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Lynching Legacy Professor Patrick Sims spreads the story of a civil rights icon.

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Features

22 How to Stage a Lynching By John Allen As a graduate student, theater professor Patrick Sims became engrossed in the story of lynching survivor James Cameron. For a decade, he’s been working to create a one-man play that preserves Cameron’s place in history.

28 The Tug of War By Jenny Price ’96 The welcome mat is out when today’s soldiers return to campus, unlike what their Vietnam counterparts experi- enced while reentering civilian life during an uncivil era. 36 Voices of Experience By Jenny Price ’96 44 We take them for granted — until we suddenly lose them, that is. Thanks to an unusual clinic, people who rely on their voices to make a living have a place to turn for help.

38 Integrative Medicine Man By Susan Brink David Rakel is one of the pioneers in the field of integrative medicine, which combines conventional and alternative treat- ments. He believes the discipline’s emphasis on prevention can help cut rising health care costs, but skepticism remains.

44 State of the Art[s] By Gwen Evans ’79 From the university’s earliest years, the arts have held 28 a special place on campus — for those who create or perform and for those who experience the results.

Departments 5 Inside Story 6 Letters 10 Scene 12 & Notes 18 Cool Tool 38 19 Classroom

20 Sports Cover 50 Traditions Inspired and overshadowed by 52 Gifts in Action the image of James Cameron, 53 Badger Connections Patrick Sims rehearses his play, 66 Flashback Ten Perfect. Photo by Jeff Miller

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Mary Kassner, Leland School 1958 Watching Ten Perfect was The University of Wisconsin has been educating On Wisconsin a bit of a shock for me. teachers for our state’s schools from the very beginning. FALL 2010 When I went to see Patrick Sims perform his one-man show (research Knowledgeable, well-taught teachers can inspire young Publisher for “How to Stage a Lynching,” which minds to think, question and learn — giving them the tools Wisconsin Alumni Association 650 North Lake Street, Madison, WI 53706 starts on page 22, if you’re interested), they need to succeed in a rapidly changing world. Voice: (608) 262-2551 • Toll-free: (888) WIS-ALUM • Fax: (608) 265-8771 I was prepared for a lot of things — E-mail: [email protected] racism, violence, strong language, Web site: onwisconsin.uwalumni.com adult situations. What I wasn’t pre- Co-Editors Niki Denison, Wisconsin Alumni Association pared for was the venue. It was staged Whatever the education goal, from accounting to zoology, Cindy Foss, University Communications in Lathrop Hall. Senior Editor There’s a theater in Lathrop Hall? students at UW-Madison learn the skills they need to John Allen, Wisconsin Alumni Association Don’t be fooled — there actually make their dreams come true and the world a better Senior Writer place. With more than 350,000 living alumni, we have Jenny Price ’96, University Communications isn’t a theater there. Not technically, been teaching the people who change the world for Art Director because technically, Lathrop’s stage is Earl J. Madden MFA’82, in a “performance space” — officially more than 150 years. University Communications the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Production Editor FORWARD. THINKING. www.wisconsinidea.wisc.edu Eileen Fitzgerald ’79, Space, named for the university’s leg- University Communications endary dance instructor. It seats 240, Theater (or is it theatre?) professor Patrick Editorial Associates Sims rehearses for a production of Ten Paula Apfelbach ’83 and Ben Wischnewski ’05, meaning that it’s big enough to hold all Perfect, his one-man show. Wisconsin Alumni Association the people in the world who can cor- Editorial Intern rectly pronounce “H’Doubler” and still leave 239 empty chairs. Sam Oleson x’11 It turns out, the UW really has only two theaters: the Union Theater, which Design, Layout, and Production Barry Carlsen MFA’83; Toni Good ’76, MA’89; is the largest venue on campus, and the Play Circle Theater, also Kent Hamele ’78, University Communications in Memorial Union. But it also has two theatres, Mitchell Theatre and Hemsley Campus Advisers Theatre, both of which are in Vilas Hall. I don’t know why they’re spelled that Paula Bonner MS’78, President and CEO, and Mary DeNiro, Vice President of Marketing way. Maybe they were built by Anglophiles. Or maybe they take their lead from and Communications, Wisconsin Alumni University Theatre (which is an organization, not an edifice — it’s the group that Association • Amy E. Toburen ’80, Director, University Communications • Lynne Johnson, puts on the bulk of the shows in Vilas Hall’s venues) or from the Department of Senior Director of External Relations, Theatre and Drama. (I like this spelling bettre, but my editro disagrees.) University of Wisconsin Foundation The point is, the university actually has more stages than the ones in its Advertising Representative Madison Magazine: (608) 270-3600 theaters and theatres. In addition to the “performance space” in Lathrop, there’s Alumni Name, Address, Phone, another one (called the Galleries and Performance Space) in the new Arts Loft. and E-Mail Changes • Death Notices Madison area: (608) 262-9648 The Humanities Building houses three halls — Mills, Morphy, and the Eastman Toll-free: (888) 947-2586 Organ Recital Hall, in any of which you might catch a show at the right time. And E-mail: [email protected] Music Hall has a stage, too, but it’s called the Carol Rennebohm Auditorium. Quarterly production of On Wisconsin Magazine These places could, altogether, stage ten different performances all at once, is supported by a UW Foundation grant. © 2010 Wisconsin Alumni Association to entertain more than 3,500 people. That’s a lot of drama, no matter what you call Printed on recycled paper using soy inks. the room in which you see it. Please remember to recycle this magazine. John Allen

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The Magical Mystery House portion of the Historical Library, and then to Thanks for writing about Joseph Jastrow return them to the new Memorial Library when [“Mind Tricks for the Masses,” Summer 2010]. it opened, as that would save them time and In my senior year (1973–74), I had the won- money. I did my part in that effort. derful experience of living in his spectacu- Gene Knepprath PhD’62 lar house. It had been split up into apartments Sacramento, California many years before, each one magical. I lived in the basement apartment. Besides the handcrafted stone fireplace and brick mantel, I had a stucco, cave-like closet From the Web and bathroom. In the summer I moved to the To see more online comments posted by third floor, where I enjoyed a massive, floor-to- On Wisconsin readers, go to onwisconsin. ceiling wooden wall and fireplace enclosure, uwalumni.com replete with Swedish lettering and the year it was carved, circa 1730. On the other side was [“Right on Schedule,” Summer 2010] is a gigantic set of European-crafted, leaded and excellent writing that gives never-before-seen stained glass bay windows, with an exquisitely insight into the president’s life, but also a Thank you, George Schaller carved seat winding all the way around. strong indication of Ms. Mastromonaco’s Thank you for featuring George Schaller. I A retired theater professor, Fred Boerke, personality and spirit. Loved reading it! have been reading his books as basic pre- lived on the second floor. Every night around Andrea MA’06, via the Web travel research for eight years. My passion 9 p.m., he would don his French policeman’s is wildlife — however, as an undergrad at cape and beret and walk a couple of blocks [“Right on Schedule”] was an excellent story, Madison, I could not find my way to a career to Portabella, where he would have a glass great writing … I loved it. I suppose what in basic wildlife research. Of course, after of wine. He was courtly and polite in an I liked the most is the tie to UW-Madison reading The Snow Leopard, I realized that I old-fashioned and delightful way. and Mastromonaco’s very pragmatic way of do not have the physical fortitude required of The house had what I’d call great house describing what she does and her passion a wildlife biologist. Schaller’s perseverance in karma. All of us living there really liked and for making things happen in her own life. In a the face of physical and environmental chal- respected each other. We bonded over a ter- way, her descriptions of her experiences made lenges is remarkable. Now I travel to see rific progressive dinner and became our own Obama very real to me, which is challenging, charismatic megafauna in the wild, support- neighborhood within that unbelievable house. considering the media coverage and sound ing the local economies and meeting the local I’ll never experience anything like it again. It bites that we are accustomed to hearing. people as I go. was like living in a very engaging movie set. Christina, via the Web My experience seeing mountain goril- I’d love to hear from other people who lived in las in Uganda was enriched by first read- the house. Please Update Your Address ing Schaller’s The Year of the Gorilla, and my Sherry LeVine Zander ’74 UW-Madison wants to stay in touch with you. understanding of the Serengeti was enriched Dallas, Texas To update your contact information, which by Golden Shadows, Flying Hooves. is maintained by the UW Foundation, please visit www.uwfoundation.wisc.edu/survey. To log in, use the ID number above your name on I am thankful that people like Schaller exist and the magazine label. This information is shared have helped preserve the wild places that are essential selectively with other campus units and the Wisconsin Alumni Association. Thank you! to our humanity.

Dr. Schaller’s writing is clear and easy to How to Move a Lot of Books On Wisconsin Magazine welcomes letters read, even though he is communicating hard The picture in the Summer 2010 On Wisconsin related to magazine content, but reserves the science. His systems work helps one appre- of the recently renovated reading room of the right to edit them for length and clarity. E-mail ciate all the fauna in the ecosystem. I am Wisconsin Historical Society Library [Scene] comments to [email protected]; thankful that people like Schaller exist and took me back to the summer of 1953, when I mail them to On Wisconsin, 650 North Lake have helped preserve the wild places that began graduate study at the UW. I recall the Street, Madison, WI 53706; or fax them to are essential to our humanity. library staff posted many requests around the (608) 265-8771. We regret that we don’t have Ann Swinford ’80 library and on campus asking students and space to publish all the letters we receive, but Ann Arbor, Michigan faculty to withdraw many books from the UW we always appreciate hearing from you.

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Live and Learn Campus learning communities are growing, thanks to a new initiative.

Students who live in residen- students will live in nine commu- BRYCE RICHTER tial learning communities at nities spread throughout UW resi- UW-Madison call it the best dence halls. Increasing the number decision they have made, but of such communities was among demand for space far exceeds twenty-one proposals Chancellor the supply. Biddy Martin PhD’85 designated Last fall, 20 percent of stu- for a share of $12 million available dents in residence halls were through the initiative. living among six learning com- The UW has good reason to munities, immersed in subjects invest more in residential learning ranging from Arabic to entre- communities. Students involved preneurship. Now the univer- as freshmen graduate with higher sity is expanding the program GPAs, earn their degrees sooner, using funds from the Madison and are more likely to participate Initiative for Undergraduates, in service activities and take on a supplemental tuition charge campus leadership roles. They being phased in over a four- also have lower levels of health year period to increase financial problems associated with binge Students work together at the Entrepreneurial Residential aid and improve undergraduate drinking. Learning Community at Sellery Hall. education. The chancellor also has set The university launched its aside funding from the Madison more faculty and teaching assis- A final round of projects will first residential learning commu- Initiative to develop a compre- tants to eliminate bottlenecks in receive a share of $4 million in nity in 1995. By the 2013–2014 hensive plan for improving advis- popular courses in chemistry, funding in 2011. academic year, more than 1,600 ing across campus and to hire economics, history, and Spanish. Jenny Price ’96 quick takes A group of engineers led contractor in Honduras. In April, The Peace Corps announced research into treatments for by UW professor Gregg the UW ended its Nike contract, that the UW ranks seventh diseases such as Alzheimer’s Vanderheiden ’72, MS’74, citing treatment of the Honduran among universities for the and Parkinson’s. PhD’84 is making the Internet workers. In July, the company number of alumni currently safer for those at risk from sei- offered to spend $1.5 million to serving, with 77 volunteers. UW doctors swapped kidneys zures. Many Web sites use flash- aid the workers. The other UW (Washington) faster than they ever had before ing and flickering graphics, and leads the nation with 101. Since in July, when seven surgeons such images can induce seizures Forty years ago in August, the Peace Corps’s inception and eight patients (four donors in .025 percent of the population. the four members of the New in 1961, UW-Madison has had and four recipients) matched up Vanderheiden’s group created Year’s Gang detonated a bomb 2,906 alumni serve, second most in the largest paired live-donor a tool to help software develop- outside Sterling Hall, damaging after the University of California- kidney exchange in the UW ers find out if their work might put the building and killing researcher Berkeley’s 3,412. Hospital’s history. In a game of people at risk. The group calls . The UW’s Oral renal round robin, Lois Chupp its creation the Photosensitive History Program has now created The brain may be the most gave up a kidney for Daniel Epilepsy Analysis Tool, and it’s a mixed-media package to mark complex of human organs, but its Fabisiak, whose wife, Kelly, been downloaded by 1,000 users. the anniversary of the bombing, development is guided by a sin- donated one to Carl Vitale ’84, including an iTunes album, pod- gle gene, according to a study whose brother Marc ’89, MA’90 Three months after the UW cast, and mini-movie. The mate- led by Su-Chun Zhang, a UW donated one to Susan Rader, cut ties with Nike, the athletic rials can be found at http:// anatomy and neurology profes- whose son John gave one to shoemaker agreed to compen- archives.library.wisc.edu/oral- sor. The findings about the gene, Michael Olson, whose mother- sate workers laid off by a sub- history/campusvoices.html. called Pax6, could help further in-law is a friend of Chupp.

12 ON WISCONSIN Adventures in a Tiny Universe A creative partnership brings youthful enthusiasm to the scientific method.

Troy Dassler’s fifteen third-grad- JEFF MILLER ers, lab coated and goggled, are set to embark on their next adven- ture in the microverse. Primed by their teacher, the eight- and nine-year-olds from Madison’s Leopold Elementary School break into small groups, pop open their laptops, hook up their digital optical microscopes, and begin to take careful notes about the world of the very small. Today’s objects of ocular inquiry are feathers: duck feathers, pheasant feathers, and a feather of undetermined origin, dyed to look like an eagle’s plume. “Most black feathers are iri- descent,” whispers Molly Jetzer, a fourth-grader who is serving, essentially, as Dassler’s teach- ing assistant for MicroExplorers, an after-school program intended to open up the microscopic uni- COURTESY OF TROY DASSLER/MICROEXPLORERS verse to young students in the easier to teach. Seeing reinforces Madison Metropolitan School ideas.” District. Feathers are also “super- The new, inexpensive gener- hydrophobic,” Dassler’s students ation of microscope has no eye- are quick to add, slipping into lab piece, but instead is tethered jargon to explain why feathers so to a laptop computer. Images easily repel water. appear on the screen, and the MicroExplorers is the prod- MicroExplorers can snap digi- uct of a broad UW-Madison col- tal still images or make movies. laboration. Inspiration for the Four of the microscopes, each the program comes from biochem- size and shape of a large can of istry Professor Doug Weibel, a beans, are deployed in Dassler’s kid at heart, who thinks that every Leopold Elementary classroom. child should have a digital opti- Teams of students crowd around cal microscope and be as adept the computer to view, describe, at using it as they are doing battle and characterize different objects, with aliens on a Wii. including such serendipitous “The microscope is time- offerings as the shed skin of Coco less,” explains Weibel, who has the gecko, Dassler’s classroom Researchers in the making (top) listen intently as graduate stu- dent Jenna Eun ’07, PhDx’12 introduces them to Professor Doug partnered with UW-Madison’s mascot. Weibel’s research lab in the Biochemistry Building. Later the third- Materials Research Science With a microscope, says graders — participants in the MicroExplorers after-school program and Engineering Center and the Weibel, “You can hit chemistry. — used microscopes to view details smaller than the eye can see Center for Biology Education to You can hit physics. You can hit (above). Care to guess what they were looking at? Answers are

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FALL 2010 13 news ¬es EARL MADDEN the visual wonders of microscopy: gram will add another teacher in it serves as a gateway to teach- 2011, more than doubling its effect Clocking In ing the scientific method early on. in the Madison area. Class start times for Fall 2010. Dassler’s students, for example, “What is really special about keep notebooks and have learned the program with the microscopes The hard numbers tell us what we all know from experience. No to make the distinction between and the computers is that the one likes to get up early when they’ve been up late studying (or observation and opinion. students are using technology as doing something else) the night before. But what’s that dip at The program’s biggest goal, researchers,” says Dassler. “They noon? We’re guessing lunch — and watching Days of Our Lives. says Weibel, is to establish an orga- don’t use the technology to learn nized network of MicroExplorers in about how to use the technology. classrooms and after-school pro- They use the technology to study 416 grams around the country. the microscopic world and col- 792 “It’s a bootstrap operation lect data.” 703 now,” he notes. “In a year, we Greta Zenner Petersen can work with about a thousand MA’03, director of education for 12 1 kids [from Madison schools], but MRSEC, is no stranger to innova- 547 11 we’d like to have a much bigger tive science education programs. 10 2 footprint.” She sees MicroExplorers as the 550 The program will indeed new wave in these efforts, push- 9 3 grow next year, says Dassler, ing science and technology learn- 397 who spends his summers on the ing to ever-younger students. 8 4 405 UW-Madison campus as part “This is a new frontier,” says 7 5 of the Research Experiences for Zenner Petersen. “There is a push 114 6 Teachers program, funded by to get kids hooked at a younger 151 the National Science Foundation, age, but we have to meet them at which is part of the UW’s Materials their level. This program is fantas- 244 Research Science and Engineering tically successful at what it does.” Source: Office of the Registrar Center (MRSEC). He says the pro- Terry Devitt ’78, MA’85

Laying a New Foundation Longtime fund-raising leader retires; business dean will transition to new role.

