of ATX Group, which is the world’s largest independent provider of telematics, such as call assistance, stolen vehicle recovery and voice recognition technology. Leadership scholarship honors Hal Jensen
Hal Jensen, bba ’80, Topeka, was recognized for Jensen was a manager at Kansas Power and Light/ his impact on his fellow employees at ATX Group KPL Gas Service in Topeka, Abilene and Salina for when they established the Hal Jensen Leadership many years before overseeing ATX’s operations in Scholarship in the both Texas and Germany. Washburn School of The first scholarship from the Business. Jensen served “Hal is a wonderful example endowed fund will be offered in as chief operating officer of the type of business leader 2009 and will be awarded annually at ATX until his retirement to a student enrolled in the last fall. we hope all of our students Washburn School of Business who “Everyone at our in the School of Business exhibits leadership qualities and company felt the best demonstrates a financial need. way to honor Hal for the can become.” “Hal is a wonderful example of leadership, business ethics David Sollars, the type of business leader we hope dean of the Washburn School of Business and motivation he inspired all of our students in the School of in everyone who worked Business can become,” said David with him was to give Sollars, dean of the Washburn something back to the institution that he School of Business. “The fact that ATX chose to credited for fostering those values,” said Steve recognize him in this way is a reflection on his Millstein, jd ’78, Dallas, Texas, ATX president and integrity and the impact he has had on that company.” chief executive officer.
16 | summer 2008 | www.givetowashburn.org CAMPUS NEWS AND SPORTS
Ichabod pride shared at State Fair By Gary Adkins, bba ’74, and Mary Adkins, Wakarusa, Kan. Ichabod logo ooking for a great way to show your Ichabod spirit, have some fun and get reimbursed on street signs L for doing a good deed? Consider volunteering at Washburn’s booth at the Kansas State Fair. Motorists and pedestrians Last year, my wife, Mary, pointed out the “volunteer opportunity” advertised in the approaching intersections at Alumni Association magazine, and we decided to give helping at the State Fair a try. Washburn’s four corners (17th and A couple weeks before the fair began, we attended a luncheon on campus and 21st streets, Washburn and MacVicar Leadership scholarship received an orientation on Washburn’s selling points. avenues) are greeted by street signs We also decided to turn this volunteer opportunity into a mini-vacation and enjoy with the Ichabod logo, thanks to honors Hal Jensen the fair. The night before our scheduled volunteer time, we saw “Chicago” in concert, the efforts of the Washburn Student and the next day, we spent several hours enjoying the fair Government Association. before arriving at the Washburn booth. “The Campus Affairs Committee In the four hours at the booth, we visited with those wanted to increase Washburn walking by about the benefits of attending Washburn spirit beyond the confines of and assisted several potential students in registering campus,” said Billie Jean Bergmann, for additional information. a junior from Simpson, Kan. “We We were located close to the booths for many found that both the University of other universities in Kansas, and I believe fair Kansas and Kansas State University attendees were favorably impressed when had customized street signs tailored we let them know about the student/instructor to their schools.” ratio and Washburn class sizes. Bergmann worked with Linda Washburn reimbursed us for food and Voss, Topeka’s traffic design mileage, and, if we had worked two engineer, to request an amendment shifts, we would have received lodging to the City of Topeka’s constitution for the night. that would allow a Washburn-related Please consider joining us item on the street signs surrounding Sept. 5-14 at the fair! campus. “We wanted to display an object (For additional information unique to Washburn and felt that on volunteering, see volunteer the Ichabod would best do that,” opportunities on page 3.) Bergmann said. The signs were posted in October Tami Boten, Topeka, plants a kiss on Ichabod’s cheek while 2007 and funded solely by Washburn visiting the Washburn booth Student Government Association. at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson. www.washburn.edu/alumni | summer 2008 | 17 CAMPUS NEWS AND SPORTS
KTWU produced “Twisted Tales of Poe” as a live radio show presented by The Karen Hastings Players and Philip Grecian.
Philip Grecian
Delta Chi receives charter KTWU photos courtesy of KTWU KTWU received three International Ava Awards (Audio/Visual Awards) for embers of Delta Chi fraternity, which “Twisted Tales of Poe”: a platinum first prize award in the television-use of Mcolonized at Washburn in November sound category, a platinum first prize in the television-promotion category and 2005, were awarded a charter by their a gold second prize in the television programs-entertainment category. international association and are now Written by Philip Grecian, ba ’93, Topeka, and presented with the Karen a full-fledged member of the Washburn Hastings Players led by Karen Hastings, ba ’68, Topeka, “Twisted Tales of Poe” Greek community. is an adaptation of several Edgar Allen Poe classic tales presented as if it were Delta Chi was founded in 1890 at a live 1940s-style radio program.
Cornell University as a law fraternity. The fraternity still holds justice as its KTWU special programs starting in July main principle, but is now open to Beginning July 5: The adventures of “I Love Lucy” and “Happy Days” on students in all majors. It currently has Saturdays at 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. approximately 92,000 members in 126 Beginning July 9: National Public Radio personalities Tom and Ray Magliozzi chapters and colonies in the United bring their automotive insights and comedic adventures to “Click & Clack’s As States and Canada. the Wrench Turns” on Wednesdays at 7p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Grand Marshal retires Jorge Nobo, professor, philosophy, begins a phased retirement this fall but has already retired as Grand Marshal, a volunteer service he took up in 2000. Nobo served as Grand Marshal for the last time at the May graduation exercises for the College of Arts and Sciences. Carol Vogel, director, equal opportunity and instructor, modern languages, retired last May as associate marshal, a position she held since 1970. Nobo said a small army of professors acting as associate and assistant marshals work together at “student wrangling” — getting the often nervous graduates lined up in alphabetical order and then seating them. Nobo said it was an honor to perform his duties, which Jorge Nobo included leading the platform party and banging the mace to signal the beginning, the posting of the colors and the end of the ceremony. photo by Peggy Clark Joanne Altman, professor, psychology, now serves as Washburn’s Grand Marshal.
18 | summer 2008 | www.washburn.edu/alumni Welcome New Mulvane director Cindi Morrison, former director of the Lancaster (Pa.) Museum, joined the Mulvane Art Museum staff as director in May. Morrison also held positions of assistant to the director of programs (visual arts, education, outreach) at photo by Chris Hamm the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Washburn students brought their Ichabod spirit to Greensburg, Kan., where they volunteered in photos courtesy of KTWU Annapolis, Md.; exhibitions/events the rebuilding efforts following a May 2007 tornado. coordinator, Baltimore (Md.) Clayworks; and director of the Zoller and Chambers Return to Greensburg Galleries at the School of Visual Arts, Whitney Philippi, Moscow, Kan., a Philippi first arrived in Greensburg Pennsylvania State University, junior majoring in history and English, in March with a group of 50 Washburn University Park. was among 10 Washburn students giving students during an alternative spring She received an associate of arts up a week of summer break in June to break six-day service trip, and she degree in art history from Keystone help the residents of Greensburg rebuild. hopes to return again as a senior Junior College, LaPlume, Pa., and It was Philippi’s second trip to the during fall or spring break. bachelor and master of fine arts degrees small town, which was hit by a massive “I loved the rewarding feeling you from Edinboro (Pa.) University in tornado in May 2007, and is 109 miles get from doing that much labor and ceramics/art history. west of Wichita, Kan. seeing how much your help is needed,” she said. Sophomores Lauren While at Greensburg, the students Woidela, Overland Park, worked on roofs, gutted a house, Kan., and Haley Mitchell, Auburn, Kan., perform at picked up debris and helped build a chamber music recital and lift walls of houses and garages. during the symphony orchestra’s May concert A 13-part miniseries documentary
photo by Carlos Cabezas tour in Honduras. “Greensburg,” hosted by Leonardo Symphony orchestra DiCaprio that premiered June 15 on the Planet Green network, may include performs in Honduras video footage of Washburn students Fifty students in the Washburn working on a roof. symphony orchestra toured Honduras Washburn’s alternative spring in May, performing at cathedrals and break, coordinated by Learning in the the Theatre Jose Francisco Saybe, and Community: The Center for Community visiting music schools and museums. Service and Civic Engagement, was It was the first American orchestra initiated in 1999 when a group of to ever tour Honduras, according to 15 students went to Tennessee to Norman Gamboa, director, who said work on the development of the the trip was a “smashing success.” Cumberland Trail.
Proceeds from one concert went photo by Chris Hamm to an elementary school with applied Lucas Mullin, Eureka, Kan., a freshman majoring in public administration, helps hoist a wall with other music courses, and benefits from Washburn student volunteers. another concert went to the pediatrics wing of a local hospital. www.washburn.edu/alumni | summer 2008 | 19 CAMPUS NEWS AND SPORTS
Ichabod & Lady Blues Sports By Gene Cassell and Jeremy Wangler
Baseball Softball
The Lady Blues reached the NCAA North Central Regional with a 4-2 loss to Minnesota State University, Mankato, and wrapped up the season with a 29-28 record. Senior Mandy Tarbutton, Maple Hill, Kan., finished her career with a school record for 220 games started and the school record for at bats with 706. She and senior Brooke DeVader, Emmett, Kan., tied for the school record of 220 games played. DeVader’s 225 career base hits rank third all- time at Washburn, and she holds the school record for 38 career home runs. Tyler Blankenship, senior, Lawrence, Kan. Junior Dani White, Berryton, Kan., set The Ichabods ended the year strong, winning six of their last 10 games and the school record of 562 for putouts gaining victories over two ranked teams. Overall, the team finished the season in a season en route to first team all- eighth in the MIAA at 12-24 with a 17-29 record. MIAA honors. Senior Malarie Fellers, Three players earned all-MIAA honorable mention: sophomore Wes Joy, Burlington, Edmond, Okla., set the assist record Kan.; junior Curtis Hamilton, Silver Lake, Kan.; and senior Brian Stroth, Topeka. Joy, with 52. DeVader and sophomore a two-time all-MIAA selection after earning second team honors and Freshman of the Tish Williams, Edmond, Okla., were Year in 2007, batted .316 and tied for the team lead with 26 runs batted in. Hamilton named second team all-MIAA. Williams had a 4.03 earned run average as a pitcher. His ERA as a reliever was 1.05, allowing set the school record for home runs just three earned runs in 25 2/3 innings. Stroth went 5-3 on the mound, leading the in a season with 16. team in wins and giving up just 15 walks in 58 1/3 innings with a 5.40 ERA.
