No 3, 2014 I $5 Crimson and Blueprint Master plan envisions campus of tomorrow I JUSTICE FOR JAMES GANG I HUMANITIES CAREERS Contents | May 2014 22 30 36 22 30 36 COVER STORY True Crime Core Strengths The Shape of Things Dogged detective work by a What can you do with a to Come Kansas City attorney uncovers humanities degree? Plenty. new facts about legendary e value of liberal arts An ambitious new master plan outlaws Frank and Jesse James. learning is increasingly being charts the course for campus gauged in terms not only growth and development. By Steven Hill personal, but also professional. By Chris Lazzarino By Jennifer Lawler Cover photo illustration by Steve Puppe/Susan Younger Established in 1902 as e Graduate Magazine Volume 112, No. 3, 2014 ISSUE 3, 2014 | 1 Lift the Chorus executive vice chancellor. He loved KUMC, and aer serving as executive vice chancellor he photo of Paul Thomas on pages became director of the Health 20-21 (as well as photos of Care Outreach Program until Thomas on page 22 and Ana 1993, when he retired as Villanueva on page 24) should emeritus professor at 75. Aer have gone to Chuck France, chief photographer for KU his death in 2007, a scholarship Public Aairs/Marketing Dr. Waxman for medical students was Communications. We regret established in his name at KU the error. Health legacy Endowment. Our father was an impressive O individual. Over the years he Duly noted reading the cover story assisted many doctors who T M was just “Doctor in the House” (issue trained at KUMC with his Solid foundation the remedy I needed to salve No. 5, 2013) about Dr. Doug unique brand of constant and the depression induced by KU’s Girod being selected as the rm support. Although he is T excellent premature exit from the NCAA new executive vice chancellor gone, it is comforting to know article on undergraduate Tournament. While KU had a of KU Medical Center. He has that people like Dr. Doug research [“Inquiring Minds,” great year and won a remark- had an amazing clinical career Girod have taken his place. issue No. 2]. able 10th straight Big 12 and well deserves to take on Gail Waxman Prestigiacomo, f’72 Barbara Schowen, emeritus Championship, I believe this huge administrative task. Michael Waxman, m’76 professor of chemistry, did a anything short of the national It reminds us of our late Dan Waxman, m’80 Annie Waxman Lopez, l’85 masterful job directing a championship is a premature father, Dr. David Waxman, Steve Waxman, c’82, m’86 Research Experience for departure. who was executive vice Abby Waxman Moore Undergraduates program for Your mix of stories and chancellor from 1977 until many years in her department. insights continue to make me 1983. David Waxman came e groundwork for successes proud to be an alumnus of from humble beginnings in now was laid by leaders like such a great university. e Albany, N.Y., graduating from Jayhawks galore Barbara. My professional pictures, graphics and words the College of Forestry at I Kansas colleagues and I thank them combine to capture many of Syracuse University. He joined Alumni and saw the Jayhawk for their hard work on behalf the diverse elements and the Army during World War rock photographed in Scotts- of undergraduate chemistry perspectives reecting just how II, becoming a pilot with the dale, Ariz. [Glorious to students everywhere. rich the KU tradition is and 13th Air Force Bomber View, issue No. 2]. Douglas Neckers, PhD’63 how grand the future remains Command ying My immediate Bowling Green, Ohio for KU. missions in the Pacic. reaction was that I did notice one problem. I He returned to I had taken the Y gets better graduated in the 1980s but Syracuse aer the war same photo a and better. I read the articles, have noticed that with each to attend medical few years ago, then tear them out to send to passing year the Class Notes school and, following an but I knew mine friends—including my K-State from the ’80s have moved internship in Detroit, was taken in grad brother. closer to the top of the list. is moved to Kansas City, where California, in Joshua Chris Lazzarino’s “Inquiring makes me feel old—which can’t he completed a residency in Tree National Park (near Palm Minds” was outstanding. He be true, because I was walking internal