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Contents Established in 1902 as The Graduate Magazine
FEATURES
Boys to Men 22 A half-century after taking college basketball’s top prize, the 1952 Jayhawks return to the Hill.
BY CHRIS LAZZARINO
Good Sports 30 Crew or cycling, water polo or wrestling, club teams prove that scholarship athletes haven’t cornered the market on the passion for play.
COVER Rhyme and Reason 24 A centennial celebration at KU examines the life and legacy of poet and native son Langston Hughes.
BY STEVEN HILL Cover illustration by Susan Younger
30 Volume 100, No. 2, 2002
March 2002
Publisher Fred B.Williams 12 Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Art Director DEPARTMENTS Susan Younger, f’91 Managing Editor Chris Lazzarino, j’86 5 FIRST WORD The editor’s turn Staff Writer Steven Hill 6 LIFT THE CHORUS Editorial Assistants Letters from readers Karen Goodell;Andrea E. Hoag, c’94 Photographer 8 ON THE BOULEVARD Earl Richardson, j’83 KU & Alumni Association events Graphic Designer Valerie Spicher, j’94 10 JAYHAWK WALK Advertising Sales The flagpole rebellion, where the buffalo Representative moan, goodbye to the pink and blue Jana Caffrey, j’01 HILLTOPICS Editorial and Advertising Office 12 News and notes: a dire budget outlook Kansas Alumni Association 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 and a new gateway for campus 785-864-4760 • 800-584-2957 www.kualumni.org 18 SPORTS e-mail: [email protected] Gooden leads the Jayhawks into March Madness KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE (ISSN 0745-3345) is published by the Alumni Association of the University of Kansas six times 34 ASSOCIATION NEWS a year in January, March, May, July, September and November. Rock Chalk Ball highlights $40 annual subscription includes membership in the Alumni Association. Office of Publication: 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. Periodicals postage paid at 37 CLASS NOTES Lawrence, KS. Profiles of a top dog, a children’s author, POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Kansas a hoops scribe and more Alumni Magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 © 2002 by Kansas Alumni Magazine. Non- IN MEMORY member issue price: $7 51 Deaths in the KU family KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The Alumni Association was established in 1883 for the purpose of strengthening loy- ROCK CHALK REVIEW alty, friendship, commitment, and communication among all 56 graduates, former and current students, parents, faculty, staff Plaque attack, a pair of crime thrillers and all other friends of The University of Kansas. Its members and KU’s own comedy troupe hereby unite into an Association to achieve unity of purpose and action to serve the best interests of The University and its constituencies. The Association is organized exclusively for 60 OREAD ENCORE charitable, educational, and scientific purposes. Twin Towers
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essential research facilities. Weighing these proposals, along with those from numerous other state programs, are law- makers who find themselves with virtu- EARL RICHARDSON ally no money to parcel out, unless they take the bold step of raising taxes as the session winds down to what surely will be a painful conclusion. In his Feb.12 testimony to a House of Representatives committee, Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway asked legislators to look beyond a bitter winter to invest in the future. Invoking the University’s motto, he said, “Even in times of fiscal n this winter of contrasts, stress, there must be ‘this great vision’ of scenes poetic and practical a university that cares about Kansas and replay in my mind. My favorite which serves the whole state through Ifeatures actor Danny Glover, teaching and research at the highest lev- reveling in the wisdom of his literary els.” KU, he said plainly, is in peril. hero, Langston Hughes. With artful So great is the danger that the state’s abandon, Glover read the poet’s works universities now must rely not only on before a rapt audience, and Hughes’ vital state funding and the enterprise of words danced around the Lied Center faculty and endowment fundraisers, but on that frozen February night. Countless also on increased tuition. KU, Kansas such moments no doubt echo for those State and Wichita State are all consider- who shared in the University’s landmark ing raising tuition to help close a grow- symposium honoring the poet who grew ing gap between their own funding and up in Lawrence. the support for students and faculty that But other refrains compete for my is available at peer schools. In a state attention. First there are the words of that has long prided itself on providing Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost affordable, accessible higher education, David Shulenburger, a Southerner prac- Kansas universities now must deter- ticed in the art of the no-nonsense mine the right combination of tuition metaphor. At a Feb. 2 meeting of the hikes and hoped-for state funding Alumni Association’s national Board of increases to help move forward. Directors, Shulenburger summed up As KU leaders continue to make KU’s unprecedented financial woes: “We the case for this year’s budget propos- have squeezed pennies to the point that als, alumni advocates can help by con- you can almost see through them.” tacting their legislators. If you would like Indeed, doing more with less has to participate in the Alumni become a KU tradition in its own right. Association’s Jayhawks for Higher The acclaimed Langston Hughes confer- Education network, please e-mail ence that is our cover story occurred the Association at only because of the enterprise of faculty [email protected]. organizers, who scraped together dollars Alumni rightfully treasure from numerous departments, garnered many KU traditions, but essential regional and national grants, squeezing pennies should not and prevailed upon generous commu- be one of them.
ISSUE 2, 2002 | 5 Lift the Chorus
Mail call Unintentional legends every day at Wescoe Beach. But that was the year it rained for If the feature Thank you for printing a picture of graduation and we had to do it in Allen “Quintessential Tan Man. He was one of several leg- Field House—not getting to walk down KU” [cover story, endary figures from the mid-1970s on the Hill. issue No. 1] does campus and around town. I have been Wonderful memories—thanks! not generate as telling my wife stories about Tan Man, Lori Anderson Stephens, c’81 much (if not The Lady in Blue, The Singing Lady and Chickasha, Okla. more) mail than others for years. Now she knows they any the magazine really did exist. Say we’re sorry has ever printed, I believe that Tan Man has also been I’ll be surprised. I immortalized as the name of one of In the last issue of Kansas Alumni, can’t begin to tell you how many great KU’s computer servers. which was the occasion of the maga- memories of people and places the arti- It would be most interesting to know zine’s 100th anniversary, a roster of cle brought back. whatever happened to those uninten- things to do to confirm our KU affec- I should point out, though, that for a tional legends who have brought smiles tions was set forth. Included was, guy who lived at Pearson Schol Hall, to so many for so many years. “Apologize for Wescoe Hall to a campus where we used to launch potatoes over Don Weiss, c’76 visitor.” Fraser from the fire escape, the mention Olathe Not at all: Wescoe Hall is an interest- of the Oliver/Naismith water balloon Editor’s note: Indeed, “test servers” at ing edifice. fights hurt a little. Networking & Telecommunications Services Rather, it would be in order to apolo- Thanks, again, for bringing back so are “TanMan” and “TanMan2.” gize for the AAA (Architectural many memories. Abomination of the Ages), namely, the Jim Williamson, j’86, g’90 The great escapes new Fraser Hall. As a member of the Topeka Class of 1950, I remember with fond- I read through your list of KUisms in ness the glory of the old Fraser Hall, Redesign is a winner your article “Quintessential KU” (for the truly one of the architectural gems of all third time), and it amazes me how easily time, and my heart cried when it was I just got the latest issue of Kansas some things can take you out of the torn down. Alumni in the mail. I love the new look! office and back to the Hill. And what replaced it? A big rectangu- (Being a newspaper designer, I noticed It also struck me how much of the list lar box with two little matchboxes stuck right away that something looked a bit appears to be timeless—the “sights, on top. different.) sounds, tastes and treats” probably That should be apologized for! Congratulations on designing a maga- mean as much to today’s students as Theodore M. Utchen, c’50 zine that is clean-looking, easy to read they do to those who left Lawrence long Wheaton, Ill. and looks terrific. I love the extra white before me. space on the pages, the less-cluttered Thanks for providing such a great Comanche look and the new organization of stan- escape and way to remember my time rides again dard features. The magazine fits into my at KU. design motto—simple is better. Rod Eisenhauer, e’92, l’95 Thanks for your You guys have done a great job and Leawood article on started off year 100 of the alumni maga- Comanche (“The zine with a bang. Been there, done that Veteran’s Day,” No. Keep up the good work! 3, 2001). In 1957- Allison Lippert, j94 Loved the Quintessential KU list! I ’58, I was a gradu- West Des Moines, Iowa graduated in 1981, so I did the Joe’s run, ate student in the Hawk and the Wheel, pulled cards physics at the for enrollment and saw the Tan Man University of
6 | KANSAS ALUMNI Chicago. During that time my mother give the $25 and $100 gifts for decades famous in John Ise’s 1936 book, Sod & moved from Missouri to Wichita. When to show their loyalty to KU. They, too, Stubble, in which he told of his parents’ I visited her, my drive took me past KU. should be recognized, if not individually, hardships in raising a family on the During the Christmas break, as I was at least as a group, in your slick (and homestead during the years of 1871 passing Lawrence, I decided to visit the expensive) reports. Sometimes I wonder through 1909. Still in print, the book campus. Being a Western-history fan, I if that expense is justified. serves as a textbook in 34 colleges and had heard of Comanche in the Natural David Mathewes, g’55 universities across the United States and History Museum. That was where I Canton, N.C. Canada and has made the Ise homestead headed first. I was impressed. site one of continuing pilgrimage by In fact, the whole campus, with its Turban fan both scholars and the general public beautiful views of the Kaw and alike. The homestead now considered Wakarusa valleys, was a surprise. The I enjoyed the article on Judi Gitel’s the most important historic site in University of Chicago is a fine institu- turbans [“Turbans help ease pain of Kansas—if not in all the Great Plains tion, but while there I think I felt a bit chemotherapy,” Profiles, issue No. 1]. region of North America—is not being like Comanche at the Battle of Little Big Having gone through chemo last year preserved for future generations. Horn. I began considering Kansas, and and seeing so many women in the wait- Initial estimates place the total cost of read about its physics department. ing room, I thought it a great idea. obtaining and restoring the site at $1.5 I applied, and one day Professor J.D. The article did not give a means of million. To raise this money the non- Stranathan, e’21, g’24, the chairman, contacting Judileen Creations. I, for one, profit Ise Foundation has been estab- called and offered me an assistantship. I would like to order some for friends lished by the Downs Historical Society was never sorry that I came to KU, and I who are going through chemo now. in Downs to work with the Kansas State often went over to the museum to visit Mike Hart, c’67, g’72 Historical Society in achieving its goal of Comanche. I felt we were both survivors. San Antonio establishing the Ise Homestead State James D. Patterson, PhD’62 Editor’s note: Judileen Creations can Historic Site. Rapid City, S.D. be contacted at www.judileen.com or The foundation wishes to make a plea 636-391-7775, ext. 2. to KU alumni who remember Dr. Ise to Sky isn’t falling both aid in contributing to this fitting Homestead on thin Ise memorial to the Ise family legacy and to The letter from Jim Short and the spread the word that help is needed. response by professor Lee Gerhard and It goes without saying that the name All contributions can be sent to the William Harrison [Lift the Chorus, issue of Ise ranks as one of the great stories Ise Foundation in care of Dick Keller, No. 1, both in response to “Hot Topics,” from the University’s long and storied Downs Historical Society, South Morgan Hilltopics, issue No. 5] were very inform- past. Six of the 12 children of Henry and Ave., Downs KS 67437. ative. Presented in a calm and objective Rosa Ise graduated from KU, a record Von Rothenberger way, this discussion belies the “Chicken that stood for decades. Board of Trustees Little” approach of so many of the rabid Their son Charles Ise, c’05, l’08, g’08, Ise Foundation environmentalists. was one of the University’s first football Clarification Like Jim, I think that we should do all stars. A second son, John Ise, c’08, c’10, we can to reduce pollution and needless became a world-renowned economist The In Memory obituary notice for damage to our environment, but clamor- who taught at KU for 39 years and is Frank Strong, ’28, in issue No. 1 should ing about impending doom turns many regarded as one of the University’s great- have noted that he was the son of for- of us off. Unlike the Vikings, we have est professors. And when his son, John mer Chancellor Frank Strong. the insight of historical records, projec- Ise Jr., c’40, received his KU diploma, he tions of future climatic changes, and, became the youngest graduate in the hopefully, common sense. University’s history up to that time. Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the On an entirely different topic: A great Recently the owners of the Ise family editor. Our address is Kansas Alumni deal is made of the very large gifts ten- homestead near the city of Downs in magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, dered to KU by wealthy alumni and Osborne County indicated to the state of KS 66044-3169. If you would like to respond via e-mail, the Alumni alumnae. I don’t think you should short- Kansas that they would be willing to sell Association’s address is change the less-wealthy but regular con- the original farmhouse, barn, one-room [email protected], or visit our Web tributors to the University. schoolhouse and other outbuildings in site at www.kualumni.org. Letters appear- There are not very many who can pro- order for it to become the next Kansas ing in the magazine may be edited for vide million-dollar endowments, but State Historic Site. space and clarity. there are a lot of people who can and do The home and school were made
ISSUE 2, 2002 | 7 On the Boulevard EARL RICHARDSON EARL RICHARDSON
A winter storm glazed Mount Oread in ice and forced the University to cancel classes Jan. 30-31—the first two-day closure since 1978. Lectures APRIL Exhibitions University Theatre 3 Jon Kalb, “More Adventures in the “Early Us (and Them) in Africa,” APRIL Bone Trade: A Review and Update,” Museum of Anthropology, March 25- 4-7, 9-12 “Desdemona, A Play Museum of Anthropology Aug. 25 About A Handkerchief,” Inge Theatre 17 John Gurche, “Bones to Flesh: “From Reservation to Corporate Series Reconstructing Us and Them” Office: Donations of Southwest Art,” 19-21, 25-27 “South Pacific,” Museum of Anthropology through Aug. 18, Museum of University Theatre Series 24 Bruce Latimer, “The Perils of Anthropology Being Bipedal,” Museum of “Contemporary Ceramics East and MAY Anthropology West,” Spencer Museum of Art, 2-5, 7-9 “Lear’s Daughters,” Inge 25 Dava Sobel, “Galileo’s through May 19 Theatre Series Reconciliation: Science and Faith,” “Tim Rollins/KOS for Lawrence Kansas Union Ballroom Celebrate Langston Hughes,” Spencer MAY Museum of Art, through May 26 Special events “Goltzius and the Third Dimension,” 8 Carol Ward, “Roots, Trees and Bushes: Newest Fossil Evidence of Spencer Museum of Art, March 30- APRIL May 19 Earliest Human Evolution,” Museum 12-13 Gold Medal Weekend, Class of Anthropology Senior Art Department Exhibition, Art of 1952 and Gold Medal Club and Design Gallery, April 14-19 reunions
MAY Lied Center events 7 Class Ring Presentation Ceremony, APRIL Adams Alumni Center 5 University Symphony Orchestra 19 Commencement with KU Choirs
8 | KANSAS ALUMNI 6 “The Tempest,” Aquila Theatre Professional Society reception Kansas Honors Company 10 Triangle/Piedmont Chapter: Program 7 “The Wrath of Achilles,” Aquila Discount night at the Hornets Theatre Company 11 Dallas Chapter: KU night at the MARCH 10 Symphonic Band Mavericks 25 Logan: Polly Bales, 11-13 KU Jazz Festival 18 New York Chapter: Thirsty Third 785-689-4328 14 The Hutchins Consort Thursday APRIL 16 University Band 18 Chicago: School of Journalism Professional Society reception 1 Belleville: Marilyn 18 Concert Band 20 New York Chapter: “The Haase, 785-527-2723 19 “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story” Glassblowers,” starring Maria 2 Liberal: Al & Donna 30 Lyon Opera Ballet Kanyova, g’91, DMA’95, New York Shank, 620-624-2559 CityOpera 3 Chanute: Virginia Crane, MAY 25 Chicago: School of Fine Arts 620-431-1612 4-5 Orchestra, Choral, Dance Spring Professional Society reception 4 Colby: Sharon Steele, Concert 25 Denver: School of Engineering 785-462-2558 Professional Society reception 10 Medicine Lodge: Bob Slinkard, 620-886-3751 MAY 16 Greensburg Honor Roll: 8 New York Chapter: Planning Bill Marshall, 620-723-2554 meeting Alumni events 22 Scott City: Jerry & Marsha 10 Kansas City: School of Business Edwards, 620-872-2237 MARCH Professional Society luncheon 14-April 1 New York Chapter: 12 New York Chapter: Golf NCAA Tournament watch parties outing For more 18 Sunnyvale, Calif.: Graduate/Study 16 New York Chapter: information Abroad Professional Society reception Thirsty Third Thursday about Association 22 Garden City: APRIL Golf tournament events, call
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ISSUE 2, 2002 | 9 Jayhawk Walk BY HILL & LAZZARINO
Home on the Front Range
orgive Colorado freshman David FHarrison for feeling buffaloed after KU’s 97-85 win Jan. 5: The Jayhawk crowd got to him. “I didn’t expect to play an away game,” the 7-foot center said after KU handed Colorado its first home—yes, home—loss of the season. “I felt like I was in Lawrence, Kan. I looked in the crowd and people were cheering for them. They were louder than our fans. I didn’t expect that.” An estimated 3,000 Jayhawks packed the 11,064-seat Coors Events Center, prompting Harrison to grouse that he’d seen better crowds in high school. “I was wearing a white uniform today, but we should have just come out in black.”
Or, better yet, crimson PEARSON LEROY LARRY and blue.
An idea worth running up the flagpole
Kansas State banner had whipped in the wind outside Treanor EULITT DAVE AArchitects’ Topeka office since September; with basketball season underway, the firm’s eight Jayhawk employees on Jan. 2 launched a surprise changing of the colors. Steve Morris, a’71, held an orange biohazard waste bag, into which the K-State flag was dumped (after being sprayed with disin- fectant). With Baby Jay cheering on the Jayhawk architects, Kim Rivera, a’88, g’92, unfurled the KU flag, and celebrants broke into the Rock Chalk Chant as the crimson and blue banner smartly rose skyward. Dan Rowe, principal architect and a K-State alumnus, even hugged Baby Jay, though it’s doubtful he sampled the “baby cat ribs” served after the ceremony. “I hold bonus checks in my hand,” Rowe warned his giddy KU coworkers. “We’ll debate whether to hand them out.” Steve Morris and Kim Rivera prepare to hoist the KU flag Which perhaps scuttles the architects’ next great scheme: crim- while Mike Sizemore, a’93, punts a biohazard bag containing son-and-blueprints. the K-State flag.
10 | KANSAS ALUMNI Olympic moment Heard by the Bird
ecause we Kansans are rarely famous
AARON LINDBERG AARON Bfor Alpine prowess, we must look n the eve of college basket- elsewhere in forging Winter Olympics Oball’s most eagerly awaited allegiances. Think Alaskans would mind if December matchup—the return we adopted one of their favorite sons, to Lexington of Louisville coach biathlete Jay Hakkinen? Rick Pitino, who coached archri- val Kentucky for eight seasons and led the Wildcats to the 1996
TANNER FORTNEY NCAA championship—KU’s Roy Williams was asked if he could Youth serves envision a day when he’d coach at Missouri. ontributing to class discussions should UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES “I think they would probably Cbe no problem for political-science shoot me at both places if that major Tanner Fortney: The 20-year-old was something I tried to do,” junior is the youngest-ever city councilman Williams said.“I can honestly in his hometown, Spring Hill. say I’ve had a lot of questions in Fortney was initially foiled in his council my life, but that one stunned me bid, surviving the primary before losing by Racy colors end their run the most. I’ve never thought of 75 votes in the general election. But when a councilman resigned in October, Mayor t’s a melancholy 50th anniversary for that one.” Mark Squire tapped Fortney to replace I“the pink and blue.” KU’s legendary track him. togs, created in 1952 so our runners On the stump, some voters took the wouldn’t blend in with the crowd at hectic callow campaigner less than seriously, but finish lines, have been retired, replaced by in council chambers nonage has been a modern designs in crimson, blue and Distance runner David Johnston, j’94, nonissue. “All the councilmen have been white. recalls that by the early 1990s, the last really supportive,” Fortney says. “They’ve A few athletes never cared for our batch of the classics was two decades old treated me pretty much as an equal.” singular singlets—the dashing pole vaulter and no longer very classy. A final shipment Meanwhile, his newfound clout may be Jeff Buckingham, ’84, didn’t think much of of new pink shorts staved off the earning points in the classroom. “A lot of wearing fluorescent pink and baby blue— inevitable for a few years, but those, too, professors were very impressed when but for most track and field alumni, the were lost to launderings and pilfered as they found out I was actually in office.” colors were integral to team pride. An mementos. Coaches patched together a Fortney faces re-election in envious coach once approached few remaining sets for KU stars to wear at 2003, a month before gradua- vaulter Scott Huffman, j’88, at special events, but coach Stanley Redwine, tion. He hopes to study law the Texas Relays and offered who arrived in 2000, finally decided the at KU, then launch a politi- $50 for a set of the pink and tradition would be retired if he couldn’t cal career. And the ulti- blue. “I passed,” Huffman outfit everyone in the pink and blue. mate prize in American says, “even though I could “Basketball players wear ‘Kansas’ across politics? If nominated have really used the their chest, and that’s meaningful for Fortney will accept; money.” them,” Johnston says. “For track athletes, it if elected he will was wearing the pink and blue. It didn’t serve: “I hope to matter where you were: When you went go all the way to out on the track, everyone in the stadium
president some knew you were representing one of the EARL RICHARDSON day,” he says. great programs in the history of track and field. You were with KU.”
