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(and tabloid notoriety) last year when he announced his ike a flap of torn skin, the brittle blue spine of my discovery of a lost gospel, this year tells a tale to gladden the Shakespeare: The Complete Works gapes open on one side. heart of any collector or packrat. A sophomore in Mirecki's But I dare not tear it off or bandage the cover, because course on the Bible one day brought to his teacher a framed yet this is no wound. L tattered document his father had purchased at a charity auction. Nor is the blue ink that unsteadily slices under black type on Enthused by Mirecki's lectures, the student had begun to eye the page after page. Such imperfections do not mar the book. They curiosity with more than mere curiosity; he wondered whether it make it mine. The bruises outside, the wobbly brackets and might be worth something. margin notes inside, remind me of the professor who made me yearn to make Shakespeare mine. Mirecki's joyous identification of the piece as a 3,000-year- old Egyptian papyrus stunned his student, the family and the A. Carroll Edwards, professor emeritus of English, for University. As our feature story explains, the papyrus' worth decades taught a Shakespeare course at the University. In spring is incalculable. 1978, as an ambitious (and foolhardy) freshman, I sat entranced in his class as he scoured "Macbeth," "Othello," "Romeo and So is the story itself, and so are those moments in classrooms Juliet" and more, revealing Shakespeare's meaning and motive when rare words from classic tales suddenly click. word by word, couplet by couplet. To this day, I can see My Shakespeare volume still beckons from time to time. Edwards' mischievous smile and knowing wink as he let us in Shreds of soliloquies I memorized for Professor Edwards' exams on Shakespeare's jokes and secrets. With authority and humor, surface during headline-writing sessions or idle office chat. he translated the language that at times seemed so foreign to us, These days I forget more words than I remember, but I still can freeing us to marvel at the author's powerful, elegant flourishes. summon the wondrous satisfaction of sitting in that Fraser Hall Thanks to Edwards, we savored those sublime moments when classroom, where, with a skilled professor's coaxing, I got it. we understood—when we got it. That flash of understanding, the rush of relief and confi- dence, is indeed worth something: It is worth everything. -"*•* Stanley Lombardo, professor of classics, has witnessed such instants of recognition. Lombardo's translations of Iliad, published in 1997, and Odyssey, released this March, are sensations not only among scholars of Homer but also among students for whom the classics perhaps seemed anything but modern. In classes with Lombardo at KU and Lawrence High School, students have more than dabbled in the epic tales; they have delighted in debating the foibles of Achilles and Odysseus, who set the standard by which we judge Shakespeare's tragically flawed heroes—and the formidable yet frail heroes of modern literature and history. Through poring over texts and passionately arguing in class, they have come to understand Homer. These young scholars get it, Lombardo proudly declares. In our cover story, Chris Lazzarino explores this resurgence in fascination with the classical hero, as evidenced by Lombardo's writing and teaching and a new course led by James Carothers, professor of English, who this spring taught a seminar for honors students on the hero. Lazzarino attended classes and talked with both professors about their modern interpretations of the classical figure. Carothers, famous on the Hill for his quirky literary detours, includes not just Lombardo and Homer in his course—he also throws in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. And he introduces students to real-life heroes. Just as Lombardo renders the classic modern by illustrating the covers of Iliad and Odyssey with 20th-century news j photographs, Carothers makes age-old ideas real to today's students. Ancient ideas are Paul Mirecki's turf, too. Mirecki, associate professor of religious studies who gained fame

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KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Find success within Publisher Chairman Fred B.Williams Carol Swanson Ritchie, d'54, Wichita, Kansas As an African-American KU graduate, I Editor am both perplexed and concerned about Jennifer Jackson Sanner,j'8l Executive Vice Chairman Reid Holbrook, c'64, l'66, Overland Park, some of the information and opinions Art Director Kansas Susan Younger, f'91 expressed in "Faces in the Crowd" [issue Managing Editor Executive Committee No. 2]. I will first state that I often tell Chris Lazzarino, j'86 Carol Swanson Ritchie, d'54, Wichita, Kansas others that my days at KU were the four Staff Writer Jim Adam, e'56, Overland Park, Kansas best years of my life, mainly because the Richard J. Cummings, c'54, m'57, Megan Maciejowski, j'98 environment forced me to grow up and Editorial Assistants Wichita, Kansas Karen Goodell; Nancy Crisp, j'83 Reid Holbrook, c'64,1*66, Overland Park, recognize the world around me. Kansas Photographer Currently I am a doctoral candidate at Cordell D. Meeks Jr., c'64,1*67. Kansas City, Wally Emerson, j'76 Kansas the University of Kentucky, where race Graphic Designer Gil M. Reich, e'54, Savannah, Georgia relations are no better or worse and the Valerie Spicher, j'94 efforts to include and exclude black stu- Editorial Office Vice Chairmen Kansas Alumni Association Gary Bender, g'64, Scottsdale, Arizona, and dents are no different than at any other 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66044-3 169 Colorado Springs.Colorado major university. I would assume that on 785-864-4760 Michelle Senecal de Fonseca, b'83, Brussels, most predominately white campuses Advertising Office Belgium Sarah Lober, Advertising Manager Patricia Weems Gaston, j'81, Annandale, across our country the plight of the Knight Enterprises, 4840 W. 15th St., Suite 1000 Virginia African-American student is much the Lawrence, KS 66049 Lou Montulli, '94, Palo Alto, California 785-843-5511 or 1-800-844-3781 same: isolated and unsettling. But how is fax 785-843-7555 Directors to July 2000 that any different than what African-Amer- e-mail: [email protected] Jim Adam, e'56, Overland Park, Kansas Janet Martin McKinney, c'74, Port Ludlow, icans deal with in the real world? Kansas Alumni Magazine (ISSN 0745-3345) is published Washington As educated African-Americans, once by the Alumni Association of the University of Kansas Debra Vignatelli, c'77, d'77,Topeka, Kansas six times a year in January, March, May, July, September we enter the hallowed halls of the univer- and November $40 annual subscription includes mem- Directors to July 2001 sities that we attend, which inevitably bership in the Alumni Association. Office of Publication: Lisa Ashner Adkins, c'84, l'87, Leawood, Kansas cater to the success of white students, we 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. Sec- John B. Dicus, b'83,g'85,Topeka, Kansas ond class postage paid at Lawrence, KS, and additional Robert L. Driscoll, c'61, l'64, Mission Woods, must recognize that our success comes not mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address Kansas changes to Kansas Alumni Magazine, 1266 from the support of the dean or the Office Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 © Directors to July 2002 of Minority Affairs, but rather from an 2000 by Kansas Alumni Magazine. Non-mem- Lewis D. Gregory, c'75, Leawood, Kansas ber issue price: $7 internal drive. Part of the concern I had at Lynwood H. Smith, b'51, m'60, Lawrence, KU was that amongst the African-Ameri- KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Kansas The Alumni Association was established in 1883 for Linda Duston Warren, c'66, m'70, Hanover, cans, we were very divided! Who hung the purpose of strengthening loyalty, friendship, Kansas out with white people? Were you greek? commitment, and communication among all graduates, former and current students, parents, faculty, Directors to July 2003 Were you from Chicago or St. Louis? staff and all other friends of The University of Sidney Ashton Garrett, c'68, d'70, Lawrence, Those became dividers, more so than Kansas. Its members hereby unite into an Associa- Kansas common interest or heritage. My experi- tion to achieve unity of purpose and action to serve Deloris Strickland Pinkard, g'80, EdD'95, the best interests of The University and its con- Kansas City, Kansas ence is that we, as African-Americans, sep- stituencies. The Association is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes. David R. Rankin, p'63, Phillipsburg, Kansas arated ourselves, which then added to the feelings of alienation and isolation that Fred B.Williams, President; Kay Henry, Senior Directors to July 2004 Vice President for Administration and Human A. Drue Jennings, d'68,172, Leawood, Kansas many spoke about in the article. Resources; Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'81, Senior Mary Kay Paige McPhee, d'49, Kansas City, What people have to realize is that KU Vice President for Communications; Dwight Missouri Parman, Senior Vice President for Finance and Trea- John W. Mize, c'72, Salina, Kansas is a microcosm for what you will see later surer; William S. Green, Senior Vice President for in life. If the black population at KU is 2.8 Information Systems; Sheila Murphy Immel, f'69, Honorary Members g'84, Senior Vice President for Membership; Kirk Gene A. Budig, Ed.D., Princeton, New Jersey percent, imagine the distress of working in Cerny, c'92, g'98, Senior Vice President for Member- E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., Ph.D., San Antonio, ship Services; Nancy Peine.Vice President for corporate America and being one of a few Alumni and Membership Records; Donna Neuner, Texas in a company of many. '76, Membership Services; Mike Wellman, c '86, Archie R. Dykes, Ed.D., Goodlettsville, Special Projects and Adams Alumni Center Facility Tennessee Lastly I will admit that when I was at Manager; Bryan E. Greve, Adams Alumni Center Delbert M. Shankel, Ph.D., Lawrence, Kansas KU, I did not speak up as much as I Services and Jayhawk Society Membership; Chris W. Clarke Wescoe, M.D., Kansas City, MO. Lazzarino, j'86, Managing Editor; Kansas Alumni should have, partly because I was usually Magazine; Susan Younger, f'91, Art Director; the only African-American in class. Look- Carolyn Barnes, c'80, Kansas Honors Program; Michon Quick, f 86, Greater Kansas City Area Pro- ing back now, I would encourage every grams; Jennifer Mueller, g'99, Student Programs. PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER student and alumnus of color to speak up

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 3, 2000 LIFT THE CHORUS on issues of race. Don't be afraid of what husband was murdered by Missouri munity of scholars. others may say, because they may say that Klansmen. Megan Maciejowski's chalupa story what you are proposing is intelligent and I am a retired elementary school ["Hold your chalupas," Oread Writer] is interesting. African-American students and teacher from San Diego County. The best hilarious, and Chris Lazzarinos story on alumni, please make an effort to be heard! thing that affected my life was attending Will Snow ["New Year's tears," Hail to Old and graduating from KU. The social life KU] hit a chord, as it turned to San Fran- Russ Hancock, c'92 developed me and enriched my outlook. cisco and evoked a touching memory of Lexington, Ky. The sound academics made my career a that colorful place, doing it with a Kansas success. I hope you will promote enroll- heartbeat. Enrolled in racial justice ment of more African-American students; it will change their lives for good. Tom Pcttit, c'58 Your cover story about black students Palm Springs, Calif. Thank you for the article, to keep us in at KU moves me to write about how it was touch. Somehow, let's make our black stu- in my time, 1932 to 1936. KU had soul in dents enjoy their heritage at home with Next time, report fairly those days. I remember a freshman gather- open doors on the Hill. ing after dark around a fire on North Col- I was disappointed, but not surprised, lege Hill and hearing Professor Frank Jane Fox Davis, c'55 by the biased article on evolution. Our Melvin talk about the leading role that Spring Valley, Calif. "esteemed" governor and chancellor have Lawrence had in the struggle over Kansas' come out with statements almost accusing admission to the Union as a free state. Of Evolution vote shameful those of us that are less than convinced of course, there was still a long way to go. the "truth" of macro-evolution as being Phi Delta Kappa, the education hon- I read your article "Biological Warfare" less than intelligent. Please correct me if orary, had a constitution limiting member- [issue No. 1] with great interest. Congrat- I'm wrong, but didn't the Kansas Board of ship to "white males." One instructor 1 ulations on the quality and depth of your Education merely vote to no longer accept had in class said, in front of some black report. evolution as proven, but still possible, and students, "No Negro has the intelligence As a New Yorker from KU, I am sensi- permit local boards to decide which way to make more than a C in this course." I tive to the perception that Kansans live in the subject should be taught? heard that it would not be safe for a black the age of buggies before whips. Members How is it that in such an exact science to go out for football. of the Kansas Board of Education have as evolution, proven false examples But quite a number of us, young as we taken two steps backward without remain in the textbooks being used at uni- were, were already enrolled in the good remorse. Shame on them. versities such as Kansas? It almost sounds cause of pursuing racial justice. Michael A. Griffith, b'81 as if our friends on the evolution side are Alfred C. Ames, c'36 Stamford, Conn. saying "don't confuse me with facts." Fort Myers, Fla. I hope that if in the future you are KU's reputation intact forced to print an article on a subject as Open doors on the Hill controversial as this one, you can at least The year 2000's first edition is just present both sides. Alpha Phi Alpha and Kappa Alpha splendid! The story on evolution is unde- Frank H. Rodkey, b'54 Psi fraternity houses were bustling with niably terrific. I'm sharing it with my UC- Lawrence dances and student activities in 1951. Berkeley friends. We colored students held weekly jazz con- Many of my Cal friends know about certs in the Hawk's Nest, and we all knew Kansas and think highly of its educational each other and made friendships that have system. KU is considered by them to be Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the lasted a lifetime. an elite university, ranking with Cal, editor. If you would like to comment on My mother attended KU in 1926. Her Michigan and Texas. The depth of knowl- a story, please write us. Our address is uncle enrolled in 1908. His son, grandson edge they have about Kansas and the high Kansas Alumni, 1266 Oread Avenue, and great-grandson went to KU. We had a respect for our state and our University Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. rich life on the Hill. was, and is, a pleasant surprise. Our freshman women were the first to So the embarrassment caused by the If you would like to respond via e-mail, integrate the dorm. My family members ridiculous evolution issue is significant. the Alumni Association's address is are the grandchildren of African slaves and The good news is that the high reputation [email protected]. slave owners. Our refugee great-great- of Kansas will survive this debacle. The grandmother fled Missouri with seven University establishment has spoken and Letters appearing in the magazine children and arrived in Lawrence after her KU is not losing its standing in the com- may be edited for space and clarity.

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NOVEMBER 2 "Dracula: The Music and Film," original music by Philip Glass, performed by Philip Glass and Kronos Quartet 3 Vienna Symphony Orchestra 9 "The King Stag" 12 Accentus 14 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 16 Trinity Irish Dance Company in "Show Boat" DECEMBER 2 St. Petersburg State Ice Ballet in "Cinderella on Ice" FEBRUARY 2 "Chicago"

CHINESE WOODBLOCK: "Taking Lunding Bridge by Force," a 1961 piece by Jiang Bibo, is 3 Moscow Festival Ballet part of an exhibition of Chinese woodblock prints at Spencer Museum of Art. in "Giselle" 1 1 Takacs Quartet 20 Kodo Drummers Exhibitions Murphy Hall events 23 "Peter Pan" "Matisse'sJAZZ" Spencer Museum of JULY MARCH Art, through May 21 6, 8, 14, 16, 20, 22 "You're a Good "Fifty Years of Chinese Woodblock Man Charlie Brown," by Clark 11 Verdi's "Aida" Prints," Spencer Museum of Art, Gesner 13 Berlin Chamber Orchestra through May 21 7,9,13,15,21,23 "1959 Pink 15 Diavolo Dance Theatre "Bandits and Bullfighters: Art and Life in Thunderbird," "Laundry and APRIL Broadsheets by Jose Guadalupe Bourbon," and "Lonestar," by 3 Mark Morris Dance Group Posada," Spencer Museum of Art, James McClure, Inge Theatre 10 Mezzo-soprano Joyce Castle and through May 21 baritone Kurt Oilman, perform- "40,000 Years of American Art: The Lied Center 2000-2001 ing music by Leonard Bernstein Works of Jaune Quick-to-See 11 Girls Choir of Harlem Smith," Spencer Museum of Art, AUGUST 25 Drak Puppet Theatre June 10-Aug. 27 31 Kwaidan: "Three Japanese Ghost Stories" "Brushed Voices: Calligraphy in Contem- porary China," Spencer Museum SEPTEMBER Academic calendar of Art, July 8-Sept. 3 23 "Anything Goes" MAY "Women's Work 2000: From Our Past to 24 Ying Quartet 21 Commencement the Future," Museum of Anthro- OCTOBER JUNE pology, through Aug. 6 1 Gate Theatre in "Krapp's 6 Summer classes begin Last Tape" JULY 2 Gate Theatre in "Waiting 29 Summer classes end for Godot" 8 Jennifer Koh, violin AUGUST 24 Fall classes begin 10-11 Mikhail Baryshnikov with White Oak Dance Project 13 "Man of La Mancha" 19 "Cloud Gate Dance Theatre"

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Track and field Baseball Women's tennis MAY MAY MAY 19-21 Big 12 Outdoor Champi- 2-3 at Texas-Arlington 12-14 NCAA Regionals onships at Columbia, Mo. 5-7 at Kansas State 18-26 NCAA Finals at Malibu, Calif. JUNE 13-14 Texas-Arlington 1-4 NCAA Outdoor Champi- 17-20 Big 12 Tournament Football onships at Durham, N.C. at Oklahoma City SEPTEMBER 2 at Southern Methodist Softball Men's golf 16 Alabama-Birmingham MAY MAY 23 Southern Illinois (Band 5 at Nebraska (DH) 18-20 NCAA Central Regionals and Parents' Night) 10-13 Big 12 Tournament at at Victoria, Texas 30- at Oklahoma Oklahoma City 31-June3 NCAA Championships 18-21 NCAA Regionals at Opelika, Ala. OCTOBER 24-29 NCAA College World Series 7 Kansas State at Oklahoma City Men's tennis 14 at Missouri MAY Rowing 21 Colorado (Homecoming) 12-14 NCAA Regionals 28 Texas Tech MAY 20-28 NCAA Finals at Athens, Ga. 13 Central Region Championships NOVEMBER at Oak Ridge, Tenn. 4 at Nebraska 28-31 NCAA Women's Rowing 11 Texas Championships at Camden, NJ. 18 at Iowa State

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No more bottles of beer on the wall lcohol is prohibited in all residence and scholarship halls, but Aenforcement can be difficult if students collect beer cans that might hide the unopened real thing. Such was the reasoning when KU housing officials decided in February to ban all liquor cans and bottles, even the empties. Students quickly contended the new rule would unjustly prohibit them from decorating their rooms as sloppily as they see fit. "Col- lecting bottles is a legitimate hobby and form of decoration," argued University Daily Kansan editorial writers, "and to take away that right is ludicrous." Amazingly, housing officials agreed, and amended the rule by allowing "solely decorative" collections of "empty containers that have been physically altered." But the empty collections must first be approved by the hall director, who apparently doesn't have enough to do already. All of which takes us back to that foggy time when the inherent decorative value of empty beer cans was a cause worth fighting for.

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laywright James Still, c'82, was to ... you guessed it. Precently named "New Voices in All in the name of reporting American Theatre" playwright for for our faithful readers, we were the William Inge Theatre Festival, allowed to hold Inge's Academy held annually in Inge's home- Award statuette—safely wrapped town of Independence. in a flannel pillow case. Noting that Inge, c'35, was "That was presented to Inge a KU alumnus, Still recalled, by Marilyn Monroe," said Jenkins, "When I attended the our new best friend, "so Univer-sity, I got to hold you're holding an Oscar that Inge's Best Screenplay Marilyn Monroe held." Oscar for 'Splendor in The 28-year-old gold You say it's your birthday the Grass.'" plating looks rather worn, atie Holman's fifth birthday bash was And the award for quick- but a makeover would ruin nothing if not age-appropriate. The est phone call to University the statuette's value—which K frivolous fete for the frequently forgotten Theatre goes to the staff is incalculable. Lloyd's of Leap Day baby—born Feb. 29, 1980— of Kansas Alumni: "Do you London, among others, featured enough paper hats, balloons and really have William Inge's refused to insure it. cartooned wrapping paper to compensate 'Splendor in the Grass' "Whenever anyone holds it," for all the years of celebration snubs, when Oscar?" Jenkins says, "they almost always the calendar simply passed Holman's big day cradle it, as if they had just won "We sure do," replied by. The theoretically 20-year-old Holman, a and were walking off the stage spokesman Charla Jenkins, Prairie Village sophomore, has been obliged with an Oscar in their arms." j'69."You want to see it?" in most years to observe the annual And Marilyn Monroe on And the award for quickest anniversary of her birth on either the day the other. dash to Murphy Hall goes before or after her actual birthday. "I just celebrate when it's convenient," Holman says. "But then every four years it's really fun and everyone makes such a big deal that it's worth it."

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tnaid One 'Hawk two 'Hawk arking is a perpetual red 'Hawk blue 'Hawk Psubject of campus conversation, but the They do so like to read out loud. hottest topic this semes- They read out loud and make us proud. ter has been a parking KU athletes rushed with great speed garage. To show kids that they love to read. "We've heard nothing March 2 was the great Dr. Seuss's birthday, but compliments," says And in celebration Jayhawks came out to play. University Architect Warren Corman, e'50. More than 100 student-athletes invaded "And that's unusual." Lawrence schools The new garage being To relay the message that reading rules. built across the street Sarah Clopton, the Softball hero, from the Adams Alumni Told youths that life without books was zero. place by the master of ceremonies, Center has attracted attention for Moran Norris, the beefy running back, three reasons: It will add 818 park- an immense red crane described as Told them reading put his life on track. ing spots to a campus famous for its the biggest traveling crane available. lack of parking; it was designed with "They're moving quickly," says The grinch who stole Christmas evoked no fears an attractive brick facade that suits Rodger O'Roke, e'67, the Univer- From veteran readers who had known him its campus corner and a low profile sity's project supervisor, "but anyone for years. that doesn't block the view from paying daily rent on that crane has Even green eggs and ham sounded good Oread Avenue; and its construction good incentive." To children hungry for intellectual food. has been, well, fun to watch. The $10 million project will When the stories were told and the day was After the site was excavated last be more than ready for the fall through fall, construction began around semester. Larger-than-life figures had learned a lesson Christmas. By the first week in And then finding a place to or two. March, all 680 prefabricated con- leave your car will be like a walk They were laughing out loud, and smiling hard, crete pieces had been dropped into in the park. And to think that I saw it on Jayhawk Boulevard!

Dog days at Potter Lake otter Lake, as any proud pooch will attest, has long been a Pwatering hole for the canine clique, a glorious gathering spot where Labs show off their lap-ability and rottweilers stroke for the crowd. But oil from a transformer explosion near Strong Hall has polluted the popular pool, and though Potter has never been quite pure, it is now downright putrid. Even the most manicured mutts now emerge from the murky water covered with a greasy sheen, smelling like diesel fuel. Mike Russell, environmental health and safety department director, says the spill is unsightly but not dangerous. "A little oil or hydrocarbon goes a long way when it comes to putting a sheen on water," Russell says. "It's noticeable, but it doesn't present a fire hazard or a significant contamination hazard." Try telling that to the dozens of dogs who take to the lake daily. Many owners have prohibited their pups from swimming in the oily oasis until the spill is cleaned up. It's a doggone shame.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 3, 2000 HILLTOPICS BY MEGAN MACIEJOWSKI Memories in bloom The spirit of discovery fills an early spring weekend VISITOR in a tribute to the centennial of historic Bailey Hall SEPARATION OF POWERS

Former independent counsel ailey Hall sits KENNETH STARR, whose investi- unassumingly gation of the Clinton White House Batop Mount led to the first presidential Oread, nestled com- impeachment in 134 years, spoke fortably into the to a crowd of 1,200. campus landscape, its understated lime- WHEN: April 4 stone exterior bely- ing the remarkable WHERE: The Lied Center convergence of scientific discovery, archi- SPONSORS: JAVickers and Robert tectural achievement F.Vickers Sr. Memorial Lecture Series, and University his- the School of Business tory that has defined the enduring struc- BACKGROUND: Starr served as ture. For a century, independent counsel from 1994 to the building served 1999. Although he said he doubts the its purpose quietly. validity of the law that allowed him to But Baileys days of DISTINGUISHED COMPANY: Following a ceremony in Budig Hall, a crowd investigate the anonymity ended of University officials, alumni and supporters gathered at Bailey Hall to celebrate president, Starr forever on April 15, the building's designation by the American Chemical Society as a national historic chemical landmark. said he accepted when the American the special pros- Chemical Society helped University offi- Indeed, Bailey Hall abounded with ecutor appoint- cials, alumni and supporters celebrate the great minds in its first century. In 1905, ment because "if hallowed hall's centennial by designating professors Hamilton R Cady and David you're asked to Bailey as a national historic chemical Ford McFarland discovered helium there. serve in a public landmark. Fittingly, the ACS president, Scientists previously had thought that capacity, you Daryle Busch, also is a KU professor of helium existed mainly on the sun and should." chemistry. only in trace amounts on the earth. "What a unique opportunity," Busch Grover Everett, professor emeritus of ANECDOTE: Starr said he thought said. "To get to present this kind of honor chemistry, conducted research that direct- his investigation of President Clinton to the institution where I have spent so ed the society's attention to the helium raised the standards of the presidency. much time is really quite exciting." discovery. "This is America," he said. "We believe Busch presented Chancellor Robert E. "I wrote a proposal a couple of years in holding our officials to high stan- Hemenway a bronze plaque recognizing ago to the ACS outlining the history of dards, and we as Americans want those the accomplishment at the ceremony in helium in natural gas," Everett said. "I standards abided by. I think that's the Budig Hall's Bricker Auditorium. More requested they consider this for approval message it sends to future presidents." than 100 people turned out for the cele- as a landmark, and they eventually did." bration. As Hemenway accepted the While the helium discovery ultimately QUOTE: "I'd like to be remembered plaque from Busch, he noted that Busch, earned the building its biggest distinction, as someone who performed his job who was elected president of the ACS last other research conducted in Bailey over honorably and admirably, and upheld year, was the latest in a long line of the last 100 years has won national and the law." accomplished scientists who have worldwide acclaim as well. Professor emerged from the University. E.H.S. Bailey, for whom the building is

