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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 A‚airs/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

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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? KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE (ISSN 0745-3345) is published by the KU Alumni Association six times a year in January, March, May, July, September and November. $55 annual subscription includes member- 42 Association News ship in the Alumni Association. Ožce of Publication: 1266 Oread Rock Chalk Ball and reunion homecomings Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. Periodicals postage paid at Lawrence, KS. showcase Jayhawks’ spring spirit.

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68 In Memory Letters to the Editor: Deaths in the KU family Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the editor. Our 72 Rock Chalk Review address is Kansas Alumni magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Jayhawks celebrate William Inge, biologist maps Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. 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

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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 O nal 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. eir experiences add credence to the philosophy route and headed out the east doors to Lilac Lane. Down another behind the KU Core, the new undergraduate curriculum adopted ight of stairs between Miller and Watkins scholarship halls, last fall to ensure that all students achieve common goals relating through a stone archway and an iron gate, I spied the elegant to their knowledge, skills and values. Across all academic disci- Alumni Place Fountain, a hidden campus retreat that compelled plines, students can reach these milestones via numerous routes, me to linger. For a few blissful moments, I indulged in silent explains Danny Anderson, g’82, PhD’85, dean of the College of solitary celebration of the four years that had own so quickly Liberal Arts and Sciences. In its integration of coursework and and changed my life so dramatically. Soothed and trans xed by experiences, the KU Core continues across all schools the the graceful fountain, I counted my blessings. Over the next 10 tradition of the College, which, as Anderson likes to say, “pro- frenzied days, I would graduate, stand up with two dear friends at motes learning without boundaries.” their wedding, and pack my twin bed, clothes and a few kitchen Try as we might, one historical boundary stubbornly stays put, essentials and move to Kansas City for my rst post-college job. at least when it comes to tales of Bleeding Kansas and the But during that brief reverie, my newly discovered fountain aermath. In our nal feature story, Steve Hill shares a KU hideaway kept all the chaos and uncertainty at bay. lawyer’s tenacious research and riveting book about Jesse and Of course, I could never have guessed that the Alumni Place Frank James and the young attorney who nally brought the Fountain foreshadowed my long career on the Hill, working in an notorious ruans to justice. alumni center that did not yet exist. Since then, a succession of By the time this magazine is in your hands, members of the new buildings, landmarks and leaders has transformed our alma Class of 2014 will have taken their nal nals and walked down mater, but thankfully those in charge have taken great care to the Hill. We hope KU and its treasures will stay with them for protect the historic heart of the place. As you will read in Chris years to come.

ISSUE 3, 2014 | 5 On the Boulevard

This year marks the fourth edition of the Alumni Association’s COURTESY GARDNER WRIGHT COURTESY annual summer sojourn, featuring more than 100 events in 90 days. In addition to activities throughout Kansas and the nation, the 2014 tour includes alumni recep- tions in Paris, Tokyo, and Seoul, South Korea.

KU Night with the San Diego Padres

Lied Center 2014-’15 DECEMBER APRIL 31 Denver Bicycle Brewery SEPTEMBER 12 Canadian Brass: A 10 Wild Kratts, LIVE! Tour, Denver Holiday Concert 31 Hawkstock, Mulberry 24 Jazz at Lincoln Center 11 “Million Dollar Quartet” Orchestra with Wynton JANUARY 17 “ e Sage of Emporia,” JUNE Marsalis A One-Man Show 27-28 “Kiss the Fish,” Indian 1 KU Day at Los Angeles 28 Yun-Chin Zhou, piano Ink eatre Company County Museum of Art, Los 30 KU Symphony Orchestra ’Hawk Days Angeles with special guest Joshua FEBRUARY MAY 5 Hartford Brewery Tour, Roman, cello 10 Brasil Guitar Duo 17 Hammond’s Candies Bloomeld, Conn. OCTOBER 24 KODO Factory Tour, Denver 6 KU Family Night with the 17 Oklahoma City Recep- Houston Dynamo, Houston 5 Sphinx Virtuosi 26 ETHEL with guest artist Robert Mirabal tion, Nichols Hills Okla. 7 KU Day at the Blanton 9 e Midtown Men 17 Paris Jayhawks Reception Museum of Art, Austin 15 “Basetrack” MARCH 20 Kansas Football Preview 7 KU Night at Community 18 Leo Kottke 8 Paul Huang, violin Party, Dodge City Beer Company, Dallas 21 Houston Networking 28 “Anything Goes” 9 “Mandy Patinkin: Dress 8 Jayhawks Behind the Breakfast Casual” with Paul Ford on Sciences at Fenway, Boston NOVEMBER 22 piano Kansas Football Preview 8 Little Rock Alumni Party, Wichita 2 Vienna Boys Choir 25 Stewart Copeland & John Barbecue 24 6 “Me and My Shadow” Kimura Parker KU Night with the 11 Wichita Blood Drive Angels, Anaheim, Calif. 9 Beatrice Rana, piano 31 KU Jazz Ensemble 1 with special guest Steve Wilson, 14 Rennie Harris saxophones Puremovement

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on the Prairie (5) STOREY DAN 27 San Antonio Dinner and Social 28 KU Libraries Prohibition Exhibition, Ellsworth 29 East Kansas Wine 16 KU Alumni Invitational Festival, Paola at Prairie Dunes Country Club, Hutchinson JULY 17 Denver Networking 9 Reception in Seoul, Breakfast South Korea 19 KU Night with the 10-11 Wellington Wheat Jacksonville Suns, Jackson- Festival ville, Fla. Charleston Harbor Tour 10 Reno Barbecue, 20 KU Night with the Verdi, Nev. 17 Denver Networking Redhawks, Oklahoma City Miami Marlins Breakfast 11 Tokyo Alumni Reception 31 Central Rockies Alumni 21 Salina Steakout 19 DC Jayhawks Crabtacular Reception, Avon, Colo. 12 Las Vegas Distillery Tour 26 Elkhart Alumni and and Social Hour, Henderson, 24 KU Night with the AUGUST Student BBQ Nev. 2 Milwaukee River Boat Cruise 3 KU Day at the Museum of Flight, Seattle 13 KU Night with the Albuquerque Isotopes, Albuquerque, N.M. 19 Denver Networking Breakfast 22 KU Kicko at Corinth Square, Kansas City

East Kansas Wine Festival

Events listed here are high- lights from the Association’s calendar. For complete listings of all events, watch for emails about programs in your area, visit kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957.

’Hawks, Helmets and Handlebars Salina Steakout Front Range Golf Tournament

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Bees freeze

ount Oread’s hard winter Mhas wreaked more havoc: Subzero temperatures following a 14-inch February snowfall that closed campus for two days also killed the bees in the Natural History Museum’s exhibit before they could make their Internet debut.

LARRY LEROY PEARSON LEROY LARRY Bee numbers had already taken a hit from parasites, but the museum managed to stabilize the observation hive and hoped to carry it over to spring, when the bees could repopulate. A webcam was set to broadcast the exhibit. Then a rare sustained east wind apparently caused the weakened colony to cluster in the hive’s entrance tube to block the breeze. “We got the camera installed and everything tested, then the storm hit Just like starting over and we’re done,” says Bruce Scherting, director of ’s parking department has an image problem. exhibits. “Nothing to see.” KU “Students look at it as the Sith Empire, the evil arm of the Parasites and infections institution,” Marcus Tetwiler says. “But they’ve got a really tough job. have wiped out the bees before, but death by For them to do a good job, people are gonna be mad at them.” deep freeze is a first— As student body president, the Paola senior in history and English one more indicator of the troubles fulfilled a campaign pledge by implementing parking ticket forgiveness. pollinators face. Launched in March, the system allows first-time violators to avoid a “If you talk to people who raise fine by completing a 20-question quiz on parking rules. Pass, and all bees, you hear many of the same is forgiven. stories, about the challenges of fungal infections, mites and weather,” Well, almost all. Only Group I violations qualify for a get-out-of- Scherting says. parking-jail-free card, Tetwiler notes. “You can’t park your car on the The museum brought in new bees in Strong Hall lawn and hope to get that forgiven.” May to reboot the exhibit, a popular Donna Hultine, Dark Lord of the Sith—er, director of KU parking and favorite and valuable teaching tool. transit—welcomes the drive to make students’ first encounter with “It’s a nice way to show how parking educational rather than punitive. wonderful bees are and what they do for people,” he says, “and it draws “We’re not law enforcement people, we’re rule enforcement people, attention to the bigger problem that’s and tickets are just the unfortunate thing we have to do to protect the happening out in the world: parking that people have paid for,” Hultine says. “I’m glad to cancel a Bees are having a really hard ticket in exchange for a little education.” time of it.”

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI What’s in a name

S  C   described many species, he was “both in for years that the Natural History Museum awe and scared to death” handling a DAN STOREY DAN of London owned a rove beetle specimen specimen collected in 1832 by the father collected by Charles Darwin during the of evolutionary theory himself. voyage of the HMS Beagle. Not until Which explains Darwinilus. But he examined it, in 2012, did the beetle sedarisi? expert realize it was a new genus To relieve the stress of describing and species. such a buzzworthy bug, he listened Because Darwin never to audiobooks by humorist David described the nd, it was le to Sedaris while he worked. Because LONDON MUSEUM, HISTORY COURTESYNATURAL Chatzimanolis to name it, in a the comedian known for his acerbic paper published Feb. 12, Dar- wit also frequently writes about win’s 205th birthday: Darwinilus natural history, pairing the authors sedarisi. of On the Origin of Species and Finders keepers “Finding a new species is Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk seemed, always exciting; nding one well, natural. S     collected by Darwin is truly “As a taxonomist describing a touted as all-but unbreakable, we’ve long amazing,” says Chatzimanolis, new species, I pretty much have the wondered how, exactly, the University PhD’04, an entomologist at the liberty of doing what I want,” cleanses campus of abandoned bicycles University of Tennessee at Chatzimanolis says. “It was just a invariably le chained to racks at the close Chattanooga. ough he has fun thing to do.” of each school year. Turns out, those expensive locks aren’t so secure aer all. Aer bikes have been identi ed as State’s reputation flat-out wrong abandoned and tagged with a warning for the owner, Facilities Services workers cut hose of us who made jokes began anew. Dobson and Campbell the chain or pick the lock, and no, they’ve Tthe daily trek up and Jerry Dobson, professor crunched reams of yet to be stymied by even the fanciest down the Hill have long of geography, wasn’t numbers to discover, in a security devices. relied on good humor— laughing. He contends study published in a e bikes are stored in a West Campus honed by our exposure to that perception can peer-reviewed journal of warehouse until collected by an inmate endless “Wizard of Oz” become a grim reality, and the American Geographic work crew from Lansing Correctional wisecracks—to ignore that our home state’s Society, that not only is Facility. ere the bikes are restored by ignorant comments about unfair reputation for Kansas not the flattest minimum-security inmates, then distrib- Kansas being flat as a geographic blandness can state—it isn’t even among uted to worthy recipients across Kansas, pancake. Then came a dampen enthusiasm for the top five. Flattest by far including children who otherwise smarmy 2003 “study” Kansas among potential is Florida, followed by wouldn’t get a Christmas gi or adults that gained national media employment recruits and Illinois, North Dakota, who need transportation for work. coverage for purporting to business prospects. So he Louisiana, Minnesota and “KU’s are generally a little bit higher prove our flatness on the and Joshua Campbell, Delaware. Kansas ranked grade,” program coordinator Tracy Ashton pancake scale, and the c’00, g’07, devised a No. 7. says of the 25 or more bikes collected here complex method for Oh, and as for the each year. “We get some nice bikes, like measuring how flatness is pancake: If expanded to Treks, that you can only buy at a bike perceived, using elevation the scale of a U.S. state, a shop, which amazes me that kids leave data, geographic software pancake would feature them.” and a new algorithm ridges higher than Mount Abandoned by careless owners, created to measure Everest. So perhaps the rehabbed in prison and eventually flatness. best response to “Kansas sent out as a Santa surprise or PUPPE STEVE After laying out a grid of is flatter than a pancake!” reliable job transportation ... not a 90-meter cells across the might be, “Not quite, but bad little adventure for the forlorn entire lower 48 states, thanks for noticing!” campus caravan. Dobson

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With State General Fund-backed STEVE PUPPE STEVE bonding authority and other funds, the University has $40 million of the $75 million needed for a new Health Education Building. KU leaders hope to complete the project in three years.

recommendation of $70,000 to double the funding for the Kansas Bridging Program, which forgives the medical school loans of KU physicians who agree to practice in rural areas of the state, where physicians are desperately needed. Eighty-nine of the state’s 105 counties currently do not have Goal in sight Association’s statewide network of enough primary care physicians to serve advocates who helped convince lawmakers local communities. State grants fund for KU’s to fund the Health Education Initiative. Another priority for KU and the e new building, which KU leaders Regents schools during the legislative Health Education Initiative hope will be completed in three years, will session was restoration of the cuts in help the School of Medicine increase its higher education that the Legislature and s the Kansas Legislature adjourned class size by 25 students in Kansas City governor approved in 2013. e bill signed A for 2014, the University gained and replace the current classrooms in the by Brownback returns half of last year’s ground toward its goal of training more Orr-Major building, which opened in “salary cap” cuts for the current budget doctors to help address a statewide 1976, when large lectures were the norm year and all of those cuts in FY 2015, shortage of physicians. Legislators passed in medical schools. Today’s curriculum which over the two years will restore and Gov. Sam Brownback, l’84, signed an calls for small classes and more collabora- $4.07 million to KU Medical Center and education bill that included $25 million in tion. e medical school also plans to $163,703 to the Lawrence and Edwards State General Fund-backed bonding add 25 students combined on the cam- campuses. Brownback had called for authority for a new Health Education puses in Salina and Wichita. e reinstatement of these salary funds in his Building on the KU Medical Center increases will bring the annual number initial January budget proposal. campus in Kansas City. of new KU medical school graduates e law does not restore the 1.5 percent KU leaders already had identi ed $15 from 175 to 225. across-the-board higher education cuts million in other University funds for the Lawmakers also approved the governor’s from 2013. project, bringing the total to $40 million of the $75 million needed for the building. “We will continue to work with policy- makers, donors and alumni to pursue this “We appreciate this show of legislative support, new facility so we can address Kansas’ crucial shortage of doctors,” Chancellor and it gets us a step closer to this desperately Bernadette Gray-Little said April 21 in a needed building.” —Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little message to the 1,770 members of Jayhawks for Higher Education, the Alumni { }

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI Also included in the funding is $25 million in bonding authority for the new STEVE PUPPE STEVE Earth, Energy and Environment Center. Construction on this project, an addition to Lindley Hall that will connect across Naismith Drive with Learned Hall, should begin in the next two years. e Legislature did not approve Brownback’s recommendation to provide $2 million for KU’s proposed Kansas Institute for Translational Chemical Biology on the Lawrence campus. e center would capitalize on KU’s proven research success in drug discovery and delivery: the School of Pharmacy ranks second in the nation in National Institutes of Health research funding, which brought $25 million in pharmacy research to KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and Dole Institute Director Bill Lacy welcomed Bob Dole during in 2012. his first campus visit in five years. Overall, KU research has provided the impetus for 24 startup companies; 10 rms related to drug discovery and delivery are Statesman’s return expected, a standing ovation. He began his housed in the KU Bioscience and Technol- remarks at the April 22 event by thanking ogy Business Center, which includes Dole greets enthusiastic crowd Director Bill Lacy and Associate Director facilities in Lawrence and on KU Medical Barbara Ballard, then paused when he Center’s Kansas City campus. on visit to namesake institute apparently noticed that although the e Institute for Translational Chemical hen he was introduced to an ovation had ceased, the standing had not. Biology will remain a KU priority for the Waudience of well-wishers tightly “I guess there’s no chairs, huh?” 2015 legislative session, Gray-Little clustered at the north end of the Dole Slowed by age and a bad knee, his said. Institute of Politics’ long main hall, former famous speaking voice reduced to little —Jennifer Jackson Sanner U.S. Sen. Robert J. Dole received, as more than a whisper, Dole, ’45, still

CLASS CREDIT

fter a month of assessments of mounted performed the delicate Ainspection inside specimens, the painted work clad in specialized DAN STOREY DAN Dyche Hall’s Panorama backdrop, topography suits, gloves and [“Where the Wild Things structures, air handling respirators. Are,” issue No. 1, 2013], and lighting. “It has its price,” Harvey conservationist Ron Harvey “We see wear and tear of says, “but it’s a privilege emerged so enthusiastic some of the mounts. It being on the inside.” that he’s recommending doesn’t deter the fact that Faculty and staš will KU pursue its designation they should remain and study the report over the as a National Historic continue, but they will need summer, and next fall will Landmark. a level of intervention.” invite campus and alumni “What I found,” he says, Harvey and his participation in deciding the “is a treasure.” assistants—including best course of action for the Harvey in late May will museum studies majors and next-generation Panorama. submit a final report on a student from Van Go— —Chris Lazzarino

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Dole’s life and legacy was the same sort of Rankings boost: Graduate programs posted enthusiastic collection of Kansans young and old who helped elect him to the big gains in the 2015 U.S. News and World Kansas House of Representatives in 1950, Report “Best Graduate Schools” rankings for four terms as Russell County Attorney, four terms in the U.S. House of Represen- top public university programs. The School of tatives, and, beginning in 1968, ve terms Medicine jumped 15 spots in both primary in the U.S. Senate, which he served as Majority or Minority Leader from 1985 care and research, and the schools of law and business also until his retirement during his 1996 posted double-digit gains. In all 10 KU programs ranked in the presidential campaign. Dole chose KU as the site for an top 10 and 43 ranked in the top 50. institute that would house his voluminous legislative archive for researchers while also encouraging bipartisan discussion wielded the wit that helped forge his pushed through the Senate a bill honoring and debate on important issues of the day identity as a loyal Republican who the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with a with an active slate of free public program- advocated compromise and civil debate in federal holiday. ming; among the admiring speakers at the the nation’s political business. “Most people think it was Ted 2003 dedication was President Jimmy “We got things done,” recalled Kennedy,” Dole said, drawing more Carter, rival of the 1976 campaign where Dole, who will turn 91 in July. laughter. “But it was Bob Dole.” Dole ran as President Gerald Ford’s vice “We reached across the aisle. Allowing for a moment’s presidential candidate. We worked together. Today, it’s applause, he added, “Kennedy Quinn Ried, now a political science gridlock.” helped.” senior and coordinator of the institute’s Lauded by Chancellor e event capped the Dole Student Advisory Board, recalled that Bernadette Gray-Little as “a true Institute’s yearlong 10th-anniversary shortly aer arriving on Mount Oread as a statesman,” Dole cited the 1983 celebration. Although Dole received an freshman in 2010, he noticed a newspaper compromise he reached with Sen. Patrick honorary Doctorate of Laws, one of KU’s advertisement for a Dole Institute pro- Moynihan, a New York Democrat, to help rst honorary degrees, in 2012, this was gram that evening, featuring two attorneys save Social Security as one of his proudest his rst campus visit in ve years. who had led amicus briefs for a promi- accomplishments. Also in 1983, Dole e crowd that gathered to celebrate nent case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

VISITOR

Double dose national a†airs editor for New One of the most PUPPE STEVE eteran political journalists York magazine, first teamed up intriguing chapters is VMark Halperin and John on Game Change: Obama and devoted to former Heilemann discussed their the Clintons, McCain and Palin, governors who best-seller, Double Down: Game and the Race of a Lifetime, an chose not to run: Change 2012. insiders’ chronicle of the 2008 Haley Barbour, Mitch presidential election that Daniels, Mike Huckabee and which ended up being very WHEN: April 8 became an international Jeb Bush. weak, ... allowed Gov. Romney best-seller. They conducted to become the nominee. And its WHERE: Robert J. Dole 500 interviews for Double QUOTES: “A lot of weakness was largely a result of Institute of Politics Down, delving into the larger Republicans who really saw these people deciding not to questions of the 2012 election Barack Obama’s vulnerability, run. ... All four had very BACKGROUND: Halperin, that were neglected by daily ... didn’t think Mitt Romney was di†erent reasons for not editor-at-large and senior political coverage (which the guy, and were casting about running, and they were very political analyst for Time Halperin compared to a to try to find somebody else,” personal, very human reasons.” magazine, and Heilemann, second-grade soccer game). Heilemann said. “The field, —Jennifer Jackson Sanner {

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI “When I walked into the building and says Nancy Berman, professor of anatomy Milestones, money saw the largest American ag stained-glass and cell biology at KU Medical Center and window in the world, anked on both a leading expert on migraines. and other matters sides by beams from the World Trade “Migraine is poorly understood, and Center, and I listened to the level of there’s not very much research on it and discourse, I knew this was the place I there aren’t many new drugs coming down

wanted to make my home base at the the pipeline,” Berman says. STOREY DAN University,” Ried told the audience as part Building on her prior research on of Dole’s introduction. “So I started migraines, Berman conducted a study coming to every event I could, and with Lydia Vermeer, a postdoctoral eventually the sta hired me here as a researcher in Berman’s lab. ey tested coordinator so they could tell me when I whether Bisphenol A (BPA), a common had to leave.” additive in plastic consumer items such as If Ried hoped to score points with the baby bottles, water bottles and food cans, n KJHK 90.7 FM, KU’s student-run legendary lawmaker seated close by, there intensies migraine symptoms, which radio station, set a station record with was no better way to do so than with include pounding headache, photophobia 24 Kansas Association of Broadcasters charming wit. Dole recalled that when he and phonophobia (intolerance of bright awards this spring. Undergraduate stu- returned from World War II with severe light or loud sounds) and reduced activity. dents took first place in the hard news, injuries suered in the Allies’ Italian Working with Kenneth McCarson, enterprise news, news feature, docu- campaign, he realized that since manual associate professor in the department of mentary, entertainment program and labor was no longer an option, he’d have to pharmacology, toxicology and therapeu- promotional activity categories. Gradu- rely on his brains. tics, Berman developed a way to test those ate students won first place in station “So I decided to become a lawyer,” Dole symptoms in lab rodents. at testing promotional announcement, hard news, told his audience. “If you have any legal model was used by Berman and Vermeer enterprise news, news feature, docu- matter you want to take up, I’ll see you to determine that within a group of mentary, entertainment program and aerward.” rodents with migraines, those exposed to promotional activity. —Chris Lazzarino BPA suered more pronounced symptoms than those not exposed. Results of the n A $1.8 million grant from the Na- study, funded by the National Institutes of tional Institute of Allergy and Infectious Pain prescription Health through the National Institute of Diseases, part of the National Insti- Environmental Health Sciences and the tutes of Health, will fund five years of Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Reducing exposure to plastic research on combating pathogens by Research Excellence (K-INBRE), were using a new class of antibiotics to target could be key for migraine relief, published in the journal Toxicological the nanoinjectors that bacterium use to researchers say Sciences. infect human cells. Roberto De Guz- Researchers have known for more than man, associate professor of molecular indings by a pair of KU researchers 50 years that migraine headaches are biosciences, heads the research group, Fcould lead to clinical trials that test estrogen sensitive, Berman says, and BPA which will use the $1.9 million nuclear whether reducing dietary exposure to BPA is considered an environmental estrogen magnetic resonance spectrometer that can help reduce the severity and frequency because it mimics the hormone when KU acquired in 2004 through a bond of migraine headaches. ingested. at led them to hypothesize that approved by the Kansas Legislature. Migraines aect about 20 percent of BPA could be causing increased sensitivity women of reproductive age, but relatively to migraines. n The School of Business honored two little has been done to research and treat e next step is to stage a clinical study graduates with Distinguished Alumni the headaches, which can be debilitating, to determine if reducing BPA lessens Awards in April: John Dicus, b’83, g’85, chairman, president and CEO of Capitol Federal Savings Bank; and Don Hall Jr., Political journalists are “like second-graders playing soccer. g’83, president and CEO of Hallmark Cards. Since establishing the award The ball gets kicked o into the corner and everybody runs in 1998, the school has recognized 48 over ... and clusters around the ball and it pops out and goes alumni for their business success and service to their communities and KU. { into the other corner and everybody runs over.” —Mark Halperin }

