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Growth Industry 26 Meteorologist Rebecca Kolls, c’85, forsakes the skies for th good arth and becomes a TV garden guru.

CY SMITH COHEN

Malady in G Minor 28 Researchers in music, medicine and mathematics meld their efforts to create a new under- standing of epilepsy.

BY STEVEN HILL COVER Joy Ride 18 The Jayhawks picked up speed The Fair Way on their way to Atlanta, and Kansas Citian Matt Gogel, the journey thrilled alumni— 32 c’94, has steadily won the even though it ended two days respect of fans and fellow too soon. golfers on the PGA Tour. Now he’s winning tourna- BY STEVEN HILL ments as well. Cover photograph by Earl Richardson; art direction by BY CHRIS LAZZARINO Susan Younger

18 Volume 100, No. 3, 2002 Still a favorite Lift the Chorus Do I remember John Ise? [Lift the Chorus, issue No. 2] Unforgettable! My all-time favorite professor. He taught me how to think for myself, to be curious, to Ultimate judgment from KU’s past, but the similarity question the “settled,” to innovate. I still between what he was called and our have—and prize—his textbook for that I was very happy to see the “Good server’s name was simply a coincidence. wonderful, five-hour lecture course, then Sports” article [issue No. 2] describing in the large lecture hall in Snow Hall. I club teams. I was glad to see that you Bill Klein, c’75 went on to take all of his courses and included the disc sport of Ultimate. Assistant Director major in “econ.” Marvelous experiences. Notice that I spelled it as “disc,” not Networking and Telecommunications What memories you bring back. In “disk,” which you used incorrectly three my frosh year, ’49, or perhaps fall ’50, times. If you look at any Ultimate or disc Editor’s note: John Schneider, known as I’m on the back row in that econ class golf Web site, you’ll see the correct Tan Man in the ’70s and ’80s, still lives in (alphabetical seating), wary that he was spelling. I’m a disc golfer and I notice Lawrence, although he no longer strolls prone to suddenly bark out a question these things. I played Ultimate at K-State Jayhawk Boulevard. and a student name. And, so it hap- and disc golf at KU. pened that day: “What’s one of the I worked for Student Union Activities Sorry sight world’s worst labor wasting devices, in the Union while completing my mas- THOMAS?” Having read the assignment, ter’s degree. The atmosphere in the I agree completely with Theodore M. I quickly but somewhat timidly talked Union was fantastic. Utchen, c’50, of Wheaton, Ill., regarding back, “Bridge parties!” He loved it, and Ed Gonzales, g’87 the disgraceful “New Fraser” [Lift the the class howled. Olathe Chorus, issue No. 2, in response to Often he would boom out into song; “Quintessential KU,” issue No. 1]. Over he had a beautiful voice. I learned he Editor’s note: After some debate, we the years I have visited many universities had graduate degrees in music and agri- sided with our ultimate authorities, The around the world, and I have to say that culture, too. A genius. And those were American Heritage College Dictionary the pile of stone that represents that the days of the Red Scare and McCarthy. and The Associated Press Stylebook, both building is about the worst I have ever Dr. Ise loved to lampoon Joe. He’d smile of which prefer “disk.” seen. The architect and the selection and say one of the proudest moments of committee should be ashamed of this his life was when he found himself on What’s in the name insult to our beautiful campus. the same Red List with William Allen I think it was 1952 when I had my White. Yes, Dr. Ise might have been con- Regarding “Unintentional legends,” I only class in Old Fraser. I found the troversial, but speaking with many, many also was a KU student in the ’70s, and I building beautiful, especially the stairs. of his students, I never heard less than remember Tan Man very well [Lift the I wonder who burned the banisters in enormous admiration and even affection Chorus, issue No. 2, in response to their fireplaces the winter they took Old for him. “Quintessential KU,” issue No. 1]. Years Fraser down. Ronald O. Thomas, c’53, l’56 later, as a staff member in Networking Baxter Springs and Telecommunications Services, I was Gerald E. Knepp, b’56 discussing with colleagues what to name Sky Valley, Ga. a new server we were setting up. As acronyms are commonly used to name Editor’s note: Remnants of Old Fraser systems, technologies and other devices, can still be seen in the Adams Alumni Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the we reflected on what this server was Center. The east and west walls of the Brock editor. Our address is Kansas Alumni magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, intended to do. In this case we would Dining Room were originally doors in Old KS 66044-3169. If you would like to use it to help support the Fraser, and the spindle wall is made from respond via e-mail, the Alumni Telecommunications And Networking Fraser’s banisters. The wrought-iron railing Association’s address is MANagement functions within our on the Summerfield balcony was originally [email protected], or visit our Web department—hence we came up with the used on top of Fraser as a safety barrier site at www.kualumni.org. Letters appear- acronym TANMAN. around the flags. Other artifacts from the ing in the magazine may be edited for Several of us recognized that this was building are stored on campus. space and clarity. also the name of a well-known character

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Publisher Fred B.Williams 10 Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Art Director DEPARTMENTS Susan Younger, f’91 Managing Editor Chris Lazzarino, j’86 2 LIFT THE CHORUS Letters from readers Staff Writer Steven Hill 5 FIRST WORD Editorial Assistants The editor’s turn Karen Goodell;Andrea E. Hoag, c’94 Photographer 6 ON THE BOULEVARD Earl Richardson, j’83 KU & Alumni Association events Graphic Designer Valerie Spicher, j’94 8 JAYHAWK WALK Advertising Sales Ice man, show dog, model students and more Representative Jana Caffrey, j’01 10 HILLTOPICS News and notes: The College names a familiar Editorial and Advertising Office dean; engineering loses dean but gains space Kansas Alumni Association 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 785-864-4760 • 800-584-2957 16 SPORTS www.kualumni.org An All-America sprinter plays strong safety for e-mail: [email protected] Mangino, plus spring sports and soggy Relays

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BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER First Word

arch 9, 1974: The Jayhawks on the Hill. For the University Daily year’s Final Four team, of course, but had just stomped the Tigers, Kansan, she covered sports, including the mention of Kansas basketball con- 112-76. On tiptoes, Tracee teams coached by Owens. She cheered jures for her the memory of Knight, MHamilton strained to be seen for the younger Knight brothers, Mark Kivisto, Morningstar and their team- amid the jubilant, jostling crowd outside and Kelly. mates—just as the mention of Kansas the Allen Field House locker room. But Now deputy sports editor of The football flashes in her mind her first at 4-foot-9, the tiny 13-year-old didn’t Washington Post, Hamilton is the sub- sight of John Riggins, his trademark stand a chance. The game program she ject of our profile on page 47. In two Afro in full splendor. clutched remained untouched by play- decades as a reporter and editor for met- These KU memories include her ers’ hands, devoid of the autographs she ropolitan newspapers, her beats have dad, Bob, d’61, now a retired banker in desperately wanted to take home to the included auto racing, the Olympics and Lincoln. When Tracee was growing up, tiny Kansas town of Lincoln. the NBA. With he taught in the junior high school, Then she heard the voice: Gene Myers, j’84, coached track and football, and made “Are you having trouble?” now sports editor sure his daughter learned what it meant She looked up. There of the Detroit Free to be a Jayhawk. He took her to her first stood 6-foot-10 Danny Press, she wrote KU basketball game that March day in Knight, KU’s junior center. two books about 1974. He bought the game program she “No one can see me,” she the Detroit still keeps preserved in plastic. stammered. Pistons. Hamilton doesn’t remember whether The gallant Knight came But she never the Jayhawks won or lost that game. She to her rescue. misses a chance to doesn’t recall their performance in the “Whoosh! I was up on his talk about the Final Four. Such details matter little. shoulders,” Hamilton, c’83, ’Hawks. She What matters is the connection with a j’83, recalls nearly 30 years adores this player and a team who for her became later. “He took me to each of symbols of Kansas basketball. his teammates and got them The 13-year-old girls of 2002 to sign my program for me. I who screech, “We love still have it. Tom Kivisto was on that you, Boschee!” in ear- team. Roger Morningstar was on that splitting tones probably team. won’t recall game scores in “When you have something like 30 years, either. But they that happen when you’re a kid, it will remember their pride makes an impression.” and adoration. That team, coached by Ted Today’s glitzy college Owens, won the Big Eight and sports don’t allow for the advanced to the Final Four in personal connection with 1974, losing to Marquette in the players that Tracee Hamilton semifinal and to UCLA in the cherishes. But the graceful con- consolation game. Knight and duct of coach Roy Williams and Morningstar led all scorers dur- his remarkable team will linger ing the 23-7 season, closely fol- for today’s young fans. lowed by Dale Greenlee, Norm For their parents and grand- Cook and Rick Suttle. parents, this season’s memories In June 1977, a brain add to a tradition that towers in aneurysm killed Knight. our hearts and minds, as great Hamilton mourned the loss teams stand on the shoulders of of her favorite Jayhawk. In those who have gone before. fall 1978, she took her turn

ISSUE 3, 2002 | 5 On the Boulevard EARL RICHARDSON (2)

At the soggy Kansas Relays,Abby Hurst of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (5), Erin Sutton of Southwest Missouri State (4) and Amber Culp of Bowling Green (2) splashed through the women’s 3,000-meter steeple- chase (left); KU’s Sondra Rauterk (above) finished fifth in the high All-American Scott Russell (belo won the hammer throw by near

Lied Center 2002-’03 AUGUST 23 Natalie MacMaster, free outdoor Exhibitions “Printed Art and Social Radicalism,” Spencer Museum of Art, June 1-July 21 concert “Amish Quilts 1880-1940 from the “Geometric Abstractions: Quilts 1870- SEPTEMBER Collection of Faith and Stephen 1990,” Spencer Museum of Art, June Brown,” Spencer Museum of Art, 1-Aug. 18 14 Robert Mirabal with through June 30 RareTribalMob in Music from A “Fresh Flowers & Flying Things,” Painted Cave Tour “From Reservation to Corporate Spencer Museum of Art, July 20-Sept. 1 Office: Donations of Southwest Art,” OCTOBER Museum of Anthropology, through Aug. 18 4 Cullberg Ballet in “Swan Lake” University Theatre “Early Us (and Them) in Africa,” 12 Ragamala Music and Dance Theater Museum of Anthropology, through JULY Aug. 25. 24-25 Urban Tap (Liberty Hall) 12-14, 19-21 “Prairie Fire, Parts I and II: Lift Off and Denouement,” by 26 “South Pacific” Professor John Gronbeck-Tedesco

6 | KANSAS ALUMNI NOVEMBER 27 Olga Kern 20 New York Chapter: Thirsty Third 1 National Symphony of Mexico 29 Peking Opera Thursday 4-5 “Rent” 21 Dallas Chapter: Big 12 Happy APRIL Hour 10 Turtle Island String Quartet and Ying Quartet 5 Twyla Tharp 21-23 New York Chapter: Canoe & Camping Trip 23 Moscow Boys Choir 6 Cantus 12 Brown Butterfly 24 St. Petersburg String Quartet JULY 13 Sweet Honey in the Rock 14 Kansas City Chapter: Picnic with DECEMBER Coach Mark Mangino 10-11 Michael Flatley’s Lord of the 20 Dallas Chapter: KU Class of 2006 Dance Academic Calendar Send-off JANUARY MAY 27 Austin Chapter: KU Student Send-off 24 Trout Fishing in America 19 Commencement AUGUST FEBRUARY JUNE 3 Kansas City Chapter: Jayhawk Jog 7 David Parsons Dance Co. featuring 4 Summer classes begin the Ahn Trio JULY SEPTEMBER 19 “Cabaret” 26 Summer classes end 5-8 Alumni trip to KU-UNLV game 22 The Russian State Opera in in Las Vegas. For more information, “Tosca” AUGUST contact the Alumni Association 28 Trio Voronezh 22 Fall classes begin MARCH For more information 1 Blast II: Shockwave about Association events, 9 David Finckel and Wu Han call 800-584-2957 or see the Association’s Web site, Alumni events www.kualumni.org. MAY 22 Garden City : Golf tournament & dinner Lied Center ...... 864-ARTS 29 Hutchinson: Dinner with Al Bohl University Theatre tickets ...... 864-3982 29 Tokyo: Alumni reception Spencer Museum of Art ...... 864-4710 JUNE Museum of Anthropology ...... 864-4245 1 Dallas: KU Night at the Rangers Natural History Museum ...... 864-4540 4 New York Chapter: Summer meet- Hall Center for Humanities ...... 864-4798

JEFF JACOBSEN ing Kansas Union ...... 864-4596

4 Salina: Golf tournament & dinner Adams Alumni Center ...... 864-4760

8 Austin Chapter: Jayhawks at Salt KU main number ...... 864-2700 Lick BBQ Athletics ...... 1-800-34-HAWKS 11 Winfield: Dinner with Al Bohl 12 Dodge City: Dinner with Al Bohl 13 New York Chapter: Big 12 Boat Cruise

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A turtle looks at 40 15 minutes of fame, 15 years later hen your job title is herpetologist Wemeritus, you field lots of strange f only we’d known that he’d soon be humiliated by queries. Joe Collins, ’72, is used to it. Todd Bridges, aka “Willis” from “Diff ’rent Strokes,” I CHRISTINE MERCER KRAFT So when word got out that the world’s in a celebrity boxing match, we might not have been oldest drugstore turtle might be living right so delirious about meeting Robert Van Winkle, aka here in Kansas, KU’s Collins got the call. “Vanilla Ice,” during a campus visit in February. Seems Michael Conley got a 49-cent But hey, there we were, the old guys trying to look Red-eared Slider when he was 8 years old. cool, surrounded by about 100 so-hip-it- Conley is now 47 and the prize pet of his hurts undergrads who made the Kansas childhood (and adolescence, and middle Union feel like a casting call for the age) is staring 40 right in the eye. WB network. The kids got jealous, “All I did was pick up a longevity publi- though, when Mr. Ice waltzed in cation from 1992, and the record then was the back way (which we old smart 37 years, nine months,” Collins says. “I told guys had anticipated), ignored the reporter he should check with the other pleadings and accepted our authors to see if that turtle was still alive, outstretched Jayhawk. but he went with the story.” He wrote quickly and—dare we Give them three squares a day and say?—eloquently: “To KUAA, Wassup? Red-eared Sliders can live to see 50. Vanilla Ice.” Don’t believe us? The treasure Which means that somewhere, surely, a is featured in an Adams Alumni Center display challenger lurks. case—only because our president doesn’t know “All across the country this is probably who Vanilla Ice is. setting off a round of ‘My turtle is older Everybody now: “Ice, Ice, Baby ...” than your turtle,’” Collins says with a wry chuckle. “But so far I haven’t gotten caught in that crossfire.” Model student I

emorial Stadium needs a new press box, several Greek houses are mislaid, and Mthe parking garage near the Kansas Union is missing entirely. Enter Daniel Bradbury: Mr. Fixit on a miniature scale. The junior architecture student from Wichita is updating the campus model housed in the Kansas Union. The 5-by-5-foot model, donated by the Class of 1962, hasn’t been redone since 1995. A lot has changed since then. Bradbury will add the recent renovations of Murphy and Joseph R. Pearson halls. He’ll also erect current projects ahead of their time: Models of the new engineering building and Student Recreation and Fitness Center now under construction will take shape long before the full-size structures. If initially daunted by the prospect of rummaging around in the delicate—and hal- lowed—environs of mini Mount Oread, Bradbury has gotten over it. “The good thing about modeling is you can fix anything,” he says. “You have to let go of the fear.” In that case, while you’re at it, Daniel, could you please do something about Wescoe Hall? SUZANNE COLLINS

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI Love at second sight Model student II ure, it took Don Pfutzenreuter, b’56, ntil she was named first runner-up in Sd’61, g’62, a while to ask Betty Uthe March 1 Miss USA pageant, senior Billingsley, ’56, for a second date. But when Lindsay Douglas of Chesterfield, Mo., was he did, the result was memorable. best known on Mount Oread as the student “We just connected,” says Billingsley, who had her purse who became Betty Pfutzenreuter Dec. 23 nabbed outside Bailey after a “whirlwind courtship” that started Hall, then tracked it last fall at the 50-year reunion of Don’s down by tracing a pizza Phi Delta Theta pledge class in ordered on her credit Breckenridge, Colo. card. When two football Or is that re-started? players were caught “The first time we went out was during effective linebacker. Betty, he says, knows holding the crust, so to freshman year,” Betty says. “Neither of us more about football than most men. Their speak, Douglas remained undaunted and have any negative remembrances of that second date involved dinner after the KU- won cheers from fellow students. night, but we never dated again.” Colorado game in Boulder. Douglas will assume the Miss USA Until they met, 50 years later, and were What do the newlyweds make of their crown should the original winner, Miss drawn together by their mutual interest in fated love? District of Columbia Shauntay Hinton, be football. Don excelled on the gridiron for “We both think God had a hand in it,” named Miss Universe. Douglas is already the Jayhawks: The 5-foot-5, 150-pound says Betty. “And Don likes to say he never busy on the publicity trail, defending her “Mighty Molecule” was thrice named most was one to rush into anything.” choice of KU to a Mizzou-loving host of a Kansas City sports-radio show. Take that, Tigers. He ain’t nothin’ but a champion

oody, a champion 4-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback Wowned by Mike, m’69, and Cindy Well, of Lawrence, lapped up a wildly successful business trip to New York in February. He won best of breed at the 126th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden, then made hound-dog history by also being named best of the 25-breed hound group, a first for a Rhodesian Ridgeback. Although Woody lost out to a black miniature poodle for Best in Show, he was chosen the people’s favorite in an online vote by USA Network viewers. Woody lives and trains in Tulsa, Okla., where he is schooled by a professional handler. “He’s sort of like a college student,” Cindy Well says. “He gets a little time at home at Christmas break, spring break, that kind of thing.” And when he retires from his show career after this year? “Then he’ll be living at home, laying on the couch, being a pet,” Well says. A dog’s life, fit for a champion. LARRY LEROY PEARSON LEROY LARRY

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and building consensus.” Then again, it’s hard to imag- ine Wilcox, with his booming laugh and self-effacing manner,

EARL RICHARDSON being intimidated by anything. A former professor of speech-lan- guage-hearing who joined the KU faculty in 1984 and later served as chairman of the department and Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway’s special counsel for strategic initia- tives, Wilcox seemingly brings a formidable double bonus along with his nice-guy demeanor: Wilcox, who taught at campus savvy and Statehouse expertise. KU from 1984 to 1998 He will have plenty of opportu- and still lives in the nity to test those skills starting Oread neighborhood, July 15, when he becomes the looks forward to his 11th dean to head the largest of return to the Hill. KU’s 14 schools, which employs “I really enjoy what I’ve more than 500 faculty members done here,” says the and nearly 300 staff, enrolls Regents CEO,“but I miss 15,000 students in more than 50 campus.” departments, and commands an annual budget of $60 million in state-allocated funds and $27 mil- lion in grants and contract College man monies. More telling than numbers, Liberal Arts and Sciences taps Wilcox thinks, is the College’s sta- Regents CEO and former faculty member tus as the University’s “academic Kim Wilcox as new leader cornerstone,” a role that makes the school essential to KU’s future. s the new dean of the College of Liberal “The chancellor has created a strategic plan for Arts and Sciences, Kim Wilcox won’t the University, every piece of which, I think, likely be intimidated by the vast sweep hinges upon the success of the College, and A of academic territory that falls under his underscores the centrality of the College to help- supervision. After serving as president and CEO ing the University and the state move ahead.” of the Kansas Board of Regents the last four Wilcox points to the life-sciences initiative in years, he has gained ample experience in dealing the Kansas City region, which draws heavily on with large, diverse constituencies. the natural sciences division, as one example of “Where I sit now we’ve got about 150,000 stu- the school’s importance to both the University dents, 36 institutions—that’s 35 presidents and a and the state. Other examples abound. chancellor—and 165 legislators,” says Wilcox, a “We know that the future is going to be about touch of ruefulness in his voice. “I think I’ve knowledge, and the College of Liberal Arts and learned a lot about facilitating communication Sciences is the cornerstone of liberal education at

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI the University. This is the information age, and became interim dean when Sally Frost-Mason left the College is designed around acquiring knowl- in July to become provost at her alma mater, edge and mechanisms for sharing it. That tells Purdue University. me that it’s going to be central to the success of the University in the new age, and by extension it’s going to be central to the state of Kansas— because I believe the University is central to the state’s success.” Child cares Wilcox guided the Board of Regents through a time of tremendous change in Kansas higher Hilltop Center hopes education governance. He helped oversee the to help student families July 1999 reorganization that brought the state’s with federal grant community colleges and vocational and technical schools under the Regents’ umbrella, and also directed the Board’s legislative initiatives before he Hilltop Child Development Center state lawmakers—a task that he admits got had been enrolling children for fall 2000 tougher during the current contentious session. only a short time before administrators “We’ve had “It has been very frustrating to have a message Trealized their new building came with a some students that’s so powerful and have it not heard by some, serious downside. ship their child or to have it heard but people don’t have the abil- The $3.3 million facility, financed largely by a ity to respond,” Wilcox says. $4 child-care fee paid by students, was finding it off to stay with At KU, he sees an opportunity to “rethink the hard to attract student families. The center’s grandparents. student experience” on and off campus, with annual rent to the University rose from $1 to existing residence-hall learning communities $81,000 after the move, necessitating higher That’s a sad serving as possible models for virtual networks enrollment fees that put Hilltop’s quality child thing to have of students with common academic interests. care out of reach for many student parents. to do.” And the hazard duty before Topeka’s tough audi- “It was frustrating to have to say to these fami- ence has prepared him for another prominent lies, ‘We have everything you’re looking for, but part of any dean’s job these days—fundraising. it’s too expensive for you to be here,’” says center “In a sense, what I’ve been called upon to do director Pat Pisani, g’68. “It was discouraging the last several years is share with the Legislature because it didn’t take long to realize that we the exciting things that higher education is doing in Kansas, and the importance of those activities to the state and to the people,” he says. “And that’s essentially what the private fundrasing effort is EARL RICHARDSON about: explaining to prospective givers what we’re doing, how exciting and important it is, and what their role could be in mak- ing it even better.” Patrolling the frontlines of the state’s budget battles may also have taught him a lesson or two about playing to win. “It helps you understand how to be strategic in your efforts. It’s not so much what you can do, but what’s the best thing you can do to make a difference.” Wilcox replaces Associate Teachers Jenne Schwinn (left) and Stephanie Duncan lead the Cottonwood Provost Kathleen McCluskey- Room at Hilltop.Their students include (left to right) Rachel Baumbach, Nick Fawcett, g’73, PhD’77, who Barber, Elaine Miao and Hannah Moyer.

