Lost and Refound Biodiversity Institute Researcher’S Philippine ﬁnds Shed New Light on a Scientiﬁc Mystery 100 Years in the Making

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Lost and Refound Biodiversity Institute researcher’s Philippine ﬁnds shed new light on a scientiﬁc mystery 100 years in the making

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22 30 36 True Detectives Local Revival Where Everybody Knows A century ago, Edward Taylor By salvaging what they can and Your Name penetrated unexplored using materials new and Sixty years aer it opened on Philippine jungles to write reclaimed, design-build rm Mount Oread’s eastern slope, the book on that country’s Struct/Restruct is leading a the iconic near-campus amphibians and reptiles. Now, vintage-modern renaissance in gathering spot and Jayhawk retracing the controversial the historic East Lawrence shrine known as e Wheel zoologist’s steps with modern neighborhood. just keeps rolling, rolling, methods, Rafe Brown is rolling. Wangburger, anyone? rewriting our understanding By Heather Biele of the global biodiversity hot By Chris Lazzarino spot—and of Taylor’s contributions to science.

By Steven Hill Cover photograph by Steve Puppe

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by Jennifer Jackson Sanner First Word

Chancellors Archie Dykes, Del Shankel, Bernadette Gray-Little, Gene Budig and Robert Hemenway all converged on the Hill in September 2010.

“While this book is not an omnibus history such as Gri n’s,” they write, “it does oer a good deal of insight about the changes that have occurred in this large and complex institution and the historical circumstances that have contributed to them.“ In his introduction, Rury chronicles the Univer- sity’s dramatic growth over a brief and pivotal time span from a “somewhat bucolic college” to an international research university. He provides the backdrop for the essays that follow. KU’s transformation was at times tumultuous ur magazine crew has worked together for a good many and painful, as Bill Tuttle, professor emeritus of American studies, Oyears, so of course we have developed our own insider explains in his chapter on student activism. In addition to civil language full of jargon and abbreviations, along with slang and rights and antiwar protests, students demanded greater rights and nicknames not t to print. Our frequent conversations about freedom on campus and a voice in KU government. As Kathryn University history usually include a mention of “Gri n,” as in, Nemeth Tuttle, associate vice provost emerita, describes in her “What does Gri n say about the post-World War II overcrowd- chapter, “A Seat at the Table,” a new form of campus government ing on campus?” or “Check with Gri n on when KU’s May Day emerged from upheaval. “Shared governance was born at the celebrations ended.” University of Kansas, and in 1968 KU students wielded greater Our resident sage is Cliord S. Gri n, KU professor of history authority than at any other university in the United States,” from 1959 to 1996. ough he died only a year aer his retire- writes Nemeth Tuttle, g’72, PhD’96. ment, he lives on through his authoritative book, e University of roughout KU’s history, Jayhawks have made their voices Kansas: A History, published in 1974, nine years aer KU’s heard. In 1883, only 10 years aer the University presented centennial. Relying on University Archives, e Graduate its rst diploma (see KU 150, p. 76), graduates formed the self- Magazine (precursor to Kansas Alumni) and numerous other governing Alumni Association to advocate for their alma mater sources, Gri n wrote the detailed history of KU’s rst 100 years and help ensure that future generations would benet from the that has become our daily reliable reference. life-changing KU experience. As we recall the extraordinary Now, thanks to a team of faculty and sta members, led by leadership of Chancellor Robert Hemenway, who died July 31 (see professors John Rury and Kim Cary Warren; the University Press Hilltopics, p. 10), we also remember his gratitude to KU’s excep- of Kansas; and the KU 150 sesquicentennial committee, the past tionally loyal alumni, whom he oen credited for helping li their half-century is documented in Transforming the University of alma mater to prominence as an international research university. Kansas: A History, 1965-2015, which includes a foreword by “It makes a huge dierence for those of us who are on the Hill Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little. Each chapter includes an essay every day to know that we’ve got alumni out there who truly care on pivotal aspects of the University: about the kind of job • the eight chancellors who have guided KU we’re doing,” he told • Kansas government and politics Transforming the Kansas Alumni when • continuity and change in liberal education University of Kansas: he announced his • KU’s international dimensions A History, 1965-2015 retirement in 2009. • the research mission Edited by John Rury For Chancellor • student activism and Kim Cary Bob—and legions • student government and services of Jayhawks past, Warren • Jayhawk athletics present and future— As editors Rury and Warren explain in their preface,“In this The University Press we will li the way, we hope to lend a bit more coherence to the wide diversity of of Kansas, $34.95 chorus ever people, events and circumstances” included in the past 50 years. onward.

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 5 On the Boulevard SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY (3) LIBRARY SPENCER RESEARCH

Scoop Club, 1909 Jayhawker

hen Harry Kemp left New York City in 1906, his unconven- Wtional journey to Lawrence made the front page of the New York Tribune. The article detailed the adventures of a young poet who traveled thousands of miles—under a freight car with just 3 cents in his pocket—to attend the University of Kansas. The Kansas City Star also picked up the story and dubbed him the “Tramp Poet.” Kemp, who wanted to study German and Latin, decided to attend KU after reading Professor W.H. Carruth’s books on German grammar and composition. Upon arriving in Lawrence, Kemp sought out Carruth, who was so impressed with the young man he invited him to attend the University the next day. (For more KU history, visit blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer.)

Exhibitions 23 “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” “KU 150: Celebrating 150 Years of Leadership, Scholar- 26 KU Symphony Orchestra ship and Tradition at the with Benjamin Beilman, University of Kansas,” violin Watson Library, through 29 Paul Taylor Dance December Company 22 12 “Achievement of a Dream: KU Symphonic Band, KU Wind Ensemble e Birth of the University OCTOBER Chamber Winds 15 Kuok-Wai Lio & Zoltán of Kansas,” Spencer Research 1 Black Violin 23 An Acoustic Evening Fejérvári, piano Library, through December with Lyle Lovett & John 2 Kansas 16 Tunes at Night with Special Dole ADA Exhibit, Hiatt CS Luxem 4 Tesla Quartet 27 Dole Institute, through Eric Alexander and 19 University Dance 6 KU Wind Ensemble December Harold Mabern Company 7 “Truth Values: One Girl’s 30 KU Symphony Orches- 21 “Mamma Mia!” Lied Center events Romp rough M.I.T.’s Male tra, Halloween Concert Math Maze” SEPTEMBER 8 Vic Mensa NOVEMBER University Theatre 5 26 e Whirling Dervishes 16 “ e Magic of Bill Blagg: e Rodney Marsalis OCTOBER of Rumi Live” Philadelphia Big Brass 2-4, 6-8 “Detroit ’67,” 29 7 odos Dance Chicago Tunes at Night with 21 Tunes at Night with directed by Zach Sudbury, Rev Gusto Ebony Tusks 11 KU Jazz Ensemble I with William Inge Memorial Sean Jones, trumpet eatre

6 | KANSAS ALUMNI 16-18, 23-25 “Johanna: 20 Helianthus Contempo- NOVEMBER 15 KU Alumni online Facing Forward,” directed by rary Ensemble 2 Manhattan networking Tlaloc Rivas, Craon-Preyer 17 2 Wichita Member Tailgate, eatre Lectures Adams Center 3 Topeka NOVEMBER 20 Denver: Networking OCTOBER 4 Chapman breakfast 14-15, 19-22 “A Doll’s 21 Humanities Lecture 4 Liberal House,” directed by Peter 28 KC Network Hawktober- Series: “On the Run: Zazzali, Stage Too! 4 Independence fest at Boulevard Brewing Fugitive Life in an American Company 18, 20, 22 KU Opera: City,” Alice Goman, 9 Johnson County Blue 25-31 Alcina, Baustian eatre e Commons Valley Homecoming (for complete schedule, visit 10 Kansas City NOVEMBER homecoming.ku.edu) Murphy Hall 11 Win eld 29-31 17 Humanities Lecture J-School Generations, OCTOBER Series: “e Adventure of Stauer-Flint Alumni Events 31 1 Michael Davidson, Civility,” Krista Tippett, KU Law Homecoming Kansas Union Reception, e Oread trombone, Faculty SEPTEMBER Recital Series 20 KU School of Business 31 Member Tailgate, Adams Anderson Chandler Lecture: 24 KU College of Liberal Center 7 Pat Hughes, french horn, Arts & Sciences Distin- Visiting Artist Series Steve Wozniak, Lied Center guished Alumna Reception NOVEMBER 18 Vince Gnojek, saxophone, honoring Anne Levinson, Faculty Recital Series Academic Calendar Seattle 14 Veterans Day Run 25-27 19 Denver: Networking 20 Composition Program OCTOBER KU Black Alumni Recital Reunion, Adams Center breakfast 10-13 Fall break 23 KU Choirs: Concert 25 Colorado Springs Wine 19 KU Alumni online Choir and Women’s Chorale Tasting networking Kansas Honors 25 Midwest Double Reed 26 KU vs. Rutgers tailgate, Festival Program Piscataway, New Jersey 25 Collegium Musicum SEPTEMBER OCTOBER Directory 28 Jazz Combos 23 McPherson 3 Jayhawk Roundup n Adams Alumni NOVEMBER 28 Sedgwick 3 KU Night with the Center...... 864-4760 1 KC Horn Club, Visiting 30 Dodge City Portland Timbers n Athletics .....800-34-HAWKS Artist Series 30 Hutchinson 3 KU tailgate at Iowa State n Booth Hall 1-2 Borromeo String 30 Lawrence 6 Art History on the Rocks: of Athletics ...... 864-7050 Quartet, Visiting Artist omas Hart Benton and n Dole Institute of Series OCTOBER Bourbon, Lawrence Politics ...... 864-4900 3 8 Undergraduate Honor 7 Garden City Preview KU Tulsa n Kansas Union ...... 864-4596 Recital 10 7 Salina Member Tailgate, Adams n KU Info ...... 864-3506 5 Saxophone Quartets Center 7 Shawnee Mission n KU main 15 Kansas Virtuosi 10 Party on the Patio, 8 Hays number ...... 864-2700 16 Lawrence Tuba/Euphonium n Lied Center ...... 864-ARTS Consort 14 Ottawa 14 Dallas: Jayhawks and Java n University Theatre 17 19 El Dorado Trombone Choir 15 Familiar Wines, Unfamil- Tickets...... 864-3982 19 KU Choirs: Chamber 21 Southern Johnson County iar Places: A Guided Wine Tasting, Adams Center n Spencer Museum Singers 26 Emporia of Art ...... 864-4710

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 7 Jayhawk Walk

Pranks for the memories

P S Padgett has seen senior pranks aplenty in nine years at Wichita North High School. Heck, he approved most of them beforehand. But when senior Emily Jones handed him a bucket and said, basically, “Here, hold this,” Padgett said pranks, but no pranks. “I was wearing a luchador mask and cape,” he recalls, “because we were celebrating our wrestlers going to state.” Rather than host pep rally send-o s, Padgett, d’89, f’90, dons crazy costumes—in this case a “Nacho Libre” inspired getup—and parades the halls Oce space: The ﬁnal frontier? with cheerleaders, athletes and the marching band to inspire school spirit. “I said, ‘No way, t is good to be the boss. The latest evi- ocial explained to The Wall Street Jour- I’ve got a hall march to lead.’” Idence of which is the fanciful and massive nal that the company has “always held a Adds Padgett, “Heaven USS Enterprise-inspired company head- negative attitude toward piracy,” a stance knows what kids can put in a quarters built in China by computer gaming fearlessly embraced in deep space by Capt. bucket. I wasn’t too interested entrepreneur Dejian Liu, c’95. Kirk and his comrades-in-phasers. in nding out.” Liu, a KU chemistry alumnus hailed by It wasn’t until a batch of legal documents CNN.com as “one of China’s most wealthy arrived that CBS realized the request was men and a self-described Trekkie,” is the not a joke, and the ginormity of the entire founder of the Chinese online game de- enterprise is no laughing matter, either: 850 veloper NetDragon Websoft and a board feet long, 300 feet wide, six stories tall, member of the Chinese search-engine giant $100 million.

Baidu. Big is apparently what Liu does re- For true starship (2) SHERMAN PADGETT COURTESY ally, really well, and he seems to have stuck authenticity, how- to that strategy in dreaming up the notion ever, NetDragon of permanently landing a Sovereign-class faces a challenge Starﬂeet battle cruiser in the southeastern even more daunt- province of Fujian. ing than the terres- Before launching construction in 2010 on trial monolith’s size the founder’s pet project, NetDragon ﬁrst and cost: interplan- reached out to CBS, which holds the rights etary workforce to the “Star Trek” franchise. A NetDragon diversity.

Padgett and Jones

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI But a er his secretary told him to go with it, he Ladder of success relented. A o become a ninja, a warrior must conquer many obstacles. student walked Warped Wall. Rolling Log. Tilting Ladder. by and dropped T Academic Conference. a card in the bucket. en Mitchell VeDepo’s bid for the $1 million prize on “Ameri- another student. can Ninja Warrior” hit a snag before the bioengineering PhD And another. student stepped foot on the NBC show’s challenging obstacle course. The Kansas City regional conflicted with a Society for Each card carried NASA a Dr. Seuss quote: “My Biomaterials meeting where VeDepo was to present research goodness, how the time on tissue-engineered heart valves for children. has own/ How did it get so He arranged to compete instead in Orlando, Florida. Alas, late so soon?” Inside were on the planet’s surface, the union’s steamiest state proved a less-than-ideal locale for personal notes remembering informally named “Tombaugh attempting insanely athletic, physics-defying contortions on a acts of kindness. “ank you Regio” a er the astronomer course inspired by Mount Midoriyama, Japan’s obstacle Olym- for the shirt you gave me,” one who discovered the distant pus. VeDepo aced the first four challenges, but “a combination read. “When I didn’t have celestial body, according to of sweaty palms from the humidity and a little bit of nerves” clothes on my back, you media reports from NASA. provided.” Tombaugh, c’36, g’39, greased his grip on the Tilting Ladder. He finished 33rd out of “It was emotional,” Padgett discovered Pluto on Feb. 18, 120 contestants, missing the cut by only three spots. says. “To have a couple 1930, at the Lowell Observa- He wasn’t in it for the million, anyway. hundred kids tell you they love tory in Flagsta, Arizona. Until “On the application they ask, ‘What would you do with the you is probably not something recently, very little was known money?’ My answer was, ‘What money? I’m doing it because that happens to everybody. It about the solar system’s outlier, it looks like fun.’ It’s a big kid’s playground that I got a chance certainly made this year the which in recent years was to play on.” best of my career.” downsized to a dwarf planet. He’ll try again next year. If he does win? “I’d like to open a Padgett insists plenty of Now, thanks to images ninja warrior gym,” VeDepo says. There’s also bioengineering principals do what he does, and gathered from New Horizons’ to fall back on. “I’d like to stay in academics,” he says, “and credits Jones for being “that nine-year mission, astronomy one day be a professor.” kind of kid” who’d organize enthusiasts worldwide have After besting the Warped Wall, scaling the Ivory Tower such a gesture. e goodwill warmed to the icy body, spread beyond seniors to other especially its “heart,” estimated should be no problem. North students and teachers, to be 1,000 miles across at its and Padgett even got notes widest point—about the same from educators in California distance from Denver to and New York telling him to Chicago. keep up the good work. “We never had anywhere His message of gratitude: near this good a view of Pluto “anks for lling my bucket.” or its system,” says Barbara Anthony-Twarog, professor of

physics and astronomy at KU. WARRIOR NINJA NBC/AMERICAN COURTESY That’s amore Although the name “Tom- baugh Regio” appears to be a T C perfect t for the newfound Tombaugh’s late wife once feature, Anthony-Twarog joked was “his rst love” is explains that it still has to be giving some love back to him. approved by the International On July 13, during its Astronomical Union, the historic and much-anticipated authority on planetary yby of Pluto, NASA’s New nomenclature. Horizons spacecra captured a Let’s hope they’re as smitten VeDepo distinct, heart-shaped feature with the name as we are.

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 9 Hilltopics

Robert E. Hemenway will long be remembered for the broad-brimmed straw hat he wore at Commencement (l) and his enthusiasm for

EARL RICHARDSON athletics (opposite, in men’s basketball’s 2008 victory parade), but most of all for his compassion, intelligence and fervent belief in the power of education and discovery.

warned of dire shortcomings. He was a gentle and kind man—never once, noted KU Endowment president Dale Seuferling, j’77, did Hemenway correct anyone who pronounced his name as “Hemingway”—yet he also was stern in his expectations for preparedness and eort. Hemenway embraced KU traditions with a passion that inspired, and con- stantly reminded Jayhawks that our walk A leader and scholar down the Hill is Commencement. He abandoned his frugal refusal of a formal University mourns the loss of Chancellor Hemenway inauguration only when he was convinced by his own reading of KU history that “the here’s no arguing the fact that Robert When Hemenway became chancellor in sense of tradition” demanded ceremony. TE. Hemenway, KU’s 16th chancellor, 1995, he arrived at a University that was at He was a zealous academic who loved accomplished much in his 14 years of a crossroads. KU’s accrediting agency that sports and believed wholeheartedly in leadership at the University he came to year issued a list of nine “concerns,” varsity athletics’ ability to unite alumni in love. But if anybody would attempt to including out-of-date infrastructure, support of their alma mater. support an opposing view of his lasting under-representation of women and He supported alumni and endowment legacy, it might have been Hemenway minorities, and woeful technology. missions with his professional inuence himself. Hemenway—a literature scholar, lifelong and personal time, and he helped spur the It is a leader’s job to establish goals and teacher and author of the denitive University through startling growth in point the way, then slip behind the scenes biography of the American novelist Zora private giving. He also continually fueled and let others work the magic of their Neale Hurston—changed KU’s adminis- the life of the University one person at a labor and intelligence, he might explain. trative structure and hired business time, whether chatting with a student at would be the way of a truly ne professor David Shulenburger as the rst perched alone at a bus stop or encouraging leader, which Hemenway was indeed. provost, granting him oversight of the promising high school seniors to consider And perhaps he would have been right, Lawrence campus. Together they got to Mount Oread. but, for now, as the University community work, and within 10 years the invigorated He taught an early morning literature mourns the loss of a titan in modern KU University received a glowing report from course nearly every semester, and was so history following Hemenway’s death July the same accreditors who previously in tune with students that, under his 31, at 73, from complications of Parkin- son’s disease, his praises must be sung. “My father was an ardent believer in education,” Hemenway’s son Zach, j’04, “In the words of Zora Neale Hurston, Bob said at the Aug. 9 memorial service in the challenged us to jump at the sun. We not only Dole Institute of Politics, “and education is what took him from a small town in got o the ground; we got into orbit.” –Dale Seuferling Nebraska to see the world.” { }

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI the ground; we got into orbit.” Hemenway resigned the chancellorship Paving the ways STEVE PUPPE STEVE in 2009 and settled into a quiet little oce in a far corner of the Hall Center for the Memorial Drive next up Humanities, where he worked on long- in campus road upgrades planned book projects. When asked by Kansas Alumni in 2005 to describe the ith another successful summer of building that one day would bear his WJayhawk Boulevard reconstruction name, Hemenway expressed his hopes for completed—this time from the four-way a new home for the humanities. stop at the Sunower Road intersection to Asked the same question, Shulenburger 14th Street, between Danforth Chapel and answered that, thanks to unprecedented Spooner Hall—major campus road growth in research funding and construc- improvements will next turn to Memorial tion, it would likely be in the sciences. Drive, beginning immediately aer the guidance, KU’s too-low tuition rates were e $57-million, 210,000-square-foot May 15, 2016, Commencement. raised not over students’ objections but Robert E. Hemenway Life Sciences Like the boulevard, Memorial Drive will with enthusiastic student support. Even Innovation Center at KU Medical Center receive a total overhaul, completed in visiting accreditors were ba ed by the stands as testament both to Shulenburger’s stages, including subsurface utilities, accomplishment, and looked unsuccess- assessment and Hemenway’s vision. rebuilt concrete road surface and side- fully for students to criticize rising costs. —Chris Lazzarino walks, and improved LED lighting, with In 1998 Hemenway led the University of crimson and blue banners adorning the Kansas Hospital away from state control to lamp posts. Head-in parking will be oversight by a private hospital authority, a created on the south side of Memorial governance change that has proven wildly PUPPE STEVE Drive, likely with retaining walls built into successful, and in 2006 he issued the the hillside, and, in a signicant improve- challenge that dened his chancellorship: ment, sidewalks will be added to the north e University’s top priority would be side of the entire length of the winding designation as National Cancer Institute. road. Six years later, KU won NCI designation. In a nod to the north-slope road’s “In the words of Zora Neale Hurston, revered status as the primary home of the Bob challenged us to jump at the sun,” University’s war memorials, “e Victory Seuferling recalled. “We not only got o Eagle” now perched in front of Dyche Hall