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named, published a groundbreaking text- log the same grueling hours in the field book on the chemistry of food, and is also that he has. With the help of a three-year, credited with creating the Rock Chalk $560,000 grant jointly sponsored by Chant. When the building was home to NASA and the U.S. Department of Agri- the School of Pharmacy, Dean Lucius culture, Jakubauskas and other KARS Sayre's work in one of Bailey's drug labs researchers are using remote-sensing satel- CLASS CREDIT led to the development of corn oil as a lite images to map every inch of Yellow- SCHOLARLY SERVICE cooking product. Later still, when the stone. The satellites enable them to view GETTING FINANCIALLY reward- School of Education inhabited Bailey, detailed images of the forests that could ed for his efforts was the furthest thing E. Thayer Gaston, a professor of music not otherwise be seen by the human eye. from Mark Bradshaw's mind when he education, developed music therapy there. Ultimately, the mapping project will help learned he had won a Truman Scholar- "The tribute to Bailey Hall is not so forest managers better understand the ship. Bradshaw,Walnut senior, was pack- much a tribute to the building itself, but more than 700 million acres of forests in ing to leave for an Alternative Spring to the people who have worked there the United States that they oversee. Break trip when a representative from and discovered there, who by doing so "We're measuring all the characteristics the Harry S.Truman Foundation called have brought recognition and respect to of the forest—the heights of the trees, to tell him he was a winner of the the University of Kansas," Hemenway their age, the density of the leaves, insect $30,000 award. It was fitting that Brad- said. "Today we celebrate the great minds infestation," Jakubauskas says. "By doing shaw was headed off to teach children who have colored the history of this this we can predict areas that are more in a Head Start program as he accepted University. "-^•^ prone to forest fires and determine the the award honoring his leadership and best way to stop the fires." potential for a career in public service. Jakubauskas and Clayton Blodgett, a "The nicest thing about winning this KU researchers try to map postdoctoral research student, co-wrote scholarship is that I can get the gradu- Yellowstone's dense forest the proposal for the project and began ate education I need without being gathering geostatistical data at Yellowstone encumbered by debt," Bradshaw says. "I fter spending two months meticu- with their students last summer. They will be able to start my public service Alously collecting data deep in the plan to do fieldwork each summer and career without the financial burdens throes of Yellowstone National Park's two then compare their findings with the hanging over my head." million acres of forests, Mark Jakubauskas remote sensor images to test the accuracy Bradshaw, an American studies had every reason to be tired. Jakubauskas, of their model. major who hopes to work as a lawyer research assistant professor for the Kansas "Last summer we collected data from specializing in environmental issues, is Applied Remote Sensing Program, was 330 sites," Jakubauskas says. "And they all the 13th leading a group of eight student- matched up with points on the map. So KU student I to become researchers through the thick forest, and now we can predict characteristics of the a Truman he was responsible not only for gathering forest down to an area of about 100 feet scholar minute details, but also for keeping his by 100 feet, instead of, say, one mile by since 1977. charges informed and one mile." Winners engaged. Jakubauskas Jakubauskas hopes receive up may well have been tired, the result of his team's to $3,000 but he says the experience research will be a soft- for their senior year and up to $27,000 left him more exhilarated ware system that for three years of graduate study. than exhausted. foresters can easily use. Candidates for Truman scholarships "My favorite thing in Remote sensing is cheap- are required to include a public policy the world is fieldwork," er and less time consum- proposal as part of their application. Jakubauskas says. "It's ing than traditional Bradshaw's proposal, a $600,000 youth hardly a vacation, but we forest mapping methods education program to improve Kansas generate so many ideas that rely on aerial pho- water quality, was undoubtedly influ- out in the field. It's where tos. In addition, the data enced by his experiences in Lawrence. we excel." on maps made from At KU, Bradshaw has recruited student- If Jakubauskas' current satellites can be updated, housing residents to clean up streams project is successful, FOREST RANGERS: Researchers unlike the data on exist- and to work with low-income people in Clayton Blodgett and Mark Jakubauskas future scientists and forest are mapping every inch ofYellowstone ing maps. a community garden. managers may not have to National Park's two million acres of forests. Jakubauskas says the

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proposal for the Yellowstone mapping lagher. Hiebert has something all of these project had been floating around KU for a notables covet: blueprints. The floor few years, but had to be repeatedly plans—which help determine scheduling, tweaked to gain approval. Of the 180 pro- assist with construction and renovations posals submitted to NASA, KU's was one and provide historical perspective—are VISITOR of only 13 chosen. constantly in demand. "Just securing the grant was a huge Thanks to his innovation, the blue- deal," Blodgett says. "We spent a lot of prints University staff so desperately Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist time jumping up and down." desire now are accessible to anyone on and author SUSAN FALUDI, While the KARS project will undoubt- campus who gets clearance from Hiebert. whose book Stiffed:The Betrayal of edly play a role in technologizing the Hiebert, a manager for the office of design the American Man examines soci- forestry field, both Jakubauskas and Blod- and construction management, has since etal pressures men face, spoke to gett say there will always be a place for 1993 guided the University's effort to con- an audience of more than 100 old-fashioned field research. solidate the information about all campus about how feminism relates to "At heart both Mark and I are educa- buildings into one database. Details about men's problems. tors," Blodgett says. "The experience of room specifications, available equipment being out there keeps it fresh. The forest and utilities can now be obtained by sim- WHEN: March I becomes our classroom."^••* ply clicking on the facilities management web site. WHERE: Budig Hall "It's a tremendous resource," Hiebert says. "It's amazing how many different SPONSORS: Student Union Activities, people can use this." the School of Journalism and the Pan- The site is the result of more than hellenic Association seven years of painstaking planning and effort. In 1993, Hiebert and his staff BACKGROUND: Faludi is a con- began building the foundation for the tributing editor for Newsweek and won inclusive information system. By early this the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory jour- year, 97 percent of the buildings on cam- nalism with the Wall Street Journal in pus had been drawn accurately and elec- 1991. Her first book, Backlash:The Unde- tronically mapped into the system, clared War Against American Women, cata- providing users with both current and pulted Faludi into the spotlight as a former blueprints for buildings as well as leading feminist writer. timetables and budget reports for future projects. ANECDOTE: "Our system has been built with many Faludi spent six people's goals and efforts, and it is this years talking to UNLIMITED ACCESS: Thanks to an innovative synergy that has allowed it to grow so computer system he helped design, Eric Hiebert men of varying can obtain blueprints and other information about well over such a long time," Hiebert says. economic status- campus buildings with the click of a mouse. "This is a complete 'system' with a very es and found that deliberate framework, not just a computer the trauma of Information system allows program or two." economic down- Access varies: Anyone can log on to sizing caused access to building projects the site to get general information about many of them to review their lives. She buildings and projects, but as the details said men felt betrayed by a corporate n the past few years, Eric Hiebert has get more specific, the material becomes culture that demeaned the virtues of Ibecome increasingly popular on cam- more secured. loyalty and dedication that traditionally pus. On any given day, he might have "Initially we had just four departments have defined manhood. messages from people in the Kansas and 15 to 20 daily users," Hiebert says. Union, in Dyche Hall, in Malott Hall or "Now we have more than 25 departments QUOTE: "I've come to the conclusion in Allen Field House. He might take calls and approximately 200 users. There will that feminism holds the key to men's from University architect Warren Corman, always be some information that is more predicament" or public safety director Ralph Oliver, or secure to us, but we're trying to give assistant athletics director Pat Warren, or everyone some access, let everyone claim School of Education Dean Karen Gal- the University as their

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ROCK CHALK REVIEW MILESTONES, MONEY AND OTHER MATTERS

•KU OFFICIALS HAVE EVERY REASON TO BE PLEASED with the Universi- ty's budget propects for fiscal year 2001.After much political wrangling in the Kansas Legislature, KU's budget remains mostly intact. In separate budgets approved by the House and Senate, KU's $333 million general use fund budget was reduced by only $10,390 from Gov. Bill Graves' recommendation in January. "We got everything the governor recommended except for one little bit," said Marlin Rein, University director for budget and governmental relations. "Given the expectations going into the session, one would have to feel pretty positive." A planned $8 million salary enhancement, which would increase faculty and staff salaries by 5 percent in addition to the 2.5 percent EVEN FROM INSIDE THE GLASS increase designated by Graves, is not included in KU's budget.The funds for that case that held them, the photographs increase, promised as part of the Higher Education Coordination Act passed last year, and papers danced with vitality. Despite are to be appropriated to the Kansas Board of Regents, then distributed to each of the time's march past the heroes it hon- six Regents schools. ored, the display had all the immediacy of a morning newspaper. Its subjects • ROBERT PAGE enjoys a terrific rapport with the students he counsels. Many of still radiated relevance. them have cited Page, the associate director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs who Through February and March, the was featured in Kansas Alumni's issue No. 2 cover story, as a friend and inspiration. Fit- Spencer Research Library featured "No tingly, Page was rewarded for his efforts with the 14th annual CLASS award, an award Dreams Deferred:African-American given by the senior class each year that honors a student services employee. "It was Leadership in the Kansas Region," an very much a shock," Page said. "I was kind of overwhelmed. I didn't expect to win." exhibition mounted by the Kansas Col- Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway and senior officers gave Page the award during halftime lection to celebrate the lives and of the Kansas-Baylor basketball game at Allen Field House. accomplishments of 11 Kansas residents whose actions incited progress for blacks.The exhibition is the first in •SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS are the studies of choice for a planned series of exhibitions about three KU students who have won national Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships. Michelle the numerous blacks who have set the Sippel, a junior from Sutton, Neb., is a biochemistry major who plans to research the standard for leadership in their com- body's molecular responses to stress; David Schmitz, a junior from Topeka, is an engi- munities, the state of Kansas and the neering physics major who aims to research and teach particle physics; and Chuck nation.The exhibitions rely on pho- Abbick, a junior from Junction City, is a mathematics major who wants to explore prob- tographs, manuscripts and other writ- lems of finance and telecommunications from a mathematical standpoint.The talented ten materials to tell the local story of trio each will recieve up to $7,500 for tuition, fees, books and room and board. the national movement that saw blacks progressing socially, politically and eco- •FOR THE THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR, reported crime on campus has nomically during the 20th century. declined.The crime rate for 1999 was down 9 percent from 1998. "The employees of Deborah Dandridge, a field archivist the Public Safety Office work 24 hours a day to provide a safe environment on campus," at the library, helped put together the said Sgt.Troy Mailen of the KU Public Safety Office/They are only able to do this with exhibit from documents she and others the support from the administration and the active participation of the community." have collected from black residents across the region. • ROBERT FOSTER HAS HIT A HIGH NOTE. The KU professor of music and "We have uncovered, by looking at director of KU bands was recently elected president of the Big 12 Band Directors Asso- the papers, a tradition of leadership ciation at their annual meeting in Chicago. Since Foster's arrival at KU in 1971, the band that is unique," Dandridge says. "That has grown to include three concert bands, three jazz ensembles, two basketball bands, leadership has allowed African-Ameri- the volleyball band, the concert wind ensemble, nine combos, and, of course, the famous cans, for many generations, to sustain Marching Jayhawks. hope and dignity when faced with tremendous obstacles."

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 3, 2000 L3 SPORTS BY MEGAN MACIEJOWSKI The home stretch In dramatic Relays renewal, huge crowd cheers record run ASKETBALL of hometown star Maurice Greene, world's fastest human HE WAS KNOWN AS "Mr. Kansas Basketball." Record books show Dick Harp, '41, as the only man in history to represent the same school as a player, an assistant and a head coach in the national collegiate basketball finals. That school was Kansas, and Harp's lifetime association with the University earned him the love and respect of countless generations of Jayhawk fans. On March 18, the Dick Harp era at KU at last ended when Harp, 81, died in Lawrence. A graduate of old Rosedale High in Kansas City, Kan., Harp became a starter, a star and a captain for the 1940 KU team that lost to Indiana in the NCAA finals in Kansas City. After World War II Army duty, he was head coach at William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo. He joined Forrest "Phog" Allen as head assistant and freshman coach in 1948. Harp was head assistant for the 1952

Kansas team that beat St. John's to win UP AND RUNNING: The Kansas Relays return with a bang. (Opposite page, clockwise from top left:) KU junior the NCAA championship, and he was by Scott Russell prepares to launch the javelin. Russell won both the javelin and hammer throw events; pole vaulter Allen's side again in 1953 when KU lost Andrea Branson clears the bar at I 3 feet, 10 inches—a meet and personal record for the KU junior; runners try to Indiana in the finals. to break free from the pack in a distance event; Kansas City native Maurice Greene, world record holder in the Harp became head coach in 1956 100-meter dash, triumphantly anchors HSI's 400-meter relay team. and immediately led Wilt Chamberlain he worlds fastest comeback came compete in 1983—stand up and cheer. and the Jayhawks to the 1957 NCAA courtesy of the world's fastest It was the adrenalin factor, experienced championship game, which they lost in human. Halted for two years dur- this time by the fans as much as the ath- triple overtime to North Carolina. T ing Memorial Stadium's renovations, the letes. As the opening-leg runners came set Many college basketball experts credit Kansas Relays returned strong under a that single for the start, the stadium was so quiet that televised glorious late-April sun, boosted by the a small, lone voice from the top of the game with support of Maurice Greene, a Kansas City, stands could be heard clearly on the field. creating the Kan., native who holds the world record At the sound of the gun, the sprinters national in the 100-meter dash—a title that allows dashed around the first turn; by the back- frenzy that its holder to rightly proclaim himself "the stretch, HSI was in command. Ato Bold- has evolved fastest man alive." en, a world champion from Trinidad, took into March With Greene running anchor, the track the baton for his dash around the final Madness. club HSI bolted to victory in the men's turn, and opened up on the competition In 1964, 400-meter relay, the featured event in the as only the best in the world can do. after growing 73rd Kansas Relays. The four-man HSI But the best was, in fact, yet to come. disillusioned team completed the circuit in 38.45 sec- When Bolden handed the baton to with increasing improprieties in major onds, bettering the 20-year-old Relays Greene, the world's fastest man sprinted college basketball and getting pressure record by more than half a second. But down the frontstretch with electrifying from KU alumni and fans for not win- that wasn't what made the crowd of power. His head never bobbled; he never 10,220—the largest Relays gathering since even opened his mouth to breathe. 19,200 watched the Soviet national team Greene finished more than a full second

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ning enough, Harp resigned as Kansas head coach. But his association with the program was far from finished. He left basketball to serve as an executive for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes before returning to the game in 1986 as an administrative assistant on former pupil Dean Smith's North Carolina staff.There he cultivated a friendship with fellow assistant Roy Williams, and when the KU job opened in 1988, Harp was instrumental in convincing Athletics Director Bob Frederick to hire Williams. "To put it in a nutshell, I don't think I would be the coach at Kansas if not for Dick Harp," Williams said. "I heard so many Phog Allen stories and stories about the University of Kansas, his love for Kansas."

TRACK AND FIELD GARY SCHWARTZ, cross country and track and field coach since 1988, will not return for another season. In March, Athletics Director Bob Freder- ick announced that the contracts of Schwartz and his entire coaching staff would not be renewed. "I very much appreciate Gary's loyal service to the University the past 12 years, but I have determined that a change in leadership of our cross country and track program is necessary," Frederick said. Schwartz said the Jayhawks' stand- ings in the Big 12 prompted his dismissal. "The difficulty is society is pretty much a box score society," Schwartz ahead of the second-place team, Nike Kansas Relays on a campus not used to a said. "Who won and who lost? They Central. break in tradition. don't care that the conference is one Soon after his victory, Greene, who set "All we were thinking about was get- of the top conferences in the country the 100-meter world record of 9.79 sec- ting the baton to Maurice," Bolden said. and that finishing I Oth, I Ith or 12th is onds last June in Athens, grabbed a "That's what we were here for, so Maurice not an indication the program is not microphone and pledged to the crowd could run in front of his hometown fans. doing anything." that he and his HSI teammates would These fans were great today, so we're glad Schwartz has had a lengthy affiliation return to the 2001 Kansas Relays. we didn't disappoint." with KU's track and field program. He Which is the best news of all as offi- Greene, in fact, did not open up the cials and athletes hustle to reinvent the greatest margin on his competitors; it was

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Bolden who appeared to be the fastest competed in the discus and shot put for Kansas from 1962 to 1966, winning the of the four HSI runners. But Bolden Big Eight discus title in 1965. He did not hestitate when asked who ran returned to the Hill in 1988 to succeed the best leg: "Maurice did. We are in his former coach, the legendary Bob Kansas." Timmons.As head coach, Schwartz has The meets outstanding collegiate coached 28 athletes to 38 All-America women's performer was KU pole awards. He was inducted into the vaulter Andrea Branson, who cleared Kansas Athletics Hall of Fame after his 13 feet, 10 inches—a meet record, a men's team finished fourth at the 1989 personal best by 5 3/4 inches and the NCAA Indoor Championships, and he is second-best collegiate vault of the sea- a former president of the United States son. Cheered on at each attempt by Track Coaches Association. Last summer her home crowd, the KU All-Ameri- Schwartz was part of the USA Track and can narrowly missed at 14-1 3/4, but Field coaching staff for the 1999 World by then victory in the invitational pole Outdoor Championships in Seville, vault event was already hers. And it Spain. was particularly special because it "I've run a clean, honest program was the first time Branson, a junior, with real student-athletes," Schwartz competed in a home outdoor meet. said. "I am absolutely not ashamed of "This is one of those few meets anything we've done since I've been that I will remember in its entirety," FEARLESS LEADER: Kirk Hinrich played through painful here." back spasms during KU's contest with DePaul, then led the Branson said. "The crowd was very Jayhawks against Duke with 11 points, 6 assists and tenacious Schwartz special." defense that shut down the Blue Devils' heralded guard Jason said he was Other KU winners included junior Williams. Said coach Roy Williams about his fabulous fresh- disappointed Charlie Gruber, who won the mile in man, "Before he's finished, he will be one of the most com- by the Uni- plete guards I've ever coached." 4:06.41; junior Scott Russell, who versity's deci- won the javelin (239 feet) and hammer to KU's surprising star turn in last year's sion, but not throw (210 feet, 8 inches); sophomore tournament, when Kansas took another bitter. Ryan Speers in the shot put (57 feet, 1 favored, tradition-rich team to the brink "I will 1/2 inches); junior Andy Morris in the of elimination. While the action this year always be a decathlon, with 7,101 points; freshman between the two college basketball blue- Jayhawk," he said. Mark Meneffee in the 5,000, at 14:30.4; bloods lacked no drama, Kansas again and both the men's (3:21.46) and was forced to accept an unhappy ending. women's (4:04.36) sprint medley The 1999 team lost to Kentucky, 92-88; relay teams.-^"^ the 2000 version ultimately surrendered —Chris Lazzarino to Duke, 69-64. "It was a great college basketball game," coach Roy Williams said. "We SWIMMING Kansas confronts demons, grew up so much after we got here, and the competitiveness we were looking for GARY KEMPF, KU's swimming and ultimately loses to Devils all year long was here today. We made diving coach for the past 24 years, has some giant strides." been promoted to director of student- athlete life and director of coaches' pro- he scene played strangely familiar. In a weekend wrought with symbol- fessional development. He replaces John TAfter fighting through a tumultuous ism, Kansas became the team Williams Jefferson, who took an administrative regular season in which the coach and his had struggled to uncover all season. job with the Washington Redskins. players endured rare criticism, the embat- Against DePaul's Blue Demons and Duke's The swimming team will be divided tled team ascended from its depths to give Blue Devils, on the home court of the for the first time into men's and its season's most remarkable performance. Wake Forest Demon Deacons, the Jay- women's teams with two coaches. Assis- With 78 seconds remaining in a block- hawks exorcised many of their own tant coach Cathy Burgess was promot- buster second-round thriller, the team sat demons, displaying welcome tenacity and ed to women's coach, and assistant precariously poised to upset the nation's leadership and nearly overcoming the coach Doug Dickinson will head the top-ranked team and advance to the tough tournament luck that has haunted NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16. them in the past few years. The script indeed seemed like a sequel In its first-round contest with DePaul,

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Kansas stormed back from a six-point unfold would likely disagree. Bradford's men's program. Kempf says the decision deficit in overtime to win, 81-77. The and his teammates' efforts were certainly to split the program into two teams was team rode to victory on the wings of some something. a collective idea. unlikely heroes: its upperclassmen. Their "Our kids played as hard as they could "Nowadays, the Big 12 is such an leadership questioned throughout the possibly play," Williams said. "I would elite conference, if we're going to be year, KU's juniors and seniors battled bril- have loved to have seen us sneak by one competitive at that level, we have to pay liantly against DePaul. Junior guard more and see what we could have done attention to each program," he said. Kenny Gregory scored 22 points on 11 of down the "The last few years it was a real burden 12 shooting and brought Kansas even to try to keep things running in two with a steal and dunk in the games final programs at the same time." minute. Junior center Eric Chenowith Vanderbilt outlasts Kansas Kempf was named conference coach gave his most inspired effort of the year, of the year six times and is a member of scoring 10 points and grabbing four in double-overtime thriller the KU Athletics Hall of Fame. In 1983, rebounds. Senior forward Nick Bradford after Kansas finished seventh at the collected 14 points, three steals and two NCAA championships, Kempf earned blocks, and senior forward Lester Earl's n the bittersweet aftermath of KU's 71- NCAA Women's Coach of the Year stilling defense down the stretch sealed I69, double-overtime loss to Vanderbilt honors.The veteran taskmaster said he the KU win. in the first round of the NCAA Tourna- was enthusiastic about assuming a new "It was about time for the older guys to ment, senior forward Lynn Pride contem- role. come out with a game like this," Bradford plated the emotional paradox of playing "The new position will also give me said. "We've been here before, and we in such an exhausting game. an opportunity to work with coaches, weren't going to go down without leaving "Mentally and physically, it's draining," mentoring coaches, maybe providing everything out on the floor." said Pride, who scored 17 points and extra care as someone to be there when they need someone," Kempf said. The team's true character, Gregory grabbed six rebounds in her final college "There's plenty of support for athletes, noted, was at last on display. game. "But it's pretty fun. You're put in a but sometimes the coach needs sup- "A lot of people probably thought we position to let the best man win. In one port, too." would give up, down by six in overtime," way, you're so tired that you just want it he said. "But we know we're a tough to be over. But you would play forever if team. We kept fighting and came back." it meant you could win in the end." So the stage came to be set for eighth- In the end, Kansas simply could not seeded KU's showdown with top-seeded convert its scoring opportunities into a Duke. While Kansas jumped to an early victory. Three times the Jayhawks had the nine-point lead behind freshman guard ball in the game's precious last seconds; BASKETBALL Kirk Hinrich's three-point shooting, Duke three times their shots clanked off the SOPHOMORE GUARD Marlon Lon- muscled its way back and the teams were rim. At the end of regulation, Pride don will not return to the KU men's tied at halftime. Then it was Duke who missed on an alley-oop pass from senior basketball team next season.The 6'4 led by nine during the second half, but guard Suzi Raymant. As the first overtime Chicago native says he will transfer to a Kansas rallied, and sophomore guard Jeff winded down, junior guard Brooke Reves school closer to home at the end of the Boschee tied the game with a three-point- misfired an off-balance jump shot. Then, academic year. er with 3:30 remaining. After Duke took down by two in the second overtime, According to his mother, London, the lead, Bradford again tied the score Pride caught a full-court inbounds pass who averaged 17 minutes and 4.3 points with an aggressive three-point play. Duke from junior forward Jaclyn Johnson and a game, simply has not been able to then scored, stole a Bradford pass and missed a three-pointer, officially ending overcome homesickness since coming never looked back. KU's season. to Lawrence two years ago. Both his Bradford, inconsolable as he walked off Despite eighth-seeded Kansas' early parents and coach Roy Williams tried to the floor of a college basketball arena for exit from the tournament, coach Marian convince him to stay at KU, but London the last time, spoke about scoring KU's Washington said she was proud of the says his decision is final. final points. way her team played perennially powerful "The ball just happened to bounce my Vanderbilt. way, and I just put it in," he said. "But it "I think when we came in here, no one was nothing because of my bad decision expected us to be in the game," she said. at the end." "As I told these players, I think they rep- Anyone who watched the marvelous resented themselves very well, the Univer- matchup between Kansas and Duke sity and the conference."^"""

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the 1920s to 1940s. His ties with Lawrence, from the early Burroughs' last words 1960s and through his last 16 years here, will be examined, Soon after publishing William S. Burroughs' final journals, with an emphasis on the city's history as a ganglion in the the late writer's friend and editor charts a definitive biography worldwide neural network of the '60s. mid the mail that City, where Burroughs unin- Earlier this year, Grove William S. Burroughs tentionally killed Joan in an published Last Words: The Final Areceived one day in infamous incident in 1951. Journals of William S. 1972 in his London flat was a Burroughs turned 40 in Burroughs. These were dream fan letter from a 19-year-old Tangier, and for the next 20 notes, memories and poems KU junior. Burroughs wrote years he lived there and in jotted down by William in the back, inviting the young man i . Paris and then London, turn- last nine months of his life. to visit London but deflecting ing out the bulk of the oeuvre My colleague, the poet Jim his request to write a biogra- for which he is regarded today McCrary, transcribed the note- phy: "Must say no to early WILLIAMS. as a major literary figure of the books within a few months years article. ... The life of a BURROUGHS postwar period. My challenge after William's death. I will writer is, for the most part, in this part of the biography is leave to others an assessment solitary and uneventful." to condense an historic period of how Last Words sits next to I was that KU student, and that has already been docu- the other two dozen major I was surprised to hear any- Last Words: The final jour- mented in dozens of books. works in Burroughs' bibliogra- nals of William S. Burroughs phy. I have had my say in my thing from Burroughs at all. I Edited and with an I expect to call my biogra- introduction, and I suppose it had written to Allen Ginsberg introduction by James phy Pilgrim on the Earth: A Per- as well, and to my equal sur- Grauerholz sonal Life oj William S. is obvious that the work is prise I also heard back from Grove Press, $25 Burroughs. William was very self-consciously valedictory as him. That led to my meeting taken with the 1929 novella well as surprisingly intimate, Ginsberg in New York in Louis, Cambridge, Mass., by Julian Green, Pelerin sur la revealing and tender. 1973, and then to meeting Europe, New York, Chicago, Terre. It is a ghost story, of Last Words is not the last Burroughs when I moved to and, in the last years of World sorts; its protagonist is a word/rom William Burroughs, New York in 1974. William War II, New York again. These young man whose apparent however. His autobiographical and I spent the next 23 years formative years—and notably suicide leads to an examina- reminiscences and writings together, until his death in his time at Harvard—have tion of the mysterious haunt- will be published as Evil River: Lawrence, at age 83, in 1997. never been thoroughly exam- ing that he seemed to be A Memoir, edited by Barry In a very real sense, we are ined, and recreating the intel- under. It is not so much that Miles, and a second volume of still together. lectual influences and personal his fate resembles Burroughs' letters is planned, to cover the It is hard to rid retrospec- events that shaped his person- fate, but that Burroughs saw period 1959-1974, following tion of a certain sense of ality is an exciting prospect. himself in the young mans Selected Letters, 1945-1959, inevitability, to remember The middle third will deal story when he first read the published in 1993. when events now fixed in with the most eventful period book at Harvard. Nor will my biography be memory were once vague in of Burroughs' life: the three Next spring I will teach an the last word on Burroughs. In prospect; how different our decades that followed his first American Studies course at view of the worldwide impact imaginings of the future, from encounters with Allen Gins- KU, in which I will closely of his work, throughout all the our remembrances of the past. berg and Jack Kerouac. Bur- examine a dozen books that arts and several of the sci- It would take a book to roughs spent his 30s addicted made a lifelong impact on ences, the artistic and cultural recount all that William Bur- to "junk," and deeply involved Burroughs' thought and on accomplishments of William S. roughs did in those next two with these two men and their his work. Not all his influ- Burroughs are sure to require decades. As it happens, I circle. He moved with his ences were literary: Burroughs continuing re-evaluation for intend to write that book, but common-law wife, Joan was shaped by his early read- many years to come.--*"""1 it will be the final third of a Vollmer, to Pharr, Texas, and ings in anthroplogy sociology, —Grauerholz, 73, oj Lawrence, full biography. then to a farm near New psychology, philosophy and was Burroughs' longtime The first third will be Bur- Waverly, Texas. From New history, as well as "pulps" and manager and editor and is roughs' first 30 years, in St. Orleans they fled to Mexico other popular-fiction genres of executor of his estate.