Andrew “Sandy” Wilcox is rec- “We have seen public-private ence the board was seeking in the program, and the restructuring ognized by his peers as the dean partnerships change the university foundation’s next leader. and expansion of the MBA pro- of public university foundation for the better, and we have con- Knetter orchestrated the grams for working professionals. leaders for his success in build- nected our alumni and friends with novel $85 million Wisconsin “The richness of Mike’s back- ing an endowment and for form- ways to support their passions on Naming Gift, which preserved ground makes him uniquely qual- ing lasting ties with donors. campus,” Wilcox says. the school’s identity rather than ified for this important position,” Under his leadership, the UW Wilcox will serve as the foun- adopting the name of one donor. says Taylor. Foundation has provided the uni- dation’s president emeritus begin- He continued to lead the busi- The business school is con- versity with more than $2 billion in ning October 16 and will assist ness school after Martin appointed ducting an international search financial support, while its assets with the transition to his recently him the UW’s vice chancellor for for Knetter’s successor. Joan under management grew from named successor, Michael advancement in March. In that Schmit ’78, MBA’79, the $190 million to $2.5 billion and Knetter, dean of the Wisconsin role, he has worked with campus school’s vice dean and professor gifts totaled $3 billion. School of Business. leaders to develop and communi- of risk management and insur- Chancellor Biddy Martin Frances “Fran” Taylor ’68, cate strategies to increase financial ance, will serve as interim dean. PhD’85 calls Wilcox’s con- chair of the foundation board, support for the university outside “While I have enjoyed many tributions as president of the says Knetter’s background as an of the state budget. aspects of my work at Wisconsin, foundation “nothing short of economist advising Presidents As business school dean, nothing has given me greater extraordinary.” George H.W. Bush and Bill Knetter spearheaded the expan- satisfaction than engaging alumni Now Wilcox is preparing to Clinton, and his involvement on sion of Grainger Hall, the restruc- in support of our mission,” retire from the foundation, a pri- both corporate and investment turing and improved national Knetter says. vate, nonprofit corporation. boards, were skills and experi- standing of the full-time MBA Staff

14 ON WISCONSIN Probing Poverty Researchers try meta-analysis Building a Better Biology to find what works, what doesn’t. Boot camp program helps students navigate the biosciences. In the search for solutions to devotes her efforts to finding poverty, there’s more to do than evidence of what actually makes Badgers who want to major in biochemistry should enroll in pinpoint programs that work. a difference for those children the College of Letters and Science — or maybe the College of Katherine Magnuson, an and their families, a common Agricultural and Life Sciences. Botany is in L&S, but horticulture is associate professor at the UW’s theme in the UW institute’s work. in CALS. Biomedical engineering is in the College of Engineering, Institute for Research on Poverty, With colleagues from the but biological systems engineering is in CALS. Molecular biology is not afraid to tell policymakers University of California-Irvine is in L&S, but microbiology is both there and in CALS. And those to take funding away or to require and Harvard, Magnuson is who want to major in just plain biology could go through L&S, improvements from programs conducting a large meta-analysis CALS, or the School of Education. that clearly are not helping poor — essentially a study of studies Each year, some 1,300 students enroll in one of the UW’s children and families as advertised. — to identify common factors thirty-one different biology-related majors, making biosciences “To me, every dollar that’s in programs that are effective one of the largest fields on campus — and one of the most spent on a program that’s not at helping at-risk children. Their confusing. The university’s Institute for Cross-College Biology effective is a dollar not being research is tackling a number of Education (ICBE) hopes to ease the path for life-science spent on a program that is assumptions that seem logical, students with a new Biology Boot Camp program aimed at effective,” she says. “From a but have not been proven incoming freshmen. research standpoint, it’s just as with data, including parental “Most high schools just teach plain biology, so students important to know what doesn’t involvement as a necessary come here thinking they know about biology, but they don’t work as what does work.” ingredient for effective early- really know the full extent of the biological sciences,” says ICBE There’s plenty of proof that childhood programs. Director Teri Balser, who notes that the boot camp program will early intervention is needed: one “We’re hoping to untangle be modeled on similar efforts at other universities, including JEFF MILLER study found that three-year-olds whether it does make a Michigan State and . “We from low-income homes have difference and in what ways it want to get a sense of what the half the vocabulary of their more makes a difference,” she says. pre-collegiate student needs, affluent peers. But Magnuson Jenny Price ’96 because coming to this huge campus can be a huge shock.” Big Brother Is Searching? Balser says that ICBE is developing Start typing in the search box at google.com, and Google’s the boot camp cur- Suggest feature magically begins completing your thoughts: riculum with a plan “tiger” begets “Tiger Woods,” “tea” draws “Tea Party move- to deliver a pilot ment,” and “craig” summons “craigslist.” program next sum- It seems helpful enough, says Dominique Brossard, a mer. It will likely UW life sciences communication professor. But adding that run three days and subtle nudge to more than 1 billion search requests every day include coaching and may steer the direction of public discussion. advising, as well as the The more people choose Google’s suggestions, the more chance to sit in on a lec- they click on one of the high-rated results for that search. ture. The program’s initial Those highly clicked sites then inform future Google Suggest funding is enough to cover one terms. In a study published in Materials Today, Brossard hundred participants and will focus on and her colleagues showed that a self-reinforcing loop nar- first-generation college students. I CBE hopes to find funding to rowed Google searches and results to nanotechnology and expand the program in the future. health topics, rather than, for example, nanotech’s social “We want to give students a better idea of what majors they implications. might be interested in and what research is,” Balser says. “We “In all likelihood this is not unique to nanotechnology,” want to give them a foundation in the biosciences and prepare Brossard says. “We could see similar self-reinforcing spirals them for life in a biological career.” in all sorts of areas of public discourse.” John Allen Chris Barncard

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Heart of Oak BRYCE RICHTER Using electronic sensors to perform an acoustic tomog- raphy scan, R. Bruce Allison MS’82, PhD’92 (center) leads an investigation into the cen- ter of a three hundred-year- old tree on campus. Allison is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, and he’s working with Joelle Baird x’12 (left) and Shan Gao (stand- ing) to diagnose possible decay within trees. The tree they’re examining here is the President’s Bur Oak, which has stood on Observatory Hill since long before there was a UW. The sensors enable Allison to determine the den- sity of the wood and generate an image of the inside of the tree’s trunk.

Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About Book choice for second Go Big Read offers plenty to ponder and discuss.

Seven thousand people flocked Pollan, the author of In Defense the story of Lacks, a poor black that this year’s choice holds the to the for the main of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, woman in Baltimore who died same potential to interest people event, but it wasn’t a basketball a book selected for the uni- from cervical cancer in 1951 at across the campus community. game or a concert. versity’s first common-read- age thirty. Scientists know her Skloot’s book raises issues of The crowd gathered last ing program, organized by simply as HeLa, the name given medical ethics, poverty, racism, fall to hear a lecture by Michael UW-Madison Libraries. In its to cancerous cells taken without ownership rights, and the law. first year, the program, named her knowledge that had the “In addition to being a Go Big Read, got people to do ability to reproduce indefinitely great read, The Immortal Life more than read — it got peo- without disintegration. of Henrietta Lacks is cross-dis- ple to talk. Pollan and his book Researchers used HeLa ciplinary and relevant, and will drew critics, including farm- cells to develop the polio vaccine, engage students and readers ers and food scientists, who and the cells also contributed to on a number of intellectual and disputed his claims in public advances in chemotherapy, clon- personal levels,” she says. forums and local media. ing, gene mapping, and in vitro First-year students attend- For its second year, Go Big fertilization. Yet Lacks’s contri- ing the Chancellor’s Convocation Read isn’t shying away from bution was not acknowledged and students taking courses controversy. for years. Her family lived in pov- using the book will receive cop- Chancellor Biddy Martin erty, and Lacks was buried in ies. The book is being made PhD’85 has selected The an unmarked grave while others into an HBO movie produced by Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks profited from her cells. Oprah Winfrey. by Rebecca Skloot, who is Martin says that Go Big To learn more, visit http:// scheduled to speak on campus Read’s first year was “every- www.gobigread.wisc.edu. on October 25. Her book tells thing I hoped it would be,” and Jenny Price ’96

16 ON WISCONSIN Planting the Future New Charter Street power plant will include biomass.

When the university’s Charter It will also include a backup gen- “We’d like to see the Charter By early summer, some fifty- Street Heating Plant fires up its erator that runs on fuel oil. Street Heating Plant jump-start nine companies had submitted boilers in 2012, it will do so using The new Charter Street plant a biomass industry and have bids to provide biomass for the a new fuel source: biomass. comes with a high price tag, how- agriculture-based products university’s power plant. As part of its effort to rid the ever. With an estimated cost of as well as woody products,” Construction on the new south side of campus of the coal- $245 million, it would be the most Runge says. “Currently, there’s power plant will have to wait burning, smoke-spewing eyesore, expensive building project in the no biomass supply chain, but until its design is approved for the UW will replace the plant with university’s history. we’re hoping this will encour- pollution control. new equipment, including a boiler But Troy Runge of age the biomass economy. It “The project is getting its air that burns plant-based matter. Wisconsin Biomass, who could have a profound effect permits finalized,” Runge says. The Charter Street Heating chaired the multi-agency work and create businesses that sell “That will dictate the construc- Plant has been delivering energy group that oversaw planning biomass, making it easier for tion timeline.” to campus since 1959, when the for the new plant, believes that development.” John Allen university purchased it second- including biomass will have hand from a defunct American long-range benefits to the Motors factory. It uses coal to state’s economy. He believes STUDENT WATCH fuel its boilers, and the pollution Wisconsin has the capacity to it emits violates the U.S. Clean generate a great amount of bio- In the past decade, along with more personal laptops Air Act. After the Sierra Club sued mass fuel, but doesn’t currently and iPods, incoming college students are also bringing

JEFF MILLER decidedly less desirable baggage: food allergies. According to a 2007 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study, since 1997 the number of Ameri- cans under the age of eighteen with food allergies has risen from 2.3 to 3 million. Because of the increased prevalence in that age group, campus cafeterias, includ- ing the UW’s, have had to adjust. But luckily for allergy-stricken Badgers, the Division of University Housing has developed ways to feed every nutritional need. Not only does the UW have a Web site students can visit to identify the ingredients in food items on that night’s menu, but it also offers made-to-order meals so students can choose what ingredients to exclude in a certain dish. A worker at the Charter Street Heating Plant inspects one of the Nevertheless, Denise Bolduc ’79, MS’96, assis- coal boilers. Replacement boilers will run on gas and biomass. tant food-service director for University Housing, encour- the UW, the university agreed to because there’s very little ages incoming students to contact her before the school bring the plant into compliance market for it. year starts to help avoid illnesses caused by allergies. by phasing in a new, cleaner, and Runge notes that biomass “It’s important for the students who are coming more efficient system. fuel can be made from what he Between fall 2010 and the calls “wood residuals,” or waste here with allergies to know their diet well, and what they end of 2012, the UW will replace products of the lumber and can have and not have,” Bolduc says. “It’s important for four of the plant’s boilers with paper industries, as well as from them to ask for help before they get here.” three new ones, two of which are farm waste and crops such as gas-fired and one fueled by bio- prairie switchgrass, grown spe- Sam Oleson x’11 mass — fuel made from plants. cifically to be turned into fuel.

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Blow Holes The shot-hole drill gives the Antarctic a breath of fresh air.

If you want to drill a few holes JAY JOHNSON (2) in your wall at home, you head to the hardware store to find the right tool. If you want to drill two hundred and twenty-six holes in the Antarctic ice to conduct seismic experiments, however, not even Wal-Mart will offer the right kind of equipment. You need to seek out a facil- ity like UW-Madison’s Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) — it’s the go-to place for scientists and researchers looking for custom- ized tools and instruments, and it’s also where the shot-hole drill was created. The drill is a first-of-its- kind scientific tool developed by PSL and the Space Sciences Engineering Center (SSEC) in 2001 for UW-Madison’s Ice Coring and Drilling Services The shot-hole drill (shown at (ICDS) to help geophysicists left during a test near McMurdo obtain data relating to the Station) carves holes in glaciers in Antarctica. It can drill ice at dynamics of ice flows in a rate of six meters per minute, Antarctica. cutting up to twenty holes each Researchers asked for this day. The drill’s bit is made of specialized drill because they steel and tungsten, but the key element is compressed air, used needed something that was to drive the drill, suspend it over fast, could be easily moved, and the ice, and clear chips out of could withstand constant use the hole. The drill, hose reel, over a very short period of time. and air compressor were then Oh, and it needed to drill transported (above) to a work site near the South Pole. through the ice by dry cutting it. While that sounds logical, in actuality, melting ice with a hot The solution? Air. by principal investigator Charles Johnson. “That’s moving, con- liquid drilling device is standard As a mechanical cutter head Bentley, who’s been working sidering coring drills travel under practice in the polar regions. shaves the ice, two air-powered in Antarctica for half a century. one meter a minute.” A dry drill is necessary turbines power the drill. “And (See “Cold Digger” in the Fall And it’s still huffing and puff- because explosive charges are that air is then exhausted into 2008 issue of On Wisconsin for ing its way around Antarctica, sent down the holes, says Bill the holes … blowing the ice cut- more on Bentley.) supporting seismic studies. It Mason, SSEC/ICDS mechani- tings out of it,” says Mason. During the shot-hole drill’s drilled one hundred thirty-two cal engineer and one of the shot- “It’s really impressive to see first official season in 2002– holes during the 2009–2010 hole drill’s primary designers. plumes of ice chips rising off 2003 at McMurdo Station in season at the lower Thwaites Any extraneous water or liq- the rig as it’s drilling,” says Jay Antarctica, it drilled two hundred Glacier. uid could alter the reflection of Johnson, drill operations engi- twenty-six holes and a total of “This coming season it’s the explosive sound waves trav- neer with ICDS. 12,686 meters of ice. heading to the South Pole,” eling through the icy boreholes The shot-hole drill was cre- “We can drill up to six says Johnson. and skew the findings. ated to specifications provided meters a minute with it,” marvels Brian Klatt

18 ON WISCONSIN classroom

Dissolving Borders Course puts distances aside to explore the dairy industries in Wisconsin and Mexico.

Michel Wattiaux PhD’90 must BRYCE RICHTER perform some major technolog- ical gymnastics during the hour before his students arrive. He tus- sles with the laptop, projector, and video-conferencing software needed to establish live, two-way video feeds with a handful of sis- ter classrooms in Mexico. As each new link is made, he gives a wave and a quick “Hola. ¿Cómo estás?” To Wattiaux, this extra effort is well worth it. By the time students start to breeze in, his Pyle Center conference room has been transformed into a truly international lecture hall, with dairy science profes- sors and students from across Mexico in virtual attendance, projected on the large screen at the front of the room. Dairy Science 375: Evaluation of Dairy Agroecosystems in Wisconsin and Mexico is now in session. Window into a different world: Using a two-way video feed — and two languages — Michel Wattiaux’s “This class offers a window dairy science class explores similarities and differences in dairy operations. into a different world,” says Wattiaux, an associate profes- lets experts from Mexico and students on both sides of the bor- summer field-study program in sor of dairy science. “In this case, UW-Madison share what they der can follow along. Lecturers Mexico, where students conduct it’s Mexico and how Mexico is know directly with students. Topics speak in their native tongue in sustainability research on working addressing the issue of sustain- vary widely from week to week — two- to three-sentence bites, and dairy farms. ability in its dairy industry.” from manure runoff problems in then pause to allow for translation. Those who make it all the Over the course of the semes- the highlands of central Mexico to Although that slows things down, way to Mexico will see some ter, students in Wattiaux’s class the nuts and bolts of organic oper- “the slower pace actually helps familiar faces: many of the learn about dairy operations in ations in southwest Wisconsin. the ideas sink in,” says Wattiaux. Mexican experts featured in Mexico and Wisconsin, paying “What’s really great about And he desperately wants Wattiaux’s fall dairy agroecology special attention to the sustainabil- the class is we’re not just hearing them to sink in. Dairying is a prom- course are also his research ity of each type of system, includ- from dairy scientists. We hear from ising way to raise rural Mexicans collaborators in that country. ing the economic, social, and economists and sociologists, too,” out of poverty, something Wattiaux “I always feel like we in environmental factors involved. says graduate student Jennifer feels passionately about because Wisconsin are the greatest bene- Wisconsin’s dairy industry is Blazek MAx’10. “So, all of these of his own experience. When he ficiaries of this collaboration, but inextricably tied to Mexico’s and people are getting together to talk was eleven, his parents bought I’m hoping we can find ways to vice versa; many Wisconsin farm- about a system, trying to figure a forty-cow farm in Belgium. The make this whole process as ben- ers rely on Mexican workers to out how it works, but not just from farm struggled for years, inspiring eficial as possible to my Mexican milk their herds, while Mexican one perspective. We talk about the Wattiaux to go to college to learn collaborators, their students, and farmers value Wisconsin’s cows, whole, big picture.” how to make it work. their universities,” says Wattiaux. dairy equipment, and services. Every idea voiced during For students who want “And as long as I perceive that For most lectures, Wattiaux, who these discussions is expressed to continue on, Wattiaux also they value this collaboration, I will earned tenure based on his inno- twice — once in English and once teaches a spring seminar on continue to offer this class.” vative teaching, steps aside and in Spanish — so that monolingual dairying in Mexico and leads a Nicole Miller MS’06

FALL 2010 19 sports

TEAM PLAYER Mohammed Ahmed

Some people call him Mo. Others call him Mo Speed. And everyone who races against Mohammed Ahmed x’13 calls him fast. In his rookie season with the Wisconsin men’s track-and-field team, the freshman raced to a fourth-place finish in the 10,000 meters at the 2010 NCAA Outdoor Championships. The effort earned him All-American honors and lowered his Canadian national junior record to 28:57.44. Born in Somalia, Ahmed moved to St. Catharines, Ontario, eight years ago with his parents and three younger brothers. During high school, he started to make a name for himself in cross-country running and track by competing for Canada at national and international junior championship meets. Wisconsin wasn’t on his short list during the recruiting process. “Coming from Canada, all I was thinking about was getting out of the cold,” Ahmed recalls. “But when I looked at my running career long term and my development as an athlete, the coaching philosophy here and the strong tradition, Wisconsin fit perfectly.” Ahmed also competes in the 3,000 meters (indoors), 5,000 meters, and on the Badger cross-country team. In his sophomore season, Ahmed hopes to improve his indoor running with guidance from UW coach Mick Byrne. “I struggle a bit on a short track that’s not made for my long legs and body,” he says. “But I love running, no matter what. Coming to Wisconsin really rejuvenated my running spirit.” Karen Graf Roach ’82

“When I looked at my running career long term and my development as an athlete, the coaching philosophy here and the strong tradition, Wisconsin fit perfectly.”

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20 ON WISCONSIN BRYCE RICHTER

On Home Turf Horticulture prof is in his element when working with sports venues around the world. John Stier spends much of his else had ever done.” career on hallowed ground, his Stier met with the president skills in demand at places such as of the Fédération Internationale Lambeau Field in Green Bay and de Football Association (FIFA, Real Madrid’s home stadium. the governing body of interna- Stier is not a multi-sport ath- tional soccer) and others from lete; he’s a UW horticulture pro- around the world to plan for fessor who leads one of the best the World Cup. After traveling turfgrass science programs in to England to view soccer ven- the country. ues such as Wembley Stadium, John Stier says Wisconsin — which truly has four seasons — is an He got his start somewhat he says, “It really began to sink ideal place to study turfgrass science. by accident. At Ohio State in that this is a great ticket for a University, he enrolled in a turf- career that has some international to build the field,” he says. get injured on better playing sur- grass pathology class when the opportunities.” Turfgrass is not a new field of faces that offer solid footing, course he originally wanted to Stier came to the UW in 1997 study. The rising popularity of golf making the field less of a factor take was full. Stier earned the and found that Wisconsin’s varied prompted Penn State University in a game. Turfgrass researchers only A and went on to work for weather patterns make it an ideal to hire the first faculty mem- made that happen by investigat- the professor. place to study turfgrass science. ber in turfgrass science in the ing drainage properties of differ- Then Michigan State “We get true winters. We get 1930s, and the U.S. Department ent soil types, novel grasses to University recruited Stier to true summers. We get springs of Agriculture employed research- use, and better ways to manage develop a portable indoor and falls,” Stier says. “We get ers in the area as far back as grass, he says. turf system for the Pontiac unexpected rain events … which 1910. Now turfgrass science pro- But Stier also learns a lot Silverdome for the 1994 World oftentimes offer serendipitous grams can be found at most land from people who are not scien- Cup, hoping to capitalize on his observations.” grant universities in the country, tists: those who take care of the knowledge of turfgrass diseases. High schools and colleges and many graduates find lucrative grass every day at high-profile “In an enclosed environment that have field problems, such as work as golf course superinten- venues such as Lambeau Field where there’s very little light, dying grass, benefit from Stier’s dents, Stier says. and Miller Park. very little air movement, diseases advice, too. “It almost always Today’s sports fields are “It’s not a job to them — it is can wipe out a turfgrass system boils down to poor drainage, “head and shoulders” above a lifestyle,” he says. “They live, pretty quick,” he says. “We were because the people building those of twenty to thirty years eat, and breathe it.” doing something that nobody the field didn’t understand how ago, Stier says. Fewer players Jenny Price ’96

BADGER SPORTS TICKER Where do the Badgers rank among site devoted to Wisconsin Rowing: basketball (thirteenth), men’s all college sports? According to http://archives.library.wisc.edu/ basketball (sixth), volleyball (third), the National Association of College uw-archives/exhibits/crewteam/. men’s hockey (first), and women’s Directors of Athletics, the UW fin- The site includes photos and hockey (first). In all, some 1.3 mil- ished twenty-first in the Directors’ documents dating back to 1892. lion fans attended more than 130 Cup rankings. The Directors’ Cup home sporting events. The numbers for the 2009–10 rates schools based on how they academic year are in, and they In related news, student season finish in twenty NCAA sports. show that Badger fans love their football tickets, priced at $154, sold Stanford finished first overall. teams. In a national ranking, the out for the seventeenth straight Want to learn more about the UW placed in the top fifteen in season, and they did so in less than UW’s oldest intercollegiate sport? attendance at six different sports: a day after sales began at 7:30 a.m. Check out the new UW Libraries football (fifteenth), women’s on June 21.