ISSUE 2, 2002 | 11 Hilltopics BY HILL AND LAZZARINO
slashing the state’s higher education budget by $72 million in December. “The University has never been in greater peril,” Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway told jour- EARL RICHARDSON nalists gathered for a meeting of the William Allen White Foundation in early February. “You have to go back to the Depression to find any- thing comparable.” He repeated that blunt assessment a few days later before the Legislature, telling lawmakers that the largest budget cuts ever recommended for higher education in Kansas could have seri- ous consequences at KU, including layoffs, fewer classes, the elimination of basic services and dis- continuation of some academic and outreach programs. To maintain current levels of service, the University would need $15.4 million above this year’s $243 million base operating budget, the chancellor told legislators. Such an increase would restore the proposed 4-percent cut and would pay for $5.8 million in fixed employer costs, including health care increases and annual salary raises mandated by state law. “The $15.4 million, then, enables us to stand still for a year, nothing more. ‘Stand still’ is not the motto of the University of Kansas or any other university worth its salt,” Hemenway noted, asking lawmakers to grant the Board of Regents’ Taxing times request for a 4.5-percent budget hike, to fund fac- ulty salary increases promised in the higher edu- Facing the largest state deficit cation reform act of 1999, and to support an ini- in decades, the University ponders tiative to build research centers at three Regents tuition hikes to avoid cutbacks schools, including a new biomedical facility at KU Medical Center. By late February, the research initiative he budget outlook for Kansas, already appeared to have the best chance of success. The the bleakest in decades, keeps getting House Appropriations Committee gave prelimi- bleaker. And that has higher education nary approval to an initiative that would require Tofficials at KU and the other five Regents the state to pay off $50 million of $110 million in universities bracing for a bumpy ride in fiscal bonds to help build the three centers. 2003. The committee also approved the 4-percent New figures from the Kansas Department of reduction in higher education funding, but did Revenue in February showed the state’s budget so grudgingly, saying it would revisit the issue shortfall had blossomed to $522 million, an after deciding whether to raise taxes to cope with increase of nearly $100 million from the the budget shortfall. November estimate. That worsens the funding The committee’s actions echoed those of pinch that forced Gov. Bill Graves to propose Graves, who in December submitted a $4.4 bil-
12 | KANSAS ALUMNI lion spending plan that cut many state programs, tuition and state block-grant funding. including higher education. Graves immediately The five-year tuition plan, which is being for- rejected that budget—submitted only to satisfy mulated with the help of a committee of stu- the statutory requirement for a spending plan dents, faculty and staff, will be presented to the limited to available revenue—as inadequate. In his Board of Regents in April. A decision is expected January state-of-the-state speech, he proposed a in May. $228 million tax increase to redress what he called “a budget balanced in numbers, but out of balance as it touches the lives of Kansans.” “I think my During a visit in February with the Kansas Livestock Association, Graves told reporters that A new western father was the current shortfall “is a situation I’m not sure sensitive to Kansas has ever faced.” In his speech to the welcome group, he said, “after years of tax cuts, we ought the need to to have the guts to say we are going to raise Malott family gift funds enhance the taxes.” gateway entrance plaza beauty of the The dire financial straits that have Graves and at 15th and Iowa streets some legislators entertaining talk of tax increases campus,” also has the Regents universities considering Robert Malott tuition hikes. Last fall, Executive Vice Chancellor leanor Malott, KU’s most prominent gar- and Provost David Shulenburger hosted more dener, always did what she could to help says,“and than 20 meetings with students, faculty and staff Mount Oread bloom into an inviting my mother to explain three possible scenarios for boosting Eexperience. Now KU’s official welcome responded tuition, which could as much as double tuition in invitation will bear the Malott family name, the next five years. Those meetings continue this thanks to a $1 million KU First gift from her son immediately.” spring. and daughter-in-law. “I think the general message is that we’ve had Robert, c’48, and Ibby Malott pledged the gift this deterioration over time,” Shulenburger said. in honor of his parents—former Chancellor “We don’t believe it’s acceptable to the students Deane, c’21, and Eleanor Malott—two of the most and alumni of this university for the quality of important early champions for beautification of the institution to deteriorate. It’s for that reason KU’s hilltop home. The gift of $1 million will be we are engaged in the KU First campaign, used for completion of the campus master plan’s engaged in efforts to gin up our external research volume as much as we can, engaged in efforts to get the Legislature to increase funding as much as possible, and engaged in this discussion about what the level of tuition ought to be at KU.” Annual tuition and fees for a Kansas resident who takes 15 hours per semester at KU now total $2,884. Among the University’s five peer institu- tions—Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Oregon—only Oklahoma has lower tuition. Among the 11 public schools in the Big 12, KU’s tuition ranks eighth. To bring KU up to par with its The first of four planned entrances, the Malott Gateway kicks off a new peers would take about $50 campaign to spruce up the Hill by honoring two former champions of million over five years in added campus beautification.
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The gateway at 15th and Iowa should be ready for a fall dedication. It is part of the first phase of the $23-million, 10-year land- scape master plan designed to enhance and UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES unify the appearance of the entire campus. Along with improved landscaping and campus entries, the plan also calls for improved signage and better campus pathways. Nursing’s KUMC home continues keystone project— to win raves construction of a gateway plaza at aculty and students KU’s west Research to the entrance, 15th and F in the School of ELEANOR MALOTT Iowa streets. rescue Nursing have been The money will justifiably proud of cover all costs (estimated at between $800,000 In a season of financial woes, their new build- and $900,000) of configuring the first of four research funding boosts hopes planned public entrances. The Malott Gateway ing—nursing’s first for a top-25 ranking near the KU Visitor Center will include a curved, permanent home on 70-foot-long stone wall inscribed with “University the KU Medical center of Kansas,” a brick plaza and new plantings. ndividually, research studies conducted by campus—ever since it While Chancellor Malott provided the vision KU faculty are weapons in the fight against of a beautified campus soon after he took over in cancer, measurements of global climate opened two years ago. 1939, his wife followed through by getting her changes, overdue praise for poets, a ray of Turns out the pros I hands dirty. Mrs. Malott—who died in 1994, two hope for hungry refugees. Collectively, news of agree. In its most years before her husband—not only organized chart-topping funding is a rare (and certainly recent Architectural large-scale delivery and planting of KU’s now- welcome) economic bright spot: total research beloved redbud, plum and crabapple trees, but expenditures by KU in fiscal 2001 were $224 Portfolio special issue, she also hopped aboard the watering cart and million, and the state of Kansas was buoyed by American School & personally tended trees, bushes and flowers. the estimated 9,000 jobs created by the KU University magazine Eleanor Malott became a KU icon of the research money. rated the nursing build- World War II era, scurrying about the blossom- Fiscal 2001 numbers announced in January ing campus in her blue jeans, a Hawaiian shirt represent the first time annual research expendi- ing, with its spectacular and a bright bandana. tures at KU topped $200 million. University offi- five-story atrium, as The Malott family in 1999 dedicated in her cials cite the increase as an indication that KU is
“outstanding” among all honor the Eleanor S. Malott Plaza and Memorial on its way to becoming a top-25 public research EARL RICHARDSON new construction proj- Garden, a mid-Hill sanctuary near Budig Hall. ects at U.S. post-sec- “The Malott family has long recognized,” ondary institutions. says Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway, “that preservation and enhancement of the University setting is a vital part of our legacy.”
“The mountain gets steeper all the time,” Robert E. Barnhill says of KU’s push to become a top-25 public research university.As vice chancel- lor for research and public service and president of the University’s Center for Research Inc., Barnhill oversaw a 16-percent rise in research funding that should propel KU this year into the top 50.
14 | KANSAS ALUMNI university, a goal set for the University by Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway. “Now more than ever, we see the importance of federally funded research at our public univer- sities,” Hemenway says. “The fact that KU contin- Visitor ues to attract more funding speaks volumes about the quality of our researchers and their Responsibilities of the press projects.” Research funding in fiscal 2001 was up about OKIE ROBERTS, political analyst for ABC 16 percent from the previous year, and more CNews and National Public Radio, visited “The mission than 30 percent since fiscal 1999. Funding from with journalism students and faculty and deliv- the founders the National Institutes of Health was $53.5 mil- ered a public speech while on campus to lion, an increase of about 23 percent. Science and receive the William Allen White Foundation’s assigned to engineering research accounted for $156 million National Citation. us—a healthy, in expenditures; training and non-science finely honed research accounted for about $68 million. WHEN: Feb. 6 KU research officials are still waiting for the cynicism—is 2001 ranking based on federal research money. WHERE: Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas different from a But the University was ranked 51st among public Union universities in fiscal 2000, so KU officials expect cynicism so to move into the top 50. ANECDOTES: Roberts, a famously well- profound “The mountain gets steeper all the time, so it connected Washington insider and popular co- nobody trusts will take awhile,” says Robert E. Barnhill, c’61, anchor of ABC’s Sunday-morning roundtable, vice chancellor for research and public service took a few strong stances during her visit: anybody to get and president of KU’s Center for Research Inc. Contrary to edicts from some of her editors, anything done. ” “But these are some pretty noble jumps, so on-air journalists should be allowed to wear [being top-25 among public universities] is American-flag pins, and they should further evi- achievable within our lifetime, I’d say.” dence their patriotism by In 1996, a year before KU consolidated its dis- asking tough questions of persed research oversight units into the Center policy makers in times of for Research, KU was ranked 96th among all U.S. crisis; former U.S. Sen. universities in federal science and engineering Robert J. Dole, ’45, was research expenditures. The University was “one of the most talented EARL RICHARDSON ranked 93rd in 1998, 83rd in 1999 and 78th in legislators of the 20th cen- 2000. Among the comprehensive universities rep- tury” whose “greatest resented by the country’s top 100 institutions, moment” was passage of KU’s jump from fiscal 1998 to 2000 was the sec- the Americans with ond-highest. Disabilities Act; and the KU also saw its share of federal research fund- Enron bankruptcy, though a ing grow by about 30 percent in that time, which spectacular opportunity for was the fourth-largest increase among the major eager politicians, won’t comprehensive universities. stick to President Bush Though the majority of the research funding is because “there’s nothing” in science and engineering (in fact, more than 60 to prove the administration ROBERTS percent of KU research involves the life sciences), supplied improper favors. Barnhill also noted that five KU faculty members received prestigious fellowships from the QUOTE: “[William Allen White] was angry National Endowment for the Humanities in and plainspoken, but he was not cynical. ... He 2000, ranking KU No. 1 among all U.S. colleges did not just rail against the problems of the and universities. time, but he did something about it, which is a “It’s important to celebrate all of these suc- lesson for us. If all you do is attack and tear cesses,” Barnhill says. “There are intellectual down, you erode the trust that makes it possi- accomplishments that go along with these ble to bring about change.” dollars.”
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EDUCATION Former Chancellor Budig’s book shares lessons Gene A. Budig, left, chats from the Hill and the diamond MIKE YODER with former Alumni Association president In major league baseball and higher Gene Morgan, b’37, at the education, wise leaders pay heed to Kansas Union in those who buy the tickets, former Chancellor Gene A. Budig told a KU February. Budig spoke crowd during his homecoming Feb. 19. and signed copies of his Since leaving the Universityin 1994, new book, A Game of KU’s 15th chancellor has served as pres- Uncommon Skill: Leading ident of baseball’s American League and the Modern College and is now senior adviser to baseball com- University. missioner Bud Selig. “You learn a lot from the bleachers,” Budig said, and throughout his remarks he followed the maxim. The people in Modern College and University, published is currently about 12 million, Budig said. the seats—more than 120 friends and by the College Board and the American In his trademark style, Budig punc- colleagues packed Budig’s lecture in Council on Education. tuated his lecture with personal asides to Joseph Pearson Hall—heard his thanks Budig visited Lawrence as part of a several of the faculty, staff and alumni for the lessons and support they shared nine-city tour this spring to promote the gathered—praising them while gently with him during his 13 years on the Hill. book, which combines his passions for poking fun. He also shared some friend- Budig’s KU experience, and his earlier education and baseball. Proceeds will ly advice with his successor, Chancellor stints as president of West Virginia and benefit CollegeEd, a project that aims to Robert E. Hemenway. “Offer a clear Illinois State universities, contributed to increase by 10 to 15 percent the number vision with achievable goals, and repeat his new guide for higher education, A of young people nationally who partici- them often—always with an inner confi- Game of Uncommon Skill: Leading the pate in higher education. That number dence,” he said. “We must remember that students are the reason we’re here, and keep our focus on affordability and accessibility.” Budig, who led KU far beyond its fundraising goal during the 1988-1992 Update Campaign Kansas, wished Hemenway well in the current campaign, KU First.
lthough James Sharp of Fort Dodge EARL RICHARDSON And he shared his wish that the Anever attended KU, he held the Univer- Hemenway years repeat another feat: sity in high regard. So when he planned his “I’m wearing my 1988 NCAA basket- estate to benefit higher education, he ball championship ring today,” he said, bequeathed $5 million in unrestricted funds “and I hope the chancellor will have one to the KU Endowment Association. of these as well.” The gift, announced in December, is the third-largest ever from an individual to KU Endowment. Sharp, who died in 1999, designated $3.2 million for unrestricted resources (which ANTHROPOLOGY could include scholarships, faculty resources, equipment and more) and $1.8 million for unrestricted scholarships.“Mr. Sharp said sometimes if you get too narrow, needs and ‘Lucy’ replica highlights trends may change,” says Margaret Hamilton, vice president and trust officer of exhibition on earliest humans Sunflower Bank in Dodge City, who helped Sharp and his wife, Gladys, plan their The Museum of Anthropology on estate.“This way the money could float to where it is needed most.” March 25 opens a new exhibition focus- Known as a modest, private man who lived simply despite his financial success, ing on the earliest human ancestors, Sharp created with his bequest the kind of splash he avoided in his life. Press reports “Early Us (and Them) in Africa,” curated focused on the fact that the 1933 Kansas State University alumnus overlooked his by Professor David Frayer. alma mater due to a perceived slight soon after his graduation. The exhibition, a review of the first 5 “The moral of the story is take care of your students,” Hamilton says. million years of human prehistory, fea- tures casts of original fossils and tools,
16 | KANSAS ALUMNI including the Ethiopoian fossil known as “Lucy” and the “Laetoli footprints.” Milestones, money and other matters In conjunction with the exhibition, which runs throughs Aug. 25, is a Spooner Hall lecture series that begins DAVID AMBLER, vice chancellor for student affairs since 1977, will retire Aug. 1. April 3 with geologist Jon Kalb, author During his tenure Ambler restructured the student affairs division and established the of Adventures in the Bone Trade. Student Development Center, Student Organizations and Leadership Development On April 17, John Gurche, c’74, g’79, Center, the Multicultural Resource Center and many other offices and services. He also returns to campus to discuss his initiated Hawk Week, the orientation program for new students, and worked closely with acclaimed artwork and reconstructions student government leaders.“David is the primary advocate for students on this campus, of dinosaurs and prehistoric hominids. and he has always taken that role with the utmost seriousness,” Executive Vice Chancellor Gurche’s work has been featured in such and Provost David Shulenburger says.“His continuing close bonds with student leaders varied outlets as National Geographic from past years is a great testimony to the esteem he has earned from his primary and Natural History magazines and the constituency.” movie “Jurassic Park.” Bruce Latimer, director of the KANSAS RANKS FIRST in a Cleveland Museum of Natural History, recent poll of state digital services con- will discuss bipedalism April 24. The lec- ducted by Governnment Technology ture series closes May 8, when Carol Magazine, thanks in large part to tech- Ward, of the University of Missouri, dis- nology research conducted by KU fac- cusses evolutionary trends. She works ulty.The state ties for top honors with with the Leakey family—renowned East Illinois in the 2001 Digital State Survey, African anthropologists and fossil which polls information officers in 50 hunters—in analyzing hominid remains. states. Don Heiman, chief information The exhibition is made possible by officer for the executive branch of First State Bank & Trust, African Studies Kansas government, credits research projects at the Kansas Geological Survey and the Resource Center at KU and anthropol- Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program for boosting the state’s ranking.“There is a ogy graduate students. wonderful team of technologists at the University of Kansas,” Heiman says.“Our high SUSAN YOUNGER ranking was in large part due to the leadership of our major universities.” Infrastructure improvements on the Lawrence campus and student services such as online access to grades, course syllabi and library catalogs also contributed to the state’s strong showing, according to Heiman.
THAD ALLENDER ALAN CERVENY, director of admissions and scholarships since 1996, will leave the University this spring to become dean of admissions at the University of Nebraska, his alma mater. Cerveny helped KU establish top-10 status among public universities for National Merit Scholars four of the last five years, enrolling more than 100 National Merit Scholars each year since 1999. Lisa Pinamonti, g’98, associate director of admissions, will serve as interim director during the national search for Cerveny’s successor.
KANSAS HEALTH FOUNDATION has pledged an additional $100,000 to help extend KANU’s award-winning children’s health series,“Kansas Kids: A Prescription for Change,” through November.The Wichita-based philanthropy helped KANU launch the series, which explores the health and well-being of Kansas children, in June 2000. It has won several statewide and national honors, including a Kansas Association of Broadcasters award for best series.
STELLA BENTLEY is KU’s new dean of libraries. Bentley, who currently holds the same position at Auburn University, will oversee a library system that houses 3.3 mil- lion volumes and 27,000 serial titles in seven facilities. Bentley says building strong collections, providing “user-focused services” and collaborating with other research libraries will be among her priorities. She starts her new job April 1.