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least—is alive and well. Save the Jaybowl didn't try to preserve In league all 12 lanes. Instead, the students suggested a compromise that would save Students unite to Save the Jaybowl, and democracy's eight. They showed up in February to argue their case before the Memorial foundation of social interaction picks up a spare Corporation Board, hoping for nothing more than a spare. They got a strike: All hink what you like about the ill- disjointed nation. In a widely hailed 1995 12 lanes were saved, with a $100,000 fated proposal to convert the Jay- essay, "Bowling Alone: America's Declining renovation to boot. Tbowl into a 24-hour cybercafe Social Capital," scholar Robert Putnam Chalk one up for that most basic tool featuring computers, big-screen televi- documented our civic disaffection by cit- of democracy, the petition. Save the Jay- sions and other high-tech amusements: ing thinning crowds in the voting booth, bowl inked only 4,600 student signatures, As a business decision it was unassailable. the church pew, the union hall and the but that was enough. A dozen articles The Kansas Union needs more traffic, fraternal lodge. One "whimsical yet dis- appeared in local newspapers. The Associ- needs—in the creeping jargon of e-com- comfiting bit of evidence" seemed to cap- ated Press picked up the story. The board, merce—more eyeballs. And what surer ture the country's alienation: More people according to one dispatch, was "inun- way to draw eyeballs than with screens? were bowling than voting, but they were dated" with letters and e-mail supporting Our culture is held in the isolating bowling alone, not in leagues. The decline the alley. thrall of the screen. For many, the closest in seemingly minor civic activities is trou- KU needs more public computers to we come to community is watching the bling because these small alliances help improve access for students, but is the same sitcoms in our separate homes. We build the social networks that sustain a union—the intended social hub for stu- stare into computer monitors, storytellers democracy, Putnam argued. Forsake the dents on campus—the best place? The gathered around an electronic hearth, Moose Lodge or the Monday connecting only at safe distances and league, he suggested, and democ- behind a buffer of anonymity. At sporting racy will wither. events we focus not on the field but on Such high-toned sentiments the Jumbotron, not quite believing the probably figured little in the actions authenticity until it's rendered efforts of Save the Jaybowl. But it larger than life by tiny pixels. Thanks to doesn't take a Tocqueville to see cable access, the communal town meeting that the coalition of bowling team has become just another TV show. members, tenpin aficionados and It wasn't always thus. When Alexis de watchdogs of KU tradition pre- Tocqueville toured America in 1831 to served more than students' rights observe our burgeoning democracy in to share shoes and heave gutter action, the young French aristocrat was balls. They proved that civic impressed most by our passion for civic engagement—on campus at engagement. "Ameri- cans of all ages, all sta- s union needs more traffic to fulfill tions of life, are forever that social function, but are big- forming associations," screen TVs and computer monitors he wrote in his classic really the best way to encourage political study, Democ- interaction? racy in America. This Save the Jaybowl challenged the thriving civic society, supremacy of the screen and won. Tocqueville believed, Bowling pins may seem very small held the key to our pegs on which to hang our hopes for successful democracy. democracy, but perhaps Tocquevilles A century and three- lesson still applies: To rekindle quarters later, the social America's civic flame, we need more scientists who are Toc- passion for the little things.-"••' queville's inheritors —Hill is a Lawrence writer and fre- lament our slide from a quent contributor to Kansas Alumni. nation of joiners to a

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BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

Lombardo's homage to Homer speaks to new students S of the heroic tradition

he best heroes, the classic missed the point: Achilles was feuding rage. Achilles and Agamemnon open the champions ol poetry, cul- with the Greek leader Agamemnon, and Iliad not with promises of death to the ture, literature and war, are sitting out the war at the fatal expense of despised Trojans—behavior we might not easy to understand. his companions, because Agamemnon had expect from warrior-heroes—but instead They are human, filled with stolen Achilles' war prize, the beautiful lock themselves in a personal grudge that complexities. Their frailties, Trojan girl Briseis. ultimately costs the lives of many Greek though, are neither expected "And he said he loved her!" the girl companions who carry on with the war nor accepted, at least not by many KU argued forcefully. "That's why he's doing despite their quarrelsome leaders. Tand Lawrence High School students who all of this, because the woman he loved "Rage: Sing, Goddess ... When the poet refuse to worship heroes lightly, instead was taken from him! And that's why the says those words, he summons up an choosing to passionately analyze the Greeks are attacking Troy, because the entire heroic age," Lombardo says to the proper traits of a classical hero. Trojans have Helen!" LHS students. "This intensity and drive A vibrant edition of Homer's Iliad, A boy standing near the stage dis- and commitment, that's what this poet is translated by Stanley Lombardo, KU pro- missed the evidence as starry-eyed fluff: "1 trying to summon." fessor of classics, sparked a surprising know they say this whole war started Agamemnon soon admits he was renewal this spring of the heroic tradition. because the Trojans have Helen, but per- wrong to take Briseis, and he sends other Lombardo, who also recently translated sonally I think it's really more of a trade- warriors to offer generous apologies. Homers Odyssey, saw his Iliad translation route dispute than anything else." Achilles refuses and continues to sulk, far brought to life on the stage, and the book "How romantic," the girl shot back, "is away from the battle. He does not rejoin is a foundation of a new University Schol- a trade-route dispute!" the fight until Hector, the greatest Trojan ars heroes seminar created by James Iliad is our greatest war story, Western hero, kills his closest friend—and even Carothers, professor of English and Hon- culture's ultimate tale of mythical warriors then Achilles is compelled not by a war- ors Faculty fellow. and heroes. Is it also our also greatest rior's duty but instead charges into battle Lombardo's Iliad is also a featured text love story? seething with personal rage. in Mary Yadon's Epic Traditions classes at Can we be surprised that worship of _awrence High, where Lombardo recently this twisted hero troubles students new to met with about 50 students. Perched on Rage: the story? a stage in a darkened auditorium, Lom- Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage, "Achilles is a man of tremendous phys- bardo spoke about Homer and performed Black and murderous, that cost the Greeksical beauty and strength, godlike, but a powerful section of the great poets clas- Incalculable pain, pitched countless soulsthere are these enormous passions that he sic war story, Iliad. He provided insights Of heroes into Hades' dark ... has to deal with," Lombardo says. "Stu- and answers, but Lombardo seemed more Begin with the clash between dents see Achilles as infantile at first, and interested in the questions, admiring the Agamemnon— correctly." energy as disputes roiled in the audience. The Greek warlord—and godlike Achilles. And yet we know both Achilles and These students were not at all convinced Which of the immortals set these two Agamemnon are heroes of the highest that Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior At each other's throats? order. They are not merely the type of and ultimate classical hero, was worthy of —Iliad, Book One, by Homer, heroes who define the role; they are, in hero status. translated by Stanley Lombardo fact, the heroes who define the role. Their "I personally thought Achilles was act- legends have lived for thousands of years, ing like a spoiled child," one student ombardo begins his Iliad transla- despite the disturbing nature of Achilles' announced. tion, published by Hackett in 1997, refusal to back down from a personal Most of the other students seemed to with a forceful word that thrusts affront and Agamemnon's belligerent agree, but one girl insisted they had L'straight into the heart of the matter: demands that started the feud. Something

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 3, 2000 2] about these dastardly old Greeks who rise preserves or restores order to the commu- to define a manly code of bravery and sac- nity, of which the hero is, or becomes, the rifice still engages us, and the contradic- acknowledged champion. tions certainly engage the 18 sophomores To explore the definition, Carothers in Carothers' University Scholars heroes charted a semester filled with interesting seminar. twists. Yes, the KU sophomores would "The students maintain an ideal for study Iliad. But Carothers is well-known heroic behavior, so they're very alert to for his delight in the unconventional—he point out when a character in Iliad, for is a KU legend for his course called The example, does not behave as well as he Literature of Baseball—so he also assigned might," Carothers says. "It remains to be Winnie-the-Pooh books by A.A. Milne. seen, though, whether that reflects ideal- Analyzing strength, courage, intelligence ism or a suspicious cynicism that heroism and virtue among Pooh, Christopher is a myth and doesn't exist." Robin, Eeyore, Tigger and Piglet must be a KU's heralded Western Civilization pro- refreshing respite from the bloody battles gram never included Homer on its read- of Troy. He also took students on weekend ing lists, and traditionally paid little trips to Abilene and Independence, Mo., attention to the intricacies of the hero, lit- where they visited the Eisenhower and erary or otherwise. "But clearly Stan's Truman libraries. The class studied Charles translation has provided a wonderful Lindbergh and watched James Stewart's occasion for us to seriously consider using portrayal of the daring aviator in "The Homer," says James Woelfel, director of Spirit of St. Louis." Humanities & Western Civilization. The As the 1957 movie showed fluttering curriculum committee is considering ticker-tape swirling around Lindbergh dur- adding Lombardo's translations of both ing his triumphant return to New York Iliad and Odyssey to Western Civ's reading City, Carothers invoked his definition: lists, and, if approved, even more KU "The hero becomes the acknowledged

<^C^t^Vt^^H- undergraduates will be immersed in the complexities of Homeric heroes. "We have something parallel going on champion of the society," he said to the istinguished Professor Emeritus with saints, who are not perfect people class, "and that is one of the ways we have Richard L. Schiefelbusch, g'47, but come to be acknowledged as the of acknowledging that." created KU's Bureau of Child mediators, in some way, of the grace of Carothers invited several professors to Research, now the Schiefelbusch God or the power of God," Woelfel says. D lecture to his class. Peter Casagrande, pro- Institute for Life Span Studies, in 1955. "It's worthwhile for students to confront fessor of English and Humanities & West- During his 35 years as the bureau's direc- and discuss the fact that the hero is a ern Civilization, spoke about creativity and tor, Schiefelbusch brought in $100 million human being, and human beings are the artist as hero. Professor Charles G. in grants, and he and his colleagues flawed. What is it about the hero that Masinton, of English, lectured the class on earned worldwide acclaim for original and makes them rise above that, with all their anti-heroes, villains and scapegoats. Lom- important research. faults, and come to be acknowledged as bardo discussed his Iliad translation, and That work certainly made Schiefel- heroic?" Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, professor of busch a KU hero, but it was a different On the first day of his heroes seminar, psychology and associate provost for acad- type of heroism that brought him to Carothers offered his definition of a hero: emic services, spoke about personal Carothers' class. In 1941, a year after A hero is an individual who is uniquely heroes. graduating from Kansas State Teachers capable of acting decisively, possessing McCluskey-Fawcett, g'73, PhD'77, College in Pittsburg, Schiefelbusch enlist- strength, courage, intelligence and virtue. brought the best lecture material possible: ed in the Army Air Corps; he reported for Despite personal risk, the hero creates, a hero. Her hero. KU's hero. active duty days after the Japanese

22] KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 3, 2000 Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Schiefelbusch recalls KU losses while visiting the World War II Memorial Campanile.

months as a prisoner of war. formances, as Homer intended Iliad to be In the twilight of a long career as an presented. educator, Schiefelbusch sat before "Working on the Iliad, every day I Carothers' University Scholars heroes semi- would go out on Troy's dusty plain and nar and, for the first time in an academic just try to perceive Homer's mind," Lom- setting, told the story of his war. Of being bardo says. "And that's ultimately what shot down. Of his rescue at sea and long translation should be, I think. You should months and years of captivity. And he told completely obtain the original's mind. of April 29, 1945, the day American After you do that and you've gone beyond tanks—the 14th Armored Division of Gen. the language, then you really are true to George S. Patton's 7th Army—appeared on the spirit. Bringing it back to life is all you the hillside near his POW camp. are supposed to do." "The tanks majestically and slowly Lombardo's Odyssey translation, pub- approached the prison camp," Schiefel- lished in March, is equally energetic, and busch said to the students, who seemed also features an imaginative cover photo- wary even of breathing for fear of missing graph: "Earthrise," taken in 1969 by the a word, "and then methodically crew of Apollo 11 during mankinds great- approached the front gate and flattened it. est modern odyssey, the first lunar land- You can't describe it. You are kind of ing. He is also working on abridged numb. It seems not quite real, but happi- versions of Iliad and Odyssey for his pub- ness is very pervasive. I guess you would lisher, Hackett. call it euphoria. Lombardo particularly enjoys perform- "What happened to me, on the whole, ing his translations for junior-high and was an adventure of great magnitude. high-school students. "The kids really have When I came back, I was different. Quite strong, positive, intuitive responses," Lom- different. I chose to go into a helping bardo says. "They get it." profession, and I worked for 45 years He recalls a performance of Odyssey, without a sabbatical. My motivation featuring one of the greatest of all heroes, never quit on me." Odysseus. As a warrior, Odysseus could bombed Pearl Harbor. After telling fight with the best of them. "But the rea- Carothers' students about his training and son he's a hero," Lombardo explains, "the the harrowing flights to South America, "He sent me to teach you this— reason he gets his own movie, so to speak, Africa and England that eventually brought Jo be a speaker oj words and a doer is because of his mind, his intelligence, his his bomber into the war, Schiefelbusch cut oj deeds." cunning, his quick thinking, his deep psy- to the action scene. —Phoenix, delivering a message of the chological insights. He has this endurance, "In mid-May 1943, I was shot down," warrior code from Achilles' father, which goes far beyond any kind of physi- he said matter-of-factly. Peleus, to the sulking hero cal endurance." "You'll notice," Carothers quickly told After bringing Odysseus to life for an the students, "that the epic will tell you nspired by Lombardo's Iliad cover—a audience of eighth-graders, Lombardo what's going to happen before it happens." photograph from the D-Day landing says, he was approached by a boy who On the day that changed his life, titled "Into the Jaws of Death"—the said his hero was the wheelchair-bound Schiefelbusch was a navigator on a bomb- Aquila Theatre Company, based in physicist Stephen Hawking. ILondon and New York, created a lean, ing mission headed for German submarine "I asked why," Lombardo recalls, "and bases. Battling fierce winds that halted powerful staging of Book One, set in he said it was because Hawking used his their progress, the American bombers were World War II. Aquila debuted its Iliad at mind to overcome everything: his body attacked by German fighters. An engine New York City's Lincoln Center to rave and the whole universe. I thought that was caught fire and bullets destroyed the pilot's reviews, including a New York Times wonderful! Like Hawking, Odysseus is flight-control panel. Schiefelbusch and his appraisal that the play "draws an audience preeminently a hero for the mind. He companions bailed out at 27,000 feet. so deep inside the great poem that one completely attains his mind, and as soon As he bobbed in the frigid Baltic Sea, seems to experience what Homer's as students hear about that, then they his mind wandered to his pregnant wife heroes did." relate to it. The idea of physical beauty and the child he would never get to hold. That .wasn't an accident. Lombardo first and physical prowess and bravery are all But before the drowning that he was so dreamed of translating Homer as an under- the traditional ingredients that make up certain awaited him, Schiefelbusch was graduate at Loyola University in New the hero, and students say, 'Well, I'm not dragged into a boat by fishermen and Orleans, and he began his Iliad translation so brave, maybe, and I don't look so good, delivered to the Germans. So began 24 to create lively scripts for his own solo per- and I'm not so strong, I'm not an athlete.'

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 3, 2000 23 But then they hear that you can be a hero have shrunk, and our culture has shrunk." agreed to let the struggling soldier drop just with your mind, and you get this He recalls a bust of Apollo, inscribed his heavy pack onto one of their carts. wonderful opening-up response." with a sonnet by the German poet Rainer More than a half-century later, Schiefel- Achilles, however, remains a troubling Maria Rilke. The sonnet describes the busch relates the story of aiding an ailing hero for many readers, and Lombardo statue, the curve of the lines, and, as enemy as if no other decision could have sympathizes. He recalls performing Iliads Lombardo says, "it seems it's purely an been reached: "Suppose he collapsed Book 22 when some street people walked aesthetic experience." because we said no. Is that going to be in, plopped onto the floor and began lis- Lombardo pauses for effect, the educa- easy to remember?" tening closely. tor who resides deep in his being making Just moments earlier he had told the "I'm doing the part where Achilles is certain his audience is paying attention: students that life in the POW camp was killing Hector, really being Achilles, and "But the last half-line of the sonnet is, 'You organized around the assumption that as soon as it ended, one of them just must change your life.' And that's the expe- Germans were barbarians. Now he talked stood up and said, 'Well, that Hector is all rience I want students to have when of the sympathy he felt for a weary old

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man who wore the enemy's colors. Unlike contradictions the students encountered right, but Achilles is a real son of a encountering Homeric poetry deeply. You among the Greeks and Trojans, this expan- bitch.'" must change your life. You can't live the way sion of individual humanity was easy to Lombardo laughs, then continues: you used to live anymore." comprehend. "The thing about it is, you have to go all "The hero is someone who lives for the way to the end, where Achilles devel- glory, lives for his reputation, and that's ops this tremendous sense of compassion. "... I have borne what no man how Achilles starts, that's all he lives for," After deserting the Greeks and paying Who has walked this earth has ever yet Lombardo says. "But in the end, his mind attention only to his hurt pride, he finally borne. changes, and it becomes large enough to comes back and ultimately does save the I have kissed the hand of the man who encompass these great adversaries, even Greeks. You see the heroes as really killed my son." the great enemy Priam, King of Troy." human, just as human as you are, with —Priam, father Hector, while Not long after his second camp was the same kind of frailties, emotions, prob- pleading with Achilles to release liberated, 2nd Lt. Richard Schiefelbusch lems, immaturity. A hero is someone who the body for burial arrived at Kansas City's Union Station. A develops, who grows, who has tremen- toddler approached him and said, "Chew dous potential and finally does realize it, "... Let our pain gum. Chew gum." Schiefelbusch, now 81, and realizes it on behalf of his people." Lie at rest a while, no matter how much we smiled at the memory of the moment Lombardo recommends that anyone hurt. ... when he was no longer a warrior-hero troubled by Achilles' contradictions Yes, the gods have woven pain into mortal and finally became a grateful Kansas should notice how he is handled by lives." father. "It was my son," he said, "and Homer, whose notion of the hero obvi- —Achilles to Priam he was beautiful." ously includes redemption. Even if the Asked what was going through his modern audience has trouble forgiving s he sat before Carothers' students mind at that moment, Schiefelbusch Achilles as Homer did, the modern audi- and told of his captivity during answered, simply, "I'm home." ence should at least appreciate Homers World War II, Schiefelbusch Again, another pause. And then: "We non-judgmental approach, which, for flowed steadily along, never dis- are told by poets and philosophers that joy Lombardo, represents a true greatness of Aplaying anger or bitterness, and certainly comes from pain. Well, that's the key right mind. no rage. there." "Homer gives us a universe that is spa- As the Allied armies progressed from Schiefelbusch told his story for an hour cious, that has room around the edges," the west and the Russians approached and a half, and never once did he say the Lombardo says. "It's not at all cramped or from the east, Schiefelbusch and his fellow word that had brought him to the class, confined, so his heroes live in that kind of POWs began a forced march south, during the word these students had struggled to universe, the universe of Homer's mind, which some of the Americans were guard- accept. The definition lived in the emo- where complete redemption is possible ed by a soldier who was at least 60 years tions shared by all in the room. and complete transformation is allowed old. Although the prisoners did not have They were in the company of for. And I think in many ways our minds to help the old German, they unanimously a hero.'-'"""'

24 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 3, 2q00 b-b-b-booom!' It went like that all they way through. I've never forgotten that." Soldier says true heroes didn't Asked to describe the bravest act he witnessed, Sneegas hesitates. "There were a lot of brave guys over there." Then he live to tell about their exploits brightens and tells the story of the night his friend Lloyd Risburg, known as "Oley," 1st SS Panzer Division, Liebstandarte Adolf crept off into the darkness. Soon after, an BY PATRICK QUINN Hitler, which was originally formed as enormous explosion behind the German Hitler's personal bodyguard. "They were lines blasted a column of fire hundreds of yron Sneegas, a retired master really bastards," Sneegas recalls quietly. feet into the night sky, and Oley reap- machinist for KU's physics depart- "Really hard to deal with." But the soldiers peared with a wide grin, having destroyed ment, spent nearly nine months of the 35th whipped the stormtroopers, a Panzer and an ammunition dump. He engaged in continual combat dur- crossed into Germany and ultimately had taken the action on his own initiative, ing World War II. Heroism is a marched to the Elbe, where they joined and was offered decorations and promo- Btopic he is loath to discuss, but when hands with the Russians. tion. He declined. pushed, it's not fighting men who rate If there is a dominant theme to his "He didn't care about any of that stuff," first mention. Rather, it's his mother, memories of the war, it is frustration: frus- Sneegas says dismissively. "He was like all whose five sons all served either during tration with the needless death, with the the rest of us, just wanted to get it over or soon after World War II: "She always often-hidebound chain of command, and with and come home." worried most about whichever boy was particularly with the inadequate state of Sneegas returned to Lawrence in late farthest from home." training of many of the division's replace- 1945. He and Mary Jeanne Johnson Snee- Sneegas was a machine gunner in the ments. But not all the memories are black. gas, f'48, have been married for 51 years 35th Infantry Division. He walked from Sneegas saw two USO shows, including ("If I had to do it all over again, I'd marry Normandy to the Rhine and beyond while a performance by Bob Hope and Bing the same girl sooner," he says) and togeth- participating in the liberation of Western Crosby close to the front lines. "Crosby er they reared three boys. The subject of Europe from Nazi tyranny, and he counts was singing a song when the Germans heroism occasionally comes up at during his own mother lucky. All her sons came started an artillery barrage that drowned reunions of the 35th—how could it not?— home. "There were a lot of mothers who out the music. He quit singing and said, but Sneegas, now 77, has little patience lost everyone in their family," he says mat- 'Those goddamn Germans have no respect with it. ter-of-factly. "It's the mothers who paid the for entertainers.'" He has fond memories of "Some of these guys have a few drinks bill for the damned war." a night spent in an enormous, feather-soft and start talking about how we're all Sneegas' 35th, which had been Harry baroque bed that was once the property of heroes, but that's just garbage. The real Truman's unit in the First World War, took the Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg— heroes are the guys we left over there, the for its shoulder patch the "Santa Fe cross," "Man, did I ever sleep that night, and did men who died. We all played a role in a symbol once used to mark the famous I ever need it." On one occasion he even what happened, and we all deserve credit trail. The division landed on Omaha Beach made it into Paris for a day or two, but for it, but the heroes are the guys who shortly after D-Day, entered combat in nearly all of his memories are colored died. It could've been any one of us, but early-July 1944 and remained more or less by combat. we came home and continuously engaged with the enemy for "I'll never forget the they didn't. They're the next 162 days. Christmas of 1944. We the ones who made Pulled out of the line in December were in Metz. Everyone it possible for the 1944, the 35 th was sent to the Ardennes was singing 'Silent rest of us. They're to rest and refit, but in fact arrived just in Night,' and there was the heroes."-^™* time for the last great German offensive of an artillery duel going —Quinn is a the war, known to history as the Battle of outside. It was, 'Siiii-lent Lawrence the Bulge. Sneegas' Santa Fe division found night—b-b-b-booom! free-lance writer. itself locked in a deadly embrace with the Hooo-ly night—

•Jo. And we don t mean class schedules

Gavin Rondeau

26 n the days before students decided Gavin Rondeau, a freshman from Great that the only way to carry their Bend, was sleeping soundly, his head softly I considerable baggage was in resting on the two bags he bright, bloated bags, Jayhawk brings to campus every day, Boulevard must have when we found him. Awak- been a considerably ening from his peaceful less colorful slumber, Rondeau politely place. The emptied the contents of leather satchels of his bags for us, revealing eras gone by are swimming trunks, a sepia-toned in compar- towel, goggles, a Hacky ison with today's Techni- Sack, juice, Advil, color totes. The mere idea Altoids, a calculator and a notebook. While of modern scholars carrying Rondeau lamented the disappearance of their books in hand is mirthful; the belief the sewing kit he always keeps in one of that function should precede fashion is his backpacks, the absence of any faux pas. For on today's runway of college books seemed more campus style, the backpack is not only notably conspicuous. the carrier of all things academic—it is the "I come prepared," accessory of choice for nearly every stu- said Rondeau, a resident dent. of Battenfeld Scholar- But the bags boast far more than ship Hall. "But I don't sophisticated style. Take a hike up Mount usually carry books to Oread on any given day and you may class. They're too mistake your mission for a Mount Everest heavy. And don't expedition. You are surrounded by operate under any backpacks that feature pencil holders, illusions: People calculator and disc pockets, mesh com- who live in schol- partments, bottle holders, padded arship halls are shoulder straps, bungee cords, clips for not necessarily extra outside storage, rain flaps, key fobs scholarly." and waist belts for lower back support. The increasingly bigger and busier backpacks give students the appearance of savvy survivors in the harsh world of group projects, term papers and final exams. And so the question begs: Just what in the world have these plentifully packed students decided to carry? The answers, of course, vary, as a team of campus cultural observers from Kansas Alumni recently discovered on a research trip to the Hill. Equipped with a camera, notebooks and a scale to weigh the bulging bags, we set out to find the real appeal of the backpack.

photographs by Wally Emerson Knsti Hageman

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Melissa Lee

risti Hageman, conversely, has no fear of textbooks. The Henry, 111., Ksenior carried so many of them, in fact, that hers was the heaviest backpack weighed all day. In addition to all the portly pages, Hageman's 24-pound bag also contained a cell phone, a Palm Pilot, keys, a sandwich, chips, Rice Krispie treats and a drink. Both Jeremy Crowley and Venus Sung bore burdensome backpacks as well. Theirs weighed in at 18 pounds each, close to our unofficial campus average. While Crowley, a Wichita freshman, looked sturdy enough to support his substantial load, the diminutive Sung seemed trapped under the tonnage of her tote. "I usually carry an even bigger one," Sung proclaimed proudly, dispelling the notion that little girls cannot carry big bags. "It used to hurt my back, but it doesn't anymore because I'm used to it. I like it because I can have everything I need with me, and I feel like it makes me strong every time I have it on."

Essentials? keys, cei pens mints, toys

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Beth Mowery, Katie Mariani, Ruth York

Jeremy Crowley

eyond the backpack's more practical functions, there was the Bdisplay of some serious style. Melissa Lee, a freshman from Overland Park, sported a Winnie-the-Pooh pouch that juxtaposed perfectly with her sleek sophistication. Sophomore friends Katie Mariani, Beth Mowery and Ruth Yorke strolled to class as if they had coordinated their colorful carriers. Coffeyville freshman ROTC student James Ellsworth, forbidden by uniform regulations to sling his pack over his shoulders, accessorized admirably anyway, spicing up his military uniformity with a bright backpack he held by his hand. This creative collection of student imagination leaves us with a lasting impression: To stand out from the pack, there's no looking back. phones, notebooks, calculator, lunch, pencils, pocket knife, candy sprinkles, swim goggles

KANSAS AH BY CHRIS LAZZARINO photographs by Wally Emerson . Dea. Thanks to a professors keen eye, an alumnus discovers his auction purchase is a true treasure. Now KU will house the ancient Egyptian prize.

