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City, State, Zip Dick Vitale, ESPN-ABC SPORTS 5.85% sales tax added for Kansas resident Departments Home Again Jayhawks return to the Hill First Word 4 for a winning weekend. Lift the chorus 5 16 On the Boulevard €> Jayhawk Walk 8 Hilltopics 10 Grand Tour Campaign 13 A team traces geologist Sports 14 R.C. Moore's path through Association 32 the Grand Canyon. Class Notes 34 18 In Memory 42 Schoolwork 44 Quick Study War Stories Fifty years after Pearl Harbor, Professor Bill Tuttle writes iSP THE CHICAGO SUN •••"» about the war's toll on JAPS OPEN WAR his generation. BOMB U.S. FLEET Meet the Press A new building speaks volumes about the progress of the University Press of Kansas. Dec. 7, 1941, altered life for KU professor Bill Tuttle. On the cover, 3O 5-year-old Tuttle, I, poses with his brother, George, 2; his sister, Susan, 8; and his mother, Geneva Duvall Tuttle. NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1991 VOL. 89 /Vo. < KANSAS ALUMNI Established in 1902 as The Graduate Magazine Fred B. Williams, Publisher Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'81, Editor Bill Woodard, j'85, Assistant Editor Jerri Niebaum, j'88, Assistant Editor Christine Mercer, Art Director Karen Goodell, Editorial Assistant Wally Emerson, j'76, Photographer Joe Wally taught his daughter want to travel, perhaps to Tokyo Diane how to draw a stick man with Diane's son, Benjamin, a KU MSAS ALUMNI named Skinny Pinny in three senior majoring in Japanese. easy steps. He reminded her to Diane calls her dad a wild ASSOCIATION hold Mommy's hand when man. She cherishes the letters. BOARD OF DIRECTORS she crossed the street, to "I feel sad that my younger sis- pick up her toys, to learn her ters each don't have a volume," President Sandra Garver Rerasberg, '59, ABCs and to say her "night- she says. "They're won- GleeS. Smith jr.. c'43,1'47 Wichita night prayers." derful, tangi- Larned Virginia Child Shackelford, c'58, Prairie Village But these father-daughter ble evidence Executive Vice President chats were long-distance. In of the way William H. Hougland, b'52. Directors to July 1994 he felt Wichita Daniel P. Bolen, c'81, 1945 Joe, an Army Air Corps Alexandria, Va. staff sergeant, was stationed about me." Executive Committee Larry j. Borden. b'62, g 67, on Guam, where he led a crew of She shared GleeS. Smith Jr.,^43,I47 Colorado Springs, Colo. Lamed, chairman Marvin R, Motley, c'77, !8o, g'8i. mechanics for B29S. Diane, age 3, the letters with Bill Tuttle, professor of John C. Dicus, b'55, Overland Park lived in Eagle Rock, Calif., with her moth- history, who interviewed her for his forth- Topeka er, Eleanor. Joe had enlisted when Diane coming book, America's Homefront William M. Hougland, b'$2, Directors to July 1995 Wichita R Bruce Patty, a'58 was 6 months old. Children: The Second World War in Their John F. Kane, e'56, Fairway So father taught daughter by letter. Lives. For 10 years Tuttle, himself a 1940s Bartlesville, Okla. Bette Jo Jones Roberts, c'50 child, studied the era, delved into develop- John H. Robinson, e'49, Garden City At least once a week he wrote-and Shawnee Mission F.R. Talbott, c'63. g'65 drew. He illustrated his messages with a mental psychology, conducted interviews Deanel! Reece Tacha, c'68, Darien, Conn. favorite cartoon character of the day, and solicited 2,000 letters from people lawrence Directors to July 1996 Little Lulu. If Little Lulu was a model who had grown up, as he had, with absent Vice Presidents Calvin C. Cormack, c'59, EdD/74 mommy's helper, then Diane would fathers and ever-present fear. When you Victor J, Barry, c'68, Kansas City, Mo. follow her lead. read our excerpt of the book's first chap- Seattle, Wash. Steven A. Hawiey. c'73 Gerald D. Blatherwick, j'58, Campbell, Calif. Diane Wally Tompkins, now a senior ter, you'll see that Diane was among the St. Louis. Mo. Kathryn H, Vratil, c'71, l'7;, designer of specialty products for luckiest of WWII children. Linda S. Ellis, e'79 Prairie Village Houston, Texas Hallmark Cards Inc. in Kansas City, Mo., Another feature in this issue joins Donnan Stephenson, b'41, {'48, Honorary Members still has about 50 letters from 1945. She past and present. In 1923 Kansas geolo- Santa Fe, N.M. E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., remembers sitting in the yard in Eagle gists photographed the Grand Canyon San Antonio, Texas Directors to July 1992 Archie R. Dykes, H77. Rock and listening to her mother read and published their work in National William P. Bunyan III, c'6i, Nashville. Tenn. the news from "JoeDaddy." She knows Geographic. This fall a team from the Dodge City Deane W. Malott, e'jt, his words stuck. "It's no wonder I'm an Kansas Geological Survey retraced the Sue Harper Ice, d'56,Newton Ithaca, N.Y. Michael T. McCoy, e'72, m'75, Franklin D. Murphy. c'j6. artist and I was a good kid," she says. first team's steps while a crew from the Topeka Beverly Hills, Calif But his words and pictures sometimes PBS series "NOVA" tagged along. Rex Raymond F. Nichols, c'26, g'28. Buchanan kept a journal of the 16 days for Directors to July 199} Lawrence aroused suspicion before they left Guam. jerry M. Nossaman, d'6o, W. Clarke Wescoe. H41, '64, '69, '79, "More than once I was called before us and for the book he'll write. You'll soon Lawrence Spicer. Minn. some downy-faced young soldier who discover this was no ordinary field trip. asked me if the number of ducks I had Jerri Niebaum describes the new drawn represented boats or the islands," scenery at the University Press of Fred B. Williams, Executive Director and Secretary he says, chuckling at such absurdity. Kansas. Her story explains how shrewd John Sanders, Finance Director and Treasurer His real reason for writing was sober- decisions helped the press pay for a Jodi Breckenridge, d'90. Student Programs Director Brett Fuller, c'89, Constituent Programs Director ing. "I had left so early in her life," he spacious new publishing house. Bryan Greve, Adams Alumni Center Club Manager says, "and I knew we might never be There's also room for Homecoming in Pat Head, Kansas Ciry Office Director together again." this issue. Bill Woodard and photogra- Kay Henry, Administrative and Personnel Services Director Jeff Johnson, External Affairs and Membership Development Director After he returned, the Wallys moved pher Wally Emerson bring you the best Nancy Pehie, Alumni Records Director back home to Chicago, then to Kansas of our favorite fall weekend. Donna Neuner, 76, Membership Services Director BJ. O'Neal Pattee, c'46, Special Projects and Member Assistance Director City. Three more daughters joined the The seasons have flown since we Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'81, Communications Director family. Joe published the Clay County introduced the new magazine. Early next Mike Wellman, c'86. Adams Alumni Center Facility Manager Sun and the Clay County Chronicle. He year we'll send you a survey so you can and Eleanor tried retirement once and tell us how we're doing. Until then, best Kansas Alumni Magazine (ISSN 0745-3345) is published by the Alumni Association of the University of Kansas six times a year in February, lasted only 10 days in a double-wide holiday wishes from the Hill.