UPDATE

he University broke better serve a modernized Kansas City. A lead gift Tground on the new medical curriculum that from retired physician Health Education Building emphasizes small-group, David Zamierowski and SUSAN YOUNGER SUSAN at KU Medical Center Aug. interdisciplinary problem- his wife, Marilyn, will fund 27. The state-of-the-art solving and simulations and simulation equipment and classroom building will interactive televideo in facilities in the Zamierowski serve as the primary training students. Institute for Experiential training center for students The $75 million building Learning. in the schools of medicine, is funded by $25 million Construction is sched- nursing and health in state bonds, $15 million uled to begin in September professions. It will enable in KU resources and $37 and wrap up by June 2017. the University to address a million in private support Fundraising will continue statewide shortage of raised by KU Endowment, during construction to cover doctors by graduating an which includes a $25 technology and equipment additional 50 doctors per million gift from the Hall expenses. year, and is designed to Family Foundation of —Steven Hill

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 11 Hilltopics

Research redux: The School of Pharmacy YOUNGER SUSAN again ranks No. 2 in the U.S. in National Institutes of Health funding, earning STEVE PUPPE STEVE $17.8 million in NIH research grants in ﬁscal 2014 according to the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. It’s the fourth time in six years that the school achieved the No. 2 ranking, and the 14th consecutive year it has ranked in the top ﬁve. KU is the only Big 12 school in the top 10.

will be moved in 2017 to a new location exhibits for KU’s Natural History Museum, along Memorial Drive, likely between the secured the 4-foot-tall statue, with a Campanile and Korean War Memorial. wingspan of more than 7 feet, for Dyche somewhere behind Strong Hall; the third e bronze statue, a World War I Hall, and it was restored and rededicated phase will conclude at Mississippi Street. memorial depicting a female bald eagle on its Mount Oread aerie in 1982. But, Once the project reaches Mississippi, defending her nesting eaglets, was part of tucked well away from the busy boulevard Modig anticipates that the current trac a massive 1920s campaign by the Victory sidewalk, “ e Victory Eagle” has never booth could be replaced with automated Highway Association to place replicas of garnered the attention and aection it gates, which will be placed higher up the the statue at every county line along U.S. deserves, both as a work of art and street, toward Bailey Hall. Similar gates on Highway 40, then a primary transconti- memorial to Americans lost in World Sunower Road, between Stauer-Flint nental highway. War I. Hall and Watson Library, are now in place, University and the trac booth at Sunower Road Architect Jim Modig, and Sunnyside Drive has been removed. a’73, is eager for that “ e booth made an extremely dicult

VALERIE SPICHER VALERIE to change. turn for buses and trucks down there at “It’s a war memo- Sunnyside,” Modig says. “Taking that out rial,” Modig says, of there then provides ease of access for “and it would be those vehicles to come up and go in great to get it down behind Wescoe and make their deliveries, there with the other and for [ocial KU] service vehicles and memorials and treat buses, it allows them to come up to the top it with respect that of the hill. All other unauthorized vehicles w ay.” won’t be allowed to proceed beyond that Memorial Drive point. at will help reduce, we hope, the reconstruction is trac conict with pedestrians at that budgeted at about $6 intersection. million. Like the “No private vehicles will be allowed e statue placed at the Douglas-Leav- Jayhawk Boulevard project, public funds through at all [during hours of restricted enworth county line, thought to be the will be used for the utilities, road surface, campus access]. Only emergency services, second in the country, was dedicated in sidewalks and lighting, and private maintenance and buses.” 1929, but, as interstate highways overtook donations will fund landscaping improve- e nal stretch of Jayhawk Boulevard their two-lane counterparts in primacy, ments. ree summers of work will begin improvements had originally been “ e Victory Eagle” became overlooked near the Vietnam War Memorial, stretch- scheduled for completion in summer and, in 1980, was vandalized and knocked ing to Snow Hall; the second summer of 2016, at the intersection of 13th Street. It is o its pedestal. work will wind from Spencer Research now scheduled for 2017. Tom Swearingen, g’60, then director of Library, past the Campanile and end —Chris Lazzarino

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI try to get these plants in the ground,” Milestones, money Habitat help Taylor says of the grants from Monsanto Corporation and e Natural Resources and other matters Monarch Watch lands two grants Defense Council. “It looks like in the next for milkweed restoration projects year and a half we are going to be donat- ing plants to people on private land, public

onarch Watch, the education, land, tribal land and some major restora- PUPPE STEVE Mconservation and research group tion programs like oil restoration and headquartered on KU’s West Campus, has mine restoration sites.” built a large following by persuading Bring Back the Monarchs asks restorers citizen scientists and gardeners that even to take at least 200 plants at a time. At the small projects can help boost imperiled recommended planting rate of 50 plants monarch butter y populations. per acre, that means the minimum site is One of the nonprot organization’s most usually 4 acres and the largest sites are in n The Association of Public Land Grant popular restoration eorts—a program the 100-acre range. While that may seem Universities named KU to its 2015 class that calls for establishing Monarch massive compared to the smallest Mon- of Innovation & Economic Prosperity Waystation gardens in homes, schools and arch Waystations, which can measure 200 Universities. The designation acknowl- workplaces—recently passed an important square feet and less, it is dwarfed by the edges universities working with public milestone by enrolling its 10,000th immensity of the problem. and private sector partners in their registered Waystation site. “To be perfectly blunt, none of the states and regions to support economic When the program was launched in eorts that are underway—ours or development through innovation and 2005, Monarch Watch founder and anybody else’s—are of sucient magni- entrepreneurship, technology transfer, director Chip Taylor, professor of ecology tude to address the scale of the loss,” talent and workforce development, and evolutionary biology at KU, hoped to Taylor says. “Yet.” and community development. Chan- reach that number in three years. But it is a start. cellor Bernadette Gray-Little called “It took 10 years to do it, but in the last “It’s a start on a way of dealing with a the designation a “signiﬁcant national year and a half we added probably 3,500 very large problem. We’re talking about recognition for KU, especially for the sites,” Taylor says. “is thing is taking having to restore 20 million acres of lost researchers whose discoveries and o .” habitat, and even with 200,000 plugs at 50 new technologies have such a profound But with some 2 million acres of plugs per acre, it’s just a drop in the bucket economic impact.” monarch habitat lost each year to develop- relative to what’s needed. It has to be a ment and overuse of pesticides, a more multiyear project, and it has to be a lot n The Kansas Board of Regents large-scale eort was needed. So Monarch bigger than what we’re doing.” approved a 3.6 percent increase in Watch in 2010 launched Bring Back the For more information on Monarch tuition and fees at each of the Monarchs, a nationwide landscape Watch habitat programs, including free six Kansas universities for restoration program that aims to restore milkweed plants for restoration projects, the current academic 20 milkweed species used by monarch visit monarchwatch.org. year. The increase raised caterpillars as food, and to support —Steven Hill tuition $158 per semester 3.6 planting of native owers that produce for undergraduate resident students nectar used by adult monarchs at KU. and other pollinators. Much like the Waystation n A $10 million award from the

program, Bring Back the PUPPE STEVE Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Monarchs has started slowly, Institute will allow KU Medical Center Taylor says. But a pair of grants to study the eectiveness of obesity landed this summer is allowing treatment options in rural communities. Monarch Watch to accelerate Christie Befort, associate professor of the program and distribute preventive medicine and public health, 200,000 free milkweed plugs for leads the project, which compares large habitat restoration three models of obesity treatment: a projects. traditional, fee-for-service model, a “Now that we’ve got these patient-centered medical home, and a donations, we’re partnering telephone-delivered disease manage- with lots of dierent people to Taylor ment program.

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Catalyst student entrepreneurship program, to develop the system, which

STEVE PUPPE STEVE will use electromagnetic signals to help drones detect other aircra on their Doctoral student Lei ight path. Shi and engineering Shi and Allen developed the radar professor system with help from colleagues in Christopher Allen aerospace engineering, and Shi has gotten collaborated on a support from the School of Business, the Self Graduate Fellows program, the radar system to Bioscience and Technology Business prevent drone Center, and KU Innovation and collisions, which Shi Collaboration, the University’s bi-campus is commercializing technology partnership and commercial- with help from KU ization oce. and NASA. e company also got a boost this summer from NASA, which awarded it a ENGINEERING Small Business Innovation Research grant With so many unmanned aircra for $122,000. NASA funds student startup crowding the skies, avoiding collisions will “It comes at a critical time, and it to keep drones on safe path become a priority. kind of validates that we’re on the right Doctoral student Lei Shi, e’05, and his track because NASA sees a need for this I foresee a time faculty adviser, Christopher Allen, e’80, technology,” Shi says of the grant. when unmanned aircra —drones, in g’82, PhD’84, professor of electrical “It also provides critical funding for popular parlance—will be a thriving, engineering and computer science, have commercialization. We’ve worked a long multi-billion-dollar industry in the United addressed that need by co-inventing a time on the research, but to actually States, used to deliver packages, capture radar system that will help drones avoid implement it requires additional stunning images on lm, aid in search and collisions. Last year Shi launched a startup funding, and that’s what this grant rescue operations and more. company, UAVradars, through the KU allows us to do.”

CLASS CREDIT

octoral student Chan Kin amphibians and reptiles.” hold many reptiles and amphib- DOnn has been fascinated In fact, the student in Rafe ians new to science. Chan will with nature since he was a child Brown’s herpetology lab at the also use KU labs to sequence in Malaysia, a “megadiverse” KU Biodiversity Institute has DNA and examine species country where new species are participated in ﬁeld research dynamics among four species COURTESY KU BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE KU COURTESY still discovered at a high rate. in his home country that has of river-dwelling frog. “I’ve always had the urge to resulted in the discovery of He will look especially explore and ‘catch stu’ for as 78 new species, work which for species whose habitat long as I can remember, and boosted the nation’s amphibian is imperiled by tourism and Malaysia is great for that be- and reptile count by more than agriculture, with an eye toward cause we have a lot of beautiful 25 percent. publicizing the threats to their habitats all over the country,” Thanks to a $20,000 grant survival. Chan’s past projects with human development,” Chan said in a KU news release. from the National Geographic have halted a proposed airport Chan said. “Unfortunately, “Whenever I could, I’d always Society, Onn will next explore expansion and stopped quarry- we’re on the losing side as make trips to forests to try to the shallow-water islands of ing that might have eradicated more areas are being destroyed ﬁnd cool stu. When I was three Malaysian mountain a rare gecko. than conserved. However, it’s younger, it was mostly bugs chains—the Bintang, Timur and “As a biologist and conser- encouraging to see our research that intrigued me, but now it’s Titiwangsa ranges—thought to vationist, we’re always at odds has bore some fruit.”

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI system,” says Pokphanh, who was formerly Milestones, money assistant dean of the Oce of Graduate

STEVE PUPPE STEVE Studies. “We introduce them to the writing and other matters center, libraries, advising and other academic tools they need to be successful. n Amie Just, a junior in the William But we also help them understand the Allen White School of Journalism and culture and what makes KU special. We’re Mass Communications, was one of six creating Jayhawks.” national winners of a 2015 Jim Murray Memorial Foundation Scholarship. Just, ENGINEERING of Funk, Nebraska, won for her column Spahr Library reopens on Cli Cushman, d’61, the KU track after renovation star and Olympian who was killed in Vietnam. She dedicated her award— which includes a $5,000 scholarship— A for a to Cushman, noting that “he made the much-needed makeover, the Spahr ultimate sacriﬁce.” Engineering Library has reopened, just in time for the start of the fall semester. n A $1.99 million grant from the e library’s renovation is just one part Department of Education will establish Pokphanh of the School of Engineering’s massive the Heartland College Assistance expansion project to accommodate an Migrant Program, a retention eort for anticipated 60-percent enrollment growth. college freshmen that expands on INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS e expansion includes the Measurement, migrant-student services oered Materials and Sustainable Environment through KU’s Achievement & Assess- Academic accelerator program Center (M2SEC); the Hill Engineering ment Institute. The principal investiga- up and running Research and Development Center; and tor on the ﬁve-year grant is Ngondi the main building expansion, also known Kamatuka, g’83, PhD’87, director of A designed to recruit as the Learned Engineering Expansion the Center for Educational Opportunity international students and provide Phase 2 (LEEP 2). Programs in the Achievement & Assess- academic, cultural and social support To answer the needs of the growing ment Institute. during their freshman year at KU hired student population and encourage two key administrators this summer as it collaborative learning, the rst oor of n The inaugural Beckman Scholars geared up for its second year. Spahr now boasts group study rooms with are Michael Cory, Wichita, and Aidan e KU Academic Accelerator Program large-screen monitors and dry-erase walls, Dmitriev, Lawrence. The new program (KUAAP), a partnership between the which can be reserved through KU funded by the Arnold and Mabel University and private company Shorelight Libraries’ online reservation service. An Beckman Foundation is designed to Education, brought on Roberta Pokphanh, improved cafeteria and a wall of self-stor- encourage undergraduate research. c’95, g’97, PhD’09, in June to serve as age lockers round out the main oor. Scholars receive $21,000 via stipend academic director, and in August More group study rooms are available and travel and supply funds, and the announced the hiring of Amy Neufeld, on the second level, as well as an enclosed scholars’ mentors each receive $5,000. PhD’13, as managing director. quiet area featuring individual workspaces KUAAP provides English language that overlook the courtyard. Laptop n James Lichtenberg, associate dean instruction and support with academic computers are available to check out, and in the School of Education who retired instruction and acculturation for new wireless Internet coverage is provided June 1, received the 2015 Lifetime international students recruited to KU by throughout the building. A librarian also Achievement Award from the Society of Shorelight. Students receive language will be onsite to assist students. Counseling Psychology Section for the instruction and take classes in the College “Overall, it’s going to enhance the study Promotion of Psychotherapy Sciences. of Liberal Arts. ose who complete the space and the research help we can In his 40-year career, Lichtenberg 12-month curriculum can enroll at KU as provide students,” says Jeromy Horkman, served as professor of education and sophomores with 30 credit hours com- c’98, director of public operations for KU director of training for the doctoral pleted toward an undergraduate degree. Libraries. “Hopefully it’ll be a great way to program in counseling psychology and About 180 students are expected to enroll turn on new students who might not have as director of the University Counseling in the program this fall. considered studying in a library, or in this Center (now Counseling & Psychology “We train them to use the University area, to use the space.” Services).

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 15 Sports by Chris Lazzarino

“is one goes on me, not on those kids,” Beaty said. “I didn’t have them prepared to get it done right. at’s a situation you don’t think about very much, but I promise you I’ll be thinking about it moving forward.” As Kansas Alumni went to press, the Jayhawks were preparing for another nonconference home game, against Memphis State, to be followed by a Sept. 26 trip to Rutgers before opening Big 12 play Oct. 3 at Iowa State. Among other highlights, they will be buoyed by the debut of junior-college transfer running back Ke’aun Kinner, who rushed for 157 yards and two touchdowns; 82 yards and three receptions by senior wide receiver Tre’ Parmalee; and a 91-yard kicko return for a touchdown by redshirt Debut disappoints freshman Ryan Schadler, a three-time state track champion at Hesston High School. Beaty era opens with tough loss; ’Hawks vow they’ll bounce back “e thing that I was most encouraged by was, although there wasn’t a lot of omewhere down the road, if the failed. e biggest error of the game came rah-rah going on the sideline, I didn’t see Sreconstruction of KU football pro- in the thrilling nal seconds: A bobbled deated kids over there, and that is huge,” gresses as planned, perhaps three or more snap foiled junior quarterback Montell Beaty said. “It’s obviously unbelievably seasons from now, David Beaty’s rst game Cozart’s hopes of spiking the ball to stop disappointing right now. at was a very as head coach might be fondly remem- the clock, preventing strong-legged junior tough locker room to look into for my bered as an important rst step, what kicker Matthew Wyman from sprinting rst day as a head football coach in coaches like to call a teachable moment onto the 105-degree eld to attempt a Division I football. ose kids, they that set the tone for a long journey. 55-yard eld goal with a strong wind at his battled, and I’m really proud of them for In the immediate aermath of the back to send the game into overtime. that. ey kept ghting, and that’s been Jayhawks’ sweat-soaked, 41-38 loss Sept. 5 “It would have been fun to see how it something that we’ve been stressing from to South Dakota State, though, it was played out,” Beaty said aerward. the day we got here.” dicult for players and coaches to take e coach did not blame the quarter- As he reected on what might have been much solace in the long view. back—who rallied from a fumble and a had he gotten the chance to attempt a Sure, the young Jayhawks, playing with bad interception, both of which led to about as many scholarship players as their South Dakota State touchdowns, to lower-division opponents, fought back complete 25 of 38 passes for 291 yards and gamely from a stunning, 31-7 de cit early a touchdown, along with 95 yards rush- in the second quarter, and were positioned ing—and instead insisted it was his own PUPPE (2) STEVE to take a one-point lead early in the fourth fault. But reaching beyond the usual quarter had they been able to score a coach-speak, Beaty oered a detail that touchdown aer gaining a rst-and-goal at illuminates his thoughts on game prepara- the 6-yard-line. tion: He failed, Beaty explained, because But the Jayhawks squandered that he did not think to drill quarterbacks on opportunity, settling for a 23-yard eld how to execute a rapid recovery should goal aer two running plays and a fade they fumble the snap when attempting a Cozart route to the le corner of the end zone all spike in the nal seconds of a game.

16 | KANSAS ALUMNI game-tying eld goal, Wyman admitted, “It’s hard to deal with. Final play of the game; it’s the one play that matters. But “That was a very tough locker room to look into for we’ll bounce back.” my ﬁrst day as a head football coach in Division I football. Those kids, they battled, and I’m really Good as gold {}proud of them for that.” —football coach David Beaty KU, as Team USA, sweeps World University Games including two free throws to send the he rst hint that the KU men’s game to its rst overtime and a driving

Tbasketball team’s participation as the layup with nine seconds remaining to send PUPPE (2) STEVE USA National Team in the World Univer- it to OT No. 2, was named the Finals MVP. sity Games might turn out to be some- Junior guard Wayne Selden Jr., the thing special came in two June exhibition tournament’s second-leading scorer with games against Team Canada in Kansas 19.3 points per game, was named World City’s Sprint Center. University Games Best Player. ough forced to play without injured “is right here,” Selden said, holding guards Brannen Greene, a junior, and alo his gold medal, “it’s my rst one of sophomore Devonte’ Graham, and these. We’re happy about this. We’re going sophomore guard Svi Mykhailiuk and to cherish this moment.” newly recruited forward Cheick Diallo, Team USA wobbled in the July 3 opener international players ineligible to compete against Turkey, trailing 36-32 until a 12-2 for Team USA, the Jayhawks showed a run helped launch a 66-57 victory, resilience against the determined Canadi- promptly followed by victories over Brazil, ans that reminded coach Bill Self and fans Chile, Serbia, how fun it can be to watch a team loaded Switzerland and with experienced talent. e last KU team Lithuania. In the Frank Mason III returned from with as much experience as this bunch, rst World the World University Games Self noted, was 2012, when the Jayhawks University Games with more than a gold medal, marched all the way to the NCAA medal-round game as attested by the pins he Tournament championship game. for a Team USA collected in trades with fellow But the Jayhawks were new to interna- squad since 2009, tional play and in Gwangju, South Korea, USA toppled competitors from around would face older, stronger players. Russia, 78-68, to the globe. “I just want the kids to go over there and advance to the title have fun and compete,” Self said in Kansas game against Germany. their season begins Nov. 13 against City, “and see what happens.” “If you had told me before the trip that Northern Colorado (following Late Night What happened was gold. we could get to the medal round and we’d in the Phog Oct. 9 and exhibition games Aer their 84-77 double-overtime have a shot at playing for the bronze or Nov. 4 and 10). victory over Germany in the July 13 whatever, it would be a great trip,” Self said With Graham ready to assume more championship game, the Jayhawks aer the hard-fought win over Russia. “But point-guard responsibilities, freeing emerged from the grueling, eight-game here we are. Our guys haven’t settled for Mason to nally establish himself in his tournament energized about their pros- that at all. is is a team that started the more natural position of o-guard, Selden, pects for the season to come. tournament down 11 or 12 to Turkey in too, will be allowed to shrug o the “Our team really bonded, came the rst quarter, scared to death, and now shackles imposed on him as a secondary together,” Self said aer the gold medal we’re in attack mode.” ball handler and focus instead on creating game. “We were dead tired, no legs, no li, e Jayhawks hope to use the experi- scoring opportunities from the wings. couldn’t make a shot, and then basically ence gained in the fast-paced international Self remains hopeful that McDonald’s just kind of willed ourselves to win late.” game—which features a 24-second shot All-American power forward Diallo— Junior guard Frank Mason III, who clock as opposed to the NCAA’s 35—to who, Self promises, runs the oor better scored 18 points against Germany, unleash a similarly uptempo pace when than any big man he has had in his 12

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 17 Sports previous seasons at Kansas—will be a big saw no need for the grueling drills: part of the fast-paced attack; yet, as of His players were all on campus this Kansas Alumni press time, KU was still summer, training hard, and they JEFF JACOBSEN awaiting certi cation of Diallo’s high reported to camp in the best shape school transcript by the NCAA. of any group he’s yet had. With “at group that went to Korea, they tness concerns no longer a played great,” Self told students at Tradi- distraction, Francis focused on tions Night, as reported by the Lawrence making oensive adjustments to Journal-World. “But you could look at it, feature the strengths of senior potentially, that we could have had four of mid elder Liana Salazar, the Big our top eight guys not even travel. at 12’s second-leading scorer last gets me excited.” season. “Liana had a great season last year and we expect her to have another great one On the attack this year,” Francis says. Coach Mark Francis (l) crafted an “Our system this year is oªense to feature high-scoring Francis designs oense to feature going to allow her a lot of midfielder Liana Salazar. Salazar’s goal-scoring prowess freedom and opportunity to attack and get into the n his 17th season as KU’s soccer coach, attack, but from a deeper talented oensive player,” had a IMark Francis has always used a position.” goal, an assist and seven shots in preseason tness test to motivate players KU opened the season the rst two victories, at SMU and to arrive in the best shape possible. For the 2-1-1, all road games. Freshman Parker North Texas, and was named Big 12 rst time in his career, Francis this year Roberts, described by Francis as “a very Freshman of the Week. Enjoy the KU Football game-day atmosphere on the first floor of the Adams Alumni Center. Join fellow Jayhawks for UPDATES family-friendly activities and an easy walk to Memorial Stadium.