The "great story" centers on an old thought it might be neat to have in the Egyptian papyrus manuscript that Bal- office. Truth is, I thought I had bought a lard, b'73, and his wife, Cindy, bought a neat conversation piece." ohn Ballard was only trying to be couple of years ago at a charity auction That it is. It also happens to be an a good guy. Help out his sister. organized by his sister, Jenny Ballard exceedingly rare—and authentic—3,000- Donate to a worthy cause. Maybe DeVry, c'88, benefitting the Kansas City, year-old sacred religious text that offered pick up a nifty knickknack for an Mo., Public Library. Ballard remembers the soul of a distinguished Egyptian his office wall. But somewhere along buying a number of items, none memo- guidebook to the afterlife. Called the Jthe road to charity he detoured into the rable. And then came this odd, old man- "Amduat," this religious text is related to pages of history. Literally. uscript, framed rather heavily and the better-known "Book of the Dead" "What a great story this thing has unattractively and mounted behind glass. much as the Gospel of John is related to become," Ballard says from his office, John Ballard bit. the Gospel of Matthew. They are similar a commercial real estate company in "By golly, they bring this thing out stories with similar purposes, but have Overland Park. "It reminds me of the and they said they weren't sure what it their own histories and nuances. 'Antiques Road Show.'" He laughs, then is, there's no certificate of authenticity ... None of which was known by the adds, "'Antiques Road Show,' taken to as far I knew, some guy could have made Ballards, or their son, Jake, who returned the next level." it in his garage in Raytown. But 1 home to Overland Park a year ago bub-

30 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 3, 2000 bling with excitement about an engaging he wanted me to tell him what it was," expert Egyptologist to complete the job, professor, Paul Mirecki, and a fascinating Mirecki recalls. "I figured his father had Mirecki didn't need long to decipher the class, Understanding the Bible. Mirecki, been ripped off by some unscrupulous illustrations. He identified the text as an associate professor of religious studies, antiques dealer." Egyptian Amduat manuscript, and last year gained fame on Mount Oread Jake Ballard, now a junior, soon explained to the Ballards that they with publication of 33 manuscript frag- appeared in Mirecki's Smith Hall office owned an extremely rare resource. ments he had found eight years earlier in with the manuscript. Mirecki needed There were perhaps a dozen such Am- Berlins Egyptian Museum. In their book, no more than a few seconds to realize it duat papyruses known to exist outside The Gospel of the Savior: A New Ancient was authentic, and he still remembers of private collections, Mirecki explained, Gospel, Mirecki and co-author Charles the first word he uttered: "Wow." and this text had value far beyond the Hedrick, of Southwest Missouri State "That's exactly what he said," Jake charity donation Ballard had given to University, revealed that they had found Ballard confirms, laughing. "I brought acquire it. the remnants of a previously unknown it up, he saw it and said, 'Wow. That's Again, John Ballard bit. gospel of Jesus, written by a marginalized amazing.'" "The more we got into this, the more and persecuted group of Christians The bittersweet—and sometimes just we determined it was real, the more Dr. known as gnostics (Kansas Alumni, issue plain bitter—tone that Mirecki projected Mirecki was telling us what it meant, the No. 1, 1999). As Mirecki watched his during the weary battles related to the more we realized that it wasn't right for discovery become fodder for the Gospel of the Savior are now replaced two people in Overland Park, Kansas, to tabloids—"Exposed! Christ's Lost Gospel with a true delight. This time he's having have something so valuable in their Bombshell!" screamed the Sun—he said, fun: "I'm completely on a lucky streak. home when the University could possi- "I'll be known for this. Not that I'm I'm sure there are my colleagues out bly learn from it," John Ballard says. "We necessarily happy with that." there who are thinking, 'Wait a minute, thought that would be terribly selfish. Mirecki feared his career would be Mirecki's in the middle We love KU, and we would do anything publicly defined by his Gospel of the of Kansas, I'm in New we could for the University. We realized Savior, but he perhaps didn't have York and I don't find this papyrus was our opportunity. This enough faith in his own open mind. these things. How does was something we could do for KU." When approached after class by a this happen?'" The papyrus has been in Mirecki's sophomore business major, Mirecki . Although he is still possession since Jake Ballard brought it didn't tell Jake Ballard not to bother I translating the exten- to KU. The Ballards will take it back bringing in whatever it was his father sive hieroglyphs, for a short time this summer, then will had bought at some auction. He might and he'll need to officially donate the papyrus to the have been thinking it, but he didn't say collaborate with an University. Once it is in KU's possession it. He didn't shut down the kid's enthusiasm, no matter how unlikely the story. Below, a detail of the Ballard Papyrus' 12th hounThe deceased's soul, represented by "Jake came up to me and said his the red sun disk over the center figure's head, is in the middle of the barge; the sacred father had purchased this Egyptian man- serpent, which guides the soul, is draped protectively and faces the final destination. Also depicted are assorted gods and goddesses, some of whom pull the boat through uscript, this scroll in a large frame, and the final stages of its underworld passage.

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KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 3, 2000 [31 at Spencer Research Library, the manu- ma using various literary genres and styles script will be known as the Ballard that these authors knew, so it demon- Papyrus, and it will be the only signifi- strates a fully developed literature of cant papyrus KU has ever owned. their time. We of the West have been put Mirecki hopes it's not the last. off from this stuff by the archaeologists who dug it up and gave it a negative image—Book of the Dead, the Mummy's he Ballard Papyrus' strange jour- Book, as if the mummy is a negative H -.1 • i ,; #—I ney began in Egypt, within a hun- thing, which it certainly wasn't for the Tdred years either way of 950 B.C. Egyptians. It was probably created, Mirecki says, for the person needed it, as a guide book," "We have lost the interpretive context "a high-ranking manager." Although a Mirecki says. "These are really the first to see the beauty in it. What we have text such as this is not nearly ornate travel guides." here is people being people. All of the enough to have been made for a As is sometimes the case with similar standard human desires for health and pharaoh, Mirecki says he has found doc- Amduat manuscripts, the Ballard happiness and security and longevity of umentation that other Amduat scrolls of Papyrus is an abbreviated version, only life are expressed in these sacred texts." a similar quality were used by two including hours eight through 12. And Although he is eager to explore the noblemen from the period, including a the production quality is just average. details of the hieroglyphs, and he cer- grandson of Pharaoh Sheshonq I. Despite the fascinating illustrations, tainly pays heed to the papyrus' social According to Erik Hornung, a German Mirecki emphasizes that the scroll is a and historical contexts, Mirecki seems Egyptologist who is a leading authority text, not fine art. most intent on exploring the manu- on ancient Egyptian books of the after- But the story it tells is remarkable. script's theme of rebirth, or resurrection, life, the Amduat "is the first completely "The soul of the person needs it. Oth- and using those themes to help dispel illustrated book." Classic Amduat texts, erwise that person will be lost forever in the condescending attitudes that including those on papyrus and lengthier the underworld," Mirecki says. "The started with the earliest discoveries versions found on tomb walls, describe sacred language and sacred images have of Egyptology. the 12-hour journey taken by the power to do something and the soul of Mirecki repeatedly cites the Book of deceaseds soul, traveling with the sun the dead person is going to interact with the Dead as an unfortunate example: through the underworld from west all of it. In their thinking, all of this is The holy manuscript's actual title is the to east. guaranteed for them." rather poetic Going Forth By Day, or The gods and events depicted in Translation of the hieroglyphic writing Going Forth Into Day. But the title Book Egyptian afterlife texts were not merely will take some time, but the illustrations of the Dead persists, perpetuating the symbolic. The Egyptians believed in their follow typical Amduat themes and have detached, superior view taken by too literal truth, so every artifact placed in a already been deciphered by Mirecki. many Western archaeologists. tomb carried great importance. The text is arranged in three registers, "All of these underworld texts have "This was placed in the tomb because with all of the action moving from left to the same theological assumptions behind right. The soul is led on its them, which includes hope for an after- journey through the under- life and the resurrection," Mirecki says. world by a sacred serpent, "That's why they mummify people, to and is also attended by vari- preserve the body for resurrection, ous deities that protect and which, of course, is behind the modern guide it through each hour of Western tradition of embalming. Why in the underworld night. the world do we embalm people? There's "It's a journey that has to no purpose for it. That comes from the be taken," Mirecki explains. long Jewish-Christian tradition of the "The journey itself is sort of resurrection beliefs." a test." Mirecki does not intend to let the In the 12th hour, the barge Ballard Papyrus sit unattended in the carrying the soul is finally vaults of Spencer Research Library. He pulled through to the feast will use it as a teaching tool, even for that celebrates the rebirth of undergraduate classes. The impact of a the sun, a repetition of origi- 3,000-year-old manuscript will help nal creation. students understand the vast chain of "I think it's high literature," human history. Mirecki says. "It was written "Do we have the origins of Jewish and

32 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 3, 2000 enthusiasm of faculty and students. Who can say where this will lead?" Clement says the University will consult with papyrus experts for advice on how to handle the document. He says he suspects the wastepaper mounting is old enough that it predates wood-pulp paper; if so, it's not acidic and won't harm the papyrus. Linen, too, is non-acidic. Although librari- ans would prefer to have the papyrus removed from the backing, they fear that sections damaged by insects might crumble if the backing is removed. Whatever happens next, one Associate Professor Paul Mirecki, freshman Erin Ballard and junior Jake Ballard display the 3,000-year-old Egyptian scroll thing is certain: Thanks to the purchased by the Ballards' parents, John and Cindy, of Overland Park. Mirecki, who named the papyrus in honor of the fates of chance, faculty exper- Ballard family, is not certain when it was mounted and framed, but evidence points to 19th-century England. tise, a student's interest in his coursework and alumni gen- Christian resurrection belief in Egypt? I It was brought to the United States erosity, an invaluable teaching and would suspect we do," Mirecki says. around 1950, when it was acquired by research artifact will soon be added to "Egyptian resurrection has pretty much Kansas City book dealer Frank Glenn as KU's holdings. The strange journey that been written out of history by Christian part of a history-of-the-book collection began on the upper reaches of the Nile historians who want to show that the assembled for the Grolier Society, a River 3,000 years ago will end on Mount Christian idea of resurrection is some- Kansas City publishing firm. The collec- Oread. thing new. But there was already the tion traveled to schools across the United And then begins the journey of idea, a thousand years before Jesus was States from 1951 to 1956, and was then education. born, of resurrection. And 1 say a thou- sold to the Kansas City Public Library "What are the chances that this would sand years in reference to this Amduat for $3,900. have turned out as it did?" John Ballard text, but certainly it goes back to 3,000 Newspaper accounts of the 1956 asks, awe in his voice. "We were only at B.C. at least. The pyramids are essentially library purchase misidentified the Ara- that auction to support my sister and to resurrection machines. They are tombs duat papyrus as the Book of the Dead, support the library, to raise money so that are meant to aid in resurrection of and misdated it to 1,500 B.C. Insects they could buy books for children in the pharaoh." damaged the papyrus after it was framed, their reading programs. We ended up but it is not known whether that hap- buying this papyrus, although we had no pened before or after it was acquired by idea what it was, and our son ended up irecki says the Ballard Papyrus the library. In any case, the neglected taking a course from Professor Mirecki, almost certainly came from a scroll found its way into the library's who is one of the few people in the Mtomb in the ancient temple charity auction, and it will soon, thanks country who could have identified it city of Thebes, in Upper Egypt, and the to the generosity of the Ballard family, be for us. people involved in its creation were the in the tender care of specialists at "It's unbelievable. It's just priestly circles attending the Egyptian Spencer Research Library. unbelievable. More than anything creator god Amun. It isn't known how "This will be the first full papyrus else, it's just been a lot the artifact left Egypt, but there is, we have ever had in Spencer, so you bet of fun."- perhaps, datable evidence of its arrival it's a big deal," says Richard Clement, in Europe. The papyrus is mounted special collections librarian. "It's a on linen and printer's wastepaper, and big deal not just for us, but for the wastepaper is printed with text all of KU. In the short time that appears to be from 19th-century we've had it on campus it England. has already spurred the

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help guide a new era for the KU Medical Center as a member of the KU Hospital Authority Board, the first to lead the hos- Beyond the call pital under its new governing structure. Her service to the Alumni Association The University and Alumni Association's highest award began in Salina, where she was an officer for service goes to 3 who will march in Commencement of the local alumni chapter and coordinated Kansas Honors Program dinners and alumni-athletics meetings. She has helped shape the Associations programs and communications as a National Board member from 1982 to 1987 and from 1993 to '99, serving as chairman from 1993 to '94. She also has presided over the Memorial Union Corporation Board. She also is a longtime Endowment Associ- ation Trustee and member of the Educa- tion Fundraising Committee, Chancellors Club member, Alumni Association life and Jayhawk Society member, and a Rock Chalk Revue friend. In 1999 she established the Thelma and Edward Wohlge- muth Faculty Scholar program at KU to provide research and salary assistance to Dorothy W. Lynch Ressell W. Meyer Jr. Otto O. Schnellbacher Si: promising non-tenured faculty members. The program is named in memory of her parents. hree whose wisdom and leadership Since she began her career as a teacher Lynch's two daughters are Susan Lynch have helped shape their communi- and later as a director of a family-owned Brown, c'91, St. Louis; and Teresa Lynch Tties, their professions and the Uni- grain firm, J. Lynch & Co., she has ener- Hanna, j'92, Lawrence. versity will receive Distinguished Service getically carried out her lifelong commit- Meyers leadership has enhanced both Citations during Commencement week- ment to public service. the aviation industry and the nation's Wel- end. Recipients of the highest honor given For many years before her recent move fare-to-Work initiative. As president, by the University and the Alumni Associa- to Olathe, Lynch made Salina her home— chairman and CEO of Cessna Co., he has tion are Dorothy Wohlgemuth Lynch, and through her service to many agencies received the aviation industry's highest d'59, Olathe; Russell W Meyer Jr., she made Salina a better home for her fel- awards. Meyer was the first to receive the Wichita; and Otto O. Schnellbacher Sr., low citizens. She guided the Salina Air- National Aeronautic Associations Robert d'48, Topeka. port Authority as its chair and led the J. Collier Trophy for the safety record of The Distinguished Service Citation, United Way as a board member and cam- the Cessna Citation fleet of business jets which honors those who have benefited paign chair and the YWCA as a trustee. in 1986. Ten years later, Cessna again humanity, has been awarded since 1941; She also served on the boards of several earned the trophy for the Citation X, the this year's recipients will be honored by local businesses and volunteered for the world's fastest business jet. As chairman of the Alumni Association May 19 at the All- Salina Urban Renewal Agency, Salina the General Aviation Manufacturers Asso- University Supper in the Adams Alumni Housing Authority, Meals-on-Wheels and ciation in 1994, an office he had also held Center and will march in Commencement two hospital auxiliaries. in 1974 and in 1982, Meyer led the avia- May 21. The dinner event is open to the Her cultural interests also motivated tion industry's successful effort to gain public at $35 per ticket. Reservations are her work as a Salina Community Theatre passage of the General Aviation Revitaliza- required and can be made by calling the board member and president and as a tion Act. His advocacy earned him the Alumni Association at 785-864-4760. board member for the Salina Fox Histori- National Business Aircraft Association's Lynch is known among community cal Theatre Foundation. Meritorious Service to Aviation Award and University leaders as one who keenly Her service to KU equaled her dedica- in 1995. analyzes issues with a sense of humor that tion to her local causes. Most recently, Also in 1995 he received aviation's makes getting down to business a delight. Gov. Bill Graves in 1998 tapped her to most prestigious individual honor, the

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Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy, award- program. Meyer received the George S. industry enjoying a 40-year career during ed annually on the anniversary of the Dively Award for Corporate Public Initia- which he presided over local, state and Wright Brothers' first powered flight. tive from Harvard University in recogni- national organizations of agents and life The citation lauded Meyers leadership in tion of the program in 1991, and underwriters, earning distinction as a Mil- revitalizing general aviation, his effective President Clinton helped dedicate a new lion Dollar Round Table life member and public service and his involvement in campus for the program in 1997. Meyer is in 1974 as the Kansas Association of Life creating innovative aviation programs and a 1996 inductee of the Kansas Aviation Underwriters' "Man of the Year." opportunities for the disadvantaged and Hall of Fame and in 1998 was named In Topeka he has combined his devo- the disabled. "Kansan of the Year." For KU he is a tion to the Catholic community with Two U.S. presidents have called upon member of the Williams Educational advocacy for children and the underprivi- Meyer. In 1987 President Ronald Reagan Fund through the Cessna Foundation. leged. He has served as a board member appointed Meyer to the seven-member Meyer and his wife, Helen, have three for several schools and has led fund-rais- Aviation Safety Commission and to the sons and two daughters, including Jeffrey, ing to build and remodel Catholic President's Commission on Executive, c'92, Winston Salem, N.C., and Christo- schools. He chaired Cosmos baseball for Legislative and Judicial Salaries. In 1993 pher, a student in the KU School of Medi- four years and served five times as presi- President Bill Clinton named him to the cine, Kansas City, Kan. dent of the Topeka Recreation Committee. National Commission to Ensure a Strong Schnellbacher, a KU standout as class To provide housing for the poor, he and Competitive Airline Industry. president and co-captain of both the foot- helped establish Cornerstone of Topeka, Meyer and Cessna also have supported ball and basketball teams, has continued and to provide financial aid, he co-found- another initiative of the Clinton Adminis- as a standout in his lifelong service to the ed Let's Help of Topeka and served 15 tration, Welfare-to-Work, through the Topeka community and KU. years on the Kansas City Diocese "Call to 21st Street Training Program, a compre- In just four years as a professional foot- Share" board. hensive academic, personal and on-site ball player, Schnellbacher was all-pro in In 1983 Schnellbacher led the cam- vocational skills training program for 1950 and 1951 and earned a spot on the paign to raise $3 million to build a new Wichita's inner-city residents, with jobs All-Time New York Giants Defense Team. home for the St. Lawrence Catholic Cam- guaranteed to those who complete the He then became a leader in the insurance pus Center. In addition to the St. Lawrence Center, he has supported the Williams Educational Fund, campus land- scaping and the Alumni Association. He is a member of the Elizabeth Watkins Soci- ety. He also has served KU as a Greater University Fund Advisory Board member and an Alumni Association National Board member. He was inducted into the Kansas Athletics Hall of Fame in 1972. He and his wife, Jane, two sons and a daughter, including Otto II, 75, Topeka, and Mary Theresa Schnellbacher Decker, '82, Topeka. *-*••»

Reunion gathers graduates who blazed hillside trail

embers of the Class of 1950 boast Mdistinction as the first to walk through the Campanile on Commence- ment Day on their way down the Hill and MAKE WAY FOR MEMORIES: Adrea Hinkel Sperry, c'49, Kindred, N.D., and Jo Easter Longhofer, c'48, Hutchinson, were among the I 80 members of the Gold Medal Club and 290 members and spouses from to their destinies. For these graduates, the Class of 1950 who reminisced during Gold Medal Weekend April 14-15. Sperry and Longhofer were many of whom served in World War II or roommates at Miller Hall. Members of the 50-year class received Jayhawk pins signifying their induction into lost friends and family in the war, the the Gold Medal Club.

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THESE ARE THEIR LIVES: Classmates perused fellow Jayhawks1 ques- tionnaires to catch up on their families and careers through the years. Many class members included photos to illustrate their life stories. Marjorie Stacy Nation, d'33, right, Lawrence, accompanied her fellow Gold Medal Club members as they sang the Alma Mater during a Saturday brunch.

day's journey was "We'll always be sisters, even unforgettable, as it after all these years," Davis said. has remained for the "Isn't this fun?" thousands of gradu- The weekend certainly was fun ates who have traced their steps. for the nearly 290 members and "My favorite memory is walking spouses of the Class of '50 who through the Campanile at graduation," returned to the Hill for initiation Dave Johnson, c'50, Overland Park, said into the Gold Medal Club. Class- as he joined his classmates in celebrating mates spent hours sharing stories their 50-year reunion during Gold Medal and renewing friendships against a mag- reunion, convened Saturday morning. Weekend April 14-15 at the Adams Alum- nificent mid-April backdrop. One member, Arnold Johnson, b'40, ni Center. "We were the first class to do Former Kansas Gov. Robert F Bennett, Topeka, recalled a classmate, Bertha "Scot- that. We started the tradition, and it c'50,1'52, Overland Park, said he owed tie" Scott, b'40, who used to torment him meant a lot, both then and now." his political career to his KU experience. during their days as students. Traditions die hard among KU gradu- As a college senior, he ran for Student "When we came out of class she would ates, and 50 years was certainly not Council president against Will Friesen, hit me with snowballs," Johnson said. enough time to forget the sorority songs b'49, Leawood. Bennett was an inde- "And now, after 59 years of marriage, all I that had united Kappa Kappa Gamma pendent; Friesen represented the frater- can say is, life is just great." pledge sisters Helen Piller Davis, c'50, nity coalition. The two engaged in a As Johnson told the story, Scottie Scott Prairie Village; Eileen Maloney Olander, heated public debate, and Friesen won Johnson had tears in her eyes. In October, '50, Phoenix, Ariz.; and Corinne Temple the election. the couple will celebrate their 60th wed- Jervis, c'50, Wichita. Jervis, the sorority "It was a pretty damn good debate," ding anniversary. Their maid of honor, song leader in her days on the Hill, effort- Bennett remembers. "Then it was over Marguerite Jones Fraizer, b'40, and best lessly regained her form during the Friday and we became very good friends and man, Keith Fraizer, b'39, of Roseville, night reception. With some gentle prod- stayed friends." Calif., also attended the reunion. Keith ding from Davis and Olander, she broke Enduring friendships and loyalty to the remembers that romancing Marguerite into a perfect rendition of "1 Love You University also brought nearly 180 cur- was challenging. Truly." Then all three broke into anot rent members of the Gold Medal Club "I was the poorest man on campus her Kappa song sprinkled with laughter back to Mount Oread for the weekend. then," he said. "I worked every single day. and smiles. The Class of 1940, celebrating its 60-year I entertained her [Marguerite] while she

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studied. Scottie introduced me to Mar- pie assembled outside the Memorial Cam- guerite, for which I will be eternally grate- panile to remember the man who served ful. I discovered that Marguerite was the five chancellors and as chancellor himself type of girl who would share a Coke with from 1972 to 1973 was credited helping two straws." the University recover from the student As alumni reunited with old friends, unrest of the early 1970s. Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway and oth- "I have a feeling the only sun today ers gathered to honor one of the Universi- will be the memory of Raymond," ty's greatest friends, the late Chancellor Hemenway said. "His stories help the Emeritus Raymond Nichols, c'26, g'28, University maintain our sense of self, who died in October. Despite the over- our identity. Raymond is a big part of cast, windy morning, more than 50 peo- the KU narrative." James Carothers, professor of English and a longtime friend of the Nichols family, read aloud from a piece Nichols wrote, called "I Never Kept A Diary." It recounted the Nichols' days at KU, both as a student and dedicated employee. The ceremony concluded with The Picardy 3rds, an a capella quartet, singing "I'm a Jayhawk" and the Alma Mater, and a piper playing "Amazing Grace." When the day had ended, the magnitude of University history remembered and celebrated seemed a bit of amazing grace as well. •""* Alumni Events

The Association is finalizing plans to gather alumni this summer at events throughout Kansas and nationwide. For details on our KU in KC summer series, please see the ad on the inside back cover of this issue, or consult our web site at www.ukans.edu/~kualumni/.

You can register for KU in KC events on-line; for information on other FAVORITE STORIES: Dick Wagstaff, b'50, Lawrence, and John Stites, b'50, l'56, Manhattan, greeted fellow events, please check the web site or class member Frank McCoy, f 50, South Dartmouth, Mass., during the 50-year reception Friday night. Songs call us at I -800-584-2957. And watch were the key to everlasting sisterhood for Kappa Kappa Gammas Corinne Temple Jarvis, Helen Piller Davis and your mail for fliers about activities in Eileen Maloney OlanderThe University's I 6th chancellor, Robert E. Hemenway, paid tribute to Raymond Nichols, KU's 12th chancellor; in a service at the Memorial Campanile.The Picardy 3rds' rendition of the Alma your home community. Mater warmed a chilly spring morning for those who came to remember Nichols.

