Her Upbringing on a Reno County Farm Prepared Ruth Anne French to Excel. with a Rhodes Scholarship, She Takes the Next Step on Her Path to Public Service

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Contents Established in 1902 as The Graduate Magazine

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State of Disrepair 20 With $584 million in overdue maintenance on its books, the Kansas Board of Regents is sounding the alarm for quick action on seven public campuses—before the walls come tumbling down.

BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

Little Glass Houses 30 Tiny, tugboat-like booths that house the keepers of the campus gates may be, inch for inch, the most iconic COVER buildings on Mount Oread. How did they get here, and what do their denizens do all day? Lessons of 24 the Land BY CHRIS LAZZARINO She capped her college career with the ultimate academic prize, but KU’s 25th Rhodes Scholar learned her first lessons down on the farm.

BY STEVEN HILL Cover photograph by Earl Richardson

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Publisher Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 Editor 60 Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Art Director DEPARTMENTS Susan Younger, f’91 Associate Editors Chris Lazzarino, j’86 5 FIRST WORD Steven Hill The editor’s turn Editorial Assistant Karen Goodell 6 ON THE BOULEVARD Photographer KU and Alumni Association events Earl Richardson, j’83 Graphic Designer 8 JAYHAWK WALK Valerie Spicher, j’94 A strong woman, found art, a rivalry renamed and more Advertising Sales Representative Jessica Solander, ’05 10 HILLTOPICS News and notes: Journalism names a dean; Editorial and Advertising Office Grad School posts international student gains Kansas Alumni Association 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 SPORTS 785-864-4760 • 800-584-2957 16 www.kualumni.org Basketball looks for silver lining in loss of e-mail: [email protected] Simien; football ends on high note in Columbia

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BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER First Word

shared with the crowd: campuses in Lawrence, Kansas City and “My mother always told me to leave a across the state, noble halls of learning place better than the way I found it,” the conceal rickety infrastructure that poses

EARL RICHARDSON Wichita native recalled, urging young dangerous risks. In our second feature fans to pay heed. story, Chris Lazzarino explains KU’s lin- Ruth Anne French already under- gering—and growing—maintenance woes. stands. Her folks imparted the same wis- The dilemma demands new ways of dom on their farm in Partridge, little thinking. For her part, Gov. Kathleen more than 50 miles northwest of Sebelius, g’80, asks Kansans to begin Wichita. Indeed, her commitment to considering the educational system as a making a place better helped her whole, as a K-16 commitment to the become one of the nation’s 32 Rhodes state’s future. She told the Lawrence scholars—the 25th in KU history. Her Journal-World in December: “It is really Midwestern spirit of service matches the critical in the 21st century to have a vision of Cecil Rhodes, the British phi- better understanding throughout the lanthropist whose will in 1902 estab- citizenry of how important post 12th- lished the international study awards for grade education is to almost anybody scholars who “should esteem the per- who is going to be prosperous and be formance of public service as their high- able to really provide for their family est aim.” in the future. The kinds of jobs avai- n the November morning of French will study comparative politics lable require different skills than 25 her final test for one of acad- at Oxford University in fall 2005. As years ago.” eme’s most coveted prizes, Steven Hill describes in our cover story, But the aim of true leaders should Rhodes Scholar Ruth Anne she loves the land and her family’s way remain the same. As a Kansan, I’m OFrench had basketball on her mind. As of life, knowing all too well that both are partial to the words of Rose Valentine she prepared for the Rhodes regional all too fragile. She wants to spend her and the examples of history-making interviews in St. Paul, Minn., she turned career searching for ways to protect both Jayhawks like her son and Ruth Anne on ESPN. The KU men had played the environment and the livelihood of French: Leave a place better than the Vermont the night before and, like any farmers and other entrepreneurs. Policy- way you found it. true fan who missed the action, she making, with its delicate dance craved more than the score. between principles and politics, So I hope she’ll find it fitting that on intrigues her. New Year’s Day, as I stood in the unsea- As policymakers begin their JEFF JACOBSEN sonable winter sauna of Allen Field fancy footwork in Topeka this House, I thought of her. month, numerous pipers will It was halftime. Darnell Valentine, attempt to call the tune. The state’s c’81, shared his thanks with the throng economy continues its measured as his jersey, No. 14, unfurled into its recovery, but too many needs, too place on the south wall of the 50-yearlong unmet, await relief. old fieldhouse. The Kansas Supreme Court has Valentine, still the only Jayhawk to be challenged the Legislature to make named first-team all-conference for four satisfactory improvements in K-12 consecutive years, called the tribute the funding by April 12; meantime, the fulfillment of a 24-year dream. He budget proposals from the six thanked former coaches Ted Owens and Kansas Board of Regents universi- Lafayette Norwood and his mother, ties include a startling mainte- ■ Lafayette Norwood, Ted Owens, Darnell Valentine Rose, whose enduring advice Valentine nance backlog of $584 million. At and Athletics Director Lew Perkins.

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■ Exhibitions ■ Woodblock prints by Koizumi Kishio “A Kansas Art Sampler,” through Feb. 6, (1893-1945) cap- Spencer Museum of Art tured the rebirth of “Daguerreotype to Digital: Photographs Tokyo following its from the Collection,” Jan. 22-July 22, devastating 1923 Spencer Museum of Art earthquake and are “Tradition and Modernity: Japanese Art featured in a Spencer of the Early Twentieth Century,” Jan. 22- Museum of Art exhi- May 22, Spencer Museum of Art bition that opens Feb. 5. “Tokyo: The Imperial Capital, Woodblock Prints by Koizumi Kishio, “Anamori Inari 1928-1940,” Feb. 5-March 20, Spencer Museum of Art Shrine at Haneda, September 1932” “Transitions: KU Faculty Artists Explore (left), color wood- Change,” Feb. 19-May 22, Spencer block print on paper Museum of Art

“Brion Gysin: A Selection of Books and “Yamashita Entrance Works on Paper,” Feb. 19-June 5, to Ueno Park, Spencer Museum of Art September 1931” (opposite page), ■ University Theatre color woodblock print on paper FEBRUARY 12 “Noodle Doodle Box,” by Paul Maar, KU Theatre for Young People

MARCH 23-24 Pick Up Performance Group MAY 4-6, 10-12 “You Can’t Take It with in “Dancing Henry Five” 12 Last day of spring classes You,” by Moss Hart and George 26 Teatro Lirico D’Europa in Bizet’s 13 Stop Day Kaufman, Mainstage Series “Carmen” 16-20 Final exams ■ Lied Center MARCH 22 Commencement 4 Philadanco! FEBRUARY ■ Alumni events 2 The Blind Boys of Alabama ■ Academic Calendar JANUARY 5 Pharaoh’s Daughter 15 Boulder, Colo.: KU vs. Colorado 12 Scholastic’s “The Magic School JANUARY pregame rally Bus Live!” 20 Spring classes begin 15 Newton Chapter: KU vs. 13 Brentano String Quartet MARCH Colorado TV watch party 19 “Fiddler on the Roof” 21-27 Spring break 19 Chicago Chapter: Chicago Bulls vs. Boston Celtics outing

6 | KANSAS ALUMNI 22 Philadelphia: KU vs. Villanova ■ Kansas Honors ■ Hall Center Lectures pregame rally Program 22 Boston Chapter: KU vs. Villanova FEBRUARY TV watch party FEBRUARY 17 “Islam Under Siege,” Akbar 25 Waco, Texas: KU vs. Baylor 7 Belleville: Marilyn Haase, Ahmed, the Kansas Union pregame rally 785-527-2723 24 “The Rise and Fall of the Roman 29 Austin Chapter: KU vs. Texas 10 Larned: John Adams, Empire,” Tara Welch, Edwards TV watch party 620-285-2053 Campus 29 Boston Chapter: KU vs. Texas 14 Iola: Carolyn Barnes, MARCH TV watch party 800-584-2957 10 “Ecological Imperialism,” Don 29 Dallas Chapter: KU vs. Texas 16 Garden City: Rebecca Crotty, Worster, Edwards Campus TV watch party 620-271-6112 29 Los Angeles Chapter: KU vs. 21 Holton: Matt and Paula Taylor, APRIL Texas TV watch party 785-364-3241 7 “The GI Generation: Sending 31 Austin Chapter: KU vs. Missouri 23 Dodge City: Melaney Vogel, American Soldiers into Battle in TV watch party 620-225-5667 World War II,” Ted Wilson, the 31 Dallas Chapter: KU vs. Missouri 23 Paola: Bob Nicholson, Kansas Union TV watch party 913-294-4512

FEBRUARY MARCH 9 Newton Chapter: KU vs. Kansas 7 Pittsburg: Nancy Hoff Scott, 620- State TV watch party 235-4082 12 Boston Chapter: KU vs. Colorado 8 Frankfort: Zita and Kenneth TV watch party Duensing, 785-363-7456 14 Austin Chapter: KU vs. Texas 9 Great Bend: Mary King, Tech TV watch party 620-793-6168 14 Dallas Chapter: KU vs. Texas 9 Hiawatha: Leland and Debbie Tech TV watch party Hansen, 785-742-7240 21 Austin Chapter: KU vs. Oklahoma 16 Atchison: Chad and Carri Ball, TV watch party 913-367-0332 21 Dallas Chapter: KU vs. Oklahoma 30 Liberal: Al and Donna Shank, TV watch party 620-629-2559 21 Newton Chapter: KU vs. Oklahoma TV watch party APRIL 27 Boston Chapter: KU vs. 6 Neodesha: Dennis Depew, Oklahoma State TV watch party 620-325-2626 13 Anthony: Carolyn Barnes, FEBRUARY SPECIAL EVENT 800-584-2957

4 Kansas City Chapter: 14 Logan: Polly Bales, 785-689-4328 Lied Center ...... 864-ARTS Rock Chalk Ball 18 Greensburg Honor Roll: Rod University Theatre tickets ...... 864-3982 Bradley, 620-723-2423 Spencer Museum of Art ...... 864-4710 MARCH 20 Goodland: Perry and Janet Natural History Museum ...... 864-4540 6 Boston Chapter: KU vs. Missouri Warren, 785-899-7271 Hall Center for Humanities ...... 864-4798 TV watch party 27 Scott City: Jerry and Marsha Dole Institute of Politics ...... 864-4900 6 Newton Chapter: KU vs. Missouri Edwards, 620-872-2237 Kansas Union ...... 864-4596 TV watch party Adams Alumni Center ...... 864-4760 KU main number ...... 864-2700 For more information about Association events, call 800-584-2957 or see Athletics ...... 1-800-34-HAWKS the Association’s Web site, www.kualumni.org.

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Finders peepers

avy Rothbart, founder and editor of

EARL RICHARDSON Dthe voyeuristic treat Found magazine, brought his 50-state roadshow to campus Nov. 22, and promptly proved to his audience that enduring lessons to be f ound in books are sometimes the forgotten grocery lists and break-up letters tucked between the pages by a previous reader. Or dropped on a sidewalk, taped to a lam- post, or tucked into the bottom drawer of a discarded dresser. And then, of course, mailed to Found. Holding a scrap sent in by a sharp-e yed reader, Rothbart read aloud a man’s “I love you so much!” pleas for the woman of his dreams to return to his life. Making up with sincerity for what it lacked in gram- mar or subtlety, the note, like so much of Rothbart's material, illuminated our shared, enduring passions. “It's amazing that something this tiny can Rooms with a view The Chaneys’ children, Katie and Stuart, hold so much thought and emotion,” he attend KU, and Susan Chaney has moved said. “Next time you see something on the he Eldridge Hotel lives. Which is news into the hotel to oversee renovation plans. ground, pick it up. It might be interesting.” Tenough. But the buyers who rescued Because the original 1926 elevator will Or not. the downtown Lawrence landmark from need replacing, the property has closed, Who knew bankruptcy court (for $2.92 million) give likely through March, but all involved litter could the story a delightful Jayhawk twist. pledge that the 48-room hotel will remain offer such Former All-America quarterback Bobby just that. mysteries? Douglass, ’69, now a Chicago-area real- Along with extensive room renova- estate developer, purchased the historic tions and mechanical improve- hotel with Mitchell, c’78, l’81, and Susan ments, the most visible changes Cannon Chaney, d’79, a Brownsville, Texas, will likely be a redesigned bar couple who met while working part time at and restaurant. the Eldridge in college. Douglass and the “I’m anxious to get to a year Chaneys joined forces when both showed from now,” Susan Chaney says. interest in acquiring the Eldridge, which f ell “This is such a piece of history, into bankruptcy in December 2003. and we know how important it is Although bidding went back and forth to Lawrence. That makes all of 35 times, the winning team never showed this worthwhile.” any reservations. “Certainly part of the attraction for me,” Douglass says, “is the ability to spend ■ Mitchell (l to r) and Susan Chaney a lot of time there. I’ve never lost my and business partner Bobby Douglass in affinity for Lawrence.” front of the historic Eldridge Hotel.

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI He’d rather fight than switch EARL RICHARDSON as a time students could be counted Announcing the switch, Athletics Won to demonstrate against war. Director Lew Perkins said, “We feel that in But when KU and Missouri decided this the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, and the fall to change the name of their rivalry ensuing events around the world, it is inap- from “Border War” to “Border Show- propriate to use the term ‘war’ to describe down,” Paola freshman Dennis Chanay intercollegiate events. We need to be launched a crusade of his own, introducing more sensitive to the men and women a resolution in the Student Senate to bring who defend our country for real.” back the martial moniker. Chaney’s resolution failed, but he did “The roots of the rivalry do go back to forge a new alliance when Mizzou students war,” Chanay says, referring to Missourian heeded his call to issue a similar decr ee. William Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence. “It’s The enemy of my enemy is my friend— a piece of our history, our tradition, and even when he’s a Tiger. we don’t want to see that tainted.” The best, hands down

any larger foes have fallen to Soy power Mher strong arm. Many frater- nity men have lost bar bets under- nvironmentally friendly transport is an estimating her power. Eidea Steve Munch and Jeff Dunlap think She’s Cheryl Frisbie-Harper, is full of beans. f’00, five-and-half feet, 115 pounds Elected student body president and vice of champion wrist wrestler. president on a clean-air platform, they She began twisting arms as a want to switch KU On Wheels buses— freshman in 1982, when she took a which guzzle 100,000 gallons of diesel roommate’s dare and won a con- annually and foul Mount Oread’s air with test in a Lawrence bar. She’s since clouds of noxious smoke—to cleaner collected 80 trophies on her way burning biodiesel made from soybeans. to winning three world and six Munch and Dunlap hope a planned national titles, plus more state trial run goes better than KU’s titles than she can count. Her lat- first flirtation with the est victories came in October at fuel. A 1997 test lasted the 53rd Annual World one day, according to Wristwrestling Championship in University Daily Reno, Nev., where she took first Kansan reports, after place in her weight class and the a driver became nau- one above it. seated and Strong Frisbie-Harper doesn’t work Hall staff members out. Bucking hay bails as a kid and complained of the “lots of hard work since” are the stench. secrets to her success, which Technological earned national TV exposure in advancements have LARRY LEROY PEARSON LEROY LARRY December when ESPN aired the since reduced odors. Reno event. Biodiesel.org says the Watch for the rerun, or look for soy fuel smells like french her at Rick’s Place, the Lawrence fries, which might explain bar where she holds court. But you why eight U.S. universities might have to wait in line: Those run their buses on biodiesel. frat boys never learn. Time for KU to ketchup.

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Specifically, how to describe her ascendancy? “I’m not the ‘new dean,’ which

EARL RICHARDSON would be the adjective somebody would normally put on,” says Brill, who was named interim duly in July when a dean search failed and had to be started anew. “I don’t want to be called ‘permanent dean,’ because then I’m like [Chief Justice William] Rehnquist: I’ll be here forever. And I’m more than full time, so I’m not the ‘full-time dean.’” She adds with a laugh, “It’s an interesting matter about the terminology, isn’t it?” Brill arrived at KU’s tradition-rich School of Journalism in 2000, coming west from the equally prestigious Missouri School of Journalism, where she guided numerous studies about ■ Five months the then-nascent frontier of online into her stint as newspapers. Before heading to journalism’s interim Columbia, she worked at a newspaper leader, Professor Ann in Billings, Mont., serving various editorial roles while also pursuing her Brill was named the graduate research into how computer- school’s seventh ized pagination—which in the early “permanent” dean. 1990s was rapidly displacing the old cut-and-paste composing rooms— changed the cultures of medium-sized newspapers. The experience helped her under- Stop the presses stand how progress often comes at Journalism finds that the right woman a price. “The phasing out of the composing for the job already had the job room meant that you lost a whole other set of eyeballs that looked at the riting has always been a passion paper,” Brill says. “Not to mention that these for Ann Brill. Even before she were colleagues, people who cared about the started kindergarten, she cherished paper, and they were gone. That was the end of her favorite writing nook, and her an era.” Wmother objected only mildly that it happened She also found that some unexpected, though to be on their home’s bathroom walls. Now now commonplace, problems arose on copy that she’s been named the seventh dean of desks. Copy editors with technical abilities rose the William Allen White School of Journalism in importance, and just as often became and Mass Communications, words are still swamped with technical concerns that over- causing her fits. whelmed all editing responsibilities; editors dis-

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI covered that they had little or no time to discuss technology, there’s still the journalistic applica- a perfect word choice with their colleagues when tion of it. technological crises erupted; and the nature of “The mechanics might change, but the basics newspapering changed, according to the copy don’t. We have to recognize that knowing how to chiefs she polled nationwide, when they spent do something is not always knowing why, or their time pondering which buttons to push how to do it better.” instead of which words to publish. —Chris Lazzarino Brill emerged as an authority both on the benefits and perils of high-tech newsrooms, making ◆ ◆ ◆ her the perfect fit for KU’s first faculty position in online journalism. While preparing last summer for a trek to Italy, where she was to teach in a World wide School of Business program that includes journalism faculty, Brill was asked by Provost David Defying trend, KU’s enrollment of Shulenburger to instead step in as interim dean. international grad students rises The yearlong search for a replacement for Dean Jimmy Gentry, who had stepped down to s the numbers of international students return to teaching, came up short when the continued to decline nationwide this favored candidate withdrew unexpectedly. With fall, KU managed to buck the trend with numerous similar searches getting underway at a 2.2 percent increase in international other journalism schools and departments, KU Agraduate student enrollment. had to act quickly; on Nov. 15, “interim” was According to a survey released in November removed from Brill’s title. by the Council of Graduate Schools, more than “We have made “Ann has demonstrated great energy and two-thirds of the 122 graduate schools polled vision since July,” Shulenburger said when he reported declines in the enrollment of first-time a special effort announced her hiring. “I know she will continue graduate students from outside the United to continue this momentum in leading the school to new States. Nationwide, the drop amounted to 6 levels of success.” percent. recruiting, and Brill says job No. 1 when she accepted the interim deanship was to prepare for a February we’ve called on visit by the school’s accreditation team. With our network of those documents finally prepared, she and the international rest of the faculty are returning their focus to the EARL RICHARDSON evolving nature of journalism education. alumni.” The school now admits freshmen, because so many arrive with advanced credits in languages —Diana Carlin and mathematics, and tries to aim better students toward their first internships following their sophomore, rather than junior, years. After the introductory courses, Media & Society and Research & Writing, journalism students choose to focus on news and information or strategic communications. The briefly beloved term “convergence” has been dropped in favor of “cross-platform train- ing,” in part because some alumni and professionals feared it implied that all distinctions had been dropped. Not true, Brill says, although KU must always find new ways to prepare future professionals for their rapidly changing world. ■ Oi-Man Chiang of Macau takes part in December “Journalism schools had been very territorial, graduation ceremonies at the School of Business. and some schools are still like that,” Brill says. International undergraduate numbers at KU dipped “Kansas was looking ahead to say, ‘That’s not the slightly this fall, but international graduate student media anymore.’ But even if they do know the enrollment rose.

