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34 22 28 COVER STORY The Green Grass of Home The Incidental Comic Masterwork Distinguished law professor With a double-barreled focus John Head joins his natural- on dentistry and drawing, Science ction Grand Master science colleagues at the celebrated cartoonist Grant James Gunn’s long exploration forefront of an urgent eort to Snider delivers smiles all of alternate worlds continues restore prairies and revolution- around. with a novel some say is his ize agriculture. best yet. By Steven Hill By Steven Hill By Chris Lazzarino

Cover image by Steve Puppe

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1. Publication Title KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE T by Robert Day 2. Publication No. 0745-3345 3. Filling Date October 3, 2013 about the famous KU Shakespeare scholar 4. Issue Frequency Bimonthly (Jan., Mar., May, July, Sept., Nov.) 5. No. Issues Published Annually 6 Charlton Hinman astounded me, and 6. Annual Subscription Price $55 provided a nostalgic moment from hap- 7. Complete Mailing Address of Known Oce of Publication The Kansas University Alumni Association, 1266 Oread Avenue, pier times long ago. I met Hinman and Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 8. Complete Mailing Address of Headquarters or General discussed with him the collating machine Business Oce of Publisher he invented. The Kansas University Alumni Association, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 I knew him from 1961 to 1963, and I 9. Full Names and Complete Mailing Addresses of Publisher, Editor, and Managing Editor am pretty sure it was in grand old Fraser Publisher Hall. We both were assigned to the Re- Kevin J. Corbett The Kansas University Alumni Association, 1266 Oread Avenue, search and Development Unit of the Navy Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 Editor maintained on campus. My research was Jennifer Jackson Sanner graduate work in natural history at the KU The Kansas University Alumni Association, 1266 Oread Avenue, Hinman recalled Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 Natural History Museum. 10. Owner The Kansas University Alumni Association, 1266 Oread Avenue, I Robert Day’s Professor Hinman was already famous. Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 imaginative piece about my teacher, men- His seminar was about his work with the 11. Known Bondholders, Mortgagees, and Other Security Holders tor and friend, Charlton (Kadi) Hinman, collator, which Mr. Day described well. It Owning or Holding 1 Percent or More of Total Amount of Bonds, Mortgages, or Other Securities. one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of compared line-by-line two works at the If none, check box. q4 None the last century [“But Yet,” issue No. 5]. same time showing only one picture, and 12. Tax Status. The Purpose, function, and nonproﬁt status of this organiztion and the exempt status for federal income tax Kadi possessed a waggish sense of hu- when there was a blur a discrepancy was purposes: q4 Has Not Changed During Preceding 12 Months mor that belied his reserve and was always made evident. q Has Changed During Preceding 12 Months generous with his knowledge and time. Hinman said there were many printers 13. Publication Title KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 14. Issue Date for Circulation Data Below September 2013 Much was made of the Hinman collator, and editors that took liberties to “improve” 15. Extent and Nature of Circulation Average Actual No. No. Copies Copies of but his greatest contributions to Shake- Shakespeare. He found in his rst com- Each Issue Single During Issue Pub. speare studies were the Oxford Shake- parison, he told us, over 40 emendations. Preceding Nearest to 12 Months Filing Date speare Quarto Facsimiles, e Norton He could work out what was the original a. Total Number of Copies (Net Press Run) 34,708 34,250 b. Paid Circulation Facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare, wording—what we called “horsing” a (1) Mailed Outside-County Paid and his magisterial two-volume e Print- manuscript back in the Kansas Museum— Subscriptions Stated on PS Form 3541 33,385 33,095 ing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of and if two people could work together (2) Mailed In-County Paid Subscriptions Stated on PS Shakespeare, and numerous articles. they were “reading to copy.” Hinman could Form 3541 0 0 Please allow me, however, to correct work things out with his machine and do (3) Paid Distribution Outside the Mails Including Sales Through some confusion about the function and it fast. Dealers & Carriers, Street Vendors Counter Sales, & Other Paid use of the Hinman collator. Rather than e application was a revelation in Distribution Outside USPS 0 0 “determining which pages were true to classical literature. Perhaps it ranks right (4) Paid Distribution by Other Classes of Mail Through the USPS 0 0 Shakespeare’s text and which were bastard- up there with Jayhawk basketball. Well c. Total Paid Distribution 33,385 33,095 d. Free or Nominal Rate Distribution ized versions caused by printers errors,” who knows? (1) Free or Nominal Rate Outside-County the collator allowed a textual scholar to Charles Long, PhD’63 Copies Included on PS Form 3541 0 0 Stevens Point, Wis. (2) Free or Nominal Rate In-County superimpose two apparently identical Included on PS Form 3541 0 0 (3) Free or Nominal Rate Copies Mailed printed pages to discover which ones were at Other Clases Through the USPS 50 50 corrected (or, in some cases, miscorrected) (4) Free or Nominal Rate Distribution Outside the Mail 250 250 during the printing process—what are e. Total Free or Nominal Rate Distribution 300 300 called stop-press corrections. f. Total Distribution 33,685 33,395 e Norton Facsimile, based on 30 of g. Copies not Distributed 1,023 1,855 h. Total 34,708 34,250 the Folger’s approximately 80 Folios, is a i. Percent Paid 99 99 16. Publication of Statement of Ownership will be printed in “composite” reproduction in which every the November 2013 issue of this publication. page represents the most fully corrected Your opinion counts 17. Signature and Title of Editor, Publisher, Business Manager, or Owner state of the text. Please email us a note I certify that all information furnished on this form is true and Alan Craven, c’58, g’63, PhD’65 at [email protected] complete. I understand that anyone who furnishes false or misleading San Antonio to tell us what you think of information on this form or who omits material or information requested on the form may be subject to criminal sanctions your alumni magazine. (including ﬁnes and imprisonment and/or civil sanctions (including civil penalties).

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by Jennifer Jackson Sanner First Word STEVE PUPPE STEVE

n a former life, when he had pub- make up a university—the students and Ilished only two of his 40 books, the faculty—are about to become his before he became a full-time faculty familiar companions, when the world is member at his alma mater, and long new and everything in it brilliant with before he won international acclaim as a h op e .”

Grand Master of science ction, James LIBRARY SPENCER RESEARCH Gunn recalls the new student’s rst Gunn was managing editor of the meeting with an editor at the University University of Kansas Alumni Magazine. Daily Kansan, who asks, “Can you Gunn, j’47, g’51, edited KU’s precursor write?” and hands the rookie an assign- to Kansas Alumni from 1956 to 1958 ment before he can reply. Soon aer, the while teaching KU English courses part newbie is one of the gang, sharing time. He wrote most of the 32-page hamburgers and malts with fellow magazine himself, publishing nine issues students and writing a column for the during each academic year. Kansan. Only a few short weeks aer Now the editor is this issue’s cover arriving on the Hill, the new Jayhawk story. As I read Steve Hill’s chronicle of has discovered another “basic truth Gunn, who at 90 has published perhaps about KU—that its spirit means friendli- his best novel and already envisions two ness and acceptance and the compan- more books that would complete a ionship of exciting people doing exciting trilogy, I could not help but marvel—not things.” only at the incredible productivity of a Gunn concludes by confessing that he professor who supposedly retired in was indeed the 19-year-old protagonist 1993, but also at the loy literary heights of his story: “Perhaps it was chance that achieved by a former alumni magazine editor. brought me to Mount Oread ... and that has kept me here to see In 1960, a decade before he joined the faculty full time, Gunn the changes through the years. But my storyteller’s heart says became administrative assistant for university relations to there was a theme, a fate that directed my steps and a vision that I Chancellor Franklin Murphy, c’42, m’44. Gunn oen welcomed have to share. freshmen to the Hill with a speech that described his rst “And I have the feeling that a story cannot go far wrong that impressions of KU as a new student years earlier. begins with the red roofs on the Hill.” His speech also appeared in the September 1967 issue of the rough the years, the science ction community has oen Alumni Magazine, and we published an excerpt as an essay in returned to Gunn’s earlier works, publishing his books again for September 1999 as part of a Kansas Alumni special issue devoted generations of readers who missed them the rst time around. As to the majesty and lasting impact of Mount Oread. At rst casting I learned the details of Gunn’s achievements and his indelible himself in third person, Gunn writes of a 19-year-old who literary mark, I felt compelled to share again his story of a young glimpses the red tile roofs of the University while riding in a car man’s arrival at the place that would change his life and launch a on Highway 10, heading west toward Lawrence: “It’s an image he career that soared above and beyond our beloved red roofs. will never forget. He’ll never see it again without reliving that Time and time again, James Gunn’s exquisite words bear moment, when great experiences await, when the people who repeating.

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Google Earth co-creator Brian McClendon was Grand Marshal for KU’s 101st Homecoming, which celebrated “Jayhawks Around the World.” The downtown parade Oct. 3 showcased student ﬂoats, Big Jay greetings and the KU women’s track and ﬁeld indoor and outdoor Big 12 championship trophies (carried by senior pole vaulter Natalia Bartnovskaya, left, and senior sprinter and Olympic gold medalist Diamond Dixon, right).

Exhibitions Lied Center events 15 College of Liberal Arts University Theatre and Sciences “1 Kansas Farmer,” Spencer Commencement Museum of Art, through NOVEMBER NOVEMBER Dec. 15 14 “Memphis” 17 KU Osher Lifelong 15-17, 22-24 “Adding Learning Institute presents “Conversation XV: Dust,” Machine: A Musical 21-22 University Dance Ashley Davis and Friends inspired by the KU Common Company Fall Concerts Original,” based on the play Book e Worst Hard Time, by Elmer Rice, directed by 24 KU Symphony JANUARY Spencer Museum of Art, Mechele Leon Orchestra through Dec. 15 22 “Watchtower,” lm DECEMBER “Rockne Krebs: Drawings for DECEMBER 26 “ e Wonderful Wizard Sculpture You Can Walk of Song: e Music of 6-8, 10-12 “ e Maderati,” 8 KU Holiday Vespers rough,” Spencer Museum Harold Arlen” by Richard Greenberg, of Art, through Jan. 5 10 Symphonic Band and directed by Jeanne Tiehen University Band “James Turrell: Gard Blue,” through May 18 12 KU Jazz Vespers Murphy Hall events “Diego Teo: International 12 Instrumental and Vocal Artist-in-Residence,” Collegium Musicum, Bales NOVEMBER Spencer Museum of Art, Organ Recital Hall 17 Kansas Virtuosi Sept. 30 to Jan. 5 13 Turtle Island Quartet 17 With Tierney Sutton Percussion Group Concert 14 School of Business 21 Commencement Saxophone Quartets 14 School of Education Commencement

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DECEMBER Academic Calendar 3 Rock Chalk Singers NOVEMBER 4 Helianthus Contemporary Ensemble 27-Dec. 01 anksgiving break

Performances DECEMBER 16-20 Finals week NOVEMBER 21- Jan. 20 Winter break 14 Women’s Chorale and Concert Choir, First United JANUARY Methodist Church 21 First day of spring classes 18 Jazz Singers and Jazz Combo I, Lawrence Arts Center Special events

DECEMBER NOVEMBER 20 Houston Networking 13 TGIF, Adams Alumni 3 breakfast Center KU Wind Esnsemble, Blue 19 Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Valley High School 20 Paris Alumni reception “Global Crossing: Immigra- JANUARY 6 Holiday Vespers-on-the- tion, Civilization and 22 TGIF, Adams Alumni 13 road, Johnson County America,” Dole Institute of Center Wichita Chapter Blood Community College, Carlsen Politics Drive, Wichita Downtown 25 KU Night with the Center, Yardley Hall Blood Center Miami Heat 20 Lawrence Bus Trip from Alumni events Wichita, Baylor at KU Lectures DECEMBER 24 TGIF, Adams Alumni NOVEMBER 2 An Evening with Naismith: Artifacts of a KU Legend, Center NOVEMBER 14 Denver Networking San Diego 18 Junot Díaz, Humanities breakfast 2 Emporia Alumni Banquet, Lecture Series 18 London Jayhawks White Auditorium reception 3 An Evening with Naismith: Artifacts of a KU Legend, Los Angeles 4 An Evening with Nai- smith: Artifacts of a KU Legend, San Francisco 5 An Evening with Naismith: Artifacts of a KU Legend, Seattle 5 KU Night at Urban Chestnut Brewery, St. Louis 6 Atlanta Holiday reception Events listed here are high- 7 KU at CU Basketball lights from the Association’s pre-game busy calendar. For complete 10 KU at Florida Basketball listings of all events, watch for pre-game emails about programs in your area, visit kualumni.org or call 13 KU Night with the 800-584-2957 Phoenix Suns

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T PUPPE STEVE such a thing as a free lunch, and students can nd out where by following the Twitter account @FreeFoodAtKU. Started by Kris Velasco, c’13, and Alek Joyce, Free Food At KU blasts out notices of no-cost noshes all over campus and Lawrence. ey got the idea while working for Student Senate and noticing there was always something going on—much of it catered—in the Kansas Union. “People were always telling us about Jukebox hero’s gotta keep on rockin’ cookies and punch,” says Joyce, a t’s tough to pinpoint the strangest part of Eric “Mean” Melin’s long strange trip to Lawrence senior Ibecoming the world champion of air guitarists: Was it selling T-shirts to help fund in, duh!, strategic his last-chance-for-glory flight in late August to Oulu, Finland? Or perhaps it was communication. wrapping up un-Finnished business by winning the “Dark Horse” round at a pub to “Until one day there was nothing, and we qualify for the championship competition? wondered what was going on.” Surely it was toppling the world’s best a day later, then returning home with a Deciding there needed to be a go-to spot custom “Flying Finn” guitar to a mob of his Lawrence and KC pals, who swarmed the for food freebies, they built it themselves. KCI luggage carousel to cheer Melin, c’07, a film critic and real-life rock ’n’ roll Now they share their knowledge of gratis drummer who won a guitar for not playing one better than anyone in the world. grub and complimentary cuisine with Come to think of it, the strangest bit had to be a live Skype interview on BBC World 4,400 followers. Followers share their own News, which topped the coverage on “Today,” “Good Morning America” and ESPN by free food nds—and their love for KU’s adding a highbrow touch: The British broadcast included a Cambridge scholar whose most appetizing Twitter feed. research has shown air guitar helps actual musicians enhance their creativity. Melin “Broke college explained to the inquisitive host that air guitarists “are not not playing the guitar, students get we’re playing the air guitar, which is a very dierent instrument from the guitar.” pretty happy Well ... it was all surreal, actually, and Melin, editor in chief of Scene-Stealers.com, about free film critic for KCTV5 and drummer for The Dead Girls and Ultimate Fakebook, is still pizza,” Joyce savoring every weird morsel. He became enthralled with competitive air guitar when says. “It’s he saw a documentary about an American airialist who made the exact journey Melin news people braved—the only dierence being that guy finished second in Finland and Melin won can use. the whole enchilada. After “five tireless years,” however, Melin had decided that And eat.” unless he won the U.S. air guitar championships in Los Angeles, it was time to retire. Then he placed second at nationals, and second thoughts wouldn’t let him pack up the amps. Now that he’s the world champion, his retirement is ocially on hold for at least another year because he has a ticket to fly in 2014, paid in full. @FreeFoodAtKU “There’s a moment where the irony falls away and people really start cheering and rooting for you,” His Airness says. “That’s the moment when air guitar is working. ... That’s the moment you’re striving for all the time.” To watch a video of Melin performing, visit www.kansasalumnimagazine.com.

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI The best nest M R , public a airs for KU Memorial Unions, was two-thirds of the way through the unhappy chore of packing up Bud Jennings’ 75-year-old Jayhawk collection when he received a phone call he had waited three years to hear: A donor was stepping up to purchase the collection from Jennings and donate LARRY LEROY PEARSON LEROY LARRY the birds for permanent display in the Kansas Union. “I called Mr. Jennings,” Reid recalls of the happy day in early August, “and said, ‘Why don’t we not pack tomorrow, just in case this really happens.’” This seat’s taken It really happened. James Ascher, retired chairman of the Lenexa pharmaceutical iting the ﬁre hazards of overstu ed furniture, the Lawrence City Commission has rm founded by his father in the 1940s, Cbanned the student neighborhood’s most iconic furnishing. Yes, dear reader, the and his wife, Mary Ellen, assoc., read about porch couch—once the stately (though admittedly swaybacked and probably dust-mite the loss of Jennings’ collection of more infested) lord of many a Mount Oread manor—has been ocially, unceremoniously, than 1,000 pieces of Jayhawk dethroned. memorabilia in an online No word yet on when enforcement begins on the ban, which passed on a 3-2 vote in story posted Aug. 9 by the August. City ocials plan to spend several months on an education campaign, espe- Lawrence Journal-World. cially in student neighborhoods, to encourage voluntary compliance. ey moved quickly to We get it. Couches aren’t the most attractive porch accessory. Their highly combus-

STEVE PUPPE (2) STEVE catch the kitsch for Jennings’ tible materials and tendency to double as outdoor smoking stations do seem to ask for asking price of $130,000. trouble. And yet, anyone who ever enjoyed a beautiful fall afternoon or spring thunder- “We think the Jayhawk storm from the comfy conﬁnes of an overstu ed porch perch can’t help but mourn the is the most unique mascot passing of a ﬁne college tradition. of universities all across the country,” says Ascher, ’51, whose grandson, Carter, is a freshman at KU, “and we rmly believe the collection should stay at KU.”

e hundreds of items that had been PUPPE STEVE boxed and moved to a warehouse are now back at the Union, but only about 200 pieces are currently on display. Expecting to lose the collection, Union ocials decided over the summer to renovate the second-oor exhibit area for other uses; now they are hustling to build secure Not a shovel in sight and properly lighted he School of Business broke new ground in the realm of groundbreakings Oct. 18, permanent cases and Twhen leaders gathered to celebrate the start of construction on the school’s new decide where they home. Cold temperatures forced a move from the Naismith Drive building site to the should be comfier confines of the Lied Center, but regardless of location, event planners had no use displayed. for ceremonial shovels. So fear not: Instead, celebrants stood on a replica of the New York Stock Exchange balcony and, as Jennings’ the names of donors scrolled on a mock stock ticker, they rang a ceremonial bell. A few Jayhawks soon days later, construction began on the six-story, 166,000-square-foot building, which is will return to the expected to cost $65.7 million and be finished for the 2015-2016 academic year, KU’s nest—never to sesquicentennial. y away again.

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 9 Hilltopics by Steven Hill

“In the end, if our institutions STEVE PUPPE STEVE function how everyone thinks they should, if they really treat everyone equally, then individual eort and ability would be the deciding factor in who succeeds and fails.” –William Elliott III

and other institutions that do little to encourage the poor to build assets. Among the institutional factors that need to be re-examined, Elliott believes, is a nancial aid system that does not adequately help low-income families. e shi from grants to student loans in the 1990s shuts many low-income students The poverty puzzle Welfare, the Assets and Education out of college, or contributes to lower rates Initiative and the Social Work Administra- of wealth for those who graduate with Social welfare series takes tion and Advocacy Program, the series student loan debt. strives to “reimagine the discussion, A report he authored with Melinda yearlong look at causes research and politics around poverty in Lewis, s’99, associate professor of social of high U.S. poverty rate America.” welfare, “Student Loans are Widening the e series started in September with a Wealth Gap: Time to Focus on Equity,” ost of us understand the American visit by Mark Rank, a poverty expert who was released in time for Elliott’s keynote MDream to be a simple formula: argues that broad institutional factors, not address at the second event in the series Work hard and show ability and you will just the e orts and abilities of individuals, Nov. 7. e report nds that the prospect succeed. Even the working poor, notes have a big e ect on moving people in and of student debt can discourage low-income William Elliott III, believe that those who out of poverty. Rank’s research shows that students from nishing college or even get ahead in life are those who work hard. nearly 60 percent of Americans between attending at all, and that those who do But the fact is, argues Elliott, associate the ages of 20 and 75 experience poverty at nish oen get a far lower return on their professor and director of the School of some point in their lives, and argues that investment than students who get through Social Welfare’s Assets and Education the high incidence of poverty is likely school without debt or who have higher Initiative, “in the modern technological impacted by entrenched policies in the family assets to draw on. world we now live in, e ort and ability are welfare system, the nancial aid system e bottom line, Elliott says, is the not quite enough, however much we want it to be.” Delivering that sobering message—and reframing the basic idea of what it takes to succeed in America—is the goal of campus “Education is supposed to be the great equalizer, talks and research reports that are part of but if you don’t start off with some level of assets, the yearlong series “Is ere An American Dream for You? How Institutional Failure the current system doesn’t work.” —William Elliott III Perpetuates Poverty.” { } Sponsored by the School of Social

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI current system that emphasizes loans banking that many now lack. Greater honors instead of grants is hindering higher And it would cost no more, Elliott says, education’s role as a pathway to the than the way we do things now. Program for top undergrads American Dream. “We spend about $36 billion a year on “Education is supposed to be the great student loans, and it’s estimated that expands to draw more students equalizer, but if you don’t start o with starting a national CSA program would some level of assets, the current system cost roughly $4 billion,” he says. Funding t a time when higher education doesn’t work in a number of ways,” Elliott could come from keeping student loan Abudgets across campus and across the says. “Students don’t come to college as dollars level or reducing them slightly, or country are being cut, at least one KU prepared as they should be, they don’t have by rethinking the Pell Grant program to program is bucking the downsizing trend the funds to help them move through give grant money to students earlier. “It’s a and expanding. college properly, and they leave with a better way of using our current funds,” Riding a $200,000 boost in its budget, bunch of debt that hurts them for accumu- Elliott says. the University Honors Program increased lating assets aer college.” e series will continue with a Feb. 5 Elliott and his colleagues at the Assets keynote talk by omas Shapiro that and Education Initiative favor rethinking examines the demographics of poverty in the current loan system—which looks at America, and a March 28 panel led by PUPPE STEVE college aid as a just-in-time solution that Michael Sherraden that examines how delivers money at college age—to see if it asset building for the poor could be makes more sense to fund future students included as a strategy in national e orts to much earlier. solve poverty. Visit reimaginingpoverty. One proposal calls for establishing com for more information. government-nanced savings accounts at “One of our overall goals is just to bring birth. Families could make contributions attention to the idea that there are to be matched by the government. e institutional factors that really do matter accounts would be relatively small to to whether or not people succeed,” Elliott start—$500—but would have years to says. “In the end, if our institutions grow with compound interest before they function how everyone thinks they should, could be used to nance college or a down if they really treat everyone equally, then payment on a home. Low-income families individual e ort and ability would be the would gain nancial knowledge, a chance deciding factor in who succeeds and to build assets and access to mainstream fails.” Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett