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would end up with more high-income families exceptions to University building codes, from the instead of the people [Hilltop] was really homey metal siding that greets new arrivals to designed to serve.” wood-trimmed windows that open to fresh air. So last year the center applied for a new “I wanted to make a big institutional building Department of Education grant designed to help feel like home. I did not want blue and yellow student parents stay in school by helping them and red plastic; I wanted natural materials and Pharmacy grads pay for child care. The four-year grant, Childcare colors.” leap licensure Access Means Parents In Schools, adds nearly With the Department of Education grant in $50,000 a year to Hilltop’s scholarship program, place, she hopes more students will consider the hurdle perfectly which also receives funding from the Student center their children’s home away from home. Senate and the Douglas County Child “Having a good, safe learning environment for All 87 members of Development Association. their child means they can be better students pharmacy’s May 2001 “The grant has been a real blessing, because it because they don’t have to worry all day long,” graduating class passed drastically increases the number of people we Pisani says. “They want to know their kids are the North American can give scholarships to, and it increases the learning while they’re learning.” amount of money they receive,” Pisani says. Pharmacy Licensure Since 65 percent of the new building was Examination. Although financed by students, Hilltop strives to give 65 unusual, the distinction percent of the expanded facility’s 212 classroom was not unique for new slots to children of students. The center met that New quarters goal in August, but student enrollment fell to 55 KU pharmacists: The percent by December. Long awaited building Class of 2000 notched “We lost student families when they realized capstone to engineering the same honor. they couldn’t make it work. People accepted dean’s career “Having a perfect pass enrollment thinking they could manage, and by October and November they realized they ongtime engineering dean Carl Locke rate for two years in a couldn’t.” knows he’ll have to vacate his fourth- row is quite rare,” says Many parents drop out of school rather than floor office in Learned Hall soon, but Dean Jack Fincham. settle for poor child care, Pisani says. Others take Lhe’s hoping the move will be temporary. “We are very proud of their children to class or resort to more drastic Locke will step down this summer after 16 measures. years guiding the School of Engineering, making our students for their “We’ve had some parents ship their child off way as soon as a new dean is ready to go. But he achievement, and to stay with grandparents in another state hopes to return to his old digs when the school’s

equally proud of our because that was the only way they could stay in new 80,000-square-foot addition to Learned— EARL RICHARDSON faculty.” school. That’s a sad thing to have to do.” Those hard decisions took some shine off the new build- ing, a model for child-cen- tered design that vastly improves on Hilltop’s prior hand-me-down quarters on Jayhawk Boulevard. Sporting a Kansas nature and environment theme that reflects Pisani’s former career as a biologist, the 18,000- square-foot facility has wings dedicated to prairie and forest habitats and an aquarium with native fish. Playgrounds and lawns feature native plants. Pisani wrangled numerous

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI complete with a snazzy new dean’s office near the new entranceway—is complete. Given all he’s done to make the as-yet- unnamed building a reality, he should have no trouble getting his old office back. Visitor Locke began fundraising seven years ago for the $15 million project, the largest funded solely Out of Africa by private donations since the Lied Center was completed in 1993. But the building’s inspiration ormer South African dates to his first days as dean. FPresident F.W. de

“I have to admit great excitement about finish- Klerk discussed the AARON LINDBERG ing it, because when I came to KU I found in the post-Sept. 11 world as files a drawing of a building extension in about part of the Student the same location as this one,” Locke says. He Lecture Series spon- started pursuing private donations after deciding sored by Student Union that state funding was unlikely. “We had some Activities, the Student lucky breaks and some disappointments, but we Senate and the Student were finally able to get the money together.” Lecture Series Board. One disappointment—a promised donation that went elsewhere, forcing Locke to suspend WHEN: April 20 the project for a year—turned out to be a blessing. After the economy fell into recession, contractors WHERE: The Lied were willing to deal: Bids came in $1.5 million Center lower than expected. “There was a time I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh. I BACKGROUND: After he was elected have to stop the project.’ It was really a low time. president of South Africa in 1989, de Klerk “The long-term But that was very fortunate, because the delay released Nelson Mandela from prison and lifted strategy for allowed us to get the lower bid.” a ban on the African National Congress, setting The three-story building rising beneath in motion events that would help end defeating Osama Locke’s window on Learned’s south lawn will apartheid. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize bin Laden lies in add 10 new labs (including a large, glass-walled with Mandela in 1993. tackling the computer lab), 60 offices for faculty and staff, and a 250-seat multimedia classroom with the ANECDOTE: Questioning de Klerk’s man- roots of poverty, latest instructional technology. The added space, date for ending apartheid after his party suf- the roots of connected to Learned by a first floor plaza and a fered heavy election losses, opponents called second-floor skywalk, will consolidate faculty for a general election. Instead he convened a oppression and and classes now spread across campus. The front national referendum, promising to resign if a the roots of entry will add focus to the older building, which majority of white South Africans opposed Locke says “has many doors but no entrance.” apartheid’s end.“I expected a close win. Instead conflict in which The new first-floor dean’s office will be much 70 percent of whites said,‘Go ahead.’ That was fanaticism easier to find, but Locke won’t be in it. When the the end of the backlash.” flourishes.” project wraps up in June 2003, he’ll be teaching classes in chemical and petroleum engineering, QUOTE: “Just as war is too important to pursuing research and possibly writing a book or leave to the generals, peace in the Middle East two. is too important to leave to the Israelis and the And with luck he’ll move back into his old Palestinians,” de Klerk said, noting that the cur- office, where he can enjoy the new view. rent conflict reminds him of South Africa in the 1980s.“We pulled back from the brink. South As he wraps up his 16-year tenure as dean, Africans discovered there was another way. ... If we could do it, then surely the Israelis and Carl Locke can take pride in getting the long-awaited Palestinians should be able to do it.” Learned Hall expansion under way.

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LIBERAL ARTS gate, Marc Larsen, McDonald Two firsts for distinguished took stances on issues such as chemistry student residency work hours and med- ical-student debt. But their real

Graduate student Aaron Wrobleski work began last summer, when EARL RICHARDSON scored a double distinction this spring they convinced fellow student when he became not only the first KU members to pass their resolution, student to win a prestigious fellowship co-written with another student in organic chemistry from the American from New York, calling for health- Chemical Society, but the first medicinal care equity for same-sex domestic chemistry student to win the award in partners. its 19-year history. “We took a stand,” McDonald “It’s a recognition of exactly how Aube,Wrobleski says, “for an issue we cared about. good he is,” says Wrobleski’s adviser, Whether you agree with homosex- Professor Jeffrey Aubé. molecule will eventually lead to new uality or not, 10 percent of the popula- The $19,000 fellowship will enable medicines, including anti-bacterial tion is a large number of people who do Wrobleski to continue his research on a agents and a potential treatment for high not have the same rights as others, and molecule known as Alkaloid 251-F. blood pressure. that’s an important health-care issue.” Working in the lab, the third-year gradu- The student delegates agreed, and for- ate student was able to produce large MEDICINE warded the resolution to the national amounts of the complex structure, AMA backs health-care policy AMA conference, Dec. 4 in San which was previously available only in Francisco. After hearing testimony from minute quantities from the skin of South based on student’s resolution McDonald, AMA delegates voted to sup- American poison-dart frogs. Joe McDonald, a third-year MD/PhD port the student resolution, officially “We did the math, and it would have student, admits he was initially enthused endorsing a policy that domestic part- required something like 35,000 frogs to about his summer 2000 trip to Chicago ners should be assured an array of isolate the amount he made. He was only because it was a free trip to a great health-care rights. able to synthesize it from fundamental city. Then he discovered that the annual “The AMA legislation is significant, as materials—earth, wind, air, fire and conference for student members of the it influences policy within many compa- water,” Aubé says. “And there were no American Medical Association would, for nies and large groups,” McDonald says. dead frogs.” him, be all work and no play. “When legislative issues come up at the Wrobleski hopes his work on the Joining forces with another KU dele- governmental level, the AMA lobbyists will lobby on the side of the resolution.” For his efforts, McDonald, chair of the KU student delegation, recently won the AMA Foundation Leadership Award; he will run for chair of the national student Update delegation in December. “I can’t see myself ever being unin- ournalist Jessie Hodges Benton knew how the loss of sight and hearing can affect a volved in this process,” McDonald says. Jfamily: Her brother lost his hearing in infancy and her stepmother became blind later “Some people are anti-AMA, but I real- in life. ized that you can complain about the The late Kansas City Star and Vogue magazine writer deveoped a lifelong interest in decisions or you can do something both problems, bequeathing $1.5 million to support research and treatment of deaf- about it. I decided to go and do some- ness and blindness with two memorial funds at KU Medical Center. thing about it.” The $1 million Frank and Jesse McKoin Hodges Memorial Fund in the department —Chris Lazzarino of hearing and speech, which honors Benton’s parents, will fund a new professorship, support research on pediatric hearing disorders and help faculty members devise new LIBERAL ARTS ways to improve the communications skills of deaf and hard-of-hearing children. The remainder of Benton’s gift establishes the Eunice M. Hodges Memorial Fund in Mellon winner to examine the department of ophthalmology, which will support research on two major causes of Roman Empire’s colonial ways blindness—glaucoma and macular degeneration.The fund honors her stepmother, a For R. James Abraham, there could longtime patient and supporter of the department. have been no better place to win a Mellon Fellowship than in the Wescoe

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI Hall offices of the classics department. The Lenexa senior discovered he’d Milestones, money and other matters been tapped for the prestigious award, which pays a $17,500 stipend and full tuition and fees for one year of graduate HOUSE AND SENATE negotiators study, by checking the Andrew W. working through a legislative recess reached Mellon Foundation’s Web site while a budget compromise that would keep working in the classics department com- spending for higher education at current lev- puter lab. els. House lawmakers had proposed slashing “I kind of let out a hoot—a really loud spending 5.5 percent, a cut of $39.1 million. hoot,” Abraham says. “All the classics Conference committee members also rec- professors were there. That was nice, ommended a plan to build three research because it was the classics professors laboratories, including a biomedical facilty at who aided me so much throughout the KU.As Kansas Alumni went to press, the application process.” House passed the compromise bill. But Gov. Bill Graves, who has called for a $364 million Abraham, who is majoring in classical tax increase to help make up a $700 million budget shortfall, remained pessimistic that law- languages and English, was one of 92 makers could close the budget gap—which remained at $299 million even after the com- students awarded a Mellon fellowship promise—without raising taxes. He predicted a special June session would be needed to this year and the 23rd from KU. He force legislators to craft a budget plan he would sign. plans to follow his interest in applying postcolonial theory to the Roman FOUR KU SENIORS won Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships this spring: Ryan Kinser, Empire by pursuing a doctorate in clas- Oklahoma City mathematics and philosophy major;Adam Kraus, Grantville astronomy, sical studies at the University of physics and mathematics major; Bonnie Sheriff, Lawrence chemistry major; and Ian Tice,

THAD ALLENDER Pennsylvania. Tecumseh mathematics and physics major.The awards provide up to $7,500 for tuition, fees, Classics pro- books and room and board for students planning careers in science, math or engineering. fessors, includ- ing his honors THE SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAM ranked first in the nation for the seventh thesis adviser, time in eight years in the U.S. News America’s Best Graduate Schools report.The School of Anthony Education rated 25th among public universities and remains the only Kansas school to Corbeill, make the magazine’s national rankings. helped Abraham work DONALD BAER, Roy A. Roberts distinguished professor of human development and through at least family life and the intellectual leader of the human development department, died April 29 10 revisions of at his Lawrence home.About 100 colleagues and former students had gathered April 13 for the written por- a conference honoring Baer, who planned to retire in June. Former students organized the Abraham tions of his event to commemorate Baehr’s pioneering influence on developmental psychology and application. behavioral analysis. “They were constantly making the time to read it and give suggestions and WITH 105 NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARS enrolled this year, KU again placed encouragement,” he says. “Without their among the top 10 public universities, attracting more of the scholars than all other public careful reading my portfolio would not universities in Kansas and Missouri combined. It have been as strong.” marks the fourth time in five years KU has The Mellon fellowship will give ranked in the top 10 for National Merit enroll- Abraham an extra year to focus on his ment. academic research at Penn. But research, while important, is not number one in KU MEDICAL CENTER’S NET income SHARI HARTBAUER his heart. jumped more than 75 percent during fiscal 2001, “I’m going into academia because I to $9.4 million.The medical center provided want to teach,” Abraham says. “I con- more than $29 million in uncompensated care, sider research an added bonus. Even with the largest portion attributed to emergency, though people get really excited about trauma and burn services. my research interests, I think my ulti- mate goal is to be that professor people really think back on fondly.”

ISSUE 3, 2002 | 15 Sports BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

track championships, earning the lofty title All-American (one of five KU indoor track and field athletes to do so). He bettered his own school record EARL RICHARDSON by clocking in at 20.93 seconds in a preliminary heat, and he won the Big 12 championship in 21.03—a KU record that didn’t hold up long. He also finished third in the Big 12’s 60- meter dash. “We’re really excited about what Leo did in the indoor season,” football coach Mark Mangino says. “He pos- sesses a lot of athletic ability and, quite obviously, speed. He’s a tremendous athlete and we’re looking forward to Leo Bookman hopes seeing him out on the football field.” the speed that made him Which is coach-speak for: OK, fast an All-America sprinter guy, show us you can play ball. Again, Bookman softly but firmly states there will help him break into shouldn’t be any question about his the starting lineup in football instincts. Says Bookman, slyly: coach Mark Mangino’s “I don’t mind contact.” defensive secondary. Mangino says Bookman didn’t lift weights during indoor track season and must hustle to get his upper body Strong (and fast) safety football-ready. Bookman bristles at the After his All-America indoor track season, suggestion, and says he maintains his weight at precisely 213 pounds, no Bookman must now do more than turn left matter the sport or season. “I’m in shape. I’m in great shape. n the contest of pursuer vs. pursued, speed The hardest thing is getting my footwork back. I trumps. Which is why Leo Bookman, rele- was in the weight room all the way through gated to special teams as a sophomore last [indoor track season]. It wasn’t as intense as the Iseason, suddenly seems to have a chance to guys going through the winter [football] work- become KU’s starting strong safety. To do so he’ll outs, but I stuck with it.” have to unseat the returning senior starter, Jake Bookman bristles at yet another suggestion: Letourneau, last year’s third-leading tackler who that sprinting is more tactically demanding than already has been billed as one of the defense’s it looks. “Just run,” he says. “And turn left.” more prominent personalities. On the football field, where Mangino’s keen Bookman isn’t scared of the challenge. When eye will analyze Bookman’s every move, tactics the game is about speed, All-America sprinters are infinitely more complicated. But while every tend to carry themselves with confidence. player will make mistakes, few have the speed to “I want to start,” Bookman quickly replied make mistakes go away. when asked about his football goals. “I want to “You can have make-up speed,” he says of start, definitely.” catching receivers and runners who slip free Bookman, of Dickinson, Texas, finished sev- unexpectedly. “But the main thing [speed does] is enth in the 200-meter dash at the NCAA indoor it allows you to take away angles—kill angles on

16 | KANSAS ALUMNI runs away from you and break up deep balls away from you.” “[Bookman] possesses a lot of athletic ability and, quite As he and Mangino agreed soon after the new coach arrived, Bookman gave obviously, speed. He’s a tremendous athlete and we’re looking up track entirely during spring football. forward to seeing him out on the football field.” After the spring game April 26, Bookman immediately returned to the track and, in his first outdoor meet, took Senior Scott Russell, who won the second in the Texas Invitational’s 100- weight-throw title at the NCAA indoor meter dash with a time of 10.51 sec- championships, won his second Kansas onds. He also ran eighth in the 200- Relays hammer-throw title with a toss of Updates meters with a time of 21.15. 206 feet, 5 inches. ... “Actually, I started track and football Track and field notes: With his ennis coach Kilmeny Waterman at the exact same time, when I was indoor weight-throw title, Russell Twas named Big 12 Coach of the about 8 years old,” Bookman says. “I becomes KU’s first national champion in Year. In her second season, the love them both. But football is paying any sport since Kristi Kloster won the Jayhawks were 16-6 overall and 9-2 in the bills.” 800 meters in 1996. It was the first the Big 12, good for a tie for second in men’s track title since 1980, when Sanya the conference. ... Bowling coach Owolabi won the triple jump and Michael Fine, g’93, was named Coach of Michael Ricks won the 600. ... Along the Year by the Intercollegiate Bowling with Russell and Bookman, indoor All- Association. ... Basketball players Selena Off track Americans were Eisenmenger (women’s Scott and KC Hilgenkamp, both sen- mile), freshman Brooklyn Hann iors, shared the Lynette Woodard Most Marquee events canceled as (women’s triple jump), and junior Valuable Player award. Senior Nikki thunderstorm deluges Relays Vadim Gvozdetskiy (men’s pole vault). White was named Academic All-Big 12 Junior Monique Peters won the Big 12 for the fourth consecutive season. ... old-medalist Maurice Greene indoor long jump on her final attempt, Junior Chris Marshall was named to was supposed to be the star, jumping a personal-best 19 feet, 10 3/4 men’s golf’s All-Big 12 first team. ... but the stars never came out. inches, to win by 2 inches. Nick Collison and Kirk Hinrich both GA fierce storm forced cancella- announced May 3 they would return to tion of the concluding session of the the men’s basketball team for their Kansas Relays April 20, meaning Greene senior seasons. Coach Roy Williams and his teammates didn’t get to run the said he was told both would have been men’s invitational 800-meter relay. In first-round NBA draft choices had they fact, all invitational races were canceled. EARL RICHARDSON opted to join teammate Drew Gooden Meet director Tim Weaver called it “a in leaving early. ... Williams replaced heartbreaker,” but lightning near popular assistant Neil Dougherty, who Memorial Stadium and heavy rains left left to become head coach at TCU, no alternative. with popular former assistant Steve In early competition, KU won both Robinson, who most recently was head the men’s and women’s distance medley coach at Florida State. ...The softball races. Brian Blachly, Jabari Wamble, team upset Oklahoma, 3-1, in the first Brandon Hodges and Charlie Gruber round of the Big 12 tournament, but won the men’s race in 9:54.88; Laura was ousted two days later by a 10-0 Lavoie, Kim Clark, Stacy Keller and Katy loss to the Sooners.The Jayhawks’ Eisenmenger won the women’s distance overall record was 33-25. ... Jay medley in 11:42.21. Hinrichs, c’80, g’83, is the new director “I had a pretty big lead and I just of the Williams Educational Fund. He tried to enjoy the last 100 meters,” said had spent 17 years in the Kansas City Gruber, the anchor-leg runner. Gruber Royals’ front office. later won the 1,500-meter run at Stanford’s Cardinal Invitational in 3:41.08, good enough to qualify him for Senior Andrea Bulat finished fourth in the the NCAA outdoor championships. Kansas Relays’ women’s javelin throw.

