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20 FIRST WORD Candid Combat The editor's tun Glenn Kappelman knew his battlefield duty in World War II would give him a frontline view oj history. Fifty years later his photographs do the same for us.

By Steven Hill

26 By Any Other Name Why is retired chemistry professor Albert Burgstahler combing Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for clues to the works' true author? Because they're there.

By Chris Lazzarino Cover illustration by Christine M. Schneider

32 Going, Going, Gone? The decline of Stewart Avenue, once a haven of Greek life, is only one of the challenges that make this a pivotal year for KU's fraternities and sororities.

By Chris Lazzarino

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VOLUME 98 NO. 5, 2000 KANSAS ALUMNI Put Your We ve spent our Uv§s building the Herbarium into Trust a valuable resource for KU qr InKU tire region. This gift allows us to continue our involvement by contribute As a boy, KU alumnus Ronald L. McGregor, Ph.D., became fasci- to the future success of ttm facility." nated by the varied and abundant — Ronald & Dorothy McGregor plant life on his grandfather's ranch. His youthful enthusiasm grew into a 42-year career at KU. As director of the Herbarium at KU from 1950 to 1989, he guided the growth of the Herbarium's collection of flora to become the largest in the region, including more than 400,000 different spec- imens. In 1990, KU honored his dedication by renaming the collection the Ronald L. McGregor Herbarium.

Because his commitment to the Herbarium continues today, McGregor and his wife, KU alumna Dorothy M. McGregor, have funded a charitable remain- der trust at The Kansas University Endowment Association. In the future, the trust will provide support for maintenance and research at the Herbarium.

The gift benefits the McGregors by providing them with income for their lifetimes in addition to a FIRST WORD BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER

converted him to the Oxfordian side of the authorship argument. Burgstahler the scientist has painstakingly analyzed what M.entio. n "Macbeth," and I he says are calculated arrangements of letters—word puzzles see before me a box of Dunkin' known as acrostics—in which Edward de Vere cleverly revealed Donuts. his own name, though he otherwise sought to conceal it behind I'm serious—and so was the pseudonym William Shakespeare. Burgstahler says he has marvelous Margery Bakalar, punctured a literary hoax. g'71, my high-school English Sacrilege? Some say yes. But the debate is just the kind of fun teacher, who knew, like that attracts not only scholars with literary credentials but also Shakespeare, that somber interlopers like Burgstahler and Dickson—and perhaps curious subjects cried out for comic folks who will crack open the sonnets or plays to see what all relief. So, to cajole precocious, the fuss is about. I suspect Marge Bakalar, erudite and ornery preoccupied seniors into spend- scholar, would approve. ing a semester on Macbeth, Marge Just as she would applaud Glenn Kappelman's noble mis- encouraged us to play with the play. deed. As a young soldier in World War II, Kappelman, c'48, She called herself Hecate, for the goddess of witchcraft who g'50, disobeyed orders and secretly photographed daily life commands the three witches. She nicknamed various students within his army cavalry unit as it made its way through France, after other characters: Banquo, Macduff, Thane and Cawdor. Germany and Austria. As she combed through the meanings of the most memorable Sacrilege? Absolutely. But Kappelman's photos, now compiled lines, she also laughed mischievously when we shouted short- in video form, offer rare, uncensored glimpses of war. Steve Hill ened soliloquies of the play's most insignificant utterances: tells the stories behind the novice photographer's uncanny shots. "Not yet" or "Come let me clutch thee." (Macbeth's plea to the Our final feature also flirts with rejecting the rules, if you dagger soon took on salacious symbolism only teen-agers could consider upholding tradition one of the commandments of the love.) The curtain call was our Macbeth party, where we dined University's venerable fraternity and sorority system. This fall, on, you guessed it, Dunkin' Donuts, after Duncan, the slain Greek brothers and sisters returned to the Hill to find that six king of Scotland. fraternities had vacated the row of Greek houses along Stewart Sacrilege? Sure. But in spite of—and because of—the antics, Avenue, leaving only stalwart Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. They many of us not only learned, but also yearned for more, begin- also learned that the systems longtime adviser, Bill Nelson, was ning a lifelong fascination with Shakespeare. leaving KU to return to graduate school. As fraternities and But was it truly William Shakespeare of Stratford who capti- sororities continue to debate rules for alcohol and, as always, vated us? compete for members and stature on the Hill, Nelson says the One winter evening two years ago, as I sipped a tall skinny very tradition that strengthens the system may also stifle it. mocha in an Alexandria, Va., coffee shop, I picked up an Sacrilege? Perhaps. But listen to Nelson and others, witness orphaned Style section of The Washington Post and devoured the decline of houses that cannot compete with those whose the lead article, headlined, "Shakespeare in Trouble: Who Was reputations fuel plentiful recruits and alumni contributions, and Will Shakespeare?" The story chronicled the exhaustive research you might see that tradition can sometimes be a bane as well of Peter Dickson, an ex-CIA policy analyst who had devoted his as a boon. retirement to the ardent pursuit of the Shakespeare authorship Or, as Marge would chuckle and remind us over Dunkin' question. After poring over rare 16th- and 17th-century records Donuts: Fair is foul, and foul is fair. ***** and literary documents, Dickson had concluded that a poet and nobleman, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, had written the worlds most famous tragedies and comedies masquerading as William Shakespeare. Dickson and other Oxfordians, the Post reported, were taking on traditional Shakespearean scholars, known as Stratfordians. The story was too intriguing to abandon at the coffee shop, so I shared it with managing editor Chris Lazzarino, who stowed it among the countless clips we save as curiosities. Months later, the story became one for our cover after Lazz heard from a campus colleague that a retired KU professor of chemistry, Albert Burgstahler, had uncov- ered clues in Shakespeare's words that had LIFT THE CHORUS

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Taxpayers overlooked Publisher Chairman The Kansas Alumni story about under- Fred B.Williams Reid Holbrook, c'64, T66, Overland Park, Editor Kansas graduates spending more than four years Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'81 to graduate ["No Piece of Cake," issue No. Executive Vice Chairman Art Director Janet Martin McKinney, c'74, Port Ludlow, 4] is interesting for what it doesn't say Susan Younger, f 91 Washington which is that those hanging around are a Managing Editor Chris Lazzarino, j'86 Executive Committee drain on Kansas taxpayers. Staff Writer Jim Adam, e'56, Overland Park, Kansas My younger daughter is a 1985 Univer- Steven Hill Reid Holbrook, c'64,1*66, Overland Park, sity of California-Berkeley graduate. She Kansas Editorial Assistants and her classmates had a time slot of four Karen Goodell Janet Martin McKinney, c'74. Port Ludlow, Washington years or less to get their undergraduate Photographer Corded D. Meeks Jr., c'64, l'67, Kansas City, Wally Emerson, j'76 degrees. They were out in four, finished or Kansas Graphic Designer Gil M. Reich, e'54, Savannah, Georgia not. Demand for Cal entry was very high, Valerie Spicher, j'94 Carol Swanson Ritchie, d'54,Wichita, Kansas so they didn't allow waste of California Editorial Office taxpayer money on those who wanted to Kansas Alumni Association Vice Chairmen 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66044-3 169 Gary Bender, g'64, Scottsdale, Arizona, and dawdle. If students couldn't get their 785-864-4760 Colorado Springs.Colorado degree within their time slot, they had to Advertising Office Michelle Senecal de Fonseca, b'83, Brussels, get out so someone more motivated could Sarah Lober, Advertising Manager Belgium Knight Enterprises, 4840 W. 15th St., Suite 1000 Tim S. Dibble, d'74, Issaquah,Washington use the facilities. Lawrence, KS 66049 Patricia Weems Gaston, j'81, Annandale, 785-843-5511 or 1-800-844-3781 In light of the continuing shortage of Virginia fax 785-843-7555 funds at KU, I don't see why the same e-mail: [email protected] Directors to July 2001 doesn't apply there. It is a bit tough on Kansas Alumni Magazine (ISSN 0745-3345) is published Lisa Ashner Adkins, c'84,1*87, Leawood, Kansas some students, but it works at Cal. If KU by the Alumni Association of the University of Kansas John B. Dicus, b'83, g'85,Topeka, Kansas wants to be in the same class of university six times a year in January, March, May, July, September Robert L. Driscoll, c'61, 1*64, Mission Woods, and November $40 annual subscription includes mem- Kansas as Cal then resources at KU should also be bership in the Alumni Association. Office of Publication: used to the fullest. 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044^3169. Peri- Directors to July 2002 odicals postage paid at Lawrence, KS, and additional Lewis D. Gregory, c'75, Leawood, Kansas For those who want to be career stu- mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address Lynwood H. Smith, b'51, m'60, Lawrence, dents, let them go someplace that needs changes to Kansas Alumni Magazine, 1266 Kansas the tuition funds. Maybe they can come Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 © Linda Duston Warren, c'66, m'70, Hanover, 2000 by Kansas Alumni Magazine. Non-mem- back to KU as grad students and do better. ber issue price: $7 Kansas Of course, if Kansas taxpayers want to KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Directors to July 2003 The Alumni Association was established in 1883 for Sidney Ashton Garrett, c'68, d'70, Lawrence, support a more casual and expensive the purpose of strengthening loyalty, friendship, Kansas lifestyle, that is a legitimate decision. It is commitment, and communication among all gradu- Deloris Strickland Pinkard, g'80, EdD'95, not written in stone, as your article says, ates, former and current students, parents, faculty, Kansas City, Kansas staff and all other friends of The University of David R. Ran kin, p'63, Phillipsburg, Kansas that one should finish in four. But you, Kansas. Its members hereby unite into an Associa- and the University should be clear about tion to achieve unity of purpose and action to serve Directors to July 2004 the best interests of The University and its con- A. Drue Jennings, d'68,172, Leawood, Kansas the taxpayers' costs and the fact that tax- stituencies. The Association is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes. Mary Kay Paige McPhee, d'49, Kansas City, payers made a decision. Missouri Danxll Call, e'61 Fred B.Williams, President; Kay Henry, Senior John W. Mize, c'72, Salina, Kansas Vice President for Administration and Human Scottsdale, Ariz. Resources; Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'81, Senior Directors to July 2005 Vice President for Communications; Dwight Nancy Borel Ellis, d'63, Pinehurst, Parman, Senior Vice President for Finance and Trea- North Carolina surer; William S. Green, Senior Vice President for Sydnie Bowling Kampschroeder, c'65, When accordion was king Information Systems; Sheila Murphy Immel, f'69, Naperville, Illinois g'84, Senior Vice President for Membership; Kirk Craig B. Swenson, e'59, Lee's Summit, Cerny, c'92, g'98, Senior Vice President for Member- Missouri What a surprise to see an accordion in ship Services; Nancy Peine.Vice President for Alumni and Membership Records; Donna Neuner, Honorary Members my Kansas Alumni ["Accordionist returns 76, Membership Services; Mike Wellman, c'86, Gene A. Budig, Ed.D., Princeton, New Jersey to competition," Profiles, issue No. 4]. Special Projects and Adams Alumni Center Facility E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., Ph.D., San Antonio, Manager; Bryan E. Greve, Adams Alumni Center Texas And what memories squeezed back as I Services and Jayhawk Society Membership; Chris Archie R. Dykes, Ed.D., Goodlettsville, read the wonderful story on Cathy Som- Lazzarino, j'86, Managing Editor Kansas Alumni Tennessee mers' return to competition. magazine; Susan Younger, f'91, Art Director; Delbert M. Shankel, Ph.D., Lawrence, Kansas Carolyn Barnes, c'80, Kansas Honors Program; W. Clarke Wescoe, M.D., Kansas City, Mo. I grew up playing the accordion in the Michon Quick, f'86, Greater Kansas City Area Pro- grams; Jennifer Mueller, g'99, Student Programs. '50s (the accordion was king at that time,

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as neither the guitar nor electricity had story. Kempthorne suggested keeping the talk shows. Frankly, I myself expected been invented yet) and during many years things simple, honest and to write your the next step to be a conclusion that the of contests I often had the opportunity to life narrative like you speak. That sounds earth was flat. hear Joan Sommers' UMKC accordion like wonderful advice for telling my own I hope that the chancellor—and how orchestra. personal story. encouraging to see a University officer Though to many "accordion orchestra" Kempthorne also said, "Some people with the intelligence and integrity to buck may be oxymoronic, those kids were true who are really well-educated have trouble politicians—is successful in his attempts musicians and the ensemble top-notch. I being authentic because it clashes with to demonstrate a bit of intelligence and began the cello in junior high and when it what they've been taught." That comment learning to the people in power. came time to choose a college I went really hit home for me because 1 do To tell the truth, despite the excellence down to audition for Joan in K.C. and believe the best storytellers create images of the University of Kansas and my posi- seek a scholarship as a cello and accordion in their own personal style instead of fol- tive experience with its learned and dedi- double-major. I still recall my awe at play- lowing some of the well-developed writing cated faculty, I have little hope for the ing a portion of a cello concerto as she devices that are taught in school. state at large, which always seemed to me sight-read the orchestral score's piano Finally, I am happy that basketball to be teetering on the verge of endorsing reduction flawlessly on the accordion. coach Roy Williams decided to stay at ignorance and stupidity as values. Cer- I ended up attending KU and earning a Kansas and continue his life as a Jayhawk tainly the evolution decision suggests degree in cello, both decisions I'm glad I [Hail to Old KU]. But next on the sched- something of that attitude, no matter how made, but your story brought back many ule is KU football and I have ordered my extreme it may seem. great memories of what was and nearly three-game mutipack tickets for the K- At any rate, I wish you all good luck was. Thanks! State, Colorado and Texas home games wih the battle for learning over ignorance, this fall. Go Jayhawks! enlightenment over darkness. Keep fight- Rick Hess, f12 ing the good fight. Bellevue, Neb. Mark L. Lee, c'83 Bonner Springs George Grella, g'65, PhD'67 A writer's inspirations Rochester, N.Y. Coach Roy's big day I enjoyed reading about James Gunn, Evolution letters depress professor emeritus of English, in issue No. The description of a summer's day on 4 of Kansas Alumni magazine ["There's no Mount Oread ["Summer Solace," Hail to I am depressed by the letters opposing time like the future," Jayhawk Walk]. Old KU] and the cheering fans who evolution and supporting creationism. Gunn is poised to polish his 100th work waited for Roy Williams' decision to con- They indicate how much work remains to this year and I am hoping to get my per- tinue at KU was absolutely perfect! Thank be done. sonal copies of The Science of Science Fic- you so much! For continuing education, I recom- tion Writing and Gift from the Stars. I am quite sure that each alum who has mend Steve Jones, Almost Like a Whale: Gunn taught my fiction-writing class at a chance to read your article will do so The Origin of Species Updated (Doubleday KU in the early 1980s and he was one of with a smile—you described our memo- 1999). the most published professors in the ries of the campus in summer and the loy- Ray Nichols, c'60 department of English. Although I had alty of both the past and present students Carlton, Victoria stronger sports writing skills, Gunn did of KU so well! Australia appreciate a short assignment I wrote and Thelma Latter Dailey, d'61 he read the passage to our class. I respect Broomfield, Colo. Gunn and I hope he continues to write Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the more books. KU takes noble stand editor. If you would like to comment on Another story I enjoyed in the same a story, please write us. Our address is issue was the profile on Charley I was gratified to see the statements by Kansas Alumni, 1266 Oread Avenue, Kempthorne ["Writer helps other natural members of the KU faculty and the Uni- Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. storytellers"], teacher of a family-history versity chancellor regarding the Kansas writing workshop at the Lawrence Public Board of Education statements about If you would like to respond via e-mail, Library. I have kept my own personal teaching evolution ["Biological Warfare," the Alumni Association's address is journal since taking freshman English issue No. 1]. [email protected], or visit composition at KU in 1979 and someday I As the article notes, the state of Kansas our web site at www.kualumni.org. hope to turn some of my journaling note- has become something of a joke in acade- Letters appearing in the magazine books into a book based upon my life mic and intellectual circles, as well as on may be edited for space and clarity.

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GILDED TREASURE: Exhibitions High Cliff, Coast of Maine, "Artists in Exile," through Oct. 1, 1894, by Winslow Spencer Museum of Art Homer, part of the exhibition "The Gilded Age: "The Gilded Age: Treasures from the Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Smithsonian American Museum," Sept. 23-Nov. 19, Art Museum" at Spencer Spencer Museum of Art Museum of Art. "American Indian Traditions Trans- formed," through Oct. 22, Spencer Museum of Art "Lenox Dunbar, Scottish Printmaker," Sept. 17-29, Art and Design Gallery Murphy Hall events SEPTEMBER 18-22, 24 "Selkie," by Laurie Brooks Gollobin, KU Theatre for 4 Band Spectacular OCTOBER Young People 6 Jazz Ensembles I, II and III 21 Homecoming OCTOBER 8 Jennifer Koh, violin 22 Dick Wright Memorial Jazz 13-14,19-22 "Angels in America, 10-11 Mikhail Baryshnikov with Concert, 1-5 p.m., Topeka Per- forming Arts Center. Wright, Part 1: Millennium Approach- White Oak Dance Project es," by Tony Kushner, Univer- f 53, g'56, associate professor of 13 "Man of La Mancha" sity Theatre Series music history, hosted KANU's 15 Choral Society 26-28, 31, Nov. 1-4 "How 1 Learned "The Jazz Scene" since 1960. to Drive," by Paula Vogel, 19 Cloud Gate Dance Theatre He died Nov. 23. Inge Theatre Series 27 Jazz Singers and Vocal Jazz 24 Julian Bond, "Crossing the Color Line: From Rhythm and NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 2 Philip Glass and Kronos Quar- Blues to Rock 'n' Roll," Lied 10-11,14-19 "Call of the Wild," Center adaptation of Jack London's tet performing Glass' "Dracula" "Call of the Wild" and "White 3 Vienna Symphony Orchestra NOVEMBER Fang" by Jon Lipsky, University 6 University Band 5 Memorial to celebrate the life of Theatre Series 9 "The King Stag" David Paretsky, 2 p.m., Spencer Museum of Art. Paretsky, pro- 10 KU Symphony Orchestra Lied Center events fessor emeritus of microbiology, 12 Accentus a cappella choir had been on the KU faculty SEPTEMBER 14 Alvin Ailey American Dance since 1951. He died Jan. 2. 23 "Anything Goes" Theater 24 Ying Quartet 16 "Show Boat" Academic calendar 27 KU Symphony Orchestra 20 Jazz Ensembles I and II DECEMBER 28 KU Symphonic Band OCTOBER 12 Last day of classes 30 Jazz Ensemble I 1 Gate Theatre in "Krupp's 13 Stop Day Last Tape" 14-21 Final examinations 2 Gate Theatre in "Waiting Special events for Godot" SEPTEMBER 28 Steve Allen, Lied Center

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A wrenching experience awrence Sinks races against deadlines in the imaging area of University Printing LServices most days, but he spent his May vacation toiling dawn to dusk on another finely tuned team: an Indy 500 pit crew. A longtime race fan who has made the annual pilgrimage to the Brickyard for 40 years, Sinks jumped from spectator to player by working on driver Jeret Schroeder's crew. In the three weeks before the May 28 race, Sinks helped Team Schroeder prep by lugging tires, cleaning parts and generally being handy with a wrench. On race day, Sinks wore a headset and held a sign directing Schroeder where to stop on his passes down pit lane. His most gratifying experience, though, came during qualifying trials. "The last day we still hadn't made the race, and at 1:30 we blew an engine," Sinks explains. "We had to pull the engine, clean everything up, and get back on the track to qualify before 6. We made it 10 minutes before the cutoff." Sinks, whose high-speed work at printing services routinely keeps KU clients from throwing a rod, says the difference between print crew and pit crew is one of degree: "At the track you really have to concentrate on the details. You can't Bowling for Dollars just wander off and leave something undone; the driver's life is at stake." ired of splitting time between work and Tthe sport he loves, Bob Glass, g'78, PhD'91, decided in May to strike out on his own:The economist quit his job as assistant scientist at KU's Institute of Public Policy & ssociate Professor Phillip enroll? Or do more practical consid- Business Research and joined the Profes- AHuntsinger's one-day class on erations come into play? sional Bowlers Association's Senior Tour fishing attracts a surprising number "We do get a lot of seniors look- On May 19 Glass won his first tournament; of students willing to forgo a lazy ing for that last credit hour for grad- at the tour's July hiatus he reigned as its summer Saturday for a 12-hour tuto uation," allows Huntsinger. "But we leading point winner rial on the fine arts of noodling, limb also get freshmen, graduate students, "I think everyone would agree I'm the lining and doodlesocking. In fact, people from the community. We top candidate for senior bowler of the year," after 15 years, "Fish Kansas" draws almost always have more women says Glass. "If I go out and win another tour- so many aspiring anglers Huntsinger than men; I don't know why." nament, maybe two, then I've got a good no longer repairs to the nearest fish- Must be something shot." ing hole for one-on-one instruction. in the water. At 52 Glass is among the more junior He now uses Robinson Natatorium seniors. A rigorous regimen (he rolls 12 as his piscatorial proving ground. games a day at the Jaybowl when not tour- "The pool is closed on Saturday ing) keeps him competitive and helps him mornings, so there's nobody in cope with the grueling pace. "This last trip the water and we don't throw was the trip from hell," says the peripatetic live bait," says Huntsinger, who tenpinner of a six-week, 8,000-mile Western invites a whole swing that left his car totaled in Albuquer- mess of anglers, que. After returning his rental car, Glass guides and fish- faced one final problem: how to get his lug- eries biologists gage—including 23 bowling balls—back to to share their Lawrence. expertise. Pro bowling might not be all peaches Does a hunger and cream—or cheese fries and beer—but for reel world at least he gets to wear his own shoes. experience lure the 75 to 125 students who annually

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Ifirituai or those of us old It's a small world after all Fenough to remember boy and girl sporting leather football what a real hippie looked Ahelmets act out a center snap: She (and smelled) like, it was crouches to catch the ball, he tumbles face a joy to have Global Peace first to the turf and the cute moment is pre- Walk 2000 park its served forever in the click of a camera's eye. activism on campus for a Browsing in a Denver card shop, Nora few days this summer. Helmstadter McClintock, granddaughter of Not only did the dozen or late Jayhawk football coach Ad Lindsey,' 17, so peace walkers remind saw that scene on a greeting card and rec- us that the hippie spirit ognized it instantly.The little girl, 6-year-old can't be bought in a Nancy Lindsey, is her mother The boy, 2- downtown shop, they also year-old Mike Getto Jr, is late KU assis- reminded us that the tant coach Mike Getto's son.The year enthusiasm of a flower is 1936. child is one of the sunny marvels of tion from the mayor, "Duke D'Ambra, at that time the the late 20th century—and, thankful Jim Henry, b'69, g'70, chief photographer for KU sports, ly, not entirely relegated to history. EdD'76. Explained thought the photos would be a good The peace trekkers began their Henry, a former Naval way to promote football," recalls Nancy hike across the continent last Janu- aviator,"! respect a group Lindsey Helmstadter, c'52. D'Ambra sent his ary in San Francisco; supported by that is willing to make a statement pics to the Associated Press. "My mother members tagging along in an old for world peace." received newspaper clippings from Boston, yellow school bus that would make The peaceniks appreciated the Philadelphia, New York," Helmstadter says. Ken Kesey weep for the memories, sentiment: "He was the coolest "They were in my possession until the silver- the walkers kicked back on Mount mayor yet," a walker named Golden fish got them a few years ago." Oread and passed along their hopes Wolf told the Lawrence Journal- Neither Helmstadter nor Getto, '56, an for "spiritually united nations" and World. "He was right out there. executive with the Suburban Lodges of "global peace now." He sort of blessed us." America hotel chain, knows how this snap- They even received a proclama- Groovy. Very groovy. shot of Jayhawk football history ended up on a greeting card. But now that it's there, the possibilities are apparently endless."At Thanksgiving Nora went back and saw her Hmmm ... 6-foot-10 ... blue fingernails ... mother on another card," says Helmstadter no, doesn't ring a bell. "but I'm passing a turkey to Mikey instead of a football." hen he was the starting center on the superb 1996-'97 men's We can Wbasketball team, everybody knew Scot Pollard. If not for hardly wait proposing marriage to his girlfriend at center court, then perhaps for to see the his hairstyles and sideburns; if not for his free spirit and expensive Halloween tastes, then certainly for his nail polish. greeting. Three years later, it turns out Pollard's celebrity appearance at Roy Williams'June basketball camp wasn't such a celebrated appearance— at least if we're to judge by the basketball camper who pointed at Pol- lard and told his friends, "There's Greg Ostertag." The indignities didn't stop there. "Today at lunch," Pollard, d'97, told the Lawrence Journal-World, "some of the kids said,'Who are you?11 said, 'I am Juan Valdez.1" Good to have you back, Scot. Whoever you are.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 HILLTOPICS BY STEVEN HILL Godzilla revisited CLASS CREDIT Center for East Asian Studies director and history professor SUMMER BREAK William Tsutsui explores the big beast's serious side WEEKS AFTER RECEIVING A bachelor's degree in English from KU, and months before he was to enter the PhD program in literature at Columbia University, Jeffrey O'Neal was scouring want ads and scheduling job interviews. "At Columbia first year expenses are the student's responsibility," explains O'Neal, c'00. "I was starting to think,'Oh, my God, I can't believe how much money this is going to be. What am I doing?'" Then word came that the Lawrence alumnus had won a prestigious Mellon Fellowship.The fellowship, one of 85 awarded annually by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to encourage teaching careers in the humanities, provides a $14,500 stipend and pays full tuition and fees for one year of graduate study. "It kind of gave me my summer back," says O'Neal. MISUNDERSTOOD MONSTER: William Tsutsui doesn't deny Godzilla's enduring kitsch appeal, but he It also gave the aspiring literature contends that the original Japanese film reveals much about that nation's fears at the dawn of the atomic age. "This wasn't some Mystery Science Theatre schlock; this was a serious deal." professor, who hopes to someday teach at a liberal arts college, a head start on illiam Tsutsui's abiding admira- nal 1954 Japanese film that introduced graduate study.Thanks to the fellow- tion for Godzilla is rooted in Godzilla, a panel discussion with KU fac- ship, which is designed to help students the simple wonder of a small ulty and students, and a month-long exhi- succeed aca- W boy sitting in a darkened theatre, mar- bition of Godzilla artifacts and demically in veling as larger-than-life monsters publications, "Godzilla Takes Kansas" the crucial wreaked havoc on the big screen. reassessed the beast's cultural significance first year of graduate "A lot of people in my generation grew in Japan and the United States. school, he up watching those Saturday afternoon "Everybody remembers the Godzilla won't have movies, the dollar double-headers where movies that were basically two guys in a to work to you'd see Godzilla. I remember what it rubber suit wrestling," says Tsutsui, glee- make ends felt like as a kid to see this monster fully recalling the second-rate sequels of meet. stomping cities and picking up train cars the 1950s and '60s. "For a while every "I think and breaking them in half," Tsutsui new movie appealed to a younger audi- that will recalls. "I just thought it was cool." ence, until finally they were targeting 7- increase my performance in the class- But Tsutsui, associate professor of his- year-olds. Those are the ones I'd like to room and also my chances of making it tory and acting director of the Center for forget." through the first year," says O'Neal, East Asian Studies, wants to prove there's The original "Gojira," released by who is the 21st KU student since 1982 more to this monster than mere mayhem. Japan's Toho studios in 1954, told a dif- to win a Mellon Fellowship. "It just He and Japanese studies librarian Michiko ferent tale. The scars of Hiroshima and makes a huge difference in how I look Ito organized a summer festival designed Nagasaki were achingly fresh, the domi- at things." to get people thinking about Godzillas nant national mood was guilt and shame serious side. With a screening of the origi- over Japans role in World War II, and the

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future—foretold in the mushroom clouds knickknacks, many provided by students. of H-bomb tests that rocked the South Like the movies themselves, the col- Pacific—seemed to promise a never-end- lectibles have both comic and serious ing race to build bigger weapons of mass implications. "There is the kitsch value," destruction. Against that backdrop, he says, "but it also shows that the tie-in Godzilla tapped some of Japans deepest of merchandising with popular culture is DISCOVERY fears. nothing new. Maybe having Jurassic Park TARGETING THE BULL'S-EYE stuff in your Happy Meal is a new way of "The first film was very much a serious ADRIAN MELOTT, PROFESSOR political commentary about science gone doing it, but this has been going on for a of physics and astronomy, has received long time." wrong, nuclear war and memories of fear a $329,000 grant from the National from World War II," Tsutsui says. "The The Godzilla phenomenon also Science Foundation for a three-year monster symbolized a lot about Japan: It demonstrates that Americas fascination research study designed to answer a really captured this national feeling of vul- with Japanese popular culture runs far basic cosmological question: how much nerability after the war. Godzilla synthe- deeper than the current crazes for Poke- matter is in the universe? sized all the outside threats Japan feared." mon and Nintendo. Though nearly 50 Several large-scale surveys are now Among the biggest perceived threats, years old, Godzilla shows no signs of fad- underway to map the known galaxies. Tsutsui notes, was the United States— ing away. As word of the festival spread, Scientists know those maps will be which explains the original Japanese films Tsutsui began receiving calls from people somewhat inaccurate, because of a distinctly anti-American vibe. But most who share his interest in Godzilla col- slight distortion known as the bull's-eye American moviegoers never saw that ver- lectibles. effect, Melott says. sion. In 1956, the original was re-edited "I think what's interesting is that a lot "The bull's-eye effect makes things and made into "Godzilla: King of the of people who have this kind of passion look like they are rings around us, like Monsters," starring Raymond Burr. Gone don't contextualize it," Tsutsui says. "They onion layers. It's not really there, but was the movie's and-American theme. don't think about it, don't try to under- anyone anywhere in the universe would Until this year, when Toho released a stand it. People say, 'Oh, if I understand it see that kind of effect around them- remastered version of the original film I won't like it.' Well, understanding selves." with new subtitles, the original Japanese Godzilla hasn't ruined it for me. Under- Melott and his "Godzilla" was seen only rarely in Ameri- standing that this was not a joke at the collaborator on can theatres. A public screening of the beginning—that people were actually the project, Hume reworked classic was the centerpiece of afraid when they saw the first movie—has Feldman, assistant Tsutsui's festival—and a central part of his only enriched it for me."-"""* professor of goal of elevating the big lizard from kitsch physics and to cultural icon. astronomy, aren't interested in mak- "I wanted to show that something that Play, 'Nightline' broadcast ing a better map. seems trivial, like Godzilla, can actually be feed evolving controversy They want to figure out a more accu- very meaningful in understanding a soci- rate way to measure the distortion. ety and its history," he says. "I don't think hink a humid Kansas summer would "We know [the bull's-eye effect] will most people think they can learn a lot Tbe enough to dampen interest in a be there; we're trying to develop ways about Japan from Godzilla—and I'm not hot-button topic like evolution? Think to see how strong it is," Melott says. saying you can learn everything you need again. "That's the key to how much matter to know about postwar Japan from In July, the People for the American there is in the universe.The hard part Godzilla—but it does make a good case Way Foundation marked the 75 th is coming up with a reliable way to study of modern history because of how it anniversary of the Scopes monkey trial at measure it." ties into issues like the Cold War, U.S.- KU, presenting "Origins," a new play Because his method takes more fac- Japanese relations and the legacy of World based on courtroom transcripts and news tors into consideration than other War II." reports of the landmark 1925 trial. The methods now in use, Melott says, it will Tsutsui and Ito also prepared an exhi- timing of the event, just two weeks before provide a "more total" measurement of bition of Godzilla artifacts and publica- the states Aug. 1 Republican primary, led the universe's mass.The payoff could tions that combines his personal interest some creationism supporters to accuse the move scientists closer to resolving one in Godzilla memorabilia with the center's pro-evolution group of trying to influence of cosmology's big mysteries. "We'll professional focus on Japanese culture and the election. know more about the long-term future history. Tsutsui has built a large collection "We are not here because of the elec- of the universe: Will it keep expanding of Godzilla figurines, movie posters and tion," responded Judith Schaeffer, the or will it collapse?"