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ISSUE 2, 2002 | 17 Sports BY CHRIS LAZZARINO
With a thrilling 95-92 victory over the Tigers March 3, KU made a little history of its own. Not only did the Jayhawks vanquish the dreaded EARL RICHARDSON Hearnes hex, but they also did what no other Division I men’s basketball team could in this season of promise and parity: They finished undefeated in conference play, posting a perfect 16-0 record in the Big 12. No other team has run the table since the Big Eight expanded in 1996. The last Kansas team to win every league game was Ted Owens’ 1970-’71 Final Four squad. “I think it’s something you can be proud of a long, long time,” Roy Williams said after the Jayhawks Junior Drew improved to 27-2 overall. “I don’t Gooden’s 20 points know that I’ll ever enjoy the 16-0 mark and 11 boards lead an because we know some other things offense that out-muscled are coming up quickly. But I will really the Big 12 on the way to enjoy the conference championship a perfect 16-0 record. because that was our goal.” Perhaps as important as the out- come was how KU won: With Big 12 Player of the Year and national player of the year candidate Drew Gooden suffering an off day (15 points on 5- for-17 shooting) and senior guard Jeff Boschee limited to just 15 minutes by foul trouble, junior forward Nick Collison stepped up to pour in a career-high 28 points, including a pair In like a lion of clutch 17-foot jumpers. The second, Behind the power of Drew Gooden, the which came with 1:35 remaining and KU trailing 92-91, proved the game- Jayhawks stand ready to March winner. Junior guard Kirk Hinrich also con- hen KU stormed into the Hearnes tinued his late-season scoring binge, posting 25 Center in 1997 ranked No. 1 in the points, and freshman guard Keith Langford con- country, Missouri sent the tributed 14 points off the bench. “They’ve got a WJayhawks back to the bus with a lot of guys who can kill you,” said Missouri star 96-94 double-overtime loss. In fact, after the past Kareem Rush, who hit only 7 of 22 shots over four trips the Jayhawks have made to Columbia KU’s defense. “They’re a dangerous team one while ranked in the top five, they’ve come home through five.” on the short end of the score. Both Collison and Gooden are among the 20 Not this time. finalists for the Naismith College Player of the
18 | KANSAS ALUMNI Year Award, but it has been Gooden—the engine driving a turbocharged offense “I don’t know that I’ll ever enjoy the 16-0 mark because we that leads the nation in scoring (at 93 know some other things are coming up quickly. But I will really points per game) and shooting accuracy (51.6 percent)—who has drawn rave enjoy the conference championship because that was our goal.” reviews from hoops analysts all season. —Roy Williams He has seemed unstoppable at times, posting 20 double-doubles while lead- while, Gooden said “the feeling of com- And then comes Scott Russell. Six feet ing the Jayhawks with 20.6 points and peting again for championships” made 9, 275 pounds. The KU senior from 11.1 rebounds per game. And he has it so. Windsor, Ontario, turns three times in done it despite facing double- and triple- “I think we are a championship team; an ever-tightening spiral and lets it fly. teaming defenses. I think we could go all the way,” he said. Actually, demands it fly. “I’ve always said that the remarkable “This is the best team I’ve played on and Judges measured Russell’s throw at things that kids do when the defense is we’ve got four starters back who have the Feb. 1 Jayhawk Invitational—not aimed at them every single game, to me been to the tournament two years in a because they needed to see whether he that’s the great accomplishment,” row. We know what it takes. We know had won, but because they were curious Williams said. “If you have a person what we need to do to win.” to see by how much. There was also the who’s having a great year but people are —Steven Hill matter of the NCAA record. Russell’s sort of ignoring him, that’s great but it’s hand was thrust jubilantly in the air not anything like what the accomplish- long before the announcement came: 81 ment is when the other team leaves the feet, 4 1/4 inches. People who know locker room and says, ‘We’ve got to do a about these things gasped, staring at one good job on Gooden.’ And they go out another wide-eyed. A woman screamed. and at the end of the game Drew has 26 Weight gain The elation didn’t last. A technicality points and 14 rebounds. That’s pretty reclaimed the record. A nylon string in impressive.” Senior Scott Russell sets the netting that attaches the weight to After flirting with the NBA before dizzying weight-throw mark the handle had snapped, making the deciding to return for his junior year, entire “implement” 3 millimeters too Gooden is widely considered as good as long to be used for an official record. gone after his dominating performance hirty-five pounds. It is the dens- “This is how much torque Scott gen- this season. Analysts project him as a est chunk of terrestrial matter to erates,” throws coach Doug Reynolds sure top-5 pick in the NBA draft. After get airborn since Capt. John said, fidgeting with the cord in question. KU beat Iowa State in Allen Field House TPaul Jones fired his last shot in “This wasn’t stretched. He snapped it. Feb. 18 to claim the Big 12 title, Jayhawk anger. When most collegians spin and Unbelievable.” Said track coach Stanley fans made their preference known, twirl and heave, the round “weight” Redwine: “I’ve never seen anything like chanting “One more year!” when lopes out a few dozen feet, then drops that happen before.” Gooden climbed a ladder to snip the with an impatient thud. And there stood Russell, grinning as net. (After the Jan. 28 Missouri game, Gooden’s father, Andrew, said he thought Drew would decide to turn pro, On this toss Feb. 1, but would immediately regret it and per- Scott Russell threw the haps change his mind.) 35-pound weight more JEFF JACOBSEN Riding a 14-game winning streak into than 80 feet—an NCAA the Big 12 conference tournament and record until an equip- buoyed by close road victories over ment technicality cost Missouri and Nebraska, it would seem him the mark. Russell the Jayhawks are poised to make the broke the record again season last. And Gooden, who has drawn praise from Williams this year for one week later. his increased maturity and deeper understanding of the game, seems poised to lead the way. When asked before the Jan. 12 loss to UCLA whether returning to college had been worth-
ISSUE 2, 2002 | 19 Sports he admitted, “It was awesome,” and season. The best KU strongman since assuring anyone who would listen that shot putter Karl Salb’s 1969-’71 NCAA JEFF JACOBSEN he’d just go back out and do it again. domination is not to be missed. Sure enough, one week later, at Iowa State, Russell again threw the weight more than 81 feet. Understand, his per- sonal best last year was 73 feet. When the weight is thrown more than 80 feet, Off-speed demon it flies with such a force that it would easily pass through a Cadillac. It does Kara Pierce, last year’s not seem possible that a mortal human softball sensation, uses lively could make such an ungainly orb per- pitches to befuddle batters form so nimbly. “Scott is one of the best natural ath- letes I’ve ever seen,” Reynolds says. An ara Pierce wasn’t even a starter observer comments that not only is on her summer-league softball Russell obviously big and strong, but he team. But KU coach Tracy KARA PIERCE also has unbelievable foot speed and bal- KBunge, desperately searching ance. Reynolds agrees, but adds, “It’s the for a young pitcher, saw movement in ing 22-11 (and being named Big 12 patience of his foot speed. It has to be in Pierce’s pitches; factoring in the extra 3 Freshman of the Year) for a team that the right relation to his spin, and it is. feet between the college mound and went 32-27 and only narrowly missed His coordination is superb.” homeplate, which would give Pierce’s out on the NCAA Tournament. Russell won his third Big 12 weight- hyper pitches that much more time and “She came out of nowhere,” Bunge throw championship in late February, distance to bob and weave, Bunge fig- says. “Not only did the other teams not though he did not exceed 80 feet (the ured Pierce might prove to be even bet- really know about her, but she didn’t, winning throw was just short of 78 feet). ter at the next level. either. She didn’t know she was sup- Regardless, watch for Russell in the Bunge was more than right: Pierce posed to be that good, so she just went NCAA championships, and check him was the most surprising element of a out and did it. Now she knows. out throwing the javelin in the outdoor surprising success story in 2001, finish- Everyone else does, too.” Through the first 10 games of her sophomore season, Pierce was 2-3. Though her record might be disappoint- ing, she does have a victory over peren- nial power Arizona State. Pierce is also Updates now sharing time with yet another fresh- en’s basketball coach Roy Williams was named Big 12 Coach of the Year by the man sensation, Serena Settlemier. Where MAssociated Press, his sixth such honor but the first since 1997.At the end of Pierce has movement, Settlemier has the regular season,Williams’ career record (all at KU) was 382-91, for a winning per- power. centage of 80.8. ...The baseball team opened its season 8-0 for the first time in Bunge loves the combination: “Last school in history.“We are winning some great games,” coach Bobby Randall said after year, pitching was our big question KU swept Wisconsin-Milwaukee in a Feb. 23 doubleheader.Through those eight victo- mark. Now it’s our strength.” ries, senior right-hander Dan Olson was 3-0, and senior right-handers Jake Wright Pierce spent the off-season working and Jeff Davis were 2-0. Jayhawk batters were hitting .296, while opponents were hit- with Bunge—an All-America pitcher for ting just .208. KU pitchers had a collective ERA of 1.88. ... KU in the mid-1980s—on an off-speed Coach Marian Washington predicted that her women’s basketball team faced a pitch. “To to really become great,” Bunge rebuilding year. Rebuilding might not be the word for it:The Jayhawks were 0-16 in says, “Kara has to be a little more consis- the Big 12, and finished the regular season 5-24. ... Olympic gold-medalist and world- tent with her location, and make sure record sprinter Maurice Greene, a native of Kansas City, Kan., plans to run in the the ball isn’t hanging out over the plate. Kansas Relays, April 17-20. Greene’s Finish the Race Youth Foundation will receive If she continues with the development $2 from every ticket purchased April 20.This year marks the Kansas Relays’ 75th of her off-speed pitch, gets those two anniversary. ... Florida football’s strength and conditioning coordinator, Mark Smith, things really working, she can really left the Gators to become KU’s head strength and conditioning coach. become very nasty.” Which is, in this case, a good thing.
20 | KANSAS ALUMNI Men’s golf Sports Calendar MARCH 18-19 at Cleveland Golf Collegiate Championship, Aiken, S.C. 10-12 Oklahoma Softball 25-26 at Stevinson Ranch 18 Kansas State Invitational, Stevinson, Calif. MARCH 19-20 at Kansas State 22-26 at Big 12, Arlington, Texas APRIL 19 Bradley 20 Oklahoma State 8-9 at Western Intercollegiate, Santa 23-24 at Baylor Cruz, Calif. 27 at Arkansas 13-14 at The Intercollegiate, Chapel 30 Texas Hill, N.C. 31 at Missouri 29-30 at Big 12, Hutchinson
APRIL MAY 4 Creighton 16-18 NCAA Midwest Regionals, 6-7 at Texas A&M Little Rock, Ark. 9 Southwest Missouri State Track & field 10 Wichita State 13-14 Texas Tech MARCH Women’s golf 17 at UMKC 23 at Oklahoma State MARCH 20-21 at Oklahoma 16-24 at Spring Break Tour, Myrtle 24 at Nebraska APRIL Beach, S.C. 27-28 Iowa State 3-6 at Texas Relays MAY 13 at John McDonnell Invitational, APRIL Fayetteville, Ark. 2-5 at Big 12, Oklahoma City 6-7 at Indiana Invitational 17-21 Kansas Relays 13-14 at Iowa Invitational, Iowa City 25-27 at Drake Relays 19-21 at Big 12, Manhattan Baseball MAY MAY MARCH 4 at Hawkeye Twilight Invitational, 9-11 NCAA Regional, East Lansing, Iowa City 19-20 at Centenary, Shreveport, La. Mich. 17-19 at Big 12, Columbia, Mo. 22-23 Michigan 23 Oral Roberts Tennis 29-31 at Oklahoma State Rowing MARCH APRIL MARCH 20 at South Florida 5-7 at Texas 30 Texas 9 Wichita State 21 at Central Florida 23 at Colorado 12-14 Texas Tech APRIL 16 at Wichita State 30 Baylor 13 at Knecht Cup, Philadelphia 31 Iowa 19 at Missouri 20 at Redwood Shores, Stanford 20-21 Missouri 27 at Kansas State APRIL 23 Southwest Missouri State 14 at Nebraska 26-28 at Nebraska MAY 30-May 1 at Illinois-Chicago 19 at Texas A&M 4 at Big 12, Austin 21 at Texas MAY 18-19 NCAA Central Regionals, Oak 25-28 at Big 12, Lubbock, Texas Ridge, Tenn. 3-5 Centenary 8 Rockhurst
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Actor Danny Glover and writer Alice Walker kicked off the Hughes symposium with public appearances before their Lied Center performances. Glover (left) speaks to students at Central Junior High School Feb. 7.Walker
(right) meets the press on campus Jan. 31.
The Color Purple share her memories of the Beats, the performance poets today— Hughes. “Langston, I hope this music you think Hughes. He’s the person who will help bring you a little closer to us defined all that, the person who read tonight.” backed by jazz, the person who made Walker met Hughes in the poetry such a public, visible form. 1960s, when she was a 19-year-old He’s the person who said you can write student at Sarah Lawrence College. poetry ordinary people can understand.” He read one of her stories and In his first memoir, The Big Sea, asked to publish it in an anthology Hughes writes of the love of music that of black writers he was editing. infused his early work. “I tried to write The two became friends. poems like the songs they sang on “His success was that he had Seventh Street—gay songs, because you developed in himself an ultimate had to be gay or die; sad songs, because kindness,” Walker says, praising the you couldn’t help being sad sometimes. largeness of spirit that led Hughes to do But gay or sad, you kept on living and much for up-and-coming writers—and you kept on going. Their songs—those of E R D N LE readers. Seventh Street—had the pulse beat of the AL AD TH “He wrote things for children, too: people who keep on going.” books, plays,” Walker says. “For so many Shortly before his death, Hughes the Hughes centennial, this one stands of us he was this seed that became this reflected on how his early church-going out by a mile.” incredible sheltering tree. He was always experiences—including, presumably, his In fact, there have been few confer- watching out for us. visits to the St. Luke AME church at 900 ences dedicated solely to Hughes. “It’s what elders do for people.” New York St. in Lawrence—fired his love Rampersad recalls only three. The most of music. “I was very much moved, significant was held 21 years ago in always, by the rhythms of the church, of Joplin. “Out of that came an amazing the spirituals, of the sermons. And when amount of scholarship and leadership n fact, says Maryemma Graham, KU I began to write poetry, that influence for the Langston Hughes legacy,” he professor of English and director of came through.” says. “So I think this conference is really Ithe symposium, Hughes is the father “His originality was to link his poetry momentous; it’s going to have a tremen- of much more than he is generally cred- to African-American vernacular speech dous impact. We’ll still be feeling the ited for. In addition to poetry, he also and also to jazz and blues,” Rampersad impact from it 20 years from now.” wrote novels, short stories, essays, news- says. “In that respect he was quite differ- paper columns, plays, children’s books ent from the poets before him.” and even operas. Much of that work, out of print for decades, is being restored by angston lives, in the performances an exhaustive 18-volume series from the of writer Alice Walker and actor University of Missouri Press, The hat word-music, so evident in old LDanny Glover, two prominent Collected Works of Langston Hughes. recordings of Hughes reading from African-American artists whose appear- “In the early years he was seen as a This work, is also present in ances on the Lied Center stage a week gadfly, someone who dabbled at these Glover’s sold-out Lied Center show. apart provided a star-studded start for different genres and did a good job, but “These poems resonated in my head the symposium. who didn’t necessarily require the kind as a child growing up,” Glover says, On Jan. 31, Walker takes the Lied of sustained critical attention we give before reciting about two dozen Hughes Center stage with a leather satchel, from other writers,” Graham says. poems. His hourlong performance offers which she pulls a small xylophone and a “But lo and behold, this gadfly, we an intensely personal reading of the colorful tapestry. She arranges them discovered, is essentially the father of all poet’s work: In contrast to Hughes’ sly, carefully on a table, closes her eyes and these different developments in modern playful phrasing on recordings, Glover takes a deep breath. Wordlessly, she literature: The use of the vernacular, the lends a dramatic, commanding presence begins to play a melody. emphasis on humor, infusing the oral to the work. His voice—thundering one “I could not think of coming and talk- tradition, the use of blues and jazz and moment, whispering the next—evokes ing to you tonight without playing him gospel music. All these things hark back the emotional range of a poet who could some music,” she tells the crowd of to Hughes. be both bitter and optimistic. 1,700, who’ve braved an ice storm to “Whenever you think about whole The actor chose the poems, he says hear the Pulitzer Prize winning author of periods of literature, the ’60s and ’70s, during the question-and-answer session
26 | KANSAS ALUMNI that follows, to reflect Hughes’ “incredi- relative dearth of serious scholarship on summer at the Lawrence sidewalk sale. ble hope for something better, for his work. Out-of-town businesses such as Alfred A. change,” on one hand, “and his sense of “Scholars tend to operate with the Knopf, Hughes’ publisher, kicked in weariness, of not knowing whether that assumption that the more complex liter- sponsorship money. Local organizations hope would ever be realized.” ature is, the more value it has,” says and businesses—the Ewing Marion Glover, who earlier in the day visited Graham. “On the surface Hughes looks Kauffman Foundation, Capitol Federal Central Junior High School (where he uncomplicated, and he actually used the Savings, the Kansas City law firm Shook, reminded students that Hughes was concept of simplicity in his work—he Hardy & Bacon—donated funds. Arts only 17 when he wrote one of his great- named his favorite character Simple. So groups such as the Kansas Humanities est poems, “The Negro Speaks of everybody operates with the notion that Council and the National Endowment Rivers”), reflects on his answer for a he’s some wise guy who’s just an for the Humanities granted support. The moment. “And also to demonstrate his Everyman. People laughed at what he city of Lawrence sponsored scholarships
humor,” he adds. “Because he was said, but he generally got his point for local residents, and offices across ARCHIVES OF CONGRESS LIBRARY funny, you know? He was funny.” across. The complexity is masked; you don’t see it right off.” To honor Hughes’ legacy of accessibil- ity—as well as his reputation for generos- f the Hughes symposium had a rally- ity and his concern for issues of social, ing cry, it might sound a little like racial and economic injustice—organizers Ithis: “Take poetry to the people.” cut registration fees and offered free And in that, too, Langston lives. admission to many, including students. Accessibility. Poets, scholars, students “Langston Hughes was known as a and teachers trying to explain what poet of the people, and we wanted to makes Hughes’ work so enduring, so offer this conference in that spirit,” says relevant, repeat the word again and Graham, who, along with Bill Tuttle, pro- again. fessor of American studies, co-chaired “He’s so accessible; he’s like a the symposium planning committee. Shakespeare without Cliff’s Notes,” says “Hughes wrote to, for and about people Kevin Powell, a writer, editor and out- who worked hard, made little money spoken advocate for hip-hop music. and were often beaten down.” Including “Shakespeare is too hard for a lot of peo- such people was “absolutely essential,” ple. Langston wrote about the black Graham says. “We want people to come experience, but he is universal and just ... in the spirit of Langston Hughes, and as deep as Shakespeare.” we can’t do that unless the people he campus pitched in with contributions Hughes’ humor and his simple, direct wrote for and about are here.” large and small. In the end, enough language—key to his popularity with Graham, Tuttle and their cohorts money was raised to reduce registration THAD ALLENDER “ordinary” folks—may also explain the raised more than $200,000 from local fees from $250 to $75, to provide schol- and national donors arships for 240 people, and to make to defray expenses many events, including the evenings while planning events with Walker and Glover, free for every- to encourage commu- one. nity participation. There have been other forms of sup- Downtown merchants port as well. Many community organiza- paid for Langston tions hosted events that spread the Hughes T-shirts, Hughes celebration from Mount Oread which they sold last to the rest of town.
Glover talks to reporters outside Central Junior High School (previous page); Hughes attended the school, then located at Ninth and Kentucky, when he lived in Lawrence.Walker helps Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway unveil the U.S. Postal Service’s Langston Hughes commemorative stamp (left). Langston Hughes (above), photographed in 1936 by his friend and patron, the noted critic, writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten.
ISSUE 2, 2002 | 27 “I think what is really wonderful Graham, “there is the notion that he was about the symposium is the way it has from this place but unable to benefit kind of overflowed the confines of the from all it offers.” Mary Langston, in
University campus,” Tuttle says. “It now constant fear of “the mortgage man,” THAD ALLENDER involves the Lawrence public schools rented rooms to KU students, some- [which hosted visits from Glover and times giving over the entire house at 732 symposium poets], the Lawrence Public Alabama St. and moving in with friends Library [where Lawrence residents read to save money. As a boy, Hughes played and discussed Hughes’ work in a poetry on campus—one of his favorite haunts circle], local art galleries [which featured was the University morgue, where he art by local artists inspired by Hughes], once hid after running away from and Haskell University [which hosted a home—and attended football games. He festival of Hughes-related films].” later visited KU several times to read his Graham will continue reaching out poetry, telling an audience on his last over the next year. Poetry circles like visit, April 28, 1965, “I sort of claim to those in Lawrence sprang up in Hays, be a Kansan because my whole child- Independence, Iola, Norton and Topeka hood was spent here in Lawrence and in February, and others are planned Topeka, and sometimes Kansas City.” across the nation. Graham wants to But on his death two years later, the establish poetry camps at KU, where tal- ented young poets and established writ- ers can meet for intensive two-week workshops. And she hopes to establish an institute on campus to teach school, museum, hospital and nursing home staff how to use poetry in their work. Her long-term goal is to make the Arnold Rampersad (left) signs a copy of his University a center of Hughes scholar- two-volume biography of Hughes for sympo- ship, and Tuttle notes that process is sium presenter Amritjih Singh. Poet Willie already under way: The Langston Perdomo (above) talks to students at Pinckney Hughes visiting professorship, begun in Elementary School. Symposium organizers Bill 1978, has drawn many talented scholars to campus, and several (Graham among Tuttle and Maryemma Graham (right). them) have joined the faculty. ER D N “It’s part of [the University’s] search LE AL AD to find a place where we can contribute TH says. “I think the Hughes symposium, to scholarship,” Graham says. “We have with its focus on Langston Hughes’ a chancellor who has been one of the local newspaper (which he had delivered ideals, will have a very beneficial effect leading thinkers in the study of African- for a time as a boy) barely noticed, pick- on race relations in the community. ... I American literature and culture. We have ing up a short wire-service story on his think to celebrate Hughes in common a number of faculty scholars who do death, nothing more. will bring blacks and whites together.” really good work.” She would like to see If the community events honored a a Langston Hughes research center on poet whose ties to Lawrence have not campus—eventually. “Rather than trying always been celebrated, they could also to start a center here and find the money open a dialogue about something more. angston lives: On Saturday night, to sustain it, we’ve decided to do public Hughes’ childhood years, Tuttle notes, at Poetry in Motion: An Evening programs with national visibility that were among the worst for African- LHonoring Langston Hughes, at the link back to KU. Then maybe we can Americans in Lawrence, as the progres- Lawrence Arts Center, local and visiting attract some funding and do something sive race relations of the town’s founding poets share their work. Zeke Nance, a like a center here someday.” gave way to blatant racism; much of 14-year-old high school student from That would be an ironic turn, she Hughes’ writing about Lawrence focused Topeka, reads his poetry in public for allows: Hughes never attended KU, on the discrimination he encountered. the first time. His interest in Langston, though his mother, Carrie Mercer “Lawrence hasn’t quite corrected its poetry and his own black heritage have Langston, did for a time. Instead, says problems with race relations,” Tuttle drawn him to the symposium. “I’ve
28 | KANSAS ALUMNI known who [poet] Willie Perdomo and Reed recalled how his career was Langston played for those who followed. [spoken word artist] Jessica Care Moore launched in 1966 when Hughes told an “For me Langston was the guidepost. are for years, but yesterday I walked up editor at a party where Reed was present We all stand on Langston’s shoulders.” and met them,” Nance says. “To meet that he liked the young writer’s work. Hughes was often called, in his hey- Amiri Baraka was a great push forward “That was enough to get my book day, “the poet laureate of the Negro for me. Meeting people who shaped my published by a publishing house that race.” But Hughes wrote about race, poetic style had a big influence on my had formerly rejected it,” Reed says. which is still the great American prob- deciding to read tonight.” Perhaps most poignantly, Langston lem. “Langston is the great poet laureate Langston lives too in the recollections lives in a batch of recently rediscovered of this country,” Baraka says, “and until of Mari Evans, Ishmael Reed, Amiri photographs taken by DeCarava in the this country understands that, embraces Baraka, Roy DeCarava—older artists 1950s. At the time DeCarava was a that, this country will always be in a sad, who, like Walker, cherish the kindnesses young painter-turned-photographer sad shape.” they received from Hughes when they who’d been working with a camera only were starting out. a few years. Walking down a Harlem For Evans, a writer, musician and street one day with a camera around his educator who lives now in Indianapolis, neck, he encountered Hughes. “He ymposium organizers settled on Hughes was an eye-opener. Having read stopped me and asked what I was doing. “Let America Be America Again”— everything in the children’s section of I told him, and he asked to see some of Sthe title of a Hughes poem—as their her hometown library as a girl, she per- my pictures,” DeCarava recalls. Hughes theme partly because that work is suaded the librarian to grant her access tried to get DeCarava’s work published, among the poet’s most outspoken. And to the adult section. There she found finally writing text to accompany the pic- yet it is hopeful. Hughes’ first book of poems. tures. The book, The Sweet Flypaper of “Guiding our thinking is that Hughes “In all my reading in the children’s Life, is now a collector’s item. belongs to everybody,” Graham says. “He
EARL RICHARDSON section I had never read about any real “It was a gift from Langston to me,” uses black culture in powerful ways, but DeCarava says. “His pub- he uses it to make the point that lisher did it just to make America belongs to everybody. ... He’s him happy. But it saying, ‘I know what American democ- changed my life to a racy is supposed to be, but it hasn’t been remarkable degree.” that for me. I haven’t lived the American Over the next few life yet, but I hope to.’ It’s a hopeful years, DeCarava visited poem, and we wanted to express that the writer’s Harlem town- hope, and also make the point that here house. His photos cap- we are in 2002 and a poem written 60 ture Hughes at his type- years ago is still as timely as when it was writer, ever-present ciga- written.” rette in his mouth, as he As a boy, Langston Hughes sought worked late into the solace at Lawrence’s old Carnegie night. Other shots show library, one of the few public institutions his warm side, embrac- open to blacks at the time. As he later ing children on the wrote in The Big Sea, “Then it was that street, talking to neigh- books began to happen to me, and I bors on the stoop. They began to believe in books and the won- are portraits of an artist derful world in books.” The library, now at ease in the place—and home to the Lawrence Arts Center, black people,” Evans says. “When I with the people—he cherished. which annually awards Langston pulled a copy of Langston’s The Weary At a Saturday-night tribute in the Hughes Awards to local writers, bears a Blues, I said, ‘He is writing about me.’ It Kansas Union ballroom, conference- new plaque quoting that passage. A local was a signal moment. I realized I could goers mill about, eating birthday cake elementary school is named after him, find myself in books.” while a jazz band plays. The mood is cel- and the city he once called home has Evans later moved to New York City, ebratory. Poet Sonia Sanchez captures adopted a line of his poetry for its civic where Hughes made her feel at home, the spirit with a long, incantatory invo- motto, emblazoning it on the front of squiring her to the theatre and reading cation—half chanted, half sung—of City Hall for all to see: her poetry. “There was never any criti- Hughes’ memory. Then Baraka, an elder “We have tomorrow—bright before us, cism, always encouragement,” she says. himself now, recalls the key role like a flame.”