ISSUE 3, 2014 | 13 Hilltopics migraine symptoms. eating plastics, there’s probably no way “We want to take people with chronic that could have harmful eects. at’s one Travel the World

migraines and have a dietary intervention, reason I’m so exicited about this, because PUPPE STEVE basically,” Vermeer says, “where they it could provide some level of relief for a would try to reduce their exposure to population of patients that people haven’t with the Flying Jayhawks dietary plastic as much as possible.” been very much interested in, and it at would mean reducing canned doesn’t require a doctor’s prescription or foods, which are a big source of BPA FDA approval to do it.” 2015 Travel because the chemical is found in the lining —Steven Hill that coats the inside of cans. Another strategy: Stop reheating leovers in plastic storage containers. Tests have shown that repeatedly microwaving plastics releases TEACHING more chemicals into food. In addition, Ilardi wins HOPE Award Berman notes, many new BPA-free plastics have chemicals that also show estrogen- S  I, associate proessor of like activity and have not yet been psychology, won the 2014 HOPE (Honor adequately tested. for an Outstanding Progressive Educator) Ilardi Polynesian Paradise Kentucky Derby The Great Journey Yangtze River and China “Maybe people need to use a little more Award from the KU Board of Class JANUARY 14-25 APRIL 30 – MAY 3 through Europe SEPTEMBER 9-23 Pyrex, glass containers, that sort of thing,” Ocers in March. He also received the seniors to say that my classes have had a JULY 7-17 Berman says. award in 2005 and joins Craig Martin and positive impact—I take that as the highest Mystical Andes & Isles & Empires of the Ancient Greece & Turkey ere’s relatively little hope for a the late Rick Snyder as the only two-time possible praise, and I’m deeply honored to Majestic Fjords Adriatic Passage of Lewis and Clark SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 6 pharmaceutical solution, and many of the HOPE winners. have been named among the hundreds of FEBRUARY 2-23 MAY 2 -11 Expedition treatments that target migraine relief— Established by the Class of 1959, the talented instructors we have here at KU.” AUGUST 1-9 Machu Picchu, Cusco & botox, transcranial magnetic stimulation, HOPE recognizes outstanding teaching Ilardi has won many teaching awards, Discover Down Under Swiss Alps & Italian Lakes the Sacred Valley drugs that block a pathway involved in and concern for students. Selected by including the Kemper Fellowship for FEBRUARY 10-28 MAY 8-17 Nordic Pathways OCTOBER 18-23 blood vessel dilation—could be harmful, seniors, it’s the only KU teaching award Teaching Excellence. He and his research AUGUST 1-11 Berman worries. Reducing dietary plastic bestowed by students. team developed a promising treatment for Ancient Cities & Colonial National Parks and Lodges New York – Theatre Tour seems comparatively simple. “What makes the award so meaningful clinical depression, erapeutic Lifestyle Splendors of Sri Lanka of the Old West Coastal Maine & New NOVEMBER 24-28 “I like to say that plastic isn’t one of the is the fact that it comes directly from the Change (TLC), which is in use in the FEBRUARY 25-MARCH 11 MAY 23 – JUNE 1 Brunswick major food groups,” she says. “Avoiding students,” Ilardi says. “For our graduating United States, Canada and Great Britain. AUGUST 26-SEPTEMBER 2 Holiday Markets TLC is the subject of his book, e The Masters Pearls of the Mediterranean DECEMBER 6-17 Depression Cure, translated into six APRIL 8-11 JUNE 15-23 Discover Southeast Alaska languages. AUGUST 28-SEPTEMBER 4 Dates may be subject to change.

STEVE PUPPE STEVE Other nalists for the 2014 HOPE were Island Life Cuba Botswana Safari Robert Antonio, professor of sociology; APRIL 19-27 JUNE 29-JULY 11 Kerry Benson, lecturer in journalism; Wallace Meyer Jr., director of entrepre- neurship programs and lecturer in business; and Derek Reed, assistant professor of applied behavioral science.

ACADEMICS Chemistry major earns Goldwater scholarship R L, an Overland Park junior in chemistry who has been active in the undergraduate research program at KU and plans to pursue a doctorate in Lydia Vermeer and Nancy Berman hope their research on BPA and migraines can someday lessen analytical chemistry, won a prestigious symptoms for the 20 percent of reproductive-age women who experience the debilitating Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the headaches. continued on page 17

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI Travel the World with the Flying Jayhawks 2015 Travel

Polynesian Paradise Kentucky Derby The Great Journey Yangtze River and China JANUARY 14-25 APRIL 30 – MAY 3 through Europe SEPTEMBER 9-23 JULY 7-17 Mystical Andes & Isles & Empires of the Ancient Greece & Turkey Majestic Fjords Adriatic Passage of Lewis and Clark SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 6 FEBRUARY 2-23 MAY 2 -11 Expedition AUGUST 1-9 Machu Picchu, Cusco & Discover Down Under Swiss Alps & Italian Lakes the Sacred Valley FEBRUARY 10-28 MAY 8-17 Nordic Pathways OCTOBER 18-23 AUGUST 1-11 Ancient Cities & Colonial National Parks and Lodges New York – Theatre Tour Splendors of Sri Lanka of the Old West Coastal Maine & New NOVEMBER 24-28 FEBRUARY 25-MARCH 11 MAY 23 – JUNE 1 Brunswick AUGUST 26-SEPTEMBER 2 Holiday Markets The Masters Pearls of the Mediterranean DECEMBER 6-17 APRIL 8-11 JUNE 15-23 Discover Southeast Alaska AUGUST 28-SEPTEMBER 4 Dates may be subject to change. Island Life Cuba Botswana Safari APRIL 19-27 JUNE 29-JULY 11 continued from page 14 what she could to help. Milestones, money nation’s premier undergraduate award for “I’m really interested in international students in science, technology, engineer- work in the future, so I wanted to travel and other matters ing and mathematics. and learn more about how medicine is Limbocker—who plans a career practiced overseas,” Anderson says. “I also researching the origins of neurodegenera- thought it would be a great opportunity to n The Robert E. Hemenway Writing tion in post-chemotherapy cognitive learn how medicine is practiced in a huge Center was rededicated in March at impairment, Huntington’s disease and conict, where you’re dealing with a crisis the University of Kentucky to honor the Alzheimer’s disease—expects the $7,500 situation.” former KU chancellor, who founded the scholarship to Myrick used a Clendening Summer center in 1983 when he was chair of accelerate his Fellowship to spend the break aer her Kentucky’s English department. Hem- research aspirations. rst med school year working with a enway later became chancellor at UK “It looks really midwife in a women’s clinic inside Zaatari, before serving as KU’s 16th chancellor good to have that a refugee camp near Mafraq. from 1995 to 2009. distinction on your e trip gave Myrick, who earned a resumé, because journalism degree from the University of n Deans of two schools announced [graduate schools] Missouri, a chance to combine two career plans to transition out of their current recognize it means interests. She wrote a rsthand account of roles. John Gaunt, dean of the School

COURTESY KU MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS KU COURTESY Limbocker you’ve done good camp hardships for e Atlantic. of Architecture, Design and Planning research as an “I was struggling to see how I could pull since 1994, will step down as dean in undergrad,” Limbocker says. “ e money my interests together, because I really like May 2015 but will continue teaching. is nice, but it’s the distinction that’s really writing but it’s hard to nd time when I’m Mary Ellen Kondrat, dean of the School helpful.” studying,” Anderson says. “When I of Social Welfare since 2006, will retire KU nominated the maximum four decided this story really needed to be told, June 1. Tom McDonald, professor and students for the Goldwater, and the other I wrote it, and then had this epiphany associate dean of social welfare, will be nominees were recognized by the Goldwa- moment where I was like, wow, this is how interim dean. ter Foundation with Honorable Mentions: my two big interests can go together. at Ashley Farris, Wichita junior in biochem- was a really good feeling.” n An $800,000 grant from the Conrad istry; Alex Kong, Lawrence junior in N. Hilton Foundation will aid KU Medi- chemistry; and Kayla Sale, Olathe junior cal Center in creating a new center to in biology and mathematics. help patients with multiple sclerosis Four juniors also advanced as nalists improve their emotional health, physical for prestigious Harry S. Truman Fellow- function and lifestyle habits. Sharon ships: Emma Halling, Elkhart, Ind., Lynch, professor of neurology, will American studies and women, gender and direct the center, which will be a hub sexuality studies; Virginia Helgeson, for research and integrated services for

Olathe, social welfare and religious MEDICAL CENTER KU COURTESY patients living with MS. It is one of only studies; Leigh Loving, McPherson, a handful of such centers nationwide. genetics; and Micah Melia, Prairie Village, anthropology. n University Scholarly Achievement Awards recognized four mid-career faculty members for contributions MEDICINE that advance the field of scholarship, Student details summer service exhibit novelty and originality, promote in refugee camp for Atlantic scholarly and research activity at KU, and enhance the University’s national H   M  grew up and international reputation: Michael in Jordan, the daughter of missionary Detamore, professor of chemical and parents who used their medical training to petroleum engineering; Michael Engel, help others. So when she heard about the professor of ecology and evolutionary growing population of Syrian refugees biology; Allen Greiner, professor of near her former home, the School of family medicine; and Steven Spooner, Medicine student knew she wanted to get professor of music. a closer look at the crisis response and do Anderson

ISSUE 3, 2014 | 17 Sports by Chris Lazzarino

Champion Jayhawks of yesterday and today—including 1964 Olympic 10,000-meter gold medalist Billy Mills and hurdler Michael Stigler— helped christen Rock Chalk Park at the 87th Kansas Relays. STEVE PUPPE (2) STEVE

Back on track were a slew of other Jayhawk track and aer her wire-to-wire victory in the 1,500 eld champions from generations past, meters, “We nally have a place to call Rock Chalk Park debuts and more than 6,000 fans soaked in our own.” with sun-drenched Kansas Relays sunshine and fast action. As Mills greeted his fans and admirers— But the 87th Kansas Relays won’t Rice freshman William Roberts, winner of tar power dazzled on April 19, the ultimately be remembered for any of this. the men’s 1,500, was nearly shaking with S nal day of the Kansas Relays. Junior e real star April 19 was Rock Chalk awe or glee or possibly both as he received Michael Stigler won the 400-meter hurdles Park, the new home of KU track and his victory watch from Mills, and mem- with the country’s best collegiate time of eld—as well as soccer and soball, and a bers of the Haskell Indian Nations the season (and h-best in the world), city recreation complex—which made its University alumni veterans color guard and junior Lindsay Vollmer, the defending ashy debut, and for the rst time in its and their families lined up for prized NCAA heptathlon champion, dialed her history, KU’s spring track and eld photographs, autographs and handshakes competition schedule back yet still won carnival was contested outside of Memo- with the great Oglala Sioux champion the 100-meter hurdles. e women’s rial Stadium. runner—he also kept a careful eye on the 4x100-meter relay team of junior Alisha “It’s a great track,” Stigler said, still action, cheering on the Jayhawks and Keys, senior Olympic gold medalist breathing hard shortly aer his 400-meter reminding those present about the event’s Diamond Dixon and sophomores Tianna hurdles victory. “It’s big. It’s fast. Great importance. Valentine and Sydney Conley won its crowd, good place to run good times. “is is a new day for track and eld at third-consecutive Relays title. is is Rock Chalk Park. If you’re not the University of Kansas, because track Track legend Billy Mills, d’62, inspira- here you need to get here because this is and eld nally has its own home,” Mills tional winner of the 10,000 meters at the where it’s at.” said. “We have waited a long time for this 1964 Tokyo Olympics, was on hand, as Said sophomore Rhavean King, shortly day, and those of us who came before will

18 | KANSAS ALUMNI be watching the champions who will emerge from this beautiful stadium, and we do so with a lot of pride.” “This is Rock Chalk Park. If you’re not here you Among the nine event victories won by the Jayhawks, and 13 over the meet’s four need to get here because this is where it’s at.” days, none topped Stigler’s 400-meter —Two-time Big 12-champion hurdler Michael Stigler hurdles race, for which he was named the meet’s Most Outstanding Male Performer. {} Careful to not chop his stride while ghting a dicult wind, Stigler cleared the 10 hurdles in 49.35 seconds, winning by nearly 3 seconds. and eld events contested in the old

e two-time Big 12 champion, and last football venue. PUPPE STEVE year’s runner-up at the NCAA Champion- KU athletes rst set foot on the new ships, also ran the third leg for KU’s track and its sport-specic ineld on the victorious relay team in the 4x100-meter meet’s opening day, April 16. hurdles, and was named Big 12 Athlete of “I think the new track is awesome,” said the Week—an honor he repeated the Dixon, who ran second to former team- following week a er winning the 400 mate Paris Daniels, ’14, (competing hurdles at the Drake Relays. unattached) in the women’s 400 meters. “A While many saw the wind as a hin- lot of tracks have dierent personalities. Embiid drance to optimum performance, Stigler You get an Olympic track and you’re like a viewed it as an unexpected bonus. bird, feeling like you’re ying. It’s like “e Big 12’s are at Texas Tech this year,” you’re a cloud oating around the track it’s said Stigler, of Canyon, Texas, “and I know so smooth. is track is smooth, too, and Next up: NBA it’s windy in the panhandle. So I’m glad I we’re so thankful for that.” got to run with a windy day. It’s great Dixon recently changed her training Wiggins, Embiid could go 1-2 preparation.” program, abandoning weight training in when pros pick next crop of stars If Stigler was one of the few athletes who favor of intensied running, sprinting found value in the wind, he was part of the longer distances with shorter breaks. She is he bad news is, men’s basketball lost crowd when it came to appreciating the preparing herself for the Big 12 and Ttwo of the best players in the game opportunity to perform in an appropri- NCAA championships, as well as the a er just one season. e good news is, ately sized stadium. Instead of fans being professional career that awaits her this coach Bill Self, teammates and fans might dispersed across cavernous Memorial summer. get to see two former Jayhawks chosen Stadium, at Rock Chalk Park they were When she competes in front of enthusi- rst and second in the June 26 NBA dra . crowded into the main stands along the astic crowds at track stadiums across “I think it would be cool, without front stretch, generating energy and Europe, Dixon can now look back on question,” Self said April 9 in the Allen excitement that was o en missing for track having run in a similar setting in her nal Field House media room, with 7-foot race at KU. Never again will freshman center Joel Embiid seated at his Dixon race or train in side. “Sure we’re pulling for that. We’d love Memorial Stadium, and for that to happen.” STEVE PUPPE STEVE that’s OK by her. Wherever Embiid and sensational guard “at’s football’s. We’ve Andrew Wiggins land in the NBA dra , got our own stu now,” they’re certain not to fall out of the top Dixon said, ashing her ve. For Wiggins, it’s a next step that was famous smile. “We came all but assured from the moment last here on Wednesday, and it spring when he shocked the basketball was nice to be here with world by announcing he’d attend Kansas. the team. But once you’re e Jayhawks would get Wiggins, of here with all the people, Ontario, Canada, for one season and one competing in front of season only. crowded stands, it makes it Not so Embiid, who didn’t even start the even more beautiful than season’s rst eight games yet averaged 11.2 Dixon it already is.” points a game, led the Jayhawks with 8.1

ISSUE 3, 2014 | 19 Sports rebounds and 2.6 blocks, Hakeem Olajuwon, a Nigeria tive fans when he le the oor for the nal and was named Big 12 native who became one of the time—as well as the Big 12 Tournament STEVE PUPPE STEVE Defensive Player of greatest centers in NBA history, and KU’s two NCAA Tournament games the Year. he relied most heavily on advice with a stress fracture in his lower back, “Andrew was easy, from his mentor, fellow Cameroo- which Embiid says is now 100 percent because we knew before nian Mbah a Moute, who played healed. Andrew got here what for both UCLA and the Minne- “e thing that’s unfortunate with Jo is the situation was more sota Timberwolves and helped that the greatest thing about our sport, he than likely going to be,” guide Embiid to the United States. didn’t get a chance to participate in,” Self Self said. “With Jo it “I just felt comfortable with the said of the NCAA Tournament. “Of all the wasn’t quite that. We Wiggins information my mentor gave me,” positives out there, if there was a negative knew he would be really, Embiid said. to leaving, I think the biggest negative was really good, but we didn’t know how long Self quickly added, “And what he said that it kind of has an incomplete next to it. it would take for him to be really, really was true. You’re going to be a top three to Not because he’s leaving, but just because good. He kind of exceeded our expecta- top ve pick. And I think under most what we value as so important, he didn’t tions on how fast that occured. circumstances that would be an obvious get a chance to participate in.” “It’s not easy to lose somebody of the avenue in which there would be very little Junior point guard Naadir arpe on caliber of those two guys, but they came to decision to make. I shouldn’t speak for Jo, May 1 also le the program, citing health school and you recruited them so they but I think he liked it enough here, and he concerns of his young daughter back home could have these opportunities, so you saw himself improve so much so fast, that in Massachusetts. e next day, Self certainly wish them the best whenever there is the lure of, ‘OK, how much better announced the signing of point guard opportunity knocked, and opportunity would I get here before I go?’ But the Devonte’ Graham, who last season led knocked for both these guys right now.” reality is, he’ll get better wherever he’s at.” Brewster Academy in New Hampshire to At his news conference announcing his Embiid missed the regular season’s nal the national prep championship with 17.2 decision to leave KU for the NBA, Embiid two games—including the home nale, points and 5 assists a game. emphasized that while he was thrilled to against Texas Tech, during which Wiggins “I think Devonte’ will be an immediate receive a phone call from his sports idol, received a standing ovation from apprecia- impact guy for us,” Self said.

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Women’s golf on April 28 KU on May 2 broke JEFF JACOBSEN Miller and coxswain Abbey received its first-ever at-large ground for the DeBruce Lozenski, and sophomore bid for an NCAA regional Center, the future home of Tessa Scott—and the Fourth tournament. “They really made James Naismith’s original Varsity Eight—junior Kristen up their mind to do it,” said rules of basketball. The Byrd, sophomores Breeona 10th-year coach Erin O’Neil. 32,000-square-foot building Piché Foster and Casey Kelly, and “They owned it. It wasn’t my adjacent to Allen Field House 35-year career. KU went on to freshmen Kathleen Brady, dream, it was their dream.” will also serve as a student sweep Baylor, then swept Texas Kate Cropp, Kylee Dewey, Sophomore center and Tech the following weekend at Brittney Railsback, Emily Yupaporn “Mook” training table for Hoglund Ballpark. ... Following Ruble and coxswain Mallory Kawinpakorn shot both basketball Chelsie Miller’s victory in the Miller. ... Football coach Charlie five-under 211, a JEFF JACOBSEN teams. ... 400-yard individual medley and Weis named Montell Cozart, three-round school Senior right- a second-place team finish at who will be a sophomore, the record, to tie for hander Jordan the Big 12 meet, 11th-year swim starting quarterback for next second at the Big 12 Piché threw a coach Clark Campbell, d’93, season. ... Lois Heuchan, a Championships in one-hit complete- was named Big 12 Coach of the four-year veteran of Celtic FC, Austin, Texas. The game game Year. ... Rowing took third at the which plays in the Scottish Jayhawks finished shutout in a 1-0 Big 12 Championships May 3 in Premier League, will join coach tied for fourth, their victory at Baylor Oklahoma City, Okla. The Mark Francis’ soccer team for best conference Kawinpakorn April 25. KU’s 10-2 Jayhawks won both the First the fall season. Heuchan, a result since winning the 1992 victory the next day was the Varsity Four—seniors Kelsie forward, scored 21 goals for Big Eight title. ... 1,000th in coach Ritch Price’s Fiss, Carly Iverson, Jessica Celtic FC in 2013.

20 | KANSAS ALUMNI Sports Photographs by Steve Puppe

Brand-new Rock Chalk Park is a thrilling sight from the west stands (above) and at the main-straight’s first turn (left), where Hannah Richardson (3312) and teammate Natalie Becker (3282) paced the field en route to finishing 1-2 in the women’s 1,500. DeMario Johnson (center) anchored KU’s victory in the 4x100, Kianna Weinzheimer (3322) competed in the first infield javelin event in Kansas Relays history, and Kelli McKenna (3302) ran third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, followed by teammate Rachel Scha•er (3316).