ISSUE 3, 2002 | 17 BY STEVEN HILL Photographs by Earl Richardson

on Illinois star Frank Williams; Keith lege basketball’s last dance. Langford netted 15 points in 27 min- After a disappointing loss to Ball State utes; and Wayne Simien added seven in the season opener in Maui, the points and six boards. Jayhawks reeled off 13 straight wins, “They won the game for us,” Collison including consecutive victories over No. said afterward. “If we had normal fresh- 4 Arizona and No. 23 Wake Forest. Even men we would probably have lost. But more impressive was KU’s dominance of we’ve got freshmen with a lot of heart, a the Big 12, a conference that showed its lot of courage, and they stepped up.” strength by advancing three teams to the Elite Eight. Kansas stormed through the regular season with a perfect 16-0 rom day one, the 2001-’02 Kansas record, a first for the Big 12. No other Jayhawks had Georgia on their Division I team could boast an unblem- minds. Reporting for the first ished conference mark. Only a loss to F practice, on Oct. 13, each player fourth-ranked Oklahoma in the Big 12 found taped in his Allen Field House tournament championship March 10 locker a photograph of Atlanta’s Georgia prevented the Jayhawks from sweeping Dome, the final stop on college basket- conference postseason play as well. ball’s road to the Final Four. If the late stumble cast a pall over But from day one their coach also selection Sunday, it damaged neither the reminded them that what mattered most Jayhawks’ confidence nor their NCAA was the journey, not the destination. tournament seeding. As the team gath- And when the journey ended—in that ered in a Kemper Arena luxury suite to national championship by declaring that southern capital awash in dogwood watch the tournament selection show on winning it all isn’t everything. More blossoms, as they had been challenged CBS, the mood was somber. Senior Jeff important, he said, are his relationships way back in the first flush of a Mount Carey put things in perspective: “This with his players and “living long enough Oread autumn to believe it would—Roy loss could be a blessing in disguise as to coach my grandkids in Little League.” Williams let them know just how much long as we learn from it.” But as his team huddled around him, he had savored the trip. Williams agreed, with a qualification. Williams gave a two-and-a-half minute “God, I enjoyed this year, every single “This can help us, but not just because tutorial on “want to.” day I went to practice,” Williams said, we say so,” the coach declared. “Fifteen “That is probably the hardest I’ve ever his eyes rimmed with tears and his voice guys in short pants need to work at it, worked during a time-out in my entire breaking with emotion after a fierce KU too.” life,” Williams said after the Jayhawks rally fell short in the national semifinal The NCAA selection committee outlasted Illinois 73-69 in a thrilling, game, ending a brilliant season with a awarded the Jayhawks the top spot in hard-fought finish. “I felt like the kids disappointing 97-88 loss to eventual the Midwest region, as expected, but could see my heart beating. I know they national champion Maryland. “It was a placed them in the toughest bracket. could see the veins sticking out of my fun, fun time. ... They took ol’ Roy for a Kansas would be the only No. 1 seed head, ’cause I was screaming, preaching, really good ride. I would have liked to guaranteed to face a ranked team if it begging, pleading that we could give in have gone for a couple more days, but advanced to the second round; No. 16 and get our tails beat or we could com- they took me for a good ride.” Stanford or No. 18 Western Kentucky pete for 16 more minutes and we’d be Along the way, the team Williams would await the winner of the KU-Holy right there at the end and have a chance called his most enjoyable also became Cross matchup. to win the game.” one of his most successful, posting 33 The road to Atlanta would be rocky. When play resumed, KU poured on wins against only four losses, the best the pressure, deflecting the ball three record since the 1997-’98 squad went times and forcing a turnover. Collison 35-4 and the fourth-best in school his- t a pep rally at the Hard scored to put the Jayhawks up 47-45, tory. It marked the fourth 30-win season Rock Cafe in St. Louis’ Union and they never trailed again. With in Williams’ 14 years at KU. Station sponsored by the Collison and Hinrich hobbled by fouls The trip to the Final Four, the first A Alumni Association and KU and senior guard Jeff Boschee held to six since 1993, was the 11th in 31 tourna- Athletics, a small army of beaded and points, Kansas weathered a furious ment appearances for the Jayhawks. baubled Jayhawks received their march- Illinois run with strong work by three Only North Carolina, UCLA, Kentucky ing orders from Athletics Director freshmen: Aaron Miles played tough D and Duke have earned more dates at col- Al Bohl.

20 | KANSAS ALUMNI “Check your supplies, ’cause you’ve Allen Schwartz, g’85, traveled from Even the coach. got orders to go to Atlanta,” Bohl roared. Lawrence with their neighbors Mark, “I thought we were going to be pretty “What a great time it will be to get back c’59, m’66, and Nancy Edds Saylor, doggone good this year,” Williams said, to the Final Four.” n’68. At dinner on the eve of the game, “but I didn’t think we were going to be With March madness underway, they learned that their waiter had pen- as good as we’ve been.” many hoops pundits were picking ciled Kansas into his championship Yet the first postseason surprise was Kansas to win it all. That sat fine with bracket. “We were impressed that an hardly a pleasant one: Against Holy Alvin Reid, ’84, of Kirkwood, Mo. One outsider picked Kansas to win,” Peg Cross, in a close game at the Edward of 5,000 St. Louis-area alumni, Reid Schwartz said. “We thought that was a Jones Dome, Hinrich collapsed under stopped to give a playful hug to Big Jay, good omen.” the basket 30 seconds before halftime. who worked the crowd as the band and Even before predictions of a title run As the second half started, KU trailed by Spirit Squad led cheers. An equipment started rolling in, many sensed that this two and Hinrich sat on the bench with manager for the football team during his Kansas team—which ranked only sev- his left ankle, swaddled in bandages, days on the Hill, Reid had lugged an ear- enth in preseason polls but ascended to propped on a chair. lier-generation Big Jay costume to road No. 1 twice—had surprised everyone. Expecting to bury Holy Cross with a games. Now he was savoring the chance to see his Jayhawks in person after fol- lowing them all season at P.J.’s Tavern, where 50 to 60 fans regularly gathered for TV watch parties. “They made believers out of us as the year went on,” Reid said. “They’ve got a solid chance to go all the way. They have a resolve, and adversity doesn’t seem to mess with them.” Other fans took comfort in find- ing that less prominent basketball prognosticators than Digger and Dickie V liked the Jayhawks’ chances. E. W., c’47, m’50, and Margaret “Peg”

(p. 18, clockwise from top left) Fans get ready to rumble at a pregame rally in St. Louis. Coach Roy Williams hugs Drew Gooden during the win over Oregon. Kirk Hinrich claims his share of the Midwest Regional championship spoils.

Wayne Simien and Hinrich (p. 20) congratulate Keith Langford after the freshman snared a rebound to seal the win against Illinois.

Hinrich (left) needed crutches to return to the bench after spraining his ankle in the first half; two days later he scored 15 points in the rout of Stanford. High-fiving fanatics offer congratulations. Nick Collison wraps up Stanford star Casey Jacobsen.

ISSUE 3, 2002 | 21 strong run at the beginning of the half, Several Jayhawks admitted they went the nickname “Superman” from team- KU fans were disappointed when the into the game feeling they had some- mates and respect from his opponent. Crusaders stretched their lead to five thing to prove. “He played tough, man,” Jacobsen with 15:46 remaining. “Personally, I was about as motivated said. “The guy with one leg played with But with Miles clapping hands on as I’ve ever been,” said Collison, who more heart than anyone out there.” defense to urge his team on and turned in 17 points and 13 rebounds Langford subbing for the injured after reading in his hometown newspa- Hinrich, KU turned up the heat. The per that he took a disappearing potion n Madison, where the showdown Jayhawks tied the score at 46 with 10:38 in big games. with Illinois loomed, fans gathered at remaining, then forged ahead to stay “We were ready to go off,” Gooden the Madison Concourse Hotel for a when a Drew Gooden three-point play said. “I was tired of answering questions Ipep rally again hosted by the put Kansas up 54-50. Holy Cross hung about Holy Cross. Hearing Casey Association and KU Athletics. The over- tough, trailing by only three with 2:36 Jacobsen talk about how we were beat- flow crowd spilled from the ballroom, left, before Kansas outscored the able only made it worse. All that gave us out into the hallway, down the stairs and Crusaders 10-2 down the stretch to win a lot of ammunition.” into the hotel lobby. 70-59. The big story of the afternoon, Among the fanatics were Jerry, ’93, Dogged by the less than stellar win though, was the return of Hinrich. and Danny Boresow, j’00. The Kansas against Holy Cross and still facing ques- Rebounding from the ankle injury that City-area brothers—whose 12 siblings tions raised by the loss to Oklahoma, left him hobbling on crutches two days also attended KU—had purchased Final the Jayhawks vowed to show what they before, he came off the bench to fire in Four tickets months ago. Now they were were made of against Stanford. 15 points on six-of-nine shooting, more confident than ever. Using a swarming defense that including three of four from three-point “If they keep having fun they’re pressed the Cardinal into five missed range. The heroic effort earned Hinrich unstoppable,” said Jerry Boresow. “But whether we win or lose today, we’ve already had a great season.” “God, I enjoyed this year, every single day I went to practice. Fun was the theme for the Boresows’ attire, which featured the cheese head- It was a fun, fun time. ...They took ol’ Roy for a really good ride. gear favored by Green Bay Packers fans, I would have liked to have gone for a couple more days, but modified to show Jayhawk spirit: On their cheese wedges, plastered with they took me for a good ride.” Jayhawk stickers, the brothers wrote, shots and five turnovers in its first eight possessions, KU raced to a 15-0 lead, handing coach Mike Montgomery his worst NCAA tournament loss, 86-63. “We just got stunned with their ath- letic ability,” Montgomery said. “I don’t know anybody who’s played better than that. We didn’t play a better team this year, that’s for sure.” Stanford swingman Casey Jacobsen, one of the few bright spots for a team held to 28 percent shooting in the first half, had said before the game that the Jayhawks’ play against Oklahoma and Holy Cross convinced him they weren’t invincible. After dealing with KU’s defense for 40 minutes, he reconsidered. “They were unbeatable tonight,” Jacobsen said. “I’ve lost before to a bunch of punks with no heart, but that’s not Kansas. I hope they win it all.”

22 | KANSAS ALUMNI Fans show their appreciation for Williams (p.22) as KU pulls away from Holy Cross. Against Maryland, frustration and disappoint- ment are evident in the faces of Gooden, Langford (left) and Jeff Boschee (below).

“Behold the power of the ’Hawks.” pedicure. After the Jayhawks rode their Kansas faithful. Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway All-American’s “new set of wheels” to an As the Rock Chalk chant echoed echoed that sentiment when he took the impressive 104-86 romp that set a school through Madison’s Kohl Center one last stage to marvel at the sea of crimson record by topping the century mark for time, horn-honking, flag-waving fans and blue around him. “What we’re see- the 12th time in a season, Gooden back in Lawrence were flocking to ing here,” he said, “is the power of the showed up for the postgame news con- Jayhawk Boulevard to celebrate KU’s Jayhawk.” ference barefooted, having contributed first Final Four in a decade. The win over Illinois set up a game 18 points and 20 rebounds. with second-seed Oregon that had fans “My dogs are hurting me,” he said. “It of run-and-gun basketball nationwide was a fun game to play in, but it hurt my n Atlanta, lifelong Jayhawks fan anticipating tip-off. feet.” Barbara Lauter, j’70, looked forward “It’ll be a track meet,” Gooden prom- He smiled through his pain, accepting to showing her Falls Church, Va., ised, savoring the chance to play a team the trophy for Midwest Regional MVP. Ineighbors what Kansas basketball is that favored the same up-tempo style After snipping the nets and hoisting the all about as KU prepared to play No. 1 Kansas employed in leading the nation Midwest Regional championship trophy, seed Maryland in the national semifinal. in scoring most of the year. To prepare, he and his teammates strode crosscourt “I started watching basketball at Allen the junior forward treated himself to a for a well-deserved bow before the Field House when Wilt Chamberlain

ISSUE 3, 2002 | 23 was playing,” said Lauter, who joined 2,500 excited Jayhawks in a spirited elbow-to-elbow rally at the J.W. Marriott, the team hotel. “This is the finest, tough- CHRIS LAZZARINO est, most courageous group we’ve ever had. I don’t think the people on the East Coast know what’s gonna hit them.” It certainly looked that way for the first four minutes. Powered by two three- pointers by Hinrich and one by Boschee, the Jayhawks shot out to a 13-2 lead. Maryland coach Gary Williams used the first TV time-out to calm his shell- shocked Terrapins. Then All-American and ACC Player of An emotional Roy Williams at the end of the Year Juan Dixon took road. Fans turned out by the thousands at over, scoring 19 of Memorial Stadium and a B-1 bomber his game-high 33 manned by KU alumni streaked over- points to pace head to honor the 2001-’02 Jayhawks. Maryland to a 44-37 lead at the break. After Kansas closed the gap

to 52-50 at CHRIS LAZZARINO 15:18, the Terps pulled away, stretch- ing the lead to 20 with 6:10 to play. Still the Jayhawks fought back, outscoring Maryland 25-9 in trimming the lead to four points with 20 seconds remaining. But they could get no closer, as Maryland hit five free throws—includ- ing two technical shots awarded when the Jayhawks called time-out with none remaining—to preserve the win. “I’m about as proud of my team as I’ve ever been in my life,” Williams said after the game. “They kept believing they could still get it done.” The coach admitted that it hurt to miss out on the chance to play Monday night. “But it doesn’t hurt one ounce for Roy Williams and any record or any Kansas Jayhawk. the team a heroes’ welcome at Memorial championship. It just hurts because I’m “I told the guys this has been an Stadium. Drew Gooden, spotted shoot- not gonna coach these kids in a national unbelievable team, an unbelievable sea- ing baskets alone in Allen Field House a championship game.” son,” Dougherty said. “If they choose to half-hour before the rally began, would In the locker room, as players dealt rededicate themselves they could be thrill the crowd and draw chants of with their loss—some weeping alone, right back in this thing next year.” “One more year” by talking about what some hugging teammates—assistant Three days later, after Maryland “we” could accomplish next season. A B- coach Neil Dougherty, the newly hired claimed the national championship by 1 bomber, piloted by four KU alumni, head coach at Texas Christian beating Indiana, 5,000 Jayhawk fans would streak low overhead, afterburners University, pondered his last game as a would brave a brisk north wind to give blazing—a fitting tribute to a team that

24 | KANSAS ALUMNI soared through a 33-4 season at nearly the 8,000 fans who gathered to watch summed up the feelings of many. “I’m supersonic pace. the game on Memorial Stadium’s giant very proud of this team. They have noth- And Williams would take the micro- video scoreboard streamed quietly ing to hang their heads about, because it phone to issue a challenge: “Last year homeward. In the Georgia Dome stands, has been one of the best seasons ever,” Maryland lost in the semifinals and was Kansas fans lingered, not quite ready to Davis said. “You can’t go 16-0 in the Big determined to get back and do some- believe that the team that showed so 12 and make the Final Four without thing better. That’s what I want these much heart had come up short in its having accomplished something.” guys to do.” final comeback. As she watched the players file quietly But on a Saturday night in Atlanta, all Linda Davis, whose son, Steven, is a off the floor, Davis sounded as if she was that was still to come. Back in Lawrence, student manager for the Jayhawks, speaking for them: “We’ll be back.”

Gooden will complete his spring classes, and he’s promised his family, coach and teammates that he’ll finish his Gooden gone degree someday. “I am not giving up my college education,” he said to enthusias- tic applause from Williams. “What I’m Ready to chase his dream, talented junior enters NBA draft giving up today is my eligibility to play college basketball.” He’ll remain part of the Kansas bas- or Jayhawk basketball fans it NBA scouts view Gooden as a likely ketball family, too. After the questioning was the most anticipated news top-seven pick in the June draft. If that ended, Gooden, sharply turned out in a conference since Roy Williams happens, he’ll earn between $3 million tan suit and tie, looked relieved to summoned the faithful to and $1.6 million his rookie season. “It’s escape TV lights and camera flashes. He Memorial Stadium one muggy one of those nice things,” Roy Williams turned to his coach, who’d been by his Fnight two summers ago. But on April 19 said. “Either you’ll be rich or you’ll be side throughout, and said, “I’m going to no one said, “I’m staying,” except a wise- really rich.” get dressed and lift weights.” cracking newsman conducting a sound Gooden joins Danny Manning as one Then Drew Gooden went to check before a throng of reporters, stu- of two players in Kansas history to rack work. dent athletes and University officials up at least 1,500 points, 900 rebounds, gathered at Hadl Auditorium to hear 100 blocks and 100 steals. His 1,526 Drew Gooden announce his decision to points rank 12th on KU’s all-time scor- leave KU for the NBA. ing list. His 905 rebounds rank fifth. “I would like to thank Coach Williams declined to push for one Williams and everyone at Kansas for the more year from Gooden, but he has wonderful experience I have had here promised to push for one more honor. throughout my career,” Gooden said. “I “Sometime in the future we’re going will always be grateful, and I will always to hang that jersey up in the rafters as be a Jayhawk in my heart.” one of the retired jerseys,” Williams said Gooden ends his KU career after a at the team’s April banquet. “And for the stellar junior year in which he averaged rest of my life, when I come into Allen 19 points and 11 rebounds while estab- Field House I’ll know that there was a lishing himself as one of the top players guy up there that I coached.” in the college game. His honors in- Asked how he wants to be remem- cluded first-team All-American, Big 12 bered, Gooden had a ready answer. Player of the Year and NCAA Midwest “After we beat Oregon, there was a Regional MVP. Gooden also shared the picture of me cutting down the nets,” he National Association of Basketball said. “I just want everybody to know Coaches Player of the Year honors with that this was a kid who always wanted Duke junior Jason Williams. to win.”