ISSUE 2, 2002 | 29 Good Sp rts CLUB TEAMS PLAY FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME by Chris Lazzarino here are no trainers, and certainly no training tables (except, perhaps, the $6.75 all-you-can-carbo-load feast at King Buffet). Chartered flights? Try rented vans. Scholars, sure, but not scholar- ships. Not for sweating, anyway. There are no crazed fans, face-painting contests or play-by-play announcers. Team mem- bers shout encouragement—without benefit of a pep band, Tcheerleaders or a Rock Chalk Chant. But focusing on snazzy extras that KU club sports don’t have misses the point, because what the everyday athletes do have in common with their celebrated brethren is so much more important: They got game. “They really feel that they are going out and representing the University, which they actually are,” says Jason Krone, associate director at Recreation Services. “Their jerseys say ‘University of Kansas,’ same as the varsity jerseys.” This year, 24 teams, with a combined 800 students on their rosters, registered as official KU club sports. At this level, athletes pay to play: Teams are required to charge at least $5 a semester in dues, though most charge at least $25 and some, such as ice hockey, men’s soccer and water ski- ing, charge $100 or more. Teams also receive funding from mandatory recreation fees paid by all students, but, like all levels of athletics, fundraising remains equally as important as play calling. photographs by Earl Richardson
“Some of the teams clean Allen Field House or Memorial Stadium after games,” Krone says. “They serve at concession stands. They hold car washes. There’s the Rent-a-Rower yard cleanups. You name it, they’ve tried it. Everybody is out there trying to raise money, so they have to be creative.” Along with the 24 teams officially recognized by Recreation Services, there are men’s and women’s bowling teams, sponsored by the Kansas Union, plus eight other sports and games clubs registered with the Student Organizations and Leadership Development Center. Unlike intramural athletes, who compete only against fellow KU students, most club teams compete against other colleges or universities. So pick your pastime: badminton, crew, cycling, fencing, ice hockey, lacrosse, martial arts, rock climbing, roller hockey, rugby, soccer, Ultimate flying disk, volleyball, water polo, water skiing or wrestling. There even are clubs for chess, concrete canoes and fitness. Some groups, such as badminton and martial arts, focus on recreation and self-fulfillment. Competitive teams travel circuits within the states bordering Kansas, with occasional forays to destinations such as Chicago, Dallas or Minneapolis. The better teams and athletes see themselves,
in Krone’s words, “as semi-varsity,” and regularly travel across the country. The men’s crew team (women’s crew is a varsity sport) last fall competed in a Boston regatta. Both men’s and women’s soccer clubs competed at their national champi- onships in Alabama. The women’s volleyball club team (like women’s soccer, there is also a varsity equivalent) regularly plays its way to the national championships for club volleyball.
espite the regional and national successes KU club teams enjoy, most athletes savor their relative anonymity. Sure, they have few fans and even less DTV exposure, but they also know they won’t have to sweat the win-at-all-costs pressures that weigh down var- sity athletes. “Obviously we want to win as much as possible,” says Bryan Luhman, Eden Prairie, Minn., senior and president of Junior Liliana Albors (p. 30) eyes the men’s ice hockey club. “But we also want to get together the Ultimate prize; weathering a with friends and have some fun.” chilly lacrosse practice are senior Club teams don’t rely on adoring crowds for exuberance. goalie Amy Fortney (above) and They bring their own, even to practice. On a sunny Sunday junior Heather Karlin (left); taking afternoon in late January—an inviting day for a game of what the lunge at fencing practice (top) we used to call Frisbee—Ultimate players grabbed their disks is junior Brian McDow. and cleats and headed for the cozy field bordered by
ISSUE 2, 2002 | 31 “but really, the friendships you make are the best part. We have a bunch of guys who didn’t know each other at the start of the year. Now we all get together for practice, or go have a beer together, or do homework together. Nobody knew each other, and now they all hang out. I can’t tell you how cool that is.” Camaraderie is not an accident. Competitive teams practice three or four times a week, for two or three hours at a time. Full-time students who participate in club sports, especially the organizers, take on a tremendous load. Not only must they practice their sports, but they also plan road trips, organize rosters, secure playing fields and courts, repair equipment and relentlessly hunt for donors and sponsors. “I believe that those people who have more to do do things better,” Krone says. “They have to be effective with their time. They have to have a mission. They know what they are doing and how to get it done. Students who take on these responsibilities tend to be the achievers.” Toeing the line at Royal Crest Lanes (temporary headquarters Exercise also invigorates a sedentary lifestyle of class- during Jaybowl renovations) is junior Glenn Harrison (above); rooms, libraries and homework. Walking up the Hill is keeping his head above water (right) is freshman Alan Tivorsak. one thing; sprinting up it while training with teammates is quite another.
Sunnyside Avenue, Robinson Gymnasium, Watkins Health Center and the computer center. Snappy breezes refused to settle down, but the Frisbee throwers and chasers played on, undaunted. “It’s hot out!” one of the players happily exclaimed as he peeled off his sweats, stripping down to shorts and an old T- shirt. NFL conference-championship games were playing on TV, but these students weren’t sagging on any couches— even though one or two of the players admitted that their Saturday night extended too far into Sunday morning. The theme played out again and again on practice field after practice field seemed to be more about eating up life rather than gobbling up potato chips. “The road trips are definitive of any road trip you would do with a bunch of guys,” says Matt Dunkin, a Shawnee sen- ior who is getting men’s lacrosse started again after a three- year absence. “Guys from St. Louis, Minnesota, Chicago … they bring different attitudes and personalities, and they’re all fun guys. Really, they’re a bunch of characters, every one of them. I love ’em.” Dunkin explains that as a fifth-year engineering student, his fraternity days were done. Most of his buddies had grad- uated, and suddenly he found himself, in a sense, alone. That was a big part of his commitment to reorganizing KU’s club team for his favorite sport. “I hate to sound like an after-school movie,” Dunkin says,
32 | KANSAS ALUMNI “The research is clear that physical activity releases enzymes and hormones that are beneficial to pain relief, stress reduction and the reduction of depression, and helps mental acuity,” says Frank DeSalvo, director of counseling and psychological services and assistant dean of students. “Perhaps more important, though, is that club sports provide a home, or a way for students to belong to something on campus. On that, the research is very clear. Students who feel a meaningful connection with the University community, in whatever arena, tend to do better academically and tend to persist in their education.”
Freshman water polo player pportunities for competition don’t come without a Kevin Gates (above) readies to price far more precious than any fees or fundrais- shoot; fighting for the disk ing. When opposing teams don’t come here, KU (above right) are sophomore athletes must go there. And very rarely are they Clay Davis (no shirt) and fresh- O man Dave Swayze (red shirt); ferried by professional drivers or pilots. Administrators insist that club teams adhere to the junior Rachelle Dyer (right), a University’s official travel policies. Vehicles must be rented lacrosse defender. from specified vendors, presumably assuring some level of reliability and safety. (No renting jalopies on the cheap or borrowing Dad’s groovy old VW bus). Last fall, 18 KU club- sport teams took 51 documented trips outside of the “border- city area” of, roughly, Manhattan to Columbia, Mo. All returned safe and sound. Club officers must attend risk-management sessions, come in with a really strong work ethic and desire.” where they are schooled in safety. When they leave town, Water polo, too, accepts many novices, usually experi- they carry a list of numbers where they can track down enced swimmers who are eager to try the demanding sport. Krone at any time of the day or night. At the late-January Ultimate practice, a sideline photogra- “I think about this every weekend,” Krone says, “knowing pher was invited to join the fun—not because they needed we have two or three teams out there traveling. I’m always an extra body but because, well, the more the merrier. wishing them well and hoping they have different drivers tak- “We like to see it as kind of a release,” Krone says. “They ing turns behind the wheel.” get a chance for an hour or two, two or three times a week, With a budget of about $22,000, the men’s and women’s to forget about their schoolwork, their friends, whatever is bowling teams travel farther (and in larger buses) than most going on in their lives, and just focus on this. It’s fulfilling to of the other clubs. This season, bowling’s nine-tournament do that every once in a while.” schedule includes stops in Philadelphia; Indianapolis; Says bowling’s Fine: “I really think that what we do Topeka; Chicago; Manhattan; Davenport, Iowa; and South rounds out the collegiate experience. Twenty years from Bend, Indiana. If they advance to nationals (the men’s team now, these kids aren’t going to remember a lot of the classes is ranked No. 10 in the country), the bowlers will head to they went to, but they are going to remember how hard they Buffalo, N.Y. practiced and what it feels like to win that tournament or Like most (if not all) club sports, men’s and women’s advance to the national championships. And they’re going bowling teams do not make roster cuts. Not everybody will to remember the friends they still have through their make the traveling team, but any student who makes the involvement in representing KU.” commitment is welcome. “We actually recruit nationally,” The crimson-and-blue thing to do, it seems, would be to says Michael Fine, g’93, recreation coordinator for KU adopt a club sport, nestle the home schedule under a refrig- Memorial Unions and bowling coach since 1984. “But any- erator magnet and, when game day rolls around, gather up a body who comes out for the program and says, ‘I desire to be bunch of KU pals and go root on the home team. a part of the organization and I have a love of the sport of Just be sure to bring along enough folks to belt out a bowling and I want to get better,’ then those are the kind of hearty Rock Chalk Chant. They might not be varsity, but people we want to have around. I like those kids, people who they’re Jayhawks. They deserve nothing less.
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John Goodman, j’79, who with his wife, Susan Capps Goodman, h’80, and fellow ball co-chairs Kevin, a’79, and Brenda Press Harden, j’81, led this year’s
event. The four chose a lighthearted CHRISTINE SCHNEIDER theme, “Shake your tail feathers,” for the evening, which was hosted by the Alumni Association’s Greater Kansas City chapter. Masters of ceremonies Al Bohl, KU athlet- ics director, and Sally Moore, j’92, NBC 41 news anchor, welcomed Jayhawks to the sev- enth-annual ball; Bohl delighted the crowd with KU’s ranks of the announcement of his granddaughter’s birth earlier that afternoon; little Taylor National Merit Lorraine received rousing applause. Scholars, who Future Jayhawks were indeed a big reason for the evening; since 1996 the annual event benefit from the has helped support KU’s recruitment and reten- Rock Chalk Ball, tion of National Merit Scholars, in keeping with have continued one of the chief goals set by Chancellor Robert E. Neither snow nor ice Hemenway upon his arrival at KU in 1995. to grow.The fall Hemenway thanked Kansas Citians for their con- 2001 class of 105 could stop Jayhawks from shaking tinued support, which has helped the University their feathers at KC’s annual ball climb into the top 10 U.S. public universities four new scholars of the past five years in its recruitment of these places KU in the accomplished students. KU welcomed 105 new ynics—or perhaps envious Tiger fans— National Merit Scholars in fall 2001; 24 are sup- top 10 public might say the blazing success of Rock ported by Rock Chalk Ball scholarships. universities in Chalk Ball 2002 resulted from the sim- Since 1996, the ball has raised more than recruiting these Cple fact that the lights and the heat were working on Feb. 1 at Kansas City’s down- students. town Marriott Muehlebach hotel. True, the festive ballroom, resplendent with Jayhawk banners and feathers galore, provided warm solace for alumni and friends following the horriific Jan. 30 ice storm, which paralyzed much of the metropolitan area (and wreaked havoc in nearby Lawrence). But the nearly 1,000 Jayhawks who braved slippery roads, widespread power outages and fallen tree limbs were looking for more than prac- tical comforts. Drawn instead by fiery loyalty and the allure of a favorite Kansas City tradition, KU stalwarts resolved that the party must go on. “Actually, the ice storm worked in our favor, Hosting the evening (left to right) were co-chairs John because by the time the ball came around, every- and Susan Goodman, emcees Al Bohl and Sally Moore body was ready for a fun, uplifting evening,” says and co-chairs Brenda and Kevin Harden.
34 | KANSAS ALUMNI $700,000 to endow these scholarships; of Association and University issues. On Smith served the 2002 numbers are not yet final, but Feb. 5, Smith, longtime physician at the on several com- this year’s event promises to push that Mayo Clinic who had become a devoted mittees, includ- total beyond $800,000. In addition, a volunteer for KU and Lawrence, died at ing Corporate $670,000 gift from the Alumni Assoc- KU Medical Center following a stroke. Sponsorship, iation in 1998 has benefited the cause. “We were stunned and saddened by Constituent The Goodmans and the Hardens ral- the news,” says Association President Programs, lied more than 100 volunteers to pre- Fred B. Williams. “Lyn was a wise and Information pare for this year’s ball and committees generous leader, and our community Systems and are gearing up for next year: Rock Chalk benefited greatly from his presence.” Records, and Ball 2003 is set for Feb. 7. Smith was elected by Association Membership members in 1997 along with fellow Services and director Lewis Gregory, j’75. Gregory Merchandising. SMITH remembers Smith for his attention to Most recently issues and “the twinkle in his eye.” he served on the Board’s University Lynwood Smith “You knew he was a thinker, and it Services Task Force and the Adams just drew you to him. He was a thought- Alumni Center Board of Governors. Alumni leader dies suddenly ful contributor from the very beginning Smith also assisted a KU student as a at age 72 of his tenure on the board,” Gregory ’Hawk to ’Hawk mentor, and he helped says. “Lyn was not comfortable with the plan the 50th reunion of his undergrad- status quo, and he wanted to see some uate class in spring 2001. s he had done throughout his things change. He had a sense of pur- Also for KU, he served on the board five-year term on the Alumni pose. From what I’ve learned about his of the Hall Center for the Humanities Association’s national Board of life, I would say his contribution on the and was co-founder of the New Gener- A Directors, Lynwood H. Smith Jr., board was like other areas of his life and ation Society of Lawrence, a group creat- b’51, m’60, attended the Board’s winter work: He tackled things head on and ed in 1996 by Smith and his friend meeting Feb. 1-2, joining in discussions tried to improve them.” Robert Mueller, b’42, former national
Laura Winzenread, Edmond, Okla., freshman, spoke on behalf of the Rock Chalk Ball scholars (far left); she said alumni sentiments helped sway her in favor of KU.The soulful sound of Neon Blue (left) lured Jayhawks to the dance floor. Sally Moore and Al Bohl (below) stoked crimson and blue spirit throughout the evening. EARL RICHARDSON PHOTOGRAPHY Alumni bidders (below left) were enthralled by a series of whimsically painted ceramic Jayhawks, created by local artists and featured as premier auction items.
ISSUE 2, 2002 | 35 Association president of the Alumni Association. The society, which has grown to more than 180 members, offers educational, social and philanthropic opportunities for Lawrence’s growing population of retired KU alumni and friends. The Alumni Association was established in 1883 for the purpose of strengthening loyalty, friendship, com- Smith and his wife, Marty Waddell 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 Smith, ’52, retired and moved to purpose and action to serve the best interests of The University and its constituencies.The Association is Lawrence more than seven years ago, fol- organized exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. lowing his 35 years of medical practice at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Board of Directors Deloris Strickland Pinkard, ALUMNI CENTER They combined their KU involvement g’80, EdD’95, Kansas City Bryan Greve David R. Rankin, p’63, Director of AAC Services with volunteer roles for numerous CHAIR Phillipsburg and Jayhawk Society Lawrence organizations. Survivors Janet Martin McKinney, Mike Wellman include Marty Smith; two sisters, one of c’74, Port Ludlow, DIRECTORS TO JULY 2004 Director of Special Projects Washington whom is Lura Jane Smith Geiger, c’42; A. Drue Jennings, d’68, l’72, and AAC Facility Manager two daughters; two sons; and four Leawood EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIR Mary Kay Paige McPhee, FINANCE grandchildren. A memorial has been Robert L. Driscoll, c’61, l’64, d’49, Kansas City, Missouri Dwight Parman established at the KU Endowment Mission Woods John W. Mize, c’72, Salina Sr VP for Finance & Association. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Treasurer Jim Adam, e’56, DIRECTORS TO JULY 2005 Overland Park Nancy Borel Ellis, d’63, COMMUNICATIONS Robert L. Driscoll, c’61, l’64, Pinehurst, North Carolina Chris Lazzarino Mission Woods Sydnie Bowling Managing Editor, Reid Holbrook, c’64, l’66, Kampschroeder, c’65, Kansas Alumni Magazine Judy Ruedlinger Award Overland Park Naperville, Illinois Jennifer Sanner Janet Martin McKinney, c’74, Craig B. Swenson, e’59, Sr VP for Communications Port Ludlow,Washington Lee’s Summit, Missouri and Editor, Kansas Alumni Cordell D. Meeks Jr., Magazine c’64, l’67, Kansas City DIRECTORS TO JULY 2006 Susan Younger Deloris Strickland Pinkard, Jill Sadowsky Docking, Art Director
EARL RICHARDSON 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 Colorado Springs, Colorado E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., Carolyn Barnes Michelle Senecal de PhD, San Antonio,Texas Director Kansas Honors Fonseca, Archie R. Dykes, EdD, Program b’83, London, England Goodlettsville,Tennessee Kirk Cerny 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 Current winners of Student Alumni Annandale,Virginia Mission Asst. Director of Chapter Association’s Judy Ruedlinger Award are and Constituent Programs (left to right) junior Amanda Denning of DIRECTORS TO JULY 2002 Donna Neuner Lewis D. Gregory, c’75, Administrative Staff Director of Membership Basehor, sophomore Marcie Rohleder of Leawood Services Plainville and sophomore Sara Gillispie Linda Duston Warren, ADMINISTRATION of Overland Park.The Ruedlinger award, c’66, m’70, Hanover Kay Henry RECORDS named in honor of the former Sr VP for Administration and Bill Green DIRECTORS TO JULY 2003 Human Resources Association staff member who launched Sr VP for Information Sidney Ashton Garrett, Fred B.Williams Services SAA in 1987, encourages SAA members c’68, d’70, Lawrence President and CEO Nancy Peine to remain involved and seek leadership Vice President for Records roles in the student organization.