ISSUE 3, 2014 | 21 STEVE PUPPE STEVE

The Shape of Things to Come by Chris Lazzarino

22 | KANSAS ALUMNI New master plan charts course for tomorrow’s growth by adhering to today’s principles

on Brada had not set foot in Malott Hall since 1961, education at the School of Medicine’s Wichita campus. “Particu- when he was a premed and psychology major. A er larly with my peer age-group alumni, they probably haven’t been being asked last year to join the steering committee back to Malott, either, and they see the stone edice that’s such a helping to create a new campus master plan, he and key image to that part of campus and they say, ‘Why do we need hisD wife, Kay, also on the committee, took a tour through campus to get rid of it?’ But Malott is outdated. ere was some discus- buildings they had not visited since they were students, including sion about renovating it, and that simply isn’t workable.” Malott. Although it is a key element, moving science teaching and Brada, c’61, m’65, recalls that he initially thought the commit- research out of Malott Hall and into a series of modern new tee’s work would focus in large part on the appearance of campus, structures along a science-intensive stretch to be known as the cherished heritage that alumni tour with reverence when they “Innovation Way” is just one piece of a huge puzzle that came return to Mount Oread. Upon closer together as the 2014 Campus inspection, he quickly grasped the Master Plan, released this spring urgency of their work. a er 13 months of work. “Although Malott isn’t the only one It is the  h such formal that needs to be replaced, at this point planning document in the it’s perhaps the most problem- University’s history. e rst, by atic,” says Brada, a member St. Louis architects George Kessler of the Alumni Associa- and Henry Wright, in 1904 helped tion’s Board of Directors situate the University along its now living in Lawrence ridge-top home. e Kansas City a er retiring as landscape architectural rm Hare professor emeritus & Hare in 1928 created the and associate dean still-beloved Jayhawk Boulevard, for graduate medical COLLECTION MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL WESTERN ARCHIVE, UMKC adding renements in 1932.

1904 campus plan by Kessler and Wright

ISSUE 3, 2014 | 23 “It’s a master plan that responds to the strategic plan for

the University of Kansas, and oftentimes that piece is not well PUPPE STEVE defined, or not there, for master plans. The University, in my opinion, did it right.”—Jim Modig

A campus development plan, focused on preserving the one plan, and it’s all codi- academic core along Jayhawk Boulevard, was rst released in ed. So from that perspec- 1995, at the juncture of Gene Budig and Robert Hemenway’s tive, I think it’s an important chancellorships, and formalized in 1997. e University has change in approach.” achieved many of the plan’s goals, including a new western face e plan’s importance lies for the Kansas Union, buses to shuttle students from park-and- not in its breadth—which is ride lots on West Campus, relocation of athletics facilities south impressive, to be sure—but of Allen Field House, the removal of World War II-era annexes, rather in the surprising and, in the case of the School of Pharmacy, relocation of profes- simplicity at its core. sional schools to West Campus. Other goals, including a new While it builds on plans home for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a nar- that came before, its true rowed, one-way trac pattern for Jayhawk Boulevard, were not. heart is the University’s An overdue landscape master plan was issued in 2003, and in statement of principles 2008 the University completed a Getty Foundation-funded issued in late 2011. Chancellor Gray-Little campus heritage plan. e current document coalesces all the work that came before into a framework of principles intended to guide the University’s n Dec. 14, 2011, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little growth for the next 10 years and far beyond. e Kansas Board Opresented to the Board of Regents a strategic plan called of Regents unanimously approved the 2014 Campus Master Bold Aspirations, with three areas of emphasis: educating leaders, Plan in March. building healthy communities and making discoveries that will “You’re looking at all these parts and pieces that are out there, change the world. and it really needed a fresh look so we could look at it more “We started talking about the campus master plan in 2010, holistically,” says University Architect Jim Modig, a’73. “Now it’s which was my rst year here,” says Provost Jerey Vitter. “We 2013 WESLEY PAGE, AIA, HANBURY EVANS WRIGHT VLATTAS + COMPANY WRIGHT VLATTAS EVANS AIA, HANBURY 2013 WESLEY PAGE,

New Jayhawk Boulevard streetscape

24 | KANSAS ALUMNI started looking at a number of issues, but put it o because we wanted to get a strategic plan done and let the strategic plan

really drive the master plan.” YOUNGER SUSAN ere appears to be unanimity that the progression from strategic plan to master plan made all the di erence, and gives the new master plan lasting legitimacy. “It’s a master plan that responds to the strategic plan for the University of Kansas, and oentimes that piece is not well dened, or not there, for master plans,” Modig says. “e Univer- sity, in my opinion, did it right.” With Bold Aspirations as the foundation, the steering commit- tee and the University’s outside consultant—Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas, a Norfolk, Va., rm that specializes in campus planning—rst agreed on 11 “fundamental principles,” starting The Malott problem with the need to integrate the plan with the mission and goals for the University and to create a document that reects the man- edicated in 1954 and expanded in 1981, Malott Hall is dates of Bold Aspirations. Dhome for chemistry, physics and astronomy, medicinal e next nine covered such areas as historical excellence, chemistry, pharmacology and toxicology, and the Molecular commitment to sustainability and resources, and, of course, Structures Research Group. Although its structure remains academic excellence, and all 11 of the plan’s fundamental prin- sound, Malott Hall’s design is beyond antiquated. ciples were then joined with the principles outlined in the Short floor heights leave little room for mechanical strategic plan, resulting in three “design drivers” that are the new systems needed for laboratory work. That’s why so much master plan’s building blocks: academic duct work is visible on top of the building, where it is vision and collaborative learning spaces; exposed to the harsh Kansas weather and adds to the engaged, innovative, multidisciplinary University’s $300 million deferred-maintenance backlog. structures; and integrated, systemic and “You can’t be teaching science out of 1950s-vintage connected planning for the University. facilities,” says University Architect Jim Modig. “We need “ose are the design drivers,” Vitter to be teaching science in current-century facilities.” says, “that we can apply to every situation and need or aspiration that’s Says Provost Je—rey Vitter, “We’ve never really tackled part of our strategic plan, and they allow MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS KU the Malott situation because it just seemed too daunting. us to adapt as new situations arise.” Malott is really not an adaptable structure because you ose three “design drivers” in turn can’t get in between floors and deal with air-handling Vitter led to generic platforms within the issues. It’s just time that we have to deal with that.” master plan: student success and campus The proposed “Innovation Way” would create a network life, academic communities, and sustainable land use and growth. of modular, adaptable structures that could be modified as “It’s an exciting, dynamic plan,” Vitter says, “and we have the science and technology continue to evolve and radically capability now to adapt it as needed while keeping true to those change the nature of teaching and research. And yet Malott same principles.” Hall will continue to serve the University—for uses not yet determined—because its 332,000 square feet, by far the largest structure on campus, could not be replaced. hat multi-tiered approach, with modular layers building Tupon one another, creates a master plan uniquely situated In order, the largest buildings on campus are: to remain relevant far into the future. at’s the estimation of John Gaunt, dean of the School of Architecture, Design and Malott Hall: 332,000 square feet Planning, who lauds the plan’s “amazing amount of data” and Allen Field House: 281,000 square feet “wonderful overview of what we have here,” while also cautioning Haworth Hall: 279,000 square feet that it should not be seen as a static directive for construction Kansas Union: 249,000 square feet and growth. “ere’s a certain misnomer when it comes to master plans,” Learned Hall: 225,00 square feet Gaunt says, “as in meaning, ‘is is what we’re going to do.’ It’s Robinson Gymnasium: 222,000 square feet actually a framework for change, for having something in hand, Wescoe Hall: 205,000 square feet visually and in measurable form, that can be used to begin to Fraser Hall: 124,000 square feet shape the future incrementally.” —C.L.

ISSUE 3, 2014 | 25 Says Joe Heppert, associate vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, “Master plans can’t be thought of as concrete that’s being poured, because as soon as you reach a point of challenge, or reach a point where the immediate priorities of the institution and of the students are at odds with what’s in the plan, then it seems to become a document that’s unworkable. is document has to be a living document that provides a vision for the future.” at vision for the future includes a 2013 WESLEY PAGE, AIA, HANBURY EVANS WRIGHT VLATTAS + COMPANY (2) + COMPANY WRIGHT VLATTAS EVANS AIA, HANBURY 2013 WESLEY PAGE, slew of proposals, both dramatic and subtle, but is centered on a basic principle that the Lawrence campus should no longer be viewed as two parts—main campus, along Jayhawk Boulevard and both slopes of Mount Proposed 19th Street and Iowa Street mixed-use development, looking northeast Oread, and West Campus, across Iowa Street—and instead become an integrated campus with three “dis- tricts.” e North District would extend from GSP/Corbin across campus to Sunnyside Avenue; the Central District would encompass, roughly, Learned, Green and Murphy halls, athletics and Daisy Hill; every- thing west of Iowa Street would be the West District. e need for improved circulation among the campus districts leads to the proposal for “Jayhawk Trail,” a pedestrian and bicycle path extending from the Kansas Union all the way to park-and-ride lot on the southern edge of West Campus. e plan also calls for improved bus service that would link with Jayhawk Trail at specied access points. New systems of student housing— Proposed view of South Slope Zone, looking north from Sunnyside Avenue already underway, with McCollum Hall being replaced by two smaller residence halls with recongured placement—would include a structures reaching from Haworth Hall, through available land gateway at 19th and Iowa streets that would feature a mixed-use surrounding Stouer Place and across Iowa Street to a new development with retail space, housing for graduate and interna- “Research Partnership Zone,” which will be designed to attract tional students, and student amenities. e University intends to private partners interested in joining forces with University double its enrollment of international students within four years, researchers. and sees improved housing, along with specialized academic “Planning forces you to think long-term,” Gray-Little says, “and programs that allow international students to get acclimated to to imagine what is possible, even when the reality of how to get life at KU and in the United States as freshmen—as a key. there is not known yet. You’re imagining where you’re going to be, “Innovation Way” is the element that moves science education where you need to be, and you almost work back from that vision and research out of Malott Hall and into a series of interrelated to how to achieve it.”

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Proposed Irving HIll Zone/Stou er Green showing Innovation Way

e rst structure of “Innovation Way” will likely be the “Planning forces you to think long-term, proposed Earth, Energy and Environment Center, a two-building addition to Lindley Hall that will link to Learned Hall—providing and to imagine what is possible, even when space for chemists, physicists, nano-scientists, geologists and engineers. It will be paid for with a mix of private and University the reality of how to get there is not funds, along with state support. (As Kansas Alumni went to press, known yet.” —Chancellor Gray-Little the Kansas Legislature and Gov. Sam Brownback, l’84, had approved $20 million in bonding authority for the project.) e rst price tag placed on the development of Innovation Way—and the only dollar amount so far attached to the hopes program needs, we’re going and dreams of the 2014 Campus Master Plan—is $800 million, to build that space on a which would have to be generated by a mixture of sources, case-by-case basis, using this including public-private partnerships, state and University funds, guiding document, while grants and alumni donors. looking at our funding “ e $800 opportunities for those million addresses projects.” what the Univer- Whatever the costs sity would say ultimately prove to be, and would be our wherever the money is highest priority,” eventually found, the process Modig says. “Not had to begin somewhere. our only priority, Joe Heppert, a leader of the but our highest, University’s bountiful and to get the rapidly expanding research sciences up to date.” enterprise, sees the rst steps as a glowing success. Going back 20 years, about 20 “During my lifetime at the University, I believe this is the percent of facilities on KU’s campus rst time we’ve been through this deep and this revolution- were funded with state tax dollars; in ary of an envisioning process for the future of the institu- the past 10 years, that fell to 11 tion,” Heppert says. “You can think of it sort of as a gi to the percent. It is estimated that the future students and academic leaders of the institution who University currently needs about 1.8 to 2 million gross square are going to have to decide how to make it real, how to actually feet to meet all of its needs. implement it. “We know we’re not going to nd that money laying around “It’s a great, great canvas upon which future generations

HANBURY EVANS WRIGHT VLATTAS + COMPANY WRIGHT VLATTAS EVANS HANBURY to build 1.8 million square feet,” Modig says. “But as we identify will paint.”

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rom Chancellor Gray-Little on down, Fthose responsible for the 2014 Campus Master Plan repeatedly emphasize the University’s campus heritage, tradition and beauty as de ning aspects of the shared KU experience. e plan addresses the need to retain open space and the charm of Jayhawk Bouelvard. “ere is a tradition here of the appearance of the campus and the feel of the campus, and that has to be respected,” Gray-Little says. “It is valued as what is KU. At the same time, that cannot be a limitation on what we do or The proposed “Jayhawk Trail” would oer a where we go. So that is one of the tensions pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly route from the involved in this, looking to where you need Kansas Union to park-and-ride lots at 23rd and to be while maintaining what is wonderful Iowa streets, unifying KU’s sprawling acreage into about this place.” a single campus. Although the $11 million reconstruction of Jayhawk Boulevard—which began last summer and will continue for the next three summers—began What’s happening along Jayhawk Boulevard—including such before the master planning process got underway, KU insisted elements as a widening eect created by the elimination of that the consultants incorporate its changes into their vision for curbside parking and unruly landscaping, crucial improvements the ridge of Mount Oread. If the rst stage’s obvious success is any for environmentally friendly stormwater runo, much-improved indication, the campus will only become more beautiful with lighting, and recon gured crosswalks that greatly improve thoughtful pruning and tinkering. pedestrian safety—is seen by University administrators as predictive of more changes yet to come. Given enough thought and consideration, change can be better than good. “I don’t know if I expected the changes on Jayhawk Boulevard TERRY ROMBECK TERRY that were done last year to have quite as dramatic an eect as they’ve had,” Gray-Little says. “I’m looking forward to seeing what comes next.” Don and Kay Cromb Brada, c’61, recently found themselves atop e Oread, the towering limestone hotel adjacent to the north end of campus. Taking in the vast vista of Mount Oread, they were moved to consider deeply the importance of agreeing to serve as the alumni voice on the campus master plan’s steering committee. As with the graceful simplicity of the master plan’s form following the function mandated by Bold Aspirations, the Bradas found within themselves a fundamental philosophy for the goals of their service on the steering committee. Do it for love. “We both stood there,” Kay Brada recalls, “and we said that what we want for our grandchildren is that they nd a school that they fall in love with. As you stand up there and you look down, it all comes back, that love we feel for our school. But, it also has to move on. It can’t always be the same old school we went to. Kay and Don Brada “Which is good.”

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI New leaf Replant Mount Oread strives to keep campus greenery in the pink

avid Ragan vividly recalls the majestic Replant Mount Oread would like to Dline of elm trees that once enclosed supplement those intermittent waves with Jayhawk Boulevard in a green canopy of a more steady tide that ensures every tree shade. lost is replaced. “When the elms were growing they “Some years we lose 80 or 90 trees. The made an arch over the boulevard,” he says. budget usually allows us to put 50 back. So “It was like walking down a cathedral nave. you can see the gap we have; our role is to Just a wonderful eect.” fill that gap.” Those memories date to childhood for During a walking tour of Jayhawk Ragan, a’64, g’92, a Lawrence native who Boulevard April 11 for Class of ’64 alumni lives in Independence, Mo. By the time he attending their 50th reunion, Ragan and his came to the Hill to study architecture, the classmates admired nine trees planted near stately trees were dying, felled by Dutch Watson Library and Stauer-Flint Hall that elm disease. But the strong feelings they morning by student volunteers, a dozen still evoke suggest that buildings and flowering crab apples set into the Fraser streets aren’t the only historic elements Hall lawn last year, and 10 redbuds from that make KU a place to cherish and Replant Mount Oread’s first event, on Center for Sustainability Director Je Severin preserve: The landscape is also a big part of Arbor Day 2012. highlights Replant Mount Oread eorts to close Mount Oread’s character and appeal—and The tour ended with a stop at the newly the campus tree gap; Emma Donachie explains the central focus for Replant Mount Oread, reconstructed western section of Jayhawk the coming challenges posed by pests such as a program launched in 2012 by the Campus Boulevard, where young elms—hybrid the emerald ash borer. Tree Advisory Board to help keep campus species resistant to Dutch elm disease— environs beautiful. and a diverse mix of other tree species will The initiative sponsors planting events form the beginnings of a new canopy. students to help with planting—taking on campus each spring and is working to “The reconstruction provides the advantage of strong backs while also build a “tree bank” to replace trees lost plantings along the boulevard, but the encouraging strong KU ties. every year to weather, disease or age. Replant project helps fill in the other spaces “The students get excited about it and “There’s a tradition of tree planting at that are missed,” Severin says. “The even name the trees they plant,” Severin KU,” says Je Severin, c’01, g’11, director of campus master plan includes a real focus says. “I think they get a really strong the Center for Sustainability. The tradition on the landscape and on pedestrian connection to that part of the landscape, runs back to a special University holiday pathways; what Replant does is help because they know it’s something they Chancellor James Marvin declared in 1878 enhance those elements. You can put in contributed to.” to allow faculty and students to plant a nice sidewalk for students, but projects Emma Donachie, an Americorps saplings in the area we now call Marvin like Replant make sure it’s eventually a volunteer at Clinton State Park who Grove. “There have been waves of plantings nice shaded walk with a nice landscape graduates in May with an environmental since,” Severin notes. along it as well.” studies degree, pointed to a crab apple tree A monthlong fund drive this in the shadow of Fraser and told the alumni spring raised more than $11,000, group, “I planted that one last year. Its including a significant contribution name is Bud.” from School of Business professors Emma and her fellow students won’t see STEVE PUPPE (3) STEVE Douglas May, c’81, and Catherine the trees grow much during their time on Schwoerer honoring May’s late the Hill. “But it doesn’t matter to them,” father, Wallace May, g’70, PhD’78, Severin says. “They really understand the an associate dean of Continuing value of providing this for future Education and adjunct professor of generations of Jayhawks.” communication studies who planted And maybe someday they’ll return, to more than 1,000 trees in his appreciate new cathedrals of shade on a lifetime. campus that still feels like home. David and Ann Ragan Replant Mount Oread enlists —Steven Hill

ISSUE 3, 2014 | 29 True Crime A lawyer’s successful search for a missing court case sets straight the crooked tale of Frank and Jesse James

By Steven Hill

Jesse James we understand “ e clerk told me I was crazy, that it Has killed many a man didn’t exist,” says Muehlberger, c’78, l’82, He robbed the Union trains “and if it had existed it had been stolen or He stole from the rich preserved [elsewhere] because anything And gave to the poor related to Frank or Jesse was long gone He’d a hand and a heart and a brain from their les.” “ e Ballad of Jesse James” But Muehlberger—a former Johnson County prosecutor who now defends corporate clients as a partner at Shook, ames Muehlberger was down to Hardy & Bacon (SHB) in Kansas City— the nal day of his three-month looked anyway. As eresa Hamilton, sabbatical, and the county clerk’s deputy for the Circuit Court of Daviess oce in Gallatin, Mo., was due to County, began buttoning up the oce for Jclose in 5 minutes. He had spent the past the weekend, he raced to nish one last week hunkered down in the dusty oce, le drawer. ere, at the very back of the riing through drawer aer drawer of drawer, he recognized the prize he sought, legal les. Now it was 4:25 on a Friday, a dusty, barely legible folder that he’s and he still hadn’t found the document he convinced no one has seen since 1870: the was searching for. In fact, he’d been told lawsuit le for Daniel Smoote v. Frank and he wouldn’t nd it. Jesse James.

The Lost Cause: The Trials of Frank and Jesse James by James Muehlberger Westholme Publishing, $24.95

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ISSUE 3, 2014 | 31 e discovery of the lost lawsuit was one slip of a town harboring 300 pioneers, and in a series that led to Muehlberger’s book, walked into the bank around noon. e Lost Cause: e Trials of Frank and One of the riders, thought to be Jesse, Jesse James, a thoroughly researched and asked to change a bank note. Capt. John

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (3) OF CONGRESS LIBRARY carefully argued chronicle of the decade- Sheets, a Union o cer during the Civil long quest to bring to justice one of the War, went to fetch the change. When he most feared—and revered—outlaw gangs returned, James drew a revolver from in the West. e Kansas City Star named it under his coat and shot him once in the one of the best 100 books of 2013, and the heart and once in the head. New York Times Book Review credited e men grabbed a metal box from Muehlberger for creating a story that is Sheets’ desk and ed—but not before “equal parts violent melodrama and exchanging gunre with several citizens. meticulous procedural, wrapped in vivid e getaway was less than smooth. Jesse packages with enough bloody action to was thrown and dragged through the engage readers enthralled by tales of good Gallatin streets by his horse, a high-strung versus evil.” thoroughbred spooked by the gunre. He’d Don’t be fooled by the book’s cover: e have been stranded but for the second jacket features a sepia-toned photograph rider—assumed at the time to be Jesse’s of a erce, pistol-brandishing Jesse James, brother Frank—who turned back to save but the true heroes are the lawyers who his hide. e two thundered out of town took on the infamous Missouri outlaw and on one horse, but soon stopped to steal a his brother Frank. second mount. e man whose horse they “I think the initial tug for me was when took at gunpoint was Daniel Smoote. I found out this brave young lawyer, who Early reports treated the crime as a had been a lawyer all of one year, led a bank robbery, and the abandoned mare lawsuit against Frank and Jesse James,” (later found calmly munching hay in the says Muehlberger, who spent the sabbati- livery stable) was recognized as a heralded “Finding that was probably the most cal that SHB grants attorneys every six racehorse named Kate, known to belong to exciting thing I’ve done as a lawyer,” he year researching the story. “He’s told that one Jesse Woodson James of Kearney, Mo. says. “Part of what I do is spend months or Jesse is going to kill him, and Jesse does But a witness reported that the gunman years looking for the smoking gun try to kill him—twice. who killed Sheets had said, “is is for the document that’s going to make my case, or “I don’t know if I, as a civil lawyer, had death of Bill Anderson!” before he pulled trying to nd witnesses who don’t want to been warned the other side was going to the trigger. Pro-Confederacy newspapers be found. Basically I used the same sort of kill me for ling a lawsuit, then actually soon began to frame the shooting as a skills I developed over 30 years of being a shot at me ...” heroic revenge killing. lawyer and applied it here.” Muehlberger, who saw his fair share of To this day, Muehlberger says, the e nd conrmed a story Muehlberger courtroom “mean mugging” from motivation for the crime is still debated. had heard around SHB’s Kansas City dagger-eyed defendants as a prosecutor, “Some historians think Frank and Jesse headquarters, that a lawyer named Henry lets his voice trail o as he considers the rode to Gallatin in 1869 to rob the bank,” McDougal, associated with a founding grim implications of the scenario he has he says. “I think they rode up to murder partner of the high-prole rm, had once outlined. who they thought was Major Cox, a sued the notorious Missouri outlaws. “Frankly,” he says of his fellow lawyer, “it former Union o cer.” e case and the crime that spurred it— took a lot of bravery to continue.” Samuel P. Cox was a veteran of the the murder of a former Union o cer and Indian wars experienced in guerrilla Gallatin bank clerk named John Sheets— tactics when he was assigned in 1864 to marked the rst time the James brothers It was his brother Frank lead nearly 300 Federal cavalry to kill gained notoriety for their crimes, and at robbed the Gallatin bank Bloody Bill Anderson, among the most the media attention was the beginning of And carried the money from the town feared and notorious of the Missouri the enduring Wild West legend of Jesse It was in this very place bushwhackers. Anderson had ridden with James as a “noble robber,” a chivalrous at they had a little race William Quantrill during his 1863 raid on farm boy who fought for Southern honor For they shot Capt. Sheets to the ground Lawrence, and he was known for his brutal during the Civil War and aer was driven tactics, which included scalping his to crime to battle corrupt pro-Union e particulars of the case are this: On victims. Among the men who rode with politicians. Dec. 7, 1869, two men rode into Gallatin, a Anderson was a teenaged Jesse James.