CLASS CREDIT

manda Thompson, a recognizes a Kansan with a Hall’s one accessible Asenior in speech- disability who eectively entrance, in the rear of the language-hearing and vice advocates in the building. As Accessibility president of the student community for changes to Ambassador for the Oce group AbleHawks and improve the lives of people of Institutional Opportunity Allies, won the 2013 with disabilities. and Access, she educates Michael Lechner Advocacy Through AbleHawks and sta members on disability Award for her work on Allies, Thompson worked etiquette and the campus to raise awareness with Student Senate and experience of invisible of accessibility needs and other organizations to stage disabilities such as her own other disability issues. an event to raise awareness traumatic brain injury. Given annually by the about the experience Thompson accepted the

COURTESY RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTER ON INDEPENDENT LIVING RESEARCH COURTESY Kansas Commission on people in wheelchairs have award Nov. 1 at KCDC’s Disability Concerns entering through Strong annual meeting. (KCDC), the award

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education here, which of course I like,” she says. “ e fact that the students and Elite company: With the addition of a the administration were willing to invest in it speaks to their support for attracting new master’s degree concentration in very high-ability and talented students foreign affairs studies, KU becomes one to KU.” of 20 U.S. universities to provide Army ofﬁcers regionally focused master’s Water for thought level training in foreign affairs, and one of only three to offer training in more than one region. The Media blitz challenges students to design videos on theme of H 0 program will be available through the Center for Global 2 and International Studies starting in fall 2014. hirty eight architecture and design Tstudents who participated in a “48-hour blitz” led by innovative designer John Bielenberg in August had two days to the number of new students from 275 in score for the 4,000-student freshmen class produce a 48-second video that related to 2012 to 385 this year. e eventual goal is (see page 14), McCluskey-Fawcett says. the theme of water. eir only injunction: to admit 400 freshmen to the program Honors students also post about a 97 “Make it legendary.” each fall, expanding its total reach from percent retention rate, substantially higher Actually, the blitz—an intensive 1,250 to 1,600, with no loss in the quality than the universitywide retention rate, and workshop meant to teach participants of students or the academic experience a higher-than-average graduation rate. rapid-cycle design techniques—led they enjoy once they arrive. “ ose are all markers the University is students through six distinct steps in Money for the expansion came from looking at for national rankings,” she says. conceiving and lming their videos: Be 2012 tuition increases. Other benets may be harder to bold, get out, think wrong, make stu, bet “I thought a lot of high-ability students quantify, but meaningful nevertheless. small and move fast. e overarching goal were not coming to KU because we didn’t “Our main competitors are places like was to urge the future designers and have capacity in the honors program,” says Stanford, Princeton, Vanderbilt, Duke,” architects to discard convention and learn Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, g’73, McCluskey-Fawcett says. “I think keeping by doing. PhD’77, director of the program and those high-ability students at KU or At 9 a.m. on the Friday before Labor architect of the tuition proposal that attracting them from other states really Day weekend, students learned their topic resulted in the extra funding. “ e increases the probability of them staying was water and divided into ve groups. An students we are recruiting have a lot of in the state or moving to the state. at’s hour later they hit the streets of Lawrence, options. So the rationale was, if we very helpful to the University and to interviewing people and collecting stories expanded the program we could probably Kan s a s .” about water. By 3 p.m., while most on attract a larger number of high-ability e $200,000 boost amounts to a 33 campus were gearing down for the long students to choose KU.” percent increase for the $817,000-a-year holiday weekend, the interdepartmental at seems to be the case with the rst program. e majority of the money went teams were brainstorming (“thinking expanded class of University Honors to hire two full-time sta and four wrong,” in blitz parlance, by rejecting Program students, and the impact on the additional faculty fellows to maintain the conventional problem-solving broader University can already be seen in quality of student programs, which include approaches). By 5 p.m. groups had to increases in some important benchmarks, individual advising, lecture and lm series, present the “big idea” and “small bet” that McCluskey-Fawcett believes. workshops and an alumni mentoring “We were able to attract a lot more network. students, and the high school GPA of the Support for the hike was strong among students we attracted did not drop at all. students involved in the committee that So it’s not like we went deeper into the shapes KU’s annual tuition requests to the pool; I think we got students who wouldn’t Kansas Board of Regents, and from the have come here otherwise.” College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and e addition of more than 100 students the Oce of the Provost. with high ACT scores likely contributed to “ e University calls the honors the slight increase in the average ACT program the crown jewel of undergraduate Inﬁnite (Mine Ice from Space)

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI would form the concept for their Bringing Bielenberg to KU is a way to Milestones, money 48-second videos. en they worked into stir things up, Rake says. the night to have them ready for nal “John’s whole thing is to get people to and other matters presentations at 5 p.m the next day. think wrong, and that’s hard to do, even e compressed time frame simplies for design students. When you throw out the design process, reducing overthinking ideas that are crazy, the people you work

that can sometimes paralyze a project, says with laugh and it’s fun. But John’s the kind PUPPE STEVE Lance Rake, f’74, professor of industrial of guy who says, ‘Hmm, let’s think about design. that.’ He’s attracted to ideas like that, “It really makes you roll up your sleeves because he thinks there’s something and do the thing: Build something quickly. compelling behind it, and that may end up Prototype your ideas and test them. You being the way the project goes.” can’t think or talk about it too much.” e project was a hit with students, as Bielenberg won the American Institute much for the product as the process. n A $2. 5 million grant from the of Graphic Arts Gold Medal recently for “ e project was rewarding because we Children’s Bureau of the Administra- his innovative design work and leadership came up with a fun solution in an unorth- tion for Children and Families will help in the “design for good” movement. It’s the odox manner,” says industrial design School of Social Welfare researchers latest of more than 250 design awards for student Taylor Stelter of Olathe, “and more develop a system to screen foster Bielenberg, who has had his work collected importantly a solution we were proud of.” children for trauma. Principal inves- and a solo exhibition staged by the San “I think everybody was proud of what tigators on the ﬁve-year grant are Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He they did,” Rake says. “If anything, some Becci Akin, s’91, s’92, PhD’10, assistant created a program called Project M to might have wished they had done more— professor of social welfare, and Alice inspire young designers, lmmakers, they could have thought wronger, if that’s Lieberman, professor of social welfare. photographers and writers to contribute to possible. ‘Next time,’ they think, ‘I’m not The goal is to help caregivers identify the greater good and give them “a platform gonna hold anything back. I’ll go farther.’” trauma in children entering foster care to collaborate and generate ideas and To watch the student videos online, visit and develop treatment plans and projects bigger than themselves.” kansasalumnimagazine.com. systems to monitor their progress.

n KU Endowment elected two new trustees during its October annual meeting: Scott Coons, e’91, of Lawrence, and Brad Korell, l’97, of Austin, Texas. Coons is president and CEO of Percep- tive Software and Korell is managing partner of the law ﬁrm Korell and Frohlin.

n KU Hospital set records in ﬁscal 2013 for the number of patients treated. Inpatient admissions increased 4.5 percent from 2012, to 30,705. Out- patient visits rose 10 percent, to 20,774. The hospital also ranks in the top 25 percent of teaching hospitals caring Water Worth (Water as Currency) for the sickest patients, as measured by the case mix index. In the ﬁscal year that ended in June, the hospital saw patients from all 105 Kansas counties, 86 percent of Missouri counties, 49 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

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ment to the high quality of our academic programs, as well as to our revitalized DAN STOREY DAN recruitment eorts.” Added Gray-Little, “ e goal now will be to help our new Jayhawks be successful in their rst year, so that they can stay on track to graduate on time.”

RESEARCH Buried Greenland canyon owes discovery to KU radar T T of a massive canyon twice the size of the Grand Canyon ACADEMICS that’s buried under miles of ice in Green- e average freshman ACT score was land has a connection to KU’s Center for Enrollment gains seen in 25.3, an increase of two-tenths of a point the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets. record diversity, test scores from the 2012 average and an all-time e canyon, which is 470 miles long and high. has remained hidden beneath two-mile B , A record 21.8 percent of freshmen are thick ice for millennia, was revealed in the is the line on the Class of 2017, according minority students, up from 21.3 percent Aug. 30 edition of the Journal Science by to the annual enrollment numbers last year. International enrollment also hit researcher Jonathan Bamber from the released in September by the University. a record, with 2,431 undergraduate and University of Bristol. e freshman class grew for a second graduate students. Prasad Gogineni, distinguished profes- straight year, to an even 4,000 students, an “Students are recognizing the advan- sor of electrical engineering and computer increase of 6 percent. Undergraduate and tages of studying at a agship research science and director of CReSIS, said that doctoral enrollment grew slightly, but a university and all the opportunities that data collected by radars developed by decline in master’s degree students come with being a Jayhawk,” said Chancel- CReSIS scientists were critical to the contributed to total enrollment falling by lor Bernadette Gray-Little. “ at so many discovery, which was widely hailed as one 155 students from last year, to 27,784. top scholars are choosing KU is a testa- continued on page 17

VISITOR

Plains perseverance BACKGROUND: Egan was a he repeatedly national mythology member of The New York encountered Dust might detract from

imothy Egan, author of The Times reporting team that won Bowl stories. “You CHRIS LAZZARINO individual acts of TWorst Hard Time, the Dust the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for sometimes don’t courage and Bowl history chosen as the National Reporting for the know what you’re determination, second installment of KU series “How Race is Lived in going to ﬁnd. You Egan replied, “I’m Common Book, a program of America.” The Worst Hard Time have to trust OK with these the O ce of First-Year won the 2006 National Book serendipity. If you’re being seen as a Experience, and Lawrence Award. open to possibility, you’ll part of our national mythology, Public Library’s Read Across sometimes stumble upon these our creation myth. There’s a Lawrence ANECDOTE: The Worst Hard things.” great saying by the Sioux: A Time began with Egan’s people without history are like WHEN: Sept. 26-27 reporting for a New York Times QUOTES: Asked whether wind in the bualo grass. If you series about the collapse of viewing the remarkable stories don’t understand your history WHERE: The Lied Center small-town America on the of perseverance presented in you don’t understand your and The Commons Western Plains, during which The Worst Hard Time as a mythology.”

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Milestones, money STEVE PUPPE STEVE and other matters

Director Prasad n Donors set a record for a sixth Gogineni (right) and straight year, contributing $174.2 doctoral researcher million in support for KU during fiscal 2013—an 11 percent increase over 2012 Theresa Stumpf at and the highest annual amount ever CReSIS; the center’s raised by KU Endowment. The gifts radar contributed to count toward the University’s $1.2 bil- discovery of an lion capital fund drive, Far Above: The ice-covered canyon Campaign for Kansas. in Greenland. n Charles Myers is the new director of continued from page 14 the gardens program. “Learning how to the University Press of Kansas. Myers, of the most signi cant geological nds in develop a garden of nutritious vegetables formerly executive director and group decades. is many students’ rst experience in a publisher of Princeton University Press, e Multichannel Coherent Radar living laboratory.” succeeds Fred Woodward, who retired Depth Sounder (MCoRDS) designed at Pomeroy says the program faces a as director after leading UPK for 32 KU is a critical tool in NASA’s Operation number of challenges each year, including years. Woodward remains at the press IceBridge research program as well as weather, time and funding. Similarly, the as senior editor. ongoing National Science Foundation families of the students who participate projects that work to predict climate typically face their own challenges, which n The Docking Young Faculty Scholar change and project the eect melting polar can include hunger, lack of medical access Award went to 10 faculty members this ice sheets may have on sea levels around and underemployment. fall. Funded by a $1 million gift from the the globe. “e similarities in the lives of the late Kansas first lady Meredith Docking, children and young people we serve and b’47, the award is designed to recognize OUTREACH our gardens are many,” Pomeroy says. and retain promising young faculty who “Our gardens have the potential to yield a have distinguished themselves early in For Kansas City schoolchildren, harvest full of richness and beauty. So the KU careers. This year’s recipients their garden grows green do the children and young people we are Shawn Alexander, African-American s e r v e .” Studies; Christopher Depcik, mechani- G to e Uni ed Government-Hollywood cal engineering; Dale Dorsey, phi- ourish, and the Organic Teaching Casino Grant Fund awards grants ranging losophy; William Elliott, social welfare; Gardens program run by the School of from $10,000 to $50,000 annually to Tamara Falicov, film and media studies; Medicine will receive much-needed promote healthy food and physical activity Trent Herda, health, sport & exercise nourishment from a $50,000 Uni ed in Wyandotte County. science; Virginia Harper Ho, law; Government-Hollywood Casino Grant Wonpil Im, molecular biology; Ebenezer Fund award. Odare, sociology; and Hyunjin Seo, jour- e gardens were established in 1998 by nalism and mass communications. the school’s oce of cultural diversity to serve schoolchildren in Kansas City, Kan. DOUGLAS WALKER n Randal Jelks, associate professor of Since 2002, more than 13,000 young American studies and African-Ameri- people have participated in the program, can studies, won the Lillian Smith Book which now maintains 130 raised beds at Award for his biography of the man three middle schools and four elementary Martin Luther King called his “spiritual schools. and intellectual father.” Jelks accepted “e Organic Teaching Gardens provide the prize for Benjamin Elijah Mays: an educational experience through Schoolmaster of the Movement Sept. 1 in science, math, reading and the arts,” says Children at seven Kansas City, Kan., schools Atlanta. Marcia Pomeroy, director of the School of benefit from a grant supporting the School of Medicine’s K-12 initiative and founder of Medicine’s Organic Gardens Program.

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 17 Sports by Chris Lazzarino

One and fun “He can’t live up to the hype. It’s

Wiggins might stay only a year, PUPPE (3) STEVE impossible. ... But could he be a but ‘Hawks hope great one? Absolutely.” to make it memorable —Bill Self, on Andrew Wiggins

ou can have your Sports Illustrated Ycover, with its absurd invocations of Wilt Chamberlain and Danny Manning. Andrew Wiggins: On Oct. 28, a day before e gratuitous spread in GQ was little even the rst exhibition game, Self, widely more than an excuse to show an awesome considered among the most media- athlete’s excellent abs. at’s where he was friendly and accessible coaches in big-time linked to the legacy of LeBron James. athletics, suddenly shut down the Wiggins ESPN e Magazine’s cover was cool. But Express, halting media access, outside of you can have all that and more and still the occasional postgame session, to his not match the dening evidence that the so-spoken, long-armed, ultra-athletic superstar recruit—check that, superstar and seemingly aable guard from Jayhawk—is No. 1 with a bullet, which Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. came shortly before the Nov. 5 tipo in “He can’t live up to the hype. It’s Allen Field House. impossible,” Self says. “Comparing him to As the pregame video thundered to life Chamberlain? Chamberlain is the most on scoreboard screens towering above dominant player that ever played the Naismith Court, there suddenly appeared game. e kid’s 18 years old and he’s never a clip from exhibition game No. 1, Oct. 29 made a college basket but we’re going to against Pittsburg State: 6-8 freshman compare him to Chamberlain? So ... that’s Andrew Wiggins going to the hoop, which impossible. But could he be a great one? instantly brought a roar from a eld house Absolutely. And should we expect him to crowd that would otherwise prove to be as be a great one? Yes, we should. listless as the seemingly disinterested “ e kid is operating under some Jayhawks for much of the rest of exhibition pressure right now and he’s handled it game No. 2, against Fort Hays State. beautifully, but I do feel for him. I’ve never Yep, Wiggins had yet to play an ocial felt for players in regards for things like Wiggins college game and already No. 22 was that, but I do for him because he hasn’t spliced into the Jayhawks’ beloved to our program. asked for one bit of it and still, the less he pregame highlight video. at’s not going “But aer he gets here, none of that wants it the more he gets. And that’s kind to happen again anytime soon, folks. matters anymore. He’s very talented and of because of the way he’s handled en again, neither will Andrew has a ton of potential, but he’s just a everything. He’s handled everything like a Wiggins. freshman. He’s going to nd his way like pro.” “Getting Andrew is something that everyone else. e expectations that have When Wiggins rst arrived in town last made people, maybe even nationally, look been put on him by outside factors, or summer, he promptly hooked up with at us in a dierent light,” says 11th-year media members comparing him to this another member of his recruiting class coach Bill Self. “We’ve recruited a lot of person or that person, are really not fair at who, like Wiggins, was a late and surpris- good players but we haven’t really had a all. He has a chance to become a great ing addition to an already talent-rich ton of success recruiting the top three or player. I would not say he’s a great player group. e dierence between Wiggins four players in their respective classes in yet, but a great prospect. And hopefully he and Tarik Black, though—besides about 60 the country. He obviously has that will develop in a way where he can become pounds of muscle—is that Black already distinction. I think from a standpoint a great player quickly.” has a college degree and has played three of recruits, it brings instant attention Another clue to the unique stature of years of college basketball, at Memphis.

18 | KANSAS ALUMNI Wiggins is surely the superstar, and even before his arrival there already was immense excitement about Self signing “He’s such a humble kid. You can just hear it in his 6-5 guard Wayne Selden, 7-0 center Joel voice, his demeanor, his persona. He’s very humble, Embiid, 6-7 guard Brannen Greene, 6-0 Wichita shooting guard Conner Frankamp and he just wants to be great. That’s all he wants and 5-11 guard Frank Mason. But the key to be.”—senior newcomer Tarik Black, on freshman newcomer Andrew Wiggins element could well prove to be Black, a 6-9 {} billboard with sneakers who was allowed to transfer from Memphis without sitting out a year because he earned his degree favoring a starting lineup with two with a year of eligibility remaining. freshmen (Wiggins and Selden), a “I look at myself as part of the recruiting sophomore (6-8 forward Perry Ellis, of class,” Black says. “I had to take the phone Wichita), a junior (5-11 guard Naadir calls, had to do the house visits, had to go arpe) and a senior newcomer (Black), on my ocial visit to come here and nd with a rotation lled out by a freshman out if this was the place I wanted to end (Embiid) and two sophomores (6-6 guard up. So yeah, I feel like I’m a part; just a Andrew White III and 6-8 forward Jamari much older member.” Traylor). And, two more freshmen So it was that when Wiggins needed a (Greene and Frankamp) seemingly played ride to the drugstore shortly aer arriving their way into Self’s favor in the two exhibition games. Watching Self, a master tactician and motivator, piece it all together should be a joy for basketball fans to follow from November through March. e players, though, aren’t up for any speculation. “We’ll leave that all up to coach Self. We have complete faith in him,” says 6-9 forward Justin Wesley, a redshirt senior Black who has the most tenure on the team. “He knows what he’s doing. He’s had so many grateful to hear that. It was a great answer. dierent teams and he’s taken them to the He’s such a humble kid. You can just hear tournament every year, so I think we’ll be it in his voice, his demeanor, his persona. good in his hands. “He’s very humble and he just wants to “Everybody gets along. at’s one thing be great. at’s all he wants to be.” that’s important going into the season. Well ... not quite. Even with so many new guys, we already ere is one other thing Wiggins wants feel like brothers.” to be, in what will almost certainly be his only year of college basketball: a champion. “We can be the best. e main goal for Go low Wiggins all of us, I know, is to win the national championship.” Women’s golf wins twice, Even with e Andrew Wiggins takes aim on strong spring in Lawrence, Black grabbed his keys. He Experience seemingly in danger of wanted some private time with Mr. Big. overwhelming the run to what the n collegiate golf, the fall season is really “We were in the car and I asked him, Jayhawks hope will be their 10th consecu- Ijust something of a warmup for spring, ‘How do you deal with having that hype, tive Big 12 title and a return to the NCAA when conference play begins and teams having some pressure behind you?’ He’s Final Four, the season still promises to be scramble to land in an NCAA Regional. like, ‘Man, I just go and do what I do. I an immensely entertaining spectacle. But even warmups are important, and come out and play basketball and go home Self lost all ve starters from last season’s when a team completes a season, any and I’m Andrew Wiggins.’ And so I was 31-6 team, and this year he looks to be season, with all top-ve nishes, as did KU

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 19 Sports women’s golf this fall, spirits soar. Potee’s rst collegiate tournament victory. “I am so proud of what we have accom- Boonraksasat, the team’s only other senior, plished this fall,” ninth-year coach Erin was three strokes back in second. JEFF JACOBSEN O’Neil said a er KU’s three-stroke victory e Jayhawks also recorded two seconds Oct. 28 at the Palmetto Intercollegiate in and a fourth in their ve-tournament fall the golf mecca of Kiawah Island, S.C. “I season, and found their success up and am looking forward to taking it with us to down the roster. the spring season.” Sophomore Yupaporn “Mook” Kawin- Senior anuttra “Fhong” Boonraksasat, pakorn led the team with runner-up one of three ai golfers on the Jayhawks’ nishes at two tournaments, freshman squad, says the team is motivated by its Pornvipa “Phi” Sakdee won at Kiawah, failure to improve on a strong perfor- Potee won in Manhattan and Boonraksa- mance in fall 2012, narrowly missing its sat was the top Jayhawk in the Challenge rst NCAA invitation last spring. at Onion Creek in Austin, Texas. “We’re trying to make that a lesson for “Golf is an individual sport, but we’ve this year,” she says, “and it actually helps been trying to have people get along and motivate us a lot. Everybody is so pumped support and help one another,” Boonrak- that we have a shot at the NCAA Regional sasat says. “It’s not just you, it’s everybody. for the rst time ever, so I can see every- You have to ght all the way through body practicing more and putting more because your score might count, you don’t eort into every practice.” k n ow.” Along with the Palmetto, KU also won e spring season gets underway Feb. the Marilynn Smith Invitational at Kansas 14-16 at the Florida State Matchup in State’s Colbert Hills, led by senior Meghan Tallahassee, Fla. Potee

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Volleyball was 19-5 overall coaching freshmen,” Among the usual slew of new and 9-2 and in second place in Henrickson says, “and this year basketball books this time of the Big 12 as of press time, and will be no dierent with these year, two of note: At the hoping to again host opening- five kids. They bring a lot of Hang-Up, by former coach Ted weekend NCAA Tournament JEFF JACOBSEN personality and a lot of Owens, and Make it Count, a matches. Senior middle blocker energy.” ... biography of guard JoJo White, Caroline Jarmoc became KU’s Soccer qualified for the Big 12 ’69. ... Football opens its 2014 all-time kills leader with 16 kills Championship with a 2-1 victory season Sept. 6 in Memorial against Iowa State Oct. 23. ... over Oklahoma in the final Stadium against Southeast Senior guard CeCe Harper match of the regular season. Missouri State, followed by a scored 15 points with six Jarmoc Senior Caroline Kastor led the road game at Duke. The rebounds and two assists in just team in both goals and assists, Jayhawks will open conference 21 minutes, leading the Hawkins, who scored 10 of and junior goalkeeper Kaitlyn play Sept. 27 at home against women’s basketball team to a KU’s 25 bench points. Knight Stroud, in goal for every minute Texas, and close the season 61-53 victory over Emporia was leading the country in of the season, had five shutouts Nov. 29 at KSU. ... Little-known State in the final exhibition assists-to-turnover ratio last and led the Big 12 in saves. ... among KU sports fans: game before regular season season when she was lost to a Nearly 2,000 fans turned out Legendary University of play got underway. Also in knee injury Jan. 30, so 10th- to cheer on the rowing team at Washington football coach Don double figures were junior year coach Bonnie Henrickson its first Kansas River regatta, James, g’57, who died Oct. 20, guard Natalie Knight, who is counting on Knight to return the inaugural Jayhawk began his coaching career as a scored 13; junior forward strong and help anchor a team Jamboree Oct. 20. KU won the KU assistant in 1956, working Chelsea Gardner, with 11, and with five freshmen on the Varsity Eight and collected under his former high school senior guard Markisha roster. “I’ve always enjoyed seven other top-five finishes. ... coach, Chuck Mather.