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1930s 1946 teers at the Rolling Hills Refuge Wildlife Con- Clarence Brumback, c'35, m'43, coordinates George Rippey, e'46, continues to make his servation Center graduate education for the Palm Beach County home in San Antonio, where he's retired from a William Turner, b'52,1'6O, a retired attorney, Health Department in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. career with the U.S. Army Signal Corps. makes his home in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Ernest Edmonds, d'38, g'46, is retired in LeRoy. 1947 1953 Richard Rogers, l'47, serves as a U.S. district Chester Friedland, d'39, was honored George Corcoran, c'53, a retired lawyer and judge inTopeka. recently for his service to the Bath (N.Y.) administrative law judge, lives in Lawrence with Veterans Administration Medical Center. He 1948 Mary Mellott Corcoran, '88. She's a house lives in Bath. director at Chi Omega and Sigma Nu. George MacCurdy, e'48, shares his job with Donald Haight, e'39, lives in Sacramento, his daughter, Beth MacCurdy Wigner, d'78, Robert Stewart, j'53, is vice mayor of Am- Calif, where he's a retired electrical engineer. in the Prairie Village law office of Stephanie berly Village, Ohio. Charles Rambo, e'36, former president of Smith. William Turner, e'53, lives in Kansas City, Gas Service Co., lives in Lenexa with his wife, Adrienne Hiscox Mitchell, c'48, was hon- where he's active with the Boy Scouts of Marion. ored last year for her work with Pi Beta Phi. America. E. Norris Robertson Jr., c'33, practices oph- She lives in Hillsborough, Calif. thalmology in Oklahoma City, where he and his 1954 wife, Mary, make their home. 1949 Jack Stonestreet, j'54, referees high school Deen Thompson, c'34, moved recently to a Will Noble, c'49, appeared in several plays last basketball games in Gig Harbor, Wash. retirement home in Stamford, Conn. year in Sacramento, Calif., where he lives. James Oram, e'49, lives in Fairfield, Conn. He 1955 1940 is retired from a career with General Electric, Maxine Bednar Allen, d'55, g'59, a retired where he managed industrial sales develop- MARRIED teacher and principal, lives in Overland Park ment. with her husband, William, c'53, l'55, a retired Louise Grayson, c'40, and Warren Ander- Elmer Seegmueller, e'49, a retired consulting judge and attorney. son, c'41, Dec. I I.They live in Highlands engineer, makes his home in Corvallis, Ore. Marlene Frohn Hayes, n'55, tutors in an ele- Ranch, Colo. 1950 mentary school in Wichita, where she and her husband, William, c'50, rrii'53, make their 1941 Delbert Clevenger Jr., d'50, lives in Kansas home. He's a retired cardiologist. Chester Gibbens Jr., b'41, continues to make City, where he's retired from a career with his home in Glendale, Ariz. Black & Veatch. 1956 Maurice Jackson, c'41, lives in Virginia Gene Dagel, c'50, is president of the Dagel Francis Bowers Jr., g'56, teaches math at Beach, Va. Co. in Seguin,Texas. Punahua School in Honolulu, where he and his James Rhine, I'5O, manages a branch of Uni- wife, Mary, make their home. 1942 versal Insurance Services in Manhattan. Roger Prior, e'42, lives in a continuing care Albert Tyler, c'50, lives in Dallas, where he's retirement community in Signal Mountain.Tenn. 1957 semi-retired from a career in the oil industry. Dick Bond, c'57,1'6O, works for Guaranty Bank & Trust. He and Sue Sedgwick Bond, 1943 1951 Frances Perkins Atkins, c'43, is active in the c'58, make their home in Overland Park, where Phil Hawkins, d'5 I, g'56, keeps busy during performing arts in the Los Angeles area. She she's active in volunteer work. retirement with golf and travel. He lives in lives in Camarillo. Gleneden Beach, Ore. Edward Brundick Jr., c'57, received an hon- Dorothy McGinnis Jindra, f 43, makes her orary doctor of science degree last year from Karin Stack Winn, c'5 I, does volunteer work home in San Antonio. the University of Southern Illinois, where he's and is active in the League of Women Voters. She lives in Overland Park. been the team physician for the past 25 years. 1944 He lives in Evansville. Margaret Foote Fisher, c'44, keeps busy in 1952 Coralyn Stayton Bugg, c'57, lives in Clinton, retirement with reading, gardening, sewing and Philip Holzman, PhD'52, makes his home in Ky. She's a retired high-school teacher working on her computer She lives in Cambridge, Mass. Lawrence. Mildred Long Foster, d'57, a retired librarian, Harry Levinson, PhD'52, will receive the Alice McDonnell Robinson, c'44, g'47, makes her home in Brookfield, Conn. American Psychological Foundation's Gold retired recently from the University of Mary- Donald Nelson, b'57, is a retired CPA. He Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Appli- land. She lives in Caldwell. cation of Psychology later this year He lives in lives inTopeka. Delray Beach, Fla. Gary Rohrer, c'57,1'6O, practices law in Lex- 1945 ington, Ky, where he and Lee Ann Urban William Ruggles, e'45, g'48, works part time Ronald Lowe, b'52, sells commercial real Rohrer, j'56, make their home. for Service & Technology Corp., a consulting estate in Mission. engineering firm in Bartlesville, Okla., where he Gordon Maxwell, c'52, m'55, competed as a David Schwartz, e'57, owns Contractors and Catharine "Kay" Brown Ruggles, cyclist last fall at the National Senior Games in Advantage Inc., a management consulting firm in c'46, make their home. Orlando, Fla. He lives in Salina, where he volun- Gulf Breeze, Fla.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 3, 2000 CLASS NOTES A HOME 1958 William Hines, l'61, is dean of law at the Uni- Edmund Fording Jr., e'58, lives in Alexandria, versity of Iowa in Iowa City. Va., and is president of SOCMA in Washington, John McElhiney, e'61, g'63, retired last fall. He FOR ALL SEASONS D.C. does consulting work in Denver. Royce Fugate, e'58, is city administrator and Mikel Stout, l'61, practices law with Foulston engineer for the city of West Plains, Mo. & Siefkin in Wichita. Julie Purcell Miller, c'58, retired last year Jo Ann Small Winchester, n'61, retired last after 16 years on the Shawnee Mission Board fall from the Midland (Mich.) Department of of Education. Public Health. David Trimble, c'58, directs primary care at the Kansas City Veterans Hospital. He lives in 1962 Overland Park. Kent Atkins, p'62, is retired in Lawrence. 1959 Richard Cartwright, e'62, owns R.L. John Atchley, e'59, lives in Dallas, where he's Cartwright & Assoc. in La Jolla, Calif. retired from a career marketing military elec- Richard Charmley, e'62, retired recently as tronic systems. chief engineer of the Walbro Corp. He lives in A.W. "Bill" Dirks, EDD'59, works as a coor- Brevard, N.C. dinator for the American Association of Retired Orvel Criqui, EDD'62, lives in Lawrence, Persons in Wichita. where he's a retired school administrator Norris Hall, e'59, continues to make his home in Indianapolis. Benjamin Morris, c'62, l'66, practices law with Allen, Dell, Frank &Trinkle in Tampa, Fla. Garry Hays, g'59, PhD'64, serves on the American Council of Education's Commission John Ruf, e'62, g'66, is a vice president at TOWNHOME LIVING AT ITS BEST! on International Education. He's president of Burns & McDonnell in Kansas City. He lives in U.S. International University in San Diego. Lee's Summit, Mo. 'randon Woods is more than Cynthia James Null, d'59, was named Out- David Schmidt, g'62, was chosen as facilitator a retirement community. It's a standing Volunteer of 1999 by the National for the 1999 planning retreat of the Kansas neighborhood of friends. Association of County Parks and Recreation Board of Regents. He lives in Kansas City and When you live in a Townhome Officials. She also was named Outstanding Citi- is president of Management Development at Brandon Woods, home owner- zen of 1999 by the Chamber of Commerce of Associates. Altadena, Calif., where she lives. ship is a joy! A monthly service David Sutherland, c'62, moved recently from fee covers all your maintenance Orlando, Fla., to Flippin, Ark., after his retirement I960 concerns. Plus owning a Town- Paul DeBauge, c'60, l'63, is president of from Lockheed Martin. home at Brandon Woods is an De Bauge Brothers in Emporia. Rebecca Carman White, n'62, volunteers Bruce Jackson, e'60, a retired petroleum on the management team of the Northern Cal- investment. You have an engineer; makes his home in Huntington ifornia Osteoporosis Association. She lives in appreciable asset that benefits Beach, Calif. Redding. you and your heirs. Janelle Smith Ramsburg, n'60, s'67, retired Edward Widener, g'62, is an associate profes- FEATURING: her private mental health practice last year She sor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. • TOWNHOMES & APARTMENTS lives in Prairie Village and keeps busy with her • ASSISTED LIVING & HEALTH CARE grandchildren, travel and volunteer work. 1963 • ALZHEIMER'S CARE & REHAB Lorraine Duncan Schmidt, 60, teaches Michael Mackey, c'63, recently was elected • NO ENTRANCE FEE office skills at Santa Ana College and gives pri- to the Royal Society of Canada. He lives in vate piano lessons. She lives in Santa Ana, Calif. Quebec. (785) 838-8000 Paul Scholz, e'60, lives in Clifton Park, N.Y. Marcia Kyle Rinehart, c'63, d'64, and her He's a captain for Delta Airlines. 1-800-419-0254 husband, Richard, '55, make their home in www.brandonwoods.com Ellen Junge Whitaker, d'60, teaches reading Leawood. in Slaton,Texas. She lives in Ransom Canyon. Kanti Shah, g'63, recently was appointed to 1961 the Engineering Alumni Chair at Ohio North- ern University, where he's an associate profes- Sue Carol Brown Benson, d'61, g'70, owns sor of civil engineering. He and his wife, Pushpa, Glazed Expressions in Sarasota, Fla. live in Ada. Joyce Malicky Castle, f'61, sang in Central Park last year in a PBS Great Performances pro- Dorothy Evans Stevenson, d'63, is retired duction. She's an opera singer in New York City. in Edwardsville. RETIREMENT COMMUNITY 1801 INVERNESS DR. • LAWRENCE, KS 66047 Robert Collins, l'61, owns Collins & Collins, a Jack Thomas, d'63, teaches with USD 281 LOCATED 11/2 MILES WEST OF THE KU CAMPUS law practice in Wichita. in Hill City.

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1964 James Hubbard, b'65, l'68, practices law with Jack Sutton, g'66, is city administrator of Larry McCallister, d'64, g'86, lives in Over- Norton Hubbard in Olathe. Fremont, Neb. land Park, where he's a commodity standardiza- Robert Pitner, b'65, recently founded Net Stephen Todd, l'66, is regional counsel for tion specialist for General Services Effect Technologies in Minnetonka, Minn. Chicago Title & Trust in Kansas City. He lives i Administration. GregsThomopulos, e'65, is president of n Parkville. Nancy Oyler Moats, d'64, g'68, a retired Stanley Consultants in Muscatine, Iowa. He lives Donna Buckmaster Webb, c'66, works for teacher, makes her home in Westwood with in Iowa City. the CPA firm Frost and Co. in Olympia.Wash. her husband, Byron, assoc. She lives in Steilacoom. Susan Whitley Peters, c'64, lives in Gmuend, 1966 Lloyd Weller, g'66, lives in Mission, where he's Germany, where she's an assistant professor of Ward Anderson, b'66, is a partner in Ander- a retired partner in Black & Veatch. business and director of the International son Edelman in Denver He lives in Aurora. Career Center at the University of Maryland's Susan Tichacek Black, j'66, recently became 1967 campus. nursing manager of the emergency department Thomas Brandt, c'67, lives in Bensenville, III., Elizabeth Stockton, c'64, is retired in at Saint Mary's Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich. with his wife, Patty, and their sons,Thomas, 10, Morristown, N.J. She and her husband, Don, j'65, live in and Lucas, 8. Thomas is president of Brandt Greenville. Technologies. 1965 Robert Koehler, l'66, practices law with Pat- Joanne Emerick Denton, d'67, is an elemen- Larry Armel, b'65, l'68, retired earlier this ton Boggs in Washington, D.C. He lives in tary school librarian in the Shawnee Mission year as president and CEO of Jones & Babson. Vienna, Va. school district. She lives in Fairway. He lives in Leawood. Lynette Berg Robe, d'66, g'67, has been Margie Godwin Dykes, g'67, PhD'76, a Mark Bruels, g'65, PhD'69, does radiological named to the Harriett Buhai Center for Family retired teacher, makes her home in Lawrence physics consulting in Greenville, S.C. Law Hall of Fame and recently received the with her husband, Downer, a KU professor President's Pro Bono Service Award from the William Cibes Jr., c'65, is chancellor of the emeritus of design. Connecticut State University System. He lives in California State Bar Board of Governors. She Roger Elliott, e'67, is a self-employed consult- West Hartford. practices law in Studio City. ing engineer in Corpus Christi,Texas. Gregg Luther, EdD'67, lives in Warrensburg, Mo., where he's a retired professor of education. Grant Merritt, '67, chairs the endodontics department at UMKC's dental school. He lives in Leawood. Robert Poley, c'67, is controller for NaPro BioTherapentics in Boulder, Colo., where he and Janet Herpich Poley, c'71, make their home. Ronald Schmidt, c'67, s'72, manages ambula- tory care at Cheyenne Veterans Administration Medical Center in Cheynenne.Wyo. He lives in Livermore, Colo. Ann Kobler Solomon, d'67, teaches second grade at Joe Michell Elementary School in 41 Livermore, Calif. Terry Wages, b'67, is executive vice president of Freedom Family in Topeka, where he and Kay Reed Wages, '66, make their home. Sallie Pagels Wolf, g'67, recently was named Faculty Member of the Year at Arapahoe Com- Pl3te $11.95 (Plus$1 Shipping and Handling) munity College, where she teaches English and Simple, bold graphics instantly identifies the Jayhawk literature. Sallie lives in Littleton, Colo. fan. Made of clear, impact-resistant polycarbonate plastic, they won't bend or chip like aluminum and look like they are under glass. 1968 Chris, j'68,171, and Sue Tyler Coyle, '68, BIG JAY Flag $39.29 (Plus $2 Shipping and Handling) moved recently from Tulsa, Okla., to Carbon- 28" x 56", flag grade nylon, reinforced with binding around all edges for long outdoor life. As used by the dale, Colo., where Chris is general counsel for Marching Jayhawks. American Soda. Diane Seaver Grace, '68, works as vice pres- L.L.C. ident of development for Big Brothers Big Sis- To Order Call 800-326-8372 or 785-822-1003 ters of Sedgwick County. She lives in Wichita. P.O. Box 737, Salina, KS 67402 • FAX 785-827-9337 • www.gasolinealleyllc.com Ronald Kimzey, b'68, l'71, practices law with Ford & Harrison in Tampa, Fla., where he and

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Emily Cooper Kimzey, d'68, make their home. SURVIVOR TRANSFORMS LIFE AFTER SHOOTING Vicki Zeiger Mooney, d'68," sells residential real estate for ReMax in Overland Park. nn Whedon lives with chronic Eugene Peck, c'68, g'71, l'83, is a partner in pain. She lives with partial leg the Kansas City law firm of Shook, Hardy & Aparalysis, a prosthetic right hand Bacon. and recurrent fevers and infections. Jane Fothergill Radcliffe, j'68, recruits She lives with the memory of the day for Education America. She lives in when a man's uncontrollable rage left Colorado Springs. her this way. Jerry Raeder, a'68, is regional vice president But there's one thing Whedon, s'98, for Jacobs Facilities in St. Louis. He lives in refuses to live with—self-pity. Des Peres, Mo. "This is life," she says matter-of-factly. Charlotte Barrett Wentz, d'68, g'86, "You either live it or you lay down and EdD'97, recently became an assistant professor die. I'm not a lay down and die person." at Park University in Parkville, Mo. She and her husband, Ralph, c'67,170, live in Prairie Village. For weeks in the winter of 1992, Whedons ex-boyfriend, enraged by their 1969 breakup, hounded her. Then came the Gary Chance, f 69, is an industrial designer day he decided he would kill her. Fol- with Tyler Jet Completions in Tyler Texas. He lowing her to work, he waited until she and Ramona Terry Chance, c'70, live in went inside, then hid in the backseat of helping others— Frankston. SURVIVE AND her truck with a shotgun strapped to his even people like her THRIVE: Whedon has Linda Alvey Lockwood, d'69, works for chest. Opening the truck door later, attacker. She teaches put the nightmares of her Sprint in Kansas City. Whedon saw him, screamed and ran. anger control. Each attack behind her; trading Scott Post, j'69, lives in Wichita with his wife, terror for compassion as She fell and he caught her and aimed the week Whedon faces Diane. He's senior vice president of Insurance she counsels abusers. Management Associates. gun at her face. His first shot went wild, a roomful of batter- A vital part of her job, shattering a nearby store window. His she says, is assuring clients Marcia Walsh, g'69,173, is a circuit court ers and abusers that someone cares judge in Kansas City. second shot severed her right hand as and teaches them she attempted to protect her head. The ways to conquer about them. 1970 third shot went through her left leg. their anger. Terrence Doden, e'70, is chief engineer of Apparently certain he had killed her, he "When you're angry, you do things product development forTerex Mining inTulsa, ran away. you think you'd never do. One of the rea- Okla., where Regina Pearl Doden, 70, sons I want to be there [teaching] is teaches at Kirk of the Hills Preschool. Whedon was in shock and virtually bleeding to death, but she made up her because I don't want people to turn into Roscoe Jackson, c70, co-owns Jackson Broth- ers, an oil production firm in Eureka. mind then and there that she would sur- this guy," she says referring to her attack- vive. By sheer will, she stayed awake, er, now in prison. Gary Lemon, c'70, g'74, PhD'83, recently was named a distinguished professor and director of knowing that if she passed out she would In her classes, Whedon is frequently the management fellows program at DePauw never wake up. the target of her clients' resentment for University in Greencastle, Ind. "I just kept telling myself that if I making them face up to what they've David Rhodus, b'70,172, lives in Alpharetta, could stay alive, I would deal with this," done. She doesn't quit, though. Because Ga., and is vice president and general counsel she says. for every embittered attendee, there is for Aaron Rents in Atlanta. After countless surgeries, three months always the one who wants to change. 1971 in the hospital, and a year and a half in Facing batterers doesn't anger Whe- rehabilitative therapy, Whedon has done don. She long ago came to terms with William "Tony" Bandle Jr., a'71, has been named an associate fellow with Casco, an archi- far more than simply "deal" with the inci- her ordeal. tectural engineering firm in St. Louis. dent. She has created a whole new life for "The thing I decided to do, for me, Patrick Cantwell, d71, directs preventative herself; a life dedicated to uplifting oth- was to forgive this guy for what he did health care for Rexall Showcase International ers. She returned to college, earned a and get on with my life," she says. "That in Wichita. degree in social work and started a career doesn't mean I'm going to forget, but if Stephen Chandler, b'71, g'72, lives in Over- assisting physically and mentally chal- you don't forgive a person who does evil land Park and is a vice president of American lenged workers at Kansas City's Rehabili- to you, that person rules your life." Century Investments in Kansas City. tation Institute. And for Ann Whedon, that's about as Pamela Hooper Feinstein, c'71,173, is It is Whedon's "part-time" job, howev- acceptable as self-pity. -"""""* executive director of the Eastside Legal Assis- er, that truly shows her commitment to —Parks is a Leawood free-lance writer. tance Program in Redmond, Wash.

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Dan Hensley, c'71,174, lives in Anchorage, where he's a judge for the Alaska Superior Court. Jon Indall, c'71,174, practices law with Comeau, Maldegen.Templeman & Indall in Santa Fe, N.M. Richard Steichen, PhD71, lives in Fairlawn, Ohio. He's vice president of corporate research at Goodyear Tire & Rubber in Akron. Donald Wantuck, m'71, practices pulmonary medicine at St. John's Regional Health Center in Springfield, Mo. He's also a consultant to the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners. 1972 Edward Bernica, e'72, is chief operating officer and vice president of EnergyWest, an energy supplier and gas utility in Great Falls, Mont, where Colette Neubauer Bernica, c'71, is president of the YWCA/Mercy Home Shelter. Judith Hannings Cox, c'72, an associate professor of German at Birmingham-Southern Col- lege, recently received an Outstanding Foreign Language Teaching Award from the Southern Conference on Language Teaching. She lives in Birmingham, Ala. Wendall Goodwin, m'72, does cancer research in Springfield, Mo. Nancy Pile Haga, d'72, manages accounts for Ikon Office Solutions in Boise, Idaho. Mary Johnson-Gerard, d'72, g'80, is a visiting assistant professor of education at the Univer- i ime nonoreo1 sity of Missouri-Columbia. I lonor the times of your life with a unique timepiece that Timothy, e'72, and Mabel "Peg" Dunbar tastefully displays affinity for the University of Kansas. The richly Liebert, d'72, own Kansas SamplerThey live in dimensional watch face features the University seal created through Overland Park. a die-struck process. Finished in silver and ^old, the watch is Mary Ward, j'72, works in public relations for Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill, N.J. She lives handsomely set in a leather or two-tone hand. in Dunellen. Karen Zupko, j'72, is president of Karen Zupko & Associates, a national consulting and Exceptional design: Women's or men's watch with training firm that provides comprehensive prac- leather strap, $200 tice management services to physicians. She • Seiko Quartz movement for lives in Chicago. guaranteed accuracy to within Women's or men's watcli with 15 seconds per month two-tone bracelet, $255 1973 DariaTolles Condon, d'73, g'77, works as a • stainless steel case ana back Wear the watch while you pay for it coordinator for USD 250/Southeast Kansas with our interest-free montly pay- • water resistant Special Education Cooperative in Altamont. ment plan, as little as $33.33 per John Davis, g'73, PhD74, is an entomologist • mar resistant crystal month for the leather strap watch or with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He $42.50 per month for the two-tone • date display lives in Bowie, Md. bracelet watch. Jane Phelps Dimmel, d'73, lives in Overland • luminrite hands Park and is an educational aide for the Shawnee To order, call 1 -800-355-1 145 Mission school disrict. • battery lire indicator Linda Burke Goff, d'73, teaches French at • Seiko Time Corporation full Kansas Alumni Dodge City High School. tnree-vear limited warranty Association Gregory Justis, c'73,176, is civil counsel for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. He lives in Petoskey, Mich.

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Larry Putnam, c'73, practices law with Patton, Putnam & Hollembeak in Emporia. WRITER POKES FUN AT SERIOUS JOURNALISM Timothy Rake, c'73, works as a pre-press technician for Eugene Print in Eugene, Ore. tewart Bailey knows Judy Sewing Wineland, d'73, has been pro- so many famous moted to administrator of Mennonite Friend- Sfaces that he could ship Manor in Hutchinson. have his own celebrity association game—"Six 1974 Degrees of Stewart Robin Blair, c'74,177, practices law in Bailey." Except Bailey's Raton, N.M. already done that. While Gary Ditty, e74, retired last year from the working as an MTV U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. He recently moved from Phoenix to Linwood and joined Landplan researcher, Bailey, j'90, Engineering in Lawrence as a project manager actually gave the Kevin Chris Hahn, d74, is president and CEO of Bacon game its moniker. the Kansas Special Olympics. He lives in Lenexa. Then he united the real John Henderson, c74, m77, recently sold his Kevin Bacon with the radiology practice to local hospitals in Yakima, game's originators, who Wash., where he and Rita Charlton Hen- were promptly stumped Lff derson, J77, make their home with Chris, 15, by the actor. Chris Farley and LAUGH TRACK: and Haley, 10. Stewart Bailey mixes "You should have seen their faces fall Mike Myers. humor and news as head Daniel Higgins, b74, e74, g'83, works as when Kevin asked them to link him with Bailey proved a regional manager for Zenon Environmental writer on "The Daily Show in Leawood. Larry Storch, from that old 'F-Troop' himself by taking with jon Stewart." series," Bailey said. assignments and Ronald Loewen, 174, lives in Greer, S.C., and is vice president of strategic development for In his current position as a head following through with results. He the Liberty Corp. in Greenville. writer and producer at Comedy Central's ascended through the comedy ranks, tak- Jane Sites Mackey, d74, g79, recently "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," ing a job with "The Daily Show" in 1996 became president and executive director of the Bailey is doing essentially the same thing: and gaining production responsibilities. Stormont-Vail Foundation inTopeka. finding humor in his encounters with Bailey occasionally appears as an on-air Shirley Bowlin Morrison, d'74, is a manager celebrities and other assorted crazy correspondent. He also handles celebri- with the Social Security Administration in characters. ties who appear on the show. Kansas City. The comedy show functions like the "I help prepare the script for those Donna Nothdurft, f 74, practices therapy in legitimate news media. The staff reviews supposedly spontaneous conversations," Hickory, N.C., where she specializes in complex the headlines for potential stories, then he says. pain issues. makes interview assignments. "The Daily Bailey is in charge of the show's politi- Timothy Short, c74,177, received a distin- Show" staffers, however, are creating cal coverage, which includes attending guished service award last year from the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association. He's a partner in Spi- comedy segments played with a straight presidential debates and state primaries. garelli, McLane & Short in Pittsburg. face—not an easy assignment when He helped bring in former Kansas Sena- Don Sullivan, c74, is a senior vice president you're interviewing the world's oldest tor Bob Dole to work as an on-air con- of Boatmen's Capital Management in Kansas (and worst) nude magician, as Bailey tributor, and he has spent time with all City. He and his wife, Carolyn, live in Fairway. once did. the major candidates. "It's hard not to laugh, but that's where Most people cringe at the thought of 1975 the humor is," he says. "We play it producing comedy on demand, but Bai- Virginia Aikin Bird, g75, teaches U.S. history straight, as if this is serious journalism." ley keeps a good perspective. at Glendale High School in Glendale, Calif. Talk-show comedy is what Bailey "Very few people are inherently funny Jo Nuckolls Rucker, g'75, does consulting for school districts in the Midwest. She lives in always wanted to do, and he got his start all the time," he says. "The idea that Hutchinson, where she's also training director when he beat out a thousand applicants you'll be funny every day is just not for an anger management firm. for a position as an NBC page in New going to happen. If what you're working Kristine Runkel Race Hines, d'75, g'9 I, and York City. He worked on "Late Night on is enjoyable while it's happening, then her husband, Richard, live in Leawood with their with David Letterman," and was used chances are it will be funny. It's like being daughter, Rebecca, 17. Kristine is chief of by Letterman in skits. He then took a a baseball player—the guys who usually telecommunications for the USDA's Farm Ser- production assistant job on "Saturday lead in striking out also hit the most vice Agency in Kansas City. Night Live," learning the comedy trade home runs."-""""* Robert "Pete" Kanatzar, b 75, g'76, has from Phil Hartman, Adam Sandier, —Near is a Lawrence free-lance writer. been promoted to senior vice president of risk

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 3, 2000 43 CLASS NOTES management atWestar Financial Services. He 1978 macy in Liberal, where he and his wife, Connie, lives in Houston. Marjorie King Blank, EdD'78, recently com- live.They celebrated their first anniversary pleted six years as board president of the Shep- April 2. 1976 herd's Center a non-profit ecumenical Mark Olson, j'79, lives in Redwood Shores, Paul Krug, c'76, m'79, practices with North- organization serving senior citizens in Kansas Calif. He's vice president of marketing and sales land Anesthesiology in North Kansas City. He City. She lives in Overland Park. foriMonitoring.com in Mountain View. and Joy Blake-Krug, s'95, live in Kansas City. Janet Bower Butcher, d'78, g'84, teaches first Kevin Sundbye, c'79, m'83, is a hospitalist at grade in Shawnee Mission. She lives in Lenexa. StormontVail Regional Medical Center in MARRIED James Donnell, a'78, is medical director of Topeka, where he and his wife, Kelly, live with the emergency department at St. Joseph Hospi- Rachel Lipman,j'76, l'84, and Mitch Reiber, their children, Grant, 8; Kate, 5; and Claire, 2. tal. He lives in Manchester, Mo. c'84, Dec. 30 in Lawrence. She's general attor- Blake Montgomery, s'78, lives in Leaven- ney and director of state regulatory affairs for BORN TO: worth with his wife, Mary. Sprint in Kansas City, and he's president of Reli- James Cox, b'79, and Jeannette, a daughter able Environment Management and Services, Brooke, and a son,Trent, Aug. 28 in Orinda, 1979 Calif., where they join two sisters, Jennifer 18, Inc., in Lawrence.They live in Olathe. Karen James Adam, g'79, EdD'87, is a coun- and Jessica, 15. James is a tax partner with Ernst selor at Sumner Academy in Kansas City. She & Young in San Francisco. 1977 lives in Shawnee. Charlotte Kirk Howard, j'77, is the Baytown William Newsome, j'79, g'92, andTecile, son, Robert Green, c'79, lives in Bethesda, Md. Charles Holt, July 2 in Lawrence, where he joins area public affairs representative for ExxonMo- He's a principal in the Washington, DC, corpo- two brothers, James, 8, and Preston, 7. William is bil in Houston. rate and political polling firm of Penn, Schoen & a partner in Southwind Capital. Richard Lockton, e'77, works as general Berland. manager of Natkin Service in Riverside, Mo. He Paul Kerens, b'79, works as senior executive 1980 lives in Leawood. officer at the Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute, Rex Archer, m'8O, is director of health for the which opened earlier this year Alice Campbell Marshall, d'77, teaches with Kansas City Health Department. He and Janet Bill Lewis, p'79, manages the Dillons Phar- USD 437 in Topeka. Neal Archer, 79, live in Kansas City. Claire McCurdy, c'8O, practices law with Sprint PCS in Kansas City. Paul Nance, b'80, g'82, heads a global software implementation project for Cummins Watch the tag, Engine in Columbus, Ind. watch the ball, Daniel Pearman, j'8O, directs on-air develop- gay-biffs", depxssttrpay, ment for Radio Disney. He lives in Dallas. SAFE! MarkToebben, j'8O, is president of Direct Communications in Des Moines, Iowa. Margaret Bezek Van Wagoner, b'8O, is vice president of client service forThomson, Horstmann & Bryant in Kansas City. She lives in Lee's Summit, Mo. 1981 Scott Brunk, c'81, is an emergency medicine physician at Gundersen-Lutheran Medical Cen- ter in La Crosse, where Jennifer Coon Brunk,'93, teaches English as a second language and Spanish at the University of Wiscon- sin.Their family includes Kate, 14; Andrew, 12; and Maggie, 10. Matthew Davis, c'81, is assistant dean of law at UMKC. He lives in Kansas City with his wife, Amy, and their children, Mattie, 4, and Thomas, I. George Gomez, c'81, l'85, practices law with American Family Insurance, and Joanne Deck Gomez, p'81, works as a pharmacist at Eckerd Pharmacy.They live in Lenexa. David Kipp, e'81 .works as vice-president of transportation for Ross & Baruzzini in Olivette, Mo. He lives in Kirkwood.