FALL 2010 21 JEFF MILLER

How to Stage a Lynchin Theater professor Patrick Sims preserves a chapter of history through drama.

22 ON WISCONSIN JEFF MILLER

By John Allen it’s the one that’s most important to him, acquaintances, Thomas Shipp and Abram for both its message and its impact — his Smith, in Shipp’s car, an event that Cam- performance came just days before his eron describes in detail in his autobiogra- In February, Patrick own tenure review, and members of the phy, A Time of Terror. Sims stood on a box in review committee were in the audience. Smith had taken along a pistol and The play’s title comes from the way suggested that the three of them rob front of a crowd of hun- the main character’s mother described someone so that he could pull together him at birth: “ten perfect fingers and ten enough cash to buy a vehicle of his own. dreds and contemplated perfect toes,” a state of wholeness that he They drove out to a secluded country road death by hanging. has difficulty maintaining. The plot is a — the local “lovers’ lane” — until they fictionalized account of the experience of found a car with a couple in the back seat. What would it feel like, the rope bit- James Cameron, who was nearly lynched Smith ordered the couple out of the ing into his flesh, his throat constricting, in Marion, Indiana, in August 1930, but car, and Cameron recognized the man as the last sound in his ears being his name survived to devote the next seven decades, Claude Deeter, a customer at Cameron’s chanted by bloodthirsty onlookers? until his death, to promoting civil rights. shoeshine business. Realizing the gravity It was important to Sims that he Cameron became a local legend in of what was about to happen, Cameron get this right. A lynching is something Milwaukee, where, in 1988, he founded fled the scene. you really don’t want to botch. Not this America’s Black Holocaust Museum. “I started running away from there as lynching anyway — possibly the most Sims’s discovery of Cameron and his fast as my feet could move me,” he wrote. noted extrajudicial hanging in American museum marked a turning point in “I ran down the road and was almost to history, certainly the most important for his career. the 38th Street Bridge (about a quarter or his career. “I was just shocked that I’d never half a mile away, I guessed) when I heard The rope around Sims’s neck that heard of James Cameron until that the sound of gunfire.” night was imaginary, but he wanted to first haphazard visit to the museum,” Deeter was shot and mortally fully inhabit the man who had felt it Sims says. “[Before, I] didn’t know any- wounded. Rumor of the event quickly tighten around his throat for real. He was thing about America’s Black Holocaust spread around Marion, and by the time also trying to give life to two other men Museum, would have never known had it reached the ears of the local police, the who already hung from the tree, as well as I not decided to come to Wisconsin crime had grown to include both murder the man they were accused of murdering, for graduate school. But that summer I and rape. Sheriff’s deputies came to arrest and many of those who wanted to see him became sort of smitten by Dr. Cameron.” Cameron early the next morning. swing. Essentially, Sims had to embody Over the course of twelve years — He was questioned, manhandled, and every aspect of that lynching. while he climbed the academic ladder, while put in the county jail. The next night, That’s what a one-man drama is all Cameron died, while the museum faced a mob of Marion’s white citizens — about. financial struggle and closure — Sims has Cameron estimated their number at ten Sims was performing the solo show been working to find ways to spread Cam- thousand — broke into the jail to find the he’d written, Ten Perfect. In it, he plays eron’s story, and his message of survival and three prisoners. First Shipp was taken, eighteen different roles in seven scenes reconciliation, to more people. beaten, and hanged. Then Smith. And that span seventy-six years. Ten Perfect then the crowd returned for Cameron. isn’t the first play Sims has written, but “With the noose around my neck and In August 1930, James Cam- death in my brains, I waited for the end,” Fear takes center stage: In his one-man play Ten Perfect, Patrick Sims portrays a eron was, by his own description, a fool- he wrote. fictionalized version of James Cameron, ish black boy in a town “where there was But at the last moment, a voice spoke who was nearly lynched in Marion, Indiana, in 1930. Two other men were murdered very little room for foolish black boys.” up from the crowd, saying that Cameron that night, and the act was captured in an One night, in the most foolish act of wasn’t guilty of the crimes the mob sought iconic photo (shown in the background) that his life, he went out for a ride with two to avenge. He was returned to the prison, inspired the lyrics to “Strange Fruit.”

FALL 2010 23 and, the next day, moved into protective marched on Washington with Martin Fruit of the Tree. But the museum’s collec- custody. But the memory of the night Luther King, Jr. After a visit to Israel’s tions of artifacts are stuck in storage. wouldn’t leave him. “I kept thinking of Yad Vashem memorial to the victims of “Funding is a struggle,” Virgil Abe and Tommy hanging on that tree,” the Holocaust, he felt inspired to create a says. “We just couldn’t make it and he wrote, “and but for the of God, similar commemoration to racial persecu- had to close.” I could have been hanging there, too.” tion: America’s Black Holocaust Museum, That dramatic moment might have which opened in Milwaukee in 1988. been the climax of Cameron’s life, but not “He always had in the back of his Patrick Sims entered its conclusion. Instead, says Sims, “the mind that he wanted to do something,” the James Cameron story in 1998, when, story sort of starts from there.” says Cameron’s son, Virgil. “He went to after a year of driving past America’s Israel with my mother, and when they’d Black Holocaust Museum, he finally seen the Jewish Holocaust museum, he decided to walk in the door. Though he The lynching of Shipp told her we need this in Milwaukee. We was a Chicago native, he knew next to and Smith became a small sensation in need this in the .” nothing about the state just north of the summer of 1930. Local photographer The museum contained dozens of or its racial makeup. Lawrence Beitler captured the event on artifacts of the African-American experi- “I figured Wisconsin was the cheese film, and he sold thousands of copies ence, illustrating slavery, Jim Crow laws, state,” he says. “To be honest, my of a picture showing the two hanging and especially lynching, and its collections impression of Wisconsin and Milwaukee corpses surrounded by onlookers. One of included a piece of rope and part of the was lots of beer, lots of drinking, and lots those prints found its way into the hands jail window from Marion, Indiana. But the of white folks.” of a New York schoolteacher and poet objects weren’t the central element of the After earning his bachelor’s degree at named Abel Meeropol, who, under the museum — Cameron himself was. Yale, he enrolled in the master of fine arts pseudonym Lewis Allan, penned a song “He wanted to share his story with program in theater and drama at UW- about the horrors of lynching. That song, as many people as possible,” says Virgil. Milwaukee, and eventually decided he had to meet Cameron. The two shared a similar passion and But at the last moment, a voice spoke vision. Sims says he was deeply impressed by the effort Cameron had put into creat- up from the crowd, saying that Cameron wasn’t ing a museum that threw a challenge into guilty of the crimes the mob sought to avenge. the face of its visitors. “To conceptual- ize or create something of that caliber,” He was returned to the prison, and, the next day, Sims says, meant facing the disapproval and occasional hostility of the Milwaukee moved into protective custody. community. “He talked of the use of the word Holocaust in the title, a very loaded “Strange Fruit,” was recorded in 1939 by “He’d talk to anyone who came through term” — and one that seemed designed Billie Holiday and became a jazz classic the door.” to provoke confrontation. and a civil rights anthem. But Cameron died in 2006, and the But confrontation, Sims feels, is As for Cameron, he ended up serving museum had a hard time financially. In better than ignorance. four years in prison after being convicted 2008, it went out of business. “My own grandfather was nearly as an accessory in Deeter’s death, but Virgil Cameron tends his father’s lynched,” he says. “And people don’t talk afterward he devoted himself to education legacy, and he’s kept the museum’s board about that kind of thing.” and civil rights. He helped to found three of directors intact. He’s working with film More important to Sims than Cam- chapters of the National Association for producer Fran Kaplan to develop a screen- eron’s effort to face the violence of Amer- the Advancement of Colored People and play about James Cameron’s life, called ica’s history in lynching, however, was his

24 ON WISCONSIN [in the video]. wood, his grandmother, then pregnant, And I was just — was sweeping and discovered an African- JEFF MILLER wow. That was American man hiding in some bushes amazing.” nearby. He’d killed a white man in a And Sims fight, he explained, and now a mob was believes in the chasing him, intent on vengeance. Sims’s importance of grandmother agreed to conceal the flee- reconciliation — ing man, and shortly after, a crowd of he, too, has been angry white men arrived. Though they on the inside of couldn’t find the target of their rage, they mob violence. did see a potential victim. When Sims “My grandfather had an ax in his was in the fifth hand, and he’s standing there in front grade and living of them, so it was a prime opportunity,” on the South Side Sims says. “And my grandmother basically of Chicago, he called their bluff. Mind you, my grand- says, a teacher mother is huge with a child at this time. at his school was She said, ‘Whoever you’re looking for, he “one of the most ain’t here, so go on about your business.’ overt racists I’ve And for whatever reason, they fled.” ever known.” The story gave Sims a lesson in the She called one mindlessness of mob violence and the of his classmates precarious position that African-Amer- a nigger, “in ican men have occupied. It stuck with class, to his face. Sims, and when he met with Cameron, he … So Aaron, he felt the older man’s tale resonate. “Cam- smacked her. eron’s experience could easily have been Then the rest of mine or my grandfather’s,” he says. “It In writing Ten Perfect, Sims drew on his own family history and the kids in class started to get me thinking — how come brushes with racial violence, while preserving Cameron’s experience facing the noose. The final script, Sims says, was “about 70 percent kind of lost it. we don’t hear any of these stories, why creative license and 30 percent actual truth.” They started tear- don’t we talk about them? I suspect it’s ing up the class- partly because we don’t have too many emphasis on reconciliation. The museum room, flipping desks over. It was Lord of survivors to tell that side of the story.” included a video of Cameron meeting the Flies stuff.” Sims decided he wanted to change with Willie Deeter, Claude Deeter’s Though Sims hadn’t been involved that. In Cameron, he found a story that youngest brother. In it, the two talked in the initial confrontation, he joined in he passionately wanted to tell, but he also about the events in Marion, Indiana, and the riot that followed. His participation found something else: an opportunity to offered each other understanding. scandalized his grandmother, but instead combine artistic talent with a social jus- “That reconciliation was intrigu- of punishing him, she decided to educate tice cause. Turning Cameron’s story into ing to me,” says Sims. “I thought, wow, him. She told him about a time when a play would be, Sims decided, his mas- [Cameron] almost died because [Deeter’s] her husband, his grandfather, had barely ter’s project, the crowning element for his brother was murdered, and … yet he was escaped a lynch mob. graduate degree. present — Cameron was present — when When Sims’s mother was young, her He started visiting Cameron fre- Deeter’s brother was killed. There was parents lived in Hayti, Missouri. One quently, dropping in on the museum such love and admiration for each other day, while his grandfather was chopping “at least weekly, sometimes daily” to

FALL 2010 25 interview him and learn more about the understand issues of ethnic, social, and The play was Sims’s story in that night in Marion, the events in his life that economic diversity. it reflected his experiences with mob led there, and the aftermath. But in time, “This is a burgeoning area academi- action and his feelings about his grand- Sims came to feel that the project was too cally,” says Saldivar. “It offers an in-depth father’s near lynching. But he also made big for a student. look at what an actor does, but it also per- the story his own by lifting it out of “The realities of graduate school kicked in,” he says. “I ran into a number of hurdles just trying to reach out and The play was Sims’s story in that it establish a relationship, formally articulat- ing that I wanted to write this play.” reflected his experiences with mob action and his He ended up doing a performance of feelings about his grandfather’s near lynching. But Molière’s Tartuffe for his master’s project. And the Cameron script slipped from the he also made the story his own by lifting it out of front to the back of his mind. But it didn’t disappear altogether. history and inserting fictional characters.

forms a specific purpose — teaching not history and inserting fictional characters: For the next eight years, only art, but also helping people increase James Cameron became Jimmy Solo- Sims worked on building his academic their understanding of others by playing mon; Shipp and Smith became street credentials, while his idea for a play about different roles.” hustlers Bobby Taylor and Louis Parker; Cameron languished as an unfulfilled Still, Sims never gave up on his Cam- Claude Deeter became Mr. Johnson, a ambition. eron play, and when he was invited to grocery store owner with a violent tem- Norma Saldivar, now the director take part in a playwrights festival in 2006, per and racist outlook. of the UW’s Arts Institute, met Sims he decided it was finally time to dig in “I’d say it’s about 70 percent creative while he was a graduate student and was and turn the idea into a viable script. license and 30 percent actual truth — impressed with his stage skills. A theatrical “I had the majority of it finished 30 percent being the actual sequence of director herself, Saldivar had known Sims [before 2006], but I was only talking events that happened after the shooting,” chiefly as an actor — her first contact with about it,” he says. “It wasn’t until Rick says Sims. “So when I describe or pre- him had been to cast him in a minor role Corley, who was the artistic director of sent him being dragged and kicked and in a production of Moll Flanders. She noted the Madison Repertory Theatre, gave me punched and witnessing the two men, his ability in helping young actors learn a shot, sight unseen, to present the play as some of that is taken directly [from] Cam- their craft, and brought him to the UW, part of a new playwrights festival, that I eron’s description of what happened.” initially as a guest artist. thought, ‘Oh crap, I’ve got to finish this.’” That fictionalization may have trou- “He had this wonderful quality with Sims shared the script with Sheri bled Cameron’s supporters — “I think students,” she says. “There was an oppor- Williams Pannell MFA’09, then a they might have been burned a couple of tunity here, and if you find an individual graduate student studying directing. A times by people who said they wanted to who’s perfect, you don’t wait.” Milwaukee native, she was familiar with tell his story,” Sims says — but accord- At UW-Madison, Sims has taught James Cameron, and she was immediately ing to Virgil Cameron, it didn’t trouble a variety of courses, but his particular enthusiastic about the project. his father. contribution to the curriculum has been “Patrick and I sat on his living room “He just wanted to get his story told,” a project called the Theatre of Cultural floor and read the play,” Pannell says. Virgil says. “And I think Patrick has and Social Awareness. Known in the “We read it aloud, and I said to him, ‘You managed to do that in good taste — not field as “applied theater,” the project uses know, this play’s as much your story as it an easy thing to do when you’re talking drama techniques to help students better is Dr. Cameron’s.’ ” about the death of two young men.”

26 ON WISCONSIN Pannell agreed to help Sims as his JEFF MILLER stage director, and he began polishing the script, tinkering again and again with the mob scene at its climax. “The ending was the hardest part,” says Sims. “I mean, who wants to see a play about a lynching?” Although it would demand a lot of him, Sims decided to make the play a one-man show — it would mean he’d have to play eighteen distinct charac- ters, but it would let him avoid forcing an audience to witness an angry mob. But the demands of such a wide-ranging performance made the show difficult to stage, and during the playwrights festival, Sims did a stage reading rather than a performance, simply reading the script aloud and in character. As time progressed, however, addi- tional forces began to push toward com- pletion of the play. After six years on the UW’s faculty, Sims was due for tenure review. He’d spent those six years doing what young faculty are supposed to do: teaching classes and developing his cur- riculum, publishing, and speaking. But Patrick Sims developed a program called Theatre of Cultural and Social Awareness. Sims was an assistant professor in The service-learning and outreach effort uses drama and personal narratives to explore sensitive topics, including race relations, gender dynamics, and sexual orientation. a creative field, so he knew that his performance of Ten Perfect would I’d accomplished what I wanted to do.” ama. “I’ll be writing a new project called provide a thorough illustration of his The tenure committee felt satisfied as Piel con al mío, or Skin Like Mine,” he says. abilities. “It would be invaluable to have well, and twelve days later, it voted unani- The final performance of Ten Perfect committee members actually see what I mously in Sims’s favor. is not the end of Sims’s association with do as opposed to just reading about it,” “There had never really been an issue the Cameron story, however. He’s apply- he says. of whether he’d be successful,” says Saldi- ing for grants and fellowships to develop And it did. When Sims finally per- var. “And yet the timing was perfect. [The a film from the work he’s done on Ten formed Ten Perfect, audiences crowded play] not only spoke to what he’s capable Perfect, and he hopes to take the mate- the relatively small theater in Lathrop of artistically, but also was consistent with rial he picked up in his interviews with Hall. The combination of a popular pro- what he’s trying to do with [the Theatre of Cameron and turn it into something that fessor, a scandalous topic, and free tickets Cultural and Social Awareness].” would appeal to a wide audience. helped fill the house both nights of the “I wanted to find a way to help tell show’s run. Virgil Cameron came, as this story,” says Sims, who didn’t want did Norma Saldivar and the members of Since receiving tenure, others to be cheated of it. After all, he Sims’s tenure committee. Sims’s attention has shifted away from Ten says, “this story could quite possibly have And the performances went well. “I Perfect and James Cameron. For his next been mine.” was on a high,” says Sims. “I really felt like stage performances, he will travel to Pan- John Allen is senior editor of On Wisconsin.

FALL 2010 27 UW–MADISON ARCHIVES

UW-Madison has a reputation: anti-war, anti-military, and radical. Say “Madison” and images of protest, violence, and unrest rush to mind. That The Tug of was immediately apparent to Jeff Kollath when he visited some Wisconsin com- munities in 2009 to promote a Wisconsin Public Television documentary about Vietnam veterans that debuted in May. Kollath, curator of programs and exhibitions for the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, noted a pervasive anti-Madison TwoWAR eras, two altogether different pictures. feeling among some veterans when he described an exhibit featuring portraits Veterans returning to campus from Vietnam forty of Vietnam veterans at the UW’s Cha- years ago were met with tear gas and derision. zen Museum of Art. He marveled to one audience, “Who would’ve thought Today’s student veterans are often finding respect this would be on campus?” One man responded, “Hmph. It’s still Madison.” and a willingness to hear what they have to say. But the pictures that cemented that status are decades old. A new reality has By Jenny Price ’96 emerged for the more than six hundred student veterans on campus, a number that is expected to balloon again in a

28 ON WISCONSIN MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART

It’s a study in contrasts: Protestors against the ran from tear gas on in the spring of 1970 (left), when a culmination of factors led to a week of campus protest — and a return of the National Guard. In recent years, demonstrations against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including a candlelight march at the State Capitol in 2003 (above), have been peaceful. year or two when more transfer from policy and the military. And veterans are says Jeremi Suri, a UW history professor other schools. welcomed into university classrooms, who helped found the museum lecture “If that’s the reputation, that’s all it both in person and online, adding a new series and is engaged in other outreach is — a reputation,” says Gerald Kapinos dimension to the educational experience efforts to veterans. x’10, an Iraq veteran who will graduate in for students with little to no knowledge “This effort to struggle through December with a history degree. of the military. these pro- and anti-war positions has The environment at the UW for In 2008, the UW’s Vets for Vets actually created a wonderfully fruitful returning soldiers is fundamentally dif- organization — first founded in 1972 — environment for discussion and for open ferent from the one that greeted Vietnam was one of a dozen groups that created engagement around these issues,” Suri veterans. Even before they set foot on Student Veterans of America, a coali- says. “So I tell people, when they ask me, campus, they hear from John Bechtol, tion that now has more than 250 chapter ‘Is Madison still an anti-war campus?’ assistant dean for veterans since 2008, members on college campuses across the I say, ‘No, but it’s also not a pro-war who works to stay connected to student United States. The UW even made the campus.’ … We’re a community trying veterans from the time they apply — first-ever list of military-friendly schools, to figure out new ways of understanding sometimes driving long distances to meet created by G.I. Jobs, a magazine produced these issues.” with them — to the time they graduate. by veterans that honors the top schools This shift is occurring as some Vietnam Forty years after the deadly bomb- for recruitment, retention, and services veterans are seeing an awakening of interest ing of Sterling Hall, violent protests exist for veteran students. in their own wartime experiences, and as only in memory. Protest continues, but What is making these connections soldiers who are returning home from Iraq it is peaceful. Faculty have partnered possible where they once seemed any- and Afghanistan are starting the next chap- with the Veterans Museum for a popular thing but? It’s the political environment ter of their lives as college students. series of lectures on the history of foreign we’re in, as a university and as a nation, Their stories tell the UW’s story.