Wes Joy
Mandy Tarbutton
photos by Gene Cassell
20 | summer 2008 | www.washburn.edu/alumni Tennis
Both the Ichabods and Lady Blues tennis teams wrapped up another set of successful seasons after both squads made appearances in the NCAA tournament. The Ichabods made it out Softball of the regional rounds and went to the national tournament for the second year in a row and finished the season in the round of 16 with a 14-7 record while the Lady Blues fell in the opening round for a 12-7 record.
n (L to R): Capitol Federal Savings True Blue Scholars with Jack Hamilton, president, Capitol Federal Foundation; Wes Joy (baseball), sophomore, Burlington, Kan.; Kate Hampson (volleyball), junior, Ft. Collins, Colo.; Zach Watkins (football), sophomore, Independence, Mo.; and Dani White (softball), junior, Berryton, Kan.
Golf Audrie Miller, senior, McPherson, Kan. Ichabods win MIAA, Coaching change Central Regional and Head Coach
Jennifer Hastert, bba advance to NCAA
’96, resigned her National Tournament
position to await the (71-75-75-72) and received third team birth of her second Lazzo named MIAA Most All-American honors. child. The former Lady Valuable Player Senior John Robbins, Omaha, Neb., Blues All-American The Ichabods won the MIAA and finished his Washburn career with a Jennifer Hastert completed her ninth Central Regional and wrapped up the 14-over 294, which placed him in a tie season as coach with a combined 2007-08 season with a 15th place finish for 70th overall. His 294 tournament 277-128-1 record between the men’s at the 2008 NCAA Men’s Division II included rounds of 76, 72, 68 and and women’s teams, winning four MIAA Championship, finishing 41-over 78. Robbins played in 86 rounds at titles and taking her teams to 11 NCAA for the four-round tournament. Washburn with a career scoring average tournaments. Senior Ryan Deutsch, Topeka, tied of 75.7, including a 75.4 this season. Dave Alden, who replaces Hastert, for 11th place overall with a 3-over Junior Matt Salome, Overland Park, has led the men’s team at Metropolitan 283 (71-70-72-70) for the tournament. Kan., in his first season at Washburn, State College of Denver to three Deutsch won the MIAA Golf tied for 77th overall and won the consecutive NCAA tournaments and Championship Tournament earlier Northeastern State University (Okla.) back-to-back Rocky Mountain Athletics this season and wrapped up his career Men’s Golf Classic. Conference titles. with a 74.88 stroke average, playing Sophomore Matt Lazzo, Wichita, Kan., in a school-record 125 rounds. He tied for 93rd. He was named the MIAA’s recorded 30 top 20 finishes, 21 top 10 Most Valuable Player, recording a 73.7 finishes and nine top five placings in scoring average with two tournament 51 career events. wins (the Truman Bulldog Classic and Junior Matt Ewald, Leawood, Kan., Missouri Western Invitational) and six tied for 64th overall with a 13-over 293 top five finishes in 13 tournaments.
Ryan Ward, sophomore, Corpus Christi, Texas www.washburn.edu/alumni | summer 2008 | 21 CAMPUS NEWS AND SPORTS
Lady Blues Basketball Williams drafted by Team reaches national Tennessee Titans quarterfinals ary Williams, Miami, Fla., became the fifth The Lady Blues Ichabod to have his name called in the NFL team reached C Draft. It is the second consecutive season the the NCAA Elite Ichabods have had a player drafted, as Trey Lewis Eight national was tabbed by the Atlanta Falcons in the sixth quarterfinals round last season. season with an The Tennessee Titans selected Williams 85-80 double with 229th overall pick and the 22nd pick of overtime loss to the seventh round. Williams becomes the first No. 3 University defensive back from the MIAA to be taken since of South Dakota, John Fisher of Missouri Western State University ending the season
was picked by Jacksonville Jaguars in 1996. photo courtesy of the Tennessee Titans with a 26-7 record “This is a great day for Cary and our program,” in their fifth Elite head coach Craig Schurig said. “Cary has the talent and the work ethic to be Eight in school Corkey Stiger at the NCAA Elite 8 a great cornerback and special teams standout in the NFL.” against the University of history. After receiving the call from Titans head coach Jeff Fisher, Williams said, South Dakota Senior Corkey “I shed some tears of joy. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity and not many Stiger, Hopkinsville, Ky., finished the game with people get that chance.” a career-high-tying 31 points that matched her Williams was named to the AP Little All-American Team as well as the total from the regional final win over Emporia Daktronics All-American team and was a unanimous first team All-MIAA State University. Senior Amanda Holmes, defensive back after recording seven interceptions. Williams was also named Topeka, recorded her 18th career double double to the first team Daktronics All-Region and the AFCA All-American team. with 10 points and 11 rebounds while junior He finished his career with 94 tackles, including 67 solo stops with 11 Jessica Mainz, Topeka, recorded a career-high interceptions, returned one interception for a touchdown, and his 100-yard 11 rebounds. kickoff return for a touchdown against Missouri Southern State University is tied for the longest return in school history. n Community Outreach: Before competing in the Elite 8 Tournament, members of the Lady Blues basketball team visit Central Elementary School in Kearney, Neb., and are photographed with a fifth grade class.
22 | summer 2008 FACULTY
Faculty Farewell Recognition Barbara Clark, Mark Folmsbee, simulation associate dean, Five faculty members were recognized for excellence coordinator and computer services, at the annual Washburn Recognition Ceremony. former associate School of Law, dean and associate professor, will be attending A. T. Still James M. Young Excellence in Continuing School of Nursing, retired after University in Mesa, Ariz. He has Education Award: 25 years of service. served 19 years at Washburn. Dan Petersen, associate dean and Joan Denny, Kirt Saville, professor, School of Applied Studies lecturer and chairman and Roy Myers Excellence in Research Award: Learning Center professor, music Vic Landrum, chairman, associate coordinator, School and director of professor, biology of Nursing, retired after 25 years bands, has accepted a position of service. at Brigham Young University. Amy Fleury, Saville joined the Washburn Herrick Faculty Award for professor, English, faculty in 1986. Outstanding Service: has accepted Bill Sparks, Carol Vogel, ba ’67, director, equal a position at professor, health, opportunity office and instructor, McNeese State University, physical education modern languages Lake Charles, La. Fleury joined and exercise Ned N. Fleming Excellence in Washburn’s faculty in 1998. science, retired after 11 years Teaching Award: of service. Bob Beatty, associate professor, political Pam MacDonald, (not pictured), science associate professor, psychology, has accepted a teaching position Maureen Godman, associate professor, at Emporia State University. English MacDonald joined the faculty at Washburn in 1998.
Eight faculty members were recognized Al Dickes, dean of enrollment management, for 25 years of service: retires in July. Dickes joined Washburn’s Steve Black, chairman, assistant professor, physics & faculty in 1978 and served 30 years as an instructor in economics astronomy; Bob Boncella, professor, School of Business; and 29 years as the secretary of the general faculty. In addition to Linda Croucher, associate professor, clinical coordinator, teaching, Dickes served as assistant to the vice president of academic radiation technology, allied health; Willie Dunlap, dean, affairs (1978-81), executive assistant to the president (1981-83), vice School of Applied Studies; Ali Khan, professor, School president for student affairs (1983-85) and director of institutional of Law; Bill Roach, professor, School of Business; Jera research (1985-87 and 1988-96). He also served as interim director Roberts, associate professor, allied health; and Roy of academic computer center (1979-81), interim head of university Sheldon, associate professor, English. advancement (1982), interim director of athletics (1982-83) and interim assistant dean of the School of Business (1987-88). He was named to his current position in 1996. www.washburn.edu/alumni | summer 2008 | 23 FACULTY
Lost and found herbarium
It was 1997, and Vic Landrum, With the supervisor’s help, Landrum a new biology faculty member, was moved things around so he could open searching through various closets and the cabinet door. Inside were stacks cabinets in Stoffer Science Hall for slides and stacks of sheets of pressed plant or plant specimens to use in his classes. specimens, including some dating back “There was a huge storage room in to 1861. the basement,” Landrum, chairman and “Nobody was looking for this associate professor, biology, said. “I was collection because it was supposed to down there looking around when I saw have been lost, either in a fire that went an old Army surplus cabinet against the through the basement of Rice Hall in the wall. I asked our stockroom supervisor, 1920s or the tornado that destroyed the who was working in the area, ‘What is building in 1966,” Landrum said. this? Can we open it?’” Most universities maintain herbaria for teaching and research. Landrum said Washburn’s herbarium is significant because it is one of the oldest in Kansas, so it provides a snapshot of how plants have changed through time, giving researchers a collection of DNA Each plant is pressed to specimens that can be used to document a piece of adaptations and changes in species. paper, like this sunflower collected in 1892 by William Harshbarger, a Washburn professor.
Vic Landrum holds one of the oldest specimens in the herbarium, a skeleton plant collected by T.J. Hale in Minneapolis, Minn., in 1861.
24 | summer 2008 | www.washburn.edu/alumni The oldest plants, from 1861, come from the upper Midwest and were collected by T.J. Hale, a Wisconsin botanist.