32 | KANSAS ALUMNI Muehlberger believes the killers mistook Capt. Sheets for Maj. Cox that December “We know that Jesse rarely used words day in Gallatin. “Cox could’ve been Sheets’ double; they more than one syllable and most of could’ve been brothers,” he says. “Both those he misspelled. He was no Robin worked in the only brick buildings on the town square, 100 feet apart.” In fact, the Hood. He was just a hood.” two men were reportedly talking in front —James Muehlberger of the bank when the two strangers asked a passerby where they could nd Sheets. Like a trial lawyer presenting his case to a jury, Muehlberger builds a fact-by-fact who led a motion to dismiss. When that “very readable” story that fans of popular argument for this conclusion and for his failed, they didn’t show up to defend history will enjoy. But there’s more. larger rebuttal of the Jesse James legend in themselves, knowing they’d be arrested for “For the serious historian, it’s a book e Lost Cause. Neither Jesse nor Frank the murder of Sheets. they’ll want to have on their bookshelf,” he ever stood trial for the murder of Sheets. is we know because of Muehlberger’s says. “Jim adds a lot of scholarship to that (In fact, Muehlberger believes Frank was dogged detective work in nding a period. He’s done serious historical work.” not in Gallatin that day; the accomplice long-buried lawsuit few believed existed. was likely another member of the James- “A lot of times the information is out Younger Gang.) e only justice Jesse there but it’s just never been uncovered,” Jesse James had a wife James ever faced—for any of his crimes— says Tim Rues, site administrator at To mourn for his life was for stealing Daniel Smoote’s horse. Constitution Hall in Lecompton and one ree children, they were brave Determined to recoup his loss, Smoote of several professional historians Muehl- But history does record approached all eight of Gallatin’s lawyers, berger consulted for the book. “Jim is a at coward Robert Ford but only McDougal agreed to represent very meticulous researcher, being in the Has laid poor Jesse in his grave him. e suit sought attachment of the legal profession, a tenacious and very thoroughbred Kate to satisfy the loss of intelligent researcher, and he just works Smoote’s horse, saddle and bridle, valued hard at it and makes these discoveries.” e Lost Cause is a skillful narrative: at $173.50. e brothers hired a lawyer, Rues praises Muehlberger for craing a Starting with the dramatic killing of John Sheets, Muehlberger backtracks to set the crime in the context of the bloody Border War between Jayhawkers and bushwhack- ers that gave rise to brazen outlaws like the James-Younger Gang—and to unshakable defenders of law and order like Henry McDougal, himself a veteran of the Civil War. “Calling McDougal just a lawyer is like calling Doc Holliday just a dentist,” Muehlberger says. “He’d killed several Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. He received wounds. He guarded a notorious outlaw, John Reno, with a shotgun and a Colt revolver at the Gallatin jail. He was a tough guy.” For Muehlberger, the payo for unravel- ing McDougal’s role is the opportunity to set straight the crooked history of Frank and Jesse James and tell a dierent kind of Wild West tale, one in which the members of the profession he’s dedicated his life to Jesse James’ death in 1882 (top left) only added to his legend, which was celebrated in folk songs are the true heroes. and popular lithographs like the one above, showing the James homestead, the house where Jesse “When you think about Frank and Jesse, was shot and the church where funeral services were held. you think about brutally ecient, cold-

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A jury stacked with Democrats and Confederate war veterans made acquittal a foregone conclusion in Frank James’ 1883 “trial of the century” in Gallatin, Mo. Frank (at age 55) enjoyed a successful career in the thoroughbred horse racing industry until his death in 1915.

blooded murderers,” Muehlberger says. publishing letters purportedly written by people, and even then they had to turn “You don’t think about the true facts: at James that burnished Jesse’s image as a people away. It turns out to be a Confeder- Jesse was so inept that he takes a racehorse Robin Hood whose crimes were motivated ate reunion; all of Quantrill’s former to a gunght, and but for his accomplice by politics and charity. Muehlberger’s raiders are there, many packing circling back would have been shot down analysis of the letters atly rejects the idea weapons.” then and there. en you have a lawyer that Jesse wrote them by comparing their James’ legal dream team of seven who uses the law in the only successful hyperbolic literary style with letters the lawyers included a commissioner of the “I want to stay involved. I want to stay attached instance that I’m aware of to actually bring third-grade dropout was known to have Missouri Supreme Court, a sitting U.S. justice to one of Jesse James’ victims.” written. “We know that Jesse rarely used congressman and a former lieutenant to the University in whatever way possible, e judgment against the brothers was words more than one syllable and most of governor. Gov. Crittenden himself an early victory in the region’s struggle to those he misspelled,” he says. “He was no contradicted the state’s star witness while so I support it as much as I can.” establish law and order. Muehlberger Robin Hood. He was just a hood.” testifying for the defense. No one was hopes his book marks a win for fact over Aer winning his civil case against the surprised when James was acquitted. —Rob Riggle, c’93, Proud Member, Actor and Comedian ction. James brothers, McDougal spent a decade e Gallatin trial of Frank James “was e Gallatin killing had caught the eye working with Pinkerton detectives and not merely an episode in the story of the of John Newman Edwards, editor of the lawyers such as William Wallace to break James-Younger Gang, as most historians Kansas City Times and a devotee of the up the James-Younger Gang and bring its have treated it,” Muehlberger writes. “ e concept of e Lost Cause, a revisionist members to justice. Jesse was killed in verdict was also the rst, and perhaps the Tell us why you are a PROUD MEMBER! history of the Confederacy that contends 1882 by Robert Ford (with the nancial most important, victory for those commit- Thank you for your loyalty. the Civil War (the War Between the States, backing and blessing of Missouri governor ted to the Lost Cause myth.” as Lost Cause advocates would have it) omas Crittenden), but McDougal and Muehlberger hopes his book counters www.kualumni.org/proudmember was fought to protect state’s rights and Wallace nally brought Frank to trial in that myth by disproving, once and for all, Southern honor, not slavery. “Edwards August 1883 for a murder committed that Jesse James had any motivation other embraced the legend,” Muehlberger writes, during a train robbery near Gallatin. than selshness and greed for robbing “and he decided he could cast Jesse James “It was O.J.,” Muehlberger says of the banks and trains and killing anyone who as the postwar embodiment of the Lost outsized interest in the trial, which he stood in his way. Cause ... a noble soldier turned political vividly recaps in the book’s penultimate “He didn’t give his money to the poor; criminal, a defender of a Southern chapter. “ e courtroom couldn’t hold he spent it on fast horses and beer and tradition of honor, family, and friendship.” everybody, so they moved it to the loose women,” Muehlberger says. “He was Edwards began writing editorials and Gallatin opera house, which held 300 just a murderer with a press agent.” Everything we do strengthens KU 34 | KANSAS ALUMNI “I want to stay involved. I want to stay attached to the University in whatever way possible, so I support it as much as I can.” —Rob Riggle, c’93, Proud Member, Actor and Comedian

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Core Strengths

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI s unprepossessing as the building may seem at rst glance, Wescoe AHall is the heart of the humanities at the University of Kansas. Its broad concrete plaza has been home to skateboarders and poetry readings, and on bright spring mornings, clouds of students gather here to read and talk and think—and to nish up their homework at the last minute. Behind the glass entrance doors, in classes on aesthetics and philosophy, deconstructionism and demagoguery, students debate values and ethics, and discuss nothing less than their place in the world.

by Jennifer Lawler Core Strengths Humanities hone skill sets that support richly varied careers

ISSUE 3, 2014 | 37 Danny Anderson, a faculty member since 1988, became dean of the College in 2010. As a STEVE PUPPE STEVE professor of Spanish, he incorporates service learning into his classes, developing methods used by KU’s Center for Teaching Excellence.

focus is on outcomes that meet six key goals: • Critical thinking and quantitative literacy • Communication • Breadth of knowledge • Culture and diversity • Social responsibility and ethics • Integration and creativity

“ e study of humanities is about ut pursuing a degree in the humani- of diversity and other cultures.” And even values,” Anderson says. “KU Core rein- Bties has always come with a side order (sounding a great deal more business forces the values of humanities education.” of skepticism from parents, friends and school than one would expect), “I gured ese values, such as integrating knowl- fellow students. “What can you do with a out how to be part of a team.” edge and thinking creatively, are found not college degree in [ll in the blank]?” they ese skills happen to be the concepts only in the humanities but also in courses ask. e question is practical, and the around which KU Core has been built. KU across a variety of disciplines. assumption is that a degree in humanities Core is the undergraduate curriculum KU Core classes require students to is not. redesign that was implemented in the fall learn and demonstrate the skills encom- Nothing could be further from the 2013 semester. Danny J. Anderson, g’82, passed in the six goals. Because a variety of truth. PhD’85, dean of the College of Liberal experiences, such as study abroad and Ask a group of humanities majors how Arts and Sciences, explains that the new internships, can help students meet the their course of study has helped them professionally, and you hear the same responses over and over: “I learned how to think critically.” “I built my communica- tion skills.” “I unlocked my ability to work creatively.” “I began to appreciate the value COURTESY RANDY ATTWOOD RANDY COURTESY

Randy Attwood

38 | KANSAS ALUMNI goals, “students aren’t just checking o asking, ‘What are you going to do with boxes,” Anderson says. “ ey’re relating to that?’” he says. the world.” Everyone with a humanities degree has Relating to the world. at’s as accurate heard some variation on this theme, and a denition of the purpose of a humanities each answers in a dierent way. Attwood, education as one might nd. But what c’69, became a newspaper reporter and about the value of a humanities education? editor, eventually writing a column. Later, Sure, we can talk about humanities he went to work for KU as director of “shaping the way we think about the university relations at KU Medical Center. world” but what does that mean in His last job before retirement was media practical terms? Can studying the humani- relations ocer at the Nelson-Atkins ties lead to professional success? Museum of Art. In a time when pundits compare the Ask him how his studies in humanities starting salaries of engineering graduates helped him in his career and he res o a with those of lm studies majors, and series of quick answers. “My work in photographers, designers, layout people. I ever-increasing student loan burdens are philosophy started to pay o when I wrote understood composition. We had no in the news, it can be hard to see that editorials. ey should be reasoned pieces, trouble talking to each other. at’s from many humanities alumni have put their and I learned how to do that in my my humanities background. When I humanities degrees to good use—and not philosophy classes. I started a column, worked in university relations, we had a just in feel-good or abstract ways, but in which was from my humanities magazine that I think I improved greatly. I very practical and concrete terms. background.” loved to write about scientic research. I Randy Attwood is one of those gradu- e examples keep coming. “ at had the ability to translate scientic ates. He looks back over the course of a column helped me become managing research for the lay person. at comes long career and can attest to the value of editor at Olathe Daily News, where I from my humanities background.” the art history degree he earned from KU assembled what I think was the best news Now retired, Attwood writes novels 45 years ago. “I remember my father team in Kansas. I got along great with (Curiosity Quills recently published Tortured Truths and Heart Chance). He’s still using what he learned all those years ago every single day. “ e variety of what I write about, that’s from my humanities background. A lot of people have great

COURTESY SUE NOVAK COURTESY memory for images and they remember the dates. I didn’t have a good memory for that. But I learned a way of thinking about things and questioning. A question is more interesting than an answer.” To the chorus of humanities majors whose fathers wondered why they didn’t get a degree that would help them make money, add Susan Strickland Novak, g’92, PhD’12, who earned a master’s degree in Slavic languages and a doctorate in communication studies from KU and now holds a professorship at the State Univer- sity of New York at Potsdam. “People ask, ‘What can my kid do with a humanities degree?’’’ Novak says. “ e answer is, what can’t you do? Everything you learn you can apply to something else. It teaches you how to think critically but broadly. It doesn’t ask people to change beliefs or morals but it opens you up to what else is out there.” Over the course of her career, Novak has Sue Novak

ISSUE 3, 2014 | 39 “It taught me to be able to connect with people more easily,” he says. “ at goes a STEVE PUPPE STEVE long way in the music scene. I get asked constantly if I can hook people up with a job like this. But it is such a niche market. ey want to know you rsthand before they hire you. If they can’t talk to you, why are they going to hire you?” It’s no small thing to do the work he does for these bands. “When they’re on the road, I am their source of income,” Brabender says. “ e majority of the money they make on the road comes directly from me.” It doesn’t get much more practical than that. For all their practical value, it’s true that career prospects with a humanities degree aren’t always immediately apparent to the students who pursue them. Jennifer Foster, c’03, g’10, who earned her KU degrees in Quinn Brabender religious studies, certainly didn’t know what she’d do with her degree aer had a wide variety of jobs—including videos for the company,” he says. But the graduation. But she says that even so, she retail sales and archaeology. Having a rest of the time, he tours with bands as knew “my degree would help me under- humanities background has helped her their merchandiser. He also makes some stand our world in ways that many others succeed in all these places. She points out videos and takes photos for the bands to wouldn’t be able to.” that it’s a career asset to be exible, post to their websites and social media Her comments echo back to Attwood’s something that studying the humanities outlets. “People love seeing musicians experience when she says, “I was thrilled helps a person become. “If you have a doing funny stu,” he says. to learn that there was no one correct specialized degree, for example, you may You wouldn’t necessarily see the answer to the ‘big’ questions. While I had be trained to do very specic things. If you connection between selling T-shirts and always been good at mathematics and lost your job, you might be suited for only writing poetry or making lms, but chemistry, I oentimes got bored because jobs that need these specic skills, and Brabender does. “ e collaborative aspects I knew there was always an answer, even if maybe one isn’t available. With humani- of English and of lm forced me to step I hadn’t gured it out yet.” For Foster, like ties, people are exible. ey can apply outside of my shell,” he says, pointing out Attwood, the questions are more interest- their skills in a variety of dierent elds.” that in creative writing classes, critique ing than the answers. at sounds so ... practical. Quinn and peer review are essential processes. In Foster recently began a new position Brabender, c’12, a lm and media studies lm, you work with a variety of people of with the International Secretariat at major who has a minor in English, would dierent aptitudes and motivations. Amnesty International. She is based in agree. Nairobi, Kenya, and is the global relief At KU he took a music video class that coordinator. “I collaborate with Amnesty turned out to be a dening point for him. International sta around the world to “I have a deep passion for music and the provide relief and support to human rights music scene in Lawrence, and I wanted to defenders and victims of human rights be able to produce video content for abuses worldwide,” she says. Previously, bands. Everyone who was there [in the she worked in refugee resettlement. class] wanted to be there. We were all “My degree has actually helped me working on each other’s projects together. tremendously with my work. Religious at’s where I learned about teamwork.” persecution was something that I spent Teamwork is a concept that crops up quite a lot of time studying in my graduate again and again when Brabender talks program, and my work with refugees about his work. Much of the time, he relates directly to that. My degree has works for a body jewelry company. “I do helped me nd common ground with the art and Photoshop stu and make goofy people I serve and collaborate with, and

40 | KANSAS ALUMNI my ability to converse with them about friends a er he made a point to check on culturally relevant topics puts them at ease me a er class, and we continued our in particularly uncomfortable situations.” magic bowl debate for a while a er the One memory of her studies sticks out in class ended. We’ve been good friends ever Foster’s mind. “ough I can’t remember since!” exactly what sparked the debate, I got into Proving the value of that humanities a rather heated exchange with Dr. [Paul] education isn’t just in its practical aspects, Mirecki over magic bowls, which are but in the very many ways in which such bowls that people would write incanta- studies enrich all aspects of a person’s life. tions in, ll with water or liquid, and Danny Anderson asks, “Where else can we imbibe with the purpose of drinking the do that in life—participate in those incantation. It ended up being quite funny, conversations, study those readings, and particularly because I got so hopped up spend time in reection—if not at over something rather minor. What was college?” great about it was that Professor Mirecki At KU, that “where” isn’t just an allowed me to get mied and frustrated, abstraction. It’s a broad plaza in front of and encouraged me to argue with him Wescoe Hall. Big enough for everyone rather than quash my disagreement.” who wants to be there—and the perfect e story ends with a twist that will place to get into a heated debate about leave every humanities major nodding in magic bowls, and to prepare for wherever recognition. e magic bowl incident is life might take you. one she still laughs over with a friend. “My —Lawler, c’88, g’94, PhD’96, is a friend was also in the class, though he Eudora freelance writer and frequent wasn’t my friend until that day. We became contributor to Kansas Alumni. COURTESY JENNIFER FOSTER COURTESY

Jennifer Foster

ISSUE 3, 2014 | 41 Association STEVE PUPPE STEVE LEAH KOHLMAN (4) LEAH KOHLMAN

Then and now who have passed their 50th class anniver- sary—enjoyed brunch at the Adams Chance to recall old KU and Alumni Center with the chancellor and celebrate new developments School of Business Dean Neeli Bendapudi, PhD’95, who shared a progress report on draws alumni to spring reunions the school’s new building construction. Returning alumni welcomed the mix of ours, talks and a timely burst of old friends and news updates, says class Tglorious spring weather welcomed president Jerald Pullins, b’64. more than 200 Jayhawks and guests to “ e highlight for me was spending Mount Oread April 10-12 for the Class of time talking to the chancellor and learning ’64 and Gold Medal Club reunions. her views,” says Pullins, who returns oen Before receiving their 50-year pins from to campus from his New Canaan, Conn., Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little in the home. “She spent a whole evening with us, Kansas Union Ballroom Friday night, ’64 pitched right in and had a lot to say. I graduates lunched with students and already have a good sense of what’s going enjoyed bus tours of Lawrence historic on, but it was reinforced, that the Univer- sites and campus, as well as a walking tour sity is keeping up and staying on top of of Jayhawk Boulevard that highlighted its game.” campus beautication eorts, including Alumni savored the chance to celebrate new trees planted just that morning by the opportunities KU created for them, students as part of the Replant Mount Pullins says. Oread’s landscaping initiative. “I had probably the greatest four years Saturday brought an Allen Field House of my life at KU, so I have great feelings tour and tailgate before the KU-TCU about it. I was really looking forward Reunions included a campus tour, visits from baseball game for the Class of ’64, while to the reunion, and I was not Baby Jay, brunch for the Gold Medal Club and 128 Gold Medal Club members—alumni disappointed.” the pinning ceremony for the 50-year class.

42 | KANSAS ALUMNI A NOTE FROM KEVIN And, they’re o!

Association sta gears up ROMBECK TERRY Derby-themed fun enlivens for ’Hawk Days of Summer Rock Chalk Ball

s we prepare to welcome the Class of n overow eld of more than 900 A2014 to the alumni family, we’re Aassembled for the call to post April 26 nalizing the itinerary for the fourth at Jayhawk Downs—otherwise known as edition of ’Hawk Days of Summer. the Overland Park Convention Center— Association sta members will crisscross for the 19th-annual Rock Chalk Ball. Kansas and the nation, teaming up with is year’s Kentucky Derby theme set local alumni volunteers to host 100 events aside—at least for one festive evening— in 90 days. We hope you will participate in the event’s black-tie formality, as women activities and invite fellow Jayhawks, dazzled with their fabulous hats and men including alumni and students, to be part paraded in colorful bow ties and seer- of the community. sucker suits. Of course, summer events are also a Corbett “I think this year was special because we great opportunity to welcome members of reached a much wider audience not having the Class of 2014 who are moving to your we continue to strengthen KU through our it be traditional black tie,” says Betsy cities for new jobs—and recruit prospec- powerful network of graduates. Winetroub, c’05, the Association’s assistant tive students who can get a glimpse of the In a state of less than 3 million people, director for Kansas City programs. “I was KU experience and learn about scholar- KU has become one of the most presti- blown away by how much support the ship opportunities. gious academic institutions in the theme got. At least two-thirds of the Your membership makes all of these nation—made so by generations of alumni attendees were in derby attire, and the hats programs possible. anks to your help, and friends who stay involved and give were phenomenal. It changed the atmo- we have increased our reach to include back. Your advocacy helps KU secure state sphere to be very light-hearted and fun. I more than 450 events and 55,000 alumni funding, recruit the most talented students don’t know if we’ll necessarily do it every and friends each year. We are grateful for in Kansas and beyond, and guarantee that year, but it did make this one special.” your loyalty, and we hope you will urge the KU experience and traditions con- Rock Chalk Ball’s honorary chairs were other Jayhawks to join the Association as tinue. ank you—and Rock Chalk! Todd, assoc., and Laura Sutherland. Mark

Rock Chalk rally STEVE PUPPE (2) STEVE

Thousands of KU fans came out to cheer on the men’s basketball team in St. Louis during the NCAA Tournament. Although the team exited sooner rather than later, faithful fans were happy to salute the Jayhawks for their 10th-consecutive Big 12 Conference championship.