FALL 2010 29 JEFF MILLER (2) “I crossed the line.”

ROTC participation was still mandatory during Whitaker’s first two years of college. “The military was viewed probably like any other organization,” he says. “Once or twice a week, we had to put our uniforms on to go to our classes, and we fit in like all the other students.” Whitaker enlisted in the air force after earning a degree in history, leaving a campus where the best Homecoming float was considered a big deal. He returned to a campus where ongoing anti-war protests meant anger, tear gas in the air, and troops with fixed bayonets on Library Mall. “I give the students credit for having the courage to act on their convictions. They were ahead of me in their thinking in questioning the wisdom and the morality of the war. I freely acknowledge that,” he says. But Whitaker felt a gulf of separation between his purpose for being on campus and that of the student protesters. His father had always stressed the importance of getting an educa- tion, he recalls. “I felt I could not afford the luxury of missing classes when they were talking about boycotting classes. ‘Don’t cross the line,’ right? ‘Boycott your classes.’ Well, as a black guy in America at that time and to some extent even today — no. You cannot afford to be governed by those high ideals that as a practical matter won’t get you a job,” he says. “And so I can ’63, JD’73 remember thinking, ‘No, I’m not part of this.’ I did not go out Al Whitaker to demonstrate. I went to my classes. I crossed the line.” Al Whitaker did what any Badger would do upon returning Today, Whitaker is an attorney for Wisconsin Aviation, to the UW-Madison campus for the first time in years: he where air force memorabilia and a poster of the Vietnam headed to the Memorial Union. Fresh out of active duty in Veterans Memorial with COURTESY OF AL WHITAKER the air force after seven years — including a year in Thailand the words, “Never For- as an avionics maintenance officer for F-105 bombers flying get,” cover his office walls. missions into North Vietnam — the one-time UW football “These are people you player was ready to begin the next chapter of his life and know, and you work with, attend graduate school. There was one hitch: the bags con- and befriend and drink with, taining his civilian clothes got lost in transit. So Whitaker, and joke with and smile, and the son of a Tuskegee Airman whose earliest memories are of love. One day they were soldiers and planes, was still wearing his uniform on that day here and the next day, they in December 1969 in the Union, when he heard someone call were gone,” he says. him “baby killer.” “Even now, [after] all “Of course, when you first come back, that’s where you these years … I have an go, to the Union, because [it has] so many memories,” extremely difficult time if I think about that too Whitaker has strong memories of his Whitaker says. “Never had I experienced anything like that seven years in the air force — and in the years prior.” much.” his return to campus in 1969.

30 ON WISCONSIN “Nobody showed up.”

There were still protests when Schuette returned to finish his economics degree three years later. “We come back. We have to kind of walk in the shadows,” he recalls. “Today, there’s parades or units coming back, and the governor shows up or the senator shows up, and all the local politicians and bigwigs show up. Back then — trust me — nobody showed up.” Back home, married with a young son and focused on his studies, what Schuette saw on campus was, he says, “a bunch of hippies who didn’t shave and shower very often who had noth- ing better to do than protest the war. Now, I respect their view- point more. I look at the whole war in Vietnam saying, ‘Was it justified? Did it make sense?’ ” Schuette, who has reflected on Vietnam more during the last few years since retiring from his job as a sales manager, still believes that the protestors — while questioning the war — should have supported the troops. He has attended a reunion of the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association and lectures at the Veterans Museum, and he audited a class at the UW in fall 2008. Upon scanning the course list, he thought to himself, “ ‘Vietnam Wars’ — that’s the one.” He quickly realized that while he was in Vietnam in 1969, the professor for the class had been protesting the war in Washington, D.C. He says that while he knew a lot about his year in Vietnam, ’71 the class taught him “the rest of the stuff” — what led up to the Dan Schuette war and what has happened since. With a discussion group of two dozen students, he shared what it was like being on campus dur- As an undergrad, Dan Schuette scheduled his drill class first ing wartime. He read a poem about the anti-war protesters that thing Friday morning, giving him enough time to return to his he wrote prior to leaving for Vietnam and posted in the window apartment and change from his Army ROTC uniform into his of the Kollege Klub, where he was a part-time bartender. “civvies” before classes began. “Now here we are: two wars that aren’t too popular,” he “If you were walking around campus all day with a says. “Why isn’t it a big uprising now? … There was a draft [uniform], you were going to get harassed,” Schuette says.

back then. COURTESY OF DAN SCHUETTE “At that time, I was young, dumb, and invincible, so I’d You could get probably take the guy on. I’d probably take three guys on.” sent over there After dropping out for a semester, changing majors, and against your partying too much, he had twenty credits left before he could free will. So graduate. “I wouldn’t give up the experience for anything,” it was more he says, laughing. He left campus in spring 1967 to enter personal back infantry officer training before spending a year in Vietnam then. [If] you as a helicopter pilot and platoon leader. were number “I grew up a lot. I had a lot of responsibility,” he says. 87 [in the “You never know how you’re going to react until the bullets draft] — your start flying. So when they started flying, I reacted pretty well. butt was going “I grew up a lot,” says Schuette, recalling his It gave me a lot of confidence.” over there.” days as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam.

FALL 2010 31 JEFF MILLER (2) “It really hit me hard.”

speech rights of protesters. Although Kurtz firmly believed in the students’ right to protest, the realities of his job became incredibly difficult when things suddenly got personal. “These people were yelling … ‘How can you be defending these baby killers? They’re murderers!’ ” Kurtz remembers. “And it occurred to me they were talking about me. They had no way of knowing who I was or anything like that, but it really hit me hard, and that put me in a shell for a long, long, long time.” Since retiring in 2002, Kurtz has interviewed upwards of one hundred and twenty-five fellow Vietnam veterans for an oral history project for the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, and he serves as commander of the Middleton, Wisconsin, post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Through his work with the museum, he met John Cooper, a UW emeritus history profes- sor, who asked Kurtz to speak to one of his classes about his experiences. Cooper also encouraged him to audit Jeremi Suri’s course on the history of U.S. foreign policy. “I’ve audited a bunch of history courses,” Kurtz says. “Both Suri and Cooper make a conscious effort to get veterans or serving military to come to their classes, and they are treated just the same as anybody else. Actually, [they are treated] with some curiosity — ‘Wow, they’re doing something that’s kind of special.’ ” ’62, LLB’65 While he and other members of his VFW post want to Jim Kurtz ensure that veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have a better homecoming then they did, Kurtz struggles somewhat with The day Jim Kurtz graduated from law school, there was a the idea that people support those soldiers even if they don’t letter in his mailbox from the army, ordering him to report believe in their mission.

for active duty in September 1965. “That’s the COURTESY OF JIM KURTZ “Lyndon Johnson was watching me carefully,” he jokes. thing that I’ve ROTC was mandatory when Kurtz entered the university asked some of in 1958, and he stayed in ROTC through law school, even [Suri’s] classes … though he had the option of dropping out after two years. and these smart “Virtually everybody was getting drafted,” he says. people can’t answer For the Madison native, coming home in 1967 and being it either,” Kurtz greeted with apathy and disdain was, he says, “a lot worse than says. “If people are being in Vietnam.” saying the cause As an attorney for the Department of Natural Resources, isn’t any good but Kurtz was assigned to work with conservation wardens detailed we appreciate what to help protect state property during protest marches up and you’re doing — I down State Street, either near university buildings or by the don’t know how

state capitol. He was there to advise when authorities could you put those two For Kurtz, coming home was harder than make arrests and when they would be trampling on the free together.” serving in the army in Vietnam.

32 ON WISCONSIN “It’s coming full circle now.”

1,750 stars — one for every UW student who was serving in . It’s a stark contrast to how Vietnam veterans were treated on campus. “That radical shift from being very supportive to it being a very polarizing environment for military members … I think in some ways, it’s coming full circle now,” he says. “So I think it’s a really interesting microcosm of the way that the entire country has thought about these things.” Schuth is a teaching assistant for a course on the role of media, including music, during the Vietnam War. When he previously took the course, taught by Craig Werner, he told his classmates that no one in Iraq listened to Armed Forces Radio; instead, everyone had their own soundtrack to the war. “Everyone was probably listening to Otis Redding in Vietnam, or everyone was listening to [Creedance Clearwater Revival] or something like that,” he says. “But in Iraq: iPods.” John Hall, a UW history professor, relies on student veter- ans in his classes to provide such personal perspectives, includ- ing the relationships soldiers have with the societies they serve, the experience and stresses of being involved in a war, and the motivations for joining and getting out of the military. “Some aspects of a soldier or marine or airman or sailor’s experience do seem to be fairly timeless, even if we’re talking about the Civil War, the First World War,” Hall says. “These x’11 veterans have a perspective on homecoming and the importance Wyl Schuth of getting letters from loved ones and those sorts of things that I’m able to incorporate all the time.” After four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, including eight months in Iraq, Wyl Schuth was looking for a school with a COURTESY OF WYL SCHUTH good academic reputation close to his hometown of Winona, Minnesota. The UW’s past didn’t enter into his decision, but his choice had his parents scratching their heads. “I knew that from an academic standpoint, this was where I wanted to be. And the reputation — particularly among people my parents’ age — of this school comes from the ’60s, and They Marched into Sunlight, and that kind of thing,” he says. “Some- body coming from active-duty military to Madison didn’t quite jibe with them.” Schuth, twenty-eight, is working toward a history degree and hopes to pursue graduate studies in military history at the UW, a setting he sees as an interesting case study for his academic interests. He notes that inside the Wisconsin His- torical Society on campus, there is an old photograph of an Schuth, who served in Iraq, believes the campus — and its shifting enormous banner hanging in the building’s reading room with attitudes about war — is a microcosm of the entire country.

FALL 2010 33 JEFF MILLER “We have this tremendous well of untapped material.”

Kapinos is also president of the UW’s Vets for Vets, a campus group with a primary mission to help student veterans overcome some of the barriers — including age and experience — they face in connecting with fellow students, and to help them graduate. “When I came onto campus right out of the military … I’m sitting next to eighteen-year-old kids who, for all intents and purposes, don’t know anything,” he says. “Their biggest life experience is moving out of home and living in a dorm. When I was going for my first combat tour, they were in junior high.” Kapinos and Wyl Schuth have found some kinship on campus with the 396th Chairborne Badgers, a small group they formed with classmates from John Hall’s History 396 course. The group also includes a student who is planning to become a marine officer, another who attended West Point, one who is the wife of a former army officer, and others who have an inter- est in military issues. The students meet regularly for dinner or cookouts, talking not only about the material Hall has covered in class, but also their own experiences. The camaraderie of the 396th, along with the university’s strong ties with the veterans museum and the faculty who are engaged in military issues, add up to a campus experience Schuth didn’t count on. “It surprises me, because I hadn’t expected to find it here. I hadn’t expected any adversity, but I hadn’t expected, maybe, x’10 anything at all,” Schuth says. “I just thought maybe, oh, I’ll Gerald Kapinos come here, I’ll go to school, I’ll just kind of be a ghost here on campus, and go to class and come home. It’s been nice to find Gerald Kapinos, twenty-nine, joined the air force after 9/11 that it doesn’t have to be that way.” and served as an MP in Iraq in 2006 and 2007. He came to the

UW in fall 2008, after transferring from UW-Whitewater, COURTESY OF GERALD KAPINOS and hopes to find work in law enforcement after he graduates in December. Studying military history has helped Kapinos answer ques- tions about the and move on to the next phase of his life, he says. “I’m just trying to figure out: what is the part that I played? What is the role that I had? What are the implications? Was it the right thing to do, was it not?” If the fact that Kapinos is a veteran comes up in class, the typical response is curiosity, not hostility, he says. “I thought I would be a resource, and in talking to other student vets that plan on coming here, they feel the same way,” he says. “We have this tremendous well of untapped material that we can bring back and contribute to the campus that I think is invalu- Kapinos, who served as an MP in Iraq, welcomes the curiosity from able to the rest of our fellow students.” his classmates when they learn that he’s a veteran.

34 ON WISCONSIN Professor John Hall An expert in military history welcomes the chance to reach out to veterans.

When John Hall was growing up in rural southeastern Wiscon- Society got to weigh in on the search. Jeremi Suri, a UW history sin, Madison was regarded as the home of the Badgers and the professor who led the process, says it was critical that “whoever local TV stations his family tuned in on their “very wonky rabbit- we hired fit the mold of being a great scholar, but also would ear antennas.” engage people who had not been engaged for a long time. … We He says it wasn’t until he left the state for a career as an wanted to attract someone who was a top-notch researcher, but army officer and began studying military history that he realized someone like John who also liked making those connections.” “Madison had a reputation of being a particularly liberal, even That gives Hall a packed schedule, which he welcomes. radical bastion” in the Midwest. “I was under no illusions,” he says. “When I applied for the But as the 1994 West Point graduate and son of a Viet- job, I understood and was excited about the fact that it entailed a nam veteran began to pursue a faculty position as professor significant amount of outreach within the community with these of American military history at the UW, Hall found the campus organizations … and among the community’s veterans.” didn’t live up to that image, “but the reputation lived on,” Part of that effort is welcoming veterans into the classroom. he says. Richard Berry, who flew army helicopters in Vietnam, has so far Hall was hired in 2009. Three years earlier, an online article audited more than a dozen courses at UW-Madison, including from the National Review had suggested that the UW hadn’t one of Hall’s military history classes, to enhance his work as a filled the professorship — endowed by best-selling author docent at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. Stephen Ambrose ’57, PhD’63 — because the university didn’t “I would say that, to a person, the students in the class actually want a military historian on its faculty. know more about the antecedents to the Vietnam War than I did “This sort of fit the popular mold of depicting Madison,” when I enlisted,” says Berry. Hall says. That runs counter to the perception that Vietnam veterans Hall’s job interview process was a bit different from those of are reluctant to talk. “If you give them an opportunity to speak typical faculty. Representatives of local veterans organizations, about their [wartime] experience, a great many of them are more the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, and the Wisconsin Historical than willing to share that experience,” Hall says.

Professor Jeremi Suri Bringing veterans into the classroom opens eyes and dispels stereotypes.

When Jeremi Suri and Jim Kurtz get together, there’s bound were officers in the armed forces, including some in Iraq and to be a disagreement or two. Or three. Afghanistan. As a follow-up, about ten military officers who The UW history professor and the Vietnam veteran don’t took part in the course came to campus for a weekend to exactly see the world the same way, yet the two formed a meet with twenty undergraduate students in Suri’s seminar dynamic friendship after Kurtz audited Suri’s class. on strategy and foreign policy. The students and officers split “Every book I write, [Kurtz] reads chapters and tears them into four teams, and were given an assignment: prepare a apart,” Suri says. “It is a huge joy for me to sit down with him briefing for the president on what to do after 9/11 and present and have him look at something I’ve shown to three or four it to a panel. academics — but get his thoughts.” For students and soldiers, these kinds of interactions are Several years ago, Kurtz suggested that Suri get involved invaluable, Suri says. with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. A series of conversa- “They recognize that all military officers are not these pro- tions the pair had with then-museum director Richard Zeitlin violent guys, and the military officers recognize that not all MA’69, PhD’73 led to a popular lecture series featuring experts students are anti-military,” Suri says. “I think that’s far more on military history and foreign policy, including UW faculty. effective than just a scholar chastising people for having stereo- The lecture series at the museum, which launched in 2003 with types. The best way is to actually display to them the complexity support from the UW’s Center for World Affairs and the Global that’s being lost.” Economy, began the university’s effort to create educational Suri and other faculty, including political science Professor experiences that bring veterans and military officers together Jon Pevehouse, taught a summer series of graduate-level online with students and researchers. strategic studies courses (grandstrategy.wisc.edu/courses/ “For me, it’s really fun,” Suri says. “Creating an environment index.html) through which military members could earn UW that’s open to veterans in a way that it wasn’t before exposes credit and a potential avenue to further study on campus. us to different ideas, exposes us to interesting people, and “My department, other departments have been really incred- exposes us as scholars and students to being surprised.” ibly open to admitting veterans to graduate programs in a way In 2009, Suri launched an online course called U.S. Grand that probably would not have been true years ago,” Suri says. n Strategy, designed to appeal to active-service members of the military. Nearly two dozen of the 130 students enrolled Jenny Price ’96 is senior writer for On Wisconsin.

FALL 2010 35 BRYCE RICHTER

Wilder Deitz (left) and Sarah Blakeslee (right) practice techniques for avoiding voice fatigue and a sore throat, including “safe screaming.” voices of experience These UW specialists tune up By Jenny Price ’96 the human instrument.