Vic Landrum examines a wild lettuce specimen collected in 1882 in Goodland, Kan. William Harshbarger Sarah Doubt
William Harshbarger, ba 1893 and a biology major, took over the project “I feel blessed,” he said. “This is a honorary doctorate 1919, a Washburn and worked on it for about three years,” once in a lifetime kind of thing. The mathematics professor who took part in he said. “She deserves the credit for herbaria at nearly all universities the first natural history survey of Kansas, cataloguing the remaining specimens.” have been catalogued for a century is responsible for approximately six or more. Here, I get to do something percent of the whole collection. Sarah most botanists will never get the “Nobody was looking for Doubt, professor of botany 1920-39, chance to do. It’s like finding a new this collection because it was added hundreds of specimens, including species or getting a species named supposed to have been lost, either five to eight smaller student collections. after you.” in a fire that went through the The vast bulk of the specimens in A labor of love basement of Rice Hall in the 1920s the Washburn Herbarium are now From the day of discovery, Landrum, or the tornado that destroyed catalogued and can be accessed with any students he could recruit, spent the building in 1966.” online at www.washburn.edu/faculty/ the next 11 years processing, repairing Vic Landrum landrum/wuherbarium. Landrum hopes and cataloguing the close to 7,000 plant to eventually scan images of all the samples in the collection. Even though he has been at it for specimens so they can also be “I did the first 1,000 or so, and then more than 11 years, Landrum doesn’t viewed online. Ashley Hisel, (bs ’04, Kansas City, Mo.), seem to mind the time-consuming work.
Washburn once had one of North America’s best fungus collections that contained approximately 8,000 fungus samples stored on the top floor of Rice Hall. Packets of fungus samples were found all over Shawnee County following the 1966 tornado which destroyed Rice Hall. Vic Lundrum discovered about a dozen of these packets among the plant collection he found in the basement of Stoffer Science Hall.
www.washburn.edu/alumni | summer 2008 | 25 ALUMNI PROFILE
A Washburn lawyer in federal court On May 6, 2004, Brandon Mayfield, jd ’99, Beaverton, Ore., was arrested and confined in maximum security because of allegations he was connected to a terrorist train bombing in Spain. For two weeks, Mayfield, a native of Halstead, In September 2007, a federal judge ruled in Kan., lived the nightmare of an innocent man Mayfield’s favor, agreeing that two sections of accused of a capital offense by evidence that the Patriot Act were unconstitutional. seemed irrefutable. He protested the charges, asserting that the fingerprint linking him to the Homecoming bombing could not be his since he had not traveled Mayfield returned to campus in outside the continental United States in many years. February 2008, at the invitation Fifteen days later, he was released and placed of Washburn Law faculty under house arrest. A few days after that, all members and four student charges were dropped. law groups. What followed made history. Mayfield received an official apology from the FBI and a $2 million Brandon Mayfield settlement from the U.S. government. Though personally vindicated, he reserved the right to challenge the Patriot Act, under which he was incarcerated as a material witness.
Events Timeline
2004|MARCH 11 MID-MARCH THROUGH APRIL MAY 6 MAY 14 MAY 19 MAY 20 • A series of • Spanish authorities submit to the • FBI agents search • Mayfield’s mother • Spanish police • Mayfield is coordinated bombings FBI for analysis digital images of Mayfield’s Oregon visits him on Mother’s announce that released from a on the commuter train partial latent fingerprints obtained law office and home Day. He is shackled the fingerprint courthouse holding system in Madrid, from plastic bags that contained and the family farm and separated from identified by the cell area and united Spain, kills 191 people detonator caps. in Halstead, Kan. her by a glass pane. FBI as Mayfield’s with his wife and and injures 2,000. • The FBI ranks Brandon Mayfield’s • Mayfield is belongs to children on the • A Spanish fingerprint 4 on a list of 20 possible arrested under a Ouhnane Daoud, courthouse steps, investigation matches. material witness an Algerian. but is under house determines the attacks • FBI agents obtain a warrant warrant and arrest. were directed by an issued under the Foreign incarcerated in the al-Qaeda-inspired Intelligence Surveillance Act and Multnomah County terrorist cell. enter Mayfield’s home and office, Detention Center in photographing papers, downloading Portland, Ore. hard drives and planting listening • The arrest makes devices. headlines in national • Mayfield and his family suspect and international that their house has been news media. burglarized, but are mystified because nothing is stolen. 26 | summer 2008 | www.washburn.edu/alumni Over lunch with the law students, “He was arrested because he was a His personal story and ongoing Mayfield recounted his and his family’s Muslim married to an Egyptian and had Constitutional challenge provide him a ordeal in his presentation, “How Bad been in the armed forces working on platform to discuss the issues that matter Science Can Ruin Your Privacy.” Later that Patriot Missiles,” Khan said. “It was a perfect most to him: individual rights, the balance day, he delivered “FISA, Fingerprints & combination to raise suspicion, but not of liberty and security and his concern for the 4th Amendment” at the spring faculty enough to arrest someone. Profiling is bad, the ongoing suffering of others. colloquium about the impact of science and but arresting just because a person fits the “The good news is I was released. technology on the law. profile is unacceptable.” I had excellent representation, the best trial One of Mayfield’s former teachers, attorney in America,” he said. “The bad Charlene Smith, visiting professor, School news is the thousands of other stories just of Law, said the students hearing Mayfield “When something like this like mine, stories of people who have been speak were mesmerized by what they arrested because of the political or religious heard. can happen to someone beliefs they express.” Smith also said, “When he talked about who lived near where you Later this year, the government’s appeal how the ordeal had impacted his family, of Mayfield’s case is expected to be heard about the invasion of their privacy and grew up, who went before a Circuit Court of Appeals, a case where the technology of fingerprinting to your school and is in which may eventually reach the Supreme could lead, it was scary.” Court. Robert Weaver, a first year law student your profession, it makes Bill Rich, professor, School of Law, said from Wichita, Kan., said Mayfield’s the issues more pressing.” Mayfield’s case is one of the most interesting presentation impacted him personally. and significant examples of constitutional Robert Weaver, “When something like this can happen Washburn School of Law Student litigation going on in the United States to someone who lived near where you today. grew up, who went to your school and is “It will eventually determine the in your profession, it makes the issues more parameters of the Patriot Act and the power Going on with life and law pressing,” he said. of the government to engage in searches Mayfield, who lives with his wife and Ali Khan, professor, School of Law, who and seizures without probable cause,” three children, has returned to his solo was adviser to Washburn’s student Islamic he said. family and personal injury law practice in Law Society when Mayfield co-founded it, a suburb of Portland, Ore. described his “sigh of relief” on hearing the
news that Mayfield had been cleared and
declared innocent.
MAY 24 NOV. 29 2007|SEPT. 16 2008|FEB 8 FEB. 28 NOVEMBER OR • The government files a • The federal government • Judge Ann Aiken, a • The Justice • Mayfield lectures DECEMBER motion to dismiss the case agrees to pay $2 million federal judge in Portland, Department files at Washburn • The government’s against Mayfield. District and issues a formal Ore., rules that two an appeal of Judge School of Law. appeal of Brandon Judge Robert Jones grants apology to Mayfield and provisions of the Patriot Aiken’s ruling before Mayfield vs. United the motion based on “the his family. Act allowing surveillance the 9th U.S. Circuit States of America misidentification by the • In the agreement, of American citizens Court of Appeals in is expected to be FBI of a fingerprint.” Mayfield waives his violate the Fourth San Francisco. heard before the 9th • The FBI publishes a personal claims against the Amendment prohibition U.S. Circuit Court news release announcing government and specific against unreasonable of Appeals in San that Mayfield’s fingerprint agents, but retains the right searches. Francisco. was erroneously linked to pursue a legal challenge to the Madrid bombing to the Patriot Act. and apologizes “for the hardships that this matter has caused.”
27 | summer 2008 | www.washburn.edu/alumni www.washburn.edu/alumni | summer 2008 | 27 CLASS NOTES
Walter Broadnax, ba ’67 and honorary doctorate ’94, Atlanta, Ga., spoke at commencement exercises at BIRTHDAY ’40s Wayne Grindol, jd ’62, Beloit, Kan., celebrated his 85th Kansas Wesleyan University, where he also received birthday in March. Joseph Morris, ba ’43, jd ’47 and honorary doctorate ’81, an honorary doctor of public service degree. Tulsa, Okla., was honored at the Barrister Bowl for his tenure, leadership, legal skill and humanity through Ron Farrell, bba ’62, Topeka, retired after a 36-year ANNIVERSARIES community involvement. He received the Distinguished career teaching at Highland Park High School. Janet (Hillyer) Armstrong, b ed ’68, and Robert Armstrong, Service Award from Washburn in 1994. bs ’67, Colorado Springs, Colo., celebrated their 40th Paula (Honeyman) Felker, b ed ’68, Topeka, retired wedding anniversary in June. from teaching at Pauline South Intermediate School BIRTHDAY after 22 years of service. Bill Smith, ba ’41, Palm Desert, Calif., celebrated his 90th Beverly (Barkley) Hadden, b ed ’64, and Kyle Hadden, birthday in February. Topeka, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Melody (Weyer) Forbes, ba ’68, Topeka, retired from in May. teaching at Washburn Rural High School after 16 years ANNIVERSARY of service. Claude Lee, jd ’62, and Frances Lee, Topeka, celebrated Philip Patterson, attendee ’40, and Betty Patterson, Long their 50th wedding anniversary in March. Dick Geis, bs ’69, Topeka, is local medical director Beach, Calif., celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary for Hospice Care of Kansas. in March.
Sugwon Kang, ba ’60, Oneonta, N.Y., received a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach American history ’70s and government at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea, ’50s during the 2008-09 academic year. Mark Anderson, ba ’76, Pratt, Kan., was honored as a Leader of the Year by the Huck Boyd National Institute June (Boaz) McCarty Clair, b music ’66, Carmel, Ind., for Rural Development at Kansas State University. ANNIVERSARIES received a $25,000 grant from the Lilly Endowment’s 2008 Teacher Creativity Fellowship Program to research Debra (Bowman) Arp, ba ’75, Morrison, Colo., retired Marilyn (Gates) Hite, ba ’58, and Robert Hite, bs ’57, the life and work of Hans Christian Andersen in as commander of the Arvada (Colo.) Police Department Tecumseh, Kan., celebrated their 50th wedding Denmark. She teaches vocal music and is musical after 31 years of service in law enforcement. anniversary in June. director at Clay Middle School. Paul Bicknell, bba ’75, Topeka, retired from the Kansas Patricia (Scott) Kranz, ba ’55, and Arthur Kranz, Rinda (Coon) Oldham, b ed ’65 and m ed ’84, Topeka, Department of Labor as chief of contributions. Richland, Wash., celebrated their 50th wedding retired from teaching at East Indianola Elementary anniversary in July. School after 34 years of service. Dan Brooks, b ed ’79, Topeka, was named secondary teacher of the year by Auburn-Washburn USD 437, John Tidwell, ba ’69, Lawrence, Kan., spoke at a where he teaches social studies at Washburn Rural symposium at the Library of Congress in Washington, Middle School. ’60s D.C., sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Washburn honored Tidwell in 1994 as an Alumni Fellow. Harriet (Gingerich) Caplan, jd ’76, Hays, Kan., was Carol (Bethel) Ball, ba ’65, Topeka, retired as librarian appointed to the Kansas Film Commission by at Northern Hills Junior High School after 32 years Steven Walker, ba ’68, Fresno, Calif., received the Allied Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. of service. Professional Award, a Crime Victims Rights Week Award, from U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasy Ruth (Ross) Collins, m ed ’72, Topeka, received a and the Department of Justice. Washburn honored Lifetime Achievement Award from Martin Luther King Jr. Walker in 2002 as an Alumni Fellow. Living the Dream Inc.