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Frutiger, b’01, served as Rock Chalk Ball travel sponsored by Executive AirShare. committee chair for the Association’s Also in the live auction, ve seat-back Kansas City Chapter. Steve Doocy, j’79, tickets to a men’s basketball game of the co-host of “Fox & Friends” on the Fox winner’s choice, plus a catered dinner at News Channel, was the event’s special the Adams Alumni Center, brought guest and emcee. $5,000, and a basketball signed by Wilt e Sutherlands’ involvement as KU Chamberlain, ’59, sold for $2,100. friends continues a family tradition. “Jayhawk Downs,” depicted in a custom “We’ve lived in Lawrence 25 years, and my backdrop created for the event by Illusions folks all went to KU,” Todd says. “It’s Productions, set partygoers in a festive important to me to volunteer for the mood, and e Michael Beers Band kept Alumni and Endowment associations and the dance oor packed until midnight. the Medical Center. Red-carpet runway photos of all guests “Everyone did a great job of preparing and dozens of party pics can be seen at for the ball, and people enjoyed the theme, kualumni.org/events/rock-chalk-ball. especially the chance to wear something e 20th Rock Chalk Ball is set for April other than black tie. Kansas City is our 25, 2015, in the resplendent Grand largest alumni base, and the ball is a great Ballroom of the Kansas City Convention celebration.” Center, with a glorious view overlooking In keeping with the the Kauman Center for the Performing Association’s mission to Arts and downtown Kansas City, Mo. For strengthen KU, Rock Chalk more information, contact Winetroub at Ball proceeds will be used [email protected] or call the to enhance and expand Association at 800-584-2957. outstanding alumni pro- grams that unite Jayhawks, provide networking opportunities, and engage alumni in student recruitment and other advocacy on behalf of KU. e fundraising that bene ts Associa- tion programs began with a silent auction of 130 items, including original artwork by John Gaunt, dean of KU’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning. Nigro Brothers, Kansas City’s famous charity auctioneers, led the live auction, which peaked with a winning bid of $17,000 for an all-inclusive trip for four to the 2015 Kentucky Derby, including private jet

44 | KANSAS ALUMNI Photographs by Steve Puppe It was all about the hats!

Rock Chalk Ball chairs Todd and Laura Sutherland (p.44) chatted with emcee Steve Doocy during the VIP reception. Student leaders Elizabeth Rupp and Wilson Hack tended the silent auction tables, while Caleb Bobo chatted with guests. The ballroom at the Overland Park Convention Center was transformed with a custom-painted backdrop for “Jayhawk Downs,” along with miniature horse favors and other flair. Venkata and Neeli Bendapudi, Sharon and Je‹ Vitter, and Becky and Harry Gibson looked picture-perfect in their derby attire. (This page) Former men’s basketball standout Scot Pollard attended with his wife, Dawn. Kevin Corbett and Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little spoke about the Association’s need for support during the live auction, and the evening was Guests had great fun with Rock capped o‹ with dancing to the Michael Beers Band. Chalk Ball’s derby-inspired theme, “Jayhawks and Juleps.” Gals sported hats of all shapes and colors, and even the guys got in on the action with bow ties and seersucker suits. Download your party photos at: http://stevepuppe.zenfolio.com/ rockchalkball2014 Association

Life Members Clever creator e Association thanks these Jayhawks, who began their Life memberships May 1 through June 30. For information, visit pecial kudos to Alyce kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957. SFawkes Mason, f’52, SUSAN YOUNGER SUSAN who designed six derby Travis O. Abicht & Elise Anne Vincent G. & Valerie Howard hats for the Rock Chalk Abicht Burke Ball’s silent auction. Her John G. Adams John A. & Juli Ramsey Burnett creations were big hits at Constance A. Adkisson Stephen C. & Janelle L. Burns “Jayhawks and Juleps,” Patricia A. All Eric E. Canada raising more than $500 Alex M. Anderson Marta G. Christie for the ball. James M. & Vera Mears Baker Michael C. Clark She and her husband, Steve J. Bannister Ryan M. & Katherine Flax Jim, c’51, g’52, have been Gay E. Barnes Collette longtime supporters of Jana Jo Barry David F. & Amy Davis Rock Chalk Ball, dating John B. Bates Coopman back to the first year, in David T. Breece Emma K. Currie 1996, when Alyce Joshua E. Brown Karen L. Davis designed Jayhawk Ryan P. Browne Maria A. DeBlaze topiary centerpieces for Mark A. Buhler Gregory W. Denton the inaugural event. Bruce R. Buhr Donna M. Dietz Richard K. & Georgia S. Burke Caitlin R. Donnelly

Capture the essence of KU with a Class Ring

Choose from a variety of styles, available in 10K, 14K yellow or white gold. The inside of the ring is forged with “Rock Chalk Jayhawk,” and can also be engraved with the graduate’s initials, degree and class year. A special presentation box is included.

For more information visit www.kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957.

46 | KANSAS ALUMNI Bodo Doose John T. & Ashley Million Everything we do strengthens KU. Your member- Derek D. Dummermuth Nguyen ship in the KU Alumni Association is the single most powerful way Megan E. Dunmire Linh T. Nguyen to make all of KU stronger, including the value of your own degree. Kirsten B. Felgate Marci A. Nordhues n DIRECTORS TO 2018 Craig Ferguson Alexandra L. Null Board of Directors John W. Ballard III, b’73, Overland Park, n Carol Finetti-McFall Larkin O’Keefe CHAIR Kansas Tony Gallardo David A. Peacock Je Kennedy, j’81, Wichita Aaron R. Brinkman, j’98, Dallas, Texas Erin M. Gilmore Sean D. Pederson n CHAIR-ELECT Debi Dennis Duckworth, d’79, Houston, Andrew J. Glatt Lori M. Petrowski-Brown Camille Bribiesca Nyberg, c’96, g’98, Texas Stephanie Y. Goings Michael E. Prangle Wichita Jill Simpson Miller, d’01, Webb City, Tad A. & Kerry A. Gomez Mindy R. Pressman Missouri n EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Peter E. & Lindsay Ace Goss Susan Frederick Ralston Ray D. Evans, b’82, g’84, Leawood Jerry D. Skillett, b’81, Altadena, Dwight D. & Karen Downard Joseph E. Reber Je Kennedy, j’81, Wichita California Haley John M. Rei Douglas C. Miller, b’71, l’74, Gregory L. Hanson Douglas A. & Lori K. Rockers Mission Hills Administrative Sta Charles R. & Anita Swager Daniel J. Sanchez Debbie Foltz Nordling, d’79, Hugoton n PRESIDENT Harrison Stephen E. Scheve Camille Bribiesca Nyberg, c’96, g’98, Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 Brandon W. Hatch Micca M. Schneider Wichita n Collin Hermreck Brian D. & Stacia Donovan ALUMNI CENTER Richard E. Putnam, c’77, l’80, Timothy E. Brandt, b’74, Director of Dat Q. Hoang Sheern Omaha, Nebraska Adams Alumni Center Andrew R. Johns & Justine Timothy B. & Theresa Farrell Scott R. Seyfarth, b’83, Hinsdale, Patton Shmidl Illinois n ALUMNI, STUDENT & MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS Victoria A. Julian Madeline M. Simpson n DIRECTORS TO 2014 Michael Davis, d’84, g’91, Senior Seth Keethler Michael S. & Nancy E. Smith Douglas C. Miller, b’71, l’74, Vice President for Donor and David A. & Jennifer Wight William A. Staggs III Mission Hills Membership Programs Keil Dale J. & Abbey Stockstill Debbie Foltz Nordling, d’79, Hugoton Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09, Marijo Kimbrough Snell Camille Bribiesca Nyberg, c’96, g’98, Vice President of Alumni Programs Monsignor Vince E. Krische Rachel E. Swezy Dallas, Texas Anthony J. Krsnich Gregory B. Thatcher Richard E. Putnam, c’77, l’80, n COMMUNICATIONS Je rey G. Larkin Benjamin C. Thompson Omaha, Nebraska David Johnston, j’94, g’06, Director Heath E. & Shannon Newton Kimberly M. Tonnies Larry D. Stoppel, c’73, Washington of Internet Services and Marketing Chris Lazzarino, j’86, Associate Latham Jamie von Schaumburg n DIRECTORS TO 2015 Editor, Kansas Alumni magazine Erik B. & Ti“ny S. Leon Kirk D. & Tracy Vsetecka Paul L. Carttar, c’76, Lawrence Jennifer Sanner, j’81, Senior Vice Margaret L. Lush Donald R. Watson Scott R. Seyfarth, b’83, Hinsdale, President for Communications and Jean M. Macias Gregory A. Weimholt Illinois Corporate Secretary Brenda Marzett Vann, c’71, g’72, Michael R. Maddox Alex E. & Andrea McGrath Susan Younger, f’91, Creative Director Robert E. Mall Wehner Kansas City Thomas L. McKenzie Robert L. Wenzl Je L. Wolfe, b’83, Meridian, Idaho n DEVELOPMENT Angela Storey, b’04, g’07, Brett R. Meihls Mark P. & Sara Nash Wiehn n DIRECTORS TO 2016 Associate Development Director Joshua K. & Danielle Brian D. Williamson James Bredfeldt, c’70, m’74, Bellevue, Abernethy Merrick Robert E. & Bonnie Ward Washington n FINANCE Mark E. Meyer Williamson John Jeter, c’77, m’81, Hays Jodi Nachtigal, Controller Je A. Mohajir Shelle Hook McCoy, d’73, Topeka Dwight Parman, Senior Vice Joan L. Morrill Lori Anderson Piening, b’92, Austin, President for Finance and Human Russell L. & Sandra S. Muse Texas Resources and Treasurer Mark Randall, j’03, Englewood, n HOSPITALITY SERVICES Colorado Bryan Greve, Senior Vice President n DIRECTORS TO 2017 for Hospitality Donald R. Brada, c’61, m’65, Lawrence n LEGACY RELATIONS Luke B. Bobo, e’82, Ballwin, Joy Larson Maxwell, c’03, j’03, Director Missouri n Kevin E. Carroll, assoc., Palm Beach RECORDS Bill Green, Senior Vice President for Gardens, Florida Information Services Marci K. Deuth, e’05, Washington, D.C. Stefanie Shackelford, Vice President for Gregory E. Ek, b’76, Overland Park Alumni Records

ISSUE 3, 2014 | 47 Special thanks TO OUR LOYAL BENEFACTORS The success of Rock Chalk Ball results in large part from the generosity of our volunteers and benefactors. Thank you for your ardent support of Rock Chalk Ball 2014, the KU Alumni Association and the University of Kansas.

Oread Underwriters ($10,000) John, j’81, l’84, and Suzanne Holt, l’84, Crimson Couples ($500) Executive Airshare with Brad Korell, l’97, and Justin William Bradley Jr., c’77, l’80, Kansas Athletics McNulty and Roberta Hading Ole Jayhawkers Darby, p’96, and Kristen Brown, p’97 Rock Chalk Benefactors ($5,000) Pegasus Capital Management LLC Harry, e’64, g’66, and Becky Gibson, d’64 BKD, LLP Overland Park Regional Medical Center Kevin, a’79, a’80, and Brenda Press KU Endowment Ruf Commercial, LLC—Jay, b’96, e’96, Harden, j’81 and Lori Ruf Mark d’78, and Ann Crump Jarboe, d’78 Jayhawk Benefactors ($2,500) Elizabeth Winetroub, d’71, g’73 Thomas, c’81, and Jennifer Laming Arvest Bank J. Stephen, c’69, g’73, and Kimberly Clay, b’65, g’69, and Janet Blair University Friends ($1,000) Lucas Cobalt Boats KU Cancer Center Joe, b’61, and Susan Morris Steve, c’81, and Kelly Dillman KU Medical Center Ošce of the Vice Dave, e’80, and Vyonne Roland Sandy Emery, d’62 , and Bob Schultze Chancellor Derek, j’90, and Jennifer Shaw Schmidt, Intrust Bank KU Memorial Unions l’94 Jayhawk Sports Marketing KU School of Architecture, Design & Randy Sedlacek, ’79, and Mary Ventura, JE Dunn Planning d’73, g’77 Muller Bressler Brown Advertising KU School of Business Brian, p’96, and Tron Williamson Perceptive Software KU School of Education Edward, b’71, g’72, and Janis Dye Riss, KU School of Engineering Crimson Individual ($250) f’72 KU School of Law Ray Toberlin, b’49 Tom, b’80, and Debbie Ward, j’86 KU Schools of Nursing & Health Professionals Contributors Presidents Club Benefactors ($2,250) KU School of Pharmacy Ronald Allen, ‘80 Deloitte Ošce of the Chancellor Judith Strunk Bowser, d’69 IMA, Inc. Ošce of the Provost/KU Edwards Susan Hollinger, c’56 Johnson Fiss Insurance Campus Michael, e’72, m’75, and Shelle Hook Lewis, c’75, and Laura Gregory, j’75, Ošce of Public AŸairs McCoy, d’73 and Charles, c’75, m’78, and Anne Student AŸairs Delbert and Carol Shankel, g’68 Jones Rhoades William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communication Paul Ehrlich, g’55, PhD’57, received by Karen Goodell Class Notes 55 the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in ecology and biology from the BBVA Foundation. He’s a professor of biology at Stanford University. Paul and Anne Howland Ehrlich, ’56, live in Stanford, Billy Mills, d’62, received the eodore of Downtown Topeka Inc. He and Dana Calif. Roosevelt Award earlier this year from the Rulon Frye, f’73, live in Topeka. NCAA. He owns Billy Mills Enterprises in Stephan Jones, c’71, owns CU Interna- Forrest Hoglund, e’56, received the Fair Oaks, Calif., where he and Patricia tional. He and his wife, Sheryl, live in Lake 56 Linz Award from the Zale Corp. Harris Mills, ’62, make their home. Havasu City, Ariz. and the Dallas Morning News for his civic Jan Marcason, d’71, is president of the service and humanitarian eorts. Forrest Sandra Garvey Crowther, d’64, Missouri Municipal League and a member owns Hoglund Interests in Dallas, where 64 g’69, EdD’77, lives in Lawrence of the Kansas City City Council. he and Sally Roney Hoglund, c’56, make with her husband, Marshall, l’65. Joseph Welch, e’71, chairman, president their home. Fred Gollier, c’64, is a nancial adviser and CEO of ITC Holdings Corp., was for Baird in Kansas City, where he and his named a trustee of Lawrence Technologi- Charles Farnsworth, b’60, wrote wife, Gail, make their home. cal University. He and his wife, Clare, live 60 Whirlwind & Storm, a Civil War in Plymouth, Mich. biography published by iUniverse. Paul Adelgren, c’65, serves as Special thanks Chuck and his wife, Elizabeth, live in 65 pastor of Missionary Alliance Deborah Brient, d’72, directs Berkeley, Calif. Church and lead director for Gladstone 72 museum advancement at the TO OUR LOYAL BENEFACTORS Ronald Lee Friesen, g’62, was the Commercial. He and Janet Baird Adel- Georgia O’Keefe Museum in Santa Fe, 62 2013 recipient of Bluon Univer- gren, ’66, live in Marion, N.C. N.M. The success of Rock Chalk Ball results in large part from the generosity of our volunteers and sity’s Faculty/Sta Service Award. He’s a Steven Drummond, c’72, PhD’82, is benefactors. Thank you for your ardent support of Rock Chalk Ball 2014, professor emeritus of economics at the Patricia Wulf Steinkuehler, d’66, executive editor for history at M.E. Sharpe the KU Alumni Association and the University of Kansas. university, and he lives in Bluon, Ohio, 66 serves on the board of Osher Inc. He lives in Leawood. with his wife, Phyllis. Lifelong Learning Institute at Florida State Charles Spitz, a’72, received the Square University. She lives in Tallahassee. Knot Award from the American Legion Oread Underwriters ($10,000) John, j’81, l’84, and Suzanne Holt, l’84, Crimson Couples ($500) School Codes Letters that follow names Executive Airshare with Brad Korell, l’97, and Justin William Bradley Jr., c’77, l’80, for his long service to the Boy Scouts of indicate the school from which alumni earned Kansas Athletics McNulty and Roberta Hading Max Jackson Jr., c’68, m’72, is chief America. Charlie and Peggy Hundley degrees. Numbers show their class years. Ole Jayhawkers Darby, p’96, and Kristen Brown, p’97 68 medical ocer for the Renown Spitz, f’70, live in Wall Township, N.J. Health Foundation. He and his wife, Rock Chalk Benefactors ($5,000) Pegasus Capital Management LLC Harry, e’64, g’66, and Becky Gibson, d’64 a School of Architecture, BKD, LLP Overland Park Regional Medical Center Kevin, a’79, a’80, and Brenda Press Design and Planning Pamela, make their home in Reno, Nev. Richard Keeler, a’73, is vice KU Endowment Ruf Commercial, LLC—Jay, b’96, e’96, Harden, j’81 b School of Business 73 president and general manager of and Lori Ruf Mark d’78, and Ann Crump Jarboe, d’78 c College of Liberal Arts Timothy Averill, c’69, coaches healthcare facilities for Burns & McDon- Jayhawk Benefactors ($2,500) Elizabeth Winetroub, d’71, g’73 Thomas, c’81, and Jennifer Laming and Sciences 69 debate and chairs the writing nell in Kansas City. He and his wife, Arvest Bank J. Stephen, c’69, g’73, and Kimberly d School of Education department at Waring School in Beverly, Valerie, live in Overland Park. Clay, b’65, g’69, and Janet Blair University Friends ($1,000) Lucas e School of Engineering Mass., where he and Lauren Roberts Cobalt Boats KU Cancer Center Joe, b’61, and Susan Morris f School of Fine Arts Averill, ’70, make their home. Thomas KnauŠ, c’74, is co-founder Steve, c’81, and Kelly Dillman KU Medical Center Ošce of the Vice Dave, e’80, and Vyonne Roland g Master’s Degree Robert Taylor, Sandy Emery, d’62 , and Bob Schultze Chancellor Derek, j’90, and Jennifer Shaw Schmidt, h School of Health Professions c’69, is chairman 74 and managing principal of Jordan, Intrust Bank KU Memorial Unions l’94 j School of Journalism emeritus and founder of Executive Knau & Company in Chicago. Jayhawk Sports Marketing KU School of Architecture, Design & Randy Sedlacek, ’79, and Mary Ventura, l School of Law AirShare Corp. in Kansas City. He and his David McFadden, p’74, works as senior JE Dunn Planning d’73, g’77 m School of Medicine wife, Kathleen, live in Mission Hills. director of clinical research at Gilead Muller Bressler Brown Advertising KU School of Business Brian, p’96, and Tron Williamson n School of Nursing Sciences. He and his wife, Frances, live in Perceptive Software KU School of Education p School of Pharmacy Kay Armstrong Baker, d’70, Westlake Village, Calif. School of Pharmacy Edward, b’71, g’72, and Janis Dye Riss, KU School of Engineering Crimson Individual ($250) PharmD wrote Unspeakable! A Mother’s Rebecca Wodder VanErden, c’74, is s School of Social Welfare 70 f’72 KU School of Law Ray Toberlin, b’49 Journey, published by Outskirts Press. senior adviser to the secretary of the U.S. Tom, b’80, and Debbie Ward, j’86 KU Schools of Nursing & Health u School of Music DE Doctor of Engineering Kay and her husband, John, e’72, live in Department of the Interior in Washington, Professionals Contributors DMA Doctor of Musical Arts Columbia, Md. D.C. She lives in Fairfax Station, Va. Presidents Club Benefactors ($2,250) KU School of Pharmacy Ronald Allen, ‘80 EdD Doctor of Education Brenda Cole Birdsell, d’71, is a Deloitte Ošce of the Chancellor Judith Strunk Bowser, d’69 PhD Doctor of Philosophy Michael Backus, IMA, Inc. Ošce of the Provost/KU Edwards Susan Hollinger, c’56 71 federal investigator with Keypoint d’75, a retired (no letter) Former student Government Solutions. She lives in 75 master trooper for the Kansas Johnson Fiss Insurance Campus Michael, e’72, m’75, and Shelle Hook Associate member of the assoc Bethalto, Ill. Highway Patrol, lives in Bonner Springs Lewis, c’75, and Laura Gregory, j’75, Ošce of Public AŸairs McCoy, d’73 Alumni Association and Charles, c’75, m’78, and Anne Student AŸairs Delbert and Carol Shankel, g’68 Vincent Frye, j’71, is president and CEO with his wife, Sophia. Jones Rhoades William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communication ISSUE 3, 2014 | 49 Class Notes

and Tracy Coon Nohe, j’80, live. James Overell, b’79, is senior vice president of nance and CFO at Draw- bridgeRealty Trust in San Francisco. Scott Stewart, c’79, manages and owns Bird Dog Oil in Denver, where he and his wife, Melinda, make their home.