Wilder Deitz is learning Voice and Swallow Clinic, which experience voice problems daily, caus- how to scream by doing devotes some of its practice to helping ing them to miss work, receive disability professional and amateur singers, as assistance, or even change occupations, jumping jacks. well as others who rely on their voices says Susan Thibeault PhD’01, direc- The -year-old, who plays bass to do their jobs, including teachers, tor of the UW clinic, which, due to the and guitar and sings vocals in a heavy attorneys, clergy, and actors. Perform- strength of its research and clinicians, metal/grunge band — The Pretty Vic- ers passing through Madison on tour received the first and only voice training tims — was suffering from voice fatigue enlist the clinic’s help if their voices grant from the National Institutes and a chronic sore throat that were start to fail, and its strong reputation of Health. getting in the way of his musical ambi- draws other patients from around “People take their voices for granted,” tions. So how can jumping up and down the world. Thibeault says. improve his singing technique? Singers aren’t the only ones who And when things go wrong, drink- As strange as it sounds, Deitz’s regi- struggle with their voices. About 28 ing tea with honey and lemon isn’t a real men is not unusual at UW-Madison’s million workers in the United States solution. Fixing a voice problem relies

36 ON WISCONSIN on a patient’s commitment to make Blakeslee then has Deitz scream as specialists. Thibeault says the option has changes as much as the skill of doctors he counts from one to ten — while doing proven effective for people with problems and voice specialists. jumping jacks — and then as he bounces that haven’t responded to other treatment. “We sometimes talk about vocal up and down. “There are safer ways to Voice disorders can be difficult to bank accounts. You can only take so scream,” she says. “Engage the whole body pinpoint since they can be caused by a much out, so you can only use your voice so this,” she says, holding her hands at her combination of medical problems and so much,” says Maia Braden ’00, MS’06, throat, “doesn’t have to do all the work.” behavior. Why are opera singers able to pediatric voice manager and one of two Vocal coaching for performers who sustain three hours of on-and-off forceful singing-voice specialists who focuses want to be better singers differs from singing without injuries? And why do rock on working with children. Braden — a treatment for those who have vocal singers who definitely use their voices in former opera singer — combines some trouble for medical reasons. “Let’s say less-than-healthy ways do just fine? of the vocal techniques she learned as a someone comes in and they just [say] To find answers, the clinic takes a singer with her knowledge of the vocal ‘Hi, I want to sound like Mariah Carey.’ team approach to care, starting with a mechanism, anatomy, physiology, and We can give them therapy like a singing complete evaluation that looks at the healthy voice production. coach, but we can’t charge that [to insur- patient’s behavior, including diet and “It really becomes this hybrid of vocal ance],” Thibeault says. other habits, and his or her vocal folds techniques from singing-voice lessons While surgery is sometimes required (also known as vocal cords). A scope with a and vocal techniques from voice therapy,” to correct vocal problems, therapy is the halogen light is inserted through the nose Braden says. best course of action for most common or the back of the mouth to look at the The adult clinic is equipped with a issues, including nodules on the vocal structure of the vocal cords, and a strobe grand piano to work with patients who are singers, while the pediatric voice clinic at “We sometimes talk about vocal bank accounts. American Family Children’s Hospital is outfitted with electronic keyboards. You can only take so much out, so you can only At the start of Deitz’s therapy session, use your voice so much.” the last in a series of six visits, voice spe- cialist Sarah Blakeslee asks him what he folds. Professional voice users, such as light is used to observe their function and has done to help his sore throat. singers, come into these sessions with a vibration, which averages about 220 times “Warm-ups before singing and bel- deeper awareness of what they are doing a second for an adult female. The clinic lowing,” he says. “That really helps.” when they speak and sing, Thibeault says. also calls upon high-speed imaging to “You finally believe me,” Blakeslee If a voice specialist asks average observe individual vibrations, using a cam- says with a smile. patients to give their voices some reso- era that shoots between two thousand and After she works Dietz through some nance, “They have no idea what you are seven thousand frames per second. scales, accompanying him on the key- talking about,” Thibeault says, while For clinic patients, acoustic and aero- board, she asks him to play his guitar and singers know their range and how to work dynamic equipment measures variations sing a portion of a song where he pushes with their voices. in pitch and loudness, airflow through the limits of his voice. Despite the staid “[Singers] are fully aware of what the vocal folds, and how much someone confines of the clinic room, she wants they’re doing and how to try and change is pushing to sing. These tools are used him to let loose and perform, demon- that,” she says. “It’s more specialized, so post-therapy to measure improvement. strating what he would do in front of it’s fun.” Still, Braden says, “The clinician’s ear is an audience. The clinic also offers “voice boot a very big tool.” n “Do exactly what you’re doing, but camp,” allowing patients who travel to use twice as much air,” she says, consis- Madison from longer distances to be fully Jenny Price ’96, senior writer for On Wisconsin, wishes there were voice therapy techniques tently urging him to focus on expanding evaluated by clinic doctors and engage available to land her a guest-starring role his rib cage. in up to a week of intensive therapy with on Glee.

FALL 2010 37 38 ON WISCONSIN integrative MEDICINE MAN UW physician David Rakel has literally written the textbook on an approach to medi- cal care that seeks to combine the best of conventional and alternative treatments.

By Susan Brink around him and a sense of peace. It was a at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Photos by Jeff Miller beautiful death,” says Rakel, now a UW- There, surrounded by desert peace and Madison professor of family medicine. beauty and influenced by a steady stream The hiccups wouldn’t stop. “If I had given him more drugs, he would of superstars in the field of healing arts It was August of 1996, and an elderly have been lethargic. He would not have and science, he took lessons in the heart, stroke victim lay dying in his home in been present with his loved ones.” soul, art, and spirit of medicine. His call- the small town of Driggs, Idaho. But The incident started Rakel on a path ing was to bring those lessons back to the he could have no rest. He was stricken that would lead to his founding the uni- broader world of American health care with a relentless case of hiccups, robbing versity’s integrative medicine program in and help integrate them with the best that him of comfort. The episode gave David 2001. That journey to the Midwest began conventional medicine has to offer. Rakel, the man’s physician and neighbor, in Driggs, nestled between the Tetons He spent those fellowship years learn- a memorable lesson in the importance and the Big Hole Mountains and just over ing how integrative medicine rests on of watching, listening, and heeding the the pass from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, four pillars of health promotion: social, desires of his patients. where he first hung out his shingle as a psychological, physical, and environmen- Drugs, the main weapon in Rakel’s rural family practice physician. It was tal. Once considered on the fringes of medical arsenal, made the dying man there that he began to shed his skepticism health science, integrative medicine has groggy and unaware, and still the hiccups about acupuncture, herbal supplements, gotten a boost from technology such as continued. Family members suggested guided imagery, and a host of healing functional magnetic resonance imaging, acupuncture. techniques that he believes medicine can which shows pathways between mind and Like many conventional, or allo- add seamlessly to the mix of traditional body, and from research that backs up pathic, Western physicians, Rakel was Western options. connections between nutrition, physical skeptical. But he figured acupuncture activity, and good health. would do no harm. “I humored them. It’s been a decade since Rakel’s train- I said, ‘Sure. Why not?’ ” The Soul of Medicine ing at the Arizona Center for Integrative It worked. The acupuncturist came. In 1999, Rakel decided to learn as much Medicine, and he’s just been approved The hiccups went away without sedation. as he could about integrative medicine. for tenure at the UW. For John Frey, “He was able to die with loving family He left Idaho for a two-year fellowship professor in the Department of Family

FALL 2010 39 David Rakel started the Integrative Medicine Research Park Clinic, which offers services such as meditation classes (right) for stress reduction. Since arriving on campus, Rakel has taught a vari- ety of integrative medicine tech- niques to both students and fellow physicians.

Medicine and the man who hired Rakel in 2001, Rakel’s interest in integrative medi- cine has been a bonus. “What attracted me about him was that he’s a talented doctor with a wonderful perspective on patient and family care,” says Frey. “The integrative medi- cine program was something I didn’t know much about.” and lessen some of the side effects of che- In 2002, Luke Fortney ’98, MD’03, Frey was key to getting Rakel to come motherapy, such as nausea and vomiting. now an assistant professor in the family to Wisconsin. But so was an unconven- As Rakel imagined a golden eagle, medicine program, was the first of Rakel’s tional decision-making method. Following he says, “he picked me up by the col- students in a month-long elective rotation his fellowship, Rakel weighed teaching lar and we went flying.” And knowing in integrative medicine. “Dr. Rakel has offers in Colorado and Wisconsin. Torn how that must sound, Rakel hurriedly been a mentor from that point forward,” by what he saw as two excellent options, he assures with a laugh: “No hallucinogens. Fortney says. turned to guided imagery. In his mind, he All with our own bodies. I looked down In addition to editing the field’s key went flying on the wings of an eagle. and there were lakes and oak trees.” No textbook, Integrative Medicine, Rakel’s Based on the concept that the body snow-topped mountains. No aspens. He work today centers on teaching and car- and mind are connected, guided imagery was looking down at the lakes and forests ing for patients at the Integrative Medi- is a way of employing all the senses to help of the upper Midwest, not at the Rocky cine Odana Atrium Clinic on Madison’s steer imagination. The body can respond Mountains. west side and the Integrative Medicine as though what’s being imagined is a real “So we came to Wisconsin,” he says. Research Park Clinic. He also started the event. A classic example is to imagine a integrative medicine clinic at the Com- lemon — think of peeling it, smelling it, Mentoring Students prehensive Cancer Center at the UW squirting it in your mouth. Do your lips Hospital. Each facility offers therapies purse up in response? and Patients such as massage and acupuncture; the In medicine, guided imagery can be At the UW, Rakel began teaching inte- Research Park clinic also provides health used to control pain and stress. Cancer grative medicine techniques to students, psychology, Feldenkrais (movement ther- patients, for example, may be encouraged as well as fellow physicians. “He’s been apy), healing touch, mindfulness stress to imagine tiny healthy cells overpower- able to attract a substantial number of reduction, yoga, and tai chi. ing destructive cancer cells in their bod- young clinicians who agree there are a Patients are taught to meditate to ies. While the American Cancer Society variety of different approaches to care,” reduce stress and encouraged to eat a diet says there’s no proof that guided imagery says Frey. “He’s developed a very talented rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, influences the progress of cancer, the ACS group of young family doctors, and was nuts, soy, olive oil, cold-water fish, and Web site does cite evidence that the tech- instrumental in getting a fellowship dark-colored berries for heart health. nique can reduce stress, anxiety, and pain program going.” Part of their prescription for good health

40 ON WISCONSIN Another service offered by the integrative medicine clinics is acupuncture, which is designed to stimulate the natural heal- ing processes of the body and is used to treat problems such as stress, nausea, pain, and other conditions.

without that mix, integrative medicine would get no respect. “If it becomes part of what doc- tors do in primary care, working with different healers as a team, then I think it has an important role,” says Frey. Patients in integrative medicine, like any primary care patients, get flu shots, blood- will surely be to exercise and get moder- than a year, and hasn’t been a miracu- pressure medications, or recommenda- ate sunshine to reduce depression. They lous cure for Peterson, who remains in tions for surgery when their health calls might be told to try acupuncture for a wheelchair. But her symptoms have for allopathic medicine. “I have no hesita- arthritis pain. And their spiritual beliefs stabilized. tion to use drugs,” Rakel says. “They’re will be considered as individual health “He’s got such a positive approach,” often indicated and beneficial.” But all plans are developed. she says. “He knows he can’t cure every- the while, patients are encouraged to look Often, patients who come to the clin- body. But he also knows there are things beyond a quick prescription-pad solution ics are facing difficult chronic diseases he can do to make their lives easier.” She for what ails them, and to take and complicated tangles of symptoms. swims twice a week, remembering his as much control as they can over their For Lynette Peterson, Rakel has been advice: ‘Keep exercising, keep swimming. well-being. a lifesaver. Now sixty-five, she has had Think positive, think positive.’ ” multiple sclerosis, a disease that attacks But changing an American’s life- the central nervous system, for thirty- style is difficult. Rakel is realistic, seeing Ups and Downs five years. Symptoms can be mild or change as a highly individual endeavor. A With fundamental changes to the nation’s increasingly severe, but there is no cure. lifestyle prescription must, he has written, health care delivery system recently She found Rakel after her physician pre- “be individualized based on the health, passed into law, integrative medicine scribed a chemotherapy regimen that left energy, resources, and personality of may well get increased attention. And it her with hair loss, sores on her lips and the patient.” should, according to an article that Rakel tongue, and loss of control of her bladder “We really spend a lot of time listen- co-authored with Wayne Jonas in a 2009 and bowels. ing,” Fortney says of those who practice issue of Alternative Therapies. “I told him I couldn’t take any integrative medicine. They listen for “If the health reformers are looking more chemotherapy. It was killing me,” clues about what in patients’ lives might to get the biggest ‘bang for their buck’ she says. be contributing to ailments such as rest- both in the prevention and management Rakel steered Peterson to acupunc- less leg, acid reflux, or chronic pain, as of chronic disease,” they wrote, “they ture, changed some of her prescription well as what they might be willing to do need look no further than delivering medications, added dietary suggestions, to make changes. [integrative medicine’s] four pillars [of and encouraged the use of fish oil, herbs, Conventional medicine is part of social, psychological, physical, and envi- and regular exercise. It has taken more integrated medicine. In fact, Frey says, ronmental health].”

FALL 2010 41 Massage therapists treat conditions such as back and neck pain, head- aches, sports injuries, and stress. According to a clinic brochure, the staff focuses on less invasive ther- apies such as massage “to help remove barriers that may be block- ing the body’s ability to heal.”

It’s not certain how integra- tive medicine will fare under the newly passed health reform law. But, according to the Integrated Health Care Policy Consortium, a coalition of conventional, alternative, and complementary health profes- sionals, there are some positive signs. They include an emphasis cine is] dedicated to pursuing the science income-yielding procedures. “Hospitals on prevention, and on standards of evi- behind [the discipline].” see integrative medicine as less neces- dence that will allow alternative therapies Its practitioners are schooled in ways sary. If they’re going to survive, they feel to be evaluated head-to-head with con- to hold on to their hearts and souls even they need to maximize interventions,” ventional therapies. The hope is that as as they master the intricacies of anat- she says. “One oncologist said he didn’t scientific studies find alternative therapies omy, physiology, biology, and psychol- believe in integrative medicine. Luckily, to be beneficial, insurers will cover them, ogy. They see their work as healing the most oncologists and other cancer health just as they do a proven blood-pressure whole patient, rather than being limited professionals see the benefit.” medication or an effective surgical proce- to specific body parts. Rakel confirms that “the UW Hospi- dure. Rakel says this doesn’t necessarily When integrative medicine is hot, tal has been supportive of our program” pan out, however, as there is now “good the universe responds with initiatives and that an interdisciplinary UW Hos- evidence for acupuncture,” and very few such as an office within the National pital Health and Healing Committee insurers cover it. Institutes of Health. When it’s not, was started a few years ago for just that The discipline has had its ups and funds are cut. purpose. downs since Rakel’s training in integra- “In my career, it’s gone up and The American health care system, tive medicine began in Tucson. He was down about three times,” says Rakel. however, has always rewarded physi- one of four fellows to study with Andrew “The financial incentives [that focus cians skilled in invasive procedures more Weil, a pioneer in a field that has changed on rewarding the treatment of disease] than those who listen to patients and names a few times as it has slowly earned always swing against it.” talk them through healing. A heart sur- grudging respect. The label alternative Even as acceptance grows, there geon, for example, earns an average of medicine has morphed into integrative are setbacks. In 2009, physician Lucille $515,000 a year, according to an Allied medicine, via the terms “complementary” Marchand saw her integrative medicine Physicians salary survey, while a family and “holistic.” But by any other name, work at the UW oncology clinic go from practice physician averages $135,000. it means health care as opposed to disease full time to one day a week because of And primary care physicians, forced care, an emphasis on wellness even as it a funding reduction from the hospital. by the health care delivery system to deals with illness. And it is based on the Fortunately, the Department of Fam- spend as little as fifteen or twenty min- same rigorous standards of evidence as ily Medicine stepped in, providing utes with a patient, don’t have the time any branch of medicine. resources to continue her work. they need to get to the core of symp- “This is not belief without sub- The care she provides involves lis- toms or to really influence the course stance,” says Frey. “[Integrative medi- tening and talking, not performing high- of a chronic disease. The way payment

42 ON WISCONSIN incentives are set up through America’s “To understand how to implement a Rather than waiting for a person to insurance systems, a physician earns low-salt program, we have to understand develop diabetes, for example, and then more for seeing four patients in an hour how complex systems interact. We need rushing in with kidney dialysis or surgery than for spending an entire hour with to communicate a common goal to the for failing kidneys or limbs, Rakel hopes one patient. food industry, school lunch programs, that developing these health teams will “[Practitioners] get good at seeing marketing personnel,” Rakel says. “We help with prevention. people quickly by just treating symptoms,” need to create financial incentives to “These lessons are hard to learn,” he Rakel says. “If someone comes in with make these changes. No one makes says. “But what if we had whole teams upper gastric pain, I can turn that off with money by reducing salt in the diet.” of professionals to help make those [life- Prilosec, and the patient leaves happy. Like many lifestyle changes, reduc- style] changes? We need our health and But we miss out on what that symptom is ing salt intake is so much easier said than political leadership to stress the impor- trying to teach us, what it is that might be done. A 2005 study in the Archives of tance of this.” eating [the patient] up inside.” Internal Medicine examined the top five He continues to go back to les- health-producing behaviors: not smok- sons learned from the folks in the small ing, getting adequate exercise, eating a Western town of Driggs, Idaho, with its An Ounce of Prevention healthy diet, managing stress, and using 1,300 people and its fourteen-bed hospi- Contemporary American medicine early disease detection tools such as tal. In a town that small, a doctor doesn’t focuses on diagnosis and treatment of mammograms and colonoscopies. The wait until people come into the office existing disease. “We have a wonderful study found that only 2 to 4 percent of to make observations about their well- disease care system,” Rakel says. “We can Americans engage in all of them. being. “You see your patients at the gro- reverse acute episodes of disease. But we Helping people change unhealthy cery store and in church,” he says. “You haven’t paid enough attention to helping lifestyles requires an investment in develop insights into why they might be people avoid disease.” Rakel is a staunch health care teams that will stand by coming to see you with headaches.” patients as they try to change. Rakel is advocate for moving prevention and well- His initial skepticism has turned to now working on just such an initiative ness from an afterthought to the core enthusiasm, and then evolved into a true to create patient-centered units — being mission of health care. passion for practicing and teaching as recognized nationally in primary care as one of the nation’s leaders in integrative Study after study shows that he is on “medical homes” — that are composed medicine. to something. In January 2010, the New of teams of treatment professionals. Rakel knows that not everyone will England Journal of Medicine found com- Generally these teams consist of doc- buy the whole package, which could pelling evidence that reducing salt intake tors and nurses, but Rakel would also include flying with an imaginary golden would save lives and money. A public like to include nutritionists, exercise eagle to help nail down a difficult deci- health intervention designed to reduce physiologists, health psychologists, social sion. But offering options such as guided salt consumption by 1,200 milligrams — workers, and even spiritual guides work- imagery, acupuncture, nutrition educa- or about two-thirds of a teaspoon — a ing with individuals to help them stay tion, and lifestyle advice along with con- day, could nearly cut in half the number healthy on their own terms. ventional medical options can help. of new cases of heart disease, stroke, and While a physician may lead the medi- “You’ve got to read your audience,” heart attack. In the process, it could save cal team, the workload is shared among he says, “meet them where they’re at, between $10 billion and $24 billion a year various professionals, and the patient and maybe bring them to a new place of in health care costs. ends up getting more time devoted to awareness.” n “This is a good example of how a low- health education, disease prevention, cost intervention can result in dramatic and chronic disease control. The goal Susan Brink is a freelance health writer based effects on human health,” Rakel says. is to shift the health care system from in Chicago. She has written for U.S. News & World Report and the LA Times and has pub- But making it work for millions of its emphasis on reacting to a symptom lished online for MSNBC.com and the Boston people is profoundly difficult. or disease toward being more proactive. Globe.

FALL 2010 43 44 ON WISCONSIN state of the art [s [ The arts give life to whatever the mind’s eye can imagine — and open new ways of looking at our world.