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Growth Industry A LL IS WELL IN ‘REBECCA’ S G ARDEN’ By Stacy Smith Cohen

While she logs 70,000 frequent-flier helping in her grandfather’s lush back- spirit appeared not long after they met, miles a year, she never misses a hockey yard garden, which lead to her “get your when Kolls announced she was going game for either of her two children, hands dirty” approach to gardening. hunting with her father and brothers. daughter Madison, 10, and son Taylor, “He planted the seed to my passion,” While Jay imagined her tagging along for 12. Her regular trips to New York often she says. fun, Kolls set the record straight: “No, involve a 12-hour turnaround—she tucks Kansas’ severe spring weather capti- I’m hunting too. You know, shooting her children in bed and takes the late vated Kolls, who admits to chasing critters.” Jay says his wife has a classic flight, tapes her segment in the morning storms as a kid. She saw her first funnel type A personality. “She’s constantly and is back home in Hudson, Wis., clouds shortly after moving to Overland doing something. She doesn’t want to before her children return from school. Park from Utah when she was 12. just relax,” he says. “The beauty is, I still get to live at home “When the sirens went off, my father and my holidays are non-negotiable. I and I raced for a ladder to see the torna- olls’ blend of forecasting and don’t feel I’ve lost any great opportuni- do from the roof. We didn’t know to be gardening was such a hit she ties. For us it’s about quality of life.” afraid.” After her first meteorology class Kwas hired by a Minneapolis sta- Kolls films her weekly gardening at KU, Kolls was hooked on atmospheric tion that built a $200,000 rooftop Italian show in Newport, Minn., and just science as a major. Renaissance garden as the backdrop for became host of a new home and garden Her degree in hand, she returned to her forecasts. That’s when Kolls gained show on ShopNBC. Ideas are swirling Salt Lake City as a TV meteorologist. national attention. In 1996, Better for a follow-up to her first book, Kolls says one of her secrets to success Homes and Gardens ran a six-page Rebecca’s Garden: Four Seasons to Grow has been the ability to never take herself spread of her TV garden that coincided On. And if you’re looking for gardening too seriously. The self-proclaimed with her appearance on “Oprah.” Hearst gadgets, you might soon see Kolls’ own “weather wench” and “garden babe” was Broadcasting decided she would be per- line in a chain store near you. “I’m not above admitting her forecasting mis- fect for a new gardening show. always thinking about what I’m doing takes, appearing on-air with a paper bag For two years Kolls juggled her fledg- next. It never leaves me. That’s my over her head or shoveling a viewer’s ling show and a full-time schedule in biggest bane.” driveway after she promised it wouldn’t Minneapolis. Finally the long hours took snow. “People know it’s not a perfect sci- their emotional toll; the 2:30 p.m. to oiling in her own garden offers ence. I always made total fun of myself midnight station schedule plus morning Kolls the rejuvenation she needs to remind them.” gardening shoots left little time for her from work. “I could be out there In that friendly spirit, she began offer- family. She realized she needed to Tall day and night if someone would let ing impromptu gardening tips during change course. “As my kids were grow- me,” she says. “It gets my rhythms her forecasts, reminding viewers to cover ing up I missed a large part of their going.” While her neighbors praise her their tomato plants before a freeze. lives,” Kolls says. “That kind of stuff you handiwork, Kolls shakes her head in dis- Response was so favorable the news can’t get back. agreement, not out of modesty, but as director added a weekly gardening seg- “People always think money and fame one who has beheld perfection. “I’ve ment and wrote it into her contract. go hand in hand with happiness, but seen some of the most spectacular gar- As her professional life blossomed, so they don’t. I feel like I’m cheating the dens in the world. I know what beauti- did her personal life. Soon Kolls met her system because I get paid for doing ful can be. I don’t have the time right husband, a television journalist. The pair things that I’d be doing anyway. Not now to create that.” had briefly worked together at the same many people can say that.” Her love of the earth developed station, but “Bec didn’t remember me at —Cohen, j’91, who lives in Baldwin City, is slowly from summers spent in Utah all,” Jay says. Her independent, tomboy a regular contributor to Kansas Alumni.

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BY STEVEN HILL Photographs by Earl Richardson

hirty student musicians counts out the tempo. arrayed in a semicircle in a The haunting, melancholy darkened Murphy Hall melody that fills the hall is rehearsal room fall quiet as instantly familiar, even to someone Maestro Brian Priestman, who can’t name it as Mozart’s conductor of the KU Symphony No. 40 in G Minor. Yet TSymphony Orchestra, raises his baton. today it is something more. Before them is the score of a new com- Researchers who study the brain position they are about to perform for have long used symphonic music as a the first time, a piece most have never metaphor to describe the mysteries of heard. They are in for a surprise. how the mind works. McGee is among Looking on are Assistant Professor Kip Haaheim and Associate Professor Deron McGee, the music and dance fac- [Epilepsy] has an emotional toll that’s really ulty members who created the composi- tion. Also present are John Altman and scary, and the music shows that very well.” Aimee Larrabee, independent filmmak- ers from Kansas City who’ve brought along a film crew to record today’s ses- them. He listens as the piece builds, “Symphonic music has a number of sion for an upcoming PBS documentary drawing more musicians into a complex different parts that are autonomous and tentatively titled “Math, Medicine and weave of sound, each part independent multi-layered, but when it all gets put the Mind.” Cameras roll as Priestman and unique yet altogether harmonious. together the experience is greater than the sum of the parts,” he explains. “It’s very similar to how the brain works. You have all the different modular functions processing things and acting independ- ently, but they also communicate with one another in such a way that the brain coalesces experience into something whole.” So Mozart’s complex symphony of sound is more than a beautiful piece of music: It’s a metaphor for your brain. McGee’s research on music theory examines how the brain perceives and processes music. That professional fasci- nation with the mind turned personal when he began experiencing seizures. Doctors diagnosed a brain tumor as the source. Surgery removed the tumor four years ago, and medication and a health- ier lifestyle have since controlled the seizures, but their terrifying power to The KU Symphony Orchestra performed Haaheim and McGee’s “Epileptic Seizure short-circuit his brain without warning Metaphor” for documentary filmmakers. haunts him still.

ISSUE 3, 2002 | 29 Deron McGee advances in epilepsy research are the and Kip Haaheim focus of the PBS documentary. For 2.8 million people in the United composed a musical States and more than 60 million world- metaphor to help wide who have epilepsy, the disease can improve public be completely debilitating, due largely to awareness of the the unpredictability of seizures. effects of epilepsy. “I used to be a pilot for United The project grew out Airlines and I had a seizure one night in of the work of Ivan my sleep,” says Susan Arthurs, executive Osorio (below), a director of the Alliance for Epilepsy leading epilepsy Research and Osorio’s patient. “I literally researcher at KU woke up in the hospital with no job, Medical Center. no career, no driver’s license. I went from being totally self-sufficient to being totally dependent overnight.” People with epilepsy and other seizure disorders are often under-employed, and the constant threat of seizure restricts their lives in myriad other ways. “We’re a society that values control, and a seizure is an out-of-control situation for the person hav- ing it and for everyone around: You can’t do any- thing to fix it.” Osorio’s team has pin- As the orchestra moves through the back into the pointed exactly when a piece, the musical mood changes from mix, trying to seizure will occur. They did meditative to apprehensive. A discordant regain the musi- so by coming up with an note spikes above the smooth surface of cal equilibrium. algorithm—essentially a melody, then another. Stray notes begin In 90 seconds, mathematical recipe—that to multiply—the screech of a viola, a fal- the brief, intense lets them analyze electroen- tering oboe, a muted cymbal crash— piece is done. cephalogram (EEG) data measuring the almost as if a demon were running “This describes the process I go brain’s electrical activity, or brain waves, among the ranked musicians, jostling through,” McGee says. and identify the patterns that precede a one after another into botching their This is the brain in epileptic seizure. seizure. They can accurately predict a parts. seizure up to three minutes before it In the oboe section the dissonance happens, and now they are working on a coalesces into a throbbing rhythm that ransforming Mozart’s symphony device to help suppress seizures before sounds like a phone left off the hook. into an aural metaphor for the they occur. Then it spreads, locking next the flutes, electrical storm that strikes the That research success drew the inter- then the cornets, bassoons, horns, vio- Tbrain during a seizure was the est of the filmmakers, who saw the mak- las, violins, cellos and basses into the idea of Ivan Osorio, associate professor ings of a great mystery. “By bringing same manic one-note refrain. There is no of neurology and director of the together people from different disci- longer any melody, any harmony, any Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at KU plines they’ve cracked something that Mozart. Just a frantic dial-tone pulse that Medical Center. has haunted the medical profession speeds faster and faster before dropping The epileptologist has gathered an since the earliest days,” Larrabee says. In abruptly into dead silence. interdisciplinary team of KU researchers, McGee and Haaheim’s work they saw Momentarily a single strand of including physicists, mathematicians, the makings of a compelling soundtrack. melody pipes up, wavering, uncertain. computer scientists, and electrical, bio- Analyzing thousands of EEG print- Other instruments gradually wander medical and chemical engineers. Their outs, Osorio noticed a striking similarity

30 | KANSAS ALUMNI between the graphic representation of and in some cases broken bones. brain is going along fine and it’s almost brain waves and a wave form, which When McGee and Haaheim were like someone sledgehammers it for a measures the effect of sound on the ready to unveil “Epileptic Seizure while and then I’m left in a state like, eardrum. For help he turned to one of Metaphor,” Osorio’s team got the first Oh, man, what happened?’ You can hear his patients—McGee—who in turn en- peek. “One researcher said, ‘You know, all that; you can almost feel what hap- listed Haaheim, a composer. Thus was we could talk until we’re blue in pens to the brain.” born a most unusual collaboration the face about neurology They hope more peo- between music and medicine, a transla- and mathematics but ple feel it: While tion of brain waves to sound waves with that really doesn’t get epilepsy afflicts notes standing in for neurons. across the point more Americans “Dr. Osorio invited us to write a piece that it has an than AIDS/ of music that would aurally emulate emotional toll HIV, MS, mus- what happens during a seizure,” McGee that’s really cular dystro- says. “We wanted to take a piece that’s scary, and the phy and generally well known, then modify it to music shows Parkinson’s emulate what happens inside the brain.” that very well,’” disease com- In an epileptic brain, some neurons Haaheim says. bined, it are permanently transformed into an “Even someone receives only epileptic state. These neurons randomly who doesn’t a fraction of fire, creating “spikes” of electrical activity know the first the research that are always present. The trouble thing about biology funding. Public starts when these spikes—the musical will realize, ‘OK, my perception is equivalent of a missed note—begin to one reason. multiply, eventually disrupting brain “There’s no Michael function in an entire region. That region Maestro Brian Priestman, of J. Fox of epilepsy, no cele- then recruits neighboring areas, often the KU Symphony Orchestra, confers brity advocate,” Susan Arthurs says. seizing control of the entire brain. with filmmaker John Altman between “People who have it under control want During a grand mal, the most severe tapings. EEG data (below) show the flar- to leave it behind, and those who don’t kind of seizure, patients lose conscious- ing intensity and abrupt conclusion of an can’t be out in public. So people don’t ness and suffer convulsions that leave epileptic seizure. think there’s a need.” them exhausted, with aching muscles In fact, about 42,000 people die in the United States annually from status epilepticus, a state of unending seizure. That toll rivals the death rates for breast cancer and automobile accidents, both of which occasion vast public awareness campaigns. Head injuries, automobile accidents and other seizure-related injuries add more fatalities. But the disease’s frightening manifes- tation in convulsive seizures has also cre- ated a stigma that hampers efforts to increase research support. Overcoming that stigma, Arthurs says, “is where the music comes in. “Sometimes things are described so clinically and impersonally that it just reinforces the stigma, the isolation. But if this helps the public understand the emotional toll, it could make the lives of people with epilepsy so much easier. And hopefully it will make it easier for the public to support research.”

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Association

DAVIS KEITH MULALLY OLDFATHER

ments, the University of Missouri-Kansas City Highest honors named him Entrepreneur of the Year in 1996. Leaders in service to humanity Davis’ business savvy is rivaled only by his community service. For years he has devoted will march with graduates May 19 time and resources to the Kansas City Symphony The DSC, which and the Lyric Opera. As an advocate for children, since 1941 has our alumni will receive Distinguished he received the Stop the Violence Coalition’s Service Citations May 17 as part of the Kindest Kansas Citian Award and the Boys Club recognized University’s Commencement celebration. of Johnson County’s Award for Distinguished outstanding FThe DSC, which recognizes outstanding Service. To recognize his dedication to medical professional and professional and civic service, is the highest causes, The American Diabetes Association honor given by the University and the Alumni named Davis its honorary chairman in 1993, the civic service, is Association. Since 1941, it has been presented to same year he shared the Salvation Army’s the highest men and women whose lives and careers have William Booth Award with his wife, Coleen. helped benefit humanity. Keith has made service to his country a life- honor given by This year’s recipients are Richard E. Davis, long vocation. His career began in the U.S. the University c’53, m’54, Leawood; Kenton Keith, c’51, Foreign Service, with postings to Lebanon, Iraq, Washington, D.C.; Alan Mulally, e’68, Mercer Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Syria before an assign- and the Alumni Island, Wash.; and Tensie Oldfather, ’64, of ment as deputy director for Near East, North Association. Lawrence. They will be honored at the All- African and South Asian Affairs. Other appoint- University Supper May 17 at the Kansas Union ments include cultural attaché in Paris, counselor Ballroom, and they will march in the for press and cultural Affairs at the U.S. Embassy Commencement procession May 19. in Cairo and an assignment as U.S. Ambassador Davis began his career as a child psychiatrist, to Qatar. In 1997, Keith took a senior vice presi- instructor and author, and he remains a trusted dent post with the Washington-based Meridian ally to many medical, arts and children’s organi- International Center. zations. But he is equally well known as the Since Sept. 11, Keith has applied his Middle founder of K.C. Masterpiece Barbecue Products East expertise in his current role with the State Inc., which he now chairs. After his sauce became Department, where he created and directed the a national favorite, he founded the equally suc- new Coalition Information Center in Islamabad, cessful chain of K.C. Masterpiece Barbecue & Pakistan. He has received two presidential meri- Grill Restaurants. To honor his business achieve- torious service awards, and the International

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI Relations Council in Kansas City recog- generosity to KU continues in her most learned to make do. nized him with its distinguished service recent gift, which will help build a new Judging by their many career suc- award in 2001. From the French govern- home for the University’s public radio cesses and happy reunion of more than ment he received the Chevalier in the station, KANU-FM. 100 from their group, the challenges Order of Arts and Letters. He serves as served these Jayhawks well. president of the Association of Black “This was a great class,” Gene Haley, American Ambassadors. c’52, g’54, of Lawrence, said during a Mulally has spent more than 33 years cocktail reception in the Adams Alumni with The Boeing Co. KU cavalcade Center. “It was a special time, and I real- As an aviation leader, he has con- ly don’t think it will ever be duplicated.” tributed to the design and management of golden decades Gold Medal Weekend, as always, was of numerous aircraft advances. Most a whirl of activity that included the 50- recently, he was general manager of Class of ’52 members year reunion, a pinning luncheon for the Boeing’s 777 aircraft program, for which and their elders celebrate new members of the Gold Medal Club he was honored by Aviation Week & (for Jayhawks who have reached the Space Technology magazine. He is now 50th anniversary of their graduation), a president of Boeing Commercial Airlines hey lived in basements parti- Group and senior vice president of The tioned by cardboard walls into Boeing Co. The American Institute of separate living quarters. They Aeronautics and Astronautics thanked Tthrew down bedrolls in attics, him with its Technical Management camped in spare rooms and doubled up Award in 1986, and KU’s School of wherever an extra bed could be found. Engineering, for which he serves on the Jayhawks of the Class of 1952, who advisory board, has honored him with gathered from around the world to cele- its Distinguished Engineering Service brate their 50-year anniversary during award. He also was elected to the U.S. Gold Medal Weekend April 12-13, didn’t National Academy of Engineering. For need college courses to learn creativity his dedication to training young minds, and adaptability; they arrived on Mount the Boy Scouts of America also have rec- Oread in the heart of the post-World ognized Mulally. War II space crunch, and quickly For Oldfather, the maxim “think globally—act locally” is more than a bumper sticker platitude; it is a way of life. A 1941 graduate of the University of Nebraska, Oldfather moved to Lawrence in 1950, when her late husband, Charles, joined the KU law faculty. In addition to rearing her seven children, she became known as a forthright and stalwart volunteer for such agencies as Head Start and the Red Cross. Her inter- est in mental health issues led to her service on the boards of the Bert Nash Mental Health Clinic and The Villages. In 2000, she established the Douglas County Community Foundation, a chari- table organization to benefit youth, edu- cation and health services. The EARL RICHARDSON (3) Oldfathers provided a major gift to build the new Lawrence Arts Center, and in Looking for familiar faces in a photograph from their college years (above left) are Woody 1991 they enabled the University to pur- Davis, c’52, l’58; Carolyn Nardyz Payne, c’54; Nancy Craig Hale,‘54; and Tom Payne, c’52, l’56. chase a building for the KU Department At the Gold Medal Club’s annual brunch (above right), Frances Flynn Koppers, c’21, returned to of Theatre and Film, now known as the Hill for the first time since her own 50-year reunion, to the delight of 20 family members Oldfather Studios. Tensie Oldfather’s and more than 100 of her fellow Gold Medal Jayhawks.

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Clockwise from bottom left: Gene, e’52, and Dina Gaskell Stucker, e’54, visited Danforth Chapel, where they were married in 1953; Jim, c’52, and Bev Jennings Logan, c’52, s’83, chatted with Jan Moses Durrett, c’52, g’80, at the Adams Center; Baaqer Shirazi, c’52, and his wife, Mohtaram Marashi, flew in from Bombay, India, and were joined by their son Reza, b’91, of Austin,Texas;capping the weekend was the Gold Medal Brunch, where Leah Hemenway and other campus dignitaries welcomed Sue Ihinger Leonard, d’52, and her classmates to one of KU’s most hallowed organizations.

there was no place on campus is also keen on top-notch to store it. Now a hematolo- competition. Flush from gist and director of med- his recent victory in

CHRIS LAZZARINO ical humanities at the The Paul Borel 90th University of Missouri- Birthday Challenge Kansas City, she says in his home com- the round-robin Mortar munity of Southern Board letters are the Pines, N.C., Borel best documents she has explained that his of her career. country club in “It may be the best his- March had invited all tory of what I’ve done,” she golfers to match net says, “because I sat down and scores with the spry Borel, every year and wrote about what I who hopped in his golf cart brunch for current members of the Gold was doing.” after each hole and zipped ahead to join Medal Club to reunite and reminisce, In a room full of outstanding the next tournament foursome. Those campus bus and walking tours, and Jayhawks, the star of the Gold Medal who bested him would win a certificate, reunions and receptions across campus. Club’s annual brunch was Frances “and no one claimed the prize,” Borel At the Mortar Board breakfast Flynn Koppers, c’21, who returned to reported with delight. Borel returned to reunion in the Kansas Union, nine the Hill from Olathe for the first time in Lawrence with his wife, Miriam, assoc., Mortar Board members from the Class 31 years, in the company of her daugh- to attend the reunion weekend and com- of 1942 returned—impressive enough. ter, Judith Koppers Janes, c’59, and 19 plete his birthday celebration with some But considering there were only 11 total, other members of her family. Chancellor 60 family members in Kansas City. the attendance was remarkable. The Robert E. Hemenway fastened a Gold On Friday, the weekend’s youngsters, members reunited to mark their 60th Medal pin to her lapel, replacing the pin members of the Class of ’52, strolled anniversary, but they also maintain an she received at her 50-year reunion in Jayhawk Boulevard beneath spring sun- annual chain letter. “We have kept in 1971 and lost on an airplane. shine as bright and warm as rekindled touch every year,” says Mary Helen “Mrs. Koppers, we’re going to work memories. Wilson Hayman, c’42, of Chapel Hill, fast,” Athletics Director Al Bohl promised Gene, e’52, and Dina Gaskell Stucker, N.C. “That’s why we’re close.” her while discussing the new football e’54, of Houston, paused near Danforth Marjorie Spurrier Sirridge, m’44, of coach, Mark Mangino. “Because we need Chapel to remember their 1953 wedding Kansas City, Mo., remembers lugging to get you to a bowl game.” ceremony. “It was in the middle of finals her microscope up the Hill because Gold Medal member Paul Borel, e’34, week,” Dina Stucker recalled, “but we