20 | KANSAS ALUMNI Sports Photographs by Steve Puppe

Frank Mason Wayne Selden Jr. Brannen Greene Joel Embiid

As coach Bill Self met with reporters at men’s basketball’s Media Day, Kansas Alumni photographer Steve Puppe, j’98, was set up on Naismith Court, ﬁring o portraits of Jayhawks— newcomers, a few veterans and a supernova superstar— who might make 2013-’14 a season to remember. Andrew Wiggins Conner Frankamp

Jamari Traylor Perry Ellis Tarik Black

Naadir Tharpe

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 21 The rush to save native prairie and transform agriculture fi nds an unlikely stalwart

by Chris Lazzarino

Photographs by Steve Puppe

22 | KANSAS ALUMNI ISSUE 6, 2013 | 23 e got it all wrong, so horribly passionate professor of law, John Head. wrong. en again, so did In 2012, Head published the book Life = Sun + Soil Weveryone else on God’s green Global Legal Regimes to Protect the World’s earth who marched condently out of the Grasslands (Carolina Academic Press). e —John Head, Global Legal Regimes to 19th century with steel plows and motor- abruptly straightforward title reects Protect the World’s Grasslands ized tractors and endless stretches of lush Head’s insistence on projecting his work as grassland there for the taking. a close examination of the minutia of how e transformation took hold, to be national and international laws, treaties In North America, these lands came to sure. But not as anticipated. and institutions might help slow the loss of be known as “prairie,” from the French Within a mere whisper of geological the world’s grasslands. But, as is true of the word for “meadow.” No English word time, and even a tiny snippet on the author, the book is more ercely passion- could be adopted as a descriptor because timeline of human interaction with the ate than might be judged by its cover. no such vastness existed in what was then land, the world’s native, unspoiled Before any ght can be won, Head the English-speaking world. Like the Great grasslands have, in essence, disappeared. argues, there must rst be agreement on a Plains of North America, other temperate Native grasslands once spread across 40 fundamental question: Do we care grasslands have similarly romantic names: percent of North America; now, according whether the grasslands survive? the pampas of Argentina, the steppe of to a grasslands primer distributed by the “Tropical rainforests, coral reefs, panda Russia, the veldt of South Africa. Tropical University of Victoria Faculty of Law, 98 bears, baby seals, all of these have kind of grasslands, too, have their own lovely percent of tallgrass prairie east of the instant widespread public attention given descriptor: savanna. Missouri River is gone and California has to them, but in fact, the kinds of contribu- ese massive stretches of the earth’s a mere 1 percent of its grasslands remain- tions that grasslands can make to the surface thrived for specic reasons. ey ing intact. According to Ducks Unlimited, overall health of the planet are really quite did not need much rainfall, and in fact more than 2 percent of the 298,000 acres substantial,” says Head, Robert W. Wag- could ourish in semi-arid conditions. of native prairie remaining in the eastern sta Distinguished Professor of Law. “As a Whether sparked by lightning strikes or Dakotas was lost to agriculture from 2002 biome, as a portion of the world’s land set by native hunters who knew tasty green to 2005 alone. cover, they’re generally regarded as the sprouts soon to emerge from charred earth Grasslands status updates by scientists least protected, as the least noticed. And of would attract their prey, re destroyed and governmental and non-governmental course they’ve been so severely degraded only what could be seen above ground; agencies from all corners of the world and largely destroyed around the world below, the regeneration was as near to report the same bleak ndings: Various that that also contributes to public instantaneous and rigorous as can be combinations of overgrazing, monoculture ignorance about their value and the found in wild ora. Soil churning by huge agriculture, urban expansion, degraded tragedy of their disappearance.” animals—in North America, the seem- soils, re suppression, forest and non- ingly limitless bison herds—actually native plant encroachment, reckless helped, rather than harmed. recreation and mismanagement of water griculture has been with us for at least Native grasslands’ ultimate weapon of resources have withered the grasslands of A5,000 years, and the earliest crops self-preservation, though, was their roots, India, Tibet, Mongolia, China, Africa, were grains cultivated from grasses, which in certain soils can plunge to 15 feet Russia and South America. e European directly comparable to what we now know below the surface, weaving into a subter- Commission reports that from 1990 to as wheat, barley and rye. And yet as ranean web stronger than their mightiest 2003, Europe lost 12.8 percent of its agriculture progressed for the next ve foe, including human farmers. At the time grasslands, which are now among Europe’s millennia, huge swaths of spectacularly of the Louisiana Purchase, the riches of the most-threatened ecosystems. fertile land resisted humanity’s best eort North American Great Plains could be A hunt for solutions that might reverse at conquest. exploited by bison hunts, but not the plow. grasslands’ dismal fortunes is underway, and researchers at KU have thrust themselves into the fray by recently “Soil does form. It can renew itself. Doing so, however, takes the joining forces with colleagues at Kansas State University, e Land Institute in correct conditions. Grasslands oer those conditions—or, more Salina and Konza Prairie Biological precisely, grasslands can oer those conditions if the grasslands Station. As desperate battles tend to encourage, a most unlikely champion has themselves are not degraded.” —Head, The World’s Grasslands emerged: a quiet, careful, curious and

24 | KANSAS ALUMNI “For thousands of years plows had been helped the notion that “rain follows the Lucia Orth, John Head and their dog, Loki, stroll made of wood, and even when they were plow” take root. Railroad tracks and through the prairie grasses planted around the given cast-iron edges, they could not telegraph wires were also thought to pond near their home south of Lawrence. John penetrate the grasslands,” wrote emeritus induce rainfall in arid environments. grew up on a farm in northeastern Missouri, distinguished professor Don Worster in And then came harsh winters and dry and Lucia spent much of her childhood visiting one of his classic books on environmental summers—a perfectly natural state of her grandmother’s farm near her hometown of history, e Grasslands in Time. “ey aairs—which by the mid-1890s nearly Hannibal, Mo. would break rst. eir usable range was emptied a 300-mile-wide stretch of the limited to exposed soils along the river Great Plains from Canada to Texas. Of bottoms or what had once been forest course the same cycles of boom and bust oki the lucky rescue dog emerges o or.” were soon to repeat themselves, ultimately L from his new pond, shaking and And then came John Deere and the collapsing into the catastrophic Dust Bowl shimmering and splish-splashing water appearance, in 1837, of his rst steel plow. of the 1930s. e destruction of middle and good spirits in broad arcs. Lucia Orth, Even pulled by a dra animal, Deere’s America’s splendid grasslands, Head says, a novelist, teacher, attorney and wife of plow “could slice through the toughest sod was “absolutely breathtaking in its pace,” a John Head, grimaces, but the high-energy and expose the deep, fertile soil to the air.” “very quick unzipping of the land.” hound is having way too much fun for his If it had not ultimately become so “For a while, at least,” Head says, “there people to do anything but smile at his thoroughly destructive, the headlong rush was this mystique, an ideology, a goo ness antics. As Lucia and John stroll down a into the Great Plains might be seen in that rain follows the plow. ere was this path through tall native grasses that some respects as comically inept. Early idea that, well, it’s by plowing that we surround their pond, one of the rst boosters of agricultural expansion into somehow create more precipitation; we restoration projects on the property they western lands made the ludicrous claim, in can change the climate in a good way by bought a decade ago south of Lawrence, the words of Josiah Gregg, that “extreme settling and tearing things up as quickly as two foresters emerge from the woodlands cultivation of the earth might contribute possible. Well, yeah, climate changed as a behind their home and, leaning against to the multiplication of showers.” Indeed, consequence, but not in the way that pickup trucks, compare notes aer their brief spans of unusually high precipitation people in their ignorance thought.” aernoon inspection.

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 25 Dave Bruton, district forester for the and in 1975 accepted a Marshall Scholar- his fondness for the natural world was Kansas Forest Service, and Ryan Neises, ship to attend Oxford University, where he evident—namely in the potted plants that watershed forester for Ecotone Forestry in earned an English law degree and discov- blossomed in his fourth- oor Green Hall Ottawa, are charting plans for Head’s next ered an unexpected interest in pursuing oce, where large windows oer a sunny leap into returning his family’s land to as international law and a career outside view of the Hill. natural a state as possible. the United States. He rst returned for “ere was a long period of time “A lot of times, people view our wood- law school at the University of Virginia, whenever I went into his oce, it was like lands as wasteland and don’t do the then spent three grueling years immersed he was working in a forest,” she recalls management that’s important to keep our in international law while working in with a so laugh. “He really enjoyed that, woodlands healthy and diverse,” Bruton Washington, D.C., for a New York City and I thought, ‘is is fantastic.’” says. “It is good to have landowners who rm. are interested and take the initiative. e He and Lucia in 1983 made their rst thing that I get gratication from is that trip to Asia, and he accepted a job based in n a Friday morning in mid-October, they’re not doing it, in most cases, for Manila for the Asian Development Bank. Oa vanload of KU faculty trucked west themselves. ey’re doing it for future “My wife and I were both eager for to Salina. A consortium dedicated to a generations, for the overall good of the adventure,” Head says. “We wanted more reinvention of human interraction with general population.” exposure to life overseas. It was partly the prairie was about to be born. is little slice of country heaven, appealing to us because it was so exotic Hosting the event was e Land 2 miles south of the Clinton Lake dam, is and unknown.” Institute, a non-prot organization nestled in a rural neighborhood known as Head spent ve years in that assign- dedicated to transforming agriculture Pleasant Valley. Aer purchasing the home ment, traveling throughout southern and from annual crops sowed in monoculture and 38 acres of hillside woodland, Head eastern Asia to work as a lawyer for expanses of otherwise barren land into a and his wife convinced the owner of the development projects to build hospitals, system of perennial grains grown in atter pasture land across North 900 Road schools, roads, power grids and irrigation polyculture mixtures, mimicking the best to sell them her 52 acres. works. He spent two years with the traits of natural grasslands. Founded in Working closely with Jim Weaver, International Monetary Fund in Washing- 1976 by MacArthur “Genius Grant” district manager for the Douglas County ton, D.C., and in 1990 he turned his career winner Wes Jackson, g’60, and encouraged Conservation District Oce, Head toward academia at KU Law, where he has over the years by many of the region’s immediately set about returning the land established himself as a prolic writer, foremost thinkers, researchers and artists, to something resembling a native prairie. researcher and teacher of international including Worster, recently retired from a e land had not seen row crops for economic and environmental law, interna- long career at KU, and photographer Terry decades, so its terracing was crumbling, tonal institutions and comparative law. He Evans, f’68, Land Institute researchers had and brome grass, which was still being cut recently published a book in another area in 2012 decided to rein in some of their for hay, was competing with cedar, of interest, Chinese law and history, nationally distributed research collabora- locust and hedge for dominance. written in collaboration with former tions and instead work more closely with e terraces were removed, as were the graduate student Xing Lijuan, SJD’12, now natural and social scientists at KU and invasive plant species, which were replaced assistant professor at City University of K-State, where the range of available with a ve-species mixture of native Hong Kong School of Law. expertise far surpassed that of the Land prairie grasses that can still be hayed but “His passion and his belief in his work Institute’s focus on plant genetics. are perennials that need no fertilizing, makes me feel it is really a thing worth our Also spurring the coalition was a recent irrigation or seeding. Head also had labor and worth our attention,” Xing, who donation to the Land Institute of rich engineers create a network of “micro- contributed research on Chinese laws and farmland north of Lawrence by Jim wetlands” that catch and hold rain and programs to Head’s grasslands book, says Haines, retired CEO of Westar Energy, and encourage amphibians and birds to restore from her oce in Hong Kong. “I think he his wife, Cindy. e initial 65-acre gi, natural cycles of life on the property. is very gentle, and he is always very including a home built in the 1880s, will “It’s like anything else,” Weaver says. generous and open-minded. He seeks by January include 240 acres, with 100 “Every little bit helps. I think that when every opportunity to incorporate some acres of cropland now under perennial other people see that project out there, things dierent from traditional brome pasture. Once the site has been they may want to emulate something like perspectives.” outtted with lab equipment and baseline that on their own place.” Xing notes that long before Head turned data gathered on elds before any research John Head grew up on a farm in rural his attention to researching and writing commences, it is anticipated that the farm northeastern Missouri, attended Mizzou about international grassland protections, will oer KU faculty and graduate students

26 | KANSAS ALUMNI agriculture technology? Why care about “We might usefully regard the Earth’s soil, then, as an extremely the prairie? “We’re becoming bankrupt,” Crews says. thin ‘skin of life’ stretched over a dead rock. ... If it remains “We have a yield ceiling. We have degrad- healthy, that ‘skin of life’ can create adequate food, feed, and ing soils. We have genetically engineered crops that are no longer working because ﬁber—and indeed, it can do so in luxurious abundance—for the the herbicides have been overcome by the beneﬁt of all the creatures that live on it, including humans. weeds. Now we’re looking at prairie and going, wow, it maintains about the same Grasslands, perhaps more than any other type of biome or land- level of productivity as a wheat crop here cover, help nurture the health of that “skin of life” by conserving in Kansas with no inputs whatsoever. It doesn’t need herbicides and it doesn’t the soil and allowing its regenerative powers to operate.” need to be resowed. Basically, it just —Head, The World’s Grasslands grows itself.” Jim Weaver, the county conservationist who helped Head restore his land to native grasses, says he holds in his imagination hands-on work within the consortium’s to it has been brilliant. I had not thought the scene from “Dances With Wolves” shared mission. about a lot of the issues he’s raised in his when Kevin Costner’s character roams the “We’re calling it the ‘living lab,’” says book, and continues to raise. I’m just prairie, holding his arms out above the Chris Brown, KU professor of environ- thrilled he’s a part of this group.” tallgrass, “just enjoying the countryside. mental studies. “If you can’t show your e Land Institue recently debuted a To me, the opportunity to maintain some students how they can take what they perennial grain that is a close relative to of that natural area, knowing that it can learn and actually see changes in the wheat, dubbed Kernza. Its our has been still be done and that we can preserve it landscape around them, how can you used by beer masters at Boulevard and for our kids and their kids to see, just expect them to go out and change the Free State breweries and bread makers at feels good.” world?” Wheatelds Bakery, and it is being grown Head cautions that a solution to prairie KU faculty attending the October on 100 acres in Minnesota to test its restoration and a reformation of agricul- meeting in Salina were drawn from such commercial possibilities. ture must take both short- and long-term diverse departments as environmental Ultimately, though, the work of creating perspectives. e immediate needs of studies, geography, sociology, history, the a perennial grain crop that replicates feeding a hungry and growing world can’t Spencer Museum of Art, ecology and natural prairie—grown in polyculture be “shouldered to one side by long-term evolutionary biology, anthropology, acreage, with minimal need for human perspectives. ere has to be a juggling and, of course, law. intervention for pest control or fertiliza- act. Had our immediate predecessors not John Head had collaborated with Wes tion—will likely require decades of intense been so successful at plowing up the Jackson for years, including arranging research. Recent research has begun prairies, there might not be this conu- meetings with Land Institute researchers exploring, with modern genetic tools, ence of short-term and long-term, but and representatives from the World Bank, microbial interaction in the rooting zones right now we’ve got them both. And it is and dedicated his grasslands book to of prairie ecosystems, a complexity that right now, in the next 20 years, 40 years, 60 Jackson, among others. ough he has, Crews describes as “o the charts, an years I guess at the outside, that there has without doubt, earned his place at the absolute Library of Congress of ecological to be this balanced solution.” table, Head still treads soly when information.” Success is far from certain. surrounded by researchers who lead the e rst steps, including Kernza, are “ ere might be some hope on the scientic inquiries into retting modern now coming to fruition, though Crews horizon,” Head says, in reference to prairie ecosystems. labels this stage as “training wheels.” younger generations who are showing “He’s constantly commenting on how Ultimately, he says, “you can think of a themselves to be faithful to needs of the he’s just guring this out and has the least gradual curve starting today and 100, 150 lands they’ll inherit. “ at’s a silver to oer of anyone,” says ecologist Tim years from now, the full-on turnover of the lining in a dark cloud. Maybe we have a Crews, the Land Institute’s director of next agricultural revolution has happend. rising tide of appreciation and research, “and yet he obviously has a lot to And 30 or 40 years from now, we’re going enthusiasm.” oer. I credit John with seeing a gap in to be somewhere in between.” And this time, perhaps we’ll get it right, policy and legal analysis, and his attention Why care about the next generation of wonderfully, eternally right.

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 27 28 | KANSAS ALUMNI Grant Snider’s vocational double take delivers smiles all around

rant Snider must be getting his by Steven Hill t aer I explored a little. career counseling from Yogi “I never saw myself doing art as a career; GBerra: When he came to a fork in Portrait by Mark Wolcott it just grew out of the chance I got with my the road, he took it. initial strips.” Snider, ’07, leads a double life as the Star and other newspapers, and on his at chance came when he submitted “creator of Incidental Comics by night, website, incidentalcomics.com. work to e University Daily Kansan and mover of teeth by day,” as the motto that Trac lights turn from green to yellow landed a gig drawing a daily comic strip accompanies his whimsical, charmingly to red and then tumble to the street to be for the student paper’s opinion page oeat drawings attests. raked into piles in “Fall in the City.” throughout 2007. ough he’d been an A dental school graduate who is Pachyderms meet picas in “e Elephants enthusiastic artist as a kid growing up in nishing the orthodontics program at the of Typography.” “Shakespeare in the Park” Derby, the Kansan job was his rst University of Colorado Denver, Snider nds fun in a literal, decidedly unliterary publishing experience. It proved to be a also is enjoying increasing success as a interpretation of the title. turning point. cartoonist: Four of his pieces are included “I went into college not really knowing “Part of creative vanity is seeing your in e Best American Comics 2013, what I wanted to do,” says Snider, who work in print, and that’s one of the cool published this fall by Houghton Miin le the School of Engineering aer his things about cartooning,” Snider says. Harcourt. junior year to enter the University of “Knowing your little drawing is going to e twofold professional focus is just the Missouri Kansas City’s early enrollment be seen by a bunch of dierent people was sort of surprising juxtaposition that program for dental school. “I knew I a big rush for me. Still is.” peppers his cartoons, which have appeared wanted some kind of science or analytical While nishing his degree at UMKC, in e New York Times, e Kansas City career, and dentistry seemed like a good he published cartoons in University News,

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 29 e Pitch and Lawrence.com. In 2008 he won the $10,000 Charles M. Schulz Award for college cartoonists. at recognition led to a three-year run drawing a weekly comic for the Kansas City Star. e half-page, multi-panel cartoon “was the second step in developing my voice and really learning how to make a comic strip,” he says. Snider’s drawings combine a writer’s love of wordplay with an illustrator’s anity for visual puns. He usually starts with a script and relies on the words to suggest images. “If the words don’t bring images to mind,” he says, “they’re probably not the right words.” Subjects range from the highly personal and autobiographical (the creative pressures of drawing a weekly cartoon is a recurring theme) to universal topics such as architecture, music, modern art and graphic design; and abstract concepts like the nature of ambition and self-doubt. “Some of them are almost like self-help manuals for myself,” Snider says. “If I read about a concept that’s obscure or foreign to me, turning it into a drawing is my way of better understanding it. Cli notes in comic form.” Snider’s twin brother, Gavin, a’09, says the drawings are the best window into Grant’s personality, which can come across as reserved and serious in person. “He’s not going to be the guy at the party telling jokes,” Gavin says. “He’s the guy in the corner who makes a comment under his breath that ve people hear and laugh really hard. “On second thought,” Gavin says, “he’s not going to be at the party at all: He’s going to be home drawing.”

he great thing about Grant is that “The really does have a voice of his own,” says Nicholas Blechman, art director of the New York Times Sunday Book Review. “Not only with his illustration style but also with his humor, his whole Cartoonist Grant Snider draws inspiration from other art forms such as music and literature in his personality really comes through, and it’s drawings, which often bounce between whimsical visual poetry and wry commentary. very clever and very witty. He has incredibly razor-sharp wit and he’s very funny and very ironic.”

30 | KANSAS ALUMNI e Times rst bought unsolicited self-standing drawings from Snider and then commissioned work to illustrate reviews, columns and Sunday magazine pieces. “It’s very rare to nd someone who can think well and draw well, who has a very dened aesthetic and also can write,” Blechman says. “He does both. He has a real design sense and his colors are beautiful. Oen with cartoonists you love the humor and personality but don’t like the drawings. With him, they both come together.” Mixing high art with low is oen a way to puncture pretentiousness, and that’s something Snider clearly delights in. “My Neighbor Magritte,” one in a series of cartoons on modern art, has fun with the pros and cons of living next door to a surrealist icon. “Shakespeare in the Park” turns the phrase’s usual connotation of open-air summer theatre on its head and instead portrays a roguish Bard spouting famous lines from his plays while stirring up trouble in a modern-day park. “ e Story Coaster,” which appeared in the Book Review in July, likens the writing and reading experience to a theme park ride. “With a lot of arts, whether literature or architecture or graphic design, there’s an element of pretentiousness in the way they are usually talked about that makes it inaccessible or not fun,” Snider says. “I think at some level what I’m trying to do is bring it down to a more humorous level that’s more appealing.” Blechman says there’s a certain naive quality and a lack of self-consciousness to Snider’s work that appeal to him, along with a minimalist drawing style that allows him to keep the focus on ideas. “ at kind of goes along with this notion that he’s trying to knock down pretension,” Blechman says. “But it’s the stories themselves, it’s the wit above all that makes it so great.” “Grant Snider’s work is smart, inventive, literary and very, very funny,” says Pamela Paul, editor of the Sunday Book Review. “He really gets the world of books.”

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 31 “It’s very rare to ﬁnd someone who can think well and draw well, who has a very deﬁned aesthetic and also can write. He does both. He has a real design sense and his colors are beautiful.”