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1920s Sun in Shawnee Mission. 1963 Carl Gauk, ’27, makes his home in Randall Nollette, d’63, lives in San Peoria, Ariz., where he plays golf twice a 1955 Jose, Calif., where he’s retired from week. Joe Engle, e’55, continues to make his Lockheed Martin Space Systems. home in Colorado Springs with Mary David Yust, f’63, recently exhibited 1930s Lawrence Engle, f’56. his monotypes in Denver. He lives in Etta Moten Barnett, f’31, lives in Fort Collins. Chicago, where she’s a retired actress. 1958 Etta performed in films and on Donald Farrar, ’58, is lead tenor with 1964 Broadway during the 1930s and 1940s the Four Lads in Keller, Texas. Stephen Hagen, j’64, is senior vice and recently was honored at the Chicago president of Lexington Corporate International Film Festival. 1959 Properties Trust. He lives in Littleton, Joseph, c’36, g’37, and Helen Melvin Cheatham, m’59, g’65, Colo. Davidson Brewer, c’36, celebrated their received a Footsteps of the Great 65th anniversary Sept. 11. They live in Physician award last year from the 1965 Wichita. World Medical Mission. He’s a clinical Thomas Foster, b’65, manages sales Donald Obee, c’32, g’34, PhD’43, cel- professor of neurosurgery at UCLA, and for Charlotte Pipe and Foundry. He lives ebrated his 90th birthday in January. He he lives in Santa Ana, Calif. in Charlotte, N.C. lives in Boise, Idaho, and is retired chair Gary Foster, f’59, d’61, lives in William Horne, d’65, recently became of the biology department at Boise State Alhambra, Calif., where he’s a free-lance an administrative law judge with the University. studio musician. Social Security Administration in Cleveland. 1940s 1961 John Yarnell, e’65, won the 2001 Laura Thompson Brown, f’40, com- Nita Cleveland Merriweather, Thomas H. MacDonald Memorial Award pleted 75 quilts last year. She makes her ’61, retired recently from the medical from the American Association of State home in Wenatchee, Wash. library at Hutchinson Hospital and Highway and Transportation Officials. James McBride, b’49, recently was moved to The Colony, Texas, where He lives in Jefferson City and is retired named vice president and research ana- her three daughters and five grand- from the Missouri Department of lyst at Kornitzer Capital Management. children live. Transportation, where he was Missouri’s He lives in Kansas City. Jim McMullan, a’61, retired in chief engineer responsible for road and Edward Rolfs, c’48, is chairman emeri- December from his role as Buffalo Bill bridge design. tus of Central National Bank’s holding Cody in the Wild West Show at company, Central of Kansas. He lives in Disneyland in Paris. 1966 Junction City. Sharon Fink Denton, p’66, is a Charles Thomas, ’49, wrote Best 1962 pharmacist at Salina Regional Health Seller: Are You One? which recently was Maxine Smith Clair, c’62, wrote Center, and her husband, Jeff, p’65, published by Bantage Press. He and his October Suite, which was published last owns Band K Prescription Shop. wife, Betty, live in Loveland, Colo. year by Random House. She teaches Douglas Miller, c’66, g’71, runs English at George Washington International Private Equity Limited in 1950 University in Washington, D.C., and London. Betty Jean Waters Smith, c’50, and makes her home in Landover, Md. Stephen Munzer, c’66, is a pro- her husband, Richard, will celebrate Bryan Siebert, b’62, retired recently fessor of law at UCLA. He lives in their 51st anniversary May 6. They live after 37 years with the U.S. Department Beverly Hills. in Leawood. of Energy. He’s teaching a class this Pam Allen Spry, n’66, is an assistant spring in nonproliferation, weapons of professor at the University of Colorado 1951 mass destruction and terrorism at St. Health Sciences Center in Denver. She Robert Sigman, j’51, recently Mary’s College of Maryland. Bryan lives was recently named a fellow in the became editorial page editor of the in Scotland, Md. American College of Nurse-Midwives.
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Ottawa and recently was elected secre- tary/treasurer of the Kansas Association of Hospital Attorneys. Julio Mendez, e’67, owns electronic companies in Bolivia and in Chile. He lives in La Paz, Bolivia. Sara Paretsky, c’67, wrote Total Recall, which recently was published by Delacorte Press. She lives in Chicago. William Patterson, c’67, g’76, is a professor of English literature at Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan. Lyn Royer Smith, d’67, teaches ele- mentary school in Newport News, Va.
1968 Larry Arnold, ’68, is president and CEO of Inform Worldwide Holdings in Englewood, Colo. He lives in Littleton. Horst Claus, g’68, PhD’70, lives in Bristol, where he’s a reader at the University of the West of England. James Concannon, c’68, l’71, is dean of law at Washburn University in Topeka. Sandra Arnold Hartley, c’68, g’71, l’74, practices law with Hartley, Nicholson, Hartley & Arnet in Paola. Alan Mulally, e’68, g’69, is president and chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. He lives in Mercer Island, Wash. Susan Kasper Pingleton, c’68, m’72, directs the pulmonary and critical care division at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City. Christopher Redmond, c’68, l’71, recently was elected a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He’s a member of Husch & Eppenberger in Kansas City. Jack Salyer, c’68, l’75, is an adminis- trative judge for Merit Systems Protection Board in Lakewood, Colo.
1967 Publications. She lives in Racine, Wis. 1969 Hans Brisch, g’67, PhD’70, lives in R.A. Edwards, b’67, g’73, recently Kapil Nanda, g’69, is founder, chair- Edmond, Okla., and is chancellor for became a director of Western Resources. man and CEO of Infogain Corp. in Los Oklahoma higher education. He’s president, chief executive officer Gatos, Calif. Margo Lackie Drummond, d’67, and director of First National Bank of Nancy Hardin Rogers, s’69, recently wrote Blessings of Being Mortal: How a Hutchinson. became dean of the Mortiz College of Mature Understanding of Death Can Free Roger Elliott, e’67, does consulting Law in Columbus, Ohio. Us to Live Wisely and Well, which was work in Corpus Christi, Texas. Rodger Taylor, c’69, has joined published last year by North Star Robert Green, l’67, practices law in Merrill Lynch as a financial adviser.
38 | KANSAS ALUMNI He lives in Wichita. as a physical therapist at Baldwin Kensington Publishing. He lives in Therapy Services in Baldwin City. She Shawnee Mission. 1970 lives in Tonganoxie. Brent McFall, c’74, g’76, is city man- Maggie Linton-Petza, ’70, works as a Norman Hardy, g’72, PhD’76, directs ager of Westminister, Colo., where he producer/anchor with XM Satellite risk assessment and management for the lives with his wife, Gail. Radio. She lives in Jessup, Md. British Columbia Ministry of Health. He Joseph Medved, c’74, lives in Prarie Larry Poore, g’70, is vice president of lives in Victoria. Village and is a partner in the law firm A.T. Kearney in Chicago. Gregory Harman, c’72, j’74, is presi- of Lathrop & Gage. David Porter, m’70, directs human dent of Walz Harman & Huffman in resources for Silicon Corp. in San Jose, Kechi. He lives in Wichita. 1975 Calif. Judith Woodward McNish, d’72, John Coburn, g’75, retired in Susan Shaffer Rudoy, c’70, teaches at recently became senior consultant for December as a four-star general in the Hyde Park Central Schools in Hyde CSG Partners in Overland Park. U.S. Army, where he’s served for 38 Park, N.Y. She lives in Pleasant Valley. years. He lives in Fort Belvoir, Va. Karen Uplinger, c’70, recently became 1973 Lynn Hursh, c’75, l’79, lives in city court judge in Syracuse, N.Y. Jill Casado, c’73, l’76, is a senior trust Leawood and is managing partner of Linda Tate Woodsmall, d’70, g’84, administrator for Commerce Trust in Armstrong Teasdale in Kansas City. g’87, owns Flagship Travel in Lenexa. Wichita. Steven Lange, c’75, recently joined Charles Hall, c’73, b’74, g’75, has Schifman Remley & Associates as a sales 1971 been named vice president and con- executive. He lives in Leawood. Peter Goplerud, c’71, l’74, is dean of troller of Lyondell Chemical Co. in Patrick O’Malley, g’75, is president of law at Drake University in Des Moines. Houston. Sprint Business in Overland Park. He lives in Clive. Michael Rust, g’73, PhD’75, was Donald Low, c’71, l’75, is a senior named a fellow in the Entomological 1976 attorney with Sprint in Kansas City. He Society of America last fall. He’s a profes- Scott Baker, b’76, manages project lives in Lawrence. sor of entomology at the University of controls for Bechtel in London, where he Maryanne Medved Lyons, d’71, g’77, California-Riverside, where he researches and Katherine Walstrom Baker, c’77, recently became a partner in the pests found in Southwestern urban com- live with their daughters, Katie, 17, and Houston law firm of Baker Botts. munities. Hanna, 14. Jan Marcason, d’71, is executive direc- Joseph Petelin, m’76, practices laparo- tor of the Mid-America Assistance 1974 scopic surgery in Shawnee Mission. Coalition in Kansas City. Robert Carson, c’74, owns Laura Friesen Rothstein, c’71, lives in Accessoryware.com in Oxnard, Calif. 1977 Louisville, Ky., where she’s dean of law Joel Goldman, c’74, l’77, wrote Motion David Minden, b’77, is controller at the University of Louisville. to Kill, which was published by of B.F. Asher & Co. in Lenexa. He lives Frank Sotolar, a’71, is managing principal of HMN Architects in Over- land Park. Then Again MARRIED Nancy Campbell, c’71, to Robert Jenkins, May 28. They live in Wichita, hen women first began where Nancy is assistant vice president Wplaying basketball at KU, of Emprise Bank. high-heeled shoes and bustles were standard uniforms on the 1972 court.These early players soon Edward Bernica, e’72, recently adopted more practical knickers became president and CEO of Energy and quickly improved their win- West in Great Falls, Mont. ning ratio against the women of Richard Cohen, g’72, EdD’75, has Washburn, Baker and Haskell.The been appointed dean of education, first official women’s basketball health and human services at Lynn team was formed in 1968. University. He lives in Delray Beach, Fla. Evonne Hamblin Cooper, c’72, works
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in Olathe. Carolyn Costley, f’79, lives in Hamilton, New Zealand, where she’s a senior lecturer in marketing at the University of Waikato. Mark Fox, c’79, is executive vice presi- dent of information services for eMerge Interactive Names. He lives in West Melbourne, Fla.
1980 Scott Bloch, c’80, l’86, a partner in the Lawrence law firm of Stevens & Brand, recently was appointed by President Bush as counsel to the deputy attorney general on the task force for faith-based and community initiatives. Mike Duncan, b’80, is chief financial officer at Planet Salvage, a Lenexa-based firm. Bernard Hickert, l’80, recently was named a partner in the Topeka law firm of Newbery & Ungerer. He lives in Lawrence. Brett Sayre, b’80, directs external affairs for Southwestern Bell. His home is in Lawrence. Bharathi Vemula Sudarsanam, PhD’80, teaches biology at Labette Community College in Parsons.
1983 Kathleen Battles Skinker, g’83, is an instructor and clinical supervisor in the speech and language clinic at the University of Maryland-College Park. She lives in Millersville. Dale Vestal, c’83, manages regional sales for Hasty Awards in Lawrence.
BORN TO: Kristopher, c’83, and Anne Hadley Bruso, c’87, son, Will, Dec. 10 in Kansas City, where he joins a brother, John, 3. Kristopher is a dentist. in Leavenworth. Jon Robichaud, d’78, g’90, directs Louis Rasmussen Jr., d’77, manages bands and fine arts for Blue Springs RIV 1984 marketing for A.O. Smith Electrical School District in Blue Springs, Mo., Christine Adams, d’84, directs debate Products in Tipp City, Ohio. where Dixie Hemenway Robichaud, and forensics at Truman High School in d’77, manages a dental office. Independence, Mo. 1978 Patrick Jones, j’84, c’84, publishes Weiming Ou, ’78, is executive vice 1979 Golfdom magazine, which recently president of OTC Wireless in Fremont, Roseanne Bukaty Becker, c’79, is won a Gold Award for editorial excel- Calif. He lives in Los Gatos. senior director at UMKC. She lives lence from Folio magazine. He lives
40 | KANSAS ALUMNI in Rocky River, Ohio. of law at KU. promoted to partner at Ernst & Young Michael Seeber, g’85, recently was in Toledo, Ohio. She and her husband, 1985 promoted to chief geophysicist at Randy Roberts, ’90, live in Holland, Mike Cuenca, g’85, directs the Anadarko Petroleum. He lives in The Ohio. humanities program for the Civil Society Woodlands, Texas. Mark Fox, d’86, is an admissions Group in Lawrence. counselor and assistant men’s basketball William Horner, j’85, publishes the 1986 coach for the Halstead-Unified School Sanford Herald in Sanford, N.C., where Amy Handelman Bennett, j’86, District. He lives in Wichita. he and his wife, Lee Ann, live with their recently was inducted into the Lenexa Kathryne Kiser, c’86, g’91, teaches at children, Zachary, 9; Addison, 7; and Volunteer Hall of Fame. She’s been Longview Community College in Lee’s Karis, 5. active in the Girl Scouts for 10 years. Summit, Mo. Stephen McAllister, c’85, l’88, is dean Christine Davis, b’86, g’87, has been Susan McBride, j’86, wrote Overkill, a
Profile BY MELINDA SCHNYDER
Coleman now big dog in “I was dissatisfied with the bikes that I was riding,” says custom motorcycles Coleman, a 49-year-old father of five. “They just weren’t quite n the mid-1970s, Sheldon Coleman what I wanted, so in 1994 I whizzed around Mount Oread on a hired a mechanic and kept try- small-engine dirt bike; the little ing to transform the motorcy- Icycle was his sole transportation for cles into something I wanted to his first two years in Lawrence, and he ride.” never lost his passion for riding. He was searching for a com- Today Coleman, b’75, sells art with bination of style, comfort and an engine—specialized motorcycles that performance. He found it, and take as long to paint as they do to build. when others heard about the He is founder and CEO of Big Dog motorcycle they wanted one The outdoor-gear company made his family name Motorcycles, which manufactures heavy- for themselves. He had so famous; now Sheldon Coleman is riding his passion for weight cruisers with model names like many requests that he decided big motorcycles to another big business success. Wolf, Mastiff, Husky and Pitbull. to create a new company. For This isn’t Coleman’s first foray into its first three years, Big Dog built motor- quickly into a Harley that comes right recreational products. He was chairman cycles that looked like Harleys because off the showroom floor to try to enhance and CEO of The Coleman Co., the they were assembled with after-market the performance and the looks,” Wichita-based outdoor products giant parts made to retrofit and improve the Coleman says. “We’ve given consumers founded by his grandfather. In 1981, performance of a Harley. Big Dog con- the option of starting out with more after earning a master’s degree in corpo- tinued to do more of its own design power, better brakes and individualized rate finance and real estate from Cal work, though, and eventually created a paint work.” State-Fullerton, Coleman joined the fam- completely different look. Coleman plays an active role in oper- ily business. By the time he became The company sold 20 bikes in its first ating Big Dog, but he also manages the chairman and CEO in 1988, the com- year. This year, Big Dog (bigdogmotorcy- family’s investments, and in 2001 he pany had 21 plants, 6,000 employees cles.com) expects to build about 200 launched Flagstone Investments, a per- and $700 million in sales. But in 1989, motorcycles each month with 150 sonal asset management company. And after 89 years with a Coleman at the employees at its headquarters in down- he still finds time for riding motorcycles. helm, the company was taken over by town Wichita. The product line now So which Big Dog model does he outside investors. includes seven models, which are sold ride? With more spare time, Coleman consumer direct and through a nation- “I ride them all,” he says with a huge spent more hours touring on his three wide network of 70 dealers. grin. Harley-Davidsons. “People can put a lot of money very —Schnyder is a Wichita free-lance writer.
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mystery that was published last fall. She live in Cortez, Colo., with their children, in Shawnee Mission. lives in Brentwood, Mo. Joshua, 10; Justen, 7; Jermiah, 4; and Emma, who’ll be 1 March 20. Crystal is BORN TO: 1987 a pharmacist at Safeway. Stephen Ariagno, b’87, l’90, and Julie, Julie Brungardt Johnston, n’87, is an daughter, Meghan Claire, Dec. 8 in oncology nurse at the KU Medical MARRIED Wichita, where Stephen is a partner in Center. She and her husband, Eric, live Joel Haag, a’87, to Kathleen Kerwood, the law firm of Ariagno, Kerns, Mank & in Shawnee with their sons, Josh, 8, and Oct. 20 in Hutchinson. He’s an architect White. Noah, 5. with Mann & Co., and she works at Earl Ward, p’87, g’96, directs the Hutchinson Good Samaritan. 1988 health center for U.S. Public Health Jeff Jacobs, c’87, and Elaine Fields, Wendy Kendrick, f’88, owns Blue Services. He and his wife, Crystal, p’87, c’89, Oct. 6 in Prairie Village. They live Studio Productions in Atlanta.
Profile BY STEVEN HILL
first lady. “She told me how much First lady taps alumna’s EARL RICHARDSON she liked the book and asked book for library dedication about my daughter,” Schneider says. “She was very genuine.” At ree-lance illustrator and children’s the reading, Bush introduced Fbook author Christine Dersch Schneider to the children. “She Schneider has grown accustomed to the tried to point out that I’d done solitary nature of her work. both the writing and the illustra- “There aren’t a lot of us out there, and tion, and how that was a special we don’t communicate with each other thing to do.” daily,” says Schneider, f’93. “I pretty Picky Mrs. Pickle tells the story much sit in my room and work and don’t of a very picky woman who eats talk to a lot of people. Sometimes I feel only pickle-flavored food. After like I’m not getting any feedback.” her niece convinces her to sample First lady Laura Bush changed that: eggplant ripple ice cream, Mrs. Christine Schneider found herself the center of When Bush visited Topeka in January to Pickle decides she enjoys trying attention when first lady Laura Bush read her children’s dedicate the city’s newly expanded public new things. book, Picky Mrs. Pickle, at the Topeka public library. library, she chose Schneider’s book, Picky The story echoes Schneider’s Mrs. Pickle, to read to third-graders at the own bid to become a writer and illustra- She gets out of her shell and tries some- dedication. The attendant media spotlight tor. After doing free-lance illustration thing she’s never done before.” has provided “the greatest feedback ever,” while working as art director at an Now, the success of her book about Schneider says. advertising agency, she decided in 1999 “trying and overcoming fear” suggests “It was such an incredible honor that to strike out on her own. Her drawings Schneider made the right career move. it’s hard for me to articulate. I’m so have appeared in the Washington Post, “It has given me a lot of confidence proud, so grateful. It’s the kind of experi- the Kansas City Star and the Baltimore and satisfaction to have that kind of ence I never thought I’d have as an Sun. She also contributed cover and recognition,” she says. Her second chil- author. … To have this kind of exposure is inside illustrations to the No. 5, 2000, dren’s book, Horace P. Tuttle, Magician mind-boggling.” issue of Kansas Alumni and illustrated Extraordinaire, was published last year, Mind-boggling, too, was Schneider’s the theme for Rock Chalk Ball 2002, and Bush’s endorsement has inspired whirlwind schedule the day of Bush’s hosted by the Alumni Association’s her to finish her third, Saxophone Sam visit. She was home in Lawrence with her Kansas City chapter. and His Snazzy Jazz Band. infant daughter when a phone call just “It took a lot of courage to put every- “I was at the very end, where I had no before 9 a.m. summoned her to the dedi- thing on the line. I’m a shy person, so energy left to finish it, and this has given cation. She was asked to arrive by 10:15. taking that jump was a big deal for me,” me a great boost. Now I can’t wait to get Schneider made it in time to meet the Schneider says. “The character does that: it out.”
42 | KANSAS ALUMNI Contemporary JAYHAWK Pendants in Sterling Silver or 14K Yellow Gold by Jim Connelly d 68, g 72
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Eric Ruf, e’88, g’96, recently was pro- Lawrence, where he and Pamela moted to chief operating officer at Ruf Withrow Pennington, c’89, live with Strategic Solutions in Olathe. He lives in their daughters, Crosby, 6, and Nell, 2. Overland Park. Jeff Robertson, c’89, directs the astro- nomical observatory at Arkansas Tech 1989 University in Russellville, where he and Gary Allen, PhD’89, manages Jill John Robertson, j’89, live with their advanced programs for Veridan children, Josi, 10, and twins, J.D. and Information Solutions. He lives in Sierra Jenner, 5. Jill directs congregational min- Vista, Ariz. istries for First United Church. Kathleen Atkinson, b’89, g’90, recent- Alison Young, j’89, recently was pro- ly joined Barkley Evergreen & Partners moted to deputy metro editor and day in Kansas City as a research account slot editor at the Detroit Free Press. She supervisor. lives in Berkley, Mich. Tanaz Ferzandi, c’89, g’96, m’01, is an obstetrics/gynecology resident at BORN TO: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Bill, c’89, l’92, and Sarah Gaigals Boston. Stapp, c’92, son, William Kenneth II, Martin Murphy, c’89, manages the April 3 in Leawood. Phoenix branch of Concentra Managed 715 Massachusetts Care. He lives in Glendale, Ariz. 1990 Lawrence, Kansas 66044 Daniel Pennington, j’89, is co-founder Maria Angeletti Arnone, c’90, c’92, 785-842-1460 and director of TiesThatBind in g’95, publishes Primedia Business
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Magazines and Media in Chicago. Blumenfield Olree, c’91, son, Jason 25 in Salem, Ore. Jennifer Tiller Burgoyne, c’90, prac- Edward, Nov. 14 in Denver, where he tices ophthalmology at the Wichita joins a brother, Ethan, 4, and a sister, 1993 Clinic. Rachel, 2. Andy owns Design Edge. Lance Dobbins, c’93, manages prod- Joel Zeff, j’90, is president of Joel Zeff Christopher Palmer, c’91, and ucts for FRX Software in Denver, and Creative in Dallas. Lynette, son, Bradley, Nov. 2 in Topeka, Rachel Ast Dobbins, j’94, is a senior where he joins two brothers, Nicholas, 8, project manager for Summit Catalog in MARRIED and Jackson, 3. Chris coordinates mar- Englewood, Colo. They live in Highlands Gail Pohle, j’90, to Tony Filarski, Oct. keting for Kansas Rehabilitation Ranch with their daughter, Bailey, 2. 20. They live in St. Louis. Hospital. BORN TO: BORN TO: 1992 Ivan, ’93, and Michelle Sunier David Bax, l’90, and Jo Ellen, son, John, e’92, and Debra Holmes Fox, Graack, c’94, daughter, Sophia Anna, Matthew Davis, May 20 in Prairie e’92, own Fox/Fox Design in Seal Beach, July 17 in Royal Oak, Mich. Village. David is senior vice president of Calif. Brandon Stasieluk, e’93, and Rachel, Management Science Associates in Laura McKee Levy, j’92, directs mar- daughter, Molly Denae, Oct. 22 in Independence, Mo. keting for the Lied Center for Overland Park, where Brandon is lead Ann Johnson Czerwinski, c’90, and Performing Arts at the University of mechanical engineer for Black & Veatch. Mike, son, William James, July 17 in Nebraska-Lincoln. Plymouth, Minn. 1994 BORN TO: Aaron Rittmaster, c’94, practices law 1991 Melissa Hart Berry, d’92, and with the U.S. Department of Labor in Melanie Botts, j’91, is senior copy edi- Scott, son, Nathaniel Thomas, April Kansas City. tor at Dow Jones Newswires in Sydney, Australia.