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This marks the third straight year that the stopped such visits after 9-11. council’s survey recorded a drop in international The University also hosts receptions for inter- student enrollment in the United States. Much of national alumni, putting the word out that KU

EARL RICHARDSON the decrease is attributed to fallout from the values the contributions of students from around events of Sept. 11, 2001, but the trend is more the world, and an International Recruiting and complicated, according to Diana Carlin, d’72, Advisory Committee guides KU’s overseas g’74, dean of the Graduate School and interna- recruiting efforts. “They’re out doing fairs all tional programs. across Asia, South America and Europe,” Carlin “Post 9-11 the U.S. has tightened up visa says. “We’ve been really aggressive.” requirements; now students have to go through The reputation of KU and Lawrence also helps an interview process, and interviews are backed attract students from other countries, Carlin says. up three or four months,” Carlin says. “It’s more “We’re perceived as safe, and we have a reputa- costly to apply, and it’s tougher to get through tion as an open, friendly place,” she says. “So the the process.” And security concerns, she notes, word gets back.” play both ways. Many parents overseas are leery Nationwide, international students inject an of sending their children to a country they see as estimated $12 billion into the U.S. economy each Prize pianists a target for terrorist threats. year, according to estimates by NAFSA: In response, other nations have stepped up Association of International Educators. In Kansas KU students swept all recruiting efforts and streamlined visa processes alone, internationals spend $53.2 million on three categories at the to attract students who might previously have tuition and fees and $105 million on living Kansas Music Teachers chosen American schools. expenses. Association Honors “Another factor is that there are now a lot of Their contributions in other areas may be very, very good universities outside of the United harder to measure, Carlin contends, but no less Auditions this fall. States,” Carlin says. “The whole competitive field valuable. Pianists Eunmee Song, has changed.” “It’s important for American students to be Hae-ju Choi and Kai I Despite these hurdles, KU enrolled 971 inter- exposed to other cultures,” she says. “It’s also a Tien took first place in national graduate students this fall, up from 950 foreign policy issue. International students learn in fall 2003. However, the news is mixed: When about the U.S. and then go back to their homes their respective levels at undergraduates are counted, overall international and dispel a lot of myths about our country. One the performance-based enrollment actually dropped slightly, from 1,644 person at a time you begin to change the image competition, which last year to 1,615 this fall. In 2001, the number of Americans that people in other countries only encourages excellence in stood at 1,677. “Even though our overall numbers young musicians and are down slightly, it’s still a very posi- recognizes outstanding tive number for us, because we were achievement in music worried it might go down a lot more,”

teaching. Song and says Joe Potts, g’88, director of inter- EARL RICHARDSON national student and scholar services. Tien are students of “Many schools are down quite a bit Professor Richard Reber more than that. The increase in grad and Choi studies with numbers makes us feel like we are out Professor Jack there working hard.” The success attracting graduate stu- Winerock. dents from other countries is a case of thinking—and acting—globally. “We’ve really done a lot of outreach,” Carlin says. “We have made a special effort to continue recruiting, and we’ve called on our network of international alumni.” The outreach efforts include trips to the Washington embassies of ■ Work to expand the year-old Student Recreation Fitness Center Middle Eastern countries, according should begin by summer 2006 under a plan approved this fall by the to Carlin. She says many schools Kansas Board of Regents.

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI get from MTV or movies.” ◆ ◆ ◆ Visitor Pumped up Caloric consciousness As students flock to new fitness center, planners prepare to Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock screened make room for more “Super Size Me” to an audience of students eager to both support and dispute the film’s nly a year after it opened, the Student controversial premise. Recreation Fitness Center—a building project that took five years of student WHEN: Oct. 18 campaigning to get off the ground—is

Oalready growing to meet high student demand. WHERE: : Woodruff GERVER AVI A plan approved by the Board of Regents in Auditorium, Kansas Union November would enlarge the free-weight area; add basketball, racquetball and multi-sport BACKGROUND: courts; and expand the indoor jogging track to a “Super Size Me,” winner of quarter-mile. Sundance’s best director The need for growth was no surprise to rec prize, features Spurlock’s center planners, who had the $17 million, health-destroying, monthlong 100,000-square-foot building designed to accom- binge on McDonald’s. He modate expansion. gained 13 percent of his “We knew when we opened that we were too starting body weight and small, but we felt like we had to start some- doctors feared imminent where,” says Mary Chappell, director of recre- liver failure; critics claim the ation services. “We planned for the future so we stunt was absurdly extreme. could expand when we were ready.” The surprise was how quickly the future ANECDOTE: Spurlock got the idea for arrived. the film while sprawled on his mom’s couch “It was quite a shock,” Chappell says. “But after Thanksgiving dinner; the trigger was a TV “We no longer that’s a tribute to Andy Knopp, who saw a need report about an obesity lawsuit filed by two teach our children and tried to do something to make it happen.” fast-food patrons. Personal responsibility to shop for food. Knopp, b’04, former student body president, trumps culpability of fast-food purveyors, negotiated a deal with Athletics Director Lew Spurlock believes, yet he fears advertising, toys Nobody eats at Perkins to trade 300 student basketball tickets and playgrounds win the battle before children home anymore.” for rec center funding. Under the agreement, the are old enough to make informed decisions Kansas University Athletics Corp. will pay for the about eating habits. —Morgan Spurlock $6 million expansion. The 44,000-square-foot addition will be built QUOTE: An obese teen-ager in the film on the north side of the center, on the south side despairs at being unable to afford two Subway of campus. Work is tentatively scheduled to sandwiches a day; therefore, she can’t replicate begin in June 2006. But first, a building advisory the weight-loss success of the chain’s committee will be formed to address concerns of spokesman. Preaching basic food education, residents in the University Place neighborhood. Spurlock told the KU group, “She thinks she The project is expected to be completed in time has to buy the sandwiches, because that’s what for the 2007 fall semester. the advertising is telling her. But she could buy Initial construction of the center, which was the same ingredients, better ingredients, at the proposed by student leaders and approved by grocery for a fraction of the cost.” a student referendum in 1999, was financed —Chris Lazzarino entirely with student fees. “The expansion project is like all of our proj-

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Administration will be used dents need to be prepared to work in to improve diversity pro- diverse environments.” grams at KU Medical Center. SOCIAL WELFARE The grants will fund initiatives designed to attract a New Kansas City program diverse student body and extends school’s reach train all students on diversity issues. Efforts will The School of Social Welfare will INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS include a $4 million endowment for make it easier for aspiring social workers KU ranks fourth nationally in merit-based minority scholarships. The in the Kansas City area to work toward funding will also pay for enhanced reten- their degrees with the opening this study abroad participation tion programs for minority students, spring of a new program based in recruitment of eight new minority fac- Kansas City, Kan. One in four graduates study abroad at ulty members and one faculty member The 2+2 Bachelor’s in Social Work some point in their KU careers, a rate to teach medical Spanish to students, Program launched in January will allow that bests all but three U.S. public and creation of a primary and secondary students who hold an associate’s degree research institutions. school program to recruit medical stu- to complete a bachelor’s degree in social An Institute of International dents. work from KU by taking classes held at Education survey reports 25.4 percent The grants will also help the medical the Kansas City Kansas Community of 2003 KU graduates studied overseas. center provide more opportunities for College. The junior- and senior-level Only North Carolina, 34.6 percent, underrepresented minorities to partic- courses will be taught by School of Delaware, 32.7 percent, and Virginia, pate in health research. Social Welfare faculty members. 31.7 percent, had higher participation. “Forty-seven percent of the patient The program was made possible by a “Students clearly understand the population in metropolitan Kansas City $20,000 gift from former Kansas legisla- importance of expanding their educa- is underrepresented minorities,” says tor Jessie Branson, n’42, and her hus- tional programs with international Barbara Atkinson, executive vice chan- band, retired Lawrence pediatrician study,” says Susan Gronbeck-Tedesco, cellor of KU Medical Center. “Our stu- Vernon Branson, m’42, c’47. PhD’99, director of study abroad, which offers 100 programs in 50 countries. In 2002-’03, 1,004 students studied abroad, up 12 percent from the previous year. That addresses a recommendation Update of the Task Force on Internationalization convened by Provost David Shulenburger. In 2002 the group recom- eningitis vaccinations will be EARL RICHARDSON mended ways to give all undergraduates Mrequired next year for students a significant international experience. living in University-owned housing. KU’s participation rate is nearly 10 Starting Aug. 1, campus residents times the national average, notes Diana must receive the vaccination from Carlin, d’72, g’74, dean of the Graduate Student Health Services or provide School and international programs. written proof of immunization from “One of the hallmarks of a KU education another provider. Those who prefer is that it prepares a student to be a not to be immunized can sign a waiver, but administrators clearly hope students will global citizen,” Carlin says. opt to receive the vaccine, which could prevent up to 80 percent of meningitis cases. “We have all witnessed the tragedies meningitis has caused on college campuses, MEDICINE including our own,” says Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway. “The danger is real. What Grants to boost diversity is clear now is that mass immunizations, instead of relying on voluntary immunizations for some but not all, is the most effective course to take to help protect stu- initiatives at Med Center dents.” Last spring, St. Cloud, Minn., senior Andy Marso nearly died after contracting a Three grants totaling $11.8 million severe case of bacterial meningitis [“Preventive medicine,” Hilltopics, issue No. 4]. from the National Institutes of Health Marso, j’04, left the hospital in September and is now in rehabilitation. and the Health Resources and Services

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI “Offering a KU degree on the KCKCC campus will provide maximum access to Milestones, money and other matters KU’s School of Social Welfare in a community setting that is familiar to stu- ■ SCOTT HAWLEY, professor of molecular biosciences and an investigator at the dents,” says Ann Weick, dean of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, was named an American Cancer school. “Jessie and Vernon Branson’s Society Research Professor this fall. The professorship, one of the highest honors the support for the program is vital because American Cancer Society bestows, comes with a five-year, $300,000 research grant. it will help students afford a four-year degree.” ■ KU FACULTY, STAFF AND RETIREES pledged nearly $25 million to the KU First: The Bransons, who are the parents of Invest in Excellence capital campaign. The contribution from 27 percent of the faculty, staff a child with a developmental disability, and retirees from KU’s four campuses was recognized during halftime of the KU-Colorado hope the program will encourage more football game Nov. 6. Also announced in November were two gifts that will provide more people to pursue social work careers. than $6 million to help build a proposed football facility near Memorial Stadium. Dana, b’59, “We need more trained social workers and Sue Anderson pledged $3.15 million for the project and $350,000 to the School of to be advocates for troubled families, Business. Charles, b’54, and Sharon Lynch children, the poor and people with dis- Kimbell, d’58, pledged $3 million for the abilities,” says Jessie Branson. “Social football facility and $1 million to support workers do so much in the schools, hos- Lied Center arts programming. pitals and in the public setting.” EARL RICHARDSON (2) ■ THE 2004 HOPE AWARD was pre- SPENCER MUSEUM sented to Stephen Ilardi, associate profes- Alumna with national profile sor of psychology, during the KU-Texas to head KU’s art museum football game Nov. 13. It is the only KU honor for teaching excellence given exclusively by students. Saralyn Reece Hardy, director of the Salina Art Center and former director of ■ A GRANT OF NEARLY $150,000 museums and visual arts at the National from the Institute of Museum and Library Ilardi Endowment for the Arts in Washington, Services will help the Spencer Museum of Art digitize its permanent collection. The D.C., has been named the new director Museums for America grant will allow the Spencer to finish making digital photographs of of the Spencer Museum of Art. the 25,000 works in the next two years. The project is an important step toward making Hardy, c’76, g’94, will succeed interim the permanent collection more accessible to students and faculty for research and teaching. director Fred Pawlicki March 14. Pawlicki has guided the Spencer since ■ TWO SPECIAL EDUCATION PROFESSORS won national awards from the Arc former director Andrea Norris was fired of the United States in November for their work to improve the quality of life for people last March. with intellectual disabilities and their families. The Arc, the nation’s largest volunteer-based Hardy has headed the Salina Art organization devoted to mental retardation issues, awarded Ann Turnbull the 2004 Center since 1986, directing its growth Distinguished Research Award and H. Rutherford Turnbull III the Franklin Smith Award. from a small community gallery to a contemporary art center with a national ■ CAMPUS HOUSING RATES WILL INCREASE and international exhibition schedule. 5.5 percent for residence halls next fall under a proposal Under her leadership, the center devel- made by the department of student housing; students oped new adult and youth programs, will pay $5,504 a year for most rooms, up from $5,216. expanded its facilities and established Residents of most scholarship halls face increases an endowment. She served a three-year between 5.9 and 6.4 percent. However, residents of appointment with the NEA from 1999 Miller and Watkins halls will see their rates rise 24.7 to 2002. percent, from $1,218 to $1,518. “I believe this museum and its collections can be a creative connective force ■ CHRISTINA SHEREE STAUFFER, g’04, a doctoral student in medicinal chemistry, across this campus and among diverse won the $20,000 ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry Predoctoral Fellowship Award for disciplines,” says Hardy, who worked 2004-’05. Stauffer is one of five students nationally to receive the prestigious fellowship, as project coordinator at the Spencer which is sponsored by the global pharmaceutical company Aventis and awarded by the from 1977 to 1979. American Chemical Society.

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the formidable task of replacing him? A thrilling overtime victory against No. 9 Georgia Tech on New Year’s Day

EARL RICHARDSON suggests that during Simien’s four-to- six week recovery, KU can call on several options for winning. In a game that echoed last season’s season-ending overtime loss to Tech, the Jayhawks unveiled a perimeter- based offense that played to remaining strengths: outside shooting by J.R. Giddens and slashing drives by Keith Langford. Once again, the Jayhawks missed many early shots to dig a double-digit hole. Once again, Yellow Jacket point ■ Aaron Miles (11) guard Jarrett Jack torched KU, this time and Alex Galindo for 26 points. And once again, the (right) embraced Keith Jayhawks trailed throughout before forcing overtime, only to fall behind by Langford after his four in the extra session. game-winning shot But with a timely three-point shot by beat Georgia Tech freshman Alex Galindo and a clutch in overtime, avenging jumper by Langford with three seconds last year’s NCAA remaining, KU prevailed, 70-68. Tournament loss. “They had us dead and buried, and we come back and tie, same as last year,” said coach Bill Self. “We get down four in overtime last year and we can’t recover. We get down four in overtime Winning combination this year and we win the game.” It was the way they won that made With Simien injured, Jayhawks mix vets, Self especially happy. After a week of so-so practices newcomers and find new ways to score inspired him to outfit players in football helmets and pads for a get-tough hen basketball practice opened in effort, Self extolled his team’s grit. October with four returning starters “I’m a big believer that you’re not going to and talk of an NCAA title run, only play great all the time, and you’ve got to win one piece seemed missing from the games when you don’t play great,” he said. “You Wchampionship puzzle: Who would stand tall to do that by being tough, and I thought these guys become All-America candidate Wayne Simien’s showed a lot of toughness.” partner in the post? After Simien injured his thumb, in another After Simien underwent surgery Dec. 20 to come-from-behind home win, a 64-60 victory repair ligament damage in his thumb, a pressing over South Carolina, Self tried to accentuate the new question arose: Who among the promising potential positives of playing without the freshmen and returning contributors expected to Jayhawks’ leading scorer and rebounder. complement Simien this year will instead rise to “We have plenty of good players who can

16 | KANSAS ALUMNI excel and play well in his absence,” he said. “Somehow or other, this is going to “You’re not going to play great all the time, and you’ve got help us in the end.” to win games when you don’t play great. You do that by Before Simien’s exit, the surprise story of the early season was Christian being tough.” —Coach Bill Self Moody. While preseason speculation centered on which highly touted new- comer might earn the fifth starting slot, obviously does not expect Moody to time since 1996-’97, Self noted their Self called on the junior from Asheville, replace Simien’s 17 points and 12 steady play under pressure. “When you N.C. rebounds per game. In fact, even before really look at it, there’s a lot of guys with Suddenly, a role player who averaged the injury he indicated that newcomers no experience playing a ton of minutes 4.9 minutes his first two seasons found would be key to KU’s success this year. in a pretty big game,” he said. himself sharing the spotlight with “What I would like is for one of the The lessons learned will boost the Simien, Langford, Giddens and Aaron freshmen to emerge and be a starter,” confidence of the whole team. Miles as the No. 2 Jayhawks won seven Self said. “That is not a knock against “I think it tells them, ‘Hey, no matter straight at home. As defenses collapsed Christian; we would be a better team if what happens, if we stick together and on Simien, Moody began answering the we could play bigger.” play tough we won’t be out of games.’ I calls of his coach and teammates to take Early season injuries and close games think it shows the kids have a lot of the open high-post shot. In a 93-74 win against Vermont, Pacific and South heart and character and how much they over TCU Dec. 9, he got his first double- Carolina limited playing time for all care. They’ll rally around this.” double, recording 10 points and 10 freshmen but Russell Robinson. And If he recovers on schedule, Simien rebounds in 27 minutes, all career highs. when the chance to play came, the big would return in mid- to late January, in The unassuming player teammates call men—C.J. Giles, Sasha Kaun and Darnell plenty of time for a Big 12 stretch run Mad Dog even inspired his own fan club, Jackson—didn’t make the most of it. A that concludes with games against the Moody Maniacs, who thrilled with lackluster 96-51 win over Louisiana- perennial powers Oklahoma and the rest of the Field House crowd when Lafayette drew bad reviews from Self. Oklahoma State, and rivals Kansas State he turned the play of the game, a blind “The three big guys had a chance to and Missouri. Then fans will see if the touch pass to J.R. Giddens for an open set the tone for the future,” he said, “and newfound perimeter punch and Simien’s three. The Pass even earned Moody pub none of them took advantage.” inside presence prove the winningest time on SportsCenter. But after the Georgia Tech victory, combination of all. By shelving the high-low offense, Self which ran KU’s record to 9-0 for the first —Steven Hill

KU 31, Mizzou 14 THAD ALLENDER BILL SNEAD

■ The irritation of a so-close-yet-so-far football season—who can forget the 27-23 loss to Texas Nov. 13?—was assuaged with a 31-14 upset victory Nov. 20 at Missouri. Cornerback Charles Gordon (3, left) and defensive lineman David McMillan were named first-team All-Big 12; Gordon, who tied for the NCAA lead with seven interceptions, was selected third-team All-American.

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■ Senior guard Aquanita Burras played high- of our game plan. school basketball in Lathrop, Alaska, and trans- “We are building a team that will ferred to KU for her sophomore season. She always be respected for its effort. Even

EARL RICHARDSON has since started every game of her Kansas now there’s already been a tremendous outpouring of support for our program. career, and is currently among the top three Fans recognize how hard we’re playing.” Jayhawks in points, rebounds, assists, blocked After enduring Washburn’s humiliat- shots and minutes. ing second-half rally, the Jayhawks were especially pleased with a 24-0 run up to scores of Big 12 victories, but they against San Diego State, on their way to are more than anybody dared dream, a 71-45 victory Dec. 28. especially after the loss of once-prized “It always feels good to be on the recruit Lauren Ervin, who transferred to upper end [of the run],” Hallman said UNLV, and senior Larisha Graves, a after the game. “We created a lot of easy starter who averaged 7.2 points a game shots, we had some easy looks, and in 2003. stopped them on defense.” “It is never as good as it seems and it Easy looks will be a lot harder to Off and running is never as bad as it seems,” says come by in the Big 12, perhaps the coun- Henrickson, who is in her first season at try’s toughest conference. But for now, 7- Women’s basketball scores KU after seven years at Virginia Tech. 4 is more than a good start; it represents much-needed early success “Wins are always important, but in addi- belief in a new program. tion to the wins and losses, we are also “This year is completely different,” s much as it hurt at the time, making progress, in particular games, says junior guard Kaylee Brown. “We the women’s basketball team’s with particular goals, with expectations have a long way to go, but we have three-point loss Dec. 2 to Washburn University might Ahave proven to be an odd blessing. Losing at home to a Division II team— and after leading by as many as 18 JEFF JACOBSEN points in the second half, no less—simply Updates means a new coach won’t have to wait he volleyball team advanced to the NCAA long for her rebuilding program to TTournament’s second round, where it was defeated thump into rock bottom. in five games by Washington. Junior middle blocker Josi In the month following that game, Lima was named first-team All-Big 12 for the third sea- Bonnie Henrickson’s young team went son, and senior libero Jill Dorsey set KU’s career digs 5-2, completing its nonconference sched- record with 1,338. ... The soccer team’s much-anticipated ule 7-4. NCAA Tournament run stopped short with a second- “I think the kids made a commitment round loss to Nebraska, yet the Jayhawks still capped Josi Lima to embrace the change, to work hard, to their best season with unprecedented honors: Sophomore defender Holly Gault was be coachable,” Henrickson says. named a first-team All-American, senior keeper Meghan Miller was picked for the “Whether it’s offense, defense, condition- second team, and junior forward Caroline Smith was named to the third team. They ing or teamwork, I think they are buying were joined by senior midfielder Amy Geha on the All-Big 12 Team, and coach Mark into the system.” Francis was named Central Region Coach of the Year. ... The Jayhawks’ average margin of vic- Senior Amy Gruber was named Big 12 Swimmer of the Month for November and tory in their first seven wins was 20 national Swimmer of the Week by CollegeSwimming.com. She won the 100-meter points. A freshman forward, Taylor freestyle at the Nike Cup Nov. 18 in Chapel Hill, N.C., with the sixth-fastest colle- McIntosh, scored in double-figures three giate time of the season; she finished second in three other events at the prominent times; junior Crystal Kemp recorded meet. ... With eight assists against Georgia Tech, senior guard Aaron Miles dished his four double-doubles (points and way past Jacque Vaughn atop KU’s career assists list. Senior guard Keith Langford, rebounds); and impressive backcourt who hit the game-winner in overtime and led the Jayhawks with 18 points, was leadership by guards Aquanita Burras named ESPN.com’s National Player of the Week and co-Big 12 Player of the Week. ... and Erica Hallman was evident in KU’s The football team will play its first-ever game in Arrowhead Stadium Oct. 15 when it plus-six turnover margin. hosts Oklahoma. The other six home games remain at Memorial Stadium. None of these charms will likely add