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Summer enrollment surges again at Edwards

or the fourth straight year KU's CLASS CREDIT FEdwards Campus set a record for SELF STARTERS summer enrollment, posting a 34 percent increase over last summer. And it did so MADISON, e'43, AND LILA Reetz by appealing to the type of student not Self, '43, have given more than $20 mil- usually found on the Overland Park cam- lion since 1988 to fund fellowships for promising graduate students at KU. So pus: traditional undergraduates. when they created a new award to "We had a pretty decent increase of 14 encourage promising faculty scholars percent in graduate programs alone," says early in their careers, the Hinsdale, III., Robert M. Clark, whose recent promotion couple naturally wanted graduate stu- from dean to vice chancellor was largely a MONKEYING AROUND: Ed Asner and James response to Edwards' continuing enroll- dents to benefit, too. Cromwell star in "Origins," a dramatization of the The Self Faculty Scholar Award will 1925 Scopes trial. ment boom. "But really the big news is recognize KU faculty in engineering, that the undergraduate programs we business and the sciences who not only Washington-based group's deputy legal introduced this summer had a great demonstrate potential for significant director. At a campus news conference to response." scholarship, but also are willing to men- announce the Lied Center debut of "Ori- Clark is looking to boost enrollment by tor pre-doctoral students in the Self gins," Schaeffer declared, "We are here expanding graduate offerings for the pro- Graduate Fellowship program. now because of the 75th anniversary of fessional students who predominate at The first two the Scopes trial. This is about a teachable Edwards, but he has his eye on another Self Faculty Schol- moment. We see in this moment a great market, as well. "Kansas City has a num- ars, named in July, opportunity." ber of students who go away to college are Leslie Heck- "Origins" stars actors Ed Asner and but come home to work for the summer, ert, assistant pro- James Cromwell as William Jennings and the 29 undergraduate courses we fessor of Bryan and Clarence Darrow, the two offered this summer were intended for molecular and lawyers whose head-to-head courtroom them," Clark explains. integrative physi- battle drew national attention in 1925. A While about ology at KU Med- panel discussion following the July 12 80 percent of ical Center, and performance featured two men who've the summer Heckert Robert C. Dunn, also had a public difference of opinion undergraduates associate professor of chemistry. Heck- since the Kansas Board of Education were KU stu- ert studies the biological processes that voted last year to de-emphasize evolution dents, the rest determine gender and the regulation of in the state's science standards: Leonard reproductive hormones. Dunn is devel- were enrolled oping new Krishtalka, director of the KU Natural in four-year microscopic History Museum, and Tom Willis, director colleges across techniques to of the Creation Science Association of the country. study single Mid-America. Clark believes biological mole- The back and forth didn't end at the those students cules. Lied Center. When crews from ABC's hold the key to BOOM TIMES: New under Both will "Nightline" came to Lawrence to interview future undergraduate offerings and contin- receive $50,000 Krishtalka and Willis for a program graduate enroll- ued strength in graduate broadcast July 27, Willis gave the crew a ment increases programs boost Kansas City- annually for area enrollment. three years to creationist's tour of the KU Natural Histo- at Edwards. pay for equip- Dunn ry Museum. Commented Krishtalka to the "We don't want to see a decline in the ment, supplies, personnel or travel relat- Lawrence Journal-World, "That's like giv- number of KU students, but we would ed to research.They will also mentor ing a tour of a modern maternity ward to like to see an increase in the number of students in the Self Graduate Fellow- prove the stork theory of sex." summer students from other institutions," ship program. Stay tuned.-""•• he

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ROCK CHALK REVIEW DISCOVERY MILESTONES, MONEY AND OTHER MATTERS SOFTWARE FIX LOOKING TO HELP KANSAS •THE KANSAS BOARD OF REGENTS' NEW LEADER is a Jayhawk. Clay C. keep pace in an increasingly competi- Blair III, b'65, EdD'69, was elected to a one-year term as chairman in June by the nine- tive petroleum market, the Kansas member board that oversees higher education in Kansas. Blair, who served as vice- Geological Survey will use a $754,000 chairman last year, will replace outgoing chairman William Docking. Known primarily grant from the U.S. Department of for his successful business ventures, including the First Watch restaurant chain and the Energy to develop software that should Pinnacle Village Shopping Center in Johnson County, Blair has a longstanding interest in help oil companies better estimate the higher education. He completed a doctorate in higher education administration at KU amount of oil and gas remaining in the in 1969, and also donated land at Quivira Road and 126th Street for the KU Edwards state's petroleum reservoirs. Campus. "When I started out, I was thinking about going into higher education," Blair The three-year grant will allow the said after his unanimous election."! kind of got diverted for 30 years." KU scientists to develop computer models of the rock formations that •JACKIE DAVIS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE LIED CENTER since it produce petroleum, then distribute that opened in 1993, leaves in September to become executive director of the New York software free through its Internet web- City Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Davis' departure rings site. By making it easier for companies down the curtain on a 20-year KU career that included a stint as director of the Con- to pinpoint oil before they drill, the cert Series from 1980 to 1993. In an e-mail to friends and colleagues announcing her GEMINI (Geo-Engineering Modeling decision, Davis, g'73, noted her duties will include opening the library's newly renovated through Internet Informatics) project is Lincoln Center facility:"! want the renovated space to be a living, breathing entity that intended to boost a state industry that is central to presenters, managers and artists equally—not all that different from the has fallen on hard times in recent Lied Center." Former director of operations Frederick W. Pawlicki will serve as interim years. director. "Small, independent oil companies, like those that do most of the explo- • KU LAW GRADUATE JIM POTTORF, l'84, is the University's new general coun- ration and production in Kansas, will be sel. As KU's chief lawyer, Pottorff replaces Victoria Thomas as legal adviser to Chancel- able to use these packages," says geologist Lynn Watney, project leader. "The lor Robert E. Hemenway. He draws on 25 years of experience in military and federal goal is to keep Kansas competitive in law, including three years as deputy general counsel at the U.S. Military Academy at the global petroleum market and to West Point.The Douglass native earned degrees at West Point, the Naval War College, help sustain our petroleum produc- the Army Judge Advocate General's School and Pepperdine University. tion." Since the 1980s, U.S. oil production •THE LAURELS KEEP GROWING FOR STANLEY LOMBARDO'S transla- has declined steadily, creating a growing tions of the ancient Greek epics. In July, the New York Times Book Review hailed the dependence on oil imports to fulfill the KU professor of classic's translation of the Odyssey ("All the Rage," No. 3,2000) for country's thirst for petroleum.To help continuing the fresh new approach to Homer that distinguished his 1997 interpretation mitigate that trend, the Department of of the Illiad (Hilltopics, No. 5, 1997). In the earlier translation, wrote Times reporter Energy funds the development of inno- Chris Hedges, "Lombardo ditched common literary conventions and a line-by-line faith- vative technologies such as the GEMINI fulness in favor of perhaps the sparest English version of the poem—one that brings us software, which can be especially help- closer to the starkness of the original. He has brought his laconic wit and love of the ful to the independent operators who ribald, as well as his clever use of idiomatic American slang, to his version of the now dominate the domestic petroleum Odyssey. His carefully honed syntax gives the narrative energy and a whirlwind pace. industry. The lines, rhythmic and clipped, have the tautness and force of Odysseus' bow." Five private companies from Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas will help test the GEMINI software, which should be available on the Survey's website (kgs.ukans.edu) later this year.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 L3 SPORTS BY CHRIS LAZZARINO Hit and miss In offense of fleetdancers , fullback Norris is the bulldozer. AFTER EXHIBITION games against EA Sports California All-Stars and Now it's up to defenses to figure out which will hurt more Emporia State, the men's basketball team opens its regular season against UCLA Nov. 9 in the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic in New York City's Madison Square Garden.The Jayhawks then play either Kentucky or hometown-favorite St. John's. Also on the Jayhawks' non-conference road schedule are games at Wake Forest Dec. 7 and Ohio State Dec. 23. Also scheduled is a Dec. 12 game in Chicago's United Center against DePaul, which the Jayhawks beat in overtime in the first round of last season's NCAA Tournament. The highlight of the non-conference schedule at Allen Field House isTulsa's Dec. 16 appearance. "Anytime you get a chance to face such prominent schools in the non-conference portion of your schedule, it benefits the coaches, the players and the fans," says coach Roy Williams. KU begins Big 12 play Jan. 6 at Texas Tech.The Big 12 home-opener is Jan.

17 against Nebraska. Kansas State plays RISING STARS: Fullback Moran Norris (33) wasn't asked to run with the ball until last season's sixth game; at Allen Field House Jan. 27, followed quarterback Dylen Smith (4) did not start until the fifth game. Not only are they no longer overlooked, they by home games against Texas (Feb. 3), are the headliners in a versatile, exciting offense. Iowa State (Feb. 5), Oklahoma State (Feb. 10), Colorado (Feb. 21) and here are brief Saturday-afternoon defender that brings a conspiratorial grin Missouri (March 4). moments when even KU's starting from the big offensive lineman. The women's basketball team will Tquarterback relaxes and enjoys "Sometimes some guy will be out there face nine teams that were in last sea- football like any other fan: when he gets talking trash," Oddonetto says, "so Moran son's NCAA Tournament, five of which to see fullback Moran Norris, who weighs lays it to him a couple of times. Guess were ranked in the top 25. 250 pounds and bench presses 515 what: You don't hear too much out of that KU opens its season with a Nov. 8 pounds, ruin a defender's day. guy again." exhibition game against Basketball Trav- "During the game, sometimes I just Keeping track of KU's offense could be elers at Allen Field House.The Jayhawks stand back there and watch Moran run," a challenge this season. Exciting sopho- begin their non-conference season Nov. Smith says. "It's an awesome thing to see more receiver Byron Gasaway is back after 18 against Grambling State at Allen Field when he hits that line." missing all of 1999 with a broken jaw. So House. Senior tackle John Oddonetto doesn't is junior Termaine Fulton, who injured Also on the non-conference schedule get the same perspective as the quarter- his ankle in last year's second game. is a Nov. 28 home game against Illinois back; the running backs are usually Junior transfer Roger Ross is perhaps the and the Dec. 1-2 KU Credit Union Jay- behind him. Then again, he is closer to most exciting new Jayhawk: He had 62 hawk Classic, which will include St. the point of contact, and it's the noise receptions for 1,016 yards and 11 touch- Joseph, Minnesota and Eastern Illinois. Norris generates when crashing into a downs as a sophomore at Garden City

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Community College. man, and in his freshman season, 1997, The KU women play at Arizona The offensive line is the biggest in played in only three games—as a tight Dec. 29 and at UC-Santa Barbara Dec. recent memory. Oddonetto describes him- end. He switched to fullback as a sopho- 31, then return home for their first Big self as the "smallest" of the bunch, and he more and became a starter. But he played 12 game, against Baylor Jan. 6. weighs 295. Quarterback Smith didn't the important though inglorious role of Four games will be televised by Fox become KU's regular starter until the fifth blocking fullback, and he carried the ball Sports: at Arizona, home vs. Kansas game of 1999, and he still finished the only/ive times, for 14 yards. State Jan. 13 and Nebraska Jan. 31, and season with 1,599 passing yards, the Through the first five games of the at Missouri Feb. 10. ESPN2 is scheduled llth-best season total in KU history. 1999 season, Norris carried the ball twice, to carry the Jayhawks' Feb. 17 home But the best action could very well for 6 yards. And then injuries and ineffec- game against Iowa State. come from the backfield, where fullback tiveness struck the backfield, and Norris "Everyone in the Big 12 Conference Norris, who attacks like a cannonball, turned in his offensive-lineman shoulder is improved this season," says coach lines up in front of water bug David Win- pads for a sleeker set that would allow Marian Washington. "This conference is bush. him to run and catch more effectively. incredibly competitive and it will be Winbush can make you miss; Norris Against Kansas State, in the sixth game important for us to do the best with can make you hurt. of 1999, Norris rushed nine times for 42 what we have.There is no question "Whenever we run the ball left with yards. He crushed Missouri for 108 yards Iowa State will continue to be one of David, he can go right in about half a sec- and two touchdowns, slammed Nebraska the top teams and Kansas State will be ond," Oddonetto says. "With Moran, he's for 80 yards, and had 75 yards and two stronger." the strongest guy on our team ... and he's touchdowns against Baylor. Against Iowa running the ball. So that's definitely a posi- State, Norris rushed for 93 yards, ending tive." his seven-game ball-carrying season with Except that they are both soft-voiced 547 yards and eight touchdowns. Not sat- Texans who carry the football for Kansas, isfied even with that, Norris caught 100 Norris and Winbush could not be more passes a day during summer workouts, THE GOOD NEWS for KU volley- different. meaning he's also a threat to catch the ball ball is that coach Ray Bechard has Winbush is 5-feet-7, 180 pounds. He out of the backfield. breathed life back into the program, led all rushers in Texas during his senior With the receivers and Winbush leading the Jayhawks to a 17-14 record year in high school, racking up 2,564 healthy, a quarterback equally dangerous last season, his second on Mount yards and 22 touchdowns. His small size running and throwing, and Norris now a Oread.When Bechard arrived at KU kept the big Texas schools from calling, so frightening threat, nobody is quite sure from Barton County Community Col- Winbush happily traveled north, becom- whether the 2000 Jayhawks will be a run- lege, where his teams were 716-60 in ing an instant star in 1997, when both he ning or passing team. It's a distinction, in 13 seasons, he inherited a KU team and coach Terry Allen were KU football fact, the Jayhawks don't want to make. that had been embarrassed at 9-24 in freshmen. Winbush was second behind "I don't know which we'll be," Norris 1997. Eric Vann in all-pupose yards with an says. "Probably both." Not so good, though, is the news average of 82 per game. He had a 40-yard Winbush says "it won't be a situation that the two players most responsible kickoff return against Texas Christian, and where the defense knows what we'll be for helping Bechard turn the program rushed 61 times as a freshman for 338 doing, that's for sure," and Allen happily around have graduated: outside hitter yards for a dazzling average of 5.5 yards insists "it's an offensive team that can take Amanda Reves, who is KU's all-time per carry. A star was born. advantages of the defense because we kills leader with 1,264, and middle He started all 11 games as a sopho- have the ability to go either way." blocker Mary Beth Albrecht, right more and rushed for 974 yards, the 12th- It's understandable that Norris is the behind Reves with 1,171 career kills. best single-season total in KU history. He all-of-a-sudden star on the KU football The loss of Reves, named all-Big 12 led the team in rushing again as a junior, team. He looks like a football player, and last year, and four other seniors means but was slowed by a variety of ankle and he delivers what everyone wants to see: Bechard suddenly finds himself begin- knee injuries. bruising, fearless attacks on the opponent. ning yet again. Big 12 coaches picked As Winbush's star seemed to dim, Nor- But Allen, entering his fourth season as the Jayhawks to finish eighth in the ris' was on the fast rise. KU's head coach, contends the key might conference. Norris, one of the few Glen Mason- be Winbush. "It's a transition year from a stand- recruited players still with the team, "David is kind of a forgotten entity," point that a couple of our all-time Jay- arrived a year earlier than Winbush, in Allen says. "There's been a big to-do about hawk career leaders have graduated," 1996. 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World. "With some promising recruits be the difference maker. We need to have converting 42.8 percent of his field-goal coming in, I think the key is how long him healthy, and he's healthy now. He's attempts (including 39.3 percent on will it take for the transition stage to had a great off-season. His quickness and three-point attempts). take place where some of the younger strength are the best they've ever been." But Axtell didn't last at his hometown players are comfortable competing at Which means Winbush might now be university, leaving in a swirl of assorted the Big 12 level." more like Norris than ever before: controversies that eventually landed him The Jayhawks' top returning veteran scary. -^**- at Kansas. Because he transferred within is outside hitter Amy Myatt, a 6-foot the Big 12 conference, Axtell lost a year of senior from Iowa City, Iowa. eligibility and was forced to sit out his Myatt, in fact, led KU in kills as a Axtell says he's recovered sophomore season. junior last year with 423. from last season's ailment, From there things only got weirder. Junior setter Molly LaMere, senior During preseason drills before last season, outside hitter Nancy Bell and senior though secret still guarded he broke a bone in his left hand. He aver- middle blocker Danielle Geronymo also aged 11.7 points in KU's three games at started at least 12 games last season. hat became known Was Luke Axtells "undisclosed medical condition" might not remain an eternal secret. But the OFF-SEASON AND PRESEA- 6-10 forward does plan to SON: Sophomore forward Nick Colli- keep his secret at least son was chosen for the 2000 USA through the end of his Basketball Men's Select Team, which senior season. practiced against the USA Senior Most important for fans National Team—known to all as the of KU men's basketball, "Dream Team"—Aug. 28 through Sept. Axtell—speaking in 2 in Maui, Hawaii. Also on the Select August from his Austin, Team with Collison were Shane Battier Texas, home—insists that of Duke, Corey Bradford of Illinois, whatever ailed him last Joseph Forte of North Carolina, Casey season ails him no longer. Jacobsen of Stanford, Ken Johnson of "I'm fine. I'm 100 per- Ohio State.Terence Morris of Mary- cent," Axtell says. "I might land,Troy Murphy of Notre Dame, address [the medical con- Jason Richardson of Michigan State, dition] in the future, but I Jamaal Tinsley of Iowa State, Jason want to have my season Williams of Duke and Michael Wright first. I just want to play f Arizona. basketball and then worry "It will be incredible to be playing about whatever else. I against the players on the Dream think some of the fans are Team," Collison said before leaving for eager to hear, but I'm not Hawaii. "A week of playing against this going to worry about caliber of competition can only benefit that." me." Axtell—"Cool Hand Collison was KU's third-leading Luke" to his many fans, in scorer as a freshman (10.5 points a reference to his reputation game) and second-leading rebounder for clutch, long-distance (6.9). He also competed on the 2000 field goals—has endured USA Basketball World Championships the strangest of college for Young Men Qualifying Team, averag- careers. He stormed into ing 8.8 points and a team-high 7.2 Big 12 headlines as a COOL HAND: Senior forward Luke Axtell says he has recovered from the mysterious ailment that forced him to miss 14 games last season. Dur- rebounds on a team that was 4-1 freshman at Texas, scoring ing an August tour of Austria with a Big 12 all-star team, Axtell averaged ;ainst international competition in 13.3 points a game and 10.7 points a game, two better than his KU average last season.

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want to do," Axtell says. Brazil. Also on that squad was team- "We just have to decide as mate Drew Gooden, KU's leading a team what we want to rebounder as a freshman last season, accomplish, because we who averaged eight points and three can [reach any goal] if we rebounds in Brazil. want to." Seniors Luke Axtell, Eric Chenowith Like Jayhawks every- and Kenny Gregory are listed among where, Axtell watched ner- 50 players considered potential finalists vously while coach Roy for the Wooden Award All-America Williams spent an agoniz- team, as announced in August. Gregory, ing week choosing between KU's leading scorer last season, was on KU and North Carolina. the same list last year.The only other "I wasn't going to trans- Big 12 player on this year's preseason fer," Axtell says of the pos- Wooden Award list is Iowa State's GREEN GRASS OF HOME: Memorial Stadium has been decked sibility of Williams leaving Jamaal Tinsley. out with a new artificial surface that simulates natural grass and looks KU football also earned a bit of pre- better than the 10-year-old AstroTurf carpet it replaced. Another Kansas. "I was more like, change: both end zones used to read "Jayhawks"; now one says "Kansas." 'Oh, no, a third coach.' season attention. Dylen Smith was one That was the worry, having of 23 senior quarterbacks chosen as the Great Alaska Shootout, and scored a to get used to a third system. Just seeing candidates for the Johnny Unitas Gold- season-high 15 against Nebraska Jan. 15, two different programs already, I'm very en Arm Award and senior safety Carl but Axtell was clearly not the player he glad he stayed, to say the least."^•"» Nesmith was one of 40 players picked was expected to be. for the Jim Thorpe Award watch list. After scoring no points in 18 minutes The Unitas award honors the coun- against Iowa State Jan. 29, Axtell left the Grungy carpet replaced try's top senior quarterback, and the team, citing the "undisclosed medical with 'grass' that feels real Thorpe award honors the best defen- condition." sive back in college football. He finished his junior year after just 20 Nesmith had 89 total tackles as a games, averaging 8.7 points while making one is Memorial Stadium's rock-hard junior last season, and was named the only 34.8 percent of his shots. GAstroTurf carpet installed in 1990, Big 12's defensive newcomer of the Eager to forget his junior season, Axtell replaced this summer by football's version year. Smith threw for 1,599 yards and threw himself into summer workouts at of the toupee—an artificial surface called 12 touchdowns. home in Austin, rising daily at 5:30 a.m. "AstroPlay" that looks and feels like the to run, followed by weight workouts four real thing. days a week and regular sessions with for- "I've been praying for grass since I mer NBA player Dave Jamerson. arrived on campus," says senior running Axtell was chosen for a Big 12 all-star back David Winbush. "I can't tell you team that toured Austria in August, and how grateful I am to have this surface." KILMENY WATERMAN, a former he displayed some of his old form, aver- The artificial grass fibers are sprinkled KU assistant tennis coach, was recently aging 10.7 points on 44-percent shooting with rubber granules ground from 40 tons named head coach of the women's ten- in three games. He injured his groin dur- of old tires, which provide a feel similar nis team, replacing Jenny Garrity, who ing warm-ups and did not play in the to natural grass. Because his offense will resigned last spring to take the coach- tour's final three games, but his third- depend on speed, coach Terry Allen isn't ing job at UNC-Wilmington. place showing in KU's annual 12-minute sure how the field might affect play. Waterman was a KU assistant from run around the Memorial Stadium track "It's not as hard as the old surface, so 1993 to 1995. She left to launch proved the injury was not serious. it's not as fast," Allen says. "But it is faster women's tennis at Wyoming, and "I've been doing everything I should be than any [natural] grass, and the tradeoff recently returned to Kansas City to doing," Axtell said of his off-season work- is immense. It's a perfect fit for us." teach tennis at the Plaza Tennis Center. outs. "So if 1 am [rusty], it's not because of Says quarterback Dylen Smith: "The Associate Athletics Director Amy lack of effort." carpet we had was pretty bad. This makes Perko cited Kilmeny's link to past KU Now that he'll have only one full sea- us proud to play in our stadium, and it's tennis glory, especially 1993-'94, when son—at best—as a Jayhawk, Axtell is going to be a lot better on our knees." the Jayhawks won the Big Eight and eager to see what KU is capable of. The only question remaining: Can we were ranked seventh nationally. "We have the talent to do whatever we have it installed at

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 17 OREAD READER BY LISA TAGGART

were coastal people and the stereotype was true. They smiled too much and talked Ruled by tides too loud. Most of them weren't terribly interested in culture as A best-selling novelist celebrates love, loss and discovery that word was defined in with a romantic maritime saga set on Florida's Gulf Coast urban centers. A painting by Jackson Pollock or Jasper orn at sea in a hurricane, Fowler is at her best Johns would simply prove Nick Blue is a storm of a describing Lethe's world of puzzling. ... But the stereotype Bman. The black-haired, salt, sand and water. When and these peoples absence of blue-eyed Greek American Mattie and Nick discover hun- cosmopolitan airs obfuscate with a foot fetish and a dreds of baby turtles, "seconds who they truly were." shrimper's biceps whirls into old," struggling to cross the Still, these observations are Mattie O'Rourke's dreary life sand to the sea, they gather part of Mattie's awakening as and sends her spinning. She is everyone they can and trans- : she comes out of her shell to panicked and giddy after just * O N N I I port the animals. "The true join Nick's raucous tribe. More one glance from him in a miracle occurred when that than a story of loss, Fowler's Florida grocery store, as the MAY first wave rolled over them. ... novel is also about self-discov- tale of her future husbands FOWLER It was as if their genetic code ery. Blue is an apt name for death begins. was unleashed by baptism; her characters: It connotes not Remembering Blue, the ttfore Wamtn Had Wluft they were no longer land- only their melancholy story, fourth novel by Connie May based creatures. In the water but the constantly shifting Fowler, g'90, the best-selling they were winged and they shades of the sea.-^^ Remembering Blue were light and they were author of Before Women Had —Taggart is a travel by Connie May Fowler perfect." Wings, is a story of doomed Doubleday writer at Sunset Magazine love. We know from the first $23.95 The couple settle into con- in California. page that Mattie is headed for tented domesticity as they set widowhood, "one of the sorri- up housekeeping and struggle est human conditions." But has left his family's island to make shrimping successful. more than a mournful tragedy, home to escape what he Nick's mother teaches Mattie knows is his fate—to die at sea Excerpt from the book is Matties celebration to garden with salt-tolerant Remembering Blue of her brief marriage. as his father did. plants and Mattie vainly tries At 22, Mattie tries to make But Nick can't stay off the to learn to cook. But sure as "With that kiss, we tran- as few ripples in the world as water for long. Mattie follows the tides, drama finds them, as scended the sum of our possible. Abandoned at a him back to Lethe, the Gulf storms and heartbreak beset individual lives. ... For a young age by her father, she is Coast island where the Blues the Blues. Nick can't shake his moment, we were gods, reared by a selfish, insecure have fished for six generations. irrational belief in the family cast in a perfect state, mother who is unable to Named for Hades' river of for- legend, that, as he says, "some gleaming eternally in the express affection. When her getfulness, the island brings of us on my daddy's side of eyes of our imaginations, mother dies, Mattie finds her- Fowler's novel to life, as Mattie the family used to be dolphins slipping this old earth, self without roots. Drawn by a is drawn into the rowdy, opin- ... and sometimes the dolphins escaping for one unrepeat- travel brochure on a bathroom ionated family. The ocean decide they want one of us able instant the bruises and floor, she wanders to Tallahas- thrums through the blood of back." apathy of the times we see, finding work and the Blues: Nick's grandfather, Nick's conviction and the lived in. I know it sounds anonymity as a grocery clerk. Charon, walks the beaches names drawn from Greek leg- fantastic, like a tale spu "It was as if the condensation nightly, rescuing stranded end infuse the book with an from ashes, a widow's that fogged the refrigeration starfish and sea urchins, inco- air of myth. But just as the but what I say is true, units' glass doors also herently conversing with names can feel heavy-handed, kiss plunged us into a obscured me," she says. "But ocean gods. His matriarch Matties narrative occasionally sacred space. We were as in my case, no one bothered to wife, called Big-a-Mama by all, lingers too long on the obvi- one, afloat in a world of rub away the icy dew and peer insists that Charon refuses to ous. When she steps back to water and light and salt." in." Enter Nick, full name Pro- make sense so he can wander sum up the Blues, the reader teus Nicholas, a shrimper who the beaches unmolested. may feel preached to: "These

18 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 OREAD WRITER BY JEFFREY P. MORAN

Thus, in the first years of the century, sex education began to enter the public Passionate subject schools as an adjunct to the social hygiene crusade and as an expression of A scholarly study of sex education findsth e hot topic was our society's growing fears of sexual immorality. The sex education message in taught to schoolchildren only after it had failed on adults those early years was, despite a certain delicacy of expression, unambiguous: Sex hen I began researching the vice in general would eventually die out. exists for reproduction within marriage; history of sex education in the Only gradually did the social hygien- sex outside of marriage is morally wrong, WUnited States, I received a let- ists turn toward the schools. Sex educa- and it will probably debilitate or kill you. ter from a 70-year-old man in Vermont. tors first experimented with public We might like to think of sex educa- Despite his age, he remembered vividly lectures to adult audiences. Although the tion as progressing (or regressing, his lone experience with sex education in talks—illustrated with "stereopticon depending on your outlook) from this the public schools. slides" of syphilitic lesions—were so vivid repressive past to our more enlightened "Boystown, Pennsylvania. 1939. High- present, but the trajectory is not school male students were summoned to so clear. Instead, I look at the his- the lecture hall. We were then shown a tory of sex education for the ways seven- or eight-minute film on gonorrhea in which it has reflected America's and syphilis. On the way out I asked the shifting concerns about sex, mar- janitor, "What in the hell was that all riage, adolescence and schooling. about?' The custodian replied: 'Keep your Sex education's response to the snapper in your pants.'" baby boom of the post-World War What in the hell was that all about? II period, for example, involved That's what guided my recent book on the not only a rising appreciation of history of sex ed, Teaching Sex: The Shap- psychology, sex roles and sexual ing oj Adolescence in the Twentieth Century intimacy, but also resurgent fears (Harvard University Press). While the cus- of juvenile delinquency and non- todian's answer is a good one, it is at best conformity. Many sex educators only a partial answer. became "family life educators," Although many Americans think of sex and taught classes in shopping, education in the public schools as a prod- dating and child rearing. At the uct of the "liberated" 1960s, the move- same time, many schools were ment to teach adolescents about sex continuing to offer the same sorts actually arose at the dawn of the 20th of "smut films," or anti-VD century. Under prodding from a charis- movies, that had made such an matic New York dermatologist named impression on my Vermont corre- Prince Morrow, a group of physicians con- spondent. "Progress" is not so easy cerned about venereal diseases and a to discern. group of religious reformers preoccupied Interviewers and reviewers with prostitution came together in the have sometimes sought in my "social hygiene" movement to eliminate work an answer for how we can both scourges from the nation's cities. that social hygienists regularly hired best use sex education to solve HIV/AIDS, Social hygienists backed stronger law attendants to carry away the faint, educa- teen-age pregnancy or adolescent enforcement and pushed through blood tors soon decided that adult audiences "immorality." But my book offers no easy tests for marriage licenses in almost every were too old to learn. How much better answers—just a hard look at the cultural state, but they reserved their highest to teach the social hygiene lesson to assumptions we've carried with us for the hopes for the transforming power of young people who were as yet unsullied last century. education. by sexual vice! And what better plan That is, in some ways, a more difficult They thought that if they could bring to reach the nation's youth than the task, but it also brings us closer to Americans to realize the dangers of sexual public schools, which were, in the first answering that critical question, "What in indulgence outside of marriage, then decades of the 20th century, exploding the hell was that all about?"^""* prostitution, venereal diseases and sexual in attendance? —Moran is an assistant projessor oj history.