MARRIED Carla Countryman, c’91, to Thomas Nichols, Nov. 3 in Chicago. Douglas Kaiser, p’91, to Mary Jane Farmer, July 21 in Wichita. He’s a phar- macist with Walgreen’s in Lafayette, La., and she’s a history professor at the University of Louisiana. Timothy Tincknell, c’91, b’93, g’94, and Christina Brouillette, b’96, Sept. 22. They live in Pembroke, Bermuda.
BORN TO: Hugh, b’91, g’95, l’95, and Ingrid Olson Gill, d’92, daughter, Grace Anne, July 10 in Wichita, where Hugh is an attorney with Hinkle Elkouri. Ingrid works for the American Heart Association. Kendall Peters Johnson, b’91, and Douglas, son, Mitchell Douglas, Oct. 26 in Plano, Texas. Kendall is a human resources specialist for Nortel Networks. Mark, d’91, g’97, and Jill Hilton LaPoint, d’92, daughter, Sophia Avery, Nov. 6 in Lawrence. Mark is vice presi- dent of sales at Security-Shred in Olathe. Andrew, a’91, and Michele
44 | KANSAS ALUMNI Curtis Taylor, b’94, works for Intel. live in Waco, where Marlene is a commu- for Global Crossing. He and Laura Culbertson Taylor, b’93, nity relations specialist for the city. live in Portland, Ore., with their daugh- Christie Frick, s’94, and To d d BORN TO: ter, Ashley. Henderson, p’01, Oct. 27 in Wichita. Mary McBride Bridges, ’94, and Christie is an associate for the Children’s Derek, g’99, daughter, Megan, Aug. 23 MARRIED Center for the Visually Impaired in in Wichita, where she joins a brother, Angela Carlton, b’94, h’96, to Kansas City, and Todd is a pharmacist at Andrew, 3. Derek is president and CEO Andrew Gage, Sept. 22. They live in St. Francis Hospital in Topeka. They live of Delta Dental. Overland Park, and Angela is a medical in Lawrence. Nelson, c’94, and Melanie Pearson technologist for Health Midwest. Richard Kelley, j’94, to Nicole Gorzka, Townsend, e’94, son, Baird Lucas, Oct. Marlene Dearinger, j’94, to Terry Nov. 3. They live in Phoenix, and 22 in Lenexa. Nelson is an internet pro- Neill, Oct. 6 in Woodway, Texas. They Richard is national account manager grammer for the Federal Reserve Bank,
Profile BY CHRIS LAZZARINO
Big East columnist savors job got more interesting when rare chance to cover KU UConn hired coach Jim Calhoun in 1986. COURANT HARTFORD UConn rose quickly, establish- e didn’t sway to the alma ing itself as the Big East’s domi- mater or shout out the Rock nant program in the 1990s, cap- Chalk Chant; anything ping the decade with an upset of Hremotely partisan is forbidden Duke for the 1999 NCAA champi- on press row. Regardless, Hartford onship. The women’s program Courant sportswriter Ken Davis, j’80, has done even better, winning the thoroughly enjoyed the Jan. 28 men’s Big East regular-season and tour- basketball game in Allen Field House. nament titles every season since It’s not often the veteran college- 1994 and the national title in sports columnist and University of 2000. Hartford Courant sportswriter Ken Davis documented Connecticut beat writer gets to cover a Hartford sportswriters and edi- the rise of UConn basketball as a beat writer. Now that game in Lawrence; rarer still is covering tors, sensitive to geographic and he’s the newspaper’s national basketball columnist, he can a huge victory over Missouri. emotional ties to both Boston and occasionally cover KU. “I try to tell people about what it’s New York, negotiate tricky territo- like to see a game in Allen Field House,” ry: some of their readers root for the East Coast’s recognized authorities on Davis says, “but you just can’t convey Red Sox, others pull for the Yankees; college sports. what the Rock Chalk Chant is like some support the NFL’s Giants, others “Kenny’s a pretty big celebrity here at unless you’ve been there.” He grew up go for the Patriots. But everyone sup- the paper,” Powers says. “He knows his in Overland Park, and one of his earliest ports UConn basketball: “There’s noth- stuff.” sports memories is of former KU great ing bigger here,” says Deputy Sports Now that his oldest son, Patrick, is a Jo Jo White: “From that point on,” he Editor Scott Powers. “If the Red Sox won KU freshman, Davis and his wife, Nancy says, “I was hooked.” the World Series, it wouldn’t be as big in Lenzen Davis, d’81, will be able to return While a student, he worked for three our market as when the UConn men to Lawrence regularly. years as the Kansas City Star’s campus won the national championship.” “As a journalist you try to be objec- correspondent. After graduation he So Davis’ 12 years as the UConn beat tive, but there’s no doubt my heart is worked for newspapers in St. Joseph, writer (a job now handled by three here,” Davis says. “When we’re covering Mo., and Binghamton, N.Y., and in 1985 Courant sports writers) and his current KU games in other buildings, places like joined the Hartford Courant. At the role as the Courant’s college basketball Madison Square Garden, I’m always time, when the Huskies were “the door- columnist (plus free-lance gigs with blown away by how many KU fans there mat of the Big East,” the UConn basket- SportingNews.com and Sports are. And when they start the Rock Chalk ball beat wasn’t so glamorous. But Davis’ Illustrated) have made him one of the Chant, it always takes me home.”
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and Melanie is a bridge engineer for Colby Brown, b’96, g’97, recently was live in Valparaiso, Ind., with their daugh- HNTB Corp. promoted to assurance and advisory ters, Paige, 3, and Lindsay, who’ll be 1 in manager at Deloitte & Touche in March. 1995 Leawood. He lives in Prairie Village. Dana Evans Mitchell, c’96, is a child William Schrandt, e’95, recently Jonathan Brunswig, p’96, p’98, serves and family therapist at Aurora Mental joined Landplan Engineering in as president-elect of the Kansas Health Center. She lives in Highlands Lawrence as a senior project engineer. Pharmacists Association. He’s a pharma- Ranch, Colo. He lives in Lansing. cist at Brunswig Pharmacy in Lakin, and he lives in Leoti. MARRIED 1996 Matthew Miller, a’96, works as a dis- Sharon Covey, c’96, to Scott Lucas, Jeremy Bezdek, b’96, manages busi- trict manager for Solvay Nov. 30 in Morley, Mo. She’s a speech- ness for Koch Industries in Wichita. Pharmaceuticals. He and his wife, Cheri, language pathologist at Lake Regional
Profile BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER
Jazzman McCurdy He suspects his manic pace dates back to his KU days, when, as a gradu- swings back home ate student and young professor, he “did everything except sweep the floors and onversation comes easily to close the windows at night.” As director Ron McCurdy, except for the of jazz studies at KU, he arranged music one word that fails him. He for various bands, conducted jazz vocal Ccan’t say no. and instrumental ensembles and per- So when old friends heard he would haps became best known as director of spend two days on Mount Oread, where the basketball pep band. he began his professorial and perform- In 1990, McCurdy joined the faculty ing career, requests for McCurdy’s time of the University of Minnesota, where he soon made for a hectic homecoming. met John Wright, professor of English McCurdy, g’78, PhD’83, now professor and co-director of Afro-American of jazz studies at the University of Studies, who introduced McCurdy to Southern California, returned to the Hughes’ “Go Ask Your Mama.” The More than a decade since his KU days, jazz Hill to conclude KU’s Langston Hughes music in Hughes’ words captivated scholar and performer Ron McCurdy maintains symposium (see story, p. 24) by per- McCurdy. his Lawrence ties. His son,Wynton, now 16 and forming Hughes’ “Go Ask Your Mama: “Langston’s words and rhythms a fellow trumpeter, attends KU’s Midwestern 12 Moods of Jazz.” matched the style and tempo of musi- Music Camp every summer. But before McCurdy took the Lied cians I loved,” he says. So McCurdy and Center stage Feb. 16, he raced through a partner Eli Bruggemann turned Hughes’ before accepting a full-time faculty posi- dizzying schedule: a lecture to a music- musical cues into a composition. tion last fall. In June he’ll conclude his history class; afternoon rehearsal; dinner Hughes originally had collaborated with term as president of the International with colleagues old and new from the jazz artists Charles Mingus and later Association of Jazz Educators, which School of Fine Arts; a trip to Kansas City Randy Weston, but when Hughes died should leave him more time to conduct to teach a group of young percussion- in 1967, the piece was unfinished. at student camps and festivals nation- ists; an Allen Field House gig, playing McCurdy and Wright first staged the wide—and to nurture his own perform- his trumpet rendition of “The Star- work in 1994 and since have presented ing. He recently released his first CD, Spangled Banner” before the KU-Baylor it numerous times; last fall, they opened “Once Again for the First Time,” which game; more rehearsal; and, finally, his the Carnegie Hall Big Band series in he says results from his combined schol- evening performance. New York City. arly and stage pursuits. “I don’t know how to relax,” Following his career at Minnesota, “My teaching feeds my playing; my McCurdy says. “I fidget when I don’t McCurdy directed the Thelonius Monk playing feeds my teaching,” he says. have enough to do.” Institute of Jazz at USC for two years “They’re essential to my life.”
46 | KANSAS ALUMNI Hospital in Osage Beach, and their 1997 home is in Gravois Mills. Susanna Loof, c’97, j’97, recently Kristie Kerrick, s’96, to Steven moved to Vienna, Austria, where she’s a Then Again Servais, Sept. 22 in Chanhassen, Minn. news correspondent for the Associated Their home is in Chaska. Press. Jody Lamb, c’96, l’99, and Trey Monica Miller, j’97, is an account exec- inning ceremonies, a pre-engage- Meyer, b’96, l’99, Oct. 13 in Lawrence, utive for Dailey & Associates in West Pment rite, had their heyday in the where she practices law with Hollywood, Calif. KU Greek system in the ’40s, ’50s Chappell & Leibert. He’s an attorney Kristen Riccardi, c’97, g’98, received a and ’60s.Tradition dictated that a with Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy regional Emmy award recently for her man’s fraternity brothers serenaded in Kansas City, and their home is compilation of feature stories with Fox 4 his girlfriend’s sorority before he pre- in Mission. News in Kansas City. She recently sented the moved to Boston, where she’s a pro- pin. Because BORN TO: ducer with the New England Sports today’s stu- Michael, c’96, and Betty Douglas Network. dents often Collins, c’97, son, Aidan Edward, Oct. 4 forgo early in Leawood. Michael is a systems devel- MARRIED marriage to oper for Sprint, and they live in Lenexa. Michelle Crecelius, c’97, to Matt focus on Thomas Novacky, a’96, and Beverly, Skipton, Oct. 27 in St. Louis. She works careers, pin- daughter, Alyssa Nicole, Dec. 2. They at MasterCard International, and he ning has live in Eudora, and Tom manages directs technology for MICDS. They live been largely print production for Callahan Creek in Chesterfield. consigned to in Lawrence. Rebecca Horn, e’97, to Peter Smykla, history.
Oct. 13. They live in Austin, Texas, where she works for Motorola. Charles Kirby, b’97, and Ashley Hock, c’98, j’00, Dec. 1 in Kansas City. He’s a sales account manager for Uclick.com, and she’s an executive assis- tant at Andrews McMeel Universal. They live in Leawood.
BORN TO: Dana Whipple Katz, ’97, and Mark, c’98, son, Hunter Addison, July 6 in Chicago, where Mark’s vice president of SJ Investments.
1998 Collin Altieri, c’98, l’01, recently joined the Overland Park law firm of Wallace, Saunders, Austin, Brown & Enochs. Richard Dwyer, b’98, works as a proj- ect analyst for PRA International. He lives in Lenexa. Kelly Hale, d’98, manages community relations for the Kansas City Comets. Catherine Hess, c’98, l’01, practices law in Lawrence. Ann Scarlett, l’98, recently joined the
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appellate group at the law firm of Wichita. She’s an attorney with Stinson Mag & Fizzell in Kansas City. Colantuono and Associates, and he’s a media buyer with Platform Advertising. MARRIED Their home is in Leawood. Aaron Jack, c’98, and Andrea Amy Pacey, c’98, g’01, and Jacob Gibson, n’01, Aug. 4 in Wichita. He’s a Dale, c’00, June 30. They live in regional vice president of Travelers City Lawrence, where Jake is a loan officer at Group, and she’s a critical-care nurse at Firstar Bank. Amy is an early-childhood Olathe Medical Center. They live in special education teacher at Overland Park. Leavenworth County Special Education Susan Keen, d’98, g’01, to Daniel Cooperative. Micka, June 23 in Holton. She teaches at Erin Rooney, j’98, to P.J. Doland, Nov. J.C. Harmon High School in Kansas City, 10 in Washington, D.C., where she’s and they live in Lawrence. director of print and online publishing Emily Vrabac Mulligan, g’98, and for the Employment Policy Foundation Lumen Mulligan, c’95, August 11. Emily and P.J. owns P.J. Doland Web Design. is a marketing and communications associate at Eastern Michigan University 1999 and Lou is a third-year law student at Sandra Hockett Clausner, n’99, is a the University of Michigan. They live in nurse at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Ann Arbor. Louis. She and her husband, Michael, Katherine O’Brien, j’98, l’01, and live in Crestwood with their daughter, James Worthington, j’99, Sept. 15 in Hannah, who’ll be 1 in March.
48 | KANSAS ALUMNI Richard Nelson, e’99, develops soft- ware for Missouri Employers Insurance in Columbia. Ellen Block Roberts, c’99, and her husband, Mitch, will celebrate their first anniversary March 17. They live in Houston. Joyce Stotts, g’99, is a center instruc- tional technologist at Flight Safety Cessna Learning Center in Wichita. Kurt Zschietzschmann, b’99, works as a salesman for Z-International in North Kansas City.
MARRIED Valerie Cooper, g’99, to Bob Weber, Sept. 29. Their home is in Overland Park. Kaylene Hammerschmidt, p’99, to Scott Heinen, Nov. 3 in Hays. She’s a pharmacist at Medical Arts Pharmacy in Topeka, and he co-owns Nemaha Valley Aerial Applicators in St. Mary’s, where they live. Sean Knockemus, b’99, to Sherly Plein, Oct. 6 in Shawnee. They live in Olathe, and Sean is an inventory analyst with American Identity. Mindie Miller, c’99, g’01, and Ryan Paget, f’00, July 13 in Lawrence, where Mindie is a reporter at the Lawrence Journal-World and Ryan is a paraprofes- sional at Prairie Park Elementary School. Mark Polsak, b’99, and Kristy Merritt, d’00, Sept. 15. Their home is in St. Louis. Take a seat Erin Webb, c’99, to Benjamin Scott, Aug. 18 in Galveston, Texas. She studies Manufactured for the Kansas Alumni experimental pathology at the University Association by Standard Chair of Gardner, a of Texas, where he studies microbiology firm famous for its quality craftsmanship, our and immunology. captain’s chair with the engraved KU seal will make the perfect addition to your home 2000 or office.The solid hardwood frame is hand- Angie Bezdek, b’00, recently moved finished in black lacquer with cherry finish to Chicago, where she’s a tax consultant arms and back.The Boston Rocker chair is at Arthur Andersen. also available for $295. Kelly Harrigan, j’00, coordinates mar- $295 keting and public relations for Robert Order by phone: Half International in Chicago. The chair is priced at $295 plus 1-800-352-5885 shipping and handling. Jennifer Land, b’00, works as a tax The chair can be personalized associate with Grant Thornton LLP in for an additional $25. Please allow 6 weeks for delivery. Kansas City. She lives in Overland Park. Amy Daniels Meglemre, c’00, and her husband, Theodore, c’01, will cele-
ISSUE 2, 2002 | 49 Class Notes brate their first anniversary in May. They Marianne Soon, e’01, is a field engi- James Mathews, g’02, works as a dis- live in Lenexa. neer for Schlumberger Oil Field Services trict transportation engineer for the Bryan Mills, b’00, is managing partner in Alice, Texas. Federal Highway Administration in of Arcadia Capital in Glendale, Calif. He Tamara Hosman Taylor, g’01, recently Tallahassee, Fla. lives in Los Angeles. became a communications specialist Elizabeth Molen, c’02, is a mutual Lindy Morel, c’00, studies nursing at with Federal Home Loan Bank in funds representative for DST Systems. Rush University in Chicago. Topeka. She lives in Lenexa. Angela Richardson, j’00, recently Rebecca Restivo, d’02, manages Club was promoted to account executive MARRIED La Femme in Lee’s Summit, Mo. She at Bernstein-Rein Advertising in Joshua Bousum, e’01, to Rachel lives in Belton. Kansas City. Boston, Oct. 13. They live in Goose Zigmund Rubel, g’02, works as an Creek, S.C., where he’s an ensign in the architect with Anshen & Allen in San MARRIED U.S. Navy. Francisco. Mark Rice, e’00, and Wendy Wolff, Jesse Davidson, b’01, to Erin Lohness, Herbert Weeks, p’02, is a pharmacist c’01, Aug. 1 in Estes Park, Colo. They July 7 in Lawrence. He works for Axa at Springhill Medical Center in Mobile, live in Broomfield, and they’re both Advisors, and she works for the John A. Ala. graduate students at the University of Marshall Co. Their home is in Overland Glenda Wilson, d’02, teaches at Body Colorado-Boulder. Park. Mechanics. She lives in Elkhart. Timothy Grace, d’01, and Shantel BORN TO: Ringler, ’02, July 21 in Salina. Their Benjamin, g’00, and Mara Jones home is in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Phelps, g’01, son, Seth, Oct. 11 in BriAnne Hess, g’01, to Monty Chayer, School Codes Letters that follow Topeka. Sept. 8 in Bonner Springs. She’s a names in Kansas Alumni indicate the school reporter with the Miami County from which alumni earned degrees. Numbers Republic in Paola, where they live, and 2001 show their class years. Seth Alberg, d’01, is a corporate sales he works for Sprint in Overland Park. associate for Tulsa Drillers Baseball in James Houx, e’01, and Geneva a School of Architecture and Urban Tulsa, Okla. Ewert, f’01, Oct. 6. They live in Folsom, Design Stacia Gressel Boden, l’01, lives in Calif., where he’s a computer engineer b School of Business Derby and practices law with the with Intel. c College of Liberal Arts and Wichita firm of Husch & Eppenberger. Michael Millhollen, f’01, to Heather Sciences Ryan Brotherson, ’01, works as an Munk, May 19 in Hays. He’s a photogra- d School of Education engineer with Needham & Associates in pher and graphic designer for Victorian e School of Engineering Overland Park. Paper, and she’s a technician with f School of Fine Arts Brian Cooper, j’01, is a salesman for Biomune. They live in Lenexa. g Master’s Degree Newell Rubbermaid in Virginia Beach, Tamara Nelson, a’01, and Nicholas h School of Allied Health Va. Kent, a’01, Nov. 17. Their home is in j School of Journalism Douglas Everhart, e’01, recently Chicago, where she’s an architect with l School of Law joined Henderson Engineers in Lenexa Perkins & Will and he’s an architect m School of Medicine as an electrical engineer. with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. n School of Nursing Samuel Ho, ’01, is a design engineer Jennifer Vogrin, j’01, and Matthew p School of Pharmacy for Intel. He lives in Sacramento, Calif. Thomas, j’02, Sept. 15. They live in s School of Social Welfare Bradley Laforge, l’01, practices law Mission. She coordinates accounts for DE Doctor of Engineering with Hite Fanning & Honeyman in GlynnDevins in Overland Park, and he DMA Doctor of Musical Arts Wichita. works for the Kansas City Star. EdD Doctor of Education Jasmin Lutz, c’01, coordinates pro- PhD Doctor of Philosophy grams for the American Red Cross in 2002 (no letter) Former student Lawrence. Justin Holstin, l’02, is executive vice assoc. Associate member of the Gregory Nadvornik, e’01, recently president of the Propane Marketers Alumni Association joined Henderson Engineers in Lenexa Association of Kansas. He lives in as an electrical engineer. He lives in Tecumseh. Lawrence. Angela Jones, PhD’02, lives in Erie, Amber Smith, c’01, works as a job Pa., where she’s an assistant professor of developer for Cottonwood in Lawrence. English at Mercyhurst College.