18 | KANSAS ALUMNI Sports Calendar JEFF JACOBSEN

■ Men’s basketball 28-29 Jayhawk Invitational JANUARY FEBRUARY 19 Nebraska 4-5 at Husker Invitational, Lincoln 22 at Villanova 11-12 at Iowa State Classic 25 at Baylor 11-12 at Tyson Invitational, 29 Texas Fayetteville, Ark. 31 Missouri 19 at Sooner Invitational, Norman 25-26 at Big 12 Indoor, Lincoln FEBRUARY ■ Swimming & diving 5 at Nebraska 9 at Kansas State JANUARY 12 Colorado 21 Truman State 14 at Texas Tech ■ All-American Holly Gault, a sophomore from 28 at Drury 19 Iowa State Spring Hill, anchored a young KU defense that 29 at Arkansas 21 at Oklahoma surrendered 13 goals all season. 27 Oklahoma State FEBRUARY MARCH 5 Iowa State MARCH 23-26 at Big 12, College Station 2 Kansas State 5-6 at Brechtelsbauer Classic, Carbondale, Ill. 6 at Missouri ■ Tennis 10-13 Big 12, at Kansas City 11-13 Jayhawk Classic JANUARY ■ ■ Baseball Women’s basketball 29 BYU JANUARY FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 22 Missouri 4-9 at Hawaii-Hilo 4 at Mississippi 25 at Colorado 11-13 at Stanford 6 at Mississippi State 29 at Nebraska 16-18, 20 South Dakota State 13 Texas 25-27 Northern Colorado FEBRUARY 18-19 vs Penn State, Yale at 16-18, 20 South Dakota State University Park, Pa. 5 at Missouri 27 Utah MARCH 9 at Oklahoma State 1 Southwest Missouri State 13 Colorado MARCH 16 Texas Tech 4-6 vs Mississippi State, Austin Peay, 5 at Iowa State 20 Nebraska at Starkville, Miss. 6 at Iowa 23 Baylor 11-13 North Dakota State 12 Nebraska 26 at Kansas State ■ Women’s golf MARCH ■ Softball FEBRUARY 1 at Iowa State 28-March 1 at Texas A&M 8-12 Big 12, at Kansas City FEBRUARY 4-6 at Pepsi Classic, Tucson, Ariz. ■ Men’s golf 11-13 at Hilton Classic, Las Cruces, ■ Indoor track & field N.M. FEBRUARY 25-27 at Palm Springs Classic JANUARY 9-11 at TaylorMade/Big Island 21 at Kansas State, KU/KSU/Mizzou Invitational, Waikoloa, Hawaii 28-March 1 triangular at San Antonio

ISSUE 1, 2005 | 19 State of Disrepair

LONG-IGNORED MAINTENANCE BACKLOG THREATENS THE HALLS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

he story has to be told, Jim Modig has been saying, but how to tell it? When visitors drive down Jayhawk Boulevard, admiring lovely buildings and the captivating streetscape, how can he convince anyone that danger lurks, that beauty in the eyes of our beholders conceals ugly rot? The matter is urgent. “Deferred maintenance,” as the problem is com- monly known on campuses across the state, is a priority issue as the Kansas Board of Regents prepares its agenda for this month’s opening of the Legislature. Pipes, tunnels, rocks, roofs, paint, wires, electrical boxes, retain- ing walls, air conditioners and expansion joints are not terribly sexy subjects to read about, they aren’t fun for Modig to explain in expert detail, and they won’t make for barrels of laughs when presented to legislative committees, but the stories must be told. More important, they must be heard.

BY CHRIS LAZZARINO | PHOTOGRAPHS BY EARL RICHARDSON

20 | KANSAS ALUMNI “I think people become somewhat Board of Regents universities. ● KU’s 123 Lawrence facilities, not complacent because the buildings don’t “If we stay at the status quo, in 10 including any contents, student unions look that bad,” says Modig, a’73, KU’s years this $584 million problem could or residential buildings, have a total director of design and construction man- approach being an $800 million prob- replacement value of about $733 mil- agement. “But there is a serious need lem,” says Eric King, the Regents’ direc- lion. Anticipated deterioration of 2 per- here. Water pipes rust out, drain pipes tor of facilities. “What we have [con- cent a year—the figure agreed upon by rust out, and those are behind the walls. cluded] here is, I believe, very conserva- national building councils as the Out of sight, out of mind, but it’s still a tive. I certainly believe we can justify the absolute minimum cost of routine main- deteriorating condition.” $584 million, and, in fact, I think it tenance and renewal, excluding major In a new-age world of high-tech wiz- could be more than that.” infrastructure—should be expected to ardry, bricks and mortar have been run up annual maintenance tabs of $14 enlisted as dismissive symbols for old ◆ ◆ ◆ million. ways of thinking. They still matter, espe- The Lawrence share of the statewide cially for sprawling university campuses, umbers compiled by King, total is $160 million in deferred mainte- but if bricks, mortar, pipes and roofs Modig and their colleagues at nance; boosted by 3-percent annual infla- don’t grab anyone’s attention, perhaps each of the Regents’ campuses tion, that can be expected to grow at money will: $584 million. are frankly overwhelming, least $4 million annually. That’s the estimated tally for bothN in size and volume. But some are In fiscal 2006, KU will receive $2.9 “deferred maintenance” at the six Kansas both notable and memorable: million for deferred maintenance. “We’re deteriorating at a rate of $14 million a year and the inflation factor is $4 million a year, and we’re not keeping up with either one of them,” Modig says. “It’s very frustrating.”

■ Tunnels crisscross Mount Oread, carrying steam and condensation-return pipes, electrical wires and communications lines. It’s not uncommon in the damp, subterranean network to find water dripping (opposite page) onto pipes carrying high-voltage wires. Even more frightening are steel I-beams and angled supports (left and below) rusted completely through. “These are major supports,” Jim Modig says, passing his hand through one, “and they’re not there.”

ISSUE 1, 2005 | 21 ■ Jim Modig (left) estimates that 10 percent of Mount Oread’s tunnels need repair, at a total cost of about $8 million. Steam-pipe expansion joints require regular maintenance, but Modig and other supervisors must constantly decide whether the worst sections are safe enough for workers to venture close; should a pipe collapse through rusted support beams, the 375-degree steam would kill anyone in the tunnel by instantly absorbing all available oxygen. “These tunnels have been there for maybe 100 years,” Modig says, “and some have never had any maintenance done on them at all.” The tunnel crossing Jayhawk Boulevard at Dyche Hall required emergency replacement in 2004; had it failed, KU would have lost service to 500,000 square feet of building space and collections in the Natural History and Spencer Art museums would have been severely threatened.

Even if KU were to see its deferred dollars, and many months of disrupted Even when a state-campus building is maintenance budget triple to about $10 work time, were required to fix the pipe funded entirely with private dollars, it million, and remain at that level, mainte- and the damage wreaked throughout the must first be approved by the nance needs still would fall behind by at building. Legislature, because all buildings on least $8 to $10 million annually. ● As recently as 1983, the Legislature state land become, by statute, state prop- With Regents’ facilities statewide approved less than $500,000 annually erty, and the state must assume mainte- worth $3.68 billion—or about two-thirds for rehabilitation and repair for all cam- nance responsibility. of all state-owned property—it is esti- pus structures statewide. That number “These are state buildings on state mated that at least $74 million should hit $1 million for the first time in 1990, land and, frankly, I think the citizens of be spent for annual maintenance (not and reached $2.4 million in 1992. the state of Kansas would want their including the already-accrued deferred “Up until about 1991, the majority of buildings maintained and kept up to maintenance needs of $584 million). state funds we received were for new date, and not in ill repair or falling In fiscal 2005, the state allocated $7 building construction,” King says. down,” King says. “I think that the million. “Essentially, campuses weren’t even get- Regents’ campuses have done their part ● The KU numbers so far cited do not ting enough money to reroof a building.” or more in raising funds for needed include KU Medical Center. The Kansas King says his predecessor, Warren buildings and any number of things.” City complex estimates its deferred Corman, e’50, now KU’s architect, first ● At KU, 38 percent of the structures maintenance needs at $68 million. convinced legislators to shift more of the are 20 to 40 years old, a number that vir- The Medical Center offers the most Educational Building Fund to mainte- tually mirrors statewide percentages. graphic illustration of how neglect even- nance rather than construction. Since And more than 40 percent of the build- tually becomes calamity: On June 20, that time, King estimates, private gifts ings on Mount Oread are more than 40 2004, a corroded hot-water pipe burst and all other non-state funds, including years old. Even with proper mainte- inside a fourth-floor wall of the main student and parking fees, funded 75 per- nance, heating, ventilation, electrical and administration building, 80-year-old cent of all campus construction, with the plumbing systems cannot be expected to Murphy Hall. Hundreds of thousands of state chipping in about 25 percent. last more than 40 years; the average life

22 | KANSAS ALUMNI span for mechanical systems is 23 years. state institutions across the country,” sis, but he also cites chief executives of “I hate to refer to it in this way,” Neufeld told the Capital-Journal, “that the six Regents institutions for not bring- Modig says, “but all too often we’re in are as good as ours.” ing it to the Board of Regents sooner. what I call ‘crisis management mode.’ How to fight the skin-deep beauty “Probably one of the reasons they We anticipate what our needs are going that belies deterioration of underground haven’t is because of the very difficult to be, but if something happens that pipes, cloth-coated electrical wiring economic and fiscal situation in the becomes an emergency, then you shift looped behind cinder-block walls, leaky state,” Bond says. “So perhaps they have gears and redirect the money. It’s one of roofs, crumbling stone and masonry, just felt like it was unsolvable, and as the those kinds of operations.” and heating and cooling systems that economy is beginning to turn around, threaten the very existence of priceless they bring it to us as something to ◆ ◆ ◆ art and natural-history collections? address. And we’re doing that.” Regents chair Richard Bond, a former It’s hard to predict the chances for onstruction managers’ fears Senate president from Overland Park, any maintenance-funds proposals, came true Dec. 20, in a story says lawmakers need to be guided because no proposal has actually been about deferred maintenance through the magnitude of the problem created, let alone offered to lawmakers. published by the Topeka with pictures, multiple examples of the All of the players are waiting on the Jan. CCapital-Journal. While detailing the urgency of the situation, and, most 10 budget address by Gov. Kathleen structural failures of limestone exteriors important, patient expectations and cre- Sebelius, g’80. on the Kansas State University campus ative solutions for financing. “It’s going to be a hard pill to swal- and huge maintenance tabs being “The need is $584 million; well, I low, because it’s going to take a major ignored at Regents institutions across don’t think anyone realistically believes infusion of money if we really want to the state, the capital-city newspaper also we are going to be able to come up with take care of the problem,” King says. noted that Rep. Melvin Neufeld, the creative funding that meets that big of a “The campuses will continue to do the influential Ingalls Republican who chairs number,” Bond says. “But we do need to very best they can to put bandages on the House Appropriations Committee, come up with creative funding that things, take care of the worst issues and saw little “wiggle room in the state begins to address the issue soon, and for so forth, but the problem is only going budget to pare down universities’ main- the long term.” to get worse. tenance needs.” Bond, c’57, l’60, who as a veteran for- “As public servants, I think it’s our Regardless of a lack of budgetary wig- mer legislator helped guide passage of duty to let people know there’s a prob- gle room, the paper reported, Neufeld the $161 million “Crumbling lem. If they don’t know there’s a prob- was not convinced of the scope of the Classrooms” initiative in 1996, blames lem, they certainly can’t address it.” problem itself. Regents and legislators for long ignoring Once again, it will all come down to “You won’t find many campuses at the mounting campus maintenance cri- storytelling.

■ Decay can be found up high (atop Spooner Hall, left) and down low (in a damp tunnel, above). The KU campus audit revealed numerous buildings with condition ratings of 70 or less, including Allen Field House, Danforth Chapel and Spencer Research Library, and Bailey, Dyche, Fraser, Lindley, Lippincott and Malott halls. All maintenance cost estimates are based on restoring structures to a good rating of 90, not a perfect 100.

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24 | KANSAS ALUMNI Her upbringing on a Reno County farm prepared Ruth Anne French to excel. With a Rhodes Scholarship, she takes Land} the next step on her path to public service.

t 6, Ruth Anne French was grown up, she’s kept that same fire,” Jim How do we build sustainable farms so galvanized by a lesson French says, but she has tempered it and strong rural communities? How do on the destructive environ- with a quality more down to earth, what we feed the cities while preserving the mental effects of fluorocar- environmental historian Don Worster, countryside? How do we involve citizens bons that she came home one of her KU mentors, calls “a deep in writing and enforcing environmental from school and rifled the streak of good Kansas pragmatism.” rules? How do we make a better world? Afamily pantry, tossing every offending Her goal for her time at Oxford is to These are the questions that engage aerosol can she could lay hands on. bring back to the United States fresh her, and she peppers them throughout “It was emotionally upsetting to her,” ideas for bringing together opposing fac- her talk as frequently as some other 20- recalls Jim French, chuckling at his tions. somethings offer—well, like, you know— daughter’s indignation. “And Mom and “I believe it’s bad to think that either phrases somewhat less profound. Yet, Dad were in big trouble.” we have business or we have a cleaner she does so without pretension, without, Even her grandmother, who lives environment,” French says. “There is as one professor puts it, “some sense within walking distance of the family’s such strong rhetoric on both sides that that she’s special with a capital S.” Reno County farmhouse, was not neither wants to talk to the other. I think But special she is, and not only for spared. “I do remember telling her about there’s a lot of common ground both her academic achievements, which are her hair spray,” Ruth Anne says, grinning sides can agree on.” impressive. (In sixth grade, for example, broadly at the memory of her young self The search for common ground, for she and her mother, Lisa French, drove chiding Grandma on the dire ozone consensus, is not a concept that causes all over western Kansas photographing threat posed by White Rain. mass protests. And yet, in these days of fields, interviewing farmers and doing At 22, French is still committed to partisan rancor, so little gets done. research in small-town libraries for a protecting the environment, still deeply When it comes to compromise, the National History Day project on the passionate about translating ideals into devil, it seems, is in the details. Ogallala Aquifer that placed third in the actions. This fall she became the 25th Or, as Ruth Anne French, Rhodes nation.) Notable, too, are the consistency KU student to be named a Rhodes Scholar, puts it, “The question is, ‘How of her commitment to the environment Scholar; she will use the Rhodes, which do we find that mediating way?’” over the years and her depth of purpose pays more than $50,000 for two years of now, at an age when many students— graduate study at Oxford University in ◆ ◆ ◆ even some of the brightest—still wonder England, to study how Great Britain and what to do with their lives. Europe use the regulatory process to ne of the first things you “I find her very remarkable,” says protect the natural world. notice about French—after the Worster, Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Her thinking on the environment has, vibrant red hair and the easy Distinguished Professor of U.S. history of course, grown more sophisticated, smile and the air of serene and a pioneer in the study of environ- shaped deeply by her experience on the Oself-confidence—is that a great many of mental history. “She hasn’t worked land her family has farmed near her sentences start with the thoughtful everything out in detail, but she has a Partridge for five generations. “As she’s phrase, “How do we ...” very strong sense of where she wants to

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ISSUE 1, 2005 | 25 French explains. “It really freaked my parents out.” She could have stayed in Hutchinson, where a job awaited, lived at home and hung out with her friends. “I would have been too comfortable in Hutch,” she says. “I don’t think I would have learned as much.” So she worked 40 to 50 hours a week at the Derrick Inn. She learned how to relate to the farmers and oil field workers who ate there, and the cooks and waitresses she toiled alongside from 5:30 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon. She learned how they saw the world. She learned how they saw her. “Back home, people knew me as the valedictorian, the high school debater. Out in Ness City I was just another 18- year-old who wasn’t going to college. People look at you differently, and you ■ French credits her parents, advocates of sustainable farming and land conservation, for teaching learn to relate to them in a different way. her to seek practical solutions to divisive issues. “Working out there broadened my perspective. There’s a lot more than just go. ... There are a lot of bright students know more, to make linkages between book learning; there’s practical experi- in the world, but they don’t all reach a things that aren’t obvious, that sets her ence as well.” level of maturity and a wisdom about apart,” Cigler says. As a student, she themselves at such a young age.” pushes a professor to be rigorous in the ◆ ◆ ◆ “She has certainly been active on cam- classroom; as a researcher, “in many ways pus, but her profile is not the same as a she’s more of a colleague than a worker.” learly, one doesn’t win a lot of the students we see, who belong to As a child, Ruth Anne readily took on Rhodes Scholarship, the everything,” says Sue Lorenz, assistant tasks that most adults put off. “If she ultimate academic prize, by director of the University Honors needed to go into a store to take care of being ordinary, typical, one Program. “Ruth Anne has public service a problem, she’d march right in and find Cof the gang. aims at heart, and she does what she a clerk and find out what she needed to And yet: can, but her main focus is to do the do,” recalls Lisa French. When Ruth She adores KU basketball. The day of work that needs to get done so she can Anne decided to write a children’s book, her final Rhodes interview, at the district get in a position to make a difference.” she carefully printed out the text, leaving round in Minnesota, she did not spend That exceptional focus and maturity room for illustrations, and mailed it to the morning cramming for the 20- were evident from the very beginning of Quentin Blake, illustrator of Roald minute grilling by a panel of judges, but her college career. Dahl’s classic books, and asked if he watching SportsCenter for highlights of “She very quickly distinguished her- would kindly supply the drawings. “She KU vs. Vermont. She saw instead replays self as being a standout among stand- has always been tremendously inde- of the Pistons-Pacers brawl, a distraction outs,” says Alan Cigler, Chancellors Club pendent,” Lisa says, “and able to make she admits finding “pretty entertaining.” Teaching Professor of Political Science, her own decisions about where she She likes to cook. Environmentalist or who taught French in an honors class needs to go and what needs to be done.” not, she enjoys a good steak. When during her first semester at KU and later Between high school (where she was homesick or in need of a study break, hired her to do research. “In 34 years a member of the debate team and vale- she whips up simple but hearty fare I’ve had probably three students who are dictorian) and college (where a generous learned on the farm. She also relishes a in a different category; they don’t just scholarship awaited at KU), she took challenge: Her favorite dish just now is master the material but come up with a year off to work in Ness City. As a salmon steaks in butternut squash rata- bold, creative interpretations.” waitress. touille. For a Thanksgiving weekend French is one of them. “It’s a quest to “I felt like I wasn’t ready for college,” reception her parents hosted in her

26 | KANSAS ALUMNI “It’s bad to think that either we have business or we have a cleaner environment. There is such strong rhetoric on both sides that neither wants to talk to the other. There’s a lot of common ground {both sides can agree on.”

ISSUE 1, 2005 | 27 honor, she prepared two kinds of soup, a “I came to the University looking at “They are wonderfully thoughtful, cre- salad with carmelized pears, a fancy blue environmental policy,” French says, “and ative people who exemplify a real com- cheese dressing and sundry delectables I realized that lots of times things are mitment to the land and its issues,” Don made with ingredients gathered in passed by the legislature and then what Worster says. “Their daughter, although Lawrence, the farm garden and stops on happens on the ground is something she’s not going to be a farmer, represents the road between. She cooked things completely different.” a lot of those values.” she’d never tried. For 20 people. Growing up on a farm provided yet What is especially surprising, says “I told her she was pretty brave,” says another education about what happens Worster, who attended high school in Lisa French. on the ground, as she saw her parents Reno County, is how atypical those So brave she’s thinking of preparing balance ideals of enlightened land use beliefs are. yet another celebratory dinner. In with the need to prosper in a struggling “She has developed a set of values January, she and her fiancé, Jake farm economy. that are rather surprising to come out of the Partridge area of Kansas. Strong fem- inism. Strong environmental values. Yet “I have to give a lot of credit to my parents, because she does not approach these in a completely abstract or academic way. These they taught me to always question, to ask, ‘Is there are real issues for her.” a better way to do it, both environmentally and Real enough to shape her thoughts economically?’ To not just talk about problems, on environmentalism: French believes {but to work with people to find a solution.” Hodson, will wed at Danforth Chapel. Ruth Anne has talked of cooking the rehearsal dinner, but Lisa thinks her daughter may be backing off that ambi- tious plan. So there’s a limit to her daring? “Maybe,” says Mom. “Maybe.”