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Montell Cozart (2) helped KU generate 576 yards of total oense in the opener against San Diego State, the Jayhawks’ best mark in eight years; safety Tevin Shaw (30) crushed dangerous receiver Jake Wieneke; Tre’ Parmelee (11) caught three passes; Ke’aun Kinner (22) fought for tough yards; Kent Taylor (81) stretched for a sideline pass in the end zone; and coach David Beaty guided the action in his ﬁrst game as a college head coach.

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 21 22 | KANSAS ALUMNI by Steven Hill

Linked by a century of ﬁeld study, two KU scientists boost global understanding of a biodiversity hot spot

afe Brown had been confused with the foot-long earthworms searching for the rare, native to the region. Upon discovering a amphibious creature new caecilian species in the 1920s, Taylor known as a Malatgan himself initially tossed the creature to the River caecilian since 1994. ground a er misidentifying it. “I noticed, Now, nearing the end of a 2014 research though, that it moved more like a snake trip to catalog biodiversity on the island of than an earthworm,” Taylor wrote half a Palawan in collaboration with the local century later in his memoir, “and I picked Centre for Sustainability, the herpetologist it up again and examined it carefully. It had come to the National Museum of the was no worm. It had a mouth with four Philippines in Manila to see a purported rows of teeth!” specimen collected by a student volunteer So when Brown watched the student working with the museum’s herpetology reach into an aquarium at the National division. Museum and withdraw what he knew Brown, associate professor of ecology immediately was an earthworm, he gured and evolutionary biology and curator-in- the mysterious, disappearing caecilian charge of the herpetology division at KU’s remained—like so many of Taylor’s Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Philippine discoveries—lost to science. Museum, had his doubts about the nd. He broke the news gently. Since the Malatgan River caecilian was “I’m like, ‘Oh, no, sorry, that’s a worm,’” discovered, in 1920, by herpetologist Brown recalls. “And then the student says, Edward Taylor, c’12, g’20, PhD’26, it had ‘Oh, OK. Hey, here’s another one.’ And he largely disappeared. “A er Taylor there hands me the real deal: a caecilian.” Portrait by Steve Puppe was one specimen, from the early 1970s,” e prank—herp humor!—turned into Brown says. “And there was no habitat “kind of a bucket list moment” for Brown; data with the ’70s specimen.” Even when it was also the latest in a long chain of found, the elusive amphibians are o en nds and rediscoveries that link the

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 23 BY WILLIAM E. DUELLMAN, PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES, 2015 THE STUDY FOR THE SOCIETY WILLIAM E. DUELLMAN, PUBLISHED BY BY KANSAS: A CENTENNIAL HISTORY AT HERPETOLOGY

Edward Taylor’s world-class collecting career began at KU, on a 1909 summer trip by wagon to western Kansas (above). By the time he died, in 1978, he had discovered and named 500 species and collected 75,000 specimens in ﬁeld trips to the Philippines, Costa Rica, Thailand and Mexico (right). Among his ﬁnds was the parachute gecko (cover), discovered in 1915. Brown (page 22) later added specimens of the long-lost species—encountered during his early forays into the Philippines in the 1990s—to the vast herpetological collection at the KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum.

24 | KANSAS ALUMNI current herpetology division leader with pines, beginning in the early ’90s as an the man recognized as the founding father undergraduate at Miami University in of both Philippine herpetology and the Ohio, and continuing during his graduate KU program that has become one of the study at the University of Texas (where his nation’s best for the study of reptiles and mentors included KU alumnus and amphibians. Taylor’s rst academic MacArthur “genius award” winner David publication, “New Species of Philippine Hillis, g’83, g’86, PhD’86), Brown has Lizards,” in 1915, is now celebrated as the closely studied Taylor’s early monographs, start of a century of herpetology at KU, a seeking clues to a time when the vast milestone observed most recently at the old-growth forests that blanketed the annual conference of the Society for the archipelago were home to exotic species Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, which like the parachute gecko, a apped and the Biodiversity Institute hosted July 31 to fringed work of evolutionary fancy so Aug. 3. Aer joining the faculty in 1926, extravagant as to be barely believable to a Taylor launched the program that Brown boy, like Brown, who grew up chasing now heads, roaming the same Dyche Hall frogs in Ohio farm country. environs that are Brown’s campus “Taylor writes about it in his memoirs headquarters. in this really poetic way, says something But even before Brown came to KU, in like ‘Little skin aps graced its body and Laticauda colubrina 2005, the two men were connected by it had denticulate lobes down the tail as their shared love of the Philippines: Brown if lace had been sewn on for decoration,’” focuses most of his research on the he recalls. “I was like, ‘Oh my god, what archipelago, and Taylor, who died in 1978, would it be like to see one of these things casts a long shadow there as the earliest in life? at’s the most absurd lizard ever.’” cataloger of Philippine fauna. “e big When he nally made it to the Philippines, six weeks and never collections were all Taylor’s,” Brown says, Brown was setting up camp in the caught another one.” noting that the world’s understanding of backyard of a research station when In the years since, he the region’s rich biodiversity is based on someone borrowed his ashlight to has oen retraced research paths blazed by Taylor’s voracious, systematic cataloging of investigate nearby trees. “ey came back Taylor, searching for his predecessor’s lost Philippine fauna. “He was the one who and said, ‘I caught this really strange species and engaging in a kind of scientic really targeted amphibians and reptiles— lizard, have you ever seen one of these?’” detective work that seeks to solve a basic and he was also collecting everything else he says. “And there it was. e rst night. I mystery: Was Ed Taylor—the energetic along the way.” just couldn’t believe it. We were there for collector and maverick herpetologist, the But the specimens Taylor deposited in mercurial personality praised in one the National Museum were destroyed obituary as a “giant” and maligned in during the rebombing of Manila in another as a “veritable ogre,” the pathnd- World War II. Many species he discov- ing discoverer who named hundreds of ered—like the Malatgan River caecilian— new species and saw many debunked have been seen only rarely or not at all before he died—was Ed Taylor actually SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY SPENCER RESEARCH since Taylor found them, leading many to right? conclude that either the widespread logging and burning of Philippine forests led to their extinction, or that Taylor had y his own estimate, Taylor named erred in designating them as new species Babout 500 new species and collected in the rst place. Adding to the contro- more than 75,000 specimens in eld trips versy, a 1954 taxonomic review by Field to the Philippines, Mexico, Costa Rica and Museum herpetologist Robert Inger ailand. But one of the great careers in “sunk” more than half of the Philippine herpetology eld research started rather amphibians that Taylor named, eectively modestly in the summer of 1909, when concluding that the critters were in fact Taylor, a young zoology student just past members of species already known to his freshman year at KU, set out with three science, not entirely new species as Taylor other students and a professor on a claimed. biological survey of western Kansas. ey Since his earliest forays to the Philip- traveled by covered wagon.

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 25 He drew two unenviable assignments: At 23, having completed his rst KU he’d had ‘tee many martoonis,’ as he called Because he was a strong swimmer, he degree in three-and-a-half years, he it .” spent most of his time in the water, decided to forgo job hunting and declared Duellman joined the faculty in 1959, clearing debris from the seine used to net instead, “I think I shall go abroad and hunt when Taylor, then 70, had le the museum sh specimens. And he was tasked with adventure.” e Philippines in 1912 was a but still taught and conducted research. collecting a barrel of water snakes. good place to nd it. Taylor’s Philippine “He was a legend at that point,” says Trueb, “e barrel was a very large one,” he sojourns, recounted vividly in his memoir, “ercely independent. When Bill walked later wrote, “and I must confess my Recollections of an Herpetologist, read like in he almost had to assume his mantle. inadequacy in that at the end of our work I an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel: He e Ed Taylor mantle. He passed it on.” had the barrel only about two-thirds full.” snatches a cobra barehanded and faces Harry Greene, professor of herpetology He caught malaria—apparently not an down spear-wielding headhunters, Malay at Cornell University and a keynote uncommon ailment at the time in pirates and the occasional crocodile; he speaker at the SSAR conference this Kansas—and suered so much on the even uses his knowledge of a coming solar summer, credits Duellman and Trueb with return trip that the little expedition had to eclipse to convince his tribal hosts that he building a herpetology program at KU. stop and bed him down in a barn until he has the powers of a god. “ey started a program where for the regained the strength to continue. Wilder still are the tales Taylor le out last 40 or 50 years there’s been a critical It was one of the few times that Taylor of his autobiography, but hinted at mass of grad students drawn from all over failed to excel in the competitive sport of tantalizingly in conversation: that in 1918 the world, postdocs and international specimen collecting. By the time he made he was part of a covert U.S. mission to visitors, just seething herpetology,” Greene his last eld trip, a 1966 Panama excursion rescue the czar and his family in Russia, says. “And they’ve spun curators, profes- that resulted in the discovery of nine new that he spied for the OSS during World sors, members of the National Academy of species of caecilians, he had hunted herps War II, participating in the capture of a Sciences, and international leaders out of on four continents and many islands Japanese spy who later ended up at KU as that little hallway down in the herp around the world, becoming one of the a postdoctoral student in entomology. division. at’s a big deal to go from Taylor world’s leading authorities on amphibians “No one’s ever going to know the to that.” and reptiles. Most of his 75,000 specimens absolute truth of it,” says Linda Trueb, c’62, Taylor, it seems, was less a builder than a commanded princely sums when he sold PhD’68, curator emerita of herpetology gatherer. A ravenous, tireless collector in the collections to leading American and associate director for nance at the the eld, he was so hungry for specimens museums, but nearly 10,000 ended up in Biodiversity Institute. “One of the things that he o en took great risks to get them. the herpetology holdings at KU, where Ed did very well was build expectation but “He claimed he found things by crawling they formed the core of a collection that never fulll it. He’d hint.” on his knees and feeling the leaf litter with now numbers 340,000, the h-largest in “Especially,” adds William Duellman, his hands,” Greene says. “ere’s a lot of the nation. professor emeritus of herpetology, “when stu that will hurt you if you do that.” A Hundred Years of Herps

Herpetology at Kansas: recognized as a top-five made Ford camper truck with A Centennial History program in the country. their 4-year-old daughter, Chapters focus on prominent Dana, and collection manager by William E. Duellman professors past (Ed Taylor, John Simmons). Biographical Society for the Study of Henry Fitch, Linda Trueb, sketches and photos of the 138 Amphibians and Reptiles, $40 Joseph Collins) and present herpetology alumni (80 of (Rafe Brown, Rich Glor), whom were in attendence at research trends (the rise of the SSAR convention held at KU systematics, biogeography and this summer) round out an ince joining the faculty in herpetology research and phylogenetics) and memorable insightful history of the S1959, William Duellman, education firsthand. Herpetology field trips (including the epic scientific study of reptiles and professor emeritus of at Kansas records the evolution “Trip of Dreams” to South amphibians and KU’s essential herpetology, has seen more of the Biodiversity Institute America that Duellman and role in it. than half of KU’s century of division as it grew into what is Trueb undertook in a custom- —S.H.

26 | KANSAS ALUMNI joined a 1993 research team from the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History STEVE PUPPE STEVE that Brown joined as an undergraduate. (“Rafe was a typical college dude,” Dies- mos recalls, “a rock ’n’ roll kid, just gung-ho about collecting stu .”) He was there when Brown made his rst Taylor discoveries, resurrecting ve species of stream frogs that Taylor had described and Inger had sunk back into a single species. And they were together on the island of Luzon in 1998 when Brown resurrected another long-lost Taylor nd. “We were sitting on the forest oor, listening to calls, smoking, talking about our dreams for herpetology, what we wanted to do and what we should work on,” Diesmos recalls, “and it starts raining.” Rain is a stroke of luck for frog hunters: William Duellman and Linda Trueb helped build KU’s herpetology division into a top-ﬁve program It gets frogs talking, and suddenly an area before handing the reins to Brown in 2005. “Rafe is carrying on the Taylor tradition,” Trueb says, that appeared barren of amphibian life can “because he’s not just sitting behind a lab bench thinking great thoughts; he’s doing ﬁeld work and be revealed as teeming with it. giving his graduate students the kind of training that happens so few places anymore.” From the raucous chorus they picked out an unfamiliar voice—“we heard a strange, pulsing call and didn’t know what His eld notes sketch a scorched earth whereabouts, sometimes noting only that it was,” Diesmos says. ere was no way approach to specimen gathering—“rape a specimen was collected somewhere in a they were climbing the spiky, 12-foot and pillage, we call it now,” Trueb jokes— day’s ride along a horseback forest trail screw pine the sound was coming from, so with only cursory attention paid to the between Philippine villages—routes that they asked their guide—a young boy natural history of the animals collected. In are now four-lane highways linking cities. they’d hired from a local village—to chop a chapter on Ed Taylor in his new book, “Maybe that’s one of the things that it down. Herpetology at Kansas: A Centennial makes it more like detective work,” Brown “It fell on us, but we were able to capture History, Duellman writes, “By the stan- muses. “In his notes he should have told us the frog,” Diesmos says, grinning. It was dards of any herpetologist today, Taylor’s how he caught the caecilian; all he said Platymantis cornutus, the horned forest eld notes would receive a D-minus.” was, ‘If you have a shovel you can get frog. Discovered by Taylor in 1922 in these “He did things we’d never do today,” them.’ We’re like, ‘Huh, OK, guess that same mountain forests of northern Luzon, Brown agrees, taking out one of his own means we’ve got to dig. at’s all we know.” it was right where he said it would be. eld notebooks to show how researchers “When we found it, we were celebrating, tag every specimen with a unique number shouting. Many people thought it was and record a slew of precise observations: rown’s earliest and closest research extinct. But in the rain we found many time, date, habitat type; size, weight and Bcollaborator in the Philip- more; they were common.” sex; GPS coordinates. Taylor had no access pines is Arvin Diesmos, at pattern repeated with to GPS, of course, but he also reused tags curator of herpetology Platymantis montanus and and relied on memory, recording data days at the National other species: Field searches aer specimens were collected. Looking at Museum in showed Taylor species Taylor’s notebooks, Brown says, “I can Manila. e two thought to be extinct almost see what was happening: He was met in the early were still living right traveling so fast, collecting along the way, ’90s, and where Taylor found moving quick and dirty from site to site, Diesmos—who them. then trying to write down what he saw studied with the “What we learned is aer a week’s work.” eminent there’s really no ese century-old eld notes, gathered Philippine in dusty notebooks in the herp division’s herpetologist library, o er scant clues about Taylor’s Angel Alacala— Platymantis cornutus

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 27 save what remains. o en nding that frogs or snakes thought “e Philippines has to be a single widespread species are STEVE PUPPE STEVE always been viewed as actually several smaller, rarer species. very poor in species, “at, in turn, informs authorities of the mainly because it was enormous diversity of amphibians and assumed that many of reptiles they have, which ones are rare and its herpetofauna were endangered, and which need to be already known, preserved and protected,” Krishtalka says, especially a er the noting that Brown’s contributions extend publication of the to educating local ocials, scholars and monograph by Inger,” students in conservation biology and Diesmos says. “at providing authorities with genetic tools to assumption we know use “biodiversity forensics” to protect was incorrect.” wildlife exploited by the illegal pet trade. In fact, Brown’s most Brown’s research has helped boost ambitious project to conservation eorts for a tiny primate date—a $900,000 called a tarsier, established an online National Science archive of frog calls and other animal Foundation-funded sounds, and supplied the rst major comprehensive survey survey of a potentially devastating of land vertebrates and amphibian fungus. In 2014, Brown (along their parasites that with Biodiversity Institute researchers wrapped up in 2014— Town Peterson and Rob Moyle) won a struck a hopeful note $125,000 NSF grant to survey damage to by nding that many biodiversity at eight forest sites devastated species have survived by Super Typhoon Haiyan. Along the way the widespread he has discovered more than 50 new Philippine specimens collected by Brown, his students and his deforestation that has species, including two species of monitor Philippine collaborators have reconfirmed many Taylor finds and claimed something like lizards, previously unknown to science, discovered new species as well, deepening understanding of the 85 percent of Philippine which he found for sale at a street market. country’s rich biodiversity. “That detective work has been a lot of forests in the last 100 Science can’t know every species that fun,” Brown says of poring over his predecessor’s field notebooks years. calls the Philippines home, Brown says. (right) to retrace his research steps. “It’s incredible how “But I feel like the biodiversity is so many species have underestimated in the Philippines, even survived the removal of for a place that’s already recognized as a substitute for going out in the eld, to the big forests,” Brown says. “e conser- global conservation hot spot. I want to listen to them, to see the animal alive,” vation community really treated the know, is it underestimated by 10 percent? Diesmos says. “It was a huge lesson, when Philippines as a lost cause; everyone just Fi y percent? If it’s badly underestimated, we were in the eld at night and it started expected everything to go extinct because can I do something about it in a dozen raining and we’d hear dierent calls from of the loss of all that forest. e doomsday years, or if we work really hard on it for what we had thought was just one species prophecies about extinction really didn’t ve years can we change the situation?” of frog. It blew us away.” happen—which is kind of exciting for me.” When Brown began his quest to retrace It also conrmed Brown’s hunch, Indeed, Brown’s importance to the Taylor’s research steps—a trek that nurtured from the moment he discovered conservation movement is widely known. sometimes takes him and Diesmos into Taylor’s work, that the foundational gure “He is an international leader in fostering still-isolated jungle and other times into in Philippine herpetology, the man whose conservation of biodiversity in southeast landscapes completely transformed since work is assignment No. 1 for budding Asia, especially in the Philippines,” notes Taylor’s day by logging, agriculture or Filipino herpetologists, was spot on in Leonard Krishtalka, Biodiversity Institute urbanization—the number of known many of his species designations. at, in director. “And he does it in a way that is Philippine amphibian species was about turn, meant that Philippine biodiversity, comprehensive.” Detailed surveys of local 80. at count is now 108, and once the thought to have suered greatly because of fauna—o en for the rst time in half a papers they are currently writing are deforestation, was actually far richer than century or more—establish baseline data published, Brown and Diesmos say, that scientists knew—and consequently far about wildlife populations. Genetic number will top 200. ey have more more worthy of conservation eorts to analysis gives a more detailed picture, than doubled Philippine amphibians’