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; An alumnus and World War II veteran shares his rare snapshots of war

n June 1944, as the Allied armies launched the D-Day invasion on the beaches of Northwest France, a 21- year-old KU sophomore named Glenn Kappelman was steaming Itoward Great Britain aboard a troopship. Hidden inside his standard-issue gas mask was a decidedly nonstandard piece of equipment: a Kodak 616 camera. Within weeks, Kappelman, c'48, g'50, joined the Normandy invasion forces as a gunner with a highly mobile reconnaissance unit, Troop B of the 121st Cavalry Squadron. As he rolled across France, Ger- many and Austria in the turret of an M-8 armored car, he toted the collapsible camera in the breast pocket of his field jacket. By May, when he ended the war near Salzburg, Austria, Kappelman had taken more than 400 black-and-white photographs. The exposed rolls of film were wrapped in tinfoil and stashed in ammuni- tion boxes on the floor of his armored car. Kappelman, whose experience in World War II is the subject of a new documen- tary film, "Through My Sights: A Gunners View of World War II," wasn't the only soldier to sneak a camera into combat. But he may well be alone in producing Glenn Kappelman such an extensive visual record, say military historians who hail his collection as an unparalleled chronicle of life in the

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trenches. In a war amply recorded in the LEFT: "March I 7, / 945... Taking photographs and motion pictures of mili- German prisoners in the tary documentarians, Kappelman's snap- Maginot Line." shots provide a rare soldier's-eye view of BELOW: "We bag two Jerries in combat. Main River village." "These photographs are significant because they were taken by an individual soldier, not an official army photographer," says Terry Van Meter, director of the U.S. Cavalry Museum at Fort Riley, where Kappelman's collection resides. "Few are • " posed shots; they're mostly photographs as events are occurring. From a historical viewpoint, it really gives us a good insight into the everyday life of a soldier." William McKale, museum specialist at the Fort Riley museum, says the collec- tions sheer quantity makes it special. "You do not find that number of photos, the documentation on that scale, for any other World War II unit. For one individual soldier to chronicle his experience in such detail is unique." But Kappelman's photographs are important for their quality, too, McKale notes. "Other people took cameras, but he seemed to have an eye for setting, a sense of perspective. It's almost like he was a photojournalist." In fact, Kappelman estimates he'd shot fewer than a dozen rolls of film before his induction in February 1943. His camera, a high school graduation present from his sister, was a rudimentary affair with a spring-powered motor that needed wind- sure that he would survive to revisit those ing from time to time. It had no light scenes framed in the Kodaks viewfinder, War photographs from meter, no means of estimating focal dis- he continued snapping pictures to docu- the Kappelman collection tance. Most of the time Kappelman sim- ment his small role in history. Not until ply guessed at the proper exposure. the war's final days, when he found a local Rationing his film, never knowing for Austrian photographer to develop the

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 film, did Glenn Kappelman learn whether his snapshots of World War II would amount to anything more than shadows m and fog.

knew in my mind that this would be the greatest experience of my life," says IKappelman, now 77 and retired from the real estate business in Lawrence. "I knew it would be the greatest experience for my family, since four of us were in the military, and I wanted to record the experience for them." Understanding the high stakes for his country, his family and himself, he decided lo disobey the army's standing order requiring soldiers to leave TOP: "March 20, 1945. East of Saarbrucken, Siegfried Line Area, Germany Allied prisoners of war express joy at being liberated." behind their cameras and diaries when shipping out ABOVE: "Replacements reach front line village." East of for battle. "As long as I was Luneville, France, new arrivals get their first glimpse of war going to go and take some RIGHT: A shoulder patch bears the insignia of the 86th risks," he says, "I wanted to Infantry Division, Kappelman's basic-training unit. bring something back." A strong student of history and geogra- phy Kappelman followed the war in

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 TOP LEFT: "March 21, 1945. Oppenheim, Germany.Troop 8, 121st Squadron, 106th Cavalry Group, Crossing the Rhine River."

LEFT: "November 28, 1944. Alsace, France. T-5 Roy McChange, T-5 Glenn Kappelman, and Pfc William T. Rosenbalm display a few German souvenirs found in deserted homes."

ABOVE: "March 26, 1945. Near Kaiserslautern, Germany. Refreshments for the Tankers." Troop F, 121st Squadron, 106th Calvary Group toasts a liberated wine cellar newspapers, newsreels and letters from times, by a limited supply of film. search a town for snipers who've killed European pen pals before he was drafted. Biweekly packages from his parents— their comrade, whose body lies on the His interest in Europe found outlet in an grocers who traded rationed meat for sidewalk; farther down the street a team extensive collection of stamps featuring rationed film—were his only reliable of horses flees toward a German road- important scenes from European towns; source. "Rationing my film was one of the block on which Kappelman's 37 mm can- stamp collecting, in turn, helped kindle most frustrating parts of the project. I had non is trained. The chaos, tension and his desire to document his entire military to decide right on the spot, 'Do I take this surreal juxtapositions of war crowd the service. "As a stamp collector my goal picture or will there be something more densely packed frame. was always to complete the set; I wanted exciting down the road?'" "There were certain dramatic to get everything from the one-cent to the The photographs—some blurred moments," says Kappelman, "when you one-dollar," he explains. "That was kind because they were snapped from a mov- felt like you were part of history." Passing of the attitude I brought to the pho- ing column or under duress of incoming the Maginot and Siegfried lines, crossing tographs. I wanted to get all the scenes fire—suggest he made the right decision the Rhine and Danube rivers, were such from beginning to end. I wanted a com- more often than not. Action abounds. moments that he captured on film. There plete picture." Troops huddle in a ditch while artillery are other historic photographs: King While other soldiers were gathering shells burst near their hastily abandoned Leopold of Belgium posing with the U.S. war souvenirs—German pistols, uni- jeep. An armored column speeds across a officers who liberated the royal family forms, battle flags—Kappelman was look- ruined wheat field to attack a village. In from SS troops; the first U.S. tank to reach ing for pictures, a mission hindered, at one remarkable photograph troops grimly Austria laboring to ford the Salzach River.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 But as compelling as these images of history and high drama are, equally grip- ping are the seemingly mundane photographs that expose the small details of life during wartime. Because his unit was a reconnaissance squadron, Kappelman and his comrades were often the first Allied troops on the scene. His camera caught the reactions of French and Ger- man farmers, liberated prisoners, surren- dering enemy troops, curious children and refugees. It caught soldiers bundled grimly against the bitter winter of 1944 and happily socializing with young Aus- trian women the following spring. It pre- served forever the massive pontoon bridges and other engineering feats that helped the armies advance, and the mud, TOP: "April 8, 1945. Komgshofen, Germany. L-RT-5 William Hall, felled trees and mine-littered roads that S/Sgt. James Dowdle, Pvt. Dalton Canary, T-4 Charles Davidson, and Pvt. stopped them cold. It recorded celebra- Harry Goldsmith, Troop 8, 121st Squadron, 106th Cavalry Group, clearing tions of small pleasures such as mail call German snipers from Konigshofen." and a liberated wine cellar. It showed how ABOVE: "February 15, I 945. Merlebach, Lorraine, France. alternately dramatic and ordinary life was French children crowding onto amored car, Lucky 8- / 3, at the front. with Pfc. Art Barkis and T-5 Tom Kiora enjoying their enthusiasm." "So often when you study World War II you see mostly the official U.S. military photos and films," says Kappelmans nephew, Clay. "The thing about Glenn's

24 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 collection is that it shows the everyday stuff like cooking breakfast or cleaning out tents or chopping wood. It shows the BELOW: "March 19, 1945. Southeast of Saarbrucken, Siegfried Line Area, Germany. German huge destruction you don't often see in farmers greet our column with white flags and tears." government photographs. 1 think these BOTTOM: "May, 1945. Occupation duty, Wolfgangsee, Austria." Kappelman and Viennese are rare views." refugee Gertie Boeckl share a laugh at war's end. A videographer and photographer who has helped his uncle print his photos for nearly 20 years, Clay Kappelman, c'80, last year teamed with Linda "Sam" Hask- ins, c'70, g'74, to make "Through My Sights: A Gunner's View of World War II." The one-hour film gives Kappelman and friend Art Barkis, the radioman on Kap- pelman's armored car, a chance to tell the stories behind many of the images. Ultimately that firsthand narrative may be the rarest—and most valuable—view of all. "You hear a lot about the fact that something like a thousand World War II veterans die every day in America," says Fort Riley's William McKale. "We will soon reach a point where very few people will have those firsthand remembrances of the war. Not only has Mr. Kappelman given us these photos—which will sur- libraries, and others. His role as history's vive long into the future as a bridge to caretaker seems a natural extension of his that conflict—but he has put a story with role as history's chronicler, and by his those pictures by documenting when and own estimation the money and the "hun- where they were taken." dreds and hundreds of hours" dedicated to preserving the images have been worthwhile investments. "It gives me a lot of satisfaction, knowing they'll be there uilding that bridge has occupied for the next hundred years for people to much of Kappelman's spare time see," says Kappelman. "I think for a Bover the decades. He has made sev- nation to really know themselves they eral trips back to Europe, the first in need to know what they were, what 1950 and the latest in 1985, when he they've come through." presented relevant portions of his collec- The man who framed those shots more tion to the Belgian royal family and local than a half-century ago, as he traveled museums in Britain, France, Germany across Europe toward an uncertain future, and Austria. Clay Kappelman, who made has had his sight dimmed in the past year prints from the original negatives for his by a stroke. The photos are a little harder uncles 1985 journey, says the photos are to see, but the "complete picture" of never forget: Our guns had set a house on particularly valued in areas heavily dam- Glenn Kappelman's war remains unfaded. fire, and a German farmer was on the roof aged by the war. "When the people in He still hears the tank's engine revving as trying to put out the fire with a garden Europe found out what he had, they were it crosses the Salzach, still sees in memory hose. I wish 1 had photographed that," just tickled, because so many of their the bursting shells he tried vainly to cap- says Kappelman the collector. "He was archives had been destroyed. Glenn pho- ture on film while hunkered in a ditch. trying to save his house."'-""*' tographed buildings that are no longer The scenes he passed without unpocket- —To order "Through My Sights: standing." ing his camera bloom most vividly of all. A Gunner's View of World War II," call In addition to the U.S. Cavalry Muse- "What 1 think about most are all the The Raven Bookstore, 888-712-7339. um, which holds all 409 European pic- good scenes I didn't photograph because I tures, Kappelman will offer his collection didn't have the film. There's one image I'll to KU's Spencer Research Library, the Tru- man and Eisenhower presidential

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5. 2000 25 ~y;-r ••%•;:,• WOULD SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS SOUND AS SWEET HAD SOMEONE ELSE WRITTEN THEM? A PROFESSOR PONDERS THE AUTHORSHIP PUZZLE

lbert Burgstahler, professor of pesticides and other chemicals. At sacred words, the very foundations of emeritus of chemistry, is tres- about the same time, Burgstahler also Shakespeare himself. passing. He is hopping aca- started questioning the wisdom of fluori- "I want," Burgstahler says, "to go head demic fences and running free dating municipal water supplies. Four to head with the scholarly community." Ain other people's backyards. Loitering decades later, he continues to champion Despite the fighting spirit, Burgstahler where not invited is a misdemeanor that the anti-fluoride crusade and, two years is a polite gentleman, not nearly so brash lights up his 72-year-old spirit. It's not into his retirement, still edits an interna- as his pronouncements, and he is not hard to imagine him as a boy, devilishly tional academic fluoride journal. He's also entirely out of place in investigating the delighting not in plucking apples off the in his fifth decade of drinking distilled so-called "Shakespeare question." He apple tree, but in plucking apples off the water. approaches it as a scientist, making the neighbor's apple tree. He is tall and fit and still enjoys tennis; first systematic study of potential author- The apple of Burgstahler's sharp eye is he struggled through a recent shoulder ship clues embedded in the original print- now the simple, stupefying, enraging, operation with the hope of regaining a ings of Shakespeare's poetry and line-in-the-sand literary question of the pain-free groundstroke. He swims. He introductions to some of the plays. ages: Who wrote the plays and poetry smiles often and easily, and his happiest The clues, something akin to word- attributed to William Shakespeare? grin comes when he mentions his nine game puzzles found in your morning Since he arrived at KU in 1956—he grandchildren. But Albert Burgstahler is newspaper, are called "acrostics." Acrostics earned his PhD at Harvard in 1953 and not the grandfatherly type. He won't be are traditionally rather simple affairs, did postdoctoral work at the University of found at home in his garage, painting employing such obvious devices as using London with D.H.R. Barton, who went on wooden ducks. the first letter of each line to spell out a to win the Nobel Prize for chemistry in He's itching for a fight. He is itching to name or message. A poet might write a 1969—Burgstahler has been one of KU's prove the as yet unprovable—that Edward lovely missive about his secret crush, for best and brightest scientific minds. Con- de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote example, and the sharp reader might troversy does not scare him, and he the immortal plays and poetry under the notice that the first letters of each line admits, with a glint in his eye, that he pen name William Shakespeare. reveal the intended's identity. sometimes tends to be "outside the main- Burgstahler wants to be right, and he Burgstahler's acrostics, based on a sys- stream." The arguments in Rachel Carson's doesn't much care whether literature tem first proposed in 1971 by an obscure important 1962 book Silent Spring swayed scholars approve or disapprove of a Michigan lawyer named Ralph L. him to investigate the ecological dangers chemist encroaching in their world of Tweedale, are more complex, subtle and,

BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

Illustration by Christine M. Schneider

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 [27 • •• in the opinion of some of his critics, silly. mun, Lewis F Powell Jr. and Even when he preaches to the converted, John Paul Stevens. the skepticism is palpable. After In the past few decades, Burgstahler addressed the 23rd Shake- Shakespeare's disbelievers speare Oxford Society Conference late last have generally settled on year in Massachusetts, his first questioner Edward de Vere, the learned began with a typical comment: "I get a lit- and courtly Earl of Oxford, as tle nervous about this stuff." the most promising candidate Burgstahler concedes that people for the man behind the mar- should be nervous, but he also asks that vels. These people refer to they pay attention to his experimental themselves as Oxfordians. controls. He examined photocopies of They dub the others, those original editions of sonnets that could not who believe that William have been written by the Earl of Oxford, Shakespeare of Stratford- and they contain virtually none of the upon-Avon actually wrote the revealing acrostic effects. He admits to plays and poetry, as Stratfor- proposing an offbeat solution to a critical dians. question, and says nobody should accept Oxfordians insist not one his conclusions before investigating the single document exists that soundness of his evidence. And yet, once shows Shakespeare to be a the time is taken to locate and decipher writer. Only six Shakespeare these patterns, Burgstahler insists the signatures have been found, answer is clear. all on legal documents. "Is this happening," Burgstahler asks, According to one critic, the "by chance or by design? That's what you signatures are "quavering and have to decide." ill-written." Even the spelling CHEMIST'S EXPERIMENT: Albert Burgstahler, professor of his name varies in the sig- emeritus of chemistry, is dedicating his retirement to identifying the true author of Shakespeare's plays and poems. natures, leading one Oxfor- dian to crack, "We are left in all honesty his position did not write poetry and wondering whether he could write his plays for public consumption. own name." Oxfordians dismiss the Strat- One more thing: the Earl of Oxfords ford man as "Shakspere," as it often crest depicted a lion holding—or is it he first vague questions about who appears in various Stratford municipal shaking?—a broken spear. wrote Shakespeare's plays seem to records. The so-called Stratfordians rely on a Thave appeared as early as 1728, They also point out that there is no fundamental rebuttal: Sheer genius and by 1785 an alternative name was pro- record of Shakespeare having attended the bridges the gap between Shakespeare's posed: Sir Francis Bacon. The so-called Stratford grammar school, and there is rather ordinary life and the glamorous "Baconians" gained steam in the mid- certainly no indication that he was cre- court intrigue of his plays, as well as the 1800s, and soon the esteemed poet and dentialed for the lofty court circles so gulf between his perhaps modest educa- playwright Christopher Marlowe was also wickedly portrayed in his plays. He didn't tion and his unequalled vocabulary and considered a worthy candidate. travel to Italy, which figures prominently apparent familiarity with Greek, Latin, About two dozen others have since in his work. His own daughter and wife French and Italian. Suggesting that no been brought forward as unusual sus- reportedly signed their names with an X, level of genius could account for the dis- pects, and the notion of somebody-else - and Shakespeare's will made no disposi- crepancies, is, in the words of Gail Kern but-Shakespeare seems, oddly enough, to tion or mention of any books, manu- Paster, professor of English at George have resonated particularly with writers. scripts or revenues from publication of his Washington University, "a ferociously Among the disbelievers were Walt Whit- works, although it did bequeath his "sec- snobbish and ultimately anachronistic cel- man, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo ond-best bed" to his wife. The contradic- ebration of birthright privilege." Emerson, Henry James and, delightfully, tions, Oxfordians insist, reach "the level of Professor Richard Hardin, chairman of Samuel Clemens, already a believer in pen absurdity." KU's English department, dispatches the names. Others who doubted included The Earl of Oxford was certainly a argument that there are no records of Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Sigmund courtier. He traveled to Italy and received Shakespeare having attended Stratford's Freud, David McCullough, Malcom X and the finest tutoring available. He had to grammar school by saying "there's no evi- even Supreme Court justices Harry Black- hide behind a pen name because men in dence anybody went to Stratford grammar

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 • •• school. Records are lost for that time. rary of Shakespeare's, Francis Meres, who mentioned more frequently than any of That's the kind of half-truth we're dealing wrote in his 1598 book, Palladis Tamia, the other English writers," Harrison with here." Hardin also points out that "The best for comedy among us be wrote, also noting that Meres cited Shake- Edward de Vere died in 1604, "and Edward Earl of Oxford." speare as one of the "best for Comedy." Shakespeare went on writing plays for In his definitive 1952 textbook, Shake- In his 1996 book, Who Wrote Shake- another six or seven years." The Oxfor- speare: The Complete Works, G.B. Harrison speare?, author John Michell moans that dians "have to invent preposterous argu- invoked none other than Francis Meres the authorship controversy has become ments" that portions of Oxford's work and Palladis Tamia. "Shakespeare was "repetitive, dull and cranky." He also were held back during his life and doled out after his death. Concludes Hardin: "It's just poppy- cock." David Bergeron, also a KU English professor, dismisses the multiple signature spellings by arguing that spelling was "a very tricky issue" in Shakespeare's day, and that thoroughly established systems of spelling awaited the invention of the TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE dictionary, an 18th-century phenomenon. As for the will that makes no mention of Henric VVriothc(ley,Earle of Southampton, books, Bergeron insists "we don't know of and Baron of Titchficld. any wills from the period that do." Many Stratfordians sum up by saying the diffi- Ight Honourable, J know notion I shall offend in culty presented by the surviving Shake- dedicating my vnpolisht lines toyourLordshipjior speare records isn't that they are bow thcKorlde vvillcurime mee for tbootinv (o contradictory, it's that they are dull. ii' I'/IW" I1111"1! i1 ^ j_ 1'veake a burthen, Hardin offers another fundamental argument to deflate the Oxfordians: The Honour feerk\hit pleafed, I ac- secret could not have endured. Jealous CO, dfe hi^uyyH^<4^and vowe totah^duantageofall writers certainly would have known, and tilth haue boncffl*&p&&iritb fomezxMer labour% But they gleefully would have spread the ihhefrli bit; nail be forte it news—if not in public, then at least in hid jo noble a god ter earTfafapxn s land, confidence to their friends and drinking d a barue/t^Th^ttiiffoyoar Honou • pals, or even in personal diaries, some of forfe, which have been found. Somehow, some nblcfurucyfnd your Honor toyo< s contentfrvhtih Inifb way, something would have leaked out. may alvvaies anfyvtrejourcivnc vvifh, and the worlds hope- And no pen name would have protected a fttllexpetfdtion. nobleman from the whispers of the court, whose members from the monarchs on Your Honors in all dutic, down were undoubtedly familiar with, and admirers of, Shake- speare's plays. If the author was William Shakcfpcarc. hidden, the argument goes, his unmasking would have been the scandalous pleasure of many. The arguments are endless—and endlessly frustrating. Oxfordian Tom Bethell wrote the lead essay in a 28- page for-and-against package published in the April 1999 HIDE AND SEEK: Burgstahler says the dedication of "Venus and Adonis," issue of Harper's Magazine; within Shakespeare's 1593 debut, contains hidden acrostics that form "E O," hinting that his essay, Bethell cited a contempo- the poem's true author was the Earl of Oxford.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 29 • •• insists that arguments for toppling Shake- change or insert any hidden message from Shakespeare to the Earl of speare as the true author face a dead end, would be impossible without changing Southampton, contained an "E O" block- "unless some new, dramatically conclusive the open text itself," the Friedmans wrote. letter acrostic. The Earl of Southampton, piece of evidence turns up." "If, therefore, any genuine messages of by the way was engaged at the time to Enter Albert Burgstahler. this kind exist, they must be taken as Oxford's oldest daughter, Elizabeth. conclusive." Burgstahler then made the researcher's But the Friedmans didn't find the Vere leap: If the Earl of Oxford did write the acrostics. Ralph Tweedale, the Michigan beautiful "Venus and Adonis" under the patent attorney, did, and it was Tweedale's pen name William Shakespeare, and he book that fired Burgstahlers enthusiasm. did conceal clues to his true identity with- In 1997, Burgstahler had picked up a in the poem's dedication, could this have urgstahler uses his acrostics to draw new book called Alias Shakespeare, by been his first such use of a brilliant, hid- diagonal lines across four lines of Joseph Sobran. Interested, he searched for den message? Btext. Once the appropriate marks more material, and soon he found in Wat- So Burgstahler backtracked. He have been made, they can be shown to son Library's stacks a little monograph: searched out signed and unsigned poetry create block letters that reveal, in Tweedale's Wasn't Shakespeare Someone dating to Oxfords youth. He examined Burgstahlers opinion, the hand of Edward Else? Intrigued but not satisfied, the 20-some known poems signed by de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford: E O, E OX, Burgstahler ached for more. Lord Oxford and poetry attributed to oth- E OF O, E OF OX, or even, in some "[Tweedale] confined his research ers which possibly could have concealed cases, E OF OXFORD. largely to the sonnets, and some things in the author's true identity. The acrostic lines are created by first the 1623 folio of Shakespeare's plays. And Again, the Vere acrostics popped up finding a letter V within any line of text. he thought the first instance of the use like strawberries in cream. Then move one line up or one line down were a few parts of the Venus and Adonis' He even found love poems written by and find an 'e.' Proceed to the next line poem, but that's about as far as he went Edward de Veres uncle, Lord Surrey, who and find an 'r' that falls in line with the with it. It was bothersome to me because was married to de Vere's aunt, whose birth first two letters. Finish with an 'e' that the more closely I looked at his work, the name was Vere. Hidden within that poetry falls along the same line. V-E-R-E. Hence more I realized that he had not found all were Vere acrostics spelling "Surrey" in the tag "Vere acrostics." The system also of the possible diagonal alignments that block letters. Surrey was put to death by allows for the alternate spellings Veer, are present." King Henry VIII three years before Ueer or Weer, which were sometimes Burgstahler searched library holdings Edward de Vere was born, but Burgstahler used by de Vere's contemporaries (re- and found that 754 North American fancies the possibility that others within member the business about spelling). libraries held Tweedale's little book. So he the family taught young Edward the Also used, but less often, are the letters searched for reaction and amplification by secret of their Vere acrostics. E-V-E-R. scholars. He found almost nothing. Burgstahler contends that Edward, Is this stuff kooky? Maybe. Tweedale had been ignored. born in 1550, was a "Mozart-level Then again, maybe not. At that moment, Albert Burgstahler genius." He says Edward de Vere was William F Friedman—proclaimed by discovered what to do with his retire- writing French fluently by the time he David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers, ment. was 12, so Burgstahler examined the 1562 to be the greatest cryptologist of all time Making use of extensive microfilm English translation of a 1559 French for cracking Japan's "Purple" code during holdings in Watson Library, Burgstahler source of "Romeo and Juliet," and found World War II—insisted in a 1957 book, started searching. And searching. And that its three prefatory sonnets contained "We should not be surprised if it is searching again. He hunted for Vere acros- "E O" acrostics. So not only did Oxford claimed that anagrams or acrostics appear tics in the original editions of Shake- write the beloved play "Romeo and Juli- in Shakespeare's works, for they abound- speare's plays and poems. He examined et," Burgstahler suggests, but he also had ed in the literature of the time; nor should unsigned poetry. He looked at about a translated the inspirational French source we be surprised if these devices concern dozen sonnet publications from the into its first English form ... as a preteen. the authorship of the works, for they have 1590s. He charted and footnoted dozens Burgstahlers research concludes that, often been used to this end." Friedman, of intricate tables and tabulated the fre- of the unattributed sonnets he examined who wrote The Shakespearean Ciphers quency of Vere acrostics in many hun- that were published during Oxfords life- Examined with his wife, Elizabeth, also dreds of poems and sonnets. time, about 70 percent contain Vere acros- contended acrostics would be the most He checked "Venus and Adonis," the tics that create variations of the "E O" telling of all codes, because they exist 1593 poem that contains the first known block-letter theme. And that number within the text itself, rather than relying appearance of the name William Shake- jumps to 80 percent for the poems signed on accidents such as page numbering. "To speare. The poem's famous dedication, by Lord Oxford. In other words, design.

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sive, but, when combined with other arguments, the acrostics "may be the punch that wins the fight." James Gunn, j'47, g'51, KU professor emeritus of English, says he has lent a sympathetic ear as Burgstahler progressed in his research, and, though not con- To the Reader. vinced of the merits, Gunn says "it's fasci- nating work that he's doing. Albert has This Fig this kind of tunnel vision, a kind of deter- mination that isn't easily discouraged. 1 Itvvasfi know he has been the champion of more than one unpopular idea." Whcrei Others aren't quite so generous. Eng- lish professors Bergeron and Hardin insist witlr they feel no territorial threats from this retired chemistry professor, and both say O,could rawnehisvvit they are not particularly interested in As details of the authorship controversy. "For me, and I think for a lot of Shakespeare His face. teachers and scholars, it's not that big a deal who Shakespeare was or what he ate All, that for breakfast or who his mother was," Hardin says. "What we're interested in is But, finceh e cznnot^etfkr, looke the plays." Says Bergeron: "People can have any Not on his Pi&tife, but hisBooke. harebrained notion they want to have. It's a free country." After a pause, he contin- B.I. ues, with a laugh, "But I don't have any theories about chemistry. Maybe in my retirement I will." Burgstahler chuckles, then jabs right back. He notes that perhaps literature scholars dismiss his work because they WHO KNEW? One argument defending Shakespeare as the true source contends that the juicy secret are intimidated by its scientific approach: could not have been kept by jealous writers and gossipy nobles. Burgstahler says others did know the Earl of Oxford wrote the Shakespeare works, and revealed the secret just as Oxford had hidden it: with "E O" acros- "I tell you what I think the problem is. It tics, such as Ben Jonson's (B.I.) note to the reader in the first folio of Shakespeare's plays. takes a lot of hard work and study to go at this thing." Of 600 contemporary "control sonnets" to Shakespeare's works, perhaps deflating This is one unpopular cause that whose authorship was certain and could yet another argument: Yes, lots of insiders Albert Burgstahler intends to win. not have been written by the Earl of were in on the secret, and they spilled the "It's fun, and I enjoy a controversy that Oxford, the Vere acrostics can be found, beans by employing the same name- can be solved," he says. "They say that we but their lines create "E O" block letters revealing code that Oxford himself used. don't have a definitive resolution, and less than 5 percent of the time. In other Few literature scholars have examined until something new comes along, some words, chance. Burgstahler's findings. Of those who have, new basis and a new way of approaching Burgstahler found the block-letter there is some grudging interest. One of it with new evidence, we're not going to clues in so many lovely poems that, in his the most spirited replies came from Albert solve it. Well, I know it's rather vain to view, he punctured the anti-Oxford argu- Labriola, distinguished university profes- say it, but I think I've got some new evi- ment that there isn't nearly enough poetry sor of English at Duquesne University in dence." by Edward de Vere to consider him a rea- Pittsburgh, Pa., who wrote to Burgstahler Could it possibly be the evidence sug- sonable candidate to have written the that he found the research to be "signifi- gested by sonnet 76? Every word doth Shakespeare works. He also found the "E cant" and "relevant to the issue of author- almost tell my name. So wrote none other O" acrostics in numerous contemporary ship." Labriola also wrote that he did not than William Shakespeare ... unless it was tributes to Shakespeare and introductions consider Burgstahler's argument conclu- someone else.-"*'

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i The unexpected failure of Stewart Avenue forces Klfs tradition-rich Greek system There to endure uncomfortable Goes the self-scrutiny

t opened nearly 40 years ago, promising to pave the way to modernity in a tradition-bound Neighborhood? Greek system that had long dominated Mount Oreads social culture. iBut the short and winding road called best Greek programs in 1999, an unprece- years, at a time when Greek advisers at a Stewart Avenue succumbed this summer, dented sweep for the 17-state Mid-Amer- lot of other schools don't last three." the victim of a long and winding experi- ica Greek Council. "I think the composite ment that suddenly failed. quality of our students is at an all-time KU's Greek system, it seems, wields high," Nelson says. "The sky is not Greek system on Mount Oread enough tradition to injure itself. falling." dates to 1873, with the arrival of "What is happening, what we can't get But, in Nelson's own words, "the reality T:Beta Theta Pi fraternity and Pi a handle on, is that the culture of the sys- is that the sky has fallen on some of our Beta Phi sorority. Others quickly fol- tem is so strong that it suppresses certain groups. The sky has clearly fallen on Stew- lowed, and by the 1880s at least half of chapters," says Bill Nelson, until last art Avenue." all students on the small campus were month the associate director of the Stu- For the first time in recent memory, the Greek-affiliated. dent Organizations and Leadership Center. Greek system faces the school year with a Members lived on their own and had "Old and historical and prominent are bet- lingering sense of—to use a word rarely regular meetings at predetermined down- ter at KU than new and invigorating and associated with Mount Oread's network of town locations. The men of Phi Kappa different. That's part of the beauty of the fraternities and sororities—uncertainty. Psi, for example, met every Saturday University of Kansas, part of what I adore "I do believe it's a critical year," Nelson evening during the 1893-'94 school year about it. But it also creates huge chal- says, "and I believe that now, more than on the third floor of the Opera House lenges." ever before, alumni involvement is criti- block. The Betas were the first to lease a With the sudden collapse of Stewart cal." Says IFC President Sam MacRoberts, house, in the spring of 1894, for all of Avenue, Nelson's unexpected departure, Leawood senior, "I think this year is defi- their members; the men of Sigma Chi continued evolution of alcohol and behav- nitely pivotal. We're facing a lot of tough were the first to build, moving into their ior standards and other pressing issues, issues." "cozy little brick house" on Ohio Street in many see 2000-'01 as a potential turning And they'll be facing them without Nel- 1899. point in the 127-year history of Greek life son, KU's top Greek adviser since 1992, Over the next few decades, KU Greeks on Mount Oread. who announced his resignation in July. He created "fraternity rows" that have since Which way will KU Greeks head? has returned to Iowa State University, become Mount Oread landmarks on Ten- History suggests they'll persevere, and where he earned his undergraduate and nessee Street east of campus and on West the recent past indicates they are working master's degrees, to finish his PhD. Campus and Emery roads to the west. from a position of strength: The Interfra- "Bill really is the Greek system," says Rare is the first-time visitor who isn't ternity Council and Panhellenic Associa- Panhellenic Association President Juliette amazed at the columns and grandeur. tion were both named their districts Ast, Wichita senior. "He's been here eight "I really believe," says Chancellor