medicine and a Springs). Gotta be from the always writes great stories. Mount Oread as a student fellowship in cardiology under same family! Kelsey Kimberlin’s two-page seemingly very recently. E. Grey Dimond in 1961. He Kim Richey, d’72, d’75 photo was so beautiful that I Would you please do stayed in the Air Force Reserve Lecompton got chills all over. Cliché, yes. something to stop this? I’m during much of his medical Words fail me. sure the KU Center on Aging career, eventually attaining the Editor’s Note: We received Carol McMillen Benson, c’62 has some suggestions. rank of major general in 1975. other “Jayhawk” photos in Modesto, Calif. David Adkins, c’83, l’86 Our father went up the ranks response to Glorious to View, so Lexington, Ky. at KUMC from assistant to we have started a Facebook page Editor’s Note: Words failed us for these sightings. Send your associate to full professor, to too: Credit for the aforementioned photos to [email protected]. dean of students and, nally, to 2 | KANSAS ALUMNI May 2014 72 Publisher Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 2 Lift the Chorus Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Letters from our readers Creative Director Susan Younger, f’91 Associate Editors Chris Lazzarino, j’86 5 First Word Steven Hill e editor’s turn Editorial Assistant Karen Goodell Photographers Steve Puppe, j’98 6 On the Boulevard Dan Storey KU & Alumni Association events Graphic Designer Valerie Spicher, j’94 Communications Coordinator Leah Kohlman, c’11 8 Jayhawk Walk Parking grants pardon, orphaned bikes get prison Advertising Sales Representative refurb and joke falls at. David Johnston, j’94, g’06 Editorial and Advertising Oce KU Alumni Association 10 Hilltopics 1266 Oread Avenue News and notes: Legislature backs key KU plans; Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 Bob Dole returns to campus. 785-864-4760 800-584-2957 18 Sports www.kualumni.org [email protected] Track and eld celebrates new Rock Chalk home; Wiggins, Embiid go one-two in NBA dra? 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Email responses may be sent to wild habitat and Lombardo revisits Achilles. the Alumni Association, [email protected]. Letters appearing in the magazine may be edited for space and clarity. For letters published, we’ll send a free gift of KU 76 Glorious to View Campus Playing Cards, a $5 value. Scene on campus ISSUE 3, 2014 | 3 by Jennifer Jackson Sanner First Word In 1953, Chancellor Franklin Murphy requested a fountain for this serene spot beneath Lilac Lane. The JAMIE ROPER JAMIE Erkins Studio in New York created the original and replaced it with an exact replica in 1981. Lazzarino’s cover story, a team of planners has poured years of thought and expertise into a University master plan that envisions the Lawrence campus for generations to come. e plan aligns with KU’s strategic goals, known as Bold Aspirations, and it seeks to unite Jayhawk Boulevard and the slopes of Mount Oread with what we now call West Campus, the site of KU’s newest buildings for teaching, research and related business and community activities. Architectural and landscape features would unify one large campus, bridging Iowa Street and blending the historic corridor with modern structures designed to adapt to the changing needs for teaching and research in the sciences and n a brilliant blue May morning in 1981, I turned in my technology. If the planners’ ideals hold true, old boundaries will Onal nal exam as a KU student. e course was one of my disappear as future Jayhawks discover their own favorite places. favorites: 17th-century British history, taught by venerable Blurred boundaries are the subject of another feature story by professors John McCauley and Terry Moore, whom I revered Jennifer Lawler, c’88, g’94, PhD’96. She talked with graduates who despite their comments on my A- term paper (“a ne eort, but have parlayed degrees in the humanities into unexpected careers. in the slack, breezy style of a journalist”). ough these alumni hail from dierent eras, they all credit their As I bounded down the stairwell of Fraser Hall aer the test, education in the liberal arts for helping them adapt in varied rejoicing in my newfound freedom, I detoured from my usual exit professions.