PROFILE: Three Generations admitted to Supreme Court
Paul Berkley, jd ’56, and Bill Berkley, bba ’72 and jd ’75, Downs, Kan., with grandson and son, Brandon J. Berkley, jd ’03, of Greenwood Village, Colo., were among 29 Washburn School of Law alumni admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court in a swearing-in ceremony in April.
The day before the ceremony, Washburn School of Law hosted a reception for friends and alumni in the Washington, D.C. area. Pictured at the reception are (L to R): Bill Berkley; Brandon Berkley; former photo by Bruce Mathews Sen. Bob Dole, ba ’52, jd ’52 and honorary doctorates ’69 and ’85, Washington, D.C.; and Paul Berkley. Brenda Dageford, b ed ’76, Topeka, retired from teaching Marianna Nothern, b ed ’74 and m ed ’81, Topeka, at East Indianola Elementary School and Logan Junior retired from teaching middle school art and PROFILE: Rita and Paul Etzel High School after 31 years of service. multicultural studies for Shawnee Heights USD 450 after 16 years of service. Glenda (Kearney) DuBoise, ba ’77, Topeka, received a Humanitarian Award from Martin Luther King Jr. Rhonda (Harmon) Otto, b ed ’75, Topeka, retired from Living the Dream Inc. teaching at Indian Hills Elementary School after 17 years of service. Robena (Pringle) Farrell, ba ’74, Hays, Kan., was named regional director of the Kansas Children’s Service Kendall Phelps, b music ’74, Silver Lake, Kan., was League. keynote speaker for the Kansas Day gala banquet sponsored by the Kansas Day Club. John Gaunt, ba ’76, Wichita, Kan., retired at the rank of major from the Kansas Highway Patrol after more than Carolyn (Morgan) Ritchey, b ed ’73 and m ed ’78, 33 years of service. Topeka, retired from teaching at North Fairview Elementary School after 35 years of service. Raul Guevara, ba ’77, Topeka, received the certified residential specialist designation from an affiliate of the Carol Rogers, ba ’71, Chesterfield, Mo., obtained the National Association of Realtors. chartered private wealth advisor designation from the Investment Management Consultants Association and is Cynthia Hartman, jd ’77, Fort Collins, Colo., was named president of Rogers & Company Wealth Management, a county court judge in the 8th Judicial District by Gov. which was listed in the top 100 independent advisors Bill Ritter. in America by Registered Rep. magazine. Those touring the renovated Stoffer Science Hall in April may have noticed the “Astronomers” Susan (Smith) Hendershot, b ed ’74 and m ed ’86, Kay (Bergmeier) Rute, ba ’71 and jd ’80, Topeka, tapestry and star chart on display in the physics Auburn, Kan., retired from teaching at West Indianola was promoted to professor, office, legal & technology, and astronomy department office suite. These Elementary School after 23 years of service. Washburn University. items, donated by Paul Etzel, bs ’71, and Rita Etzel, La Mesa, Calif., were gifts Rita gave Paul when he Paul Hoferer, jd ’75, Fort Worth, Texas, retired as vice Kathy Sachen-Gute, bba ’73 and jd ’76, Alexandria, Va., became chairman of the astronomy department president and general counsel of the BNSF Railway Co. was named director of the office of human resources of at San Diego State University. After he stepped after a 33-year law career. the National Credit Union Administration. down from that position, they seemed out of place hanging in his smaller professor’s office. “We Mary “Chris” Hutton, ba ’78 and jd ’78, Vermillion, Kevin Singer, b ed ’76, Topeka, was named thought that they would make a good addition S.D., received a Belbas-Larson Award for excellence superintendent of Topeka USD 501. to Washburn,” he said. “They have certain classic in teaching from the University of South Dakota. artistic elements that complement the home of Michael Snedegar, ba ’78, Richmond, Va., received a the Warner and Swasey telescope.” Gene Johnson, m ed ’75, Overland Park, Kan., was Deputy Commissioner Citation for delivering quality appointed superintendent of schools by the Shawnee customer service as regional director for Virginia Mission School District board of education. Disability Determination Services. PROFILE: Roger VanHoozer Robert Ladner, bs ’78, Topeka, was promoted to Kathy (Irvin) Sooter, ba ’73 and m ed ’89, Topeka, lieutenant colonel with the Kansas Highway Patrol retired as administrator at Logan Junior High School and is assistant superintendent for the agency. after 14 years of service.
Tom Leising, jd ’79, Topeka, opened a solo law office. Clarence Taylor, bba ’78, Shawnee, Kan., is the operator of a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Overland Park, Kan. Denise (Roeder) Lohness, ba ’74 and ma ’91, Topeka, retired as a teacher and administrator from Seaman High Maria Torrez Anderson, ba ’76, Topeka, was elected School and Logan Junior High School after 20 years president of the Community Resources Council. of service.
Tyra (Decker) Manning, b ed ’72, Alpine, Texas, is WEDDINGS department chairwoman and associate professor of Pantaleon Florez, ba ’79 and jd ’81, and Lisa Gregg, education at Sul Ross State University. Topeka, on March 28. photo by Cindy Rogers Terry Maple, bs ’78, Topeka, was named superintendent Roger VanHoozer, ba ’72, and Christine Watkins, Springfield, Mo., on April 18. Roger VanHoozer, ba ’72, and his bride, of the Kansas Highway Patrol by Gov. Kathleen Christine Watkins, Springfield, Mo., exchange Sebelius. bites of wedding cake April 18. During an ANNIVERSARY Alumni Association board meeting earlier that day, Cathy (Wollen) Maxwell, ba ’75, Powhatan, Va., is the Roger Scurlock, aa ’76, and Lanette Scurlock, Topeka, VanHoozer announced his plans to wed between author of “In the Highlander’s Bed,” published in 2008 celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in February. the board meeting and After Hours, in Carole by Avon Books. Chapel on campus, with his Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity brother, U.S. District Court Judge Tom Ellen Neufeld, jd ’79, Inman, Kan., was the oboe soloist Marten, ba ’73 and jd ’76, Wichita, Kan., officiating. in Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” in the Lindsborg, Kan., Members of the Alumni Association hastily Messiah Festival. Neufeld is the principal oboist with ordered a cake to celebrate the occasion, which the Hutchinson Symphony and the Bethany College/ they presented to the couple at After Hours. Lindsborg Community Orchestra.
www.washburn.edu/alumni | summer 2008 | 29 CLASS NOTES
Mark Mayo, jd ’80, Carthage, Mo., was named Charles Campbell, ba ’93, Overbrook, Kan., is the special ’80s superintendent of Marshfield (Mo.) R-1 schools. agent in charge of the Kalsu Resident Agency, Kalsu, Iraq. Campbell, an Army chief warrant officer III, is Glea (Blackwell) Ashley, aa ’87, bba ’93 and mba ’97, Jeff Myers, ba ’87, Dayton, Tenn., authored “Handoff: serving his third deployment to Iraq. Topeka, was named chief executive officer of Valeo The Only Way to Win the Race of Life,” published in Behavioral Health Care and Valeo Community Residence 2008 by Legacy Worldwide. Michelle Carter-Gouge, jd ’99, Wichita, Kan., is general Programs. counsel for Preferred Health Systems. Kanalis (Carlson) Ockree, bba ’82, Topeka, was promoted James Azeltine, ba ’86, Leawood, Kan., was elected to professor in the Washburn School of Business. Annette (Schafer) Cavanaugh, b ed ’92, Topeka, was chairman of the Johnson County Park and Recreation named elementary teacher of the year by Auburn- District’s board of commissioners and also serves on Betty Lou Pardue, ba ’81, Topeka, joined Cumulus Washburn USD 437. She teaches fifth grade at the Leawood City Council. Broadcasting of Topeka, where she has on-air Pauline South Intermediate School. responsibilities and handles marketing and public Thomas Bartlett, aa ’81, ba ’81 and ma ’85, Topeka, is relations. Josh Clark, bba ’98, Topeka, was promoted to officer serving on the board of the American Psychoanalytic by FHLBank. Foundation and the curriculum review board of Brenda Patzel, bsn ’88, Lawrence, Kan., was granted Washburn’s department of human services. tenure at Washburn University, where she is an Mary Dodson, bsn ’97, Carbondale, Kan., is a case associate professor in the School of Nursing. manager at the Hospice Care of Kansas. Martha Bartlett Piland, ba ’86, Auburn, Kan., celebrated the 10th anniversary of MB Piland Advertising & Shannon (Weed) Ralph, bs ’84, Dodge City, Kan., was Eric Donaldson, bba ’93, Topeka, was promoted to Marketing in April. The company was recognized as named a 2008 Kansas Master Teacher by Emporia State senior vice president, controller of Silver Lake Bank. the 2008 EXCEL Award winner by the Topeka University. Ralph teaches biology at Dodge City High Chapter of the International Association of Business School. John Eichkorn, bs ’92, Topeka, was promoted to Communicators. captain of the homeland security division of the Doug Rinehart, bba ’83, Topeka, was promoted to Kansas Highway Patrol. Ronald Bradford, bsn ’83, Topeka, retired from officer by FHLBank. Auburn-Washburn USD 437, where he served as a Janene (Ries) Falley, aa ’91, Topeka, was elected nurse at Tallgrass Student Learning Center. Bob Roth, aa ’82, Paxico, Kan., joined Cornerstone secretary of the Community Resources Council. Advisors as a senior director. Kimberley Brown, ba ’88 and mba ’93, Topeka, received David Harris, ba ’92, Topeka, was promoted to vice a Business Executive Leadership Award from Martin Mary Jane (Gillen) Stankiewicz, ba ’84 and jd ’88, Topeka, president at FHLBank. Luther King Jr. Living the Dream Inc. was promoted to chief legal officer and vice president of the Kansas Grain and Feed Association. Joyce (Counseller) Hladky, aa ’99 and bas ’05, Topeka, Jane (Hesemann) Carpenter, bsn ’80, Topeka, was was promoted to director of education at Bryan College. granted tenure at Washburn University, where she Annette (Knipp) Thornburgh, ba ’85, Topeka, is annual is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing. giving specialist for The Library Foundation of the Teresa Jenkins, ba ’93, Topeka, received an Award of Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. Merit from the Topeka International Association of Sadie (Watson) Day, b ed ’83, Scranton, Kan., retired Business Communicators. from teaching at Carbondale (Kan.) Attendance Center. Jeff Wagaman, ba ’84, Topeka, received the 2008 Outstanding Girl Scout Leader Award from the Shawnee Katherine Kirk, jd ’93, Lawrence, Kan., served three Steven Deiter, jd ’81, Sabetha, Kan., was appointed a County Area of the Girl Scouts of Northeast Kansas and months in Jordan training judges, lawyers and other district magistrate judge of the 22nd Judicial District Northwest Missouri Council. professionals in civil mediation through the American by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative.
