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Established in 1902 as The Graduate Magazine Volume 109, No. 3, 2011 ISSUE 3, 2011 | 1 Lift the Chorus

Rock Chalk icons at the University. Both ‘Winter Phog’ losses were a result of a huge surprise Kansas thunderstorm. keepsake One icon was Hoch Audito- n Love Kansas Alumni n The item “Rock Chalk! Say rium. The beautiful old magazine, always a great, what?” in Jayhawk Walk [issue building that housed some of uplifting read. No. 2] made me recall a “Rock the first basketball games was I was curious whether that Chalk” moment I had earlier struck by lightning and photograph of the Phog Allen this year. subsequently fire burned all statue on page 68 [“Winter I moved to Utah four years but the façade. Phog,” Glorious to View] will ago for a new job. Jayhawks are The second icon was Paul be sold through KUAA? few and far between out here. Sinclair. He first owned the David A. Brown, d’90, g’93 But I’ve noticed they tend to Jayhawk Cafe; later, he and his Derby pop up when you least expect it. wife, Margaret, Amazing I travel for business, and I owned the Call Mrs. Watkins was in the Salt Lake City Cafe, around the airport on a busy Monday corner from the Chi n I’m writing to tell you morning in January. I was Omega Fountain. how much I enjoyed your wearing a brand-new “Kansas” Lastly, Paul became excellent article about Eliza- sweatshirt that I had gotten for the KU athletics beth Miller Watkins [“Better to Christmas. The terminal was training-table Give,” issue No. 2]. This busy, and I wasn’t focusing on manager. He, along amazing woman gave so much anything other than not with his wife and to the University and Lawrence knocking someone down with son, Sam, cooked and made a difference in my overloaded laptop back- and served meals for thousands of young women’s pack as I walked to my gate. the basketball and football Editor’s note: Susan Younger’s lives over the years. As I navigated around a few teams for 20 years. memorable image is indeed available. Options include 8x10 As one of the young women people, a gentleman passed On that fateful day in June, or 11x14, both printed on who lived in Watkins Hall in very close to my left shoulder. Paul went to the basement to professional-grade photo paper. the late 1940s, I was a recipient As he walked by, I heard a very ride out the storm in safety. Unframed, the smaller prints are of her generosity. Her gift quiet “Rock Chalk” said in my On the way up the stairs after $12 for Life, Jayhawk Society and made it possible for me to direction. It took a split second the storm, he suffered a Presidents Club members; $13 for receive a wonderful education for me to realize what he said, heart attack. annual members; and $15 for and Watkins Hall truly became and by that time he was long Paul loved KU and surely his non-members. Framed, the 8x10 my home away from home gone. No chance to reply with spirit was watching over his is $120/$135/ $150. from the very beginning. It still “Jayhawk.” If only my mind adored granddaughter, The larger print is feels like home when I return had been working faster that Shannon, as she graduated $20/$22/$25 unframed and for alumnae events. For this I morning. from the University, and he $160/$180/$200 framed. For more information or to purchase, am very grateful. His comment gave me will be anxiously awaiting his call 800-584-2957 or shop online Her gifts of Watkins and something to smile about grandson Sailor’s arrival to at kualumni.org. Miller halls have provided during my long flight to the KU this fall. intelligent young women East Coast. Any student who walked in lovely, gracious homes in Allison Lippert, j’94 or by the beautiful Hoch which to live while they pursue Spanish Fork, Utah Auditorium, or had occasion an education at a great to meet my delightful father, Your university. Her influence Paul “Boofie” Sinclair, can opinion counts spreads far and wide as these Iconic pause and remember the two women go out into the larger anniversaries icons and the times that they Please email us a note world. enjoyed at KU. at [email protected] to tell us what you think of Roselyn Skonberg George, d’49 n June 15 will mark the 20th Cynthia Sinclair, d’70 your alumni magazine. Loveland, Colo. anniversary of the loss of two Peculiar, Mo.

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Publisher Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Creative Director Susan Younger, f’91 2 Lift the Chorus Letters from our readers Associate Editors Chris Lazzarino, j’86 Steven Hill Sta Writer Terry Rombeck 5 First Word e editor’s turn Editorial Assistant Karen Goodell Photographer Steve Puppe, j’98 Graphic Designer Valerie Spicher, j’94 6 On the Boulevard KU & Alumni Association events

Advertising Sales Representative Whitney Eriksen, c’08, j’08 8 Jayhawk Walk Vicious Victor, car calamaties, bumper slogans and more Editorial and Advertising Oce KU Alumni Association 10 Hilltopics 1266 Oread Avenue News and notes: Campus art museum wins grant; Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 Studio 804 builds KU energy center. 785-864-4760 • 800-584-2957 www.kualumni.org 16 Sports [email protected] Kansas Relays head downtown; twins go pro.

38 Association News KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE (ISSN 0745-3345) is published by the Rock Chalk Ball raises roof and funds; KU Alumni Association six times a year in January, March, May, July, Wintermote awards recognize chapter volunteers. September and November. $55 annual subscription includes member- ship in the Alumni Association. O¡ce of Publication: 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. Periodicals postage paid at Lawrence, KS. 42 Class notes Proles of a soccer wizard, a TV writer, a POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Kansas Alumni Magazine, 1266 restaurant duo and more Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 © 2011 by Kansas Alumni Magazine. Non-member issue price: $7 60 In Memory Deaths in the KU family Letters to the Editor: 64 Rock Chalk Review Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the editor. Our Books from William Staord, Craig Welch and address is Kansas Alumni magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Sara Bennett Wealer Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. Email responses may be sent to the Alumni Association, [email protected]. Letters appearing in the magazine may be edited for space 68 Glorious to view and clarity. For letters published, we’ll send a free gift of Scene on campus the KU Magnet Game, a $15 value.

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the Johnson County Research Triangle to expand the research and educational programs of KU TEVE PUPP E S and Kansas State, bringing jobs and economic development to the region. NCI designation would make a dramatic impact on public health. No longer would Kansans need to travel out of state for the most advanced cancer treatment, including clinical trials. Currently 14 percent of KU Cancer Center patients participate in clinical trials, but patients’ access to the latest promising treatments would increase with NCI designation, especially because of KU’s longtime leadership in pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry and drug discovery. A February 2011 article in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that 40 cancer drugs have been developed during the past 40 years. KU researchers have discovered six cancer drugs in only three years, Jensen says: “We are s deadlines go, Sept. 25, 2011, is nothing short making our dream of being a center of drug As a physician and Aof colossal. On that day, the University of discovery and drug development come true.” Kansas Cancer Center will submit its 1,000-page scientist, Jensen speaks Those new drugs include Nanotax, for late-stage application to the National Cancer Institute for with evangelical fervor ovarian cancer, and drugs that show promise in designation as a comprehensive care center. treating blood cancers. about KU’s mission and Roy Jensen, director of the center, is counting Spring has brought an abundance of good news down the days. “We’re 138 days out, and we’re very his personal goal to and hope for the Cancer Center: KU Endowment excited,” he said May 9. “We have a small army defeat cancer. He has and the center announced $5 million in new working in the trenches on different aspects of the private gifts, bringing the total in private gifts crisscrossed the state, grant, and we will have the second draft in a raised since 2009 to $51 million. Leaders aim to couple of weeks. Then we will send it to an speaking in communities raise an additional $9 million before September. external group of advisers who have lots of large and small, and In mid-April came a rousing endorsement experience with these grants, and we’ll be looking from an NCI advisory panel, made even sweeter Kansans have become for their feedback.” because just one year ago the group had expressed Jensen has lived and breathed this quest since true believers. skepticism about KU’s readiness. The panel returning to his home state seven years ago. A congratulated Jensen and his colleagues, praising Gardner native and Pittsburg State University graduate, Jensen the “remarkable growth” in the past year and approving the Sept. earned his medical degree from Vanderbilt University and became 25 application date. The KU team followed up with a visit to the a nationally known breast cancer pathologist. As a physician and NCI in late April and secured official permission to submit the scientist, he speaks with evangelical fervor about KU’s mission application. and his personal goal to defeat cancer. He has crisscrossed the In November, the Cancer Center will open a new clinical state, speaking in communities large and small, and Kansans have research building, the result of Johnson County’s Research become true believers. Public and private investments in KU’s Triangle initiative. The structure is a companion to the current effort total $350 million—the money has funded recruitment of Johnson County treatment center and programs on the Kansas researchers and health care professionals and construction of City, Lawrence and Wichita campuses. “It has been a long clinical and laboratory space for treatment and research. journey,” Jensen says, “but what has been particularly fun in the KU has formed partnerships with the Stowers Institute for past few months has been filling our leadership positions ... and Medical Research in Kansas City and with hospitals statewide by moving our ideas into the clinical setting and testing them.” creating the Midwest Cancer Alliance. Public funds have come The next milestone will be a visit by an NCI team early next from the Kansas Bioscience Authority and the Kansas Legislature. year before the agency’s decision. If this spring is a harbinger, A sales tax increase approved by Johnson County voters created spring 2012 will blossom in a colossal celebration.

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Exhibitions Academic Calendar 13, 15, 17 KU Natural ’Hawk Days of History Museum Summer “Jin Shan: It Came from the Science Camps, www. Summer MAY Sky,” Spencer Museum of naturalhistory.ku.edu/ The Association will host 120 Art, through August 22 Commencement, 10:30 summer-camps events in 90 days for Jayhawks “Glorious to View: The KU a.m., Memorial Stadium nationwide. Visit www. Campus Heritage Project,” kualumni.org for a full list of Spencer Museum of Art, JUNE Jayhawk Generation events. through Sept. 16 7 Summer classes begin Picnics “Pomp up the Jam: Splendor, JUNE To welcome KU freshmen Pageantry and Performance JULY and their families 3 Castle Rock, Colo.: Front in Art,” Spencer Museum of 29 Summer classes end Range Golf Tournament Art, June 12-Sept. 4 JULY 3 Lunch: Goodland AUGUST 10 St. Louis Dinner: Oberlin Fall classes begin University Theatre 22 12 Wichita 4 Breakfast: Russell 16 Denver Salina Steak Out JULY Special Events 17 Pittsburg 6 Kansas City: 5th annual 1-4, 8-10 “Dirty Work at Legends of KU Golf 17 Washington, D.C. the Crossroad or Tempted, JUNE Tournament Tried and True,” directed by 26 Liberal 6-9 KU Mini College, Kip Niven, Liberty Hall www.minicollege.ku.edu

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n Adams Alumni Center ...... 864-4760 n Athletics 800-34-HAWKS n Booth Hall of Athletics ...... 864-7050 n Dole Institue of Politics ...... 864-4900 n Kansas Union ... 864-4596 n KU Info ...... 864-3506 n KU main number ...... 864-2700 As Potter Lake celebrates 100 years, the pond’s biggest advocates gathered to celebrate. The Potter n Lied Center ...... 864-ARTS Lake Project o’cers, including Matt Nahrstedt and n Natural History Sara Thompson (top left), led e•orts to restore the Museum ...... 864-4540 campus landmark and hosted the April 30 birthday n picnic. Four generations of the Potter family joined University Theatre the festivities. Clockwise from left: Blythe Jones, Tickets ...... 864-3982 c’98, l’02; Oliver Jones; Burk Berns; Walt Jones; n Spencer Museum Pam Berns; Beth Berns Whitefield, d’64; Hannah of Art ...... 864-4710 Bourbon, student; Anna Whitefield; Katelyn Ridenour, student; and family friend Ashland Randa. Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little helped Peg Livingood (left) and Marion Paulette serve cake.

9 Lunch: Osborne 19 St. Louis: KU Day with 10 Hays: Smoky Hill the Cardinals Chapter Pig Out and golf 23 New York City: Boat tournament cruise 12 Anaheim, Calif.: KU Day 26 Somerset Ridge Winery: with the Angels East Kansas Chapter Wine 16 Lunch: Pratt Festival Happy Hour: Liberal JULY 17 Oklahoma City: KU Day 7 Wellington: Wheat with the Red Hawks Festival 17 Liberal: Southwest Lunch: Newton 18 Breakfast: Chanute 20 Breakfast: Junction City Kansas Chapter Jayhawk Lunch: Parsons Lunch: Wamego Golf Classic 8 Breakfast: Winfield Dinner: Independence 27 Breakfast: Hugoton 18 Garden City: Great 14 Lunch: Marion Plains Chapter Jayhawk Golf Dinner: Hutchinson, Kansas 19 Breakfast: Arkansas City Lunch: Sublette Festival Law Enforcement Training Lunch: Benton 28 Wichita Football Rally 18 Dallas: Monty Python’s Center Cookout Dinner: Abilene Spamalot 15 Lunch: McPherson

ISSUE 3, 2011 | 7 Jayhawk Walk . entire life. He first got permis- sion to wear the Jayhawk on his trunks for a bout last December; even though the bout was scored a draw, he chose to again adorn his BARAC

DR E trunks in the crimson and blue for the biggest fight of his life, April 16 at Foxwoods Casino. CHARLIE PO “I stand for the Jayhawks and I love my Jayhawks,” Ortiz says. “I’ve wanted to be a Jayhawk since I was a kid.” Ortiz, 24, says he has close friends at KU and visits Lawrence often, and when he retires from the ring he intends to enroll and work toward a degree. But there’s more fighting to be done first. Commentators are calling the Ortiz-Berto bout, which Dude, where’s your car? Volvo at Oliver Hall, where it racked up $300 attracted 1.5 million viewers in nes before KU Parking and Transit for HBO, the early favorite for Fight of the Year. One analyst hink you had a bad parking day because ordered it towed in October. Ocials there called the first round, during you got a ticket or walked an extra directed him to Bulldog Towing, where he T which Ortiz twice dropped half-mile a er some jerk in an Armada learned the car was sold two days earlier. A Berto, “easily the best opening bum-rushed your spot? Tell it to Josh letter informing Petersen’s mother (the legal round boxing has seen in a Petersen, an Overland Park junior in owner) of the impending auction never long time.” engineering who raised the bar on parking arrived, because she moved a few months Look for the champ to horror stories. earlier. return to the ring in early fall In September Petersen le his Ohio Street “It was like a perfect storm of crazy ... and expect him to once apartment one Saturday morning to nd his stu,” says Petersen, who is philosophical again sport the Jayhawk. A car missing. Not man-that-was-some-Friday- about the whole misadventure but nonethe- champion deserves night-missing, but “Gone In 60 Seconds” less thinks parking needs a policy. nothing grand-the -auto missing. “ey shouldn’t tow a car and not check if less. He reported the heist to police, then heard it’s been stolen,” he says. “ere could be a nothing until December, when he found a dead body in there.” hold on his KU account for unpaid parking Or a suitcase full of cash and a tickets. e thief had abandoned Petersen’s Continuum Transfunctioner.

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8 | KANSAS A LUMNI this case the danger is still there, but it’s outweighed by Cops and lobbers the risk of fatigue—so there’s a net gain in safety.” ate Mather is a senior at the University of Southern Someday, Atchley says, cars KCalifornia, but she’s also a native Lawrencian and die-hard may be able to detect inatten- basketball fan, so she dutifully tuned in March 27 to watch the tion caused by fatigue and ’Hawks face Virginia Commonwealth in the NCAA Tournament’s

S T E V engage the driver in a game or Southwest Regional final. E P U P P task to boost alertness. He and Like KU fans everywhere, Mather was stricken with despair E a team of KU engineers are while watching the Jayhawks’ woeful shooting performance. But, working on the concept. being in Southern California, Mather wasn’t surrounded by the Until then, talking is OK. sort of basketball-savvy compatriots she grew up with in Law- Car talk Sometimes. Preferably not rence. Take, for example, her neighbors, who were clueless about while applying eyeliner or the big game and feared the worst as they C   behind the eating a double cheeseburger. heard Mather’s blood-curdling wheel has been a topic of Paul pleas of No! Don’t shoot! Atchley’s research for a decade, Mather’s roommate, and his message to motorists Honk if you like an international student who communicate while bumper stickers with no interest in commuting has been as hoops, was out on the unwavering as a phone T  stickers balcony when patrol company recording: Hang up are archived in collections cars roared to a stop and dial again later. around the country, including directly below. But Atchley’s most recent KU’s Spencer Research Library, “Kate,” she study, which tested drivers in a it occurred to Associate announced calmly, simulator funded by the KU Librarian Whitney Baker that “they’re here Transportation Research she’d never seen anything in for you.” Institute, found that talking on the professional literature The concerned ocers a hands-free phone actually about their manufacture or wouldn’t take Mather’s improves drivers’ ability to stay preservation. word that she’d been in their lane, remember signs So Baker, c’94, set about yelling at a basketball game

and generally pay attention— researching the sticky issue. on TV and rushed into her ARSON if the call comes at the end of a Along the way she made a apartment in search of a long, monotonous drive. delightful discovery: Bumper gunman. By the time they “If you’re a very fatigued stickers were a late-1940s cleared the scene, VCU had LARRY LEROY PE driver, talking to someone on brainchild of Kansas City, finished its upset. the phone may actually Kan., screen printer Forest P. Case—and season—closed. improve your performance,” Gill. says Atchley, associate profes- “I think we can claim the sor of psychology. Conversa- bumper sticker as a Kansas tion sharpens alertness more invention,” she says. are as difficult to save as they to their history as travel than less-active tasks like As she kept on truckin’ with are to scrape off. souvenirs, political pleas and listening to the radio, the study sabbatical trips to Early versions were printed activist announcements, ARCH LIBRA ESE RY R determined. institutions with ER on paper with florescent bumper stickers are artifacts C N E P Does this new finding large holdings in S inks. Durable vinyl worthy of scholars’ attention.

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projects. In April, one wall of the gallery included visual art used by an astronomy professor to prompt his students to think more creatively about communicating scientific concepts. Another wall featured color photographs of data generated by the Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets. Cases displayed sculptures, carvings and textiles from Persia inspired by the region. “You get surprising juxtapositions,” Straughn says of the value of gathering such a wide range of works in one room. “It really makes visible the kinds of learning and ideas that are happening at the University.” The exhibition of Persian art was organized in conjunction with the Center for Global and International Studies’ “Beyond Borders: The Life and Legacy of Double the dividends Rumi.” The April 21 event in the museum’s center court included a short talk on 13th Museum raises $1 million to secure Mellon match, century Persian poet and Sufi mystic launches new galleries and campus collaborations Rumi, a reading of his poetry and a performance by three Whirling Dervish dancers accompanied by live music. The he Spencer Museum of Art met a $1 “A lot of what the Mellon allows us to atmosphere was festive, the crowd diverse. Tmillion challenge from the Andrew do is to bring in people’s interests and for “What is so gratifying about a night Mellon Foundation this spring, setting the us to be able to respond to their interests,” like tonight,” said Spencer director Saralyn stage for a major boost to the museum’s Straughn says. “Then the academic Reece Hardy, c’76, g’94, “is it feels like teaching and research influence across community, their voice gets incorporated, the museum no longer belongs to an campus. their perspectives, and that’s what we’re inside group; it’s not only the staff and Announced in 2008, the grant gave the eager for.” the volunteers of the museum, but it’s as Spencer until September 2011 to raise $1 Straughn, whose 2009 hiring was made if the museum has turned inside out million in private donations in order to possible by the initial Mellon money, has and become something that really collect a $1 million match from the already begun organizing events, special belongs to its communities. And those foundation. It also provided $200,000 to exhibitions and research support the program while matching projects with academic funds were raised. units on campus. A small

The $2 million endowment will be used first-floor space called PUPPE (3) STEVE to build and strengthen collaborations The Teaching Gallery among the museum and teachers and showcases some of these researchers from many different academic disciplines, says Celka Straughn, the Spencer’s director of academic programs. The goal is to get more professors and their students involved in the Spencer, and to bring the museum more to the center of University life.

10 | KANSAS A LUMNI communities are not all alike.” Such events also allow curators to “We’re trying to transform this museum from a place address an ongoing problem: The museum has far more items in its permanent that delivers information to a place that’s receiving and collection than space to display them. responding to questions.” —Saralyn Reece Hardy “It’s a great chance to pull out objects we don’t show very often—in this case objects that connect to the Islamic world,” place, and it’s responsive to its communi- to indigenous arts of the Americas, Africa Straughn says. “What usually happens is ties. Rather than a didactic place, it’s a and Oceania. Each will feature a changing that people will say, ‘Oh, I didn’t know you place about questions, and trying to selection of art objects, and “Roots and had that; can we see it again?’ That’s how respond to those questions.” Journeys” features works collected at KU we start to learn more about what interests As part of that transformation, the since 1890, including objects from KU’s people.” museum announced this spring that it anthropology museum. In that way, the Mellon grant meshes would undertake a major redesign of how “Project Redefine aims to change the well with the Spencer’s overall goal, it displays its permanent collection. framework through which our permanent Hardy says. Project Redefine will reorganize now-static collection is viewed by creating new “We’re trying to transform this museum galleries into new installations organized thematic installations,” says Kris Imants from being a place that delivers informa- around themes. The first phase opens this Ercums, curator of global contemporary tion to a place that’s actually receiving and spring with two new fourth-floor installa- and Asian art. “These long-term exhibi- responding to questions. If there’s a big tions: “Nature/Natural,” devoted to Asian tions tie together works from different eras idea, it’s that the museum is a responsive art; and “Roots and Journeys,” dedicated and places with fundamental concepts related to art and the human experience: Whirling Dervish dancers Mudita body, place, things and ideas.” Sabato, Habiba Cindy Dollard and The Spencer also recently hung works Malika Lyon entranced from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel STEVE PUPPE (2) STEVE museumgoers in the Spencer’s collections, awarded to the museum two central court during a celebration of years ago [“Surprise Package,” Hilltopics, Persian poet Rumi sponsored by the issue No. 3, 2009] as part of the “50 Works Center for Global and International for 50 States” initiative, which distributed Studies. Tatyana Wilds, Kris Imants artwork from the couple’s large collection Ercums, Natalie Svacina, Jessica to one key museum in each U.S. state. Irving, Celka Straughn and Razi Like that gift, the Mellon challenge— Ahmad discussed Persian-inspired which puts the Spencer in the same league artworks beforehand in the as campus museums at Yale, Duke, the Spencer’s Teaching Gallery. University of Chicago and the Rhode

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ichard Schiefelbusch, the from many backgrounds to think of anyone better suited Rnamesake of KU’s pioneer new teaching methods for this award.” Schiefelbusch Institute for Life for disabled children [“The The Dole Humanitarian Span Studies and a noted Particular Genius of Richard Award was first given in 2008 researcher who helped Schiefelbusch,” issue No. 6, to former Sen. Dole, ‘45, in transform the treatment of 2009]. He shares the Dole recognition of his lifetime people with disabilities during Award with his many service to the disability his 40-year career at KU, collaborators. community; it recognizes received the special education “He embodies many of the people with Kansas department’s 2011 Robert Dole attributes that drove Sen. says Don Deshler, professor connections who have Humanitarian Award. Dole’s career, in terms of real of special education and enhanced quality of life for Schiefelbusch, g’47, excelled service to humanity and to director of the Center for people with disabilities and at bringing together scientists individuals with disabilities,” Research on Learning. “I can’t their families.