—Nicholas Blechman, art director of the New York Times Sunday Book Review

nider is quick to turn his sharp humor Son himself, too: One of his favorite targets is artistic angst, and many of his cartoons bemoan creative pressures—a very real concern for someone trying to balance a demanding professional program and a growing family. Snider and his wife, Kayla, are expecting their second child this spring, soon a er he begins his career as an orthodontist. He nds time to draw during breaks between classes, and he keeps notebooks to jot down ideas as they occur. He draws the text and images by hand and then uses a computer program for coloring and ne-tuning. Nights and weekends he gets his serious drawing work done, racing to ll a self-imposed deadline of one comic a week. He hopes a four-day work week will give him a little more time for cartooning once school ends and work begins. “e fact that I’m not doing it full time I don’t see as a big issue,” Snider says. “I don’t think I’d be at this point in my art career if I didn’t have the other stu going on simultaneously. Having something to push against, to escape from, gives me a kind of drive.” Constraint, a er all, is what drawing comics is all about: Telling a clear story

32 | KANSAS ALUMNI within the con nes of a two-dimensional panel, using the fewest words and lines possible, is the essence of the cartoonist’s form. “When I have an unlimited amount of time to work on something it doesn’t necessarily get done better or more eectively than when I have a limited deadline. I think constraints are pretty important to my drawings, but also to my drawing life.” As kids, Grant and Gavin sat on opposite sides of an easel and told each other stories about the pictures they were drawing. “Having him sitting across from me drove me on,” says Gavin, who is an architect and illustrator. “Hopefully I did the same for him. He has continued that childhood storytelling, really. “He’s always looking for the next step to take with his drawings, the next thing to get excited about. at’s what Grant’s comics are based on: the dierent things in his life, in the world, that he’s excited about. It’s that fascination he’s trying to mine in his cartoons.” Snider’s comics may be “incidental,” but there’s nothing casual or subordinate about them. If anything, Snider says, he’s more ambitious about his incidental career than his dental career. His highest hope is to someday publish a book of his work, whether a collection of cartoons, a graphic novel or a children’s story. Meanwhile, he sees no need to choose one job over the other. “I think doing [cartooning] full time is a recipe for going crazy, just sitting in a room with my pencil and paper and my thoughts, so it’s good for me to have a job that gets me out among people,” Snider says. “At the same time, I need the more introspective time drawing gives me. I’m de nitely going to try to nd a balance, but whether that’s 50-50 or 60-40 is hard for me to tell now. I’m looking forward to nding that out.” “I always had a passion for drawing,” says Snider, “but never had an outlet until college,” Visit www.kansasalumnimagazine.com when the University Daily Kansan published his work (left). Now cartoons are both source to view more of Grant Snider’s art. and subject of his creativity, providing playful counterpoint to the more analytical demands of a dental career.

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 33 With a new novel attracting rave reviews, a science ﬁction Grand Master caps a career as big as the genre itself

ver James Gunn’s shoulder, Mount Fiction and Fantasy, a Oread glows in the liquid late- collection of the many Oaernoon light of autumn. It’s a essays and prefaces Gunn, beautiful October day, but Gunn, the esteemed j’47, g’51, has written for his author and editor of more than 40 books of own books and others. His ction and nonction in a career that dates back 1975 chronicle of the genre, to the 1950s, is indierent to the glorious views Alternate Worlds: e framed by oor-to-ceiling windows in the Illustrated History of Science Kansas Union. He is light years away, traversing Fiction, will soon be the cold blackness of space with a dozen published in China with aliens on a pilgrimage to distant galaxies as new and updated material. he reads the opening chapter of his new novel, is summer he was the Transcendental, to fans and colleagues gathered guest of honor at WorldCon at Oread Bookstore to hear from KU’s own 2013, the annual convention that is the science Grand Master of science ction. ction world’s Final Four and Super Bowl rolled e release of Gunn’s rst new book since into one. And there’s more to come: Tor Books, Gi From the Stars in 2005 caps a busy year for the publisher of Transcendental, will release his the professor emeritus of English, who retired early novel Star Bridge as part of its classic in 1993 but has remained a steadfast presence in reprint series, and Gunn has plans for two more his Wescoe Hall oce. In April, Scarecrow Press novels that would expand Transcendental into published Paratexts: Introductions to Science his rst trilogy.

by Steven Hill Portrait by Steve Puppe

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI With a new novel attracting rave reviews, a science fiction Grand Master caps a career as big as the genre itself

by Steven Hill Portrait by Steve Puppe

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 35 Nearly 60 years after his ﬁrst novel was published, James Gunn still relishes the DAN STOREY DAN challenge of exploring new ideas and new worlds in ﬁction. “Writing was always my way of feeling that I was doing something worth doing. The last thing in the world I want to do is feel that what I’m engaged in doesn’t matter.”

science ction and fantasy eld, praised the novel as “wise, clever, surprising, hip and au courant,” noting that it equals or tops Gunn’s previous landmark works, earning “a permanent rank in the extended canon of our genre.” Kirkus Reviews called it “Gunn’s best in years— quite possibly his best ever.” “For some reason, this novel has gotten more great reviews than any I’ve written A space epic, Transcendental harks back even heard of it. “is obscure collabora- before,” Gunn says during the Q-and-A to Gunn’s earliest novels. e rst, is tion between Williamson and Gunn reads that follows his reading. “Mostly the Fortress World, was published in 1955 to more like a collaboration between history of my relationship with reviewers indierent notices but hailed as a classic Heinlein and Asimov,” Jonas wrote. has been that when the books come out, upon its reissue in 2010. e second, Star Praising both the book’s ambitious vision they don’t like it, but then 20 years later Bridge, also from 1955, initially drew faint and the physical immediacy of its vivid they get great reviews. praise from e New York Times, which writing, he noted approvingly that (like “I’m not sure whether it’s because they called the collaboration with Jack William- the titans of science ction their work gure it’s unusual for someone 90 years son a “fast-moving blood-and-thunder brought to mind) “Williams and Gunn old to write and publish a novel,” he says novel.” Upon its reissue in 1977, Gerald understand that the grander the concept, with a wry smile, “or whether there are Jonas, the Times’ longtime science ction the more the reader craves speci cs.” some intrinsic merits they are observing.” critic, expressed his astonishment that not Recognition for Transcendental has been Along with Gi From the Stars, a novel only had he not read the book, he’d never more immediate. Locus, a magazine in the in six parts about humankind’s reaction to

Star Bridge, 1955 The Joy Makers, 1961 The Immortals, 1962

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI alien contact, Transcendental marks a “For some reason, this novel has gotten more great completion of the grand arc of Gunn’s writing life: beginning with traditional reviews than any I’ve written before. Mostly the history far-future “space operas,” then shiing to of my relationship with reviewers has been that when books more concerned with the social impact of change on Earth, before nally the books come out, they don’t like it, but then bending back once again to intergalactic adventure on a grand scale. Yet Gunn’s 20 years later they get great reviews.” latest is not merely a throwback to the —James Gunn, on his novel Transcendental simple adventure tales he read as a kid and adopted in his earliest books. (e term “space opera,” though eventually applied to long career. As has been the case so oen to get things written and see them such classics as the Star Wars saga, was in his writing life, James Gunn’s newest published,” he recalls with a chuckle. coined to deride swashbuckling yarns of contribution to the genre shows just how He discovered a trove of Tarzan books the Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers stripe.) far science ction has come. in his grandmother’s closet, his rst “He’s not falling back on old themes; he’s encounter with adventure narratives and not somebody who’s just returning in a fantastic plots. In 1933, when Gunn was nostalgic way to the ction of his youth,” here aren’t many writers who in 10, his father began bringing home copies says Kij Johnson, assistant professor of “Ttheir lifetime can span the whole of the rst hero pulp magazines: Doc creative writing at KU and a writer of modern history of a genre,” says John Savage, e Shadow, Operator No. 5. He award-winning science ction and fantasy. Kessel, g’74, g’78, PhD’81, a science ction would eventually take the dog-eared pulps “He’s writing newly thought-through stu. author, professor and former Gunn to Andy’s, a bookstore in hometown Transcendental really is an excellent book, student. “Jim can. In some ways, his career Kansas City, to trade for science ction probably his best book, without exaggera- represents the main thread of science magazines. By 16 he had written his rst tion. And Paratexts is a great insight into ction’s development.” story and sent it to Astounding Science an incredibly good analytical mind that’s Gunn was 3 when the rst science Fiction; edited by John W. Campbell, focused itself on science ction. e fact ction magazine, Amazing Stories, was Astounding was the Mount Olympus of that he produced those two in his 90th published in 1926. Issue No. 1 included the genre and Campbell, who is credited year, to me, is completely admirable.” stories by Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, with helping shape the Golden Age of Indeed, the new novel’s embrace of big whose American lecture tour Gunn science ction then underway, was its ideas and a layered, complex narrative attended as a child. He experienced the Zeus. He rejected that rst submission, but structure that borrows from e Canter- thrill of seeing his name in print early on by the 1950s Gunn was regularly selling bury Tales reect the sophistication and when he wrote a poem in kindergarten stories to Campbell—at 2 cents a word— maturation that have transformed Gunn’s and his father—a printer by trade— and to other pulp magazines such as work and the eld he has been most printed cards with the verse. “I got the idea Galaxy and Dynamic Science Fiction. closely associated with throughout his I suspect very early that it was really great When Gunn was trading magazines

Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated The Listeners, 1972 Kampus, 1977 HIstory of Science Fiction, 1975

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 37 at Andy’s, modern science ction was still world and how it might work out in the the New Wave science ction writers who in its infancy—though it felt much more next 25, 50 or 100 years rather than 1,000 would follow, Gunn was writing about the venerable when he tried to break in a few years in the future. My writing changed individual in conict with society, and years later. more toward the socially signi cant.” bringing the tools and techniques of “When I began writing, in 1948, I really Abetting that change was the rise of a literary ction to bear on a genre viewed thought of science ction as being this new magazine, Galaxy. Edited by Horace (as a KU professor once told him during historical, ancestral, traditional eld that I Gold, Galaxy took a more expansive view his student days) as “chiey sub-literary.” was a newcomer in,” Gunn says. “But as I of science ction that welcomed a focus on His 1972 novel, e Listeners, considered look back on it, John Campbell had been psychology and sociology. by many to be his best, is a good example. editor of Astounding only 10 years; “e fact that Galaxy was one of his “ e Listeners just astounded me, Asimov and Heinlein and Sturgeon had regular markets says a lot,” notes Chris because here’s a man who, when you speak only been writing for nine years, so it was McKitterick, director of the Gunn Center to him or read his scholarly work, he’s not that established.” for the Study of Science Fiction, which erudite and analytical and sees himself as a Aer is Fortress World and Star Bridge Gunn founded at KU in 1982 to promote Golden Age author,” McKitterick says. netted him only a few hundred bucks, scholarship on the genre. “Astounding was “But in his ction he was writing essen- Gunn—then trying to make it as a the center of science ction, which tially what is really becoming popular full-time freelance writer—changed his everybody read and where everybody today. What he does thematically is New approach. Instead of writing space epics, wanted to get published, but all the other Wave; it’s using mainstream literary he decided to write stories focused on magazines lled niches that would later qualities but bringing a science ction more contemporary issues, which he could rise to prominence.” sensibility to it. I think that’s really at the sell to magazines and later package as Galaxy’s niche, says McKitterick, g’96, core of why his literature is important.” novels. “at’s how I got my motto, which was social science ction. e story of a search for extraterrestrial I passed on to my ction writing students: “It was all about the human experience intelligence that receives a message from Nothing is worth writing unless you can of change. And that really is the center of aliens, e Listeners inspired Carl Sagan’s imagine selling it twice.” how Jim de ned science ction. He never novel Contact (which in turn inspired e Joy Makers and e Immortals, focused on technology. Technology is a Gunn’s Gi From the Stars). It also inspired which followed in the early 1960s, both means for him to tell a story, but the story John Kessel, who came to KU in 1972 to addressed the social impacts of change; the is about people. Science ction is the study with Gunn, then one of the few books dealt with philosophical concepts literature of change aecting the human college professors teaching science ction. rather than adventure. species.” “He’s one of the guys who applied “I had realized things were happening in literary values to ction that wasn’t the contemporary world,” Gunn says, “that considered literary,” Kessel says. “He wrote were perhaps more important to deal unn began to come into his own as a books that understood the way society with.” e McCarthy era, the Cold War Gwriter, McKitterick feels, when he works, and the personal cost for the people and the student protest movement were broke free of the traditional restrictions of involved. e Listeners is about listening among them. “I began focusing on today’s Golden Age science ction. Like many of for extraterrestrial signals from outer

Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of The New Encyclopedia of Science Paratexts: Introduction to Science Science Fiction, 1982 Fiction, 1988 Fiction and Fantasy, 2013

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space, and at the same time the man still abundant at the time—Colliers, the Gunn won a Hugo Award in 1983 for Isaac running the project, his marriage is not Saturday Evening Post—and got polite Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction, his going so well because he’s not really rejections. “Most of them said, ‘We don’t deﬁnitive critical study of the proliﬁc writer’s communicating with his wife, who’s publish science ction,’” Gunn recalls. “So contributions to the genre. The Grand Master alienated from him. I sent it to the science ction magazines, award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy “at’s pretty smart; that’s not some- who said, ‘is isn’t science ction.’” Writers of America in 2007 recognized Gunn’s thing a pulp writer in the 1930s would do. Says McKitterick, “Here is a man who as own lifetime achievements as a writer, scholar at was very inuential on me, and that a little boy saw H.G. Wells, who was and teacher. became the kind of science ction I getting published regularly by Campbell in wanted to write.” Astounding, was a mainstay at Galaxy Gunn went on to write Kampus (1977), when it was the core of what science which portrays the world student rebels ction later becomes. He was taking a very might have made had they been success- literary approach back when that wasn’t which is the Prophet who will lead the ful, and e Millennium Blues (2001), what science ction was about. He was one ship and its passengers to transcendence. which Gunn calls “my attempt to write a of the rst people to do things that felt like Riley’s orders are to secure the machine for mainstream novel with literary values and Cyberpunk. He has always been a little humans; failing that, he is to kill the speculative potential about the end of the ahead of the curve of what science ction Prophet and destroy the machine. second millennium.” Finding a publisher is doing.” During the long journey on the starship proved dicult, and the 20-year project Geo rey, passengers take turns telling su ered a Y2K jinx when the house that their story (à la Chaucer), revealing, detail bought it closed before the novel could be ranscendental follows Riley, a grizzled by detail, an intergalactic world full of published. T veteran of a recently ended interga- alien races shaped in di erent ways by “Much of what I was writing then I lactic war, as he sets out on a new mission: their environment and showing each would have been far more interested in He has been enlisted by a mysterious creature’s motives for attaining perfection. having published as social commentary employer to join a pilgrimage headed for Many elements of the tale—the long rather than science ction,” Gunn says. the far reaches of the universe to nd a journey through space, the setting far in “But once you’re labeled a science ction Transcendental Machine rumored to the future, the epic scale of a universe writer, it’s dicult to nd an editor who’s confer perfection on any creature that brimming with alien civilizations in willing to see you in any other terms.” enters it. Joining him are pilgrims, some violent conict—are hallmarks of classic Take the reception of his short story human, some alien. Unknown is which space opera. Gunn’s take, characteristically, “e Old Folks.” He sent it to the slicks passengers are secret agents like Riley and is to make the classic new.

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 39 “There aren’t many writers Gunn says, “of what I think is the mission ducing more people into its charms and of science ction: seeking answers to the values, particularly young people.” who in their lifetime can span basic questions of who we are, why are we Gunn’s own impact on subsequent here, how did we get here and where’s it all generations was on vivid display at the whole modern history of going to end?” WorldCon this summer. At the tribute a genre. Jim can. In some ese questions, Gunn notes, are the banquet—attended by movers and shakers same questions religions raise. “Science of the science ction and fantasy eld— ways, his career represents ction is trying to do the same sorts of someone asked those who’d studied with things that religions do,” he says, “but Gunn to stand. the main thread of science without presenting any de nitive answers.” “Something like 40 writers, editors and ﬁction’s development.” In 2007, the Science Fiction and Fantasy publishers stood up,” recalls Kij Johnson, Writers of America named Gunn a Grand who is also associate director of the Gunn —John Kessel Master, an honor that recognizes his Center. “e center, to my mind, is one of lifetime achievements as a writer, scholar his greatest contributions to science and teacher of science ction. Only 29 ction, because it was the rst academic writers have earned the research center to address the study of “I view it as going back to elite designation since the science ction literature as form—and an old traditional form to award was started in 1975, that’s really impressive. But his impact on bring it up to date and see among them such giants the eld is not just that he organized its how it’s been transformed as Robert Heinlein, Isaac study to a large extent or that he wrote by what has happened in Asimov, Ray Bradbury, important ction, it’s that he aected so the eld,” Gunn says. “It’s a Arthur C. Clarke and many people who then became writers and

return 60 years later with ARCHIVES ASSOCIATION ALUMNI KU Ursula Le Guin. In his editors and professors.” what I hope are greater acceptance speech, Gunn Because of Gunn, McKitterick says, KU skills, greater accomplish- explained a phrase he has been for years a magnet for people ment. I certainly hope I’ve signs to e-mails and who want to study, teach and write science learned something.” letters: “Let’s save the ction. “And all these people have gone o e biggest dierence world through science and spread the gospel of Jim, to the point now is the emphasis on ction.” that it’s almost impossible to nd a portion ideas in addition to action. “It’s hyperbole, of of North American science ction—and e Transcendental Machine is a device course,” Gunn said. “I’m not sure the parts of European science ction as that can realize the potential of any world is in danger of destruction, though well—that were not inuenced by Jim creature that passes through it, instantly it may be, and if it is I’m not sure anyone Gunn.” achieving the goal toward which evolution or anything can save it. But I think we Transcendental may be the last novel he is inexorably driving all living things at its need to try, not in any speci c way but in writes, Gunn says. But it won’t be for lack own, much slower pace, “the one thing,” the spreading of science ction’s capabili- of ideas. He already has scenarios in mind Gunn says, “that life is all about: nal ties as far as we can. From my earliest for the two sequels, and he is entertaining perfection.” By making it the object of his contacts with SF, I recognized qualities the idea of having McKitterick and characters’ quest, Gunn addresses the that I did not nd in other kinds of ction: Johnson write alternating chapters with notion (expressed in Cory and Alexei a realization of the continuity of existence him. “We would have a sort of trilogy of Panshin’s book about Golden Age science from the remote past to the distant future, writers,” he says with delight. “I don’t think ction, e World Beyond the Hill) that the the relationship of present decisions and it’s ever been done that way, and I’m genre itself is all about transcendence. actions to the futures we and our descen- always interested in trying new things.” Gunn himself has argued, in many of his dants will inhabit, a recognition of mutual What an apt result of Gunn’s long run of essays over the years, that science ction is humanity that emphasizes species con- wonder years at play among the stars: at strongly inuenced by Darwin’s theory of cerns above those of individuals or tribes aer writing his summing up, aer evolution. It’s the one genre that deals with or nations, a willingness to work together tackling the big ideas of science ction’s the idea that humanity is changing, he for a better world, and general good will. very purpose and bringing his own believes, the one genre which recognizes “H. G. Wells said that the world was in a substantial contribution to this restless, that by transforming our environment— race between education and catastrophe, questing form into focus, James Gunn especially our technologies—we are also and called for an ‘open conspiracy’ of arrives at a point where more books are transforming ourselves. people of good will to create a better required to tell the story, more lessons are “I do think Transcendental represents a world. I think SF is a major part of that le to learn, and more questions need to nal summing up of what I’ve learned,” education, and we all can help by intro- be asked.

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Association

More than 2,000 volunteers help carry out the Association’s VALERIE SPICHER VALERIE programs to strengthen KU. The Mildred Clodfelter and Dick Wintermote awards recognize

COURTESEY MARTIN AND CYNTHIA BLAIR AND CYNTHIA MARTIN COURTESEY their work and honor the memory of Association leaders who recruited countless volunteers.

Martin and Cynthia Blair David and Gunda Hiebert

Millie’s legacy have helped recruit prospective students at and participated in the search for a new college fairs, and they have hosted museum director. ey are members of Local volunteers continue congratulatory lunches for new students the Chancellors Club, and David is an at their restaurant. Cindy, a third-genera- Alumni Association Life Member and tradition of veteran sta member tion Jayhawk, has served on the Chancel- Endacott Society member. As a radiolo- lor’s Advisory Board for three years. She gist, he worked at several northeast Kansas lumni from San Diego, Denver, continues to work as an architect, while hospitals, including the Watkins Memorial AEllinwood and Lawrence are the Martin operates Kansas City Barbeque. Hospital. He also served as the team winners of the 2013 Mildred Clodfelter Hiebert and his wife, Gunda, have been physician for KU athletes from 1971 to Alumni Award. ey are Martin, g’76, and devoted patrons of the arts of KU, opening 1988. Gunda was co-owner of e Bay Cynthia Steineger Blair, a’74, a’75; David, their Lawrence Leaf in downtown Lawrence. m’61, and Gunda Hiebert, ’76; Charles home for more than Rhoades, a third-generation Jayhawk Rhoades, c’03; and Monty Strecker, b’80. 700 musical recitals and Association Life Member, has served e “Millie” recognizes Jayhawks who featuring students, the Denver Chapter in several leadership have served as KU ambassadors in their faculty and visiting roles since 2004, currently as the social

local communities for 10 years or more, artists. For each MONTY STRECKER COURTESY chairman. He was instrumental in craing and it honors the performance, the new alumni events for the chapter and memory of Clodfel- Hieberts welcome continues to welcome new Jayhawks to the ter, b’41, for her 47 20 to 25 guests to Denver area. Charlie is a senior nancial years of service to their home, which Monty Strecker adviser for US Bank. the University— also has become a Strecker, of Ellinwood, has volunteered including 42 years favorite bed-and-breakfast, oering free in the Great Bend area for many years and COURTESY CHARLES RHOADES COURTESY working at the lodging for visiting faculty and guest served on the Association’s national Board Association. artists of the School of Music. ey have of Directors from 2003 to 2006. He helped As Alumni served on the dean’s Camerata, with develop the Golden Belt Chapter in 2006 Charles Rhoades Association Life Gunda as chair, and they helped bring the and served as president. He has also Members and KU annual International Institute for Young volunteered as a member of Jayhawks for Endowment Chancellors Club members, Musicians to Lawrence each summer. ey Higher Education since the 1990s, and has the Blairs have volunteered in the San also have volunteered for the Lied Center supported the local Kansas Honors Diego area, and their restaurant, Kansas as members of the Friends of the Lied Program. He is currently a Presidents Club City Barbeque, has been a haven for board, serving a combined ve terms. member. Monty serves as president of Jayhawks and a KU watch site for 30 years. ey have served on the School of Fine INA Alert Inc., A/R Management and Martin served on the board of the San Arts advisory board, and they are mem- Cornerstone Healthcare. He also serves as Diego chapter for more than 10 years, bers of the Friends of the Spencer Museum managing partner for Country Place including four years as president. ey of Art; Gunda led the board as president Senior Living.