Sandra (Watson) Deshazer, b ed ’81, Scranton, Kan., WEDDING Kyle Malcom, bs ’96 and bba ’97, Topeka, marked retired from teaching at Carbondale (Kan.) Attendance Brenda (Lindeman) Irish, ba ’81, and George Flowers, his 10th anniversary with Kansas Department of Center. Houston, Texas, on April 19. She is a retired accounting Transportation, where he is a management systems assistant. analyst II. Carl Gallagher, jd ’81, Lawrence, Kan., was named vice president of the board of directors for the law Henry Menghini, jd ’91, Pittsburg, Kan., was firm of McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips PA. appointed to the Kansas Film Commission by ’90s Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. Phil Hamilton, b ed ’82, Topeka, was honored for 25 years of service by Auburn-Washburn USD 437. Nancy Andervich, jd ’96, Hutchinson, Kan., was Brian Quinn, ba ’94, Galway, Ireland, is an international He teaches at Washburn Rural Middle School. promoted to vice president and manager, personal business development officer for the County of Galway. trust services of First National Bank of Hutchinson. Craig Heiland, bba ’84 and bba ’85, Topeka, was Valerie Peterson, jd ’97, North Miami Beach, Fla., promoted to senior market risk analyst by FHLBank. Gerald Bayens, bs ’90, Topeka, was promoted to is education director and member liaison for professor, criminal justice, at Washburn University. ElderCounsel LLC. Michelle (Monninger) Jennings, ba ’80, Lawrence, Kan., is a loan officer for Douglas County Bank. Vic Braden, jd ’98, Lawrence, Kan., was named the Guy Richardson, bba ’97, Topeka, was named Agent of 2008 Outstanding Alumnus of the Year by Pratt (Kan.) the Year in the Kansas general office of New York Life Community College. Insurance Co.
30 | summer 2008 | www.washburn.edu/alumni Jacque (Johnson) Russell, aa ’92 and bs ’94, Topeka, Katie (McNaught) Geier, ba ’99, and Jason Geier, jd ’00, Tammy (Bassett) Harmon, bba ’00, Topeka, opened was promoted to human resources director for the Topeka, a boy, Joseph Richard, on Nov. 28. Harmon Financial & Tax Services LLC in Topeka. City of Topeka. Chantel (Holthaus) Heinen, bsn ’95, and Ron Heinen, Linda Hawes, ba ’02, Topeka, was named the 2007 Ronald Small, jd ’90, Nashville, Tenn., was promoted Goff, Kan., a girl, Claire Lyn. She joins brothers Marcus, recipient of the Henry A. Bubb Distinguished Service to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Louisiana Air 3, and Tyler, 5. Award by Capitol Federal Savings. National Guard, where he serves as the staff judge advocate for the 159th Fighter Wing. Heather (Hay) Huscher, ba ’93, and Beau Huscher, Kristin Heinen, as ’01, Everest, Kan., was chosen by the Topeka, a girl, Reese Caroline, on Jan. 28. She joins Kansas Soybean Association to represent Kansas as part Tracey Stratton, ba ’95, Topeka, received an Award a sister, Reagan Ruth, 2. of the 2008 Young Leader program. of Merit from the Topeka International Association of Business Communicators. Duane Randle, ba ’97 and jd ’01, and Tara Randle, Linn Donna Huffman, jd ’07, Ozawkie, Kan., opened Mediate Creek, Mo., a girl, Eliza Grace, on March 10. It, which offers mediation services, in Oskaloosa, Kan. Nan Sun, ba ’94, Topeka, was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor, computer information Suzanne (Clarke) Zurn, ba ’95, and Melvin Zurn, Reston, Rachel Jones, bba ’05, Jacksonville, Fla., is a staff science, at Washburn University. Va., a boy, Philip Arthur, on Feb. 25. accountant with the certified public accountant firm of Presser, Lahnen & Edelman. Patty Weaver, ba ’99, Shawnee, Kan., was promoted to director of corporate marketing at Walton Construction Misty Kruger, ba ’07, Topeka, was nominated by Junior Co. LLC. Achievement for a Distinguished Sales and Marketing ’00s Award, which she received from Sales and Marketing Executives of Topeka. Eric Webb, bba ’96, Topeka, was named budget analyst Jason Baer, ba ’03, Topeka, is an administration specialist for the Veterans Health Administration Health Revenue for Kansas Department of Transportation. Center. Ann Meier, aas ’02 and bba ’06, Topeka, was promoted to officer and member services strategist at FHLBank. Thomas Beall, jd ’00, Topeka, is chief deputy to Kansas Armuru Windibiziri, mba ’98, Lawrence, Kan., is director Attorney General Steve Six. of strategic planning and marketing for Sunflower Sitters Robin (Lang) Moody, bba ’01, Scranton, Kan., is director of membership for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Referral Services LLC. Troy Biladeau, ms ’03, Silver Lake, Kan., was promoted Kansas. to head coach of the Davenport, Iowa Quad-City Justin Wrecke, b ed ’98, Shawnee, Kan., is playing his Steamwheelers of the Arena Football 2 League. sixth season with the Kansas Koyotes indoor football Brooks Myers, bba ’06, Topeka, is playing on the Kansas Koyotes indoor football team. team. Patty (Nieves) Burley, jd ’01, Bethel, Alaska, was appointed magistrate for the Alaska Court System Joleen Nuss, mba ’01, Topeka, was promoted to assistant Susan Zuber-Chall, ba ’93 and mcj ’01, Topeka, earned in Bethel. a doctorate in library and information science from vice president at FHLBank. Emporia State University and was inducted into Mary Christopher, jd ’01, Silver Lake, Kan., is an Hillary Pack-Haas, jd ’05, Erie, Kan., was appointed Beta Phi Mu international library science honor society. associate attorney with Goodell, Stratton, Edmonds & county attorney for Labette County (Kan.) by Palmer LLP. WEDDINGS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. Kate Clemmons, mba ’01, Tecumseh, Kan., is resource Janna Jepson, bba ’98, and Tim Dunn, Topeka, on Lori Rilat, msw ’06, Chapman, Kan., is teaching human development director for Court Appointed Special April 12. She is a finance professional at Topeka & growth and development and general psychology at Advocates of Shawnee County. Shawnee County Public Library. Cloud County Community College. Salvador Cruz, b music ’04, Topeka, received a Robert & James Seitz, bsn ’93, and Kathleen Denney, Kansas City, Tara Risetter, ba ’06, Junction City, Kan., graduated Hazel Gomez Alma Award from Martin Luther King Jr. Mo., on Dec. 29. He works for the Department from Army basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Living the Dream Inc. of Veterans Affairs. Columbia, S.C. Morgan Dewey, bba ’04, Topeka, is playing on the Justin Wagstaff, bs ’99, and Tiffany Curtis, Topeka, Elizabeth Rogers, ba ’04, Lawrence, Kan., was named Kansas Koyotes indoor football team. on Sept. 1. a 2008 Distinguished Alumnus at Dodge City (Kan.) Community College. Blake Edwards, ba ’06, Columbia, Mo., is assistant women’s tennis coach at the University of Missouri. ANNIVERSARIES Michelle (Hollins) Rose, bs ’03, Topeka, was promoted Judy (Cowan) Bromich, bba ’93, and Bud Bromich, to financial services analyst II at FHLBank. Topeka, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Rocio Fernandez, aas ’00, and bba ’04, Topeka, is a group enrollment roving representative in the regional in April. Tyler Schuerman, bs ’04, Topeka, is quarterback for the marketing office of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of indoor professional football team Wichita Wild. Judy Francis, ba ’93, and Kent Francis, Rossville, Kan., Kansas. celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in March. Jaclyn Sells, b ed ’06, Lawrence, Kan., is teaching Eric Gares, bs ’07, Topeka, is an officer with the physical education and coaching junior varsity softball Herington (Kan.) Police Department. Milton Koci, bba ’92, and Carole Koci, Topeka, at Lansing (Kan.) High School. celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in May. Jennifer Gilbert, b music ’07, Garden City, Kan., is Bobbi Shinn, bba ’04, Topeka, is a member services teaching band and choir in grades 5-12 for Deerfield strategist at FHLBank. BIRTHS USD 216. Michele Buckreis-Meier, bsn ’94, and Jeff Meier, Christopher Tanquary, bba ’04, Newport Beach, Calif., Greenville, S.C., a girl, Kaleigh Nicole, on Sept. 6. Adrienne Hamann, ba ’07, Jinhua, China, is teaching is general manager of mobile games at Boost Mobile. She joins a brother, David, 2. in the School of International Education at Zhejiang Normal University.
www.washburn.edu/alumni | summer 2008 | 31 CLASS NOTES
Kirk Thompson, bs ’01, Topeka, retired as deputy Julie Hoytal, ba ’06, and Grant Gould, ba ’07, Topeka, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation after on Jan. 5. She works at Cumulus Broadcasting, and IN MEMORY more than 28 years of service. he works at St. Francis Health Center.