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Conception Magana, PhD'81, teaches English at Garden City Community College. HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS FOR ILLUSTRATOR Debra Bauer Whitney, f 81, coordinates clinical data and is a designer for PRA Interna- age through a Brad i it tional in Lenexa. PSneed picture book with a child, and you'll see why flflfl BORN TO: Sneed succeeds as an illus- Mary Jane Wayne Ecton, c'81, and Brian, trator. His mice and mares, c'82, son, John Brian, Dec, 4 in Superior; Colo., his hens and hares, are no where he joins a brother; Christopher, 9, and a ordinary barnyard critters. sister, Megan, 7. Mary Jane teaches school in They stretch and sprawl Boulder. w across entire pages, their 1982 lustrous watercolor shapes Victoria Webb Page, d'82, and her husband, enthralling child and David, moved recently from Leawood to Hop- grown-up alike. kinton, Mass. David is a vice president with ESC The sweeping lines and Medical.They have three children, Corey, 10; fanciful perspectives echo Connor, 7; and Baylee, 2. Sneed's favorite artists, ARTIST AND CRITIC BORN TO: Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood. directors' com- And, like his famous idols, Sneed, f'89, ments, reviews of Emily, Sneed's daughter and Thomas, f 82, g'84, and Kari Larson Lip- fellow critter-lover; is quick favors rural themes. He still speaks wist- his work come from scomb, c'86, son,Thomas Garland IV, Sept. 15 to comment on her dad's in Leawood, where he joins a sister, Anna, 3, fully of the wide spaces and wondrous his wife, Dena paintings, but his editors Thomas is an agent for Northwestern animals of his childhood home, a farm Thomas Sneed, have the final say. Sneed's Mutual Life. near Newton. h'90, and his 5- latest book, The Bravest of Us All, is due out in May. JoLynneWalz Martinez, j'82, and Robin, Home is now in Prairie Village, where year-old daughter, daughter; Isabella Elinor; Oct. 20 in Kansas City, in his cozy upstairs studio Sneed has Emily. where JoLynne owns Kadija LLC and works as worked steadily on children's books since Being a dad, Sneed says, has changed a free-lance writer. his first, Grandpa's Song by Tony John- his approach to illustration. "It's impossi- ston, was published in 1991. ble to have the insight into a child's 1983 His 13th work, which Dial Books has world until you've had one," he says. Tracee Hamilton, c'83, j'83, lives in Washing- ton, DC, and is deputy sports editor for the scheduled for May release, is The Bravest "When I'm working on a book, I'm more Washington Post. of Us All, by Marsha Diane Arnold. Writer conscious of how a child will look at it, Stacy Van Pelt Pickering, j'83, works as vice and illustrator tell the story of Velma but it's also what I want to see. When I president ofVPR Creative Group in Kansas City. Jean, a daredevil whose bravado vanishes bring a painting downstairs, Emily has no She and her husband, Curtis, assoc, live in as a tornado churns toward the family problem saying, 'I don't like the colors on Overland Park with their daughters, Sophie, 7, farm. Ruby Jane, a younger sister, proves that one.' I have two critics at home, so I and Hannah, 5. herself the true heroine. don't get my feelings hurt." Sandra Scott, c'83, coordinates the medi- This spring Sneed will complete the His long, mostly solitary work can be cine/pediatric residency program at the KU paintings for Sorry, by Jean van Leeuwen, grueling, Sneed says, but he is thankful Medical Center in Kansas City. She's also a lieu- the tale of a silly childhood spat that his Kansas sensibilities have helped him tenant commander in the U.S. Navy Reserves. results in a lifelong rift between two stub- establish a niche and enjoy a string of Sue Stutheit, d'83, is an assistant professor of born brothers. Again the story is rural, steady book assignments. "Pigeonholed music at the University of South Dakota, where but Sneed adapted his Midwestern farm may not be the exact term," he says, "but she teaches voice and choral music. She lives certainly when a manuscript comes in Vermillion. architecture to a New England setting. Though he has spent several months across an editors desk and it has a rural BORN TO: on the project, Sorry will not see the theme, he or she might think of me. I'm Paul, c'83, g'89, and Lauren Yoshinobu bookstores until early 2001; the timeline comfortable with that." Buskirk, g'88, daughter, Maria Hope, Dec. 27 in is typical of children's book publishing. The confessed homebody stops and Lawrence, where she joins a sister, Sierra, I. Paul After Sneed receives a manuscript, he grins as he admits to a far-flung tempta- is associate athletics director at KU. usually works nearly nine months—from tion: "I'm eager," he says,"to do some Andrew, m 83, and Julie Colebank Scott, initial pencil sketches, through designing shiny armor." n'88, daughter Sophie Karolyn, Dec. 2 in Lea- type and illustrations in dummy pages, Should Brad Sneed venture into the wood, where she joins a brother, Sandon, 2. completing the art director's revisions, to world of castles and kings, his knights Andrew is a partner in the Kansas City executing final paintings. Aside from art will surely inhabit no ordinary realm.-""""" Orthopaedic Institute,

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1984 Joseph, Mo., where he joins two brothers, Nov. 18 in Wichita, where Peter is vice presi- Stephen Hill, c'84, b'84, has been promoted Nicholas, I I, and Michael, 7. Susan is veterans dent of First National Bank and Kandi is an to health-care account executive at the Kansas coordinator at Missouri Western State College, architect with Places Architects. and Michael is chief meteorologist at KQTV. City Star He and his wife, Jennifer, live in Over- John,j'88, g'9l,and Dia Noel Montgomery, land Park. Konni Roach McMurray, e'86, and Brian, j'9 I, c'9 I, daughter, Madeline Kennedy, Sept. I I Mark Mears, j'84, is CEO of the Imagination daughter Mary Elizabeth, Oct. 19 in Pinehurst, in Hays, where she joins two brothers, William, Company, a promotional marketing firm in Dal- N.C., where she joins two sisters, Katherine, 4, 4, and Benjamin, 2. John is editor and publisher las. He lives in Allen. and Emily, 3. Konni is vice president of McMur- of the Hays Daily News. ray Fabrics. Waden, b'88, and Judith Clark Weinzirl, 1985 1987 d'89, daughter; Katherine Claire, Nov. 15 in St. Kathleen Kelly Crenshaw, c'85, coordinates Charles, III., where she joins two brothers, Teri Copeland Ault, c'87, n'89, lives in care at the KU Medical Center's child and ado- Robert, 9, and Jason, 6. Waden is vice president Coralville, Iowa, with her husband, Kevin, '95, lescent psychiatric unit. She lives in Kansas City of Aldi Inc. with her husband.Tim, and their son, Zachary, 6. and their daughters, Kathryn, 3, and Sarah, who'll be I June 9.Teri is a nurse at Mercy Jennifer Hanson, b'85, g'87, is a financial sys- Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, and Kevin is 1989 tem administrator at KU. She lives in Lawrence. an associate professor and staff physician at the Nicholas Farha, g'89, is an associate professor April Palmer, c'85, m'89, is an assistant pro- University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in of computer information systems at St. Mary of fessor of pediatrics at the University of Missis- Iowa City. the Woods College. He lives in Terre Haute, Ind. sippi. She lives in Ridgeland. Barbara Huninghake, s'87, owns and oper- Scott Mathews, j'89, is assistant vice president Lucy Rempel Peterson, e'85, and her hus- ates Victorian Rose Crafts & Antiques in Seneca. at UMB Bank in Kansas City. He lives in Over- band, Ralph, live in Discovery Bay, Calif, with land Park. their children, Jackie, 5; Elise, 3; and Zachary, I. MARRIED Thomas Pratt, e'89, l'92, recently became an Allen Tiffany, c'85, g'94, is a business opera- Krista Norton, c'87, to David Gates, Aug. 7. equity partner in the intellectual property law tions manager in the commercial desktop divi- They live in Highlands Ranch, Colo. firm of Banner & Witcoff. He lives in Chicago. sion of Compaq Computer in Houston. He and Timothy Propp, e'89, works as a certified Adeliza Diaz Lasso Tiffany, c'90, g'93, live in BORN TO: electrical power systems flight controller for the Cypress with their I -year-old twin daughters, Stephen, b 87,190, and Vicky Karlin Cole, International Space Station. He and his wife, Natasha and Nikita. b'87, daughter, Quinn Marie, July 27 in Overland Annette, live in Clear Lake City,Texas. BORN TO: Park, where she joins a sister, Cory, who'll be 4 Bill, c 89,192, and Sarah Gaigals Stapp, in June. Steve is an attorney for Sprint, and Vicky c'92, celebrate their first anniversary April 24. Cathleen Freels, c'85, and her husband, manages accounting for Bushnell Sports Optics Bill works for Tax Favored Benefits, and Sarah is Thomas Von Oesen, daughter Nicole, Nov. 7 in Worldwide. a district manager with Johnson & Johnson in Arlington Height, III. Pamela Roger Laborde, e'87, and Edward, Prairie Village. son, Mark Edward, Jan. 2 in Houston, where Patrick Zeka, b'89, is senior credit officer at 1986 Pamela is an environmental attorney for Farm Credit in Wichita. Leslie Ditch Baker, j'86, is a primary care Baker Botts. specialist for Allergan. She and her husband, Sandra Parker McGill, c'87, and Richard, Stephen, live in Lincoln, Mass. MARRIED daughter; Anne Lucie, Oct. 15 in Chicago, where Paige Davis, '86, manages claims for Biddle & she joins a sister; Emily, 4. Catherine McKernan, n'89, to Edgar Co. in Wayne, Pa. She lives in Malvern. "Deven" Hull, Nov. I 3 in Charleston, S.C., where Catherine is a pediatric flight nurse. Celia Fuller, f'86, does graphic design for 1988 Deven is a yacht broker Lindgren/Fuller Design in Brooklyn, N.Y Patrick Meacham, c'88, recently became an associate in the Raleigh, N.C., law firm of Patter- Nancy Rutherford Hawkins, g'86, works as BORN TO: a librarian at KU's Spahr Engineering Library. son, Dilthey, Clay and Bryson. She and her husband, Alan, assoc, live in Susan Lane Valesano, b'88, manages sales Todd Gugler, b'89, and Cynthia, daughter Hol- Lawrence. operations for IBM in Dallas. She and her hus- land Nicole, Nov. 29 in Kansas City.Todd is lead software developer for Akcia in Gladstone, Mo. Donald Rowen, c'86, recently became a pro- band, Jon, live in Piano with their sons, Michael, fessor of biology at the University of Nebraska 3, and Jared, I. Susan Levinson Marley, j'89, and Brian, son, at Omaha, where he and his wife, Claudia, live Michelle McDonough Walthall.j 88, is a Connor Jack, Oct. 21 in Wilmington, N.C. with their children, Nadine, 6, and Douglas, 4. secretary at Broken Arrow Elementary School James, c'89, and Katherine Gorsky Muir, in Lawrence. '90, daughter; Margaret Katherine, Dec. I in BORN TO: Commerce Township, Mich.They live in Burke, b'86, g'88, and Kimberly Madsen MARRIED Southfield, and their family includes Gordon, 9; Beeler, c'93, j'93, g'99, daughter, Quincy Paige, Margaret Schuler, c'88, to Michael Miller; Alexander; 8; Kelsey, 7; Andrew, 2; and Jan. 3 in Lawrence. Burke directs donor rela- Sept. 17.They live in Kansas City, where she's an Quentin, 2. tions for the KU Endowment Association, and account supervisor at MMG Worldwide. Michael, b 89, and Lisa Karr Nickel, c 89, Kimberly is associate director of adminissions son, Peter Norbert, Jan. 28 in Leawood, where and scholarships at KU. BORN TO: he joins two brothers, Alexander 4, and Robert, Susan Kelly Bracciano, b'86, g'89, and Peter Chase, b'88, and his wife, Kandi 2. Mike is director of information systems for Michael, c'87, son, Patrick Vesely, Jan. 17 in St. Chilcott, a'91, son, Hayden Chilcott Chase, Sosland Publishing in Kansas City.

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1990 Diane Litzenberger Macheers, j'90, works DUSAY SPARKLES AS SOAP'S NEW EVIL EMPRESSS as an interactive producer for American Cen- tury Investments, and her husband, Charles, anessa Bennett, mother j'91, is a staff attorney at Richard Connor Riley from hell, lay dying from a & Associates.They live in Shawnee. Vheart attack as her bitter Amy McClintock, c'90, recently became son, skilled cardiologist David recreation program coordinator for special Hayward, smirked and walked events marketing at the Des Moines Park and away. Luckily, Dr. Martin happened Recreation Department. She lives in Ankeny. by and saved Vanessa, but it was Melissa Schneider Frew, n'90, works part clear there was no love lost time in an oncology office in Las Cruces, N.M., where she and her husband, Donald, e'91, between David and momsy. How make their home with their children, Brian, 6, could there be? She had taunted Kevin, 3, and Eric, who'll be I June 5. Don is a David's suicidal dad with tales of captain in the U.S. Air Force. her young lovers and dared him to David Riddle, c'90, is a nuclear sales territory end his own life. He did, and left manager for ADAC Laboratories, and Cheryl young David fatherless. Reinhart Riddle, j'90, is a document solutions Pretty good story? It should be, executive for Xerox.They live in Overland Park with their children, Joseph, 3, and Elizabeth, because it was written by the who'll be I this summer Emmy Award-winning writers of Derek Schmidt, j'90, recently became special "All My Children" and stars Marj counsel and legislative liaison to Gov. Bill Graves Mahoney Dusay, '58, as Vanessa. in Topeka, where Derek and Jennifer Shaw "The only place left in America where commercials and VERITABLE VIXEN: Schmidt, l'94, make their home. you can do true repertory theatre is the did a game show Marj Dusay stormed into Karen Hubler Sippy, d'90, works as an edu- soaps," Dusay says from New York City. called "Say When," fictional Pine Valley a year cational technology consultant for nschool.com "In sitcoms, there is a reality base you with Art James. ago and quickly established in Norcross, Ga. She lives in Atlanta. have to keep. Soaps allow a caricature After moving to Cal- Vanessa Bennett as the Joel Zeff, j'90, co-hosts the Movie Zone on that shows the insanity of human rela- ifornia for her hus- character "All My Children" UPN-21 in Dallas, where he's an actor; speaker fans love to hate, especially and writer tionships. Like life, soaps are never-end- band's residency, in Vanessa's acidic show- ing, you never get all the answers, and Dusay got into the downs with Susan Lucci's MARRIED they're based on the fearful reality of Los Angeles improv Erica Kane. Thomas Jacobson, '90, and Angela Fowler, things being taken from you." group The Session, j'93, Oct. 8.They live in Lawrence. Dusay's extensive bio includes movies, with Rob Reiner and Richard Drey fuss, John Masterson, d'90, g'99,to Lisa Fitzgerald, soaps, theatre and more than 150 TV which eventually led her to career oppor- Aug. 6 in Bucyrus. He's a teacher and coach at shows. The Emmy-nominated actress tunities in episodic television. Blue Valley Northwest High School in Stilwell, signed a three-month contract with "All "Humbling, wonderful days," Dusay where they live, and she works for Sprint PCS. My Children" in January 1999, but audi- says. "Hanging with Carl Reiner and his BORN TO: ence reaction to the manipulative, con- wife, Estelle, and Richard and Rob, what niving Vanessa forced ABC into an fun. I wouldn't change that experience Jonathan, j'90, c'90, and Catherine Bourne Buss, j'90, daughter; Claire Lynn, Aug. 16 in Salt extension. for anything. I learned then to live by Lake City, where she joins a brother Ethan. "They wanted to make sure I wasn't Spencer Tracy's edict: 'Show up on time, Jonathan is an attorney and regional under- going to push Susan Lucci over the bal- know your lines and don't give anybody writer for Stewart Title. cony," Dusay says with the aristocratic any shit.' Though I don't think Spencer Troy Gooch, h'90, and Shireen, son, Griffin laugh that Vanessa uses to pooh-pooh adhered much to the third one." Paul, Aug. 2 in Salina, where he joins a sister, adversity. "Everything has worked. Van- She has worked with William Holden, Grace, 5, and a brother; Gabriel, 3.Troy is clinical essa is a bitch, but an honest bitch. She's Gregory Peck, James Garner and Carroll coordinator of the respiratory care department at Salina Regional Health Center a truly marvelous character." O'Connor, but Dusay still holds special Deborah Heard Holinger, c'90, and Dusay, a member of KU's Theatre and fondness for the leading man in her 1967 Christopher, daughter, Catherine June, Nov. 18 Film Professional Advisory Board and movie debut, Elvis Presley's "Clambake." in Panama City, Fla. Deborah is a U.S. Air until 1998 a member of the Kansas Film "He was such a gentleman, so hand- Force captain and an air battle manager and Commission, started modeling in Kansas some. I still remember my line. 'Gee, I'd tactics officer City in the 1950s to put her husband sure like to take a ride in your car.'" Sheryl Johannes Trask, s'90, and Dennis, son, through medical school. She then went to —Powers is deputy sports editor of the Luke Andrew, Nov. 25 in St. Louis, where he New York, where she appeared in a few Hartford (Conn.) Courant. joins a brother; Benjamin, 4.

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Martha Matthias Walker, n 90, g'96, and Paula Ellis Hamma, c'91, and her husband, BORN TO: James, c'91, son, Blake Edwin, Oct. 21 in Prairie Tom, will celebrate their first anniversary Kathryn Driscoll Hollrah, c'91, n 93, and Village, where he joins a sister; Macy, who'll be June l9.They live in San Diego, where Paula Scott, m'94, son, Benjamin Jeffrey, Jan. 9 in Mis- 2 June 8. Marci coordinates the operating room is a senior technical training specialist for sion Hills, where he joins a sister; Emma, 2. Scott at the Overland Park Regional Medical Center; Qualcomm. practices emergency medicine at Shawnee Mis- and James is an emergency medical technician Sarah Thomas Holbrooks, h'9l, lives in Fort sion Medical Center and firefighter for Johnson County Fire Riley with her husband, Howard, m'95, and District No. 3. Robin Lichty Kokodynski, c'91, and Andy, their son, Jacob, I. Howard is an anesthesiologist daughter, Alexis Rae, Sept. 17 in Burlington, Wis. 1991 at Irwin Army Community Hospital. They live in Lake Geneva, and their family Josie Kuyper Alpers, c'91, is a diagnostic Rodney Holcomb, e'91, g'93, works as a includes a son.Aidan, 2. radiologist at Medical Imaging and Radiology structural engineer with Bucher, Willis & Ratcliff Karen Stansifer, c'91, g'96, and her husband, Associates in Fort Dodge, Iowa, where she and in Kansas City. He and his wife, Brenda, live in Jean-Yves Sabot, g'96, son, Joel Michael her husband, Mark, c'82, n'85, g'94, live with Overland Park with their daughters, Samantha, Sabot, Nov. 17 in Denver. Jean-Yves is an their children, Elaine, 7; Erin, 4; and Lauren, 2. 5; Isabel, 2; and Amelia, I. account manager with Message Media in Boul- Mary Kate Burress Blankenship, p'91, Kathleen Reilly Myers, j'91, is a national der; and they make their home in Thornton. directs the pharmacy at Hutchinson Hospital media assistant at Bernstein-Rein Advertising in Susan HillsVaughn,d'9l,g'98, and Richard, and received the Harold N. Godwin Lecture Kansas City. son, Aaron Hunter, Oct. 8 in Edwardsville. Award last fall from the Kansas Pharmacists Alison Sheafor, f'9 I, a glass and sculpture Association. She and her husband, Michael, live artist, also helps artists organize their businesses 1992 in Hutchinson with their son, Christopher; I. and design professional information packets. She David Carttar, a'92, c'92, is lead engineer for Sean, c'9 I, and Kristine Blakley Butler, lives in Arlington, Wash. Risk Management Solutions in Menlo Park, Calif. s'9 I, s'96, live in Columbus, Neb., with their He and his wife, Claudia Olea, s'92, a'92, live daughter; Meredith, I. MARRIED in San Francisco with their daughter Isabel, 2. Howard Erenberg, j'9 I, coordinates opera- Debbie Shepek, j 91, to Michael Haws, Paula Perkins Clanton, s'92, has a private tions and production for Arrowhead Sports in c'91, Nov. 27 in Fairway. Debbie is an account social work practice in Topeka, where she and Kansas City. He lives in Overland Park. manager for Veterinary Learning Systems, and her husband, Mark, '93, live with their daughter; Linas Grikis, j'91, practices corporate health Mike is an account manager for Compaq Com- Emily, 2. law with McDermott, Will & Emery in Chicago. puter They live in Overland Park. William Gooch, e'92, is product manager Ryan Haas, b'91, moved recently from Dallas Daniel Simon, j'9 I, and Heidi Schrandt, with RF Micro Devices in Greensboro, N.C. He to Kansas City, where he's a sales manager '00, Nov. 20.They live in Lawrence, where lives in Jamestown. with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Kansas Daniel is sales and marketing adviser for the Dawn Grubb,j'92, owns and is president of City Wizards. University Daily Kansan. 24/7 Communications in Overland Park.

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Mark Heidebrecht, d'92, directs ergonomic Marshelle Wells, l'93, practices with the MARRIED services at Motion Watch in Lenexa, and Kathi Daubert Law Firm in Wausau.Wis. Charles Hines, c'94, and Elizabeth Ebert, Disbrow-Heidebrecht, b'98, manages finan- Matt Wingate, d'93, directs operations for f 96, Dec. 18 in Kansas City.They're both model cial accounting for the Kansas City law firm, the men's basketball program at Florida State Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin.They live in makers for MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch in University in Tallahassee. Olathe, and their family includes two sons, New York City. They live in Brooklyn. Cooper, 3, and Tyler, I. BORN TO: BORN TO: Louis Lopez, j'92, was appointed by President Cindy Cagle Fager, p'93, and Billy, daughter; Bill Clinton last spring as a legal adviser to Ida Caroline Chapman Barber, j'94, and Lowell, Catrina Marie, Jan. 10 in Erie, where she joins Castro, chair of the U.S. Equal Opportunity daughter Adriana, Oct. 23 in Kingwood,Texas. Commission. She lives in Arlington,Va. two sisters, Lauren, 4, and Sereta, I. Caroline is a marketing services specialist for Coca-Cola Bottling in Houston. Kelly Millington, d'92, directs field operations Colleen McCoy Newman, c'93, g'95, and for the American Heart Association. She lives in James, c'95, daughter, Lindsey Marie, Sept 4 in Kevin, e'94, and Shandy Hix Vollrath, assoc, Swansea, III. Great Bend. James is a forensic scientist with daughter Catherine Rose, Oct. 14 in Scranton. the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. Michael Peck, e'92, is vice president of Kevin is a structural engineer at Bartlett & West e-commerce operations for C-Tribe in San Thomas, e'93, and Carolyn Jenkins Poer, Engineers in Topeka, and Shandy is an office Francisco, and Laurie Keplin Peck, d'93, b'93, daughter, Lydia Elise, Oct. 9 in Prairie Vil- manager at Lawrence Plastic Surgery. works for Classroom Connect.They live in lage, where she joins a brother, Ethan, 4.Thomas San Mateo, Calif. is a project engineer for HNTB in Kansas City. 1995 Lea Selleck, c'92, l'96, is a research attorney Kevin, c'93, and Julie Leyba Sigourney, a'94, Krista Cordsen, d'95, is an outpatient ortho- for the Kansas Supreme Court in Topeka. daughter, Hannah Raye, Feb. 18 in Lawrence. pedic physical therapist at Texas Orthopaedic Hospital in Houston. BORN TO: 1994 William Hillman, b'95, practices law in Barton Fisher, b'92, and Teresa, daughter; Chad Brouillette, c'94, owns Colorado Independence, Mo. He lives in Roeland Park. Chloe, Oct. 25 in St. Louis. Bart is program Petfitters, a firm that sells health foods and Matthew Holt, g'95, is a consultant with director for NSI in Fenton, Mo. outdoor gear for pets. He lives in Denver Crestone International. He lives in with his wife, Emily. Jon, c'92, c'97, and Sarah Blacketer Rossil- Minneapolis, Minn. Gwen Newman Griffin, PhD'94, is an associ- lon, d'95, g'00, son, James Patrick, Dec. I .They Alison Mura Lonergan, f'95, and her hus- ate professor of English at Minnesota State Uni- live in Eudora. band, Edward, celebrated their first anniversary versity in Mankato, where she lives with her Michael Wilson, j'92, and Doneen, daughter in February.They live in Kansas City. Jenna, Aug. 22 in Topeka, where she joins a sis- children.Travis, 9, and Erin, 7. Gwen is completing a volume of poetry and short stories about Shawn Miller, e'95, manages accounts for ten Paige, who's almost 2. Michael is an account Praxair in Portland, Ore. executive with United Parcel Service. Native American life. Marc Hensel, c'94, g'96, manages mergers and William Mills, c'95, moved recently from 1993 acquisitions for Enron in Houston. Prairie Village to Hermosa Beach, Calif, where he's an area trade representative for Jack Ball, a'93, president of the architecture Karla Kuebler, c'94, lives in University City, lmprovenet.Com. firm of Jack Ball and Associates, lives in Spring- Mo., and works as a Raman Spectroscopy and field, Mo., with Susan Helder Ball, b'94, and neutron activation specialist in Washington Jesse Newman, c'95, chairs the Japanese their daughter Elle, I. University's department of earth and Cultural Art Foundation in Overland Park. David Klocek, e'93, is a senior economics planetary sciences. He lives in Lawrence. analyst for CITGO Asphalt Refining. He and Aaron, j'94, and Susan Larson Lenzini,j'96, Amy Patton, j'95, c'96,1*98, practices law with Renee Boucher Klocek, p'95, live in celebrated their first anniversary April I O.They ShughartThomson & Kilroy in Overland Park. Harleysville, Pa. She's a staff pharmacist at live in Birmingham, Mich. Abington Memorial Hospital. Amy Kautter Rand, c'95, g'98, is an audiolo- Jeffrey Smith, f'94, recently joined Infusion gist in North Kansas City, and her husband, John Mullies, b'93, h'97, recently became lead Design in Prairie Village as senior industrial D.J., c'96, is a meeting planner for ASE Group PathNet specialist for Cemer International at designer. He and Janie Hartwig-Smith, j'91, in Overland Park.They live in Prairie Village. Kingdom Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. live in Shawnee. Katherine Siegrist, b'95, works in the audit David Murdock, b'93, is district manager for division of Arthur Andersen in Kansas City. AXA Advisors, a national financial planning firm. Erich Steinle, c'94, who received a doctorate He and his wife, Sheryl, live in Shawnee. in chemistry last fall from the University of John Sparks, e'95, studies for an MBA at the Michigan, is a post doctoral research associate Brynt Query, c'93, a captain in the U.S. Air University of California-Irvine. He's also a U.S. at the University of Florida. He lives in Force, teaches Airborne Warning and Control Navy lieutenant stationed at the Naval Warfare Gainesville. System navigators. He lives in The Village, Okla. Assessment Station in Corona. John and Ash- Kristie Taylor, b'94, lives in Carlsbad, Calif, ley Ressler Sparks, c'97, live inTustin with Gregory Weimholt, e'93, is the Western where she's a director for Clinmark.com. their children, Bailey, 3, and Hamilton, I. region project electrical engineer for JC Penney Construction in Piano,Texas, where Julie Zhijun Wu, g'94, PhD'96, is a senior chemist John Tyburski, c'95, studies for a doctorate in Porter Weimholt, c'94, teaches second grade for Sarnoff in Princeton, N.J. He and his wife, physiology and cell biology at KU, and Miwa at Centennial Elementary School.They live in Huaibao Sheng, g'95, live in Louisville, Ky., Kitamura-Tyburski, g'98, is an office assistant Dallas, and Julie is completing a master's in gift- where she's a pathology resident at the Univer- in KU's Office of Study Abroad.They live ed and talented education. sity of Louisville Hospital. in Lawrence.