42 | KANSAS ALUMNI Chapter champs Day. Since 2011, Denning has directed the Association, rst became involved with University’s O ce of Graduate Military the Association when he helped revitalize Leaders chalk up banner years Programs, leading KU’s eorts to promote the Tampa Bay Chapter in Florida. Aer advanced academic and research initia- moving to Colorado he became president for alumni groups tives in support of the U.S. Armed Forces. of the Denver Chapter in 2011. With his ive energetic Association leaders are He oversees the Wounded Warrior executive board, he has helped plan more Fthe 2013 winners of the Dick Winter- Education and Scholarship programs. He than 25 events during the year, including mote Volunteer of the Year Award. ey retired in 2009 as a colonel from the U.S. networking are Kent Colvin of the Southwest Kansas Marine Corps following 27 years of breakfasts, happy Chapter; Mike Denning, c’82, of the service, including three tours in Iraq and hours, museum Veterans Alumni Chapter; Steve Dillard, one in Afghanistan. He is an Association tours and watch c’75, of the Wichita Chapter; Rita Holmes- Life Member. parties. e chapter Bobo, b’82, g’84, of the Black Alumni Dillard currently leads the Wichita also attends Denver KENT COLVIN COURTESY Chapter; and Sean O’Grady, j’04, of the Chapter as president. As an Association Nuggets and Denver Chapter. Life Member, he has served on the chapter Rockies games. He e award annually recognizes alumni board for six years, and has been a host, is a brand manager who have exhibited outstanding leadership sponsor and attendee of the Jayhawk for Paulaner HP Kent Colvin of their local chapters. Dick Wintermote, Roundup, Wichita’s annual fall event that USA. c’51, served as executive director of the includes hundreds of alumni and friends. Association from 1963 to 1983, helping to He is also a member of the Association’s build a strong volunteer network of Presidents Club. He is vice president of Jayhawks through the years. Pickrell Drilling Co. Colvin, assoc., who lives in Liberal, Holmes-Bobo, of Ballwin, Mo., com- COURTESY MIKE DENNING COURTESY helped start the Southwest Kansas Chapter pleted her second year as president of the DILLARD STEVE COURTESY seven years ago and continues to assist Black Alumni Chapter in November. She with chapter events, including the annual has volunteered for many leadership roles Southwest Jayhawk Tumble. He is also a in the chapter and has helped organize member of the Association’s Presidents several reunions. During the past year, the Mike Denning Steve Dillard Club. He is chief operations o cer for chapter has hosted events in Kansas City, High Plains Pizza. Houston, Chicago and Washington, D.C., Denning helped found the Veterans and celebrated the 2013 graduates with its Alumni Chapter in 2012, and he leads the annual Congratulatory Graduation group as president. To continue a tradition Banquet in May. e chapter also contin- shared by all branches of military service, ued its African-American Leaders and

the chapter created its own Challenge Innovators Project, honoring nine alumni SEAN O’GRADY COURTESY

Coin for chapter members. e group for their outstanding professional contri- HOLMES-BOBO RITA COURTESY hosted the Veterans Day Run and, with butions. Holmes-Bobo is president and Kansas Athletics, the chapter designated a CEO of Niles Home for Children. KU football game as a Salute to Service O’Grady, an annual member of the Rita Holmes-Bobo Sean O’Grady

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e’re thrilled to announce a new beneﬁt for Alumni Association members: EARL RICHARDSON Wa 10 percent discount at the Lied Center! The discount is available on all “Lied Center Presents” performances. Contact the Lied Center ticket oce at (785) 864-2780 to take advantage of the discount. Be sure to have your KU Alumni Association membership number ready when you call. Visit lied.ku.edu to view the list of upcoming Lied Center Presents performances.

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 43 Association Life Members DAN STOREY (3) STOREY DAN he Association thanks these Jayhawks, who began their Life Tmemberships Sept. 1 through Oct. 31. For information, visit kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957.

Robert R. & Melanie J. Gregory F. & Ann Litman Anderson Geier Ryan F. Anderson David C. & Brenda Rowley Michael D. & Patricia A. Ardis Gray Zeinab Baba Debra J. Gray Stephen R. Bartelt Bevan J. Graybill Valentine R. Baumann & Brian Bryan E. Greve J. O’Kane David M. Gunter Black Alumni Chapter Reunion Matt Beverlin Michael R. & Jennifer Hurst Professor Bill Tuttle presented an African-American Leader and Samir Bhakta Gunter Innovator award to Lynette Woodard, c’81, one of nine recipients of the Carla Zimmerman G. Derril & Roberta Gray honor. “He has been my friend since 1977,” she said, “before he even Bingenheimer Gwinner knew I could play basketball.” More than 100 alumni celebrated KU Scott A. Boland Scott R. Haas friendships during the Nov. 1-2 reunion, including Charlie Thurston, e’62; Ingo & Seameen Dehdashti Leah Hackler Calvin Young, ’75; and Duane Vann, ’73, along with Muriel Carter, b’86, Brachmann Barry D. & Cynthia Zedler and Anita Moore Metoyer, h’89, g’10, who organized the weekend. Thomas R. Brandt Halpern Jack V. Brooks Omar B. Hamid Buy Brown Brummett Derek G. Hannon Michael W. Brungardt Israel J. L. Harris Tyler L. Buck Stephen S. & Jocelyn Avery Vicki L. Callahan Havener Stephen L. Caruthers Mark C. Heck Julie Stephanchick Chaney James A. Hiatt Sarah Stewart Cheatum Kelsey Hill Steven & M. Kathleen Chip Hilleary Christian Ernest V. & Claire Burghardt Grace E. Clark Hodge Tell B. Copening Melanie Nivens Holman Ladonna D. Dabbs Todd R. & Jodi N. Holmes Mary Rothwell Davis Steven A. Hood Allyn M. Denning Zackary J. & Emily Knopp Jennifer Dennis Hood Kari Schaefer Duede William J. Howard III Andrew M. & Sylvia Batres Curtis G. Huckshorn Duncan Charles A. Hughes Barbara S. Durbin Alexandra R. Hyler Debbie J. Elder Thomas L. Ice Michael K. Engelken & Amanda Long Jackson & Monica S.Scheibmeir Anthony Kory Jackson Yvette L. Fevurly Christopher A. Jones Joseph P. Fitzgerald Karla D. Keeney Monica N. Foltz Kristen M. Kocen Trevor A. Freeman Michael R. & Cheryl L. Kuss Kelsie B. Froebe Monica R. Garza continued to page 46

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To review all membership levels and benefits, please visit www.kualumni.org/join Association continued from page 44 Luke L. Ryan Mark K. Schroeder Jayhawk Roundup Daniel Lee Kate L. Sellens Megan J. Lemon Shawn M. Shroyer More than 450 Jayhawks attended the Jayhawk Roundup Nov. 2 in Danny B. Lewis Jeremy T. & Lindsay Douglass Wichita. “Jayhawk Roundup Up and Away,” the theme for the 11th Tracie D. Lewis Shull edition of the tradition, highlighted Wichita’s aviation history. As in Hsun Lin Allison Coleman Smith years past, David, b’75, e’75, and Janet Lusk Murﬁn, d’75, hosted the Kerri L. Loepp Laura Hedges Smith event at their stables. Je Kennedy, j’81, Alumni Association national Katherine Beasley Martin & Sean R. & Meggi Sweeney chair, and his wife, Patti Gorham, chaired the festivities. The silent Thomas B. Martin Smith auction included a “wine pull,” in which bidders had the chance to win Suzanne A. Mayse Amy Blosser Spikes premium selections. Monster Entertainment of Chicago coaxed Kevin McGinnis Paul K. Stuewe participants to the dance ﬂoor with creative antics. Albert J. & Tinie Fernandez Kellie R. Stump Mercado Matthew J. Taranto Lisa A. Merriman Jerome S. Tilzer Soon O. Merz Charles M. Toomey DAN STOREY (5) STOREY DAN William A. Miller Cyrus L. Tuttle & Heidi A. Andrew Q. Milleret Williams Priyadarshini Mishra Jerey K. & Julie A. Unruh Joshua C. & Sarrah Sims Melissa L. Vancrum Moulin Russell Vanderlinden Ralph F. Nason Jr. Michael R. Wasikowski Justin Pins James K. Weber & Virginia Judith J. K. Polson Lozano-Weber Brandon S. & Lauren Lynette J. Weil Spurgeon Pope Jerey R. & Anita Johnson Cynthia Ramey Wesche David E. Ramos Kim Gormley White & Kevin J. Jerey A. & Anne Fritzlen White Randolph Bryan M. Wick & Melissa Christopher S. & Abigail Pereau Morris Raynolds Linda G. Wiley Timothy A. & Brynn McNeil Stephen K. & Marta R. Richardson Williamson Tyler C. Rockers James L. Wordsworth Joel W. Rotert Mark A. & Karen M. Zecy

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by Karen Goodell Class Notes

John, c’51, l’56, and Millicent Hunt Award from the Mortar Board National U.S. District Court judge, and Karen 51 Wesley, d’53, make their home in College Senior Honor Society. He is vice Neeley Belot, ’75, live in Wichita. Cave Creek, Ariz., where he’s semi-retired president emeritus and professor of and she keeps busy with volunteer work. education at the University of Miami. Kay Orth Kendall, c’67, wrote Donald Johnston, d’56, l’66, retired as 67 Desolation Row, a historical mystery Dean Smith, d’53, was named by senior commercial relationship manager at published by Stairway Press. She and her 53 President Barack Obama to receive Intrust Bank in Lawrence, where he and husband, Bruce, live in Houston. the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Dean his wife, Alice Ann, assoc., live. Robert Mowry, c’67, g’74, g’75, became coached basketball at the University of senior consultant to the Asian art depart- North Carolina from 1961 to 1997 and Robert Hartley, j’58, wrote Battle- ment at Christie’s in New York City. He retired as the winningest coach in college 58 ground 1948: Truman, Stevenson, had been senior curator and head of Asian basketball history. He continues to live in Douglas and the Most Surprising Election art at the Harvard Art Museum. Chapel Hill. in Illinois History. He and Mary Carttar Patricia Goering Smith, c’67, wrote Hartley, d’58, live in Westminster, Colo. Revolution Revisited: Behind the Scenes in e Hon. Nancy Landon Kasse- Communist East Germany, which will be 54 baum Baker, c’54, received the Stanley Vermillion, c’60, m’64, published soon. She’s a freelance writer Gordon Parks Choice of Weapons Award 60 practices medicine with the East and photographer in Ocean Shores, Wash., in October at the Gordon Parks Celebra- Tennessee Medical Association in Johnson where she and her husband, Bill, d’60, tion of Culture and Diversity in Fort Scott. City. He and his wife, Pam, live in Gray. make their home. She and her husband, Howard Baker, live in Burdick. H.F. Cotton Smith, j’62, won the David Barr, d’68, l’73, practices law 62 Western Writers of America’s Spur 68 in Lawrence. He and his wife, William Butler, EdD’56, received the Award for the best audiobook of 2013 for Shirley, live in Lake Quivira. 56 Distinguished Lifetime Membership his novel Ring of Fire. Cotton and his wife, Stephanie Caple Doughty, c’68, is a Sonya, live in Mission Hills. broker with HomeQuest Realtors in Kailua, Hawaii. She and her husband, School Codes Letters that follow names Yale Dolginow, c’64, g’66, works as John, c’68, live in Kaneohe. indicate the school from which alumni earned 64 a consultant for ElanStrategic in degrees. Numbers show their class years. Minneapolis, Minn. He and Diane Wolf Gaylord Dold, c’69, g’76, wrote Dolginow, a School of Architecture, d’65, live in Edina. 69 three e-books, e Nickel Jolt, Same Design and Planning Michael McDowell, d’64, g’67, is chief Old Sun, Same Old Moon and e Swarm- b School of Business executive ocer for the Heartland ing Stage, which were released by Premiere c College of Liberal Arts Consumers Power District. He and his Digital Publishing of Los Angeles. He lives and Sciences wife, Barbara, live in Olathe. in Wichita. d School of Education Franklin Shobe, c’64, g’77, makes his Gary Turner, c’69, g’71, directs quality e School of Engineering home in Muncie, Ind., where he’s an systems for Lanx Inc. in Broom eld, Colo. f School of Fine Arts Kathleen Redenbaugh Turner, g Master’s Degree assistant professor at Ball State University. He and h School of Health Professions d’70, live in Fort Collins. j School of Journalism Larry Armel, b’65, l’68, works as an l School of Law 65 independent director for BMO Ronald Fessenden, m’70, wrote m School of Medicine Funds. He and his wife, JoAnne, live in 70 Feed Your Brain First: e Honey n School of Nursing Leawood. Revolution Series-Part 3, published p School of Pharmacy Andrzej Bartke, PhD’65, was the 2013 by Xulon Press. He and Jennie Veith PharmD School of Pharmacy Fessenden, s School of Social Welfare recipient of the Robert W. Kleemeier n’68, live in Issaquah, Wash. u School of Music Award from the Gerontological Society of Robert Jensen, b’70, is an accountant DE Doctor of Engineering America. He is a research professor and at Metropolitan Community College in DMA Doctor of Musical Arts director of geriatric research in the Kansas City. He lives in Overland Park. EdD Doctor of Education internal medicine department at Southern Nancy Knox Todd, d’70, was inducted PhD Doctor of Philosophy Illinois University in Spring eld. into the Lawrence High School Alumni (no letter) Former student Monti Belot III, c’65, l’68, was inducted Association’s Hall of Fame. She’s a assoc Associate member of the Alumni Association into the Lawrence High School Alumni Democratic state senator from Aurora, Association’s Hall of Fame. Monti, a Colo., where she and her husband,

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Terry, ’84, make their home. to play “e Star-Spangled Banner” at Kent Snyder, p’76, is chairman of every Major League Baseball stadium. He Senomyx in San Diego. He and Cynthia Russell Daniels Jr., b’71, appeared in and his wife, Elizabeth, live in Estero, Fla. Heaston Snyder, ’76, make their home in 71 the Discovery Channel documentary Sarah Harrison Jackson, f’74, a techni- Rancho Santa Fe. e Secrets of Money. He’s executive vice cal editor for Handwoven magazine, won president of administration and risk an award for weaving from the Handweav- Toni Dixon, j’77, directs corporate management at Dunbar Armored in Hunt ers Guild of America. Sarah and her 77 communication at Aldersgate Valley, Md. He and his wife, Marcy, live in husband, William, l’73, live in Santa Ana, Village in Topeka. She lives in Lawrence. Timonium. Calif. Charles Hunter, c’77, l’80, g’83, manages Frank Wright IV, c’71, was named Robert Simison, j’74, is editor at large of commercial banking for Bank of Kansas executive vice president of Capitol Federal Bloomberg News. He lives in Novato, City. He and his wife, DeAnn, live in Savings Bank. He and his wife, Cynthia, Calif., with his wife, Susan. Overland Park. ’10, live in Lawrence. Mark Winter, ’77, is golf-course superin- Thane Hodson, c’75, joined the tendent at the Columbus Country Club. Linda Greenberg, j’73, recently 75 public nance and incentives group He and his wife, Donna, assoc., make their 73 became a principal of Lee & at Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & home in Columbus. Associates, a commercial real-estate Cannada in Denver. provider in San Diego. She lives in La Jolla. Forrest Pommerenke, m’75, leads the Mark Hamilton, b’78, received the Merle Nunemaker, c’73, was elected occupational medicine team at Doctors 78 senior-level healthcare Executive president of the Missouri Dental Associa- Care in Greenville, S.C. He and his wife, Regent’s Award from the American tion. He and his wife, Vicki, live in Lee’s Janette, live in Simpsonville. College of Healthcare Executives. He is Summit, and he practices dentistry in vice president of ambulatory services for Kansas City. Michael Go, j’76, was promoted to the University of Wisconsin Hospital and 76 president of Premier Sports Man- Clinics in Madison. James Doepke, d’74, directs agement in Overland Park. He and Bobbi Kevin Hawley, e’78, g’80, recently 74 educational outreach for Conn- Toalson Go, c’79, make their home in became principal engineer at Blackhawk Selmer. He is currently working on a quest Leawood. Modi cations. He lives in Salina.

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James Muehlberger, c’78, l’82, wrote Austin, Texas, law rm of Jackson Walker. Gabrielle Thompson, l’82, is a partner in e Lost Cause: e Trials of Frank and the law rm of ompson & Bailey in Jesse James, which recently was reviewed Patricia Weems Gaston, j’81, Manhattan, where she and her husband, by the New York Times. He’s a partner in 81 co-chairs the diversity and inclusion Oliver Weaver, make their home. the Kansas City law rm of Shook, Hardy task force of the American Association of Louis Wetzel, m’82, was elected chief of & Bacon. Jim and Jayme Klein Muehl- University Women and is a Leadership sta at the KU Medical Center in Kansas berger, j’92, live in Overland Park. Institute Fellow with the Center for City. He and his wife, Jane, live in American Progress. She lives in Herndon, Westwood. Nancy Dressler Borst, j’79, coordi- Va. 79 nates communications for Kingman Thomas Johnson, c’81, l’88, is a partner James Nadler, c’83, joined the County in Kingman. in the Lawrence law rm of Pete sh, 83 advisory board of DealVector. He’s Janet Walters King, n’79, is clinical Immel, Heeb & Hird. also president and CEO of Kroll Bond director for Hospice Advantage in Joseph Vyhanek, e’81, g’92, has been Ratings in New York City. His home is in Overland Park. She and her husband, promoted to principal in ornton West Hartford, Conn. Terry, live in Leawood. Tomasetti in Kansas City. He and Martha Brian Shepard, f’79, teaches composi- Ruhl Vyhanek, d’81, g’97, make their home Steven Hood, b’84, is senior tion and electro-acoustic music at Texas in Overland Park. 84 director of soware tools and Christian University in Fort Worth. services development at Hitachi Data Mark Downey, b’82, is national Systems in Overland Park. Richard Konzem, b’80, is president 82 director of business development at Karen Kelly, m’84, is associate director 80 of Championship Consulting, Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care. He for clinical research at the University of where Debra Vignatelli-Konzem, c’77, and his wife, Michele, live in Lawrence. California-Davis Comprehensive Cancer d’78, is managing director. eir home is Farrokh Moshiri, c’82, g’83, lectures Center. She lives in Sacramento. in Lawrence. about management at the University of David Sullivan, b’84, is a principal in Steven Sloan, c’80, is a partner in the California and wrote a book, Management DMS Consulting. He and his wife, Laurie, Dallas rm of ompson & Knight. Communication: An Anthology. He lives in make their home in Minneapolis, Minn. Mark Steiner, c’80, is a partner in the Mira Loma. Kenneth Williams, e’84, g’86, was

54 | KANSAS ALUMNI named president and CEO of the Catholic ment at the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia, Maja Mataric, c’87, serves on the Charities of Northeast Kansas and the Liberia. biomedical computing and health infor- Catholic Foundation of Northeast Kansas. matics study section of the National He and Diane Eatwell Williams, b’82, live Curt Skoog, b’86, is vice president Institutes of Health Center for Scienti c in Olathe. 86 of business development at Orion Review. She is a professor of computer in Overland Park. He and Amy Tebbutt science at the University of Southern John Bower, j’85, is a STEM teacher Skoog, h’86, live in Shawnee Mission. California in Los Angeles, where her 85 for District 41 in Glen Ellyn, Ill. husband, Richard Roberts, c’87, is a Steven Combs, g’85, has been named Paul Barter, e’87, is vice president professor of chemistry. dean of arts at Edinboro University of 87 and group leader of commercial Pennsylvania. consulting at Environmental Systems Christopher Bailey, c’88, l’93, is a Patrick Lewis, j’85, c’85, l’88, is a Design in Chicago. He and Shereen Khani 88 partner in the law rm of omp- criminal defense lawyer in Olathe. Barter, c’92, live in Deer eld. son & Bailey in Manhattan, where he and Edgar Thornton III, g’85, serves with the James Berglund, b’87, l’92, practices law his wife, Sandy, make their home. U.S. Agency for International Develop- with ompson & Knight in Dallas. Katie Barmettler, d’88, has been named

PROFILE by Margie Carr

Advocate ﬁnds food is the were able to sell goods outside the focus of big questions commune or collective,” she says. “ere was incredible excitement as you’d see LAWRENCE KATHY COURTESY or Kathy Lawrence of School Food these farmers on the street corners with FFOCUS, success can be measured in their wheelbarrows full of seedlings.” chicken legs: 1 million chicken legs, free of She wondered how China would feed antibiotics and additives, that replaced the masses of people leaving the country- thousands of pounds of processed chicken side for cities. Who would have access patties in Chicago’s public schools. to these markets and what would the FOCUS (Food Options for Children in impact be? Urban Schools) trains lunchroom workers Aer graduation, she moved to New to prepare meals with fresh, healthy York City to join a rm that exported ingredients. Part of the challenge is getting machinery to China. She studied eco- the ingredients to schools in the rst place. nomic and political development at “Agricultural supply chains are very Columbia University, worked at an organic To protect the environment, combat hunger and consolidated and aren’t set up to oer farm in Maine and volunteered at the ﬁght for social justice, Kathy Lawrence focuses healthy options for schools,” Lawrence United Nations, helping nongovernmental on food. “Food brings all these dierent things says. FOCUS leverages the purchasing agencies navigate the “incredibly opaque” together in a real way,” she says. power of districts to obtain fresh produce, U.N. system. grains and milk. In Chicago, she helped “I le Columbia and the U.N. with a connect schools with nearby Amish farms. healthy dose of skepticism,” she says. Joining School Food FOCUS in 2008 e seeds of this idea (and the roots of “With all of the disease, racism and other allowed Lawrence to continue her advo- her career as a food advocate) she traces to intractable problems facing our world it’s cacy on a much larger scale. her study abroad experience at KU. easy to get discouraged.” “It’s hard for individual food directors to Lawrence, c’85, spent her junior year in Instead, she founded Just Food, a have any real power to move the dial China, where she expected to improve her nonpro t agency that organizes CSAs toward more positive changes,” she says, language skills; what she didn’t anticipate (Community Supported Agriculture) to “but I am working with wonderfully was the impact the experience would have connect communities to local farms. progressive people who want to make on her views of economics, industry, the Today it guides more than 100 CSAs in those changes, and it’s very rewarding to environment and social justice—areas that the New York area, organizes community bring them together to do that.” became the focus of her life’s work. farms and oers nutrition and cooking —Carr, d’84, g’89, PhD’03, is a Lawrence “It was ’83-’84, the rst time farmers classes in low-income neighborhoods. freelance writer.