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ith graduation approaching in May, French already has completed most of her work toward a political sci- Wence degree. This semester she’ll help Worster teach a class, which she also helped design, on the history of agricul- she pursues change in a fundamentally ture. In October, it’s off to Oxford to Jim French cut short his graduate different way than many students who work on a master’s degree in compara- studies at the University of Nebraska to devote themselves to green issues, tive politics, studying how the European take over the family farm from his father because she better understands the hard approach to environmental regulation in 1979; he works at the Kansas Rural bargain family farmers face. differs from that of the United States. Center, a nonprofit organization that “To keep handing down a farm After that, her plans include law school promotes sustainable farming, and is a through five generations, you’ve got to and a career as an environmental member of the Land Institute’s Prairie do something to conserve the land,” she advocate—possibly at a think tank or Writers Circle. Lisa French worked on says. “But it’s also a business. It has to nonprofit group—and even, someday, a the farm full time until Ruth Anne and make money. So how do we look at possible run for public office. her brother, Andrew, were in high building a farm that can practically put Her interest in regulatory policy school; she now works at the Cheney into use the ideals we want?” reflects a desire to focus on what actually Lake Watershed Project, which promotes Ingenuity in the face of limited happens to America’s natural resources, water-quality projects that protect resources is a necessity on most farms. not what is supposed to happen. Wichita’s drinking water. (“We have to know where the duct tape

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI ■ French, with brother Andrew, a KU sophomore, and parents Lisa and Jim, says her farm she says, “that there are better ways to upbringing created close family ties and shaped her thinking. “I haven’t always lived in an do things.” academic world. I was an active part of my family’s business, and that grounded me.” It’s a lesson she applies in her schol- arly pursuits; at Oxford, she hopes to find in the European regulatory process and baling wire is,” Jim French By making these issues a topic of din- a model for improvement. She hopes to jokes, “because we don’t have a ner table discussion, by working along- bring those ideas back to Washington, lot of money to buy machinery.”) Less side their children in the fields, they D.C., back, someday, to Kansas and common, perhaps, is the emphasis on pass these lessons along. Reno County. Back, perhaps, to the farm finding new—or in some cases, old—ways In seventh grade, for example, Ruth that has been in her family’s care since of doing things. Anne began raising chickens. Following homestead days. The Frenches run a diversified farm standard practice, she confined her birds “I have to give a lot of credit to my that’s akin to the family farms of yore. in a chicken house; manure piled up and parents, because they taught me to They grow wheat and milo but do not had to be shoveled out, and the chickens always question, to ask, ‘Is there a better rely solely on monoculture grains. They could hardly move. The next year, her way to do it, both environmentally and raise vegetables, butcher their own beef. parents helped her raise them outside, in economically?’ To not just talk about They rotate noncash crops such as cow- a pen they moved around the pasture. problems, but to work with people to peas to replenish the soil, and while they The chickens grazed on alfalfa, cutting find a solution.” use pesticides and fertilizers, they use feed costs, and fertilized the field with How do we make a better world? sustainable ag techniques to minimize their droppings. Those who know her believe Ruth the need for chemicals. “That was probably my first lesson,” Anne French will find a way.

ISSUE 1, 2005 | 29 BY CHRIS LAZZARINO phants”—her spot-on description of the migration she witnesses hourly—and she’s not pleased when unauthorized vehicles get past her station. She checks the time on an official-looking digital clock, notes it on her log sheet, along with other details of the incident, and says, “They’ll get a letter.” Debbie guards campus. She takes her job seriously. She is also the kindest, most patient person I have met in a very L ttle long time. As one of four full-time attendants standing sentry in the campus traf- i fic booths, she is often the first employee a campus guest encounters. “They are, in many ways, the front door of the University,” Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway says. “What they do can leave G a s an impression with our visitors.” l Debbie Brown usually must tell visitors s to turn around and head for the parking garage north of the Kansas Union, but she does so in a gentle manner that her “customers”—as she calls drivers who e stop for help, directions or even to sweet- u s talk their way onto campus—usually o s appreciate. But not always. There was a guy who H flipped her off. One driver stopped, but he first runner strikes at would not otherwise acknowledge her: “I A VETERAN TRAFFIC- 9:18. My new friend found myself talking to a window,” she Debbie Brown had just says with a laugh. When she stops stu- BOOTH ATTENDANT waved through University dents who claim to be delivering an architect Warren Corman, urgent paper or project, they sometimes OFFERS A GLIMPSE who offered his usual get mad and insist, “It’s going to be your Twarm smile and wave, and she’s telling fault if I fail this class.” Stop Days are INTO THE JOYS AND me, “Most of them are friendly. A lot of famously crazy, as are, she promises, them are really nice ...” and cat-quick Fridays. she snatches a clipboard, lunges out the “I never knew how rude and inconsid- PERILS OF GUARDING door of her traffic booth at the west end erate people can be until I started out of Jayhawk Boulevard and watches the here. At first, it bothered me. I’d never KU’S FRONT DOOR hind end of a burgundy four-door that’s been cussed at or called names. It got to not so nice; downright naughty, in fact, the point where I had to say, ‘It’s just my and it has just made Debbie’s list. job. Don’t take it personally.’” “Fridays,” she says, shaking her head. She adds ominously: “But I do not give “Seems like the rules change.” out my name. I get harassed here at work. Our quiet, cold, early December I won’t be harassed at home.” morning gets fast and fun. We stare If you’re grumbling that we’re devoting after the car as it motors into the heart feature space to traffic attendants who of campus, and Debbie notes that class didn’t cave to your pleadings, stop. If you change is approaching, the boulevard is love KU, and by reading this magazine starting to clog with “a herd of ele- you presumably do, understand this:

30 | KANSAS ALUMNI Nobody is more important to our public image than Debbie Brown. How do I know this? I spent the day with her. A full shift, from 7:45 a.m. (I was three minutes late; she was not) until 4:45 p.m. (I left two minutes early, to give her room to close her station.) The next question: Why? Because I’ve driven past these booths for more years than I’ll count or confirm, and I’ve always wondered what it must be like to spend eight long hours in one of those infernal glass houses. I asked Donna Hultine, director of parking services, whether I could spend a day with one of her attendants. Hultine immediately approved, and soon I learned that Debbie Brown, a 10-year-veteran, had agreed to endure a nosy shadow. I was scheduled to meet her at Station A, the booth near the fountain at the west end of Jayhawk Boulevard. It was not her Station B is at the south campus en- regular station for the current three-week trance, on Sunflower Road at Sunnyside rotation, but Hultine feared that Station Avenue. Station D is in front of the E, Debbie’s present assignment down on Kansas Union, and Station E is on Mississippi Street, might be too boring to Mississippi Street. There used to be a make for a good story. Station C on 14th Street, near Spooner So we agreed that the fountain booth Hall, but it was removed in 1978 in favor would be best, and when I arrived at 7:48, of a locked gate. Debbie introduced herself and joyfully The “traffic information booths,” as displayed a box of chocolates that already they are officially termed in the campus had been dropped off by a friend. This directory, were first proposed in the happens a lot during our day together, early 1960s, in response to rising enroll- campus citizens stopping briefly to say ment and affluence that brought traffic hello, hand her a card or small holiday troubles to a suddenly crowded cam- gift, or simply share a laugh and a smile. pus. When Chancellor Clarke Wescoe It’s just like when coworkers duck into requested $30,000 in parking-fee funds your office for a refreshing break from the to build them, it was estimated that workaday grind, except Debbie’s office Jayhawk Boulevard saw as much vehicle straddles Jayhawk Boulevard. traffic as the downtown intersection at There are four of these booths, or, as Sixth and Massachusetts streets. Debbie refers to them, houses. (She gri- maces when I mention that some of us call them “tugboats,” in reference to the profile created by their concrete barriers.) PHOTOGRAPHS BY EARL RICHARDSON Station A faces the Chi Omega Fountain.

ISSUE 1, 2005 | 31 ■ When your office straddles the street, mail pick-up is a breeze. Brown fills rare quiet moments by painting ceramic gifts or tending to small sewing jobs for friends.

So, at 7 a.m. on Sept. 3, 1962, campus with the name of an out-of-town school access was first restricted. Attendants district; the lumbering Suburban never wore security-guard uniforms, and angry slowed as Debbie tried to wave it over. students, some of whom tagged the The first surprise of the day, though, booths “Checkpoint Charlie,” retaliated comes first thing in the morning, when a have been accepted to come here!” with charges that KU was building family car full of family stops, Dad rolls Debbie smiles right back and says hap- “another Berlin Wall.” Administrators down the window and announces, pily, “Well, congratulations!” feared that three or four years would “We’re here for Family Day.” Debbie have to pass before the booths could cheerfully tells him to do a U-turn, take ◆ ◆ ◆ become a routine part of campus life. a right at the stop sign on West Campus It didn’t take nearly that long. As Road and follow Memorial Drive down he four traffic booths have air soon as the booths began regulating to the public parking garage next to the conditioners and space heaters, campus traffic, two Lawrence bike shops Kansas Union. microwave ovens purchased by reported booming business and nobody After the family departs, Debbie says the employees and small refrig- reported any serious objections. this is the first she’s heard about Family Terators. Even with the blinds lowered, “The campus is quiet now,” the Day. “Sometimes when we don’t find direct sunlight quickly heats the booths, Kansas City Star declared three weeks out,” she says, nodding toward another regardless of season, and Debbie after the booths’ debut. “Students family slowing outside her booth, “we explains that black clothing is best walked along Jayhawk Boulevard at ease find out. By the end of the day you’ll feel avoided. On rainy or snowy days, when this year, no longer dodging the cars that like a tape recorder.” countless commuters try to talk their passed constantly along the boulevard in One of Debbie’s few surly customers way onto campus, attendants are con- former years.” of the morning is a stern, mustachioed stantly out in the elements and chill to In 1985 the Mississippi Street booth man with a brooding expression. He is the bone. was smashed in an after-hours hit-and- driving a battered little car that must be There’s a telephone—attendants call run, but it was not thought to be an act 15 years old, and, in broken English, he each other to ask for help catching a of protest. Because the structure was explains that he must find the financial runner’s tag number—and Debbie also utterly destroyed, and scrapes of yellow aid office. Her patience unbowed by the has a small radio, which on our day paint were found at the scene, it was the- scowl that lasers out from under his together plays nonstop holiday music. orized that the culprit might have been heavy brows, Debbie points and explains “It’s like a home away from home,” she an errant school bus. where he can find a loading zone spot says, “without a restroom.” Sound improbable? On our day behind Snow Hall on Memorial Drive. Ah, yes, the restroom. Attendants get together, the fifth “runner” logged on The man’s irritation appears to be grow- 20-minute breaks in the morning and Debbie’s clipboard, during the hectic ing, but suddenly he breaks into a broad afternoon, and an hour for lunch, and 2:20-2:30 class change, was stenciled grin and says, “This is my school now! I invariably head immediately to the near-

32 | KANSAS ALUMNI est building. During her morning break, he is headed to Wescoe Beach for a pro- At 4 p.m., with just 45 minutes Debbie walks to the Art and Design motion; Debbie tells him the boulevard remaining in her shift, the much-antici- building, where’s she’s friendly with the is restricted until 5. He throws some glib pated Friday flurry strikes. Cars seem to women who work in the coffee nook. double-talk at her—call it, perhaps, Red attack from every direction, and every- She’s hemming a pair of slacks for one Bull bull—and blithely aims his weird one is in a rush to get in or out. The of these ladies—Debbie passes the slow Mad Max-meets-marketing truck down 10th runner bullets past, and Debbie times with sewing and ceramic paint- Jayhawk Boulevard. She turns to me, takes down the information while being ing—and is delighted when I buy us smiling with bewilderment, and notes peppered with questions from another huge, expense-reportable muffins. She the truck’s Colorado tag numbers. customer. At 4:40, she begins packing declines coffee, delicately explaining that At 3:45 comes runner No. 9. This her things. She unplugs her little radio, long hours inside a toiletless hut are best time, though, the culprit returns. “I just finds her umbrella, and safely tucks the spent sipping water slowly. I should went through,” an exasperated woman uneaten half of her monster muffin into have heeded her advice. says. “I was on the telephone with my a plastic bag. Then she spies the gift that Later, when we return from lunch, son, who was upset.” The woman says arrived with the dawn, and exclaims, Debbie’s “breaker,” as she terms the this as an explanation, but if she’s actu- “We forgot the chocolates!” parking department’s student employ- ally apologized, I miss it. Debbie tells her We each choose a piece, and finally ees, has logged three more runners. that she’s already been recorded as a we end our day together. I check the “Fridays,” she says again. “Seems like the runner and can’t be scratched off the tally, which does not include KU’s own rules change.” list, though Debbie promises to note that trucks and service vehicles: 255 regular At 2:49, a small car darts through. she returned to fess up. Maybe she won’t vehicles, 441 commercial vehicles, 18 Debbie gets the tag numbers, but get the letter. information requests, 15 cars refused doesn’t recognize the out-of-state plates. Next comes a carload of hipster guys admittance, zero cross words. She calls her colleagues for help. The who look like a band in search of a Not once, not even for a second, did Mississippi Street booth quickly reports music video. The driver wears a porkpie Debbie Brown lose her patience or good back that the blue and yellow tags on hat, crunches on a plastic-tipped cigar humor, even with me. I thank her, wish the car that just whipped past are from and speaks like Hunter S. Thompson. her all the best for her much-deserved Pennsylvania. Debbie notes this success “I’m just trying to get off campus,” he winter break, and head back to the with satisfaction. The seventh runner of says through clenched teeth. Debbie warmth of my office. The tides of traffic the day strikes at 3:30. “You could say points out how he should circle back still jostle my equilibrium as I walk that’s about average,” she says. and aim downhill. “Yes!” the dude unsteadily through the chill of lengthen- After daily runner reports are submit- replies, as if the solution to a great mys- ing shadows, and I think, so that’s what ted, the parking department sends a let- tery has just been revealed. “Of course!” someone does for eight hours in one of those traffic booths. They make friends, all day long. “Students sometimes get mad and insist, ‘It’s going to be your fault if I fail this class.’” Stop Days are famously crazy. ter to each vehicle’s registered owner, He thanks her, still without explaining the infraction. After the first removing the cigar, and offense, a fine of $50, mandated in 1998, Debbie laughs as she watches is levied. “When there was no fine,” the overloaded little car putter Debbie says, “we’d have over 100 vehi- away. cles run a booth in a day. There was “Since I grew up here in nothing we could do.” Lawrence, I usually know a lot And there’s nothing much she can do of the places people are look- when a tank-like behemoth advertising ing for,” Debbie says. She an energy drink crawls momentarily to a adds, laughing, “But I need to stop. As he begins inching the vehicle get caught up on the restau- forward again, the driver explains that rants.”

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All Association members who Bradley G. Korell E. Grant Larkin Melissa Rodgers Padgett Walter F. Riker attended KU are • Walter F. Riker III, c’70, j’78, Aurora, Ill. eligible to vote • Thomas I. Volini, c’94, Mission Hills in the annual • Stephen L. Young, j’80, l’84, San Francisco Along with Borden, b’62, g’67, of Colorado election for new Springs, Colo., other members of the Nominating members of the Committee were David M. Carr, c’73, Wellington; Patricia Weems Gaston, j’81, Centreville, Va.; national Board Donald A. Johnston, b’56, l’66, Lawrence; Jerry of Directors. M. Nossaman, d’60, Lawrence; and Mary E. Three of the six Turkington, j’46, Topeka. Korell is a partner with the law firm of Thomas I. Volini Stephen L. Young candidates will Osborne & Helman in Austin, where he has serve five-year assisted the Alumni Association as leader of both the Dallas and Austin chapters and as a ’Hawk to terms beginning Six nominees vie for ’Hawk mentor for KU students. He also has July 1, 2005. helped the Office of Admissions and national alumni board Scholarships as a college night volunteer in the Dallas area. He is a Jayhawk Society member. Next Kansas Alumni to feature Larkin is a dentist in Garden City, where he ballots for all Association members has coordinated and hosted numerous KU events and supported the Kansas Honors Program. He and his wife, Kathleen Korte Larkin, he Alumni Association’s annual election n’80, are Jayhawk Society members. They have process began in December when four sons. Two, Jeff and Tom, are KU students. national chair Larry J. Borden assembled Padgett serves on the advisory board for KU a Nominating Committee to select six Women Philanthropists, a group created in 2004 TJayhawks as candidates in the 2005 balloting. by the KU Endowment Association. She also Complete information on the nominees, includ- serves on the boards of the Carnegie Arts Center ing photos and personal statements, will be part in Leavenworth and the Anschutz Family of the ballots mailed to all Association members Foundation in Denver. She and her husband, as part of the next issue of Kansas Alumni. Brent, c’87, have four daughters. They are life and The 2005 nominees are: Jayhawk Society members of the Association. • Bradley G. Korell, l’97, Austin, Texas Riker is vice president of media relations for • E. Grant Larkin, c’79, Garden City the McDonald’s Corp. He has assisted with • Melissa Rodgers Padgett, c’83, Lawrence numerous KU gatherings in the Chicago area. He

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI and his wife, Christine Davis Riker, c’72, of the Association. d’73, are life and Jayhawk Society mem- To nominate additional candidates, bers; their two children also are members must submit petitions signed

Jayhawks: Walter F., c’04, and Kelly, a by at least 100 paid members, with no BRIAN ATTEBERRY current student. more than 50 from the same county. Volini is vice president of Grubb & Nominees’ photos, biographical informa- Ellis/The Winburg Group in Kansas tion and personal statements must City, Mo. He has participated in numer- accompany the petitions; all materials ous KU events in Kansas City and his must reach the Association by Feb. 15. former home of Chicago, where he was Mail to Alumni Association Nominating an alumni chapter leader. He currently Committee, 1266 Oread Avenue, serves on the board of the Kansas City Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. Chapter. He and his wife, Amy Ballots for election will accompany Sutherland Volini, c’94, are Jayhawk the next issue of the magazine. Each ■ KU Dance Team members (top) wrangle Society members. copy will include one or two ballots, the giant Jayhawk piñata into place for Young is senior vice president depending on the number of voting bidding. and general counsel of the Insurance Association members in each household. Brokers and Agents of the West Inc., a Annual, life and Jayhawk Society mem- nonprofit trade association with various bers are eligible to participate, but the ◆ ◆ ◆ subsidiaries. Young has participated in Association’s bylaws prohibit associate KU events in the San Francisco area. members (those who did not attend KU) He is a life and Jayhawk Society member from voting in annual elections. Jayhawk Roundup Wichita event benefits scholars, clinical programs

ore than 475 alumni gath-

EARL RICHARDSON ered Oct. 16 for the second annual Jayhawk Roundup, which featured a fiesta Mtheme, including mariachi players who greeted guests as they entered the sta- bles owned by Dave, b’75, e’75, and Janet Lusk Murfin, d’75. A Mexican buf- fet and Jayhawk piñatas, including a giant version that was auctioned to the highest bidder, added to the occasion, which was organized by local alumni vol- unteers, including Sue Shields Watson, d’75, who serves on the Alumni Association’s national Board of Directors. Lynn Loveland, ’76, development director for the KU School of Medicine in Wichita, reports that the event raised more than $45,000 to fund KU scholarships for Wichita area students and ben- ■ Winners of the Student Alumni Association’s annual Judy Ruedlinger Scholarship are efit the medical school’s clinical pro- (l to r) Meredith Hauck and Derek Klaus, both of Wichita, and Sarah Lathrop, Phoenix. grams in Wichita. All are SAA officers and juniors majoring in journalism. The $250 scholarship rewards Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway and students for their University and SAA leadership; it honors Ruedlinger, former Alumni other University representatives joined Association staff member who helped found the student organization in 1987 and in the celebration, which featured the served as its first adviser. KU Dance Team, the mascot, strolling mariachi musicians and oldies per-

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formed by a local band, “The Grateful not to be Dead.” In the evening’s raffle, Robert, c’69, and Kathie Taylor of Overland Park won the use of a Saturn automobile for a year. Loveland says plans are underway for The Alumni Association was established in 1883 for the purpose of strengthening loyalty, friendship, com- the third rendition of the roundup, to be mitment and communication among graduates, former and current students, parents, faculty, staff and all held Oct. 22, 2005. other friends of The University of Kansas. Its members hereby unite into an Association to achieve unity of purpose and action to serve the best interests of The University and its constituencies. The Association is organized exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes.