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sustainable technologies. “We’ve been doing projects with Healthy showing: In its first-ever ratings of industry for a number of years, but we metropolitan hospitals, U.S. News and World haven’t had a home,” says Greg Thomas, professor of design and the director of the Report ranked KU Hospital tops among center. “This building is going to be a the 54 hospitals in the Kansas City metro wonderment. It is probably the only one of its kind, and it gives us instant credibility.” region. Six specialties achieved national Designed and built by the students of rankings in the March survey, and another Studio 804, the structure will generate most of its own power with a wind turbine six were rated high performing. and solar panels. A wall of self-tinting glass will let in sunlight in winter and block it in summer. A floor-to-ceiling wall of ferns, watered by rainwater collected in Island School of Design—shows the high “We had to put a sign up to keep people a cistern, will stretch the length of the regard KU’s campus museum enjoys out of the basement,” says Rockhill, the J.L. main room. A green roof, a trombe wall (a nationally, Straughn says. Constant Distinguished Professor of thick interior wall that serves as a passive “The fact that the Mellon even gave us Architecture. “Here we are showcasing that heater by absorbing the sun’s warmth and this challenge reflects how well respected technology; it’s basically Greensburg’s slowly releasing it) and Lawrence’s first the museum is, as a center for teaching, basement on display.” electric-car charging station round out the learning and research—and as a really “Here” is the new Center for Design building’s eco-friendly features. vibrant art museum.” Research now under construction on Greensburg’s arts center was touted as That the challenge was met a full West Campus. Studio 804, the innovative the most energy efficient building in the half-year ahead of the September 2011 architecture class that requires students state when Studio 804 completed the deadline shows the high regard the to design and construct a building in project in May 2008. It was the first of museum enjoys locally. Major gifts came the course of an academic year, is three consecutive LEED-platinum certified from Lavon Brosseau; Dolph Simons Jr., building the 2,000-square-foot facility structures designed and built by the class. j’51, and family; John T., b’58, and Linda on the site of the old Chamney dairy farm The Center for Design Research is Bliss Stewart, ’58; and the Anschutz on Bob Billings Parkway. Nestled between expected to earn LEED platinum certifica- Foundation of Denver. In all, nearly 80 the old farmhouse and barn, the building tion as well, and it will be the second alumni and friends of the museum will serve as a research and teaching home consecutive 804 project to meet passive provided gifts and pledges to meet the for the center and a public space where house standards. The passive house challenge. KU can show off the various research concept, which originated in Germany, projects across campus that deal with uses smart design to make a building that Cool by design

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low-impact home for KU’s SY URTE CO sustainable energy research

an Rockhill knows all about the Dpublic’s fascination with wind turbines, solar panels and other sustain- able energy technologies. In 2008 when his Studio 804 students were building the 5.4.7 Arts Center in Greensburg, the mechanical systems held as much attrac- tion for visitors as the building’s dramatic glass-covered facade and gleaming interior spaces.

12 | KANSAS A LUMNI Milestones, money

STEVE PUPPE (2) STEVE and other matters

n Research expenditures at all KU campuses rose 8.4 percent in 2010 to $224.6 million. That’s an all-time record, and it marks the third consecutive annual increase in research funding, which includes all externally funded research from federal, state, industry and foundation sources. Approximately 83 percent of KU’s 2010 research dollars Students Ben Shrimplin and Mike Prost work on the Center for Design Research, Studio 804’s first came from the federal government, on-campus project. 804 students are providing not only the design and labor, but also much of the including stimulus funding from the fundraising for the new home of KU’s sustainable energy research and teaching. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. In the past two years, KU consumes little or no energy beyond what products and intellectual property,” researchers have received it produces. Thomas says. “These centers are going to 152 ARRA awards totaling Besides capturing the energy of the sun develop revenue for universities, and that’s $70.6 million. and wind, the center features 12-inch thick what we’re going to do. But this little walls backed by 2 inches of insulation for building actually pushes us past many of n A $1 million gift from optimum efficiency in heating and our peers, because a lot of these centers Salina Regional Health cooling. It’s possible that when conditions don’t have a physical facility. We’re one of Center will support are right, the building will produce more the first.” faculty and operational energy than it uses. The building also will be open to the expenses at the School of “Any energy we produce that isn’t public, serving as a showcase for KU’s Medicine-Salina for four years. SRHC is consumed by the building gets pushed sustainable energy initiatives. also funding extensive renovation of a back into the grid,” says Justin McGeeney, “We want it to be something that people three-story building to provide class- a graduate student in architecture. “Say the walk away from and say, ‘Wow, KU is really room, oce and lab space for the building is empty but the wind turbine is doing something cool, and I’ve just school, which is set to welcome its first turning and the sun is shining, and we’re learned something I didn’t know about,’” medical school class in July. still jamming out energy—that surplus Thomas says. power feeds back into the grid. The power Rockhill’s students are designing a n Six women were inducted into the KU grid is basically our battery.” display area that uses various tools to show Women’s Hall of Fame in April: Sheila The School of Architecture, KU Endow- how much energy the building is produc- Bair, c’75, l’78, chair of the U.S. Federal ment, the Transportation Research ing and how much it is consuming. Deposit Insurance Corporation; Gloria Institute and the Center for Sustainability Because of the complexity, the traditional Farha Flentje, c’65, senior vice president are among the KU entities funding the end date for 804 projects—Commence- of Spirit AeroSystems; Lynn Bretz, c’71, project; students also are raising money ment weekend—has been pushed back to director of University Communications from private donors. When finished, the the end of June. So McGeeney and his at KU; Hannah Britton, director of the building will function as a classroom, fellow students, whose donated labor is a Center for International Political meeting and presentation space and big part of every 804 project, will be Research at KU’s Institute for Policy and research laboratory for students and finishing the building after they’ve already Social Research; Kathy Rose-Mockry, faculty in the schools of architecture, graduated. Rockhill isn’t worried about d’78, g’85, program director for KU’s design and planning; business; and losing his crew after they walk down Emily Taylor Resource Center; and engineering. The center is modeled on the Hill. Patricia Thomas, g’86, cancer research- similar enterprises at other universities, “It’s hardly a course; it’s almost a way of er and associate dean for cultural such as Stanford and Virginia life for a year,” he says. “They become so enhancement and diversity at KU Commonwealth. invested and they’re so thrilled to have the Medical Center. “When you put business, engineering opportunity.” and design together, you are developing Call it their graduation gift to KU.

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ADMINISTRATION In praising his “exceptional stewardship” Neeli Bendapudi, Ohio State marketing as interim dean, Provost and Executive professor, to serve as the Henry D. Price New deans for law, business Vice Chancellor Jerey Vitter said, “I am Dean. very happy to see that the experience has Bendapudi, PhD’95, has taught at Ohio N         been mutually rewarding for Stephen as State since 1996, and before that was at of two schools ended by hiring candidates well, prompting him to get interested in Texas A&M. Her primary research topic is who, in dierent ways, were already part the long-term role. His faculty, sta and how customers evaluate which service of the Jayhawk family. alumni have voiced strong support. In the providers and organizations can best meet On April 1 the School of Law end, we had to ght o other universities their needs and when they merit long- announced that Stephen Mazza, who who were also impressed with Stephen’s term relationships. A second area of served as interim dean when Gail Agrawal strengths.” interest investigates how organizations can le KU to become dean at the University On April 19 the School of Business communicate their ability to meet of Iowa College of Law, had been named ended its dean search by hiring alumna customer needs. Bendapudi has worked as to the permanent position. a consultant for Cessna, Since he joined the Deloitte & Touche, Procter & LAW

faculty in 1998, Mazza has O F Gamble, Yellow Roadways and BUSINE SS OO L expanded the school’s tax O F many other large companies. SCH OO L curriculum, teaching e school started its search SCH courses in taxation of in November, aer Dean SY URTE CO mergers and acquisitions, SY URTE William Fuerst announced his tax procedure and tax CO plan to return to teaching. policy. He coordinates the James Guthrie, the William school’s tax certicate and Judy Docking Professor of program and Voluntary Business and co-chair of the Income Tax Assistance search, noted that Bendapudi’s program. Mazza graduated “bold vision” and blend of with honors from the academic and business University of Alabama experience makes her the School of Law and earned a “ideal choice” for KU. master of laws degree from “She’s an outstanding New York University. Mazza Bendapudi researcher and leader, and as

VISITOR WHERE: Woodru® Auditorium Catholic scene from New quarters. This is the most rapid, Church in change York City. most sweeping, most profound BACKGROUND: Allen change in Catholic demography ohn L. Allen Jr., Vatican established the Rome o¡ce of ANECDOTE: Showing a in 200 years of church history.” Janalyst for CNN and senior the National Catholic Reporter, photograph of Benedict XVI correspondent for the National the leading independent visiting tribesmen in Cameroon, Catholic Reporter, addressed Catholic newspaper in the Allen, g’92, said, “This picture, TEVE PUPP E major trends revolutionizing the United States, and broke stories in a flash, captures some of the S Roman Catholic Church and on the Vatican’s response to dramatic demographic what they mean for its future. the sexual abuse crisis in the transformations underway in U.S. Catholic Church, its global Catholicism.” SPONSORS: The Department opposition to the war in Iraq, of Religious Studies and The the death of Pope John Paul II QUOTES: “Just a century ago Friends of the Department of and the election of Pope only 25 percent of Catholics Religious Studies Benedict XVI. He has written lived in the Southern five books on the church and Hemisphere. By 2000 it was WHEN: April 11 now covers American two-thirds. By the middle of this Catholicism and the global century it will be three-

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AL I Milestones, money for the University and a familiarity with

the state’s business climate that will benet JOUR N and other matters the school, its programs and its graduates,” O F OO L SCH

Guthrie said. n A $1 million gift from the California

SY URTE biopharmaceutical company Gilead CO PHYSICS Sciences supports a professorship in pharmaceutical chemistry honoring Junior wins Goldwater JOURNALISM Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceu- tical Chemistry Val Stella, PhD’71. Stella L  W, L   Students continue KU’s studied analytical pharmaceutical in physics whose undergraduate research run in ‘college Pulitzers’ chemistry under Takeru Higuchi and is focuses on renewable energy, is the latest now in his 38th year of teaching in the Jayhawk to win a Barry M. Goldwater T  -   and four School of Pharmacy. He is the inventor Scholarship. other top-10 finishers paced the William or co-inventor of 37 patents that led to Wille was among four KU students Allen White School of Journalism to drug treatments and is co-leader of the nominated this spring for the prestigious second place in the writing competition of KU Cancer Center’s drug discovery and scholarship, considered the premier the Hearst Journalism Awards Program. experimental therapeutics program. undergraduate award for excellence in e strong showing continues a stellar science, engineering and mathematics. It run for KU, which nished rst in the n The School of Pharmacy nailed down pays up to $7,500 in academic expenses prestigious competition—oen called “the another top-five ranking in the annual for 2011-’12. Nation- Pulitzers of college journalism”—in survey of National Institutes of Health wide, 275 students won 2007, 2008 and 2009. funding. The American Association of Goldwaters, from more Brenna Daldorph, j’10, won rst Colleges of Pharmacy reported that KU than 1,000 nominees. place in the In-Depth Writing received more than $118 million in NIH As an undergraduate category for “Living In Limbo,” a research funding in fiscal 2010, which research assistant, University Daily Kansan story about ranks fourth in the nation. No other Big Wille works in the lab undocumented immigrant children 12 school ranked in the top 10. The of University Distin- raised in the United States by School of Pharmacy has achieved a top guished Professor of families seeking good schools and five ranking for 10 consecutive years. Physics Judy Wu. He is better lives. investigating superca- Jayson Jenks, Lenexa junior, took n Judge Mary H. Murguia was pacitors, a key technol- rst in the sportswriting category for confirmed by unanimous vote of the ogy in the quest to Wille his UDK story “ e Great Divide,” U.S. Senate in December and formally develop more ecient ways of storing which chronicled the radically dierent invested into oce on the 9th U.S. renewable energy. Wille is the 49th KU lives of KU athletes Wilt Chamberlain and Circuit Court of Appeals on March 25. student to win the scholarship since the Leonard Monroe. Murguia, c’82, j’82, l’85, had served on Goldwater program was launched in 1989. Other winners included Alyson Van the U.S. District Court for the district of A second KU nominee, Scott Mitchell, Dyke, j’10, third place in feature writing; Arizona since 2000. She maintains received an honorable mention. Preparing Elliot Kort, j’10, ninth in personality/ chambers in Phoenix. for a biomedical career, the Salina junior prole writing; Stephen Montemayor, 10th in chemical engineering is simultaneously in sportswriting; and Adam Samson, j’10, pursuing a master’s in bioengineering. 10th in personality/prole writing.

“American Catholics represent only 6 percent of the global Catholic population. If you ever wonder why the Pope is not thinking American thoughts when he gets out of bed in the morning, this may have {}something to do with it.” —John L. Allen Jr.

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annual event.” Said sixth-place finisher Dorian Scott, “Beautiful, absolutely TEVE PUPPE (2)

S beautiful. We can’t wait to come back and do it again next year.” City crews cleared the street before businesses opened the following day, and then created a venue for the Invitational Men’s Long Jump, contested on Eighth Street between Massachusetts and Ver- mont streets. About 500 fans endured cool, drizzly weather to cheer on former KU jumper Eric Babb, who placed second behind Nebraska’s Nick Gordon. Both recorded jumps of 25 feet, 2.5 inches, and Gordon prevailed because his second-best jump topped Babb’s. Also on Relays’ Thursday—but at the traditional venue of the throwing fields at Memorial Stadium—Scott Penny placed fourth in the hammer throw, an event named for his father, two-time Relays’ was transformed with tons of fill dirt into a hammer throw champion Bill Penny, e’72. Shots ring out world-class shot put venue that hosted Scott Penny, who competed in track and In a first for American track, eight athletes ranked in the world top 20. field as an undergraduate at Oregon, is Canadian Dylan Armstrong, ranked No. 7, now a KU medical student in his final year Kansas Relays field events are won the event with a toss of 70 feet, 7.25 of NCAA eligibility. a hit in hip downtown inches, topping Reese Hoffa, the world No. “I was really excited to get to throw in 2, by more than a foot. front of my family and friends,” he said. “It here once was a time when city But the real winner was the concept itself. made me a little nervous.” Tfathers generally frowned upon the Though increasingly common in track- With first-place performances in the 400 lobbing of dense orbs of lead shot across mad Europe, the Relays’ event was thought meters and the 4x400-meter relay, downtown streets; May 21, 1856, for to be the first time a shot put competition freshman Diamond Dixon was named the example, when former U.S. Sen. David was staged on an American street. meet’s outstanding female athlete, the first Rice Atchison, of Missouri, aimed and On a beautiful spring evening, spectators fired the first cannon volley into the Free lined up more than a dozen deep all the State Hotel during the sacking of way around the shot put arena. Photogra- Lawrence. phers took up positions on rooftops. Music More than a century and a half later, blared. Brats and burgers sizzled on grills, 16-pound lead balls arcing through the air beer chilled on ice. The sunset was idyllic. on a lovely downtown evening struck fear Merchants reported increased traffic and in no one, and in fact delighted a crowd of sales; city planners and athletics officials all 2,500 that gathered April 20 on Eighth agreed they’d like to see it happen again Street, between Massachusetts and New next year. Hampshire streets, for the Kansas Relays’ “This was the strongest field in the world men’s invitational shot put. yet this year, and the crowd was fantastic,” Thanks to enthusiastic collaboration Armstrong said after his victory. “It’s a thrill among the city of Lawrence, Kansas for us to compete in front of a crowd like Diamond Dixon (above), winning the 400; Athletics and the Lawrence Convention & this, it really is. Everyone who put this on Kortney Clemons (opposite center) in the Visitors Bureau, a block of Eighth Street did a fabulous job, and hopefully it’s an paralympic 100-meter sprint.

16 | KANSAS A LUMNI KU woman so honored since pole vaulter Andrea Branson in 2000. Dixon won the 400 in 53.63 seconds, followed in second and third by “It shows that they believe in us and respect us for teammates Kendra Bradley and Taylor what we do.” —KU student and coach Kortney Clemons, an amputee Washington. Sophomore Kyle Clemons sprinter, on a standing ovation during the paralympic 100-meter dash won the men’s 400—his second Relays 400 victory in as many years— {} with a time of 47.67. Men’s and women’s distance runners had similar success. Junior Rebeka Stowe TEVE PUPP E won the 1,500 with a personal-best 4 S minutes, 28.19 seconds, followed in second by teammate Cori Christensen. Junior Donny Wasinger won the men’s 1,500 with a PR of 3:44.89. “My time was good,” Wasinger said. “[It was the] fastest in the Big 12 this year, so that’s legit.” A memorable highlight of Saturday’s featured events was the men’s Paralympic 100-meter run. Blake Leeper, of Churchill, Tenn., sprinted the 100 meters in 11.32 on two prosthetic legs, winning a standing ovation from the Memorial Stadium bests, and they won some key events. They 268-11, topping his Relays record by crowd and honors as the meet’s outstand- were well prepared and worked very hard.” nearly 11 feet and putting him in mind to ing male competitor. Senior Jordan Scott, the 2010 NCAA consider preparing for the 2012 Olympics. Running fifth was KU student and Outdoor pole vault champion, won the “This was just, ‘Let’s see how I do,’” volunteer assistant coach Kortney men’s pole vault in his final Kansas Relays. Russell said. “Now I think I have to train Clemons, who was an Army medic when He celebrated the occasion with one of his for London. I shouldn’t have thrown this in 2005 he lost his right leg above the trademark hair expressions—this time a far with as little as I have trained.” knee. He was carrying a wounded soldier Jayhawk dyed into his bleached hair. to a helicopter when a bomb exploded, “I took a break from dying it the last few killing three. meets because I have been working on NBA bound “Since then I have been rehabbing and things and I didn’t want to draw attention going to school and trying to make my life to myself when I am not going to jump After NCAA heartbreak, better,” Clemons said. “For people to say that high,” Scott said after his victory. “For Morris twins go pro things and for everybody to stand up the Kansas Relays I had to bring it back.” when you run the 100 is huge. It shows Three vaulters reached 17 feet, 6.5 he huge epitaph across the Kansas that they believe in us and respect us for inches, but Scott won with the fewest TCity Star’s March 28 sports section what we do.” misses. Finishing second was veteran Jacob said it all—if overly harshly: “ROCK Other Kansas Relays highlights Pauli, a three-time Relays champion, the CHOKE.” And the news still to come included: 2001 NCAA champion and a three-time after KU’s stunning, 71-61 loss to sharp- Sophomore Mason Finley, competing in U.S. Olympic trials finalist. shooting Virginia Commonwealth in the his first outdoor meet of the season, won “He’s a big role model for me,” Scott NCAA Tournament’s Southwest Regional the men’s shot put (not to be confused said of Pauli. “I’ve always looked up to him final didn’t get much better. with the invitational shot put staged because he’s helped me out. He’s a good Marcus and Markieff Morris, charis- downtown) by nearly 10 feet and the guy.” matic twin towers who became fan discus by more than 7 feet. Freshman Scott Russell, d’02, g’09, the 2002 NCAA favorites as they blossomed in talent, Jessica Maroszek won the women’s discus javelin champ and a member of Canada’s strength, personality and tattoos, and finished sixth in the shot put. 2008 Olympic team, has battled injuries in announced April 7 that they would forgo “They did even more than I expected,” recent years. Now 32 and a middle-school their senior seasons to enter the NBA said throws coach Andy Kokhanovsky. teacher in Baldwin, Russell suddenly draft. Both signed with a California agent, “There were some school records, personal returned to form with a winning throw of preventing any return.

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“We not only wish them the best

moving forward but also 100 percent TEVE PUPP E support this decision for them to enter,” S coach Bill Self said. “They have been an absolute joy to coach.” Marcus Morris led KU in scoring at 17.2 points a game (18.8 during league play) and was named second-team All-Ameri- can. Markieff Morris led the Big 12 in field-goal percentage (58.9) and rebounds (8.3 per game). Joining the Morris twins as a draft-eligi- ble prospect was guard Josh Selby, who garnered more headlines as a superstar recruit than he did in his injury-plagued freshman season. Though many thought Selby would need to return for his sophomore year, private workouts in Las Their final moments in Kansas uniforms weren’t happy ones, as twins Marcus (22) and Markie• Vegas convinced Selby he was ready. Morris anounced 11 days after KU’s Elite Eight loss that they’d leave a year early for the NBA draft. “I never coached a kid that went “The support the fans showed us can never be matched,” Marcus Morris said. “We appreciate through as much stuff his freshman year everything they did for us while we were here. When we say F.O.E., we are saying family over as Josh has,” Self said. “He fought through everything, and that includes the Jayhawk Nation.” it and certainly played through injury and did everything within his power to give our team the best chance to succeed.” butt this summer to improve my game. I regular-season and tournament titles and The good news: sophomore forward want to take more of a leadership role in advanced to the Elite Eight. With the Thomas Robinson and junior guard us moving forward and winning another Morris twins, KU went 95-17. Tyshawn Taylor will return. league championship and getting to the “We’ve won a ton of games in the last “This was the most trying year of my Final Four.” three years,” Self said, “and the twins were life,” Robinson said. “I plan on busting my KU finished 35-3, won the Big 12 a big part of that.”