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI family tree in the last 20 years. recalls. “Being in the eld, collecting, that would be pretty sloppy, because we have Before he decided to see for himself, was the charmed part of his life.” such better tools, such better data now.” Brown heard that the forests had been He would never retrace his Philippine e generation of herpetologists right butchered, that the country was a lost steps, but he le a record of them—the before Taylor weren’t even doing eld- cause. His work is proving that’s not the vaguest of traces—for anyone else who work, Brown notes. “ey were just case. Locating and resurrecting Taylor’s cared to. Decades later, Rafe Brown took getting the specimens from professional species (he has resurrected 25 to 30 of the up the trail. collectors already preserved, so they didn’t 44 Inger sunk, with another half-dozen in From time to time Brown is reminded get to see the animals in life, didn’t know the works) and discovering new ones, he of that connection. Circling Bunuwan in a much about their habitat. Taylor got that believes, means “leaving this incredibly plane, he looks down, sees water coursing, extra bit of information by seeing them beautiful country a little more biodiverse realizes this is the river, this is the only way in life. A lot of the time he had a pretty than I found it.” he could have gotten into the interior. s h ar p e y e .” at, Brown says, is his mission. “at’s Traveling by ferry from Mindanao to Much has changed. But the basic the raw fuel for conservation.” Manila, passing the island of Mindoro, he draw—the urge to go a eld, to wander, to thinks, this is the path Taylor’s boats would explore, the child’s curiosity to pick up a have taken, this is the coastline he’d have frog, a snake, a lizard, to see for oneself— dward Taylor’s initial two-year been looking at. “ere’s something about that hasn’t changed. at is the sturdy root Eadventure in the Philippines clearly having my rst herpetological experiences of science. had a hold on him. Watching the coastline in the Philippines and latching on to “e best thing, for me, is late at night disappear as he sailed away from “the Taylor’s writing then, that I just keep going out in the forest aer a heavy rainstorm wonderful island of magic, Mindanao,” he back to it,” Brown says. “It’s not something and the frogs are just dripping o the mused, “What was hidden in the moun- I think about every day, but he keeps trees,” Brown says. “I get to see this tains and jungles beyond the ranges? cropping up.” diversity I’ve read about and know only Would someone nd the source of the Much has changed. e archipelago’s from stilted telegraphic descriptions of gold that we panned in the river? Would I once-mighty forests have been slowly Latin and technical terms and then I get go back and retrace those footsteps?” stripped by man. e trip, grueling to hold the frog in my hand, and it’s just Recollections of an Herpetologist ends enough by jet, is nothing compared to the amazing: It’s really there. He was right. abruptly with a brief summary of a second weeks aboard ship that Taylor endured— Taylor’s right. Once again.” stint in the islands and says nothing about and is a farther cry still his later travels in Latin America and Asia. from the jostling covered It was published in 1975, three years wagon ride that launched before his death. Taylor’s global collecting Around that time a young Rafe Brown career. Science has moved from his house near the Cincinnati advanced as well: Brown

Zoo (where from the front porch he could is using genetic tools such LIBRARY SPENCER RESEARCH hear gibbons, peacocks and elephants) to a as DNA sequencing that farm in southwestern Ohio, where he were beyond imagining caught black rat snakes and carried them when Taylor explored home as pets. Taylor had done the same as these jungles—using a boy in Maysville, Missouri, and he them to prove that, continued keeping snakes as a KU student despite the limitations he living in the Lawrence home of Gov. faced, Taylor got much of Walter Stubbs—once showing o his prize it right. captive to an approving houseguest named “He de nitely made Teddy Roosevelt. mistakes,” Brown says. William Duellman says that whenever “By today’s standards he and Linda Trueb and their graduate some of his practices students returned from eld trips, Taylor insisted on hearing every detail of where they’d been and what they’d done. “He’d say, ‘Oh, my feet itch to get in the eld again.’” Duellman SUSAN YOUNGER SUSAN

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 29 Eric Jay and Matt Jones

30 | KANSAS ALUMNI Design-build group breathes new life into East Lawrence’s historic homes and ’hood

tanding vacant at the corner of Matt Jones and Eric Jay, longtime 10th and Delaware streets, the friends who grew up together in shabby two-story house was Newton, reconnected in Lawrence. hardly inviting. Its chipped, Jones, f’01, was building furniture in a bleached-yellow siding did little small garage in East Lawrence and had toS shield a tired frame that rested on its just started picking up larger restoration buckling foundation and rotting oors. projects when Jay moved back from Inside, termites had ravaged the walls. Colorado, where he had been designing e structure, across from Hobbs Park high-end, custom residences in a resort in East Lawrence, dated back to the early community. 1900s and had been a longstanding rental e timing was perfect. e two property in its prime. But recent neglect decided to merge their talents—Jones’ had taken its toll. crasmanship in woodworking and Jay’s “It was just a shell of a house,” says expertise in architecture—to form a Simon Bates, who in 2009 purchased the full-service, design-build company, home with his wife, Codi, c’14. “It was Struct/Restruct. abandoned. Cats were living in there.” While Jay is typically the one at a desk But the home’s proximity to Lawrence’s rendering project plans, Jones, who lively downtown area was appealing, and, earned a degree in industrial design, is at the time, real-estate pickings on the no stranger to taking pencil in hand and east side of town were slim. e Bateses took a chance on the sketching ideas of his own. xer-upper, and they knew exactly who should lead its “I was originally going to go into architecture,” he restoration. explains. “I liked design, but I also liked building. I was In 2008, just a year before the Bateses bought the property, drawn to the common shop.”

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Portraits by Steve Puppe Project photography by Heather Smith Jones

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 31 1001 Delaware

Jones and Jay preserved elements of the Bateses’ original structure (p. 31) when possible, retaining the rustic ceiling beams and yellow pine ﬂoors to provide plenty of rich texture and warmth. The home’s kitchen showcases several dierent types of hardwood creations, including a built-in bar and cabinetry, all from locally sourced lumber.

3232 | |KANSASKANSAS ALUMNI ALUMNI At KU, Jones was inspired by an instructor who was a furniture designer “For Eric, it’s more about the space. For me, and builder. He agreed to help teach a materials workshop class. “ at’s how I got it’s more about the material. I’m pretty inspired interested in furniture design,” he says. by the materials and what they can do.” —Matt Jones Although Jones and Jay regularly collaborate on ideas for project designs, when it comes to execution, each brings the wood is great, because it’s not a ow in its seventh year, Struct/Restruct his own contribution to the table. cookie-cutter idea or concept. It’s one of a Nhas made a name for itself in town, “For Eric, it’s more about the space,” kind,” Simon Bates says. “ ere’s nowhere thanks to strong designs that marry Jones says. “For me, it’s more about the else in the world that has this bar top, this modern architecture with vintage con- material. I’m pretty inspired by the window ledge or this oor.” struction and creative use of reclaimed, materials and what they can do.” In the Bateses’ house, that meant incorporating salvageable contents from the home with outside materials, both new and reclaimed, including shingles from a century-old house in North Lawrence and roof sheathing from the Poehler building in East Lawrence, which was undergoing renovation of its own. Although the main frame of the home had deteriorated, Jones and Jay were able to save it, along with a portion of the original ooring, siding and stones from the foundation. ey built an addition to the south side, complete with a glass- roofed hallway that connects the historic structure to its modern counterpart. To boost the home’s livable space, they hoisted it from its original foundation and poured a new concrete basement. Jones procured eight dierent types of wood for the home’s interior, including some spalted maple and a “wormy” ash—materials that are “so much fun they just have to be used”—which found their way into the second- and rst-oor bathrooms. Aromatic cedar, recovered from a tree downed during a microburst storm in Lawrence in 2006, became part of the home’s ooring and trim. e Bateses, who knew they wanted a home rich in wood and texture, got their wish. “ e warmth and crasmanship of

Struct/Restruct’s signature mix of modern architecture and sturdy craftsmanship is evident throughout this 1870s structure. A 933 Delaware unique blend of local raw materials created this home’s staircase, trim and doors.

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 33 Decade Coffee Shop

Struct/Restruct completed this East Lawrence hangout, at 920 Delaware St., in spring 2014. The custom-built tables and chairs are crafted from yellow pine and Baltic birch and feature unique, hand-stenciled designs. The stools are reclaimed elm, oak and box elder woods. reusable and local materials. business took shape. One of the rst Struct/Restruct restored. From 2008 to One source of such material is the city projects Jones and Jay tackled was the 2010 he studied more than 700 homes in itself. e rm has an agreement with the renovation of 933 Delaware St., a pint-size the neighborhood’s core, visiting with City of Lawrence, as well as local tree home built in the 1870s. ey now have 12 current residents and researching each services, to save cut trees and logs—even employees, including a few KU graduates home’s architectural and historical ones with evidence of disease, like fungus who started as interns, and they have signi cance. or borer insects. ey all make their way completed more than 30 large-scale home “ese homes are cultural products, just into the crew’s projects as siding, ooring, renovations. like books or art,” Domer says. “ey tell furniture or cabinetry. Most of Struct/Restruct’s current us a lot about who we are, how we did “Some of the custom things we do have projects are in East Lawrence, an area rife things, what we believe in and how those to be unique because we’re not trying to with homes in disrepair, some of which are things change over time.” compete with larger manufacturers,” says under close watch by the city because of Domer notes that many years ago, East Jones. “We’re doing things that are more the extent of deterioration. e cost of Lawrence wasn’t really a desirable place to unusual in these spaces.” rehabilitating a home, not to mention the live. “It was just kind of bypassed,” he says. It’s not just the exceptional visual quality historical implications involved in its “It was kind of funky; some people even of the material that inspires Jones and renovation, can be daunting to a property thought it was blighted. It wasn’t a cool Jay—where it comes from is just as owner or a potential buyer, and that makes place to be.” important. “e materials we choose demolition an appealing alternative for oentimes have a story that enriches the some—but not Jones and Jay. value of the product,” Jones says. “It ties “We’ve had people wonder why we’re bout the time Struct/Restruct was everything together.” putting so much money into these older Ahitting its stride with home restora- Case in point: For one of their current houses in this neighborhood,” Jay says. tions, another neglected building in town jobs, a large-scale home restoration at 904 “But there’s a textural element that the was making a comeback. Pennsylvania St., Jones secured corrugated history provides.” e historic Poehler Mercantile Co. metal from a decrepit barn. “at barn has Dennis Domer, g’69, PhD’80, a historic grocery warehouse at 832 Pennsylvania St., a history,” he says. preservationist and retired professor of which was abandoned for years in East Struct/Restruct maintains a woodwork- architecture and American studies at KU, Lawrence’s industrial district, was con- ing shop and oce space on the east side has documented several historic homes in verted in 2012 to 49 artist lo apartments, of town, which is primarily where their East Lawrence, including many of the ones led by the eorts of Tony Krsnich, c’04,

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI and his real-estate development and oces from $75 to $600 a month. management group, Flint Hills Holdings. One block over, on 720 E. 9th St., the “e Poehler building was a huge step SeedCo Studios provides a comfortable, for people realizing this neighborhood is family-like venue for local artists and going somewhere,” says Jay. musicians, with more than a dozen PUPPE (3) STEVE Since then, Flint Hills holdings has rentable workspaces and three recording acquired six more buildings in the area, and rehearsal studios. ve of which are historic, and in June the Both locations, in the area that’s now company completed a new 43-unit popularly known as the Warehouse Arts apartment complex called 9 Del Los, District, have become prime destinations which is already fully occupied. for local art lovers during Lawrence’s In addition to creating a ordable, monthly Final Fridays art walks, which Poehler Lofts rent-controlled housing, Krsnich and his includes among its stops the Lawrence team envisioned the district as an ideal Arts Center at 940 New Hampshire St. and spot to cultivate the arts and support a number of eclectic, locally owned shops Lawrence’s creative community. and galleries in the downtown area. “Lawrence is a very creative, eclectic and “We weren’t anticipating the neighbor- innovative town,” says Tom Larkin, a’09, hood to blow up like it has,” Simon Bates vice president of development at Flint says. “We’re glad we’re still here with all Hills Holdings, “but there was kind of a the crazy, fun things happening.” fragmented art community. Everybody knew each other, but there wasn’t really a hub where they could sell, work or s Jones and Jay wrap up a handful of Cider Gallery showcase.” Arestoration projects this summer, e development group wanted to they’ll also expand into uncharted change that. It converted one of its territory. ey have acquired nine lots in buildings, formerly an old cider distillery the 1200 block of Haskell Ave. and plan to at 810 Pennsylvania St., into the construct new, custom-built houses, Cider Gallery, a home for exhibitions, ranging from $200,000 to $250,000. ey events and, on the third oor, a co- hope to break ground this fall. working business port, where up- Struct/Restruct also wants to introduce and-coming entrepreneurs and small retail lumber sales into its services, giving businesses can rent workstations or the public access to the unique, local

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hardwoods Jones and Jay incorporate into their home and furniture designs. And of course there are Jones’ side projects. He’s currently working on his own home in East Lawrence, which boasts the same innovative style and creative use of materials that Struct/ Restruct is known for. But he confesses he’s been hoarding a di erent kind of material for his personal use. “I ended up with all the Douglas County highway signs,” Jones says with a laugh, admitting that the recycled signs may become awnings for the front windows of Struct/Restruct’s shop if they 904 Pennsylvania don’t make the cut at his house. “I’m pretty excited about it. ose are going to be pretty fun.”

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36 | KANSAS ALUMNI On the 60th anniversary of The Wagon Wheel Cafe, a campus icon continues to serve up crimson-and-blue tradition alongside its trademark burgers and beers

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 37 or a remarkably thorough examination of the backstory of e Wagon Wheel Cafe and its underlying property we can thank Wichita attorney Tyler Heron. Aer enrolling in a national historic preservation research workshop, Heron, l’05, decided to focus on e Wheel. “To be honest, it was my last semester of law school and I wanted to do something fun,” Heron recalls from his oce at Triplett Woolf & Garretson, where he is a partner specializing in civil litigation. “I knew it had been around a long time, and I suspected that the building had to have been something before it was e Wheel. Turns out that was accurate.” According to Heron’s extensively documented research—an academic exercise that was never submitted for consideration by historic preservation councils—a large swath of the eastern slope t is our sincere honor at Kansas Alumni magazine to present of Mount Oread was rst owned by U.S. Sen. Edmund G. Ross, a the big stories: superb students, talented teachers, rigorous former Army ocer who had two horses shot out from under- research, accomplished alumni. And then there’s the occa- neath him at the Battle of Westport; founded Lawrence’s rst Free sional interlude—now, for instance, as e Wagon Wheel Cafe State newspaper, the Kansas Tribune; and, aer his appointment celebrates its 60th anniversary—when it’s time to take a breather to the Senate following U.S. Sen. James H. Lane’s 1866 suicide, and instead write about chicken-fried steak, Wangburgers, political pariah for turning against fellow “Radical Republicans” impromptu alumni reunions on festive football Saturdays and by casting the deciding vote for acquittal in the 1868 Senate aernoon gin games in the corner booth. impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. Any inclusive list of Mount Oread’s hallowed sites—the Ross’s heirs sold their patriarch’s Mount Oread property in 1919 Campanile, Potter Lake, the Chi-O Fountain, Uncle Jimmy to prominent Lawrence businessman J.D. Bowersock, but the lot Green—must also make room for that sacred place within the on which e Wheel is now perched might have been purchased place, the high altar toward which alumni, students, faculty and locals furtively glance between burger bites and beer sips, hoping to glimpse a KU celebrity: e Wheel’s famous corner booth, where Jayhawk royalty nd refuge and we regular folks hope to one day gain admittance. “You never knew who you were going to meet there,” says JIM LARGE COURTESY Southern Methodist University men’s basketball coach Larry Brown, assoc., whose lifetime corner-booth pass was upgraded to platinum status when his 1988 KU team won the NCAA championship. “I met John Riggins there, which was kind of cool. I met [PGA golfer] Gary Woodland on my last visit, which was cool. “You had such an unbelievable mix. You had a lot of people from town and a lot of students, so it was always a nice thing. I could just ... people allowed me to be myself. Every time I come back, I go with Bill [Self], and we still do the same thing.” Sit in the corner booth. Order up lunch. (Make it a salad for coach Brown.) Talk. Laugh. Reminisce about old times. Meet and greet and generally feel a little heady about slipping away for an hour or two to act a bit silly inside a timeless Jayhawk shrine. Not much changes at 507 W. 14th St. at’s why it remains a treasure in the life of the University, and, considering it has been that way since 1955, e Wheel is in rare company in a town dened by turnover. To be fair, e Wheel is not entirely unchanged, and one development in recent years might be the most troubling to us traditionalists. Seems that calling the corner booth the corner booth tags you as an old-timer. “ e college kids,” current owner Rob Farha, c’88, says with a Jim Large founded The Wagon Wheel Cafe with his wife, Virginia, in laugh, “call it the hot tub.” 1955, and later added a basement newsstand and sundries shop.

38 | KANSAS ALUMNI from Ross more than a decade earlier by stationers D.L. and Anna Rowlands, who in 1906 built a new bookstore—on what was then called Adams Street—and moved their popular, longtime Massachusetts Street business closer to students on campus. Except for a few modications and additions in the 1920s and ’50s, their 1906 neoclassical Crasman-style cottage, which also served as the Rowlands’ family home, is the same structure we see today. From 1906 until its apparently sudden departure sometime around 1954, Rowlands College Book Store remained “Booksell- ers to Jayhawkers” and the place “Where Students Go” for textbooks, stationery, engineer’s instruments, Jayhawk souvenirs, toiletries and snacks. e family, KU and Lawrence suered a terrible loss on March 28, 1912, when Mr. Rowlands died following “a very serious operation.” Publishing its lamentation on the top of the front page, the March 29, 1912, Lawrence Daily Journal-World bemoaned, “ ere was not a man in Lawrence better to his family than D.L. Rowlands nor a man who made more friends for himself. Ever since coming to Lawrence he has been in the book business and in his College Book Store he came in contact daily with hundreds of students who learned to love him.” e Rowlands family carried on, and even opened Rowlands Annex at 1237 Oread Ave. e agship store on 14th Street was part of what Heron described in his research as a “student services corridor” that also included a clothes cleaning and Rob Farha in the corner booth (l-r) with descendants of Wagon Wheel pressing business near Rowlands; the Jayhawk Cafe and a neighborhood grocery at 14th and Ohio; and, at 14th and founders Jim and Virginia Large: son Jim Large; daughter Linda Holiday Tennessee, a tobacco store, barbershop, and, at the current site of Weis, d’62; and grandson Doug Holiday, ’85, owner of Bigg’s [a play on Bullwinkles Bar (formerly e Bierstube), a small restaurant “Large”] barbecue restaurants. “I’m the only idiot,” Holiday, the family’s called e College Inn, which was taken over shortly aer World lone remaining restaurateur, says with a laugh. War II by Jim and Virginia Large, who previously owned a thriving bus-station sandwich shop in Cabool, Missouri, serving soldiers traveling to nearby Fort Leonard Wood. shrimp, omelets and fresh pies were on the menu. Beer was not. “ ey made a lot of money doing that,” recalls the Larges’ son, “My mom didn’t want to sell beer and she didn’t want to have Jim, b’66, from his home in Lake Quivira, where he is retired from pinball machines,” Large recalls. “ ey wanted to have a nice a 30-year career at Hallmark Cards. “And then aer the war they restaurant and have it open seven days a week. Once they did that realized there was no future with that bus station.” for about the rst year they realized that nobody was coming Mrs. Large’s sister, Dorothy omas, who owned Allison there because they wanted to drink beer. omas Flowers at 941 Mass, urged them to move to Lawrence, “ at’s when they switched it over to burgers and fries and and here the Larges took over e College Inn. When Rowlands beers. It took o and was phenomenally successful.” departed, sometime in 1954 or perhaps early 1955, Jim and e Larges supplemented the business by opening a newsstand Virginia Large decided to move up the hill; during a visit to a and sundries shop in the lower level, where e Wheel Pizza Co. Lone Star farm owned by the father of Homer Allison, Dorothy is now located. ey embraced their new clientele, yet continued omas’ business partner in the ower shop, the Larges found to employ professional servers, rather than part-time student three discarded wagon wheels and struck upon the theme for employees, and kept the tablecloths and candles, hoping to their new restaurant. discourage a rowdy atmosphere. Renting the building from the family of Gertrude Rowlands “Because my mom had such a presence, all the sororities felt Wetmore, the Larges in 1955 opened e Wagon Wheel Cafe. that it was a very safe place to go for food and beer,” Jim Large With tablecloths, candles, and ceramic water and tea pitchers says. “ ey just kind of gravitated to my mom because she ran it [opposite page, top], the Larges hoped to make a success of a nice as most of the girls’ parents wanted. e Jayhawk used to be the restaurant close to campus yet catering largely to local folks. place, and then all of a sudden, when all these girls started coming ey used the outdoor display case that had featured Rowlands’ in, they all shied up to e Wheel.” goods to cook ham, enticing customers with the aroma. Steak, Success came at a price. e Larges, their son recalls, worked