Board of Directors Marvin R. Motley, ALUMNI CENTER c’77, l’80, g’81, Leawood Heath Peterson, d’04 BRIAN ATTEBERRY David B. Wescoe, c’76, Director of the Adams CHAIR La Jolla, California Alumni Center Larry J. Borden, b’62, g’67, Mike Wellman, c’86 Colorado Springs, Colo. DIRECTORS TO JULY 2007 Director of Internet Services Con M. Keating, c’63, EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIR and Special Projects Lincoln, Nebraska David B. Wescoe, c’76, Joe C. Morris, b’61, Leawood ALUMNI PROGRAMS La Jolla, California Allyn W. Risley e’72, Jennifer Alderdice, g’99 Houston, Texas Director of Student EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Programs Larry J. Borden, b’62, g’67, DIRECTORS TO JULY 2008 Carolyn Barnes, c’80 Colorado Springs, Colo. Carol Ann Adams Brown, Director of the Kansas Jill Sadowsky Docking, c’72, Alexandria, Virginia Honors Program c’78, g’84, Wichita Tom H. Collinson, Janice Cordry Robert L. Driscoll, c’61, l’64, BRIAN ATTEBERRY c’00, Pittsburg Director of Travel and Mission Woods Petra “Tedde” Tasheff, c’78, Reunion Programs Reid Holbrook, c’64, l’66, New York, New York Michael W. Davis, d’84, g’91 Overland Park Sr VP of Alumni Programs Janet Martin McKinney, c’74, DIRECTORS TO JULY 2009 Jill Simpson, d’01 Port Ludlow, Washington Robert T. Stephan, ’54, Director of Chapter Marvin R. Motley, c’77, l’80, Lenexa Development g’81, Leawood Becky VanWyhe Thomas, FINANCE Linda Duston Warren, e’86, Baldwin City Dwight Parman c’66, m’70, Hanover Sue Shields Watson, d’75, Sr VP for Finance and Human David B. Wescoe, c’76, Wichita La Jolla, California Resources & Treasurer HONORARY MEMBERS COMMUNICATIONS VICE CHAIRS Gene A. Budig, EdD, Chris Lazzarino, j’86 Tony C. Guy, c’82, Kansas City, Princeton, New Jersey Associate Editor, Missouri E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., Kansas Alumni magazine John P. Hanna, g’64, d’66, PhD, San Antonio,Texas Jennifer Sanner, j’81 g’67, PhD’73, St. Petersburg, Archie R. Dykes, EdD, Sr VP for Communications Florida Leawood and Editor, Kansas Alumni Jay Howard, b’79, Austin, Texas Delbert M. Shankel, PhD, magazine Monty E. Strecker b’80, Lawrence Susan Younger, f’91 Ellinwood Art Director Administrative Staff DIRECTORS TO JULY 2005 MEMBERSHIP Nancy Borel Ellis, d’63, ADMINISTRATION Bryan Greve Pinehurst, North Carolina Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 Sr VP for Membership and Sydnie Bowling President and CEO the Adams Alumni Center Kampschroeder, c’65, Lora Stoppel Chicago, Illinois RECORDS Vice President for Craig B. Swenson, e’59, Bill Green ■ Administration and Executive Nancy Woolf Compton, d’76, who co- Lee’s Summit, Missouri Sr VP for Information chaired the decorating committee for the Assistant to the President Services DIRECTORS TO JULY 2006 Stefanie Shackelford roundup, found a giant yet nimble dance Jill Sadowsky Docking, Vice President for Records partner to move to the mariachi tunes. c’78, g’84, Wichita

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI BY KAREN GOODELL Class Notes

1933 1954 Satisfying Mutual Needs. He lives in Philip Liggett, e’33, a retired patent Robert Wunsch, c’54, l’58, serves on Topeka. lawyer, makes his home in Boca Raton, the board of the Kansas Humanities Fla. Council. He practices law with Geisert, 1963 Wunsch & Watkins in Kingman. Sarah Brooner, d’63, and her hus- 1937 band, George Hatzfeld, are serving with Jane Marshall Campbell, c’37, and her 1955 the Peace Corps in Bulgaria, where she’s husband, Douglas, live in Berryville, Va. Constance White Glenn, f’55, makes a youth development volunteer and he’s She enjoys church work, volunteering her home in Newport Beach, Calif. She’s an economic volunteer. Their home is in and gardening. founding director of the University Art Philadelphia. Museum at Cal State Long Beach. Charles Burin, b’63, lives in Apple 1939 Wilford Hanson, g’55, PhD’68, is a Valley, Minn. Byron, c’39, g’41, m’49, and Ruth professor emeritus of biology at Utah Hoite Caston, c’63, is living in Germann Yost, c’39, make their home in State University in Providence. Independence while he is writing and Longmont, Colo., where Byron is a producing an episode about the Dalton retired physician. He trains horses and 1956 gang’s raid on Coffeyville for the ropes steers. Gerald Nelson, c’56, m’60, retired Investigating History series, which airs recently from the Plastic Surgery Center on the History Channel. 1940 in Wichita, where he and Doris Bonnell Susan Frantz Falbo, n’63, keeps busy Arnold, b’40, and Bertha Scott Nelson, d’57, make their home. during retirement with travel and volun- Johnson, b’40, celebrated their 63rd DeRoy Rogge, d’56, a retired band teer work. She lives in Valencia, Calif. anniversary in October. They live in director, lives in Raymore, Mo. Robert Kimbrough, c’63, m’69, is a Topeka. professor of internal medicine and infec- 1957 tious diseases at Texas Tech University 1941 John Jurcyk, l’57, recently received the in Lubbock. Dorothy Hendrikson Thorman, d’41, Professionalism Award from the Carl Leonard, e’63, directs makes her home in Altadena, Calif. American Inns of Court. He’s a senior Hildebrandt International in San attorney with McAnany, Van Cleave & Francisco. He and Sarah Graber 1946 Phillips in Kansas City. Leonard, c’63, live in Pebble Beach. Wayne Meyer, e’46, is president of Arthur Traugott, c’63, m’67, is a psy- W.E. Meyer Corp, a consulting firm in 1959 chiatrist at Carle Clinic Association in Falls Church, Va., where he and his wife, Champaign, Ill. He lives in Urbana. Anna Mae, make their home. MARRIED Marcia Eggers Zinn, h’59, m’67, to 1964 1950 Dick Rippey, May 8. They live in Lake Carol Newland Childers, d’64, works Eli Boucher, g’50, recently received Quivira. as assistant director of risk management the Nita M. Landrum Award from the for Metropolitan Transportation. She Fort Hays State University Alumni 1961 lives in Darien, Conn. Association. He lives in Olathe, where William Campbell, c’61, m’65, re- Kay Consolver, c’64, is managing he’s retired from a 39-year career in cently joined the Frank Eye Center in director of KLN Productions in London, education. Ottawa. He commutes from Lawrence. where she lives with her husband, John Storkerson. 1952 1962 Teddy Dielman, c’64, recently became Sam Moore, b’52, a retired lawyer, William Bogart, c’62, makes his a professor emeritus at the University of recently completed a term as chair of the home in Colorado Springs. Michigan-Ann Arbor. He and Debra Philosophical Society of Texas. He lives Jerry Johnson, g’62, recently pub- Golden Dielman, p’76, live in Green in El Paso. lished Negotiating Improved Relationships: Valley, Ariz.

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Michael McDowell, d’64, g’67, is gen- Shughart Thomson & Kilroy in Kansas eral manager and CEO of Heartland City. He lives in Leawood. Power in Madison, S.D. Lawrence Monahan, m’68, is presi- Arlo Schurle, c’64, g’65, PhD’67, lives dent of Jefferson Internal Medicine in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Associates in Roanoke, Va. where he’s a professor at the Petroleum Institute. 1969 Thomas Shores, c’64, g’65, PhD’68, is Kay Fisher Abernathy, d’69, is retired a professor of mathematics at the from a career of teaching high school. University of Nebraska in Lincoln, where She lives in El Dorado. he and Muriel Boland Shores, g’68, Ann Kennedy Langley, ’69, studies at make their home. the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She lives in Redwood City, 1965 where she’s a marriage and family Andrzej Bartke, PhD’65, recently therapist. became president of the American Aging Donald Westerhaus, j’69, manages Association. He’s a professor of medicine marketing for Kemin Industries in Des and physiology at Southern Illinois Moines, where he and Anita Johnson University in Springfield. Westerhaus, ’70, make their home. John Marx, PhD’65, makes his home in Lubbock, Texas, where he’s retired. 1970 Helen Jorgenson Sutherland, d’65, James Payne, PhD’70, wrote g’68, is retired in Worthington, Ohio. PeopleWise Brain to Brain, which recently was featured at the Book Expo of 1966 America. He’s president of Management George Brenner, p’66, PhD’71, re- & Motivation in University, Miss., and a cently retired as chair of pharmacology professor of special education at the at Oklahoma State University. He and University of Mississippi. Mary Ann Robinson Brenner, ’67, make Mary Westerhaus Philcox, d’70, their home in Jenks. works as a financial analyst for Systems John Fergus, d’66, is dean of instruc- Resource Management. She and her hus- tional affairs at Wallace Community band, John, live in Portsmouth, R.I. College in Dothan, Ala. He lives in Linda Pollnow, d’70, is senior vice Enterprise. president of Wellpoint in Camarillo, Perry Klaassen, m’66, received the Calif. She lives in Moorpark. Medallion Award from Tabor College in Hillsboro. Perry is medical director of 1971 Mary Mahoney Memorial Health Center Arthur Black, e’71, makes his home in Oklahoma City. He lives in Edmond. in Sunnyvale, Calif., and works for Fairchild Semiconductor in San Jose. 1967 J. Alan Bower, d’71, works as a federal Lawrence Lindberg, d’67, is a retired government liaison for Pfizer. He and his chief inspector with the U.S. Marshals wife, Ruth, live in Newbury Park, Calif. Service. He lives in Belen, N.M. Kathleen Westerhaus Doak, d’71, and Jerome Melchior, m’67, practices urol- her husband, Jerome, c’73, make their ogy and is president of Urology home in Dallas, where he practices law. Specialists in Vincennes, Ind. Marilyn Ross Fitch, d’71, is chief Michael Sullivan, b’67, lives in accountant for the Commonwealth Lawrence, where he’s retired from a Electric Company of the Midwest. She career with the U.S. Navy. lives in Lincoln, Neb. Randolph Merker, d’71, teaches at 1968 Olathe East High School. He lives in Drue Jennings, d’68, l’72, recently Lenexa. became senior counsel at the law firm of Steve Pontious, e’71, teaches school

38 | KANSAS ALUMNI in Katy, Texas. Todd Smith, b’71, serves as president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He’s a partner in the Chicago law firm of Power Rogers & Smith.

1972 John Redwine, c’72, practices medicine at the Fayetteville VA Medical Center in Fayetteville, Ark.

1973 Theodore Gradolf, c’73, is a vice president with United Parcel Service in Atlanta. He lives in Roswell. William Herpin, e’73, works as a senior configuration management analyst for Lockheed Martin in Colorado Springs. Evan Jorn, s’73, is executive director of Beth-El Farmworker Ministry in Wimauma, Fla. He lives in Tampa. Rebecca Hurst Pruett, d’73, lives in Sugar Land, Texas, and is director of libraries for the Fort Bend Independent School District. Robert Walrafen, e’73, a’75, is senior sales executive for Reece & Nichols in Leawood. Douglas Westerhaus, b’73, l’76, and his wife, Victoria, make their home in Overland Park. Barbara Wiley, c’73, g’87, directs recruitment and retention for Presbyterian Healthcare Services in Albuquerque, N.M. She lives in Placitas.

1974 James Doepke, d’74, directs bands at Waukesha North High School in Waukesha, Wis. His band marched in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Allan Eckelman, d’74, is a secondary special-education programs. David Woodbury, c’74, l’77, owns principal for the Sumner Community Karla Bender Leibham, d’74, g’93, is Woodbury Law Office in Prairie Village. Schools in Sumner, Iowa. associate superintendent of schools for 1975 Pauline Centinaro Jelken, d’74, the Archdiocese of Kansas City. She lives Mark Heider, c’75, is president of teaches school in Lake Hopatcong, N.J. in Shawnee. Commerce Bank in Lawrence, where he She lives in Wharton. Rodney Proffitt, l’74, is city adminis- and Chris Pollard Heider, d’76, g’95, Robert Kent, g’74, g’76, PhD’84, trator of Red Lodge, Mont. make their home. retired recently after 20 years as a fire- Patricia Stickney Van Sickel, g’74, fighter with Lawrence-Douglas County g’80, PhD’84, is retired from teaching at 1976 Medical. He lives in Lawrence and Emporia State University. She lives in Kenneth Anderson, b’76, retired teaches in the American studies and Topeka. earlier this year after seven years in

ISSUE 1, 2005 | 39 Class Notes the U.S. Army and 28 years as a special Ala. He lives in Grady. James Clements, b’77, recently agent for the FBI. He lives in Olathe. Kent Snyder, p’76, is a director of became senior commercial risk manager Gary George, EdD’76, recently was Santarus, a specialty pharmaceutical with GE Consumer Finance in appointed a senior examiner for the company in San Diego. He lives in Bentonville, Ark. Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Rancho Santa Fe. Charles Dillon, b’77, is corporate exec- Award. He’s assistant superintendent for Dan Walstrom, c’76, directs human utive director of Associated Wholesale the Olathe School District, and he lives resources for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Grocers in Kansas City. He and in Gardner. Kansas City. Margaret Durkin Dillon, c’71, live in De Marc Lowe, ’76, works for the Kansas Soto. Department of Labor in Topeka. 1977 Kay Kelly, s’77, s’78, lives in Topeka, Michael Masterson, c’76, serves as a The Rev. John Barkett, c’77, is pastor where she’s a clinical social worker at vice commander at the Community of First Presbyterian Church in Heritage Mental Health Clinic. She College of the Air Force at Maxwell AFB, Kingman. recently co-authored a book, Restoring

Profile BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

SpaceShipOne’s director Though Shane has yet to pilot the guides team into history nimble little craft with the famous fold- ing tail, he was the first to fly its mother

hen Douglas Shane ship, White Knight, and says he has no SCALEDCOURTESY COMPOSITES accepted a job in 1982 regrets about his decision to remain with an unknown aero- earthbound. space engineering com- “The best place for me,” Shane says, Wpany out in Mojave, Calif., he wasn’t “was as the mission-control director, the much aware of his new boss’s reputation voice on the end of the radio talking to for dreaming up some of the most fanci- the pilot, providing the very best infor- ful, wonderful aircraft in the world. But mation we could to make his job, and moving from Overland Park to the life, easier.” Mojave Desert sounded exciting enough, Since his promotion to Scaled’s flight and this guy Burt Rutan and his new operations director in 1989, Shane has company, Scaled Composites, were offer- been directly responsible for the safe ing a brand-new aerospace engineering performance of more than 25 research graduate an intriguing opportunity. flight-test programs. The company’s cre- ■ “It seemed like it might be an interest- ative energies have always been inspir- Douglas Shane guided SpaceShipOne, the ing, exciting thing to go do,” Shane ing, he says, but it wasn’t until first privately engineered and financed journey recalls 22 years later. “I was sort of the SpaceShipOne that everyone came into space, as director of flight operations. first engineer hired here, and it seemed together and focused on a single project. “There were a few of those moments where like a good fit. Sure it was a risk, but “What challenged us was making it we had time to reflect and think, ‘Wow, it’s when you’re 22 years old, that’s the time simple enough and safe enough so we really working.’” to take those risks.” could turn the ship around and fly it Risk-taking has yet to subside for [into space] again within just a handful mates going to class.” He wasn’t enrap- Shane, e’83, whose flight team rocketed of days,” Shane says, noting a key tured by the dream of space flight, but to fame Oct. 4 with SpaceShipOne’s cap- requirement of the X Prize. “The prize now that he has come so close, he does ture of the $10 million Ansari X Prize. was a great goal, and I’m awfully glad not intend to miss out. When Shane, Scaled Composite’s vice presi- we did that, but the technical achieve- SpaceShipOne resumes flying and fulfills dent for business operations, served as ments that went along with that were its mission as a passenger spacecraft, he director of flight operations for equally important and rewarding.” plans to be at the controls. SpaceShipOne, and was one of four test Shane learned to fly in Gardner, and “Now we’ve tasted the black sky,” he pilots considered for the first privately he fondly recalls a few solo flights over says. “It’s going to be hard not to go financed flights into space. campus, where he “watched my class- back.”

40 | KANSAS ALUMNI Hope and Trust: An Illustrated Guide to MARRIED Jan. 8 in Maui, Hawaii. Elaine and Ken Mastering Trauma. Leslie Guild, j’79, to Brian Kelly, Aug. own and operate Taco John’s restaurants Kay Pollart Nelson, n’77, is a clinical 21. They live in Granite Falls, Wash. in Lawrence. systems senior application analyst for Leslie owns Remembering You and coor- Carondelet Health-St. Joseph Health dinates media for Food Lifeline. 1983 Center in Kansas City. Michael McGrew, b’83, is vice chair- Christopher Reeder, b’77, works as a 1980 man of Coldwell Banker McGrew Real CPA with Reeder & Associates in Brooks Augustine, b’80, recently was Estate in Lawrence. He received the Temecula, Calif. promoted to executive vice president of Kansas Association of Realtors client solutions at Information Resources Distinguished Service Award last fall. 1978 in Chicago. He lives in Naperville. Richard Ayesh, c’78, is an executive Samuel Johnson, j’80, lives in Tinton 1985 professional representative for Merck & Falls, N.J., and is an associate in the Douglas Burris, s’85, lives in St. Louis, Co. in Wichita. Eatontown law firm of Booz Allen where he’s a Federal Court chief U.S. Marc Jasperson, b’78, recently was Hamilton. probation officer. named director of financial development Richard Konzem, b’80, is president of Mark Hoover, p’85, p’02, directs the for the Kansas Capital Area Chapter of Championship Consulting in Lawrence. pharmacy at Option Care of Kansas City. the American Red Cross. He lives in Mark Winkleman, b’80, lives in He lives in Overland Park. Lawrence. Phoenix, where he’s a state land com- Clay Leonhard, b’85, is a technical Wendell Moore, c’78, g’81, is deputy missioner. writer for the Community Blood Center commander chief of staff of the 18th in Kansas City. Medical Command. His home is in MARRIED Bowie, Md. Leslie Coverdale, n’80, to Jack Jagoda, 1986 June 8. They live in Englewood, Colo., Steven Andert, e’86, manages electri- 1979 where Leslie works for PacificCare. cal engineering and is a senior vice presi- Donna Robinson Bales, h’79, is dent at William Tao & Associates president and CEO of LIFE Project, a 1981 Consulting Engineers in St. Louis. Wichita-based program for dealing with Rod Betts, j’81, practices law with Winifred Clement, b’86, g’91, is an end-of-life issues. She lives in Overland Paul, Plevin, Sullivan & Connaughton in assistant director of budget and person- Park. San Diego. He lives in La Jolla. nel for Emory University’s Center for Diane Canfield Bywaters, f’79, re- Laura Shoffner Klover, b’81, works as Ethics in Atlanta. cently exhibited her landscape paintings a manager with Sprint in Overland Park. Thomas Kyle, e’86, and his wife, Sheri in Charlotte, N.C. She’s a professor of Stephen Lytle, ’81, is president of Lynn, make their home in Loveland, art and design at the University of Wise Moving and Storage in Lee’s Ohio, with their son, Frazier, 1. Thomas Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Summit, Mo. manages purchasing for Procter & Linda Finestone, j’79, is an assistant Alan Sack, b’81, manages Total Wine Gamble. national editor at the Los Angeles Times. & More. He lives in Raleigh, N.C. Michael Prangle, b’86, is a partner in She and her husband, Richard Banks, Tareia Vogelgesang, p’81, works as a Hall Prangle & Schoonbeld in Chicago. live in Los Angeles. pharmacist at Sam’s Club in Wichita. He and his wife, Genevie, live in Carol Hunter, j’79, recently became Riverside with their daughter, Grace, 2, editorial-page editor of the Des Moines 1982 and their son, William, 1. Register. Eric Dawson, b’82, g’84, is chief finan- Ronda Sheldon, ’86, manages market- Denise Westerhaus Hutcherson, cial officer at Darnall Army Community ing for Iris USA. She lives in n’79, works as a nurse anesthetist in Hospital in Fort Hood, Texas. He lives in Lindenhurst, Ill. Arlington, Texas, where she and her hus- Harker Heights. Brian Stayton, c’86, lives in Valrico, band, James, make their home. James Garcia, c’82, works as a pro- Fla., and is a partner in the Topeka firm Scott McIntyre, c’79, h’79, lives in curement agent for the Prairie Band of Corless Stayton & Associates. Tarpon Springs, Fla., and is vice presi- Potowatami Nation. He and Jolene Jeffrey Wheat, c’86, is vice president dent of University Community Hospital Brown Garcia, h’88, live in Topeka, of the technology wireless group at in Tampa. where she’s a senior therapist at St. Cardiff Ventures. He lives in Shawnee. David Southern, b’79, recently was Francis Health Center. named chief marketing officer at 1987 Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP. He lives MARRIED Tony Arnold, c’87, recently was in Winnetka, Ill. Elaine Grob, d’82, to Ken Creasey, appointed to the Donley and Marjorie

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consultant for Mid America Mortgage Services. He lives in Overland Park.

BORN TO: Susan Auer Mitchell, c’88, l’94, and Scott, son, William Luke, Aug. 1 in Waipahu, Hawaii, where he joins a brother, Charles, 4. Susan practices law with the U.S. Army.