UPDATES Nov. 15 game against Kentucky in New York City’s Madison Square Quarterbacks Jordan Webb Garden, and a Nov. 21-23 trip to the Maui Invitational, where the and Quinn Mecham both threw stellar field includes Duke, Georgetown, Memphis, Michigan, TEVE PUPP E for more than 100 yards and a S Tennessee and UCLA. The Jayhawks will host Ohio State Dec. 10 touchdown pass in the April 30 and will play at USC Dec. 22. “It’s a tough schedule,” coach Bill scrimmage, which concluded Self said, “one that will give us a ton of exposure. With the young coach Turner Gill’s second spring team we will have playing for us next year, it will be a great practice at KU. “It’s no doubt that challenge.” Recruits joining Self’s team include 6-5 shooting guard we are a better football team than Ben McLemore of St. Louis; 6-8 forward Braeden Anderson of we were last year,” Gill said, “and Alberta, Canada; and 6-0 point guard Naadir Tharpe of Worcester, we have a lot more confidence in Mass. Self noted that it was particularly exciting to sign our guys.” Among the notables McLemore, a Missourian who chose KU over Mizzou. “Very rarely from spring practice was Gill do you find guys who are as athletic as Ben is with the shooting defensive end Toben Opurum, a skill that he has. He has a chance to be an outstanding player.” ... converted running back whose dynamic defensive skills drew The volleyball team on May 28 will embark on a 12-day tour of raves from his coaches. KU opens against McNeese State Sept. 3 Italy and Switzerland. The Jayhawks will play seven matches in in Memorial Stadium. ... 10 days in cities across Italy, including Rome, Bologna, Venice, The men’s basketball non-conference schedule includes a Milan and Florence.

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20 | KANSAS A LUMNI “I have great confidence in the Alumni Association’s leadership and programs, and am so impressed by the volume of events that the staff conducts each year. They do an outstanding job of promoting the loyalty and pride we all feel as Jayhawks. ”

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www.kualumni.org • 800-584-2957 The Naismith Rules

n Dec. 10, Sotheby’s New York convened an auction for three prized artifacts of American history: A 7th U.S. Cavalry guidon, recovered from underneath a slain soldier at the Battle of Little Big Horn and known as “Custer’s Last Flag,” sold for $2.2O million. A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation—a printed broadside signed by President Abraham Lincoln and purchased at auction for $9,500 in 1964 by civil rights crusader Robert F. Kennedy, whose family proudly displayed the document in their Hickory Hill estate for 40 years—fetched $3.7 million. Rocketing past both of those remarkable treasures of Ameri- cana was the auction of two yellowing, typewritten pages more than a century old—“A homework assignment,” as winning bidder David Booth delights in pointing out—written by James Naismith on Dec. 21, 1891, and tacked to a bulletin board in the gymnasium of the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Mass., to introduce students to his new game, “Basket Ball.” Winning bid for Naismith’s original rules, documents that one day will be on permanent display at KU: $4.3 million, the highest price ever paid at auction for a sports artifact. “You can see copies of these rules,” David Booth says, “but when you stand up next to them, next to the real thing, you

22 | KANSAS A LUMNI The Naismith Rules

Basketball’s ‘birth certificate’ pledged to KU after fetching record auction price

by Chris Lazzarino

realize that on these two typewritten pages, somebody invented his two pages of basketball rules for millions of dollars, perhaps the game, and he lived long enough to actually see it become an Dr. Naismith’s pristine vocabulary might have suddenly expanded Olympic sport. I don’t know of any parallels to that.” by a salty exclamation or two. Naismith of course brought his game to KU. When he arrived in fall 1898, as chapel director and the first head of Chancellor avid Booth, c’68, g’69, grew up in Garnett, with an older Francis Snow’s new physical education department, basketball Dsister, Jane Booth Berkley, ’67, and a younger brother, Mark, wasn’t entirely unknown on Mount Oread, but it was considered c’78. As Jane and David neared their high school years, their a sport only for women, and an unsuccessful one at that. parents, Gilbert and Betty, chose to uproot the family and move “A few futile attempts had been made to interest the students to Lawrence so they could focus on funding tuition without also and faculty in the game,” the Jayhawker yearbook wrote in 1899, worrying about student housing. “but without success.” The family moved into a home at 1931 Naismith Dr., and one So Naismith set out to do exactly as he’d done that cold of the few luxuries Gilbert and Betty allowed themselves was a morning seven years earlier: introduce college students to his pair of season tickets to KU basketball games. Treks to and from marvelous indoor sport. nearby Allen Field House on cold winter nights became as much a Amos Alonzo Stagg, a Springfield classmate of Naismith’s who treasured family ritual as cheering on the Jayhawks. In honor of by then was already gaining fame as the football coach at the Gilbert and Betty, the Booth children and grandchildren donated University of Chicago, recommended Naismith to Snow as the more than $4 million toward the $8 million Booth Family Hall of “inventor of basketball, medical doctor, Presbyterian minister, Athletics, which opened in 2006 as the most significant exterior tee-totaler, all-around athlete, non-smoker, and owner of vocabu- alteration to the hallowed home of Kansas basketball. lary without cuss words.” Now the Booth Family Hall of Athletics is poised to become Had the enthusiastic young physical education instructor any even more of a must-see destination, for Kansas basketball fans in way to know that 11 decades later one of his grandsons would sell particular and college basketball fans in general, as the home of

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the sport’s founding documents, what some have described as encouragement from others in the room. basketball’s birth certificate. Family friend, former U.S. senator and basketball Hall of Famer “It came out of our culture, like the Bill of Rights,” Sotheby’s Bill Bradley nodded his approval, and, far more important, so did vice chairman David Redden said of the Naismith rules, to the Booth’s wife. New York Times. “Its influence went far beyond the U.S., but it’s “We didn’t expect it to go as high as it did,” Suzanne Deal uniquely us.” Booth says. “Once it did, I could tell my husband was nervous Booth, chairman and co-CEO of Dimensional Fund Advisors and anxious, but he really wanted to do this for KU, so I was in Austin, Texas, first heard about the impending sale when a there for him. He was the one bidding; I was the one going, friend mentioned that he’d read an article about the auction in ‘It’s OK, it’s OK.’” Sports Illustrated. Mickey Klein recalls that it was probably six It so happened that the Booths had chosen that evening to weeks before the December sale, and he says Booth immediately celebrate David’s Dec. 2 birthday with a party at their Austin began making phone calls. Booth says the clincher was an home. On the drive over, Mickey Klein heard a news report that unexpected call he received just days before the auction from an unidentified Austin businessman had paid $4.3 million for the Kansas City physician Mark Allen, c’75, m’78, a grandson of the basketball rules. other icon of Kansas basketball, Forrest C. “Phog” Allen. “David couldn’t even wait until we were in the house,” Klein “He called us and said he’d like to come down and have dinner recalls. “He met us in the driveway, saying, ‘Did you hear the news with us,” Booth recalls. “That was Wednesday night before the today? Did you hear the news today?’ It was a jubilant evening. auction on Friday. He impressed on us how important it was that Other than his family, David is more excited about this than he’s these go to KU, so we decided to bid on it.” been about anything else since I’ve known him. Giddy is a good Bidding over the telephone from the conference room in his word for it.” Austin office, Booth found himself embroiled in what the trade The next day, Booth received a congratulatory email from an publication Antiques and the Arts later reported as “several old friend, who also unmasked himself as the unknown rival minutes of intense bidding.” As the auction price soared past bidder. the initial estimate of $2 million, and beyond even what the “He said, ‘I think I may have cost you some money,’” Booth Booths had considered their likely limit, Booth looked for recalls with a laugh. When they next saw each other in person,

24 | KANSAS A LUMNI the friend begged of Booth, “Next time you bid on manuscripts, Rowland, chair of the museum’s Board of Trustees, the Nelson- give me a call first.” Suzanne Booth delights in revealing that Atkins is “celebrating creativity, and the art that goes into making their friend had been bidding on behalf of the Smithsonian things happen and changing lives. The ingenuity that’s celebrated Institution. in this particular work of art is the kind of thing that we celebrate “They didn’t get it,” she notes with an air of satisfaction. and honor here.” Zugazagoitia, a Mexico City native who came to the Nelson- trial run of sorts for KU’s long-term public display was Atkins from New York’s El Museo del Barrio, professes a growing Aengineered in just three weeks by Kansas City’s Nelson- interest in the sports that are such a large part of Kansas City’s Atkins Museum of Art, whose new director, Julian Zugazagoitia, civic pride; he even sported a pair of red Converse basketball has been friends with Suzanne Booth for 20 years, since the days shoes to the Naismith when both worked for the Getty Conservation Institute—he in unveiling. He says Paris, she in Los Angeles. museum staff assem- The exhibition, which runs through June 11, is seen by museum bled the exhibition in staff and trustees as a chance to attract non-traditional visitors. In three weeks— turn, the museum offers a unique perspective that focuses not so “unprecedented, truly a much on the artifacts themselves, but on the power of brilliant magical thing”—because invention, regardless of its application. they were united in their By putting Naismith’s original rules on display, says Sarah excitement for the UPPE E P TE V S A game is born for moving with the ball. rules, Until James Naismith invented • Naismith specified an “Association” which the basketball, the long, cold stretch after football (soccer ball), because it could college football and before baseball and track be easily handled without additional stenographer, forced athletes to train with equipment and the game could be Miss Lyons, calisthentics, tumbling and even sack quickly learned. then typed and BRARY(2) races and marching. In fall 1891, • A vertical target, such as a Naismith

Dean James Gulick of the soccer or lacrosse goal, would tacked to the ARCH LI YMCA Training College invite injuries as scorers gymnasium bulletin directed his first-year could throw the ball board before his 11:30 SPEN CER RESE graduate assistants— hard into defenders class. A student, Frank

including Naismith clumped around the Mahan, sensed the SY URTE and future football goal. He hit upon sport would be a CO legend Amos the idea of a success and snatched Alonzo Stagg—to horizontal target the pages as a souvenir. After returning invent a vigorous that rewarded them to his grateful teacher, Mahan new game that skill rather than suggested the game be called “Naismith could be played power by recalling ball.” Naismith grimaced, so Mahan indoors. a boyhood suggested “basketball.” Naismith’s game Naismith relied rock-tossing game. finally had its name. on the following The 10-foot goal Naismith kept the rules as one of his principles to create happened to be “prized possessions” until his death, in his new sport: height of the balcony Lawrence, in 1939. Son Jimmy inherited • No tackling— to which Naismith the pages, and they were then passed to literally his “I’ve got it!” tacked peach baskets Jimmy’s son Ian, who pledged before the insight—to avoid injuries. supplied by custodian Pop auction that proceeds would benefit his Since ball carriers could not be Stebbins, who couldn’t find boxes Naismith International Basketball stopped by force, Naismith forbade as Naismith had requested. Foundation, which creates sports running with the ball; students On the morning of Dec. 21, Naismith opportunities for children. devised dribbling as a requirement needed less than an hour to write out 13 —C.L.

ISSUE 3, 2011 | 25 26 | KANSAS A LUMNI unusual project. adjacent to the Booth Hall of Athletics at Allen Field House, it is a He expects that University project, not athletics. Endowment Association presi-

STEVE PUPPE(4) STEVE colleagues around dent Dale Seuferling, j’77, emphasizes that the planning commit- the world will take tee will be deliberate about making sure the project is perfect. notice, not just of “The entire KU community is thrilled with the opportunity the speed with that Suzanne and David Booth have given us to not only have the which the museum original rules of basketball on display at KU,” Seuferling says, “but moved when given to have this opportunity to develop a new venue for visitors to a unique opportu- campus to celebrate the history of basketball. The most important nity, but also the step right now is to plan this in such a way that it is going to be decision to feature the best solution for generations to come to experience the rules a sports document of basketball.” within the halls of There’s also the matter of funding. The Booths hope the a world-renowned record-setting price they paid for the documents will inspire Director Julian Zugazagoitia, a longtime friend art museum. others to contribute to the project. and colleague of Suzanne Deal Booth, says “The museum is “KU has the best venue for watching college basketball any- Naismith’s baskeball rules are a reminder that really striving, where, by a wide margin,” Booth says. “When they get through creativity is not limited to the arts. always, to be the with this, this is will be the best place to watch basketball in this showcase of talent, or any other galaxy. But it’s going to take money. Maybe I can of ingenuity and make the first plea to Jayhawks: You’ll be getting your call, and it’s the creative spirit,” he says. “When you look at the story behind important that all of us chip in and do what we can. the rules of basketball, you see the creative genius of an entrepre- “It will be spectacular. Their ideas are spectacular. It’s just a neur. Naismith was at the forefront of belief and passion. With 13 question of if we can get the funding to execute it.” simple rules, he created a game that changed the world.” When the day comes that the rules are finally nestled in their Not only has the Nelson-Atkins exhibition brought the new KU home, the most faithful visitors will surely be David and documents to their first public viewing and helped spread the Suzanne Booth, and there’s little doubt that David will always word about the Booths’ intention to donate them to KU, but it smile when he notices the hand-written “6-28-31,” Naismith’s also has helped KU officials crank up their own creativity to testament that he authenticated the document with his signature invent an exhibition space that will be as memorable as the in 1931. documents themselves. “Turns out I grew up on 1931 Naismith Drive,” Booth says. “I Though it is anticipated that the exhibition will be created guess it was meant to be.”

Suzanne and David Booth (above) hailed the speed with which museum sta• created a display for their treasures. Zugazagoitia, Board of Trustees chair Sarah Rowland, Chandler Booth and his parents on March 4 unveiled basketball’s original rules for their first public display.

ISSUE 3, 2011 | 27 GambleThe

28 | KANSAS A LUMNI By Tyler Bridges | Photographs by Carlos Villalon

Turning his back on a sure career at his family’s influential newspaper, Gamble Juan Manuel Santos captures Colombia’s ultimate political prize

A policeman sets off a blue smoke bomb on the school soccer field. It signals the imminent appearance of a Blackhawk helicopter that descends onto the empty field a minute later. A dozen security guards hustle out, toting machine guns in black bags. A puff of red smoke marks the second helicopter’s arrival. More security guards pour out. The location is Pasto, the provincial capital of Narino state in southwest Colombia, a region where the guerrillas and drug traffickers hold sway in remote jungle areas. A third helicopter appears on the horizon, then lands on the grass field. The security guards encircle a slight man as he bounds out, wearing a dress shirt, a khaki cargo vest, blue jeans, brown loafers and argyle socks. He is President Juan Manuel Santos. Surrounded by his security team, he greets waiting dignitaries and military officials as he begins one of his regular Saturday visits to small communities far from the capital of Bogota. The trips bring Santos closer to the concerns of ordinary Colombians, especially the poor. Santos’ power and prominence do not surprise those who knew him nearly 40 years ago in Lawrence. In those days, he impressed his brothers in the Delta Upsilon fraternity house by invariably winning all-night poker games, matching them in trash talk and then dashing off to the library to study for classes in advanced economics and finance while his buddies slept in. Juan Manuel Santos, the DU brothers told one another, was going places. Indeed, in Lawrence, Santos, b’73, already was developing a dream to return to Colombia and one day run for president. But he didn’t dare tell his friends at KU. Santos did let it slip to friends in Colombia, but they dismissed the idea, even though Santos’ great-uncle had been president from 1938 to ’42. Skeptics said that no one from his aristocratic family, owners of the country’s most powerful newspaper, could win the presi- dency in modern-day Colombia. Nonetheless, Santos steadily climbed the country’s political ladder and earned plaudits at each step, often by taking audacious risks. In 2008, as defense minister, he stunned the nation by pulling off a dramatic rescue of hostages held by the

ISSUE 3, 2011 | 29 guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed initially offended him. “I felt like [I was] befriending elders that made him, by Forces of Colombia (FARC). being pictured as an ambitious son of a everyone’s account, his father’s favorite. Last year, Santos was elected president bitch,” he says. “But then he said, ‘No, no, Juan Manuel was so likeable that not even in a landslide; he is the first KU graduate no. Don’t get me wrong. It’s a drive that his competitive brothers begrudged to become a head of state. A man of some people have and need if they want to him—except when their father allowed privilege and wealth, he has confounded be somebody great.’” Juan Manuel to be the first son to drive his expectations by stressing innovative Bruce Bagley, chairman of the Univer- Pontiac Tempest or gave him a bigger anti-poverty strategies and by making sity of Miami’s department of interna- weekly allowance. peace with Venezuelan President Hugo tional studies and Santos’ friend since Juan Manuel’s older brothers, Enrique Chavez, the leftist firebrand who for years 1973, puts it this way: “Juan Manuel has Jr. and Luis Fernando, sought payback had regularly insulted Santos and other been preparing his whole career to be once by roughing him up. Juan Manuel Colombian political leaders. president.” turned the tables by demanding their His approach to governing has made allowances so he wouldn’t squeal to their him wildly popular among Colombians. parents. “I’ve been a bit of a street fighter all my y all accounts, Santos’ father, Enrique, Juan Manuel showed off budding life, in terms of surmounting challenges, Bshaped Juan Manuel’s grand dreams. entrepreneurial talents in other ways. He of confronting challenges,” Santos, 59, says For years, Enrique and his brother, got a German Shepherd and became in his office in the presidential palace, Casa Hernando, owned and ran El Tiempo. In a devoted to the dog. Naming it Kazan Son de Narino. country wracked by poverty and bloody of Chichimoco—a made-up name— Perhaps his biggest challenge came 20 feuds, their newspaper was a voice for free Santos won national prizes showing the years ago, when he made the wrenching speech and honest elections and against animal. He even earned money handling decision to forsake the family’s newspaper, political meddling by generals and the others’ pets. El Tiempo, for a career in politics. He conservative Catholic Church. Right-wing Santos took up golf. His mother was a provoked a family crisis, angering, among thugs burned El Tiempo in 1952. A national champion. As a teenager, Santos others, a brother and two cousins who also military dictatorship closed it in 1955 for became good enough to play with his had studied at KU. two years. father’s friends and regularly win wagers. Santos settled the question after With the nation’s return to democracy At 15, Santos took an unusual detour for consulting with a friend of his father’s who in 1958, El Tiempo wielded as much someone from the political and economic had become a mentor. “Listen, if you want influence as the New York Times and the elite. He left his private high school to influence all your life,” the man, a former Washington Post combined. Dinner guests complete his secondary education at the finance minister, told Santos, “then stay at at the Santos home included the country’s country’s naval academy, both to please his El Tiempo. But there’s a difference movers and shakers—along with writers, father and to see whether he could meet between influence and real power. Power is artists and bullfighters who reflected the challenge. for you to sign a decree saying, ‘You must Enrique’s eclectic interests. Santos left behind servants and week- obey this.’ I know you. You will not be Juan Manuel, the third of four brothers, ends at the Bogota Country Club. First- happy simply having influence.” reveled in the heady atmosphere. He also year cadets could not leave the academy’s Santos recalls that the man’s advice showed an extraordinary ability for grounds during their initial three months. Throughout the first year, they had to awaken at 4:30 a.m. Monday through President Juan Manuel Friday to exercise in the schoolyard. Older Santos (center, p. 28) cadets hazed them. arrives in the southwest Word of Santos’ arrival spread. “A lot of Colombia town of Pasto us didn’t think he’d last three months,” and greets anti-terrorism says Alfonso Calero Espinosa, then an policemen and dignitaries older cadet. “But he showed great merit in (left). The regular Saturday integrating into the military environment.” visits to communities Santos’ face lights up as he remembers far from Bogota, his time as a cadet. “It was an academic representative of the challenge and a physical challenge,” he president’s populist style, says. “I did very well. I was first in my class. are part of his e•orts to I adapt quite easily to situations and reach out to the country’s circumstances.” less fortunate citizens. He adds, “I like to blend. It’s a way of being that I inherited very much from my

30 | KANSAS A LUMNI During a week in mid-March, Santos’ visitors included the Queen of Spain, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, a U.S. congres- sional delegation, and KU Chancel- lor Bernadette Gray-Little. She invited him to return to campus in conjunction with the 50th anniver- sary of the University’s Center for Latin American Studies, and she gave him a basketball signed by the KU men’s basketball team. “I will show it to President Obama,” a smiling Santos told the chancellor. “He’ll be jealous.”

father. He always told me, ‘Look at the went to KU joined a fraternity. “He won more than he lost,” says positive side of people and try to extract “It was the best way to enter into Phil Miller. from them those parts that will enrich you [American] social networks,” says Rodrigo Santos offers an example of his poker and enrich them.’” Castano, ’75, a Santos family friend who is talent: “I won about three nights in a row, a prominent movie and TV producer. about $320,” he recalls. “At that time, that “He’s always been careful to know how to was enough for a car.” He bought an old n 1969, after getting his high school advance where he wanted to go. To go far, Chrysler. Idegree from the academy, Santos moved you had to do a lot of things to climb the He remained a DU but moved out of to Lawrence and entered a different world. social ladder.” the house as a junior and senior. He grew By then, KU was becoming a family Santos learned that flaunting his long hair and a scruffy beard and went to tradition. Santos’ next older brother, Luis advantaged status in Colombia didn’t go campus concerts featuring Jefferson Fernando, j’70, was a senior. Luis Fernando over well with Americans. He joined his Airplane, Carole King and Crosby, Stills & had heard glowing recommendations DU brothers in serenading the Delta Nash. He smoked marijuana. “I inhaled, about KU’s William Allen White School of Gammas next door, sledding down to yes,” he affirms, echoing an admission Journalism and decided to go there, even Potter Lake on lunch trays, and heading to from last year’s presidential campaign. though, as he put it recently, “All I knew The Wheel for beer. An academic achiever, Santos earned his about Kansas was the reference in the ‘The “He quickly assimilated,” recalls Brian degree in seven semesters. He returned to Wizard of Oz.’” Two of Luis Fernando’s Bracco, j’73, now vice president for news Colombia but within a year moved to close friends from Colombia joined him at at Hearst Television in Kansas City. “He London to be the country’s delegate to the KU. was one of us.” International Coffee Organization. Santos Juan Manuel lived in McCollum Hall his Santos also joined the marathon poker immersed himself in the politics of freshman year. Phil Miller, b’73, l’75, met games on Friday and Saturday nights. Bets international trade for Colombia’s biggest him that year in a basketball class. The two were a nickel, dime or quarter. Santos export business and studied at the London hit it off, and Miller, now an attorney and earned the nickname “Bump-a-quarter- School of Economics, forgoing his degree mediator in Kansas City, Mo., invited him Juan” because he would invariably up the when he skipped his final exam. to rush at Delta Upsilon. ante to the max, even if he held weak In 1980, he moved to Boston to study Santos moved into the DU house on cards. at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Emery Road for his sophomore year. His The other players couldn’t tell whether Law & Diplomacy and earn a master’s choice was unusual for an international Santos was bluffing. “He was very good at degree at Harvard University’s Kennedy student. In fact, none of the other dozen covering up his emotions,” says physician School of Government. Santos family members and friends who Jeff Joyce, c’73, m’77, Leawood. In 1983, with his father’s strong support,