Matt Wilson, jd ’03, Udall, Kan., has a private law Scott Koch, bs ’07, and Bianca Luviano, Topeka, practice with Kelly Law Offices. on Jan. 26. ’30s Daniel Davis, ba ’37 and b music ’37, 93, Spokane, Jessica Zook, b music ’07, McPherson, Kan., is teaching Karen Kohake, aas ’05 and bas ’07, and Darin Strathman, Wash., on June 30, 2007. A Navy veteran of World War music at Windom (Kan.) Elementary School. Manhattan, Kan., on Nov. 3. She works at Capitol II, he was an elementary school music teacher and Federal Savings. musician. At Washburn, he was a member of the choir, orchestra, Press Club, Student Council and Alpha Delta WEDDINGS Katie Parker, bsn ’06, and David Roubison, Lawrence, fraternity. Lydia Becker, ba ’06, and Ethan Rodehorst, Topeka, Kan., on Jan. 3. She is employed at Lawrence Memorial on June 9, 2007. She is a multimedia representative Hospital. at WIBW-TV. Carole (West) Delp, ba ’37, 91, Topeka, on Feb. 8. She was a research technician at the Menninger Foundation, Cassandra Pope, ba ’07, and Matthew Cohen, Topeka, was a Master Gardener and volunteered as a docent at Sarah Brock, ba ’02, and Isaiah Dahlstrom, Topeka, on on March 17. She is a real estate agent with Realty the Topeka Zoo and the Helen Hocker Center for the Oct. 20. She is a physical therapist at Shawnee County Executives and is also an artist. Infant Toddler Services. Performing Arts. Megan Snepp, as ’07, and Kyle DeForest, Topeka, Marjorie (Smith) Demaree, ba ’35, 94, Kansas City, Mo., Celeste Carson, as ’05, and Craig Ackerman, Topeka, on Sept. 29. on Jan. 12. on Feb. 23. She retired from the Selective Service System and was a lifetime member of the Washburn Alumni Rita Stuewe, msw ’04, and Frankie Zeller, Paxico, Kan., Association. As a student, she was a member of YWCA Andrew Chaney, bba ’05 and ba ’05, and Cynthia Roxana on Oct. 13. She is a social worker for Auburn-Washburn and Beta Sigma Omicron sorority. Perez Gonzalez, Guadalajara, Mexico, on March 22. USD 437. He teaches English as a Second Language. Emma (Shumate) Naill, ba ’39, 91, Topeka, on Ericah Tucker, bba ’04, and Jonathan Schmucker, bs ’03, March 2. She taught at high schools in the Kansas towns Adrienne Collie, bba ’05, and Neil Olejnik, bs ’06, Arlington, Va., on July 28, 2007. She is a senior research of Quenemo and Ada and volunteered at the Kansas Rossville, Kan., on Oct. 6. manager at Corporate Executive Board in Washington, Historical Museum. At Washburn, she was a member D.C. He is a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service. Curtis Farris, ba ’07, and Charlotte Culbertson, Neosho, of Nonoso, YWCA and Sigma Alpha Iota music sorority. Mo., on March 2. He is manager of Hibbets Sporting Beverly Wells, ba ’01, and Randy Thrower, Lecompton, Willard Read, bs ’36, 96, Doylestown, Ohio, on Jan. Goods in Rogers, Ark. Kan., on Dec. 29. She is employed by the Kansas State 22. He worked 38 years at Babcock and Wilcox in Department of Education. Alexandra Garvin, bsn ’07, and Joseph Brewster, Barberton, Ohio, was an elder at his church and a lifetime member of the Washburn Alumni Association. Plainville, Kan., on Nov. 17. She works in the labor Kristen Wheeler, jd ’06, and Matt Maloney, Wichita, Kan., and delivery department of Hays Medical Center. on Oct. 20. She is an attorney with Morris, Laing, Evans, Maxine (Middleton) Tillotson, ba ’32, 97, Topeka, on Brock and Kennedy Chartered. Peter Goss, jd ’05, and Lindsay Ace, Prairie Village, Kan., March 16. She was director of public relations and volunteers for Norton (Kan.) State Hospital and a past on July 28, 2007. He works at Peterson and Associates. Shannon Wild, as ’05 and bhs ’06, and Wade Heim, president of Kansas Council of Women and the Native St. Marys, Kan., on July 7, 2007. Ashley Graham, ba ’07, and Sean Luethmers, bba ’06, Daughters of Kansas. She was a member of the Whiting Wichita, Kan., on June 16, 2007. She works at Printing Society and served on the Washburn Alumni Association Inc., and he works at Cessna Aircraft. BIRTH board of directors. As a student, she was a member of Amanda Esau, bsn ’02, and Matthew Esau, a boy, Nonoso and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Chelsea Hixon, bas ’07, and Joshua Gann, Topeka, Jackson Matthew, on Nov. 1. He joins a brother, on Oct. 5. Harrison, 2.
IN MEMORY
Howard Hunter, ba ’39, 90, Hutchinson, Kan., on April 28. Hunter was an Army Quartermaster Corps veteran of World War II, achieving the rank of captain. He had a career in banking, beginning in 1946 with Capitol Federal Savings and Loan. In 1956, he joined Topeka State Bank and served as executive vice president. In 1965, he joined the Hutchinson National Bank, retiring in 1982 as vice chairman of Hutchinson National Bank and Trust. Hunter was a lifetime member of the Washburn Alumni Association, where he served 1972-75 on the board of directors. He served 1976-91 on the Washburn Endowment Association board of trustees and received emeritus status in 1999. Hunter was also active in the Kansas Bankers Association and served on the board of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. As a student at Washburn, he played varsity tennis and was a member of YMCA and Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
32 | summer 2008 | www.washburn.edu/alumni Ruth (Robb) Webb, ba ’30, 99, Carlyle, Ill., on Kenneth Bossler, ba ’50, 82, Topeka, on Jan. 23. He was March 5. She was a teacher in the Kansas towns of an Army veteran of World War II and worked at Fidelity Troy, Bendena, Almena and Norton and was a lifetime State Bank & Trust Co., retiring as a director. In 1980, IN MEMORY member of the Washburn Alumni Association. As a he climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. student, she was a member of Tau Delta Pi academic Alice Clare (Brownfield) honor society. Lawrence “Larry” Churchill, b ed ’57, 72, Glastonbury, Wright, ba ’41, 88, Conn., on Feb. 27. An Air Force veteran, he retired Lecompton, Kan., on from Pratt & Whitney Aircraft as vice president of public March 2. She had a affairs. At Washburn, he played football and was a 31-year career teaching ’40s member of ROTC and Kappa Sigma fraternity. English and reading in middle schools Francis Gabbert, b ed ’59 and m ed ’63, 94, Sabetha, Kan., Richard “Jack” Byrd, ba ’43 and jd ’47, 87, Palm Desert, and high schools and on April 18. He had a career in education that spanned Calif., on Jan. 8. A Marine veteran of World War II, served as First Lady 43 years and included a principal position at Goff, Kan., he was a partner of an Ottawa, Kan., law firm and was of Topeka during the and at Rochester Elementary School in Topeka. Franklin County (Kan.) attorney. He was chairman of years her husband, the Kansas Corporation Commission and served in the Charles Wright, who survives, was mayor of Topeka. Louis James, jd ’53, 80, Larned, Kan., on Feb. 17. Interstate Oil Compact Commission as the representative With Charles, she also operated Edgewood Tree He served as an assistant attorney general for Kansas, of the Kansas governor and as general counsel. He also Farm for 20 years and published Christmas Tree as attorney for the Kansas counties of Osborne and served 1990-93 as a Washburn Endowment Association magazine. They were also members of the Ichabod Pawnee and city attorney for Larned. At Washburn, trustee. At Washburn, he was a member of Phi Delta Club, established the Chuck and Alice Clare Wright he was a member of Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity. Theta law fraternity. His wife, Jane (Gorman) Byrd, Athletic Scholarship at Washburn and supported a ba ’46, survives. Memorials may be made to Washburn variety of programs and projects on campus. Wright Martha (Rutter) Johnson, ba ’50, 81, Topeka, on School of Law. was a Boy Scout and Girl Scout leader, served 20 March 25. A lifetime member of the Washburn Alumni years as treasurer of the Lecompton Historical Society Association, she was a member of the Mulvane Zane Dewey, ba ’49 and jd ’51, 83, Springdale, Ark., on and was active in PEO, Kiwanis Club, American Women’s Board, Junior League and PEO. At Washburn, Jan. 22. A Marine veteran of World War II, he served Cancer Society and Topeka High School Historical she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. 35 years with State Farm Insurance Co. At Washburn, Society. As a student at Washburn, she was initiated he was a member of Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity. into Nonoso and was president of YWCA, secretary Bobby Larson, ba ’55, 80, Topeka, on April 29. An of Student Council, vice president of the sophomore Army veteran, he served in Germany and later in Theo (Kendall) Enochs, ba ’49, 81, Tecumseh, Kan., on class and representative of Athletic Board of Control. Korea, where he was awarded a Purple Heart. He was April 15. She worked in the Washburn registrar’s office She was also a member of Ichadettes, Press Club and employed 35 years by Kansas Power and Light and as assistant registrar and degree auditor, retiring in 1991 Delta Gamma sorority. Washburn honored her with was a member of the American Legion and Veterans and was also a piano accompanist. At Washburn, she a Distinguished Service Award in 2003. Memorial of Foreign Wars. was a member of Independent Women. Her husband, contributions may be made to the Chuck and Alice Harold Enochs, ba ’49, survives. Clare Wright Athletic Scholarship at Washburn. Russell Litchfield, ba ’52, 84, San Diego, Calif., on March 17. An Army World War II veteran, he was Forrest Gifford, ba ’49, 79, Elk Grove, Calif., on a teacher and a substitute teacher after retirement. March 6. An Army veteran, he was a civil engineer At Washburn, he was a member of Sigma Phi with the State of California Department of Water Epsilon fraternity. IN