Robert Gish, m’80, works as 80 medical director of the Hepatitis B Foundation in Doylestown, Pa. William Halvorsen, b’80, l’83, has a law practice in Strong City. His makes his home in Elmdale. Timothy Spencer, c’80, works as a petroleum geologist for Vess Oil in Wichita. He and Barbara Henderson Spencer, ’80, live in Derby. Dorothy Van Buren, c’80, is a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis, where she and her husband, Martin, e’80, live. He’s an engineer for Aon Chemical Corp. Jane Willard, g’80, is a senior geologist at American Engineering Testing in St. Paul, Minn., where she and her husband, Mick Jost, make their home. Howard Baldwin, c’82, is retired in 82 Kansas City. Marcia Miller Gross, f’82, is a resource Saralyn Reece Hardy, c’76, g’94, awarded the 2014 Society of Toxicology librarian for Helix Architecture + Design 76 director of the KU Spencer Museum Public Communications Award for his in Kansas City, where she and her hus- of Art, recently was named the inaugural work in explaining toxicology to people band, Bryan, a’80, make their home. recipient of the Spencer Museum Marilyn outside the academic eld. He’s vice Mark Knackendo el, l’82, g’82, is Stokstad Directorship. She makes her provost for graduate education at the president and CEO of the Trust Company home in Lawrence. Univesity of Washington. David and his of Manhattan. He and Ann Grabill Sheree Johnson, j’76, is founder and wife, Janet, live in Mukilteo. Knackendo el, PhD’89, make their home CEO of SJ Insights in Kansas City. George Wood, g’78, was named interim in Manhattan. Richard Rome, e’76, is president and county manager for Wayne County, N.C. Jonathan Long, c’82, EdD’96, is dean of CEO of CCRD Partners Inc. in Dallas. He lives in Lincolnton. student services at Kansas City Kansas Community College. He and his wife, Jodie Newbold McMahon, c’77, Robert Becker, c’79, PhD’84, Janet Mittenfelner, c’84, l’96, g’96, live in 77 works as technical writer and 79 was appointed vice president Overland Park. project manager for Xander e-Solutions. of biosciences sales and business Dale Schlinsog, g’82, is president of She and her husband, James, assoc., live in development with Particle Sciences. Koch Exploration Co. in Denver. He and Lenexa. He and Ann Adair Becker, b’83, live in Suzanne Prochnow Schlinsog, g’82, make Nazareth, Pa. their home in Evergreen. Charles Babb Jr., a’78, is principal Kirk Goza, c’79, l’82, is a partner in Jorine Butterfield Silcox, g’82, was 78 and co-founder of the Colorado Bartimus, Frickleton, Robertson & Goza named Troop County Teacher of the Year. oce of Metropolitan Capital Advisors in in Leawood, where he and Shirley She teaches h-grade language arts at Greenwood Village. Edmonds Goza, l’82, live. She’s general Franklin Forest Elementary School. She Mason Bolitho, c’78, is principal counsel for QualityTech. and her husband, Inness, make their home geologist at Brown & Caldwell in Phoenix. John Nohe, j’79, owns John Nohe in LaGrange, Ga. David Eaton, PhD’78, m’79, was Advertising in Overland Park, where he Rick Zuroweste, j’82, is senior vice

50 | KANSAS ALUMNI president and chief marketing o cer Nancy Ulrich, l’83, works for the Kansas president and CEO at Aspire Hospital in for Dymatize Nutrition in Dallas. O ce of Legal Services in Topeka. She and Conroe, Texas. He and his wife, Karla, live her husband, Carl Gallagher, c’74, are in Montgomery. Michael Bohn, c’83, recently residents of Lawrence. 83 became director of athletics at the Michael Woods, c’83, m’87, wrote Joel Davidson, c’85, is an emer- University of Cincinnati. Olduvai Countdown, a novel published by 85 gency preparedness capability Steven Foerch, d’83, has been named to AuthorHouse. He is a surgeon and leader for Koch Pipeline Company in the Illinois High School Gymnastics healthcare consultant in Su eld, Conn. Wichita. He and his wife, Karen, live in Coaches Association Hall of Fame. He Andover. teaches science and coaches gymnastics at Rosemary Hope, j’84, c’85, works Ann Waxman Lopez, l’85, has a law Niles West High School in Morton Grove. 84 as a freelance medical writer in practice in Glencoe, Ill., where she and Michael Jones, l’83, is of counsel with Roeland Park, where she and her husband, her husband, Alberto, make their home. Wimberly Lawson Wright Daves & Jones Ray Ruppert, make their home. Michael Place, c’85, is managing in Nashville, Tenn. Jerry Nash, Phd’84, was appointed director of Geosphere Solutions in

PROFILE by Chris Lazzarino STEVE PUPPE STEVE France honors heroic medal representing France’s soldier decades after battle highest honor, given to James by the French consul few hours into the longest night of of Kansas City in an Over- ARoger James’ life, the 20-year-old tank land Park ceremony, joins gunner witnessed what to that moment the Bronze Star and Purple had been unthinkable. Not the intense Heart in James’ prized combat against German tanks and collection of combat awards. infantry. Not terror devices used against “It’s such a strange the Americans, including tank sounds circumstance,” he says. “It piped in over loudspeakers and “Scream- feels like it’s happening to ing Mimi” artillery barrages. Not even his somebody else. I can’t get kill shot on a fearsome Panther tank or accustomed to it, really, but Roger James, Knight of the French Legion of Honor, still holds rescuing two crews of platoonmates who I’m enjoying it.” true to war’s lessons: “After you’ve looked down the muzzle of had ed their disabled tanks. Aer returning from the a [German tank], there’s not much that scares you.” No, the moment that seared its way into war, James enrolled again at James’ heart and soul was watching his KU, nished his journalism tank commander, a brash platoon sergeant degree, married Joan Happy who had once been full of bravado, ip the James, d’50, and took a job with a Kansas ended when a German mortar landed a hatch on their Sherman tank, leap to the City printer; 17 years later, he saw that the few feet from his perch atop his tank, ground and ee the battle. company had failed to modernize its where he was savoring a steak sandwich, “I had learned that the best safety you equipment, so he and a partner bought and shrapnel tore into his helmet and arm. have is to be aggressive, rather than trying out a small rm and established what is But his true war story didn’t end until two to run away,” says James, j’48. “But, that now James Printing, a North Kansas City years ago, when he found strength for his isn’t the same mindset our tank com- company now run by James’ son, nal act of valor: forgiving his sergeant. mander had, because he got out and ran.” Evan, j’78. “I attended a sermon at our church, and For his own heroism and valor, James, Roger James says he has always found I also read a lot, and I realized he had a 90, on March 15 received the French therapeutic value in relating the stories of control over us by that hatred we had for Legion of Honor, 69 years aer the Battle his combat experiences. He formed him. It was consuming us. of Rittershoen, a decisive engagement lifelong friendships with his comrades-in- “I realized I had to forgive this man for near Strasbourg that thwarted what proved arms, and is particularly proud to share his cowardice before I could feel right to be one of the German army’s last the tales of their bravery under re. about what was going on in the world and notable oensives of World War II. e His own combat timeline seemingly my relationship to other people.”

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Wineld, Ill., where he and Nancy He lives in Laguna Beach. James Anderson, g’89, is a PC Johnston Place, g’86, live. Daniel Ward, ’86, recently became chief 89 developer for Dell Perot Systems. Julian Sandino, g’85, PhD’93, is vice of police in Arkansas City. He lives in Omaha. president of the water business group at Maria Diaz, m’89, is medical director for CH2M Hill in Kansas City. He and Gary Gould, e’87, g’91, is vice Molina Healthcare of Florida. She and her Stepanie Learned Sandino, c’82, g’86, live 87 president of resource development husband, omas Owen, live in Davie. in Overland Park. at Continental Resources in Oklahoma Christopher Halsne, j’89, is an investiga- Brian Watson, g’85, is executive director City. He and Elizabeth Kensinger Gould, tive reporter for KDVR-Fox 31 in Denver, of the Cloud L. Cray Foundation in Kansas d’91, make their home in Edmond. where he and Michelle Foran Halsne, ’91, City. He and his wife, Christine, live in make their home. Shawnee Mission. MARRIED Deron O’Connor, b’89, was named Scott Williams, b’85, works as executive Lenise Johnson, p’87, to Michael market president of Commerce Banc- vice president and chief marketing and Mellott, Oct. 12 in Fort Collins, Colo., shares in Hays. e-commerce ocer at Cabela’s in Sidney, where Lenise is a pharmacist at Poudre John Wesley Pope, e’89, is a sales Neb., where he and Amy Chandler Infusion erapy. executive for JDSU in Overland Park. Williams, c’84, make their home. John Wiedeman II, c’89, was named e Rev. Kevin Hopkins, s’88, Illinois Sportscaster of the Year by the James Heiserman, b’86, is vice 88 was named university minister National Sportscasters and Sportswriters 86 president of employee benets at at Baker University. He lives in Association. He’s the play-by-play voice of Sisk & Company in Denver. Leavenworth. Chicago Blackhawks hockey on WGN John Slaughter, g’86, was named county Katharine Irvin, l’88, negotiates con- Radio AM-720. He lives in Wheaton, Ill. manager of Washoe County, Nev. He lives tracts for L-3 Communications. She lives in Reno. in Southern Pines, N.C. Douglas Bukaty, c’90, is vice Gregory Trimarche, c’86, l’89, practices Anne Burch Mateer, d’88, g’90, works 90 president of sales at OrthoAccel law with Wrenn Bender in Irvine, Calif. for USD 223 in Olathe, where she lives. Technologies. He and Kelly Houston

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Bukaty, c’92, live in Lake Forest, Ill. medical science liaison for eravance. appointed last fall as an Oregon circuit Joseph Cannon, c’90, has been named She lives in Lawrence. court judge. She lives in Roseburg with her executive vice president of business Lynn Lemke, g’91, g’06, is president and husband, Derek, j’92. development at Entrada. He and Meg CEO of Marillac in Overland Park. Dodie Wellshear, s’92, is a managing VanBlaricum Cannon, h’88, live in Frank- partner at Ad Astra Consulting in Topeka. lin, Tenn. Joel Bacon, j’92, is vice president of Krzysztof Wojcik, PhD’92, works as an Tamara Robinette, s’90, is a social 92 federal aairs for the American adviser for Shell Exploration & Production worker at Olathe East High School. She Association of Airport Executives in in Houston. lives in Shawnee. Alexandria, Va., where he and his wife, Daniel Sontheimer, m’93, was Ty Schwertfeger, m’90, practices Amy, live. 93 named chief clinical transforma- medicine with Neurology Consultants of Sonia Doshi Garapaty, e’92, is president tion o cer and senior vice president of Kansas in Wichita. of FSC MEP Engineers in Kansas City. Baptist Health Care. He lives in Spring- James Harshbarger, j’92, has been eld, Mo. Becci Akin, s’91, s’92, PhD’10, is an named CEO of Running USA in Colorado 91 assistant professor of social work at Springs. Paul Copenhaver, ’94, was inducted KU. She lives in Lenexa. Lara Moritz, g’92, is a news reporter and 94 into the Missouri Music Educators Amy Belden Blumenthal, j’91, l’96, is anchor for KMBC-TV in Kansas City, Association Hall of Fame. Paul is band managing counsel for Fidelity National where she and her husband, Lehmann, director for the Moberly Public Schools in Title in Omaha, where she and her make their home. Moberly, Mo. husband, Jon, l’96, live. He’s a partner in Todd Porch, s’92, is vice president and Mark Johnson, e’94, g’05, is vice Baird Holm. general manager of Comcast Wholesale president of development services for Bryant Caudle, a’91, is associate princi- AdDelivery in Centennial, Colo. BHC Rhodes in Overland Park. pal of Populous Group LLC. He and Je€ Shrum, c’92, g’94, was named Lindsay Robertson, e’94, is a principal at Christine Easley Caudle, ’90, make their director of community development for United Excel Design in Merriam. He and home in Olathe. the city of Venice, Fla. his wife, Kim, live in Overland Park. Melinda Lacy, p’91, p’93, works as a Ann Marie Germes Simmons, c’92, was Carolyn Wenzel Schott, l’94, g’94,

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www.kualumni.org practices law with Sherrard & Roe in Sidney, Iowa. ey live in Lawrence, where Tanya Rose Hart, j’96, l’99, works as a Nashville, Tenn., where she and her Jessica works for Growing For Market communications specialist for Gap Inc. in husband, Gary, g’94, make their home. magazine, and Jennifer directs communi- San Francisco. She and her husband, cations for KU’s Biodiversity Institute. Bradley, c’96, live in Pleasanton. Mark Galus, c’95, is of counsel for Janelle Johnston Soleau, d’96, directs 95 Rasmussen Willis Dickey & Moore John Blair, c’96, directs intergov- sales and marketing for International in Kansas City. 96 ernmental and external a airs for Insurance Services in East Lyme, Conn. Christopher Livingston, c’95, is a the U.S. Department of the Interior in Pamela Sasse Whitten, PhD’96, was partner in the Dallas rm of Lyon, Gorsky, Washington, D.C., where he lives. named senior vice president for academic Haring & Gilbert. Christine Dougherty Broucek, l’96, is a a airs and provost for the University of paralegal certication instructor for the Georgia in Athens. MARRIED University of North Carolina at Chapel Jessica Pierson, c’95, and Jennifer Hill. She and her husband, Eric, g’89, l’95, Kristen Dekker, e’97, l’00, is a Humphrey, j’96, c’02, g’10, Dec. 19 in live in Cary. 97 partner in the Kansas City rm of

PROFILE by Andrew Faught

USC professor builds Matarić, who hopes the machines one day robots with personalities will cost as little as laptop computers. “It’s predicting what should happen next. It’s ositioned opposite a would-be stroke actually not very hard for robots to reason.

Ppatient, the robot named Bandit casts If you give them clean, crisp information, FISHER PHOTOGRAPHY VITERBI/LUKE USC unblinking eyes as the patient performs a they can make all sorts of complex series of rehabilitative arm exercises. decisions very quickly.” “Are you working up a sweat yet?” In an age of exploding medical costs and queries Bandit, who, aer doing several graying baby boomers, Matarić’s creations repetitions himself, reveals his sense of could be just what doctors order for humor: “We’re having too much fun.” patients who need regular medical therapy Welcome to the Interaction Lab at the for conditions including Alzheimer’s University of Southern California, where disease, autism and depression. But, she co-director Maja Matarić, c’87, is an says, “the point of robots is not to replace international leader in the creation of social interaction. It’s about lling a gap.” “socially assistive robots”—robots with “Maja has a long history of getting the empathy. robots out of the lab and into the hands of Since she created the lab in 1995, real end-users,” says Andrea omaz, an Matarić has pioneered e orts to create associate professor of interactive comput- The cost of building robots like Bandit robots that don’t simply guide patients ing at Georgia Tech who also researches continues to decrease, Maja Matarić says. through exercises, but can detect their human-robot interaction (HRI).“is is a Scholars also are exploring technology to moods and motivate them to complete a huge experimental and research e ort, and motivate patients using smart phones and task at hand. a true contribution of HRI and socially tablets. Using sensors worn on a user’s upper assistive robotics.” arm, the robots can detect with nearly 90 While Bandit and other robots created percent accuracy when a patient wants to by Matarić have faces, some do not. Still see patients interact with the robot,” give up—and subsequently provide others, called dragon robots, are tted with Matarić says. “ey just love it. We’ve encouragement—according to Matarić, a non-functional wings to make them more always been asked by families, ‘Can we professor of computer science, neurosci- appealing to children. Bandit is equipped keep the robot? Can we buy this robot?’ It ence and pediatrics in USC’s Viterbi with articulated arms and is mounted on gives me goosebumps to think that this is School of Engineering. an electric-powered drive unit with how they’re a ected.” “e goal of the robot is helping the wheels. He can even blow soap bubbles. —Faught is a freelance writer living in human meet his or her goals,” says “It’s been incredibly heartwarming to Fresno, Calif.

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Gregory Beuke, c’05, l’10, has a law therapist at Mid-America Orthopedics in Steven Sloan, g’06, PhD’09, works as a practice in Wichita. Wichita, where she’s a physical therapy senior research geophysicist for XRI Daniel Chaikin, g’05, is an advising assistant at Larks eld Place. Geophysics in Vicksburg, Miss. interpretation geophysicist with TGS in Jesse Vahsholtz, j’05, and Elizabeth Natasha Trelfa Veeser, j’06, is a senior Houston. He lives in Cypress. Hyler, assoc., Sept. 1 in Lawrence. ey public relations specialist with the Jason Dexter, c’05, l’10, works as a tax live in Tampa, Fla., where he’s an account University of Wisconsin extension senior with Deloitte in Chicago. supervisor at PP+K and co-owner of division. She lives in Madison. Caryl Goodyear-Bruch, PhD’05, is Millennium Golf Discs. She’s assistant Scott Wheeler, b’06, l’12, is legal counsel senior director for organizational eective- manager and in-store designer for with Hewlett-Packard Asia Paci c in ness for the American Association of Crate & Barrel. Singapore. Critical Care Nurses. She lives in Indepen- dence, Mo., with her husband, Ron. Jason, d’06, and Whitney MARRIED Robert Kethcart, l’05, is a partner with 06 Bachamp-Schroeder, j’08, live in Teresa Lane, c’06, to Gabriel Khofri, Snell & Wilmer in Phoenix. Holton with their son, Harrison, 1. Jason is Oct. 18 in Sonoma, Calif. She’s a clinical Krystle Perkins, g’05, works as an an assistant principal and athletic director biochemistry research assistant at Tuoro academic adviser at Northern State for USD 336. University in Vallejo, and he’s a Web University in Aberdeen, S.D. Elizabeth Cook, l’06, is a sta attorney developer for iCohere. ey live in Scott Smalley, l’05, recently became a for the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Benicia. partner in the Kansas City law rm of Potawatomie in Fulton, Mich. Kelli Stadalman, p’06, to Adam Keene, Stinson Leonard Street. He and his wife, Brandon Deines, c’06, l’08, practices law Jan. 25. She’s a sta pharmacist for the Sarah, live in Lenexa. with Fagan Emert & Davis in Lawrence. University of California San Diego Health Curtis Summers, l’05, is a partner in the Bradley Didericksen, g’06, is a geologist System in La Jolla. ey live in San Diego. Husch Blackwell law rm in Kansas City. with Platte River Associates in Houston, where he and his wife, Tina, assoc., live. Jonathan Allison, e’07, works as a MARRIED Kathleen Andrews Fisher, l’06, is of 07 project engineer for Chevron Jarvis Odgers, d’05, and Jebel Wilson, counsel for Burleson LLP. She lives in Phillips Chemical in Pasadena, Texas. s’08, Oct. 5 in Topeka. He’s a physical Kansas City. Kevin Chaee, b’07, l’10, practices law

62 | KANSAS ALUMNI with Warden Grier in Kansas City. calodges and she’s a school counselor. Michelle Delgado, l’09, does Erica Fishel, c’07, works as a patent Taylor Wright, j’07, and Aaron Landis, 09 international tax research with associate and cell biology expert with c’09, j’09, Oct. 26 in Austin, Texas. H&R Block in Kansas City, where she Global Patent Group in St. Louis. He’s an account executive at Texas lives. Eric Foss, c’07, l’10, g’11, practices law Monthly. Rachel Dvoretsky, g’09, is a geoscientist with United Lex/Projectory in Overland with Chevron in Houston. Park, where he lives. Lukas Andrud, l’08, is a share- Justin Hendrix, l’09, is a law clerk with Amanda Healy, c’07, is a human- 08 holder at Ohnstad Twichell in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, resources associate with Time Inc. in New West Fargo, N.D. D.C. He lives in Chevy Chase, Md. York City. She lives in Brooklyn. Erica Johnson, d’08, works as a nurse at Matthew Kleinmann, g’09, owns Kasey Schweitzer Vena, j’07, works as a the Kansas Medical Clinic in Topeka. She Matt Kleinmann Photography, is an marketing specialist for CBL & Associates lives in Lawrence. architect with Helix Architecture + Design in Overland Park. She and her husband, Matthew Lindberg, j’08, edits the Daily and an adjunct professor of architecture Kyle, d’04, live in Leavenworth. He’s Herald in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., where he at KU. He lives in Kansas City. assistant director of player development and Sarah Strathman Lindberg, c’09, live. Jackson Lindsey, l’09, practices law in for the Kansas City Royals. She works for State Farm. the Val Verde County Attorney’s O ce in Peter Schillig, g’08, PhD’13, works as a Del Rio, Texas, where he lives. MARRIED senior sta geologist at GeoSyntec in Weaver Nelson, l’09, works as an Kate Harper, c’07, and Ryan Gu rey, Acton, Mass. intellectual property engineer with Spirit ’11, Oct. 12 in Lawrence. She’s a nurse Jessica Ward, g’08, is assistant director AeroSystems in Wichita, where he lives. at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, and he of student standards at Eastern Illinois works for New Earth Lawn and University in Charleston. Landscape. Peter Kautz, c’07, to Crystal Gray, MARRIED June 8 in Topeka. ey live in Pittsburg, Adam Collins, c’08, and Kelly Heavey, where he’s the administrator at Medi- j’08, July 6 in Denver, where they live.

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www.facebook.com/kualumni Instagram @kualumni Twitter @kualumni www.kualumni.org Sriharsha Subrahmanya, g’09, PhD’13, MARRIED works as a data scientist with DST Jolee Kosmala, c’10, to Christopher Systems. He lives in Overland Park. Berroth, Nov. 23 in Topeka. He’s a eld Samuel Wilkerson, l’09, is an engineer for Koss Construction, and she’s associate with the Kansas City rm of a receptionist. Stinson Morrison Hecker. He lives in of Kansas in Topeka. She lives in Garret Prather, b’10, and Emily Shan- Westwood. Lawrence. non, b’10, June 29 in Kansas City. He’s a Morgan Grissum, e’10, has become an senior project controller for Deloitte MARRIED associate at Baker Botts in Dallas. Consulting, and she’s a senior internal Kathryn Hill, c’09, to Anthony Leiding, Nicole Lee, g’10, recently became budget auditor at Sirius XM in New York City, Nov. 9 in Wichita. ey make their home manager for the city of Topeka. She makes where they live. in Enterprise, Ala. her home in Lawrence. Joshua Lorg, b’09, and Emily Schuster, Scott Pauly, m’10, practices medicine Kathryn Euson Buethe, e’11, works as b’10, Dec. 6 in Kansas City. He’s a Micro- with the Carlisle Family Health Center in 11 a civil analyst for Kimley-Horn & so dynamics system administrator for Carlisle, Pa. Associates in Dallas. She and her husband, Bushnell, and she’s oce manager for Steven Tingey, l’10, is an associate Daniel, live in Allen. Clinical Psychology Practice. ey live attorney with Callister Nebeker & Andrew Ellis, l’11, is an associate with in Olathe. McCullough in Salt Lake City. Arthur-Green in Manhattan. Robert Rains, j’09, and Karen Bailey, Wyatt Urban, c’10, is a petroleum Zane Hemmerling, b’11, works as an c’11, Nov. 9 in St. Louis. ey live in Boise, geologist at Urban Petroleum in Clain. account executive for Professional Data where he’s a sports journalist for the Idaho Wade Whiting, l’10, is senior deputy Services in Hutchinson. Press-Tribune and she’s a nurse at St. district attorney for the Jeerson County David LoBue, g’11, is an adjunct Luke’s Hospital. District Attorney’s Oce in Madras, Ore. professor at Harper College, Elgin Kristina Zhilkina-Crump, l’10, is a Community College and the College of Kimberly Condon, c’10, l’13, is bankruptcy attorney for Garrett & Coons DuPage. He lives in Grayslake, Ill. Where in the World 10 a research attorney for the State in Lawrence. She lives in Princeton. James Meier, p’11, works as an oncol- is your Jayhawk? Sign your young Jayhawk up to be a member of Future Jayhawks and receive a standup Jayhawk along with other yearly KU gifts.