ISSUE 3, 2011 | 31 he joined El Tiempo as deputy editorial aspirations above others, including his rights violations by the military but also page editor and community liaison. family.” for getting the military to stop taking Daniel Samper, an El Tiempo reporter Recalling the episode, Santos accepts the shortcuts against the guerrillas. Carlos who had known Santos since boyhood, criticism.“It’s fair, yes,” he says. “You don’t Franco, Uribe’s special assistant for human was one of several journalists who get to where I am by being simply a good rights, had the thankless task of overseeing questioned Santos’ motives. “I asked him if guy. I try to do it as little as possible, but I the investigations. The military high he wanted to be a journalist or a politi- must confess, yes, sometimes you have to command repeatedly blocked Franco’s cian,” says Samper, g’70. “He said journal- step on other people. Unfortunately, efforts. ist. That was important to me.” politics is something that brings out the Franco had low hopes for Santos. In 1987, Santos left El Tiempo to spend worst in humankind. If you use it cor- “There’s a history of ambitious politicians another year at Harvard, this time as a rectly, it’s very gratifying. But sometimes becoming ministers and not taking tough Nieman Fellow, a mid-career program for you have to play hard. And you need decisions in order to protect their future top journalists worldwide. Santos stood sometimes to be a bit cold-hearted—cold- ambitions,” Franco says. out among the 25 Nieman Fellows for blooded, I mean.” But Santos surprised Franco by provid- taking classes at Harvard’s business school Santos excelled as minister of foreign ing military transport to civilian prosecu- and for frequently wearing a coat and tie trade. Another president, Andres Pastrana, tors so they could visit outlying areas. to meetings where he expanded his orbit named him minister of finance. Santos Santos also codified rules for the military of influential contacts. “He was obviously won more high marks for surrounding to respect human rights and regularly a more ambitious fellow than we were,” himself with top-flight advisers and published the results online to measure says Rosental Alves, a Nieman classmate. knowing when to delegate. progress toward meeting the goals. In After Santos returned to Colombia, his November 2008, in an unprecedented father continued to groom him to become move, Santos fired three generals, 11 El Tiempo’s editorial-page editor, a y 2002, Colombians had grown weary colonels and 13 other officers found powerful post where he could influence Bof the FARC guerrillas and right-wing responsible for the deaths of innocent the country’s direction. paramilitary squads overrunning the civilians. But in 1991, President Cesar Gaviria country. Alvaro Uribe, a conservative “Santos was persistent in trying to asked Santos to become Colombia’s first governor, was elected president with a resolve the problem,” Franco says. “He minister of foreign trade. “Do you know mandate to squelch the violence. For his kept up the heat on the military to help the sacrifice that this means for me?” vice president, Uribe named Francisco out. He made human rights a priority.” Santos asked Gaviria. “Sacrificing being Santos, Juan Manuel’s cousin and another By then, no one could doubt Santos’ the [editorial page editor] of El Tiempo?” of Hernando’s sons. Francisco Santos, ’84, guerrilla-fighting credentials. In March “But really what you like is politics, who spent his freshman and sophomore 2008, he had launched a military raid that public life,” Gaviria replied. years at KU, had survived a kidnapping by killed the guerrillas’ deputy commander. When Santos took the job, his uncle, the country’s most notorious drug That generated big headlines, especially Hernando, who had opposed Santos’ entry kingpin. because the attack occurred a few miles into El Tiempo eight years earlier, threw a A Santos was only a heartbeat away inside of neighboring Ecuador. Ecuador’s fit. Two days later, Hernando Santos from the presidency. But it was not Juan president, Rafael Correa, cut off relations attacked him in a published column, Manuel. with Colombia. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez saying that the move would damage El Juan Manuel did not support Uribe denounced Santos and Uribe. Tiempo’s credibility by blurring the line initially. But he played his cards well by Santos and Uribe remained unmoved. between the newspaper and the creating a new party that supported They had an even more spectacular move government. Uribe’s re-election in 2006. Uribe up their sleeves. His friend and colleage Samper recalls, rewarded him by naming him defense The FARC guerrillas were holding “I felt betrayed.” minister. several high-profile hostages. In 2008, the Santos stopped talking to his uncle, and One of the problems Santos inherited guerrillas began handing over senators and the relationship between Hernando and was how to resolve a burgeoning scandal members of Congress in highly publicized Enrique Santos—brothers who had known as “false positives.” Evidence exchanges that the FARC milked for married sisters, worked together for years revealed that officers and soldiers were maximum publicity. and lived side by side in Bogota—became murdering innocent civilians, claiming But the guerrillas still held former stormy. that the dead were actually guerrillas. The presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt “There were insults and shouting,” said killings inflated the military’s claims of and three American military contractors Rafael Santos, j’76, one of Hernando’s sons success against the guerrillas. who had crash-landed during an anti-drug and now a senior executive at the newspa- Verifying the “false positive” accusations mission. Uribe and Santos decided to per. “[Juan Manuel] put his personal was important not only for ending human outsmart the FARC.

32 | Kansas Alumni For months, under Santos’ direction, the the poker face his DU brothers would have that returning peasants to their land will military planned a daring operation: It recognized. He didn’t even tell his closest unleash investment in the countryside and called for the FARC to turn over Betan- civilian aide, Juan Carlos Mira, of the plan eliminate the incentive for poor citizens to court and the three Americans in the until the morning of July 2. “He acted join the guerrillas or the paramilitary jungle to what the guerrillas would believe normal that day until 1 p.m.,” 20 minutes squads. was an international humanitarian group, before the planned handover, “when he “The expropriation of the land is at the which was actually a group of Colombian became anxious,” Mira recalls. root of the violence we’ve had over the soldiers in disguise. “Santos told his Uribe and Santos were hailed as national past 50 years,” says Rafael Santos, praising planners to think out of the box, to think heroes; two years later, Santos became the cousin he hasn’t hesitated to criticize. the unthinkable,” says John Otis, author of president with 69 percent of the vote. “Juan Manuel wants to leave a deep Law of the Jungle, a 2010 book that Upon taking office, Santos signaled a footprint. The country will be different chronicled the unlikely rescue. change from Uribe’s authoritarian and after he leaves office.” “Checkmate,” the elaborate plan for July polarizing course. He spent the morning Making that impact won’t be easy in a 2, 2008, included dozens of details meant of his inauguration in the mountains, country that remains beset by guerrillas, to fool the guerrillas. For example, one where he received the blessing of an Indian drug traffickers and big land owners who soldier impersonated an Arab. Another tribe. In the following weeks, he favor the status quo. spoke with a just-learned Australian announced a plan to reduce poverty that In the interview at Casa de Narino, speaking near-flawless English, Santos says 44.5 percent of Colombians live on less than $2 per day and that the country has one of the most unequal distributions of wealth in the world. “I want to be socially progressive,” he says, “because that’s what the country needs at this moment in time. Somebody asked me, ‘What would you say if at the end they will call you a traitor to your class?’ “I said, ‘If they called me that because of the same reasons that they called [Presi- dent Franklin D.] Roosevelt, I would feel very, very honored. That means I achieved some of my objectives.’” And like FDR, Santos prides himself on reaching out to the less fortunate citizens of his nation. Early on that Saturday morning in Pasto, Antonio Navarro Wolff President Juan Manuel Santos waits for the president’s helicopter to land. Wolff, a former guerrilla who laid down accent. Two wore T-shirts bearing the called for the government to return land his weapons 25 years ago, is now the iconic image of Che Guevara. to peasants that drug traffickers, guerrillas elected governor of Narino state. “I didn’t Their helicopter landed in a jungle and right-wing paramilitary squads had vote for him,” Navarro Wolff says. “But clearing. The disguised soldiers professed stolen. He also announced that the he’s done a good job. He’s calmed down their solidarity with the FARC as they government would indemnify poor the political tensions in the country, and carried out fake arrangements to transport victims of violence. he’s made peace with our neighbors. He’s the hostages from one part of the jungle to “Santos has formed a coalition govern- been a surprise for everyone.” another. ment that has [incorporated] the agendas Can he continue to pull it off? As his DU Once the helicopter took off with the of the different political parties,” says buddies learned long ago, don’t bet against hostages, the soldiers overpowered the two Colombian senator John Sudarsky, g’70. Juan Manuel Santos. guerrillas who accompanied them. “We are “He says, ‘As much of the market as is —Bridges, a freelance writer based in the Colombian army, and you are free!” possible and as much government as is Lima, Peru, is the former South America one of the soldiers announced. The necessary.’” bureau chief for the Miami Herald. hostages wept with joy. Agriculture minister Juan Camilo He can be reached at Throughout the planning, Santos wore Restrepo says government officials believe [email protected].

ISSUE 3, 2011 | 33 Doctor’s Orders Cardiologist champions changes for CPR guidelines

by Melba Newsome

34 | KANSAS A LUMNI hen the American Heart Association revised its CPR guidelines in October 2010, cardiologist Gordon WEwy paid close attention. The AHA hails Ewy as one of 30 “CPR Giants” in the nation, but the Arizona physician and researcher has been a giant dissenter when it comes to the AHA’s recommended CPR regimen, which includes mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Ewy has repeatedly urged the AHA to eliminate mouth-to-mouth breathing from CPR. Ewy’s quest resulted in partial victory: The AHA continued its recommendation that medical professionals and trained lay people use rescue breathing when admin- istering CPR, but the new guidelines reorder the familiar mnemonic device from “ABC” (clear the airway, administer breathing, begin compressions), to “CAB” (compressions, airway, breathing). In 2008, the AHA recommended that lay people use compression-only CPR for adults, and that 911 dispatchers instruct callers to use compression-only CPR. Ewy is disappointed, to put it politely. “Saying you have to give mouth-to-mouth ventilation is ridiculous,” he argues. “If I were to collapse right now, all of my arteries would be full of oxygenated blood for about 12 minutes. Any time spent not doing chest compressions wastes time and costs lives.” Ewy (pronounced A-V) is the director of the University of Arizona’s Sarver Heart Center and former chief of cardiology. Before stepping aside a year ago, he was the nation’s longest-serving cardiology chief. Rarely does a professor occupy an endowed chair in his own name, but Ewy, c’55, m’61, has done so since 2002, as stipulated by the anonymous patron who established the chair with a $1 million gift. Throughout much of his medical career, Ewy subscribed to the belief that a

ISSUE 3, 2011 | 35 overdose or choking. Ewy’s focus was improving survival rates for sudden “If I collapsed right now, my arteries would be cardiac arrest patients. According to the full of oxygenated blood for 12 minutes. AHA, the average survival rate for people Any time spent not doing chest compressions who have cardiac arrests outside of a hospital is 7.9 percent. Bystander CPR can wastes time and costs lives.” double or triple survival rate, but less —Dr. Gordon Ewy than one-third of sudden cardiac arrest victims receive CPR from a bystander, because bystanders are reluctant to combination of mouth-to-mouth breath- Ewy doesn’t recall when or why he perform the mouth-to-mouth component. ing and chest compressions was the best decided to become a doctor, but it was not That knowledge motivated Ewy’s push way to resuscitate sudden cardiac arrest an unexpected choice for someone from for chest compression-only CPR. “Our patients. But over the past two decades, he his town. “Forty percent of the population research model showed that chest concluded that the mouth-to-mouth of my hometown are doctors—my older compression was better than doing component was not more effective or even brother Gene and myself,” he explains nothing, and three-fourths of the people necessary. wryly. His hometown is Brenham, a dot on were doing nothing,” he explains. A decade Ben Bobrow, medical director for the the map about 10 miles east of Greens- later, after more research, he concluded Arizona Department of Health Services burg. His father managed the wheat that chest-compression wasn’t simply Bureau of Emergency Medical Services elevator, his mother ran the filling station, better than nothing; it was better than and Trauma, became convinced Ewy and the only house belonged to the Ewy traditional CPR. was correct and threw out conventional family. At first, his claims met with outrage or CPR guidelines for the entire state. After earning his bachelor’s degree, he derision, even though evidence that he was Since 2005, Arizona’s 911 dispatchers spent two years in the U.S. Navy and met on to something continued to accumulate. instruct callers to forget about mouth- Priscilla, his wife of more than 50 years. Research in the United States, the to-mouth resuscitation. Paramedics and They married after his first year of KU Netherlands and Japan has found that firefighters treat primary cardiac arrest medical school. “Convincing her to marry chest-compression-only yields similar or patients with 100 chest compressions me was my most important accomplish- better survival rates than standard CPR. per minute for two minutes, followed by ment,” Ewy says. “My second most Last year, studies in the Journal of the one defibrillator shock; then they repeat important accomplishment was keeping American Medical Association and the the procedure. her from divorcing me once I became New England Journal of Medicine backed “At the very beginning it was a really married to my career.” up those findings. tough sell because we were challenging Ewy first began studying CPR during But in the public health arena, change dogma, but the results speak for them- his internship, residency and fellowship happens through evolution, not revolu- selves,” says Bobrow, also an emergency training at Georgetown University, where tion. Michael Sayre, co-author of the new physician at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in he successfully pushed to standardize the guidelines and chairman of the AHA’s Arizona. “Our survival rates went from 3 electrical output for heart defibrillators in emergency cardiovascular care committee, percent to 11 percent statewide. Over the Washington, D.C., area hospitals. After is more sanguine about the pace of last five years, we have more than 600 four years on the Georgetown faculty, progress. “The guidelines have come a long cardiac arrest survivors.” he moved to Tucson in 1969 to help start way, in large part because of Dr. Ewy,” he Ewy also has convinced emergency- the hospital affiliated with UA’s medical says. “He helped us understand that we services directors in Wisconsin and school, which began in 1967. “I figured I needed to make it simpler in order to get Missouri to promote the use of could be one of many good cardiologists more of the public to help. I understand compression-only CPR in their states. in D.C. or one of two in Tucson,” he says. his desire to see things move more quickly, His aggressive push for a wholesale “That was a very interesting time. We but we need to be confident that what rewriting of the AHA guidelines has practiced the first two years without we’re asking the public to do is correct earned him a reputation as a rabble-rouser malpractice insurance and there was no before we change it.” and a zealot among some in the medical such thing as a hospital security guard.” Ewy plans to keep pushing for that community, but he proudly embraces Ewy did not initially set out to remake change, even if that means ruffling both labels. “I could be nice about it if the CPR, the first course of action when more feathers. stakes weren’t so high,” he says. “I truly someone collapses suddenly and stops “I never think about quitting,” he says. believe that if the protocols we use in breathing normally, whether from an “Besides, I’m having too much fun.” Arizona were implemented nationwide, abnormal heart rhythm or from drowning, —Newsome is a freelance writer in we could save 58,000 lives each year.” respiratory arrest, electrocution, drug Charlotte, N.C.

36 | KANSAS A LUMNI Special thanks to our loyal volunteers and benefactors The success of Rock Chalk Ball results in large part from the generosity of our volunteers and benefactors. Thank you for your ardent support of Rock Chalk Ball 2011, the KU Alumni Association and the University of Kansas.

2011 Rock Chalk Ball Event Chairs Osage Marketing Dr. Lynn, c’59, m’63, and Ann Under- John, b’73, and Cindy Ballard, assoc. Jay, b’96, e’96, and Lori Ruf wood Kindred, c’59 Salvajor Company Dr. Norman, m’62, and Shirley Martin, Auction Chair Tiffany & Co. assoc. Nick Sterner c’07 Joe, b’61, and Susan Morris, assoc. University Friend ($1,000) Roger, c’60, l’63, and Judith Duncan Oread Underwriter ($10,000) KU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Stanton, a’62 Kansas Athletics KU Edwards Campus Mary Ventura, d’73, g’77, EdD’83 and Frontier Wealth Management, Frontier KU Medical Center Randy Sedlacek Insurance Strategies and Brian, c’98, KU Memorial Unions and Barbara McLiney King, c’95 KU Office of the Chancellor KU School of Allied Health and Rock Chalk Benefactor ($5,000) KU School of Nursing Burns & McDonnell KU School of Education Capitol Federal Savings KU School of Pharmacy KU Endowment Jon L., b’85, and Christi Stewart Crimson Couple ($500) Jennie Boedeker-Bennett, c’77, and John Jayhawk Benefactor ($2,500) Bennett, Class of 2011 Bank of Prairie Village Robbie Harding and Brad Bradley, c’77, Commerce Bank l’80 CrossFirst Bank Bud, b’56, and Debbie Burke Deloitte Harry, l’93, and Cindy Herington DST Systems Mark, d’78, g’89, and Anne Crump Ernst & Young Jarboe, d’78 Lewis, c’75, and Laura Davis Gregory, j’75; Charles and Anne Rhoades, ‘76 Hallmark Cards, Inc. Jay, b’79, and Julia Howard, assoc. The IMA Financial Group, Inc. INTRUST Bank Jayhawk Sports Marketing J.E. Dunn Construction Brad Korell, l’97, and Justin McNulty, assoc.; John, j’81, l’84, and Suzanne Holt, l’84 Association STEVE PUPPE(3) STEVE

Rock Chalk Ball Ball. Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little As The Zeros tuned up their renditions provided updates on the University’s of high-energy 1980s classics, partygoers 16th ball draws support growth in Kansas City and expressed took to the dance floor. Sports broadcaster for alumni, student programs gratitude to the local stalwarts who helped Gary Bender welcomed the crowd in his pave the way for progress. new role as emcee for many Alumni and ach spring in Kansas City—home to During the live auction, guests bid high Endowment association events. Shade Ethe largest community of Jayhawks in for trips to the football game at Texas and Keys Little and KU Chancellor Bernadette the world—the Rock Chalk Ball affirms the Maui Invitational basketball tourna- Gray-Little joined the festivities. Opposite the spirit of giving and revelry of the KU ment, and dinner with comedian Rob page, top: Suzy Adams Holt and John Holt family. Riggle, c’93, Coach Bill Self and Associa- o®fered a bid during the auction; Cindy and The black-tie event April 16 at the tion President Kevin Corbett, c’88. John Ballard chaired this year’s ball; Overland Park Convention Center gave Although total proceeds from the ball are Professor Stephen McAllister and his wife, area Jayhawks the opportunity to celebrate not yet final, the event raised more than Professor Suzanne Valdez, greeted Baby Jay. the vast reach of Association programs $110,000 to fund outreach programs, and launch another full summer. with special emphasis on student The evening’s emcee was national sports recruitment efforts. broadcaster Gary Bender, g’64, a former Ball chairs John, b’73, and Cindy member of the Alumni Association’s Ballard, assoc., led event planning national Board of Directors. Bender, who alongside the Greater Kansas City began his career calling KU games, retired Chapter board and Joy Larson Maxwell, this spring after 18 years as the voice of the c’03, j’03, the Alumni Association’s NBA’s Phoenix Suns. He has returned to assistant director of Kansas City programs. the Kansas City area and will help host The silent and live auctions, coordinated alumni events for the Alumni Association by Nick Sterner, b’07, c’07, garnered and KU Endowment. generous bids. Members of the Student Athletics Director Sheahon Zenger, Alumni Association, the KU Band and PhD’96, addressed the crowd of nearly Spirit Squad and mascots joined 700, proud to attend his first Rock Chalk the party.

38 | KANSAS A LUMNI Chapter champs

STEVE PUPPE(3) STEVE Local alumni leaders carry on Wintermote tradition

ive outstanding Alumni Association leaders have been Fselected to receive the 2011 Dick Wintermote Chapter Volunteer of the Year Award. This year’s winners are: • Ryan Colaianni, j’07, c’07, Alexandria, Va. • Gregory E. Ek, b’76, Overland Park • Rick C. Erwin, ’77, Garden City • Delbert Powell, e’97, Valley, Neb. • Tom Vaughn, g’78, l’78, Chicago The awards are named for Winter- mote, c’51, who served as the Associa- tion’s executive director from 1963 to 1983. They will be presented during the Colaianni Association’s Hilltop Honors banquet Sept. 2 in Lawrence. “The KU Alumni Association has long depended on volunteers to help carry the KU flag worldwide,” says Kevin Corbett, c’88, president of the Association. “These recipients of the Dick Wintermote Award exemplify a KU tradition dating back to 1883 of graduates who care deeply about advancing the University in their local areas.” Colaianni, an account executive with Edelman Public Relations, is the Washington, D.C., Chapter leader. He has helped energize the chapter in recent years, including the formation of a Jayhawk softball team. Other chapter events have included bus trips to basketball games, KU Night at the Ek Smithsonian Art Museum and KU nights with the Washington Wizards and Washington Nationals. Colaianni also has volunteered with the Washington, D.C., Jayhawk Generations Picnic and helped organize watch parties for athletics events. Ek is a board member with the Greater Kansas City Area Chapter. As vice president of the chapter’s Member- ship Committee, Ek created the “March Madness” membership drive, pulling together testimonials from members who graduated in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s for full-color member- Erwin

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ship mailings targeted to specific generations of Jayhawk alumni. He Gold Medal Weekend previously chaired the community ayhawks from the Gold Medal Club and the Class of 1961 awareness committee, is a member of Jgathered April 30 for a breakfast hosted by Chancellor the Presidents Club and is a contribu- Bernadette Gray-Little and her husband, Shade, on the lawn tor to the Rock Chalk Ball. Ek is first of The Outlook. Nearly 100 members of the Class of 1961 vice president for investments at Wells received their gold pins April 29 during a dinner in the Fargo Advisors. Kansas Union; the next day, Provost Je Vitter and Gold Erwin is president of the Great Medal Club president Beverly Jennings Logan presented Plains Chapter in western Kansas. He pins to 15 alumni who have celebrated more than 50 years has spearheaded the completion of since their graduation. Powell four Alumni Association billboards in

his chapter area and has been successful in getting more alumni CK (4) involved in chapter events, such as the Great Plains Golf Tourna- MB E ment, a concert by the KU Symphony Orchestra and bus trips to RO RRY football and basketball games. Erwin is manager of Finley’s Mens TE Wear in Garden City. Powell has worked with other alumni the past four years to re-establish an active Omaha Chapter. Now, basketball watch parties draw at least 25 alumni per game, and other events, including bus trips to KU athletics events at Iowa State and Nebraska, and a KU-Creighton baseball tailgate, also have been successful. The Omaha Chapter also now has its own T-shirts for members. Powell owns Pure Energy Inc., which is involved in the speculative electricity market. Vaughn is president of the KU Black Vaughn Alumni Chapter and is involved in the Chicago Chapter. He often has been a mentor for young African-American alumni, includ- ing serving as a panelist for a Career Forum sponsored by the Chicago Chapter. Vaughn, an attorney, has organized backyard barbecues, rooftop picnics and holiday receptions for incoming KU students and their families. His latest project is developing a new event to recognize graduating students through a Black Congratulatory Banquet.

CK Angela Ri•ey Storey, b’04,

MB E g’07, is the Alumni RO

RRY Association’s new associate TE development director. She will work with President Kevin Corbett, c’88, in recruiting members of the Presidents Club and conducting other fundraising activities. Storey, a native of Sawyer in south- central Kansas, worked eight years for KU Athletics in various roles. She and her husband, Dan, have a 2-year- old daughter, Olivia.