50 | KANSAS ALUMNI In Memory
1920s Lawrence. She was an interviewer for the teacher. She is survived by a daughter, Byron Ashley, c’22, m’24, 103, Oct. Kansas Employment Service and earlier Anne Jackson Schroeppel, d’72; four 27 in Topeka, where he was a retired had worked for Standard Life Insurance. grandchildren; and a great-grand- ophthalmologist. He is survived by a A nephew survives. daughter. son, John, c’53, m’56; two daughters, Elizabeth Dunn, c’32, 91, Nov. 21 in Mary Anne Kretsinger, c’37, 86, Nov. one of whom is Anne Ashley Jones, c’49; Overland Park. She was a retired teacher 10 in Emporia, where she had a metal 10 grandchildren; and 23 great-grand- and librarian and is survived by many and design business for many years. A children. nieces and nephews. brother survives. Meta Murphy Clarkson, f’29, 95, Nov. Edwin Elliott, e’34, 89, Jan. 3 in Newton Lieurance Sr., e’33, 92, Jan. 26 in Lawrence. She is survived by her Salina. He had been a contractor and 4 in Williamsburg Landing, Va. He was son, Rich, j’55. president of Hiram Elliott Construction president of the World Commission for Charlotte Thompson Roth, c’28, 95, in Kansas City. Surviving are two daugh- Aeronautical Meteorology and director of Sept. 23 in Los Altos, Calif., where she ters, one of whom is Carolyn Elliott aviation affairs for the National Oceanic was a retired teacher. A son, a daughter, Thurman, f’60; a brother, Robert, e’49; and Atmospheric Administration. He is four grandchildren and a great-grand- three grandchildren and four great- survived by his wife, Sally; two sons, child survive. grandchildren. Newton Jr., c’66, and John, e’70; a Cornelia Washburn Edwards David Fisher, c’36, l’38, 86, Nov. 30 in daughter, Darline Lieurance Rowe, d’71; Stanford, ’23, 99, Dec. 6 in Scottsdale, Topeka, where he was a retired attorney a sister; five grandchildren; and three Ariz. Two sons and a daughter survive. with Fisher, Patterson, Sayler & Smith. great-grandchildren. Marie Isern Waggoner, c’27, 95, Oct. He is survived by his wife, Mary Frances Martha Davis Linscott, ’38, 84, Nov. 4 4 in Lawrence. She lived in Sun City, Martin Fisher, c’37; a son, David Jr., in Topeka, where she was a member of Ariz., for many years before moving to d’61; a daughter, Wendy Fisher House, the Junior League. She is survived by a Lawrence in 2000. She is survived by c’65; a stepson, Paul Rogers, c’67; three son; two stepsons, Scott, c’65, m’69, and three daughters, two of whom are stepdaughters, two of whom are Vicki Lester, e’69; a stepdaughter; and many Kendal Waggoner Hagan, d’63, Kitsy Rogers Armstrong, d’65, and Candace grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Waggoner Gray, d’69; two sons; 11 Lou Rogers King, g’80; a brother, Paul, Donald McCoy, p’37, m’45, 87, Nov. 4 grandchildren; and three great-grand- b’38; five grandchildren; and four great- in Overland Park, where he was a retired children. grandchildren. physician. He is survived by a son, two Robert Woodbury, c’24, g’28, PhD’31, Joseph Garrison, b’33, 96, Oct. 24 in daughters, a brother, a sister and two 96, June 3 in Memphis, where he was a Overland Park. He was a CPA and had granddaughters. professor emeritus of pharmacology at owned Garrison and Gresser Willis McQueary, c’36, l’38, 86, Nov. the University of Tennessee Center for Accountants. He is survived by a son, 26 in Woodstock, Ga. He lived in Health Sciences. He also worked as an Michael, e’61; five grandchildren; and Osawatomie for many years, where he emergency room physician at the Naval two great-grandchildren. was an attorney. Survivors include two Regional Medical Center in Millington. Robert Hickson, ’36, 91, Dec. 24 in sons; two stepdaughters, one of whom is He is survived by his wife, Mary Jane, a Overland Park, where he was retired Laura Carriker, f’94; eight grandchildren; son, two daughters, 12 grandchildren from a career with TWA. He is survived and six great-grandchildren. and 18 great-grandchildren. by his wife, Dorothy; four daughters, one Edmund Metzger, b’34, 88, Nov. 7 in of whom is Dorothy Hickson Bond, c’78; Overland Park, where he had been a 1930s a son, Robert, e’70; eight grandchildren; salesman with Northwestern Mutual Life Mac Cahal, c’31, 94, Nov. 14 in Prairie and five great-grandchildren. Insurance for 60 years. He is survived by Village. He helped organize the A.L. Hunsicker, c’37, g’39, 89, June 16 a stepson; two sisters, Frances Metzger American Academy of Family Physicians in Peoria, Ill. He is survived by his wife, Weeks, c’41, n’43, and Helen Metzger and was founder of the American Eva, four sons, eight grandchildren, five Cain, ’41; and three grandchildren. Association of Medical Executives. great-grandchildren and two great-great- Paul Miner, c’33, 90, Dec. 29 in Surviving are a daughter; a son, William, grandchildren. Dallas. He had been chairman of the e’69; and five grandchildren. Alice Gill Jackson, c’32, g’35, 89, Oct. board and managing editor at the Dorothy Clarke, c’34, 91, Oct. 30 in 31 in Eureka, where she was a retired Kansas City Star. Surviving are two
ISSUE 2, 2002 | 51 In Memory daughters, Marilyn Miner Gray, d’62, Patterson, c’71; seven grandchildren; survived by her husband, Roland, e’41; and Anne Miner-Pearson, d’63; seven and three great-grandsons. and a sister, Louise Polson Wade, e’43. grandchildren; and 14 great-grand- Kenneth Dunn, b’42, 81, Oct. 12 in James Maloney, b’47, 78, Nov. 13 in children. Fort Worth, Texas, where he was a Wichita, where he was former president Bessie Altaffer Nutt, c’36, 87, April retired industrial engineer. His wife, Dee of Universal Motor Oil. He is survived by 28 in Fishersville, Va., where she was a Hiller Dunn, c’42, survives. his wife, Betty; two sons, Patrick, c’78, retired teacher. A daughter, a stepdaugh- James Froman, c’48, May 5 in and James, b’76; two daughters, one of ter and five grandchildren survive. Littleton, Colo. He had been a petro- whom is Teresa Maloney Flanagan, c’71; Heinz Puell, c’35, 92, May 26 in leum geologist and is survived by his three brothers; a sister, Janet Maloney Munich, Germany. He is survived by wife, Florence, assoc.; three daughters; Schaefer, c’51; and 10 grandchildren. his wife, Irene Teubner Puell, c’34, and and two sons. Dwight Metzler, e’40, g’47, 85, Oct. four sons. Thomas Haney, e’49, 79, Dec. 10 in 30 in Topeka, where he was the first Charles Sills, b’31, 92, Oct. 29 in Topeka, where he was a retired electrical Kansas secretary of health and environ- Newton, where he was a retired physi- engineer with Santa Fe Railway. He is ment. He is survived by his wife, Helen cian. He is survived by a son, Theron, survived by a son; a daughter, Rebecca Telfel, c’50; four daughters, Linda, c’69, c’57, m’62; a daughter, Diana Sills Rieger, Haney Seeley, d’77; two sisters, one of g’71, PhD’78, Brenda, c’71, Marilyn, d’64; three grandchildren; and a great- whom is Betty Haney Mayhew, f’42; a d’74, and Martha Jeanne, h’80; and two grandson. brother; and three grandchildren. grandchildren. Helen Gibson Throop, f’33, 90, Oct. Richard Harrington, c’49, Dec. 27 in Andrew Mitchell, c’42, m’44, g’50, 81, 23 in Omaha, Neb. She is survived by San Jose, Calif. He is survived by his Nov. 23 in Prairie Village, where he was two daughters, one of whom is Carolyn wife, Nancy, and three sons. a retired urologist. He is survived by his Throop Blaine, d’62; two sons; a brother; Cecil Hudson, p’45, 78, Oct. 14 in wife, Arlene Milberger Mitchell, assoc.; a 13 grandchildren; and a great-grand- Topeka, where he operated Hudson daughter, Melissa Mitchell Finstead, f’69; child. Pharmacy for many years. He is survived two sons, Andrew, m’76, and Sam, c’77; Francis Trotter, c’39, m’42, Dec. 18 in by his wife, Lucile Baker Hudson, p’44; and seven grandchildren. Carrollton, Mo., where he was a retired and a brother. Frank Naylor, g’40, 87, Nov. 7 in radiologist. A son and two grandchildren Gertrude Kaufmann, f’40, g’65, 82, Kansas City, where he was a retired jour- survive. Nov. 29 in Asheville, N.C. She taught art nalism teacher. He is survived by his Edward Weiford, c’39, m’42, 83, in Kansas City for many years and had wife, Hildred; a son, Frank Jr., c’61; a Dec. 10 in Prairie Village, where he been an artist at Hallmark Cards. Two daughter, Susan Naylor Swaim, d’62; was a retired surgeon. Surviving are his sisters survive. and four grandchildren. wife, Mary; a son, Tom, g’73; a sister; Murray “Don” Kyle, d’46, g’53, 83, Virginia Scott Post, ’44, 79, Oct. 13 in three grandchildren; and two great- Nov. 21 in Kansas City, where he taught Denver. Surviving are two daughters; a grandchildren. physical education and coached track son; a brother, Ted Scott, b’42; and six Charles Woodhouse, m’34, 91, Nov. and field at Wyandotte High School for grandchildren. 14 in Wichita, where he was a retired 37 years. He is survived by his wife, Marie Ross, c’44, 94, July 15 in physician. He is survived by his wife, Mary Lee Chapple Kyle, d’43; three sons, Kansas City, where she was editor of The Gladys; two sons, Charles, c’71, m’74, one of whom is Dallas, c’80; two daugh- Call newspaper. She is survived by a sis- and William, a’74, a’76; a daughter, Julia ters; and eight grandchildren. ter, Alberta Ross Beverly, c’30; and a Woodhouse Odermatt, c’78; and five Robert Lamberton, e’44, 78, Nov. 13 brother, Ashton, c’35. grandchildren. in Overland Park. He had been a partner William Sapp, d’49, g’57, 76, of in Larkin Associates and is survived by Lumberton, N.C., where he was director 1940s his wife, Dorothy; three sons, one of of recreation for 34 years. He is survived Ira Cox Jr., m’49, 82, Jan. 3 in whom is David, b’78, g’80; a daughter; a by his wife, Anne, two daughters and Overland Park, where he was a retired brother; eight grandchildren; and two two grandsons. physician. He is survived by his wife, great-grandchildren. Elton Schroder, c’48, 82, Dec. 20 in Hilda; two sons; a daughter; six grand- Cole Leverenz, c’41, 82, Dec. 11 in Hays, where he was a retired professor children; and three great-grandchildren. Chanute, where he was a salesman for of biological sciences at Fort Hays State William Duggins, e’49, 81, Nov. 23 in Business Men’s Assurance. Three sons, University. A son, a daughter, a sister Lenexa, where he was retired regional eight grandchildren and a great-grand- and four grandchildren survive. sales manager for Griffin Wheel Co. child survive. Vina Godding Smiley, b’49, 73, Dec. Surviving are a son; four daughters, two Lorraine Polson Loewen, ’42, Nov. 17 13, 2000, in Topeka. Surviving are her of whom are Susan Duggins Channell, in Houston. She worked for the Baytown husband, Neill, a daughter, a son and d’69, g’71, and Patricia Duggins Sterling Library for many years and is three grandchildren.
52 | KANSAS ALUMNI Joe Stockard, m’48, 77, Oct. 22 in Penick Village, N.C. He is survived by his Betty Ozenberger, b’51, Jan. 1, 2001, Jacksonville, Fla. He lived in Bluffton, wife, Joan Webb Ellis, ’79; a son; a in Pittsburgh, Pa. S.C., and was retired chief tropical dis- daughter; a sister; and six grandchildren. Ronald Reifel, e’58, 66, Dec. 22 ease adviser for the U.S. Agency for John Garrett, c’52, 71, Sept. 17 in in Aurora, Colo. He was a petroleum International Development. Survivors Boston. He was a retired Navy com- engineer, a real-estate investor and a include his wife, Anne, and a brother. mander and later had spent more than land developer. Surviving are his wife, Isabel West Thomen, c’40, July 28 in 20 years with Purvis Systems in Lorri; three daughters; his mother, Lila, Orange, Texas. She lived in San Marcos Middletown. Surviving are his wife, c’34; three sisters, one of whom is and is survived by her husband, Martin, Mary; two sons; a sister, Patricia Garrett Nancy Reifel Swords, d’62; and a e’39, and two sons. Conner, d’54; and a brother, Charles, granddaughter. Lee Volle, c’47, g’50, Dec. 13 in b’57. Lowell Rhodes, m’53, 75, Nov. 12 in Auburn, Calif., where he was retired Richard Gyllenborg, a’54, 79, Dec. 4 Wichita, where he was a retired physi- from a career in the U.S. Customs in Kansas City, where he was a retired cian. He is survived by a son; a daughter, Service. Two daughters, two sons, 10 principal with Mitchell Gyllenborg Patricia Rhodes Sloup, c’80; two broth- grandchildren and a great-grandson Associates. He had designed Lewis ers; and four grandchildren. survive. Residence Hall and Nichols Space Lawrence Rogers, b’58, 67, Nov. 12 in Technology Building at KU and is sur- Bella Vista, Ark., where he was retired 1950s vived by three sons, a brother and five from a 26-year career with Lederle Iris West Aller, ’59, 90, Dec. 17 in grandchildren. Laboratories. Survivors include his wife, Lawrence, where she had been a real- James Hohn, j’57, c’66, s’67, 65, Oct. Joan Rollman Rogers, ’58; two sons; a estate agent for Holmes, Peck and 8 in San Jose, Calif., where he had brother; a sister; and two grandchildren. Brown and for Mitchell-Stephens. retired from the Santa Clara County Thomas Smith, ’50, 77, Dec. 29 in Several cousins survive. Social Services Agency. He is survived Mission Hills. He was a salesman/manu- Guy Barnes, g’57, 83, Dec. 16 in by his wife, Tania; two sisters; and a facturer for Meyer Optical of Kansas Overland Park. He was a school admin- brother, Herbert, c’63. City. Surviving are his wife, Mary, assoc., istrator in Shawnee Mission for 34 years. Robert Kennedy, c’53, g’59, 70, Sept. two sons, three grandchildren and two Surviving are his wife, Floy; a daughter; 14 in Hamilton, N.J. He was retired from great-granddaughters. a son; two sisters; four grandchildren; the New Jersey Department of Urban James Webb, c’50, Oct. 12 in and two great-grandsons. Renewal. A son, two daughters, two sis- Stanford, Calif. He lived in Palo Alto and Lawrence Bates Jr., g’53, 75, Dec. 4 ters and five grandchildren survive. was a vice president of Lane Publishing. in Kansas City, where he was a teacher, Charles Keys, PhD’52, 80, Nov. 1 in Survivors include his wife, Jonnie, two a coach and a school administrator. He Kinsley, where he was a retired profes- sons and a daughter. is survived by his wife, Evelyn, three sor. Two sons, a daughter, a brother, a Robin Wells, d’59, Dec. 19 in Lenexa. sons and a sister. sister, seven grandchildren and two She taught instrumental music in Arthur Cromer, b’59, 64, Oct. 31 in great-grandchildren survive. Kansas City and sold real estate for Lawrence, where he owned American John “Jack” Koelzer, e’54, 73, Oct. 29 Century 21 Lauterbach and jewelry for Real Estate & Investments. He is sur- in Pasco, Wash. He had been a civil engi- the Jones Store Co. A sister survives. vived by his wife, Rosemary Hesse neer in Kansas City for many years. Cromer, c’83; a daughter, Stephanie Surviving are his wife, Juanita, three 1960s Cromer Kramer, f’85; three sons, two of sons, three daughters, three brothers, Evan Applegate, ’62, 64, Oct. 12 in whom are Gregory, j’87, and Brendan, two sisters and 12 grandchildren. Linn Valley. He had worked in biomed- b’99; three brothers; and three sisters. Carl Kulp, e’57, 80, Sept. 26 in West ical engineering and telecommunications Dean Dwyer, f’51, 76, Oct. 7 in Chester, Pa. He was retired from Boeing at the KU Medical Center and is sur- Parsons. He had been a salesman for in Philadelphia, and he is survived by vived by his wife, Pat; a daughter; a son; Sinclair Paint and Wall Covering in Los his wife, Vena; two daughters; and two his mother; three brothers, Rodney, e’55, Angeles for many years and is survived sons, Carl Jr., e’71, g’79, PhD’83, and Francis Jr., c’51, m’55, and Alan, e’62; by a sister. William, f’80. and two grandchildren. Robert Edmonds, b’58, l’61, 69, Nov. Bruce Meeker, c’54, m’58, 70, Nov. 7 Richard Edelblute, c’66, p’69, 57, Nov. 8 in Topeka, where he practiced law for in Belle Plaine, where he was a retired 2 in Topeka. He lived in Paxico and had many years. He is survived by his wife, physician. He is survived by his wife, been a pharmacist at Hudson Pharmacy Orene Carroll Edmonds, d’57; two sons, Joanne Perry Meeker, c’52; two sons, in Topeka for many years. A daughter one of whom is Christopher, c’92; and a one of whom is Chris, c’88; a daughter, and two sisters survive. brother. Perry Meeker Newby, c’80; a sister; and Del Few Fambrough, g’63, 79, Nov. William Ellis Jr., e’50, 78, Nov. 21 in six grandchildren. 17 in Lawrence, where she taught
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English at Central Junior High School paign. Survivors include his wife, two stepsons; a stepdaughter; his par- and Lawrence High School. She is sur- Katherine Haughey Loo, c’61; a son, ents; three brothers; a sister; and two vived by her husband, Don, d’48; two James, c’87; a daughter; two brothers; grandchildren. sons, James, c’68, and Robert, c’70; and and three grandchildren. Stephen Kline, c’72, 51, Oct. 31 in four grandchildren. LuAnn Brinnon Naugle, c’62, 61, Dec. Hutchinson, where he was vice presi- John Giele, ’63, 83, Dec. 14 in 3 in Wichita, where she was office man- dent of the former Kline Insurance Lawrence. He had worked at various ager for Wichita State University’s Agency. He is survived by his wife, Pam social service agencies in Kansas City International Program Office. She is sur- Prickett Kline, assoc.; his father, William, and Ottawa until retiring. He is survived vived by a son; two daughters, Kerry, b’36; and a brother, Michael, s’70. by a son, John, c’86; a brother; and two c’90, and Tracy, c’93; and a sister. grandchildren. Blanche Pryor Replogle, ’63, 95, Nov. 1980s Susan Henneberger Glad, d’65, 59, 6 in Lawrence, where she had taught Susan Brown, PhD’83, Dec. 12 in Oct. 12 in Garden City. She lived in first grade at Schwegler Elementary Leavenworth, where she was a microbi- Atwood and is survived by a son and a School. She is survived by four sons, ologist and author of a science column, daughter. three of whom are Walter, e’74, Rex, “Know What?”, which was published in Pearl Taylor Hay, g’65, 87, Oct. 9 in f’64, g’67, and Ray, f’64, g’66; a brother; several newspapers. She is survived by Overland Park. She was a teacher and five grandchildren; and seven great- her parents and a sister, Linda, g’73. administrator in the Kansas City public grandchildren. Julie Richards Buturlia, ’82, 42, Nov. 3 schools for 36 years. Two sons, three sis- Leo Schrey Jr., b’66, Jan. 1 in in Overland Park. She was an adminis- ters, three grandsons and three great- Centreville, Va. He is survived by his trative assistant for the KSU grandsons survive. wife, Linda, and a daughter. Foundations. She is survived by her hus- Edgar Hallman, ’66, 74, Dec. 12 in Richard Shackelford, ’65, 73, Dec. 10 band, Reid, e’80; a son; a daughter; her Overland Park. He was retired chair of in Lawrence, where he lived. He was an parents; and three brothers, two of the industrial arts department at electrical engineer at Colmery-O’Neil whom are Dallas Richards, m’74, and Shawnee Mission North High School. Veterans Administration Medical Center Rick Richards, c’82. Surviving are his wife, Ernestene Bates in Topeka for 35 years. Survivors include Judith Cazier, ’81, 42, Dec. 5 in Hallman, d’59; a son, Eric, c’82; a daugh- his wife, Susan Ramsey Shackelford, Topeka. She lived in Lawrence and is ter, Elisha Hallman Churchill, c’87; and g’77, PhD’79; a son, Bruce, f’87, c’89; survived by her father, James, j’56; three five grandchildren. two daughters, one of whom is Ellen, brothers, two of whom are David, b’82, Pamela Ressler Joyce, g’68, 59, Jan. 1 student; a sister, Jane Shackelford and Daniel, c’77; and a sister, Joyce in Topeka. She lived in Lawrence and is Whitmore, f’54; and two grandchildren. Cazier Orban, c’74. survived by her husband, Gary, assoc.; Leslie Siegrist, c’66, 57, Oct. 31 in Joseph Conrad Jr., ’82, 49, Dec. 25 of two daughters; two sons; a brother; a Rohrbach, Germany, where he was a injuries sustained in an automobile acci- stepbrother; two stepsisters; and two professor. He is survived by his wife, dent near Burlington. He lived in Paola grandchildren. Mechthild Siegrist, two daughters and a and is survived by his mother, Mildred; Ronald Koehn, p’60, 64, Dec. 3 in sister. two brothers; and five sisters, three of Lawrence, where he was a pharmacist at whom are Florence Conrad Salisbury, Rankin Round Corner Drug Store and 1970s g’69, Claire Conrad Pearl, g’98, and later owned a chiropractic practice. He is Marion Lippincott Barre, c’70, 53, Patricia Conrad Graham, c’78. survived by his wife, Rita; two sons, Nov. 8 in Houston. She is survived by Raymond Gosser, g’83, 45, Dec. 14 in James, c’89, and Daniel, c’92; his moth- her husband, Jerry, c’68, g’73; a daugh- Little Rock, Ark., of injuries sustained in er; a brother; and two grandchildren. ter; a son; and two brothers, one of an airplane crash that also killed his William Knickerbocker, s’66, 61, Nov. whom is Jon Lippincott, e’66, c’68. wife, Laura. He was senior vice president 15 in Cape Girardeau, Mo., where he Gregory Bashaw, j’76, 46, June 23 in of Bank of America in Charlotte, N.C. A was a retired social worker. A son, a Barrington Hills, Ill. He was a writer and memorial has been established with the daughter, his mother, two brothers and creative director at D’arcy McManus; Leo KU Endowment Association. He is sur- two grandchildren survive. Burnett Co.; and Foote, Cone and vived by his parents, Otis and Rosemary Lester “Dusty” Loo, f’60, 64, Dec. 25 Belding. Surviving are his wife, Laura, a Gosser, four brothers and his grand- in Colorado Springs. He was president son, his parents, a sister and a brother. mother. and CEO of Looart Press and Current Steve Carmichael, d’72, 53, Dec. 20 Cynthia Lytle Harte, f’80, Nov. 28 in Inc., a greeting card company. He also in Gladstone, Mo. He was business man- Shawnee. She was a graphic designer at owned High Valley Group, an invest- ager of A. Zahner Architectural Metals Posty Cards in Kansas City and is sur- ment firm. He was a member of the and is survived by his wife, Paula; two vived by her husband, James; two daugh- steering committee for the KU First cam- sons, Jonas, c’00, and Morgan, student; ters; her mother and stepfather; two sis-