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 39 although apparently not as the owner, and Jim Large says it’s his understanding that Wooden bought e Wheel from his father in 1969, aer working there for perhaps a year previously. Wooden’s accountant, Dean Radclie, ’64, agrees that a 1969 sale is “pretty close.” Whatever the precise timeline might be for the sale from the Larges to Wooden, it is certain that at some point aer the COURTESY SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY SPENCER RESEARCH COURTESY mid-1960s, the long hours, relentless clouds of cigarette smoke and changing student attitudes had nally eroded the Larges’ enthusiasm. When their son returned from Vietnam, in 1969, he made it clear that he did not intend to carry on the family business. “My dad wanted me to take it over, but I didn’t want any part of it because I saw what it did to my dad. It was a killer business. He would work 16 hours a day when he ran that thing and at the end of the year he just looked like he was about ready to die.” Once the Larges completed the sale to Wooden, the family le the business behind. Jim Large says he rarely returns, yet the family retains both aection for e Wagon Wheel Cafe and pride in its campus legacy. “Most people today associate it with Woo. But I run into people all the time who were in school in the ’60s and they always say my dad was the greatest condant they had. My mother, too. e girls would all talk to my mother when they had personal problems and the guys would talk to my dad. “ ey were very good people. ey loved those kids.”

nter Dr. Woo. A photograph (top) apparently taken in late 1954 or early 1955 shows “First of all, he was one of a kind, there’s no question about the vacant building while in transition from bookstore to restaurant. The that,” Hadl says. “He loved KU to his bone. He just was a KU man Wagon Wheel Cafe’s original menu (below) is a reminder of the all the way. And he was a hell of a golfer, too. He could shoot founders’ hopes for ﬁne-dining fare. whatever he needed to shoot. He was a crook, basically, at golf.” “He had a handicap that I don’t think was worthy of how well he played,” coach Brown says. “He was a tremendous player. He tirelessly, recharging only during the winter holiday, spring break didn’t look like one but he could play.” and especially summer vacation, when Mr. Large took refuge at “He didn’t play golf for free,” says Jackie Wooden Loneski, Lawrence Country Club. ere one of Large’s golf partners was Wooden’s third wife, “and he didn’t play gin for free.” James Wooden, whose son, John, was one of the best junior “Once a year he’d let us come play golf with him,” says Farha, a golfers in the region. former student employee and manager who bought e Wheel John Wooden, ’61, gave KU a try aer his graduation from from Wooden’s estate aer Woo died on March 4, 1997, at 57, Lawrence High School, but by all accounts he quickly judged that while putting on the 18th green in Palm Springs, California. “He college was not for him. Instead he sold cars and real estate, and, wouldn’t gamble with us because he wasn’t going to take money at some point, went to work for Mr. Large at e Wheel. from his former employees, but on the 18th “He was a hustler,” lifelong friend John Hadl, d’68, associate hole he’d say, ‘I’ll play for a double-dip director of athletics, says aectionately. “He was always pistachio ice cream cone.’ And every hustling something, and he was good at it, and everybody time we’d meet back at his house loved him in the meantime.” aerward and I’d have to go by Wooden told the University Daily Kansan in 1986 that Baskin-Robbins and buy him his he bought half of e Wheel from the Larges in 1965 and ice cream cone.” the rest in 1966, the same timeframe he shared with employees—although he was known to also add when relating the story that the second half of the purchase was for $1. Family members say he was working there at least by the winter of 1966,

40 | KANSAS ALUMNI Mandy Wooden Gorman in front of a photograph of her father that hangs above the corner booth. Also visible are photographs of 8-year-old Mandy with her father and the photograph of John Wooden with John Riggins that appeared in a 1983 Sports Illustrated proﬁle of the Hall of Fame running back. In an image taken shortly before his untimely death, Wooden (below) on a golf trip at The Plantation Golf Club in Palm Desert, California.

“ e Wheel was as much a part of my father as anything,” says Wooden’s daughter, Mandy Wooden Gorman, g’00. “He had this way of making people ... I don’t know if it was feel special, but when they came to e Wheel it was as if he was always waiting COURTESY ROB FARHA ROB COURTESY for them to come in.” Jim Connelly, d’68, g’72, a jewelry artist and owner of Silver Works and More, worked at e Wheel aer returning from Vietnam and enrolling in graduate school. When Connelly couldn’t nd a job aer graduation, Woo installed him as manager at another bar he’d recently purchased, e Harbour Lights, at 1031 Mass, which he apparently owned until sometime in the late 1970s. Wooden also briey owned a second bar on the same block on the west side of Mass, e Voodoo Hut, and he bought e Wheel’s building from the Wetmore family in 1975. By then Connelly was borrowing money from Wooden to buy gold for his jewelry business, which in the 1970s was soaring toward $400 an ounce. next day. I had a couple of friends who worked for him and they “He was sitting in the booth and he says, ‘Well, how much do probably set the record for the number of times John red them you think you need?’ I said, ‘Maybe $500.’ He said, ‘OK, here you and then hired them back again. go.’ So he gives me $500 to buy gold.” “He helped an awful lot of kids, he really did.” Cash, whether for gambling or paying employees, was Wood- Sean Butler, c’91, vice president of human resources at Mosaic, en’s preferred currency. He generated about 25 percent of his the world’s largest supplier of phosphate and potash, was gross sales on football game days—“ ey are not that managing e Wheel when former manager Charlie Farha, ’83, anymore,” Farha says, explaining that the growth of pregame stopped by with Rob Farha, a freshman, in tow. tailgating and uctuating kicko times dampened e Wheel’s “Charlie said, ‘I’d like you to meet my little brother. If you can football game-day tradition—and Jackie Loneski recalls Woo nd a way to give him a job, that would be great,’” Butler says coming home and counting the cash on their bed. He was also from his oce in Lithia, Florida, near Tampa. “So we slipped known to tuck bills into employees’ back pockets at the end of Robbie into the payroll. I think he worked his rst game day and their shis; it wasn’t much, but it was cash. we realized he had some character and charisma and we could “ ere was one time I said, ‘John, I’ve got to quit. is is not probably move him up the food chain pretty quick over the next enough money for as long as I’ve been in here working,’” Connelly two or three years.” recalls. “So I quit on him, and then he came back and got me the “Oh, boy,” Butler adds with a laugh, “do I regret that ...”

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 41 Mandy Gorman, who returns to e Wheel frequently with her family—in part, she says, so her children will grow to appreciate their grandfather’s legacy—says she understands when people say her father “died doing what he loved,” on a golf trip to Palm Springs, but that doesn’t diminish the pain. “Anytime there’s a sudden death like that, people search for the right kind of words to comfort,” she says. “But it was a shock. It was absolutely a shock. Yes, he went doing what he loved, and certainly you can’t quite imagine him going in a better way. I just wish it wouldn’t have been so early.” Suddenly forced to confront the status of a seasonal business that needed leadership in place before the start of fall classes, Gorman knew one thing for certain: She would not run e ob Farha doesn’t shy away from his freshman nickname, a play Wheel. on “Robbie” that emphasized his lanky frame—all knees and “at was never, ever my intention, nor was it ever my father’s elbows. “Knobbie” seemed to t, and it stuck. e customized intention. e thing he always said to me was, ‘Never sell the “Knobbie” license plate that has hung behind the bar since Butler building. Never sell the building.’” put it there in 1985—in honor, he says, of a particularly outstand- When she asked for bids on the business, Farha’s stood out. Not ing job Farha did in cleaning out behind the Dumpsters aer a just because he’d always been one of her father’s favorites, but frenzied game day—is testament to the fact that Farha doesn’t because of his pledge to respect the traditions in which her father duck the less-than-elegant moniker. had taken such great pride. Farha corrects his former mentor in one minor detail, however: “Robbie just felt right,” she says. “He was not going to change His rst shi wasn’t on a football game day, but rather a notorious anything, and that, to me, is the goal for e Wheel. Yes it’s for the annual spring bash with its own unfortunate name—[insert students, but as alumni, when we come back we want to see that it Kansas town name here] Trash Night. It was spring 1985; Farha hasn’t changed. And not everyone who was interested in buying it was a freshman when his cousin Tim, b’87, also a Wheel manager, understood that.” called him and said, “Get up here at 11.” Since e Wheel closed Finally confronted with the goal he’d been pursuing for years, at midnight, Knobbie responded, “What, one hour?” Farha had to rst face his fears: a good job with a Fortune 100 No, in fact. Many hours. company, retirement plan and health insurance versus “I was the cleanup boy,” Farha recalls with a being self-employed in a seasonal business whose most laugh. “at was my rst night, until Sean hired pro table days might have already passed. So Farha me in the fall of ’85.” stopped in for a visit with his boss’s boss, an execu- Wooden named Farha one of his managers in tive named Brian Jeter. fall 1987, and he continued in the job through “Before I could say two words he said, ‘I know why May 1989, a semester aer his December you’re here. Get the hell out of here. If it doesn’t work graduation. Farha then “bounced around Kansas I’ll hire you back in two years.’ at was the best push City,” managing a Westport club for a year and I could get.” selling clothes at Woolf Brothers on Ward Parkway. Farha laughs and adds, “And he was a Missouri guy, too.” When American Century Mutual Funds launched a hiring boom in 1992, Farha signed on as a customer service ow good was Frank in the fourth quarter?” representative. Topeka Capital-Journal columnist Kevin Haskin is But he always returned regularly to visit with Wooden. asking men’s basketball coach Bill Self for a comment about the “He was my con dant,” Farha says. “American Century was a electrifying second-half performance by point guard Frank great company but how far was I going to go with them? So I’d Mason III in the rst of two June exhibition games in the Sprint always bug Woo: ‘Why don’t you sell me the bar?’ And his quote Center against Team Canada. was, ‘I’m not selling it until aer my daughter is married.’ Haskin is deservedly one of Self’s favorites, and as he starts to “So I go to Mandy’s wedding, and I ask him at the reception, give a thoughtful reply, Self, noticing Farha standing back near ‘Your daughter’s married. Are you ready to sell me the bar?’ And the TV lights, grins and asks, “Is this the media room?” he chewed my [butt].” “Yeah,” Haskin says. “It is.” Farha laughs at the memory, but adds soly, “And then he died “Well, how the hell did Knobbie get in here? Summer career? three months later.” Must be providing free pizzas for everybody.” Jackie Loneski says her late husband always told her he’d like So, yeah, he’s made it. A laughing namecheck by none other Farha to return and run the bar, “But no, he wouldn’t have sold it. than Bill Self, in front of a room full of reporters, assures that. at really was his life.” Rob Farha, now in his 19th year as e Wheel’s owner, is no

42 | KANSAS ALUMNI Farha (center) with student employees (l-r) Tommy McNeese, Calvin Handy, Nate Ruby, Danielle Augustine, Megan Porterﬁeld, Stephen Moore and Jon Becklo. Cook Lori Szawicki (opposite, top) has run the kitchen since her mother, Beth Barnes, in 2010 ended a 20-year run as The Wheel’s cook. A Wheel trademark whose fame has spread far and wide thanks to ESPN shout-outs is the Wangburger (opposite, center), a cheeseburger topped with bacon and a fried egg. longer a mere caretaker of the business built by Jim Large and like to keep the mystique the way it is.” John Wooden. Shout-outs come frequently, too, from Farha’s Tyler Heron sees e Wagon Wheel Cafe as a crucial connec- sportscaster pals Neil Everett, Scott Van Pelt and Rece Davis, who tion point between city and campus that goes far deeper than are known to holler, “Powered by the Wangburger!” when football game days and alumni reunions over cold beers and hot narrating KU basketball clips on ESPN—not because e Wheel hamburgers. was No. 3 in USA Today’s 2013 ranking of the nation’s best “ e fact that it’s been a bar that long is certainly a tradition in college bars, but because they’ve patronized the pub and le as and of itself,” Heron says, “but I think maybe the whole story fans and friends. behind the building and the underlying property shows how that Coach Brown loved the place so much that one year he even particular spot, and that larger area, drew the University and contracted with Wooden to host his team’s training table in e community together for a long, long time. Wheel. (“I think he probably overcharged us,” Brown says with a “ e building itself, from an architectural standpoint, is chuckle.) Farha used to have lunch ready for former men’s nothing signicant. It’s what’s happened there. at’s what makes basketball coach Roy Williams and assistant coach Joe Holladay, it historic.” who frequently ended their aernoon jogs and power walks at Sadly, one tradition has ended: e owner of e Wheel no e Wheel. Sports Illustrated proles of both John Riggins, ’81, longer deals cards. Ever since the 2012 death of his gin-game and Larry Brown included photographs of them at e Wheel. buddy Marcus Patton, d’65, g’72, PhD’74, Farha has stopped “I admit, I love it. It boosts my ego a little bit,” Farha says of the playing aernoon games in the corner booth. Not that others TV shout-outs and famous patrons. “I’m not a big celebrity chaser aren’t welcome to ... if rst they can somehow secure one of the or whatever, but boy, I want them to come by.” toughest tickets in town: hot-tub seating in e Wagon Wheel at’s because e Wheel’s celebrity reputation helps Farha Cafe. maintain his pledge to Gorman about avoiding change. He resists “You knew you graduated from KU when you had your when students urge him to add promotions or curry to the diploma,” Sean Butler says. “But you knew you really graduated rowdier crowds that ll other nearby college bars. “It’s probably when you could sit in the corner booth.” cost me a little bit of business,” Farha concedes, “but I kind of Royalty at last.

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she has assisted fundraising for the Association’s Presidents Club as associate

DAN STOREY (2) STOREY DAN development director for KU Endowment. She joined the Alumni Association sta full time Sept. 14, succeeding Mike Davis, senior vice president for donor relations. Davis, d’84, g’91, resigned to manage key sales accounts for Grandstand Sportswear, based in Lawrence.

Leaders, innovators Biennial Black Alumni Network Peterson Storey reunion to honor Jayhawks

Summer of transition welve alumni will receive the KU TAfrican-American Leaders and Peterson serves in interim role; Storey to lead fundraising Innovators award for their contributions to the University, their profession and eath Peterson, vice president of participate in Association activities, and 80 their communities. ey will be honored Halumni programs, became interim percent of these events highlight KU Sept. 26 during the Black Alumni Net- president of the Alumni Association Aug. academic programs, student recruitment, work’s biennial reunion. 1, following the resignation of Kevin or networking opportunities for alumni e honorees include: Corbett. and current KU students. e Associa- • Nedra Patton Bonds, c’70 e Alumni Association’s national tion’s Presidents Club donor program, • Mickey Brown c’59, g’65 Board of Directors named Peterson, d’04, created in 2006, now boasts more than 500 • Bertram Caruthers Sr., c’33, g’35 g’09, to the interim role while a national annual members whose support has • Ralph Crowder, PhD’95 search is conducted. e Board has helped fund the organization’s unprec- • Nathan Davis, d’60 formed a search committee, and the job edented growth. Membership in the • Cynthia Harris, c’78, g’82 description for the president is posted on Association has grown from 38,000 to • Alferdteen Harrison, PhD’71 the Association’s website, kualumni.org. more than 42,000. • Erica Hawthorne-Manon, j’02 Corbett, c’88, accepted an executive vice “It has been an honor and privilege to • Audrey B. Lee, j’76, g’78 president position with Aliated Builders serve the alumni of my alma mater, the • Alversa Milan, f’55 Group (ABG) headquartered in Edmond, University of Kansas,” Corbett said. “I am • Julie Johnson Staples, j’78 Oklahoma. Association Chair Rick proud of the progress made during my • Evelyn Welton, c’49 Putnam thanked Corbett for his leader- time with KU, and believe that even Ten recipients will attend the campus ship of the organization since 2004. “Kevin greater things are on the horizon.” event Sept. 26; two will be honored has been a great asset for the KU Alumni Peterson, a Hugoton native, joined the posthumously, along with Mike Shinn, Association,” said Putnam, c’77, l’80. “His Association sta 12 years ago and has been e’66, who helped found the KU Black contributions were numerous, and as a instrumental in boosting the Association’s Alumni Network and the Leaders and result of his hard work and dedication, the presence throughout Kansas and the Innovators Project. e award will be Alumni Association is on extremely solid nation by recruiting a large group of renamed for Shinn, who died in March, ground.” volunteers and spearheading the develop- and his wife, Joyce, who will attend Over the past decade, the Association’s ment of a number of alumni programs. the event. annual programs and events have grown e Association also welcomed Angela Bonds, of Kansas City, is an artist, civic from 70 to more than 400 worldwide. Each Ri ey Storey, b’04, g’07, to the sta as vice activist and educator. Born into a family of year, more than 50,000 alumni and friends president of donor relations. Since 2011, quilters, she started quilting at age 6. As an

44 | KANSAS ALUMNI adult, she has used her work to express her history. He received views. Bonds has exhibited nationally and the George L. internationally, and her quilts are on Anderson Award display in prominent Kansas City loca- for Best Disserta- tions, including the Nelson-Atkins tion. He joined the Museum of Art. She also has participated history faculty at in the AIDS Memorial Quilt and Quilts of the University of Valor. Last fall, Bonds was inducted in California-River- Kansas City, Kansas, public schools’ side and led the Reasons to Believe Alumni Honor Roll. ethnic studies Bonds Brown Caruthers She continues to conduct workshops and department as chair. classes for adults and children. He also served as a Brown, of Atchison, has served as a mentor for faculty leader in his community for years. During and at-risk youths. his time in the Chicago area, he was In July 2012, he involved in the local chapter of the retired as professor NAACP and Community and Youth emeritus. Crowder Development, an organization that has widely pub- provides mentoring programs for disad- lished and pre- vantaged children. Brown is a life member sented his research of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and partici- on 19th- and Crowder Davis Harris pated in the Mu Mu Lambda chapter’s 20th-century educational initiative “Go to High School, African-American history, Pan-African Go to College.” He has mentored high history and the Black Indian experience. school boys and coached Little League His most notable books include John baseball teams. As a scientist he has Edward Bruce: Politician, Journalist, and published several articles and earned Self-Trained Historian of the African recognition for his work with Abbott Diaspora and Black History Month: Laboratories, Argonne National Labora- Reclaiming a Lost Legacy. tory and Altria Group Inc. Davis, of Bradfordwoods, Pennsylvania, Caruthers, who died in April 2002, led a is a multi-instrumental jazz performer and 38-year career as a science teacher, educator. Growing up in Kansas City, near Harrison Hawthorne-Manon principal, assistant to the superintendent Charlie Parker’s childhood home, he got and university professor in Kansas City. an early education in local jazz from He secured funding for and implemented bandleader Jay McShann before coming to the rst Career Education Program in the KU to study music. Aer earning his state of Kansas, which became a model for degree in music education, Davis joined promoting vocational education. the military, studying at the Naval School Caruthers served on the board of several of Music and playing in military bands organizations, including the American throughout Europe. Aer his service Red Cross, the Salvation Army, and the ended, he became a stalwart of the lively Wyandotte House. In 1985, he received the Paris jazz scene, recording his rst studio Distinguished Service Citation from the albums and building a steady performance Lee Milan Alumni Association and the University. career as a bandleader and a sideman In 2002, Hawthorne Elementary School to Kenny Clarke, Art Blakey and other in Kansas City was renamed Bertram jazz greats. Caruthers Elementary School, and in 2005, In 1969, Davis returned to the U.S. to he was inducted posthumously in the found one of the nation’s rst jazz studies Kansas City Kansas Community College programs, at the University of Pittsburgh. Endowment Association’s Mid-America He launched the Annual Jazz Seminar, Education Hall of Fame alongside his started an academic journal devoted to the daughter, Patricia Caruthers. scholarly study of jazz, and established the Crowder, of Riverside, California, came International Academy of Jazz-Hall of to the University to pursue his doctorate in Fame, which preserves a trove of jazz Staples Welton