40 | KANSAS A LUMNI Everything we do strengthens KU. Your membership Life Members in the KU Alumni Association is the single most powerful way to make all of KU stronger, including the value of your own degree. The Association thanks these Jayhawks, who began their Life Brenda Marzett Vann, c’71, g’72, memberships March 1 through April 30. For information, visit Board of Directors Kansas City kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957. CHAIR Je L. Wolfe, b’83, Meridian, Ohio Jay Howard, b’79, Austin, Texas Bryce M. Amacher Ashley L. Moser Administrative Sta Carolyn R. Battle Andrea Ste®ens Myers CHAIR-ELECT Marcus A. Brewer Gregory P. & Sonia Martinez Jerey P. Briley, d’74, Overland Park Kevin J. Corbett, c’88, President Daryl L. Broddle Pasley Tanner L. Burns Nathan D. Phillips EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ALUMNI CENTER Craig J. & Candi L. Kenneth J. Ransom Jerey P. Briley, d’74, Overland Park Timothy E. Brandt, b’74, Director of Cain-Borgman William W. Raridon III Howard E. Cohen, b’79, Leawood Adams Alumni Center Gerald R. Callejo William J. & Nina M. Redlin Ray D. Evans, b’82, g’84, Leawood Miguel A. Catano Daniel G. Rhoades Sheri Welter Hauck, b’81, Arroyo ALUMNI, STUDENT & Grande, California Scott J. Clubine Deborah L. Klee Riley MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS Jay Howard, b’79, Austin, Texas Michael Davis, d’84, g’91, Senior David J. Cohen Scott C. Richter Bradley G. Korell, l’97, Austin, Texas Vice President for Alumni, Student Samuel H. & Elizabeth Stephens Christopher A. & Abbey Smith Sue Shields Watson, d’75, Wichita and Membership Programs Constance Rupe Nikki Epley, Director of Reunion Mary Ann Dreiling Katie Slaughter Schillare DIRECTORS TO 2011 Programs David L. Ecklund Jamie Schmidt Jerey P. Briley, d’74, Overland Park Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09, Jerry E. & Marsha Marmion David W. Schneider Howard E. Cohen, b’79, Leawood Assistant Vice President for Edwards Robert F. Shapiro Jay Howard, b’79, Austin, Texas Alumni and Student Programs Rick C. Erwin Lorraine L. Shearing Bradley G. Korell, l’97, Austin, Texas Derek B. & Mandee K. Evans Mathew J. L. Shepard Curtis R. McClinton, Jr., d’62, COMMUNICATIONS Patrick A. Everley Jacqueline M. Smiley Kansas City, Missouri David Johnston, j’94, g’06, Director Salamatu Adamu Gozusulu & Rashad D. Spriggs Winifred S. Pinet, c’80, g’82, of Internet Services and Marketing Ahmet Gozusulu Regina J. Squires Plymouth, Michigan Chris Lazzarino, j’86, Associate John C. Hagood Kevin L. Sterk Editor, Kansas Alumni Magazine DIRECTORS TO 2012 Mason E. Heilman Olivia Yarbrough Stringer Jennifer Sanner, j’81, Senior Vice Paul “Bud” Burke, b’56, Lawrence Shelton P. Heilman Sara M. Swezy President for Communications and Ray D. Evans, b’82, g’84, Leawood Matthew F. & Stacey Cook Garry A. Tanner Corporate Secretary Karen M. Humphreys, c’70, l’73, Susan Younger, f’91, Creative Director Hickam Laura D. Taylor Wichita Steven A. & Susan Johann Adam S. Vossen James A. Trower, b’77, Salina DEVELOPMENT Houlik J. Michael & Sue Arnold Ward Angela Storey, b’04, g’07, Barbara Young Innes Jane Welihozkiy DIRECTORS TO 2013 Associate Development Director Hassan T. Johnson Byron M. White Sheri Welter Hauck, b’81, Arroyo Scott F. Jones Caitlin M. Wise Grande, California FINANCE Jude H. & Tracey M. Kastens Craig A. Woods Je Kennedy, j’81, Wichita Jodi Nachtigal, Controller David R. Lembke Nicholas W. Woolery Henry Menghini, c’87, Pittsburg Dwight Parman, Senior Vice Mark C. Lissak Neil F. Young President for Finance and Human Christine McMahon Malchow James E. Zimmerman DIRECTORS TO 2014 Resources and Treasurer Douglas C. Miller, b’71, l’74, C. Eric & Karen Simpson Mission HIlls McCurley RECORDS Debbie Foltz Nordling, d’79, Hugoton Bill Green, Sr VP for Information Kenton P. McKee Camille Bribiesca Platz, c’96, g’98, Services Matthew T. & Laura Walter Dallas, Texas Stefanie Shackelford, Vice President Millard Richard E. Putnam, c’77, l’80, for Alumni Records Paul & Kathryn D. Montague Omaha, Nebraska Brook Moody Larry D. Stoppel, c’73, Washington HOSPITALITY SERVICES Ashlee Reid Morehouse Bryan Greve, Senior Vice President DIRECTORS TO 2015 for Hospitality Records Paul L. Carttar, c’76, Lawrence Scott R. Seyfarth, b’83, Hinsdale, Illinois

ISSUE 3, 2011 | 41 Class Notes by Karen G oodell Sarah Brooner, d’63, is a professor 63 of English as a second language at Camden College in Camden, N.J., and a volunteer hospital assessor for Project Kra headquarters in Northeld, Ill. She CURE. She lives in Philadelphia. lives in Atlantic, Iowa. Sara Paretsky, c’67, was named Beth Greathouse Tedrow, d’59, 67 2011 Grand Master by the Mystery 59 recently received an honorary Writers of America. She makes her home Richard Madsen, e’46, a retired membership award from the American in Chicago with her husband, Courtenay 46 Black & Veatch engineer, makes his Association of Collegiate Registrars and Wright. home in Shawnee Mission. Admissions Ocers. She lives in S. Taylor Stephens-Parker, n’67, Garden City. traveled to Japan, Canada and Turkey last Dorothy Brenner Francis, f’48, year with Friendship Force. She works as a 48 and Richard, ’49, make their John Lang, c’60, practices law in consultant in Arlington, Texas. home in Marshalltown, Iowa, where he’s 60 Wamego, where he and Joleen Jilka a retired teacher and a 2009 inductee into Lang, assoc., make their home. Tom Bowser, j’68, recently was the University of Northern Iowa Jazz Hall 68 appointed to the board of manag- of Fame. Dorothy, who has written more Franklin Hamilton, EdD’61, wrote ers at TransforMED. He and Judith Strunk than 75 books, will publish her latest mys- 61 A Basket Full of Christmas Poetry, a Bowser, d’69, live in Olathe. tery novel later this year. collection of the poems he has included in Marty Crump, c’68, g’71, PhD’74, wrote his annual Christmas letters for the past 50 Mysteries of the Komodo Dragon, which Paul Staley, e’49, and his wife, years. He makes his home in Flint, Mich. was published recently. She lives in 49 Kit, recently completed their 21st Tracey West, c’61, retired recently from Flagstaff, where she’s an adjunct professor cross-country driving trip since Paul a 32-year career in military intelligence. of biology at Northern Arizona University. retired from Ford Motor Co. 22 years ago. He lives in Long Beach, Calif. Glenda Hancock Fillingim, d’68, teaches ey live in Monterey, Calif.

Warren Oswalt, ’50, celebrated his 50 90th birthday in February. He lives in Kremlin, Okla., where he’s retired from Rock Island Railroad.

Georgia O’Daniel Baker, j’55, is a 55 professor emerita of theatre arts at Towson University in Baltimore, where she taught costume design for more than 40 years.

Robert Boyd, e’57, divides his 57 time between homes in Steamboat Springs, Colo., and Singapore, where he is a professor at Nanyang Technological University.

Miriam Bierbaum Kapfer, g’58, 58 retired recently as nancial sys- tems manager for Kra Foods Global. Aer earning her PhD at e Ohio State University, she worked as an educator and author, specializing in curriculum design. She then moved to industry, working for a decade in Saudi Arabia for the Arabian American Oil Co. and nearly 20 years at

42 | KANSAS A LUMNI North American Tours Check out these 2011 Flying Jayhawks travel opportunities close to home.

New York Theatre Thanksgiving Tour NOV. 22-26, $2,399 PER PERSON, DOUBLE OCCUPANCY, PRICE INCLUDES AIRFARE FROM KCI (LAND-ONLY PRICE OR AIRFARE FROM OTHER CITIES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST) • Enjoy four nights at the Hilton New York & Towers Hotel • Tickets to two Broadway shows, to be announced based on the Tony Awards • Tickets to the “Christmas Spectacular” at Radio City Music Hall • Thanksgiving dinner and farewell dinner

Mount Rushmore, the Badlands and Black Hills of South Dakota AUG. 14-20, $679 PER PERSON, DOUBLE OCCUPANCY, VALUE MOTORCOACH TOUR DEPARTING FROM TOPEKA, LAWRENCE AND KANSAS CITY • Enjoy six nights’ hotel accommodations • Tour of Deadwood, the former home of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane • Travel the Wildlife Loop Road at Custer State Park • Visit the Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse memorials • See the spectacular Badlands National Park • Ten meals (six breakfasts, four dinners)

New England and Cape Cod Autumn Foliage OCT. 1-8, $2,295 PER PERSON, DOUBLE OCCUPANCY, PRICE INCLUDES AIRFARE FROM KCI (LAND-ONLY PRICE OR AIRFARE FROM OTHER CITIES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST) • See the sights of Boston, including the Freedom Trail and Boston Commons • Ride the Conway Scenic Railroad through New Hampshire’s White Mountains • Cruise Lake Winnipesaukee and ride the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard for a guided tour of the gingerbread cottages • Tour the Vanderbilts’ Breakers Mansion and visit Plymouth Rock • Indulge in a traditional lobster feast on Cape Cod

Smoky Mountains Show Trip DEC. 4-10, $629 PER PERSON, DOUBLE OCCUPANCY, VALUE MOTORCOACH TOUR DEPARTING FROM TOPEKA, LAWRENCE AND KANSAS CITY • Six nights’ lodging, including four consecutive days in the Smokies • Take a guided tour of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park • Enjoy four evening shows: “Christmas at the Opry,” “The Cirque de Chine Show,” “The Smith Family Show,” and “The Hatfield-McCoy Dinner Show” • See two morning shows: “Patty Waszak Morning Show” and “The Blackwood Breakfast Variety Show” • Explore historic downtown Gatlinburg, Tenn., and Lexington’s Henry Clay Estate

For more information and reservation forms, call 785-749-0711 (Lawrence) or 800-382-6700, or visit travellersinc.com or e-mail [email protected] middle school for the Escambia County Robert Mall, c’69, has retired from the School District. She lives in Pensacola, Fla. U.S. Customs Service. He and his wife, Fred Hadley, c’68, is a professor of Vicky, live in Clay Center. chemistry at Rockford College in Rock- Rose Marino, c’69, l’66, g’96, is retired in ford, Ill. Lawrence, where she and her husband, Roger Simmons, c’68, practices law with executive director of the St. Luke’s David Hann, c’70, g’73, make their home. Gordon & Simmons in Frederick, Md. He Hospital Foundation. She lives in Irma Stephens Russell, c’69, g’72, g’74, lives in Bethesda. Overland Park. l’80, is dean of law at the University of Russell Laughead, c’69, is regional vice Montana. She and her husband, Tom, c’68, Bobby Douglass, ’69, was nomi- president of Gulfstream Aerospace. He g’73, g’77, PhD’81, live in Missoula. 69 nated for induction into the 2011 lives in Houston. College Football Hall of Fame. He lives in Jane Llewellyn, n’69, retired earlier this Martin Barber, ’70, lives in Pitts- Lake Forest, Ill. year as chief nursing officer at Rush 70 burg, where he’s vice president of Pamela Gardner Geer, c’69, is associate Medical Center. She lives in Oak Park, Ill. Data Technique.

PROFILE by Terry R ombeck ANA MONT Jayhawk guides former law professor O F George Coggins through Montana law school the Sierra Club. He

encouraged her to apply CH, UNIVERSIT Y or a while as a KU student, Irma to law school.

FStephens Russell wanted to be an “Law is like stories, but DD GOODR I English professor. Instead, she ended up it’s true,” Russell says. TO

an attorney and expert on legal ethics. “These are life stories— SY URTE So it’s only appropriate that she uses they’re important events CO literature to explain the reputation lawyers in people’s lives.” have among some people. She practiced environ- “There’s that old statement in Shake- mental law in Memphis speare: ‘First, let’s kill all the lawyers,’” and eventually became Russell says. “People use it to say lawyers an adjunct professor at have always been disfavored or looked the University of Irma Russell is completing her second year as dean of the School of down on in some way. But the person who Memphis. She moved to Law at the University of Montana. says that is a thug, an anarchist. What he’s the University of Tulsa in really saying is if you want anarchy, you’ll 2006 before accepting want to kill the lawyers.” the Montana job in 2009. Russell, c’69, g’72, d’74, l’80, is complet- Though the lack of women in law dean academic schedule, Russell has remained ing her second academic year as dean of positions has been an issue for universities involved in professional organizations. She the University of Montana School of Law. in the past, Russell says she thinks those is chair of the Association of American Over a 30-year career, she has been both a days may be over. She points to KU Law Schools’ Section on Socio-Economics, successful environmental attorney and a alumna Deanell Tacha, c’68, who recently and she is chair-elect of both the American respected educator, authoring dozens of began as dean of the School of Law at Bar Association’s Section of Environment, publications, including her 2003 book, Pepperdine University. Energy and Resources, and the AALS Issues of Legal Ethics in the Practice of “I don’t think there’s a barrier for Section on Natural Resources. Environmental Law. women anymore,” Russell says. “Law “This has to be a lifelong learning The Pratt native was pursuing her schools look for the best candidate.” mission,” Russell says. “The law is always doctorate in English at KU when she met Despite keeping a busy legal and evolving.”

ISSUE 3, 2011 | 45 David Meagher Jr., c’70, is medical f’73, make their home in Athens, Ga., Army at Fort Bragg, N.C. He lives in Junc- director of pediatric surgery at Children’s where he is retired from a career with tion City. Care Group in Dayton, Ohio. Morton Salt. Terrence Hofstra, c’74, retired recently after a 39-year career with the National David Awbrey, c’71, g’72, teaches Richard Elliott, c’72, is president Park Service. Terry and his wife, Marilyn, 71 social studies at Pipkin Middle 72 of Rich Elliott Productions and a live in Arcata, Calif. School in Springeld, Mo. He wrote A freelance writer. He lives in Winnetka, Ill., Joan Smith Starks, d’74, teaches Journalist’s Education in the Classroom: and is the author of Runners on Running: physical education at Lawrence High e Challenge of School Reform, which e Best Nonction of Distance Running. School. She and her husband, Craig, live in was published recently by Rowman & John Redwine, c’72, a retired physician, Lawrence. Littleeld. lives in Rogers, Ark., with Barbara Stephen Hines, d’71, is a produce Bomgaars Redwine, c’73. Robert MacKenzie, b’75, is prin- associate with Kroger. He lives in Nolens- Stephen Richards, g’72, works as a CPA 75 cipal business process analyst for ville, Tenn., and wrote a book about the with Jarrod Gilmore & Phillips in Iola. He Boston Scientic Corp. He lives in San sinking of the Titanic that will be pub- and Barbara Mattix Richards, d’69, live in Jose, Calif. lished this fall by Sourcebooks. Garnett. Steven Minton, a’75, works as an Donald Horine, e’71, retired last year Charles Spitz, a’72, recently received the architect in Springfield, Mo. after 39 years with George Butler Associ- Silver Antelope Award from the Boy Scouts ates. He lives in Lenexa. of America honoring his many years of Becky Millard Johnson, d’77, Thomas Kunz, PhD’71, recently was service. He and Peggy Hundley Spitz, f’70, 77 serves as a chaplain at Research named the William Fairfield Warren live in Wall Township, N.J. Medical Center in Kansas City. She lives in Distinguished Professor at Boston Shawnee. University. He lives in Wellesley Hills, Pamela Mangelsdorf Bennett, d’73, Robert Rowland, c’77, PhD’83, a Mass. 73 teaches in Shawnee Mission. Her professor of communication studies at Deborah Miller Maxon, c’71, g’73, is home is in Overland Park. KU, co-authored Reagan at Westminster: retired from the Southeast Kansas Educa- Foreshadowing the End of the Cold War, tion Service Center. She lives in Lawrence. Stephen Hadley, d’74, serves as which was published by Texas A&M Mark, e’71, and Hilde Siegmann Willis, 74 deputy safety director for the U.S. University Press. He recently was a

46 | KANSAS A LUMNI ISSUE 3, 2011 | 47 Class Notes featured presenter at the Ronald Reagan elected judge of the 55th District Court in Camouflage Communication in Eudora. Centennial Academic Symposium at the Houston. His novel, The Second Condition, Patrick McAnany, b’80, lives in Lake University of Southern California. was published recently. Quivira and is president of McAnany David Wiker, e’77, is vice president of Construction in Shawnee. engineering at Bibb Engineers, Architects Zoe Floyd Baldwin, j’79, is assistant and Constructors in Kansas City. 79 director of education at the KU Tony Gallardo, c’81, is a develop- Medical Center. She lives in Kansas City. 81 ment associate at Providence St. Mel Max Frazier, d’78, coordinates the Sharon Nodi¡ Cohen, s’79, and her School in Chicago. 78 secondary-education program at husband, Alvin, recently celebrated their Kelly Lyne Irvin, j’81, manages public Newman University, where he also is an 50th anniversary. They live in Leawood. relations for the San Antonio parks associate professor. Max lives in Wichita. Idalia Ruiz Duncan, s’79, is a social and recreation department. Her novel, Joseph Gould, g’78, makes his home in worker with Da Vita. She and her hus- No Child of Mine, will be published this fall. Syracuse. band, Gordon, live in Ozawkie. Elizabeth Eakin Miller, b’81, g’83, g’07, Julie Chubbuck Hamel, c’78, d’79, is Alan Shaw, c’79, lives in Atlanta, where PhD’10, recently became chief investment assistant director of the Alcohol and Other he’s managing director of EPIC. officer for the state of Kansas. She com- Drug Education Service at Kansas State mutes to Topeka from Lawrence. University. She and her husband, Gregory, Barbara Gray Brown, c’80, man- Kristen Olander Palmer, d’81, works as c’78, m’82, live in Chapman. 80 ages stang and recruiting for the a physical therapist for Scottsdale Health Nancy Opel, ’78, lives in New York City, Celgene Corp. in Overland Park. Care. She lives in Phoenix. where she’s an actress and acting coach. Debbie Kennett Hawley, j’80, g’82, owns She was cast as Mama in the Broadway hit Hawleywood Productions and is a regional David Haden, b’82, manages opera- “Memphis,” produced by Randy Adams, account manager for Zowire Marketing in 82 tions for Metro Sports in Kansas g’80. Pittsburg. City. Alberto Ramirez, g’78, is general Mark Johnson, g’80, is vice president of Stacey Leslie Lamb, f’82, works as a manager of human resources for CITGO Easter Seals Vermont. He lives in East master artist at Hallmark Cards in Kansas Petroleum in Houston. He lives in Katy. Calais. City. She and her husband, Brent, c’84, live Je¡rey Shadwick, c’78, recently was William Johnson, c’80, is president of in Lawrence, where he directs computing

48 | KANSAS A LUMNI Diego, where she’s senior wealth advisor Services in Olathe. He lives in Parkville, with Mariner Wealth Advisors. Mo. Elizabeth Pryor, ’83, is an advice guru on ABC TV’s “Good Morning America.” John Hernandez, e’85, commands services for the KU Endowment Her home is in Studio City, Calif. 85 the 184th intelligence wing of the Association. Lori Schwartz, c’83, works as a psychol- Kansas National Guard at McConnell Gyan Shanker, g’82, directs product ogist in Kansas City. AFB. He lives in Wichita. management for Lucent Technologies in Nicholas Zachariades, c’83, recently Ann Kuglin Jones, n’85, g’90, g’99, is Naperville, Ill. became a partner in the Boca Raton, Fla., president and CEO of Health Forward in firm of Duane Morris. He lives in Jupiter. Council Bluffs, Iowa. James Baumann, p’83, is senior 83 account manager for Pzer in Edward Hubert, c’84, g’02, is vice Robert Farnes, c’86, works as Overland Park. 84 president and principal environ- 86 a manager at Tetra Tech in Lisa Massoth Brinig, j’83, lives in San mental scientist with GSI Geotechnical Boulder, Colo.

PROFILE by Kate L orenz TEVE PUPP E graduating, enrolled in an S KCK soccer stadium helps MBA program in football Pierron pitch club to fans management at the Univer- sity of Liverpool. A few years am Pierron, an executive with the after returning with his Sfreshly renamed soccer club Sporting soccer MBA, Pierron was Kansas City, points to last summer’s World enlisted to help keep the Cup as evidence of soccer’s hold on Kansas Wizards in Kansas City City, where crowds filled the downtown when the team was put up party district to watch games on big for sale. screens with thousands of their fellow A local group headed by fans. Cerner Corporation When it comes to soccer, KC is catching co-founders Cliff Illig, b’73, After working to keep Major League Soccer in town, Sam up fast. Though its popularity has grown and Neal Patterson pur- Pierron now directs special projects for the Kansas City team, steadily, Pierron, c’00, whose resumé chased the team in late 2006, which sports a new name and a new home. Sporting Kansas includes a degree in soccer management, and Pierron accepted a job City plays its first game in $200 million Livestrong Sporting saw the biggest leap in 1994, when the in the front office. Now, as Park June 9. World Cup was first widely available on Sporting Kansas City’s U.S. television. special projects liaison, Shortly after that World Cup, Pierron, Pierron collaborates with area fans and other English Premier League clubs are who had just graduated from Olathe international players and clubs. likely visitors, as well as Chivas of South High School, moved to Johannes- “It’s a dynamic environment,” Pierron Guadalajara.” burg, South Africa, where matches from says, “with a demand to explore new Pierron finds Kansas City an interesting around the globe were frequently on TV. concepts in fan experience, player person- center for soccer in North America: “Other By the time he returned from his year nel and sports business practice.” than the group from Mexico, we don’t abroad, Major League Soccer had formed, A custom-built, 18,500-seat stadium, at have big recent immigrant groups.” with a club in KC. Village West in Kansas City, Kan., is the Instead, Pierron says, the local soccer “I ran the team’s website for a year, next step in the club’s evolution. In the culture is homegrown. despite not really knowing how to do it,” June 9 grand opening, Sporting Kansas “With the World Cup Soccer party, we he says, “and I became the first president City will face the Chicago Fire. Pierron showed that we’re holding our own, and of what’s now the Cauldron, a supporters’ hopes future opponents will be soon we’ll have the finest soccer stadium club for Kansas City.” international. in North America.” Pierron wrote a soccer column for the “Manchester United won’t be coming —Lorenz, c’05, is a Lawrence University Daily Kansan, and, after back this year,” Pierron says, “but several freelance writer.