1989 Laura Bronson, j’89, works as an editor for Socrates Media in Chicago. Amy Barrett Dunklee, d’89, teaches at Round Hill Elementary School in Round Hill, Va. She and her husband, Richard, f’89, live in Lovettsville. He’s director of e-business solutions at Hagerstown Bookbinding and Printing. They have a son, Jacob, 10, and a daughter, Jordan, 7. Michael Nickel, b’89, works as an information systems specialist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Kansas City. Daniel Pennington, j’89, is an assistant chair and campaign manager at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

BORN TO: Bollinger Chair in Real Estate, Land Use, environmental engineer for the city of Matthew, c’89, and Stacey Cook and Environmental Law at Chapman Frisco, Texas. He lives in Dallas. Hickam, c’91, daughter, Julia, Feb. 28 in University. He lives in Anaheim, Calif. Martin Upchurch, e’87, works as a Topeka, where she joins two sisters, Shannon Flagler Bruggen, c’87, s’94, senior industrial hygienist for EFI. He Georgia, 8, and Claudia, 5. Matthew is a works at the Hospice & Palliative Care lives in Fishers, Ind. senior associate at Kensinger & Center in Winston Salem, N.C. She Diana Davis Wright, j’87, was voted Associates. recently was honored for innovative pro- Best News Anchor for 2003 and 2004 by gram development by Children’s readers of the Jonesboro Sun. She’s an 1990 Hospice International. anchor with KAIT-TV in Jonesboro, Ark. Daniel Redler, c’90, is senior customer Francis Destefano, c’87, works as an marketing manager for the Coca-Cola educator for Common Era Systems in 1988 Co. in Atlanta. Peekskill, N.Y. He lives in Hartsdale. Kathryn Anderson, c’88, j’88, is Charles Rotblut, j’90, lives in David Ricketts, c’87, directs sales and deputy director and chief operating officer Centennial, Colo., and is senior editor marketing for National Registered of Cultural Tourism in Washington, D.C. for Curian Capital in Denver. Agents. He and Lisa Coon Ricketts, Kristen Claflin, b’88, directs advertis- d’87, live in Lenexa. She’s a senior opera- ing products and services for United BORN TO: tions supervisor for J.C. Penney. Online in Woodland Hills, Calif. She Curtis Staab, b’90, and Beth, son, Alan Rowe, f’87, works as creative lives in Santa Monica. Trevor Dean, May 7 in Lansdale, Pa., director of Mindful Planet Inc. in Charles Schuman, c’88, works as an where he joins two brothers, Ryan, 5, Ithaca, N.Y. office representative for Rex B. Hoy State and Collin, 3. Curtis is senior director of Marie Hysell Ruettgers, g’87, clerks Farm in Shawnee Mission. sales operations for Merck in West Point. for state Supreme Court Chief Justice Sue Wilkie Snyder, g’88, is retired in David Gilbertson in Pierre, S.D. Washougal, Wash. 1991 Lowell Seaton, b’87, e’87, is a senior Todd Vogel, b’88, works as a mortgage Ronald Baker, c’91, a health-care

42 | KANSAS ALUMNI administrator at St. Luke’s Medical operations for the U.S. Air Force. Kimberly O’Neal, b’91, and Justin Group in Shawnee Mission, makes his Jennifer Remsberg, j’91, is a lawn-care Hertach, ’00, Oct. 16 in Lawrence, home in Overland Park. He and his wife, and landscape marketing specialist with where she’s a management information Kathy, have a daughter, Sarah, 3, and a Bayer Environmental Science. She lives analyst for the Douglas County Sheriff’s son, Carson, 1. in Kansas City. Office. He’s president of Salt City Pamela Gerdom Beauford, g’91, does Mortgage. custom quilting in Overland Park, where MARRIED Nancy Peterson, p’91, to Mitch she’s CEO of Dialysis Clinic Inc. Stacey Empson, c’91, l’94, g’99, to Zimmerman, Sept. 13. They live in Mallory Buck Bryan, c’91, g’98, is a Eric Ruderman, Sept. 5 in Chicago, Council Grove, and Nancy works at speech language pathologist for USD where Stacey is executive vice president Newman Regional Health in Emporia. 501 in Topeka. She lives in Berryton. for Healthlink and Eric is a rheumatolo- Jon Mohatt, b’91, g’97, lives in Aurora, gist at the Northwestern Medical Faculty BORN TO: Colo., where he’s chief of purchased care Foundation. Barry Moore, c’91, and Rhonda, son,

Profile BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER EARL RICHARDSON Alumnus turns sorrow dren to leave Alexanderwohl in of childhood to triumph April 1922 for a torturous journey to America. By 1923, when Remple enry Remple, 96, has always and sisters Agnes and Agatha spoken easily of his several arrived in Nebraska, they were the homes: Lawrence, where he only surviving family. Their par- and his late wife, Mariana ents, four sisters and three broth- HLohrenz Remple, ’50, settled and reared ers had died from disease and star- their two children; Hillsboro, Kan., vation as refugees in Batum, a where he attended Tabor College and Russian seaport near the Turkish ■ Henry Remple, PhD’50, with his daughter, Lucy met Mariana, whose father, H.W., g’11, border. McAllister, and her husband, Loring, both KU alumni. had founded the Mennonite college; and Nearly 80 years later, Remple Remple, now 96, published his memoir in 2001. Henderson, Neb., where Remple spent turned his diary into From Bolshe- his teen-age years with his American vik Russia to America: a Mennonite family, C.D. and Bertha Epp and their Family Story (Pine Hill Press Inc., their new brother. (“Their mother told daughters, Ruth and Rachel. Sioux Falls, S.D.) them, ‘Don’t push too hard; you’ll smash But conversations about his first He thanks KU alumnae Sandra Shaw your noses,’” Remple says.) home, in Alexanderwohl, a small and Barbara Watkins, program manager- During naptime on the farm, Remple Mennonite village in the Ukraine, and for KU Continuing Education, for urging scoured his American father’s philosophy the horror he endured coming to him to transfer his handwritten German volumes instead of sleeping. Study at America, were all too rare for much of words from the flimsy diary pages to a Tabor College led him to graduate work his life. Remple, who spent his career as computer and translate them into at the University of Minnesota; a prized a Veterans Administration psychologist, English. Conversations with his sisters, Depression-era job in Wichita led him knew well the reason why: “The experi- recorded in the 1990s by Mariana, to finish his doctorate at KU. Agnes and ence was too painful,” he says. “I re- enhance a teen-age boy’s spare narrative. Agatha, reared by other Mennonite fami- pressed all those things as if they had The book brims with heart-rending lies in Nebraska, went on to become never happened.” scenes: Agatha, the eldest of the three nurses. “I think it is relevant,” Remple Stored through the years, however, surviving siblings, trading her beloved says, “that we chose occupations where was a diary Remple had kept from the Russian songbook with a soldier in we could help other people.” ages of 13 to 18, starting with his fam- exchange for a loaf of bread every other His book offers helpful lessons to all, ily’s contented life in Czarist Russia and day; the warmth of the Epp family, cap- including his grandchildren, most of continuing through the Bolshevik tured by 6-year-old Ruth and 2-year-old whom, as the children of exchange stu- Revolution, civil war and persecution Rachel, their faces pressed against the dents welcomed into the family, are that caused his parents and their 10 chil- farmhouse window, eager to get a look at immigrants to America.

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Kaden Allen, May 25 in Overland Park, Guard’s 206th Combat Communications Burton, son, Zachary Frank, Aug. 12 in where he joins a brother, Logan, 4. Barry Squadron at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. He Herrin, Ill., where he joins two sisters, is a territory manager with CR Bard. lives in Anchorage. Sarah, 7, and Rebecca, 4. Jan Sandoval Scott, c’91, l’94, and Beverly Combs, s’92, coordinates Greg, son, Reece Haydon, Sept. 1 in St. community relations for the Washington 1993 Louis. Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville, Marcus Maloney, c’93, is a staff writer Ark. She lives in Bella Vista. for Life Newspapers in El Dorado Hills, 1992 Robin Waddell Lehman, j’92, lives in Calif. He lives in Citrus Heights. Phillip Boatman, c’92, is worldwide Lawrence, where she’s president and John Mullies, b’93, h’97, recently product marketing manager for Lexmark CEO of Lehman Communications. joined ST Motorsports, where he’s a International in Lexington, Ky. member of the pit crew for the Jeffrey Campbell, c’92, serves as com- BORN TO: Clorox/Wisk racing team in the mander of the Alaska Air National Elizabeth Kaiman Zwick, j’92, and NASCAR Busch series. He lives in

Profile BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER

Lifelong fan finds calling campaign, the Grammy as music academy exec Foundation’s national consumer education project to on Roecker won’t pick up a help young music fans and statue on Grammy night Feb. parents understand the 13, but he will bask in the ado- issues involved in illegal ration of his 8- and 11-year-old music downloading. After nieces,R who have proclaimed him Uncle 18 months of research into of the Year. the music-buying habits of Roecker, senior vice president of com- 12- to 24-year-olds, the

munications for the National Academy campaign unveiled its first AND SCIENCES ARTS OF RECORDING ACADEMY NATIONAL COURTESY of Recording Arts & Sciences, which public message during the produces the awards show, will escort 2003 Grammys. ■ the two girls to the glitzy event, where WhatsTheDownload.com Though he’ll never turn down the chance to meet celebri- he plans to make good on his promises features news and a ties, Ron Roecker’s true calling is helping those musicians who of celebrity introductions. “They’ve real-time message board. might never get a reserved seat at the Grammys. already told me who they want to Roecker says the cam- touch,” he says: “Usher and Gwen paign, which is advised by a board of MusiCares Foundation, which raises Stefani.” 18- to 24-year-olds, has appealed to funds to support musicians in need. As a confessed music fan (even as a young fans as well as teachers and par- Protecting the livelihood and cultural college student, he shelled out the ents. “Their response has been, ‘Thank environment for the academy’s 18,000 dough for a subscription to Billboard God you’ve created something to help members is his year-round mission. magazine), Roecker, j’92, readily me talk to my kid in a language he Those members include singers, song- acknowledges the allure of his job. The understands.’ writers and nearly 5,000 producers and Wichita native still recalls his chat with “We’re not about suing people; we’re engineers, most of whom will never Quincy Jones about the recording of not Big Brother. We want to create dia- make headlines in Billboard or millions “We are the World” and the moments he logue. When you’re talking to young in record sales. “What we do outside met Amy Grant, Madonna, Prince, Janet people about intellectual property, there that night in February is critical, though Jackson and the Indigo Girls. is nothing to touch or feel or sense it doesn’t get as much attention,” he But there’s more than meet-the-idol to about the long-term impact.” says. “Folks think we’re about Britney his gig with the academy, which began Roecker supervises all communica- selling more records, but our members three years ago. He earned recognition tions for the academy’s 12 regional are garage-band players, technicians and his promotion to senior vice presi- chapters, the Grammy Foundation, the and jazz musicians who are devoted to dent for the “What’s the Download” Latin Recording Academy and the their art.”

44 | KANSAS ALUMNI Overland Park. Neel & Hooper in Houston. Destination Clubs. He lives in Falls Patrick Naughton, d’93, teaches and Michael Johnson, c’94, does recruiting Church, Va. coaches at South Junior High School in for Cerner in Kansas City. He and Katherine Hutchinson, c’95, l’98, Lawrence. Melissa Vaskov Johnson, c’95, live in owns Hutchinson Law Office in Wichita. Loleta Robinson, c’93, m’99, directs Fairway. Hunter Lochmann, d’95, recently was medical science at Medimmune Inc. in David Kavalec, c’94, lives in named director of marketing for the New Gaithersburg, Md. She lives in Rockville. Highlands Ranch, Colo., and is vice pres- York Knicks. He lives in Hoboken, N.J. Karen Davis Schnell, c’93, does ident of EFL Associates, a national Michael Malis, c’95, m’99, works as a recruiting for Lock/Line in Kansas City. retained executive search firm. diagnostic radiologist at St. Luke’s Andrew Reese, c’94, is national direc- Hospital in Kansas City. BORN TO: tor of business development for Leslie Ain McClure, c’95, is an assis- Paul Brooks, m’93, and Denise, son, Promissor. He lives in Arlington, Va. tant professor of biostatistics at the Johnathan Avery, April 28 in Lexington, Patrick Smith, e’94, l’97, practices law University of Alabama-Birmingham. Ky., where he joins a brother, Paul Jr., 6, with Levy and Craig in Kansas City. Clantha Carrigan McCurdy, EdD’95, and a sister, Ashley, 4. Paul is medical David Stearns, c’94, is a senior geo- is associate vice chancellor for the director of the Lexington Clinic. graphic information system analyst for Massachusetts Board of Higher NAVTEQ Corp. in Overland Park. Education in Boston. She lives in Natick. 1994 Casey Peterson, c’95, lives in David Clark, d’94, g’99, lives in 1995 Littleton, Colo., and is a district manager Lawrence, where he’s vice president of Matthew Armbrister, d’95, g’01, is an with Brasseler USA. Lawrence Bank. associate brand manager for John Deere Milan Vinnola, e’95, practices law with Ed Dunn, e’94, is a senior mechanical Golf & Turf One Source in Cary, N.C. Arnold & Porter in Denver. engineer with Raytheon Missile Systems. He lives in Raleigh. Michael Vujnovich, c’95, is a sales rep- He lives in Tucson, Ariz. Jason Greenwood, j’95, directs mar- resentative with Merck Co. He lives in Grae Griffin, j’94, practices law with keting for Abercrombie & Kent Prairie Village.

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BORN TO: Weston Hyter, b’95, and Yami, daughter, Xara Luna, Sept. 28 in San Francisco. Weston does business development for LinkShare. Nichole Mohning-Roths, c’95, l’02, and John, daughter, Ella Nichole, Sept. 19 in Salina, where she joins a brother, Will, 4. Nichole is an associate with Clark, Mize & Linville.

1996 Diane Barton, b’96, works as an account consultant for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma. She lives in Oklahoma City. Cheryl Evers, d’96, teaches physical education at Costello Elementary School in Lyons, Ill. Tasmin Mills, c’96, is a procedures/systems analyst with Sun Trust Bank. She lives in Washington, D.C. Sherman Reeves, c’96, has an oph- thalmology practice at the Duke University Eye Center. He lives in Durham, N.C. Heather Short, c’96, is associate director of outreach programs and services at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She lives in Irving.

MARRIED Amy Brawner, c’96, to J.A. Felton, Oct. 9. They live in Kansas City, and Amy is a nurse at St. Luke’s Hospital.

1997 Justin Angeles, j’97, edits copy and is a page designer at the Hamilton Journal- News. He’s also a graduate student at the University of Iowa. Jill Newport Helmle, c’97, studies at the University of California-Santa senior accountant with Community Jennifer Smith Foote, j’98, edits copy Barbara. She lives in Goleta. American Credit Union in Lenexa. He for the Villages Daily Sun. She lives in Brian Olson, b’97, works for 3 Nerds lives in Gardner. Lady Lake, Fla. and a Server in Olathe. Grant Wilcox, c’97, is a research asso- James Johnson, j’98, works as an Michelle Shively Olson, d’97, is store ciate at Colorado State University’s account executive for Bernstein-Rein manager at The Supply Closet. She lives Natural Resource Ecology Lab in Fort Advertising in Kansas City. in Olathe. Collins. Amy May, c’98, is assistant store man- Katherine Rork Shultz, c’97, teaches ager at Restoration Hardware in school at Bonjour Elementary in Lenexa. 1998 Leawood. She lives in Overland Park. She commutes from Lawrence. Amy Akers, c’98, is an executive team Cheryl Funke Milligan, b’98, manages Alexander Valverde, b’97, works as a leader with Target. She lives in Wamego. marketing for the Apache Mall. She lives

46 | KANSAS ALUMNI in Rochester, Minn., where her husband, Menke, d’00, July 9 in Leawood. Shaun is a senior associate with KPMG Brian, e’99, is a neurosurgery resident at Brandon is an application developer in Kansas City. the Mayo Clinic. with H&R Block, and Sarah teaches fifth Robert Renz, b’98, is a financial ad- grade at Chapel Elementary School. 2000 viser with Merrill Lynch in Kansas City. They live in Overland Park. Jenna Arbuckle, c’00, coordinates aca- David Wood, g’98, works as a staff Michael Margherio Jr., c’99, to demic services for student athletes at research assistant at Los Alamos Shannon Flurry, Oct. 2 in St. Joseph, Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J. National Laboratory. He lives in Santa Mo. They live in Chicago, where he She lives in Perth Amboy. Fe, N.M., and is studying for a doctorate works for United Healthcare. Deanna Berney, b’00, g’01, recently in chemical engineering at the University David Pfeuffer, d’99, g’03, to Brooke passed her CPA examination. She’s an of New Mexico. Easter, Oct. 23 in Perry, Okla. David accountant with BKD in Kansas City. works at Neu Physical Therapy in William Biggs, f’00, studies for a mas- MARRIED Lawrence, and Brooke works at ter’s in music education at Emporia State Angela Pena, c’98, g’04, to Will Commerce Bank in Kansas City. Their University. He and Andrea Herman Shaffer, Oct. 2 in Lawrence, where she’s home is in Lenexa. Biggs, f’01, make their home in Emporia. a physical therapist at Lawrence Therapy Justin Zellers, d’99, g’02, and Jana Gruver, c’00, is an occupational Services and he works for Horizon Amanda Smith, j’00, c’00, July 24 in therapist with TherapyWorks in Systems. Overland Park. He teaches at Prairie Star Lawrence. Middle School in Leawood, and she’s Stephen Havener, p’00, works as BORN TO: senior marketing coordinator at Burns & a pharmacist at Osco Pharmacy in Matthew, c’98, m’03, and Shelly McDonnell. They live in Overland Park. Kansas City. Meseraull Stumpe, b’99, son, Joel Ryan, Emily Holliday, c’00, is an executive Oct. 1 in Memphis. Matthew is an oto- BORN TO: recruiter at Paragon in Des Moines. laryngology resident at the University of Shaun Stoker, b’99, g’00, and Theresa, Harvey Yost, b’00, manages business Tennessee, and Shelly is a program daughter, Alison Dawn, June 3 in Olathe. development for American Auto accountant for Selectron.

1999 Erika D’Souza, b’99, works as an accountant at St. Luke’s South in Overland Park. She lives in Shawnee. Gerald Ducey Jr., e’99, manages strategic development for ABB. He lives in Apex, N.C. Rachel Kesselman, j’99, coordinates marketing at Thomas & Betts in Memphis, Tenn. Ryan Laughon, b’99, manages MarketSphere Consulting in Indianapolis. Michael Schindler, b’99, c’03, is vice president of CinePartners Entertainment in Los Angeles. Andrew Smith, e’99, g’01, works as an engineer with Black & Veatch in Tampa, Fla. He lives in St. Petersburg.

MARRIED Lung Huang, b’99, and Courtney Parks, j’00, Oct. 2. They live in New York City, where Lung manages accounts for Arbitron and Courtney works for the Sunflower Group. Brandon LaBarge, b’99, and Sarah

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Exchange in Dallas. Mark, e’02, son, Noah Alan, Oct. 8 in She lives in Lawrence. Wichita, where he joins a brother, Rusti Decker, j’01, is an events man- MARRIED Phillip, 2. ager for the city of Kansas City, Mo. Jimmie Kirkland, p’00, and Erin Matthew Gardner, j’01, manages new Oswald, p’03, June 26 in Basehor, where 2001 media for ATP in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. they live. He’s a clinical pharmacist at Stephane Bras, g’01, manages foreign He lives in Jacksonville. the KU Medical Center, where she’s a direct investment for Invest in Northern Amy Golub, h’01, is an occupational pharmacy practice management resident. France/NFX in Chicago. therapist for The Greens at Creekside in Callie Shultz Castro, b’01, g’03, Kansas City. She lives in Olathe. BORN TO: works as a financial planner at Legacy Laura Kissel, c’01, works as an associ- Sara Nash Wiehn, d’00, g’02, and Financial Group in Overland Park. ate with Gibbs & Bruns in Houston. Andrea Langhurst, c’01, lives in Burlington, and is a graduate student at the University of Iowa. Belinda Pierson, c’01, g’03, is a data analyst for the Kansas Foundation for Medical Care. She lives in Topeka. Corey Snyder, d’01, received a doctorate in physical therapy last summer from the Emory University School of Medicine. He lives in Atlanta. John Stinnett, e’01, works as a process engineer with ENGlobal Engineering. He lives in Rowlett, Texas. Christopher Stoppel, b’01, g’02, is a graduate assistant at Iowa State University. Shannon Michael Stull, c’01, a clinical research associate with PRA International, lives in Paducah, Ky. Her husband, Venugopal Arunajatesan, PhD’03, is a project leader with the Degussa Corp. in Calvert City. Khemarat Suthiwan, c’01, works as a financial services representative for Metropolitan Life in Greenwood Village, Colo. She lives in Parker. Jason Wichman, m’01, recently joined the pediatrics staff at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City.

2002 Christopher Crow, j’02, is a merchan- dise presentation specialist at Target. He lives in Minneapolis, Minn. Richard Ehinger, g’02, teaches and coaches for the Gulliver schools. He lives in Miami. Jennifer Fiore, f’02, works as a music therapist for Kansas City Hospice. She commutes from Lawrence. Matthew Hendel, e’02, is an engineer with Ross & Baruzzini in Webster Groves, Mo.