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI wanted to have the wedding before everybody left.” With yellow forsythia and redbud trees in full bloom, and newly planted tulips gracing Budig, Strong and Smith halls, Jan Moses Durrett, c’52, g’80, of The Alumni Association was established in 1883 for the purpose of strengthening loyalty, friendship, com- Shawnee Mission, soaked in the glorious mitment and communication among graduates, former and current students, parents, faculty, staff and all other friends of The University of Kansas. Its members hereby unite into an Association to achieve unity of views and exclaimed, “I see why they purpose and action to serve the best interests of The University and its constituencies.The Association is have class reunions at this time of year.” organized exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. Replied classmate Helen “Pete” Maduros Regas, d’52, g’53, of Park Ridge, Ill., “A Board of Directors Deloris Strickland Pinkard, ALUMNI CENTER perfect day. You couldn’t have ordered g’80, EdD’95, Kansas City Bryan Greve David R. Rankin, p’63, Director of AAC Services any better.” CHAIR Phillipsburg and Jayhawk Society In full agreement was Baaqer “Shox” Janet Martin McKinney, Mike Wellman c’74, Port Ludlow, Shirazi, e’52, and his wife, Mohtaram DIRECTORS TO JULY 2004 Director of Special Projects Washington Marashi, who were as delighted as any A. Drue Jennings, d’68, l’72, and AAC Facility Manager Leawood of their classmates to be in Lawrence. EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIR Mary Kay Paige McPhee, FINANCE They spent 36 hours flying from their Robert L. Driscoll, c’61, l’64, d’49, Kansas City, Missouri Dwight Parman home in Bombay, India, stopping in Mission Woods John W. Mize, c’72, Salina Sr VP for Finance & Delhi and London before continuing to EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Treasurer Austin, Texas, to join their son, Reza, Jim Adam, e’56, DIRECTORS TO JULY 2005 b’91. Reza returned with them to the Overland Park Nancy Borel Ellis, d’63, COMMUNICATIONS Hill, and the well-traveled Shirazis gave Robert L. Driscoll, c’61, l’64, Pinehurst, North Carolina Chris Lazzarino Sydnie Bowling Managing Editor, other Jayhawks a lesson in dedication to Mission Woods Reid Holbrook, c’64, l’66, Kampschroeder, c’65, Kansas Alumni Magazine ol’ KU. Overland Park Naperville, Illinois Jennifer Sanner “It was a long trip,” Baaqer Shirazi Janet Martin McKinney, c’74, Craig B. Swenson, e’59, Sr VP for Communications said, his face registering none of the Port Ludlow,Washington Lee’s Summit, Missouri and Editor, Kansas Alumni miles but all of the joy of his journey. Cordell D. Meeks Jr., Magazine DIRECTORS TO JULY 2006 Susan Younger “That didn’t matter, though. We would- c’64, l’67, Kansas City Deloris Strickland Pinkard, Jill Sadowsky Docking, Art Director n’t have missed this for anything.” g’80, EdD’95, Kansas City c’78, g’84,Wichita Carol Swanson Ritchie, Marvin R. Motley, MEMBERSHIP d’54,Wichita c’77, l’80, g’81, Leawood Sheila M. Immel Linda Duston Warren, David B.Wescoe, c’76, Sr VP for Membership c’66, m’70, Hanover Mequon,Wisconsin Jennifer Mueller Director of Student VICE CHAIRS HONORARY MEMBERS Programs Gary Bender, g’64, Gene A. Budig, EdD, Scottsdale,Arizona, and Princeton, New Jersey MEMBERSHIP SERVICES Shake Colorado Springs, Colorado E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., Carolyn Barnes your Michelle Senecal de PhD, San Antonio,Texas Director Kansas Honors tail Fonseca, Archie R. Dykes, EdD, Program b’83, London, England Goodlettsville,Tennessee Kirk Cerny feathers Tim S. Dibble, d’74, Delbert M. Shankel, PhD, Sr VP for Membership Issaquah,Washington Lawrence Services Patricia Weems Gaston, j’81, W. Clarke Wescoe, MD, Kelly Kidwell Annandale,Virginia Mission Asst. Director of Chapter and Constituent Programs Jayhawk Jog DIRECTORS TO JULY 2002 Administrative Staff Donna Neuner Mark your calendar for the Jayhawk Lewis D. Gregory, c’75, Director of Membership Jog! All proceeds from this year's Leawood Services ADMINISTRATION event benefit the Linda Duston Warren, c’66, m’70, Hanover Kay Henry RECORDS Audio-Reader program. Sr VP for Administration and Bill Green Saturday,August 3, at 7:30 a.m. DIRECTORS TO JULY 2003 Human Resources Sr VP for Information Shawnee Mission Park Sidney Ashton Garrett, Fred B.Williams Services c’68, d’70, Lawrence President and CEO Nancy Peine Please visit www.kualumni.org for Vice President for Records additional details.

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1930s Robert Jones, a’53, is an architect Ronald Thomas, b’58, owns Crest Mildred Lee Ward, ’33, wrote Growing with Schwerdt Design Group in Topeka. Flavor Co. in Grandview, Mo. up in a Little Town on the Prairie.She Robert Stewart, j’53, serves as mayor lives in Overland Park. of Amberley Village, Ohio. He lives in 1959 Gretchen Kaufmann Holland, c’36, Cincinnati. Janice Rufenacht Parsons, p’59, is traveled to China last year. Her home is retired in Manhattan. in Dana Point, Calif. 1954 Lois Clough Merriman, d’54, makes 1960 1941 her home in Manhattan. Jack Morton, j’60, owns Morton Charles Wright, f’41, was inducted Research in Silver Springs, Md. He lives last fall into the Topeka High School 1955 in Spencerville. Hall of Fame. He lives in Lecompton, Hans Hansen, c’55, l’66, works as a Kenneth Rock, c’60, is a professor of where he edits and publishes Christmas consultant in Midland, Texas. history at Colorado State University in Trees magazine. John Hengen, e’55, is retired in Fort Collins. Jessup, Md. William Sheldon, c’60, directs the 1949 German-American Institute in Marshall Martin, b’49, recently was MARRIED Nuremberg and recently was honored by elected president of the Fifth Marine James Allen, e’55, to Virginia the German Federal Republic. Division Association. He makes his Brunette, Dec. 31. Their home is in home in Overland Park. Whitney, Texas. 1961 Charles Thomas, ’49, wrote Best Joseph Douglas, c’61, m’65, recently Seller: Are You One? which recently was 1956 joined Bert Nash Community Mental published by Vantage Press. He and his Betty Billingsley Pfutzenreuter, ’56, Health Center in Lawrence as a staff wife, Betty, live in Loveland, Colo. and her husband, Donald, b’56, d’61, psychiatrist. g’62, live in Bozeman, Mont. Donald Peterson, b’61, retired last 1950 John Dods, c’56, is a partner in the year as vice president of sales for Doris Clark Garrison, d’50, lives in Kansas City law firm of Shook, Hardy Olympus America’s medical instrument Springfield, Mo., where she’s retired & Bacon. division. He lives in Wilton, Conn. from a career in the public schools. Anthony Pagedas, p’56, practices Stephen Churchill, c’62, m’66, m’71, David Seamans, e’50, g’56, is retired obstetrics and gynecology in Milwaukee. recently became CEO and medical direc- in Pullman, Wash. He wrote Diary of Desert Storm’s Combat tor of Crittenton, a child and adolescent Gynecologist, which recently was pub- behavioral health facility in Kansas City. 1952 lished by Rutledge Books. Josephine Merrill Maxwell, c’62, James Logan, c’52, recently joined the serves on the board of the Parkinson Olathe law office of Foulston Siefkin. 1957 Association of Greater Kansas City. He’s a retired judge of the 10th U.S. John Risbeck, e’57, e’58, and his wife, Donald Popejoy, e’62, is executive vice Circuit Court of Appeals and former Peggy Jo, live in Rolla, Mo., where John president of Ritchie Paving in Wichita. dean of KU’s law school. is a retired mining engineer and extrac- Jane Emery Prather, c’62, g’64, chairs tive metallurgist. the sociology department at California MARRIED Ange Butler Stalcup, d’57, h’81, spent State University in Northridge. She lives Janet Stites Hayes, c’52, to Gary three weeks last fall traveling along the in Studio City. Dormandy, Sept. 10. They live in Rancho Oregon Trail from Lawrence to Judith Duncan Stanton, a’62, chairs Mirage, Calif. Vancouver, Wash. She lives in Lawrence. the Prairie Village planning commission, and her husband, Roger, c’60, l’63, is 1953 1958 a partner in the law firm of Berkowitz, William Allen, c’53, l’55, makes his Constance Curnutt Jordan, d’58, is a Feldmiller, Stanton, Brandt, Williams home in Largo, Fla., with Maxine professor at Florida Southern College in & Stuve. Bednar Allen, d’55, g’59. Orlando. She lives in Winter Park. Kelly Smith Tunney, j’62, is vice

38 | KANSAS ALUMNI and Bazillion Pictures in Kansas City. Douglas Dedo, c’65, lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., where he’s past president of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. Barbara Bauerle Glanz, d’65, wrote Handle with CARE--Motivating and Retaining Employees, which recently was published by McGraw-Hill. She lives in Western Springs, Ill. R.M. Kellogg, PhD’65, owns and is financial director of Syncom BV in Groningen, the Netherlands. William Toalson, d’65, g’70, works for Centegra Health Systems. He lives in McHenry, Ill. Dennis Waetzig, b’65, is retired in Chesterfield, Mo. Samuel Zickefoose, c’65, l’68, re- cently became senior vice president and manager of First National Bank. He lives in Prairie Village.

1966 Ben Finch, p’66, lives in Colorado Springs, where he’s retired. Curtis Harshaw, e’66, is president of Harshaw Management Corp. in Grand Prairie, Texas. Barbara Ross Smith, c’66, directs Trinity Lutheran Hospital in Kansas City. She lives in Fairway.

1967 Larry Friesen, c’67, teaches at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. He lives in League City. Susan Russell Kirkpatrick, d’67, g’71, serves on the board of education in White Plains, N.Y. Robert Montgomery, c’67, l’71, prac- tices law in Lakewood, Colo., and is president of the First Judicial District Bar Association. Myron Reed, e’67, recently was pro- president of the Associated Press in New 1964 moted to partner at GPW & Associates, York City. Frederick Flock, f’64, coordinates a Lawrence-based lighting and engineer- design for John Richards Homes in Ann ing firm. He lives in Wakarusa. 1963 Arbor, Mich. He lives in Southfield. Larry Rinne, e’67, is Midwest region Bill Lee, c’63, d’65, lives in Wichita, managing director of AccessData in where he’s general manager of Scott Rice 1965 Chicago. Business Interiors. Michael Bennett, f’65, is vice presi- Marcia Kyle Rinehart, c’63, d’64, dent of marketing and business develop- 1968 makes her home in Leawood. ment for Tracy Design Communications Drue Jennings, d’68, l’72, was named

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2001 Johnson Countian of the Year by the Johnson County Community College Foundation. He lives in Leawood, where he’s retired chairman of Kansas City Power & Light. Michael McIlvain, d’68, g’70, is execu- tive vice president of Golden Chief Resources in Dallas. Charles Morgan, ’68, was the 2002 recipient of the A. Ivan Johnson Outstanding Achievement Award. He lives in Boulder City, Nev., where he’s retired from a career as a hydrogeologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.

1969 Jane Waggoner Deschner, c’69, recently received a master’s in fine arts from Vermont College. She lives in Billings, Mont., where she’s a self- employed artist and graphic designer. John Jones, c’69, is president and CEO of New York Life International in Hong Kong. He also has a home in Canton, Conn. Roseann Runte, g’69, g’71, PhD’74, became president of Old Dominion University in July. She lives in Norfolk, Va., with her husband, Hans-Rainer Runte, g’69, g’70, PhD’72. Rex Shewmake, b’69, l’73, lives in Overland Park and is senior vice presi- a U.S. magistrate judge in Wichita’s U.S. medicine at Truman Medical Center- dent of National Advisors Trust Co. District Court. Lakewood. He lives in Prairie Village. Loren Rabon, f’70, owns Pre- Gary Morris, b’72, g’73, works as a 1970 Structured Building Systems in Fair real-estate representative for Yellow Marilyn Buller Bittenbender, d’70, Haven, N.J. He lives in Little Silver. Freight in Overland Park. recently joined the real-estate firm of Nancy Southern, f’70, s’78, is a self- Steven Rogers, e’72, g’75, g’85, is Grubb & Ellis/The Winbury Group. She employed artist and minister in Deer principal system engineer for Raytheon lives in Lawrence. Harbor, Wash. in Tucson, Ariz., where he and Vicki Jo Jerry Bottenfield, j’70, co-owns Soap Lewis Thompson, e’70, retired earlier Hart Rogers, e’77, make their home. Momma in Lawrence with his wife, this year from a career with Fort Motor Alan Rupe, c’72, lives in Wichita, Laurie Hallock Bottenfield, d’69. Co. He lives in Denver. where he’s vice chair of employment law Michael Dent, e’70, manages data and at Hursch & Eppenberger. is webmaster and network administrator 1971 Calvert Simmons, j’72, wrote Every for Sabre Systems. He lives in Karen Worswick Harkness, d’71, Business Needs an Angel: Getting the Warrington, Pa. recently joined the staff of the Topeka Money You Need to Make Your Business Scott Fraizer, b’70, is plant controller Convention and Visitors Bureau. Grow. He lives in Alexandria, Va., where for York International in Wichita. Lynn Snelgrove, j’71, l’74, practices he’s venture capitol president of ASAP Harold Goss, b’70, l’74, lives in Prairie law with Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin Ventures. Village and is managing partner of in Kansas City. Winifred “Woodie” Woodward, g’72, White Goss Bowers March Schulte & PhD’75, recently was appointed associ- Weisenfe. 1972 ate administrator for airports for the Karen Humphreys, c’70, l’73, recently William Anderson, c’72, recently was Federal Aviation Administration. She was reappointed to an eight-year term as appointed medical director of emergency lives in Washington, D.C.

40 | KANSAS ALUMNI 1973 1975 Clair Claiborne, c’73, is principal Jerry Little, c’75, g’78, is supervising consulting research and development city prosecutor in Lawrence. Then Again scientist for ABB in Raleigh, N.C. Maria-Aida Guillen Vandemoortele, Lydia Costello Dreher, c’73, is a g’75, works as a free-lance artist and hen the influenza epidemic of self-employed consultant in Shawnee teaches art classes in New Rochelle, N.Y. 1918 hit the nation, Lawrence Mission, and her husband, David, W was not immune. More than 750 fell ill c’73, is vice president of A.G. Edwards 1976 at once, prompting University officials & Sons. Kelly Edmiston Callen, ’76, co-owns to close down the campus.Without Stephen Evans, c’73, a’82, a’83, Edmiston Oil, where her husband, Jon, adequate medical resources to care for recently became group vice president e’74, is president. They live in Wichita. stricken students, faculty wives and and architecture staff director for HOK Cathy Riffey Dauner, d’76, teaches at female undergraduates acted as im- in St. Louis. Mankato Elementary School in Mankato. promptu nurses, and many fell ill them- Kelvin Heck, b’73, is an associate bro- Janet Lee Hamilton, f’76, was named selves. By the time KU reopened more ker with Grubb & Ellis/The Winsbury Snohomish County Artist of the Year last than a Group in Lawrence, where he and his year. She lives in Everett, Wash. month later, wife, Marilyn Buller Bittenbender, d’70, Susie Kelpe, d’76, teaches math and 32 people make their home. technology at the Center for Advanced had been Robert Overman, l’73, heads the Research and Technology in Clovis, lost to the employment and labor law department Calif. She lives in Fresno. outbreak. of Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Molly Wood, c’76, l’91, recently Kennedy in Wichita. became a partner in the Lawrence law Susan Cowden Rowan, c’73, is presi- firm of Stevens & Brand. dent of H&R Block in Kansas City. Loren Schuman, ’73, manages sales for Mid-Continent Bottlers. He and his wife, Susan, live in Overland Park. Evelyn Unkefer, c’73, s’79, lectures about social work at Washburn University in Topeka. Michael Wallen, c’73, is vice president of special projects at American Maplan Corp. in McPherson. He lives in Lindsborg. LeArta Landes Watkins, d’73, directs distance learning at Cowley County Community College in Arkansas City. She lives in Derby.

1974 Wayne Burge, c’74, is vice presi- dent of provider contracting reimburse- ment at Blue Cross & Blue Shield in Kansas City. Karen Scovil Neibling, d’74, lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., and is assistant princi- pal of Saquaro High School. Don Seufert, s’74, recently completed a review of people management systems for the International Plant Genetics Research Institute in Rome, Italy, and Montpellier, France. He lives in Herndon, Va.

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Medical Center in Kansas City. Anne Burke Miller, c’78, l’81, a part- ner in the Manhattan law firm of Seaton, Miller, Bell & Seaton, recently became a fellow of the American Bar Association. Michael Pendergast, c’78, l’81, is vice president and general counsel for Laclede Gas in St. Louis. Jon Robichaud, d’78, g’90, directs bands and coordinates fine arts for the Blue Springs, Mo., school district.

1979 Steven Agee, c’79, PhD’82, is presi- dent of XAE in Oklahoma City. Daniel Bowerman, j’79, will move this summer from Grand Island, N.Y., to Fremont, Ohio, where he’s executive edi- tor of the News-Messenger and of the News Herald in Port Clinton. Kathryn “Kay” Potter Crask, f’79, d’79, teaches orchestra at Esperanza High School in Anaheim, Calif. She lives in Yorba Linda. Steven Knoll, b’79, chairs the American Association for Homecare. He lives in Topeka. Robert Presley, d’79, directs bands for the North Chicago 187 school dis- trict. He lives in North Chicago. Donald Wall, b’79, lives in Arlington, Texas, with his wife, Karen. He’s vice president of finance and chief financial officer of APW/Wyott Food Service Equipment.

1980 Larry Parker, c’80, teaches naval sci- ence at Cairo High School in Cairo, Ga.

1981

BORN TO: David, c’91, and Barbara Ketterman Pendleton, b’81, son, Brian Daniel, Nov. Nicholas Zecy, c’76, directs technol- He’s general manager of Short Oil. 20 in Fort George, Md., where he joins a ogy services for the Center for Larry Winter, b’77, directs large bank sister, Catherine, 5. David serves in the Management Assistance. He lives in supervision for the Comptroller of the personnel systems staff office of the Overland Park. Currency in Washington, D.C. He lives chief of the Army reserve in Washington, in McLean, Va. D.C. 1977 Rick, ’82, and Theresa Shively- Sharon Holefelder Short, d’77, 1978 Porter, c’85, g’01, son, Alexander teaches music in Oxford, where she and Stephen Lauer, c’78, is a clinical assis- Thomas, Nov. 16 in Lawrence, where her husband, William, make their home. tant professor of pediatrics at the KU they live. Theresa is assistant director of

42 | KANSAS ALUMNI research and program development for 1984 BORN TO: Kansas Legal Services in Topeka. Rick, Diane Fernz Brock, c’84, is a staff Jennifer Reber Poole, c’84, and Alan, 40, died Jan. 29 in Oskaloosa. He had software engineer for Microsoft Great son, James Owen, Jan. 8 in London, been a real-estate appraiser for Keller & Plains Business Solutions in Manchester, England, where he joins a sister, Emma, Associates in Lawrence. Other survivors N.H. She lives in Raymond. 2. Jennifer manages technology planning include a brother and two sisters. Mark Mears, j’84, directs client servic- for Infologic. es and is a senior vice president of Brann 1983 Worldwide in Dallas. He lives in Allen. 1985 Julie Smith, ’83, is state president of Anne Smith, a’84, a’85, is a principal David Franklin, e’85, is an associate Business Professional Women. She lives at the San Diego firm, A.M. Smith with Frost, Brown and Todd in in Lenexa. Architect. Cincinnati. He lives in Loveland.