ISSUE 3, 2011 | 49 50 | KANSAS A LUMNI James Pusateri, c’87, is senior vice producer with Enspire. He lives in supporting women in science and engi- 87 president of sales and marketing at Lockhart, Texas. neering. She lives in Tempe. Horizon Bay Retirement Living in Tampa, Huma Shah, j’93, is a litigation attorney Lori Noto, PhD’96, is an assistant Fla. for CNA in Chicago. professor of education at the University of Deborah Slack-Harris, c’87, works as a Stephen Six, l’93, recently was nomi- Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Conn. self-employed spiritual and life director in nated by President Barack Obama to the Craig Smith, e’96, directs engineering Champaign, Ill. U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. for Engineered Systems in Shawnee. He’s a partner in the Lawrence law firm of Heather Switzer Wagner, e’96, is a Christina Kuebler, c’88, is an Stevens & Brand. senior test engineer at JDS Uniphase, and 88 executive assistant at Burns & her husband, Kevin, e’92, g’95, is a senior McDonnell in Kansas City. She lives in Darlene Tsosie Cronin, g’94, is vice president of business development at Overland Park. 94 a special-education transition Aepona. They live in Colorado Springs Yihsiang Kuo, g’88, PhD’02, is an specialist at BIE-Wingate High School. She with their children, Taylor and Madison. associate professor at National Defense and her husband, Jeremiah, g’94, make University in Taichung, Taiwan. their home in Gallup, N.M. BORN TO: Cheryl Thielen Lady, g’88, owns The Bradley Harvey, l’94, is a senior portfo- Irene Prilutsky Shnayder, j’96, and Right Touch in Kansas City. lio manager at UBS Financial Services in Rolan, daughter, Isabel Remy, Dec. 24 in Sue Wilkie Snyder, g’88, directs music at Colorado Springs, Colo. New York City, where she joins a brother, St. Anne’s Episcopal Church in Washougal, Nona Pankonien, s’94, works as a Samuel, 4. Irene is a national account Wash. clinical advocate for Lifesynch. She lives in executive for Clear Channel Outdoor. Terri Johnson Taylor, p’88, manages the Garland, Texas. pharmacy at The Medicine Store in Beloit. Cynthia “Cinnamon” Schultz, c’94, Maria Buszek, g’97, PhD’03, She lives in Kansas City. played Victoria in the 2010 movie “Win- 97 edited Extra/Ordinary: Cra and ter’s Bone,” which was nominated for an Contemporary Art, published by Duke Kevin Martin, c’89, is a marketing Oscar. She and her husband, Brian University Press. She is an associate pro- 89 director at H&R Block in Kansas Paulette, c’98, make their home in fessor of art history at the University of City. Shawnee, where they are both professional Colorado-Denver. Mark Siebert, g’89, chairs the commu- actors. Nathan Orr, c’97, is a proprietary nications department at Grand View David Smith, j’94, a product manager partner at Spencer Fane Britt & Browne in University in Des Moines, Iowa. for Bretford Manufacturing, lives in Kansas City. Chicago. Lynn Walker, c’90, does marketing MARRIED 90 for Capstone Digital in Minneapo- James Coudeyras, e’95, recently Trey McDonald, d’97, to Sharon lis, Minn. 95 was promoted to commander Dodson, Sept. 22. They live in Overland in the U.S. Navy. He lives in Pearl City, Park, and Trey manages property at II & Patrick Hughes, c’91, is president of Hawaii. III Management. 91 Inclusion Solutions in Evanston, Ill. David Hanson, c’95, e’95, directs marketing for Alexandria Research Tim Burnett, c’98, PhD’02, an asso- Michael McGranaghan, e’92, is a Technologies. He lives in Urbandale, Iowa. 98 ciate professor of biology at Empo- 92 senior engineer at Samsung Austin Jennifer Wagner Lynch, m’95, practices ria State University, recently received the Semiconductor. He lives in Austin, Texas. neurology at Ferrell-Duncan Clinic in Undergraduate Campus Faculty Scholar Janice Moore Williams, s’92, does Springfield, Mo. Award from the Kansas IDeA Network of volunteer work in Leavenworth. Biomedical Research Excellence. Jennifer Vannatta Fisher, j’96, co- Jennifer Yeoman Conklin, j’98, is an P.J. Arnold, n’93, is associate direc- 96 directs Vanbors and Associates in assistant managing editor at the Tampa 93 tor of medical aairs for XDX in Overland Park. Tribune. She lives in Bradenton, Fla. Westwood. He and Jackie Notaro Arnold, Meredith Kero¡, c’96, recently was Jodi Faustlin, f’98, is executive director n’91, live in Overland Park. She’s a regis- appointed an account director at Abelson of the McFarland Clinic in Marshalltown, tered nurse at Shawnee Mission Medical Taylor in Chicago. Iowa. Center. Robyn McKay, c’96, PhD’08, recently Aaron Jack, c’98, recently was named Julia Maha¡ey, b’93, l’96, directs received an award for outstanding Kansas Securities Commissioner. He and international benefits for Cummins Inc. in achievement and contributions by the Andrea Gibson Jack, n’01, make their Columbus, Ind. Commission for the Status on Women at home in Andover. Jerry Pharr, c’93, works as a senior Arizona State University for her program Joshua Newville, j’98, is senior counsel

ISSUE 3, 2011 | 51 Class Notes in the Division of Enforcement of the U.S. Castillo, Feb. 18 in Po’ipu, Hawaii. They Securities and Exchange Commission in live in Los Angeles, where Sirena is an New York City. attorney with Manatt, Phelps and Phillips. assoc., daughter, Elsie, Nov. 29. They live Christopher works as an international in Baldwin City. Jason is a regional Ryan Barnhart, d’99, g’01, manages market analyst for Northrop Grumman manager for Cargotec, and Sue is a policy 99 corporate marketing for Shreve- Aerospace Systems in Redondo Beach. and contract specialist for KVC Behavioral port Captains. He lives in Denton, Texas. HealthCare. His book, McKinney, was published by BORN TO: Courtney Kreutzer Payne, j’00, and Arcadia Publishing. Kevan, c’99, and Sarah Miller Meiner- Dylan, daughter, Sophie Woods, Dec. 2 in Joshua Mermis, c’99, is a partner in the shagen, b’01, daughter, Ruby Alice, Dec. Dallas. Houston law firm of Johnson Trent West 23 in Lawrence, where she joins two & Taylor. sisters, Violet and Mia. Kevan manages Brandon Bauer, d’01, l’06, is a Je¡rey Morrison, b’99, g’05, directs technical services for Allen Press, and 01 nancial adviser at Renaissance operations and client development for the Sarah is a human-resources consultant for Financial Corp. in Leawood. He and Anne Lawrence Regional Technology Center in Career Advantage. Hoagland Bauer, c’01, live in Kansas City. Lawrence. Holly Bieker, c’01, works as a therapeu- Tara Mobray Ru¡, c’99, directs scientific Amanda Wooden Gorman, g’00, tic case manager for KVC Behavioral and regulatory affairs at ESM Technolo- 00 commutes from Lenexa to Law- Healthcare in Kansas City. gies. She lives in Carthage, Mo. rence, where she’s an education specialist Lucas Miller, p’01, is assistant pharmacy Michael Schindler, b’99, c’03, works as a with USD 497. manager at Wal-Mart in Joplin, Mo. producer and writer at Rooftop Mind. He Jenifer Boyer Peacock, c’00, is a field Elizabeth Wilson, c’01, works as a lives in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. training specialist with American Fidelity program manager geophysicist at Ideal Jessica Zellermayer, j’99, writes for Assurance in Oklahoma City, Okla. She Innovations in Arlington, Va. WGN-TV in Chicago. lives in Moore. MARRIED MARRIED BORN TO: Lauren Steakley, c’01, to Tucker Brollier, Christopher Long, c’99, g’06, to Sirena Jason Murnane, e’00, g’05, and Sue, Sept. 11 in Oklahoma City, where they live.

52 | KANSAS A LUMNI BORN TO: mand flight surgeon for the U.S. Navy associate at KIPP DC in Washington, D.C. Mark, d’01, l’05, and Anne Murray School of Aviation Safety. He lives in Rachel Emig Simek, l’02, recently Emert, l’05, son, Samuel Thomas, Jan. 6 in Pensacola, Fla. became a partner in the Washington, D.C., Lawrence, where Mark practices law with Robert Flynn, c’02, j’03, l’06, practices law firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon. Fagan Emert and Davis. Anne practices law at Flynn Law Firm in Olathe. law with Stinson Morrison Hecker in Alfred Harris, a’02, works as an architect BORN TO: Kansas City. They live in Lawrence. for Populous in Kansas City. Brett, b’02, and Allison Starr Clark, e’02, Matthew Muller, e’02, is a senior staff daughter, Mallory Jane, Nov. 15 in Allison Abplanalp, c’02, man- software engineer at Motorola Mobility. Wichita. Brett is a tax manager at Koch 02 ages programs and is a scientist at He and Miranda Von Lintel Muller, e’02, Fertilizer, and Allison is a structural Hyperion Biotechnology in San Antonio. live in Lawrence. engineer at Winglet Technology. Amy Augustine, c’02, directs the Erik Roesh, c’02, directs marketing at Jennifer Fiore, f’02, g’05, and John, son, corporate program at Ceres in Boston. Papa John’s in Richmond, Va. Jackson Scott, Dec. 16 in Eudora, where he Walter Dalitsch, g’02, serves as com- Kendra Seaman, c’02, is a recruiting joins a sister, Miranda, 3. Jennifer is a

PROFILE by Whitney E riksen TEVE PUPP E S

Global cuisine served up few clients). Cackler received a textile design degree. Both family style in Lenexa restaurateurs took cooking courses at Johnson County icheline and Mijanou have cooked Community College and Mside by side since Mijanou can traveled to the New York remember, but it was a vacation to Spain Institute for Culinary Educa- that inspired the mother-daughter team to tion for several classes, turn their passion into a career. They including one on opening a would bring international comfort food restaurant. They also spent to the Kansas City metro. Café Augusta countless hours in their home was born. kitchen, experimenting with Mijanou Cackler and Micheline Burger signed the lease on Micheline Zacharias Burger, c’68, g’70, flavors and testing dishes on Café Augusta at the height of the economic collapse, but l’77, immigrated from Germany with a family and friends. have thrived in the restaurant business. “It’s hard when love of European cuisine and a knack for “I hate to say I have a lot of people are looking for three tacos for a dollar,” Burger says. invention that she passed along to her formal training because I “But the café draws its own crowd.” daughter, Mijanou Burger Cackler, f’99. really don’t,” Cackler says. Burger’s grandmother Augusta was a “But we’ve been throwing dinner parties local all-natural ingredients, and a pastry classically trained French cook and began together since I was in grade school.” chef bakes and decorates spectacular cakes the family food tradition that now spans Cackler lives in Lawrence, Burger in in-house. Every Monday there is a new five generations to Cackler’s 4-year-old Olathe, so when they signed the lease on German special and some, like the son, who helps his mom prepare such the Lenexa space in 2008, proximity to Szegediner goulash (boneless pork ribs, feasts as lamb meatballs with korma sauce. home was the priority. They embraced the sauerkraut and apples in paprika cream “My interest has always been European challenge of introducing the town to a sauce), make their way onto the dinner flavors,” says Burger, who refers to the café different type of ethnic cuisine and have menu by popular demand. as a new-world bistro. “Mijanou has enjoyed tailoring the menu to customers’ “That’s the beauty of having our own branched out and learned about South tastes. place instead of a franchise,” Burger says. American, Asian, African and Indian flavor Artfully crafted sandwiches and an “We can experiment and try things and if profiles. We’ve tried to bring those enticing variety of ethnically diverse our customers like it, we bring it back.” together.” dinner entrees headline the ever-changing They plan to expand catering, and Neither woman’s original career path menu, with a few staples, including cooking classes hosted by Cackler would involved food. Burger taught English then curried squash soup and the customer- be icing on the cake—chocolate coconut practiced law for 34 years (and still has a favorite bistro fries. The kitchen stocks curry buttercream, that is.

ISSUE 3, 2011 | 53 Class Notes music therapist at KC Hospice and cial-claims adjuster with Farmers Insur- Palliative Care in Overland Park, and John ance in Chicago. is a business sales manager for Knology in Janel Ikeda, s’05, lives in Liberty, Mo., Lawrence. and is a social worker at the KU Medical Brendan Rineer, c’02, and Lindsay Center in Kansas City. Michalcik, p’03, son, Brendan Rineer, July Michael Kaplan, c’05, develops wind 23 in Hoboken, N.J., where he joins a He lives in Hyattsville. energy at Inveneregy in Chicago, where he sister, Alyssa, 2. Lindsay is a pharmacist at Paul Noce, b’04, is a business-develop- and his wife, Emilie Williams, c’04, make Healthcare Pharmacy in New York City. ment representative at Jeld-Wen. He lives their home. James, c’02, and Jana Smoot White, in Kansas City. Andrea Shores, j’05, manages marketing j’03, c’03, daughter, Delaney Rae, Oct. 7 in Lindsay Poe Rousseau, c’04, j’04, l’08, services for Kuhn & Wittenborn in Kansas Lexington, Ky. works as a management analyst for City. Sedgwick County. She lives in Wichita Robert Tobias, a’05, is deployed in Gage Cobb, c’03, joined the with her husband, Trevor. Kabul, Afghanistan, where he serves in the 03 Omaha, Neb., law rm of Lamson Marissa Rozman, c’04, p’10, is a clinical U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His home Dugan & Murray earlier this year. pharmacist at St. Joseph Medical Center. is in Kansas City. Samantha Finke, s’03, s’04, works as an She lives in Overland Park. Sabrina Warren, c’05, is assistant advance representative for the U.S. Kristen Welborn, g’04, is a family nurse director of annual giving at the University Department of Energy in Washington, practitioner at Kansas City Internal of Southern California in Los Angeles. D.C. Medicine. She lives in Lee’s Summit, Mo. Laurette Book Rutter, b’03, is a staff Christopher Wintering, j’04, works as MARRIED accountant at NCM Associates. She lives in division marketing manager at Farmers Valerie Cole, b’05, and Scott Weber, Overland Park. Insurance in Overland Park. He and Kerry b’07, g’08, Oct. 1 in Lawrence. She’s a Brielle Strohmeyer, c’03, appears in Lowe Wintering, s’06, s’07, live in Mission. senior accounting analyst at the Kauffman national commercial spots for Match.com. She’s a social worker at the Kansas Center for Entrepreneurial Leadersip in She lives in Toluca Lake, Calif. Department of Social and Rehabilitation Kansas City, and he’s a senior associate at Robin Unruh, s’03, works as a counselor Services. CBIZ in Leawood. Their home is in and therapist for Finney County in Olathe. Garden City, where she lives. MARRIED William Cross, j’05, and Ti¡any Smith, Jabari Wamble, d’03, l’06, recently Nicholas Hoyt, e’04, and Jacinta j’08, Jan. 8. They make their home in joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Langford, c’05, Nov. 26 in Lawrence, where Lawrence. District of Kansas in Kansas City. they live. He’s a project engineer for GBA Abigail Herbert, c’05, and Scott Wood, in Lenexa, and she owns LangfordMedia. ’07, June 19 in Kansas City. She’s an MARRIED assistant manager at Nordstrom, and he Aileen Butler, c’03, to Scott Aldis-Wil- BORN TO: works at Wood Oil Co. son, March 4 in Lawrence, where they live. Wendy Helsel-Just, p’04, and Jason, Matthew Mentzer, b’05, l’08, and Anne Keely Malone, d’03, to Cameron daughter, Renly Rose, Jan. 13 in Garden Glavinich, b’06, c’06, g’07, Aug. 14 in Harrison, Oct. 2 in Crested Butte, Colo. City, where she joins a sister, Avery, 4. Shawnee. He works at Chapin Law Firm, She teaches second grade at Nueva School Rosann Blackmore O’Dell, h’04, and and she works at Waddell and Reed. They in Hillsborough, Calif., and he is a medical Brandon, son, Sullivan, Aug. 12 in live in Overland Park. resident at Stanford University. They live Shawnee. in Palo Alto. Ashley Searcy, a’04, son, Hendrix Bodhi Trevor Cropp, e’06, is a civil engi- Searcy-Herman, Oct. 1 in Las Vegas, where 06 neer with Barge Waggoner Sumner BORN TO: Ashley is an intern architect at APTUS. & Cannon. He lives in Olive Branch, Miss. Derek, b’03, and Sarah Patch Klein- Mark Dodd, l’06, recently became mann, j’03, son, Andrew Calvin, Jan. 12 in Kenneth Albers, b’05, is an executive director of the Kansas State Cleveland, Ohio. They live in Lakewood. 05 accountant with Donald Albers Gaming Agency. He lives in Topeka. CPA in Cheney. Kevin Goldstein, j’06, is a senior Steven Burns, p’04, is a sta Andrew Allen, ’05, works as a represen- sales manager for Pardo, a marketing auto- 04 pharmacist at the Salina Regional tative for All-American Associates. He and mation soware company. He lives Health Center in Salina. Kelly Wells Allen, c’07, live in Overland in Atlanta. Andrew Marso, j’04, studies for a Park. She’s a real-estate agent with Reece & Brittany Pickell, f’06, is a designer at master’s at the University of Maryland and Nichols. Manhattan Beach in Cypress, Calif. She is a contributor to the Washington Post. Pamela Engebretsen, c’05, is a commer- lives in Redondo Beach.

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Kimberly Rubenstein, g’06, edits local KU School of Medicine. They live in Scott Cleland, p’07, is a pharmacist at news for the Kitsap Sun in Bremerton, Westwood. Walgreens. He and Alyssa Hill Cleland, Wash. j’05, live in Lenexa. David Stolzer, f’06, works for Nice BORN TO: Adam Ewald, p’07, works as a pharma- Shoes in New York City, where he’s an Kristen Van Saun Toner, l’06, and Ryan, cist at the Mayo Clinic. His home is in innovation group director. daughter, Grace Ann, Dec. 4 in Lawrence, Rochester, Minn. Chris Tschirhart, g’06, manages VDC at where Ryan is an investment specialist at Rebecca Gillam, s’07, coordinates Turner Construction in Kansas City. the KU Endowment Association. Kristen projects at KU. She makes her home in commutes to Kansas City, where she’s an Edwardsville. MARRIED associate with Lathrop & Gage. Kevin Goldstein, j’07, is a senior sales Christopher DeBacker, e’06, l’09, and manager at Pardot in Atlanta. Sarah Schroeppel, c’08, Dec. 18 in Mission Mark Cagle, e’07, works as an Amber Odermann Luckie, b’07, is a Hills. He practices law with Mark Brown 07 analog engineer for ales ATM. commercial banking officer at U.S. Bank in Kansas City, and she’s a student at the He lives in Kansas City. in Lawrence, where she and her husband,

PROFILE by Steven H ill N Kansan recounts his role was chatting with his replacement when MO RGA commander Jim Lovell radioed, “Houston, B RO in space-race drama we have a problem.” Glines also recalls the lan Glines was a high school senior exhausting workload he and his colleagues Aon May 5, 1961, listening to a radio endured in the weeks before the 1967 fire newscast over the intercom at his Indepen- that killed Apollo 1 astronauts Gus dence high school, when Alan Shepard Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, became the first American in space. and the renewed determination everyone By the end of the decade, the United summoned afterward to see the moon States had met President John F. Kennedy’s mission through. grand challenge of landing a man on the “Gene directed us to write on our moon and returning him safely to the blackboards two words to which we must earth, and Glines, e’66, had a front-row aspire and become known: Tough and seat in NASA mission control for all of it. competent. We were never to erase those Glines joined NASA after earning his words,” Glines writes. “And we complied.” electrical engineering degree at KU; he Glines served on the Space Shuttle filled “back room” support roles on the program (with fellow Jayhawks Joe Engle, Gemini project before moving up to flight e’55, and the late Ron Evans, e’55), Skylab “I had reached the center of the universe as far controller for the Apollo missions under and Apollo-Soyuz before leaving NASA in as I was concerned,” Alan Glines says of his job flight director Gene Kranz. 1979 to work three decades in private at NASA mission control during the Gemini Glines’ new memoir, A Kansan Conquers industry. and Apollo space flights. “We flew 20 men in the Cosmos, details his quick rise from He credits an unlikely KU source for 20 months and surpassed the Russians. NASA wide-eyed Kansas high school student to setting the stage for his long aerospace never again matched that accomplishment.” “the center of the universe,” the Manned career: the lighting control console at the Spacecraft Center in Houston, where he University Theatre. On campus for the was part of the space agency’s greatest Midwestern Music and Art Camp in 1959, skills to operate a television camera achievements and some of its darkest Glines jumped at a chance to run stage attached to the lunar rover. moments. lighting for a play. “It looked like we had three men on the Glines worked in the main control room “My affinity for control consoles began moon, but the third man was me in on every moon landing—including there, of all places,” he says, chuckling. “It mission control,” Glines says, “pushing Shepard’s Apollo 14 mission. As INCO wasn’t that much different from mission buttons to pan, zoom and tilt the TV (integrated communications officer) for control.” camera watching the astronauts work on Apollo 13, he had just gotten off work and Years later, he would use his theatre the surface of the moon.”