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ogy pharmacist at Hays Medical Center. Adam Price, b’11, to Chelsea Leeker, Museum of Nature and Sciences. He makes his home in Hays. Sept. 28 in St. Louis, where they live. He’s She and her husband, Stephen, c’12, Jace Robinson, j’11, coordinates an account director at Metabolic Meals in live in Dallas. He’s a consultant for marketing for the Kearney Archway in Fenton. Capgemini. Kearney, Neb. He lives in Marquette. Jessica Lewicki, l’12, is an associate Erin Stork, a’11, works as an interior Olukemi Akinrinola, m’12, practices with Hart Wagner in Portland, Ore. designer and LEED green associate at 12 pediatrics at Banner Health Clinic in Will Manly, l’12, is assistant Shawnee Helix Architecture + Design in Kansas Greeley, Colo. She lives in Centennial. County district attorney in Topeka. He City. Evan Bargnesi, g’12, is a geologist at commutes from Lawrence. Neal Woodworth, l’11, practices law Occidental Petroleum Corp. in Bakers- Ann Kovar Miller, c’12, works as a sta with Douthit Frets Rouse Gentile & eld, Calif., where he and his wife, Laura, assistant for the Notre Dame University Rhodes in Leawood. He and his wife, Erin, make their home. Student Activities Oce. She lives in live in Olathe. Michael Bosie, l’12, practices law with South Bend, Ind. Condray & ompson in Concordia. Anna Smith, l’12, is a media claims MARRIED Ethan Harris, g’12, wrote Conditional specialist for AXIS Capital in Kansas City. Amanda Miller, b’11, to Matthew Besler, Forgiveness: Don’t Forgive em Just Yet, She lives in Lawrence. Dec. 14 in Kansas City. ey live in Prairie published by CreateSpace Independent Jerey Spahr, l’12, is a sta attorney for Village, and she’s a licensing assistant with Publishing. He lives in San Antonio with the Oce of the State Bank Commissioner Branded Custom Sportswear. his wife, Mindy. in Topeka. His home is in Lawrence. Riley King, c’12, directs travel for Allie Bloxdorf Wagner, e’12, is a bridge Maritz. He lives in St. Louis. engineer with HNTB Companies in Susan Kivuvani, l’12, practices law with Kansas City. She lives in Lawrence. Bogart Immigration Law in Mission. Clay Westerlund, c’12, does content Julianne Thomas Knowles, c’12, marketing consulting for Mass Momen- manages event services for the Perot tum Consulting. He lives in Lawrence.

66 | KANSAS ALUMNI MARRIED Aimee Scheer, g’13, works as Taylor Mann, d’12, and Mason Lent, ’14, 13 a geologist for ConocoPhillips in July 27 in Lawrence, where she teaches at Houston. Commission in Topeka. West Middle School. Brett Smith, l’13, practices law with Paige Nowlan, u’12, to Vance Stegman, Davis, Manley & Lane in El Dorado. Aaron Berlin, ’14, is a broadcaster Dec. 27 in Lyons. She teaches music at Michael Tinio, e’13, works as a technical 14for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Jeerson School in Great Bend, where they services engineer for Epic Systems Corp. RailRiders, the Triple A team of the New live, and he teaches English at Ellinwood in Verona, Wis. York Yankees, in Moosic, Pa. High School. Mark Villarreal, g’13, is an onshore Michael Hampton Henning, ’14, is geologist for New eld Exploration in branch manager for Baird in Kansas City. BORN TO: Houston, where he lives. Todd Wheat, EdD’14, is principal at Jeremiah Hull, g’12, and Jennifer, son, Robert Vincent, l’13, is a litigation Green Springs Elementary School in Grant, Oct. 23 in El Paso, Texas. counsel for the Kansas Corporation Olathe. He lives in Overland Park.

PROFILE by Leah Kohlman STEVE PUPPE STEVE Velasco and The Supply students and parents. “I noticed a sense of face crisis in urban slums vibrancy, hope and the hile a student, Kris Velasco studied realization that locals know Wabroad three times and co-created their situation better than e Big Event, KU’s largest single day of any on e ,” he says. “Slum community service. ese experiences, dwellers know exactly how mixed with his family’s Mexican immi- to solve the challenges they grant background, led him to e Supply. face; fortunately, it is the Neeli Bendapudi, g’95, dean of business, same process and vision as introduced Velasco to e Supply during e Supply, which creates a the spring semester of his senior year. e natural partnership for Supply is a nonpro t organization that tackling the challenges of motivates urban slum youths to create the urban slums.” Kris Velasco is movement coordinator for the nonprofit group cities of tomorrow using a network of Most Americans will The Supply. Founded four years ago to address extreme poverty community secondary schools focused on never see rsthand the service learning. human rights violations in urban slums, the organization projects the number of “Upon reading the mission statement of the approximately 1 billion students it serves will top 500 by the end of 2014. e Supply,” Velasco says, “It seemed like slum dwellers worldwide the perfect t and that all of my KU face, because there are no experiences led me up to this point.” classi ed urban slums in the United States and university chapters worldwide with Because he enjoyed studying in Costa as designated by the United Nations. the hope that more people will develop Rica, London and Copenhagen, Denmark, e conditions that Velasco witnessed in passion about the cause and take action Velasco, c’13, wanted a job for which travel Nairobi were the worst he has ever towards serving the greater good. was required. His position as movement experienced. “eir homes are 10-by-10 “Martin Luther King Jr. once said, coordinator allows him to travel and build shacks with no electricity, plumbing or ‘An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice excitement about the work of e Supply heating. e piles of trash and human everywhere.’ is de nitely applies to the through social media, online campaigns waste smell horrendous and are a breeding challenge of urban slums,” says Velasco. and engaging college students. ground for mosquitos,” he says. “Surpris- “is human rights issue is projected to e Supply currently works in Kenya, ingly those conditions did not phase me, impact up to 3 billion in the coming with plans to expand to Indonesia and or move me. What moved me was the decade as people ock to cities from rural eventually other global locations. Recently personal aspect.” communities. ere needs to be a chal- Velasco spent time in Nairobi, Kenya, e Supply continues spreading the lenge to this crisis before it becomes too talking to school directors, teachers, word about its mission to high school large to solve.”

ISSUE 3, 2014 | 67 In Memory assoc.; two sons; a sister; and three grandsons. Robert Matchette, ’47, 92, Nov. 18 in Cameron, Mo., where he was a retired agent for New York Life Insurance and Mary Lou Becker Cory, f’35, 100, Marshalltown, Iowa, where he was a former owner of the Paul L. Machette 30sFeb. 10 in Bel Aire. She is survived retired music teacher. He is survived by his Company. He is survived by a daughter, by two sons, David, b’61, and Michael, wife, Dorothy Brenner Francis, f’48; two Marta Matchette Hedgecorth, ’87; a sister, c’63; a daughter, Marilyn Cory Leddy, c’63; daughters, one of whom is Ann Francis, Mary Matchette Schumacher, n’44; three ve grandchildren; and eight ’67; and two grandsons. grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Eleanor Pack Gage, c’47, 89, Feb. 14 in great-grandchildren. Helen Buhler Ossmann, c’39, 97, Feb. 1 Lawrence, where she was active in church Bill Mayer, j’49, 88, April 3 in Lawrence, in Topeka. She is survived by two sons, and civic a airs. She is survived by a where he was retired from a 60-year career one of whom is Carl, g’92; two sisters, daughter, Claudia Gage Valentine-Fjone, in the newspaper industry. He had been Geraldine Buhler Smith, c’43, and Carol n’76; two sons, John II, c’74, l’79, and sports editor, managing editor and Buhler Francis, j’50, g’71; four grandchil- David, b’86; a sister, Barbara Pack Heiser, executive editor at the Lawrence Journal- dren; and two great-grandchildren. d’51; and 10 grandchildren. World. Surviving are his wife, Beverly Meg Glover Goetz, c’45, 90, March 24 Braeckeveldt Mayer, ’49; a daughter, William Applegate, e’48, 92, in Roswell, N.M. She is survived by three Valerie Mayer Pernice, ’78; a son; and ve 40sSept. 19 in Shingletown, Calif., daughters, two brothers, four grandsons grandchildren. where he was a retired engineer and owner and a great-grandson. Mack McCormick Sr., c’48, 92, Nov. 20 of Applegate Construction. He is survived Lucien Gray, c’43, m’45, 91, Sept. 24 in in Bandon, Ore. He worked for Eli Lilly by his wife, Pat. Valley Center, where he was a retired ear, and Co., where he discovered and devel- Julian Been, c’49, 91, Jan. 10 in Medina, nose and throat surgeon. Surviving are his oped the antibiotic Vancomycin. Two Ohio. He retired from the NASA Lewis wife, Betty; a daughter; two sons, one of sons, seven grandchildren and eight Research Center in Cleveland and is whom is Mark, c’77; a stepson; six great-grandchildren survive. survived by his wife, Julia Fox Been, d’48; grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Ruth Carnett McGinley, b’41, 94, Feb. 6 three daughters; two sons; a sister; and Ellen Omohundro Grindle, c’49, 89, in Beaumont, Texas, where she was active eight grandchildren. Sept. 26 in Wasilla, Alaska. She is survived in her church. Survivors include two Russell Brown II, e’48, 87, June 13 in by her husband, Harold, e’49; a son; a daughters, one of whom is Susan McGin- Charlottesville, Va., where he was retired daughter; six grandchildren; and three ley Peterson, c’68; and a son. from a career with Battelle Memorial great-grandchildren. Betty Grant Regier, ’48, Feb. 23 in Institute. He is survived by his wife, Margaret Cook Hay, c’47, 92, Jan. 25 in Newton. She is survived by two daughters, Beverly, assoc.; two sons; a daughter; nine Topeka. She is survived by a son, Charles, one of whom is Joanne Regier Pernoud, grandchildren; and seven j’72, l’74; and a grandson. d’74; a son, William, b’75; a sister, Joanne great-grandchildren. Dolores Sulzman Hope, c’46, 89, Feb. 26 Gaudreau Dial, ’49; seven grandchildren; Jeanne Perdue Brownlee, ’47, 90, March in Mission. She wrote for the Garden City and seven great-grandchildren. 22 in Overland Park, where she was a Telegram for more than 50 years. She and Richard Shields, c’48, 89, Feb. 14 in retired physical therapist. She is survived her late husband, Cli ord, ’73, hosted Russell, where he was president of Shields by her husband, Maurice, b’49; two sons; a authors Truman Capote and Harper Lee Drilling. He is survived by his wife, Jerry; daughter; and two grandsons. when they came to Garden City to work two daughters, one of whom is Sue Shields Robert Coldsnow, c’49, l’51, 89, Jan. 23 on In Cold Blood. Dodie is survived by ve Watson, d’75; a stepdaughter; ve grand- in Topeka, where he served in the Kansas daughters, two of whom are Rosemary, children; and 11 great-grandchildren. House of Representatives and was former j’84, c’85, and Megan Hope McGill, c’95, Edna Thiessen Siemens, ’49, 91, Jan. 19 legal counsel for the Kansas Legislature. g’00; a son; three sisters; and six in Shawnee Mission, where she was a He is survived by his wife, Mary, a grandchildren. retired teacher and counselor. A memorial daughter, a son, a stepdaughter and Ava McKain Klein, n’46, 90, Jan. 31 in has been established with KU Endowment. a sister. Grapevine, Texas. A memorial has been She is survived by two daughters, one of Marilyn Child Etzler, c’46, g’48, 88, established with KU Endowment. She is whom is Emily Siemens O’Shea, ’81; and a April 20 in Hutchinson. She is survived by survived by a son, Kurtis, p’81; two brother. a son; a daughter; a sister, Virginia Child daughters; and four grandchildren. Ida Mae Woodburn Sutton, c’48, c’51, Shackelford, c’58; six grandchildren; and Thomas Manning Sr., e’42, 92, Feb. 11 90, Jan. 29 in Lawrence. She is survived by nine great-grandchildren. in Olathe. He owned T.J. Manning and a daughter, Elizabeth Sutton Hamm, ’87; a Richard Francis, ’49, 86, March 11 in Associates. Survivors include his wife, Ivy, son, Michael, e’89; and four grandchildren.

68 | KANSAS ALUMNI Mildred Ellsworth Thompson, b’41, 95, by his wife, June; two daughters, one of March 23 in Tulsa, Okla., where she was a Feb. 21 in Baldwin City. She lived in whom is Sheri Dirks Hiebert, d’71; a sister; founding owner of Classy Consignments, Gardner and had been a bookkeeper. She and two grandchildren. a consignment store for children’s cloth- is survived by a son, Randy, ’70; a daugh- Georgia Drake Edmondson, f’53, 81, ing. She is survived by two daughters; a ter, Karen ompson Liu, d’71; a sister; July 13 in Colorado Springs, where she son, James, b’85, e’85; six grandchildren; four grandchildren; and six was an artist and owner of Cornerstone and a great-grandson. great-grandchildren. Studio. She is survived by a daughter; a John “Keith” Odgers, b’50, 87, March Mary Weihe Tobias, f’44, 91, Nov. 11 in sister, Stephanie Drake Gebert, ’55; and 13 in Topeka. He was an accountant for Lyons, where she was a former teacher. She two grandsons. the Seneca School District for more than is survived by her husband, James; a James Floyd, b’52, 83, Jan. 18 in 25 years. Surviving are his wife, Fran; two daughter; two sons, one of whom is Larry, Hutchinson. His wife, Mary “Meam” sons, Gregory, d’72, and Rodney, c’71, ’98; ve grandchildren; and three Floyd, assoc., survives. m’74; a daughter; two stepsons, one of great-grandchildren. James Gurley, c’53, l’54, 82, Dec. 26 in whom is David Kline, ’96; a stepdaughter; Roanoke, Va., where he was retired from a six grandchildren; four stepgrandchildren; Jo Ann Boyer Ball, f’52, 84, Dec. career in insurance. He is survived by his and 11 great-grandchildren. 50s28 in Olathe. She is survived by wife, Johanna Johnson Gurley, ’54; two Richard Penfold, c’51, g’55, m’56, 86, her husband, Cliord, b’50; three daugh- sons; a daughter; and six grandchildren. April 8 in Fort Collins, Colo., where he ters, one of whom is Neila Ball Nelson, Carl Hubbell, b’51, 86, Feb. 25 in Kansas practiced medicine. He is survived by two d’75; two sons; a brother; 17 grandchil- City, where he owned Hubbell-Tyner. He daughters; two sons; a sister, Mary Lou dren; and 11 great-grandchildren. is survived by his wife, Barbara; two Penfold Williams, d’53; and ve Allan Bentley, b’51, 86, Sept. 28 in daughters, Becky Hubbell, c’74, p’77, g’87, grandchildren. Everett, Wash. He lived in Port Angeles PharmD’03, and Gail Hubbell m’75; a son, Orval Postlethwaite, b’55, 85, Nov. 30 and is survived by his wife, Barbara, assoc.; James, c’78; two stepsons; a stepdaughter; in Maineville, Ohio, where he was a retired two daughters; a sister, Patricia Bentley 14 grandchildren; and a federal government defense contractor. Myers, j’49; and six grandchildren. great-granddaughter. Two sons, two grandchildren and two Kenneth Buller, d’53, 82, Oct. 27 in Donald Hyten, b’50, 88, Feb. 9 in great-grandchildren survive. Colorado Springs, where he was a retired Wichita, where he owned Hyten Finance Rosalee Osborne Roth, c’54, 81, Feb. 3 insurance broker. He played on KU’s 1952 and Insurance. Survivors include his wife, in Lawrence, where she had lived for more national championship basketball team. Marilyn, assoc.; ve daughters, Martha than 50 years. Survivors include a son; a Surviving are his wife, Gladys; three Hyten Recchia, b’74, Rebecca Hyten daughter, Elizabeth Roth Best, ’80; a sister, daughters; a son, Greg, c’77, c’78, m’80; Reeves, n’78, Sarah Hyten, b’80, Lori Rudd Virginia Osborne McAdoo, c’50; ve and six grandchildren. Page, d’84, and Sherri Rudd Newlin, ’85; grandchildren; and two Darlene Burke-Lofgren, ’57, 82, Sept. 26 and a son, Howard Hyten, b’87. great-grandchildren. in Wichita. She is survived by a son, Betty Brown Innis, d’52, 83, Oct. 9 in Phyllis Sims Selig, a’56, 82, Feb. 4 in Shanan, e’87; two brothers; two sisters; and Denver. She taught music in the public Topeka. She had been an architectural ve grandchildren. schools, gave private piano lessons and supervisor with Nebraska Public Power Albert Campbell, c’54, 83, April 6 in was on the music faculty at Oklahoma and had served as international president Lawrence. He had been president of Doerr Wesleyan University. Surviving are her of the Alpha Phi International executive Mercantile in Larned and had served in husband, Eugene, e’49; two sons; a brother, board. Surviving are her husband, James, the Kansas House of Representatives and Philip Brown, ’59; and two grandchildren. b’51; three daughters; and three the Kansas Senate. Surviving are his wife, Dan Jackson III, c’57, l’63, 78, Dec. 28 in grandchildren. Patricia Lloyd Campbell, c’53; a daughter, Kansas City, where he worked in the City James Sellers, p’54, 86, Feb. 20 in Susan Campbell Anderson, d’85; a son, Attorney’s oce for more than 35 years. Wichita, where he was a retired pharma- Alan, c’82; a brother, James, c’58, g’85, He is survived by his wife, Judy, assoc.; two cist and former owner of Sellers Prescrip- PhD’90; and a granddaughter. daughters; a brother; and four tion Shops. He is survived by his wife, Robert Davis, c’50, l’52, 86, Jan. 24 in grandchildren. Norma, assoc.; three sons; two daughters; Wichita, where he was a retired probate George McCune, c’55, 80, March 6 in a stepson; a stepdaughter; two brothers; attorney. He is survived by his wife, Wichita, where he was a retired programs two sisters; 20 grandchildren; 26 great- Marion; a son, Carl, l’88; three daughters, support manager for Boeing. He is grandchildren; and three one of whom is Janet Davis Donaghue, survived by his wife, Kathryn Siler great-great-grandchildren. d’80; a sister; and 10 grandchildren. McCune, d’55; a son, Ernie, ’82; a daugh- Charles Stewart, c’55, l’56, 81, Nov. 18 A.W. “Bill” Dirks, EdD’59, 90, Feb. 22 in ter, Linda McCune Woods, c’82; and two in Oakley, where he had a law practice. A Wichita, where he was retired from a granddaughters. son, a daughter and four grandchildren 40-year career in education. He is survived Zara Zoellner McKinney, b’51, 84, survive.

ISSUE 3, 2014 | 69 In Memory

Kathleen McKee Widick, c’55, 71, Feb. Neighborhood Center, executive director two sons; a brother, Marvin, ’64; a sister; 22 in Cocoa Beach, Fla., where she was a of the Kansas City United Way, president and three grandchildren. social worker. She is survived by her of the Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas Robert Wood, b’65, 73, March 30 in husband, Charles, b’52, l’57; two sons; two City and a board member of the National Shawnee, where he was a certi ed public daughters; a brother, Patrick McKee, m’72; Center for Voluntary Action. She later was accountant. He is survived by his wife, and 10 grandchildren. instrumental in founding the Holocaust Nancy Niestrom Wood, ’64; two sons, Jane Baker Wilson, c’52, 83, Feb. 27 in Museum and Education Center of Robert Jr., c’89, m’93, and William, c’91, Genoa, Nev. She lived in Lake Tahoe for Southwest Florida. A memorial has been g’93; a sister; a brother, Lee Wood III, ’72; many years. Surviving are four daughters; established with KU Endowment. She is and three grandchildren. a son; a brother, David Baker, c’55; a sister, survived by two sons, a daughter, a brother Marjorie Baker Steil, d’58; 10 grandchil- and ve grandchildren. Kevin Adams, c’75, g’77, d’78, 60, dren; and a great-grandchild. Duane Mahin, g’66, 82, Dec. 31 in 70sMarch 20 in Potomac, Md. He had Joseph Wimsatt, b’53, 82, Sept. 7 in St. Salina. He was a Methodist minister, a 34-year career in government service. Louis, where he directed sales and former president of Northwest Indian Survivors include his wife, Christine; a marketing at Koller Enterprises. He is Bible School in Alberton, Mont., and son; a daughter; a sister; and a brother, survived by his wife, Francine, four sons, director of Pioneer Supervisor World Stephen, ’75. two daughters, a sister, a brother and eight Mission. Surviving are his wife, Barbara, Debra Arnett, s’79, l’82, 57, Jan. 1 grandchildren. two sons, a sister, nine grandchildren and in Overland Park, where she had been four great-grandchildren. an insurance claims adjuster. She is Ross Baker, b’65, 88, Jan. 28 in Mary Jean Jones Nelson, g’68, PhD’76, survived by a daughter; her mother; a 60sPeabody, where he was longtime 90, Nov. 8 in Fort Collins, where she brother; a sister, Joyce Ford, assoc.; and administrator of Peabody Memorial taught art history at Colorado State a grandchild. Nursing Home. He is survived by two University. A memorial has been estab- Winifred Boone Gard, g’79, 87, Feb. 17 sons, Steven, b’75, and Scott, b’76; a lished with KU Endowment. She is in Sun City, Ariz. She taught school in daughter, Ann Baker Robinson, d’78; survived by a son; a daughter, Lise Nelson, Topeka for many years and is survived by seven grandchildren; and two c’70; and a sister. her husband, Robert; two sons, one of great-grandchildren. Dee Wagner Piculell, ’63, 77, March 9 whom is Stephen Cagle, s’79; two daugh- William Bolton, c’65, 70, Jan. 21 in in Portland, Ore., where she was a retired ters, one of whom is Lou Anne Cagle Littleton, Colo., where he was a retired teacher. She is survived by her husband, Dunaway, f’76; four grandchildren; and dentist. He is survived by his wife, JoAnne, Arthur Jr., l’65; a son; a daughter; a three great-grandchildren. assoc.; a son, Brian, c’03; a daughter; a brother; and two grandchildren. Edward “Tim” Gripkey, g’76, 75, sister, Mary Bolton Koppenhaver, d’68, Sally Slezak Porter, d’67, g’70, 68, Columbia, S.C., where he was a retired g’69; and two grandsons. April 1 in Murray, Iowa, where she was colonel in the U.S. Army. He served in Bonnie Frederiksen Hensleigh, n’61, 74, retired from a career teaching special Vietnam and helped plan and perform the Nov. 12 in Stanford, Calif. She is survived education. She is survived by a son, funeral of President John Kennedy. He is by a son, a daughter, a sister, a brother and Joshua; a stepdaughter; a sister; a brother, survived by his wife, Alice, two sons, a six grandchildren. omas Slezak, j’70; and two daughter, a sister, a brother, two grandchil- Charles Hostetler, l’63, 75, Dec. 8 in grandchildren. dren and three stepgrandchildren. Manhattan, where he was president of David Salva, d’62, g’65, PhD’68, 72, John “Red” Hunter, EdD’70, 83, Dec. 20 Charlson & Wilson Insurance. He recently Nov. 22 in Independence, Mo., where he in Enid, Okla. He was retired director of received the KU School of Law’s Distin- was president of U.S. Semiconductor Corp. curriculum, planning, research and guished Alumni Award. Surviving are his He is survived by his wife, Mary Quigley evaluation for the Kansas Department of wife, Julie, two daughters, a stepdaughter, Salva, d’62; three daughters, two of whom Education. Surviving are his wife, Marga- a stepson, a sister and three grandchildren. are Susan Salva Gibson, j’87, and Beth ret; a son, Michael, ’83; and three brothers. George “Buzz” Hunt Jr. b’60, 75, Dec. Salva Boresow, d’91; four brothers; and Janice Loveland Jaworsky, d’70, g’80, 23 in Boulder, Colo., where he was a nine grandchildren. 66, Jan. 24 in Wichita, where she was medical management consultant for DCL Norman Shutler, e’60, g’62, PhD’64, director of development at Newman Biomedical and owner of Medical Envi- 76, Jan. 25 in Middleburg, Va., where University, director of research at the Koch ronment Inc. Two sons, a sister and three he was former president, CEO and Crime Institute and a voice teacher at grandchildren survive. chairman of the board of TechLaw Wichita State University. Surviving are a Ann Reisner Jacobson, s’67, 87, Jan. 1 in Holdings and former Deputy Assistant son, Rob, c’94; a brother; and seven Naples, Fla. She lived for many years in Administrator for the U.S. Environmental grandchildren. Kansas City, where she was executive Protection Agency. He is survived by Claradine Cornwell Johnson, PhD’74, director of the George Washington Carver his wife, Sandra Miller Shutler, n’62; 91, Nov. 14 in Concord, Mass. She lived in