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 45 Association artifacts in the Sonny Rollins International Harrison transformed the institute into the as the undergraduate adviser for her Jazz Archives. Davis received the BNY Margaret Walker Alexander Research sorority. roughout the 1960s, she served Mellon Jazz 2013 Living Legacy Award at Center, a prominent museum and on the Lawrence Public Library board. She the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., archives. Harrison received the 2012 ad also co-founded the Lawrence Branch of for his contribution to jazz education and Cochran Humanities Award for her Concerned Black Parents, a social justice performance. He retired in 2013 to devote contributions to the enhancement of organization that provided support for more time to composing and performing. Mississippi history and culture. students at Lawrence High School. Harris, of Tallahassee, Florida, directs Hawthorne-Manon, of Philadelphia, has A er moving to Kansas City, Milan the Institute for Public Health at Florida championed the arts in her community. As helped establish the Mother to Mother A&M University. A Kansas City native, she a poet and actor, she is popularly known as ministry, which provides support and earned degrees in biology and genetics RhapsodE. She co-founded Spoken Soul mentoring for disadvantaged mothers. In from KU and completed her doctorate in 215, a collective of young artists, singers 2013, she wrote Raising Children Is As Easy biomedical sciences at Meharry Medical and poets who produce the Harvest Open As 1. 2. 3. College in Nashville, Tennessee. A er a Mic & Showcase Experience, a monthly Staples, of Brooklyn, New York, has postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard event. Hawthorne-Manon also mentors pursued varied careers in journalism, University, she became the rst African- aspiring artists in Campus Philly Open nance and the ministry. She is currently American to serve as branch chief for the Arts program. In 2012, she received a interim senior minister of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Knight Foundation Challenge Grant and 116-year-old Flatbush-Tompkins Registry, a coordinating agency of the founded Small but Mighty Arts, a program Congregational Church. Centers for Disease Control and Preven- that provides micro-grants to local artists. As a KU student, she was the rst tion in Atlanta. For her work, she received a Philadelphia African-American editor of the University She created the rst doctoral program in DoGooder Award in 2013. Daily Kansan. She eventually became the public health in Florida, and she designed As a journalist, Lee, of Paducah, White House correspondent for the the online master’s degree program, a rst Kentucky, worked on international media Baltimore Sun and e New York Times. for the university and among all histori- campaigns for Archbishop Desmond Tutu, In 1994, she earned her law degree from Celebrate at the Center cally black colleges and universities. Harris Pope John Paul II and U.S. ambassadors. Georgetown University and went on to chairs the board of the Florida Public She also served on the faculty of the serve as the Justice Department corre- Health Association and the editorial board University of Louisville, Sullivan College spondent for ABC News. She later began of the Harvard Journal of Public Health. and Paducah Community College. A er a career in international investing at he Adams Alumni Center oers an elegant atmosphere on one of the most She also serves as vice president of the earning her law degree from the Warburg Pincus and became the rm’s beautiful campuses just minutes from KU’s historic Danforth Chapel. Our Trust for America’s Health, and she serves University of Kentucky, she now works as rst African-American partner. Her T on the Florida Sickle Cell Task Force and a senior criminal defense attorney in the career shi ed again when she returned professional sta and all-inclusive wedding packages will make your day on the Hill the National Science Advisory Board on Paducah Trial Oce for the Department to graduate school to study theology Exposure and Human Health. of Public Advocacy. In 2012, she was and became ordained in the Congrega- a memorable one. Visit our website to view rooms, rates and amenities. 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In her community, she academic program in public history, the served as assistant chief of domiciliary advocates for older residents and leads the rst established among historically black operations at the VA Medical Center Center City AARP Chapter No. 1544 as Photography by Jerry Wang colleges and universities. In 1977, she in Leavenworth. president. She also serves on the city’s spearheaded the development of the Smith As a Lawrence resident, she was an executive board of the NAACP. She is a Robertson Museum and Cultural Center, activist for racial integration and sup- member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority the rst state museum to highlight ported those who faced physical and and a founding member of the Kansas African-Americans in Mississippi. economic challenges. In 1964, she helped City chapter of the National Association When famed poet and novelist Margaret establish the Children’s Hour, the city’s of Negro Business and Professional Walker Alexander (1915-1998) retired as rst racially integrated nursery school. She Women’s Clubs. Welton is an active founder and director of Jackson State’s welcomed KU students into her home for member in St. Paul Presbyterian Church Institute for the Study of Life and Culture, mentoring, meals and tutoring, and served in Kansas City. www.kualumni.org 800-584-2957 46 | KANSAS ALUMNI ISSUE 4, 2011 | 1 Celebrate at the Center

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48 | KANSAS ALUMNI Jacquelyn D. Gethers Corbin M. Kline Karthik Ramachandran Wayne J. Sloan III Melinda Grable Jennifer Hull Lawrence Joseph M. & Susan Waring Duane C. & Karin Le Veau Ronda R. Grace Anne F. LeCluyse Rebein Soper Angela Martinez Grasso Col. William R. Lennard Melody Redburn Bailey A. Spickler Regina Gronewoller Brett D. Leopold Katherine A. Reed Paige Eells Sprague Michael K. & Krista Hunter Michael L. Linenberger Erin C. Resa Kert Stalnaker Go David A. Littman Edward A. Roberts Jr. & Daniel B. Stover Holly J. Gudenkauf Randolph W. & Krista Miller Barbara Heath Roberts Brother Brent L. Stull Gary E. & Victoria Haley Lutz Deborah Garlock Ruggles Leslie S. Swimmer Margaret A. Hansen Paulette M. Manville Robert J. Sanner Jeremy E. Terrell Justin G. & Monika McKemie Frank W. Markovich Edward A. & Jacqueline A. Luanne E. Tomas Harmel John G. Martel Schlagel Shelby M. Webb Allan A. & Margaret Goss Scott D. Massey Joseph A. & Jessica Dean Jonathan C. Wesley Hazlett Ann McElhenny Schremmer Daryl J. Wilcox Frank J. & Cynthia Herr Barbara Mentz Philip W. Shoemaker Cecil L. Williams Robert V. & Susan G. Herwig David M. Morris Michael D. Shonrock Robert R. Wisdom Todd D. Hirsch Joseph A. Morris Nicolas L. Shump James G. Wright Robert J. & Kimberly Davis Scott R. Morris Paul M. Simons Trenton G. Wright Homan Megan E. Munjak & Matthew Grant S. Holmes A. Cross Lauren M. Hoth Patrik W. Neustrom Eric E. Hylok Roy Nicholls Hawkfest Christine A. Intagliata Jacob A. Petrosky M. Colleen Janner Kristen N. Polizzi Aaron F. Kaufman Michael G. Porter

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Baltimore Cruises on the Severn River are a summer tradition for the Baltimore- More than 3,500 students enjoyed free pizza, ice cream and Annapolis Jayhawks. Chuck, c’63, l’66, and Pam Hewitt host an annual sandwiches as they learned about various campus groups during picnic at their Severna Park, Maryland, home along the river. This year Hawkfest Aug. 22. The Student Alumni Association and the they welcomed about 40 alumni, friends and prospective students July Student Involvement and Leadership Center hosted the annual 11 for hours of fun that lasted long past sunset. prelude to Traditions Night in the stadium. More than 150 of KU’s 600 student groups participated.

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 49 Class Notes by Heather Biele published earlier this year by Margaret K. McElderry Books.

Clark Case, j’75, g’78, is the director James Gunn, j’47, g’51, professor Bryan Shewmake, c’65, e’70, g’71, and 75 of nance and administrative 47 emeritus of English at KU and his wife, Cheryl, recently enjoyed a cruise services for Leesburg, Virginia. author of more than 40 books, has been to the Norwegian ords. It was the sixth J. Brad Donovan, d’75, has been named to the Science Fiction and Fantasy time they have crossed the Arctic Circle. reappointed to a six-year term as a deputy Hall of Fame. commissioner of the North Carolina Nancy Maloney Rich, c’67, received Industrial Commission in Raleigh. Ellen Patterson Long, c’49, cel- 67 the Lifetime Achievement Award 49 ebrated her 90th birthday in July. from the International Critical Incident James Brooks, g’76, is the director She and her husband, Robert, c’49, m’53, Stress Foundation for her work in commu- 76 of sales and marketing at Hunting- also will celebrate 65 years of marriage in nity crisis support. Aer 40 years in ton Hotel Group in Ballwin, Missouri. September. ey live in Olathe. Denver, she now lives in Lawrence. Edward Kirkman, c’76, is retired CEO of TS&D. He lives in Tigard, Oregon. Deanell Reece Tacha, c’68, dean of Rex Niswander, c’76, chairs the Global 58 68 law at Pepperdine University in Language Project in New York City. He MARRIED Malibu, California, was the keynote also serves as advisory board chair of KU’s John Dealy, e’58, and Andrea Paul speaker at the 26th Kansas Women School of Languages, Literatures and Deardor, ’58, July 12 in Montreal. ey Attorneys Association in Lindsborg. Culture. live in Westmount, Quebec. Richard Hellman, m’69, a clinical Beth Llewellyn, c’77, is the chief Charles Hill, g’59, and his wife, 69 endocrinologist and professor of 77 executive ocer at Health Care 59 Mary Ann, recently celebrated their medicine at the University of Missouri- Access in Lawrence. 60th anniversary. He is a retired school Kansas City School of Medicine, received Thomas Standish, b’77, is the Wyan- superindendent and principal. ey make the 2014 Distinguished Reviewer Award dotte County legislative auditor. their home in Lawrence. from Diabetes Care. Cheryl Hausler Johnson, c’78, is Jerry Lewis, b’61, is chairman of H. Edward Flentje, PhD’70, retired 78 retiring from North Liberty Family 61 Lewis Investments Inc. He lives in 70 as professor emeritus from Wichita Health Centre in North Liberty, Iowa. She Birmingham, Michigan. State University. founded the clinic 28 years ago. Gordon Jones, c’70, l’73, retired aer Peter Haggart, g’63, is a retired almost 37 years as senior trial counsel for Ann Ardis, c’79, is the interim vice 63 professor and administrator at the the U.S. Department of Justice. 79 provost for graduate and profes- University of Idaho in Moscow. sional education at the University of Thomas Averill, c’71, g’74, an English Delaware in Newark. William Reese, b’64, l’67, owns a 71 professor and writer-in-residence at Jim Groninger, b’79, is regional manager 64 franchise of European Wax Center Washburn University in Topeka, made the of state government aairs at Koch in Antioch, California. 2015 Kansas Notable Book List. His latest Companies Public Sector in Washington, book, A Carol Dickens Christmas: A Novel, D.C. Arthur Buikema Jr., g’65, PhD’70, was published last year by the University William Pollard Jr., g’79, wrote Forts and 65 has been named alumni distin- of New Mexico Press. Posts in Kansas During the Civil War: guished professor emeritus at Virginia 1861-1865, which was published in June Tech, where he has taught for 44 years. MARRIED by CreateSpace. In July, he was elected to Katherine Lumpkin Maxwell, c’65, d’67, James Young, c’71, to Kathryn Lavelle, chair the Highlands County Historic has earned the chartered advisor in July 31 in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. He is a Preservation Commission in Sebring, philanthropy designation from the cardiologist and executive dean of the Florida. American College of Financial Services. Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Kay is the president of Maxwell Financial Medicine. David Mould, g’80, oversees Services in Dallas, where she lives. 80 training and research projects for Michael McGill, b’65, retired in July Barbara Beeson Stuber, f’73, made UNICEF. from the U.S. General Services 73 the 2015 Kansas Notable Book List. Richard Tholen, m’80, joined the Administration. Her latest book, Girl in Reverse, was International Association of Healthcare

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Professionals and will be included in director of global operations at JCPenney attorney at the U.S. Housing and Urban e Leading Physicians of the World. in Plano, Texas. Developent O ce in Washington, D.C. He is the co-owner and president of Wendy Tiemann Picking, c’85, PhD’90, Minneapolis Plastic Surgery in Robyn Oberhelman Haenisch, s’84, is professor of pharmaceutical chemistry Minnesota. 84 s’90, ’98, is an outpatient therapist at KU. at KidsTLC in Olathe. Her husband, David Holland, p’81, manages the Thomas, c’85, is a manufacturer’s Venida Chenault, s’86, s’90, PhD’05, 81 pharmacist program at the Dwight representative. 86 is the president of Haskell Indian D. Eisenhower VA Medical Center in Jowel Laguerre, g’84, g’89, PhD’94, is Nations University, which recently had its Leavenworth. the chancellor of the Peralta Community accreditation rea rmed following a Cheryl Unruh, d’81, made the 2015 College District in Oakland, California. comprehensive review by the Higher Kansas Notable Book List. Her latest book, Learning Commission. Waiting on the Sky: More Flyover People Nancy Ahlstrom, m’85, is a hospi- Brian McClendon, e’86, oversees Uber’s Essays, was published last year by Quincy 85 talist at Olympic Medical Center in advanced technologies center in Press. Port Angeles, Washington, where she and Pittsburgh. her husband, Gerald “Jerry” Stephanz Jr., Gretchen Moeller Unger, e’82, is c’79, m’83, live. K.K. Neilsen Cleland, j’87, is 82 chief scientic o cer at GeneSegues D.J. Chance, c’85, g’88, is global director 87 director of new programs and erapeutics in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. of liquid hydrocarbons at Pioneer Solu- initiatives at DePaul University in tions in Englewood, Colorado. Chicago. John Ronnau, s’83, PhD’90, is the Deb Lumpkins, c’85, l’87, is a trial Michael Mader, c’87, g’95, is senior 83 senior associate dean for interpro- associate dean of students at Arizona State fessional education at the University of University. Texas Rio Grande Valley School of David Nelson, e’87, teaches mathematics Medicine. at Brickhouse Academy in Sarasota, Lorna Tucker-Malone, b’83, is senior Florida, where he lives with his wife, Joy.

52 | KANSAS ALUMNI Fred Rose, g’88, is a retired interagency task force-counter terrorism. Jyll Standiford Kafer, c’91, is 88 principal with the Hawaii Depart- David Peterson, e’89, is a senior sta 91 senior director of the KU Medical ment of Education. He and his wife, Susan, engineer at Kohler. Center and University of Kansas have four children. Hospital Advancement Board for John Sisco, g’88, PhD’90, is a pharma- Mark Garrett, b’90, is the chief KU Endowment. ceutical consultant at JM Sisco Pharma 90 people ocer at Smith eld Foods Kimberly Moulden-Moore, c’91, works Consulting in Bradenton, Florida. in Kansas City. He makes his home in in compensation and bene ts for Mosaic Village of Loch Lloyd, Missouri. Life Care. Karoline Knock Felts, c’89, is a Lt. Col. David Hartwell, c’90, is retired 89 development specialist at the from the U.S. Air Force and is a pilot for Patrick Flynn, d’92, g’00, ’03, University of Texas in Austin. FedEx. 92 received the 2015 Presidential Capt. Robert Newson, c’89, is a naval Deborah Hernandez Mitchell, c’90, g’96, Award for Excellence in Mathematics and special warfare (SEAL) ocer in the U.S. l’96, is a district judge for Kansas’ 18th Science Teaching by the National Science Navy. He was past director of the joint District Court in Wichita. Foundation. He has taught mathematics

PROFILE by Chris Lazzarino

Paraguay’s ambassador Paraguay and the state of sees education as key Kansas that allows Paraguayan students to pay in-state tuition

hen he presented his credentials to at Kansas Board of Regents OF PARAGUAY EMBASSY COURTESY WPresident Barack Obama on Sept. institutions—he joined KU’s 18, 2014, Ambassador Igor Pangrazio men’s swimming team, but anticipated an Oval Oce discussion soon realized the sport’s time about important topics of interest to both requirements were interfering the United States and Paraguay, including with his demanding triple agriculture, economies, energy, security major: economics, political and political alliance—all of which were science and Latin American indeed on the meeting’s agenda. studies. What Pangrazio, c’90, was not expecting His varied public service was that the president would know his and educational career background well enough to engage the includes a master’s degree in While driving to the White House to present his credentials, ambassador in a topic dear to his heart. international relations from Ambassador Igor Pangrazio pondered the sacriﬁces of his “President Obama was very nice to London’s University of years abroad: “It’s not easy to be away from your family.” remember about my attending KU, and we Westminster; numerous jobs had a very good conversation about KU,” in the ministry of foreign Pangrazio recalls from his oce in aairs; postings to embassies in Brazil, Kansas universities. Paraguay’s U.S. embassy in Washington, Argentina and London; and, most recently “I owe so much to this country, and D.C. “He knew a lot about basketball, I tell before being named ambassador, ve years especially to the state of Kansas, for the you, and he was testing me about my as director general of energy resources. great opportunities given to me. As knowledge on the national championship Paraguay is a bilingual society, with exchange students, we have to promote team of 1988.” more than 80-percent uency in both these programs, absolutely. I am a true Pangrazio rst le Paraguay for the Spanish and indigenous Guarani, and in example of a nontraditional diplomacy. I United States when he was in high school, recent years it has boasted South America’s was able to learn rsthand your culture, spending his senior year in Mission Viejo, fastest-growing economic expansion. It is and to love it. California, where he lived with a local among the world’s top-10 exporters of “Going to KU is not only about receiv- family and was a 200-meter freestyle corn, wheat, beef and soybeans. ing a great education. It’s about meeting specialist on his school’s swim team. Aer anks in large part to shared agricul- those wonderful individuals who are very choosing KU as his college—thanks to a tural interests, more than 1,000 Para- smart and very nice and in the future will long-standing partnership between guayan students have graduated from do something good for this world.”

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 53 for 20 years, most recently at Olathe East o cer at the Smithsonian Institution cal Association. He is a professor of High School. in Washington, D.C. teaching, learning and teacher education Alexander Grecian, ’92, made the 2015 at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Kansas Notable Book List. His latest book, Jerry Cross, e’95, is a senior project Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, PhD’96, the e Devil’s Workshop: A Novel of Scotland 95 manager at HVJ Associates. 2009-’13 Kansas Poet Laureate, made the Yard’s Murder Squad, was published last Kyle Gregory, c’95, is the managing 2015 Kansas Notable Book List. Her latest year by G.P. Putnam’s Sons. director at Shoestring Creative Group in book, Chasing Weather: Tornadoes, Shannon Hunter Short, d’92, g’96, Gardiner, Maine. Tempests, and underous Skies in Word teaches special education at Gilbert public Chad Lawhorn, j’95, is the managing and Image, was published last year by Ice schools in Arizona. editor of the Lawrence Journal-World. Cube Press. Col. David Smith, c’92, commands the Maria Dolores Marquez, g’95, is a senior Amy Bartosik Wilson, b’96, owns KC 582nd Helicopter Group at F.E. Warren human resources manager at Emerson. Juice Co. in Kansas City. Air Force Base in Wyoming. She and her husband, Julian White, live in Steve Talbott, c’92, is a talent manager Pearland, Texas. Matthew Bryan, e’97, is vice at Enterprise Holdings Inc. in Irving, Lt. Paul Muckenthaler, e’95, retired aer 97 president and geomarket manager Texas. 20 years with the U.S. Navy. for Atlantic and Eastern Canada at Roberta Pokphanh, c’95, g’97, PhD’09, is Schlumberger in St. John’s, Newfoundland Munro Richardson, c’93, is execu- the academic director for KU’s Interna- and Labrador, Canada. 93 tive director of Read Charlotte in tional Academic Accelerator Program. Jodi Faustlin, f’97, is the CEO of North Carolina. Dubuque Internal Medicine in Dubuque, Jeremy Bezdek, b’96, is vice Iowa. Corine Wegener, g’94, g’01, is 96 president of biofuels and ingredi- 94 a cultural heritage preservation ents at Flint Hills Resources in Wichita. Stephen Kok, e’98, is a regional Edmund “Ted” Hamann, g’96, received 98 contract manager at Redknee Inc. the 2015 Anthropology in Public Policy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Award from the American Anthropologi- Robyn Marcinkiewicz, ’98, is a senior

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nancial analyst at Sprint. Eric Beightel, c’01, is associate BORN TO: Timothy White, ’98, is the executive 01 director of federal environmental Lisa Peterson Rosenkoetter, b’03, and ocer for the State of Louisiana in Baton policy practice at Parsons Brinckerho in her husband, George, daughter, Nora, Feb. Rouge. Washington, D.C. 8 in Leawood. Terry Horton, c’01, is an ocer in the Ann Foltz Strunk, c’03, and her hus- Kimberly Nelson Brown, c’99, g’14, U.S. Marine Corps. He lives in Fairfax band, Aaron, daughter, Ella Louise, April 5 99 is a licensed addiction counselor Station, Virginia, with his wife, Kristin. in Abilene. and regional administrator for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health James Landavazo, c’02, manages Eric Braun, b’04, manages global Services Administration. 02 agricultural planning and develop- 04 nancial planning and analysis at Ryan Lombardi, g’99, is vice president ment at BNSF Railway in Fort Worth, Emerson Process Management in Pitts- for student and campus life at Cornell Texas. burgh, Pennsylvania, where he makes his University in Ithaca, New York. Carolyn Oelkers Payne, c’02, is associate home. general counsel at 1st Farm Credit Brian Hollenbeck, c’04, m’08, is chief of Kerrie Crites Greenfelder, e’00, is a Services. infectious disease at New England Baptist 00 project manager at Burns & Douglas Woolley, c’02, retired from his Hospital in Boston. McDonnell in Kansas City. position as an associate professor at KU’s Brian Konie, c’04, is a transitioning Jennifer Ryan Newton, c’00, g’01, School of Medicine in Wichita. marine ocer retiree in the U.S. Marine PhD’12, is an assistant professor in the Corps. He and his wife, Christine, live in school of education at St. Louis University. Karthik Balasubramanian, g’03, Washington, D.C. Chad Sublet, s’00, l’06, is the director of 03 works for Arista Networks in Santa Cynthia Martin, g’04, teaches adapted protection and code enforcement at Clara, California. physical education at Northwood School Denver City Attorney’s Oce. Christopher Gilliam, g’03, DMA’03, is in Kansas City and coaches Special Stacey Wright, b’00, is a senior human the symphony chorale director for the Olympics in Kansas and Missouri. She resources consultant at SAP in Palo Alto, Winston-Salem Symphony in North lives in Raymore, Missouri. California. Carolina. Timothy Smith, c’04, is a production