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Ryan, c’09, make their home. Marshall Hollis, p’08, is president and Williams, ’11, May 29 in Lawrence, where Gagandeep Somal, g’07, is a scientist at CEO of Hollis Pharmacy Inc. He lives in they live. He’s a community support Abbott Labs in Worcester, Mass. Ripley, Miss. services case manager at Bert Nash Barbara Haney Stroble, c’07, works as a Jacob Keplar, c’08, a first lieutenant in Community Mental Health Center, and juvenile intake specialist with Johnson the U.S. Army, recently received a Bronze she’s a pharmacy intern at CVS Pharmacy County Court Services. She lives in Spring Star from Gen. David Petraeus, com- in Shawnee. Hill. mander of the U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, Hillary Frost, j’08, and Robert Carter, for meritorious service. His home is in j’08, Oct. 15 in Kansas City. They live in MARRIED Rosalia. Prairie Village. Sara White, ’07, and Chase Gudenkauf, Carey Krovatin, c’08, lives in Overland Sarah Hanney, b’08, and Tyson Corley, b’10, Sept. 4 in Lawrence, where they live. Park, where she’s an associate account ’09. Feb. 12 in Wichita, where they live. She’s an intake specialist at TFI Family manager for DH Pace Facilities Group. Jan Meyer, g’08, to Jason Rupert, Oct. Services in Topeka, and he’s a credit Zachary Lerner, l’08, is an associate with 23 in Havelock, N.C. They live in Raleigh, analyst for People’s Bank in Olathe. the San Francisco law firm of Wilson where she teaches third grade at Joyner Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Elementary School, and he works for BORN TO: Jason McGlynn, b’08, works as a Clark/Nexsen Architecture and Elizabeth Hafoka, l’07, and Tevita, financial analyst at ONEOK Plaza in Engineering. daughter, Layla Ilisa, Jan. 10 in Lawrence, Tulsa. Jyl Unruh, j’08, c’08, to Aaron Hall, Oct. where she joins a brother, Havea. Elizabeth Nancy Nygard Pilon, PhD’08, is execu- 10 in Hutchinson. They live in St. George, is an assistant district attorney in the tive director of the Incarnation Center in Utah, where Jyl edits copy for The Spec- Johnson County District Attorney’s Office, Ivoryton, Conn. trum and Aaron is dispatch system and Tevita works for the Douglas County Mark Terry, g’08, commutes from Lee’s controller for SkyWest. Sheriff’s Office. Summit, Mo., to Olathe, where he’s deputy chief of Johnson County’s emergency BORN TO: Wilmar Losch Bergmann, s’08, is medical services. Jacob, d’08, and Brittany Claassen 08 a social worker at Via Christi Vil- MARRIED Sacks, b’08, g’09, daughter, Stella Noel, lage. She lives in Arma. MacKenzie Crawford, c’08, and Paige Dec. 31 in Lawrence. Jacob manages

58 | KANSAS A LUMNI July 17 in Colorado Springs. They live in Kevin Bailey, c’11, lives in Wash- Charleston, S.C., where he serves as a first 11 ington, D.C., where he’s a congres- lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. sional liaison to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. BORN TO: Peter Braithwaite, c’11, recently was Karen Christensen Buhler, d’09, and appointed 2nd Ward alderman in Evan- Internet sales for Crown Automotive, and Adam, ’12, son, Everett Mann, June 21 in ston, Ill. He’s a case manager at the Brittany is a senior tax accountant with Lawrence. Karen commutes to Gardner, Association House of Chicago. Marks Nelson CPA. where she’s a teacher with USD 231. John Clark III, PhD’11, is an associate research scientist for Pearson in Tulsa, Morgan Bell, j’09, coordinates real Courtney Carabello, c’10, a’10, is an Okla. He lives in Jenks. 09 estate and business development 10 architect with HNTB. She lives in Laura Kelly, j’11, works as an event for the Platte County Economic Develop- Hoboken, N.J. planning and marketing intern for the ment Council in Kansas City. Tina Coop, e’10, is a process engineer Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute. Emily Chadwick, s’09, is program with CRB Consulting Engineers in Kyle Logan, c’11, coordinates group coordinator at Hospital Hospitality House Kansas City. sales for the Oklahoma City Redhawks. in Nashville, Tenn. Ramsey Cox, j’10, reports for The Hill in Amanda Throw Santos, ’11, is a Kevin Choe, g’09, directs facility Washington, D.C., where he lives. marketing coordinator for Sunlite Science management for Cornerstones of Care in Natalie Dallman, h’10, works as a and Technology in Lawrence. Kansas City. solution delivery consultant for Cerner in Michael Siegele, ’11, works as a Jordan Ehrlich, g’09, develops software Kansas City. financial representative for Northwestern for Harris School Solutions. He lives in Christopher Grenz, l’10, is an associate Mutual in Kansas City. Wichita. with Bryan Cave in Kansas City. John Fitzgerald, f’09, is an industrial Robert Landers, d’10, founded and is designer for Otterbox. He lives in Fort president of the Equip Us Foundation in Collins, Colo. Atlanta. School Codes Letters that follow names Betty Kaspar, j’09, coordinates Philip Livanec, PhD’10, is a senior indicate the school from which alumni earned marketing programs and events for chemist at Halliburton in Houston. degrees. Numbers show their class years. iModules Software. She lives in Timothy McClintock, e’10, works as an Overland Park. engineer at Samsung. He lives in Round a School of Architecture, Ryan Lawler, c’09, lives in Dallas, where Rock, Texas. Design and Planning he’s a senior budget analyst for the city. Amy Pierce McGown, p’10, is a staff b School of Business Patrick Lewallen, c’09, appears as Lonny pharmacist at Wal-Mart. She lives in c College of Liberal Arts in the national touring company of the Pittsburg. and Sciences Broadway musical “Rock of Ages.” His Dustin Mead, c’10, works as general d School of Education home is in Overland Park. manager of Mead Farms in Lewis. e School of Engineering Jessica Puljan, b’09, is a unit manager at Todd Reesing, b’10, c’10, is an associate f School of Fine Arts Altria Sales & Distribution. She lives in with Dimensional Fund Advisors in g Master’s Degree Little Rock, Ark. Austin, Texas. h School of Allied Health Mellody Ainsworth Riley, s’09, is a social Tara Rodgers, c’10, is an executive j School of Journalism worker at the KU Medical Center. She lives assistant for the Wichita Area l School of Law in Pleasant Valley, Mo. Association of Realtors. She lives in m School of Medicine Alyson Rodee, c’09, directs scheduling Rose Hill. n School of Nursing for the Office of the State Treasurer in Daniel Szlauderbach, j’10, writes p School of Pharmacy Topeka. She lives in Kansas City. proposals for KPMG in New York City. PharmD School of Pharmacy Angela Verbenec, c’10, works as an s School of Social Welfare MARRIED administrative assistant for Waddell & u School of Music Caitlin Shanks, c’09, and Brett Court- Reed in Missoula, Mont. DE Doctor of Engineering ney, e’09, Sept. 18 in KU’s Danforth DMA Doctor of Musical Arts Chapel. She studies law at the University MARRIED EdD Doctor of Education of Chicago, and he works for WMA Danielle LeFever, l’10, to William PhD Doctor of Philosophy Consulting Engineers. They live in Crowder, Aug. 13 in Keuka Park, N.Y. She (no letter) Former student Chicago. is a JAG in the U.S. Air Force, and they are assoc Associate member of the Shelby Stice, c’09, to William Pringle, stationed at Aviano AFB, Italy. Alumni Association

ISSUE 3, 2011 | 59 In Memory March 13 in Paola. She is survived by two daughters, one of whom is Elizabeth, c’85; a son, omas, ’85; and a brother. Alfred Egbert, e’44, 87, Jan. 10 in Sun City, Ariz. He worked for TWA in Kansas Wendell Holmes, b’28, 103, Jan. include two daughters; a brother, Philip City for 41 years. Survivors include his 20 14 in Tryon, N.C., where he was Stevens, c’50, m’54; a grandson; and a wife, Elinor Kline Egbert, n’47; a son; and retired aer practicing law in Hutchinson great-granddaughter. a daughter. for many years. He was former president Catherine “Kay” Penner Kruse, c’36, Howard Engleman, b’41, l’48, 91, Jan. 12 of the KU Alumni Association’s national 95, March 11 in Twin Falls, Idaho. She in Salina, where he was a retired attorney Board of Directors and had received had been corporate secretary-treasurer of with Litowich, Royce and Hampton. While the Fred Ellsworth Medallion and the the Brock Hotel Corporation for 24 years. at KU, he was an All-American basket- School of Business Distinguished Alumni Surviving are two sons, one of whom is ball player, and he coached the Jayhawks Award. Survivors include two daugh- Philip, ’61; a daughter; four grandchildren; when Phog Allen was injured in 1947. His ters, Sally Holmes McPherson, c’62, and and two great-grandchildren. jersey was retired in 2003. A memorial Nancy, c’59; two granddaughters; and six Thomas Trigg, ’38, 95, Jan. 8 in Natick, has been established with the KU Endow- great-grandchildren. Mass., where he was a retired banker. He ment Association. He is survived by his is survived by ve daughters, one of whom wife, Mary Beth Dodge Engleman, ’42; a Charles Arthur, b’39, l’47, 93, Feb. is Gayle Trigg Hoshour, j’72; 14 grandchil- son; two daughters, Ann Engleman North, 30 16 in Manhattan, where he was dren; and 28 great-grandchildren. d’69, and Mary Engleman Kemmer, c’76, Riley County attorney and Manhattan city g’79; and three grandchildren. commissioner. He served in the Kansas Lorraine Lensink Adams, c’48, 90, Willis Fankhauser, p’42, 91, Feb. 6 House of Representatives, where he was 40 Feb. 13 in Grange Park, Ill. She in Green Valley, Ariz. He owned and speaker of the House, and in the Kansas is survived by her husband, Roger, e’50, operated a drug store in Lyons for many Senate. He is survived by his wife, Ann g’60; three sons, one of whom is Scott, years. He is survived by his wife, Helen; Bowen Arthur, c’42; three sons, Terry, b’67, c’73, g’75; two daughters, one of whom is two daughters, Pamela Fankhauser l’69, Robert, c’70, and omas, c’78; two Alison Adams Tappan, c’78; a brother; a Conrad, d’70, g’72, and Martha, c’72, daughters, one of whom is Cynthia Arthur sister; and seven grandchildren. p’74; four grandchildren; and four Sheen, c’73; a brother; 14 grandchildren; Andrew Bertuzzi, e’48, g’52, 86, Feb. 9 great-grandchildren. and eight great-grandchildren. in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he was a Austin Harmon, f’48, 84, March 12 in Marjorie Baer Bailey, c’37, 94, April 25 retired manager of petroleum engineering Kansas City, where he was former presi- in Plainville. Two sons, a granddaughter at Phillips Petroleum, where he worked for dent of Harmon Smith Advertising. He and two great-grandchildren survive. 37 years. He is survived by his wife, Betty, also served as mayor of Prairie Village, Isabel Waring Buehler, c’35, 96, Nov. 4 a son, a daughter and two grandchildren. where a park is named for him. Surviving in Overland Park. She lived in Ellsworth Paul Carpenter, c’47, m’50, 86, Jan. 20 are his wife, Barbara, a son, a stepson, a for many years and is survived by a son, in Kansas City, where he was a retired gen- brother and three grandchildren. Jay, e’64, b’64; a sister, Jane Waring Nessel- eral and thoracic surgeon. A memorial has Warren Hinton, c’49, 88, Nov. 11 in rode, a’40; and three grandchildren. been established with the KU Endowment Amity, Mo. He was former admistrator of Barbara Boswell Collins, c’39, 92, Jan. Association. He is survived by his wife, Methodist Hospital in St. Joseph and had 24 in Kansas City. She is survived by two Frances Lawrence Carpenter, f’47; two been president of the Missouri Hospital daughters, Barbara Collins Kenton, f’75, daughters, one of whom is Kate Carpenter Association. He is survived by his wife, g’79, and Patricia Collins Byall, f’67; a Nagorney, ’72; three sons, two of whom Patricia, a daughter, a son, a sister and ve son, Bruce, d’77; a sister, Jean Boswell are Michael, l’84, and David, ’87; 10 grand- grandchildren. Jones, c’41; six grandchildren; and two children; and six great-grandchildren. Marion Miller Hitt, g’49, d’68, 84, Jan. great-grandchildren. Robert Corber, e’46, 84, Jan. 25 in Wil- 9 in Overland Park. She lived in Lenexa Basil Covey, c’38, g’47, g’54, 95, Jan. liamsburg, Va. He had been a senior part- and had worked as a research chemist, 9 in Topeka, where he was retired aer ner in the Washington law rm of Steptoe teacher and lab supervisor. She is survived 42 years as a teacher and administrator. and Johnson and had headed the Interstate by her husband, Dick, b’49; a daughter; Surviving are his wife, Mabel, a son, a Commerce Commission from 1974 to a sister; two granddaughters; and three daughter and a granddaughter. 1976. Surviving are his wife, Deborah; two great-grandchildren. Marie Stevens Huey, c’37, 95, Jan. 6 in daughters, one of whom is Janet Corber Jo Ann Teed Hudlow, d’44, 87, Jan. 15 Tonganoxie. Before her retirement, she Link, c’72; two sons; a stepson; a brother; a in Chattanooga, Tenn., where she was was a teacher and principal for 23 years in sister; and two grandchildren. active in community aairs. She is sur- Colorado, Montana and Oregon. Survivors Viola Knoche Davidson, c’41, 92, vived by a daughter; a son; a sister, Nancy

60 | KANSAS A LUMNI Teed Shears, c’54; and two grandchildren. dren; and 18 great-grandchildren. Marjorie Heard Franklin, e’56, 75, Feb. Beth Weir Jones, c’41, 91, Nov. 2 C.E. Russell Jr., b’43, l’48, 90, March 1 1 in Overland Park. She lived in Prairie in San Diego. She lived in Prairie Vil- in Lawrence, where he lived. He practiced Village, where she co-owned Franklin lage for many years and is survived by law in Wellington until 2003 and had been Associates. She was inducted into the a son, two daughters, 11 grandchil- city attorney for more than 40 years. A KU Women’s Hall of Fame and in 2003 dren; 13 great-grandchildren; and two memorial has been established with the she received KU’s Distinguished Engi- great-great-grandchildren. KU Endowment Association. Surviving neering Service Award. A memorial has Edward Jones, m’44, 93, Jan. 3 in are his wife, Joan Taggart Russell, c’43; been established with the KU Endow- Kansas City. He practiced medicine for two daughters, Sheryl Russell Aydelott, ment Association. She is survived by 35 years in Harrisonville, Mo. Surviving s’96, and Cara Russell Connelly, f’71; three her husband, William, e’56; a son, Mark, are his wife, Jean Boswell Jones, c’41; a sons, two of whom are Marshall, e’74, a’75, ’81; a daughter; a sister, Carolyn Heard daughter; a son, Bradley, j’76; six grand- and Christopher, b’81; six grandchildren; Berg, d’63; four grandchildren; and seven children; two stepgrandchildren; and four and ve great-grandchildren. great-grandchildren. great-grandchildren. Frances Schloesser Sifers, c’45, 87, Kenton Granger, b’59, 74, Jan. 13 Mary Peterson Koenig, ’42, 91, Sept. Dec. 14 in Mission Hills. She was active in Kansas City, where he was a retired 9 in Sun City, Ariz. She is survived by with Meals on Wheels and was a docent attorney and commercial developer. He two sons, John, e’69, and James, ’81; three at the Nelson Atkins Museum. She is was a life trustee at Ottawa University, daughters; 11 grandchildren; and 17 survived by a son, Earl “Tuck,” c’70; two where the president’s home is named for great-grandchildren. daughters; a brother, Lee Schloesser, him. Surviving are his wife, Carol; two William Ne¡, j’49, 84, Nov. 27 in Sun c’48, m’51; 15 grandchildren; and two daughters, one of whom is Sarah, ’94; and City, Ariz., where he was retired aer great-grandchildren. a granddaughter. operating Ne Printing in Mission for Doris Turner Strawn, c’43, 89, Jan. 7 in William Hausler Jr., c’51, g’53, PhD’58, many years. He is survived by his wife, Crawfordsville, Ind., where she worked at 84, March 10 in Naples, Fla. He lived Janet Severin Ne, c’58; three daughters, the Crawfordsville District Public Library in Iowa City, and he was a professor of one of whom is Sarah Ne Johnson, h’75; and helped establish a library at Hoover preventive medicine and oral pathology at two stepdaughters, one of whom is Dana School. A memorial has been established the University of Iowa. He is survived by Andrew, ’93; seven grandchildren; and with the KU Endowment Association. She his wife, Lois; a daughter, Cheryl Hausler seven great-grandchildren. is survived by her husband, Richard; a son; Johnson, c’78; two sons, one of whom is Ralph “Tom” O’Neil, e’47, b’48, 88, a daughter; and several grandchildren and Eric “Rick,” c’83; and 13 grandchildren. Jan. 14 in Barrington, Ill., where he was great-grandchildren. John Hibbard, c’59, PhD’70, 73, Jan. retired from a career with Standard Oil. Joel Fant Trout, c’45, 87, Jan. 12 in 12 in Leawood. He worked at Marion He is survived by two daughters; a son; Ponca City, Okla., where she was active in Laboratories and later formed his own a brother, Robert, c’44, m’45; and eight community aairs. A daughter, a son, ve rm, J & A Companies. A memorial has grandchildren. grandchildren and a great-granddaughter been established with the KU Endowment Donald Ong, c’47, 85, Feb. 7 in Kansas survive. Association. He is survived by his wife, City, where he founded Ong Building Wallace Winters, b’49, 87, Feb. 25 in Ann Stingley Hibbard, f’59; a daughter, Corp. He is survived by four daughters, Kansas City, where he was retired oce Marie Hibbard Porter, c’88, g’91; a son; one of whom is Teresa Ong Talley, f’80; services manager for Western Auto Supply. and two grandchildren. three sons; 15 grandchildren; and three He is survived by two daughters, one of James Houghton, b’52, l’54, 80, Feb. great-grandchildren. whom is Christy Winters Best, ’72; a son; 24 in Tulsa, Okla., where he was a nation- Stanley Porter, b’46, 92, Feb. 11 in and two grandchildren. ally recognized authority on oil and gas Southern Pines, N.C. He was retired vice taxation and a retired partner in Ernst and president of Arthur Young and author Richard Croker, l’59, 81, Jan. 21 Young. He is survived by his wife, Barbara of Petroleum Accounting Practices, the 50 in Nashville, Tenn. He was retired Bowdish Houghton, b’54; a daughter; two denitive text on oil and gas nance and associate general counsel at Sprint in sons; and ve grandchildren. accounting. He is survived by two sons, Kansas City. Surviving are his wife, Suzie Barbara Jean Emmett Maxwell, l’51, one of whom is Scott, b’75, g’76; and four Glanville Croker, d’57; three sons, two g’68, 88, Feb. 23 in Salina. She taught in grandchildren. of whom are Richard Jr., ’79, and Joseph, the Lawrence public schools for 30 years Charles Prather, b’42, 90, Feb. 6 in c’87, g’90; and six grandchildren. and was instrumental in organizing a Overland Park. He was retired president Sam Elliott, c’50, 82, Feb. 23 in Kansas competitive high-school girls’ athletics of Gulf Coast Savings in Richmond, Texas. City, where he was a retired loan ocer at program at Lawrence High School. She is Surviving are his wife, Shirley Kernodle Blue Hills Bank of Commerce. He is sur- survived by a son, Scott, ’80; two daugh- Prather, ’44; a daughter, Rebecca Prather vived by his wife, Barbara, two daughters, ters, Karen Maxwell Kessler, d’69, and Laughlin, g’93; two sons; 10 grandchil- a sister and two granddaughters. Kristin Maxwell Gunn, d’72; eight grand-

ISSUE 3, 2011 | 61 In Memory children; and three great-grandchildren. Surviving are his wife, Joan, two sons, two Kansas City, where he was a retired opera- Robert Newell, a’58, 81, Dec. 12 in daughters, nine grandchildren and ve tions ocer at United Missouri Bank. He Lee’s Summit, Mo., where he was a retired great-grandchildren. is survived by his wife, Frances, assoc.; two architect. He is survived by his wife, Glenn Vernon, b’50, 83, Feb. 28 in daughters; a son; and four grandchildren. Roberta Canada Newell, assoc.; two sisters; Topeka, where he was retired vice presi- Elaine Simons Morton, d’61, 71, Feb. and a brother. dent of marketing at Adams Business 20 in Lawrence, where she was a retired Rosemary Heiny Pascale, c’54, 79, Feb. Forms. Survivors include his wife, Kay; teacher. A memorial has been established 14 in Port Washington, N.Y. She is sur- two daughters, one of whom is Julie, with the KU Endowment Association. vived by a son; a daughter; two brothers, c’89; three sons; a stepdaughter, Mary Among survivors are a son, Kenny, c’87; a one of whom is Richard Heiny, e’50; and Streepy Nitcher, c’76; two stepsons, one daughter, Sarah Anne Morton Riggs, c’92; four grandchildren. of whom is Robert Streepy, c’73, l’76; and four grandsons. H. Thomas Payne, c’54, l’57, 80, Feb. a sister; 17 grandchildren; and eight John O’Connell, d’61, 71, Feb. 23 in 28 in Stilwell. He practiced law for many great-grandchildren. Topeka, where he was choral and band years at Payne & Jones and served as M. Dean Wells, b’52, 80, March 17 in director at Seaman High School and an Olathe city attorney, president of the Great Bend, where he was an independent agent with American United Life Insur- Olathe Rotary Club, a board member of oil and gas producer. He is survived by ance. A brother, William, c’60, g’62, and a the Journal of the Kansas Bar Association his wife, Sue; ve sons, four of whom are sister survive. and an advisory board member of the KU Scott, b’75, Mark, c’80, g’82, Brett, ’89, and Margaret “Peg” Redpath Phelps, d’68, Natural History Museum. He is survived Blake, b’89; two daughters; 15 grandchil- 89, March 1 in Prairie Village. She was a by three daughters, Kimberly, c’81, Melissa dren; and a great-grandson. former Lawrence resident and had worked Payne Schaer, j’83, and Catherine, ’93; for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. and two granddaughters. Patrick Baude, c’64, l’66, 67, Jan. She is survived by two daughters, April Joe Strong, b’52, 79, Nov. 22 in 60 26 in Bloomington, where he was Phelps Baughman, d’68, and Jane Phelps Nashville, where he served as mayor and a professor of law at Indiana University. Dimmel, d’73; two sons, David, e’75, and had owned Strong’s Insurance Agency. He is survived by his wife, Julia, two sons, Chris, ’76; a sister; 10 grandchildren; and He is survived by his wife, Martha; three two daughters and three grandchildren. three great-grandchildren. daughters, two of whom are Kathy Strong P. Stephen Crow Jr., p’64, 70, Oct. 22 Larry Raney, b’65, 68, Feb. 1 in Over- Hansen, c’81, and Sandra Strong Kistler, in Topeka, where he was former director land Park. He was a public accountant and b’89; and ve grandchildren. of pharmacy at St. Francis Hospital and later had worked for Intelligent Market- Kenneth Swedlund, b’50, 88, Jan. 4 in former owner of Carbondale Pharmacy. ing Solutions in Grandview, Mo. He is Overland Park, where he had owned J. He is survived by his wife, Joan; two sons, survived by his wife, Patricia Brady Raney, Lester Brown Realtors. Surviving are two one of whom is Brad, ’95; two brothers; b’64; a son; a daughter; two sisters; two daughters, one of whom is Vicki Sedlund, and three grandchildren. brothers; and ve grandchildren. ’79; a son; two sisters; a brother; and two Judith Satterfield Henderson, d’62, Vernon Scholes, PhD’61, 82, May 13, grandchildren. g’73, 70, Feb. 4 in Lawrence, where she 2010, in Las Vegas, where he was a former Evelyn Scott Swyers, d’59, 73, March taught French at Lawrence High School distinguished professor of immunology. 13 in Wichita. She is survived by her for 30 years. She had received several He had been a visiting professor at the husband, Charles, ’60; two sons, Scott, fellowships to study in France, and she University of the West Indies Medical c’91, and Chris, b’95; a sister; and two coached high-school volleyball and School. Surviving are his wife, Sandra, two grandchildren. cross-country track. A memorial has been sons, a daughter, ve grandchildren and a Clyde Tucker, c’51, m’55, 82, June established with the KU Endowment great-grandchild. 30 in Highlands Ranch, Colo. He was Association. Survivors include her hus- Ann Barrett Wentz, d’69, g’86, EdD’97, retired director of medical services at band, Conrad, c’60, d’61, g’70; a daughter, 65, Nov. 5 in Prairie Village. She was the University of Colorado. Surviving Kristen Henderson Dakota, c’87; a son, retired from Park University’s School of are his wife, Carol Dunn Tucker, c’50; Patrick, f’94; a brother; a sister; and four Education and had taught at Lawrence two sons; a daughter; four grandchil- grandchildren. High and Hocker Grove Middle School. dren; two stepgrandchildren; and two R. Vaughn Kimbrough, g’60, 83, Feb. 21 Survivors include her husband, R. David, great-grandchildren. in Leavenworth, where he owned Vaughn c’67, l’70; a son, David, c’89, l’92; a daugh- Keith Van Horn, e’50, 83, Nov. 10 in Kimbrough Realty and Kimbrough ter; three sisters, two of whom are Susan Corpus Christi, Texas, where he was Construction. He is survived by his wife, Barrett Whitenight, d’73, and Nancy Bar- retired regional manager of production Patricia; a son, Rick, c’74; two daughters, rett Busija, c’78; and six grandchildren. for Cities Service Oil/Occidental Petro- one of whom is Jill Kimbrough Re, j’77; leum. He later owned and operated JK two brothers; and eight grandchildren. Levada Wilson Armstrong, s’71, Pecan Orchard in Gardendale, Texas. Richard Kost, b’66, 72, Jan. 25 in 70 86, Feb. 11 in Wichita, where she