Profile BY JILL HUMMELS

Shell CEO powers success tionally dominated by men. Despite excelling in her engineering studies in male-dominated field under KU’s acclaimed faculty—includ- ing distinguished professors Paul s CEO of Shell Gas & Power, Willhite and Don Green in the depart- Linda Zarda Cook lives in ment of chemical and petroleum engi- London and travels the world. neering—and a challenging curriculum AHer post with Royal Dutch/ in geology and engineering that has Shell Group led Fortune magazine’s proved itself to be practical at almost international edition to name Cook one every turn, Cook says there have been of the 50 most powerful businesswomen times when her academic training outside the United States. wasn’t enough, by itself, to guarantee As head of Shell’s $16.5 billion gas success. and power business, Cook, e’81, runs “Often I was the first woman doing one of the oil company’s fastest-growing things—the first woman working on a businesses and is one rung below the rig, the first woman in charge of opera- corporation’s top elite of managing tions in the field. Because of that, Linda Zarda Cook, CEO of Shell Gas & Power, directors, Fortune wrote. Cook didn’t there’s often a spotlight on you, and was recently named one of the 50 most powerful find out she’d made the list until the day you stand out, for better or worse.” businesswomen outside the United States by before it was published earlier this fall. Carl E. Locke Jr., dean of engineer- Fortune magazine’s international edition. “I have to say I laughed. I often find ing, praised Cook for her achievements. myself thinking, ‘If they could only see “Enrollments of women in the School of & Power in January 2000. The position me,’” Cook says. “My family gets a big Engineering are about 18 to 19 percent, involves extensive worldwide travel, kick out of it.” which is much higher than when Linda which she treasures. Cook advises future She was first drawn to the energy was here,” Locke says. “Her accomplish- graduates to consider international field by following her interests as a high ments serve as a role model for the assignments. school student in Shawnee and being young women now studying engineering “It makes me realize how lucky we offered an academic scholarship through at KU.” are to be citizens of the United States. the School of Engineering. “I have Cook’s hard work has been rewarded [Yet] I see in my own children the value always enjoyed math and sciences. It with advancement within Shell, where of living abroad and the change in per- wasn’t until I was at the University that I she started as a reservoir engineer. spective it brings.” was exposed to engineering and geology. “The people are great at Shell; with- —Hummels is the School of Engineering’s It was there that I could put them out that I never would have stuck it out public relations director. This story first together for a career that I enjoyed.” for 20 years,” Cook says. appeared in the fall 2001 issue of Cook stands out in an industry tradi- She was appointed CEO of Shell Gas Oread Engineer.

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Barbara Haberstroh, g’85, teaches for 1986 BORN TO: USD 233. She lives in Olathe. Kristy Lantz Astry, j’86, works as sen- Konni Roach McMurray, e’86, and ior technical writer for Encoda Systems Brian, son, Patrick Thomas, Nov. 13 in BORN TO: in Denver. Pinehurst, N.C., where he joins three sis- Mark, p’85, p’02, and Katherine David Lytle, g’86, owns New Sources, ters, Katherine, 6; Emily, 4; and Mary, 2. Lindsey Hoover, p’92, son, Brett, Dec. a consulting business in Ankeny, Iowa, 26 in Overland Park, where he joins a where he and Laurian Casson Lytle, g’87, 1987 sister, Lauren, 3. Mark works for PhD’93, live with their children, Jeanie Stewart Brown, p’87, g’97, is Children’s Mercy Hospital, and Kate Hannah, 12; Joseph, 9; and Julia, 3. clinical coordinator at Prime manages the pharmacy at Osco Drug in Laurian is a stock analyst with Principal Therapeutics in Topeka. She lives in Lenexa. Financial Group in Des Moines. Lawrence.

Profile BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

KC doctor says he treats being Elvis Presley and to honor his twin brother, Jesse, EARL RICHARDSON alive but not-so-well Elvis who died at birth. Hinton says Presley now refers to himself lvis Presley lives. So says a board- as “Jesse,” though he does not certified psychiatrist who claims flinch when addressed as to be treating the 67-year-old Elvis. Eentertainment legend for depres- “He lived all his life with sion and chronic pain. the guilt of why his twin Donald Hinton, c’88, m’92, acknowl- brother died and he didn’t,” edges that his professional reputation Hinton says. “And when he could be riding on the story he first decided to fake his death, he revealed with a small book, The Truth felt that it was a way to give About Elvis Aron Presley, which Hinton his brother life.” Donald Hinton, a Kansas City psychiatrist and physician, says he cowrote with Presley. Hinton’s tale is, of course, says he is treating Elvis Presley for pain and depression. “When I first started helping him, incredible. But he tells it with a there was no talk of a book,” Hinton says soft sincerity that makes his listeners Hinton says Presley’s secret is kept by in his north Kansas City office. “I kept it yearn to believe the improbable. He says “people from Washington, D.C.” who secret from my family and everybody. no patients have left him because of the reach “all the way to the very high levels And then he decided that he did want Presley story, and he has received no in this country; you can’t go any higher.” this to come out and that this book is negative comments from colleagues. He thinks Presley’s mental health would just a very small part of what’s going to Hinton insists he is only trying to benefit if he came out of hiding, though happen.” help his patient endure a difficult stage he says Presley is hesitant because of Hinton says Presley contacted him in a difficult life, and should Presley threats made against those who have through a mutual friend in summer 1997. change his mind about revealing himself kept his secret for 25 years. He was introduced to an aging Southern (which Hinton says is planned for this Should Presley return, Hinton says, gentleman who had endured decades of year), he will gladly stop discussing it. he never again would let himself become pain, depression and isolation. Hinton “In my opinion, the whole story is a the Vegas cliche that hastened his first, says he continues to speak regularly with very tragic one, a very sad one,” Hinton false demise. Presley, and occasionally treats him in says. “He felt he didn’t have any other “He talks about his music, but he person, including a Kansas City visit in option. He didn’t feel he could retire, talks mostly about gospel music. It is mid-April. and he was very sick. He was receiving still his favorite. He has talked a lot Presley explained to Hinton, the doc- death threats against himself and his about how his mother always wanted tor says, that he faked his death in daughter. [Col. Tom Parker] planned it him to be a gospel singer, and he wishes August 1977 both to end the misery of and got him out, faked his death.” he had done that.”

44 | KANSAS ALUMNI Becky Surber Gonzales, c’87, man- City, and they live in Shawnee Mission. ages human resources for HP Pelzer Automotive Systems in Eudora. She lives BORN TO: in Lawrence. Stephen Ariagno, b’87, l’90, and Julie, Tommy James, b’87, is vice president daughter, Meghan Claire, Dec. 8 in of special projects at American Italian Wichita, where Steve is managing part- Pasta in Kansas City. His home is in ner at Ariagno, Kerns, Mank & White. Sandpoint, Idaho. Ralf Salke, n’87, received a Visionary 1988 Leadership Award in Healthcare Collin Freeman, p’88, p’90, and his Excellence last year from the Missouri wife, Joy, will celebrate their first Hospital Association. He lives in anniversary June 9. They live in Prairie Jefferson City. Village, and he’s a clinical science spe- John Sennentz, c’87, works as a con- cialist with Bayer. sultant with the Alliance of Computer Jeff Johnson, b’88, works for Raymond Professionals in Minneapolis. James Financial Services in Wichita. Evan Walter, j’87, c’88, works for Shirley Kennedy, b’88, sells real estate Decision Analyst in Arlington, Texas. for Coldwell Banker McGrew Real Estate in Lawrence. MARRIED Melissa Larson, c’88, m’94, recently Jeff Jacobs, c’87, and Elaine Fields, became a partner in Colorado c’89, Oct. 6 in Prairie Village. Jeff is pres- Anesthesia Consultants. She and her ident of Jacobs Properties in Kansas husband, Jeffrey Lewis, live in Golden.

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John Martel, e’88, received a master’s for Publication Design in Wheat Ridge, BORN TO: in civil engineering last year from Colo. He lives in Littleton. Brian, c’91, and Wendy Smith Oklahoma State University. He lives in Richards, ’94, daughter, Hannah Jayne, Olathe and is a project manager for BORN TO: Nov. 23 in Castle Rock, Colo. Brian is HNTB. Elizabeth Williams Lock, c’90, g’93, senior reporting representative for Pitney and Michael, f’92, daughter, Grace Bowes Office Systems in Denver, and BORN TO: Suzanne, Sept. 10 in St. Louis, where Wendy is resources manager for John Creighton, c’88, b’88, and Michael is a designer for Graphic Links. Knowledge Alliance in Aurora. Johnita, daughter, Grace Ann, Dec. 18 in Elizabeth is a school psychologist in Longmont, Colo., where she joins a sis- Belleville, Ill. 1992 ter, Emma, 5, and a brother, Joseph, 2. John owns Conocer, a public leadership 1991 MARRIED consulting firm. Gil Caedo, j’91, writes for Callahan Gary Komar, c’92, and Sybil Hosek, Michael, l’88, and Susan Roffman Creek in Lawrence. He lives in Olathe. c’93, Sept. 8 in Banff National Park, Norton, l’89, twin sons, Aaron Louis John Gill, e’91, a’92, directs lighting Canada. They live in Chicago, where and Leo Thomas, July 4 in Omaha, Neb., design for CRS Engineering and Design Gary is a broker with Market Street where they join two brothers, Justin, 5, Consultants in Birmingham, Ala. Mortgage and Sybil works at Cook and Seth, 2. County Hospital.

1989 MARRIED BORN TO: Eric Johnson, e’89, and his wife, Steve Cooksey, c’91, to Melissa Michael, c’92, and Jennifer Lasky Linda, celebrated their first anniversary Raymond, June 9. They live in Dalke, j’92, daughter, Madeline Rachel, in April. They live in Kansas City. Richardson, Texas. Dec. 28 in Dallas. Michael is an account

BORN TO: Randall Fenstemaker, c’89, and Bobbi, daughter, Sara, Oct. 6 in Ocala, Fla. Their family includes a son, Sean, 15. David, c’89, and Cynthia Panowicz Heitmeyer, j’89, daughter, Ella Faith, June 15 in Boston, where she joins a sister, Sarah, 4. David is lead technical web specialist at Harvard University in Cambridge. Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier, c’89, and Stephen, daughter, Olivia Kathryn, Sept. 18 in Lawrence, where she joins a sister, Grace, 4. Steve is an assistant professor of electrical engineering at KU. Charles, c’89, and Kristin Pieper O’Keefe, c’89, daughter, Molly Benson, Nov. 15 in Leawood, where she joins a sister, Katharine, 4, and a brother, Matthew, 2.

1990 Samuel Logan, l’90, practices law with Foulston Siefkin in Olathe. He lives in Kansas City. Gregory Stoskopf, g’90, is a senior manager at Deloitte & Touche in New York City. Roger Wedel, c’90, directs marketing

46 | KANSAS ALUMNI executive with Chase Manhattan for sturgesword in Kansas City. daughter, Caroline, 1. Mortgage, and Jennifer is a broadcast Bryan Reed, c’93, is a technical staff media buyer for the Richards Group. member of Surgient Networks in Austin, BORN TO: Texas. Julee Hawk Goeser, b’93, and Kurt, 1993 William “Jody” Schrandt, c’93, g’95, b’94, g’01, twin daughters, Morgan Elise Bryan Hedges, b’93, is president of works as a manager with Cap Gemini and Madison Kara, Jan. 14 in Overland Hedges Realty Executives in Lawrence. Ernst & Young in Kansas City. He lives Park. Julee is a network planner for SBC- John Mullies, b’93, h’97, recently was in Olathe. Southwestern Bell in Mission, and Kurt promoted to team lead enterprise archi- Gregory Weimholt, e’93, manages is an agent with State Farm Insurance in tect with Cerner PathNet Consulting in projects for Encompass Electronic Independence, Mo. Kansas City. Technologies. He and Julie Porter John, p’93, and Julia Cooper Wells, Leland Page, c’93, manages accounts Weimholt, c’94, live in Dallas with their c’93, son, Joshua Thomas, July 26 in

Profile BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER

Sports editor’s humor covering the event in 1984. “The stories you get to tell are not the people we helps her stay in the game read about every day,” she says. “A lot of them come up from nowhere and have hen The Washington Post such great stories.” compiled a list of staff cov- Her favorite Olympics episode? Tonya ering the Winter Olympics Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, hands Win Salt Lake City, one detail down. “What a great time to be in jour- caught Tracee Hamilton’s eye. “There nalism,” she says. “That was a story peo- were 12 names, and 11 of the birth- ple make fun of, but [famed Post editor] places were major cities or their sub- Ben Bradlee was down here every day urbs,” Hamilton says. “Then there’s me, during Tonya and Nancy, asking in that born in Lincoln, Kansas. How in the gravelly voice, ‘What’s the latest? What’s world did this happen?” the latest?’ That I will never forget.” Hamilton, c’83, j’83, deputy sports Hamilton counts herself lucky to editor at the Post since 1993, poses the work for the paper that Bradlee and the question with her easy laugh, but the late publisher Katharine Graham helped Hamilton recuses herself from editing KU pride seeps through. On her wall is a make a national force. “You work with a sports stories, but makes her sentiments known. framed 19th-century photo of her ances- lot of brilliant people, and the standards tors’ first Kansas homestead, a lone are high,” she says. “You don’t have the white tent braced against the prairie danger of being compromised.” Baby Jay and lifelong fan, she wrote wind. She speaks wistfully of Kansas; But the high-powered newsroom also about her sacred game-viewing charms: a she once considered moving back to buy stirs big egos and quirky behavior. “The tattered KU sweatshirt, a Jayhawk pup- her hometown weekly newspaper. amount of bizarreness you deal with on pet and her trusty mascot tattoo. But metropolitan dailies are a daily basis is startling. I feel like many She received lots of thankful e-mails Hamilton’s professional home. She days I’m the most normal person in the from Jayhawks—and lots of newsroom began her career at the Detroit Free room, and I’m quite sure I’m not. I feel grief after Maryland won. Press, where for 10 years she reported like Marilyn on ‘The Munsters.’ The Jayhawk puppet, his luck spent, on the NBA and auto racing while work- “I’m just a simple Midwestern girl has retired, Hamilton says, and even the ing as a copy editor and designer. with simple needs. They think I’m a bit beloved sweatshirt may be history. For the Post, Hamilton oversees the of a freak, but that’s OK.” But the KU flag in her office? It won’t Sunday sports section, along with cover- In fact, Hamilton is so OK with her budge. age of auto racing, hockey and the city’s oddities that she confessed them in Like the tent her ancestors pitched on bid for a baseball team. And she hasn’t print March 28, just before KU faced the prairie, it stakes her claim to a new missed an Olympics since she started Maryland in the Final Four. A former home.

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Joplin, Mo., where he joins a brother, Shawnee Mission. Campbell, b’94, daughter, Alexis Nicole, Matthew, 5. John manages the pharmacy Sept. 26. They moved recently from at Wal-Mart. MARRIED Wichita to Overland Park. Tony is an Peter, c’93, and Sandra Wendelken Matthew Stava, b’94, to Kelly Haught, audit manager with KPMG, and Stephenson, j’93, son, Nicholas James, Sept. 8. Their home is in Denver. Catherine is a senior financial analyst Aug. 7 in Littleton, Colo. Kristopher Weidling, c’94, to Jennifer with Sprint. Carnahan, July 21 in Decatur, Ill. They Clyde Hall, b’94, and Christy, son, 1994 live in San Diego, and Kristopher man- Spencer Storme, Dec. 17 in Elgin, Ill. Catherine Bubb Campbell, b’94, is a ages human resources for Culligan. senior financial analyst with Sprint, and 1995 her husband, To n y, b’94, is an audit BORN TO: David Hanson, e’95, c’95, works as a manager with KPMG. They live in To n y, b’94, and Catherine Bubb product development engineer with

Profile BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

tered family picks at food during meals,

“E.T.” actor gets overdue CHRIS LAZZARINO eating nothing with gusto. There are no praise for landmark role vacation pictures taped to the refrigera- tor. Mom deflates when told by one of hen he rereleased his 1982 her sons that their wayward father has classic, “E.T. The Extra- taken his new flame to Mexico: “He Terrestrial,” director Steven hates Mexico,” she says softly. Mom hus- WSpielberg reminded audi- tles around the house, a cheerful Betty ences that “E.T.” is more than a cute Boop pin on her lapel, as she tries to get movie for kids; it is also a mature exami- to work on time while dealing with sick nation of the pain he endured as a boy children. Little Gertie offhandedly during his parents’ divorce. With addresses her as “Mary,” reducing Spielberg’s admonition in mind, “E.T.” Mom’s stature even further. suddenly plays as intended: a wrenching When the sad-eyed alien seeks shelter tale about a family struggling to redefine in this house, he is not the only one Dee Wallace Stone returned to her native itself after Dad leaves for a new life with yearning for a home. Kansas City in April to help fans celebrate the a younger woman. “It’s one of the first movies that dealt 20-year anniversary of “E.T.The Extra- The actor with top billing—and the with single parenting, although most of Terrestrial.” emotional center when “E.T.” is watched the attention was just about what a with an adult’s perspective—is the fami- heartwarming, incredible movie it was,” lapse into love.” ly’s mother, Kansas City, Kan., native Wallace Stone says. “Sometimes I think When federal agents rush the house Dee Bowers Wallace Stone, d’71. that maybe we did that movie 20 years upon discovering E.T., Mom clutches “It’s my ‘Wizard of Oz,’” Wallace ago just so it could come back out Gertie and fiercely screams, “This is my Stone said before greeting fans and today, after Sept. 11. The whole message home!” The powerful statement was friends in April at a Lee’s Summit, Mo., of the movie is that you have to keep clear: Husband or no husband, this theatre. “I was able to take my daughter your heart on, to stay open and recon- woman has found renewed strength; a [13-year-old Gaby] to the premiere at the nect to your source, whatever that may new family is formed at that moment, Shrine. She had never seen it on the big be, if you’re going to survive.” with Mom, despite her unconventional screen. She said, ‘Gosh, Mom, it’s like In the March 25 issue of The New role (especially for 1982), establishing I’ve never seen it before.” Yorker, critic Anthony Lane praised herself as the leader. That’s true even for adults. Since Wallace Stone’s acting in a pivotal scene “That was improv,” Wallace Stone we’ve already fallen in love with the with her youngest son as “exquisitely says. “I felt silly, from what I remember, ruddy alien and his big-hearted young judged—a rushing embrace, then a standing there, just letting these people friends, Wallace Stone’s portrayal of the spasm of anger for his having put her come in and not trying to take any jilted wife surges to the fore. The splin- through the wringer, then a relieved col- action to protect my kids.”

48 | KANSAS ALUMNI MARRIED Brandy Bialek, c’96, m’01, and Jeffrey Frost, j’96, June 16. She’s a pediatrics resident at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and he’s a media salesman for CDW.

1997 David Eisenach, c’97, returned to Colorado Springs earlier this year after working for two years in Adelaide, Australia. Jason Lentsch, c’97, is district man- ager at American General Financial Group in Raytown, Mo. He lives in Overland Park.

MARRIED Amy Nemechek, p’97, to Brandon Christiansen, Sept. 22. They live in Castle Rock, Colo., and Amy is a phar- macist for Safeway in Parker.

1998 Amy Churchill, c’98, is a critical-care specialist for Eli Lilly & Co. in Denver. Kelly Huffman, c’98, a New York City resident, recently was admitted to the New York State Bar.

Sulzer Spine-Tech in Minneapolis. Randy, son, William Garrett, Oct. 3 in Kyle Hogan, c’95, is CEO of B&H Lenexa, where he joins a brother, Then Again Marketing and Sales in Scottsdale, Ariz. Braeden, 2. Heath Lindvall, b’95, manages proj- Cindy Travnicek Hollinger, e’95, and n 1914, the clandestine men’s honor ects for Capital One, where Christy Eric, ’97, son, Eric Alexander, Aug. 17 in Igroup called the Owl Society launched Murphy Lindvall, c’93, is a senior multi- Lawrence, where he joins a sister, Ashley, a Universitywide humor magazine to media manager. They live in Glenn 2. Cindy is a consultant for WGK & bring a little levity to fellow students. Allen, Va. Associates in Overland Park, and Eric is The Sour Owl enjoyed sporadic popu- Allison Moss Tuttle, e’95, g’01, man- a military technician for the U.S. govern- larity between 1914 and 1956, though ages the Western region of GBA Master ment in Gardner. every couple of years campus adminis- Series in Kansas City. trators banned it, deeming its risqué 1996 jokes too lewd MARRIED Bryan Breckenridge, j’96, is an for students’ own Julie Myers, b’95, to William Spiegel, account executive for Salesforce.com in good. Other illicit Nov. 3 in Topeka. They live in San Francisco. campus publica- Manhattan, where Julie is a CPA with Sarah Hendrix, c’96, works as admin- tions occasionally Varney & Associates. William edits strative coordinator for the Fred surfaced to rival Kansas Magazine in Jewell. Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the Sour Owl, Sandra Wright, c’95, to James Seattle. She lives in Kirkland. including the Kenslow, Nov. 3. They live in Olathe. Irene Prilutsky, j’96, works as an Bitter Bird and account executive for MMT/Cox the even racier BORN TO: Broadcasting in New York City. Squat. 1931 Trista Hansen Burgard, c’95, and

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care cases at United Methodist Youthville in Wichita.