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Janice Keller, j’02, works as assistant She lives in Dallas. director of alumni services for Amy Wong, c’03, is a cytotechnologist Pennington & Co. in Lawrence. with Gyne-Path Laboratory in Los Gatos, Mark McLean, d’02, is a long-term Calif. She lives in Burlingame. care case manager at Schaller Anderson/Mercy Care Plan in Phoenix. MARRIED Sarah McKinney Milne, c’02, and her Michael Alberti, b’03, to Jill Buser, husband, James, live in Overland Park June 11 in Wichita. He’s a marketing with their daughter, Cara Beth, 1. representative at Lee Aerospace, and she Thomas Moreland, d’02, g’04, directs coordinates marketing for Cox Hand-made exclusively for the the hospice at Bon Secours Richmond Communications. They live in Andover. Kansas Alumni Association by artist Health System in Richmond, Va. Peter Cridland, c’03, and Julie Lara Rupp, these sterling silver Robert Shiller, c’02, is a bankruptcy Maddox, a’04, e’04, May 30 in Parkville, pieces are of the highest quality. analyst for Real Time Resolutions in Mo. They live in New York City, and This KU Crystal Lariat Dallas. Peter studies law at Pace University. features Swarovski Scott Guest, b’03, and Jane Gist, j’04, crystals with a MARRIED c’04, Oct. 29. They live in Overland Park. sterling KU Jennifer McKenzie, b’02, to Daniel Jon Stoppel, c’03, and Alaina pendant. Knudtson, Oct. 9. They live in Overland Webster, c’04, June 19 in Lawrence. He Park, and Jennifer is an assistant product studies for a doctorate in optometry at $115 manager at Hallmark Cards. the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Anne Stephens, c’02, and Kyle Rabe, they live in St. Charles. f’04, July 10 in Lawrence, where they’re both graduate students at KU. 2004 Deborah Bain, b’04, manages credit 2003 for Wells Fargo Financial in Denver, Paul Bammel, b’03, directs student Colo. ministries at Concord Liberty Laura Brunow, b’04, coordinates Presbyterian Church in Glen Mills, Pa. marketing at Gould Evans Associates He lives in Aston. in Lawrence. Michael Graber, b’03, works as a tax Andres Vicuna Cardenas, e’04, works associate with McGladrey & Pullen in as an engineer at Landplan Engineering Kansas City. in Lawrence. Brian Jones, j’03, is a marketing asso- Amy Cummins, PhD’04, is an assis- ciate with SmithBucklin in Chicago. tant professor of English at Fort Hays Conor Knightly, g’03, manages data State University in Hays. for Medimmune in Gaithersburg, Md. Jill Elliott, l’04, and her husband, He lives in Kensington. Tyler, live in Hill City with their son, Lindsay Michalcik, p’03, works as a Cade, 1. Jill is an attorney. pharmacist at Gristedes Pharmacy in Christina Gacom, c’04, manages New York City. accounts for Tad Ware & Co. in Shop Katherine Regan, j’03, is an assistant Minneapolis, Minn. She lives in Apple online for escrow officer at Columbian Title of Valley. other Johnson County in Olathe. She lives in Kyle Hickey, c’04, is a land contractor Jayhawk Shawnee Mission. with JIMAR Resources. He lives in Jewelry Bethany Shelley, b’03, works as an Dallas. designs. accountant for Invacare. She lives in St. Andrew Hillin, e’04, a mechanical Peters, Mo. engineer with U.S. Alliance, lives in Hilary Smith, d’03, studies physical League City, Texas. www.kualumni.org therapy at the University of North Adrienne Hynek, b’04, is a research 800-584-2957 Carolina. She lives in Carrboro. and policy assistant for the Ewing Kelly Whittredge, d’03, coordinates Marion Kauffman Foundation in public relations and communications for Kansas City. PGA of America-Northern Texas Section. Adrian Jones, c’04, plays football with

50 | KANSAS ALUMNI the New York Jets. His home is in Dallas. Dustin Bauerle, f’04, and Kellie School Codes Letters that follow Joshua Kaplan, b’04, works as an Lankford, ’05, June 19 in Lawrence, names in Kansas Alumni indicate the school intern at the U.S. Department of where they live. from which alumni earned degrees. Numbers Commerce. His home is in Overland Terra Boatright, c’04, to Eric Pauly, show their class years. Park. June 5 in Conway Springs. They live in a School of Architecture and Megan McKenzie, j’04, lives in Olathe Lawrence. Urban Design and is an assistant media planner and Yvan Houareau, c’04, and Ashley b School of Business buyer for NKH&W in Kansas City. Heintzelman, c’04, June 5 in Kansas c College of Liberal Arts and Justin Noll, e’04, works as a field con- City. He works for Hereford House Sciences d School of Education struction engineer for the Kansas Restaurants, and she studies at UMKC. e School of Engineering Department of Transportation. He lives Lara Kantack, ’04, to Michael Allen, f School of Fine Arts in Atchison. June 12 in Lawrence. She works for g Master’s Degree Eva Rodriguez, g’04, lectures on mod- Hibernia Bank, and he works for h School of Allied Health ern languages at Washburn University in Louisiana State University. They live in j School of Journalism l School of Law Topeka. Baton Rouge. m School of Medicine Yang Yang, g’04, works in the trans- n School of Nursing portation planning group at HNTB Associates p School of Pharmacy Companies. He lives in Overland Park. Francis Heller, KU professor emeritus PharmD School of Pharmacy of political science, received the Austrian s School of Social Welfare DE Doctor of Engineering MARRIED Cross of Honor for Science and Art last DMA Doctor of Musical Arts Trevor Askew, c’04, and Sara fall. He lives in Lawrence. EdD Doctor of Education Gutschenritter, ’05, July 2 in Wichita. Daniel Hubbard is a network develop- PhD Doctor of Philosophy They are both students at the University ment executive for Private Healthcare (no letter) Former student of Missouri-St. Louis, and they live in Systems in Kansas City. assoc. Associate member of the Alumni Association Florissant.

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1920s of business at Emory University. been deputy chief of the National Guard Helen Lowrey Burnett, c’26, Feb. 19 Surviving are his wife, Cora Hepworth at the Pentagon and commander of in Larned. She was a homemaker and is Myers, c’41; two sons, one of whom is Edgewood Arsenal and Aberdeen survived by a son, Donald, c’56, l’58, Richard, c’69; and two granddaughters. Proving Ground. Surviving are his wife, and three grandchildren. Robert Naylor, ’36, 89, Dec. 10 in Kathleen; a son; a daughter, Wanda Charles Halm, ’29, 96, Aug. 22 in Kansas City, where he was retired from Hodges Strange, ’68; two brothers, Tulsa, Okla., where he was a retired den- Sinclair Refining Co. and the U.S. Postal Merle, c’55, m’58, and Ervin, ’50; a sis- tist. He is survived by his wife, Mary Service. He is survived by his wife, ter; six grandchildren; and 15 great- Frances, a daughter, a stepdaughter, two Hattie; two sons, James Bonen, b’68, grandchildren. stepsons, three grandchildren, two great- and Dennis, a’80; a daughter; and six Roy Knappenberger, m’41, Oct. 19 in grandchildren, seven stepgrandchildren grandchildren. Wichita, where he practiced pediatrics. and nine stepgreat-grandchildren. He is survived by his wife, Cordelia, a 1940s son and two daughters. 1930s David Austin, c’40, July 6 in Olathe. William Koester, ’41, Jan. 17, 2004, in Mark Alexander, f’39, 93, May 21 in He had been president of A.S. Coates Anaheim, Calif., where he was a retired Campbell, Calif., where he was a retired Inc. and is survived by three sons; a magazine editor and faithful letter-writer real-estate broker. A daughter, two sons, brother, Arthur, ’40; eight grandchildren; to Kansas Alumni. Survivors include two eight grandchildren and three great- and five great-grandchildren. daughters and a stepdaughter. grandchildren survive. Henry Coulter, c’48, m’51, Aug. 2 in Frederick Luke, e’41, Aug. 17 in Ruth Carpenter Balch, c’34, June 16 Leawood. He founded the Mission Clinic Wildwood, Mo., where he was a retired in Aurora, Colo. Two daughters survive. and co-founded Private Practice maga- chemical engineer with Monsanto. Josephine Marshall Berry, c’35, c’36, zine. A son, a daughter, two grandsons Surviving are his wife, Mary; three 90, Oct. 27 in Prairie Village. She is sur- and a great-granddaughter survive. daughters, one of whom is Margaret vived by two sons, William, c’61, and Meredith Gear Docking, b’47, 78, Luke Shatz, c’79; a brother; six grand- John, c’69, m’74; two daughters, one of Oct. 27 in Lawrence. She was first lady children; and a great-granddaughter. whom is Barbara Berry Emerson, ’92; of Kansas from 1967 to 1975, when her Carolee Drake Martin, ’40, 86, June eight grandchildren; and four great- husband, the late Robert Docking, b’48, 25 in Lawrence, where she had been an grandchildren. served as governor. She established the administrative assistant at KU. She is Ralph Fuhrman, e’30, 95, Sept. 30 in Docking Faculty Scholar Program at KU. survived by two sons, Donald, c’79, g’71, Villamblard, France. He lived in Surviving are two sons, William, c’73, and James, ’67; two daughters, one of Accokeek, Md., where he was a retired l’77, g’77, and Thomas, c’76, l’80, g’80; a whom is Mary Martin Priddy, d’64; a environmental engineer. A daughter and sister, Virginia Gear Winslow, b’42; and brother; a sister, Nancy Drake Edgar, two grandchildren survive. three grandchildren. c’36; six grandchildren; and five great- George Kloppenberg, ’38, May 8 in H. William Firner, ’48, 82, Oct. 27 in grandchildren. Englewood, Colo., where he founded the Tribune, where he was a farmer. He is John McAllister, m’44, 86, July 4 in metal fabricating firm Kloppenberg & survived by his wife, Maurine Banning, Calif., where he was a retired Co. He is survived by three sons, two sis- Breitenbach Firner, ’46; three sons, two orthopedic surgeon. He is survived by ters, a brother, seven grandchildren and of whom are Rick, ’72, and Antoni, g’89; four daughters, a son, three sisters, a a great-grandchild. three daughters, one of whom is Angela brother and eight grandchildren. Robert McKim, e’35, Oct. 20 in Firner Tyroler, ’87; a brother, Fred, e’50; John Nesselrode, c’44, m’47, 81, Oct. Leawood, where he was retired from and 10 grandchildren. 30 in Prairie Village, where he was a Black & Veatch. He is survived by two James Guptill, b’49, 79, Oct. 22 in retired surgeon. Surviving are his wife, daughters, Shannon McKim Mead, ’50, Kansas City, where he worked for Mary, two sons, a daughter and five and Mary McKim Vise, ’61; a son; three Parmelee Industries. He is survived by grandchildren. grandchildren; and seven great-grand- his wife, Mary, a son and a grandson. Robert Pemberton, b’48, 81, Feb. 5 children. Warren Hodges, ’44, 81, Oct. 15 in in Tonganoxie, where he was retired Clark Myers, b’39, g’46, 89, Oct. 6 in Bel Air, Md., where he headed the vice treasurer of ConChemco. A brother Decatur, Ga., where he was former dean Maryland National Guard. He also had survives.

52 | KANSAS ALUMNI Charlotte Sagmoen Pickering, c’49, Soey Bow “Bob” Bong, c’51, 84, Sept. Wickenburg, Ariz. Among survivors are a 76, Oct. 17 in Edina, Minn. She was a 18 in Lawrence, where he was a retired daughter; his mother; and two brothers, material scientist for Honeywell and had supervisor at Allen Press. He is survived one of whom is Jimmy, ’56. worked for ADC Telecommunications. by his wife, Sylvia; three sons, James, Donald Ousdahl, c’59, 76, Aug. 2 in Survivors include a daughter, Nancy, e’82, John, c’86, and Jerome, c’89; a Overland Park, where he was retired c’75; two sons, Keith, c’77, and Scott, brother; a sister; and two grandchildren. from a 30-year career with the U.S. Army ’79; a brother; and a grandson. John Carpenter, c’59, l’62, 71, Sept. 21 Reserves. He is survived by his wife, Eugene Reed, e’47, 78, March 20 in Great Bend, where he was a retired Reta; three daughters, one of whom is in Wallingford, Conn. He owned Wirex attorney and special administration law Tracy Ousdahl Pinney, c’81; and six and is survived by his wife, Marjorie, judge. Survivors include his wife, Mickey; grandchildren. three sons, a brother and three grand- two daughters, one of whom is Gail, Truman Page, c’54, g’63, 93, Sept. 12 children. c’81; a sister, Martha Carpenter in Lenexa, where he was a retired rail- Betty Hess Robinson, c’43, 81, Oct. 4 Eberhardt, ’52; two grandchildren; and way mail clerk and a former electrical in Shawnee Mission. She is survived by four great-grandchildren. and plumbing contractor. A brother, a her husband, Arthur, c’42, m’44; a son, John Copeland, c’50, 82, May 29 in daughter, two grandchildren and a great- Arthur Jr., c’75; two daughters, Betsy Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he was granddaughter survive. Robinson Vander Velde, s’73, s’74, and retired from a career with the Social Jack Perkins, m’53, 79, Nov. 6 in Jane Robinson Leach, d’80; and six Security Administration. A daughter, a Hutchinson, where he was a retired grandchildren. brother and a grandson survive. physician. He is survived by his wife, Mary Gayle Marsh Samuel, c’47, 79, Gerald Edgar, g’50, 80, Dec. 28, 2003, Barbara Meeman Perkins,’50; two daugh- Olathe. She was a 1987 recipient of the in Russellville, Ark. He was a retired ters; his stepfather; and a grandchild. Alumni Association’s Mildred Clodfelter journalism professor at Arkansas Tech Thomas Peschka, b’53, l’58, 72, Sept. Award for service to the University. A and is survived by his wife, Irene, a son, 28 in Kansas City, where he was former memorial has been established with the a brother and a granddaughter. vice president, secretary and general KU Endowment Association. She is sur- Maralyn McNeish Elliott, c’50, 77, counsel at Commerce Bank. He is survived by a son, Ray, c’75; a daughter, Oct. 29 in Raymore, Mo. She is survived vived by his wife, Joan. Elaine Samuel Vallejos, d’77; a sister, by her husband, Robert, e’49; two Donald Powell, b’52, 80, Oct. 1 in Ruth Ann Marsh Weimer, d’53; and a daughters; a son; a brother, George Hutchinson, where he was retired vice granddaughter. McNeish, e’51; 10 grandchildren; and president of Valley Federal Savings and four great-grandchildren. Loan. He is survived by his wife, 1950s Clarence “Bud” French, d’50, g’50, Dolores, two daughters, a brother, a step- John Amberg, b’51, 75, May 4 in 81, Aug. 31 in Kansas City, where he was brother, two grandchildren and a great- Torrance, Calif. He had played football a teacher, coach and counselor at grandson. for the New York Giants and was presi- Central and Wesport high schools. He Walter Reazin, m’58, 73, May 25 in dent of the Southern California Chapter is survived by his wife, Marilyn, three Wichita, where he was a retired family of the National Football League Alumni sons, a brother and five grandchildren. practice physician. He is survived by his Association. Surviving are his wife, Eugene Haley, b’52, g’54, 75, Aug. 13 wife, Linda; a daughter; three sons, one Maureen; two sons; two daughters; a in Lawrence, where he was president of of whom is Troy, c’85; two brothers; a brother, Ted, ’49; and 12 grandchildren. Holmes, Peck and Brown Real Estate. He sister; 12 grandchildren; and a great- John Bailey, e’51, 78, Oct. 6. He lived is survived by his wife, Betty Jo, assoc.; a grandchild. in Linwood and is survived by a daugh- daughter, Jo Lynn, c’80; a son, Michael, Leonard Rozin, g’52, g’55, m’59, 76, ter, Pamela Bailey Willman, n’74; and c’93; and four grandchildren. May 27 in Oklahoma City, where he two grandchildren. Sara Jo Pursley Hoobing, d’59, 68, practiced medicine for many years. He is Joan Gregory Bennett, c’50, s’74, Oct. 13 in Ottawa. She lived in Overland survived by his wife, Zelda Sandler Aug. 10 in Shawnee Mission, where Park and was retired from Padgett- Rozin, ’57; three sons; two daughters; a she was a social worker. Surviving are a Thompson. Surviving are her husband, sister; and 11 grandchildren. son, two daughters, a sister and eight William, d’60; two sons, Heath, c’92, Isabelle Baird Sprague, PhD’53, 87, grandchildren. and Kurt, j’96; and her parents. March 8 in Bethesda, Md. She lived in Dean Loy Bilderback, c’54, g’57, July Thomas Lyons, j’55, 71, Oct. 22 in Washington, D.C., and was a professor at 4 in Fresno, Calif., where he was a pro- Houston, where he had a career in life Mount Holyoke College. A son and two fessor emeritus of history at California insurance. He is survived by his wife, grandchildren survive. State University. Survivors include his Suzanne; two sons; and a brother, Kenneth Stone, b’51, 80, July 31 in wife, Colleen, a son, a daughter and four William, e’60, g’62, PhD’65. Lindsborg. A son, two daughters and grandchildren. Jerry O’Dell, ’55, April 6 in three grandchildren survive.

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Jean McDonald Thomas, d’55, 71, accounting. He is survived by his wife, Houston, where he was senior news Sept. 1 in Topeka, where she was a Katharine, two sons, a stepson and copy editor at the Houston Chronicle. teacher and former assistant manager of seven grandchildren. He is survived by his wife, Linda, three Ray Beers Clothing Store. She is survived Roger Hatfield, d’63, 63, Nov. 15 in brothers and a sister. by her husband, Allan, ’58; three daugh- Belle Plaine, where he was retired from William Kissel Jr., j’73, Nov. 15 in ters, Susan Thomas Draffan, ’79, Cynthia a 30-year career with Cessna Aircraft. Stilwell. He was vice president of Thomas McFarland, ’81, and Julie, b’85; Earlier this year, he had received the DuraComm Corp. Surviving are his wife, and seven grandchildren. Belle Plaine Quality Citizen Award. Nancy Tam Kissel, d’69; a daughter, William Whitehead, c’50, 76, Dec. 6 Survivors include his wife, Kay; a Jennifer Kissel Duggan, d’01; a son; and in Topeka, where he worked for the daughter, Gwinn Appleby, c’92; two his mother. Veterans Administration for nearly 40 sons, one of whom is Vance, ’94; and Mark Kloster, f’78, 48, April 11 in San years. A memorial has been established three brothers. Antonio, where he was an attorney for with the KU Endowment Association. Alan Hill, c’61, g’65, 65, Oct. 30. He the U.S. Justice Department. He is sur- He is survived by his wife, Saundra lived in Tecumseh and was president of vived by his parents, Terry and Lillian Parks Whitehead, assoc.; and a daugher, Lawrence Paper Co. Survivors include Vance, a brother and three sisters. Jayne, ’83. his wife, Norma Purvis Hill, ’64; two David Long, d’73, 54, Nov. 29 in Robert Wilbur, b’53, 75, Nov. 6 in daughters; three brothers, Stephen, c’59, Mission. He had been a dentist and later Salina. He is survived by his wife, Phyllis David, c’56, and Justin, c’66; and three a teacher at Hocker Grove Middle Walker Wilbur, assoc.; a son, Lee, m’00; grandchildren. School. Survivors include a brother, five daughters, two of whom are Kay Wright Kotowski, d’62, 64, Aug. Jerald, b’66, l’69; and two sisters, one of Jacquiline, b’75, g’76, and Bobbie, c’82; 29 in San Marcos, Texas. She was a CPA whom is Sheryl Long Crane, d’67. three brothers, two of whom are Roy, and is survived by her husband, Shirley Magers Markham, g’77, 74, b’52, and Raymond, EdD’73; and three Raymond; three stepchildren; and a sis- Nov. 2 in Topeka, where she was retired grandchildren. ter, Rita Wright Johnson, d’63. director of the WIC program. She is sur- Veryl Wilch, b’50, 82, Oct. 30 in Jay McGowan, c’62, g’68, 67, Nov. 16 vived by her husband, Francis, two Topeka, where he was retired from a in Dighton. A sister survives. daughters, a brother, three grandchil- career with Boeing. Two brothers Bruce Owen, PhD’66, 77, July 13 in dren and six great-grandchildren. survive. Chickasha, Okla. He was retired vice Darrel Reed Jr., c’70, 56, Nov. 15 in John Wineinger, c’51, m’55, 76, March president of instructional affairs at the Houston, where he had practiced law for 21 in Tucson, where he was a physician. Oklahoma City Community College and many years. He is survived by his wife, Survivors include four sons, one of is survived by his wife, Almarie, a daugh- Sharon, two daughters, his mother and whom is David, m’89; a daughter; a sister, a brother and a granddaughter. stepfather and a brother. ter, Carol Wineinger Powell, c’47, m’51; Ronald Palmer, m'61, July 8 in Mesa, Gail Wagoner Rosemann, d’76, 50, and 10 grandchildren. Ariz., where he had practiced pediatrics Oct. 22 in Overland Park. She is sur- and neonatology for many years. He is vived by her husband, Don, a’76, a’77; 1960s survived by his wife, Charlotte, three two sons, one of whom is Nathan, stu- Bill Chaffin, ’61, 65, Nov. 30 in Dodge sons, two daughters and several grand- dent; a daughter; her parents; two broth- City. He is survived by his wife, Nona; a children. ers, Marc Wagoner, e’74, and Ben son, Brian, c’91; a daughter, Stepanie Donna Pyper, d’61, g’63, Oct. 24 in Wagoner, c’77; and a sister. Chaffin Franzitta, c’85; a brother, Gary, Vancouver, British Columbia, where she Rick Thacker, ’77, 50, Nov. 29 in c’60; and two grandsons. was a retired teacher. She is survived by Russell. Two daughters and his mother Mary Davenport, s’63, Feb. 6 in her mother and three sisters, one of survive. Peoria, Ill. She was an Episcopalian nun whom is Joan Pyper Lund, d’66. of the Franciscan Order of the Divine David Swanson, g’69, PhD’71, 60, 1980s Compassion, and she had been a teacher Nov. 1 in Urbana, where he was associ- Janet Jones DeCicco, g’84, Dec. 2 and a social worker. A sister survives. ate provost and a professor of speech in Shawnee Mission. A memorial has Geraldine “Gerry” Millican Farley, communication and political science been established with the KU Endow- d’61, 65, Nov. 16 in Parsons. She is sur- at the University of Illinois. He is sur- ment Association. She is survived by her vived by her husband, Cecil, ’62; a son, vived by his wife, Sharon, a daughter, husband, Robert, ’57; two daughters, Douglas, b’86; a daughter, Lisa Farley two brothers, a sister and three Judith DeCicco Moriarty, c’83, and Sebree, b’88; and four grandchildren. grandchildren. Michelle, c’89; three brothers; and Roger Faulkner, b’69, April 5 in three grandsons. Ellison Bay, Wis., where he was retired 1970s Kirk Pisano, c’82, 46, Oct. 14 in from a more than 35-year career in Mark Hesse, c’71, g’77, 54, April 19 in Overland Park, where he was an invest-