By Chris Lazzarino Photographs by Wally Emerson

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 5 > "The extent of this caught us by surprise," says AGD President Kyle Sonnedecker, Hutchinson senior. "But I "The reality is that the think we'll pull through." While the collapse of Stewart Avenue might be numbing to many alumni, it sky has fallen on some infuriates others, among them John Esau, c'78, a Delta Upsilon alumnus who, after of our groups. The sky guiding DU through its mid-'90s renovation, built a business specializing in has clearly fallen on alumni fundraising for renovations. "That's gone forever," Esau says of Stewart Avenue. "You can't find another Stewart Avenue, "-mi tract like that with the proper zoning adjacent to the University." The Endowment Association retains a century were scorned in favor of modern right of first refusal on any Stewart buildings—"ski lodges" in the eyes of Avenue property that comes up for sale, many. Like many architectural designs of but Endowment Association president the era, the appeal didn't last (one current James B. Martin, g'68, says Endowment undergraduate tenderly calls them relies on direction from the chancellor "dated") and Stewart Avenue has sunk when considering the purchase of any into a sad stretch of empty and aban- campus-related properties. The Endow- doned fraternity houses, vacant lots and ment Association did try to help one of soulless apartment buildings. the Stewart Avenue chapters sell its prop- Now only Alpha Gamma Delta sorority erty to another Greek chapter, but lengthy carries the Greek banner on Stewart negotiations were not successful and the Avenue. property was quickly purchased by an NOBODY'S HOME: High weeds (p. 32) and For various combinations of reasons— apartment developer. boarded doors on Stewart Avenue. including dwindling membership and "My hope was that there would be sprinkler violations that brought eviction Greek organizations take over those Robert E. Hemenway, "that fraternities notices from the city's fire marshal—AKL, houses and sustain them as a Greek com- and sororities make tremendous contribu- Phi Kappa Theta and TKE are not occupy- munity, but apparently that was not the tions to the life, traditions and, frankly, ing their chapter houses this year, though case," Hemenway says. "What you basi- the quality of KU." all have expressed hopes to eventually cally ended up with was a real push in In November 1956, the men of Lamb- return. Should any of those chapters on the Greek community to sell their houses da Chi Alpha longed for their own place the west side of the street decide their to private developers." among the establishment, but the city Stewart Avenue departure is permanent, As for the west side of Stewart Avenue, rebuffed their proposal to build a chapter the Greek community hopes Pi Kappa Martin says the Endowment Association house on University Drive between Engel Phi, a new fraternity that colonized here would again follow the chancellor's lead, Road and Iowa Street. Within a month, a last year, or even a much-hoped-for new and Hemenway says he has already told "long-sought fraternity row" was eyed for sorority, might eventually move into one Endowment officials that it is his wish a 17-acre tract south of campus that had of the those houses. that "no other properties on Stewart been acquired the previous summer by Pi Kappa Alpha also is "unhoused." Its Avenue be sold outside the University." the KU Endowment Association. chapter house on the east side of Stewart Stewart Avenue was born. Avenue has been sold to a private apart- Tau Kappa Epsilon and Lambda Chi ment developer and awaits demolition. ld and historical and prominent Alpha moved into their fraternity houses The other fraternities on the east side of apply to more than the Greek's in 1963. Alpha Gamma Delta and Alpha Stewart Avenue already have been bull- Ogrand traditions. They also Kappa Lambda followed in 1966. Two dozed. A 48-unit apartment complex describe, unfortunately, the uglier evoca- years later came the homes of Phi Kappa stands on the former ZBT lot, and the tions of alcohol abuse. Theta, Theta Tau (taken over by Evans Lambda Chi lot has been leveled to make Fall 2000 was once viewed, according Scholars in 1977 and Zeta Beta Tau in room for 60 apartments. to Nelson, as "that magic date ... that pin- 1986) and Alpha Epsilon Pi (taken over Through the chaos that has overtaken nacle time" for tightening of alcohol rules. by Pi Kappa Alpha in 1973). their once-cozy Greek neighborhood, the But only two KU fraternities have so far The elegant structures that came to women of Alpha Gamma Delta bravely elected to be alcohol-free: Phi Delta Theta define KU Greeks in the first half of the faced fall recruitment. and Theta Chi. A number of other frater-

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 nity chapters will be "modified alcohol- is that the [sororities'] decisions will have For the chapters able to rally their free," meaning members who are 21 can a more profound impact than the deci- alumni into supporting such expensive keep alcohol in their rooms, though it is sions of the individual men's groups." and lavish construction, the future is prohibited in public areas. Alumni and fundraisers are closely bright. For chapters that lack such alumni According to Nelson, the greatest watching decisions about alcohol policies involvement, the future could be bleak. thrust for change in fraternity alcohol governing today's Greeks because millions Anyone who denies that the rich-and- policies will almost certainly come from of dollars have been poured into renova- poor gap hasn't altered Greek life on the sororities. Nearly all national sororities tions of numerous chapter houses on Mount Oread can now stroll down Stew- represented at KU recently adopted regu- campus. The fundraising company Esau art Avenue to survey the sad evidence to lations restricting or prohibiting social helped build, Lawrence-based Pennington the contrary. functions based on alcohol policies at and Company, has conducted feasibility "The culture of our system has always individual fraternity houses. studies or capital campaigns for 11 KU suppressed the Stewart Avenue groups. As of this fall, Kappa Kappa Gamma sororities and fraternities, helping to raise There are negative inferences, intentional, and Pi Beta Phi may attend functions at a $2.4 million for Delta Upsilon, $2.4 mil- unintentional, subtle and culturally based, fraternity house only if that chapter is lion for the rebuilding of Sigma Alpha that have weighed on those groups," Nel- alcohol-free. Nine other KU sororities can Epsilon, $2.6 million for renovations at son says. "Couple that with what was socialize at fraternity houses only when Sigma Chi and $900,000 for renovations happening on the Hill with extraordinary the functions are alcohol-free. at Chi Omega. physical plant renovations, and the odds "It's yet one more example of how "KU has the most updated, renovated just kept working against them." women have such strong control over houses in the country," says Patrick According to a January story in The male behavior," Nelson says. "I don't like Alderdice, current president of Penning- Chronicle of Higher Education, fraternity that; men need to accept responsibility for ton and Company. "This is the premier membership across the country plunged their own situation more than the women Greek housing system in the United by as much as 30 percent after peaking at need to accept it for them. But the reality States, by far, hands down." about 400,000 in 1990. The Chronicle

SISTERS SING: The women of Delta Delta Delta entertain potential new members during fall recruitment in August.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 also reported that average chapter size ndeed, KU sororities are dropped from 54 men in 1990 to about overflowing. But Nelson 38 in 1998, frighteningly close to the Icautions that it would be a Vietnam-era low of 34. waste of time and a dashing of Likewise, KU's Greek society also hopes to ask a new sorority to peaked in the early 1990s, at about 4,200 colonize unless traditionalists members. And, like the rest of the nation, are ready to change their ways. KU's Greek numbers dipped in the past And he's not speaking of decade—just not as dramatically. KU cur- undergraduates. rently has about 3,400 official Greek "If everybody in Kansas City members, although Nelson prefers to and Johnson County and KU include fifth-year undergraduates who are says, 'You don't want to be a not included in official totals, bringing the so-and-so because they're new Greek population to about 3,800. and they don't have X alumni "People are perceiving that we're kind and X tradition,' that group will of at a low. But our low was probably two not be successful here," Nelson years ago," Nelson says. "I consider us says. "It's going to take a con- taking a hit of about 500 students, but certed effort from anybody who that hit has not come in the form of has embraced that culture to everybody losing 20 people. It comes in change or we will have a diffi- the form of a third of the fraternities los- cult time bringing on new ing significant membership." groups." And Nelson doesn't cry about that, Betty Hailey Crooker, n'60, either. He says that during his first inter- president of Gamma Phi Beta's view for his KU job, he warned adminis- corporation board, says she trators that the Greek system would can't wait to drive in from become "leaner and meaner," and, in Kansas City for meetings with FOND FAREWELL: Bill Nelson, KU's top Greek adviser; her fellow alumnae and under- recently returned to Iowa State University. graduates at the Gamma Phi house. "The reason we love it so much," sorority, and I think that's positive." "This is the Crooker says, "is that for one brief Panhellenic's Juliette Ast finds inspira- moment we think we're young again." tion in Pi Kappa Phi, which colonized last premier Crooker is more than young at heart; spring with about 50 members. Nelson she's also sick at heart, concerned that the says it is the "first true fraternity coloniza- Greek housing Greek community, especially alumni, did tion" here in nearly 50 years, and Ast, for not do enough to reach out to the Stewart one, can't wait to see the same thing hap- system in the Avenue chapters in their time of need. pen for sororities. And she acknowledges that tradition can "The new fraternity brought a whole United States, be daunting for any sorority considering a different group of men into the system," new chapter here: "We have a traditional Ast says. "Our community is so old, we campus, and, unfortunately, Kansas City have to make sure we are bringing in by far, is a pocket of Greek alumnae that you fresh people. So maybe a fresh sorority don't see in other cities. Kansas City has would bring in women we would other- hands down." one of the strongest alumnae groups in wise not attract." —Patrick Alderdice the nation. Mothers beget daughters. Now KU Greeks await their next Coming out of Kansas City and Lawrence, adviser, and many fear Nelson can't be it's difficult for other sororities that don't replaced. Others are eager for the some ways, he's glad he was right. have that background, that tradition." change—for new and invigorating and "Part of the reason some of our groups Crooker, though, also sees hope. Not different. are significantly smaller is because they in alumni attitudes, but in a renewed "It's almost a good time for this to hap- don't have 20 of... I don't know what the individualism that she senses in freshmen. pen," Ast says. "Now that we have to face appropriate language is ... deadbeats, or "It's a new day of girls doing their own these issues, maybe we do need a fresh problematic members," he says. "And we thing," Crooker says. "It's not what your view to come in, to help us keep what Bill have a hundred more women registered mother was, what your aunt was. It's what has established while also helping us meet for fall recruitment than we did a year you want to be. Girls need to be where some of these challenges with fresh eyes. ago. Our sorority sizes are bigger than they feel comfortable, where they feel kin- "That whole dynamic is something they've ever been before." dred spirits. That may not be in mothers really new, and I think it's exciting. "---"••••

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 ASSOCIATION Beyond the call Fred Ellsworth Medallion goes to 2 whose loyalty follows the standard set by Alumni Association's longtime leader

s athlete and coach, former Jay- hawk football great Gil M. Reich Aand longtime track coach Robert L. Timmons displayed extraordinary commitment and performance. Each also became known for the same commitment and performance in his service to the Uni- versity. The Alumni Association will honor both men Sept. 22 as this year's BOB TIMMONS recipients of the Fred Ellsworth Medal- lion. dent from West Point, he had expected to The Ellsworth medallion has been complete his engineering degree at KU given since 1975 to those who follow the but not to be able to participate in sports. example of extraordinary service to KU Chancellor Franklin Murphy granted him set by the Association's longtime executive one year of eligibility, setting the stage for secretary Fred Ellsworth, c'22, who several other Army transfers to get a year retired in 1963 after 39 years of service. of eligibility at Big Seven schools. Reich Winners are chosen by representatives GIL REICH made the most of the opportunity earning from the Chancellors Office and the All-America honors as quarterback and Alumni, Athletics and Endowment associ- serve on the Executive Committee defensive back for KU. He is the only ations. through 2001. He has served on numer- football Ail-American who wore the Jay- Reich, e'54, Savannah, Ga., worked for ous committees, including Strategic Plan- hawk jersey only one season. 35 years for the Equitable Life Assurance ning, Finance, Planning & Building, and Reich also earned distinction in KU Society of the United States. During his Member Acquisition & Retention, and the basketball. He had to sit out the start of career, he lived in Chicago, Milwaukee Adams Alumni Center Board of Gover- the season with a broken hand sustained and New Canaan, Conn., but never lost nors. He also has traveled extensively in a football game. But as he watched the his ties to the Hill. After he retired in with the Flying Jayhawks and has partici- KU-SMU game from the stands, Reich was 1988 as chairman and CEO of Equicor, pated in the Valley of the Sun Chapter's approached by Coach Forrest C. "Phog" he moved with his wife, Kay Lambert annual Southwest Open Golf Tournament Allen, who examined his hand and asked Reich, c'54, to Savannah, and launched a in Scottsdale, Ariz. him if he would like to play—that night. new career of service to KU. He began by As a student, Reichs time on the Hill Reich suited up and became the only KU volunteering for the KU Endowment was brief but memorable. A transfer stu- athlete to play in a varsity basketball game Association as a Steering Committee and National Council member for Campaign Kansas; through the campaign the Reichs provided a major gift for the KU Libraries. The Ellsworth medallion has been given since 1975 They also are Chancellors Club life members and Elizabeth Watkins Society mem- to those who follow the example of extraordinary service bers. to KU set by the Association's longtime executive The Alumni Association tapped Reich for a position on its national Board of secretary Fred Ellsworth, c'22, who retired in 1963 Directors in 1994. He has served as vice president, executive vice president and after 39 years of service. president (1996-1997); he continues to

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without one day of practice. north of Lawrence. Since 1980 Rim Rock For the Alumni Association, Timmons Timmons, d'50, g'50, Lawrence, retired has been KU's home course, now consid- is a life member and a Jayhawk Society as head track coach in 1988 after leading ered one of the best in the nation. Tim- member. He is also a Chancellors Club KU to four NCAA national champi- mons hosted the 1998 NCAA Div. I and II life member for the KU Endowment Asso- onships. During his 24-year tenure, he cross country championships, the first ciation. The 11-time NCAA District V also led the track program to 13 indoor time KU hosted an NCAA meet since coach of the year and 1975 US Track & championships, 14 outdoor champi- 1966. The 1995 Big Eight Championship Field Coaches Association national coach onships, and two cross country champi- was set at Rim Rock, and Timmons has of the year was inducted into the KU onships in the Big Eight conference. He hosted the Kansas 6A and 5A state high- Sports Hall of Fame—for a second time— coached 24 Jayhawks to individual NCAA school championships each year since in 1989.-— championships. The former U.S. Marine 1995. who presided over glory years of the Timmons' devotion to his athletes is Kansas Relays became known on the Hill well known. After his first NCAA champi- Internet portal to offer as "Timmie." onship, he refused induction into the KU helpful KU connections Timmons' legacy to KU track includes Sports Hall of Fame, wanting the spotlight more than a trophy case full of hardware. to shine instead on his runners. It was With the help of his runners, he in the reported that Timmons went so far as to eed a daily dose of KU? The Associa- 1970s started building a cross-country remove his Hall of Fame photograph from N tion's new Internet portal might be course on his family's Rim Rock Farm Allen Field House and hide it. just the answer to enlivening your online life and linking you daily to the Universi- ty. Launched Sept. 6, the portal, .zKansas.com, offers alumni and friends a customizable Internet start page featuring news from KU and Lawrence, as well as WE LIKE MIKES: national and international headlines, Mike Wellman. left, financial news, weather, shopping, and and Mike Wick are guiding the Assoc- most important, convenient links to the iation's Internet University's web site, ukans.edu, the Asso- expansion, including ciations web site, kualumni.org, and the September debut numerous other academic, admissions of zKansas.com. and athletics sites of interest to the KU family. Internet users who select zKansas.com as the start page on their computer will be greeted each day by the Jayhawk, scenes from the Hill and the latest news. Mike Wellman, c'86, the Associations

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director of special projects, has led the when their home or office e-mail address- delivering the University message, and portal project and discussed its potential es change. Several hundred class members keeping alive the history and traditions of with University colleagues. "We want to already are participating; by the end of the University." ^•"* combine University offerings to present a September, the service will be available to unified package to our alumni and all alumni who register on the Associa- friends," Wellman says. "We hope the tions web site. "It's a wonderful service to Preserving tradition starts portal will bring more eyes to many Uni- provide to alumni," says Cathy Smith, with newest Jayhawks versity sites, extending our ability to com- assistant vice chancellor for information municate with alumni and encouraging services. "It's a virtual community for their continuing participation in the life of alumni, and we have the unique ability to n an Association built upon tradition, the University." Long-term goals for the provide it." Iit's the youngest members who now portal, he adds, will include providing To ensure the continued effectiveness carry the official title: Tradition Keepers. online career networking opportunities, of the forwarding service, which is oper- And this newest Alumni Association tradi- mentoring and continuing education. ated by the staff of Academic Computing tion proved itself an immediate hit with The portal also will enable alumni to Services, alumni must remember to students, as 700 signed up during enroll- make connections in distant Jayhawk out- update any changes in their home or ment for the current school year. posts. "Maybe best of all will be the fun office e-mail address through the Associa- During its first two years of existence, we can have as we share our ideas and tion's web site. The Association's Records before it became known as Tradition lives through the community-building Department maintains e-mail addresses as Keepers, the Alumni Associations student aspects of the portal," Wellman says. part of the biographical records of alumni membership program peaked at about "Alumni can develop their own individual and friends. 450 members. Jayhawk sites, or access chapter sites To improve and manage its web site, "Our goal is to educate the students throughout the world." the Association last spring hired Mike about the Alumni Association while zKansas.com is an Association partner- Wick, c'83, as full-time webmaster. Wick they're here on campus," says Jennifer ship with zUniversity.com, an Internet has devoted countless hours to upgrading Mueller, g'99, director of student pro- company specializing in higher education. the current site, while collaborating with grams. "When they graduate, they'll be After initially presenting its services in Susan Younger, f'91, Association art direc- familiar with what we do, so it's more summer 1999 to the national Council of tor, on a redesigned site, which the Asso- likely that they'll be loyal and active Alumni Association Executives, zUniver- ciation will unveil in mid-September. alumni." sity will operate portals on behalf of 70 The new site will ease navigation for Key to the student programs member- colleges and universities and their alumni users and offer continuous updates as ship surge was Mueller's successful cam- associations. The total number of alumni well as important facts about KU tradi- paign to have Tradition Keepers included and friends of these schools surpasses 20 tions and history. Most important, the site on the optional campus fees selection million, enabling zUniversity to secure will add services specifically for members, form filled out by students during enroll- valuable discounts at more than 250 retail including an online version of Kansas ment. By checking a box on the fees form stores in its online shopping mall. A por- Alumni magazine and a secure e-com- and paying the $20 annual dues, students tion of all purchases made through the merce program to allow alumni to join have access to the 'Hawk to 'Hawk men- zKansas.com portal will return to the the Association, renew their member- toring program, discounts from local mer- Alumni Association and the University. ships, register for alumni events and pur- chants and a free dinner at the Adams The new portal is part of a three- chase merchandise. A long-term goal is Alumni center during finals week. They pronged Internet strategy the Association online directory access. also get a spiffy "Hail to Old KU" glass has pursued in the past year. The other Fred B. Williams, Association presi- and T-shirt. two services are permanent e-mail for- dent, says although the method of deliver- As members of Tradition Keepers, the warding, which the Association offered to ing services will change with advances in students can also join the Student Alumni the Class of 2000 with the University's technology, the Associations mission Association, an active group of about 100 Office of Academic Computing Services, remains true to the tenets on which the students who serve as volunteers, ambas- and a revamped Association web site. organization was founded in 1883. "The sadors and leaders for KU. The e-mail forwarding service began in Alumni Association is making a major "This is the third year of our student April for graduating seniors. Class mem- commitment to providing effective online membership program, and now we're bers who registered for the free service services not only to its members, but also really perfecting it," Mueller says. "It's received an e-mail address to all alumni throughout the world," he exciting to see the students respond so ([email protected]) through which says. "We must do so to achieve our mis- enthusiastically to an opportunity to be a their e-mail could be forwarded even sion of involving alumni in the University, part of the Alumni Association.--*"•

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Alumni Events Adams Alumni Center IVovpmhpr OctnhpVw-' V~ L VJ %J \^ JrL Reservations are required for all special events; call Suzanne Cotrel Doyle at 785-864-4754. 11 1 • Football Buffet: KU vs. Texas • San Diego Chapter: Big 12 golf September outing 16 16 • Lied Center/KUAA Pre-Concert 2,4,5 • Football Buffet: KU vs. Alabama-Birm- Dinner: "Showboat" B San Antonio Chapter: Recruit for KU ingham. All football buffets begin three hours prior to kickoff. $14 per person, 7 including tax and tip. A cash bar will be • Flying Jayhawks: Annual reunion and provided. 1 Chapters & Professional Societies party, Adams Alumni Center

23 For more information, including contacts for • Atlanta Chapter: KU vs. KSU football Football Buffet: KU vs. Southern local events, please visit kualumni.org or call watch party Illinois Kirk Cerny at 800-KU HAWKS. 19 October September • Frontrange Chapter: Thirsty Third 7 9 Thursday • Football Buffet: KU vs. Kansas State • San Antonio Chapter: KU vs. MU 20-21 Golf tournament • Class of 1960: 40-year reunion at 11 11 Homecoming, Adams Alumni Center • Lied Center/KUAA Pre-Concert • Wichita: School of Engineering 21 Dinner: White Oak Dance Project, with Professional Society • Frontrange Chapter: Homecoming Mikhail Baryshnikov. Lied Center dinner party events start with cocktails at 5 p.m. and 13 dinner at 6. The program will conclude by • New York Chapter: Fall meeting 28 7:30 p.m. $30 per person, including tax • Frontrange Chapter: KU vs. KSU and tip. A cash bar will be provided. 15 alumni paintball • Frontrange Chapter: Happy Hour 21 at Choppers November < Football Buffet: KU vs. Colorado 21 (Homecoming) • Frontrange Chapter: Thirsty Third 4 Thursday • Lincoln: KU vs. Nebraska football • New York Chapter: Thirsty Third pregame, including a gathering of the 28 Thursday School of Law Professional Society. • Football Buffet: KU vs. Texas Tech 3s 0v/ 8 • New York Chapter: Reception at the • Oklahoma City Chapter: KU vs. OU football pregame Waldorf-Astoria • Kansas City: School of Journalism Professional Society

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9-10 October • Frontrange Chapter: Coaches vs. 4 Winfield: Dave Andreas, Cancer basketball watch parties 316-221-1610 Rock Chalk 10 Hays: Fred and Sheila Brening, Ball 2001 14 785-625-2529 San Antonio Chapter: Chapter 11 Hutchinson: Terry Edwards, • meeting 316-663-7079 16 Southern Johnson County: Rock Chalk Ball 2001 16 Mark and Elaine Corder, is scheduled for Friday, • Frontrange Chapter: Thirsty Third 913-592-7299 Feb. 2, at the Downtown Thursday 23 Manhattan: Mark and Toni Marriott Muehlebach Stremel, 785-537-3253 Tower in Kansas City. 17 24 Johnson County: Bill and Anne • Frontrange Chapter: Sand volleybal1 Blessing, 913-327-5454 happy hour 25 Salina: Pat Thompson, 785-825-5809 For more information on 18 30 Wichita: Martin Bauer, supporting or volunteering • Ames: KU vs. Iowa State football 316-265-9311 for the Kansas City Chap- pregame ter's signature event, which supports the KUAA Rock Kansas Honors Program 1 November Chalk Scholarship fund, 1 Shawnee Mission: Joyce For information on supporting a KHP event, Thompson, 913-268-9856 contact Michon Quick at contact local site coordinators, or Carolyn 6 Osage City: Josi Garland, 913-248-8458 or Barnes at 800-KU HAWKS 785-528-4081 [email protected]. 7 Independence: Garen Cox, September 316-251-6700 • 12 El Dorado: Michael Coash, 8 Chapman: Susan James, 316-321-1140 785-922-6366 13 McPherson: Mary Kornhaus, 13 Emporia: Gary Ace, 316-669-0125 316-342-9555 16 KHP Alumni Volunteer Day, 14 Topeka: Michael and Marcia Adams Alumni Center Cassidy, 785-234-5098 18 Altamont: Charles and 16 Kansas City: Chris Schneider, Mary Catherine Brown, 913-573-2851 316-421-6066 20 Wellington: David Carr, 316-326-3361 25 Sedgwick County: Nick and Naomi Ard, 316-722-9390 26 Lawrence: Karen Van Blaricum 785-843-4714 27 Garnett: Terry Solander, 785-448-6131

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1920s 1946 David Johnson, c'50, a retired colonel and Norman Newell, c'29, g'3 I, continues to do Leroy Covey, b'46, lives in La Jolla, Calif. chaplain in the U.S. Air Force, makes his home in Overland Park with Mary Gilles Johnson, paleontological research at the American Janice Brown Grimes, c'46, is publishing c'52. Museum of Natural History in New York City, her second novel, Hidden Scandals, which where he has worked since 1945. Norman and Charles, c'50, l'54, and Dolores Goad Lind- takes place during World War II. She lives in his wife, Gillian, live in Leonia, N.J. berg, '50, celebrated their 50th anniversary Arlington, Va. June 4.Their home is in Brookfield, Conn. 1930s Martha Cannon Relph, d'50, continues to Mark Alexander, f 39, recently completed his 1947 Kenneth Troup, e'47, serves as a colonel in make her home in Emporia. tenure as honorary colonel of the 505th Para- Millard Spencer, c'50, g'52, m'55, recently the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB. He chute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Divi- moved to Landrum, S.C. He's a retired lives in Fairbom, Ohio. sion, which was his combat unit during World physician. War II. He lives in Campbell, Calif. 1948 Frankie Waits, j'50, works as a real-estate Frances Strait Brown, c'38, a retired Joan Rodgers Dietz, f'48, lives inTopeka. broker for Perry & Co. in Denver teacher; makes her home in Wichita. Arnold, c'48, m'5 I, and Louise Lynn Green- Jane Marshall Campbell, c'37, lives in MARRIED house, n'53, make their home in Reno, Nev., Berryville.Va. William Shafer, c'50, m 54, and Elizabeth where he's a retired physician. Tom Hamilton, m'35, g'41, is a professor Thomas, b'52, April 15 in Overland Park.They Ida Mae Woodburn Sutton, c'48, c'5 I, and emeritus of pathology at UMKC. He and Bette live in Lake Quivira. Wasson Hamilton, c'38, c'39, g'42, live in her husband, Frederick, e'49, celebrated their Shawnee Mission, and she's an assistant profes- 50th anniversary July I.They live in Lawrence. 1951 sor of medicine at UMKC. Robert Symons, '48, is president of Symons1 Benjamin Benjaminov, c'5 I, is retired in James Haughey, l'39, a retired lawyer contin- Groves in Arcadia, Fla. Terre Haute, Ind., where he and Renee ues to live in Billings, Mont. Viola Unruh, n'48, lives in Newton, where Semach Benjaminov, '53, make their home. Alfred Hoover, e'34, makes his home in she's a retired nurse. Mary Carter Cosney-Lancaster, c'5 I, c'53, Englewood, Colo., with Margaret Williams Paul Van Dyke, b'48, retired recently as chair stays busy in retirement with golf, travel and Hoover, assoc. and president of the Plainville State Bank. He volunteer work. She and her husband, Everett, Fred King, c'39, m'44, and his wife, Gail, assoc, live in Long Beach, Calif. and Yvonne Veverka Van Dyke, '52, con- celebrated their first anniversary in July.They Richard Houseworth, b'51, recently was tinue to make their home in Plainville. live in Sacramento, Calif, and Fred is a retired nominated by President Clinton to serve on Nancy Slater Wittig, c'48, works as a self- radiologist. the board of the Federal Deposit Insurance employed bookkeeper in Shawnee Mission. Fred Mills, c'3 I, m'38, makes his home in Corp. He lives in Paradise Valley, Ariz., and is the Evansville, Ind., where he's retired. 1949 Arizona superintendent of banks. Lloyd Organ, p'39, is a retired pharmacist in Robert Jones, c'5 I, recently was appointed to Elizabeth Templin Alley, n'49, lives in Toledo, Aptos, Calif. the Arizona Oil and Gas Conservation Com- Ohio, where she enjoys computer art, e-mail Thomas Robinson, e'39, lives in Mission mission. He and his wife, Jo Anne, live in Sun and handwork. Hills, where he's retired from a career with City West and recently returned from a trip Gene Beery Jr., e'49, owns Jayhawk Enginner- Black &Veatch. to Greece. ing in El Campo,Texas. Eldon Smith, c'39, a retired foreign service Kenneth Powlas, c'5 I, makes his home in officer, makes his home in Sarasota, Fla. James Bouska, c'49, l'52, a retired district Overland Park. judge, continues to do mediation and arbitra- Martha PennockTroxell, f'51, volunteers as 1940 tion in Overland Park, where he and Doraen an occupational therapist in Port Arthur,Texas. Marguerite Jones Fraizer, b'40, is retired in Lindquist Bouska, c'47, s'59, make their Lois Walker, c'51, d'54, will show her paintings Roseville, Calif. home. She has a private practice as a clinical at an installation in the Sylvia White Gallery in 1941 social worker Santa Monica, Calif., in October She lives in Russell Frink, c'41, m'49, lives in Lawrence J.W. Kendrick, e'49, is retired in Prescott, Ariz. Amityville, N.Y with his wife, Margaret Stough Frink, f 38. Charles, '49, and Celeste Beesley Jack Ward, c'5 I, is a professor of Indo-Pacific Marjorie Gaines McCardell, c'41, is retired Winslow, c'49, celebrated their 50th anniver- languages at the University of Hawaii in Hon- in Newton, Iowa. sary last year They live in Phoenix. olulu. He lives in Kaneohe. 1942 1950 1952 Arlie Creagar Gillespie, c'52, continues to Thomas, e'42, and Ivy Garthwaite Man- Robert Bennett, c'50, l'52, practices law with ning, assoc, make their home in Shawnee Mis- live in Pensacola, Fla. Lathrop & Gage in Overland Park. sion, where they're both retired. Donna Kempster Hosier, d'52, co-chairs Betty Pote Bowman, h'50, makes her home this year's Minnesota PEO Convention. She lives 1943 in Lawrence. in Brooklyn Park. Harriet Gault Monsees, n'43, makes her Delbert Clevenger, d'50, is retired in Howard Kisling, b'52, is retired in Highlands home in Greeley, Colo,, where she's retired. Kansas City. Ranch, Colo., where he lives with his wife, Jackie. 1944 John Gurtner, e'50, lives in Bellevue.Wash. Vera Smoots Lyons, d'52, wrote a song, Lawrence Johnson, c'44, m'46, a retired He's retired from a career as an engineer "Minnesota Memories," which was performed physician, makes his home in Houston. with Boeing. last year at the annual "Christmas in South St.

42] KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 CLASS NOTES A HOME Paul" celebration.Vera, who lives in St. Paul, 1958 Minn., also wrote a hymn which was published Burley Channer, c'58, retired last year from a last year in the hymnal of the United Church of FOR ALL SEASONS 40-year career teaching German at universities Canada. in Louisiana and Ohio. He lives in Lambertville, Harvey, m'52, and Julia Robinson Tretbar, Mich. n'52, make their home in Wichita. William Dunn, c'58, a retired physical thera- 1953 pist, makes his home in Excelsior Springs, Mo. Ronald Groening, e'58, works as a senior Patricia Harris Merrill, d'53, and her hus- staff engineer for Lockheed Martin in Philadel- band, Max, c'54, moved recently from Okla- phia. He lives in Phoenixville, Pa. homa City to Lenexa. George Van Trump, e'58, volunteers with Dana Richmond Saliba, d'53, is a retired several civic and charitable groups in Lakewood, music teacher in Parsons. Colo. He was named State Elk of the Year last Willis Stamm, p'53, works as a pharmacist year by the Colorado State Elks Association. with Cal Med Pharmacy East in La Canada, Calif. He lives in Glendale. 1959 1954 Ronald Clark, a'59, retired last year after I I years as an architect and 30 years as a Richard Bowen, c'54, is retired from a career United Methodist pastor He lives in North with Eli Lilly & Co. He lives in Greenfield, Ind. Little Rock, Ark. Robert McMullen, d'54, g'58, lives in Redding, John Fowler, e'59, recently was promoted Calif, where he's a retired high-school teacher to chief operating officer at the Dewberry and administrator Companies in Fairfax,Va. Marco Randazzo, e'54, a retired aerospace Jack Francis, b'59, continues to make his engineer; makes his home in Berryville, Ark. home in Albuquerque. TOWNHOME LIVING AT ITS BEST! Harry Schanker, d'54, lives in Littleton, Colo., Jean Scammon Hyland, PhD'59, a retired with his wife, Carol. professor of French at the University of Rhode *randon Woods is more than Kyle Thompson, f'54, and his wife, Lois, cele- Island, lives in Warwick. a retirement community. It's a brated their 50th anniversary in April.They live James McLean, g'59, PhD'65, lives in Storrs neighborhood of friends. in Oakdale, Calif. Mansfield, Conn. When you live in a Townhome 1955 Thomen Reece, c'59, m'63, practices medi- at Brandon Woods, home owner- Benjamin Dalton, e'55, is self employed in cine in Colorado Springs. ship is a joy! A monthly service Conroe,Texas, where he and Jane Arm- strong Dalton, c'55, make their home. I960 fee covers all your maintenance Mary Alice Demeritt Gordon, d'55, g'68, a Gloria Bradshaw McShann Blue, h'60, and concerns. Plus owning a Town- retired teacher, lives in Lawrence. her husband, Lester celebrate their first anniver- home at Brandon Woods is an sary Oct. 24.They live in Independence, Mo. 1956 investment. You have an James Greene, e'60, does substitute teaching appreciable asset that benefits Joann Bowman Duncan, '56, serves on the in Piano,Texas. He lives in Richardson with his you and your heirs. board of the Philharmonic Center for the Arts wife, Marie. in Naples, Fla. Ethel Hopson Hayden, d'60, is a retired FEATURING: Jerry Kindig, e'56, is president of Heaven teacher. She lives in Bonner Springs. • TOWNHOMES & APARTMENTS Engineering in Overland Park. Carolyn Jeter, d'60, retired in June from a 40- • ASSISTED LIVING & HEALTH CARE Bernard Malkmus, b'56, lives in Decatur, Ala., year career in education, the last 36 of which • ALZHEIMER'S CARE & REHAB where he's retired from a career with NASA. were at Shawnee Mission North High School. • NO ENTRANCE FEE Howard Sturdevant, c'56, l'62, works for J.D. She lives in Overland Park. Reece Realtors. He lives in Prairie Village. Jack Kollmann, c'60, is a professor at Stan- (785) 838-8000 1957 ford University in Stanford, Calif, where he lives. 1-800-419-0254 Edson Parker, b'60, works as a mechanical Donna Dee Duncan Floyd, d'57, lives in www.brandonwoods.com Katy,Texas, with her husband, Curtis, assoc. engineer for the General Services Administra- Eleanor Hawkinson Lowe, c'57, serves as tion. He and Dolores Lindholm Parker, president of the Mainstream Coalition, which d'58, live in Overland Park. She's a supervising works to preserve the separation of church and judge for the Johnson County Election state. She lives in Mission Hills. Commission. Dale McClanahan, e'57, lives in Missouri James Pivonka, c'60, does consulting work in City, Texas. Petaluma, Calif. Robert Miller, g'57, is a retired mechanical Miriam McCauley Rickert, '60, makes her RETIREMENT COMMUNITY engineer in Cincinnati. home in Victoria, Minn. 1501 INVERNESS DR. • LAWRENCE, KS 66047 Thomas Slaymaker, d'57, works for Aetna Kent Simcoe, e'60, g'62, owns Simcoe Com- LOCATED 1 1/2 MILES WEST OF THE KU CAMPUS Life Insurance & Annuity. He lives in Shawnee. munications in Roseville, Calif.

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Beth Kirby Willey, d'60, a retired teacher, Bukaty Sales in Kansas City. 1963 continues to make her home in Kansas City. Bruce Burns, c'62, works for Compaq Com- Jean Low Bloomfield, n'63, is retired in 1961 puters in Reston.Va. Bartlesville, Okla. Don Gergick, j 62, lives in Fern Park, Fla., Stephen Chill, c'63, manages projects for the Nancy Topham Chadwick, c'61, recently InterCept Group in Birmingham, Ala. He lives in was appointed to the Oceanside, Calif., Planning where he's retired from Lucent Technologies. Commission. Shirley Scott Kleess, c'62, works for the Vet- Leesburg, Fla. David Coupe, e'61, g'63, is retired in Bailey, erans Administration. She lives in Wappingers Doug Farmer, j'63, works as a senior market- Colo., where he and Barbara Herzog Falls, N.Y. ing representative for J.D. Reece Realtors in Coupe, c'61, make their home. Marvin, e'62, and SaraWoodburn Lindsey, Blue Springs, Mo. Peter Haggart, g'63, lives in Moscow, Idaho, Walter Dyck, m'61, senior associate dean of '64, make their home in Steamboat Springs, with Margaret Elliott Haggart, c'60. He's a medicine at Texas A&M University in Temple, Colo. professor of communication at the University was honored last spring when a lectureship was Paul Mitchell, e'62, is vice president of established in his name at Scott and White of Idaho, and she's a retired elementary school advanced research and development for Nike Memorial Hospital, where he's also administra- teacher in Beaverton, Ore. He's also president and tive director for research and education. Ralph Hall, c'63, is retired in Louisville, Colo. CEO of Nike IHM, a subsidiary of Nike. Jane Boyd Owczarza, j'61, teaches journal- Willard Hiebert, d'63, is a professor at Con- ism and is an adviser for the San Jose, Calif., Gerald Phelps, e'62, is retired from a career cordia College in Moorhead, Minn. school district. with Lockheed Martin. He lives in San Jose, 1964 Calif. Earl Thompson, e'61, manages crude oil Ellen Hassler Boles, d'64, teaches in quality and quantity control at Dyn McDermott Patrick Piggott, c'62, recently was honored Starkville, Miss. Petroleum Operations in New Orleans. by the San Joaquin County Bar Association for Clark Ellis, b'64, is vice president of NetLi- Virginia Bonham Wolf, d'61, g'66, g'75, his contributions to the legal system and his brary in Boulder, Colo. PhD'80, is a professor of English at the Univer- community. He practices law in Stockton, Calif. Karen Vice Irey, d'64, s'66, lives in Norman, sity of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie. H.F. "Cotton" Smith, j'62, wrote Pray for where she works for the University of Okla- 1962 Texas, a novel which was published recently by homa. Frederick Bukaty, d'62, is president of Leisure Books. He lives in Mission Hills. Ken Kahmann, a'64, works as an architect for Harms in Eldon, Mo. He lives in Springfield. Elizabeth Stockton, c'64, is retired from a September 8 - October 1,2000 career with AT&T She lives in Morristown, N.J. 1965 Junia Oakleaf Curran, n'65, is retired in Seattle. Peggy Hurst Flora, f'65, works as an Major account executive with Sun Publications in i »> KM Overland Park. H.R."Skip" Granger, c'65, l'68, owns Starry Night Winery and is principal in Menlo Capital Barbara Corp. in San Rafael, Calif. He and Mary Ann by George Bernard Shaw Johnson Granger, d'65, live in Kentfield, Nobel Prize-winner George Bernard Shaw's classic where he teaches part time. comedy provocatively tells the tale of a maverick Thomas Lucas, m'65, practices urology in munitions manufacturer whose values clash Enterprise, Ala. dramatically with those of his idealistic daughter, George Zahn, c'65, is retired in Prairie Village, Barbara, whose concern for the poor has led her to become an officer of the Salvation Army. Barbara where he and Sue Scott Zahn, c'53, make learns that it is the capitalism she detests which their home. maintains the charities on which she places her 1966 reformer's faith. Scott Colby, c'66, works as a financial service For tickets, call the Central Ticket Office representative for New England Financial in at 816-235-2700 or order online at B Wichita. www.missourirepertorvtheatre.org. fl Kerry Davis, c'66, g'69, teaches at Midland High School in Midland,Texas, where he and his Scholars' Forum - join KU Professor of Modern wife, Silva, make their home. British History Dr. Victor Bailey for "Poverty, MISSOURI Nicholas Fryman, f'66, is a self-employed Charity, and the Salvation Army in Edwardian pianist and musical arranger in Los Angeles. England," following the Sept. vj matinee. REPERTORY John Goheen, c'66, m'70, practices medicine Relay Missouri at 800-735-2966 0T) THEATRE in Mission Hills. y KT Financial assistance has been provided by Missouri Arts Council, a State Robert Karnes, e'66, directs engineering for iXEy^ agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency. Peter Altman, Producing Artistic Director Bayer Animal Health in Shawnee.

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Kenneth Karr, b'66, is a self-employed insurance underwriter in Virginia Beach, Va. LEGAL ISSUES LEAD STORY OF BEIER'S CAREER Glenda Mitchell Kline, c'66, recently retired from the National Security Agency after ears ago, Carol Beier the editor 33 years of federal service. She lives in helped craft compelling news. Columbia, Mo. YLater, Beier the lawyer made the George Pro, f 66, makes his home in cases for her clients by persuasively Kirkland.Wash. telling their sagas. Sherrill Whaley Robertson, d'66, works as Now, as the newest judge on the a customer-care representative for Delta Air- lines in Los Angeles. She lives in Huntington Kansas Court of Appeals, Beier, j'81,1'85, Beach, Calif. still searches for stories—by combing Franklin Scamman, e'66, m'70, is a legal briefs and courtroom arguments to professor of anesthesia at the University of discern rights and wrongs. Twenty years Iowa in Iowa City. after she edited the University Daily Jack Sutton, g'66, serves as city administrator Kansan, Beier still summons the skills of Fremont, Neb. she learned as a young journalist. "That 1967 background was an enormous advan- Daniel Brune, c'67, c'68, works as a tage," she says. "All those things we research professional at Arizona State learned in the Kansan newsroom on University inTempe. those old Selectrics—interviewing, writ- Glenn Ewan, b'67, retired in May after 33 ing on deadline—were so valuable. Find- years with Chevron. He lives in Houston. ing the story and finding the lead still Robert Heasty, m'67, practices radiology in translate." vating her judi- HER HONOR: Since she Gering, Neb. But these days the setting for her joined the appeals court last Susan Stoker Karpen, c'67, is senior soft- cial demeanor. sleuthing is more serene—and a bit "Being a spring, Carol Beier has adjusted ware engineer for Symmetrix Software in to the pace. "The practice of Brookfield.Wis. unsettling to a woman who says she parent is good law is intellectual, but a lot of Bruce McCollom, e'67, g'70, g'72, lives in misses the "grittiness and immediacy" of training for this it is talking on the phone, Miller S.D. He's vice president of Bartlett & newspapers. She laughs as she acknowl- job," she says, schmoozing," she says. "This is West Engineers in Pierre. edges that her lofty title, tasteful office "learning when trying to figure out what the Neil Roach, m'67, m'70, continues to live and tailored suits exude "more dignity it's important law is and what it should be. That's not a luxury you have in Topeka. than I deserve. No one would describe to stand your Kent, b 67,171, and Phyllis Kerr Sullivan, in practice." my current life as gritty." ground and d'67, g'71, make their home in Olathe. He's a partner in the law firm of Morrison & A native of Kansas City, Kan., Beier when it's less important." With her hus- Hecker, and she's a physician with Jayhawk came to KU bent on a newspaper career. band, Richard Green, she has a 9-year- Primary Care. She worked as a copy editor for the old son, Holden; a 10-year-old daughter, Kansas City Times but soon returned to Hadley; and a 20-year-old stepson, Phil. 1968 KU law school, thinking she could com- Her children display a few lawyerly traits, Duane Chanay, g'68, is a professor of biologi- bine the law with journalism. She later she says, especially Holden,who as a cal sciences at Black Hawk College in Moline, III. worked for a Washington, D.C., firm negotiator "has developed the art of mak- James Florez, e'68, m'73, practices medicine in Little Rock, Ark. before moving to Wichita, where she ing the fine distinction." Jay Gerber, PhD'68, is vice president of became a partner in the firm of Foulston Though Beier long ago traded style- research and development at Lecitech in & Siefkin. She specialized in business lit- books for statutes, she strives for lively Lincoln, Neb. igation, but she also defended clients prose that shines through legalese. "I Gerald Hertach, b'68,171, lives in Hutchin- who could not pay her fees. used to joke that the law was beating all son, where he's a partner in the law firm of Her populism still motivates her. "I &e-creativity out of me," she says. "But I Martindell, Swearer & Shaffer hope my varied background—the fact hope I write a few opinions each year Ronald Kimzey, b'68,171, is an attorney in worth reading." Tampa, Fla. that I'm female, grew up in KCK, that I've Robert, '68, and Patricia Gross Lowe, d'71, done different things—makes me some- For her own reading, she favors liter- g'81, make their home in Edgerton. one who's able to approach a case from ary fiction. Her favorite book? Toni Mor- Ronald Martin, g'68, manages geoscience perhaps a different position," she says. rison's Song of Solomon. "She is so gifted. at H-RT Schlumberger He lives in College Although she clearly respects and The book is so true," Beier says quietly. "I Station.Texas. admires her colleagues on the court for like to find truth." Rebecca Rohrer McNeely, j'68, works as a easing her transition, she also, with typi- For this journalist turned jurist, senior consultant for Robert Half International. cal humor, credits her children for culti- therein lies the story. --*••* She lives in San Carlos, Calif.

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Janice Mendenhall, c'68, g'70, is assistant Rick Eichor, 170, practices law with Price, Louis Fisher, a'71, is an architect with Rossetti regional administrator for the General Services Oamoto, Himeno & Lum in Honolulu. Architects in Birmingham, and Linda Boone Administration in Atlanta, Ga. Ann Garrigues, n'70, directs nursing educa- Fisher, c'69, PhD74, is an associate professor Barbara Cochrane Osborn, d'68, manages tion at Northwest Arkansas Community Col- of biology and microbiology at the University of the medical office of her husband, Edward, lege in Bentonville. Michigan-Dearbom.They live in Detroit. c'69, in Okmulgee, Okla. Dorothea Gillgannon, g'70, is a librarian at Peter Goplerud, c'71,174, lives in Clive, Iowa. James Peterson, e'68, is a drilling the Johnson County Law Library in Olathe. She He's dean of law at Drake University in Des engineer adviser at Shell International in lives in Prairie Village. Moines. New Orleans, La. Mary Jo Stuart Hoard, s'70, s72, manages Barry Halpern, c'71,173, practices law with Robert Swinney, c'68, m'73, and his wife, progams for the Children's Home Society in Snell & Wilmer in Phoenix. Sandra, live in Altadena, Calif, with their daugh- Orlando, Fla., where she and her husband, Ralph Hellman, a'71, directs business devel- ter; Briana, 8. He's a specialist in medical inten- Samuel, s'72, make their home. opment at Constructors and Associates. He sive care at the Los Angeles County-USC Terrence Jones, d70, g'72, is president and and Vicki DeShon Hellman, d'70, live in Medical Center CEO of the Wolf Trap Foundation in Vienna, Va. Denver, Colo. Monica GilbertTague, n'68, is a self- Thomas Jones, b70,174, practices law with Glenn Holroyd, d71, works for the Kansas employed nurse anesthetist in Pounding Mill.Va. Payne & Jones in Overland Park. City, Kan., public school district. He lives in Philip Young, c'68, g'71, works as an Kenneth Larson, c'70, is a professor of Ger- Mission. administrator at Peninsula College in Port man at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y Bruce Larson, PhD71, is a professor of his- Angeles, Wash. Shelley Bray Mayer, j70, manages advertising tory at Minnesota State University-Mankato. 1969 copy for Current in Colorado Springs. Linda Loney, c'71, serves as chief of pediatrics Robert McArthur, c'70, is a program analyst and associate medical director of the Massachu- Joe Copes, g'69, directs the Title III programs with the Internal Revenue Service in Washing- setts Hospital School in Canton. She and her at Grambling State University in Grambling, La. ton, D.C. He lives in Fairfax,Va. husband.Thomas Cooper, live in Newton. He lives in Shreveport. Donald Miller, c'70, g72, Phd'74, makes his Sue Dowland Glisson, d'69, works for Jack- Linda Jones Loubert, c'71, received a doc- home in Hartford, Conn., with Regina Kahn sonsville Savings Bank in Jacksonville, III. torate in political economy last spring from the Miller, c'67, g'71, PhD74. She chairs the educa- Tony Gogel, g'69, is vice president and West- University ofTexas-Dallas. She lives in Richard- tion division at the University of Hartford. ern regional manager of Arcadis in Phoenix, son. George Milleret, b'70, e'70, lives in Tulsa, where he and Celeste Cody Gogel, c'68, Nancy Dutton Potter, g'71, is a self- Okla., where he's president of Myers Aubrey. make their home. employed clinical psychologist in Burke,Va. Loren Rabon, f'70, owns Pre-Structured Robert Heacock, e'69, a retired engineer Alydia Price Rankin, d'71, makes her home Building Systems in Fair Haven, N.J. He lives in makes his home in Lawrence with Darlene in Bogue Chitto, Miss. She's active in local com- Cullumber Heacock, assoc. Little Silver munity theater Edward Kaplan, c'69,173, practices law with Barbara Linde Richards, j 70, works at Stan- Shelley Spies Ripplinger, d'71, teaches and Sulloway & Hollis in Concord, N.H. ford University Hospital in Stanford, Calif. is a counselor at DeSmet Jesuit High School in John Koenig, e'69, a retired civil engineer William Russell, h'70, is retired in Hays, St. Louis. makes his home in Fairfax,Va. where he and Janet Linkous Russell, s'90, Thomas Robinett, d'71, l'83, lives in Over- Stephen Morgan, j'69,174, practices law with make their home. She's a clinical social worker land Park, where he's associate general counsel Bond, Schoeneck & King in Overland Park. with Catholic Charities. for Applebee's International. Darla Mcjilton Neal, d'63, works at Ineeda Timothy Vocke, c'70, recently was nominated Jan Sheldon,c'71, PhD74,177, is a KU profes- Laundry & Dry Cleaners in Hutchinson. She's as the Wisconsin Bar Association's representa- sor of human development and family life. She a member of the 2000 class of Leadership tive to the Judicial Council. He lives in and her husband, James Sherman, live in Kansas. Rhinelander and practices law with Eckert, Kost Lawrence. Jo Jo White, '69, recently became director of & Vocke. Carmen Combrink Stoneking, f'71, works special projects for the Boston Celtics basket- Edward Wolpert, EdD70, is a professor at as an occupational therapist with JKS Inc. She ball team. He lives in Middleton, Mass. Georgia College and State University. He lives and her husband, James, p'67, live in Rich- Paula Myers Winchester, j'69, is president of in Milledgeville. mond, Va. He's a physician with Meritas. Herb Gathering Inc. in Kansas City. 1971 Charles Toomey, c'71, is regional manager for MEDecision. He lives in Merion Station, Pa. 1970 David Anderson, j'71, recently was appointed Eileen Heath Van Kirk, f'71, works as a Thomas Bailey, p'70, is a staff pharmacist at senior vice president of communications for senior programmer/analyst for American Cen- Wal-Mart in Wichita. Charter Communications. He lives in tury Services in Kansas City. Michele Geller Barg, c'70, PhD75, works as Fort Lee, N.J. Daniel Vargas, f'71, is president of Vargas Fine a writer at Sanders/Lockheed Martin. She lives Charlotte Hardy Andrezik, s71, practices Furniture inTopeka. in Milford, N.H. psychotherapy in Oklahoma City. Jeffrey Butterfield, b'70, g'72, is executive Allan Busch, PhD7l, is a professor of history Richard Waller, f'71, founded and is president vice president of Harris Bank in Chicago. at Fort Hays State University. He lives in Hays. of Advance Foam Plastics in Denver Linda Hinsch Campbell, c70, c71, m 84, a David Dary, g'71, retired last spring as director Garett Warner, a'71, is president of Warner, clinical instructor at the KU Medical Center's and professor of journalism and mass communi- Nease, Bost Architects in Kansas City. He and Cancer Center; lives in Fairway with her hus- cation at the University of Oklahoma. He lives Karen Cobin Warner, 72, live in Liberty, band, Robert, g'98. in Norman. where she owns Warner Law Firm.

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dent of Application Associates in Danville, Calif. Roger Dreiling, p'74, m'78, practices interven- HIGH-TECH REPORTER MAKES HIS FORTUNE tional cardiology at Cardiovascular Consultants of Oregon in Corvallis. n May, Fortune magazines deputy Dennis Eisele, c'74, g'75, g'82, g'94, is a techni- managing editor wrote of Brent cal superintendent for ALCOA in Point Com- ISchlender: "Nobody is more plugged fort, Texas. in or respected among the world's tech Paul Krieger, PhD'74, lives in Indianapolis, elite." In July, the same editor called where he's retired. Schlender "the world's preeminent Janet Martin McKinney, c'74, makes her explainer of all things Microsoftian." home in Port Ludlow.Wash. She was recently Most people's heads would upsize to a elected executive vice chairman of the Associa- 20 behind stuff like that. But Schlender, tion's Board of Directors. c'77, grew up in McPherson. "I don't like Randy Miller, e'74, does consulting in Wichita. it when they do that, but that's their way Bruce Schiefelbein, e'74, is a senior staff engineer for Motiva Enterprises in Port Arthur of stroking," he says. "I'm like most Texas. He and his wife, Laura, live in Orange Kansas kids: It's beat into you—I'm not with their daughter, Cassidy, I. worthy." Virginia West, d'74, works as a massage ther- Schlender started his career at the apist in San Diego, where she lives with her son, Wall Street Journal in 1979 and became Aaron, 13. Fortune's Silicon Valley bureau chief in 1975 1989. The May editorial plug came because he'd produced two different Mark Affeldt, b'75, works as vice president of credit administration for Bank West of Nevada cover stories for the same edition of the in Las Vegas. magazine: one for the U.S. number, one Schlender COMPUTER BIZ: As Gary Bellaire, g'75, is vice president of for the Asian. The July boast followed his says the School Fortune magazine's Silicon Quintiles in Research Triangle, N.C. He lives gaining unique access to Microsoft per- of Journalism's Valley chief, Brent Schlender has earned praise as a top in Raleigh. sonnel as the corporation was "remission- Calder Pickett technology reporter. Victor Bergman, 175, practices law with ing" itself. and the late Shamberg, Johnson & Bergman in Overland Schlenders buy-in to his subject is John Bremner Park, where he and Susan Dick Bergman, total. He has four plugged-in Macs at "changed my life," and he credits English m'77, make their home. home, two stowed under the bed, five professor Beth Schultz for steering him Thomas Cobb, j'75, owns Cobb Insurance Palm Pilots, two unused web TVs and away from her profession and toward Agency in Great Bend. David Elkouri, b'75,178, practices law with five computers at work. journalism. Hinkle and Elkouri in Wichita. But there's a Kansas common sense, He has since grown beyond the simple Robert Gale, b75,178, is a self-employed too, about this stuff: "I saw this guy with notion of his youth that entrepreneurs are attorney in Syracuse. a wire hanging out of his ear connected categorically venal. He's met plenty of the Gregory Kesler, c'75, g'78, does consulting in to a cell phone. He's having a shouting heavyweights, including Steve Jobs, who Stamford, Conn. match with somebody about a deal gone launched Apple computer, and Omaha Arnold Marcus, b'75, works as a CPA for south. He sounds like one of the San investing guru Warren Buffett, and they Fiehler & Marcus in St. Louis. Francisco homeless ranting about judg- all share this: "They latch onto a goal and Allan McDonald, a'75, a'79, owns ment day. We don't need that." bang at it and bang at it and bang at it. Schwager/Ponce Project Delivery in San Fran- The conservative streak also shows in The numbers are only how they keep the cisco. He lives in Oakland. score. It's not for the numbers that they Jack Mocnik, m'75, is an interventional radiol- his response to the crash of dot.com ogist withTulsa Radiology inTulsa, Okla. retail businesses and Internet startups: work. Arden Peters, PhD'75, works as a psycholo- "The dot.com guys were forgetting that "But they miss out on things. Some try gist in Wichita. even with an Internet business, you have really hard to be well-rounded, but they Richard Sonnenburg, g'75, recently became to market, advertise, compete, price approach it in the same focused way they town manager of Monument, Colo. He had things—manage an organization." approach other things. Bill Gates takes held a similar position in Signal Mountain,Tenn. Schlenders professional life unfolded lessons so he can sing Irving Berlin tunes, Joseph Storrs, PhD'75, is technical director after a degree taken in English. "I think but when he gets a call from Sting, who for Columbus Chemical Industries in of Silicon Valley not in Shakespearean wants to come see him, he doesn't know Columbus, Wis. terms but Swiftean ones," said Schlender, who he is." Pamela Baird Usher, d'75, teaches at Our referring to the poison-penned 18th-cen- —Martin, g'73, is communications Lady of Lourdes Catholic School in Vancouver, tury satirist. "There's a lot of folly." coordinator jor the KU Center for Research. Wash., where her husband, John, 78, is

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Raleigh, N.C., with her children, Michael, 16; administrative services for the Wichita Public dent of Kornitzer Capital Management in Leah, 15; and twins,Taylor and Meghan, I I. Library. Shawnee Mission. He lives in Leawood. Vicki Librach Swider, b'78, manages the John Hoppenrath, e'80, g'96, manages MFG Cindy Emig Penzler, c'81, m'85, commutes CPA firm of Bergman, Schraier Co. in St. Louis. operations with Allied Signal in Kansas City. He from Lawrence toTopeka, where she's an oph- William Winslow, c'78, directs marketing for and Amy Jones Hoppenrath, j'83, live in Lib- thalmologist with Kresie & Penzler Her husband, Missouri Gas Energy. He and Diana Beeler erty, Mo., with their children, Blaine, I I, and Craig, a'81, is vice president of Glenn Livin- Winslow, '85, live in Leawood. Michael, 6. Amy directs strategic marketing for good Penzler Architects in Lawrence. MHM Business Services. Tammy Mauck Peterman, n'81, g'97, 1979 Ronald Marquette, e'80, a'80, is an engineer works at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City. William Ardrey, e'79, owns and is president with Fluor Daniel. He and his wife,Terra, live in Pamela Prentiss, h'81, works as clinical ofTechTrol in Pawnee, Okla. Missouri City,Texas. coordinator of occupational therapy at Mount Daniel Bowerman, j'79, is an editor for Claire McCurdy, c'80, practices law with Ascutney Hospital and Health Center in Greater Niagara Newspapers. He lives in Grand Sprint in Kansas City. WindsorVt. Island, N.Y Derenda Mitchell, c'80, lives inTopeka, where Cheryl Blowey Rude, d'81, directs leadership John Breidenthal, e'79, works as a drilling she's assistant general counsel for the Kansas development at Southwestern College in engineer for Chevron. He lives in The Wood- Department of Agriculture. She and her hus- Winfield. lands, Texas. band, Seth Valerius, c'81, have a 7-year-old son, Betty Rogers Schrandt, d'81, does technical Jeffrey Brozek, c'79, m'83, practices medicine Will. writing for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in with Central Kansas Family Practice in Great Nancy Kauffman Ragey, c'80, is a program Kansas City. Bend, where he and Rhonda Dorei Brozek, officer for Community Foundation Silicon Valley Grover Simpson, j'81, is president of Kansas n'80, make their home. in San Jose, Calif. She lives in Sunnyvale. City Property & Casualty. He lives in Shawnee Kim Dittmer Dyson, j'79, is regional manag- Michael Stucky, b'80, lives in Highland Village, Mission. er ofTheater Mania. She lives in Burr Ridge, III. Texas. He's vice president of operations at Lori Anderson Stephens, c'8 I, makes her Pamela Ekey, j'79, manages business develop- Centex. home in Chickasha, Okla. ment at Horner & Shifnn in St. Louis. Vivian Strand, f 81, is creative director of Susan Hadl, c'79, s'83, a sergeant in the BORN TO: Ketchum Directory Advertising in Overland Lawrence Police Department, recently was Cecil Walker, c'80, and Donna, son, Joseph Park. She lives in Olathe. selected to participate in the 2000 class of Duncan, Jan. 7 in Longwood, Fla., where he joins Leadership Kansas. two sisters, Nicole, 8, and Madeline, who'll be 3 MARRIED Mary Lou Countryman Humphrey, 79, in December Cecil owns CW Construction Lynn Arroyo, h'81, to Paul Terlemezian, March makes her home in Lawrence with her hus- Services. I O.They live in Reno, Nev. band, Philip, assoc. James McCarten, b'79, practices law in 1981 BORN TO: Knoxville.Tenn. He recently was elected a Jean Blythe Allen, b'81, lives in Carrollton, Mark Converse, e'81, and Lisa, son, Ian, Jan. fellow in the American College ofTrust and Texas, and is chief financial officer for the YMCA 24 in San Francisco, where he joins a brother; Estate Counsel. of Metropolitan Dallas. Max, who'll be 3 in December. Mark directs Martha Sutherland, g'79, an art dealer, is Keith Anderson, p'81, is a clinical pharmacy marketing for KPMG. president of M. Sutherland Fine Arts in Chevy specialist for mental health services at the Nina Malone, j'8 I, and her husband, Steve Chase, Md. Kansas City Veterans Administration Medical Svoboda, son, Sagan August Svoboda, Feb. 4 in Jeffrey Wesche, c'79, manages planning for Center He lives in Overland Park with his Laguna Niguel, Calif., where he joins a brother Abbott Laboratories in Abbott Park, III. He and wife, Janet. Wyler 4. Anita Johnson Wesche, d'81, live in Erich Bloxdorf, b'81, manages market devel- 1982 Wadsworth, and she's a teachers aide. opment for Levi, Ray & Shoup, a technology John Best, c'82, moved recently from Houston consulting firm in Springfield, III., where he and BORN TO: to Mission Hills, where he's executive vice presi- Mary Coombe Bloxdorf, e'81, make their Joel Herman, f'79, and Roxanne, daughter dent of the strategic initiatives group of Util- home. She's president of Coombe-Bloxdorf, a Elizabeth Jean, Oct. 5 in Kansas City, where icorp United. He and his wife, Pamela, have consulting engineering firm. Joel manages production atWilloughby three children, Jillian, 10; Caroline, 9; and Jack, Carol Coyle, c'8 I, has been promoted to Design Group. who's almost 7. senior technical staff member at the AT&T Data Michael Boehm, b'82, is vice president Processing Center in Kansas City. She lives in 1980 of Commerce Bank and a city councilman Bonner Springs. Joel Alberts, c'80, is a petroleum geologist for in Lenexa. Patricia Weems Gaston,j'8l, is national edi- Devon Energy. He lives in Edmond, Okla. Roderick Bremby, c'82, g'84, recently John Eyler, a'80, a'94, works as an architect for tor for the Washington Post in Washington, became an associate director of KU's work Heinlein Schrock Architecture in Kansas City. DC. She lives in Annandale.Va. group on health promotion and community Doyle Gerard, e'80, founded Grapevine.net Vicki Hooper, a'81, a'82, works as a senior development. He lives in Lawrence with April and Aleon Consulting in Overland Park, where associate for Hammel Green & Abrahamson in Harris Bremby, c'82, who has a medical he and Teresa Wolfe Gerard, b'79, g'81, Minneapolis, Minn. practice. make their home. She's a program leader for Patricia Houser, b'81, makes her home in Eric Dawson, b'82, g'84, works as deputy chief Deloitte Consulting. Annandale.Va. of resource management forTripler Army Med- Cynthia Berner Harris, c'80, coordinates Thomas Laming, c'81, is senior vice presi- ical Center inTripler Hawaii. He and Anna