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 55 an educator of the year by the Archdiocese in New York. He and his wife, Lina, live in Susana Namnum, l’91, was promoted to of Omaha. She is principal of Sacred Heart Edison, N.J. counsel at Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & School in Omaha. Andrew DeMarea, e’90, l’93, practices Mosie in New York City, where she makes Molly Mitchell Danciger, l’88, practices law with Kenner Schmitt Nygaard in her home. law with Corporate Counsel Group. She Kansas City. Darin Newbold, b’91, is a partner and her husband, Gary, make their home Kirsten Wertzberger Krug, c’90, is vice channel manager for Bottle Rocket Apps. in Prairie Village. president of administration for the Kansas He and his wife, Ani, assoc., make their City Chiefs football team. She and her home in Plano, Texas. Michael Bedell, b’89, g’91, is acting husband, Robin, ’89, live in Lawrence. 89 dean and professor of management Stephen Wade, j’90, recently became Ming Li, EdD’92, has been at Northeastern Illinois University in publisher of the Morning News in 92 appointed dean of education and Mundelein, where he and his wife, Susan, Florence, S.C. human development at Western Michigan make their home. Ruth Watkins, PhD’90, recently became University in Kalamazoo. Eric Larson, p’89, p’04, directs the senior vice president for academic a airs Mark Milstead, g’92, is a senior patent pharmacy at Avera Queen of Peace at the University of Utah. She lives in Salt attorney with Novartis. He lives in Hospital in Mitchell, S.D., where he and Lake City. Richmond, Calif. his wife, Becky, make their home. Clay Pearson, g’92, received the Edwin Milton Newton, d’89, g’93, recently Joan Archer, PhD’91, l’92, recently O. Stene Award for Managerial Excellence became general manager of the Minnesota 91 became senior counsel of Husch from the KU Managers and Trainees Timberwolves. His wife is Shalaun Hogan Blackwell in Kansas City. Alumni Organization. He’s city manager of Newton, b’91. Troy Hawk, f’91, is a district court clerk Novi, Mich., where he and his wife, for the Lancaster County District Court in Jennifer, make their home. Kristin Bergquist, j’90, directs Lincoln, Neb., where he and Bobbi Jill Peltzer, n’92, g’00, PhD’12, is a 90 education for the Plains Art Chambers Hawk, c’91, make their home. clinical assistant professor of nursing at Museum in Fargo, N.D. Anita Meyer, j’91, has joined the sta of KU Medical Center in Kansas City. Kaushik Dave, g’90, PhD’91, was the Aurora News-Register in Aurora, Neb., Matthew Tarr, c’92, is a senior digital appointed president, chief executive ocer where she and her husband, Jarrod Olson, designer for Chico’s FAS in Fort Myers, and director of Actinium Pharmaceuticals make their home. Fla. He and Jeanette Watson Tarr, c’89,

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j’94, live in Lehigh Acres. Julie Regehr Sizemore, g’93, is vice Atherton, Calif. president of client relations at ZeOmega in Paul Simons, c’94, manages business Gregory Gertz, ’93, a nancial Frisco, Texas. She and her husband, Scott, technology for Walt Disney Park & Resort 93 representative for Northwestern live in Keller. He’s vice president of in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Mutual’s McTigue Financial Group, operations at Preferred Pump and recently received the rm’s Emerald Award Equipment in Fort Worth. Matthew Cobb, c’95, l’98, is vice for his work with clients. He lives in Andrea Grimes Woods, c’93, is execu- 95 president of Dimensional Fund Highland Park, Ill. tive vice president and corporate counsel Advisors in Santa Monica, Calif. He makes Patrick Henderson, l’93, has become a for Nabholz Construction in Conway, his home in Los Angeles. shareholder in Poisinelli PC in Kansas Ark., where she and her husband, Jerey, Scott Davis, g’95, works as a sales City. He makes his home in Olathe. c’92, make their home. He heads the professional at Rusty Eck Ford in Wichita. Edward Hottman, l’93, practices law in department of history and politics at Desiree Fish, j’95, is vice president of Hottman & Associates in Olathe. He and Arkansas Tech University in Russellville. global communications with TripAdvisor his wife, Stacey, live in Overland Park. in New York City, where she and her William McLaughlin Jr., d’93, is princi- Angela Cervantes Antequera, c’94, husband, Lawrence Wilson, live. pal of Shepton High School in Plano, 94 wrote Gaby, Lost and Found, a Andrew Ford, d’95, is an athletic trainer Texas, He and Sherry Darnell McLaughlin, middle-grade novel published by Scholas- at Miami Valley Hospital. He lives in ’93, live in Frisco. tic. She is information o cer of Children Beavercreek, Ohio. Margaret Hellner Miller, g’93, is the art International in Kansas City, and she lives Jennifer Crow Pratt, c’95, manages and design librarian at Louisiana State in Shawnee with her husband, Juan, g’03. customer support for Enghouse Transpor- University. She and her husband, Ed Dunn, e’94, is principal mechanical tation. She lives in St. Louis. David, g’78, g’81, PhD’84, live in Baton engineer with Raytheon Missile Systems. Rouge. He and his wife, Robin, live in Vail, Ariz. Eric Moore, s’96, manages the HIV Kristin Shocklee, n’93, g’96, recently Brad Garlinghouse, c’94, was appointed 96 program for Maricopa Integrated joined the Naples, Fla., o ce of Downing- to the operating committee of Ancestry. Health System in Phoenix, where he lives Frye Realty. com. He and his wife, Kristen, live in with his spouse, Ronald Passarelli.

58 | KANSAS ALUMNI Ariane Siegenthaler Tattersall, a’96, Amy Byers Krenzin, c’97, manages BORN TO: works as an architect with the SGA Design technical projects for Cerner in Kansas Heather Bunker, c’97, and her husband, Group in Tulsa, Okla. She and her City. She and her husband, Brent, b’97, Ken Filsinger, son, Lucas Filsinger, Sept. 9 husband, Richard, live in Broken Arrow. live in Lawrence. He’s an employee in Lawrence, where Heather is a stang Jacqueline Strnad Nugent, c’96, g’01, bene ts representative for Sun Life specialist at Manpower. Ken is a physician was appointed assistant vice president at Financial. assistant at Shawnee Mission Medical the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jennifer Meents, c’97, owns AAA Center. where she heads the bank’s payments Screening Service in Lee’s Summit, Mo., system research department. where she and her husband, Scott Miles, Angela Halbleib Murphy, d’98, g’04, make their home. 98 was inducted into the Wisconsin Kristopher Henkhaus, b’97, is a Zachary Schmidt, e’97, serves as a Basketball Coaches Association Hall of 97 controller for ProPharma Group in lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Fame. She played basketball at Middleton Overland Park. He and Jennifer Smith Corps. He and Nicole Mehring Schmidt, High School, where she now teaches math Henkhaus, ’99, make their home in e’98, live in San Clemente, Calif. Nicole and coaches basketball. While in high Lenexa. works for Lucity Inc. school, she scored 2,378 points, making

PROFILE by Chris Lazzarino STEVE PUPPE STEVE

Jay’s stock image agency “you don’t get 70,000 is big but still boutique pages of tomatoes. You get 10 pages of really good hen Kelly Jay and her partner in GL tomatoes.We don’t accept WStock Images launched their everything that comes business in 2008, they named it Graphic through the door. We’re Leovers, in reference to what they saw as kind of picky. We’re more an un lled niche: a site where artists and on the artistic side.” photographers could market unsold Jay discovered a passion images created in the course of most for design when she was a freelance assignments. But as the agency’s freshman architecture reach spanned the globe, a problem student and wandered Kelly Jay now helps run GL Stock Images from her new home in emerged with the translation. through the gallery in the Lenexa, where she is also returning to a half-time career as a “e Russians complained and said, Art and Design Building; freelance graphic designer. ‘Who would upload their images to a place she promptly changed that sells trash?” Jay, f’85, recalls with a majors and never wavered laugh from her new oce in Lenexa, aer her quick decision. “My absolute favorite thing about GL is where she recently moved from St. Louis With further inspiration provided by the fair royalty that they pay out to artists,” to be closer to her son, Taylor, a KU visiting professionals brought to campus says St. Louis commercial stock photogra- freshman in industrial design. “It started by the Hallmark Design Symposium pher Sean Locke. “at’s a very uncom- out as a good idea, and it grew to the point Series, Jay spent the rst few years of her mon thing in this business.” where people didn’t understand.” career at design agencies in Dallas, then rilled to pay artists fair wages, Jay is Stock photography and design is a returned home to St. Louis, where she equally stressed by those who steal from business long dominated by a few huge spent 15 years working as a designer for both the agency and its contributors. Some agencies that can oer clients selections of the St. Louis Rams before launching a are kids who naively ignore copyright up to 10 million images. While GL Stock freelance career. protections; others are outright thieves Images now boasts 2 million images, Jay Painfully aware that designers and who use stolen credit card numbers to and her partner, web developer Daniel photographers typically get just 10 to 15 haul in huge loads of images for resale. Errante, still see GL as a boutique agency percent of sales generated on stock sites, “It’s just like the music industry. that charges fair prices for premium Jay and Errante chose to pay 52 percent; Anything digital that can be downloaded images: If a client goes to glstockimages. they now have more than 4,000 contribu- can technically be shared. You can’t com to search for tomatoes, Jay explains, tors and 5,000 daily image uploads. regulate it as much as you’d like.”

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 59 Class Notes her one of the top-ranked players in the Verizon in Tulsa, Okla. He lives in Owasso. Tyler Epp, l’03, is vice president of state. Corey Snyder, d’01, works as a physical 03 business development for the Samuel Wendt, c’98, practices law with therapist at Spectrum Health in Grand Kansas City Chiefs football team. Wendt Goss in Kansas City. He and Tanya Rapids, Mich. Barbie Katz, s’03, is a unit secretary with Rodecker Wendt, l’05, live in Leawood, Monica Tsethlikai, g’01, PhD’05, teaches the United States Penitentiary in and she’s an associate attorney with Deacy statistics and child development at Leavenworth. & Deacy in Kansas City. Sam recently was Arizona State University in Phoenix. Brianna Lentell, s’03, s’06, is assistant accepted into the Multi-Million Dollar Christi Hilker Vaglio, l’01, is a partner in women’s soccer coach at Washington Advocates Forum. the Kansas City law rm of Husch College in Chestertown, Md. Jerey Zoss, j’98, recently became vice Blackwell. Patrick Lytle, b’03, manages nancial president of national sales for the Grocery Gregory Woolen, c’01, is director of the reporting for SM Energy Company in Shopping Network in Minneapolis, Minn. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. He Denver. He and his wife, Sarah, ’03, live in and his wife, Alicia, ’02, make their home Littleton. Tara Lightle Barnes, f’99, was in Fort Worth, Texas. John Matsko Jr., g’03, is associate 99 named 2013-14 Outstanding James Wordsworth, c’01, manages executive director of the Razorback Elementary Art Educator by the Kansas global operations support for Fort Motor Foundation in Fayetteville, Ark. Art Education Association. She teaches at in Dearborn, Mich. He lives in Ecorse. Cedar Hills Elementary School in Stilwell BORN TO: and lives in Prairie Village with her Nick Bradford, c’02, was named Leslie Putnam Hansen, c’03, and Brent, husband, Michael. 02 assistant basketball coach at son, Brady David, July 26 in Omaha, Neb., Mark Presnell, PhD’99, recently was Missouri Southern State University in where Leslie is an ER nurse at Children’s appointed executive director of University Joplin. Hospital and Medical Center. eir family Career Services at Northwestern Univer- Carolyn Coulson, b’02, l’05, is a principal includes a daughter, Korie, who’s 2. sity in Evanston, Ill. at Park Madison Partners in New York Joy Larson Maxwell, c’03, j’03, and Great for every KU Fan on your list! City, where she makes her home. Kevin, e’05, daughter, Reece Coleen, June Amy Fowler, l’00, is a partner in Marie Dispenza, j’02, is director of 25 in Prairie Villiage, where she joins a For the first time, KU’s storied history comes to life in limited edition 00 HROI, a Kansas City law rm. charities for the Kansas City Royals brother, Luke. Joy directs legacy relations 3-D pictures (24”W x 18”H) that depict the rich tradition of Chad Iske, d’00, lives in Philadelphia, baseball team. for the KU Alumni Association. Kansas basketball. The two-piece set is filled with iconic images where he’s assistant coach of the Philadel- Jason Glasrud, c’02, manages develop- phia 76ers. ment for CarrBaierCrandall CBC Real- Bryce Canfield, b’04, directs that will excite and inspire Jayhawk fans and lovers of basketball Timothy Langan, b’00, recently became Estate Group in Kansas City. 04 national sales for UnitedHealthcare everywhere. Comes with commemorative guide book. chief operating ocer of Investers Realty Michael Lary, f’02, recently joined the in San Francisco. He and his wife, Stacy, This guide book identifies the pieces’ 61 individual in Omaha, Neb., where he and his wife, board of the Vancouver Downtown live in La Canada Flintridge. Elizabeth, make their home. Association. He’s a partner in Source Gentry Davis, d’04, is a customer- images, explains their significance and places them in context Jerey Nachbor, g’00, is chief nancial Climbing Center in Vancouver, Wash. relations representative for the Kansas City in the more than century-long history of Kansas basketball. ocer of ConvergeOne in St. Paul, Minn. Brice McIver, e’02, works as a soware Chiefs football team. He makes his home consultant at Keyhole Soware in in Overland Park. Eric Barber, g’01, is president and Leawood. He and Suzanne Martinez Aaron Hirst, p’04, owns Northgate 01 chief executive ocer of Mary McIver, c’04, h’05, g’09, live in Lenexa. Pharmacy and Hutchinson Drug Store in “Every KU fan should have one of these. What a unique way to showcase KU’s Lanning Healthcare in Hastings, Neb. Sarah Miley, c’02, is a senior implemen- Hutchinson. unmatched tradition. Every time you look at these you see something new. Julie Crain, PhD’01, recently became tation specialist at DCI. She lives in Nicholas Kallail, d’04, l’07, supervises And they bring back such great memories!” principal of Shawnee Mission West High Overland Park. accounts for e Marketing Arm in School in Overland Park. She and her Eric Snider, c’02, practices law with Dallas. —Max Falkenstien, Legendary KU Broadcaster, 1946-2006 husband, Ehimios Zaharopoulos, live in Smith Moore Leatherwood in Raleigh, Shawnee. N.C., where he and Alison Snider, g’11, BORN TO: “There is only one place in college basketball that can say, ‘It all started here.’ Matthew Fohlmeister, c’01, is EHS make their home. He also was selected to Jason Sanders, c’04, and Belinda, Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, Ks. These pictures are a must-have if you are manager for Sprint Nextel in Overland join the 2013-’14 Leadership Raleigh class, daughter, Violet, July 27 in Roanoke, passionate about KU basketball. It has all been captured in these two Park. He and Holly Widler Fohlmeister, which is sponsored by the Greater Raleigh Texas. Jason teaches high-school science 3-D renditions of Kansas basketball history.” c’01, live in Olathe, where she is a pre- Chamber of Commerce. for the Lewisville Independent School school director. Elizabeth Boldridge Tovar, c’02, g’10, District. —Bud Stallworth, Legendary KU Basketball Player, 1970-1972. Yamil Garcia, d’01, g’03, works as an PhD’12, is associate athletics director for Joshua Williamson, j’04, and Sarah, son, astronaut health integration scientist for student-athlete academic services at the Jack omas, June 28 in Lawrence, where Wyle. He lives in Pasadena, Calif. University of Iowa in Iowa City, where she Joshua is assistant meet director for the Visit 3DSportsArt.com for store locations to view them in person. Ryan Heape, c’01, is a senior analyst at and her husband, Steve, live. Kansas Relays. Available at the KU Bookstore and KUBookstore.com and other fine retailers.

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For the first time, KU’s storied history comes to life in limited edition 3-D pictures (24”W x 18”H) that depict the rich tradition of Kansas basketball. The two-piece set is filled with iconic images that will excite and inspire Jayhawk fans and lovers of basketball everywhere. Comes with commemorative guide book. This guide book identifies the pieces’ 61 individual images, explains their significance and places them in context in the more than century-long history of Kansas basketball.

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Thomas Degenhardt, g’05, is a live in Atlanta. Jae is a research associate for KU’s Center 05 public-works services team leader Allison Reeve, c’06, is a cataloging for Research Methods-Data Analysis. for BHC Rhodes, a civil engineering and technical services librarian at the KU Law eir family includes a son, Louie, 2. surveying rm in Leawood. He lives in Library. She lives in Lawrence. Kansas City. Marisol Romero Romo, c’06, is a senior Lindsay Barnett, j’07, manages Eric Gold, c’05, e’05, is a senior technol- analyst for media relations, marketing and 07 accounts for Intouch Solutions in ogy architect for Cerner in Kansas City. communications with Payless ShoeSource Overland Park. He lives in Leawood. in Topeka, where she and her husband, Natalie McAllister Jackson, c’07, g’10, e Rev. Whitney Rice, c’05, serves as a Jesse, make their home. works in corporate communications with priest at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in NetStandard Inc. She makes her home in Shelbyville and at St. omas’ Episcopal MARRIED Overland Park. Church in Franklin. She lives in Zachary Powell, d’06, to Kelli Kuhlman, Christopher Roberts, c’07, practices law Indianapolis. May 25 in Bonner Springs. He works at with Butsch Roberts and Associates in Michelle Ferguson Speer, s’05, g’07, is a Shawnee Mission North High School, and Clayton, Mo. He lives in St. Louis. public-service administrator with the she works at Hilltop Child Development Amber Seba, m’07, recently joined Kansas Department of Health and Center in Lawrence, where they live. Aliated Oncologists. She is a hematolo- Environment in Topeka. She and her gist and oncologist in Chicago. husband, Matthew, ’94, live in Lawrence. BORN TO: Erick Vaughn, s’07, is executive director Levi Bowles, g’06, and Kristin White- of the Kansas Head Start Association in Jason Arribas, c’06, practices hair, g’12, daughter, Stella Whitehair Lawrence. He lives in Baldwin City. 06 medicine at Truman Medical Bowles, Aug. 25 in Lawrence, where they Center-Lakewood in Kansas City. He and live. Levi is an analyst for QC in Overland BORN TO: Stephanie Kroemer Arribas, b’05, live in Park, and Kristin is an e-resources selector Lauren Viscek Anderson, d’07, and Lee’s Summit, Mo. for the Johnson County Library in James, d’10, son, Blakely, Aug. 16 in Jack Henry-Rhoads, c’06, works Overland Park. Prairie Village. as a marketing analyst for United HyeRan Park, g’06, and Jae Lee, PhD’09, Edward, b’07, l’10, and Tiany Prehn Parcel Service. He and his wife, Nicole, daughter, Lena, July 29 in Lawrence, where Tully, c’07, daughter, Juliette Noelle, July

62 | KANSAS ALUMNI 11 in Lawrence, where Edward practices Emily Matteson, c’08, works as nancial make their home in Lakewood. law with Barber Emerson. manager for Pennington & Company in Lawrence, where she lives. BORN TO: Brett Ackerman, l’08, practices law Tisha Crosland Panter, l’08, is a senate James, c’08, and Molly McDue-Dip- 08 with Latham Watkins in Washing- attorney and director of research for the man, d’08, g’12, son, Lincoln Allister, Aug. ton, D.C. He and his wife, Sarah, live in Hawaii State Senate Minority. She and her 22 in Lawrence. James is a work-experi- Arlington, Va. husband, Brett, live in Haleiwa. ence coordinator for USD 497. Ozzy Bravo, e’08, works as a geotechni- Elizabeth Piper, c’08, is a human- Kahlil Saad, c’08, c’09, m’13, and cal engineer with Terracon Consultants in resource total reward intern with New- Miriam, son, Jaejun Daniel, March 11 in Lenexa, where he and Erika Meza-Zerlin, mont Mining. She lives in Denver. Troy, Mich., where he joins a sister, Joelle e’09, make their home. Bethany Stanbrough Tegtmeier, j’08, is Yaena, 2. David Kitchens, b’08, g’09, is an associate director of annual giving for the associate with the Tulsa, Okla., rm of Colorado School of Mines Foundation in Sam Funk, c’09, works as an Stinnett & Associates. Golden. She and her husband, Caleb, 09 optometrist in Colby, where he and

PROFILE by Steven Hill

What happens in Vegas represents the experience of locals in really focus of geographer’s book any town, but sometimes it’s super- REX ROWLEY COURTESY charged,” Rowley says. Every town has old his family was moving from divisions between insiders and outsiders, Tsmall-town Utah to Las Vegas, he notes, but rarely is the divide so stark as 10-year-old Rex Rowley’s rst emotion in a tourist town. “I would argue that was fear. because that experience is exaggerated in “I pictured my future elementary school Las Vegas, it lets us really see it and relate as a mini-Strip, full of third graders it to our own place.” betting and smoking cigarettes on the Rowley started his research aer his playground,” Rowley says. “But when I got professor, James Shortridge, noted that Las there, it didn’t feel all that dierent.” Vegas was overlooked by geographers and e schools didn’t have slot machines, ripe for study. “My eyes lit up,” Rowley “Living in Las Vegas is like living anywhere else and his fellow students didn’t live recalls, “and I thought, ‘Hey, this except for one thing,” says geographer Rex in hotels. As he puts it, “Not every is something I could do.’” Rowley. “You live in Las Vegas.” child’s mother is a stripper, nor He moved back to his home- their father a casino pit boss.” town, where his parents still live, At KU for graduate work in and threw himself into local the famous Welcome to Fabulous Las geography, Rowley, g’05, PhD’09, culture and daily life, interview- Vegas sign, for decades a symbol of began thinking of all the ways ing more than 100 residents. pursuits decidedly not on the merit living in Las Vegas was both Many contacts were made as he badge list. unique and universal. e idea played in local parks with his “at’s when I realized this wasn’t just a became the subject of his rst kids. “It was kind of like Travels story about the locals’ Las Vegas, but a book, published in April by the With Charley,” he says. “Stein- story about how locals relate to that University of Nevada Press, Everyday Las beck used his dog Charley to meet people; broader Vegas image,” Rowley says. “It Vegas: Local Life in a Tourist Town. It I had my kids.” ipped a switch and I realized the line pro les the daily lives of Las Vegans, but A pivotal moment came when he spied a between insider and outsider was blurred.” also more broadly builds a case study of shoulder patch on a uniformed Boy Scout So, is Rowley, now an assistant professor how people experience place in their own leader. When he was a scout, Rowley wore of geography in (of all places) Normal, Ill., hometowns, wherever they may be. a patch with the iconic Boulder Dam—a arguing that Las Vegas is, well, normal? “One insight I hope the book gives is frequent site of canoeing, camping and “I would say yes,” he says with a laugh. that the experience of locals in Las Vegas hiking excursions. e new patch depicted “But it’s normal-on-steroids.”