70 | KANSAS ALUMNI Carlisle and was a retired teacher, coun- taught at the Lawrence Tae-Kwon-Do THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY selor, principal and professor. In 1970, she School. A daughter and a son survive. Ernst Dick, 84, March 11 in Lawrence, founded the Metropolitan Secondary Bruce Stimpson, j’86, 51, Dec. 4 in where he was a KU professor emeritus of Program Center, an alternative high Pleasant Hill, Mo. He was vice president Germanic languages and literatures. A school in Wichita. She is survived by a and CIO of LynxSpring in Lee’s Summit memorial has been established with KU daughter; a son, Keith, m’81; and six and a photographer for Cycle Connections Endowment. He is survived by his wife, grandchildren. magazine. He is survived by his wife, Renate, assoc.; a daughter, Ina, c’86; a son, Philip Knapp, c’70, g’73, 65, Jan. 23 in Christy Merchant Stimpson, b’88; two Arnolf, f’91; and a brother. Hoyt, where he was retired from a 30-year daughters; three brothers; and three E. Grey Dimond, 94, Nov. 3 in Kansas career in juvenile corrections with the grandchildren. City, where he founded the UMKC school State of Kansas. He is survived by his wife, David Wilson, g’84, g’87, PhD’89, 62, of medicine. Earlier he had directed KU’s Victoria; three daughters, one of whom is March 24 in Memphis, Tenn., where he cardiovascular laboratory and founded the Mitzi, ’98; four grandchildren; and four taught English. He is survived by two medical school’s cardiology division. He is great-grandchildren. brothers and a sister. survived by four daughters, three grand- Kurt Larson, a’73, c’73, 62, April 2, children, eight great-grandchildren and six 2013, in Bridgeton, Mo., where he was an Sarah Hitchcock Knowles, c’94, great-great-grandchildren. architect for the City of St. Louis at 90s43, Jan. 1 in Leawood. She is Downer Dykes Sr., 86, Feb. 4 in Lutz, Lambert Airport. His mother and two survived by a daughter; her parents, Fla. He was a professor emeritus of brothers survive. Charles, c’61, and Jennifer Tormoen industrial design at KU and had helped Mary Sessa Murry, c’72, 63, Jan. 3 in Hitchcock, ’60; a brother, Douglas develop the rst Crock-Pot with a remov- Reno, Nev., where she was a retired rural Hitchcock, j’80; and a sister. able crockery liner. Survivors include a mail carrier. She is survived by her Denise Hart Parker, g’97, 59, Oct. 18 in daughter, Anna Dykes White, h’81; and a husband, Joseph, two sons, two sisters, Topeka, where she was a retired nurse. She son, Downer Dykes Jr., ’78. three brothers and a grandson. is survived by her husband, Michael, Edward Erazmus, 93, Feb. 21 in Law- Susan Riddle Pentlin, PhD’77, 66, Dec. assoc.; two sons, one of whom is Daniel, rence, where he established the Intensive 25 in Warrensburg. She was a professor ’07; her father; a sister; and a brother. English Center at KU and taught graduate emerita of modern language at the Joni Lisa Thompson, c’96, g’99, seminars in the linguistics department and University of Central Missouri and is PhD’09, 50, Dec. 9 in Lawrence, where she in the School of Education. Surviving are survived by her husband, Floyd, ’69; a taught at Haskell Indian Nations Univer- three daughters, one of whom is Le-u, sister; and a brother. sity and had founded the Haskell Film d’95, g’01; a son, Joe, ’89; a sister; a Richard “Avi” Seaver, d’73, g’74, 67, Club. A memorial has been established brother; 14 grandchildren; nine great- March 15 in Leawood. He taught speech with KU Endowment. She is survived by a grandchildren; and three and theatre at several colleges and high son, a daughter, her mother, a brother, a great-great-grandchildren. schools. He is survived by his wife, Nancy; sister and a grandson. Grant Goodman, 89, April 6 in Law- a son; his mother, Virginia, assoc.; two Jane Downing Werntz, h’95, 60, Nov. 12 rence, where he was a KU professor brothers; and a grandson. in Overland Park, where she was an emeritus of history and co-director of the Christine Zipf Sigler, h’79, 66, Dec. 5 in occupational therapist. A son and three East Asian Center. A memorial has been Prairie Village, where she was a business brothers survive. established with KU Endowment. He is partner at Sigler’s Orchard and Damage survived by his wife, Helen, and a brother. Control & Restoration and had been a John Buxton, c’01, 35, Dec. 22 in Jack Oruch, 76, June 6 in Columbus, physical therapist. She is survived by her 00sNew York City, where he was a Ohio. He taught English at KU from 1963 husband, Bob, a daughter, a son, her freelance actor, director and singer-song- until 1997. Surviving are his wife, Elaine parents, four sisters, three brothers and writer. Surviving are his parents, Steve and Falken Oruch, ’65; a daughter, Morna two grandchildren. Sally Buxton, and a brother. Oruch Smith, ’78; a son, Tobin, e’83; a Wyatt Wright, c’77, 58, March 28 in Laurie Grow, PhD’05, 64, Jan. 1 in sister; and two grandsons. Overland Park, where he was an attorney. Overland Park. She was an adjunct Robert Louis Rankin, 75, Feb. 24 in A memorial has been established with KU assistant professor of sociology at Kansas Tonganoxie. He had been a KU professor Endowment. He is survived by his wife, City Kansas Community College. A sister of linguistics and had researched Native Pamela; two sons, Bryan, b’10, and Nolan, survives. American languages. Surviving are his ’14; and his parents, Morgan, c’49, l’50, wife, Carolyn Leverance Rankin, g’84, and Joan Wright, assoc. Michael Packard, c’12, 26, Jan. 1 in PhD’87; and a brother. 10sLawrence, where he was a musician Samira Sayeh, 44, Feb. 3 in Lawrence, Ki-June Park, g’86, PhD’88, 70, and a DJ. Surviving are his mother, Susie, where she was an associate professor of 80sDec. 6 in Lawrence, where he two sisters and his grandparents. French and Francophone studies at KU.

ISSUE 3, 2014 | 71 Rock Chalk Review E. SPENCER SCHUBERT, SCULPTURE STUDIOS SCULPTURE E. SPENCER SCHUBERT, E. SPENCER SCHUBERT, SCULPTURE STUDIOS SCULPTURE E. SPENCER SCHUBERT, E. SPENCER SCHUBERT, SCULPTURE STUDIOS SCULPTURE E. SPENCER SCHUBERT,

was born in Independence in 1913 and Cast of characters drew much inspiration from his boyhood home in writing a string of plays that were Jayhawks help Independence Broadway hits in the 1950s. honor playwright Inge “e rst thing that came to mind was that as much as possible I wanted KU

people,” Hachmeister says. “Tim was in LIZ MOORE set of sculptures recently dedicated in complete agreement that as long as they AIndependence to honor playwright were up to the work, it would be Kansans William Inge is a tribute cast in traditional and KU alumni.” bronze, but there’s also a lot of crimson Emert, a member of the Kansas Board and blue mixed through and through. of Regents and longtime organizer of Including the patron who donated the Independence’s William Inge eatre money for the project, the civic leader and Festival, says a tribute to the Pulitzer Prize sculpture professor who guided it, and the winning writer has long been a topic of sculptors who cra ed four larger-than-life conversation in the town. A bequest from pieces depicting the University’s most Lucille Gaynor Gibson ompson, c’39, a well-known alumni dramatist with retired teacher who died in 2011, provided characters from his most popular plays, the means to move from talk to action. Tim Emert and David Platter unveil Platter’s KU ties abound. “We didn’t want to buy copies of sculpture (top left) depicting William Inge’s e connections just seemed right for a signicant pieces,” Emert says. “We play “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.” The project honoring a playwright celebrated thought we should do something really Independence tribute to Inge also includes a for his portrayal of small-town Midwest- signicant to connect Inge and Indepen- two-figure piece (top right and middle) from ern life, says John Hachmeister, professor dence and young people, because Lucy of sculpture. absolutely loved young people. “Come Back, Little Sheba” by E. Spencer Hachmeister, f’72, was enlisted by “We went for quality and originality and Schubert. Inge’s nephew, James Mahan, Independence native Tim Emert, j’62, l’65, uniqueness to Independence, and that’s studies the sculpture of Inge by James to help guide the tribute to Inge, c’35, who what we got.” Brothers and Lori Norwood.

72 | KANSAS ALUMNI Yo, Achilles RON OSBORN RON Lombardo turns once again to Iliad hero in final epic translation

n his critically acclaimed translation of IHomer’s Iliad, Stanley Lombardo took on the audacious task of modernizing a bedrock work of the classical canon: the epic tale of the Trojan War and its hero, the Greek warrior Achilles. Lombardo’s transformation of Homeric Greek into a “vivid and sometimes disarmingly hard-bitten reworking of a great classic,” wrote classicist Daniel E. Spencer Schubert, David Platter, Lori Norwood, John Hachmeister and Tim Emert collaborated Mendelsohn in a 1997 New York Times on Independence’s tribute to Inge, for whom KU’s Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall is also named. review, le Achilles and comrades “sounding less like aristocratic warriors Hachmeister enlisted Jim Brothers, ’79; Inge had a tragic death; he was very than like American G.I.s.” e colloquial Lori Norwood; David Platter, g’11; and E. depressed and committed suicide. ey language was hailed as in tune with the Spencer Schubert, f’00, to create the really like anything that lis him up.” poem’s tradition as a living work to be pieces. Norwood, Platter and Schubert Inge scored a remarkable string of performed and updated, not preserved in depicted moments from three of Inge’s Broadway hits throughout the ’50s, amber. e same approach enlivened blockbuster hits: an encounter between winning a Pulitzer Prize for “Picnic” in Lombardo’s later translations of Homer’s Millie and Bomber in “Picnic,” Sonny 1953, and he saw most of his work made Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid and Dante’s Divine grabbing Sammy’s coattails in “ e Dark into popular lms. His rst foray into Comedy. at the Top of the Stairs” and Marie Hollywood, “Splendor In the Grass,” won With his latest—likely nal—translation sketching Turk in “Come Back, Little him an Oscar for Best Screenplay. But by of epic poetry, Lombardo returns to Sheba.” 1959, when “A Loss of Roses” attracted Achilles. Achilleid, a largely forgotten Latin Brothers, renowned for his depictions of poor reviews and closed aer a three-week poem by the Roman poet Statius, tells the historic gures (his sculpture of Dwight run, his popularity began to wane. story of the Greek warrior’s childhood. Eisenhower stands in the Statuary Hall of e Inge sculpture depicts the play- “Achilles of course is the hero of Iliad,” the U.S. Capitol) undertook the sculpture wright sitting on a park bench, notebook says Lombardo, a professor of classics who of Inge. But Brothers died last August, open, pondering the young characters he retired in May aer 38 years on the faculty. aer a long battle with cancer, before he created. Aer the dedication people lined “But the Iliad gives us just 40 days in the could complete the work. At his request, up to sit on the bench next to the piece to 10th year of the war. Something about his Norwood nished it for him. have their picture taken. previous life will come up, but not very ree pieces were installed in “When you look at artwork much.” Statius, who lived in rst-century Riverside Park in Independence like this around the United Rome during the period known as the and dedicated March 29, during States that is very Silver Age of Latin, planned a standard the 33rd-annual Inge Festival, moving, the community 12-book epic to tell Achilles’ life story, but a four-day run of perfor- becomes very attached died aer completing only the rst book. mances, panels, tributes and to it,” Hachmeister says. Achilleid chronicles Achilles’ intense master classes with Broadway “I see a lot of festivities upbringing, which included being playwrights. (Norwood’s in the future going on disguised as a girl by his domineering sculpture, delayed because of around these sculptures, mother and enduring “this incredible, her work on Brothers’ piece, will because they are so lively. Navy Seal sort of training” from the be installed in May.) Because there’s a huge amount centaur Chiron. “It could be treated in an “To certain people it’s going to mean a of energy in these pieces, there’s nothing entirely grim, serious way,” Lombardo lot,” says Emert of the tribute, which solemn about them. says, “but the poet really has a wry sense of encircles an iconic fountain in the same “It’s a celebration, and I think people humor about it that’s disarming.” park where “Picnic” is set. will see them as a celebration.” Achilleid was popular with Medieval “I know it means a lot to the Inge family. —Steven Hill European educators and even inspired

ISSUE 3, 2014 | 73 Rock Chalk Review operas. It fell out of the canon, Lombardo with an introduction by Jorie Woods, a The big picture says, in part because of a dismissive professor of comparative literature at the judgment by English poet John Dryden. University of Texas, who suggested the Layered, high-tech maps show “He decided the canon ended with project. She has taught most of Lombardo’s Virgil and the Golden Age, that all these translations in her classes. habitat threats across U.S. West Silver Age poets are second-rate, so why “I realized immediately this was a way I don’t we just forget about them? It really is could teach texts that otherwise I couldn’t hen Mike Houts earned his KU a di erent kind of literature that is only do, because they just took too much work Wundergraduate degree in environ- being appreciated again in the last 30 and students would be too resistant,” she mental studies, he gured he would y e ar s .” says. ultimately become a wildlife biologist. Even this minor renaissance bypassed “What he’s really fantastic at is creating Instead, he detoured into Geographic Statius’ epic. Only two English translations poetry that’s very moving, but also very Information System (GIS) mapping and exist; neither does the work justice. easy to understand. He makes it clear what earned his master’s degree in geography, “ey are accurate translations,” is happening and students understand it, forging for himself a new path toward Lombardo says, “but they’re not literature; and then they want to talk about what’s wildlife advocacy. they’re not poetry.” really going on. And that’s the fun part.” “I don’t see the eld much any more. I Poetry is exactly what Lombardo aims Part of the e ect Lombardo is trying to travel for meetings and that’s about it,” says for; he’s trying to capture the e ect of the catch is the sense that epic poetry should Houts, c’98, g’01, now senior research original in language that rings true for be a performance, not just a read. assistant with the Kansas Biological Survey readers today. “It’s always intended to be performed, or on West Campus. “But what I’m doing is “e idea is to really bring it to life in all at least read aloud dramatically,” says very fullling. It’s making a di erence on its dynamic vitality, bring it to life in Lombardo, who’s done hundreds of solo the land, for land managers and for English using all the poetic resources that performances of epics. “All my translations species. I don’t want to just write reports contemporary American poetry is heir to,” have that in mind; in some sense I and put them on a shelf. I like this applied, he says. “So my idea is that the translation translate for my own voice as a performer. useful information.” I do, ideally I want it to take its place in the “I want it to work on the page as poetry, One of his most recent GIS mapping corpus of American literature.” but part of that working on the page is that projects is among the largest: an online Achilleid will be published by Hackett, it suggests a performance.” habitat map commissioned by the Western Woods says Lombardo’s Governors’ Association, which allows readings leave audiences users to view human encroachment on completely engaged and rapt. wildlife ranges across 16 western states. STEVE PUPPE STEVE “It’s like going to a lm and e Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool sitting next to people (CHAT, westgovchat.org) relied in large watching something. In this part on expertise that Houts helped case you’re each generating pioneer at the biological survey’s Kansas the pictures in your mind, Applied Remote Sensing Program. but you’re sharing the Launched in December, CHAT is the experience. It makes it a Western Governors’ Association’s answer more communal experience, to a growing problem of cross-boundary which is what all these texts developments—such as oil and gas were meant to be.” pipelines and extended power lines erected While he has other since the surge in popularity of wind- translation projects planned, power generators—that make a muddle of Lombardo says he’s likely state-by-state wildlife regulations. nished with epics. With habitat and species data layered “My last classical piece is onto a map that shows existing develop- going to be this minor, ment and open spaces, CHAT intends to fragmentary epic that has provide useful information that is sugges- fallen out of favor,” says tive rather than regulatory. Lombardo. “I feel that this is “If you’re planning a large-scale project, appropriate somehow, that you could choose the routes of lower it’s a little coda at the end. A sensitivity to major wildlife habitats,” grace note, perhaps.” Houts says. “When the Keystone Pipeline Lombardo —Steven Hill was coming down, they got to Nebraska

74 | KANSAS ALUMNI and, oops, the Sandhills; didn’t account for that. Having this in advance, you could STEVE PUPPE STEVE see the areas that are more important to that state.” Another multistate GIS mapping project now underway involves the ve-state ght over the lesser prairie chicken, whose habitat in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Colorado is threatened by structures such as wind turbines and power-line towers, from which predators such as hawks and owls can strike. Prairie chicken numbers have plum- meted as much as 50 percent since 2012, to 18,000 birds. But conservation o cials in the ve a ected states contend that ongoing drought is also to blame, and they hoped to avoid federal intervention by creating GIS maps that show land-use Houts developers how to best pursue projects. In cooperation with the Western of Kansas. He stitched it together with 16 Everyday Surveillance with a second Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Landsat images, work that had to be done edition ($32, Rowman & Little eld a ve-state rangewide conservation in phases because the data wouldn’t t on Publishers), in which he continues his program that uses GIS mapping was his computer all at once. urgent warnings about technology’s formed to help developers see how they “Now,” he says, “I can put it all on a  ash hidden tentacles. Using a term he coined might cluster projects in low-impact areas drive, no problem at all. With increased for his 1997 book, Staples cautions that and bypass crucial habitat. Houts creates computing power you can de nitely work “Tiny Brothers”—invisible surveillance the Kansas maps for the prairie chicken with bigger data sets, and those open a lot that follows everyone at work, school, program, mixing layers of data to enable of windows for bigger-scaled analysis.” shopping and in untold public interac- users to process of reams of information. —Chris Lazzarino tions—are more troublesome than ever.  e U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in “In the 12 years since I wrote the rst March dismissed the states’ arguments and edition of Everyday Surveillance, we’ve placed the lesser prairie chicken on its seen a staggering proliferation of these threatened species list.  e federal action They’re watching kinds of practices and technologies,” has been countered by a multistate Staples says. “I believe that we are indeed lawsuit—which Kansas joined in April— Surveillance specalist updates building a culture of surveillance when we that contends the states’ conservation plan, warnings about wired world infuse daily life with practices that and an end to the drought, will be enough constantly assess our behavior, judge our to restore bird populations without unduly rofessor William Staples rst issued performance, account for our where- harming industry. Pdire privacy predictions with the 1997 abouts, determine our ‘value’ and chal- “It does get very political,” Houts says, publication of e Culture of Surveillance: lenge our personal integrity.” acknowledging the broad implications for Discipline and Social Control in the United —Chris Lazzarino GIS mapping. “Once you put a line on a States [“Spies like us,” Kansas Alumni issue map, that’s a hard, xed line, and someone No. 3, 1997]. “Trust,” Staples wrote then, is always on the wrong side of the line, no “is becoming a rare commodity in our matter where you put it. A lot of this is ... c u ltu re .” Everyday Surveillance: there’s not a subjectiveness to it, but it Staples followed that up three years later Vigilance and Visibility depends on your use and what you want to with Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and in Postmodern Life do with it.” Visibility in Postmodern Life, which a by William Staples Despite its sometimes contentious Canadian colleague in surveillance studies environment, GIS mapping’s in uence is described as “an instant classic.” Staples, $32 certain to only increase. Above Houts’ the E. Jackson Baur Professor of Sociology Rowman & Littlefi eld desk is a framed map he created as a and founding director of KU’s Surveillance graduate student, showing a satellite view Studies Research Center, recently updated

ISSUE 3, 2014 | 75 Glorious to View Photograph by Chris Lazzarino

The view from Memorial Drive on a cool April morning stretched from the Hill’s nascent greenery and the mirrored Potter Lake all the way across the Kansas River Valley.

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