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Romero Dawson, 71, live in Aiea. John Diamond, a'82, a'83, lives in Salt Lake DRAJMA OF SPORTS MOTIVATES CNN/SI ANCHOR City with Lee Phillips Diamond, f 83. He's a partner in Babcock Design, and she's vice presi- hough Laura Okmin dent of Diamond Phillips. has lived in Atlanta for Victor Dobras, g'82, directs regional public three years, the morn- affairs for Sprint in St. Paul, Minn., where he T ing sports anchor for and his wife, Sandra, s'93, make their home. CNN/Sports Illustrated admits She's a manager for Fairview Southdale she has seen little more of the Hospital in Edina. city than the CNN newsroom. Michael Grindell, b'82, works as a director of the Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta. But that doesn't bother her. Sports is a consuming passion TIGER ^B Jo Hardesty, c'82, l'86, directs KU's Legal H/OODS Services for Students. She lives in Lawrence that drives both her profes- ^^ and is a member of the 2000 class of Leader- sional and personal lives, and LAURA OKMIN ship Kansas. reporting the thrills of all-star Aft: BRAVES 6 ROCKIES 7 Mary Clem Ray, g'82, works for the U.S. competition is where Okmin, Department of the Army at Fort Leavenworth. j'91, finds her greatest fulfill- She and her husband, Ross, live in Winchester ment. In 1996, KEEPING SCORE: Lynn Crawford Shirey, j'82, lives in Portland, Okmin joined After her 199 I KU grad- Ore., where she's a paralegal with Louisiana- Her marriage last June to NFL scout uation Laura Okmia sports Pacific Corp. Paul Russell, who is working with the CNN as a Mid- ' anchor for CNN/SI, worked Kevin Singer, g'82, EdD'95, is associate super- new Houston franchise after earning a west sports her way through small- intendent of the Shawnee Mission school dis- Super Bowl ring last year with the St. reporter. Though ket stations, landing in trict. He lives in Lenexa. mar Louis Rams, is another testament to the based in Chica- Chicago with SportsChan- Paul Snyder, j'82,1'9O, recently joined the fact that she cannot get enough of the gO, her travel nel. After joining CNN, Kansas City law office of Polsinelli White as of proverbial game. schedule she was Promoted to counsel in the products liability, commercial "It's the ultimate story," Okmin says, , . sports anchor and moved litigation and general tort litigation practice remained relent- explaining her fascination with sports. toAt|anta groups. less. When an "In three hours, you have the perfect Douglas Stewart, c'82, works as a anchor position opened up in Atlanta, beginning, middle and end. There's noth- senior analyst for Birch Telecom. He lives in she was hopeful. "Paul and I were literal- ing more exciting than seeing the story Overland Park. ly meeting in airports," she says. unfold. It's the perfect drama." Nancy Zielke, g'82, is assistant general man- Jim Walton, president of CNN Sports, ager of the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities. Okmin grew up in Chicago in a family recalls, "We were looking for a person John Zuroweste, j'82, is marketing director of avid fans, including her father, two with good presentation on the air. As a for Coca-Cola in Houston, where he lives with brothers and a mother who ran journalist, she's fundamentally very his wife, Brenda, assoc. marathons. "I was in high school when sound. But she's also a decent and honor- the Bears won the Super Bowl," she says, BORN TO: able person, delivering us an exceptional "and my family went to a lot of sporting Steven, c'82, and Annette Craighead package." events together. In Chicago, you have to Pierce, j'84, daughter Luisa Mae, Dec. 12 in Today, Okmin is enjoying being a part Boulder, Colo., where she joins a brother Joe, 3. be able to talk sports." of CNN/Sports Illustrated s success. The 1983 After earning her KU journalism 24-hour channel continues to grow and degree, Okmin paid her first dues in tele- Edward Bolen, c'83, recently was appointed now produces all the sports material for by President Clinton to the Federal Aviation vision by reporting for the ABC affiliate CNN's news division. "If you asked me Management Advisory Council. He is president in Montgomery, Ala., and then the NBC my plans a few years ago," she says, "I of the General Aviation Manufacturers Associa- affiliate in Chattanooga, Tenn. In 1995, would have told you what station I want- tion in Washington, DC, and makes his home Okmin returned home to join Sports- in Bethesda, Md. ed to be with next. Every step was to get Channel Chicago as a beat reporter cov- Robert Chestnut, b'83, g'85, recently began a somewhere else. Now I am happy where ering the Chicago Bulls—the highlight of business-to-business Internet company, Sell- I am. I can take a deep breath." meat.com. He and Melissa Sampson Chest- her days in the field. After all her travels, it seems she has nut, j'85, live in Liberty, Mo., with their children, "I loved to watch how [Michael Jor- found a home inside the walls of CNN. Spencer; 8; Connor 5; and Madeline, 3. dan] ticked day in and day out during The rest of Atlanta can wait.-"•"•* Andrew Flynn, c'83, is vice president of the playoffs," she says. "He handled the —Davis is an Atlanta free-lance writer. This investment management at the Northern Trust. media and fans with great dignity. After is her first article jor Kansas Alumni. He lives in Hinsdale, III. seeing the way he worked, it became Ann Fields Frazier, d'83, and her husband, hard to tolerate anything less." Jonathan, celebrated their first anniversary Sept

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4.They live in Shawnee Mission, and Ann super- sons, Brett, I l;Taylor, 10; and Mitchell, 5. Sunnyvale, Calif., with their daughter Andrea, 2. vises aquatics for the American Red Cross. Andrew Lamers, c'84, g'92, is an associate Paul Boppart, b'86, l'9 I, recently joined Diana Johnson, d'83, owns Reflections Photo- professor of English at Bakersfield College in the Kansas City law office of Polsinelli White graphic Services. She lives in Albuquerque, N.M. Bakersfield, Calif, where he lives with his wife, as of counsel in the real estate/lending Dana Gilbert Knappenberger, d'83, makes Gail, and their son, Nathaniel, 6. practice group. her home in St. John. Sara Latta, c'84, works as a free-lance writer Gerald Callejo, e'86, manages products for Caroline Frieda Signor, s'83, works for Mid- in Champaign, III. Jeppesen Sanderson, an aviation firm in Engle- land Hospice Care in Topeka, where she's a Tim Neff, b'84, is area director of Ernst & wood, Colo. He lives in Littleton. social worker She lives in Overbrook. Young in Detroit. Phyllis Savage Lynn, c'86, l'89, works as a Robert, c'83, and Patricia Hitchcock Sheila Campbell Treybig, p'84, and Calvin, partner in the law firm ofYenson, Lynn, Allen & Turner, b'83, live in Canton, Mich. He's presi- recently adopted a son, Calvin Del, I.They live Wosick. She and her husband, Randy, e'89, live dent of Griffin Properties in Southfield, and she in Texas City,Texas. in Albuquerque with their daughter; Kristin, 5. Randy is a technical writer and chief engineer directs operations for Mercy Health Services in BORN TO: Farmington Hills. for Pony Pack. Brenda Wesierski Hull, j'84, and John, William Mahood, b'86, l'93, practices law John Whitbread, c'83, is president and CEO daughter Kira Eileen, Jan. 19. Brenda manages with Polsinelli White in Kansas City. He lives in of Cytometrix International, which provides communications for the Medical Group Man- Overland Park. quality-control and process-control information agement Association in Englewood, Colo., to the blood-bank industry. He lives in West Robin Miles, l'86, is a partner in the Houston where John is a physical therapist at Craig Hos- law firm of Bracewell & Patterson. Sayville, N.Y pital.They live in Highlands Ranch. David O'Brien, j'86, is the Florida Marlins MARRIED 1985 beat writer for the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Laud- Katherine Catlin, n'83, to Gary Roepke, Feb. erdale, Fla. Bruce Connelly, c'85, lives in Amsterdam, the 19 in Kansas City. Timothy Schauf, e'86, works as a senior Netherlands, with his wife, Barbara. He directs Deborah Gornetzki Leonard, b'83, to engineering specialist at Lockheed Martin Tacti- footwear merchandising for Nike. cal Aircraft in Fort Worth,Texas. Bruce DeVeney, Dec. 31. She owns a CPA prac- DaNeille Davis, d'85, is a health and fitness tice in Overland Park and has a son, Matthew, specialist for Pfizer She lives in Memphis,Tenn. BORN TO: who's 5. Mary Ann Rinkenbaugh Dreiling, p'85, a Brian Stayton, c'86, and Angelina, son, BORN TO: clinical pharmacist at Via Christi Regional Med- Cooper McGehee, May 5 in Tampa, Fla., where ical Center; makes her home in Wichita. Robert Flood, b'83, and Christine, daughter, he joins a sister Haley, 6, and a brother Jack, I • Robert Lewis, c'85, works as a staff epiomiol- Caroline, Jan. 10 in Southhampton, England, Brian is an associate with the law firm of ogist for Exxon in East Millstone, N.J. He lives in where she joins a sister, Elizabeth, who's almost Carlton Fields. Kendall Park. 3. Robert is a credit manager with IBM. Elyse Gundersen McBride, e'85, a'85, stud- Laura Behrndt Hughes, j'83, and Richard, 1987 ies art history at the University of Missouri-St. son, William Richard, Dec. 12 in St. Louis, where Krista Norton Gates, c'87, is a financial con- Louis. She lives in Webster Groves. he joins a brother, Stephen, 3. Laura co-owns sultant for Merrill Lynch in Denver She lives in Daniel Mock, c'85, is a manager with Sprint in Hughes/Tunney Media Group. Highlands Ranch with her husband, David. Overland Park, where he and his wife, Christine, John Hawk, b'87, manages projects for 1984 make their home. McPherson Area Solid Waste Utilities. He lives Philios Angelides, e'84, g'86, directs engineer- Christopher Morrison, c'85, continues to in Lindsborg. ing and is a vice president at Alpha Corp. in live in Nokomis, Fla. Marilyn Moore Layman, PhD'87, is superin- Sterling.Va. Paul Pannier, a'85, works as an architect for tendent of schools in DeSoto. She lives in Susan Cupps Bimle, h'84, manages occupa- HNTB Architects & Engineers in Kansas City. Lenexa and is a member of the 2000 class of tional therapy at St. Clair Memorial Hospital in He and Carolyn Eggert Pannier, b'86, c'86, Leadership Kansas. Pittsburgh, Pa., where she lives with her hus- live in Overland Park. Shannon Moe Miller, h'87, lives in Denver band, John. Joan Schneider Richardson, h'85, is a where she's president of St. Luke's Medical Center Mark Bossi, b'84, a partner in the St. Louis self-employed occupational therapist in Douglas, b'87, g'89, and Nancy Coleman law firm of Thompson Coburn, also serves on Morganton, N.C. Roe, c'89, make their home in Little Rock, Ark., the board of the American Bankruptcy Institute. Maria Smith, f 85, recently became an associ- with their children, Janie, 6; Ann, 4; and Roger Lee Carvell, e'84, and his wife, Brenee, cele- ate in the Los Angeles law firm of Arter & Had- who'll be I Sept. 21. Douglas is staff manager of brated their 14th anniversary last summer.They den. She lives in Manhattan Beach. process and analysis for Alltel. live in Bartlesville, Okla., with their children, Carl Saxon, b'87, recently was elected secre- Melissa, 9, and Tyler; 6. 1986 tary of the Kansas City chapter of the Missouri Jerri Flynn Hanus, e'84, and her husband, Janet Ahnemann-Cover, m'86, practices Society of CRAs. He lives in Shawnee. Daniel, live in Cincinnati with their sons, medicine at the Wetzel Clinic in Clinton, Mo. Doreen Sebring, n'87, is a neonatal nurse Andrew, 4, and Zachary, I. Kristy Lant Astry, j'86, is a senior technical practitioner at St. Joseph Medical Center. She James Huber, a'84, is a partner in Archimages, writer for J.D. Edwards in Denver. She lives in lives in Littleton, Colo. an architectural firm in St. Louis. Arvada. Michael Kelly, e'84, g'93, an integrated-risk Christopher Benham, c'86, j'86, recently SonyaWedel Siebert, g'87, teaches piano in leader for Procter & Gamble, lives in Lenexa joined Symantec Software as vice president of Des Moines, Iowa, where her husband, Mark, with Teresa Leckie Kelly, b'83, and their global marketing. He and his wife, Lynn, live in g'89, works for the Des Moines Register.

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Peter Trunfio, b'87, works as assistant vice MARRIED Daniel Redler, c'90, manages new business president for RLI Insurance. He lives in New Graden Gerig, b'89, to Danika Jensen, Oct. development and directs motor sports for York City. 23.They live in Hermosa Beach, Calif, and Siemens Energy and Automation in Norcross, Ga. He and his wife, Dara, live in Atlanta with BORN TO: Graden is principal consultant with Pricewater- house Coopers in Los Angeles. their sons, Alec, 4, and Jansen, 2. Rebecca Haddock Finn, j'87, and Tim, son, David Saubers, e'90, is a senior software Aidan Charles, Dec. 19 in Roswell, Ga., where BORN TO: engineer for Honeywell International in Olathe. he joins a sister; Jessica, and a brother Everett. Teresa McGovern Krage, b'89, and Gary, He lives in Ottawa. Melissa Lance Meng, j'87, and Michael, g'99, son, Matthew Ronald, Feb. 7 in Overland Matthew, j'90, and Patricia Landry daughter, Ava Adelle, April 25 in Kansas City, Park, where he joins a sister Erin, 2. Gary is a Williams, b'90, live in Parker Colo., with their where she joins a brother Lance, 2. project engineer with Black &Veatch. sons, Reilee, 3, and Colton, I. Christopher Trimarche, c 87, and Rebecca, daughter; Chloe Ellen, April 8 in Scottsdale, Ariz, BORN TO: Christopher is a branch manager for RHI Con- Gerry, b'90, and Carrie Woodling Dixon, sulting in Phoenix. Class of 1990 b'91, daughter; Kathenne Ann, Nov. 2 in Flower 1988 Mound,Texas. Gerry and Carrie both work Homecoming for Ernst & Young in Dallas, where Gerry is a Jody Dickson Becker, j'88, coordinates public senior manager and Carrie is a tax compliance relations for the Kansas City, Kan., Public Library. Reunion specialist. She lives in Independence, Mo. The Class of 1990 will Brenda Eisele Jackson, c'90, and Jeffrey, son, Christine Hyde Clarke, b 88, is a senior gather for its I Oth-anniversary Jonathan Charles, April 9 in Lawrence, where auditor for Legislative Post Auditors in Topeka. they live. Brenda is a managed-care specialist She and her husband, Michael, assoc, live in reunion at 7 p.m. Oct. 20 at with the Health Care Financing Administration Lawrence. Fox and Hound English Pub in Kansas City, and Jeff is a Kansas Supreme Collin Freeman, p'88, p'90, works as a clinical & Grille, 10428 Metcalf in science specialist for Bayer He lives in Prairie Overland Park.Tickets are $25 Court research attorney in Topeka. Village. at the door. Group-rate lodging John, j'90, c'98, and Margaret "Meg" Dunn David Fritz, e'88, m'93, practices medicine is available at the Overland Milburn, b'98, son, John Charles, Feb. 12.They with the Kansas City Neurosurgery Group. He Park Marriott, 800-228-9290. live in Lawrence, and John works for the Associ- ated Press in Kansas City. and Jamie Mai Fritz, b'9 I, live in Leawood Class members will then attend with their children, Anna, 3, and David, I. the Oct. 21 Homecoming foot- 1991 Clark Massad, j'88, moved recently to Paris, ball game vs. Colorado (for John Armstrong, c'9 I, serves as El Paso where he handles European advertising for County deputy district attorney in Colorado Toyota. tickets call 800-34-HAWKS). Springs. BORN TO: David Crook, e'9 I, is a flight controller for Wendy Wilkens Allison, f 88, and Jeffrey, United Space Alliance's ISS electrical power sys- c'89, son, James Bradley, April 7 in St, Charles, 1990 tem in Houston. Mo., where he joins a sister Jessica, 3. Wendy is Jonathan Buss, j'90, c'90, works as a region Jeanne Grisnik Henning, n'9 I, works as a a graphic designer for the University of Mis- underwriter for Stewart Title in Salt Lake City, clinician at the KU Medical Center. She lives in souri-St. Louis, where Jeff works as a database where he and Catherine Bourne Buss, j'90, Kansas City. analyst. make their home. Brian, c'9 I, m'96, and Julia Mayden Eric Hughes, j'90, is vice president and cre- Holmes, b'92, make their home in Abilene 1989 ative director for Maris, West & Baker in Jack- with their daughter; Anna Rose, I. Kimberly Neuner Brien, d'89, received a son, Miss. He and his wife, Kristi, live in Brandon. Scott Reinecke, c'91, is a senior analyst for degree in occupational therapy earlier this year Brett Leopold, c'90, practices law with Stin- Baltimore Gas & Electric in Baltimore, Md. He from Rockhurst University. She and her hus- son, Mag and Fizzell in Kansas City. and Mary Skarecki Reinecke, c'9 I, live in band, Russell, c'89, live in Merriam. Curtis Linscott, l'90, is vice president and Odenton, and she's an executive assistant with Alison Young Kagan,j'89, covers consumer associate general counsel of Cash America Charlie McBride Associates in Washington, DC. affairs for the Detroit Free Press. She lives in International in Fort Worth.Texas. He lives in Shawn Smith, e'9 I, is vice president of D.L Royal Oak. Arlington. Smith in Topeka. John Kagel, PhD'89, makes his home in Kyle Mathis, e'90, directs business services for Bryan White, c'9 I, l'94, recently moved from Shrewsbury, Mass. He's a scientist with Primed- Phillips Chemical in Houston. Atlanta to Kansas City, where he practices law ica in Worcester John Pascarella, c'90, is an assistant professor with Spencer; Fane, Britt & Brown. Sean Williams, j'89, sells real estate for of biology atValdosta State University inVald- Hedges Realty Executives in Lawrence, where osta, Ga., where he and Mary Carlson Pas- MARRIED he and Stacie Cooper Williams, b'84, g'90, carella, c'99, make their home. She's a training Christine Abraham, c'91, to Clint Williams, live with their daughters, Madison, 4, and manager for Ambling. April 22.They live in Lincoln, Neb., where she's Abigail, I. Timothy Patterson, d'90, works as a quality a pharmacist with PharMerica. Jonathan Zeko, l'89, is a partner in the San assurance auditor for JRH Biosciences in Angela Zink, n'9 I, to Jim Daniel, Oct. 23.They Diego law firm of Grant & Zeko. Lenexa. He lives in Overland Park. live in Prairie Village, and Angela coordinates

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organ procurement for the MidWest Transplant Network in Westwood. OLYMPIC SETS SHOW ARCHITECT'S HANDIWORK BORN TO: "T "T Then the 2000 summer Tracie Reinwald Miller, d'9 I, and Quinn, \/\ / Olympics open Sept. son, Alexander Quinn, Jan. 3 in Lawrence, Quinn V V 15 in Sydney, Aus- manages production for Miller Broadcasting. tralia, Bret Moore can take a deep David VanSickle, e'91, and Heathen son, breath and look back on a whirl- Noah Bays, March 30 in Pittsburgh, Pa., where David studies medicine at the University of wind year. Pittsburgh. Heather is a CPA and a litigation "Twelve months ago I was dri- support manager for Gleason & Associates. ving taxicabs and snowboarding in Colorado," says Moore, a'97. 1992 Now, as a construction coordina- Jessica Johnson Aalbers, c'92, works as an tor for Cinnabar, a Los Angeles accountant for the St. Louis Service Bureau. She entertainment construction com- lives in St. Louis. pany that builds sets for movies, Jeff Bartley, e'92, recently was promoted to associate with Larkin Associates Consulting in TV shows and commercials, Kansas City. Moore is one of two "leads" overseeing think of any- OLYMPIAN TASK: Building Susan Lynch Brown, '92, directs sales for installation of the studio sets from which thing else," he NBC's Olympic studio sets has Lindblad Special expeditions in St. Louis, where NBC will broadcast its Olympic coverage. says. "This has dominated Bret Moore's life since January. "It has been an she lives with her husband, Karey. "The stress is pretty intense," allows been a big grow- incredible learning experience; Theodore Contag, c'92, is an agency Moore, who long ago quit pondering the ing experience I'm super glad I did it." specialist with Aid Association for Lutherans stakes of the high-profile project. "I for me, profes- in Edina, Minn. remember the first time I thought, 'Wow, sionally. To learn Carey Mills Federspiel, d'92, and her hus- this is going to be seen by everybody in I could work through problems this large band, Fred, moved recently from Santa Fe, N.M., America.' It was overwhelming." has been a huge confidence builder. It to Larchmont, N.Y.Their family includes two children, Erin, 5, and Harry, 3. Instead he downplays his role in has really allowed me to find my strong Anita Gasparovic, p'92, works as a assembling three sets—morning show, and weak points as a designer and pharmacist for PharMerica in Lenexa. She prime-time and late-night—as "construc- builder." lives in Olathe. tion, not brain surgery." But in an indus- Combining those two skills is exactly Wendy Glauser, b'92, is a project accountant try that typically measures longevity in what drew Moore to Los Angeles. A self- for Black & Veatch in Kansas City. hours rather than years, it's clear Moore's described "tactile" person who has been Heather Gage Jackson, j'92, works as work is much more than standard "slash involved in hands-on construction since a marketing writer for Blackbaud in and burn" carpentry. his teens, he resisted pursuing a career in Charleston, S.C. "NBC has the rights for the next five architecture after graduation. Vivian Fletcher Kinder, j 92, owns BizCom Olympics," says Moore, "so the push is "I really enjoyed architecture, but in Lakin. She lives in Garden City and is a mem- for reusability." Unlike past Olympics, there isn't enough building that I can ber of the 2000 class of Leadership Kansas. where sets were gutted, then bulldozed, see," says Moore. "A few firms do design- Kimberly Belcher Kisler, c'92, works as a special education teacher for the Three Lakes NBC's sets will be disassembled, packed build, but there's usually a large split Educational Cooperative in Lyndon. She and in cargo containers and shipped to L.A., between the two. I want to do both." her husband, Allen, live inTopeka with their son, where they'll be refitted for the 2002 He worked for a Lawrence construc- Dayne, I. winter games in Salt Lake City. tion company for six months before mov- Kerrianne Monahan, c'92, is an embassy Moore started the project in January, ing to Telluride, Colo., "to take some consular assistant with Pacific Architects and when he was handed the designers blue- time off and play before getting serious." Engineers in Moscow. prints. He decided which materials and After snowboarding and working for two MARRIED what type of structure would best bring years, he decided he wanted to use his those ideas to life while meeting the net- design degree without straying far from Margann Bennett, c'92, l'96, to Jeff White, June 10 in Emporia.They live in Kansas City, work's demands. The sets were built in building. where she practices with Shook, Hardy & pieces in Cinnabars L.A. shop, then "L.A. kind of seemed like the obvious Bacon and he works for Honeybaked Ham. shipped to Sydney and assembled for the choice," says Moore, who pursued his first time. Suspense over whether the goal in typical Hollywood fashion. "I BORN TO: pieces would fit together caused Moore a didn't know exactly how it worked or David Carttar, a'92, c'92, and his wife, Clau- few sleepless nights. who did it. I just packed up my truck dia Olea, s'92, a'92, daughter; Amelia Celinda "I was terrified, basically, and couldn't one day and drove out there."-""""1* Carttar March 6.They live in Lawrence with

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 57 CLASS NOTES their daughter; Isabel, 2, and David is a lead engi- MARRIED 1995 neer with Risk Management Solutions. Charlotte Wortz, c'93, g'94, to Robert Mor- Michael Coast, p'95, works as a pharmacist at Michael, c'92, and Christy Hahs Flannery, ris, April I in Durham, N.C. She's a communica- Medical Center Pharmacy. He and Kimberly j'92, son, Brendon Michael, April 5 in Olathe. tion consultant with Zagnoli McEvoy Foley, and Kramer Coast, d'95, live in Cimarron, and Michael is a senior systems engineer for he's a partner in the law firm of Smith, Ander- she's a physical therapist at Western Plains Informix Software in Lenexa, and Christy man- son.They live in Raleigh. Medical Complex in Dodge City. ages marketing programs for American Century Mark Galus, c'95, is staff counsel for the Investments in Kansas City. BORN TO: Chicago Housing Authority. Mark Pettijohn, b'92, andTraci, son, Gareth Brent, e'93, and Laura Dillon Engelland, David Hanson, e'95, c'95, recently received a Foster, Nov. 29 in Solomon, where Mark is a e'93, daughter; Hannah Elizabeth, April 5 in master's in mechanical engineering from the farmer and Traci works at Solomon State Bank. Madison, Wis., where she joins a brother Dillon, University of Minnesota. He's a product devel- Jason Petty, b'92, and Cheryl, daughter; 2. Brent is a structural engineer and associate opment engineer at Sulzer Spine-Tech in Min- Abigail Elyse, May 3 in Omaha, Neb., where for Flad and Associates, and Laura is director neapolis. she joins two sisters, Bailey, 4, and Hannah, 2. of Envision. Kurtis, e'95, and Anne Sutherland Hassler, Jason is a senior margin analyst for AmeriTrade Russell, g'93, and Louise Watson Thomp- c'95, j'95, make their home in Hays with their Holding Corp. son, '94, daughter Kathryn Anderson, Dec. 14 daughter Emma, I. Kurtis is director of engi- 1993 in Winter Park, Colo., where Russell is president neering for the city of Hays, and Anne is a tech- of Winter Park Ice House. Christina Case, e'93, works as an engineer nical writer for GBA in Lenexa. Scott Zeligson, b'93, and Lauren, son, Miles for Duke Energy/TEPPCO in Baytown,Texas. Mark Lynch, m'95, has been named a share- Eli, April 20 in Overland Park, where Scott is a She lives in Houston. holder in the Overland Park law office of CPA with Gottlieb, Snow & Marsh. Christine Kaiser Chapo, c'93, is a sales rep- Polsinelli, White,Vardeman & Shalton. Jeffrey Mills, e'95, is a project engineer with resentative for Hoechst Marion Roussel in 1994 Kansas City. URS Greiner Woodward Clyde in Santa Ana, Guillermo Alvarez, e'94, g'96, manages pro- Meridith Crane, j'93, works as an associate Calif. He lives in Newport Beach. jects and is a design engineer for Grupo Integra marketing manager with American Identity in Kenton Newport, e'95, manages projects for in San Jose, Costa Rica. Kansas City. Archer Engineers in Mission. Patricia Borowitz Case, b'94, recently Ron Dock, b'93, recently was promoted to Sandra Olivas-Talavera, j'95, is a general was elected a small-business banking officer vice president at First Union National Bank in assignment reporter at KCTV-5 in Kansas City. at Commerce Bank in Kansas City. She lives Charlotte, N.C. Hsin-Fu Wu, e'95, serves as a lieutenant in the in Lawrence. Elizabeth Lawrence Dufek, g'93, is a family U.S. Navy stationed at Suquamish.Wash. Marlene Dearinger, j'94, works as a therapist atWahkiakum County Human Ser- community relations specialist for the city of vices in Cathlamet.Wash. MARRIED Waco, Texas. Jeannene Glenn, c'93, manages sales for the Amy Green, c'95, h 98, and Beatty Suiter, Catherine Bowdern Gorman, c'94, lives in Portofino Hotel and Yacht Club in Redondo c'95, m'99, Aug. 14. Amy is an occupational ther- Beach, Calif. Prairie Village with her husband, Patrick, c'95. apist at Children's Hospital in San Diego, and Carole Zink Gray, s'93, s'96, works as a clini- Mendi Stauffer Hanna, j'94, is a retirement Beatty is a physician. cian at the Center for Counseling and Consul- counselor at John Knox Village in Lee's Summit, tation in Great Bend. Mo. She and her husband, Scott, j'92, live in BORN TO: Lyle, j'93, and Caryl Francis Niedens, f'93, Shawnee. Kristie Allan Chavey, c'95, and Edward, make their home in Westwood. He's a senior Michael McDaniel, b'94, works as an daughter Lindsey Lee, March I 6 in Lenexa, reporter for Bridge News Service, and she's a accountant for Sprint in Kansas City. He lives where Kristie coordinates clinical data for project manager for Faciliteam. in Prairie Village. Pharmaceutical Research Associates. Edward is Vikki Vaughn Noonan, c'93, is an oral- Stephanie Wilson Reeve, j'94, works as a an engineer with Page McNaghten Associates pathology research fellow at Harvard Universi- sales systems business consultant for Marriott in Fairway. ty's dental school in Boston, Mass. She and her International. She lives in Bethesda, Md., with Sarah Byram Poppe, d'95, n'97, and Carl, husband, Sean, live in Stoughton with their son, her husband, Brian.They celebrated their first son, Grant, April 14 in Lawton, Okla., where he Baker I. anniversary June 12. joins a sister Keaton, 4. Craig Roy, e'93, has been promoted to an James Schulhof, c'94, owns Schulhof Amy Kautter Rand, c'95, g'98, and Dennis, associate with the Larkin Group in Kansas City. Property Management in Milwaukee. c'96, son,Tyler, May 4 in Prairie Village. Amy is He lives in Louisburg. KoalTague, e'94, is a senior process engineer an audiologist with Midwest Medical Specialties, Denise Scott, c'93, recently became an area with Murphy Oil in New Orleans. and Dennis is a meeting planner for coordinator at Middle Tennessee State Univer- Eric Zabilka, a'94, has been promoted to an ASE Group. sity in Murfreesboro. associate at Omni Architects in Lexington, Ky. Cynthia Weller, b'93, is a senior account 1996 executive for Corinthian Mortgage in Mission. BORN TO: Katrina Stullken All, e'96, is an electrical She and her husband, Brian Hatch, live in Jared, e'94, and Kristi Lundy Klein, f 95, engineer with Smith & Boucher Consulting Prairie Village. daughter Lauren Elizabeth, Jan. 19 in Overland Engineers in Overland Park. She and her hus- Marshelle Wells, l'93, practices law with Park. Jared is a mechanical engineer with band, Matt, c'93, live in Lawrence. Daubert Law Firm in Wausau, Wis., where she Garmin International, and Kristi directs choirs at Michael Caldwell, e'96, works as a project and her husband, Arves Jones, make their home. St. Paul's Methodist Church. engineer for Brungardt Honomichl & Co., a