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Capt. Paul Brand, c’05, is retired BORN TO: Galluzzi Volunteer of the Year by the 05 from the U.S. Marine Corps and is a Kenneth Albers, b’05, and his wife, Jill, Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. He general management apprentice at Fidelity daughter, Abigail Robyn, May 18 in chairs the Leadership Lawrence advisory Investments in Smith eld, Rhode Island. Wichita, where she joins two brothers, board. Erik Heironimus, a’05, g’09, is a senior Damian, 4, and Dominic, 3. Mike Fitzpatrick, PhD’06, is vice designer at WATG in Seattle. president of education at Pratt Commu- Brandon Crain, a’06, is an architect nity College. MARRIED 06 at Yost Grube Hall Architecture in John Leese, c’06, g’10, works in Jessica Smith, j’05, to Andrew Portland, Oregon. assurance services at Ernst & Young in Herrmann, June 6 in Hastings, Douglas Croy, c’06, j’06, is a talent agent Kansas City. Nebraska. She is the director of research at Windish in New York City. Miranda Shank Ruland, c’06, is a at the Platte Institute for Economic Bryan Culver, b’06, was named the Wally certi ed child life specialist at the Chil-

PROFILE by Kim Gronniger

Writing coach’s toolbox Portland, Oregon. inspires corporate clients “You can reach people by giving them informa- rowing up in a home lled with tion that helps them live COURTESY WYLIE COMMUNICATIONS COURTESY Gbooks and “huge piles of drawing their lives better,” Wylie paper,” Ann Wylie spent hours creating says, “or you can enter- lesson plans for imaginary students, tain them, or you can do foreshadowing a career as a professional b ot h .” writing coach for corporate clients like Wylie describes her NASA and Nike. teaching evolution from She spent 10 years editing publications nine weeks in a university in Kansas City for Hallmark Cards Inc. classroom to nine hours and Ingram’s Magazine, where she honed in a hotel ballroom in her storytelling and editing skills aer places as diverse as Ann Wylie recalls her grandfather’s advice about using “the bait obtaining degrees in English literature Helsinki and Hollywood the ﬁsh wants, not what you like.” Writers, too, ﬁsh “for someone’s and journalism. as “really, really fun.” time, attention, compassion and checks.” “I like guring out how to take things With warmth and wit, that have happened and then tease them she shares sound literary into a literary form,” says Wylie, g’84, who conventions and extensive examples for become “more powerful communicators” has earned more than 60 communications writers to emulate and avoid through by showing them not only what to do, but awards, including international accolades. in-house training sessions, public work- why. Writing, editing and assisting former shops and a monthly tip- lled newsletter “e inverted pyramid doesn’t work and Hallmark colleague Gordon MacKenzie on delivered to inboxes all over the world. She many people read at a very basic level,” his 1998 classic Orbiting the Giant Hair- and contract employees also provide Wylie says. “If corporate clients are writing ball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving writing services for client projects. for a college-level audience using the with Grace ultimately led her to achieve Unlike many writing coaches, however, inverted pyramid, then the person who her childhood dream of teaching. Wylie is as enamored by research as she is needs health care in Pittsburgh or infor- She taught graduate writing courses by words, as eager to pore over e New mation about public transportation in at Webster University, where she tested York Times Book Review as she is journal- Portland isn’t going to be reached. the “toolbox for writers” concepts that ism reports from the Poynter Institute. “Good writing is as much about the became the impetus for Wylie Communi- She culls scienti c and strategic insights science as it is the art and cra.” cations Inc., which she launched in regarding literacy rates and readership and Gronniger, g’83, is a Topeka Kansas City, Missouri, and relocated to comprehension levels to help people freelance writer.

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 57 Class Notes dren’s Hospital at Saint Francis in Tulsa, senior tax analyst at Compass Minerals in Oklahoma. 07 Overland Park. Jill Maycumber Sommers, c’06, joins the MARRIED Eisenhower Memorial Commission’s Jordan Brewer, c’07, and Emily Ken- MARRIED advisory committee in Washington, D.C. nedy, ’09, Oct. 25, 2014, in Kansas City. He Ryan Ingle, c’08, b’08, to Laura Swanson, She was a former Commodity Futures is an assistant attorney general for the June 13 in Brooklyn, New York. He is an Trading Commission commissioner and State of Kansas, and she is a copywriter for associate in the real-estate group at now chairs the audit committee for BATS Paci c Sun and a fashion columnist for the Blackstone. Global Markets. Lawrence Journal-World. ey live in Meghan Sullivan, c’08, j’08, to Christo- Martha Moreno Wolf, n’06, is a quality Lawrence. pher Hurd, April 18 in Chicago. She is data analyst at Liberty Hospital in Liberty, Brian Pitts, c’07, to Robyn omas, May associate director for campaign initiatives Missouri. She lives in Kansas City. 16 in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a at the University of Chicago. resident physician in pediatrics at UNC MARRIED Health Care in Chapel Hill, North Kathryn Basye, c’09, is a product Jane Alford, c’06, to Max Meggs, April Carolina. 09 designer at Salesforce. She lives in 12 in Dallas, where they live. She is a Berkeley, California. personal assistant. Lyonel Anderson, c’08, is the head Darchelle Ralls Ellis, c’09, is a commer- Sarah Vodopest, c’06, m’12, to Joseph 08 strength and conditioning coach cial banking relationship manager at U.S. Ekstrand, May 9 in Des Moines, Iowa. She for Indiana University Bloomington’s Bank in Lawrence. is a rheumatology fellow at the University men’s basketball team. George Kwok, g’09, PhD’14, is an of Illinois in Chicago, where they live. Dylan Jones, c’08, joined the American engineer at Selective Site Consultants in Association of Premier DUI Attorneys. He Overland Park. BORN TO: practices law in Ozark, Missouri. Nathan Mack, c’09, is associate director Andrew, b’06, g’08, and Kati Lepajoe Matthew Kincaid, c’08, l’12, g’12, joins of admissions at Franklin University Coleman, ’08, son, William Johannes, Feb. Dysart Taylor Cotter McMonigle & Switzerland. 21 in Tallinn, Estonia, where he joins a Montemore as an associate attorney. Lindsay Yankey, f’09, made the 2015 brother, Oskar, 2. Lauren Ford McLean, b’08, g’09, is a Kansas Notable Book List. She wrote and

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58 | KANSAS ALUMNI “I cherish the opportunity to talk about the University of Kansas and promote it. I’m proud to be a Jayhawk, and I try do as much as I possibly can. ” —Chip Hilleary, d’94, Proud Life Member, Executive Vice President, West Camp

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Bridge of the Americas Waterways and Canals of Southwest National Parks JAN. 20-FEB. 7 Holland and Belgium Cruising the OCT. 5-14 APRIL 28-MAY 6 Baltic Sea JUNE 15-24 Captivating Mediterranean Tanzania Flavors of Spain Hosted by Chancellor OCT. 8-16 Migration Safari MAY 7-15 Bernadette Gray-Little JAN. 27-FEB. 7 and Shade Little Trade Routes of Hosted by Dale and Sorrento, Italy Coastal Iberia Marianne Seuferling MAY 11-19 OCT. 25-NOV. 2 Cruise the Face of Europe Provence to Normandy JUNE 23-JULY 8 New York Theatre Passage through the MAY 19-30 NOV. 22-26 Panama Canal and Costa Rica Coastal Alaska JAN. 29-FEB. 6 Mediterranean Serenade Aug. 4-11 MAY 20-JUNE 2 Radiant Rhythms Ireland FEB. 27-MARCH 11 London JULY 17-27 MAY 29-JUNE 9 European Coastal Grand Danube Passage Civilizations Celtic Lands AUG. 11-25 APRIL 16-24 MAY 31-JUNE 9 The Magniﬁcent Great Lakes Cuba Sojourn Southern Culture and Civil War AUG. 22-31 APRIL 23-MAY 2 JUNE 4-13 For the latest dates and Canada and New England detailed trip descriptions, SEPT. 30-OCT. 12 visit kualumni.org/travel or call 800-584-2957. 2016

illustrated Bluebird, which was published Nathan Miller, c’10, g’11, is a site BORN TO: last year by Simply Read Books. Her new acquisition specialist at Selective Site J. Angelo Tiberti, b’10, e’10, g’11, and Travel the world book is Sun and Moon. Consultants in Overland Park. Lindsey Fisher Tiberti, PharmD’12, daughter, Sutton Kaye, June 25 in Las Chad Gerber, d’10, will attend e MARRIED Vegas. with the Flying Jayhawks 10 Ohio State University this fall to Elizabeth “Betsy” Robb, d’10, g’12, to earn a PhD in kinesiology-sport manage- Isaah Lang, July 25 near Marion. She Alyson Smith Bull, b’11, is a talent ment. He also will be a graduate teaching teaches mathematics at Maize South 11 sourcing specialist at PeopleAdmin in associate in the sports industry under- Middle School in Wichita. Prairie Village. She and her husband, graduate program. Rachel Sanner, b’10, to Chris Lahey, Michael, e’13, a mechanical designer, live Kerry Meier, d’10, taught English June 20 in Lawrence. She is a natural gas in Lenexa. at the International Language School market analyst with Koch Energy Services Alex Earles, c’11, is a development in Korea. in Wichita, where they live. manager at International Rescue Commit-

Bridge of the Americas Waterways and Canals of Southwest National Parks PROFILE by Steven Hill JAN. 20-FEB. 7 Holland and Belgium Cruising the OCT. 5-14 APRIL 28-MAY 6 Baltic Sea JUNE 15-24 Captivating Mediterranean Tanzania Flavors of Spain Hosted by Chancellor OCT. 8-16 Architect shifts focus felt like I had a real impact.” Migration Safari MAY 7-15 Bernadette Gray-Little from buildings to bikes He also found that many Information JOE NOCELLA COURTESY JAN. 27-FEB. 7 and Shade Little Trade Routes of Age workers shared his desire for more Hosted by Dale and Sorrento, Italy Coastal Iberia wenty years into a successful career in hands-on pursuits. “I had all these people Marianne Seuferling MAY 11-19 OCT. 25-NOV. 2 Tarchitecture, New York City native Joe who wanted to build bikes with me,” Cruise the Face of Europe Nocella knew he wanted to work more Nocella says. “ at’s where this business Provence to Normandy JUNE 23-JULY 8 New York Theatre with his hands. really took o.” Passage through the MAY 19-30 NOV. 22-26 Nocella, g’96, who earned a master’s Aer designing and building custom Panama Canal and Costa Rica Coastal Alaska degree from the School of Architecture, bikes in his backyard for two years, JAN. 29-FEB. 6 Mediterranean Serenade Aug. 4-11 Design and Planning during the early Nocella in 2010 opened a shop, 718 MAY 20-JUNE 2 years of Professor Dan Rockhill’s Studio Cyclery, where one third of the bikes he Radiant Rhythms Ireland 804, was working on big, multi-year sells are “collaborative builds” that he does FEB. 27-MARCH 11 London JULY 17-27 commercial projects such as hospitals, with customers in-shop or over the MAY 29-JUNE 9 skyscrapers and airports. Missing was the Internet. Business was so good, he moved European Coastal Grand Danube Passage kind of hands-on work he tackled at KU. to a larger store in the Gowanus neighbor- Civilizations Celtic Lands AUG. 11-25 “ e stu with Dan I remember so hood a year later. APRIL 16-24 MAY 31-JUNE 9 vividly,” Nocella says. “You were pouring Tired of juggling a full-time career and a “We’re not about what we sell; we’re about The Magniﬁcent Great Lakes concrete, working in the shop. I missed busy sideline while teaching architecture what we do,” says architect Joe Nocella, who Cuba Sojourn Southern Culture and Civil War AUG. 22-31 building with my hands; I missed at Pratt Institute and running a nonprot started 718 Cyclery to rediscover “the human APRIL 23-MAY 2 JUNE 4-13 creating.” organization that he founded to teach city For the latest dates and scale” in his design work. Canada and New England detailed trip descriptions, Aer the cycling enthusiast and former kids to play lacrosse, he made a change. SEPT. 30-OCT. 12 visit kualumni.org/travel bike messenger had a bicycle stolen in “My wife and I decided we had to get rid or call 800-584-2957. 2008, he decided to build a replacement of one thing, so we dropped the high- himself. He had enough leover parts to paying, air-conditioned desk job,” Nocella collaborative build process lets riders make a second bike, a neighbor asked if he quips about leaving his architecture rm design and assemble a bike that’s custom would sell it, and a thriving cottage in 2013. “Great move, right?” tted, and gives them the condence to industry—building custom bicycles from Focusing full time on bikes has allowed deal with maintenance and repairs. scratch in a 10-by-10-foot shed in his him to build one of the most unique, “I send them o and kind of wonder, Brooklyn backyard—was born. welcoming shops in New York City. 718 ‘Are these people all gonna open stores and “Finding the human scale in projects Cyclery oers classes, bike camping trips, put me out of business?’” Nocella says. where I was just a tiny piece was a real a weekly ride for sta members and “But someone could put a shop next door challenge,” Nocella says. “Working with customers, and a service to advise riders and I wouldn’t care, because what we do is bikes, you’re done in a couple of hours. I on used bike purchases—all free. e so unique.”

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 61 Class Notes tee in New York City, where he makes his physical therapist at Atchison Hospital. Tara Volmer, p’13, PharmD’14, to Tyler home. ompson, April 25 in Parsons. She is a Clare Prohaska, c’11, m’15, is a physi- Julia Bauer, g’13, is an architectural pharmacist in Coeyville. cian at the University of Colorado in 13 designer at Incite Design Studio in Denver. Kansas City. Maurice Green, g’14, is an Army Graham Ryan, b’11, g’11, is a CPA and Maggie Blowey, p’13, PharmD’15, is a 14 fellow in the U.S. Army. He lives in the manager of RubinBrown in Overland pharmacist at CVS. Staord, Virginia. Park. Kyle Gardner, c’13, is an administrative Brian Hanson, g’14, PhD’15, is an support sta member at Trinity In-Home assistant professor at Abraham MARRIED Care in Lawrence. Baldwin Agricultural College in Sara Exon, c’11, and Wesley Kimmel, Alexandra Hyler, e’13, received a Tion, Georgia. c’11, July 18 in Wichita, where they make 2015-’16 Fulbright U.S. Student Award and Mark Peper, c’14, is a delivery consul- their home. will study in Copenhagen, Denmark. tant at Cerner. He lives in Lenexa. Brian Long, c’13, is a residence hall Andre Smith, c’14, is the business oce Thomas Hiatt, c’12, l’15, is an director at St. Cloud State University in St. secretary at Topeka Veterans Hospital. 12 associate attorney at Spencer Fane Cloud, Minnesota. Britt & Browne in Kansas City. He and Nathaniel Abeita, e’15, is a construc- Elizabeth Riedel Hiatt, e’12, g’14, live in MARRIED 15 tion engineer at TranSystems Lenexa. Amy Bullerman, DPT’13, to Ryan Corporation in Kansas City. Daniel Lee, c’12, supervises order Duckers, June 27 in Kansas City. She’s a Kellie Amott, e’15, is a soware engineer processing at Ron Tonkin Family of physical therapist at Pinnacle erapy at Garmin. She lives in Eudora. Dealerships in Portland, Oregon. Services. Mary Anderson, b’15, is an account Mitchell O’Trimble, b’13, and Grace executive at OMNI Online Solutions in MARRIED Hupe, ’14, July 18 in Perry. He works at Torrance, California. Amanda Gion, d’12, DPT’15, to Abra- O’Trimble Farms, and she teaches rst Katherine Berg, d’15, is an educator ham Noll, June 27 in Hutchinson. She is a grade at Topeka public schools. at the American Academy for Girls. She

62 | KANSAS ALUMNI lives in La Grange, Illinois. Central Care Cancer Center. account executive at Randa Accessories. Nicole Bettes, c’15, is a mortgage loan Haedyn Cole, b’15, in an investment She lives in Chicago. originator at TruHome Solutions in banking analyst at George K. Baum & Aimee Fields, s’15, is a social worker at Lenexa. She and her husband, William, Company in Kansas City. Kansas Soldier’s Home in Fort Dodge. c’13, g’15, live in Mission. Lori Collins, s’15, is a recovery coach at Katie Flippo, d’15, teaches second grade Lisa Botkin, g’15, is a counselor in the Truman Medical Center Behavioral Health at John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Ottawa school district. She and her in Kansas City. Kansas City. husband, Troy, have two children. Daniel Cross, e’15, is a mechanical Amanda Floerchinger, g’15, is a senior Lauren Bridge, u’15, teaches music at engineer for Union Paci c Railroad. specialist of scienti c insights at Hill’s Pet Gladden Elementary School in Belton, Abby Crow, s’15, is a social worker for Nutrition in Topeka. Missouri. She lives in Kansas City. the Johnson County Department of Health Nikolaus Franklin, c’15, is associate vice Rachel Bullock, c’15, is a secondary and Environment in Olathe. She lives in president for Personal Capital. He makes educator at Teach for America. Overland Park. his home in Denver. Alyssa Canﬁeld, c’15, is a video sales John Dechand, PharmD’15, is a phar- Carly French, b’15, is a marketing associate at Karl Storz. She lives in Salt macist at Baylor Scott & White Health in associate at DISH Network. She lives in Lake City. Dallas, where he lives. Englewood, Colorado. Stefanie Carnahan, c’15, is an education Dipankar Dey, e’15, is a eld engineer at Tyler Gratton, c’15, is an oce assistant program specialist at KU. Baker Hughes. for the State of Kansas. Margaret Neal Carter, d’15, teaches in Michelle McGinnis Dinges, g’15, is a the Shawnee Mission school district. She speech-language pathologist at Topeka and her husband, Nathan, c’10, live in public schools. The Jayhawks and icons that Shawnee. Jordan Dockery, d’15, teaches at Gordon adorn these pages are from the Michael Cleary, e’15, is a petroleum Parks Elementary School in Kansas City. collection at the Adams Alumni engineer at Baker Hughes. Kayla Eddins, n’15, is a registered nurse Center and can be found in early Shanna Clock, n’15, is a clinic at the University of Kansas Hospital. Jayhawker yearbooks. manager and medical oncology nurse at Parrish Essell, b’15, is an associate

ISSUE 5, 2015 | 63 HOMECOMING OCT. 25-31, 2015

Join the Jayhawks for the 103rd annual Homecoming celebration! The week includes more than 20 campus and community events.

Friday, October 30 Saturday, October 31 • Homecoming Parade 6 p.m. • KU vs. Oklahoma Football Game Parade begins at 12th and Mass. and ends at 7th and Mass. For a complete schedule of events, visit homecoming.ku.edu • Homecoming Pep Rally Following the parade at 8th and New Hampshire.