By Gwen Evans ’79 Union, the Theater, and Photos by Bryce Richter Vilas, Music, and Lathrop halls are alive with theater, film, music, and dance. Performers The arts have been woven into the fabric of uni- range from students and faculty to the bright- versity life from the earliest years of the campus. est stars and leading names in their fields. And Science Hall, which opened in 1877, included an don’t forget the Memorial Carillon, with its art museum. (Unfortunately, the gallery and the fifty-six bronze bells and the campus’s very collection were lost in 1884 when the building own carillonneur. caught fire and its contents were destroyed.) The growth of the arts on campus created But since that inauspicious beginning, some firsts for the university. The UW was instruction in the visual and performing arts the first university to offer a degree program in has expanded in size and reach, nurturing the dance — beginning in 1926. creative promise in our students. A robust arts In 1940, the touring musicians of Belgium’s environment sparks new ways of looking at our Pro Arte Quartet were stranded in the United world — and at ourselves. Today’s students will States by the outbreak of World War II. The become tomorrow’s working artists, continuing residency they accepted at the UW was the first the legacy. such program at a major American university. Nothing compares to learning from a work- Pro Arte hits the century mark next year. ing artist. An interdisciplinary arts residency And the glass program is the oldest among program, sponsored by the Arts Institute and now those operating full time on a U.S. campus. in its eleventh year, brings innovative, world-class Illuminate: Year of the Arts — designed to artists to campus for semester-long residencies spotlight the breadth, power, and purpose of with two or more departments. The program artistic exploration and expression — kicks off exposes students to professionals and builds col- on campus this fall. laborations among departments, programs, and Along with more than thirty featured other campus and community arts entities. events, some three hundred performances, In addition to providing an environment exhibits, symposia, public events, publications, where students can discover and hone their distinguished visiting speakers, and online skills, the campus is rich in opportunities to resources will celebrate the arts. For more absorb art. The work of faculty, students, and information, visit yearofthearts.wisc.edu. artists with international influence is displayed “Throughout the university’s history, in galleries in the , the the arts have brought richness, depth, diversity, Wisconsin Union, the Mosse Humanities Build- and insight to the campus community,” says ing, the Design Gallery, many campus libraries, Chancellor Biddy Martin PhD’85. “The Year and the recently opened Art Lofts. of the Arts will provide opportunities to con- On the performance side, stages in the sider how creative expression frames our vision, Mosse Humanities Building, the Memorial enables change, and shapes our lives.”

Round and round and round it goes, where it stops, nobody knows. Ginger Lukas MFAx’11 gives her mixed-media project a hearty spin as she contemplates where to place the next element while working in her studio space at the Art Lofts, which opened on campus last year.

FALL 2010 45 Top left: Like magic, an image appears as Sigrid Hubertz x’12 uses a squeegee in art professor John Hitchcock’s screen-printing class in the Mosse Humanities Building. Top right: Watch and learn. Jacquelyn Whisenant x’12 (left) pays close attention as Paul Sacaridiz, associate professor of art, dem- onstrates a ceramic technique during a class session focusing on making molds for working with clay. Right: With her tools of the trade close at hand, Yvonne Foy x’13 (left) listens to advice from art professor T.L. Solien during Intermediate Painting class in the Mosse Humanities Building.

Above: Have press, will travel. Justin Maes x’12 (left) and Joseph Velasquez MA’06, MFA’07 create a woodblock print on a T-shirt during an event at the Art Lofts in 2009. A few years earlier, Velasquez and Greg Nanney MA’06, MFA’07 created Drive By Press, a design collective that allows them to take their passion for printmaking on the road. They bought a fourteenth-century- style press and have been spreading ink and the art of print- making to audiences across the United States ever since.

46 ON WISCONSIN Above: An idea begins to take tangi- ble shape that others can absorb as Comfort Wasikhongo x’12 works on a three-dimensional mixed-media piece in an Intermediate Drawing class taught by faculty associate Michael Velliquette MA’99, MFA’00. Left: For classmate Meg Fransee x’11, the medium of choice is paint as she works on a piece in Velliquette’s Intermediate Drawing class held during Summer 2010. The course explores con- ceptual drawing in various media.

FALL 2010 47 Above: Artist Yuki Wakamiya shapes a piece of molten glass during a demon- stration at the glass lab in the Art Lofts, a facility that put an end to the hither and yon for Art Department programs, facilities, and studios when it opened in 2009. All art programs are now housed in just two locations: the Art Lofts, in the former university warehouse facing the Kohl Center, and the top two floors of the Mosse Humanities Building. The Art Lofts facility contains the glass lab, metal sculpture foundry, ceramics, graduate darkroom and digital facili- ties, and papermaking areas, along with exhibit and studio space for more than sixty faculty and graduate students. Right: Put a bunch of visual thinkers and creators together, and ideas happen. Instead of benches and fume hoods, a space in the Mosse Humanities Building serves as a laboratory for art profes- sor John Hitchcock’s Serigraphy class, where students gather to critique and discuss a screen-printing assignment.

48 ON WISCONSIN Above: Some artists work on paper; oth- ers work in it. Instead of setting odds and making bets, Jim Escalante MFA’81, professor of art (right), gives new mean- ing to the term bookmaker as he dem- onstrates the paper-making process in Art 446: Artists’ Books. The class covers the multiple and sequential visual imag- ery of the non-printed book, including its design and creation. Left: Mom always told us not to draw on the walls. But Eduardo Villanueva MAx’11, MFAx’12 clearly was not lis- tening, as he uses the walls — and col- ors outside the lines — in his space within the Art Lofts. No rigid painting by numbers here; freedom to explore and experiment (along with creative vision) are the perfect attributes for an artist. n

Gwen Evans ’79 is a senior university relations specialist at University Communications. She tried to get into an art school advertised on a matchbook cover, but was rejected.

FALL 2010 49 traditions

It’s a longstanding — but legal — ploy to predict the future when soon-to-be lawyers attempt to throw canes over a goalpost and imagine winning their first cases.

Cane Toss BRYCE RICHTER One of Homecoming’s biggest spectacles doesn’t involve the marching band or the football team. It’s three hundred third-year law students with canes “charging down the field toward ’s south end zone before kickoff. Some of the future attorneys sprint like running backs going for a touchdown. Others stroll or strut, swinging their canes, to savor the moment and avoid the crush. When they arrive in the shadow of the Field House, students toss their canes over the goalpost. It’s a decades-long tradition that holds that catching their canes means they’ll win their first cases after graduation. Drop them and they lose. When the concept of law students carrying canes first appeared at the UW is in question. One report indicates it orig- inated at Harvard University and showed up here in 1910. The tradition is also strongly linked to law professor William Herbert Page, who claimed it started in 1917 when he came to Madison from Ohio State. In 1921, the Capital Times reported that senior law students voted to carry canes on campus. But even then, there seemed to be some confusion as to why. “Is it to tap on the girls’ windows, or is it to fight the engi- neers?” the article asked. “There must be some reason for any- one who has to carry those big heavy books to want to carry something else besides.” The writer concludes that the cane is “not meant as an article of exterior adornment, but as a symbol.” It wasn’t all pomp and circumstance in those early days. Law students would sit outside the Law Building and pound their canes on the stairs “in fulsome appreciation” if an attractive co-ed was walking up Bascom Hill. Today, law students only carry canes on the day of the Homecoming game, walking to Camp Randall en masse for their big moment. Wardrobe has changed over the years, too, with sweatshirts and jeans replacing ties and overcoats. If there are any rules, they are unwritten. And some have admitted to knocking down classmates to make the catch — insert lawyer joke here. Jenny Price ’96

What’s your favorite UW tradition? Tell On Wisconsin about it at [email protected], and we’ll find out if it’s just a fond memory — or if it’s still part of campus life today.

50 ON WISCONSIN FALL 2010 51 gifts in action JAMES GILL Can We Talk? Telefund callers learn life lessons — and a new appreciation for private support.

Every year, some three hundred (Teaching English to Speakers students learn firsthand about of Other Languages). “This job the power of private support for has taught me how philanthropy UW-Madison. As callers for the relates to education, but it also UW Foundation’s Telefund, they is a good way to learn how to be contact alumni, donors, and par- in charge and not overthink — to ents; explain opportunities for be decisive and move on.” support; and ask for gifts. There are other benefits. Their efforts pay off. Since “Talking to people? I love that,” that first phone number was says Caitlin Cusack x’10, a dialed in 1983, students have communication arts major. She raised almost $70 million for their remembers a conversation with university. a ninety-two-year-old journal- Forty students inaugu- ism school graduate, adding, rated Telefund — then named “Alumni are the most interesting “Wisconsin Calling.” Brad Green and some of the nicest people. ’05, assistant director of annual And many of them are so happy giving and himself a former caller, to give back.” estimates that since it began, Samantha Overgaard thousands of students have x’12, a Telefund veteran of two worked for the program. Shifts are and a half years who is majoring 5:30 to 9:00 p.m. Monday through in and communication Friday; 2:00 to 5:00 and 5:30 to arts, recalls speaking with a grad- 9:00 p.m. on Sunday; and noon uate who attended the UW dur- to 3:00 p.m. on some Saturdays. ing the Vietnam War protests and Students work a minimum of three who told her about a campus that shifts per week, with forty-four was much different from the one Brad Green, assistant director of annual giving at the UW Foundation callers and three student man- she knows today. (standing), here with Telefund student Marcus Cromartie x’12, says agers on each shift. “We oper- The job is not for every- callers enjoy their conversations with alumni. ate year-round, but are closed on one. While some students stay holidays or times when it is not only a few sessions, others dis- Telefund, but also a future career. exposure to areas of campus appropriate to call,” says Green, cover a hidden talent, develop a “After a while,” he says, “I enjoyed beyond their own academic and noting that Super Bowl Sunday is new skill, learn to handle rejec- being part of a community that social spheres. one of those times. tion, and build self-confidence. “I makes so much possible. This has Callers gain a perspective The experience earns stu- usually tell people it’s a tough job influenced me about majoring in that many students don’t have dents a paycheck to help finance to ask someone for a gift,” Green nonprofits.” He hopes to add a until after graduation. “Students their education and provides life says. “But so many students find second major in community and have no clue about the founda- lessons about listening, being that they love talking to alumni nonprofit leadership in the School tion or what private support is,” persistent, and managing time about their experiences, [and] of Human Ecology. says Overgaard. “Think about and tasks. that it gets easier.” Deans, vice chancellors, it. [Support] comes from some- Sarah Selz ’09 began Overgaard says she started and directors — even the chan- where. People before them gave working with Telefund nearly making calls with some trep- cellor — stop by the Telefund’s so they could be here.” four years ago and is now a idation, but quickly changed call center at the UW Foundation “It’s not just about me,” adds student manager. “I will be her mind. “It’s not as scary as it to tell callers about priorities Fitzgerald. “I realize my educa- teaching English in Korea and seems,” she says. and funding opportunities. The tion is provided by the eighty hope some- day to work on Seamus Fitzgerald x’12, updates help the students to thousand people who give to the education policy,” says Selz, a history major and a UW answer questions, share news university. The UW is what it is who graduated with a degree Foundation summer intern, not about specific schools or depart- because so many people care.” in German and English TESOL only found a home with the ments with alumni, and provide Merry Anderson

52 ON WISCONSIN Badger connections JEFF MILLER

54 Alumni Association The Tailgate that Wags the Dog? News Meet Booker, the tailgating pit bull mix, who made an appearance in Badger country in 2007. Owner Tom Wangard ’09 brought him out before that year’s 56 Class Notes Michigan State game, where he attracted the atten- tion of fans Jenny Koningisor ’09 (left) and Laura Gillen ’09. Wangard says Booker is still a Badger 61 Calendar fan, though in the last three years he’s filled out some, “so we will have to find him a new, larger 62 Bookshelf Badger shirt to wear.”

63 Sifting & Winnowing

FALL 2010 53 alumni association news BILL HOEPNER

Stepping up Student Recruiting Admissions office ramps up partnership with alumni.

It takes a village to raise a For years, alumni chapters UW-Madison student, and that in cities such as New York, Los philosophy is now reflected Angeles, Detroit, Portland, and in a strengthened partnership Boston have staffed college fairs between the Office of Admissions and hosted private events to talk and the Wisconsin Alumni up the UW. Association. “Although alumni have Alumni from the Chippewa Valley chapter invited future Wisconsin Under the direction of Adele always played a vital role in stu- freshmen and their parents to a student send-off in July, where Brumfield, the university’s new dent recruitment, it’s been more they closed the event by learning how to sing “Varsity.” admissions director, the office of a shotgun approach,” says will take a broader view and ded- WAA vice president of programs up with WAA to visit her home- nated approach to identifying icate additional resources to and outreach Jeff Wendorf ’82, town of Milwaukee, where she’ll students who are well suited for alumni relations and student who served on the university meet with alumni and community UW-Madison,” says Neubauer, recruitment. Two new staff liai- search committee that recom- leaders, such as Tom Neubauer “and by that, I mean academ- sons will work closely with WAA’s mended Brumfield. ’67, who are interested in helping ically qualified students who alumni chapters and hundreds Brumfield plans to vigor- students enroll at UW-Madison. are also open to the universi- of advocates and volunteers to ously pursue efforts to encourage “As a volunteer in Mil- ty’s traditions of free inquiry and reach prospective students and a diverse and welcoming student waukee’s YMCA mentoring self-expression.” their families. body. In September, she’ll team programs, I welcome a coordi- Karen Graf Roach ’82

Look Good and Feel Good Red Shirt program will result in a $250,000 gift for scholarships.

The Red ShirtTM, a limited-edition, pleasure to invest in today’s stu- unity, and Wisconsin spirit. collectible line of T-shirts devel- dents and the future of our alma “I love wearing the Red Shirt oped by the Wisconsin Alumni mater by supporting the chan- to alumni events; I always get Association (WAA), does more cellor’s priority to increase need- comments about it,” says Bill than make people look good. It based financial aid.” Donovan ’79. “A bonus is that I gives them a way to feel good, The Great People Scholarship get to help future Badgers.” too, because all proceeds from Campaign is targeted toward rais- The third edition, unveiled sales go toward the Great People ing funds for need-based financial in August, references Bucky Scholarship Campaign. aid. Its goal is to provide increased Badger’s full name — And in April of this year, the access and affordability to under- Buckingham U. Badger. The Red Shirt program made possi- graduate students and improve the design allows students, alumni, ble a $250,000 gift to this need- quality of the undergraduate expe- fans, and friends to feel more based scholarship fund. rience at UW-Madison. connected to the university by WAA’s board of directors In alignment with this top pri- being in the know on a fun piece executive committee unanimously ority of the university, WAA’s Red of campus trivia. Ordering infor- approved the gift of $25,000 per Martin PhD’85 with a check for Shirt program allows all Badgers mation can be found at year for five years from WAA, to the gift on April 23 at the associa- to give back to the UW commu- uwalumni.com/theredshirt. be matched with funds from the tion’s executive committee meet- nity in a fun show of support, Brian Klatt UW Foundation. WAA President ing during Alumni Weekend. and CEO Paula Bonner MS’78 “We are absolutely delighted and former WAA board president to be able to make this gift from Continuing to Keep Badgers Connected Peter Christianson ’71, JD’77 proceeds of sales of the Red uwalumni.com/sustainability presented Chancellor Biddy Shirt,” says Bonner. “It’s our great

54 ON WISCONSIN Ramirez Takes the Reins New board chair leads WAA into 150th year.

Renee Ramirez ’83 has been ing a century and a half of UW Board, is a member of TEMPO named 2010–11 chair of the alumni contributions to Wisconsin International, and participates on national board of directors for the and the world. And we’re look- community and statewide com- Wisconsin Alumni Association ing ahead to the next 150 years of mittees addressing issues related and will serve a one-year term as connecting alumni to their univer- to access to health care for the WAA’s top adviser. sity and to one another.” underserved. Ramirez received Entering her sixth year of ser- In addition to the anniversary Rotary International’s Paul Harris vice on the board, Ramirez has celebration, Ramirez will partner Award in 2006 and was named been active in promoting pub- with the association’s executive Badger of the Year by the WAA: lic dialogue about higher edu- leadership and staff to drive the Waukesha County Chapter in cation through the Alumni for organization’s strategic initiatives 2007. Renee Ramirez Wisconsin advocacy organiza- and focus on WAA’s commitment Ramirez succeeds Peter tion, as well as helping to select to make ongoing collaboration Christianson ’71, JD’77, Entertainment, Inc., Dallas, Los the young alumni who receive among departments on campus an attorney at DeWitt, Ross & Angeles, and Madison; Peter WAA’s Forward under 40 awards. an organizational priority. Stevens S.C., of Madison, as S. Kies ’87, MS’89, manag- As WAA heads into its 150th anni- Outside of WAA, Ramirez the board’s chair. New mem- ing director, Robert W. Baird & versary year in 2011, Ramirez is is the executive director of the bers joining the board this year Co., Milwaukee; Dale Nitschke rooted in its celebration plans. Waukesha County Community include Shawn Bergemann ’74, ’84, CEO and managing part- “This incredible year of Dental Clinic in Waukesha, MBA’80, retired senior direc- ner, Ovative/Group, Minneapolis; events will bring together Badger Wisconsin, and she works in her tor for global financial shared and Kelli Trumble ’79, sec- alumni everywhere who cher- community to support youth, par- services, Motorola, La Grange, retary of tourism for the State ish their alma mater and truly ents, and public education. She Illinois; Stephen Jarchow of Wisconsin, of Madison and make WAA a great organization,” chairs the Waukesha County ’74, MS’76, JD’76, chair- Wisconsin Dells. says Ramirez. “We’ll be celebrat- Community Foundation Advisory man, Here Media and Regent Ben Wischnewski ’05

Sesqui Fever WAA to celebrate a century and a half of alumni achievement.