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 63 his wife, Chelsea, make their home. Lawrence. Michael Chalfant, b’11, g’11, directs Ryan Haggerty, d’09, teaches third Nikki Sleypen Mann, n’10, is a clinical accounting for MyFreightWorld Carrier grade at Bonner Springs Elementary nurse at KU Medical Center in Kansas Management in Overland Park. He lives in School. He lives in Lenexa. City. She and her husband, Phillip, live in Prairie Village. Emily Muskin, c’09, is associate program Prairie Village. Bradley Thorson, g’11, is vice president director for the Anti-Defamation League Elizabeth Weingart Olson, c’10, is an of customer development at Kato.im. He in Cleveland. She is a resident of Oxford. associate attorney with Finley Millery lives in Oakland, Calif. Jennifer Young Sprague, c’09, works as Cashman Schmitt & Boye in Hiawatha, Justin Winner, g’11, is a senior associate an agent for American Family Insurance where she and her husband, Ryan, ’11, at ISNetworld. He lives in Dallas. in Lawrence, where she and her husband, make their home. Brandon, make their home. Jerey Wheeler, e’10, g’14, works as a MARRIED Tricia Sweany, c’09, works as an structural engineer at Kiewit Power Kristina Pollard, j’11, c’11, to Jerod Post, electronic services and reference librarian Engineers in Lenexa. He lives in Overland July 20 in Lawrence. ey live in Omaha, for Oklahoma City Community College. Park. where she works for KMTV-Journal Broadcasting Group and he’s studying Emily Baird, b’10, works for VCW BORN TO: physical therapy at the University of 10 Holding. She lives in Prairie Village. Neal Julian, c’10, and Christine, son, Nebraska. Lauren Cunningham, j’10, is a commu- Jude Austin, July l2 in Lawrence, where Benjamin Tatum, e’11, to Rushita Shah, nications specialist at the Washburn Neal is a freelance artist and Christine is Aug. 10 in Springeld, Ill. ey live in University Foundation in Topeka. an interior designer for Wineld House. Oklahoma City, where Benjamin is an Anne Frizzell, c’10, is Southern Califor- applications engineer for Baker Hughes. nia regional representative for the KU Sattam Alnomay, l’11, is head of Oce of Admissions. She makes her home 11 litigation for Al Rajhi Bank in Riyadh, Hannah Baker, b’12, is an agent’s in San Diego. Saudi Arabia. 12 assistant at Paradigm Talent Agency Harrison Hems, c’10, serves as legisla- Brian Blackwell, e’11, works as a drilling in New York City, where she lives. tive director for the Kansas Legislature engineer for Occidental Petroleum. He Heather Baker, b’12, coordinates Senate President in Topeka. His home is in lives in Houston. nancial aid for ITT Technical Institute in

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Overland Park. She lives in Lenexa. City, where she lives. April Coleman, h’13, works for ViraCor- Kaley Kane, ’12, is an account adminis- Daniel Bjornson, b’13, works as a IBT in Lee’s Summit, Mo. She makes her trator with Intouch Solution. She lives in business analyst at Deloitte & Touche in home in Independence. Overland Park. Kansas City. Ashley Dillon, l’13, practices law at Thomas Kennedy, b’12, works as an Abigail Bolin, c’13, works as an online Stinson Morrison Hecker in Kansas City, audit associate at KPMG. He makes his marketing consultant for HomeAdvisor. where she is an associate. home in Prairie Village. She lives in Springeld, Mo. Bryan Erickson, c’13, is a GIS coordina- Samantha Kuhlmann, h’12, is director of Christine Bono, g’13, is an associate tor for Nobles County, Minn. health-information management at architect at Bates & Associates Architects Elaine Harber, g’13, is an assistant Melissa Memorial Hospital in Holyoke, in St. Louis. She lives in Florissant. account executive at SPM Communica- Colo. Erin Borry, PhD’13, recently became an tions in Dallas. Shannon Rigney Miller, b’12, g’13, is a assistant professor of government at the Anna Holland, c’13, j’13, works as a sta accountant at Mize Houser & University of Alabama at Birmingham. transfer admissions representative in KU’s Company. She lives in Lawrence. She lives in Vestavia. O ce of Admissions. Her home is in Adam Stodola, g’12, works as a highway Ronda Brin, s’13, manages cases and is a Hutchinson. engineer with George Butler Associates in clinician at the Elizabeth Layton Center. Joseph Ingolia, c’13, is a sales represen- Kansas City. She lives in Gardner. tative for Frank Cooney Company in Bradley Wine, c’12, is a professional Daniel Brocato, c’13, manages property Wood Dale, Ill. He makes his home in research assistant at the University of at Block & Company. He makes his home Arlington Heights. Colorado at Aurora. He lives in Denver. in Overland Park. Cory Janzen, c’13, works as a senior Cody Clifton, g’13, ’14, was named a adviser for Allied Innovation in Leawood. MARRIED Joan Kirkham Travel Scholar and a He lives in Kansas City. Amanda Bari, c’12, to Steven Crum, National Science Foundation Graduate Chantelle Johnson, c’13, is an executive Jan. 5 in Lawrence, where they live. She’s Research Assistant Summer Scholar. Cody team leader at Target in Lawrence. She studying for a master’s in speech-language studies for a master’s in math at KU, and lives in Olathe. pathology at KU, and he’s a utility locator he lives in Lawrence. Brandon Kemplin, b’13, is an assistant for Wide Open West. Camden Burton, c’12, and Margaret Hanzlick, c’13, May 25 in Mission, where they live. He teaches biology at Olathe Northwest High School, and she’s a teaching artist at the Coterie Children’s eatre. Steven Grith, b’12, and Nicolette Arnold, c’13, July 20 in Bucyrus. He’s studying for an MBA at KU, where she studies for a master’s in speech, language and hearing. ey live in Olathe. Jacob Wasinger, c’12, and Chantel Augustin, d’12, June 1 in Stilwell. He works for Farmers Insurance in Olathe, and she studies dental hygiene at Johnson County Community College. eir home is in Lawrence.

Jacob Allen, c’13, coordinates 13 distributor logistics for Boulevard Brewing Co. in Kansas City. He lives in Olathe. Gregory Anderson, b’13, works as a tax associate at KMPG. He makes his home in Roseville, Minn. Alyssa Bastien, a’13, is a graphic designer at Blacktop Creative in Kansas

66 | KANSAS ALUMNI portfolio manager and analyst for Bukaty coach for USD 480 in Liberal. architect with Bates & Associates in Wealth Management in Leawood. Haley McKee, e’13, and Aaron Porter, Spring eld, Mo., where he lives. Joseph Knoll, c’13, b’13, works as a e’13, are co-creators of the Bagging Buddy Joseph Stuever, u’13, is an assistant nancial analyst at Stepp & Rothwell in used by workers at Lawrence’s Cotton- band director for Blue Valley USD 229 in Overland Park. wood Inc. who have limited or no use of Stilwell. Heather Bieker Lambing, h’13, is a rehab one hand. e device helps workers hold Andrew Tate, p’13, works as a U.S. Air technician at KU Medical Center in bags open, insert items and close the bags. Force pharmacist at Little Rock Air Force Kansas City. She and her husband, Adam, Haley and Aaron are both residents of Base in Arkansas. live in Olathe. Overland Park. Maggie Hull-Tietz, c’13, j’13, is a Alison Lee, b’13, works as an entry-level Victoria Schaulis, c’13, manages special professional soball player with the management trainee for Superior Manage- events for Vital Leadership. Her home is in Chicago Bandits. She and her husband, ment Group. She makes her home in Lawrence. Kevin, d’11, live in Lawrence. Overland Park. Kirsten Schick, u’13, works as a music Davis Woodward, e’13, is a structural Amanda Lewman, b’13, co-owns therapist at Missouri Baptist Medical analysis engineer for Boeing. He lives in Lewman LLC. She lives in Lawrence. Center. She lives in Ballwin. Oklahoma City. Zachary Logan, c’13, is a sales represen- Isaac Severance, b’13, is a buyer for the tative and account manager for Multivista. University of Kansas. He makes his home BORN TO: He lives in Overland Park. in Lawrence. Anna Paradis, ’13, and Nathan, ’14, son, Marlon Marshall, c’13, is deputy John Shoup, e’13, works as an assistant Lucien Byrne, Aug. 22 in Lawrence. Anna director for public engagement at the civil engineer for Burns & McDonnell in is director of graduate student services at White House. He lives in Washington, Houston. KU’s School of Engineering, and Nate is a D.C. Katia Sittmann, u’13, is music director real-estate agent for Chief Properties. Brian Mathias, g’13, performed an for the Webster Groves School District. organ recital at the National Cathedral She lives in St. Louis. ASSOCIATES in Washington, D.C. He lives in Katherine Sommerfeld, j’13, coordinates Lawrence. research for TradeMark Properties in BORN TO: Ryan Petty, d’13, teaches sixth grade Raleigh, N.C. Jason, assoc., and Kelsey Smith Perry, and is an assistant high-school basketball Bryan Stockton, g’13, is an associate assoc., son, Chase, June 27 in Great Bend.

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 67 In Memory stepgrandchildren. Emma Bachus McBride, d’48, 86, Aug. 27 in Salina. She is survived by her husband, Frank; three sons, Steven, c’74, Ruth Boisseau Bird, d’38, 96, dren; and four great-grandchildren. Scott, f’77, and Mark, c’81, g’85; a daugh- 30sApril 26 in Coldwater, where she Jean Boswell Jones, c’41, 93, Aug. 24 in ter; Susan McBride Pike, f’76; a brother; was a retired teacher, librarian and Kansas City, where she had been a and four grandchildren. principal. She is survived by three daugh- volunteer and was active in politics. She is Dorothy Berry Newman, d’48, g’49, ters, six grandchildren and six survived by a son, Bradley, j’76; a daugh- PhD’87, 85, Aug. 31 in Kansas City, where great-grandchildren. ter; six grandchildren; two step-grandchil- she was a reading consultant. She also dren; and ve great-grandchildren. directed student-support services for Verdine Mulkins Bettis, n’42, 92, Donald Kresie, b’41, 94, Aug. 31 in Donnelly College. Surviving are her 40sMay 7 in Green Valley, Ariz. She Topeka, where he had a 34-year career in husband, Frank, g’58; a daughter; a son; is survived by two sons, a daughter, eight the personnel division of the Kansas and three grandchildren. grandchildren and seven Department of Administration. He is e Rev. Alan Pickering, b’49, 85, June great-grandchildren. survived by his wife, Annette; a son, 29 in Sun City Center, Fla., where he was a Jayne Williamson Bremyer, ’46, 88, Randall, m’84; a daughter; and ve retired Presbyterian minister. He had been Dec. 22 in McPherson, where she was an grandchildren. an adjunct professor of religion at KU and author and pain therapist. She is survived Richard Learmonth, b’42, 92, April 10 in a visiting lecturer in Middle Eastern by two sons, Jay, l’74, and Je, ’73; a Overland Park, where he was retired vice languages and linguistics. He later was a daughter, Jill Bremyer-Archer, ’75; nine president of administration for Yellow national training director for the YMCA grandchildren; and three Freight Systems. He earlier had managed in Chicago. Surviving are his wife, Kay; a great-grandchildren. the service division at Great Lakes Pipe daughter, Nancy, ’75; two sons, one of Joseph Butler III, ’45, 89, July 30 in Line. A nephew and three nieces survive. whom is Keith, ’77; a stepdaughter; and Mission Springs, where he was president William Linscott, e’49, 87, Aug. 15 in ve grandchildren. of Joseph A. Butler & Son Funeral Home. Mission Hills, where he co-founded the Austin Pickering, b’49, 84, Jan. 5 in He is survived by his son, Joseph IV, ’80, architectural rm of Linscott, Kiene and Bradenton, Fla. He was the retired and a daughter. Haylett. A memorial has been established manager of manufacturing with Quaker Victory Hawkey Dickason, d’40, 94, with KU Endowment. He is survived by Oats in Chicago and later was administra- Sept. 21 in Prairie Village. She is survived his wife, Bernadine; three daughters, one tor of Asbury Towers in Bradenton, Fla. by three sons, Richard, g’71, Brian, ’81, of whom is Leslie Linscott Hes-Knowles, He is survived by his wife, Mary Ellen; a and William, assoc.; a daughter; nine ’76; two sons, Mason, b’86, and William, son; two grandchildren; and ve grandchildren; and 15 c’86; a stepson; 17 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. great-grandchildren. great-grandchildren. George Stone, f’48, 91, July 25 in Boca Betty Hilts Duy, c’48, 86, June 29 in Vivian Johnson MacRae, c’45, 88, Feb. Raton, Fla. He had been longtime adver- Oklahoma City, where she had been an 22 in San Jose, Calif. A daughter, two tising art director for the Kansas City Star. executive secretary for the Oklahoma State grandchildren and four great-grandchil- Survivors include a son; a daughter, Legislature. She is survived by her hus- dren survive. Melanie Stone Nolker, ’89; six grandchil- band, Jack, c’49; two daughters; a brother; Lavern Mausolf, b’49, 89, Sept. 9 in dren; and eight great-grandchildren. ve grandchildren; and a great-grandson. Overland Park, where he was a retired Carl von Waaden, e’49, g’51, 87, June 23 Scott Harvey, b’47, 89, May 14 in insurance agent with Lutheran Brother- in Coconut Grove, Fla., where he co- Arden, N.C., where he was active in state hood. He is survived by three daughters; owned HMS Esquire, a gi boutique. A politics. He is survived by his wife, three stepsons, Brian Lewis, ’97, Brent brother, Dennis, survives. Margaret, a daughter, a son and four Lewis, ’96, and Brad Lewis, ’99; a sister; 12 grandchildren. grandchildren; and seven Elbert Bayne, e’54, 85, Aug. 27 in Mary Louise Hollabaugh, c’45, 90, great-grandchildren. 50s Independence, Mo., where he was Aug. 22 in Orange, Texas. She was retired Laurence McAneny, e’46, PhD’57, 86, retired from careers in engineering, optics from a 35-year career with E.I. DuPont, Jan. 30 in Silver City, Md. He taught at and hardwood ooring. He is survived by where she worked in the medical division. Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville his wife, JoAnne, a son, three daughters Craig Jones, m’44, 94, Jan. 23 in from 1957 to 1988 and also had been and three grandchildren. Tulsa, Okla., where he was a retired dean of science and technology. He is Jane Lea Gagelman Bender, f’56, 80, physician. He is survived by his wife, survived by a son, Laurence II, c’69; Aug. 24 in La Mesa, Calif. She had been a Eleanor; two sons, one of whom is Kerry, two daughters; a stepson; a stepdaughter; legal secretary. Surviving are her husband, c’71, g’73; a daughter; seven grandchil- a sister; four grandchildren; and two Clarence, b’57, l’64; two sons, one of whom

68 | KANSAS ALUMNI is William, ’84; a daughter; and three founded Questair, a kit plane manufac- Max Murray, b’54, 81, Aug. 24 in granddaughters. turer. He later worked for the FAA in Hutchinson, where he was a partner and Robert Beguelin, d’51, 84, Aug. 28 in Kansas City and at Cirrus Aircra in president of Winchester Packing. He also Hastings, Neb., where he was retired from Duluth, Minn. He is a recipient of the KU had been a commercial pilot for Wells a 45-year career with Our Own Hardware. department of aerospace engineering’s Aircra and Dillons. He is survived by his He is survived by a daughter; a son; three Distinguished Alumni Award. Survivors wife, Carol Stockham Murray, c’57; two stepdaughters, Ellen Hornberger Bartz, include his wife, Helga; two sons, Doug, sons, John, b’83, e’83, and Dan, b’80, g’81; ’81, Ann Hornberger Rogers, j’84, and e’77, g’80, and Tom, ’86; a daughter, a sister, Lou Ann Murray Hansen, ’60; and Gayle Hornberger Daniels, ’79; ve Lynette, ’81; three stepsons; 11 grandchil- three grandchildren. grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; dren; and three great-grandchildren. Robert O’Farrell, d’59, 82, Aug. 26 in and three great-grandchildren. William Hartell, e’53, 82, June 22 in Lenexa, where he was a retired teacher. He Leo Bird, b’54, 81, Aug. 25 in Stockton, Sterling, Va. He had been a U.S. Navy is survived by a sister and a brother, where he had careers in banking, real commander and also had worked for CSC. omas, c’56, m’60. estate, auctioneering and tree farming. He He is survived by his wife, Marilyn; a son; Glenn Opie, l’54, 87, Aug. 11 in Olathe. is survived by his wife, Carol Hill Bird, two daughters; a stepson; three stepdaugh- He lived in Great Bend, where he prac- d’57; a son, Eric, b’80; a daughter, Andrea, ters; two sisters, Margaret Hartell Carver, ticed law for many years. Surviving are his d’81; ve grandchildren; and a n’55, and Janis Hartell Click, c’57; and nine wife, Sandra, assoc.; two sons, one of great-grandson. grandchildren. whom is Harlan, m’92; and four Kenneth Clohecy, d’55, 83, Aug. 10 in Stephen Hinds, e’59, 76, Aug. 27 in St. grandchildren. Roeland Park. He taught math and Louis, where he was retired director of Dale Owings, b’51, 86, Aug. 21 in coached wrestling, football and track at planning for Monsanto. He is survived by Leawood, where he owned Professional Bishop Miege High School for many years. his wife, Jean Marie, a son and two Data Control and had been a salesman. He Surviving are his wife, Mary Catherine; brothers. is survived by his wife, Carol, assoc.; a son, two sons; a daughter, Cynthia, ’95; and a Duane Howard, c’59, 79, Dec. 23 in Greg, b’77; a daughter, Lori Owings grandson. Sanford, N.C., where he was retired Mulhern, b’85; and four grandchildren. Solomon Cohen, m’56, 87, Jan. 8 in director of research and development in Robert Sears Sr., c’55, l’57, 80, Sept. 3 in Kennebunkport, Maine, where he was a the quality-control department of Abbott Belton, Mo., where he practiced law for retired pediatrician. He is survived by his Laboratories. He is survived by his wife, many years. He is survived by two wife, Dorcas, a son, a daughter, a stepson, Nancy Becra Howard, ’59; three sons; a daughters; four sons, one of whom is a stepdaughter, a brother, 10 grandchil- daughter; nine grandchildren; and three Robert Jr., ’88; two sisters; two brothers; dren and two great-grandchildren. great-grandchildren. eight grandchildren; and three Grant Cookson, c’57, 78, Aug. 27 in Marilynn Morgan Israel, d’50, 84, July great-grandchildren. Parkville, Mo., where was a retired oral 23 in Edmond, Okla., where she was a Elaine Orlowske Solter, d’56, 81, May and maxillofacial surgeon. He is survived retired teacher and librarian. A daughter 29 in New Bern, N.C., where she was a by his wife, Linda, assoc.; two sons; two and two grandsons survive. retired teacher. She is survived by her daughters; a brother; and two Barbara McGee Lappin, ’59, 75, May 28 husband, Harry, d’57; two sons; and six grandchildren. in Fort Collins, Colo. She is survived by a grandchildren. John Faul, m’58, 82, Aug. 10 in Hills- daughter, a son, two grandchildren and a boro, where he was a retired physician. He great-grandchild. Ann Patterson Bear, d’65, 70, is survived by his wife, Eloise, two Arthur McLoughlin, c’54, 90, Aug. 17 in 60sAug. 25 in Indianapolis. She daughters, four sisters, two brothers and Leawood, where he was a retired engineer- taught at Harcourt Elementary School in ve grandchildren. ing geologist. His wife, Virginia Patch Washington Township and is survived by Pattye Allison Gehrt, ’55, 82, May 27 in McLoughlin, c’48; and a son survive. her husband, Mark, assoc.; a daughter; and Lawrence. She is survived by her husband, Thomas Milne, c’50, PhD’55, 85, Aug. a granddaughter. Floyd, two sons, a daughter and two 30 in Wheat Ridge, Colo., where he was Miles Coiner, d’60, g’63, PhD’72, 75, grandchildren. retired from the National Renewable Sept. 7 in Boston, where he was a retired Colvin Gish, c’50, 88, July 12 in Kansas Energy Laboratory. A memorial has been professor of theater at Emerson College. City, where he was a retired claims established with KU Endowment. He is He is survived by his wife, Mary, a authorizer for the Social Security Admin- survived by his wife, Zora Elliott Milne, daughter, two sisters and three istration. He is survived by his wife, Doris, g’73; a son, Charles, assoc.; two daughters, grandchildren. four sons, a brother and ve Janie Hamm Snider, b’77, and Julie Milne David Craft, g’69, 87, April 8 in Garden grandchildren. Esstman, s’79; a grandson; three step- City, where he was a teacher, coach and James Griswold, e’53, 81, Aug. 18 in grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; farmer. He is survived by his wife, Pauline, Greensboro, N.C. , where he had co- and eight stepgreat-grandchildren. assoc.; two sons, one of whom is Rege, ’90;