54 | KANSAS ALUMNI ment counselor and a professional musi- mother, Ann Farney Banks Weidensaul, assoc.; a son; and five daughters, Cora cian. He is survived by his mother, Carol, ’57; a sister; three stepbrothers; two step- Lee Price Kluge, c’60, Lucy, c’68, Edwina and a brother, Charles, c’80. sisters; and her grandparents. Price Eisert, c’71, Doris Price Burgert, Stephen Rose, b’83, 44, Oct. 17 in c’75, d’76, and Diane Price Fukunaga, Lenexa. He was an inventory control The University Community c’75, d’76, g’87, PhD’89. analyst for Kellogg in Kansas City and Thomas Allen, 76, Nov. 8 in Sarasota, Anthony Smith, 88, Oct. 29 in is survived by his wife, Nancy, two Fla., where he was an illustrator and Lawrence, where he had chaired KU’s daughters, his father and stepmother, chairman of illustration at the Ringling psychology department. Surviving are two brothers, a stepsister and two School of Art and Design. Earlier he had his wife, Barbara Garrison Smith, g’67; stepbrothers. been the Hallmark Professor at KU. He two daughters, one of whom is Laurel Nancy Shaw, h’83, 43, Oct. 21 in is survived by his wife, Laura, a son, two Smith Healy, s’79; a son, Eric, c’81; and Wichita, where she was a medical- daughters and four grandchildren four grandchildren. records supervisor for Via Christi. She is Jessie Ball, m’56, Oct. 22 in Kansas Carlyle Smith, 92, Nov. 11 in survived by two daughters, two stepsons, City, where she had chaired the physical Pittsburg. He was a longtime professor her parents, a sister and a brother, Mike therapy education department at the KU of silversmithing at KU, and he made Waldschmidt, m’77. Meical Center. A memorial has been the chancellor’s collar and mace for Kathleen Kidd Whitaker, g’83, 64, established with the KU Endowment the University. A daughter, four grand- Oct. 14 in Kansas City. She is survived Association. Survivors include friends, children and three great-grandchildren by two daughters, one of whom is Minda Barbara Lukert, c’56, m’60, and Mary survive. Whitaker Mason, c’91; a sister; and four Stoskopf, assoc.; and two brothers. Elizabeth “Libby” Taylor Snyder, grandchildren. Geraldine Davis, 86, Oct. 18 in Lee’s assoc., 93, Nov. 29 in Kansas City. The Summit, Mo. She was retired assistant Snyder Book Collection Contest at KU is 1990s director of nursing at the KU Medical supported by an endowed fund she Crystal Huskey Matthews, c’91, 38, Center. A memorial has been established established with the KU Endowment Nov. 16 in Tucson, Ariz., where she was with the KU Endowment Association. Association, where a memorial has been a pharmaceutical sales representative. Surviving are two sons, a sister, four established in her name. A sister is She is survived by her husband, Darrel, granddaughters and two great-grand- among survivors. c’88; two sons; her parents; and two children. David Vieth, 79, Sept. 27 in McCrory, sisters. Edward Grier, 87, June 11 in Ark. He had taught English at KU and Mathew Retonde, ’93, 57, Oct. 30 in Lawrence, where he was a professor of is survived by a daughter, a brother Shawnee Mission. He is survived by two English at KU. A memorial has been and a sister. daughters; his father; and two sisters, established with the KU Endowment Joseph Weaver, Aug. 29 in Prairie Candace Retonde Schmid, j’71, and Association. Several nieces and nephews Village. He had been a professor at the Elizabeth Lee Iliff, j’74. survive. KU Medical Center and is survived by Donald Johnson, 77, Oct. 14 in his wife, Bev, a stepson and three 2000s Leawood. He was a professor emeritus at grandsons. John Fulbright, ’07, 21, Nov. 28 in the KU Medical Center, and a memorial Philip Wells, 76, Oct. 29 in McLouth. Olathe. He lived in Overland Park and has been established with the KU He was a professor emeritus of ecology was a sophomore at KU. Survivors Endowment Association. His wife, and evolutionary biology at KU. include his parents, John and Angie Eleanore, survives. Survivors include his wife, Anke Fulbright, a brother, his grandparents Ogden Lindsley, 82, Oct. 10 in Kansas Neumann Wells, g’65, PhD’79; a son, and his great-grandparents. City. He lived in Lawrence, where he was Philip, c’97; three daughters; two sisters; Grant Reser, ’04, 23, Nov. 27 in a professor emeritus of educational and a granddaughter. Kansas City of complications related to administration at KU. He is survived by lymphoma. He lived in Topeka and in his wife, Nancy Hughes Lindsley, Associates 1985 had been the first child in Kansas PhD’89; three daughters; three grand- Clarice Brewer Mulford, 90, Nov. and the 12th in the world to receive a children; and two great-grandchildren. 27 in Lawrence. A memorial has been heart transplant. He is survived by his Cora Lee Beers Price, ’44, 96, Dec. 1 established with the KU Endowment parents, Greg, g’81, and Barb Reser; a in Lawrence, where she taught English Association. A brother and a sister brother; and his grandmother. and classics at KU. The Cora Lee Beers survive. Bethany Weidensaul, ’06, 21, Nov. 23. Price Teaching Professorship of She lived in Wichita and was a junior at International Cultural Understanding KU. Surviving are her mother; her stepfa- was established at KU earlier this year. ther; her father, Scott, e’76; her step- She is survived by her husband, G. Baley,

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11 years and still toiling daily in his Wescoe Hall office, does not shy from the single reality faced by all professional writers: The pages must bring

EARL RICHARDSON in paychecks. “There’s a big change that comes over students’ writing, or people’s writing of any kind, when they begin sending it off to someone else to be considered,” Gunn says. “Money isn’t everything, and obviously it isn’t much for most people in the field, but it is a significant measure of the substance of what you’re doing.” Gunn, j’47, g’51, addresses the business of writing in prefaces to recent reissues of his 1962 classic, The Immortals (Pocket Books, $12), and ■ “Retired” professor 1972’s The Listeners (BenBella Books, $14.95). and author James Gunn Young writers who hope to make careers of their recently guided two of passions would do well to read closely, because his novels to new life nowhere will they find a more honest discussion as handsomely reissued from one who knows. editions and wrote a In both essays, Gunn provides his career out- featured story in the line (which included a stint as Kansas Alumni’s managing editor), explaining the jobs he accepted current issue of Analog. to provide for his family while always making time to write. Because The Immortals quickly caught the attention of movie producers, and was eventually made as a well-regarded 1969 televi- sion movie on ABC, Gunn uses The Immortals’ Books live on preface to detail the business side of Hollywood. Gunn’s ‘The Immortals’ and He resists the writer’s tendency to brag and name-drop, instead illustrating the labyrinth that “The Listeners’ find new has led to a short-lived TV series, international audiences as reissues translations, and feature-film interest from Disney and, currently, Warner Bros. When ABC was e writes and teaches science fiction, preparing its but James Gunn never series based on strays far from reality. He tends Hto set his stories in the near future, often placing them in Lawrence or Kansas City and populating them with characters recognizable for their enduring humanity. Gunn’s fantastic voyages through time are captivating, yet never comically absurd. So it is that the professor emeritus of English, “retired”

56 | KANSAS ALUMNI the movie, executives planned to release ◆ ◆ ◆ cules, the center will use an assortment a novelization of the movie’s screenplay, of high-tech gear. which itself was, of course, an adapta- Perhaps the most impressive piece of tion of Gunn’s novel. When the writer Medicinal new equipment is a Nuclear Magnetic dropped out unexpectedly, ABC asked Resonance spectrometer. NMRs use Gunn to take on the project. purposes giant magnets to gather information “It may have been the only time that necessary to count and locate the atoms the author of a novel wrote the noveliza- Newest research center focuses in a protein. KU’s new NMR is among tion of the script,” Gunn writes in his high-tech gaze on proteins in the most powerful in the country. Its 12- preface. “My consolation is that it was bid to discover new drugs foot tall, 5-ton magnet generates a mag- easy money.” netic field 200,000 times stronger than With renewed Hollywood interest in he University opened its latest the Earth’s. That’s powerful enough to creating a feature film of The Immortals, research facility, the Structural pull a wrench from your hand, Vander Pocket Books commissioned a new, Biology Center, on Oct. 15 to Velde says. 20,000-word middle section, and Gunn support research leading to the somewhat reluctantly agreed. (He insists Tcreation of new medicines. “you’re not really trying hard enough” if To that end, the $7.4 million West a story can’t be told in 60,000 words, his Campus building will house a unique

book’s original length, yet he welcomed collection of state-of-the-art equipment. EARL RICHARDSON (2) the opportunity to flesh out the book’s “Only a handful of U.S. universities hero, Dr. Russell Pearce, after ABC chose have pursued this technology the way to focus on the immortal Marshall we have,” says David Vander Velde, Cartwright as the fugitive protagonist.) director of KU’s Nuclear Magnetic But the Disney producer who bought Resonance Laboratory. “We’re assem- the rights lost his job, the film rights bling what amounts to drug discovery expired, and Pocket Books lost interest. technologies that a drug company would When Warner Bros. picked up the rights have.” about three years ago, Gunn told his edi- Researchers from biology and phar- tors to publish or revert the book rights, maceutical chemistry will use the and they published. Structural Biology Center to gain a better Gunn also will see his latest novel, understanding of the structures of pro- Gift from the Stars, published next year, teins. Protein molecules are of interest he is writing yet another, and all the rest because they perform a wide variety of of the books from his long career are biological tasks. To decipher these mole- available either through Amazon.com or Fictionwise.com, which offers both elec- tronic and print-on-demand books. “I tell students, ‘The only thing that’s really worth writing is what you can write and nobody else can,’” Gunn says. “A measure of success is the ability to communicate what you feel deeply, so it’s important to get published. Aiming for publication is essential. And getting paid for it means somebody else places value on it. “You can be seduced by it, but if you keep your standards and try to arrive at that proper balance between saying what you want to say and putting it in a form others can appreciate, then it seems to me you’ve achieved the ideal ■ The centerpiece of KU’s new Structural Biology Center, a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance balance.” spectrometer, is among the most powerful such devices in the country, according to —Chris Lazzarino David Vander Velde, director of the NMR laboratory.

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The center’s equipment will enable ◆ ◆ ◆ hood near KU Medical Center. The researchers to map the structures of pro- Studio 804 home at 3800 Lloyd Street is teins. That’s important because drugs the first of 10 affordable homes to be often work by attaching to proteins, Mod squad developed by the community group City according to Vander Velde. For instance, Vision Ministries in an effort to bring a drug may attach to a protein that Studio 804 students capture 120 new homes to Rainbow Park, an serves as a channel for germs to enter a Home of the Year award from area that has seen little development in cell. By attaching to the channel protein, Architecture Magazine recent years. the drug can close this gateway, thus The out-of-town location dictated a protecting the cell from infection. A good udging by the glittering hardware new approach. Students came up with a way to look for new drugs is to find they’ve collected lately, a suitable design that would let them build the compounds that will fit onto a target motto for the students of Studio house in five 12-by-20 foot pieces in a protein. 804 might be, “Build it, and the Lawrence warehouse. In May, flatbed Of course, simply knowing that some- Jawards will come.” semis trucked the finished modules to thing can attach to a protein does not The innovative class taught by School the site, where a foundation had been mean it will cure anything. All potential of Architecture and Urban Design profes- prepared. A crane unloaded the mod- drugs must be screened. Screening used sors Dan Rockhill and Kent Spreckel- ules, and the house was assembled in to require hand-testing each compound. meyer picked up Home of the Year hon- a day. The Structural Biology Center will speed ors from Architecture Magazine in Architecture Magazine’s Home of the up things with a robotic assembly line to November for its 2004 project, a modu- Year award recognizes overall design test hundreds of compounds at a time. lar home built in Lawrence and assem- excellence, creativity, site sensitivity and The speed and power of the center’s bled in an inner-city neighborhood of formal expression. The magazine judged technology mean that researchers will be Kansas City, Kan. houses in five categories based on the able to answer more questions, and Earlier this year, the house also won square footage of the structures. Studio more types of questions, in less time, an international Wood Design Award 804’s house was judged with homes less according to Jennifer Laurence, assistant and was one of 12 featured in the than 1,500 square feet and was the only professor of pharmaceutical chemistry. Autumn 2004 issue of Wood Design & Grand Award winner in 2004. That’s good for scientists throughout the Building magazine. Since 1999, when The striking design includes wood region and for the University. Rockhill created the course, Studio 804 siding made of massaranduba (a Brazilian “There is really nobody else who has students have designed and built six hardwood with a fire-rating similar to this type of equipment,” Laurence says, houses for low-income homeowners, concrete) that appears to float over the “so people will be coming here to KU.” winning more than a dozen design 12-by-60 foot exterior. The wood, which Vander Velde thinks the new center awards. is certified by the Sierra Club as eco- may even thrust KU into the national “In both cases, these are professional friendly, and vertical-grain bamboo spotlight. The National Institutes of competitions, not student competitions,” floors inside highlight Studio 804’s pref- Health want to establish several national Rockhill says of the “high-throughput” screening centers, he latest honors. “So says. Vander Velde believes the you have to rise to Structural Biology Center’s technology the top competing will give KU an advantage in getting one with professionals, EARL RICHARDSON of those centers, which would come with and that makes a bit a $10 million grant from the NIH. of a difference.” Vander Velde also thinks the new facility In the past, Studio could help create a biotech business cor- 804 constructed low- ridor, as companies form to market its income homes in research discoveries. partnership with var- “We have a ways to go before we ious Lawrence catch Boston or San Diego,” he says. groups that promote “But it’s a very big pie: A small piece of it affordable housing. is still a pretty big chunk of economic This year, for the first potential.” time, the class chose —Michael Campbell, g’93, is a Eudora a site outside of ■ Bold design and sustainable building materials like Brazilian hard- free-lance writer and a frequent contributor Lawrence, the wood siding won Studio 804 the 2004 Home of the Year award to Kansas Alumni Rosedale neighbor- from Architecture Magazine.

58 | KANSAS ALUMNI erence for sustainable building materials. boarding, canoeing, kayaking and moun- The magazine praised the use of nontra- tain biking—newfangled pursuits some ditional materials, noting the recycled- old-school hunters and anglers still view aluminum clad walls inside and a rubber with suspicion. Husar understood that membrane that surrounds the entire the more varied the constituencies who

exterior to provide waterproofing. COURTESY TRIBUNE CHICAGO use nature, the more likely natural areas Rockhill says the honors his students will be preserved for all to enjoy. have garnered from the architecture He tackled big issues—public access, community validate his belief that uni- conservation, habitat destruction and versity-based design programs will have pollution—because he was foremost a a major influence on housing, particu- journalist. “In a big newspaper, that’s larly housing intended to rejuvenate what you do,” Husar said, “you write inner cities. about the big “I think because we solve problems a issues.” He did so little differently and maybe unencum- most impressively bered by some of the restraints that in a 1984 series developers face, we are able to show by called “Chicago’s example that you can bring about which he covered for 15 years, Hidden Wilder- change,” he says. “We feel we added a that Husar found his true calling. ness,” which spark to a neighborhood that hasn’t He saw the possibilities of a genre depicted the pock- been looked at in 40 years.” derided by some as the province ets of nature found —Steven Hill of the “hook and bullet” story, in the city’s aban- bland how-to pieces detailing the doned industrial ◆ ◆ ◆ mechanics of fishing and hunting. sites. His reporting Husar decided his topics would led to creation of OREAD READER not be limited to bait shops and the National hunting blinds. Heritage Corridor “The outdoor beat is about the in the Des Plaines Great ■ whole planet,” he said in a 1999 A Voice in Our Wilderness River Valley, and it outdoorsman interview with Kansas Alumni. by John Husar was the second of “And that makes it the biggest two Husar pieces Journalist pushed limits beat on the paper.” Triumph Books, $19.95 nominated by of outdoor beat to make Husar died July 20, 2000, from Tribune editors for room for outsized passion Hepatitis C, a blood-borne disease he the Pulitzer Prize. Over the years he probably contracted while serving as an used the bully pulpit to good effect, call- y most accounts, sportswriter Army medical technician in the 1960s. ing for better protection of Illinois’ natu- John Husar was a big man with He was diagnosed in 1992 and had been ral sites, and he is credited with sound- a gentle touch. An optimist in a on the transplant list for a new liver ing the alarm that helped preserve more career that calls for skepticism, since 1998. He wrote about that ordeal— than one natural area. Bhe combined a remarkable zest for life movingly but matter-of-factly, as was his When Husar first turned his formida- with a beat reporter’s hunger for finding way—in his column. ble skills on the sporting scene, he knew and telling the important stories of Now his friends and colleagues have he wasn’t simply writing about athletes; his day. gathered some of Husar’s best pieces in he was writing about heroes. After 15 During the more than 30 years he A Voice in Our Wilderness. Royalties will years on the outdoors beat, his perspec- covered sports for his hometown news- go to the John Husar Outdoor Education tive had changed. His new heroes were paper, the Chicago Tribune, Husar, j’59, Endowment, which provides outdoor wildlife biologists and others who served became the paper’s chronicler of events opportunities to urban children. nature. “odd and wonderful.” One Super Bowl The book’s variety highlights the “People who are fighting to save pre- Sunday, while most sportswriters were curiosity and openness the South Side cious wetlands and forests, people who basking in Florida sunshine, Big John, as native brought to the outdoor beat. are fighting for trails,” he said, “those are his colleagues called the former Jayhawk While plenty of traditional hunting and the real heroes.” tackle, was happily ensconced in frigid fishing topics are included to keep hard- If that’s the case, then John Husar Ely, Minn., covering a dogsled race. core outdoorsmen happy, Husar also was a hero, too. But it was on the outdoors beat, embraced hiking, snowmobiling, sail- —Steven Hill

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■ Paul Vander Tuig’s treasure-trove of trinkets includes baubles that bobble, such as the “Hawaiian earthquake detector” (above).

scholarships. When the men’s basketball team made it to the Final Four in 2002, the most recent fiscal year for which all data have been collected, licensing revenues soared to $965,000. Similar basketball success this year, Vander Tuig says, would fatten scholarship coffers by more than $1 million. Vander Tuig is not the lone guardian of the Jayhawk’s classy reputation. He says he receives frequent phone calls from alumni when they discover items they fear are unlicensed or inappro- priate, and he investigates each allegation vigor- Rock Chachka ously. He also has plenty of help dusting, because none of the countless KU tidbits that fill Jayhawk licenser keeps treasures of KU kitsch Vander Tuig’s tables and shelves go unat- ucked off a hallway in the Burge tended long; visitors Union, Paul Vander Tuig’s office who happen to spy overflows with all things Jayhawk: his office from the clocks, shirts, snow globes, Allen wide, quiet hallway FieldT House replicas, laser-cut glass, branding invariably drop in for irons, Hawaiian earthquake detectors, lime- a viewing. stone posts ... “They’ll tell me, OK, no limestone posts. ‘You’ve got the best “If we need to, somebody can e-mail job in the world,’” he me a photograph of the product, and that says. “And they’re is often good enough for me to give probably right.” approval,” says Vander Tuig, trademark licensing administrator. “So, no, I didn’t ask them to send me the limestone post with a Jayhawk carved into it.” Vander Tuig says some of his favorite recent products include the Wheaties boxes created last year by the Alumni Association, logo sweatshirts celebrating the 50th anniversary of Allen Field House, and Jayhawk caps with “Beak ’Em” embossed onto the bill. The emphemera is cute fun, but there’s a serious side: Revenues generated by

licensing agreements support student EARL RICHARDSON (5)

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