,8 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 consulting firm. He lives in Basehor Zachary Schmidt, e'97, serves as a lieutenant Brian Runk, s'98, to Kristen Spohn, Nov. 20 in Casondra Reiter Campbell, s'96, manages in the U.S. Marine Corps. He and Nicole KU's Danforth Chapel.They live in Lawrence. human relations for Quebecor World. She lives Mehring Schmidt, e'98, live in San in Chicopee, Mass. Clemente, Calif. BORN TO: Julie Klinock Cortes, j'96, does free-lance Carrie Williams, j'97, is a copywriter for Sandra Villalobos Del Rio, d'98, and Juan, writing in Overland Park, where she and her Medscape in New York City. She lives in son, Nathan Isamel, May 10 in Kansas City. San- husband, Marc, make their home. Hoboken, N.J. dra teaches at John Fiske School, and Juan Sharon Covey, c'96, is a speech-language Curtis Yohon, b'97, works as a financial works for Heart of America Bolt and Nut. pathologist for HeartSpring in Wichita. adviser and district manager for Waddell & Kim Guthrie Jones, '98, and Jarius, d'99, Kymberly Lemke Haag, c'96, is a bridal con- Reed in Overland Park. He and Elizabeth daughter; Olivia Elaine, Feb. 4 in Lawrence. Jarius sultant at Barrier's in Wichita, where she and Scanlon Yohon, c'96, live in Olathe with their her husband, Brandon, c'96, make their home. is an investment assistant at Commerce Bank. sons, Connor, 2, and Trevor; who's almost I. Douglas, a'98, and Amy Beets Loveland, Deborah Jacobs, d'96, works as a nurse at Children's Hospital in Denver MARRIED c'00, son, Phillip Reese, April 24,They live in Justin Kelly, e'96, is president of Kelly Manu- Kevin Schreiner, c'97, toTammi Mclntosh, Lawrence, where Amy is a graduate teaching facturing in Wichita. April 15.They live in Austin,Texas. assisant in KU's department of human develop- Shane, b'96, c'96, and Corinna Peterson ment and family life. Doug is an architect for Moser, c'97, celebrated their first anniverary 1998 HNTB in Kansas City. June 5.They live in Olathe. Marcus Brewer, e'98, received a master's in Gabrial Petzold Reyes, c'98, and Patrick, son, civil engineering last year from Texas A&M Uni- Jeremy Zellers, b'96, is an outside sales rep- Alexander Patrick, May 22 in Gardner Patrick is versity. He's an assistant transportation resentative for Ferguson Enterprises, and a mechanical engineer for Hughes Machinery. Laura Wedel Zellers, b'96, g'97, is an internal researcher with the Texas Transportation Insti- auditor at Wichita State University.They live in tute in College Station. 1999 Wichita with their son, Austin, who'll be I Kelly Cannon, j'98, is a sports design editor Jonathan Oelman, c'99, is president and Oct. 21. for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Fort CEO of Forward Thinking in Chicago. Worth,Texas. Tina Schreiner, g'99, is a supervisor for MARRIED Erik Crane, c'98, lives in Overland Park, Carrier Corp. in Tyler,Texas. Jessica Clemmer, j'96, to Grant Gordon, where he's a network operations specialist April 15.They live inTulsa, Okla. for Sprint. MARRIED BORN TO: Laurie Smerchek Graham, p'98, works as a Jennifer Lill, b 99, and James Mick, b 99, pharmacist at Lindburg Pharmacy in Pittsburg. g'OO, March 25 in Overland Park. He's a staff Ron, c'96, and Erin Capps Bailey, s'97, She lives in Arma with her husband,Troy. daughter, Reese Angela, Dec. I 6 in Overland auditor for Ernst & Young in Kansas City, and John Jones, s'98, manages the child and family Park. Ron is a scientist for Oread Inc. in they live in Shawnee Mission. program and works as a therapist at Bert Nash Lawrence, where they live, and Erin is a social Mental Health Center in Lawrence, where he worker for Kaw Valley Center. 2000 and his wife, Ella, c'96, s'98, make their home. Kristine Reeves Manning, s'96, and Patrick, Michael Henry, c'00, works in the leadership Ann Marchand, j'98, produces the metro sec- son, Spencer Michael, March 16 in Lawrence, development program at SBC Communication. tion forWashingtonpost.com in Arlington, Va. where Kristine is a medical social worker at He lives in Arlington Heights, III. She lives in Washington, DC. Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Bryan Robbins, c'00, is an aviation meterolo- Ranee Melton, g'98, teaches elementary 1997 school and coaches high-school basketball in gist for Jeppesen DataPlan in Los Gatos, Calif. He lives in San Ramon. Julie Sigler Anderson, c'97, manages projects Pueblo, Colo. Tina Rues, c'00, teaches at St. Joseph Health and is a chemoprevention research trials coor- Grant Moise, j'98, lives in Denver; Colo., dinator at the KU Medical Center's Breast Can- where he's a sports marketing account excecu- Center She lives in Shawnee with her son, cer Prevention Center. She lives in Olathe. tive for KCNC-TV. Jacob, who'll be I Nov. 30. David Breitenstein, j'97, reports for the Grey Montgomery, c'98, j'98, edits copy for Russell Wachter, '00, is a project engineer for Naples Daily News in Bonita Springs, Fla. He the Statesman Journal in Salem, Ore. Carollo Engineering in Phoenix, Ariz. He lives in lives in Estero. Steven Pond, e'98, is a mechanical engineer Chandler Janet Casida, g'97, is an editor in the corpo- for the DLR Group in Overland Park. rate research department at Sprint. She lives in Jonathan Tosterud, j'98, works as assistant Associates Kansas City. manager of Borders. He lives in Overland Park. Thorsten Liebers, assoc, manages clinical Frederick Dasso, b'97, works as a financial research at Technical University Dresschen adviser for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter MARRIED Medical Facility in Dresden, Germany. Alexander Ewing, e'98, to Ellen Rugen, in Chicago. BORN TO: Susanna Loof, c'97, j'97, lives in Johannesburg, May 6 in St. Louis. Alex is a flight test engineer South Africa, where she works for the Associ- for Boeing. Terry, assoc, and Lynn Allen, assoc, son, ated Press. Jessica Lusk, n'98, to Mark Scheer March 25 Alexander Gene, March 17 in Lawrence, where Amy Rodenberg Needle, c'97, executive in Wichita. She's a nurse at Kent County Gener- he joins a sister, Angela, 5, and a brother Chase, director of Millennium Philadelphia, lives in al Hospital, and he's a U.S. Air Force lieutenant. 3.Terry is KU's head football coach, and Lynn is Merion, Pa., with her husband, Larry. They live in Dover, Del. a fitness consultant for Heartland Fitness.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 THE NEIL MECASKEY HOME A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR GRACIOUS LIVING

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The Early Years Amy Wismer Rose, c'27, 100, May 23 in Donna Hughes Fleischman, f 39, 81, Vida Gates Appl, c'26, 98, May 28 in Man- Parsons. She taught school in Peru, Cherryvale Feb. 6 in Palm Beach, Fla., where she was a hattan, where she was a retired teacher and a and in Coffeyville before retiring in 1966. A son, retired teacher homemaker. She and her late husband also had two daughters, 14 grandchildren and 32 great- James Fowler, c'33, c'34, m'36, 88, April 8 operated a motel in Great Bend for many grandchildren survive. in Plainview,Texas. He practiced medicine for years.Two sons, two sisters, six granddaughters Evan Royer, '29,93, June 6 in Gardner where many years and is survived by his wife, Barbara; and six great-grandchildren survive. he was a retired national merchandise manager two daughters, Margaret Fowler Johnson, b'70, Iva Hawley Cavanah, d'24, 105, Dec 19 in for Wilson Sporting Goods. He is survived by and Martha Fowler Mundis, d'70, g'80, g'96; a Pomona, Calif., where she was a retired teacher. his wife, Melva; a stepson, Randolph Kubes, g'77; son; two sisters, one of whom is Maxine Fowler A daughter; a son, nine grandchildren and 15 a stepdaughter; and two grandsons. Swan, b'38; and four grandchildren. great-grandchildren survive. Edward "Doc" Steichen, c'26, 95, May I 6 Marvin Heter, e'34, 88, May 17 in Kansas Laura McGaffey Clarenbach, g'26, Nov. 6 in Kearney, Neb. He practiced medicine for City, where he worked for Kansas City Power & Light for 40 years. He is survived by his wife, in Seattle. She was an avid genealogist and is more than 40 years in Norton and in Lenora, Marjorie Boyle Heter,'37; five sons, one of survived by two daughters. where he was mayor for 28 years. He also whom is Thomas, c'63; a daughter; a brother; Frank Eckdall, c'28, l'30,92, April II in served in the Kansas Legislature.Two sons, a Edward, e'37; I I grandchildren; and nine great- Savannah, Ga. He had lived in Emporia and had daughter, 10 grandchildren and six great-grand- grandchildren. been an attorney for the Santa Fe, Missouri children survive. Pacific and Katy railroads and had owned and Natalie Hines, c'31,90, June 14 inTopeka. Harry Vidricksen, c'26, m'28, 100, May I operated International Tours. He is survived by She had been a psychiatric social worker in Tulelake, Calif. For many years, he practiced a son, Frank, c'76; a daughter; Deborah Eckdall for the California Department of Mental medicine in Weed, where he operated a 26- Helmken, c'73; and two grandsons. Hygiene before retiring in 1973 and moving bed hospital. He is survived by his wife, Louise to Leavenworth. Charles Harkness, p'23,96, April 19 in Swan Vidricksen, n'27; a son; a daughter; a Overland Park. He was a retired pharmacist. sister; eight grandchildren; and nine great- Aaron Hitchens, e'35, 87, Dec 26 in Surviving are two sons, one of whom is grandchildren. Granada Hills, Calif., where he was retired Charles, c'48, g'54, EdD'63; a daughter; seven from a career in research and development. grandchildren; four stepgrandchildren; eight 1930s He is survived by his wife, Mabel Spindler great-grandchildren; and seven stepgreat- Hitchens, '36; and a daughter Evan Bolin, b'39, 82, Dec. 10 in Springfield, grandchildren. Mo., where he was a retired CPA. He is sur- Howard Hoover, c'34, 90, May 9 in Houston, Ines Pratt Jamison, f 26,96, Jan. 7 in vived by his wife, Doris; a son, Bryan, b'63; a Texas, where he practiced law and was retired Wichita, where she was a music professor stepson; eight grandchildren; and six great- senior partner of Hoover; Baz & Slovacek. He at Wichita State University for more than grandchildren. is survived by his wife, Lillian, a son, a daughter, 30 years. A niece and a nephew survive. three grandchildren and three great-grand- John Burger, c'39, g'40, PhD'54, 83, Aug. 6, children. Lester Jones, c'28, 95, March 29 in Fairbury, 1999, in Winter Park, Fla. He was retired after Neb., where he was a photographer and had Eugene Liddy, m'35, 87, Dec. 12 in Sarasota, 30 years as a mathematics and physics profes- been active in civic affairs. He is survived by his Fla., where he practiced cardiology and internal sor at Emporia State University and is survived wife, Elsie, two daughters, seven grandchildren, medicine for more than 40 years. He also by a son; a daughter Joanne, f'71; and two 13 great-grandchildren and four great-great- served as director of quality assessment at grandchildren. grandchildren. Sarasota Memorial Hospital until retiring at the Melvin Dodd, b'38, 89, Jan 17 in Manhattan. age of 82. Survivors include his wife, Naoma, a F. Ross Little, b'28, 93, May 9 in Wichita, He owned and operated Dodds Home Fur- son and two grandsons. where he was past president of Wichita Loan & nishings for many years and later was a real- Investment and Western Investments & Realty. Roland "Kickapoo" Logan, d'30, 93, Feb. estate broker He is survived by his wife, Mary; He is survived by his wife, Evelyn Nelson Little, 15 in Santa Ana, Calif. He owned a manufactur- c'29; a daughter, Sallie Little Norton, c'60; two three sons, two of whom are William, c'76, d'80, ing company, Logan Inc., in Los Angeles and had grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. c'94, and Melvin, c'71; two daughters; a sister; helped design the training room at the U.S. Air and six grandchildren. Ralph McCall, '28,93, March 10. He lived in Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Surviving Moore, Okla., and had been a CPA and an Thomas Duckett, c'31, c'32, m'34, 90, are a son, a daughter; a sister and several grand- executive officer for Hercules Powder Co.Two April 26 in Sabetha. He lived in Hiawatha, children. sons, a daughter, a sister, nine grandchildren and where he practiced medicine for many years. Isabel Julien McElwain, g'35, 87, Feb I 6 in seven great-grandchildren survive. He is survived by a son,Thomas, m'67; a daugh- Cameron, Mo. She taught Sunday School for Barbara Olinger, c'23, g'31, 99, April 6 in ter; three sisters, two of whom are Helen more than 40 years and is survived by three Lawrence. She had taught English at Boswell Duckett Campbell, n'39, and Allene Duckett sons, one of whom is Gary, '69, and six grand- Junior High School inTopeka for many years. A Isbell, n'36; and four grandchildren. children. niece and a nephew survive. Floyd Fassnacht, g'32,92, May 19 in Prairie Dorothy Durkee Miller, c'31, 88, Jan I in Marjorie Garnet Raish, c'29,9 I, May 15 in Village. He worked for Phillips Petroleum for Manhattan. She was a homemaker and at the Topeka. She taught English, French and Latin for many years, retiring in 1973 as assistant superin- age of 68 had joined the Peace Corps and many years in Topeka, Lawrence, Atchison and tendent of the Kansas City refinery.The under- spent two years in Thailand and a year in Nepal. Hays, and she and her late husband also had graduate research laboratory at Southwestern She is survived by two sons; two daughters, one owned and operated Raish Drug Store in College is named for him. He is survived by of whom is Tybel, c'69; and three grandchildren. Potwin. Survivors include a son; a sister; a two daughters, Janet Fassnacht Baumhover, d'66, Sarah "Icee" Schiveley Moxley, '34, 88, brother Donald Garnet, g'39, l'41; a granddaugh- g'79, and Mary Fassnacht Whitaker, d'62, g'96; a May 9 in Hutchinson. She lived in Sterling, ter; and two great-grandchildren. granddaughter; and a great-grandson. where she and her husband owned and oper-

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ated the Sterling Bulletin for many years. She is survived by her husband, Edward, assoc; two Paul Lonnecker, b'40, 81, Feb. I 3 in Kansas survived by her husband, Max, c'35. daughters,Toastie Blewitt Racy, f 65, andTeri City, where he was retired president ofThomp- Arlette Ward Orear, c'33, 89, March 19 in Blewitt Overzan, c'68; two sons; eight grandchil- son-Hayward Chemical Co. He later taught La Jolla, Calif. A memorial has been established dren; and eight great-grandchildren. business at Rockhurst College and was a consultant for Arrow Forklift. He is survived by his with the KU Endowment Association. A daugh- Harry Caldwell, p'40, 83, Feb. I 3 in Wichita, wife, Mildred; three daughters, one of whom is ter and two grandsons survive. where he was a retired pharmacist. He is sur- Sara Lonnecker Dreiling, c'71; two sons; and 10 vived by his wife, Doris; two sons, Craig, c'75, Barbara Kester Page, c'32, g'34, 88, May 4 grandchildren. in Urbana. She is survived by two brothers, g'80, and Kevin, p'82; and four grandchildren. Stanley McEwen, c'47, m'50, 73, June I in William Kester, c'37, g'39; and Frederick Kester, Russell Cartwright, g'42, 91, May 4 in Cof Fort Smith, Ark, where he was an opthamolo- c'28; and a sister, Elizabeth Kester Holmer, c'40. feyville, where he was a retired elementary gist and founder of the Opthamology Clinic, Arthur Poindexter, c'39, 82, Jan. 5 in Hunt- school principal and former city commissioner. now known as the Eye Group. He is survived ington Beach, Calif. He was a highly decorated He is survived by his wife, Eliza; a son; three by his wife, Anne Stodder McEwen, d'50; a son; Marine colonel and World War II veteran who daughters, two of whom are Teresa Cartwright a daughter; and three grandchildren. served 26 years before retiring in 1963. He Gilmore, d'55, and Ladonna Cartwright Melton, taught International Relations at California State n'61; eight grandchildren; I 3 great-grandchildren; James Mclntire, b'47, 77, April 4 in Punta University, Long Beach for 16 years. He is sur- and a great-great-grandchild. Gorda, Fla. He lived in Paola for many years and vived by his wife, Patricia Foy Poindexter; two owned Carrothers Construction. He is survived daughters; a brother and sister-in-law; and three Wesley Elliott, c'47, g'49, PhD'52,74, by a son, David, e'71; a daughter; a sister; and stepchildren. March 14 in Nashville,Tenn. He was a professor two grandchildren. emeritus of chemistry at Fisk University, where Joseph Stempleman, b'32, 89, Feb. 3 in he taught from 1958 until 1996. He is survived Donald McMinimy, m'45, 80, May 15 in Kansas City, where he was retired co-owner of by a son, a daughter and two sisters, one of Fort Smith, Ark, where he was a retired JoAbbott's Appliances. He is survived by his whom is Shirley, f 54. physician. He is survived by his wife, Nell, a wife, Reeva; two sons, Alan, c'70, and Neil, j'71; daughter, three granddaughters and a great- and three grandchildren. Doris Larson Engel, c'43, 77, April 25 in granddaughter. Aurora, Colo. She lived in Liberal for many Virginia Taylor Tappen, d'38, 83, April 25 years, and had started the local Dairy Queen Tjaart Nanninga, m'41, 84, Dec. 24 in San in Overland Park. She lived in Topeka for many Marcos, Calif. He was a retired obstetrician and and Peoples Travel Agency. She is survived by years until moving to Overland Park in 1994. gynecologist and is survived by his wife, Virginia, two sons, one of whom is Lawrence, c'73; a She is survived by two daughters, Marti Tappen four daughters, a stepdaughter a stepson, three daughter; three brothers; two sisters, one of Anderson, c'65, and Claudia Tappen Gibson, sisters, six grandchildren and a great-grandchild. whom is Ruth Larson Taylor c'48; and nine d'72; seven grandchildren; and four great- Sanford Porte, b'48, 80, March 4 in Kansas grandchildren. grandchildren. City. He had been a civil and structural engineer Marilyn McBride Farley, c'40, 81, March 3 Ernest Vanek, c'35, 88, May 19 in Springdale, for Howard Needles Tammen & Bergendoff in Dallas. She is survived by two sons, a daugh- Ark. He had lived in Bella Vista since 1977. He until retiring. A daughter, a sister and two grand- ter three brothers, two sisters, nine grandchil- was an assistant basketball coach at KU after children survive. graduation and later had coached at Herington, dren and two great-grandchildren. Oliver Samuel, e'48, 74, June 12 in Kansas Wichita,Topeka and Emporia before entering William Hensley, c'49,1'SI, 75, April 15 in City. He had owned and operated Emporia the sporting goods business. A memorial has Warrensburg, Mo., where he practiced law for Plumbing and Heating and later was a branch been established with the KU Endowment many years. He is survived by his wife, Edith, a manager for Eureka Federal Savings and Loan in Association. Surviving are his wife, Dorothy, two son and two grandchildren. Emporia. A memorial has been established with sons, a stepson, a stepdaughter; five grandchildren and eight stepgrandchildren. Darrel Kegerreis, e'49,78, June 10 in Hot the KU Endowment Association. He is survived Springs, Ark. He had a long career with General by his wife, Mary Gayle Marsh Samuel, c'47; a Motors in Linden, N.J., and in Kansas City. He is son, Raymond, c'75; a daughter, Elaine Samuel 1940s survived by his wife, Dorothy; two sons, James, Booth, d'77; and a granddaughter. Homer Anderson, b'48,77, May 28 He e'69, and Stephen, b'74; a daughter; and four lived in Overland Park, and had worked for Put- Warren Seever, b'48, e'48, 76, May 4 grandchildren. nam and Jones Wholesale Carload Lumber and in Mission. He was retired from a career in Wholesale Lumber and Plywood Distribution Lloyd Kerford Jr., b'48, 77, June I in Topeka. real estate and is survived by his wife, Joyce for 24 years. He is survived by his wife.Wilma, He lived in Atchison, where he was an auditor Hahn Seever, b'45; two daughters, one of and a brother, Dean, b'49. for Kerford Quarry and later for the Kansas whom is Linda Seever Kessler, c'81; and three grandchildren. Irene Nordstrom Bellman, d'41, 87, April Department of Revenue. He is survived by his 16 in Panama City, Fla. She is survived by her wife, Carolyn Pennell Kerford, '48; a daughter; a Louis Stadnik, m'49, 79, Oct. 7 in Cheyenne, husband, Raymond, assoc; a son, John, b'70; son; and three grandchildren. Wyo. He was an opthalmologist and is survived three sisters; and two grandchildren. Dale Kiefer, b'41, 85, Jan. 27 in Lawrence. He by his wife, Dolores Farrell Stadnik, c'47; two sons; a brother; and two sisters. Glen Berger, b'48, 76, May 24 in Littleton, lived in Baldwin and had owned and operated Colo. He was a petroleum landman and ex- Motor Inn Garage and worked for Ethan Smith Charles Teghtmeyer, g'47, 84, May 15 in ploration manager for Midwest Oil and was Moving and Storage. He is survived by his wife, Colorado Springs, where he was a retired elected in 1992 to the Denver Association of Helen; two daughters, one of whom is Elaine junior-high instrumental music teacher He is Petroleum Landmen Hall of Fame. Surviving are Kiefer-Fletcher, c'71; and two grandchildren. survived by his wife, Glenna; a son; two daugh- his wife, Eugenia Hepworth Berger, d'46; two Roy Lawson, m'49, April 22 in Tulsa, Okla. He ters; a brother; and a grandchild. sons; a daughter; and four grandchildren. is survived by his wife, Nellie, a son, a daughter, DelsonThelen, b'40, 81, April 5 in Belton, Bette Davis Blewitt,'44, 77, June I in a stepdaughter; a stepson, a brother and 10 Mo. He had been an accountant for 45 years Lawrence, where she was a homemaker She is grandchildren. and is survived by his wife, Betty, assoc; a

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daughter; a son; a stepdaughter; a stepson; a sis- teacher, worked for Certified Chemicals and James Potts, b'52, 69, April 3 in San Francis- ten FrancesThelen Coon, c'47; three grandchil- was a bricklayer Surviving are his wife, Peggy co, where he was a salesman for IBM, West dren; and two stepgrandchildren. Smith Huggins, c'42; a son, Robin, d'67; three Coast advertising manager for the Saturday Lauretta Gerstenberger Trabant, '41, 86, brothers; and three sisters. Evening Post and had owned a marketing and May 10 in Lawrence. She lived in Eudora and Martha Hutcheson, n'59, 63, June 12 in consulting firm, Potts & Associates. A memorial had been a medical secretary at Hercules Pow- Olathe. She lived in Mission and was retired has been established with the KU Endowment der Co. She is survived by two sons, one of director of personal health services for the Vis- Association.Two daughters and a brother whom is Dennis, c'63; and four grandchildren. iting Nurse Association and the Johnson Coun- survive. Helen Asher Uhlig, n'49, 71, June 13 in ty Health Department. She is survived by two Charles Replogle, c'50, m'53, 73, May 12 in Overland Park. She is survived by two sons; a brothers and a twin sister Great Bend, where he practiced medicine for daughter, Jane Uhlig Stotts, g'95;two brothers, Anne Gage Lewis, c'50, 71,June 3 in Kansas many years before retiring in 1993. He is sur- Allen Ashen p'56, and Kenneth Ashen p'66; and City, where she was a photographer She is survived by his wife, Lois Lacy Replogle, '52; a son, six grandchildren. vived by her husband, Revis; two sons, one of Steven, c'84; three daughters, Jane Replogle Bar- ber c'78, Susan Replogle Debes, c'82, and Anne Hobart Wallace, m'45, 79, Aug. 23, 1999, in whom is Ralph, l'81; two daughters, one of Replogle Kutina, c'85; seven grandchildren; and Lincoln, Neb. He was a former physician and is whom is Marjorie Lewis Ready, e'78; two broth- three stepgrandchildren. survived by his wife, Kay, two sons, two daugh- ers, John Gage, l'52, and Frank Gage, e'47; and ters and seven grandchildren. nine grandchildren. Betty Slagle Rickey, d'51, 71, Nov. 3 in Ran Wilma "Willy" Smith McNiel, '56, 66 cho Cucamonga, Calif, where she was a former 1950s April I in Georgetown,Texas. She had worked teacher and a homemaken She is survived by William E. Bell, c'57, 64, Oct. 26 in Over- for Raychem and was an administrative assistant her husband, Robert, e'53;two sons; a daughter; land Park. He served 26 years in the Army, to the CEO of Harris Hospital in Fort Worth. a sister; and a granddaughter retiring in 1983 with the rank of colonel. His Surviving are her husband, William; two sons; a Betty Schoewe* Sewell, f'51, d'53, 67, tours of duty included two in Vietnam and five brother; and three grandsons. May 20 in Kansas City. She lived in Kearney, Mo., in Europe. He also served as vice president Dorothy Meier, c'56, 66, June 4 in Santa and had been an elementary-school teacher with the J.C. Nichols Company. His wife, Mary; a Monica, Calif. She lived in Malibu and taught Two sons, two daughters and two grandchil- son; and three stepchildren survive. sociology at California State University at dren survive. Robert Berrey III, '50, 70, April 5 in Kansas Northridge. Several cousins survive. Robert Shea, s*57, 69, March 5 in Kansas City. He lived in Excelsior Springs, Mo., and had Clayton Morrison, b'59, 61, April 14 in City, where he was a retired clinical social been a lawyer and a judge. He is survived by his Great Bend, where he was vice president of worker on the staff of Heart of America Family wife, Katharine; two sons; a daughter; a brothen Thurman-Morrison & Associates Insurance until and Children Services. A memorial has been Bedford, '44; and two grandchildren. 1995. He is survived by his wife, Karyl; four established with the KU Endowment Associa- Ruth Elder Bradley, s'57,73, April 20 in sons; two daughters, one of whom is Kimberly tion. Several cousins survive. Topeka. A brother and a sister survive. Morrison Fountain, f 78; and a grandson. Mary Anne Spangler, d'58, g'62, PhD'74, Arthur Brady, m'58, 72, March 12 in Kansas Lawrence Nelson, b'50,77, June 9 in Over- 64, May 8 in Lawrence. She taught elementary City, where he practiced medicine until retiring land Park. He was a public merchandise ware- school in Hutchinson,Topeka, Baltimore and in 1993. He is survived by his wife, Louise, a house and distribution corporate executive for Madison, Wis., as well as teaching at KU's son, two sisters and a brothen Crooks Terminal Warehouses for 34 years School of Education. She also had been an John Buess, m'50, 83, Nov. 20 in Victoria, before retiring in 1981. He is survived by his elementary curriculum consultant for the where he was a pediatrician for many years and wife, Eleanor Brown Nelson, c'46; a son, Mark, Kansas State Department of Public Instruction later worked for the Victoria City and County b'82; a daughten Martha Nelson Sparks, f 77; in Topeka. A sister Jean Spangler Dutcher c'61, Health Department. He is survived by his wife, and two grandsons. d'62, survives. Hope; two daughters; a son; a brother; and four John "Dave" Nieder, b'52, 70, March 14 in Arthur Standfield, '58,78, May 16 in grandchildren. San Diego, where he had worked for J. Cole- Lawrence, where he had managed mail pro- Samuel Cheeseman, d'5l, 73, March 2 in man and Associates and Greenwood Memorial cessing at the U.S. Post Office and been active Coffeyville. He was retired from a career with Park Cemetery. A brothen Roger c'63, survives. with the Chamber of Commerce. He is sur- Cessna and Boeing in Wichita. Surviving are his Richard Oxandale, c'59, l'62, g'81, vived by his wife, Joan; a daughten Jeri, c'80; a wife, Barbara; a son; a daughter; three grandchil- PhD'87, 63, Feb. 7 in Topeka. He lived in stepson, Raymond DeRosia Jr, c'88; a step- dren; and four great-grandchildren. Lawrence, and had been assistant attorney gen- daughter Pamela DeRosia Eales, c'84; and three grandchildren. John Gage, l'52, 76, June 6 in Eudora, where eral, assistant U.S. attorney and chief of litigation he had a farm. He also practiced law with the for the trust territory of the Pacific Islands. He Charles Tankersley, c'51, 75, May 18 in Lawrence firm of Lathrop & Gage and had also had been a visiting assistant professor at Overland Park. He lived in DeSoto and was been a director and president of the American Kansas State University, associate professor at retired after a 35-year career with KPL. He is Royal Association in Kansas City. He is survived Baker University and general counsel of the survived by his wife, Ouita; three daughters, one by his wife, Eleanor Pack Gage, c'47; two sons, Kansas Department of Revenue. Among sur- of whom is Nola Tankersley Toms, c'72; two John, c'74,179, and David, b'86; a daughten vivors are a daughter and a son, David, '02. sons; a sister; two stepdaughters; four stepsons; Claudia Gage Valentine-Fjone, n'76; a brothen Bernard Petty, e'51, 79, May 22 in Olathe. and several grandchildren. Frank, e'47; eight grandchildren; and two step- He worked for Black & Veatch Consulting Engi- Raymond Ulsh, '57,70, March 9 in Palm grandchildren. neers in Kansas City for 35 years. Surviving are Springs, Calif. He lived in Mission Hills and in La Robert Huggins, d'50, 83, June 13 in Olathe, his wife, Marguerite, a son, four daughters, a Quinta, Calif, and was a retired consultant for where he had served on the Olathe City Com- brothen a sister 14 grandchildren and eight La Farge Construction Materials of Kansas City. mission and the Olathe City Council. He was a great-grandchildren. Survivors include his wife, Jan Taton Ulsh, '57; a

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daughter; Stephanie, c'78; a son; and two granddaughters, Kirsten Myers Tharp, c'84, and Alison Park and had been a teacher She is survived by children, Myers-Arenth, c'88; and a grandchild. her husband, John, and two brothers. Austin Williams, PhD'51, Oct. 27 in Falls William Schmidt, c'60, h'63, 61, June 4 in Robert Kissel, j'74,g'76,48, May 2 in Hous- Church, Va. He was a research scientist and a Independence, where he was president and ton. He lived in Montgomery, Ala., where he staff member of the Systematics Laboratories owner of Potts Chapel. He had been mayor of was vice president of marketing for Baptist and the National Marine Fisheries Service, Independence and was active in many civic pro- Health. He is survived by his wife, Lynda; a based in the Smithsonian Institution in Washing- jects. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Cook daughter; two sons; his mother; a brother; ton, D.C.A son is among survivors. Schmidt, d'60; a son, Derek, j'90; and a brother. William, j'73; and a grandson. Marcille Parker Wohlgemuth, c'52, 70, CleaGard Selig,'62, 96, April 17 in Min- Bruce Krug,f 73,48, July 26, 1999, in Hous- March 27 in Wichita, where she worked in resi- neapolis. She taught elementary school in ton. He owned BKD Morningside, a graphic dential real estate with J.RWeigand's for more Lawrence for many years and is survived by a design firm in St. Louis, Mo., where he lived. Sur- than 20 years. She is survived by her husband, daughter; Marilyn Perry Pauley, b'58; and a viving are his wife,Veronica; two sons, one of Richard; two sons; a daughter; Anne Hirleman grandchild. whom is Nicholas, '01; his mother; two broth- Kettler, m'84; four stepsons; a stepdaughter; Alice ers; and a sister Frank Wilson, EdD'61,81, May 23 in Topeka. Wohlgemuth Nolan, j'87; and 17 grandchildren. He had been an educator and a principal for 39 Roger Mignot, d'70, 51, June 7 in Shawnee William Woody, d'56, 69, Feb. 6 in years and was an adjunct professor at Wash- Mission. He directed counseling at Bonner Lawrence, where he was retired from Hallmark burn and Emporia State universities. Surviving Springs High School for 30 years and is sur- Cards. He is survived by his wife, Cleo Smith are his wife, Alice Culver Wilson, 76; and a son, vived by his wife, Miryam; a stepson, Joshua Woody, '53; a son, William, c'94;two daughters, Kent, c'79, Bentley, j'00; a stepdaughter; Jessica Bentley Rosalind, j'77, and Janise, c'80; two brothers; Clara Young, '63,96, April 21 in Winchester Peters, c'97; and his mother two sisters, one of whom is Sandra Woody Gretchen Brittain Muncy, s'72, 65, Jan. 18 Francisco, d'64; and a grandson. She was an elementary-school teacher in rural Jefferson County for 37 years, including 15 in Atchison. She was retired from a career with years at Oskaloosa Elementary School before the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabili- 1960s retiring in 1964. tation Services and is survived by her husband, Onan Burnett, g'65, 78, Jan. I inTopeka, John, assoc; three sons, one of whom is John, where he was a legislative lobbyist and liaison c'76; her mother; a brother; a sister; nine grand- fortheTopeka public schools and a school prin- 1970s Adriana Arroyo Barrientos, '74, 66, Feb. 18 children; and three great-grandchildren. cipal and administrator He was instrumental in in Lawrence. She taught elementary school in Sue Giffin Schiefelbusch, d'76, 54, June 3 in the establishment of Capital City High School Guatemala City, Guatemala, and later worked Chicago, where she taught first grade at the and was an adjunct professor at Kansas State for the Lawrence Community Development Institute for Scholastic Achievement. She is sur- University. A son, a sister and two grandchildren Department. She is survived by a son, Rick, f'81; vived by her husband, Lary, c'65, g'65; a daugh- survive. and a daughter Lili, f'99, ter; her mother; and a sister; Kitty Giffin, c'92 Alice "Penny" Jones Cohn, c'60, 62, April 25 in Kansas City. She had been head therapist Simplicio "Gene" Bucia Jr., f'78, 70, April Sharon West, '79, 53, May 5 in Cameron at Baptist Memorial Hospital and at Humana 10 in Kansas City. He lived in Lawrence, where Park, Calif. She is survived by her parents, Beryle Hospital for more than 30 years and was vice he worked for the city planning department for and Mary West, two brothers and a sister president and treasurer of Cohn Consulting more than 20 years. Survivors include three and Services. A memorial has been established daughters; three sons, one of whom is Gene, 1980s with the KU Endowment Association. She is f'87; a half brother; nine grandchildren; and John Estlack, '86, 39, May 28 in Lawrence, survived by her husband, William, b'60;two three great-grandchildren. where he was an estimator for Schmidt Building sons, one of whom is David, b'87; two sisters; Kelly Kennard Eldridge, '79,43, May 24 in Supply. Earlier he had been in the construction and a grandchild. Phoenix. She had been a teacher and is sur- business in Greensburg. He is survived by his wife, Nancy, his mother and a sister. Helen Walton Ellsworth, g'67,91, May 18 vived by her husband, Ron; two daughters; her in Kansas City, where she had been a teacher parents, George, d'52, and Beverly Kennard, Therese Kavanaugh Manweiler, f 84, 38, and a primary consultant for more than 40 g'78; and a sister Jan. 29 in Lawrence, where she lived. She was years. Several nieces and nephews survive. Aleene Sharshal Griggs, s'74,79, Jan. 18 in president of Fundamental Technology and a graphic designer at Interconnect Devices in Steven Flood, c'60, 61, April 26 in Hays, Topeka. She was a retired social worker and Kansas City. Surviving are her husband, Jerry, where he was a retired judge of the 23rd child abuse and neglect specialist for the Kansas c'85, PhD'98; two daughters; three brothers; and Judicial District. He is survived by his wife, Department of Social and Rehabilitation Ser- Diane Hoisington Flood, d'6l; four daughters, vices. Surviving are two sons; two daughters, three sisters. three of whom are Karen Flood Moeder, p'90, one of whom is Katherine Griggs Sellers, c'67; Christopher Moore, '88, 38, March 16 in Rachel, j'87, and Sarah, b'96; a sister; and four and three grandchildren. Colorado Springs, Colo. He lived in Trinidad and grandchildren, Michael Hamm,'73,48, April 15 in was a nuclear medical lab technician in La Junta. Charles McManness,f'68, 53, April 10 in Lawrence, where he was a supervisor at West- Surviving are his mother, Rosabe Zamora Lawrence. He had been an asbestos worker at ern Resources. A memorial has been estab- Moore, c'79; four brothers; and three sisters. KU and is survived by two daughters; two sons; lished with the KU Endowment Association. He Beverly Needels, g'88, 58, April 27 in his mother; two brothers, one of whom is is survived by his wife, Patricia; two daughters; Lenexa. She taught at Shawnee Mission South Brian, c'84; and four grandchildren. three sons, two of whom are Michael, c'98, and High School and is survived by her husband, Bill; Brandon, b'99; his mother; a brother; three sis- Lauree Koch Roper,'63, 58, Jan, 17 in a son; two daughters; three brothers; her father ters; and five grandchildren. Lawrence. She was a special education teacher and stepmother; and three grandchildren. and later had a private family law practice. She Kathryn "Jean" Dumit Hardey, '79, 67, Michael Patterson, '88, 56, March 17 in is survived by her husband, John, c'66, g'81; two April 25 in Kansas City. She lived in Overland Topeka. He had been an assistant manager at