MEMORY Resources and Wahler Association. At Washburn, he played football and was a member of Sagamore and Herman “Ted” Loyd, bba ’58, 77, Overland Park, Kan., Kappa Sigma fraternity. Marcia (Cole) Saville, on May 12. An Air Force veteran, he had a 40-year ba ’49, 80, Topeka, career in the wholesale food industry, retiring from Kathryn Offen, ba ’42, 90, Topeka, on April 10. She on Feb. 27. She was EVCO Wholesale Food Corp. At Washburn, he was was a partner with her family at Offens Hardware a life-long community a member of the Association of Business Students. Store and was a watercolor artist. At Washburn, she volunteer and served was a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. Memorials on the boards of Donald McCort, bba ’52, 78, Ft. Myers, Fla., on Feb. 8. may be made to the Washburn Art Department numerous local and He retired from the Air Force after 20 years of service at Scholarship Fund. regional organizations. the rank of lieutenant colonel. He also taught at Upper Saville received Iowa University, Longwood College and Briar Cliff Paul “Dean” Sawyer, bba ’47, 84, Dallas, Pa., on emeritus status in College and was mayor of Fayette, Iowa. At Washburn, Feb. 24. A Navy fighter pilot and World War II veteran, 2001 from the he joined ROTC. he worked 25 years for Remington Rand, retiring as Washburn Endowment Association board of trustees, regional manager of the Philadelphia (Pa.) office. of which she was a member since 1992. A lifetime Thomas Mikulka, ba ’54, 84, Chanute, Kan., on He also owed Sawyer’s Office Machines. member of the Washburn Alumni Association, March 12. A World War II veteran, he was director she served 1983-95 on the board of directors. She of food services at the Menninger Foundation, retiring supported a variety of programs, projects and after 42 years of service and was also a charter member scholarships at Washburn and also served on the of the American Society of Hospital Food Service Mulvane Art Museum Women’s Board and the boards ’50s Administrators. for Nonoso, Friends of Mabee Library, Washburn Women’s Alliance, and the alumnae board, advisory Robert “Bob” Baker, jd ’52, 82, Ashland, Kan., on March Charles Minnick, ba ’59, 71, Overland Park, Kan., on board and corporation board of Kappa Alpha Theta 29. An Army Air Corps veteran of World War II, he March 6. An Army veteran, he was an owner/manager sorority. As a student at Washburn, Saville was a was a rancher and attorney and served as a judge for for Firestone in Kansas City, Mo., for more than 35 member of Tau Delta Pi academic honor society, the 16th Judicial District. At Washburn, he was vice years. At Washburn, he was on the track team, played Pi Gamma Mu social studies honor society and president of the Washburn Bar Association and football and was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Washburn honored her a member of Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity. with a Distinguished Service Award in 1996.
www.washburn.edu/alumni | summer 2008 | 33 CLASS NOTES
Warren Priest, bba ’50, 79, Whiting, Kan., on May 8. J. Fred Brower, jd ’65, 81, Cheyenne, Wyo., on March 20. He was a rural mail carrier for 37 years and a butcher at A Navy World War II veteran, he worked for Graybar IN MEMORY Priest Store and C&D Grocery. At Washburn, he was a Electric in Kansas City, Mo., practiced law and served member of the Association of Business Students. in the Episcopal Church as chancellor of the Diocese Larry Elliott, b ed ’59, of Western Kansas. At Washburn, he was a member of 72, Surprise, Ariz., Donald Shultz, jd ’54, 78, Dodge City, Kan., on Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity. on April 13. He May 3. He had a private law practice and was active coached football and in and a benefactor of many charitable and community Gerald Golden, jd ’67, 75, Overland Park, Kan., on April baseball at Washburn organizations. At Washburn, he was a member of the 20. An Army veteran, he practiced law for 30 years. over a span of 20 Law Review Board and Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity. years. He also played Richard Jeter, bs ’65, 65, Ballwin, Mo., on April 12. He professional baseball Robert Stolpe, bba ’54, 77, Pittsfield, Maine, on Feb. 2. worked 42 years for Lucent Technologies. At Washburn, for the Los Angeles At Washburn, he was a sophomore class officer and a he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. Dodgers organization. member of the Association of Business Students and As a star fastpitch Kappa Sigma fraternity. Meryl (Layson) Johnston, m ed ’65, 86, Shell Knob, Mo., softball player, he on March 2. She taught school in Kansas and Missouri was named Kansas Duane Swanson, ba ’59, 75, Topeka, on Feb. 2. A Navy for 50 years and also owned and operated Viola Boat Most Valuable Player three times, regional veteran, he retired from the Menninger Foundation as Dock. MVP in 1968 and was named to the Kansas senior vice president emeritus and served on the boards Softball Hall of Fame. of Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Doorstep and the Salvation Army. Elliott began his career by coaching football, IN MEMORY basketball, baseball and track and field at Gene Vollmer, bba ’58, 76, Englewood, Fla., on Silver Lake High School, where his teams won March 30. An Air Force veteran, he was the proprietor five conference titles in football and three in of Uehling-Vollmer Insurance Agency in Beloit, Wis., Jack Quinlan, basketball. In 1967, he joined Washburn as and was active in the Boy Scouts, YMCA, Lions Club ba ’48 and jd ’51, baseball coach and went 334-188 in 13 years. and served on the Red Cross board. 85, Topeka, on His .563 winning percentage still stands as the March 1. He highest in school history as of 2007, and his Richard Washburn, ba ’51, 86, Vacaville, Calif., on practiced law win total is second. In 1974, while still coaching Feb. 26. An Army Air Corps veteran of World War II, for 57 years and baseball, Elliott became head football coach he taught more than 25 years at Burlingame (Calif.) served 1964-68 in and turned the Ichabods from a three-win team Intermediate School. the Kansas Senate. in 1973 into an 8-3 team in 1974 and led the A fighter pilot in Ichabods in their first bowl game, the Boot Hill Joseph Watkins, ba ’50, 83, El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 15. the Army Air Corps Bowl, in Dodge City, Kan. The eight wins that He was a lifetime member of the Washburn Alumni during World War year tied a school record that stood until 2005. Association and a retired teacher. II, he was rescued In 1976, the team again reached the Boot Hill after being shot Bowl, and Elliott finished his first stint as head Richard “Dick” Williams, b ed ’54, 77, Mesa, Ariz., on down in the Southwest Pacific and received the football coach in 1978 with a 28-22-1 record. Feb. 16. He was principal of the elementary and junior Bronze Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, After stepping down as football coach, he high school in Belleville, Kan., principal of the high Philippine Liberation Medal and Purple Heart. continued as an assistant and was offensive school in Hugoton, Kan., and principal of the middle Quinlan was a lecturer 1959-69 in the Washburn coordinator of the 1983 team that won the school in Wilcox, Ariz. School of Law, served 1967-70 on the Washburn Central States Conference, Washburn’s first Board of Regents and since 1988 as a trustee of conference title in 19 years. In 1985-89, Elliott Ralph Young, b ed ’58, 85, Topeka, on March 10. A the Washburn Endowment Association, receiving again served as head football coach, and in World War II Army Corps of Engineers veteran, he emeritus status in 1997. He was also an emeritus 1986, the team totaled eight wins, reached taught 30 years in Topeka and was a basketball and member of the Ichabod Club board of directors the NAIA playoff game and had a postseason football official. He was a member of the Whiting and a lifetime member of the Washburn Alumni appearance in the Aztec Bowl, played in Society and supported the Ralph M. and Jeanette E. Association, where he served 1963-66 on the Mexico City, Mexico. He finished his Young English Scholarship Fund. Memorials may be board of directors. In 1998, Quinlan chaired an career 58-51-1. made to Washburn Endowment Association. ad hoc committee that raised $1 million for the Alumni Convocation Center Campaign. As a As a student at Washburn, Elliott joined Alpha student at Washburn, he played football and Delta fraternity and was starting quarterback golf and was a member of Alpha Delta fraternity and earned all-Central Intercollegiate ’60s and Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity. Washburn Conference honors in 1959. He was also a honored him with the Distinguished Service three-year basketball letterman and three-time Moina (Belford) Barton, ba ’64, 89, Independence, Mo., Award in 1993 and the Ruth Garvey Fink Award all-CIC team member. In 1959, he became on March 6. She was a writer for WIBW radio and in 2002. With his wife, Imogene (Ransdell) the only athlete named all-CIC in both football television, and Kansas magazine, and wrote speeches Quinlan, attendee ’47, who survives, he was a and basketball. He was inducted into the for former Gov. Robert Docking. At Washburn, she member of the Lincoln Society. The Quinlans 1986-87 Washburn Athletics Hall of Fame. was initiated into Tau Delta Pi scholastic honorary have supported many projects and programs He supported several athletic programs and society. Memorials may be made to Washburn Alumni at Washburn and established the Imogene and projects at Washburn. Association Scholarship Fund. Jack Quinlan Athletic Scholarship at Washburn. Memorials may be made to this fund.