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MARRIED Matthew Ross, e'96, has been promoted Stevens Family Medicine in Leavenworth. Diana to captain in the U.S. Army. He's stationed at and her husband, John, live in Easton with their Brian Faris, c'95, g'99, and Tamara Mueller, Fort Riley. children, Kristin, 9; Lindsay, 6; and Matthew, 3. h'97, Oct. 23 in Overland Park. Brian is a research associate with Pioneer Hi-Bred Inter- Rebecca Ryan, l'96, practices law with Shook, Larry "Shane" Elliott, b 97, works as a national, andTami is an occupational therapist at Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City. She lives in financial planner with American Express Finan- Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, Mission. cial Advisors in North Richland Hills.Texas. He and his wife, Cami, live in Fort Worth with their where they'live. Megan Sears, d'96, manages regional training daughters, Kylie, 4, and Morgan, I. Amy Green, c'95, and Beatty Suiter c'95, for Voice Stream Wireless in Denver Lizbeth Stack Finestack, c'97, is a speech- m'99, Aug. 14. Amy is an occupational therapist, Mark Stover, e'96, studies medicine at Wash- language therapist at the Cove School in and Beatty is a physician.They recently moved ington University in St. Louis. Northbrook, III., and her husband, Seth, c'98, to Boston, where Beatty will begin an internship Karen LaForge Surface, c'96, and her hus- studies for a graduate degree in integrated mar- in ophthamology at Boston University. band, Jim, live in Edmond, Okla., with their chil- keting communications at Northwestern Uni- Hollie Ham, c'95, to Michelle Binkley, Aug. 7 in dren, Lauren, 2, and Matthew, I. versity in Evanston.They live in Glenview. Overland Park.They live in Lenexa, and Hollie Adam Terrill, j'96, works as an assistant man- Brennan Graves, a'97, is an architect with works for Gear for Sports International. ager for Equicredit Corp. of America. He lives in Warner Nease Bost in Kansas City. Plymouth, Minn. Melissa Glynn Hardesty, b'97, recently BORN TO: became a federal tax specialist with Sprint. She Cindy Travnicek Hollinger, e'95, and MARRIED lives in Lenexa with her husband, Jason, '99. Eric, '97, daughter, Ashley Elizabeth, Nov. 2 Sheila Gorman, c'96, to Jeffrey Robertson, Wendy Adkinson Harless, c'97, will begin in Lawrence. Sept. I I inTopekaThey live in Kansas City, studying dentistry in August at UMKC. She and Regina Becherer Peterman, '95, and where Sheila's a senior medical information spe- her husband, Patrick, live in Eudora. William, f 97, daughter Taylor Gale, Sept. 30 cialist in the KU Medical Center's Cancer Infor- mation Service and Jeffrey works for Neal Blake Hodges, j'97, directs research for in St. Louis, where William is an artist Harris Heating, Air Conditioning and Plumbing. KSMO-TV in Kansas City. with Elen-Polo. Christopher Hurst, e'97, works as an engi- Amanda Long, c'96, to Kory Jackson, July 17 Brian, c'95, and Danielle Robino Rawlings, neer with Cessna Aircraft in Wichita. in Hutchinson.They live in Atlanta, where c'96, son, Brett Thomas, July 29 in Olathe. Amanda is a physical therapist and Kory studies Brian Kruse, j'97, recently became an Brian is an assistant vice president and branch medicine at Emory University. account executive for Fleishman-Hillard manager at Capitol Federal Savings. International Communications in Kansas City. Todd Oberzan, c'96, to Kristen Holmes, July He lives in Lenexa. 1996 10 in Beaumont,Texas.Todd studies medicine at Nicole Mercer, c'97, g'99, works as a physical Sarah Clagett, j'96, is a network assignment the KU Medical Center and Kristen works for Corporate Fitness Works at Sprint World therapist at PT Hawaii in Waipahu, where her editor with NBC News in New York City. She Headquarters.They live in Overland Park. husband, Aaron Bolton, l'99, is a self- lives in Upper Montclair, N.J. employed attorney. Kymberly Wiedenkeller, c'96, to Joshua Jessica Clemmer, j'96, coordinates volunteer Aline Milleret, b'97, is a pharmaceutical and player services for the U.S. Golf Associa- Hoang, July 3 in Kansas City. Kym studies for a degree in marriage family therapy at Pepperdine representative for Johnson & Johnson in tion's 2001 and 2003 U.S. Opens. She lives in University.They live in Beverly Hills. Oklahoma City, where she lives with her Tulsa, Okla. husband, Ryan Nowlin. Christopher Duffin, e'96, recently joined BORN TO: Charlotte Balsamo Puttroff, n97, a US Peterbilt Motor in Denton,Texas, and Shannon Navy lieutenant junior grade, is a nurse sta- Philip, b'96. and Valerie Palmberg Ast, Hart Duffin, f'97, is art director for tioned at Camp Pendleton, Calif., where her j'97, son, Nathan Thomas, July 28 in Castle Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing in Fort Worth, husband, Aaron, c'98, is a U.S. Marine Corps Rock, Colo. where they live. officer They live in Oceanside. Stacy Rakestraw Graves, d'96, and Corey, Sharon Covey, c'96, works as a speech and Renee Nichols Roosa, g'97, works as a holis- daughter Kylie Lynn, Feb. 3 in San Jose, Calif. language pathologist for HeartSpring in Wichita. tic family nurse practitioner at Jacob's Well- Michelle Melnik, j'96, is an account executive Brookside in Kansas City, where she and her 1997 husband, William, make their home. with Kilgannon McReynolds in Atlanta. Eileen Hancock Almon, n'97, lives in Carrie Williams, j'97, writes copy for Ted Miller, j'96, lives in Washington, D.C., Lawrence with her husband, Mark. Medscape in New York City. She lives in where he's special assistant to the chief financial Julie Sigler Anderson, c'97, manages projects Hoboken, N.J. officer of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. for the Breast Cancer Prevention Center at the Craig Novorr, b'96, recently was promoted to KU Medical Center She lives in Olathe. MARRIED assistant vice president and investment officer at Doris Patton Buckner, g'97, has a home- Benjamin Karel, c'97, and Suzanne Van UMB Bank in Kansas City. based nursing practice inTopeka. Auken, '99, Oct. 16.They live in Madison, Wis., Christopher Riels, g'96, teaches Latin in the Douglas Conder, PhD'97, is assistant director and Benjamin is a marketing representative Montgomery County (Va.) public schools. He of athletics at Abilene Christian University in for Koch Materials in Stevens Point. Suzanne lives in Blacksburg. Abilene.Texas. is a pharmaceutical representative for Chad Roesler, c'96, works as an account Diana Corpstein, g'97, serves as secretary of Schering-Plough. executive for Hotz Business Solutions the Nurse Practitioner Network. She's a family- Melinda Meidinger, c'97, and Jerod Haase, in Lawrence. advanced registered nurse practitioner at b'97, Aug. 7 in Lawrence, where Jerod studies

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for a master's in human resource management Aicha Diallo, c'98, is a professor of English at lines, and he's an accountant at MHM Business and is a graduate coaching assistant for the KU the Balkan School of English in Neuchatel, Services in Kansas City.They live in Mission. men's basketball team. Mindy is a consultant for Switzerland. Kelli Wooldridge, d'98, and Justin Bates, Andersen Consulting in Kansas City.They live Christopher Haar, e'98, a U.S. Marine Corps c'98, July 10. Kelli teaches kindergarten and first in Lawrence. second lieutenant, serves as third platoon com- grade at White Church Elementary School in Michelle Robben, n'97, and Thad Tribbey, Oct. mander of Brand Company, a first combat engi- Kansas City, and Justin works for Acctronix in 9. She's a nurse at the KU Medical Center in neer battalion stationed at Camp Pendleton, Lenexa, where they live. Kansas City, and he's a research consultant for Calif. He lives in Oceanside. Transamerica.They live in Overland Park. Kara Heitz, c'98, finished a master's last year BORN TO: William Vinyard, c'97, and Gina Marx, d 00, at the London School of Economics. She lives Lisa Harding Gassmann, c'98, and Jeremy, July 23. William studies medicine at the KU inTopeka. son, Brendan Patrick, Oct. 19 in Lexington, Ky., Medical Center; and Gina coordinates clinical Wendy Byars Humphrey, p'98, is a pharma- where Lisa is a computer entry technician for research for the Heart of America Research D&R Pharmacare. Institute in Mission.They live in Kansas City. cist with the Pharmacy Station. She lives in Burlington, Wis., with her husband, Richard. Heather Muth, s'98, and Jimmy, son, Jeremiah, Doug Weinstein,j'97, and Heather Hen- Nov. 9 in Phoenix. eel, c'97, Sept. 5 in Hasca, III.The couple lives in Brian Karney, b'98, recently joined Center- Mundelein, III. Heather studies for her master's beam, an internet start-up company. He lives in Beatriz Zuniga Schloegel, h'98, and Matt, in occupational therapy at Governors State Palo Alto, Calif. daughter, Mia Marie, Jan. 24 in Fairway. Beatriz is University in University Park, and Doug works Jeff Lorance, b'98, g'99, is a business analyst an occupational therapist at Research Medical in telecommunications in Buffalo Grove. for Comsys in Austin,Texas. Center in Kansas City. Gaven Ludlow, s'98, directs family-based 1999 BORN TO: services for United Methodist Youthville. He Heidi Armbrister, c'99, recently began Courtney Smith Love, b'97, and Michael, lives in Hays. b'98, son, Jack Manning, Nov. 19 in Dallas. working for the American Sugarbeet Growers Jennifer Novak, c'98, works as a nutritionist Michael is a salesman for Love Envelopes. Association in Washington, D.C. She lives in at Novak Chiropractic Clinic and the Nutrition Stafford, Va. Kelli Schanbacher Wilkerson, g'97, and and Spinal Care Center She lives in Lenexa. Terry, daughter; Kylie, Dec. 22 in Independence, Jenna Jarboe Delay, j'99, works as a pro- Cynthia Cummings O'Connell, s'98, works where they live. Kelli is a physical therapist at ducer for KSNT-TV in Topeka. She and her as an area supervisor for St. Francis Academy in Square One Rehab in Coffeyville. husband, Chris, live in Silver Lake. Hays. She lives in Hutchinson. Colby Fincham, b'99, is a sales assistant for 1998 Tamara Radohl, s'98, is a social worker with CMP Media in San Francisco. the Bert Nash Center in Lawrence, where she Brett Clifton, j'98, works as a media associate Julie Kearney, '99, lives in Overland Park and and her husband, Matthew Sigley, '00, make for Leo Burnett/Starcom Worldwide in Chicago. works as a physician marketing representative their home. for Labone in Lenexa. Karen Ward, j'98, recently joined BlairLake Anthony Largo, b'99, works as an operations New Media in Kansas City as a digital produc- statistician at Stats Inc., a sports information SchOOl Codes Letters that follow tion assistant. names in Kansas Alumni indicate the school firm in Martingrove, III. He lives in Wadsworth. from which alumni earned degrees. Numbers 2nd Lt. Christopher Warren, c'98, serves as Thomas McCoy, c'99, supervises quality con- show their class years. chief of electronic intelligence at Tinker AFB, trol and trust operations for Commerce Bank School of Architecture and Urban Oklahoma. He lives in Oklahoma City. in Kansas City. He lives in Topeka. Design School of Business MARRIED College of Liberal Arts and MARRIED Kelcey Baker, c'98, and Darin Schmitz, Sciences Sarah VinZant, h'99, to Casey Klepper, Nov. d'99, Nov. 20 in Lawrence. Kelcey coordinates School of Education 20 in Wichita. Sarah is an occupational therapist, support service for Cottonwood, and Darin is e School of Engineering and Casey is an institutional/government bond assistant track and field coach at Lawrence f School of Fine Arts trader at Paine Webber in New York City.They High School. g Master's Degree live in Fairfield, Conn. h School of Allied Health Jaime Brown, j'98, to Stuart Matthews, Dec. j School of Journalism I I in Independence, Mo.They live in Albu- 2000 I School of Law querque, N.M. Michelle Fabac, '00, directs internal audits at m School of Medicine Nicol Fitzhugh, 198, and Jeremy Weis, 100, Amsted Industries in Chicago. n School of Nursing Nov. 6.They live in Overland Park. p School of Pharmacy Allen Ng, e'00, works as an engineer at Dell in s School of Social Welfare Jennifer Hitz, b'98, to Joseph Pozzuolo, July 3 Austin,Texas. DE Doctor of Engineering in St. John.They live in DeSoto. Hanh Thi-Nguyen, h'00, directs the medical DMA Doctor of Musical Arts Bryce Johnson, b'98, and Jennifer Vannaus- records department at Value Mark Behavior EdD Doctor of Education dle, '99, Aug. 7. Bryce works for Andersen Healthcare in Kansas City. PhD Doctor of Philosophy Consulting in Overland Park. (no letter) Former student MARRIED assoc. Associate member of the Carrie Wieczorek, b'98, and Tyler Alumni Association Dohogne, b'98, Aug. 14 in Blue Springs, Mo. Sara Cropper, j'00, and Aaron Wilhelm, She works as an auditor for Trans World Air- '00, Jan. 29 in Topeka.They live in Lawrence.

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1920s William Dreese, c'39, m'42, 83, Jan. 4 in Wayne White, PhD'30,94, Feb. I 3 in Fort Smith, Ark. He directed research in fluorine Mary Brigham, c'28,94, Dec. 25 in Ponca Halstead, where he was a retired surgeon. He is survived by his wife, Ann Hurt Dreese, c'39; chemistry at Ozark-Mahoning inTulsa and is City, Okla., where she taught high school English two sons; a daughter; and three grandchildren. survived by a daughter; Arlene White Price, f'53, and journalism. Several nieces and nephews and a son. survive. Reed Maxson, c'39, m'41, 86, Jan 8. He Mona McKelvy Duncan, d'29,93, Jan. 6 in lived in Warrensburg, Mo., where he practiced 1940s Kansas City, where she was a consultant for medicine for many years and was a founder of Wallis Campbell, b'40, Dec 3 I in Macy's Department Store for 15 years. A son, Johnson County Memorial Hospital. Surviving Wheatridge, Colo., where he was a retired five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren are his wife,Virginia, two daughters and five grandchildren. attorney. He is survived by his wife, Sally; two survive. daughters; a son; a stepdaughter; two stepsons; Anna Leibengood, d'23, g'39, 103, Jan. 12 in John Stewarat Newlin, d'33, 88, Jan. 3 in a brother; Brent, c'4l, m'44; I I grandchildren; Lawrence, where she was a retired teacher. She Tucson. He worked in the newspaper business and four great-grandchildren. and in politics. Survivors include a daughter; a is survived by a sister; Dorothy Leibengood Harriett Todd Euson, c'4l, 80, Jan. 10 in son, John, b'58; two stepsons; a sister; Nancy Koch, c'25, g'33. Wichita. She is survived by five sons, three of Newlin Ashton, c'37; a brother; Richard, '39; Catherine Creveling McCoy, d'29,94, Jan whom are Richard, c'70, Gregory, b'74, and seven grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; and Robert "Todd," c'76; a sister, NoelleTodd 31 in Lawrence, where she was a former 14 great-grandchildren. teacher. A memorial has been established with Drechsel, g'64; six grandchildren; and a great- the KU Endowment Association. She is survived Arnold Nothnagel, m'39, 84, Jan. 14 in grandchild. by two sons.Theodore, c'55, m'60, and Thomas, Kansas City, where he practiced medicine and George Grist, b'42,1*53, 80, Jan. 19 in e'58; a sister, Louise Creveling Miller, d'35; four was medical director of Kansas City Plasma. He Wichita, where he was a retired attorney and grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. is survived by four daughters, three of whom CEO of the Wichita Disabled American Veter- are Karen Nothnagel Wilkins, c'68, Janet Noth- ans Thrift Stores. A memorial has been estab- Howard Moore, c'25,97, Dec 30 in nagel Bachnick, d'70, g'86, and Mary Lou Noth- lished with the KU Endowment Association. He Kansas City. He worked for Johnson County nagel Peters, c'73; a son, Arnold, c'75; a sister; 15 is survived by a daughter, Joyce Grist Evans, j'68; Water District No. I and participated in ball- grandchildren; and a great-grandson. two brothers, Warren, e'49, and Paul, e'33; four room dancing. Surviving are a daughter; three Elma Garber Nottingham, '35, 88, Jan. I in sisters; three grandchildren and two great- brothers, four granddaughters and three grandchildren. great-grandchildren. Colorado Springs. She had been a homemaker and is survived by her husband, Jonathan, c'31, Bruce Hackett, e'41, 80, Jan. 22 in Louisville, Robert Piper, c'27, 95, Nov. 12 in Chapel g'32; two sons; a sister; 10 grandchildren; and 13 Colo. He is survived by his wife Harriet; a Hill, N.C. He was retired copy desk chief at the great-grandchildren. daughter; Judith Hackett Hall, f'63; two sons, Indianapolis News. Surviving are his wife, Mary Leonard Prosser, e'32, 89, Jan. I in Olathe, Michael, f'72, and Kent, c'77; seven grandchil- Ann; two daughters, one of whom is Elaine dren; and eight great-grandchildren. Piper Reussner, d'60; a son, Robert, e'58, g'65; where he was retired from Proctor & Gamble. six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. He is survived by a son; a daughter, Lenora Van Hartman, b'42, 79, Jan. 15 in Hays. He Prosser Graham, c'61; five grandchilren; and 12 was president of Hartman Oil and director of great-grandchildren. endowment at Hadley Regional Medical Center 1930s Surviving are his wife, Helen Markwell Hart- Ethel Ford Savage, c'36, Dec. 2 inTulsa, Valarie Lyndon Bailey, '33, 89, Jan. 8 in Lees ment, c'41; two sons, Mark, j'72, and William, Okla. A son and a daughter survive. Summit, Mo. Surviving are a daughter, Lyndon c'78; two daughters, one of whom is Kathy Bailey Morrison, d'60; a son, William, c'62, m'66; Helen White Skinner,'38, 84, Jan I I in Hartman Bryan, b'83; a brother; 10 grandchil- seven grandchildren; a step-grandchild; and a Long Branch, N.J. She lived in Colts Neck and is dren; and four great-grandchildren. great-granddaughter. survived by her husband, Robert, e'39; three Milfred Harwood, '45,79, Dec 30 in Gar sons; a daughter; a sister, Patricia White, c'52; 12 Paul Brooker, c'31, 90, Jan. 15 in Wichita, nett. He was a budget analyst with the Centers grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. where he owned Paul Brooker Sales Interna- for Disease Control and had lived in Lawrence tional. He is survived by his wife, Virginia; a Vernon "Rusty" Springer,'34, 87, Jan. I in for many years. Surviving are his wife Betty; two daughter, Diane BrookerWingate, '61;two step- Eudora. He lived in Lawrence, where he owned daughters; two brothers, one of whom is Win- daughters; a stepson; four grandsons; seven and operated Rusty's IGA Food Centers and ston, '42; a sister; four grandchildren; and four stepgrandchildren;two great-grandchildren; and had served as mayor He is survived by a great-grandchildren. five stepgreat-grandchildren. daughter; Sharon Springer Elkins, c'65; two Jean Trekell Hendricks, '44, 77, Jan. 3 I in Betty Tholen Collard.f 37, 83, Dec 7 in brothers; a sister; three grandchildren; and a Boise, Idaho. She had been a medical secretary. Leavenworth, where she was active in commu- great-grandchild. Among survivors are two sons, Robert, f'71, nity affairs. Surviving are a son, James, b'73; a John Turner, c'35, m'39, 86, Nov. 28 in and John, c'65, m'69; a daughter, Barbara Hen- daughter; a brother, WA.Tholen, b'41; and four Garden City, where he practiced medicine. dricks Ray, b'73; a sister Dorothy Trekell Taggart, grandchildren. A memorial has been established with the c'38; and five grandchildren. O.J. Connell Jr., l'38, 85, Jan. I 6 in El Dorado, KU Endowment Association.Two sons, a William Kuchs, e'42, 81, Jan. I I in Canoga where he practiced law and had been county daughter; six grandchildren and 10 great- Park, Calif, where he was retired from North attorney. A memorial has been established with grandchildren survive. American-Rockwell. He is survived by his wife, the KU Endowment Association. He is survived Esther Hird Tusher, c'39, 91, Jan I 3 in Carolyn Bell Kuchs, '43; two daughters; a son; by his wife, Mary Lattner Connell, d'39; three Wichita. She is survived by two stepsons, Don- and six grandchildren. sons, one of whom is Tim, l'78; a daughter, Nicki ald, d'62, and Richard, '58; a brother Paul Hird, Rex Morriss, p'49,75, July 14 in Salina, where Connell Mulally, d'69; a sister Mary Connell Hig- c'40; six grandchildren; and three great-grand- he owned and operated Morriss Pharmacy. He gins, c'39; and I I grandchildren. children. is survived by his wife, Margaret Hall Morriss,

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 3, 2000 IN MEMORY d'45; two sons, Rex, c'74, and David, f'80, a'87; Paul Woolpert, b'43, 80, Jan. 8 in Kansas City, 1960s a sister Caroline Morriss Hines, d'47, g'59; and where he spent 40 years with Peat, Marwick, Richard Asbell, e'65, 83, Dec. 27 in Wichita, three grandchildren. Mitchell & Co. He is survived by his wife,Vivian where he was a retired mechanic for Beech Robert Ramsay, e'47, 74, Jan. 26 while vaca- Catts Woolpert, c'42; a daughter; a son; a Aircraft. He is survived by his wife,Theresa, a tioning in Nassau. He lived in Colorado Springs, brother Donald, e'47; and three sisters. son, a daughter a stepson, a sister three grand- where he had worked in the investment busi- children, three stepgrandchildren; and four step- ness. Surviving are his wife, Susie, a daughter 1950s great-grandchildren. two sons, a stepson, a stepdaughter and nine Victor Chesky, c'50, 73, Jan 12 in Halstead, Norman Berkley, m'63, 68, Dec. 2 in grandchildren. where he owned Chesky Insurance Agency. He Topeka. He lived in Seneca, where he practiced Terry Relihan, c'48,1*50,77, Jan. 18 in Smith is survived by his wife, Dolores Custer Chesky, medicine. He is survived by his wife, Mary Ann; Center; where he was an attorney. He is sur- c'48; three sons, two of whom are Victor III, four sons, three of whom are Donald, e'93, vived by his wife, Joan Hendrickson Relihan, '48; g'79, and Eric, d'81; a sister Jane Chesky Welch, Gregory, e'82, and Richard, d'89; four daughters, two sons, Dayne, e'91, and David, c'81; two f 39; and five grandchildren. two of whom are Patricia Berkley Hermesch, daughters, one of whom is Cathy, c'72; and a Don Ellis, b'53, 68, Dec. 27 in Overland Park, n'86, and Sharon Berkley Winkler, c'87; a brother Donald, c'50, m'54. where he was owner and manager of Merriam, brother; two sisters; and 25 grandchildren. William Sanders, c'42, m'44,79, Jan 27 Ellis & Benton. He is survived by two daughters, Glennys Kuhlke, d'63, 69, Dec 3 I in Seal in Kansas City, where he practiced medicine. Ingrid, s'79, and Natalie Ellis Morris, d'83; a son, Beach, Calif, where she had lived for the past He is survived by his wife, Donna Jackson Mark, f 94; a brother, David, b'5 I; and two three years after moving from Lawrence. She Sanders, c'44; a daughter; three sons, two of grandchildren. was retired director of the service unit of the whom are David, c'71, and Scott, c'73; and Harold Jordan, e'56, 71, Jan. 21 in Overland Douglas County Office of the Kansas Depart- five grandchildren. Park, where he was a retired senior staff engi- ment of Social and Rehabilitative Services. She and her husband, William, established KU's John Sells, e'48, g'53, 75, Jan. 24 in Encmo, neer at AlliedSignal. He is survived by his wife, Russian Theatre Fellowship in 1997. She is sur- Calif. He worked for Hughes Aircraft. A mem- Norma Sue; a son, David, e'78; two daughters, vived by her husband, William, g'59; a son; a orial has been established with the KU Endow- Deborah, e'79, g'81, and Karen, e'85; a sister; a daughter, Karen Kuhlke Beros, c'82; a sister; ment Association. He is survived by his wife, brother; and four grandchildren. and two granddaughters. Frances, and a daughter Dana Dowd, a'55, 68, Dec. 26 in Overland Robert Shurtz, e'64, 64, Dec. 29 in Wichita, Park. He practiced architecture in Lawrence Anna "Mickey" McConigly Shinkle, c'43, where he was a structural dynamics engineer at and Kansas City for many years and is survived m'46, 78, Jan. 15 in Mound City. She had been Boeing. He is survived by his wife, Janet; two by a son, Scot, c'79; two daughters; and five an attorney and is survived by her husband, sons; a daughter; and a brother, Donald, f'52. William, m'46; two sons, William, c'68, and grandchildren. David, c'72; a daughter; five grandchildren; and Donald Kerle, b'52, PhD'72, 69, Dec 18 1970s two great-grandchildren. in Pittsburg, where he was a retired professor James Donnici.f 77,44, Jan. 16 in Chicago, Donnan Stephenson, b'41, l'48, 80, Jan 10 emeritus of political science at Pittsburg State where he was senior vice president and direc- in Santa Fe, where he was a lawyer and a jus- University. He is survived by his wife, Diana, tor of creative services at Chicago Creative tice of the New Mexico State Supreme Court. and two sons. Partnership. He is survived by his mother; and A lecture series at KU's School of Law is Maryln Austin Lehman, f'57, 64, Jan. I I a sister Cynthia Donnici Darby, d'74. named for him, and he served as a vice presi- in Ottawa. She was a vocational rehabilitation Scott Lerner, m'73, 52, Jan. 23 in Mission dent of the Alumni Association's national board counselor at Osawatomie State Hospital. A Hills, where he practiced medicine. He is sur- from 1989 to 1992. Two sons and three grand- brother Franklin Austin, e'54, survives. vived by his wife, Leslie Bowles Lerner, n'71; children survive. Bill Sanders, '58, 64, March 12 in Topeka, two sons, one of whom is Aaron, student; three Jeanne Wilkins Wienecke, c'41, July 27 daughters, one of whom is Elizabeth, student; where he owned Topeka Typeshop and Sanders in Tulsa, Okla. She is survived by her husband, his mother; and two sisters, one of whom is Photocomposition. He is survived by his wife, Edwin, b'40; a daughter Catherine, j'64; and Paula Lerner Robinson, f 77. Virginia Fleer Sanders, '58; two daughters; a son; a son. and eight grandchildren. Linda Ricklefs, '74, 50, Dec. 30 in Atchison. George Wise, m'42, Jan. 6 in Prairie Village, She lived in Shawnee and was a credit manager Harry Shetlar, b'57, 68, Jan. I in Winfield, where he was a pediatrician and later directed with Halls Crown Center Her mother, two where he was a retired accountant. He is the Poison Control Center at Children's Mercy brothers and three sisters survive. survived by two sons, one of whom is Aaron, Hospital until retiring. He was a professor g'89; a daughter; a brother, Richard, b'61; a emeritus of medicine at UMKC and is survived sister; and a grandchild. The University Community by his wife, Mary Corine Duckett Wise, n'41; a William Balfour, 85, Feb. 29 in Lawrence, son, James, s'70, g'74, g'92; two daughters, Judy Jack Tusher, f 50, g'56, 71, Jan 14 in where he was vice chancellor of student affairs, Wise Frey, n'67, and Jane Wise Yourdon, c'74; Overland Park. He is survived by his wife, University ombudsman and two-time winner of two brothers; a sister; eight grandchildren; and Mildred; two daughters, Jennifer, c'89, and the HOPE Award for excellence in teaching. He a great-grandchild. Marcie, c'87; and two brothers, Richard, '58, is survived by a son, two daughters, a brother a Paul Wolf, b'46,1*52,79, Jan. 21 in Hugoton, and Donald, d'62. grandchild and two great-grandchildren. where he practiced law. He is survived by his Suzanne VanSlyke Wilson, '52, 69, Dec Elmo Lindquist, '62, 87, Jan. 24 in Lawrence, wife, Marion Greenlee Wolf, f'51; two sons, one 29 in Edmond, Okla. She is survived by her where he taught engineering for 27 years. A of whom is Franklin, c'75; a daughter Carol Wolf husband, Howard, c'50, l'52; three sons; a memorial has been established with the KU Moore, d'79, g'81; a sister Ruth Wolf Burkey, daughter Eve Wilson Messick, c'81; and Endowment Association. He is survived by two n'52; and three grandchildren. seven grandchildren. grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 3, 2000 53 SCHOOLWORK BY LAZZARINO & MACIEJOWSKI The Norway way Theatre professor turns to Ibsen's original inspirations to direct Hedda Gablef

