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The University of Tulsa Spring 2000 MAGAZINE TEAM 2000 Meet eight of the thousands who make TU great. The University of Tulsa Spring 2000 MAGAZINE Team 2000 Departments 17 By Doug Fishback 2 The year 2000 finds TU abuzz with the spirit of teamwork. Calendar From the winningest basketball team in school history to the 5 collaboration of students and faculty in the labs and class- Editor’s Note rooms to visionary administrators, the university is braced for the millennium. A few Team-TU members are profiled 5 here. Forum 18........Bob Lawless 22.......Mark Cavins 6 19........Joel Gonzalez 23.......Genave Rogers Campus Updates 20........Bob Sanborn 24.......Pam Finnegan 21........Ellen Adelson 25.......Mike Sheehan 10 News from the U West Campus Expansion 14 26 Construction is now underway on the Donna J. Hardesty Partners in Education Sports Complex, a 30-acre “field of dreams” that gives an Four a limited time only. 35 important new home to NCAA, intramural, recreational and Athletics residential programs. View the complex and meet the extra- 38 ordinary couple that made it possible. What they say is true: Great things can’t last forever. Alumni News Box? What Box? Graphic Design TU Style TU’s opportunity to reap a quadruple benefit from 30 By Deanna J. Harris Annual Fund gifts expires May 31, 2000. TU’s graphic arts graduates are out of the box and producing award-winning work for a wide array of clients. Recently, While we can’t stop time’s relentless march, we can graphic design alumni, faculty, and current TU students teamed up to produce a unique overview of the Division of turn one Annual Fund gift dollar into four dollars — until Fine and Performing Arts that does that date. That’s because challenge sponsors have put more than sell a program with words up match money in the amount of four dollars to one.* and images — it is also a history lesson Talk about making the most of your time! for readers. Please help TU realize a fourfold benefit by contributing to the Annual Fund campaign. This year more than any Left: Cover design by the Loft Design Group: Winston Peraza, BFA ’96; Matt Shoenholz, BFA ’98; other, your support will have a bottom-line impact. Greg Williams, BFA ’96. School of Art pages designed by Elena Zorn, MA ’99. The TU Annual Fund: A timely investment. 42 Class Notes *Matching funds have been allocated at a three-to-one ratio for gifts from Campus Blooming with the Arts new donors, with a one-to-one match for gift level increases from current 48 By Andrea Sharrer ’96 donors. In Memoriam 32 For more information on the TU 48 For the first spring of the new century, the Division of Fine Annual Fund, call Joan Nesbitt at and Performing Arts initiates a new tradition — a festival Book End (918) 631-2590, or mail your sure to be a hit with students, alumni and friends of the contribution to The University of university. Tulsa Annual Fund, 600 South College Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma For more information on the TU Annual Fund, call Philip Viles at (918) 631-2301,74104-3189. or mail your contribution to The University of Tulsa Annual Fund, 600 South College Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104-3189. Hurricane Happenings 14 - 15 TU Jazz Festival. Concert, Friday, Spring Sports Schedules PENG& CHI 8:00 p.m. Festival, Saturday, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Allen Chapman Activity Center. Home games and conference tournaments listed Sculpure and 16 Concert: TU Wind Ensemble/ Symphonic only. All times listed are Central time zone. Painting Exhibition Band, 3:00 p.m., Great Hall, Allen Softball Chapman Activity Center. April February 25 - March 31 19 - 22 Theatre: Weird 1 Portland State* (2) 1:00 p.m. 2 Portland State* (2) 11:00 a.m. Romance, music by Alan 8 Mini Clinic/ 9:00 a.m. Menken and lyrics by Alumni Game 1:00 p.m. David Spencer, 8:00 p.m., 11 Oklahoma City (2) 5:00 p.m. April 19 - 21; 2:00 p.m. and 19 Wichita State 5:00 p.m. 21 San Jose State* (2) 5:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m., April 22. 22 San Jose State* (2) 1:00 p.m. May 15, 2000 May 20 Tattletale Lecture Series, 12 Tulsa Country Club noon, the Summit Club. For more informa- 19-20 NCAA Regionals 24-29 Women’s College World Series tion, call (918) 631-2524. Oklahoma City, Okla. Michael Ruffin to Chair Hurricane Cup 28 - 29 Opera Theatre: Opera Scenes, All home games played at Broken Arrow Softball Field April *Denotes Western Athletic Conference matches. The 2000 Hurricane Cup — a fundraiser for the TU athletic department — 8:00 p.m., Chapman Theatre, Kendall Hall. (2) doubleheaders is scheduled for Monday, May 15. 