Get out your party hats and prac- “It means being part of a tradition on campus July 26–28, 2011, an tice singing “Varsity,” because of excellence and service. It means event that will celebrate the global Distinguished Alumni WAA is preparing for a yearlong being part of a global commu- impact of the UW and its alumni. Award Nominations Badger birthday party. nity that includes inventors, artists, “The UW has a long history of Now Online Since June 24, 1861, WAA political leaders, and some of the sharing the benefits of education It’s now easier than has been celebrating the achieve- most spirited people on the planet. around the world,” Bonner says, ever to nominate some- ments of the University of During our anniversary year, we “and the effects of that effort can one for a Distinguished Wisconsin and its graduates, want to encourage alumni every- be seen in the more than thirteen Alumni Award, the highest and in June 2011 the associa- where to celebrate all that’s won- thousand grads who are living honor that WAA bestows tion will mark a century and a half derful about being a Badger.” overseas. We want to honor these on alumni to recognize — its sesquicentennial — of ral- Key WAA sesquicentennial leaders of government, science, exceptional achievement lying Badgers in support of their events include Founders’ Day cel- and business.” of a national or interna- alma mater. To mark the occa- ebrations at chapters across the John Allen tional scope. Nominate an sion, WAA is planning a series of country this spring, a campus exceptional UW events intended to highlight what birthday party in June, and a gala graduate online at it means to be a Badger. event in October, timed to coin- uwalumni.com/daa. The “Being a UW alum means cide with Homecoming, which is nominations deadline is much more than earning a degree celebrating its centennial. October 15, 2010. here,” says Paula Bonner WAA will also help host an MS’78, WAA president and CEO. international alumni convocation

FALL 2010 55 classnotes

early years Colorado Women’s Hall of Alumni Achievement Award So, what’s the news? Fame in March. Greenberg is a from the UW-Madison School Belated, but hearty “Happy Centennial-based author and of Education. She’s New Yorker Please share with us the (brief, birthday!” wishes go out to one- national leader in adult learning. Sharon Gersten Luckman ’67, please) details of your latest hundred-year-old Mae Wilkins “Fantastic” — in its multiple about whom Ailey artistic director achievements, transitions, and Halstead ’33 of Union Grove, definitions — may be the best way Judith Jamison said, “Her service major life events by e-mail to Wisconsin — a former teacher to describe Douglas Golightly to Alvin Ailey’s pioneering legacy [email protected]; by and avid traveler — and to one- ’57, MA’59, MFA’60’s colorful is immeasurable.” mail to Class Notes, Wisconsin hundred-five-year-old Ruth oil paintings. They’re surreal, yet James Peserik ’68 of Alumni Association, 650 North Knudstad Stewart ’36 of employ the anatomical precision Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, Lake Street, Madison, WI 53706- Stoughton, Wisconsin. A former of medical illustrations. The Chico, has been a consulting forensics 1476; or by fax to (608) 265-8771. music teacher, she has shared California, artist had twelve exhib- engineer for twenty-seven years. We receive many more submis- her Independence Day birthday its in 2009 and says that his most Much of his time is spent testify- sions than we can include, but with the nation since 1905. exciting work in progress, a circus ing in court, where he can boast a we appreciate hearing from you scene, “will take years to finish. It “win record” of about 95 percent. nonetheless. 40–50s will be great fun all the way.” “People may lie to you in describ- Please e-mail death notices “Organ Donation Isn’t What It ing an incident,” Peserik says, and all address, name, tele- When the American Sheep Sounds Like” headlined a March “but the evidence never lies.” phone, and e-mail updates to Industry Association honored its [email protected]; outstanding members in January, mail them to Alumni Changes, Richard (Dick) Boniface ’53 “I was in my twenties back then and probably Wisconsin Alumni Association, of Oak Grove, Minnesota, took couldn’t imagine ever being that old!” 650 North Lake Street, Madison, home the Camptender Award for WI 53706-1476; fax them to his truly above-and-beyond con- — Anne Killingstad Boyden Holmes ’74, MS’75 (608) 262-3332; or call them in tributions. He spent his career at to (608) 262-9648 or toll free to the North Central Wool Marketing Wisconsin State Journal article 70s (888) 947-2586. Corporation, where he originated about the $72,000 gift that will the grade-and-yield method of enable the Pres House, the cam- Congratulations to Mark James Most obituary listings of WAA marketing wool. pus’s Presbyterian student cha- ’72, the founding dean of Kent members and friends appear We gained some perspec- pel, to replace its pipe organ. The [Ohio] State University’s College in the Badger Insider, WAA’s tive reading the address that donors are UW-Madison emerita of Public Health. The immuno- member publication. Frank Genovese PhD’53 deliv- professor of nursing Karen Frick parasitologist was most recently a x-planation: An x preceding a ered to the Eastern Economic Pridham ’57, MS’66, PhD’72 professor and the vice chair of the degree year indicates that the Association’s annual confer- and her spouse, Walter. Three Department of Tropical Medicine individual did not complete, ence in February. A graduate years ago, the Madison couple at Tulane University’s School or has not yet completed, the dean emeritus of Babson College gave the Pres House $200,000 to of Public Health and Tropical degree at UW-Madison. in Wellesley, Massachusetts, renovate its main lounge. Medicine. he spoke on “Hard Times, Denver freelance journal- Economists, Then and Now.” 60s ist Rob Reuteman ’72 is the On Wisconsin’s Fall 2008 new president of the Society of piece on Charlie Bentley — Bill Richards, Sr. ’61 writes, American Business Editors and The Wisconsin Alumni Association® the principal investigator for the “I recently received President Writers. (WAA) encourages diversity, inclusivity, nondiscrimination, and UW’s Ice Coring and Drilling Obama’s Call to Service Award Anne Killingstad Boyden participation by all alumni, students, Services — brought back fond for volunteerism. … Essentially, Holmes ’74, MS’75 has and friends of the UW in its activities. memories for Osmund Holm- I logged eleven thousand hours acquired ownership of the Hansen PhD’53. A former in various community activities. National Association of Baby UW faculty member, he’s been (The requirement is four thou- Boomer Women, and as the active in Antarctic oceanographic sand).” The former Sheboygan “boomer in chief,” she notes the research since joining the Scripps [Wisconsin] North High School irony: “This purchase brings me Institution of Oceanography at teacher and coach is also a direc- full circle, since my master’s the- UC-San Diego in 1963. tor in the UW’s National W Club. sis dealt with how the media need Hailed as an “education inno- The executive director of the to modify their messages in order vator,” Elinor Miller Greenberg Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation to best communicate with ‘plus- MA’54 was inducted into the is this year’s recipient of the fifty’ women. I was in my twenties

56 ON WISCONSIN National Spelling Bee. Kirsch had Dennis White: Saving an Ancient Art competed in the bee himself as a boy, and seeing the film rekin- For Dennis White MA’83, prac- CLEORA WHITE dled his interest: he’s now won a ticing the traditional Ojibwe craft of national bee for seniors and has finger weaving — braiding strands become a spelling coach. Kirsch of yarn into intricate patterns — also directs the independent is both an art form and a cultural learning program in Spanish and imperative. Last December, he Portuguese for the UW’s Division completed an artist’s residency of Continuing Studies. at the Smithsonian Institution’s The Wisconsin Alumni National Museum of the American Research Foundation (WARF) Indian in Washington, D.C., where has a new chief financial officer he studied materials relating to this and COO in Steven Mixtacki vanishing skill. ’76. He’ll also oversee the The craft has been practiced WiCell Research Institute, the in the Americas for three thou- Dennis White works to preserve Ojibwe culture. WiSys Technology Foundation, sand years, and White notes that and the Morgridge Institute for the Ojibwe have been doing it for at least three centuries. He says that his Smithsonian experience made Research. He’s the former CFO him realize that “we really need people to learn it” — he’s one of a very few practitioners among the 150,000 of Madison’s American TV and Ojibwe who still populate the Great Lakes region. Appliance. White started finger weaving when he picked up a book on the craft in his twenties. Tribal elders gave The new poet laureate of him pointers, and he says he “learned the hard way” that starting with a number of strands that are a power Missouri is David Clewell ’77, of four, and preferably a power of sixteen, opens up many more design possibilities. a professor of English at Webster These days, White often rises early to manipulate dozens of strands of colorful yarn into sashes and University in St. Louis who was belts, favoring designs that blend original ideas with patterns he’s seen in fabrics made by his people well praised for his “wry humor, tart over one hundred years ago. It may be no coincidence that the name White’s uncle gave him as a child, social commentary, and accessi- Mezinaanakwad, means “clouds spread out all over the sky in a certain pattern and color.” ble style.” White’s passion for finger weaving dovetails with his lifelong fascination with mathematics, the subject Alfredo Gangotena MS’77 of his UW master’s degree. As he examined artifacts from the 1850s and 1860s at the Smithsonian, one of keeps moving up: most recently, the things he focused on was the number of threads in each traditional pattern. “These people didn’t get to he’s been promoted from his study mathematics at Van Vleck Hall in Madison,” he says, “but they did some neat things, and it’s amazing Waterloo, Belguim-based post that they had a sense for the numbers that were always there.” as global products and solutions As the K-12 administrator of the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School in Hayward, Wisconsin, which he lead for MasterCard in Europe, helped to found as a teacher in 1976, White has made finger weaving part of the fourth-grade curriculum. to chief marketing officer for He’s also what the Ojibwe call a midewiwin, which means he’s qualified to preside over rites such as MasterCard Worldwide. His new weddings, funerals, and naming ceremonies. office is located — ironically — in White’s commitment to preserving Ojibwe culture extends beyond finger weaving to language preserva- Purchase, New York. tion. He teaches it at the community college on the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation, has helped to establish The UW produces amaz- an Ojibwe immersion program at the school where he works, and often speaks Ojibwe at home. ing grads, and Black Enterprise Eric Goldscheider magazine’s February issue held further proof. Among its “75 Most Powerful Women in back then and probably couldn’t time with the meteorology team utive officer, and veterinarian, and Business,” four were Badgers: imagine ever being that old!” of the Swiss yacht Alinghi 5 to twice deployed to Afghanistan. Sheryl Adkins-Green ’79 of After moving to Australia provide America’s Cup weather Pickart is currently a training Dallas, global VP of brand devel- in 1990, Jack Katzfey ’75, forecasts for its sailors. officer at the Kennedy Special opment for Mary Kay; Felicia MS’78, PhD’83 joined the President Obama has Warfare Center and School at Norwood MA’82 of Chicago, Commonwealth Scientific and awarded the Meritorious Service Fort Bragg, North Carolina. CEO and president of Active Industrial Research Corporation, Medal to Major James Pickart Once upon a time, Jeff Health Management, a sub- where he works on long-term ’75 for his exceptional work from Kirsch MA’76, PhD’80 went to sidiary of Aetna; Gladys Hart modeling related to climate 2001 until 2008 with the 412th see the documentary Spellbound, DeClouet MBA’86 of Miami, change. He also (envy alert!) gets Civil Affairs Battalion. He served about eight youngsters com- senior VP of Burger King’s North to spend up to two years at a as a team leader, company exec- peting in the Scripps Howard America Company Operations;

FALL 2010 57 and Susan Chapman MBA’98 of Brooklyn, New York, global The New Adventures of Tricia O’Kelley head of operations and strategy WARNER BROS. TELEVISION ENTERTAINMENT/JOSEPH VILES for Citigroup Corporate Realty After years of being what she called a Services. “professional guest star,” (Patricia) Tricia The corporate brewmaster O’Kelley ’90 scored a steady gig when at Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis is she landed a role in CBS’s hit sitcom The none other than George Reisch New Adventures of Old Christine. Featuring ’79: a fifth-generation brewmas- ex-Seinfeld star Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the ter, an avid home brewer, and title role, Old Christine ran for five seasons according to the Waterloo-Cedar before its unexpected cancellation in May. Falls Courier, “the corporate beer On the show, O’Kelley played Marly, giant’s version of the Jedi master a snarky neighbor who couldn’t keep her Yoda.” It’s hard to pay a higher harsh opinions to herself. “Marly [was] so compliment than that. bored, she [had] nothing better to do with her time than to make people feel awful about themselves,” notes O’Kelley. “She 80s Tricia O’Kelley, second from left, played Marly on The [had] no filter.” New Adventures of Old Christine. Kaplan University has appointed O’Kelley milked her scripted insults for Wade Dyke ’80 as its new pres- maximum laughs, but in real life, she’s a well-mannered actress who happens to be gifted with killer comedy ident. Based in Fort Lauderdale, chops. “My feeling is that comedic timing can’t really be taught; you either have it or you don’t,” she says. Florida, he’ll oversee the aca- Raised in suburban La Grange outside Chicago, O’Kelley practiced audition monologues in front of her demic operations of Kaplan’s bedroom mirror, performed in musicals on weekends, and worked as a teen model in TV commercials. At postsecondary online offerings, the UW, she majored in TV and film production. “For our labs, I remember going to Walgreens to buy pop- campuses, and learning cen- corn and a Diet Coke. Then I’d sit and watch movies and analyze them. I thought, ‘This is fantastic.’ ” As ters. Dyke was a Rhodes Scholar; part of her course work, O’Kelley appeared in the student-produced soap opera Campus Affairs. “I played White House fellow; CEO, COO, Toni. She was involved in an interracial relationship, which apparently back then was newsworthy enough to and executive VP of Chancellor have as a storyline,” O’Kelley laughs. “That was the first meaty stuff I did as an actress.” Beacon Academies (now Imagine Returning to Chicago in 1990, O’Kelley waitressed on weekends for six years. During the week, she Schools); and co-founder and appeared in local TV commercials and auditioned, via videotape, for Hollywood sitcoms. At age twenty- CEO of Teachade. eight, she moved west and began appearing, mostly as neurotic sidekicks, on Frasier, Suddenly Susan, Best wishes to University of Everybody Loves Raymond, and other primetime shows. Vermont associate professor of A perpetual multitasker, O’Kelley keeps busy during the inevitable dry spells. She created a line of greet- sociology Daniel Krymkowski ing cards called HeartSongs, and then, after the short-lived Emeril sitcom went off the air, she launched a ’80, MS’82, PhD’86, who is now house-organizing business. “I’ve always loved going to people’s homes and organizing closets and cup- associate dean of the university’s boards, and lives, and stuff like that,” she says. College of Arts and Sciences. In 2009, on hiatus from Old Christine, she produced and starred in the indie romantic comedy Weather With a background as an Girl. “On the side,” she says, “I’ve always had these other interests.” investigative reporter, a news- This past summer, O’Kelley had plenty of interests to keep her occupied. The mother of a two-year-old paper columnist, and the mayor boy, she and her writer-producer husband, Adam Rosenblatt, had their second child in June. In addition, of Dallas, Laura Miller ’80 O’Kelley and her friend Alex Kapp Horner, who played Lindsay on Old Christine, are developing a TV project imparted wisdom aplenty to UW of their own. “Our dream is to do the Tina Fey thing: write and produce our own show,” O’Kelley says. journalism students in April dur- Hugh Hart ing the Robert Taylor Lecture in Public Relations. She’s currently the director of projects/Texas for visited his old friend Leo Kazeri Development Support, in addition sion-ignition (HCCI) as a power- Seattle-based Summit Power, MA’83, MS’84 in Nyegina, to Kurt’s career as a professor train technology. The lab group building the Texas Clean Energy Tanzania, to celebrate their sil- and the director of the Division of manager of SI Engine Systems Project — the world’s first IGCC ver wedding anniversary. Kazeri Public Administration at Northern for General Motors, he’s spear- (Integrated Gasification Combined is a Catholic priest, the business Illinois University in DeKalb. headed the company’s efforts to Cycle) clean-coal power plant. manager of a secondary school, Paul Najt MS’81 has earned make HCCI a minimal-exhaust, Kurt Thurmaier ’80, and active in Nyegina’s eco- the SAE Pischinger Powertrain gas-powered alternative — work MA’83’s life took a turn in 2008 nomic development. The trip led Innovation Award for developing that began with his UW master’s when he and his spouse, Jeanine, the Thurmaiers to found Tanzania homogeneous-charge compres- thesis. Najt lives in Bloomfield

58 ON WISCONSIN Hills, Michigan. Laine ’84. As the director of a worker cooperative. Accounts that, she was the managing Cheryl Laughren Rawlings imports and transportation ser- manager John McNamara director and global head of public ’81, MS’82 reports that she and vices at the Deerfield, Illinois, cor- ’88 tells us that three Badgers affairs for Citigroup. her spouse, James Rawlings porate office, you can bet that appeared in the special extras Schneider is her name, PhD’85, are “enjoying brisk inter- he’s had a hand in getting your of the recent DVD release: driver and food is her game: Alma national sales” of the second purchases to the shelves. (and author of Vampire Cabbie) Schneider ’90 runs a business book that they’ve co-produced Many childhood dreams are Fred Schepartz ’85, general and blog called Take Back the at Madison’s Nob Hill Publishing, played out at the Olympics, but manager Karl Schulte ’89, and Kitchen, and she’s writing a book where she’s the head publisher. for Kent Vanderberg ’84, they driver Rebecca Kemble-Nyoike on overcoming the psychologi- Like the first, it’s a chemical engi- didn’t come true in February MA’93. Meanwhile, McNamara cal obstacles to cooking healthful neering text: Model Predictive on the Vancouver snow or ice. has earned an MMCCU (master of food at home. What’s more, the Control: Theory and Design. Instead, the owner of Big Sky management: co-operatives and Montclair, New Jersey, resident Kathy Sykes ’81, Productions in Clermont, Florida, credit unions) from Saint Mary’s is the founder and president of MA’85 has been dubbed a “one- was one of twelve directors who University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. the nonprofit Parents Who Rock, woman institution”: as the head oversaw what appeared on big Doug Zell ’88 is a passion- which raises money for charity of the Environmental Protection screens for spectators at the ate brewmaster who, according through concerts performed by Agency’s Aging Initiative in Games. Vanderberg covered the to an April Chicago Tribune piece, parents seeking to reconnect with Washington, D.C., she’s the only Olympic alpine-skiing events and is “responsible for a great deal their musical pasts. full-time employee working on returned in March for the 2010 of what’s happening in today’s It’s Pulitzer Prize number two the intersection of the environ- Winter Paralympics. coffee world” and earns praise for ’90. Now ment and aging. In that capacity, If you follow the Billboard from such renowned chefs as a Baghdad-based correspon- Sykes has developed the frame- charts, you may have noticed the Charlie Trotter ’82. Zell and dent for the New York Times, work for the National Agenda on artist Hulon and his “Sax on the his spouse, Emily Mange ’88, he earned his award for report- the Environment and Aging. Beach,” from his debut CD, First opened Intelligentsia Coffee & ing from the Middle East for the Bennett Stark PhD’82 is Impressions (Premier Musique Tea in Chicago in 1995, but it now Washington Post on the legacy of a visiting scholar at Agnes Scott Group). He’s Hulon Crayton has operations in L.A. and a New the war in Iraq. Shadid earned his College in Decatur, Georgia. His MD’85: by day, a Panama City York City training facility as well. first Pulitzer in 2004 and was a paper “A Case Study of Complex Beach, Florida, rheumatologist Zell says, “Perfection in coffee finalist in 2007. Adaptive Systems Theory, and the proprietor of the Arthritis is something we are chasing but If director Robert Redford Sustainable Global Governance: & Infusion Center; and by night, a will never catch. It is something to and the camera crew of the 1992 The Singular Challenge of the saxophonist. He and his spouse, continuously strive for.” film A River Runs through It did Twenty-First Century” was pub- Dinah Henson Crayton JD’86, The Chinese Institute of their jobs well, you may not know lished in the fifth RISC (Rare have also created the Crayton Engineers-USA has given that it wasn’t Brad Pitt on the Incidents, Strong Consequences) Foundation to help minority stu- Clifford Ho ’89 its annual publicity poster, or even in most volume from Slovenia’s University dents attend college. Asian American Engineer of the of the fly-casting scenes. It was of Ljubljana and the Wiener “I bleed Badger red,” began Year Award for his seventeen Jason Borger ’91 of Vancouver, Institute for Social Science Alan Mansfield ’86, who then years of work at Sandia National Washington: an expert fly-caster, Documentation and Methodology. shared a very green alterna- Laboratories in Albuquerque. author, instructor on movie and A summary appears at www. tive to traditional copy paper. Currently, Ho is interested in link- commercial sets — and ever cooperationcommons.com. He’s president of Diamond Blade ing national weather forecasts to since the film, a public speaker. Unforgettable, a documen- Warehouse in Vernon Hills, Illinois, renewable-energy supplies, and Oh, to soar like a bird — tary written and directed by which markets a bamboo-and- he’s the principal investigator of a and then take pictures from Eric Williams ’83 of Glendale, sugarcane-bagasse product that group that uses mirrors to gener- those lofty heights. That’s what California, had its world premiere uses less oil and water than stan- ate electricity. Curtis Waltz ’91 of Sussex, at Madison’s 2010 Wisconsin Film dard production methods. Alan’s Wisconsin, has been up to for the Festival. It chronicles the adven- sister, Marsha Mansfield ’77, 90s past eight years as the owner of tures of Williams’s brother, Brad, JD’84, is a clinical associate Aerialscapes, a commercial “whose remarkably detailed mem- professor in the UW Law School, Christina Pretto ’90 shared two aerial-photography business. ory for nearly every day of his life as well as the director of its milestones: she joined American It took six auditions, start- led to worldwide media attention Economic Justice Institute. International Group (AIG) in New ing in the early 1990s, before and earned Brad the nickname When Michael Moore’s film York City as a vice president in Vijay Balse PhD’92 had his ‘the Human Google.’ ” crew came to Madtown to shoot 2009, and has already been pro- shot at an appearance on the TV The next time you go to a part of Capitalism: A Love Story, it moted to senior VP of global cor- quiz show Jeopardy! in March, Walgreens store, think of Dan trained its cameras on Union Cab, porate communications. Before but his determination paid off: he