unny things happened to John Staniunas as he walked as the father of modern drama, Ibsen created psychologically the streets of Oslo. Buildings came to life. Statues based characters whose inner turmoils play out poignantly on Fseemed animated. And the life work of the director of stage. Staniunas calls the roles "very juicy and full of sub- the University Theatres production of Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda stance." To direct the production of such complicated charac- Gabler" came brightly into focus. ters presents a true challenge, Staniunas says. "Everywhere I went, Ibsen was staring at me," says Staniu- "There are so many choices you can make based on directo- nas, assistant professor of theatre and film. "Being in Norway rial concept, settings and costumes, the culture, the rendition moved me, touched me, made me think about my freedoms, of Hedda as a character," he says. "I felt like I needed to really my responsibilities, my future. It was electric." understand where Ibsen was coming from to be up to that Staniunas spent five days in mid-October studying Ibsen task. Of course, the ideas I gathered took months to really and his works in Norway as he prepared to direct the March assemble themselves in my mind. I was flooded with inspira- run of "Hedda Gabler," the story of a woman grappling with tion. But I think it all worked well in allowing me to direct this her true identity in restrictive Victorian times. His trip, play in a way that was new and fresh." financed through a grant with the Kimbell Faculty Enrichment Staniunas next year will travel to Prague to research "The Fund, gave the director the kind of insightful perspective he Bartered Bride," a Czech opera by Smetana. But he will not hopes colored his production. soon forget the epiphany he experienced in Norway. "Ibsen often said, 'If you are to know my plays, you must "Ibsen's later work was less about construction and more know Norway,"' Staniunas says. "This grant funds individual about soul-searching," Staniunuas says. "In a lot of ways, my creative programs and allows professors to get out of Lawrence trip was like that. I walked the entire city. I soaked up walking and get up-to-date on theatre around the world." down the streets that Ibsen walked down, seeing out the Staniunas researched Ibsen at the Center for Ibsen Studies, windows that he saw out of. I soaked up his culture, and I the Ibsen Museum and the Munch Museum. He exchanged gained a tremendous respect for him as a playwright of ideas about "Hedda Gabler" with scholars from Iran, China, meticulous detail." ^^ Germany and Norway. Throughout the week, Staniunas says, he was struck by the continuing relevance of Ibsen's work, which resonates still with people of diverse cultures all over the world. In Iran, he says, "Hedda Gabler" was outlawed for its provocative probe into a woman's mind. German scholars believe Hedda is bored. Norwegians see Hedda as a woman with poetry in her soul. "The stories are conceptualized differently in different cultures," Staniunas says, "but everyone can relate. What Ibsen says about the human condition is universal." The urgency of Ibsen's words remains timeless not only for the audience, but also for actors, who CENTER STAGE: John Staniunas, pictured on the set of "Hedda Gabler;" gained a new appreciation for have long coveted roles in the Nor- playwright Henrik Ibsen after a recent trip to Norway. "Today we take it for granted that actors act realistically wegian playwright's dramas. Known when they act in theatre," he says. "Ibsen started that tradition. He was the first to use real people instead of just kings and queens."

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ARCHITECTURE academic values to guide the school's edu- of Professional Engineers named Muli- cation and research activities, and he also nazzi Engineer of the Year, and the Order Real-world lessons taught has a thorough understanding of the of Omega honored him with its Outstand- by health-center design needs of business constituents of the ing Faculty Award for KU. school." "It feels good winning these awards," A rchitecture students frequently are Fuerst also was named the inaugural Mulinazzi says. "Especially the Outstand- xxasked to take their drawing boards Henry D. Price professor of business. The ing Faculty Award, because it was from the classroom to the boardroom, and professorship was created and will be awarded by the students, and I'm here last semester was no exception. In profes- financed by Henry Price, b'36, of Peoria, for the students." sor Kent Spreckelmeyers class, 14 stu- Ariz. Price donated $1.5 million to endow By all accounts, Mulinazzi has been dents spent 40-hour weeks in the studio the fellowship. tirelessly available to his students since designing a 40-acre, six-building health "KU's School of Business has a great coming to the University. He joined the campus off Kansas Highway 10 in DeSoto. reputation for quality, both nationally and KU faculty in 1979 as a professor of civil The campus featured a fitness center, internationally," he said. "I was very engineering before becoming associate nursing home, holistic medicine building, impressed with the school's faculty, staff dean in 1992. In that role he has his a child care center, a diagnostic services and students." hands in everything, including recruit- building and a family medical clinic. One of his top priorities, Fuerst said, ment, advising and establishing new pro- Twice the students pitched their ideas will be to carry out the school's seven-year grams for the benefit of his students. He to Lawrence Memorial Hospital adminis- Plan for Excellence, a $2.1 million vision even teaches an introductory engineering trators, and although the design was and goal-setting plan that Sarowski initiat- course to freshmen each year. merely hypothetical, it impressed the ed. The school's primary goal under the Lately, Mulinazzi has been focusing on LMH staff enough to earn a prominent plan is to become a top-10 nationally building a strong international exchange display in the hospital. ranked business school. program that will enable KU engineering For students, accustomed to hearing "I'd like to focus on recruiting and students to gain international experience only their professor's feedback, the exer- retaining high-quality faculty and students while providing foreign students with the cise allowed them to see the role budgets and on ensuring that students are getting opportunity to experience an American play in dictating design. Administrators, the value and training they need so engineering education. In March he on the other hand, had the chance to see they can go out and get good jobs," traveled to Australia to arrange such ideas unfettered by budget realities. Fuerst said. an exchange. "We were learning how to design, they Fuerst joined the Texas A&M faculty in "I made a promise to KU's Study were worried about having a functional 1979. He left the school briefly in 1985 to Abroad committee to internationalize building," says Whitney Evans, Lawrence become senior manager for the consulting engineering students," Mulinazzi says. junior. "We had a free range without a firm of Price Waterhouse in Dallas before "I want to make it so that anybody who budget, to do whatever we wanted. We returning to Texas A&M in 1987. He was wants to travel abroad can do it." would say 'We think this is cool.' For awarded the Distinguished Teaching them it was, This is cool, but it will cost Award by the Association of Former Stu- JOURNALISM us $5,000 to do it this way' It was defi- dents there in 1993 and the Partners in nitely a learning experience." Learning Award of Excellence by the Student writing honored school's student life department in 1998. by Hearst Foundation BUSINESS The popular professor and administra- Texas A&M leader chosen tor will be joined in Lawrence and on the hree journalism seniors recently won KU faculty by his wife, Lisa Ottinger. She Thonors at the 40th-annual William as new business dean will serve as a program associate in the Randolph Heart Foundation's Journalism school's accounting and information sys- Awards Program. Through April, KU was illiam Fuerst, associate dean and tems division. in fifth place for overall points accumu- Wprofessor at Texas A&M's Lowry lated throughout the Intercollegiate Writ- Mays College and Graduate School of ENGINEERING ing Competition, also sponsored by the Business, will become KU dean of busi- Heart Foundation. ness July 3. Fuerst will succeed Tom Mulinazzi collects honors Emily Hughey Overland Park senior, Sarowski, who retires in May. for numerous projects won $2,000 for finishing first in the "Bill Fuerst is just the person needed as sports writing competition. She advances the dean at the School of Business at this om Mulinazzi, associate dean of engi- to the Hearst National Writing Champi- time," said David Shulenburger, who Tneering, is an exalted man these days. announced Fuerst's hiring. "He has strong The Topeka Section of the Kansas Society Continued on page 57

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 3, 2000 [55 SCHOOLWORK It's a bird, it's a... 'Once-in-century find' promises to illuminate possible link between birds, dinosaurs

or five years, deep in the basement of Dyche Hall, David skeleton's parts were accounted for, the process was surpris- Burnham has been busily assembling what could prove ingly difficult, Burnham says. He compares the arduous Fto be the missing link between dinosaurs and birds. He assemblage to building a three-dimensional puzzle without a has spent 5,000 hours putting together the skeleton of one of picture on the box. the best preserved, most complete fossils ever found. He Burnham announced the new species at a symposium in dreams of Bambiraptor. Florida in early April, and researchers already are clamoring to "I feel like I'm married to the thing," says Burnham, a pale- find out more about the fascinating find, which has been ontologist at the Natural History Museum. dubbed "the Rosetta stone of the dinosaur/ bird debate." The blessed union between Burnham and Bambiraptor has "If we can't prove dinosaurs are birds with this specimen, garnered the attention of scientists worldwide. The 3-foot-long we can't prove it," Burnham says. skeleton is significant because it has traits of both dinosaurs While the majority of the scientific community believes that and birds. Bambiraptor, whose name combines the moniker of the theory can be proven, Burnham's biggest critic may be the the famous Disney character and the word for thief, has serrat- man who shares office space with him. Larry Martin, senior ed teeth, a tail and big claws on each foot like a dinosaur. But curator at the Natural History Museum, long has held the con- it also has many birdlike features, including a wishbone and viction that dinosaurs and birds are not related. breastplate and long arms with a shoulder mechanism that "This is the best-case scenario for the bird as dinosaur argu- allow the arms to fold back like a bird's wings. ment," Martin says. "If you want to make that argument, then "It's a once-in-a-century find," Burnham says. "It gives us Bambiraptor is your champion. There is a division of two better information on how to define birds and dinosaurs. It camps. It's the dinosaur people versus the ornithologists. Peo- will determine the true connection between birds and ple who study birds more closely are more careful about how dinosaurs." they define birds." In addition, Bambi has the highest encephalization quo- Martin's doubts do nothing to dampen Burnham's enthusi- tient—the ratio of brain size to body size—of any dinosaur asm. In fact, he says they have made him more thorough in in the Cretaceous era. Bambi's EQ is in the bird range, much his research. higher than dinosaurs'. Burnham says the high EQ is con- "Larry's great," Burnham says. "He keeps me honest."-"•"• sistent with flight because navigation in three dimensions requires more brainpower. "Dinosaurs could only see on a flat plane," Burnham says. "Bambiraptor could look up and down as well, which made it a super predator. Even though it couldn't fly, these things suggest it could have evolved into a flying bird." In 1994, a family in Montana discovered Bambi's bones and con- tacted Burnham. Burnham says he knew instantly that the find was something special. "The first bone I saw was the wishbone," he says. "I knew then and there this would be no ordinary fossil." Burnham then spent the next five years meticulously fitting the bones UNDER BAMBI'S SPELL: Paleontologist David Burnham spent five years assembling the ancient bones together. Considering that all of the of Bambiraptor, one of the best preserved, most complete fossils ever found. The skeleton has been hailed as the missing link between dinosaurs and birds.

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Continued from page 55 mentors, advises and reports on the problems as autombile accident rates onship competition in San Francisco. student's progress. seven times higher than the general Hughey spent the spring semester study- "Perhaps one of the most important public. ing in Spain, and she will intern this sum- issues facing an academic medical center "We already know obstructive sleep mer with the Gainesville Times in is to have full accreditation of its medical apnea is the most prevalent and costly Gainesville, Ga. school," says Donald Hagen, executive sleep disorder in essentially healthy older Hugheys winning entry, which vice chancellor of KU Medical Center. adults," Smith says. "The issue at hand is appeared in the Nov. 17 University Daily "We have to provide the highest quality not the efficacy of the treatment, but Kansan, was headlined, "Coach Under education, have time for research and rather patients' continuing use of it." Fire: Swimming and Diving Coach Gary still manage a financially stable clinical Smith plans to develop a three-step Kempf Faces Complaints from Athletes, enterprise." program that will gradually increase the Parents." The story detailed allegations of The accreditation team first visited KU intensity of patient interaction. Patients harsh coaching practices leveled against in 1997 and met with students and facul- will first undergo counseling, and will Kempf, then coach of KUs men's and ty at both the Kansas City and Wichita then have their homes hooked up to two- women's swim teams, by former members campuses. Surveyors examined curricu- way video that will allow nurses and doc- of the KU swimming program. lum, finances and patient resources and tors to watch the patients and also deliver Jamie Knodel, Platte City, Mo., senior, examined the relationship between the instructional information. The third level won $500 for finishing sixth in the in- school and hospital—an area in which will allow patients and families to use the depth writing competition with her April they "particularly impressed." Internet to find support for their contin- 15, 1999, article, "Cash for Brains," which "This is validation of what we've done ued treatment and advice on lifelong discussed excess funds that some scholar- here in the past few years," says Dean lifestyle changes. ship students had received from scholar- Deborah Powell. Patients who shun treatment have a ship refund checks. significantly lower five-year survival rate Matt Tait, Lawrence senior, also won NURSING than sleep-apnea patients who stick with $500. He placed seventh in sports writing the nightly breathing assistance. It is also for his May 6, 1999, article, 'New Sky- Study aims to assist weary estimated that sleep-apnea sufferers boxes an Investment in Luxury," about sleep-apnea sufferers require $60,000 annually on health ser- skyboxes at Memorial Stadium. vices before treatment; after treatment, bout 18 million American adults have costs drop to to less than $8,000. MEDICINE Asleep apnea, but many shun the most Years of work results in common and effective treatment, which PHARMACY requires nightly ventilation delivered Borchardt honored again, school's full accreditation through a mask. Many patients say they dread lifelong dependency on technology this time for lifetime work hree years after its first visit by and would prefer a complete cure. Others Taccreditors, the School of Medicine experience some side effects from the onald T. Borchardt, Solon E. Summer- was awarded full accreditation by the Liai- nightly treatment, and, although the prob- Rfield distinguished professor of phar- son Committee on Medical Education, the lems are usually treatable, they often lead maceutical chemistry, was recently chosen official accrediting board of U.S. medical to patients abandoning the treatment for the Millennial Award for lifetime schools. entirely. achievement by the Millennial World Among the initiatives the school Professor Carol E. Smith says it is criti- Congress of Pharmaceutical Scientists. launched to secure its full accreditation cal to find ways to keep patients on their For nearly 30 years, Borchardt has led was a program for "standardized patients," nightly sleep-apnea treatments; the pharmaceutical sciences in enzymology, in which community members are trained National Institutes of Health and National protein chemistry, biopharmaceutics and to portray patients with certain medical Institute of Nursing Research agreed, and drug delivery, and his work has helped conditions. These "patients" are then visit- awarded Smith a five-year, $2.5 million KU's pharmaceutical chemistry depart- ed by medical students, who can practice grant to help her discover the answers. ment maintain its reputation as a national their communication and diagnostic skills Sleep apnea is characterized by brief leader for several decades. without the pressure of addressing a real- interruptions of breathing during sleep, "It's a great reflection on the quality of life illness. depriving its sufferers from much-needed Dr. Borchardt's work individually," says Administrators also launched Academ- rest. Sleep apnea can lead to stroke, heart Dean Jack Fincham, "as well as through- ic Societies, in which every medical stu- attack, hypertension, depression, out the department of pharmaceutical dent is assigned a faculty member who decreased memory and such affiliated chemistry, which is recognized as one

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of—if not the—premier programs in September he received the International ciation of Pharmaceutical Scientists, the the world." Pharmaceutical Federation's most presti- American Heart Association and the Borchardt was one of only 21 world- gious honor, the Host-Madsen Medal. He American Association for the Advance- wide scientists to receive the honor, and also been honored for research and teach- ment of Science. it's just one of many he has earned. In ing by the University, the American Asso- Borchardt credits his mentors, Takeru Here comes the justice Supreme Court's Thomas offers rare insights during law-school visit

.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas did not make any public appearances on cam- U pus during a recent visit to the School of Law, but he was an engaging public figure nonetheless. "He shook every hand, posed for pictures, signed autographs," says Thomas' KU host, Professor Stephen McAllister, c'85, 1'88. "He does it well. It would be my guess that he has no equal on the court when it comes to things like this. I don't think anybody else has that kind of patience." Thomas first visited KU in spring 1996, at the invi- tation of McAllister, who was among the first group of law clerks hired when Thomas joined the court in 1991. When he came to Lawrence four years ago, Thomas gave a lecture at the Lied Center and judged the moot court competition in the Kansas Union. This time, his two-day visit as the Edmund L. Page JUSTICE SERVED: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, left, talks with jurist-in- residence was geared toward law students Stephen McAllister; professor of law, and Reggie Robinson, counselor to the chancellor, and faculty. during an April visit to the law school. McAllister was among the first group of law clerks hired when Thomas joined the court in 199 I. His first classroom session, on April 10, was with McAllister's Federal Courts class. Students asked detailed come to my office and heal me?" questions about Supreme Court procedure, constitutional Thomas laughed heartily, as he did often during his ses- issues and other intricacies of the federal courts. Thomas sions with students, and continued: "The egos really don't rarely backed down from any question, and even offered the play out like that. There are no dominant personalities on students some insights about their professor, who will become the court. People who don't agree with you will ask you to dean of the law school July 1, when Michael Hoeflich returns listen to them, but when you are done listening and you say to full-time teaching. no, then no means no. It tends to be a very collegial place. "When Professor McAllister clerked for me," Thomas told I still haven't heard the first unkind word. That just doesn't the students, "he was known for having a clean desk." happen." Asked whether egos intrude on private Supreme Court Thomas also offered rare insights into some personal lives. debates, the associate justice replied, "That plays out a lot easi- He said that while justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader er in the court than it plays out in the rest of society. When Ginsburg are known to be far apart on legal issues, they are you are in a room full of smart people, there's nobody to close personal friends: "You are likely to see Justice Ginsburg impress anymore." and Justice Scalia going to the opera together. That's a tradi- Thomas then addressed allegations that divisive egos have tion for them. And they celebrated New Year's Eve together, as split the court. He said some commentators have argued that they have for many years." the court needed a healing presence, in reference both to Thomas laughed again, then added, "At least that's what I recent and future nominees: "My question is, who is going to heard. I wasn't invited. Nobody pals around with me."^*

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Higuchi, who founded KU's pharmaceutical chemistry department in 1967, and University Distinguished Professor Edward Tops in trumpet E. Smissman. "If this legacy of excellence in pharma- Young professor excites school with Grammy award ceutical chemistry at KU is to be sustained in the future," Borchardt says, "then it is the responsibility of the more senior facul- hristopher Moore, assistant profes- ty like myself to mentor our younger fac- Csor of trumpet, had planned to ulty, as we were mentored by Higuchi and attend the annual Wichita convention of Smissman." the Kansas Music Educators' Associa- tion. He also had a performance sched- SOCIAL WELFARE uled with his trumpet ensemble. A trip to Los Angeles for the Grammy Awards Students recognized for just wouldn't fit his schedule—even their practicum successes though he was nominated for one of the prestigious awards. he School of Social Welfare recently But Professor Stephen Anderson, Thonored five social work students with chair of music and dance, convinced his Margo Awards for outstanding perfor- young colleague to reconsider: "I said, mances during practicums. The students 'Chris, you can't not go to this. You have were Tracie Lansing, Leavenworth senior; to go. If you don't, I'll go in your place, Jennifer Richer, Albuquerque, N.M., grad- just to hang out with the kind of people uate student; Amber Rossman, Tulsa, who are at those ceremonies.'" GRAMMY GLORY: Trumpet professor Christo- Okla., graduate student; Renee Ingram, Moore took Anderson's advice and pher Moore nearly skipped a trip to Los Angeles and Hope graduate student; and Erika Nilles- made the February trip. He's glad he the Grammy Awards because the fete just didn't fit Plumlee, Manhattan graduate student. did, because he came home a winner. his schedule. Fortunately, his good sense prevailed Several of the winners developed new Moore won for his performance with and Moore found a way to be present to accept a Grammy for best classical crossover album. programs at their practicums to improve his former group, the Chestnut Brass services for clients. Lansing worked at The Company, based in Philadelphia. The "Fame and fortune does not exactly Farm, a foster and adoption service; Rich- group's CD "Hornsmoke," produced in follow, but the more things faculty er worked at the community service office 1996 and released in 1998, won for best accomplish, the more the students are of Menninger in Topeka; Nilles-Plumlee classical crossover album. able to understand the national reputa- developed a program for working with Moore, 34, began his career in higher tion so many of the faculty here have," juvenile offenders at the Riley County education as a teacher at Morningside Moore says. "From a recruiting perspec- Correctional Facility; Ingram served at a College in Sioux City, Iowa. He later tive, it's great. The overall music pro- school district in Ottawa County; and moved on to the Eastman School of gram here is so outstanding, and I think Rossman worked at the Kansas City Music in Rochester, N.Y., where he did this will fit the image of the program." Free Health Clinic helping HIV and his doctoral work and served as a teach- Moore supervises the trumpet studio, AIDS patients. ing assistant. When he moved to directs the KU Trumpet Ensemble and "We have excellent students doing Philadelphia, where he taught trumpet performs with the Kansas Brass Quintet. excellent work," says K. Jean Peterson, at both Temple University and Eliza- "What's nice about this is that while director of the field practicum office. "So bethtown College, he auditioned for the it's a great personal accomplishment for we look for students who really go above Chestnut Brass Company. him, it's also a reflection of the quality and beyond what is expected of them." Two years later, in 1996, Moore throughout the department," Anderson The awards are named after Professor decided he had enough of living out of says. "He is one of the junior members Emerita Margo Gordon, a former director suitcases, traveling as many as 150 days of the faculty, and already he is making of the practicum program. a year, so he sought a permanent teach- a huge contribution. That level of ing position and landed at KU. Now accomplishment exists throughout the that he's a Grammy winner, Moore has faculty. This speaks to the quality of our created a lot of attention for himself and University and the kind of people we the music program. can attract."^""*

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 3, 2000 59 HAIL TO OLD KU BY CHRIS LAZZARINO Phone home In the midst of celebrating Bailey Hall's centennial, we also remember another Bailey whose talents reached out and touched the world

n Feb. 6, 1926, Austin Bailey, placed the first trans-Atlantic telephone sonal pocket radio signaling system," now the youngest son of KU chem- call from England to his father at Bailey known as the pager. He also invented the istry legend Edgar H.S. Bailey, Hall (then known as the Chemistry Build- "public air-ground radiotelephone," which sat quietly in a small office in ing, it was not named Bailey Chemical even still is too expensive to use, and New York City. Bailey, a 32- Laboratory until 1938). Not so, Bailey established the earliest coastal harbor year-old AT&T engineer, wore head- wrote in 1961, the year the University radio systems. phones, waiting for the world to shrink. and the Alumni Association awarded him Though he ventured far from his native At precisely 11:11 a.m., Bailey, c'15, heard their highest honor, the Distinguished Lawrence, Austin Bailey never strayed a crackle. Then a hum. And then history. Service Citation. from the ideals for practical science cham- "Hello! Hello, New York!" "Although I happened to be one of the pioned at KU by his father. In an era "Hello! Hello!" two young engineers who first talked with when exalted researchers thought theoret- "This is Oswald, talking at Rugby, Eng- each other across the Atlantic Ocean on ical science was the only true science, it land. Who is that?" February 6, 1926," Bailey wrote, "it was was Edgar H.S. Bailey who rebuffed the "This is Bailey, talking in New York!" not until about a year later that I called pomposity and insisted that theoretical And so went the first trans-Atlantic my father in Lawrence from Cupar, Scot- research should directly lead to "better telephone call, received by a Lawrence- land. I do think that understanding of the various born alumnus. According to articles pub- my telephone call industrial and domestic pur- lished a few years later, the key from overseas was the suits of life." component was a new antenna design first such call to Such as long-distance invented by Bailey and his AT&T research Lawrence, Kansas." telephone calls that allow team, installed in the backwoods of Houl- Bailey remained distant sons to speak with ton, Maine, and in Rugby, England. The with Bell Telephone anxious parents.-""""** "wave antenna" employed wires equal in Laboratories and length to one wave of the signal being AT&T for the rest of received; the radio wave carrying the first his career, retiring in trans-Atlantic call was 5,000 meters long, 1958 to a private life so the antennas Bailey helped install in of inventing, consult- Maine and England stretched across tele- ing and community phone poles for nearly 3 miles. The service in Millburn, antennas were so attuned to the long-dis- N.J., where he died in Mobile radio transmitter used tance signal that 200-watt transmitters 1973. He is cited as to send messages to Maine; enjoyed the same over-the-ocean effective- the AT&T engineer Austin Bailey. ness as 4-million-watt transmitters relying who invented the first "public vehicular on a less-ingenious antenna. mobile radiotelephone," what we now According to KU legend, Austin Bailey know as cell phones, and the first "per- June 4 olf Classic

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