62 | KANSAS A LUMNI was a retired social worker at Veterans Elaine Smokewood, g’80, 55, Jan. 11 in foot, c’66; a daughter; 10 grandchildren; Administration Medical Center and Harry Augusta. She taught English at Oklahoma and ve great-grandchildren. Hynes Memorial Hospice. Surviving are City University from 1996 until 2010, Marvin Dunn, c’50, m’54, 83, Feb. 16 in four sons, two of whom are Jay, ’81, and when she was honored as the university’s Kansas City, where he was head of cardiol- Jon, ’81; a daughter; a brother; 14 grand- Teacher of the Year. She is survived by her ogy at the KU Medical Center for more children; and seven great-grandchildren. parents, Darrell and Margaret, and her than 30 years. A memorial has been estab- James Borders, e’77, 59, March 1 in twin sister. lished with the KU Endowment Associa- Albuquerque, N.M., where he was retired tion. He is survived by a son; a daughter, from a long career with Pittsburg and Aaron Cooksey, g’94, 41, Jan. 23 in Marilyn Dunn-Small, l’90; a brother; a Midway Coal Mining. He is survived by 90 Franklin, Tenn., where he man- sister; and two grandchildren. two daughters; a son; a brother, Michael, aged retirement plans for Freescale Semi- James Hitt, c’34, g’36, 96, Jan. 14 in b’69; two sisters, Barbara Borders Kapp, conductor. He is survived by his parents, Lawrence, where he was registrar emeri- f’71, g’73, g’77, PhD’79, and Belinda Gerald and Twyla, a brother, a sister and tus at KU. Survivors include a daughter, Borders Smiley, c’76; and three grandsons. his grandmother. Nancy Hitt Clark, f’69; a son, Alan, c’67; Leslie Timmins Campbell, b’70, Adrianne Harris, c’95, 37, Feb. 15 in a brother; three grandchildren; and two 64, March 3 in Boca Raton, Fla. She Wichita. She is survived by her parents, great-grandchildren. is survived by her husband, John, her Bobbie and Willie Lee, three brothers and Edward Manning, ’86, 68, March 4 in parents, two daughters, a sister and ve her grandmother. Keller, Texas. He played basketball in the grandchildren. Stacey Winger, e’92, 41, June 1 in NBA and the ABA and was assistant coach Patricia Prellberg Carterette, d’75, 59, Colleyville, Texas. He was an aerospace at North Carolina AT&T before becoming Jan. 12 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She is engineer at Bell Helicopter in Hurst. Sur- assistant coach at KU under head coach survived by her husband, Bob; two sons; a viving are his wife, Shanna Hill-Winger, Larry Brown. During his tenure at KU, the daughter; her mother; three brothers, one d’93; two daughters; a son; his parents; Jayhawks won the 1988 national cham- of whom is Frederick Prellberg, c’88; and three sisters; and two brothers, one of pionship. He later was an NBA assistant a sister. whom is Je, e’82. coach with the San Antonio Spurs and an Angela Sommer Lockhart, c’77, 58, Jan. NBA scout. Among survivors are his wife, 22 in Lawrence. She had been an oce Dawn Grier Smith, c’03, 31, Feb. Joan; two sons, one of whom is Danny, manager at Charter Counseling Center. 00 21 in Kansas City. She lived in c’92; a daughter, Dawn Manning Down- Surviving are a daughter; a son; three sis- Lawrence and had worked for Victory ing, c’04; a stepson; a stepdaughter; and 11 ters, one of whom is Janet Sommer Camp- Campus Ministries. She is survived by her grandchildren. bell, d’79; a brother; and a granddaughter. husband, Austin, c’08; her mother and Dennis Quinn, 82, March 15 in Eudora. Daniel Mayo, c’75, 59, March 13 in stepfather; her father and stepmother; and He taught in the English department at Kansas City. He had been a lighting direc- her grandparents. KU from 1956 until retiring as a profes- tor and road manager for music artists. He sor in 2006. He co-founded the Integrated is survived by his parents, Joe and JoAnn, THE UNIV ERSITY COMMUNITY Humanities Program with professors a brother and a sister. Federico Adler, m’61, 82, Feb. 28 in Franklyn Nelick and John Senior. He is Joseph Sears Jr., c’70, 64, in Basehor. Prairie Village. He taught surgery at the survived by two daughters, Monica Quinn He worked in the human-relations depart- KU Medical Center for more than 50 years Sercer, ’79, and Alison, ’84; a son, Timo- ment at Hallmark Cards. Surviving are two and later practiced in the orthopedic clinic thy, d’80, g’86; two brothers; 11 grandchil- sons, one of whom is Joseph III, ’94; two at the Veterans Administration Medical dren; and two great-grandchildren. sisters, Karen Sears Vertreese, d’64, and Center. A memorial has been established James Seaver, 92, March 14 in Michele Sue Sears Keller, d’66; and four with the KU Endowment Association. Lawrence. He had hosted the Kansas grandchildren. Two daughters, six grandchildren and two Public Radio program “Opera Is My great-grandchildren survive. Hobby” since 1952. He taught history at Christopher Ottinger Sr., m’89, 47, Howard Baumgartel, ’51, 90, Feb. 12 KU from 1947 until his retirement in 1992 80 Jan. 30 in Overland Park, where he in Albuquerque, N.M. He taught in the and for nearly three decades headed the practiced medicine. He is survived by his psychology department and the business Western Civilization program. He received wife, Jill Cross Ottinger, p’87; two daugh- school at KU, where he started the human- the 2002 Fred Ellsworth Medallion for ters; two sons; his parents, Curtis, e’49, relations program. He also served as an service to KU. A former captain of the and Cecilia, assoc.; and a brother. assistant dean in the College of Arts and Stanford tennis team, he coached the KU Anita Vollmer Siefert, b’84, 49, July Sciences. A memorial has been established men’s team to a Big Seven Championship. 31 in Gahanna, Ohio. Surviving are her with the KU Endowment Association. He He is survived by his wife, Virginia, assoc.; husband, Steve, four sons, her mother, two is survived by ve sons, two of whom are and three sons, one of whom is Richard, sisters and a grandson. Charles Kerfoot, c’66, and William Ker- d’73, g’74.

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former poet laureate of Kansas. “I didn’t house Harper & Row. He went on to write want an academic dissection; I wanted more than 60 books and serve a 15-year Home works ENT WIXON.

larger human considerations, what he term as Oregon poet laureate. IN C Staord’s Kansas poems reflect meant to people and the literature of the The 56 poems collected here are not all E, V central role of state state and the nation.” of Stafford’s “home poems” (those Essays by Low; Thomas Fox Averill, c’71, controlled by Harper & Row cost too

in poet laureate’s work g’74; Robert Day, c’64, g’66; Caryn much to reprint, Low says), but they create EL DORADO HOM

Mirriam-Goldberg, PhD’96; and others; a clear sense of how much Kansas meant E HIS illiam Stafford was known primar- plus interviews with the poet and with his to a poet known both for his quiet

ily as a poet of the northwest, but it son and biographer Kim Stafford offer humility and iron moral will. Places (the RD O UTSID W O

was to Kansas that the Hutchinson native new perspective on his life and work. Cimarron Hills, Coronado Heights, the AFF could trace his point of view. Stafford moved to Oregon in 1948 to Oregon Trail), images (prairie swells and ST “He had a dual citizenship, like teach at Lewis and Clark College. Though cottonwood leaves, fencelines and wagon many of us do,” says Denise he published a memoir in 1947—his KU traces) and weather (sun “like a blade,” GRAPH O F OTO Low. “But he grew up here, master’s thesis, Down in My Heart, a wind that makes fences sing and like “a E. P H

[Kansas] shaped how he chronicle of his experience as a conscien- giant in disguise still knocks at our LL EG thought, shaped the tious objector during World War II—his chimney”) will resonate with Kansas dialect of English he first major book of poetry did not appear readers. But beyond that, Low believes, is speaks, his frame of until 1962, when he was 48. It won the an attitude that may ring familiar. & CLARK CO

reference, his pacing— National Book Award, and Stafford was on “There is a whole sensory contact with T LE WIS

these are all things that his way. By 1970, when he was appointed all the elements, from the sky down to the IVE S A are from your mother to a two-year term as the Consultant in dirt, that is not a naive environmentalism, RD A RCH

tongue.” Poetry to the Library of Congress (a but an awareness,” she says. “There’s a O

Though she believes Stafford, position now known as the national poet receptivity. He listened.” AFF

c’37, g’46, was “not a regionalist,” Low laureate), he had published seven books of Stafford allowed that he wrote about AM ST thought it made sense to bring together in poetry, three with the venerable New York Kansas, yes, but he wrote about every place E WILL I

one volume the Kansas poems T H from the poet’s vast body of work. O F

And Stafford agreed. Writing to SY URTE her in 1990, after the first edition

of Kansas Poems of William Stafford ESIMAG CO appeared, he declared himself “pleased and awed” at seeing “my home poems” together. “I guess all the time I have been spreading work around I have felt wistful about scattering my home feelings so widely. Now I can take a After his grad-school days at KU good look at the center of my life.” (top left), William Sta¡ord left his Now Low, c’71, g’74, PhD’98, has put together an expanded second native state, but his Kansas roots edition that includes additional ran deep. “His Kansas patriotism poems as well as essays and interviews by and about Stafford, saturated our childhood,” wrote who died in 1993. son Kim Sta¡ord. The poet on a “When he died I immediately visit to El Dorado in 1986 (left) and wanted to get people to write reflective memories of his work,” his childhood home in Hutchinson. says Low, a Lawrence writer and a

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live is not crucial, but how you feel about TEVE PUPP E where you live is crucial.” S Kansas Poems of William Stafford makes plain how he felt. Kansas is where he grew up, where he took his first moral stands, where he learned from his bookish parents to love literature. It’s where he discovered for himself, as he writes in “Vocation,” that “Your job is to find what the world is trying to be.” —Steven Hill

Life as we know it After collecting rock samples in Australia, geologists Craig and Alison Olcott Marshall used their Geologists’ new evidence alters laboratory microscope and KU’s unique paleontology spectrometer to disprove previously accepted timeline for oldest life evidence of fossilized bacteria more than 3 billion years old.

hen they set out to collect a specific of geology and husband and wife—settled yield dramatic surprises. Wsort of rock, called Apex Chert, the controversy by announcing that the “We were originally hoping to add a new from a certain site in Western Australia, famous bacteria fossils are actually lifeless dimension to the data of the original called Pilbara Craton, KU geologists Craig hematite. story,” Olcott Marshall says. “The risk of Marshall and Alison Olcott Marshall were “This really points out how science is an science is that you never know what you’re hunting for 3.5-billion-year-old bacteria evolving field,” Craig Marshall says. “We going to find.” fossils, the oldest-known evidence of think we’re learning and teaching fixed Another application for the Marshalls’ ancient life. facts, but things that have been accepted as research: the hunt for evidence of extra- First identified in 1987, the discovery of true for decades aren’t necessarily as clear terrestrial life. The ExoMars European fossilized bacteria billions of years old was cut as they seem. There’s always room for mission, scheduled for 2018, will carry a hailed worldwide, and the same researcher more exploration and knowledge to be miniaturized version of KU’s spectrom- in 1993 gave his ancient fossil a species gained.” eter, but the KU researchers caution that name and announced that it was linked to After the grueling chore of collecting the lessons need to be learned from their modern bacteria. As was the case six years Apex Chert and shipping it to their KU terrestrial hunt for ancient biology. earlier, scientists around the world laboratory, the Marshalls’ first step was to “If proving the existence of ancient life accepted the findings. re-create the 1987 study by slicing the rock on earth is so difficult and controversial,” But doubts began to appear in 2002, into 300-micrometer samples. But they Craig Marshall says, “it’s going to be very when another researcher examined the also cut a 30-micrometer set that was so difficult to find with a rover on Mars.” original slides and expressed skepticism. thin light could pass through. Examining —Chris Lazzarino Arguments abounded in geology journals, the new sample through regular micro- but eventually fizzled. Nearly a decade scopes, they observed new details and later, the Marshalls—assistant professors textures. They then analyzed the samples with Man overboard the country’s most complex spectrometer dedicated to paleontology, housed in KU’s Human greed Multidisciplinary Research Building on is biggest threat to wildlife Kansas Poems of West Campus. The machine’s laser light in Welch’s poaching chronicle William Sta–ord scattered at wavelengths that diagnosed (2nd edition) the samples as mineral, not organic. edited by Denise Low Olcott Marshall is already teaching raig Welch was an environmental the findings in her entry-level geology Creporter for the Seattle Times when $15, Woodley Press course, and faculty leading upper- he read a story about five poachers who level paleontology courses are using it stole $3 million in geoducks, the world’s as a lesson that new approaches can largest burrowing clam. As he began to

ISSUE 3, 2011 | 65 Rock Chalk Review investigate the ecological fallout of the crime, Welch discovered a cutthroat world Shell Games A Web less than populated by shady wildlife thieves, international traffickers, ruthless hit men, by Craig Welch worldwide undercover informants and the dedicated $25.99, cloth but sometimes overmatched detectives at William Morrow Censorship maps show Internet the state and federal levels who do their access spotty, no panacea $14.99, paper best to foil their schemes. Harper Perennial to global strife Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers and the Hunt for Nature’s Bounty portrays this s recent uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, colorful netherworld of intrigue and greed ALibya and elsewhere across North with the taut suspense and gritty detail of several news outlets into covering his Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have a true-crime police story. Welch, j’90, fictional Save the Geoduck campaign. toppled some regimes and put others on focuses on commercial fisherman and Skaggs’ movement may have been made notice, much credit has gone to Twitter, Native American artist Doug Tobin, a up, but the threat to geoducks and other Facebook and other Internet technologies larger-than-life character who helps sea life is real. Poaching operations like for making it easier for the masses to resist detectives crack Tobin’s dwarf Puget Sound’s legal harvest. tyrannical rulers. several impor- (Investigators determined that Tobin stole Barney Warf, professor of geography, tant cases 200,000 pounds of clams and 75,000 says claims for the Internet as a great before himself pounds of Dungeness crab—about a third equalizer in the power struggle between turning out to of the crab population in the southern the common people and the ruling class be the biggest sound and nearly eight times more crab are misleading. smuggler on than is taken by all recreational and “The Internet can be used against Puget Sound. commercial fishermen combined.) people as well as for them,” Warf says. Welch is a Poachers commandeer a public resource “Many governments are very nimble and former Nieman for private gain, imperil an important very adept at controlling it.” Fellow in economic enterprise for fishermen who Using data from Reporters Without Geoducks journalism at play by the rules, and wreak untold Borders, a nonprofit group that fights Harvard University and the Society of damage on resources that can take decades censorship, Warf compiled global maps Environmental Journalists’ Outstanding to recover. detailing levels of censorship and Internet Beat Reporter of 2010. He mined 25,000 Ultimately, the story Welch tells isn’t access in countries around the world. pages of public records generated by state about clams. As one detective says, it’s Warf’s maps show that less than a third and federal criminal investigations always been about money. There’s enough of the world’s people can use the Internet, (including some unsealed by a federal of that at stake in Shell Games to make and many face far greater restrictions than judge at his request) to portray the crimes these crimes—and Welch’s deep and we do in the West. behind an international smuggling gripping reporting of them—serious “Most of the world’s netizens live under operation that funneled geoduck clams to business indeed. conditions of severe to moderate censor- Asia and other overseas markets. —Steven Hill ship,” Warf says. China, with the world’s Vivid characters abound—a teddy-bear toting hit man, seen-it-all crimefighters, and smugglers who use souped-up boats, night vision goggles and dead-of-night stealth to circumvent tight harvest regulations. But the most vivid character of all may be the geoduck itself. This exotic, long-lived clam is the oceanic equivalent of bear gallbladders and eagle talons, which bring high prices in interna- tional black markets. Its “comically Low proportioned” appearance and odd name (pronounced “gooey duck”) even made the clam a perfect phallic prop for guerrilla prankster Joey Skaggs; masquer- ading as biologist Richard Long, he duped High Internet Censorship (2009)

66 | KANSAS A LUMNI largest population of Internet users at 420 million, wields the highest level of Dissonant duet censorship. “Include Russia, Iran, the Arab Rival world and Pakistan—that’s a lot of people Wealer’s musical past inspires using the Internet under much different novel of troubled teen friendship by Sara Bennett conditions than in the U.S., Canada or Wealer Sweden.” hen Sara Bennett Wealer chose to $16.99 HarperTeen In most cases, the penetration rate— Wpursue a writing career, she was which measures the proportion of a determined to hold onto her lifelong country’s citizens with access—is directly passion, music. She entered the journalism related to the level of censorship: Coun- school with a concentration in fine arts tries with the highest censorship usually and balanced time between editing enjoys more than enough popularity and have low rates of Internet use. (China, features for the University Daily Kansan, power. Kathryn is quiet, studious and with a penetration rate similar to the U.S., singing in KU choirs and directing Rock unassuming, with one fiercely loyal male is a notable exception to the rule.) It’s Chalk Revue productions. friend who seems to love her more than another reason Warf distrusts claims of After graduation, Wealer, j’95, landed she is willing to acknowledge. Both girls the Internet’s revolutionary role. her dream job as arts and entertainment are standout singers in their high-school “During the 2009 uprising against the reporter for the Springfield, Mo., newspa- honors choir, preparing for a significant Iranian government, a lot of people in the per. When that job evolved to primarily singing competition. West announced this was the first Twitter metro news reporting, she again took steps “When you’re involved with the arts at a revolution,” Warf says. “Except in 2009 to regain creative control. She wrote a high level, you’ll inevitably run into only .3 percent of Iranians used Twitter. In book. complicated relationships,” Wealer says. Egypt and Libya, once the demonstrations “The first book was really bad, but it “When you’re a teenager going through started, the governments shut down the filled a creative need,” Wealer says. “I boy issues, social stuff, insecurities—that’s Internet but the revolts continued apace. needed to have something that was just kindling to the fire.” The penetration rate in Egypt is only 20 mine, that no one was controlling and it Brooke befriends Kathryn because of percent, and the country has only five was up to me to create.” their shared love of music. But as Kathryn Internet service providers. Shutting that With her musical background, she felt gains popularity in Brooke’s inner circle, down is easy.” she had a story to tell young girls, so she Brooke quickly feels threatened. She can Warf published his findings in GeoJour- kept writing. “I wanted to explore those tolerate Kathryn only as a vulnerable nal, which he says “usually nobody but a things that develop in relationships,” “music freak,” as she was once perceived. few geographers would read.” Somehow Wealer says, “how people’s experiences and In a spiral of insecurity and anger, the paper came to the attention of Hillary perceptions create a friendship that’s Brooke sets out to put Kathryn back in her Clinton’s science adviser and was doomed to have problems.” place, and Kathryn, once content with requested by Vladimir Putin’s office. Cue Brooke and Kathryn. In Rival, going unnoticed, becomes acutely aware of “I was weirded out, because I say some Wealer’s first young adult novel, she other students’ perceptions of her. As each pretty nasty things about the Russians in weaves first-person narratives to create teenager’s narrative exposes weakness and there. I’ve never had this kind of reaction. characters who are increasingly sympa- misperceptions, it becomes clear that the It’s been a thrill ride for me.” thetic and ultimately captivating. act of hurting someone originates as a —Steven Hill Brooke is a sharp-tongued socialite who desire to protect one’s ego. In the end, each girl must decide whether true friendship is worth the risk of letting her guard down. Internet Users (2009) Wealer dedicated her novel to her daughters, who are now 2 and 6; she hopes Brooke and Kath- ryn’s story will one day encourage them to be wary of assumptions. Under 1 million And, Wealer explains, it goes 1 million - 3.9 million both ways. “Part of it is that you 4 million - 19.9 million bear some responsibility of letting people know more about 20 million - 99 million you.” 100 million - 420 million —Whitney Eriksen

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