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won more than eighty thousand speak) by launching Let There Be Advisory Council of Faith-Based Here’s what’s up with four dollars. Balse, a chemical engi- Bite, a “comprehensive food Web and Neighborhood Partnerships Badger athletes who’ve gone neer who lives in Chatham, New site that profiles the best ingredi- by the president in 2009. pro: Green Bay Packers right Jersey, also competed on the ents in stores and online.” A year Aaron Olver ’97 has a big tackle Mark Tauscher ’99, UW’s College Bowl quiz team. in Bologna, Italy, as part of a UW job at a critical time: the former MS’03 has agreed to a multi- Lawyers writing books about study-abroad program sparked Rhodes scholar has been pro- year contract; the Calgary how to avoid needing lawyers? Bills’s interest in food. moted from deputy secretary Flames hockey team has Attorneys Alex Kammer ’92, Robby Birnbaum ’96, to secretary of the Wisconsin re-signed left wing René Lee Atterbury JD’74, and JD’99 has been named pres- Department of Commerce. Bourque ’04 to a multi-year Jason Studinski JD’98 have ident of the Association of Olver’s way was paved by the contract; the Denver Broncos created just such a series cov- Settlement Companies. He resignation of his predeces- have signed football linebacker ering vehicle insurance, nurs- plans to focus on promoting sor, Dick Leinenkugel, who Nick Greisen ’04; and Brian ing homes, and auto accidents best practices in the debt-set- had planned to challenge U.S. Butch ’07, MS’08 has received (www.yourwisconsininjury- tlement industry and protecting Senator Russ Feingold ’75 for a non-guaranteed contract for lawyers.com). The Atterbury, consumer debtors. A regula- his Senate seat in the November the coming season with the Kammer & Studinski law firm has tory-compliance and defense election, but then left the race. Denver Nuggets basketball team. offices in Middleton and Stevens Give Laura Dechant Ulz Point, Wisconsin. EMBA’99 a big hand: she’s been “I recently received a “Life is too short for bad food!” promoted to president of Cooper NASA Early Career Fellowship — Jane Bills ’96, MBA’07 Tools. The Houston-based sub- in Planetary Sciences,” writes sidiary of Cooper Industries man- Kurt Retherford ’94, a ufactures industrial power and senior research scientist at the attorney, Birnbaum is a partner Young-sun Yoon MA’97 hand tools. Southwest Research Institute at the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has been named head of the in San Antonio, Texas. The fel- office of Greenspoon Marder. Korea Customs Service. The 2000s lowship is associated with his Way to go, Todd Borgwardt Seoul-based tax specialist had research on the atmosphere and ’96: he’s the Wisconsin Holstein been serving as the deputy strat- Matt Bauer ’00 founded the aurora of Jupiter’s moon Io. Association’s 2010 Distinguished egy and finance minister in Minneapolis-based Pedal Brain, For his “research, pub- Young Holstein Breeder. He charge of tax and customs. which produces an integrated lications, and potential” in works alongside his father, Roger Michael Kupferberg ’98 computer system for bike racers the areas of medical micro- Borgwardt ’70, and his uncle, works in New York City with that captures and displays real- biology and infectious dis- William Borgwardt ’72, at 42West, a PR firm that assists time data. But Bauer has much ease, Alexander Horswill ’95, the helm of Sunnyside Dairy in filmmakers with award cam- bigger ambitions: he wants to PhD’01 has received a 2010 Valders, a farm that’s been in their paigns and festival distribution. expand into home health care, Merck Irving S. Sigal Memorial family for more than a century. This year, he helped Kathryn allowing physicians to remotely Award from the American Society Todd is immersed in the study Bigelow and her film The Hurt collect and analyze patients’ data for Microbiology. He’s an assis- of dairy genetics, heads up bull Locker take home Oscars for through a variety of sensors. tant professor at the University of selection, and is a national dairy- Best Director and Best Picture. The new president and CEO Iowa’s College of Medicine. and cattle-competition judge. His spouse is Alyson Lanzer of the Urban League of Greater NASA has awarded $2.4 mil- Shikha Bhatnagar ’97 Kupferberg ’98, an attorney Madison is (Michael) Kaleem lion to the University of Colorado- is now an associate director with New York’s Department Caire ’00, who’s been a leader in Boulder’s Center for Astrophysics of the South Asia Center at of Housing Preservation and education and community-devel- and Space Astronomy (CASA) to the Atlantic Council, a foreign- Development. opment issues in the Washington, create four rockets with ultravi- policy think tank in Washington, You might say that Uri Neren D.C., area for the last decade. olet telescopes to probe several D.C. Felicitations! ’99 is a consultant who’s a con- He’ll also continue as president enormous, interstellar gas clouds “Dalia Mogahed [’97] sultant expert. That’s because one and CEO of the Next Generation near the sun. The principal inves- may be the most influen- of the first client requests upon Education Foundation. tigator is CASA research associ- tial figure guiding the Obama founding his Minneapolis-based “Teaching the tools that ate Matthew Beasley ’96. Administration’s Middle East out- firm Generate Companies in 2009 make your fancy Web site work” “Life is too short for bad reach,” began an April article in was an international list of con- is the tag line for the Web Farm, food!” writes San Diego entrepre- Tablet Magazine. The founder sultants who focus on innovation. an online-marketing and social- neur Jane Bills ’96, MBA’07, and executive director of the A year in the making, the result- media consulting firm in Chicago. and in December, she put her Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, ing database contains some 4,500 Keidra Chaney MA’00 is a co- money where her mouth is (so to Mogahed was appointed to the individuals and firms worldwide. founder. Farm on!

60 ON WISCONSIN “My screenplay Haunted Picture this: you’re twenty- Housesitter recently took the six years old, and you’ve already Calendar grand prize in the Rhode Island earned a journalism award from International Film Festival the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Chancellor’s Series: Meeting of the Minds Screenwriting Competition,” says Justice and Human Rights. Such Wednesday, September 29, 2010 Stacey Hegarty ’00 of Laguna is the story of Brooklyn, New The Morgan Library & Museum • New York City Niguel, California. She received York, resident David Kempa Join four distinguished University of Wisconsin faculty a paid trip to the August festival, ’06, whose piece on illegal immi- members in New York for the first event of this national series, where the “family-oriented come- gration, “Crossing Lines,” won in which will focus on the intersection of media, the economy, dic thriller — think Home Alone the college print category. politics, and the environment. Moderated by Chancellor Biddy meets Ghostbusters” had a live, Paul Bargren JD’94 of Martin PhD’85, this faculty panel will engage the audience in staged reading. Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, notes these pressing contemporary topics. Future events will Anne Medeiros MS’00 the coincidental — or not? — address additional topics at venues throughout the country to of Milwaukee has taken advan- transition made by six recent connect alumni and faculty who are helping to shape today’s tage of offerings from the UW’s grads. All were first-rate sailors on most important issues. Get details and register at La Follette School of Public the student-run UW Sailing Team, uwalumni.com/chancellorseries. Affairs and its Small Business and all are now in, or entering, Development Center on her way medical school at the UW or the to establishing the Ujuzi African Medical College of Wisconsin October Travel tour company. Her cus- in Milwaukee: Joe Zechlinski 1 Made in Wisconsin: Epic Systems tom packages to Uganda and ’06, Anna Bargren ’07 (Paul’s Go behind the scenes of this health care industry leader and its Tanzania include elements of daughter), Elizabeth Prange commitment to sustainable design. Its 400-acre campus utilizes wildlife, culture, and service. ’07, Brianne Zechlinski ’08, underground parking rather than asphalt lots, is geothermally Nathan Greenawalt ’04 Kevin Campbell ’09, and heated and cooled, and has reserved 80 percent of its land to never imagined traveling to Michele Lorenz ’09. remain undeveloped. uwalumni.com/madeinwi Kentucky to buy a high-quality, Sisters Jenna ’08 and copper moonshine still, but it Kelsi ’09 Hines, along with 8–9 Homecoming, Legends of was the first step in establish- Annika Terrana ’09, are Before the Battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe, you’re invited to join ing our fair city’s second distill- “connecting environment, sus- Bucky Badger for some tall-tale adventures, including the charity ery, called Spirits of Madison. His tainability, and solidarity” as they run/walk, golf outing at University Ridge, parade, and all-alumni first product — Old Sugar Factory work to turn the tide against reception. uwalumni.com/homecoming honey liqueur — made its debut HIV/AIDS among the Suba peo- 15 Great Place. Great People. Great Play! at the Celebration of American ple on the island of Mfangano Join UW alumni and friends in New York at a Badger sneak peek Distilling event, held in Madison in Kenya’s Lake Victoria (www. of the new Broadway play LOMBARDI, based on the acclaimed in February. organichealthresponse.org). book by David Maraniss x’71. A portion of the proceeds will Heather Hasson ’04 Thanks to Karl Magnuson ’90 support the Wisconsin Union Building Campaign and the Great of Santa Monica, California, of Shawnee, Kansas, for letting People Scholarship. union.wisc.edu shares that her social-entrepre- us know about their work. neurship neckwear company, 16 Power of Priority Forum FIGS (Fashion Inspired Global 10s Learn about the current state of the university and advocate for its Sophistication), donates a school future at this annual Alumni for Wisconsin forum. uwalumni.com uniform to an eastern-African Daniel Lecoanet ’10 has two child for every purchase of one of recent distinctions: he’s the first her “innovative neckties or bow person to appear in the new ’10s November ties for the modern man.” Hasson section of Class Notes (!), and the 12–14 First-Year Parents’ Weekend first UW student in thirty years to calls it “threads for threads.” Parents and their UW students can attend special Friday classes, earn the Churchill Scholarship, a When Mike Boettcher ’06 meet campus officials, and cheer for the Badgers at Camp Randall highly selective award that sends works the field for the Milwaukee during this popular fall event. uwalumni.com/fpw Brewers, he really works the field. a graduated senior to Cambridge As the baseball team’s landscape University for one year of study. BADGER HUDDLE® Tailgates Big parties for big games! Attend BADGER HUDDLE® pre-game manager, he oversees about thirty Class Notes compiler Paula Wagner tailgates at all away football games and select home games. Enjoy acres of turf area outside the sta- Apfelbach ’83 is just doing this a Wisconsin-style tailgate buffet and celebrate with Bucky Badger dium and a similar acreage of between films. and the UW Spirit Squad. uwalumni.com/huddles manicured beds.

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n Best Friends at the Bar: What Women World Cup (Da Capo Press) chronicles Need to Know about a Career in the the U.S. team’s history and profiles its Law (Wolters Kluwer/Aspen Publishers) players, coach, on-field play, and off-field addresses both the work-life issues and the dynamics. opportunities facing female lawyers and law n In Workplace Flex- students. Author Susan Smith Blakely ’69 ibility: Realigning of Great Falls, Virginia, is a law practitioner 20th-Century Jobs who’s viewed the profession from many for a 21st-Century angles. Workforce (Cornell Uni- n About the cartoon- versity Press), co-editor format work Market Kathleen Christensen n Once you read it, you may never forget Day (Drawn & Quarterly), PhD’91 contends that Burned: A Memoir (Atlas & Co.): Louise Booklist says, “The time- voluntarily adopting best Nayer ’71’s story of her life after a flash fire less dilemma of balanc- flexibility practices is engulfed her parents when she was four, and ing artistic integrity and crucial to business suc- her realization that her mother’s strong will the dictates of the mar- cess and employee satisfaction in the new prevented the family from falling into self- ketplace is addressed decade. She’s the program director at the pity. The author is also a poet and an English with compassion and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic, professor at City College of San Francisco. sensitivity in this recount- grant-making institution in New York City. ing of an eventful twenty-four hours in the n Millen County n Bean Sprouts Café and Cooking School life of a rug maker in eastern Europe in the Standoff (iUniverse) in Middleton, Wisconsin, is a tot-friendly early 1900s.” Author James Sturm ’87 co- sweeps a Catholic priest spot where kids can eat fun-but-good-for- founded and directs the Center for Cartoon and the mother of a mur- them food, and parents can relax in a chic Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. dered boy into a conflict atmosphere. Now owners Shannon Pay- involving a homegrown n Hard Lives, Mean Streets: Violence in ette Seip MA’97 of Madison and Kelly terrorist militia, a reli- the Lives of Homeless Women (University Kaminski Parthen MA’99 of Colorado gious cult, and the U.S. Press of New England), co-written by James Springs, Colorado, have added a book government, with south- Wright MS’70, PhD’73, fills a critical gap in to the menu: Bean Appétit: Hip and western Wisconsin as existing research about the context and etiol- Healthy Ways to Have Fun with Food the backdrop. Author Bill ogy of homeless women’s experiences with (Andrews McMeel). Spevacek ’56 had a career as a PR coun- violence. Wright is the Provost Distinguished n Farmer Jane: Women Changing the selor in Milwaukee and now lives in Mineral Research Professor of Sociology at the Way We Eat (Gibbs Smith) profiles thirty Point, Wisconsin. University of Central Florida in Orlando. women farmers nationwide and delves into n An Amish Paradox: Diversity and n Confessions of a the impact they’re having on our food sys- Change in the World’s Largest Amish Slot Machine Queen: tem. An “aha” moment at Madison’s Willy Community (Johns Hopkins University A Memoir (Eugenia Street Co-op sparked author Temra Costa Press) was seven years of fieldwork in Books) is a critical exami- ’02’s advocacy on behalf of sustainable the making for co-author Charles Hurst nation of the dangers farming. She lives in El Cerrito, California. MS’65. It’s a study of the complexity, inherent in the gambling n The Atkins diet has creativity, social change, and schism among industry, but it’s also the been updated for the the Holmes County, Ohio, Amish. Hurst is powerful personal story twenty-first century. Eric an emeritus professor of sociology at the of how UW Professor of Westman MD’86 is the College of Wooster [Ohio]. Afro-American Studies Sandra Adell MA’88, co-author of The New PhD’89 “descended into the depths of an n New York City novelist and short-story Atkins for a New You: addiction … and then climbed back out.” writer Peter Straub ’65 — who’s penned The Ultimate Diet many works, including The Talisman and n June. South Africa. The 2010 World Cup. for Shedding Weight its sequel, Black House (both with Stephen The U.S. watched as never before, and a and Feeling Great King) — has launched his latest work. It’s new book by New York Daily News sports (Fireside). An associate A Dark Matter (Doubleday), about four columnist Filip Bondy ’73 fills in every- professor of medicine at the Duke University Madison high school friends in 1966 who are thing you may not know about American Health System and the director of the Duke seduced into, and forever scarred by, med- soccer on the global field. Chasing the Lifestyle Medicine Clinic, he lives in Chapel dling with forces that they don’t understand. Game: America and the Quest for the Hill, North Carolina.

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After the Bombing By Heinz Stucki PhD’71

As with many eventful days, Monday, August 24, 1970, began in perfect normalcy. I was an organic chemistry graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, where my research laboratory was in the chemistry build- ing. That morning, I approached the building on my bicycle to find bro- ken glass everywhere. More than one thousand windows in twenty-six campus buildings had been shattered. One was mine. At 3:42 a.m., four Vietnam War protesters, calling themselves the New Year’s Gang, had detonated a stolen van containing two thousand pounds of ammonium nitrate-fuel oil mixture after parking it outside Sterling Hall, the physics building. Their target was the Army Mathematics Research Center, which was housed inside the building. A series of articles in had claimed that research conducted there was aiding U.S. military efforts in Vietnam. The New Year’s Gang had taken its name after a failed attempt to bomb the nearby Badger Ammunition Plant the preceding New Year’s Day by dropping mayonnaise jars filled with explosives from an air- plane. The bomb used on Sterling Hall was concocted near Devil’s Lake State Park, where, ironically, my girlfriend, Fran Haemer ’70, and I had camped that weekend. The blast caused more than $2 million in damage. It killed physics postdoc Robert Fassnacht, the father of three children, and wounded three others. The window by my laboratory desk faced the Army Math Center, about a block away across University Avenue. The glass and window and were reported to their unit, prompting our first sergeant to tell us, shade were blown in. A small shelf on my windowsill, where I stored “[If] you’re going to wear your jackets to a riot, at least take off your my painstakingly synthesized research compounds, was knocked name tags.” over. I was grateful that I hadn’t been sitting in my chair; it was cov- “Make love, not war” summed up our sentiments nicely. ered with chemicals and shards of glass. A bottle containing deute- Shortly after the bombing, I began a three-month push to finish my rium-labeled sulfuric acid, which I had prepared to do tracer studies thesis. I graduated that January and left Madison for a job in Europe. on my compounds, lay broken on my desk. Labeled or not, sulfu- Three of the bombers (Karleton Armstrong; his brother, the late Dwight ric acid is sulfuric acid, and it had charred the large sheets of paper Armstrong; and David Fine) were eventually caught and served mod- that held my valuable nuclear magnetic resonance images. It took me est sentences. The fourth, , disappeared, and his fate remains about a month to replicate my data. By comparison, the impact on my a mystery. research was minimal. Some physics students lost a year of work. Madison was vibrant in the late sixties. The stuff of daily life was Everyone had strong opinions about the war. The killing that flavored with parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme … and perhaps a spring of four students by the Ohio National Guard at staid Kent State touch of indecency. The Army Math bombing precipitated the end not University, near where I had grown up, upset me profoundly. But as only of the campus peace protests, but also of an era. The cohort of a rule, chemistry students didn’t participate in demonstrations; we 1970s free-spirited baby boomers left and went on to become yup- were too involved in our research. Still, fellow graduate student Ron pies. If Madison was indeed the Athens of the Midwest, as we claimed Markezich PhD’70 and I did manage to get tear-gassed once when at the time, the bombing brought down not only one of its buildings, we decided to watch one of the almost daily encounters between the but its Periclean Age. police and the protestors, and we got caught in the crossfire. Once Heinz Stucki retired after many years in the chemicals and polymers was enough. industry, but still teaches courses in general and organic chemistry I was also serving in an Army Reserve intelligence unit at the time. on a part-time basis. He lives on forty-three Appalachian acres As weekend warriors, our view of the protests was pretty casual. We near Newcomerstown, Ohio. met at the Army National Guard and Reserve Center on South Park Street, and considered our major responsibility to be the defense of the Kohl’s supermarket parking lot next door, should the Russians If you’re a UW-Madison alumna or alumnus and you’d like the editors to invade on a Saturday. Our usual campus attire was our military-issued consider an essay of this length for publication in On Wisconsin, please field jackets. Apparently, some reservists were spotted at a protest send it to [email protected].

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Bye Bye, Bernie

This issue’s Flashback is somewhat bittersweet as we say farewell to First, Bascom has that dome, which looks oddly out of place to Bernie Schermetzler ’76, our favorite archivist at the UW Libraries. You modern eyes. It went up in smoke during a fire in October 1916. may not recognize Schermetzler’s name (and goodness knows it’s dif- Second, and more subtle, is the Lincoln statue. If you look closely, ficult to spell), but for three decades, he was the custodian for the UW’s you’ll see that it isn’t where you remember it being. Sculptor Adolph photo archives. Virtually every old picture of campus you’ve seen in Weinman and philanthropist Thomas Brittingham donated the statue to these pages came from his collection, where he kept thousands upon campus in 1909 to celebrate the centennial of Abe’s birth. It was initially thousands of prints, negatives, slides, and transparencies safe and sited between North and South Halls, but in 1919, it was moved about catalogued by subject. He retired in July, and we’ll miss him. a hundred feet uphill to a specially constructed terrace — the Lincoln We asked Schermetzler to select his favorite archival photo, and Terrace — directly in front of Bascom Hall, where it has sat ever since. he chose the shot you see above, a hand-colored print of Bascom Hall Happy trails, Bernie. Thanks for keeping our UW memories alive. taken circa 1909. What’s so special about it, other than the hand-color- ing? Two details jump out. John Allen

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