ISSUE 6, 2013 | 69 In Memory a daughter; a brother; three sisters; ve Overland Park. He had a professional co-owner of Jim Brothers Sculpture grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. boxing career before retiring in 1970 and Studio. He created the statue of Gen. Robert Davis III, f’61, 75, May 22 in later taught school in Minneapolis, Minn., Dwight Eisenhower that stands in Statuary Herndon, Va., where he was a retired and De Soto. He is survived by his wife, Hall in the U.S. Capitol, contributed to the lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. He is Jackie, and two sisters. Korean War Memorial on the National survived by his wife, Frances, and two Marilyn Cromb McElhany, d’63, 72, Mall in Washington, D.C., and designed nephews. Aug. 4 in Manitou Springs, Colo., where pieces for the National D-Day Memorial Elizabeth Daldy Dyson, l’64, 73, July 29 she was active in social, civic and youth- in Bedford, Va. His sculpture “From the in Washington, D.C., where she was an sports circles. She had been a house- Ashes” is the centerpiece of the Douglas attorney for the U.S. Oce of Personnel mother at KU’s Alpha Tau Omega and Pi County Memorial of Honor at the Management. A son, a daughter, a sister Gamma Delta fraternities. Surviving are Lawrence Visitors Center. He is survived and three grandchildren survive. three daughters, two of whom are Kather- by his wife, Kathleen Correll, c’86; a son; Richard Green, d’62, 74, Sept. 6 in ine McElhany Kahl, c’91, and Virginia and his mother. Lawrence. He had taught biology and McElhany Morgan, l’96, s’96; a son; a Daniel Cates, c’70, 65, Sept. 20 in coached football, basketball and track at sister, Carolyn “Kay” Cromb Brada, c’61; Olathe. He was retired president and CEO Hays High School and had worked as a and eight grandchildren. at Cates Sheet Metal Industries in Lenexa. pharmaceutical representative. While at Karla Kay Hoelzel Russell, d’66, 69, Survivors include his wife, Libby; a KU, he had been a tight end for the Aug. 10 in Fairway, where she was a daughter; a son, Carson, b’00; his mother; Jayhawks and played in the Bluebonnet retired elementary-school teacher. She is a sister, Nancy Cates, assoc.; and four Bowl in 1961. A memorial has been survived by three sisters, two of whom are grandchildren. established with KU Endowment. He is Mary Hoelzel McBride, c’82, and Pamela Ralph Chatham, e’70, 64, May 18 in survived by two daughters, Sarah “Katie” Hoelzel, ’85. Falls Church, Va., where he was a retired Green, c’00, and Elizabeth Green Coons, June Stubbings Sheldon, g’68, 96, Aug. commander in the U.S. Navy and former c’94; a sister; and two grandsons. 16 in Topeka, where she was a retired program manager at the Defense Takeo “Blackie” Kasahara, e’60, 91, teacher. She is survived by a daughter; a Advanced Research Projects Agency. He July 8 in Honolulu, where he was a retired son; and a brother, Harris Stubbings, later worked for Global Associates and electrical engineer with the U.S. Depart- assoc. Dynamics Technology. He is survived by ment of Defense. He is survived by his Steven Soper, m’67, 71, Sept. 8 in Blue his wife, Margaret Laidig Chatham, c’70; a wife, Fumie, a son and a sister. Springs, Mo., where he was a retired daughter; a son; a brother; a sister; and a Larry Kneller, p’69, 66, Feb. 3 in Pratt, psychiatrist. He is survived by his wife, granddaughter. where he owned Pratt Medical Arts Dorothy, two sons, two daughters, a sister Mary Anderson Coral, f’75, s’97, 81, Pharmacy. He is survived by his wife, and a brother. Aug. 9 in Lawrence. She had been an Carol; a son, Michael, n’97, g’05; two Doris Meredith Sparke, g’66, 80, Sept. artist, a teacher and a social worker. She is sisters; and two granddaughters. 16 in Mission, where she was a retired survived by her partner, Jim Cooley; two Larry Kompus, c’60, m’64, 75, June 20 teacher. She is survived by her husband, sons, one of whom is Angus, ’95; three in ornton, Colo. He had a private John, ’71; two daughters; two grandchil- granddaughters; and a psychiatry practice and is survived by his dren; and three great-grandsons. great-granddaughter. wife, Berniece, assoc.; a daughter; a son; a Betty “Johnnie” Hamilton Thornburg, Helen Ro Haren, g’76, 73, Aug. 29 in sister; a brother; and four grandchildren. d’66, 85, Sept. 3 in Broom eld, Colo. She Overland Park. She taught school for Nancy Longenecker Lamb, g’64, 85, taught fourth and h grades at Hillcrest many years. Sept. 17 in Overland Park. She had a Elementary School in Lawrence for 27 Dean Johnson, EdD’70, 83, Aug. 7 in 29-year career as a speech-language years before retiring. Survivors include her Leawood, where he was former principal pathologist for the Shawnee Mission husband, Roland, assoc.; a daughter; two of Shawnee Mission West High School. He School District. Surviving are two sons, grandsons; and four grreat-grandchildren. is survived by two sons, two daughters and Harold, e’79, and Charles, ’97; three four grandchildren. grandchildren; and a great-grandson. Douglas Ballentine, h’74, c’90, 64, William Kellman, b’75, 60, July 31 in Robert Lynn, e’60, 75, Aug. 17 in Kansas 70sSept. 6 in Overland Park. He had Shawnee Mission. Two brothers and a City, where he was president of Colt been a respiratory therapist at Research sister survive. Technology Corporation. He is survived Medical Center and is survived by his wife, Glenda Mapes Maiden, f’72, 62, Sept. by his wife, Barbara; three sons, Jerey, Michel, two daughters, a stepson, a 20, 2012, in Winnetka, Calif., where she b’85, Michael, e’85, g’96, and John, c’93; a stepdaughter, his mother, a sister and two was a musician. She is survived by her daughter, Kathleen Lynn McGrew, c’87; a grandchildren. husband, Tom, e’72; a son; a daughter; a sister; a brother; and nine grandchildren. James Brothers, ’79, 72, Aug. 20 in sister, Jody Mapes Shelton, EdD’91; and a Ronald Marsh, d’65, g’74, 70, Sept. 8 in Lawrence, where he was a sculptor and grandson.

70 | KANSAS ALUMNI Richard Marshall, d’73, g’76, 62, Aug. Matthew Grier, f’89, 48, Aug. 9 in Commonwealth Edison in Chicago. He is 19 in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., where he Monroe, Wash. He was a jewelry maker survived by two brothers, Phillip, c’77, was an associate professor in the Strategies and metalsmith and had worked for the l’80, and Don, c’88, b’88. for College Success department at Palm Washington Department of Corrections. Beach Community College. He earlier had Among survivors are his wife, Sonya, a Patricia Partridge, g’90, 55, Aug. been a counselor and social worker in daughter, a stepson and two sisters. 90s9 in Olathe, where she taught for Kansas City. He is survived by a brother, Elizabeth “Betty” Hawley-Robertson, 30 years. She is survived by two sons, Jerry, ’77; and three sisters. g’81, 69, Sept. 15 in Spring Hill. She had Michael, ’10, and James, ’13; two daugh- Martha Thomson Nance, c’78, 81, Aug. been a counselor for the Blue Valley ters; and her mother. 11 in Chestereld, Mo. She was an School District and also had a private Jill Peterson, s’94, 43, Aug. 10 in ordained Presbyterian elder. A memorial practice. Surviving are her husband, Wamego, where she had been a social has been established with KU Endowment. Christopher, a son, a sister and a brother. worker. She is survived by her parents; two Surviving are a daughter, Patricia Nance Daniel Hinkin, m’80, 58, Aug. 5 in sisters; one of whom is Dana Peterson Slentz, d’75; three sons, two of whom are Manhattan, where he was a physician with Pieschl, c’93, g’95; a brother; and her Charles, e’78, and Paul, b’80, g’82; a sister, the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine grandparents. Shirley omson Burbank, d’53; and four Center. He earlier had been an orthopedic Kevin Steele, g’99, 61, Oct. 13, 2012, in grandchildren. surgeon with the U.S. Air Force. Surviving Emporia. He had a 25-year career with the Mary “Cathy” Witt Russell, d’75, 60, are his wife, Eileen; two sons; one of whom state of Kansas, working in social services, Aug. 13 in Shawnee Mission, where she is Stephen, m’11; a daughter, Erin Hinkin employment preparation and public had been a teacher. She is survived by two Boidock, g’12; his mother; three brothers, administration. Surviving are his wife, daughters, one of whom is Shelbi, c’09; two of whom are Doug, m’78, and Deedra, a son, a daughter, his father and two sisters, Susan Witt Santaularia, j’78, Matthew, c’89; two sisters and a grandson. two sisters. and Marjorie Witt Stevens-Werly, f’85, Susan Pierce Means, c’82, 53, Aug. 22 Monica Matyak Steiner, j’92, 43, Aug. g’94; and two brothers, one of whom is in St. Joseph, Mo. She is survived by her 10 in Colorado. She lived in Olathe and Phil, ’77. father, William Means, b’54; and two had been divisional sales manager for Edward Sherraden, EdD’71, 93, Aug. 29 sisters, Katherine Means, c’81, j’81, and MarketShare Publications in Overland in Kansas City. He was a teacher and a Rebecca Means Schneidewind, j’89. Park. Among survivors are her husband, principal and had been associate superin- Dale Newton, e’82, 53, May 10 in Jay, j’92; a daughter; a son; two brothers; tendent of schools in Salina, where he Humble, Texas, where he had worked for and two sisters. lived for many years. He was a 1989 Chevron Phillips Chemical Company. He inductee into the Kansas Teachers Hall of is survived by his wife, Linda; three sons, THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY Fame. Surviving are three sons, two of two of whom are Brett, ’14, and Chad, ’13; Robert Manning, m’54, 85, Sept. 10 in whom are Tom, m’77, and Mark, l’85, g’85; his father; a brother; and two sisters, one Katy, Texas. He was a professor emeritus at a daughter, Sandra Sherraden Jaggard, ’84; of whom is Marsha Newton Hale, ’75. the KU School of Medicine in Wichita and two sisters; a brother; eight grandchildren; Norma Loch Stephens, g’81, 84, Aug. 30 earlier had been founding dean of the and two great-grandchildren. in Osawatomie, where she had been Eastern Virginia Medical School, where he Ellen Spector Silverglat, s’79, 71, Aug. superintendent at Osawatomie State also was chairman of internal medicine. A 24 in Missoula, Mont. She was a social Hospital. In 1989 she was named Kansas memorial has been established with KU worker and a member of the Missoula Outstanding Public Administrator by the Endowment. He is survived by two Critical Incident Stress Debrieng team. American Society of Public Administra- daughters, one of whom is Mary Kay She is survived by her husband, Michael, tion. ree sisters survive. Manning Fausch, n’77; a son; ve grand- c’68, m’72; a daughter; and a sister. Stan Stewart, g’84, 59, July 25 in El sons; and a great-grandson. Nancy Barrows Slattery, c’76, 59, July Dorado, where he had been city manager James Surface, c’42, g’48, 92, Aug. 1 in 24 in Fayetteville, Ga., where she had for 19 years. He was former chairman of Nashville, Tenn., where he was a professor worked in business travel marketing. Her the Kansas League of Municipalities and emeritus of management at Vanderbilt husband, omas, her mother and a president of the Kansas Association of City University’s Owen Graduate School of brother, Richard Barrows, p’73, survive. Managers. Surviving are his wife, Wanda, a Management. He also had been executive son, a daughter, his mother, two brothers, vice chancellor, executive vice president Andrew Drummond, c’89, g’92, two sisters and three grandchildren. and provost at Vanderbilt. Earlier he had 80s46, July 12 in Lawrence, where he Douglas Wahl, j’80, 56, July 30 in been dean of business and vice chancellor was a stay-at-home father. He earlier had Lawrence, where he owned Lawrence at KU. Surviving are a daughter, Mary Lu been an accountant and oce manager. Pawn and Jewelry. He earlier had been a Surface Galladet, c’68; four sons, one of Surviving are his wife, Deanna, a son and a marketer for KPL Gas Service and whom is Richard, c’70; 11 grandchildren; daughter. Utilicorp United and an executive with and four great-grandchildren.

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you’d likely think it was the same shell,” she says. “It’s only once you see them all next to each other that you start to look carefully. You see the similarities and dierences you can’t see unless you have a group. COURTESY DIANA ZLATANOVSKI (3) DIANA ZLATANOVSKI COURTESY “It’s the same idea behind encyclopedic museum collections: You don’t know what you have until you put it into context.” Zlatanovski began the project a couple of years ago aer nding a collection of wrenches at an antique mall. She was intrigued by the tools’ varied forms and hand-worn patina. Every bend and angle hinted at design decisions that went into their construction; every ding spoke of daily use. e same was true of colorings and barnacles on the abalone shells she found at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, still bearing the handwritten label from the collector who plucked them from the sea more than 70 Object lessons Zlatanovski, g’04, who earned a master’s years ago. degree in museum studies while helping “Each barnacle that attached was an Photographer’s group portraits inventory the enthnographic collection event, and the coloring was formed by the tell the life story of things then located at the KU Museum of dierent foods they ate,” she says. “I kind Anthropology in Spooner Hall. “We learn of see these as biographies: Each object, f photographer Diana Zlatanovski had so much more from studying trash heaps their lives have been imprinted on them.” Ian artistic credo it might sound some- in archeology sites than from big monu- Rather than laying all the objects out thing like this: Little things matter. A lot. ments. A big monument is an anomaly, and photographing the arrangement as As e Typologist, Zlatanovski—whose but the trash heap is everyday life.” one image, she photographs each object full-time job is curatorial research Of course, Zlatanovski’s subjects are by separately, then compiles the single images associate at the Museum of Fine Arts in no means trash: Some are held by serious into typologies. She uses a plain white Boston—is essentially a collector of collectors or by the Harvard Museum of background to allow the viewer to focus collections. In her free time she runs a Comparative Zoology, and creative only on the objects. website and blog at typology.com devoted insights oen occur during workday duties Zlatanovski wants to encourage us all to to groups of similar objects beautifully at the Museum of Fine Arts. “It’s a real see more, literally and guratively. photographed. Her ne art still-lifes inspiration to be able to pull out a drawer “Looking carefully makes you wonder, feature assemblages of everyday items such and see 30 beaded purses at once,” she as keys and campaign buttons, or things says. “ at really resonates with me.” from nature like habanero peppers and By presenting objects in groups, abalone shells. Zlatanovski hopes to encourage viewers to A typology is an assemblage of similar see details that escape notice when we look items; hers usually focus on objects small at things individually. Consider the enough to be held in hand and common Haliotidae Haliotis typology, a series of enough to say something about the culture photographs of 16 abalone shells collected or environment that produced them. in Korea in 1939. “ e more you see something the more “If I brought each abalone shell out and it makes you realize it’s important,” says then put it away and brought out another,

72 | KANSAS ALUMNI precise, uncomfortable descriptions of what the years have done to the women’s bodies. Nothing here happens as a matter of convenience. Adult longings and teenage explorations are empty, sad and tawdry; piety and patriotism harm rather than heal; gossip kills. At the center of this turn through Holt is the plainspoken, proud owner of the town’s hardware store. As Dad Lewis faces ‘Well, why are these things di erent?’ It e orbits set in motion by Dad’s cancer his nal days in the summer of his 77th sparks a curiosity that makes you look diagnosis expand to include an orphaned year, he takes comfort in a life led well and further into them, to nd out the story girl and her lonely, loving grandmother; true. In his private moments, though, the behind the objects.” an elderly widow and her 60-something dying old man dri s back to his un-eras- Viewers sometimes provide their own daughter, both seemingly a bit pathetic able errors, brief, shocking episodes of stories. At an exhibition that included her early in the story but who show themselves cold-hearted sternness that altered and typology of old skeleton keys, Zlatanovski as stalwarts of truth and trust; Dad and even ended lives. None of it is Dad’s fault, heard from several people for whom the Mary’s adult daughter, Lorraine, still and all of it is Dad’s fault, and this much photos brought to mind people and places struggling to get her life back on track he knows in his heart to be true. His dying from their own lives. years a er the death of her only child; her dreams will not let him forget or forgive. “ ere is a value in these objects, and troubled brother, Frank, who ed Holt And yet, Benediction’s di cult journey keeping them around is important to a lot never to return, at least in the esh; and a proves worthy of the e ort. It is a master- of people, as I’m learning,” she says. sincere new preacher whose notions about ful summit of both ction writing and “Museums exist to preserve collections, so Christian ideals of love and forgiveness ction reading. e stories within its pages it’s really heartening for someone like me cost him nearly everything but his faith. force readers to confront our own short- to learn how much people do appreciate As has also come to be expected of the comings, our failings, our missed opportu- these things and see their Holt novels, Benediction is a timeless story nities. e pain rippling through Benedic- importance.” set rmly in a place that matters to the tion is, in a deep way, our pain. —Steven Hill telling: Lorraine held her hand out to the rain and patted her face and then cupped both hands and caught the over ow from the As he lay dying gutters and held her hands up to Dad’s face. Benediction He stood leaning on his cane, his face by Kent Haruf Haruf’s Benediction returns dripping. ey watched him, he looked $25.95, Knopf to a place on the Plains where straight out across the lawn past the pain and love are equally real wrought iron fence, past the wet street to the lot beyond, thinking about something. ad Lewis is dying. is we learn in Doesn’t it smell good, Mary said. Dthe opening paragraphs of Benedic- Yeah, he said so ly. His eyes were wet, tion, the h of Kent Haruf’s novels about but they couldn’t say if that was from tears Equally, its triumphs, small and brief, the ctional farming town of Holt, Colo. or rainwater. bold and enduring, are ours, too, and a As he did with four earlier installments Haruf’s iconic, laconic tempo is not to needed reminder of why ction matters. of the Holt books—most notably Plain- be misjudged as a nostalgic paean to a lost What’s the weather doing out there song, a nalist for the 1999 National Book era of life on the Plains. He is the minimal- today? he said. Too hot again? Award, and Eventide—Haruf, ’68, winner ist cra sman who rubs the hard mahogany ey say it’s going to rain, Lyle said. of the 2006 Dos Passos Prize for Litera- to a smooth luster, yes, but also the It might. It’s turning o dark right now. ture, nudges onto the stage a parade of truth-seeking artist who laces into his e farmers won’t like that, will they, souls who try to be gentle with one sculpture of story remorseless, jagged Daddy? Lorraine said. another but slowly reveal their private strips that tear into esh and memory to Not if they’re trying to cut wheat. e struggles with di cult lives. Being kind expose lifetimes of regret and longing. guys with corn won’t mind it. and forgiving to a neighbor, Benediction Benediction o ers not one easy page; Sounds like a mixed blessing, Lyle said. reminds us, is o en far easier than being even the joy of a stock-tank skinny dip by Dad looked at him. Yes sir. Lots of things kind and forgiving to one’s self. three women and the girl is slowed by turn out to be blessings that got mixed up.

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e rain that falls on Holt comes fast and hard and leaves quickly. ese, too, STEVE PUPPE STEVE are the thunderstorms that Benediction Town Peterson (l) and Pete rains down, sudden drenchings of sorrow and love that ultimately point toward the Hosner, in ornithology’s bookends of life, where young reminds old seventh-floor collection area that hope must prevail, where dark clouds atop Dyche Hall, with newly must give way to a so summer sun. identified bird species. —Chris Lazzarino Extensive paperwork and home-country approval—which can take a year or more—are Feathered finds required before any collected specimen can be shipped to Doctoral student takes lead on the U.S. pair of bird discoveries, while KU tallies 4 new species in 2013 recordings of Tapaculo calls, the KU trip to the dense Luzon Island forests in researchers were able to lure from the the northern Philippines. is time Hosner cientists and researchers can spend brush a variant they’ve since named the and a team of scientists from the Biodiver- Sentire careers hoping to one day nd Junin Tapaculo. Aer returning to Kansas, sity Institute and the department of and identify a previously unknown Hosner spent years hunting through ecology and evolutionary biology collected species. Ecology and evolutionary biology online bird-call archives around the a new species of ground warbler. doctoral student Pete Hosner already has country, visited museums in Chicago and Aer conrming their ndings with a accomplished the rare feat—not once, but Louisiana to examine their Tapaculo DNA sequence collected at the Biodiver- twice. is year. With birds from dierent specimens, and doggedly dug into sity Institute’s Molecular Phylogenetics hemispheres. previously published Tapaculo papers to Laboratory—recently renovated with Even more remarkable, KU researchers see whether this species might already investments from the National Science this year published ndings of four new have been identied and, essentially, Foundation and the state of Kansas—the bird discoveries out of about 24 forgotten. KU team gave the Sierra Madre Ground announced worldwide in 2013. And once the KU specimens cleared Warbler a scientic name in honor of Max “ is type of work, where we go o to Peru’s inspection system, a year aer being ompson, g’64, biology professor foreign countries and we’re basically out collected, Hosner and his colleagues were emeritus at Southwestern College in there exploring,” Hosner says, “is not the able to sequence DNA samples. Wineld, who donated his extensive type of research that’s done in a lot of ey nally concluded that the small, collection to KU aer his retirement. other universities.” blackish bird was indeed a new species. Hosner was again lead author on the Hosner, ’14, earned his undergraduate Hosner, the lead author, was joined by study—published in e Condor, the degree at Cornell University’s prestigious Professor Town Peterson, curator at the journal of the Cooper Ornithological ornithology department in 2003, then KU Biodiversity Institute, and collection Society—along with the Biodiversity spent four years as a freelance research manager Mark Robbins in announcing the Institute’s Carl Oliveros, g’09, Robert G. assistant on bird studies from the Wyo- discovery in the Wilson Journal of Moyle and Nikki Boggess, c’13. ming Rockies to the lower Colorado River Ornithology. Also this year, Oliveros and Moyle in Yuma, Ariz. Between gigs, he traveled “You always sort of hope you’ll nd announced their identication of a on shoestring budgets to Ecuador, Bolivia, something like this, but you can never species called the Cambodian Tailorbird Argentina, Uruguay, Peru and Malaysia. really be sure,” Hosner says. “You can do and Peterson published his discovery He began his doctoral studies at KU in all the right things, go to poorly known of the Guerrero Brush-nch. 2007, and the following year was with the areas and learn the poorly known groups “Since I began my doctorate in 2007,” KU group that located what appeared to really well and get the skills you need to Hosner says, “KU ornithology has had be an unknown variation of a ground- actually nd it when you get out there, but active eld research in Central and South dwelling bird called the Tapaculo. Because a lot of it is just luck. America, Africa, Asia, Australia and the tiny, wren-like bird darts about briskly “But on the other hand, if you’re out in Oceania. Even though undescribed bird and oen forages under the cover of loose the right places again and again, then species are a rare nd, with such a broad ground foliage, they are best located by these things are going to turn up.” search radius, new things are bound to their songs. And, not by accident, another one turn up.” Carrying digital equipment loaded with turned up for Hosner, while on a research —Chris Lazzarino

74 | KANSAS ALUMNI Sally Carmichael, You Can Be an Erin Zingre, Beasts of Fancy: Vol. 1 Expert Riﬂeman

Jing Jian, poster The Electric Universe

Justin Zielke, stylized portrait Lauren Bowles, UpCycle website Designers win top honors, again

tudents and faculty in the department of design are still interim chair and associate professor. Sbuzzing over last semester’s dominance of the Ninth Student “Professionals recognize the good work and we have Design Show, an annual conference, exhibition and awards continued to do very well,” Herstowski says. “I am very happy program hosted by the Dallas Society of Visual and proud of all the work that the students submit, and that we Communications. have been awarded Best School two years in a row is just With 1,200 entries arriving from 40 colleges and universities, remarkable.” KU students were responsible for 50 of the 170 works chosen Says Dallas art director and show co-chair Steven DeWitt, for the show, and design department students earned Best “KU seems to really pay attention to concepts and narrative in Sophomore, Junior and Senior Portfolio awards and more than the design work. And that is really important as it draws in an $15,000 in prize money, which, in an era of limited scholarship audience and gives them something to engage with.” funds, is particularly gratifying for Andrea Herstowski, —Chris Lazzarino

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Evidence that harried architecture and design students made time for much needed study breaks ﬂanks the stairway to Marvin Hall. If wisecracks that have swirled around campus the past couple of years about a ruthless legion of ferocious squirrels are to be believed, the little guy at left was probably plotting the jack-o’-lanterns’ destruction.

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