MARRIED Molly Bash, j’00, and James Mills, j’02, Sept. 22 in Kansas City. She’s an account manager with Leagas Delaney Advertising in San Francisco, and he manages client services at TRVIS. Sarah Drees, b’00, to Chad Liebl, Nov. 24 in Ellinwood. Sarah is a CPA with Pierce, Faris & Co. in Hutchinson, and Chad is an agronomist with the Sterling Farmers Union Coop. They live in Hutchinson. Linea Patchen, c’00, and Michael Wilson, l’00, June 16 in Shawnee. She’s an affiliate logistics analyst for Sprint, and he’s a project manager for Burns & McDonnell.

BORN TO: Devon, l’00, and Emily Strabala Reese, assoc., daughter, Kate Jacalyn, June 1 in Reno, Nev., where she joins a sister, Madeline, 2. Devon practices law with Laxalt and Nomura.

2001 Darron Farha, l’01, practices law with Newbery & Ungerer in Topeka. He lives Allison Arbuckle Taylor, j’98, is area BORN TO: in Baldwin City. manager for SBC Communications in Donald Davis, c’99, and Yanette, Bradley Laforge, l’01, is an associate Mission. daughter, Denay, Aug. 7 in St. Charles, in the Wichita law firm of Hite Fanning William Wilkerson, c’98, works as an Mo., where she joins a sister, & Honeyman. account executive for Haas & Wilkerson Dominique, 8. Donald plays football for Travis Salmon, l’01, practices law Insurance in Fairway. He lives in Prairie the St. Louis Rams. with Shughart Thomson & Kilroy in Village. Jenna Jarboe Delay, j’99, and Chris, Kansas City. daughter, Harlie Jane, Aug. 31 in BORN TO: Leavenworth. Jenna studies education at 2002 Beatriz Zuniga Schloegel, h’98, and Avila College. Allison Abplanalp, c’02, is an assistant Matt, daughter, Elle Beatrice, Nov. 19 in Shane, ’99, and Leisha Spillman research scientist in KU’s molecular bio- Las Vegas, where she joins a sister, Mia. Jones, p’00, son, Parker Shane, Sept. 23 sciences department. She lives in in Hoxie, where Shane owns Hoxie State Lawrence. 1999 Insurance and Abstract. Leisha is a phar- Kelli Bradbury, g’02, lectures in the Noreen Connolly, l’99, practices law macist at Wal-Mart in Colby. nursing school at Washburn University with Nixon Peabody. She lives in in Topeka. Rochester, N.Y. 2000 Marlon Derouen, c’02, works for Vi- Brian Miller, e’99, is a signal integrity Jessica Hailey, c’00, writes copy for Jon Laboratories in St. Louis. He lives in engineer for Surgient Networks in Platform Advertising in Olathe. Florissant. Austin, Texas. Kristi Kiyabu, c’00, g’02, is an anes- Kirk Hance, ’02, is an assistant profes- Daniel Ochs, g’99, works for thesia assistant with Kapi’olani Health in sor of surgery at the KU Medical Center American Fire Sprinkler Corp. He lives Honolulu, Hawaii. in Kansas City. He lives in Prairie Village. in Kansas City. Alyson Smith, s’00, manages foster David Jacobs, ’02, owns Balanced

50 | KANSAS ALUMNI Body. He’s a weight management con- sultant and personal trainer in Shawnee. Mark McLean, ’02, is a mental health community coordinator for Value Options in Phoenix. He lives in Tempe. Braden Palmberg, ’02, works as a law enforcement officer for the city of Topeka. Nicole Perica, j’02, is an account executive for Barkley Evergreen & Partners in Kansas City. She lives in Bonner Springs.

ASSOCIATES Del Brinkman, former dean of jour- nalism and vice chancellor for academic affairs at KU, resigned recently as dean of the University of Colorado journalism school to focus on recovering his health after undergoing open-heart surgery. Del and his wife, Carolyn, live in Bloomington, Ind.

School Codes Letters that follow names in Kansas Alumni indicate the school from which alumni earned degrees. Numbers show their class years.

a School of Architecture and Urban Design b School of Business c College of Liberal Arts and Sciences d School of Education e School of Engineering f School of Fine Arts g Master’s Degree h School of Allied Health j School of Journalism l School of Law m School of Medicine n School of Nursing p School of Pharmacy s School of Social Welfare DE Doctor of Engineering DMA Doctor of Musical Arts EdD Doctor of Education PhD Doctor of Philosophy (no letter) Former student assoc. Associate member of the Alumni Association

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1920s Clement Hall, l’33, 91, Feb. 21 in where he developed Chipperfield Clayton Brenner, l’28, 97, Jan. 16 in Albuquerque, N.M. He was founding Condominiums. A memorial has been Marshalltown, Iowa, where he was a partner of the Coffeyville law firm of established with the KU Endowment retired judge. In 1998, he established a Hall, Kirby and Levy and had served on Association. He is survived by his wife, law scholarship at KU, and last year, the the Kansas Board of Regents for many Ellen Dee Pritchett Skie, ’80; three KU School of Law awarded him the years. A memorial has been established daughters, Sue, c’75, Shelley Skie James Wood Green Medallion. He is sur- with the KU Endowment Association. Horowitz, c’98, and Debbie Skie vived by a daughter, Dorothy Brenner He is survived by three sons, Roger, c’62, Scrivner, d’73; and two grandchildren. Francis, f’48; a sister; two granddaugh- m’66, Bruce, c’64, and David, c’67. Eleanor Souder White, n’39, 85, Jan. ters; and two great-grandsons. Karl Johnson, e’38, 86, March 6 in 19 in Manhattan, where she was a Shawnee Mission, where he was a retired retired nurse. A son, a daughter and four 1930s engineer. He is survived by a daughter, grandchildren survive. Raymond Barkley, b’34, 93, Jan. 21 Diane Johnson Bergstrom, b’74; a son, Dorothy Miller Wills, d’35, 88, March in Topeka. He had been a CPA and is Robert, c’71, g’75; a brother; and four 3 in Oklahoma City, where she was a survived by three sons, a daughter, grandchildren. piano teacher. Surviving are a son, a 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grand- Gordon Miller, e’36, 85, Dec. 28 in daughter, two brothers, seven grandchil- children. Littleton, Colo., where he was a retired dren and seven great-grandchildren. Henry Benjes, e’35, 87, Jan. 28 in nuclear and environmental engineering Frederick Woleslagel, l’38, 88, Feb. 18 Overland Park. He was a partner in consultant. A sister survives. in Lyons. He was a lawyer and had Black & Veatch Consulting Engineeers. John “Jack” Pearce, ’38, Jan. 16 in served as the 20th Judicial District judge He is survived by his wife, Helen; two Overland Park. He had been a produc- from 1959 until 1980. A son, a daughter sons, Henry, e’61, g’62, and Richard, tion superintendent at Vendo, vice presi- and a sister survive. c’65, l’67; a daughter, Evelyn, c’63; two dent of Selectivend and president of stepdaughters, one of whom is Laura Skyhook Cranes. Surviving are his wife, 1940s Dysart Marcy, c’73; a stepson, Robert Anna, assoc.; a son, Dean, b’70; a daugh- William Bovaird, b’48, Dec. 3 in Dysart, c’77, l’80; 12 grandchildren; and ter, Barbara Pearce Krueger, c’67; and Denver, Colo. He was president of seven great-grandchildren. four grandchildren. Bovaird Supply and is survived by his Donald Bux, c’37, m’39, 87, Nov. 26 Helen Fellows Wilson Polzin, c’32, wife, Marian; a daughter; four sons; in San Antonio, where he was a retired 92, Feb. 27 in Larned, where she was a two sisters, Ruthanna Bovaird Snow, physician. He is survived by his wife, retired teacher and a musician. She is c’44, and Mary Bovaird Stark, c’49; Elaine Frutchey Bux, f’37; a son; and a survived by her husband, Edward, a son, and several grandchildren. granddaughter. a daughter, two stepsons, a stepdaugh- Mervin “Ray” Callow, ’44, 83, March Clark Fleming, l’34, 93, Jan. 18 in ter, a grandchild and a great-grandchild. 7 in Kansas City. He had worked for Laguna Hills, Calif. He was retired Robert Raymond, b’34, g’51, 89, Jan. Boeing Aircraft and later for TWA. senior partner in the Humboldt law firm 14 in Lawrence. He retired in 1978 after Survivors include his wife, Willie, three of Fleming and Forsyth. Surviving are a long career teaching business at Ohio daughters, two sons, a brother and 11 his wife, Crystal, a daughter, a brother, State University. He is survived by his grandchildren. three grandchildren and five great- wife, Elizabeth Raymond Raymond, Marjorie Doctor, b’44, 79, Jan. 24 in grandchildren. c’39, g’41; a brother, Theodore, ’41; and Los Gatos, Calif., where she managed a Robert Frakes, b’39, 84, Feb. 9 in a sister. real-estate business. She is survived by a Kansas City, where he was retired from Morris Richardson, b’36, 87, Jan. 24, sister, Norma Doctor Zehms, f’49. Farmland Industries. He is survived by 2001, in Dallas, where he was retired Marjorie Siegrist Ebling, c’41, 81, his wife, Elizabeth McCune Frakes, c’47; from a long career with Santa Fe March 4 in Kansas City, where she was three daughters, Blossom Frakes Railway. He is survived by his wife, board chairman of Siegrist Engraving. Swanson, c’60, Becky Frakes Herrman, Ethelyne Burns Richardson, f’40; two Surviving are three sons, two of whom d’65, and Deborah, c’73; a half brother; sons; a daughter; and 12 grandchildren. are John, j’71, and Frank, b’79; and five two half sisters; 11 grandchildren; and John Skie, c’38, 86, Jan. 25 in granddaughters. seven great-grandchildren. Shawnee Mission. He lived in Lawrence, Walter Fees Jr., c’41, 83, May 30,

52 | KANSAS ALUMNI 2001, in Grand Junction, Colo. He William “Red” Hogan, d’48, 81, Feb. daughters, Elizabeth Spray Haehl, b’77, owned Walter S. Fees Jr. and Son Oil & 28 in Overland Park. He is survived by and Christina, c’72; a brother, Carl, ’43; Gas. He is survived by his wife, Marceil, his wife, Helen Ward Hogan, d’50; two and three grandchildren. a son, five daughters, a sister, 13 grand- daughters, Nancy Hogan Koons, d’77, Margarett Fisher Starkey, ’48, 75, children and 11 great-grandchildren. and Sallie Hogan Wandling, c’80, s’89; Feb. 11 in Eudora. She lived in Lawrence Raymond Glasnap, e’46, 81, Feb. 13 and three grandchildren. and is survived by her husband, Jack, in Kansas City, where he was active in Frank Houck, b’47, 79, Jan. 14 in assoc.; a daughter, Melinda Starkey the banking industry and had owned Independence. He worked for Amoco Maturo, d’79; a brother, Alan Fisher, Blackhawk Distributors. He is survived Oil and was a consultant for the Denver b’47; and three grandchildren. by his wife, Erma Lee; two daughters, law firm of Burns & Wall. He is survived Louise Polson Wade, e’43, 79, Dec. one of whom is Peggy Glasnapp by his wife, Billie; two sons; a sister, Sally 27 in Overland Park. A memorial has Herrington, d’79; a son; a brother; and Houck Ward, c’47; and two grandchil- been established with the KU three grandchildren. dren. Endowment Association. Several nieces Juanita Roderick Gray, ’44, 80, Dec. Eugene Kuhn, c’40, 86, Feb. 23 in and nephews survive. 15 in Overland Park. Among survivors Fresno, Calif., where he was a reporter Wayne Whelan, b’40, 83, Jan. 14 in are four sons, two of whom are Kevin, for the Fresno Bee. He is survived by his Topeka, where he had been board chair- b’83, and Douglas, f’83; and a daughter. wife, Alice, a son, a daughter and three man of Whelan Lumber. He is survived Paul Grover, g’48, Sept. 5 in grandchildren. by his wife, Mary; a son, Ward, b’71; a Tahlequah, Okla. He had been a profes- Charles Lacey, ’49, 79, Feb. 21 in daughter, Janice Whelan Good, d’68; sor of music and humanities at Eudora. He lived in Lawrence, where he and three grandsons. Northeastern State University for many had a long career as a director, writer Joseph Yager, ’45, 78, Jan. 18 in years. He is survived by his wife, Ethel, a and actor with Centron. He is survived Omaha, Neb., where he was a commer- daughter, a son, six grandchildren and by his wife, Ruthanne Finley Lacey, ’64; cial real-estate appraiser with Real two great-grandchildren. two sons, Philip, c’71, l’74, and Bruce, Property Appraisers, He is survived by Paul Hardman Jr., e’47, 80, Jan. 27 in c’78; a daughter, Jean Lacey Pollock, his wife, two sons, three grandchildren Newton. He was a retired U.S. Army c’74; and 11 grandchildren. and a great-grandson. colonel and a civil engineer. Survivors Ellis Nelson, b’47, 82, Jan. 1 in include his wife, Norma Ashlock Houston, where he was retired from a 1950s Hardman, c’45; three sons, one of whom 35-year career with Shell Oil. He is sur- Eskil Anderson, ’59, 74, Jan. 31 in is Paul, c’82; a daughter; 10 grandchil- vived by his wife, Helen; three sons; a Topeka. He had been president of dren; and five great-grandchildren. daughter; three sisters; three brothers; Brown-Mackie College in Salina and of Richard Harrington, c’49, 76, Dec. 27 and 10 grandchildren. Salt City College in Hutchinson. He is in San Jose, Calif. He was retired Alice Curry Penn, c’40, 82, Dec. 15 survived by his wife, June; a son, Jerry, Western regional director for the Boy in Kansas City, where she was a retired b’81; two daughters, one of whom is Scouts of America. Surviving are his wife, teacher. She is survived by her hus- Kristin Anderson Chanay, j’85, g’89; a Nancy, three sons, five grandchildren band, George, ’50; two sons, one of brother; six grandchildren; and three and three great-grandchildren. whom is George, c’78; and two sisters, great-grandchildren. Darrell Havener, c’49, l’50, 76, March Grace Curry Black, b’44, g’47, and Don Bell, c’53, 73, Jan. 23 in Pratt. He 7 in Denver. He practiced law with the Virginia, c’43. was a retired entomologist at Rhoades Kansas City firm of Watson, Ess, Robert Ramsay, g’47, 81, Jan. 2 in Chemical in Kansas City and is survived Marshall and Enggas for many years. A Pittsburgh, Pa., where he was a retired by a son, a daughter, two sisters, four memorial has been established with the industrial psychologist and a former col- grandchildren and a great-grandchild. KU Endowment Association. He is sur- lege professor. He is survived by his wife, Robert Bodine, g’58, Feb. 24 in vived by his wife, Shirley McGinness Ruth Ann, a daughter, a son and two Milwaukee. He was a research scientist Havener, ’47; a daughter, Cathy Havener grandsons. and executive at A.O. Smith & Cad. Greer, l’76; a son; a sister; and three Ralph Richardson, c’40, 83, Jan. 4 Among survivors are his wife, Claudia, a grandchildren. in Seattle. He had been a professor of daughter and two sons. Lawrence Hawkinson, b’48, 77, Jan. speech and communications at UCLA Barbara Wurst Cecchet, b’59, Sept. 12 in Atlanta, where he was retired from for many years. Surviving are three sons, 26 in Denver. She had lived in Africa, the tax office of Arthur Young & Co. He a daughter, a sister and seven grand- Vietnam, Austria and Switzerland. A sis- is survived by his wife, Marian; two sons; children. ter survives. two brothers, Jack, j’56, and Richard, Chester Spray, b’40, 83, Jan. 22 in James Coleman, ’58, 69, Aug. 3 in c’48; five grandchildren; and a great- Lawrence. He had been a farmer and Duluth, Minn. He lived in Walla Walla, grandson. stockman and is survived by a son; two Wash., and had been involved with USA

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Volleyball for more than 40 years. He Hoisington, where he was a retired phar- Lynwood Smith Jr., b’51, m’60, 72, coached in seven Olympic competitions, macist at Cheyenne Drug Store. He is Feb. 5 in Kansas City. He lived in eight Pan American Games, five World survived by his wife, Marilyn Warner Lawrence and was a retired internal Cups and six World Championships. He Hoyt, assoc.; and a sister. medicine physician at the Mayo Clinic in is survived by his wife, Lee, three daugh- Robert Kennedy, c’53, g’59, 70, Sept. Rochester, Minn. He was a director of ters, a son and four grandchildren. 14 in Hamilton, N.J. He was retired from the Alumni Association and was a mem- Leland Dalgleish, ’53, 71, March 1 in the New Jersey Department of Urban ber of KU’s Chancellors Club. A memo- Park City, Utah. He lived in Prairie Renewal. A son, two daughters, two sis- rial has been established with the KU Village and had owned L.D. Sales. ters and five grandchildren survive. Endowment Association. He is survived Surviving are his wife, Elaine; two sons, James Mears, b’55, 68, Feb. 17 in by his wife, Marty Waddell Smith, ’52; Douglas, b’82, and Scott, c’90; a daugh- Wichita, where he was a retired sales two daughters; two sons; a brother; two ter; and eight grandchildren. engineer with B.J. Alberts. He is survived sisters, one of whom is Lura Smith Robert Edmonds, b’58, l’61, Nov. 8 in by his wife, Shirley Palmer Mears, assoc.; Geiger, c’42; and four grandchildren. Topeka, where he was a partner in the three sons, David, j’81, Mark, j’84, and James Sorem Sr., e’55, 69, Jan. 31 in law firm of Goodell, Stratton, Edmonds Terry, j’86; a daughter, Julie Mears Jetmore, where he was a farmer and had and Palmer. A memorial has been estab- Goehrung, b’80; six grandchildren; and served as a Hodgeman County commis- lished with the KU Endowment three stepgrandchildren. sioner. He is survived by his wife, Mary Association. He is survived by his wife, Dale Nelson, e’51, 75, Jan. 13 in Schauvliege Sorem, n’55; four sons, Orene Carroll Edmonds, d’57; and two Kansas City, where he worked for J.C. James Jr., e’78, g’81, PhD’85, Richard, sons, one of whom is Christopher, c’92. Nichols, Western Auto Supply and Mark e’80, William, e’83, a’83, g’90, PhD’90, Chester Fee, c’51, g’52, m’56, 76, Jan. One Electric. He is survived by his wife, and Robert, e’86, g’88, PhD’91; a daugh- 30 in Kansas City, where he was chief of Lorraine, a daughter, a brother and two ter, Jenifer Sorem Rivera, e’83; a sister, surgery and a director of Trinity grandchildren. Rowena Merkey Wilson, d’54; and 10 Lutheran Hospital. A memorial has been Robert Parker, e’57, g’59, 73, Jan. 21 grandchildren. established with the KU Endowment in Sebring, Fla. He was retired from John Watson, b’57, 70, Jan. 21 in Association. He is survived by his wife, Western Electric AT&T and is survived Kansas City, where he was a CPA for Ardyce Pearson Fee, n’54; two daughters, by his wife, Thelma, a son, a daughter, a Arthur Young and Co. and a tax adviser one of whom is Carolyn Fee Fletcher, brother, three grandchildren and a great- and relocation manager for HNTB. A h’80; a son, Michael, b’80; two brothers; grandchild. son, a daughter and a sister survive. and nine grandchildren. William Payne, ’50, 76, Feb. 23 in Kenneth Wilcox, c’51, 78, March 7 in Lamont Gaston, c’50, m’53, 75, Jan. Lawrence, where he was a retired fore- Kansas City, where he was retired dean 9 in Columbia, Mo., where he was a man and supervisor at Lawrence Paper of continuing education at UMKC. He is professor emeritus of pathology at the Co. He also had been a houseman at survived by his wife, Kay Ellen Johnston University of Missouri and former direc- Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. Surviving Wilcox, EdD’79; two sons; two daugh- tor of MU’s microbiology laboratory. are his wife, Daphne Thierry Harris ters; a sister; four grandsons; and a great- He is survived by his wife, Janice; and Payne, d’57, g’73; three daughters; two grandson. three daughters, two of whom are sons; two stepdaughters, Stacy Harris Diana Gaston Sorenson, c’85, g’89, and Jones, m’92, and April Harris Bremby, 1960s Lydia, c’90, j’90. c’82; a brother, Alexander, c’52; a sister, Cary Barnes, m’67, 63, June 4 in El Aimee Guinotte Gerhardt, f’51, 73, Anna Payne Harris, b’52; seven grand- Paso, Texas, where he was a dermatolo- Feb. 12 in Kansas City. She is survived children; six stepgrandchildren; and two gist. He is survived by his wife, Mary, by her husband, Don; four daughters, great-grandchildren. two sons and two grandsons. two of whom are Aimee Gerhardt Donald Price, ’50, 75, Jan. 24 in John Chiarello, g’69, 78, Feb. 24 in Haugan, g’00, and Lucy Russell Neal, Roeland Park. He was vice president of Bella Vista, Ark. He had been a special f’71; a son; a brother, James, c’48; two sales for Select Awards and later owned education vocational coordinator for the sisters; and 15 grandchildren. Incentives International. He is survived Kansas City Public Schools. His wife, Robert Halloran, c’57, 72, Feb. 1 in by his wife, Mary; a son; a stepson; Lez Berrios Chiarello, ’64, survives. Topeka, where he was a retired curing Donald Clay, c’74; and a granddaughter. Judith “Ski” Kulowski Craven, c’63, supervisor and receiving foreman for James Scanlon Jr., m’54, 84, Jan. 21 in 60, March 7 in Kansas City. She lived in Goodyear Tire and Rubber. He is sur- Middletown, Conn. He was director of Liberty, Mo., and had been a computer vived by his wife, Janet Stewart Halloran, geriatrics and of general medicine at programmer for AT&T. She is survived d’54; four daughters; a brother; and four Connecticut Valley Hospital. Surviving by her husband, Bob; two sons; a daugh- grandchildren. are a son, James, c’70; a daughter; and ter; her mother; a sister; and two grand- Robert Hoyt, p’56, 71, Feb. 1 in four grandchildren. children.