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Dillons and the receiving supervisor for Office Raymond Goetz, 77, May 2 in Lawrence, a'61; a brother; a sister; seven grandchildren; Max. He is survived by a son, his mother; two where he was a professor of law from 1966 and I 3 great-grandchildren. sisters and a brother until retiring in 1987. He also was the sixth per- Eleanor Nicholas Letts, 88, Dec 15 in St. Ada Jean MacTaggart Reese, '81, 74, manent arbitrator for Major League Baseball. A Joseph, Mo. She had taught home economics memorial has been established with the KU March 12 in Overland Park. She was a speech and is survived by a son and a daughter; Endowment Association. He is survived by his therapist and had worked at Trail's West State Nicolee Letts Wood ring, d'65. wife, Elizabeth Morey Goetz, g'70, PhD'77; four School in Kansas City. Surviving are a daughter; a Marjorie Stone Miller, 90, April 10 in sons, three of whom are Raymond, c'81, son and a grandson. Sabetha. She was a laboratory technician in the Thomas, c'90, and Steve, c'85; two daughters, pathology and oncology departments of the KU Luci Slattery Reilly, g'80, 50, Feb. 18 in Sibyl Goetz Wescoe, c'75, and Vickie, n'88, g'97; Medical Center for 40 years. A sister and sever- Washington, D.C. She lived in Leavenworth and a sister; and six grandchildren. had been a teacher for many years. She is sur- al nieces and nephews survive. vived by her husband, Edward, c'61; a son; and Omar Gregory, c'49,73, May 15 in Filbert Munoz, 78, April 24 in Chappaqua, two brothers. Lawrence. He had taught at the American N.Y He lived in Independence, Mo., and was International College in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, retired president of McDaniel Title and a for- Jim Strahm, '82, 39, May 12 in Overland and been a Peace Corps lecturer and director Park. He had co-owned Midwestern Musical mer lawyer He is survived by his wife,Verlyn, a of the English Language Institute at American son, a daughter, a brother and four grandsons. Co. in Mission and played guitar and wrote University in Cairo, Egypt. In 1970, he joined music for several local bands. He is survived by KU's Applied English Center; where he was Harold Peters, 81, Jan. 25 inTopeka. He lived his parents, a brother and a sister. associate director and assistant professor of lin- in Lawrence, where he was a marketing representative for Peters Kubota Glenn. Surviving are Harry "Jim" Walker Jr., '81,41, Feb. 20 in guistics. He is survived by his wife, Irawati Sofion his wife, Mary Montgomery Peters, g'75; three Kansas City from injuries suffered in an automo- Gregory, 78. sons, two of whom are John, c'85, and Bradley, bile accident. He lived inTopeka and is survived Glen McGonigle, g'67, 84, June 9 in Eudora. f'97; a daughter; a brother, Richard, a'54; and a by his wife, Nancy Jo; three sons; his parents; He lived in Lawrence, where he was a retired grandchild. two brothers, one of whom is William, b'83; and teacher, farmer and stockman. He taught Naida Cunningham Saunders, 74, May I in a sister, Renee Walker Orr, c'80. physical education at KU from I960 until 1985 Kansas City. She lived in Independence, Mo,, and and earlier had taught and coached at Attica, is survived by two sons, a daughter, a step- 1990s Council Grove and Junction City. Surviving are daughter; a brother nine grandchildren and 10 John Barron, s'90, 48, May 24 in Arvada, his wife, Mary Lou Hackbarth McGonigle, '81; a great-grandchildren. Colo. He had been chaplain atTopeka State daughter, Jennifer McGonigle Liebnitz, c'61; two Hospital and later managed case management sisters; six grandchildren; and four great-grand- services for the Jefferson Center for Mental children. Health in Denver He is survived by his wife,Vic- Elizabeth Sherbon, d'30, 92, June 7 in SchOOl Codes Letters that follow toria; two sons; two daughters; his father; his Lawrence. She danced with the Martha Graham names in Kansas Alumni indicate the school mother, Gloria, d'65; a brother; and a sister, Dance Company in New York City from 1937 from which alumni earned degrees. Numbers Susan Barron Schafer, d'80. to 1940 and later opened Sherbon Dance Stu- show their class years. Derek Jackson, c'99, 33, April 20 in Kansas dio in Wichita. In 1961, she moved to Lawrence City. He had been a substitute teacher a Wyan- to direct the dance program at KU until retiring a School of Architecture and Urban dotte County sheriff's deputy and a police offi- in 1975. A studio theatre in KU's Robinson Design cer He is survived by his wife, Karen Block Center is named for her A memorial has been D School of Business Jackson, c'93, g'97; his father; James, d'63, g'72; a established with the KU Endowment Associa- c College of Liberal Arts and sister; Kylie, c'93; and a brother; Chad, h'94. tion. A brother; a niece and two nephews sur- Sciences Emily "Shelley" McCoy,'97, 24, Feb. 17 in vive. School of Education Louisburg. She worked in technical support at School of Engineering : Garmin International in Olathe and is survived Associates School of Fine Arts by her parents, James and Lorray McCoy, a Frank Addis, May 27 in Wichita, where he Master's Degree brother; a sister and her grandparents. was retired office manager at E.G. Stevens g h School of Allied Health Paul Terfler, '92, 3 I, May 23 in Lawrence, Tobacco and co-owner of Sunset Products. A School of Journalism where he owned Astra's Billiards. He is survived memorial has been established with the KU i by a son, his father and stepmother; his mother Endowment Association. He is survived by a 1 School of Law and stepfather; a stepbrother; a half brother; a son, Bill, e'60, g'64, PhD'68; a daughter, Judith m School of Medicine Addis Mack, d'62; a brother; two sisters; a stepsister and his grandparents. n School of Nursing granddaughter; and a great-granddaughter School of Pharmacy Irvin Buller, 74, June 3 in Moundridge. He The University Community School of Social Welfare was retired senior vice president of Halstead : John Clark, g'60, 67, May 3 in Lawrence, DE Doctor of Engineering where he was a professor of environmental Bank. Surviving are his wife, Ruby, assoc; two DMA Doctor of Musical Arts studies and history from 1963 until retiring in daughters, Diana, s'99, and Melonie, b'75;two 1997. He also had been assistant dean of brothers; six sisters; and four grandchildren. EdD Doctor of Education research, acting chair of history and chair of the Elsie Binkley Ireland, 94, Feb 12 in PhD Doctor of Philosophy environmental studies program. Surviving are his Lawrence, where she was a homemaker A (no letter) Former student wife, Lois Meisinger Clark, c'76, g'79; two sons; a memorial has been established with the KU assoc Associate member of the daughter; Larisa Clark Nightingale, c'82, s'91; a Endowment Association. She is survived by a Alumni Association sister; and six grandchildren. daughter; Virginia Ireland Beu, c'52; a son, James,

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 65 SCHOOLWORK BY LAZZARINO & HILL The physician-scientist is in New internal medicine chair brings research dollars, expects others to follow suit

ince becoming chairman of internal medicine Jan. 1, Thomas DuBose wasted no time in creating a department Sin his image—specifically, that of the physician-scientist. DuBose, a prominent researcher of a kidney-stone disorder known as renal tubular acidosis, wants the School of Medicine to move away from its traditional emphasis that values teaching while not doing enough to encourage faculty research. "We clearly have not had enough physician-scientists," says DuBose, only the sixth chair of internal medicine in the School of Medicines 100-year history. "With a mission of education and not research, we've eroded our position." DuBose arrived at KU Medical Center from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, where he was vice chair of internal medicine. An Alabama native, DuBose had worked in Texas for nearly 30 years. It took a lot to get him to leave, but he says KU made the perfect offer. "I saw that with the support of the chancellor, the Endow- TOP DOC: Thomas DuBose, new chairman of internal medicine, is eager ment Association and very clearly the dean of medicine to to hire faculty who can bring along NIH-funded research. build a program like this, it would be an unparalleled opportunity," DuBose says. "You don't find many opportunities like this DuBose says, because academic hospitals, which generally have in the country." higher costs because they take on the most difficult cases, are DuBose, also the Peter T. Bohan Professor of Medicine, says often not the favorites of the managed-care industry. he plans to add at least 15 physician-scientists to the 78 inter- "We want to have a faculty that is ahead of the curve in nal medicine faculty already on staff at KUMC and at area VA terms of advances in biomedical research that is translated medical centers. The new faculty will have to bring established rapidly to the bedside, which in turn enriches teaching and the National Institutes of Health research grants to interest overall quality of the medical center," DuBose says. "We want DuBose—who has done NIH-funded research for 21 years and enhance our image as a unique caregiver." brought to KU his own $140,000 annual NIH grant. Since Donald Hagen, executive vice chancellor of KU Medical DuBose's arrival in January, that research has already produced Center, says DuBose's appointment was especially critical one published paper, with two more ready for publication. because many of the department heads will need to be "The national ranking of departments of medicine and of replaced in the next few years. medical schools in general is based on their level of funding "We believe strongly that if you're going to be a premier from the NIH," DuBose says. "The KU School of Medicine is medical center you have to be balanced," Hagen says. "You way down; there are 125 medical schools in the U.S., and can't have everybody just practicing medicine. You also have we're down in the 90s. We want to be in the middle in the be involved in the latest research. The key to a medical center next five years, and in the next 10 to 15 years we want to be in like ours is to have the ability to create new ideas in research the top third. In order to do that, we have to have physician- and translate them into patient care. Dr. DuBose is exactly the scientists who are developing and expanding biomedical right physician-scientist to take the lead in rebuilding what is knowledge." probably the most important department in the School of DuBose explains that traditional teaching physicians use the Medicine. This was the key, key recruitment." hospital's patients, along with case material, to teach their med- DuBose replaces the popular Norton Greenberger, who ical students. He favors physicians who use their own original stepped down at the end of 1999 after holding the post since research to expand students' learning experiences while also 1972. Freed of 800 hours a year of committee meetings, leading the way to better treatments for patients. Greenberger, now senior associate dean for medical education, That's important in the competitive age of managed care, is focusing on details of how medicine is taught at KU.-^*"*

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ENGINEERING states that have much better transporta- L. Knight Foundation in Miami, expects tion systems," Downing says. to begin his new Colorado post Jan. 1. NASA program could help Brinkman joined the KU faculty in boost access to rural towns GRADUATE 1970, and was named dean in 1975. Under Brinkman s calm, secure leadership, avid Downing, professor of aerospace Visiting professor gets feel the William Allen White School of Jour- Dengineering, would like to make it for Mark Twain's river nalism and Mass Communications blos- easier for sparsely populated areas like somed with some of its most productive Western Kansas to attract new businesses. eaching an intensive, two-week Alice years. He left the school in 1986 to The answer, he believes, is to use satellite TE Holmes Institute course on Mark become vice chancellor for academic and wireless-communication technology Twain in the English department this affairs and remained the University's chief to make small-town airports simpler and summer, visiting professor Susan Harris of academic officer until 1993, when he left safer to use. Pennsylvania State University decided to for the Knight Foundation job. "One of the problems with a state like try something that would be impractical "I surprised myself a little that I chose Kansas is that our population is widely back home in State College: She took her to go back into administration," Brinkman dispersed," Downing says. "We have lots students on a field trip to see firsthand says from his Miami office, "but not with of good people but they aren't all in the the setting for so many of Twain's stories. a return to campus. I always held out same place." Among the 120 small air- Harris and eight graduate students hope that I would return to a campus ports in the state, only 17 have the journeyed to Hannibal, Mo., to tour the before I was through working." capability to land planes in bad weather. town, visit Twain's boyhood home and Brinkman says he is eager for the chal- That lack of accessibility hinders walk along the river that runs through the lenges of the deanship at Colorado, where economic development in the small, five books covered by the course: Tom a strong faculty is eager for a new build- isolated communities that often need Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, The Adven- ing and a more prominent role on the it most. tures of Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wil- Boulder campus. He says he expects it to Downing thinks a proposed NASA son and The Autobiography of Mark Twain. be his last stop before retirement. program, the Small Aircraft Transportation "I wanted them to get a feel for the "I guess I'll find out how big my heart System initiative, could open underused scenes and the way Twain used the area to is," Brinkman says, "whether there's room airports to more air traffic. The project define for Americans what the Mississippi for the black and gold along with the would use the latest technologies in wire- Valley region is," says Harris, whose schol- crimson and blue." less communication, satellite-based global arship includes several monographs and positioning networks and flat-panel dis- two books on Twain. She designed the KU LAW play screens to give even small airports course to explore how the writer's per- the capability to land planes in bad sonal past influenced his work. The trip Alumna lands clerkship weather. That would open the door to to the river—the highlight of the course, with U.S. Supreme Court commerce, tourism and medical care in according to Harris—helped drive that many small towns across Kansas and point home. nn Scarlett left her Kansas City firm much of the Great Plains. "What got to them," she says, "was the Aafter less than a year on the job— "For economic development to hap- river's smell, its look and feel, its proximi- with good reason for the quick departure. pen, there has to be dependable access," ty to his boyhood home and its presence Scarlett, 1'98, accepted a clerkship on Downing explains. "Once towns get this in that town." the U.S. Supreme Court. She will work technology, they could have access to air for Justice Clarence Thomas, who has taxi services, commuter flights, package JOURNALISM twice visited KU since being appointed to delivery and those types of things that the court. you just have to be able to schedule in Popular former KU dean Scarlett follows Dean Stephen McAllis- order to run them efficiently. Right now to lead Colorado program ter, c'85, 1'88, who clerked for Thomas that's not happening." and Justice Byron White. Another KU Downing persuaded U.S. Rep. Dennis an it be true? The School of Journal- connection with the Supreme Court is Moore, c'67, to schedule a congressional Cism's beloved former dean, Del Associate Professor Chris Drahozal, who field hearing at KU this fall. Brinkman, has agreed to become dean of clerked for White. "This is a new infrastructure that leap- journalism and mass communications at Scarlett will be the third KU law gradu- frogs the need to put concrete every- Big 12-rival University of Colorado. ate to clerk at the highest court in the where, and it gives us a chance to make a Brinkman, currently director of jour- land, and there might be another next state like Kansas equally competitive with nalism programs at the John S. and James Continued on page 69

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 67 SCHOOLWORK A sense of completion Dean departs just as her biggest projects, including new education home, wrap up

s she wrapped up her term as education dean this make sure our courses are preparing students for that." summer, Karen Symms Gallagher took satisfaction in The $14.1 million Pearson renovation, which used Crum- Aseeing the completion of two projects that dominated bling Classroom funds set aside by the Kansas Legislature to much of her time and energy during her six years at KU. transform the former dormitory into a technologically In July Gallagher's work as chairman of the Kansas Profes- advanced facility, equips the School of Education to do just sional Teaching Standards Board paid off when the state that. A well-stocked science lab will help future science Board of Education finally adopted the group's recommenda- teachers incorporate everything from Bunsen burners to tions for performance-based licensure requirements for sophisticated computer models into science instruction. An Kansas teachers. In August, she oversaw the School of Edu- instructional design lab will let student teachers create teach- cation's move from Bailey Hall to a state-of-the-art home in ing materials for classroom use. A statistics lab stocked with the newly renovated Joseph R. Pearson Hall and Teacher high-powered computers and statistical software programs Education Center. will give education students data and teaching tools. "It's personally gratifying to have been involved in both Pearson's 12 classrooms, 12 seminar rooms, and 100-seat projects," says Gallagher, who left KU in early September to lecture hall feature the latest in electronic learning, including become dean of the University of Southern California's laptop portals, video display screens and high-speed Internet Rossier School of Education. "It's a great feeling to be able to leave knowing that these projects have happened. But really this is just the beginning; there's still a lot of work to do." Gallagher notes both were decades-long efforts that she joined after signing on as dean in 1994. The two projects are connected in other ways, as well. The licensure standards rep- resent "a monumental shift" in teacher training, according to Gallagher. Currently students demonstrate their readiness for teaching by completing an approved program of study. As the new standards are phased in over three years, prospective teachers will be evaluated on how they put their knowledge to use in the classroom. "Instead of seat time the emphasis will be on what you know," Gallagher says. "Your performance will get a license. DONE DEAL: Outgoing education dean Karen Gallagher leaves Interim Dean Jerry Bailey with a new building and All of us in the University must new teacher licensure standards.

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Continued from page 67 conducted by full-time faculty volunteers. Carothers says 22 such tutorials will be year. David Stras, c'95, 1'99, recently offered this fall. That's four more than connections. Gallagher is particularly interviewed with a justice (he declines to ever before. say which one) for a clerkship that would excited about a telecommunications class- By the end of summer orientation, 400 begin next summer. Stras is currently room that will make it easier for students students had signed up for the honors clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals' 4th to get the most out of a key part of their program, an increase of nearly 15 percent. Circuit, in Alexandria, Va. teaching education: observing experienced Barbara Schowen, honors program direc- teachers and advanced student teachers in "Usually it's Harvard and Yale gradu- tor, estimates the final count could public-school classrooms. ates who clerk for the Supreme Court," approach 450. In all, about 1,750 stu- "Now we might send 60 juniors out to Scarlett says, "but if KU can place one or dents are expected to participate in the observe teachers in 30 different class- two more, that would really make people program this fall. And the Mount Oread rooms," Gallagher explains. "When they notice." Scholars program, which also targets good come back you can talk to them about The first KU law graduate to earn a freshman students, is expected to have at what they saw, but you didn't see it. And U.S. Supreme Court clerkship was Hey- least 360 participants, about four times they all saw different things in 30 different wood "Woody" Davis, c'52, 1'58, who the program's 1996 inaugural group. environments." With videoconferencing clerked for Justice Charles Whittaker, a "The office of admissions has made a technology, all students can observe the Kansas City native, in the late 1950s. special effort to recruit good students," same classroom together with their profes- "Justice Whittaker said to me, 'You Carothers says, "and when you recruit sors. "You can ask questions, and interact take a chance on me and I'll take a chance good students you get good students." with the classroom teacher, and generally on you,'" says Davis, now a Kansas City have a much richer discussion about that attorney. "Of course I said, 'I'll be delight- observation." Adds Gallagher, "That kind ed, Mr. Justice,' and that was the start." NURSING of technology has been available; we just 'Great mentor' named haven't had access to it." LIBERAL ARTS & SCIENCES While Pearson is stocked with plenty of winner of teaching award high-tech wonders, Gallagher says there's Talented new group gets no substitute for face-to-face contact, both schedulers' full attention arol King Starling, clinical assistant for the students who will continue to visit Cprofessor, recently received nursing's community classrooms and for the faculty record number of academically Phyllis Keeney Lawrence Teaching Award and staff. The new facility brings nearly Aadvanced incoming freshmen is for her dedication and innovation in nurs- everyone together in one location for the expected to arrive this fall, and the Col- ing education. first time in the schools 90-year history, lege of Liberal Arts and Sciences spent the Starling's research focuses on interdisci- putting the special education program and summer trying to schedule enough plinary approaches to prenatal care, with three formerly far-flung research centers in advanced classes. a goal of decreasing pre-term delivery close quarters with the teacher education "We're expecting a significant increase risks. program. "Just putting everyone under in the number of good students," says "Carol is a great mentor and student one roof doesn't guarantee it, but there is Professor Jim Carothers, who coordinates advocate," says registered nurse Amy a much better chance that people can fig- fall enrollment planning for Liberal Arts Clarke, n'97. "She takes time to listen to ure out ways to work together when phys- and Sciences. The demand for such cours- her students and offers her support where ical distance isn't a barrier," she says. "It's es as calculus, honors English and she can." like having access to technology. There's advanced Spanish, which are taught by The award is in memory of Phyllis more opportunity to interact and make full-time faculty, means that some.profes- Keeney Lawrence, n'90, who was killed connections." sors will find themselves spending less by a drunk driver in 1997. Making connections, Gallagher notes, time with graduate students this fall and has been a specialty of Interim Dean Jerry more time teaching entry-level courses. PHARMACY Bailey. As director of the Institute for Edu- "There will be some shifting of faculty cational Research and Public Service, Bai- from graduate-level courses, where enroll- Chemical society honors ley has "been very good at linking the ment is lower, to these introductory green-tea researcher faculty with funding opportunities," says courses," says Carothers. "We'll also need Gallagher. "I think there will more of that more honors tutorials, which require fac- ester Mitscher, distinguished professor now that everyone is just down the ulty participation as well." Lof medicinal chemistry, has received a hall." — The honors tutorial, which each hon- lifetime achievement award from the ors student is encouraged to attend, is American Chemical Society, recognizing

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 [69 Mitscher's research, especially for his stud- for his most recent work, a discovery that popular herbal medicine, with a grant ies of medicinal plants. green tea contains high levels of a cancer- from the National Institutes of Health that Mitscher holds 14 U.S. patents and has fighting antioxidant. he shares with researchers from UCLA. written six books. But he is best known Mitscher is studying echinacea, another Mitscher and his colleagues are studying Make a name A top-tier ranking and major donor head new business dean's wish list

ew business dean William Management of Information Sys- Fuerst wants the School of tems, Fuerst put together an advi- N Business to make a name for sory board of Fortune 500 itself—in more ways than one. executives, whose mission, he Fuerst, who succeeded Tom says, was to bridge the academic Sarowski in July, says one of his top and business environments. "It goals is to see the school one day was an opportunity to get stu- place among the top-tier programs in dents and businesses together to national rankings published annually make sure the things we were by U.S. News and World Report, teaching and researching were the Business Week and Fortune. One way types of things businesses were to make a national name, he says, is interested in." The existence of a to make the school a major donors similar advisory board at KU namesake. attracted him to the dean's job, as "The top-tier schools today typi- did the school's proximity to a cally are named schools. It's a distinc- metropolitan business community. tion that is usually well recognized by Fuerst believes those outside rela- peer institutions, and it's something tionships are important to keep- we really need to work on here. It ing the business curriculum will be a high priority for us." focused on the kinds of skills that Fuerst knows major donors won't businesses value. be easy to find, but with a University- "The people on the board— wide fundraising push scheduled for some KU graduates, some not— next year, he thinks the time is right are very interested in what's going to start looking. "Obviously the num- on with the school, and they want

ber of people who are able to make FUERST RATE: New dean William Fuerst aims to guide to help us obtain our goals," that sort of donation are fairly limited," the business school to top status. Fuerst says. "There is also an inter- he says, "but it's something we will est on the part of the business look at as part of the upcoming capital campaign." community for KU to have more of a presence in Kansas Fuerst comes to KU from Texas A&M University, where City." he was associate dean at the Lowry Mays College and Grad- Fuerst will also serve as the first Henry D. Price Professor uate School of Business. He lists Northwestern, Michigan, of Business, a new endowed professorship created by a $1.5 North Carolina and Texas as the premier public business million gift from Henry Price, b'36, of Peoria, Ariz. schools. "Those are some very mature programs that are "We're not going to try to manipulate the things we do fairly well entrenched as the top business schools," Fuerst here just to improve our position in the rankings," says says. "The mentality we have to have is that we are pushing Fuerst, "but obviously we're going to pay attention to what our school in their direction, but we're not looking to those publications have to say because those things do have replace them." some value." As founding director of the Texas A&M's Center for the And he'll be hoping they pay attention to KU as

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 whether echinacea helps boost the immune system, as its proponents claim. Kansas could benefit from the research, because this is one of the few places Keep the beat where echinacea, also known as purple coneflower, grows wild. Alumni honor percussion mentor Boberg with concert "What we are finding is that echinacea definitely stimulates the cells of the eorge Boberg didn't skip a beat immune system, preparing it to attack for- while waltzing into retirement, eign substances," Mitscher says. Gand neither did the 18 percussion alumni who returned to campus SOCIAL WELFARE for a concert in their mentor's honor. Boberg, a percussion professor since Financial goals realized; 1968, retired after the spring semester, benefits surpass dollars and he and his wife, Jane, quickly set about a busy summer of travel, includ- hree years ago social welfare coming a trip to Hawaii. But not before Tmemorated a half-century of graduate attending—and taking part in—a trib- education and kicked off a million-dollar ute concert in Swarthout Recital Hall. fundraising drive by unveiling a mural in Along with the alumni players (includ- the foyer of Twente Hall. In September ing graduates from his first class, as the school will erect a two-part "Wall of well as his most recent) a dozen or so Honor" on each side of the mural, recog- current students also joined in. nizing the 240 foundations, businesses "It was a wonderful evening," Boberg and individual donors who helped make says. 'We had a grand time, especially the drive a success. with the new students meeting the old The $ 1 million raised will support ones. It was a wonderful experience for endowed student scholarships, a teaching everybody." DRUMMED IN: George Boberg spent 31 years excellence award and service projects The concert was proposed early in teaching KU's percussion majors.They learned designed to increase interaction between the spring semester by Steve Riley f'88, their lessons well, returning for a rousing concert the University and surrounding commu- a local musician and composer. Riley in honor of his retirement. nities. says Boberg embraced the idea, and many notes a person can play in 30 "Raising this money has caused a rip- Jane Boberg even commissioned Riley seconds." ple effect," says Kay Lynne Myers, s'89, to write a percussion ensemble work. The final piece of the evening was who chaired the school's fundraising Riley emerged with "Goodbye and Go "Textures," written by George Frock, drive. "We have a number of innovative Begin." g'63, percussion director at the Univer- community-based projects that have come "It's basically in two sections," Riley sity of Texas. All of the musicians about because of the awareness of our says. "The first is intended to musically joined in, filling Swarthout with what school generated by [the fund]." Joint illustrate a goodbye, if you will. The Riley describes as "a pretty big sound." projects with the Kansas City Jewish second part is energetic, faster, to emu- "It was a very driving and wonderful Community Center, Wyandotte High late new beginnings in his life." piece to do," Boberg says, "but it wasn't School and the Kauffman Foundation The concert opened with perfor- ear-shattering." directly resulted from the fundraising mances by the current percussion Boberg intends to continue to lead effort, she notes. ensemble. Boberg himself treated his the KU Percussion Ensemble, a group "The University community partner- audience to a solo, and another piece he created, and also do clinics and con- ships have blossomed in this," Myers says. was performed by music professor sultations with band directors and "I'm not sure we can really count that James Barnes, f'74, g'75, who spent a other musicians around the state. Best kind of thing in dollars and cents because year studying percussion under Boberg. of all, he plans to do more performing. there are just so many more community Says Riley, "Mr. Boberg made me the "This was fun to put together," Riley projects that are happening because we musician I feel I am today, basically says. "Seeing the expression on his face have this little bit of money. It helps us from the ground up. His teaching when he saw all the students who came put students in these areas of need." focuses on musicality, rather than how back, it was well worth it."-""*"''

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 5, 2000 71 HAIL TO OLD KU BY STEVEN HILL Fam A Jayhawks football legend finds it's never too late to recover the ball

man Trailing Georgia Tech 20-14, KU drove to dance, and this time he came out of the they call the 1-yard line with 54 seconds to play. A happy scrum with game ball in hand. 1"Fam" has quarterback sneak ended in "a pile of "You couldn't have written a better script," been around for half of KU's 110 football bodies 6-feet high," he recalls. Unable to he says.-"""' seasons: two as a player, 19 as an assis- untangle the heap, officials gave the ball tant, six as head coach. For the balance of to Georgia Tech, an injustice that still ran- those 55 autumns he has looked on from kles. "We always end up talking about the the stands—at practices and at games— fumble," says Fambrough, who never got the genial patriarch of Jayhawk football. his chance to win the game. "Of course, I Don Fambrough, d'48, came to the still have nightmares, thinking if we had Hill in 1946, fresh from a four-year hitch scored then I might have missed the extra in the Air Force, where he played football point. If I had, they'd be talking about with Kansas legend Ray Evans. Evans con- that at the reunions." vinced his Texas friend to visit Mount At 77, Fambrough still attends every Oread after the war. "I absolutely fell in practice. Last year, coach Terry Allen love with the place," says Fambrough. asked him to address the team before the "There's something about it, some magic. Missouri game. "I told the kids it's not a It's hard to describe, but it's something I'd rivalry we have with Missouri, its all out been looking for." war." Safely ahead in the fourth quarter, In two years at KU he twice won all- Allen sent a manager into the stands to conference honors at guard while also find Fam. "He wanted me in the dressing playing linebacker and kicking extra room after the game, because he knew points. The 1948 Orange Bowl—KU's first how much it would mean to me," Fam- bowl game and Fambrough's last in uni- brough says, clearly cherishing the wel- form—was almost perfectly scripted to come he receives. He piled in, the old end his playing career in glory. Almost. guard joining the new in a sweet victory WORLDCOM,

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