34 | summer 2008 | www.washburn.edu/alumni Alma (Fahsholtz) Juergensen, b ed ’63 and m ed ’69, 94, Johanna (Drake) Kussmaul, bba ’70, 59, Boise, Idaho, Topeka, on April 23. on Dec. 7. She was an African director for International Fellowship of Ministries and had an international IN MEMORY William Morrissey, bba ’68 and jd ’71, 69, Topeka, on ministry. At Washburn, she was named to Who’s Who March 25. An Army veteran, he had a private law Among Students in American Universities and Colleges Louis Pozez, practice and was an attorney and administrative law and was a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. honorary doctorate judge for the Kansas Division of Workers Compensation. ’81, 86, Tucson, At Washburn, he was a member of Phi Alpha Delta legal Sheryl (Pierson) Scrivener, bs ’76, 60, Waukegan, Ill., on Ariz., on Feb. 29. fraternity. Feb. 19. A Navy veteran, she was a licensed clinical An Army veteran social worker for the State of Kansas, Central Baptist of World War Wayne Sloyer, bba ’66, 63, Olathe, Kan., on March 24. Family Services and Southeast Wisconsin AIDS Project. II, Pozez was a He was an Air Force navigator and pilot, retiring at the longtime Topeka rank of lieutenant colonel and was a lifetime member of Robert Taylor, jd ’74, 62, Meadville, Pa., on Feb. 11. businessman and the Washburn Alumni Association. As a student, he was He was an entrepreneur and an attorney. philanthropist. in Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities He retired in and Colleges and a member of Arnold Air Society and Michael Waite, jd ’78, 54, Leavenworth, Kan., on Feb. 3.
photo courtesy of The Topeka Capital-Journal 1983 as chief Alpha Delta fraternity. His wife, Peggy (Elsasser) Sloyer, He had a private law practice for 29 years concentrating executive officer b ed ’66, survives. on criminal defense. and chairman of the board of Payless ShoeSource. The company, which he co-founded in 1956 and Robert Wareheim, jd ’60, 81, Shallotte, N.C., on April 24. was also known as Volume Shoe Corp., grew to A veteran of World War II, he was an attorney and a be North America’s largest family footwear retailer. member of Phi Beta Kappa honor society. ’80s Pozez served on many boards, including Pizza Hut, Menninger Foundation and Fidelity Bank of Ronald Watson, bba ’66 and jd ’69, 67, Wichita, Kan., on Lou (Gilliland) Barrow, bs ’84, 84, Denison, Kan., on Topeka and supported Temple Beth Shalom of Feb. 6. He was a corporate attorney. At Washburn, he March 22. A social worker, she was director of Friendly Topeka, the Tucson Hebrew Academy and Tucson was a member of Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity and Visitors of Catholic Community Services and worked Jewish Community Foundation. With his family, he Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity. IN MEMORY at Fresh Start in Holton, Kan. At Washburn, she was a was a benefactor of Washburn, supporting Pozez member of Phi Kappa Phi academic honor society and Hall in the Living Learning Center, The Bradbury Washburn Student Social Workers Association. Thompson Alumni Center and the School of Nursing Learning Lab, as well as other programs ’70s Phillip Davis, ba ’80, 81, Topeka, on March 16. A Navy on campus. With his wife, Ruthann Pozez, who veteran of World War II, he was an educator and also survives, he was a member of the Lincoln and Mary (Renno) Barnett, ba ’79, 80, Topeka, on worked in real estate and the airline industry. Whiting Societies. March 30. She owned and managed properties in the Sedalia, Mo., area and worked for First State Savings Gerald Gill, bba ’80, 73, Mission, Kan., on March 21, & Loan, New Empire Life Insurance and Klassic 2007. A Marine veteran, he was an accountant and Sean Deal, ba ’93, 38, Peoria, Ariz., on March 1. He Manufacturing. At Washburn, she was inducted into controller in the trucking and automotive industries worked in the insurance industry, was a managing Phi Kappa Phi national honor society and Psi Chi and a member of Simpson Hoggatt Marine Corps partner with Duners Pizza and coached football. At psychology honor society. League and the Sons of the American Revolution. Washburn, he played football. His wife, Laura Gill, bba ’86, survives. Roger Boeh, bba ’75, 54, Wathena, Kan., on Feb. 18. Joseph Garcia, ba ’99, 76, Topeka, on Feb. 7. An He owned and operated Boeh Bookkeeping and Tax Ursula (Knoll) Hager, ba ’82, 65, Topeka, on March 12. Air Force veteran, he taught drafting at Kaw Area Service. At Washburn, he was initiated into Sagamore. She received a lifetime achievement award from Vocational-Technical School and was personnel director Sheltered Living Inc. after 30 years of service and the at Midwest Machine Works. He volunteered 30 years Vercelia (Glaspie) Carter, bs ’70, 61, Topeka, on Feb. 18. InterHab President’s Award for service with special with the Boy Scouts and served as a director of Camp She was a microbiologist for the Kansas Department of needs individuals. She was a shaman, third degree Jayhawk. Health and Environment. Reiki Master. William Mitchell, aa ’92 and ba ’95, 61, Topeka, Alan Dunavan, jd ’77, 59, Leavenworth, Kan., on Stephen Zimmerman, ba ’84, 57, Topeka, on April 18. on April 1. A licensed mental health technician, April 21. He served 28 years in the U.S. Army Judge A Navy veteran, he was a special permit administrator he retired as a health care advocate of Sheltered Advocate Corps, retiring at the rank of lieutenant for the Kansas Department of Transportation, a certified Living constituents. colonel as the command judge advocate of the U.S. public manager and state approved mediator for parent/ Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth. adolescent and victim/offender programs. Jeffrey Willliams, bba ’94, 36, Topeka, on April 16. He worked at LKQ Mid-America Auto Parts, played Glenn Gunn, bs ’70, 59, Topeka, on March 8. He was city league basketball and was a Webelos den leader. self employed. Frederic “Fritz” Woellhof, ba ’97, 41, Topeka, on Paul Heath, bsn ’79, 53, Madeira Beach, Fla., on ’90s Feb. 4. Memorials may be sent to Washburn University. Feb. 18. An Army veteran, he worked in Veterans Nancy Applehans, bs ’98 and msw ’01, 58, Topeka, on Health Administration hospitals in Missouri and Florida, March 5. A licensed specialist clinical social worker, she and in home health care until retiring in 1996. was director of case management at Topeka Association for Retarded Citizens Inc., worked 16 years for Sheltered Lee “Don” Kirwan, bs ’76, 58, Leawood, Kan., on Living Inc., coached Special Olympics and volunteered ’00s April 1. An Army veteran, he was a professional with the Marian Clinic. engineer at Black and Veatch for 30 years and was a Karen Flesch, msw ’05, 31, Topeka, on Feb. 26. life member of the Veterans of Foreign War and the National Rifle Association.
www.washburn.edu/alumni | summer 2008 | 35 CLASS NOTES
Henry Meiners, 92, Topeka, on Feb. 6. He retired as FRIENDS vice president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas. IN MEMORY He was a member of Washburn’s Whiting Society with Kurt Billmeyer, 52, Pocatello, Idaho, on April 18. He his wife, Marilyn (Miller) Meiners, m ed ’70, served as an instructor in communication at Washburn who survives. 2002-04. Mary “Louise” (Daniels) Miller, attendee ’34, Topeka, Walter Cole, 76, Topeka, on March 10. A Navy veteran on Feb. 24. A lifetime member of the Washburn Alumni of World War II, he was a partner with Beecroft-Cole Association, she retired from the Kansas Department of and Co. His wife, Nancy (Moore) Cole, bba ’73, survives. Revenue. At Washburn, she was a member of Alpha Phi sorority. Helen (Hammer) Condley, 80, Topeka, on April 10. Memorials may be made to Washburn athletics. Richard Miller, 57, Topeka, on March 6. A Kansas Army National Guard veteran, he owned Miller Produce. Dorothy (Haynes) Corkhill, attendee ’42, 87, Topeka, Memorials may be made to Washburn athletics. on Jan. 31. She was a lifetime member of the Washburn Alumni Association and a member of Alpha Phi sorority. Hortense (Casady) Oldfather, 88, Lawrence, Kan., on Oct. 2. She was a benefactor of Washburn and Lois (Shoemaker) Fowks, 76, Topeka, on Feb. 27. She a member of the Lincoln Society. Paul Salter, 81, Melbourne Beach, Fla., on was the personal secretary for John Anderson when he March 20. A Navy veteran of World War was attorney general and governor of Kansas. Memorials Dale (Jellison) Weary, 85, Junction City, Kan., on II, he served 1979-96 at Washburn as dean may be sent to Washburn University School of Law. Feb. 26. She supported the arts throughout Kansas of the College of Arts and Sciences and and was a benefactor of Washburn and a member professor of urban geography. Salter retired Margaret “Marggy” Howe, 89, Lincoln, Neb., on of the Lincoln Society. in 1996 as research professor of political April 22. She was an artist and a member of PEO and science and dean emeritus. He authored two Westminster Presbyterian Church. Her late husband, books, published many articles and presented John Howe, served 1959-70 as dean of the Washburn MEMORIAL GIFTS papers to state and national meetings. School of Law. Remembering loved ones through memorial or Prior to his service at Washburn, he taught honorary gifts to Washburn University leaves a geography and served in administrative Mary (Ritchie) Jarboe, 84, Richardson, Texas, on Feb. 9. unique legacy in their names while enriching positions at the University of Alaska, She published a biography of her great-grandfather, Col. the lives of students at the university. A gift to University of Miami at Coral Gables and John Ritchie, who donated the land for the Washburn Washburn honors individuals in keeping with Massachusetts State University. Salter received campus. your wishes and unites their memory with the a bachelor’s degree from Massachusetts State lives of so many others. Please visit www. College in 1950, a master’s degree from Annabel (Putney) Mallen, attendee ’36, 91, Belton, Mo., givetowashburn.org/Giving-TributesMemorials/ Indiana University in 1951 and a doctorate on Jan. 27. She was an artist and a member of Kappa Index.htm for more information on how to from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Alpha Theta sorority. create a memorial or honorary gift. Hill in 1965.
Don’t forget to add these events to your calendar September 27 HOMECOMING 2008 Family Day October 9 – 11 Alumni Association Oct. 9: Wake Up With Washburn 5K Fun Run and Campus Walk Oct. 10: Alumni Fellows luncheon • Starts at Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center After Hours at 8:00 a.m. • Money raised will support the Alumni Oct. 11: Homecoming Parade Association Scholarship Fund Alumni tailgate • For registration details visit www.washburn.edu/ Ichabods vs. Emporia State University alumni or call (785) 670-1641.
36 | summer 2008 | www.washburn.edu/alumni n A view from the roof: Peggy Clark, photographer, university relations, took this picture from the roof of Henderson Learning Resources Center in March before trees began to bloom, allowing for a clear view of the capitol building.