54 | KANSAS ALUMNI ters, Christina Stephens, c’86, g’02, and He is survived by his wife, Angela his wife, Frances Schloesser Sifers, c’45; Catherine Humphreys Spencer, c’83; Somers Jennings, s’98; a daughter; his two sons, Earl Jr., c’70, and Timothy, and three brothers, one of whom is parents; a brother; and a sister, Gina, c’71, m’74; two daughters, one of whom Michael Lytle, c’78. h’98. is Sally Sifers Hilkene, c’78; a sister, Kirk Irwin, ’80, 43, Nov. 9 in Wichita, Elizabeth Sifers Pence, f’49; a brother, where he was a construction worker. He 2000s Don, c’55; and 15 grandchildren. is survived by his wife, Allison Bassett Nancy Nims, c’00, 24, Oct. 17 in John Talleur, assoc., 76, Nov. 27 in Irwin, c’88; two sons; his parents; and Kansas City, where she was a research Lawrence, where he was a professor his grandmother. scientist at KU Medical Center. She is emeritus of printmaking. A daughter, Evan Kay, h’85, 40, Nov. 5 in Ripley, survived by her parents, three brothers, Ann, c’01, and two grandchildren sur- Miss. He was an occupational therapist her grandmothers and her grandfather. vive. with Helping Hands and is survived by Jeremiah Northcutt, ’00, 25, Nov. 16 James Titus, assoc., 81, Dec. 17 in his wife, Susan, a son, a daughter, his in Pittsburg, where he was a machine Austin, Texas. He taught at KU from parents, a brother and two sisters. operator for Primdor. Surviving are his 1957 until 1988. A memorial has been Harriet “Pixie” Liebig Larios, ’80, 55, father and stepmother, his mother and established with the KU Endowment Nov. 27 in Baldwin, where she was a stepfather, a sister, a half brother and his Association. Survivors include two retired teacher. She is survived by her grandmother. daughters, one of whom is Jeri Titus husband, Tommy Teague, two sons, a Dustin Premis, e’00, 25, Dec. 23 in Matthys, c’79, and two grandchildren. stepson, a stepdaughter, her adoptive Phoenix. He worked for Premier Odell Wiley, assoc., 84, Dec. 10 in parents, her biological mother, four Engineering in Tempe and is survived Kansas City. He was retired supervisor of brothers, two sisters and a grandchild. by his parents, two sisters and two maintenance, buildings and grounds at Danny Macias, g’87, 58, Nov. 30 in brothers. KU. Surviving are a son, Michael, c’79; Kansas City, where he owned Macias Franklin Williams, ’00, Dec. 27 in two daughters, Barbara, c’73, g’87, and Tax Service and was a real-estate agent Kansas City. He is survived by his wife, Martyn Wiley Umholtz, c’77, s’81; a sis- for ReMax Today. A daughter, a son, his Teresa Starr Williams, c’96; two sons; his ter; and three grandchildren. mother and stepfather, two sisters, four parents; three sisters; two brothers; and Robert Wilson, m’40, 91, Nov. 26 in grandchildren and a great-granddaugh- seven half sisters and half brothers. Overland Park. He taught at KU Medical ter survive. Center and had a private practice in oto- John Riggs, c’82, 42, Nov. 7 in San The University Community laryngology, bronchoesophagology and Diego, Calif., where he was a lieutenant Robert Beer, assoc., 82, Dec. 19 in allergy. He is survived by his wife, Helen commander in the U.S. Navy. He is sur- Eudora. He lived in Lawrence, where he Cunningham Wilson, ’35; a daughter, vived by his wife, Lin, two brothers and was a professor of entomology from Patricia Wilson Cundiff, d’63; a son, three sisters. 1950 until 1988. Survivors include his Monti, e’67, g’70, PhD’71; and four Julie Hamm Thornton,s’82, 41, Dec. wife, Margaret Robey Beer, assoc., and a grandchildren. 12 in Houston, where she was an X-ray daughter, Kathleen, c’74, n’79, g’87, s’02. technician at Houston Memorial Larry Glaser, c’63, m’67, Dec. 15. He Associates Hospital. Her parents, three sisters and had recently retired from private practice C.A.“Joe” Doolittle, 78, Nov. 26 in her grandmother survive. with Kansas City Bone and Joint, and he Wichita, where he founded Contract Audrey Bischoff Van Ness, g’83, 75, had been an assistant clinical professor Surety Consultants and was a former Dec. 5 in Overland Park. She is survived at KU Medical Center. He is survived by director of the Associated General by two daughters, Susan, j’78, g’83, and his wife, Paula, a son and a sister. Contractors Association. He is survived Robin Van Ness Nelson, c’83; a son, David Morgan, ’33, 90, Dec. 29 in by his wife, Patricia Krashoc Doolittle, Jason, c’81; and eight grandchildren. Kansas City, where he was associate clin- ’84; two sons, one of whom is David, Daniel Wenger, c’85, 39, Dec. 24 of ical professor at the KU Medical Center d’72; a daughter; a brother; three sisters; injuries sustained in an automobile acci- and co-founder of the Kansas City and many grandchildren and great- dent near Lawrence, where he lived. He Dermatological Society. He is survived grandchildren. was a financial adviser with Waddell by his wife, Elsie; two daughters, one of George Haney, 71, Nov. 27 in and Reed and is survived by his parents, whom is Ann Morgan Woodling, c’65; Lawrence. He was retired general manag- Leslie, b’55, and Mary Gay Wenger, c’61; three sons, one of whom is David, c’71; er of fertilizer operations for Farmland a sister; and his grandmother. and 10 grandchildren. Industries and is survived by his wife, Earl Sifers, m’47, 77, Dec. 4 in Bonnie Hert Haney, assoc.; a daughter; 1990s Mission Hills, where he was a clinical three sons; two brothers; five grandchil- Jeffrey Jennings, c’94, m’98, 29, Dec. professor of surgery at KU Medical dren; and a great-grandson. 22 in Colby, where he was a physician. Center for 28 years. He is survived by
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MATTHEW LORD made for cleaner, whiter teeth. “Of course, it didn’t do the animals any good, but the teeth were definitely whiter.” How did Gobetz come to be cleaning mastodon teeth? As a project for a class led by Steven Bozarth, g’85, PhD’96, adjunct assistant professor of geography, she was learning to identify different types of a hard- ened cell called phytoliths. Gobetz is a researcher in the Natural History Museum, so she rummaged through the museum’s vast fossil collections and found a cache of mastodon teeth. “I wasn’t sure I could find plaque on the teeth, but it turned out to be easier than I thought,” she says. “The hard part was the lab process.” With Bozarth’s assistance, she devised acid baths to break down the plaque. She was startled to discover that 86 percent of the plaque cells came from grasses. Mastodons had been thought to shun grasses in favor of leaves. Gobetz cautions that her study, published last year in the journal Quaternary Research, has unanswered questions. Mastodons that roamed eastern Kansas might have eaten a lot of grasses not because of a preference, but because this part of the Plains was not for- ested. It could also be that her mastedons ate leaves that are no longer detectable because of the chemical difference between leaves The first mastodontist? (especially from young trees) and grasses. Researcher analyzes ancient dental deposits Gobetz plans to continue her research by for dietary discoveries analyzing mastodon teeth recovered from forested regions, as well as plaque from cur- rent species of large animals with diets heavy atrina Gobetz, a PhD candidate in ecol- in leaves. In fact, she already has confirmed ogy and evolutionary biology, is a seri- some of her research methods by studying ous scientist. But even she can’t stop plaque scraped from moose teeth. Kherself from chuckling along with the Acquiring moose plaque leads to another set dental hygiene jokes stirred by her research on of questions entirely. Again, Gobetz chuckles at plaque she scraped and chiseled off 10,000-year- the image. old mastodon teeth. “I needed to study an animal presumed “It didn’t harm the fossil specimens at all,” to have a similar diet that is living, as in, Gobetz says. “They were very dirty teeth to begin not extinct,” she says. “But otherwise, not with, all cemented with this stuff. This is what living, no.” dentists do. They want to get this stuff off. So it —Chris Lazzarino
56 | KANSAS ALUMNI and an insistent plug from author Tony whom to trust. When Celeste is mur- Hillerman, who called it “the best mys- dered, Lassiter realizes the person he tery novel of the year.” trusts the least is himself. As befits the genre, a straightforward Lassiter and other almost-innocents outer structure of rip-off and revenge is are pushed into complicity by their mon- Some Survive intensified by obfuscation: Exactly how strous nightmares; by the time the story By James Preston dreadful (and dangerous) are the memo- reaches its bloody conclusion—indeed, Girard ries haunting the protagonists, many of only some survive—the monsters have Onyx, $6.99 whom we come to care for? When become very much real and quite eager Celeste returns to Wichita—careful not to to confirm everyone’s worst fears. re-enter her past, though that decision Fueling the novel is Celeste’s fatally won’t be hers to make—we are intro- mistaken belief (reflected also in the duced to a cast of seemingly regular journeys forced upon everyone else in folks struggling with everyday the book) that yesterdays might some- OREAD READER heartaches of rejection, failure and isola- day go away. By clawing at the reader Old haunts tion, and we nervously follow along as with psycho-terror insights mastered by they haltingly realize they aren’t jumping Thomas Harris and the late Jim The past comes terrifyingly alive in a at shadows. Thompson—Does a killer lurk inside psychological thriller set in Wichita Floyd Lassiter, a smart, easy-going inside each of us?—Girard forces his Wichita detective, is battling seizures readers to question just how safely their It was over. The thought surprised her, and blackouts. He struggles to save his own yesterdays are tucked away. as if she’d never really believed it would be. career, until finally he concedes that the —Chris Lazzarino Not just tonight, but the whole thing. L.A. real battle is for his sanity. A breakdown Celeste Mundy. All of it. It was in the past, has landed him on forced vacation, which didn’t really exist, except in other though the boss likes Lassiter and offers people’s minds. a chance at easy redemption with a silly Excerpt from hen we meet “Celeste art-theft query from Los Angeles cops, Some Survive Mundy” in the prologue of who think a suspect they’re looking for— Some Survive—the second “Celeste Mundy”—might be from Kansas ex, death and W novel by Lawrence writer and might have returned home. Smoney. That’s James Preston Girard, c’66—the home- “It’s a fat pitch,” Lassiter’s partner what the books said sick Hollywood prostitute with more advises him. “Knock it out of the [exple- aliases than options is playing out a tive] park and let’s get back to work, it was all about, twisted script with a twisted client. okay?” and they were right. Though she exacts painful revenge and Lassiter is a good detective. Too good. Or at least that’s escapes back to Kansas, Celeste finds, at He breaks the case—and himself—with what she’d believed JAMES PRESTON the price of her own horrible murder, his discovery that there will be no fat before Eddy. She GIRARD that nothing was over. pitches. From the moment Celeste still believed it was true for most A similar revelation awaits family, answers his knock at an apartment that neighbors and cops yanked through hell should have been safe and entirely people—certainly for her clients— first by Celeste’s return to Wichita and anonymous, Lassiter is never certain but Eddy had changed her, in a then by her mysterious slaying: The past what or who he’s found, and he is only way she hadn’t expected. Made not only exists, but threatens to over- slowly aware of what he’s getting himself her a little weaker perhaps, a lit- take the future. and everyone else into. tle more afraid of the tiger hiding Such are the mindfields that add the Girard’s story is powerful because it is in the brush, but also a little trademark edge to psychological real. Except for the conveniently efficient thrillers, a mystery/detective niche that investigation that leads Lassiter to stronger in another way, made requires deft balance from the author. Celeste, the cop work feels right: Clues her willing to put herself in the Readers new to any writer who dares try are murky, events are unexpected and tiger’s path, to keep him from such a demanding form are right to be not immediately explained, motives are Eddy. It was a kind of strength wary, but Girard enters with credentials. never enough to come even close to jus- she liked better, a kind she’d His first novel, The Late Man, published tifying the brutality. The investigation’s once had, a long time ago, in in 1993, received glowing reviews in the biggest decisions aren’t so much about New York Times and Los Angeles Times whom to interrogate as they are about another life.
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In his ninth Mitch Roberts mystery, Samedi’s Knapsack, crime novelist Excerpt from Gaylord Dold, c’69, g’76, sets his private eye loose in Haiti on the eve of President Samedi’s Knapsack Samedi’s Jean Bertrand Aristide’s return from exile Knapsack in the mid-1990s. Against a seedy back- hey were near the altar when By Gaylord Dold drop of brutally repressive voodoo poli- Tthe explosion hit. Roberts was tics, searing poverty and intense tropical on a step, trying to see some of Thomas Dunne heat, Roberts struggles to unravel a com- the details of “The Last Supper.” Books, plex web of deceit and double-dealing $23.95 that snares him in a scheme of car-jack- Dolores and Virgil had wandered ing, kidnapping and art theft that quick- up an aisle toward one of the ly escalates into affairs far more dire. naves. Roberts felt the concussion With a dozen novels since 1984, Dold before he heard the sound, an has earned strong reviews and a reputa- echo inside his head, a flash of OREAD READER tion as a thinking man’s noirist, a seri- reddish stars. In that instant, a Pack of thieves ous writer who seamlessly mixes action and social commentary. Samedi’s tiny fish of pain swam to the top Haitian underworld sets sinister of his head and lingered, then backdrop for latest Mitch Roberts Knapsack stays true to that form: Lean, disappeared as adventure lyrical prose and a keen eye for the details of place, both geographical and dust pattered down cultural, spark what is otherwise a con- from the high ceil- ccording to voodoo legend, ventional crime story. ing of the church. Baron Samedi, the malignant Exploitation is the key subtext of god of Saturday night, roams Dold’s briskly paced plot. The land- He heard screams the darkened streets of Haiti, scape, the citizens and the primitive from outside as A more wisps of dust snatching souls and stashing them in artists of Haiti—as well as the swamps of his wicker pack, called a macoute. the Florida Everglades and the tourists filtered through the This maker of zombies is also the other- who flock to Miami—are all potential huge mahogany worldly archetype for the Tonton plunder for a nasty cast of criminals that doors. Then every- GAYLORD DOLD Macoutes, the brutal secret police who includes South Florida drug lords and terrorized the country during the reign menacing Tontons. Switching between thing went oddly silent. of the Duvaliers and after. Miami and Haiti, Dold captures the rot-
EARL RICHARDSON Pre-game fame
ootball pre-games were livelier than Fever last fall, and it wasn’t just the lifting of the dreaded alcohol ban that got the E Double good times rolling. Stationed in the middle bandmates and fra- of the Hill was an inviting band called E ternity brothers Double, which won over fans of all ages. (left to right) E Double features four KU fraternity Scott Newcomer, brothers: Scott Newcomer, ’01, on vocals Michael Holton, and guitar; senior Michael Holton on Bernie Herrman rhythm guitar and vocals; Brian Gaddie, and Brian Gaddie. e’01, on bass guitar and vocals; and senior Bernie Herrman on percussion. Newcomer says he and Gaddie are con- centrating on writing new material, waiting for Holton and Herrman to graduate in
ten heart of both locales. More impres- standing critical acclaim for its serial sufficiently ambiguous that they didn’t sively, he brings to haunting life the comedy skits, political satire and faux know what it is about.” immense resilience of impoverished commercials. The shows—performed five Months of market research, brain- Haitians and their affection for a native times a year at Liberty Hall by an eight- storming and product testing yielded a land looted by generations of blatant person cast—are broadcast live on KANU snappy, memorable title that immediate- misrule. Dold’s skillful weaving of these and offered for rebroadcast to National ly communicates the series’ brand of elements deftly harnesses the conven- Public Radio stations nationwide. But brainy, in-your-face irreverence: Right tions of the genre to more ambitious distribution has varied from a dozen to Between the Ears. ends, producing a bracing mix of flash as many as 200 stations, convincing “The soundscapes, the characters we and substance—action with a con- Brogdon, the show’s science. principal writer and —Steven Hill producer, that a new COURTESY KANU name was needed. “Program directors want listeners to know what a show is about Earplay from the title, the same way studio exec- Radio comedy troupe utives say you should changes name, be able to pitch a but not its nature movie in one sen- tence,” he says. “A lot of stations weren’t giv- he KANU comedy show that ing us a second look introduced the Legion of Stupid because the title was Heroes, the Old Ranger and Buck Naked: Frontier Scout to a T national radio audience began its 18th The cast of Right season this spring with a new name and Between the Ears (from new honors. left to right): John Jessup, Rick Tamblyn,Andi create inhabit the space right between Created in 1985 by KANU Program Meyer,Teri Wilder, Kip Niven, Roberta your ears,” Brogdon says. “It’s a radio Director Darrell Brogdon, The Solomon, Jim Moore and (not pictured) David show; it all plays in the theatre of the Imagination Workshop has drawn long- Greusel. mind. Plus the expres- sion has a kind of rakish sound to it.” In December, May before they crank the music gig into forcing us to see if we’re good enough.” ight Between the Ears full gear. Here’s a vote saying they are—with a ed to its numerous “It’s a cleaner sound than a lot of stuff selfish hope that they won’t get too big des when the on the radio,” Newcomer says.“We try not to return for football pre-games next tor Awards bestowed to mud it up too much.We like people to fall. est honors on the hear what we’re playing instead of blasting —Chris Lazzarino g (humor) for the eardrums out.” ew program, and best E Double plays regular gigs at the Levee e broadcast) for the in Kansas City and Abe & Jake’s Landing in Lawrence; when everyone is clear of class- w name reflects a es, the band will hit the road for a swing w listeners, longtime through Texas hot spots,chasing the big hat their favorite char- time. ear. “We’re not plan- “Every time we let the idea slip, anges,” Brogdon says. we catch another little break ide on. that shoves us along,” —Steven Hill Newcomer says.“It’s kind of
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Proceeds benefit the Robin Hood Relief Fund for the victims of the World Trade Center tragedy. “It was a chance for peo-
SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART SPENCER MUSEUM OF ple in the building to take action in response to what happened on 9/11,” says John Pultz, curator of pho- tography at the Spencer and assistant professor of art his- tory. Students, faculty and staff in the museum, the art history department and the art and architecture library donated their own money rather than use museum funds. “It reflects the strong feelings people have about the tragic events of that day,” Pultz says. Through March, Kwong Chi’s portrait is the center- piece of “Remembering 9/11: The World Trade Center in Photographs.” The exhibition showcases eight other photos of the Twin Towers from the Spencer collection, including E.O. Goldbeck’s panoramic Standing tall view of lower Manhattan recently donated by Jon The Spencer Museum pays tribute to New York’s O’Neal, c’79, m’85. monumental Twin Towers Museumgoers are asked to share their own New York stories. Snapshots of the porting reflective sunglasses, a Chairman skyline, some decades old, and portraits of the Mao jacket and an ID badge stamped makeshift memorials that sprang up in the “slutforart,” photographer Tseng Kwong tragedy’s aftermath are posted near Kwong SChi adopted the persona of a visiting Chi’s print. Chinese dignitary for a series of deadpan self-por- “I think in some ways his photograph is about traits at American tourist sites. The series’ first our response to sites we’re drawn to visit,” Pultz photograph pictures Kwong Chi at the World says. “Our impulse is to photograph ourselves in Trade Center in 1979. front of them as a way of connecting to them. By Employees at the Spencer Museum of Art took doing that with the World Trade Center, he com- up a collection this fall to buy a limited edition memorates its status as a distinctive monument print of the photograph “New York, N.Y.” that marks New York City.”
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