6 - 28 Gussman Student Art Show, 13 Emily Mumford Distinguished Lecture May Participants will have the opportunity to hit a few balls with this year’s Series in Medical Sociology: “American Women’s Tennis honorary chair, Chicago Bull Michael Ruffin, and play the complete round Alexandre Hogue Gallery. The opening 1 Houston Alumni Event: DoubleTree Hotel Health Care in Transition: The Shift from April reception and awards ceremony will be at Post Oak, 6 - 7:30 p.m.. Reservations 1 with TU sports personalities, including coaches from a variety of sports as Alternative Modalities to Complimentary 8 Wyoming 10:00 a.m. well as up-and-coming golf stars. After 18 holes of golf, participants will held April 6. (800) 219-4688 8 Oral Roberts 3:00 p.m. Medicine,” Prof. Alexandra Dundas be treated to a fabulous dinner, auction, and plenty of prizes. Don’t miss 7, 14, 21 and 28 Continuing 4 - June 1 Graduating Master of Arts and May Todd, Suffolk University. 13-14 at NCAA Regionals TBA out on this exciting opportunity to mingle with Michael Ruffin and the TU Education: Life Drawing, 9:00 - 11:00 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Alexandre 18-26 at NCAA Championships golf squad, and to support the Hurricane Athletic program. a.m., Phillips Hall Drawing Studio. For Hogue Gallery. Opening reception will be Malibu, Calif. more information, call (918) 631-2549. held May 4. For more information, call (918) 631-3112. Home matches played at Harwell Courts. 10 Reading by poet Colleen McElroy, 6 Commencement, Reynolds Center. author, Traveling Music and a memoir, A 6 College of Law Hooding. Long Memoirs; part of the J. Donald Women’s Golf Women’s Rowing Feagin Distinguished Artists Living Poets 8 - 12 Fluid Flow Projects - Two Phase April April Series, 7:30 p.m., McFarlin Library, Flow in Pipes, 9:00 a.m., Renaissance 24-26 WAC Championships, Tulsa 1 Kansas 9:00 a.m. Faculty Study, Free. 631-2685. Hotel, Houston. For more information, call Forest Ridge Golf Club May April 25 - 26 May 26-28 at NCAA Championship (918) 631-2347. 11 - 13 Basic Petroleum Geology for the “Moving Up the Value Chain” 11-13 at NCAA West Regionals, Tempe, Camden, New Jersey Non-Geologist, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., 9 Basic Petroleum Geology for the Non- Arizona Home regattas on the Arkansas River. For registration information, contact 24-27 at NCAA Championships, Sun River, Dallas. For more information, call (918) Val Eisenach at 918.631.2786. Geologist, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Dallas. For Oregon 631-2347. more information, call (918) 631-2347. Men’s Tennis Men’s Golf April 13 Special Event: “Give My Regards to June 5 Oklahoma State 2:00 p.m. May Broadway,” an evening of music and 22 TCU* 1:00 p.m. For more information on calendar events 8 - August 10 Summer Exhibitions, 3-5 at WAC Championships songs celebrating America’s national 23 SMU* 1:00 p.m. (Area Code 918) Alexander Hogue Gallery. Regular Gallery Dallas, Texas 28-30 at WAC Championships TBA musical treasures. Follow this historical 18-20 at NCAA Central Regionals Office of Admission..........................631-2307 hours. Free. For more information, call 631- Fort Worth, Texas musical trail, featuring Terry Silver- Victoria, Texas Office of Alumni Relations...............631-2555 2739. May Alford, assistant professor of musical the- 31-3 at NCAA Championships 12-14 at NCAA Regional Championships Continuing Education .......................631-2937 Opelika, Alabama atre and TU students of musical theatre. 12 Kansas City Alumni Event: Details to be TBA Golden Hurricane Club.....................631-3725 announced. 19-28 at NCAA Championships Alexandre Hogue Gallery.................631-2202 7:00 p.m., Harwelden Mansion, 2210 Outdoor Track and Field Athens, Ga. Management Development South Main Street. $35. For more infor- 14 TU Night at OK Mozart, $45. See page 4 May 18-20 at WAC Championship, El Paso Texas Center (MDC)...............................631-2215 mation, call (918) 584-3333. for details. *Denotes Western Athletic Conference matches. 31- NCAA Championship, Durham, N.C. Home matches at Harwell Tennis Courts. Theatre Box Office ...........................631-2567 14 Shrimp Boil for TU alumni in the 29 Chicago Alumni event: Details to be June 3 TU Athletic Ticket Office .................631-4688 Classes of 1989 - 99. See page 33 “Come announced. on and Take a Holiday” for details. 2 The University of Tulsa Magazine ■ Spring 2000 The University of Tulsa Magazine ■ Spring 2000 3 Forum Mozart’s Music & You The Call of the Double Negative Evening breezes, an elegant picnic, and By Henry F. Knight of the structures that excluded Violet. It music of the spheres will delight alumni and was time to settle accounts. And the issue It was February, I think, in 1968.