54 | KANSAS ALUMNI Carolyn Vath Domingo, n’62, 61, Jan. Susan, and a brother. Topeka, where he was executive vice 14 in Topeka. She was a head nurse and Robert Rosander, e’67, 57, Feb. 9 president of Heartland Community a critical-care nurse specialist at the KU in Manhattan, where he was president Bankers Association. Two sons, his par- Medical Center and had worked for the and CEO of Nanoscale Materials. ents and a brother survive. Kansas Department of Health and Earlier he had been president and Environment Services for Children with CEO of Foodlabs and of Wichita 1990s Special Health Care Needs. She is sur- Technology Corp. He is survived by his Jesse Blancarte, c’91, 37, Feb. 3 in vived by her husband, Francis, b’42; two wife, Jan; a son; and a sister, Rita Kansas City, where he was fleet manager stepdaughters; a stepson; a brother; and Rosander West, c’68. for American Central Transport. He is two sisters. William Sheldon, j’63, 60, Feb. 11 in survived by his parents; two brothers, William Griffith, b’60, 64, Feb. 13 in Shawnee Mission. He lived in Gardner, Edward, c’82, and Alexander, c’95; and Hutchinson. He was a banker, a finan- where he was a journalist, a freelance two sisters, one of whom is Diana cial planner and a real-estate agent for writer and an author. He had owned sev- Blancarte Ball, j’82. Realty Executives. Surviving are his wife, eral newspapers in the Kansas City area. Mynie; two sons; two daughters; his He is survived by his wife, Janette The University Community mother; a brother; a sister; and five Conaway Sheldon, c’68, l’71; two sons, Thomas Dean, assoc., 77, March 9 grandchildren. one of whom is Steve, c’91; a stepdaugh- in Lawrence, where he had been a pro- Loren Hedrich, PhD’69, 72, Feb. 17 ter; a brother, James, j’75; a sister; and fessor of architecture and architectural in Kingwood, Texas, where he was five grandchildren. engineering at the School of Architecture retired from Chevron Chemical. He is and Urban Design. He is survived by survived by his wife, Helen, assoc.; two 1970s his wife, Jan Irvine Dean, ’76; a son; a daughters, one of whom is Kathy Elizabeth Gane, EdD’76, 86, Feb. 18 brother; three grandchildren; and a Hedrich Minor, d’80; and a son. in Wichita, where she was an author of great-grandchild. Wilmer Henderson, s’63, 74, Jan. 26 short stories for children. Ophelia Poole, g’65, 79, Feb. 27 in in Topeka, where he was a retired social Edna Brooks Hobbs, g’70, 83, March Kansas City, where she had been a dieti- worker and supervisor at VA Eastern 1 in Wichita, where she was a retired cian at the KU Medical Center for 35 Kansas Health Care System. A son, a teacher. A son, two daughters and six years before retiring in 1987. A brother daughter, a brother and two grandchil- grandchildren survive. survives. dren survive. Mary Snyder, f’70, g’71, 94, Jan. 2 in Gary Keller, b’68, l’71, 56, Feb. 5 in Clayton, N.Y. She was well known as a Associates Topeka. He worked for Brock Hotel weaver and had developed a weave Robert Beddingfield, 77, Jan. 21 Corp., founded Landmark Hotel Corp., structure used in the construction of in Kansas City, where he had been an and owned and operated Holiday Inn nosecones on missiles during World insurance agent and a financial planner. Express in Topeka and Fripp Island War II. She was cited for distinguished He is survived by his wife, Anne, assoc.; Resort in South Carolina. He is survived professional achievement by the Alumni four daughters, one of whom is Lizbeth by his wife, Barbara; two sons; a daugh- Association and the KU School of Fine Beddingfield Edgar, f’81; and two ter, Karlin, student; two stepsons; a step- Arts and received a Distinguished grandsons. daughter; his parents; a brother, Bruce, Achievement Award, the highest honor Bertie Wheeler Bond, 90, Jan. 23 in c’85; and a sister. given by the Weavers’ Guild of Boston. Richmond, Mo. A sister survives. Dorothy Burkholder Maloney, ’62, Greg Wade, d’73, 51, Jan. 31 in Mary Overstreet Dunkum, 78, Jan. 9 90, Feb. 20 in Lawrence, where she vol- Abilene, where he taught and coached at in Arlington, Va. She was active in volun- unteered at Lawrence Memorial Abilene High School. He is survived by teer work and is survived by a daughter, Hospital for 37 years. She is survived his wife, Vicki; a son, Kevin, c’01; a Robyn, c’78. by her husband, James, assoc.; a son, daughter; two brothers, one of whom is Gerald Lively, 85, Feb. 11 in Prairie James II, c’65, l’73; two daughters, Kevin, c’74; a sister, Roxanne Wade Village. He practiced law in Kansas City Kathleen Maloney Heerwald, d’71, and Richardson, n’82; and a grandchild. for more than 50 years and is survived Nancy Maloney Rich, c’67; and four Kent Webster, c’73, 50, Feb. 1 in by his wife, Selma Hensler Lively, c’39; a grandchildren. Wellington. He was a former planner for daughter; and three grandsons. Clayton Ramskill, e’64, 60, Feb. 15 Boeing Wichita and for Raytheon Dianne Robinson Rogers, 67, Jan. 10 in Arlington, Texas, where he was a Aircraft. He is survived by his parents in Kansas City of injuries sustained in an retired U.S. Navy lieutenant colonel. He and a brother, Douglas, c’71. automobile accident. She lived in also had written extensively about the Garnett and is survived by three sons; a design and theory of radio-controlled 1980s daughter, Susan Rogers Seidel, c’83; a airplanes. He is survived by his wife, Jeffrey Sonnich, ’86, 39, March 8 in sister; and five grandchildren.

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models by applying clay to plaster casts of prehistoric bones, fashioning sculptures that are works of art in themselves. He constructs his models

muscle by muscle, adding glands and EARL RICHARDSON other anatomical features that affect the final shape even though they remain invisible. Only then is he ready to start painting. “I call him the Salvador Dali of reconstructors,” says Larry Martin, professor and senior curator at KU’s Natural History Museum. “He’s prob- ably the premier restorer of extinct animals in the whole world, and you can probably make the case that he’s the best ever. One reason is he takes an interest in anatomy.” Artist and scientist Professor of Anthropology David John Gurche spoke on Frayer invited Gurche to campus in campus as part of the April to discuss his work as part of Museum of Anthropology’s the Museum of Anthropology’s exhi- exhibit “Early Us (And bition on human ancestors, “Early Us Them) in Africa.” (And Them) in Africa.” “A measure of his excellence is that National Geographic rarely runs a story on fossil hominids without at least one picture by him,” Frayer says. “He’s in demand.” Gurche’s art has appeared in the Imagine all the people nation’s top magazines and museums. When curators at Chicago’s Field A paleontologist paints Museum wanted to bring the world’s prehistoric portraits most famous dinosaur to life, they turned to Gurche, who painted the giant portrait of the Tyrannosaurus rex e’s a paleontologist who paints and named Sue that hangs beside her reconstructed sculpts, a self-described “hybrid” who skeleton. He has also built a life-size reproduc- uses science to create art and art to tion of arguably the most notable early human Hbring science to life. But press John ancestor, the Australopithecus called Lucy. Gurche to explain exactly what he does, and he His work has filled the big screen (he was a says, “I start with a pile of bones and wind up technical adviser on Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic with a painting.” Park”) and may have even shown up in your Gurche, c’74, g’79, literally helps flesh out sci- mailbox: The U.S. Postal Service commissioned ence’s understanding of what dinosaurs and him to illustrate its 1989 dinosaur stamp series. early humans looked like. Drawing on his train- “He has a certain artistic fiber you don’t usu- ing in anthropology and his research in compara- ally see in scientific illustration,” says Martin, tive anatomy, Gurche builds startlingly lifelike whom Gurche helped reconstruct a saber-

56 | KANSAS ALUMNI toothed tiger during his student days. parents pull over so he could collect he publishes the book, Gurche will have “It’s remarkable art in addition to being road kill for dissection. it vetted for authenticity. Art and science remarkable scientific illustration.” By the time he arrived at KU, he intersect. Gurche is quick to note, however, was already an accomplished artist, “People tend to dichotomize the sci- that science takes pre-eminence over despite never taking an art class. (He ence and the aesthetics, but I would artistic license in his work. still hasn’t.) He knew he wanted a career argue there’s a huge overlap,” he says. “I “I try to take the science that backs in anthropology and paleontology, but don’t want to be in any of the areas that up reconstruction as far as the evidence rejected “the straight academic route.” don’t overlap.” will allow,” he says. “I try to limit the lee- “I found that when you publish a sci- —Steven Hill way, limit the play.” entific paper you don’t put in your aes- His extensive work dissecting thetic response to something. And what humans, great apes and chimpanzees fun is that? I wanted something where I has yielded guidelines that help him could use the science and also express deduce the body composition of ancient that kind of response.” Actor’s studio hominids by reading signs of muscle His latest work, a series of figure attachment left on prehistoric bones. drawings for a book tentatively titled ‘Othello,’ screenplay benefit While some features are left to guess- Lost Anatomies, is a kind of meditation from Coppage’s timbre work (skin color and hairiness, for on the beauty Gurche has observed in example) most are determined by the the human—and near-human—forms he he voice. Above all else, with bones. “Everything from the amount has worked with. He hasn’t always had actor Walter Coppage, there is of projection of the nose to where the the time, while doing reconstructions, to the voice. Once heard, it is not corners of the mouth fall, to the thick- draw what he sees. Tforgotten. nesses of various chewing muscles and “I’m really having fun doing these; “The amazing thing about Walter’s glands and fat bodies.” they’ve freed me up in some ways. ... I’m voice is that it does an enormous That research continues a boyhood not drawing something to show exactly amount of work for him, allowing him fascination for Gurche, who rummaged what the range of motion is; I’m drawing incredible freedom in his physical per- dry creek beds near his Olathe home for it because it’s a beautiful thing.” formance,” says director and writer fossils and on family vacations made his And yet accuracy still matters: Before Mitch Brian of Fairway, who cast

country’s best collegiate to-the-world classical pianist. He enjoys jazz pianist? and techno, and states on his answering Well, not in his Daisy Hill machine that if he’s not home he’s probably

THAD ALLENDER dorm room. For winning the outside,“sunbathing with the ladies.” By piano competition at the choosing the relatively new Liebermann annual convention of the piece, Khosrowpour could let his personality Music Teachers’ National emerge.“I was more free,” he says,“to Association, Khosrowpour develop my own expression.” received a $35,000 grand Even with the classical works, piano by Steinway & Sons. Khosrowpour says he tried to make his per- Khosrowpour, a junior formances unique:“It’s a matter of finding from Irvine, Calif., won the what works for you. Sometimes that might Cincinnati competition with a involve adding little quirks.” varied program, beginning As for the trophy: Khosrowpour hopes with a 30-minute contempory piece by to keep his new grand piano in the Murphy Tickled by ivories American composer Lowell Liebermann. Hall practice room he shares with two After the major work, competitors were other piano majors. He even promises to let inding shelf space even for a trophy can required to perform music from three clas- the others use the Steinway. Fbe a challenge in residence-hall living sic musical periods, for which he chose To the victor and his friends go the quarters. So where will Amir Khosrowpour works by Beethoven, Chopin and Ravel. spoils. stash the prize he won March 18 as the Khosrowpour is no buttoned-up, back- —Chris Lazzarino

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Coppage in his award-winning short “I didn’t anticipate the film, “James Ellroy’s ‘Stay Clean.’” emotional residue,” Coppage, a Kansas City-based stage, Coppage says. “Living in film, TV and commercial voice-over Kansas City, there were actor, brought his captivating talents to many nights when I’d be a We Rode the Mount Oread for two spring-semester half-hour into my trip Orphan Trains projects. He starred as Othello in a home and still weeping.” University Theatre production of Brian and Willmott By Andrea Warren William Shakespeare’s immortal play, a organized the reading of residency supported by the LeWan their screenplay at KU’s Houghton Mifflin, $18 Alexander Spiritship fund. He also pro- Oldfather Studios so they vided narration for a staged reading of could hear their words the screenplay “Shields Green & the brought to life. The script Gospel of John Brown,” written by Brian has languished on studio and his partner Kevin Willmott, assis- shelves for years, and tant professor of theatre and film. Brian and Willmott are eager to make In “Othello,” Coppage played along- whatever rewrites are required to get OREAD READER side student actors. The heartbreak of their story to the screen. Desdemona’s horrifying murder was While local actors, friends and family Rides of passage magnified by the fact that she was por- members performed the dialogue, Young travelers yearned trayed as Shakespeare likely intended: a Coppage guided the evening by reading for welcoming families young woman, toward whom Othello— the narrative and descriptive lines that and Coppage—feels paternalistically pro- are the backbone of a script. riter Andrea Warren tective. “It is seldom a screenwriter gets to knows the power of per- hear his own descriptions sonal histories. Her chil- read aloud, and with those W dren’s books captivate insecurities in mind I was young readers the same way that determined to find a way to Grandma’s “When I was a girl” tales LUKE JORDAN have Walter read the narra- cast a spell over the dinner table. tion,” Brian says. “Walter In her spare, reportorial style, Warren, eliminated any possibility g’83, poignantly illustrates the ways in that potentially dry stage which historical events affected children directions would come off who lived through them. Carefully inter- as dull.” spersing vivid yet concise descriptions As for the powerful climax with first-person accounts, she creates of “Othello,” when the raging lively history lessons that make com- Moor extinguishes all that he pelling at-home reading or classroom loves ... some Othellos might assignments for children 10 and older— fail to bring the power of and their parents and teachers. their performance up to the Her latest, We Rode the Orphan Trains, level demanded by follows her successful Orphan Train Shakespeare’s creation. Rider: One Boy’s True Story, which won Others, like Coppage, roar numerous honors, including the 1996 with a reverberating pain Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for that haunts. Nonfiction. The second exploration It is the voice. incorporates meticulous research and —Chris Lazzarino interviews to share the lives of 10 chil- dren who found new families thanks to Children’s Aid Society. The society, led by the Rev. Charles Walter Coppage was a mighty Loring Brace, sponsored the movement Moor in the University Theatre between 1854 and 1929 of an estimated production of William Shake- 200,000 orphaned or abandoned chil- speare’s “Othello.” dren from New York and other Eastern

58 | KANSAS ALUMNI cities to new homes in the West. the commitment of Charles Loring Brace since it was formed in 1977, and in early Warren’s first book on the subject and his colleagues to finding permanent May concluded her most recent term as told the story of one boy, Lee Nailling, homes for children who could have been president. who rode a train to Texas in 1926. lost to poverty and despair. As today’s Bales followed the Jayhawks to During her research, Warren discovered courts and social-service agencies strug- Atlanta for the Final Four, and eagerly that only about 500 orphan-train riders gle to carry out the same mission, and as tells of the Easter services she attended were still living by the mid-1990s. So today’s children cope with the changing at Peachtree Street United Methodist she returned to the orphan train project, definitions of family, Andrea Warren’s Church. “There were 72 in the choir,” determined to help the riders, now book celebrates the hopeful spirit of chil- she says. “I know because I counted as grandparents and great-grandparents, dren and loving adults that has prevailed I walked in. There was a 21-piece orches- share their experiences with new for generations. tra, a pipe organ and a bell choir. The generations. —Jennifer Jackson Sanner music was just wonderful.” Happy endings were hard-fought for The deaths of her husband and her many of the children, whose first memo- only child, Dane G. Bales Jr., ’75, to ries may have been of austere orphan- leukemia in 1998, have left Bales endur- ages, followed by the fear and confusion ing times of “terrible loneliness,” during of long train rides. Two sets of new which she seeks solace in music, wor- clothes for each child—one for the ride Sweet music ship and friends. and one for meeting prospective par- “Music,” she says, “is something the ents—perhaps gave the children hope For her church, Polly Bales world couldn’t live without.” and a sense of adventure, but the lifts the chorus ever onward The old tunes that carry the old com- process of matching orphans with new forts truly get the congregation into the faces in strange places was humiliating. spirit of the proceedings, Bales says, and “Like picking out puppies,” one boy he started making scrapbooks in from her perch of 50 years (and count- wrote of the ordeal, during which fresh- fourth grade; at 81, she’s working ing), she speaks with the clarity of expe- ly scrubbed and decked-out children on volume No. 107. Her marriage rience. Even after basking in the power endured the stares of couples who sized Slasted 59 years, halted only by of massive music during Easter services them up and made their choices. the death of her husband last August. in Atlanta, Bales doesn’t apologize for Though the Children’s Aid Society And for exactly half a century—a remark- the organ and piano duo, small in size tried to keep siblings together, many able anniversary observed March 10—she and big in spirit, that keep her cozy con- children were torn from brothers and has filled Logan’s Asbury Methodist gregation in a worshipful mood. sisters. When 5-year-old Betty Murray Church with joyful organ music. “We just put out a lot of music,” and her older sister and brother, Evelyn Clearly Polly Roth Bales, ’42, keeps she says happily, “and people seem and Carl, reached Owensboro, Ky., in close to her heart those things she to like it.” 1930, a couple snapped up the older loves, and, outside of family and faith, —Chris Lazzarino two children but left sobbing Betty she cherishes music above all else. because she was too young to milk a “I just think music does cow. One of the few children left stand- something for your soul that ing in a downtown hotel, Betty was terri- nothing else can do,” Bales fied until a handsome man held out his says from her home in Logan, arms and asked “Would you like to be tucked away on the high my little girl?” He was Andy Wade, the plains west of Phillipsburg in manager of the hotel. He and his wife, northwest Kansas. “They say Louise, became Betty’s doting parents. words are the pen of the heart,

Betty later discovered that while she but music is the pen of the MOLLY DAILY HAUXWEL/HAYS NEWS lived amid the luxury of the hotel, soul. And I think that’s true.” Evelyn and Carl slept in a barn and Bales and her late husband, started their daily chores at 4 a.m. Life Dane, b’41, were the primary continued to present tragic disappoint- donors responsible for the ments, including the death of her new magnificent organ recital hall, father when she was 11, but like most built adjacent to the Lied orphan-train children, Betty remains Center, that bears their names. thankful. She has served on the School We Rode the Orphan Trains chronicles of Fine Arts advisory board

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One of our ethereal treasures: the first hint of Mount Oread redbuds on a misty spring evening.

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