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ISSUE 4, 2011 | 1 Keenan Gregory, c’15, is a certi ed Angela Holmes, h’15, is a radiologic and lives in Lone Tree, Colorado. medical and nursing assistant at Brandon nuclear medicine technologist at Mercy Audra Schildknecht Jones, d’15, teaches Woods at Alvamar in Lawrence, where he Hospital in Independence. special education in the Bonner Springs/ makes his home. Crystal Hong, c’15, j’15, is a talent Edwardsville school district. She lives in David Greub, b’15, is a buyer at manager specialist at Payless ShoeSource Lenexa. Associated Wholesale Grocers in in Topeka. Garrett Jones, u’15, is a band director in Kansas City. Brandon Johannes, c’15, is the president the Kaw Valley school district. Allison Hammond, c’15, j’15, is a news of the Leavenworth-Lansing Area Cham- Sarah Dansro Kelly, g’15, teaches in producer for WDTN-TV in Ohio. ber of Commerce. Lawrence public schools. She and her Megan Hazelwood, j’15, is a national Layne Johnson, b’15, manages transpor- husband, Kevin, c’89, make their home in sales assistant at Entercom Radio in tation operations at Union Paci c Lawrence. Mission. Railroad. Peggy Miksch Kemp, PhD’15, is a Katherine Hoefer, u’15, teaches music Taylor Johnson, d’15, teaches h grade trainer at KU’s Bureau of Child Research. in the Shawnee Mission school district. in the Douglas County school district. She Alison Ward Kidd, g’15, manages

PROFILE by Chris Lazzarino STEVE PUPPE STEVE From QB to ﬁre captain, He had been the Seurer still a team leader surprising No. 1 quarterback for new rank Seurer, the second-leading Chiefs coach Frank Fpasser in KU football history and now Gansz aer spring a captain in the Lenexa Fire Department, minicamps, but the explains that actual res are, in reality, “a injuries forced Seurer to HOMECOMING OCT. 25-31, 2015 very, very small percentage of the calls we miss training camp. He run.” at’s why he still appreciates his rst recovered in time to day as a re ghter, in March 1993. return for a brief stint as Join the Jayhawks for the 103rd annual “We had a house re. It wasn’t a very big the starter late in the one, but it was one of those where the season, aer which the Homecoming celebration! The week includes house was just black with smoke as we Chiefs released him. Battalion Chief Rick DeVries says of Frank Seurer, “He is passionate were going in,” recalls Seurer, c’97. “at “It was devastating and a very likable guy. You would never know that he played for the more than 20 campus and community events. could be intimidating, but at the same not to play anymore, NFL. You’d probably have to drag it out of him.” time it was such a thrill, such a rush.” and it was devastating Friday, October 30 Saturday, October 31 Although he was a four-year starter at the way it ended, but • Homecoming Parade 6 p.m. • KU vs. Oklahoma Football Game KU and played professionally with the that truly did end as soon as I got into the by an angry former employee. Parade begins at 12th and Mass. and L.A. Express of the USFL and the Kansas re department. I felt like I belonged right Less than two months later, Seurer led ends at 7th and Mass. For a complete schedule of events, City Chiefs, Seurer learned that day that away. I felt like I had a purpose again. I felt the Jayhawks to a 26-20 upset of 10th- visit homecoming.ku.edu his conditioning had to improve. Still in good about what I was doing. ranked Southern California, in Los • Homecoming Pep Rally operations 22 years later as an engine “But it took a while to get there.” Angeles Memorial Coliseum, throwing Following the parade at 8th and captain and coordinator of the water Overcoming adversity was nothing new for a career-high 385 yards. USC had been New Hampshire. rescue team, Seurer’s commitment to the to Seurer. A Southern California native, he Seurer’s dream destination, and the game job’s physicality never wavered: “It tries to and high school teammate Kerwin Bell had been circled on his father’s calendar keep me young,” he says of the grueling chose to attend KU together, and the from the moment KU announced its assignments, “to stay on top of my game.” summer before Seurer’s senior season his 1983 schedule. at rst re call inspired more than family moved from Huntington Beach to “For me it wasn’t about wallowing in the Facebook: /KUHomecoming • Twitter: @ku_homecoming • Instagram: @ku_homecoming tness. It told Seurer he had nally found Lawrence and bought a barbeque restau- fact that he wasn’t there. It was about being his calling, six years aer his football rant from former Chiefs great and pro determined to play the game of my life for career was cut short by a 1987 car accident football Hall of Famer Bobby Bell. e him, you know? ere were so many Homecoming Sponsors that dislocated a hip and tore the liga- elder Frank Seurer was found dead there things that made you think his presence ments in one of his ankles. the morning of Aug. 2, 1983, murdered was there. It took on a life of its own.”

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product and innovation specialist at Southwest Airlines in Dallas, where she makes her home. Amanda Parks, e’15, is an assistant electrical engineer at Burns & McDonnell in Kansas City. NatalieRose Pennington, PhD’15, is an assistant professor in the department of communication studies, theatre and dance at Kansas State University. Francisco “Frank” Perez, g’15, is the band director at Baker University in Baldwin City. He’s also an artist/clinician at the Conn-Selmer Instrument Company. Angela Heintzelman Peterson, c’15, is a veterinary technician at Smith Veterinary Clinic in Tonganoxie. Bradley Phillips, b’15, is a QA analyst at Lanyon. He lives in Lecompton. Rachel Bloom Pojar, PhD’15, is an assistant professor of English at the University of Dayton in Ohio. Theresa Powers, b’15, is a merchandise distribution analyst for Payless ShoeSource. Paul Quigley, e’15, is a mechanical engineer at Kiewit in Lenexa. He lives in Prairie Village. Virginia Rogers Rader, DPT’15, is a physical therapist at North Kansas City marketing at Ascend Integrated Media in Lisa Miller, g’15, manages claim projects Hospital. Leawood. at Allstate Insurance Company. She lives Jonna Ramos, c’15, is an applied Young Jun Kim, PhD’15, is a professor at in Wadsworth, Illinois. behavior analysis therapist at ACI Learn- Korea National Defense University in Brent Mitchell, e’15, is a so ware ing Centers. She lives in Overland Park. Seoul, where he and his wife, Eunsil, live. developer at Koch Ag & Energy Solutions. Jenifer Randle, g’15, coordinates youth Chelsea Koksal, u’15, is a choral director He makes his home in Wichita. advocacy and training at Oklahoma in Lyndon public schools. MacKenzie Modlish, c’15, is a consult- Developmental Disabilities Council in Charlotte Lamping, e’15, is an assistant ing analyst at Cerner. She lives in Oklahoma City. project manager at Burns & McDonnell in Lawrence. Anrenee Reasor, c’15, is an underwrit- Englewood, Colorado, where she makes Alexander Montgomery, b’15, is a ing analyst at Cigna Group Insurance. She her home. consultant at Cerner. He lives in Lenexa. lives in Mission. Megan Lethbridge, c’15, is assistant to Scott Moran, g’15, is an intern architect Jessie Riggs, g’15, is a residence life the founder and artistic director at the at DLR Group. He lives in St. Louis. coordinator at the University of Missouri- Wichita Grand Opera. Daniel Muchiri, g’15, is a project Kansas City. Patrick Lewandowski, e’15, is a struc- engineer at Chevron Phillips Chemical in James Savage, c’15, is a deputy sheri tural engineer at Bob D. Campbell & Texas. in Johnson County. He and his wife, Company. He lives in Kansas City. Christopher Newell, g’15, is a detailer at Rebecca, have four children. Ben Malick, g’15, is an equity analyst at the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Milling- Jacob Schneider, e’15, is a customer Mitchell Capital Management in Leawood. ton, Tennessee. He and his wife, Stacey, service engineer at Textron Aviation. He Jay McDaniel, g’15, is a radar engineer have four children. lives in Wichita. at Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Kristina Nixson, d’15, is an associate Derick Shackelford, c’15, owns Shack Technologies. claims specialist at Nationwide. She lives Built LLC in Olathe. Todd Miles, g’15, is a special program in Johnston, Iowa. Heathyr Johnson Shaw, d’15, teaches manager at KU. Lauren O’Brien, c’15, j’15, is a marketing English in the De Soto school district. She

66 | KANSAS ALUMNI and her husband, Andrew, u’14, live in Wichita, where Zach Wright, n’15, is a registered nurse Lawrence. she is a project at the University of Kansas Hospital. He Gabrielle Siegler, b’15, is a business manager at and his wife, Samantha, make their home consultant at Cerner. Textron Aviation. in Lawrence. Kevin Staten, g’15, is a design profes- James Whar- Syed “Ali” Zaidi, e’15, b’15, is an sional at HOK in St. Louis. ton-Hess, c’15, is a ermarket support engineer at Cessna Thomas Stona, g’15, is a supply ocer a public aairs Aircra Company. for the U.S. Marine Corps. He lives in coordinator at Mountains Recreation and Alexandria, Virginia. Conservation Authority in Los Angeles. MARRIED Morgan Tade, g’15, is an architect at He lives in Long Beach, California. Bridget O’Connor, g’15, to Andrew Cho, Good Fulton & Farrell Architects in Eric Williams, g’15, is assistant director Aug. 1 in Castile, New York. She is a Dallas, where she lives. at MANNA Worldwide in Littleton, research assistant at KU. Sarah Taylor, e’15, is a ride mechanical Colorado. Jill Winter, PharmD’15, to Michael engineering intern at Walt Disney Imagi- Laura Konecny Williams, c’15, joined Baalmann, April 11 in Andale. ey make neering in Glendale, California. the campus sta at Student Mobilization. their home in Corpus Christi, Texas. Brittany Thiesing, j’15, is a graphic Laura Williamson, d’15, teaches at Blue designer. Valley Southwest High School in Overland BORN TO: Morgan Tichy, PharmD’15, is a pharma- Park. Katherine Danielson, g’15, and her cist at Auburn Pharmacy. Rachel Will Willis, g’15, is a research husband, Daniel Erlandsen, son, Luke, Armando Villanueva, m’15, is a physi- project coordinator at KU’s Achievement Feb. 15 in Olathe. Katherine is a nurse cian at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, and Assessment Institute in Lawrence. manager at Olathe Medical Center. Florida, where he makes his home. Lisa Johnson Wilson, s’15, is a therapeu- David Gregory, g’15, and his wife, Trynn Waldon, g’15, is a nurse education tic case manager at KVC. She and her Maria, son, Joseph, Feb 3 in El Paso, Texas, specialist at the University of Kansas husband, Mark, live in Shawnee. where he joins a sister, Chloe, 3. David Hospital. Michaelah Wilson, c’15, is a chemist at is a deputy inspector general for the Breyawna Washington, b’15, lives in the U.S. Geological Survey in Lawrence. U.S. Army.

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ISSUE 5, 2015 | 67 In Memory Patricia Riggs Kost Lewallen, c’42, 93, Nov. 15, 2014, in Oakley, where she managed a drug store. Surviving are two daughters, Barbara Kost Brothers, b’69, Mary Hartnett Hazen, c’36, 102, grandchildren, ve great-grandchildren and Judith Kost Collins, ’74; a son, 30sMay 24 in Williamsburg, Virginia. and a great-great-granddaughter. Kenneth Kost, b’80; and a sister, Phyllis She was a longtime hospital volunteer. Loretta Osborn Doepke, c’41, 95, June Riggs McCormick, f’45. Survivors include three grandchildren and 25 in Milwaukee. She taught in Kansas and Mary Baker Liston, c’42, 94, May 25 in four great-grandchildren. Wisconsin and retired as an educational Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she was a C. Robert Meyer, b’39, 97, May 14 in research analyst for the Milwaukee public retired teacher. Surviving are two sons, a Naples, Florida, where he was a retired school system. Surviving are her husband, daughter, seven grandchildren and two general partner at Ernst & Young. He is Howard; two sons, one of whom is James, great-grandchildren. survived by a son, Robert, ’66; two d’74; and several grandchildren and Frances “Tassie” Sartori Livingston, grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. d’46, g’51, 88, June 10 in Pompton Plains, great-grandchildren. Forrest Haynes, e’48, 90, May 23 in New Jersey, where she was a retired Mary Thomas Payne, d’37, 98, Nov. 20, Prairie Village. He had owned several director of guidance for a high school. A 2014, in Salina, where she played violin for businesses, including Haynes Equipment daughter, a son and four grandchildren 30 years and was an original member of Company and Micro-Comm. He is survive. the Salina Symphony. She is survived by survived by his wife, Marie; a daughter, James Maloney, b’48, 91, June 2 in two daughters, Carolyn Payne, d’69, g’71, Pamela Haynes Cote, n’71; three grand- Topeka. He was director for the supply and Barbara Payne Brown, d’71; a son, J. children; and four great-grandchildren. department for Veterans of Foreign Wars. omas Payne, c’66, PhD’70; two grand- Robert Hazen, c’44, m’47, 93, June 7 in Robert Menninger, c’48, 93, June 18 in children; and a great-granddaughter. Prairie Village, where he was a retired Topeka, where he had several clinical and Vince Rethman, e’39, 99, June 18 in physician. Surviving are his wife, Elaine, administrative roles with the Menninger Prescott, Arizona, where he was a retired assoc.; a daughter, Terri Hazen Blount, ’85; Foundation. Survivors include two sisters, colonel in the U.S. Air Force and a unit and a granddaughter. one of whom is Julia Menninger Gottes- chief technologist at Boeing. Surviving are Mary Louise Vansant Hughes, c’47, 90, man, g’42; a son; two daughters; 10 three sons and several grandchildren and May 10 in Vale, South Dakota. She was a grandchildren; and ve great-grandchildren. volunteer docent at KU’s Spencer Museum great-grandchildren. of Art. Survivors include a daughter, a son Jane Waring Nesselrode, a’40, 95, July Katharine Kufahl Bales, f’45, 91, and two grandsons. 5, 2014, in Lawrence. She volunteered at 40s May 19 in Greensboro, North Morton Jacobs, m’44, 98, June 23 in St. Luke’s Hospital for many years. Carolina, where she had been a piano Leawood, where he was a retired psychia- Surviving are three daughters, Judith teacher. She is survived by two daughters, trist. Surviving are two daughters, Julie McCoy Carmen, ’66, Patricia McCoy, f’72, four grandchildren and four Jacobs Sizemore, b’77, and Patricia Jacobs g’97, and Melissa McCoy, f’77; two sons, great-grandchildren. Settle, ’73; four granddaughters; and two Frederick McCoy Jr., c’69, and Steven Jordan Burkey, c’48, m’51, 91, June 12 great-grandsons. McCoy, ’81; three stepdaughters, two of in Spring eld, Missouri, where he prac- Arthur Keller, b’49, 88, May 17 in whom are Jean Ann Nesselrode, ’73, and ticed ear, nose and throat medicine for 40 Overland Park, where he was a retired Georgia Nesselrode, EdD’96; nine grand- years. Two daughters, a son, four grand- accountant. He is survived by two daugh- children; and 19 great-grandchildren. children and four great-grandchildren ters, Kathleen Keller Lane, f’77, and Joyce Idabelle Bradley Ostrum, c’45, g’48, 89, survive. Keller Schroeder, ’80; a son, Philip, e’79; Aug. 2, 2014, in Austin, Texas, where she Clyde Bysom, ’40, 97, June 1 in Law- eight grandchildren; and 19 was a retired teacher. She is survived by a rence. He played clarinet and saxophone great-grandchildren. son; two daughters; two brothers, Keith in 50 bands throughout his musical career. Carolyn Pennell Kerford, ’48, 90, May Bradley, d’49, and Aubrey Bradley Jr., c’47, Surviving are a daughter, Terri Bysom 14 in Atchison. She was retired from a l’49; three granddaughters; and one Stringer, ’84; three grandchildren; and ve 25-year career with Kansas Social Reha- great-granddaughter. great-grandchildren. bilitation Services. She is survived by a Wilbur Ostrum, b’48, l’51, 95, April 7 in Joseph Cannon, j’48, 87, July 10 in Eloy, son, Pennell, ’76; a daughter; three Austin, Texas, where he was a retired Arizona, where he was retired president grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. accountant and auditor for Texaco. and publisher of Tri-County Publications. Velma Knowles, f’42, 93, Aug. 16, 2014, Surviving are a son, two daughters, three A memorial has been established with KU in Atchison, where she was a retired art granddaughters and one Endowment. He is survived by his wife, teacher. A sister, Dorothy Knowles great-granddaughter. Louise, two daughters, a brother, four ompson, c’47, survives. William Pendleton, c’46, l’57, 94, May

68 | KANSAS ALUMNI 15 in Lawrence, where he was a retired and two great-grandchildren. great-grandchildren. attorney and had served as judge of the Richard Field, c’51, m’55, 85, July 4 in Municipal Court. He also received KU James Arthur, e’54, 89, May 8 in Topeka, where he was a retired anesthesi- School of Law’s James Woods Green 50s Wichita, where was retired from a ologist. He is survived by his wife, Dolores Medallion. Survivors include a daughter, career with Boeing and Beechcra . Mercer Field, g’57, g’80; three daughters, Helen “Hendle” Pendleton Rumbaut, c’71; Gene Couey Bockelman, a’55, 83, June Debbie Field-Kresie, m’85, Diane Field, a son; a granddaughter; and a 13 in Falls Church, Virginia, where he was f’87, and Cynthia Field, ’80; a son, Dwight, great-grandson. a retired architect. A memorial has been ’87; a brother, Louis, c’50, m’54; two Bertha Peters Piercey, d’41, 96, Sept. 25, established with KU Endowment. He is grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter. 2014, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where survived by a son, Peter, j’93, and two Carol Buhler Francis, j’50, g’71, 87, she was a retired elementary school granddaughters. March 21 in Lawrence, where she was a teacher. She is survived by a son, Bruce, Montie Bowen, e’53, 86, May 21 in freelance writer and an active member of c’67; and two daughters. Basehor. He spent 23 years in civil service, the Lawrence Preservation Alliance. Leon Ramsey, p’49, 91, July 1 in both with the U.S. Army Corps of Engi- Survivors include her husband, George, Hutchinson, where he was a retired neers and the U.S. Navy. Surviving are two ’50; two daughters, April Francis Dwyer, pharmacist and owner of Plaza Pharmacy. daughters, one of whom is Jennifer Bowen c’76, and Wendy Francis Clay, ’80; two He is survived by four daughters, three of Schmitendorf, c’86, g’11; and a son. sons, Jon, c’85, and Jay, c’88; a sister, whom are Gwendolyn Ramsey Arnett, John “Jack” Brand Jr., c’54, l’59, 83, Geraldine Buhler Smith, c’43; and ve c’76, m’79, Juli Ramsey Burnett, b’79, g’81, May 12 in Lawrence, where he practiced grandchildren. and Sheryll Ramsey Clarke, d’82; two law for 50 years at Stevens & Brand. He Charlene Lashbrook Gibbs, c’51, 85, sisters, one of whom is Emma Ramsey also received a Distinguished Alumni April 5 in Prairie Village, where she Littlejohn, n’54; a brother; and two Award from KU School of Law. Surviving volunteered for the Children’s erapeutic granddaughters. are his wife, Barbara Sample Brand, d’59; Learning Center. Surviving are her Arthur Robinson, c’42, m’44, 93, May three daughters, Kelly Brand Pettit, ’84, husband, Paul, b’51; two sons, Scott, e’76, 12 in Mission Hills. He was an internist Becky Brand Meschke, c’83, and Elizabeth and Steven, f’80; a daughter; and a brother. and assistant clinical professor at KU “Betsy” Brand Six, assoc.; and 11 Nancy Schnelli Hambleton, ’50, 90, June Medical Center. He is survived by a son, grandchildren. 7 in Lawrence, where she was retired Arthur Robinson Jr., c’75; two daughters, George Bures, g’54, m’57, 85, May 6 in director of business development for Betsy Robinson Vander Velde, s’73, s’74, Bay Shore, New York, where he was a Gould Evans. She is survived by a son, and Jane Robinson Leach, d’80; and six retired obstetrician and gynecologist. He is Jerey, c’74; a daughter, Ann Hambleton, grandsons. survived by a son, George Bures Jr., c’80, ’72; and two grandsons. William Robison, b’48, 90, May 2 in m’85; four daughters; 15 grandchildren; Richard Hegarty, b’51, 88, April 18 in Lake Lotawana, Missouri. He had owned a and ve great-grandchildren. Millbrae, California. He was a CPA and lawn and golf course supply business with Ray Cox, d’57, g’63, 81, May 10 in businessman. A memorial has been his father and brother. A son, a daughter, Bonner Springs, where he was a retired established with KU Endowment. Surviv- four grandchildren and three great-grand- investment consultant and former Kansas ing are two sons, a daughter, a sister, ve children survive. State Representative. Survivors include his grandchildren and three Homer Sherwood, b’48, 91, May 23 in wife, Judy; four daughters, one of whom is great-grandchildren. Boerne, Texas. He had worked for many Robin Masters Neal, b’97; a son; a brother, Marc Hurt, c’55, 81, April 14 in Olathe, years in the industrial piping industry. Dennis, c’71, a’74; 10 grandchildren; and where he was a retired attorney. He is Two daughters, a son, two granddaughters seven great-grandchildren. survived by his wife, Paula; ve sons, four and a great-grandson survive. Robert DeKlotz, m’59, 86, March 1 in of whom are Matthew Hurt, c’85, Jason Ruth Warren Wilkin, c’40, 96, July 5 in Fresno, California, where he was a retired McKinney, c’93, Adam Drake, e’15, and Topeka. She was the rst woman and urologist. Two sons and four grandchil- John McKinney, g’15; two daughters, Democrat to represent her district in the dren survive. Megan Hurt, c’87, g’96, and Amy Hurt Kansas House of Representatives. She is Finis Easter, e’50, 88, June 29 in Fulton, c’07; and ve grandchildren. survived by two daughters, one of whom is Independence, Missouri, where he was a W. Don Johnston Jr., c’54, 83, July 3 in Donna Wilkin, d’72; and two retired electrical engineer and helped Shawnee. He was president of Echlin grandchildren. develop the Doppler weather radar. He Manufacturing and also owned a cabinetry James Yoxall, c’48, 88, Dec. 12 in received the Distinguished Engineering business. Survivors include his wife, Peggy, Maize, where he was a retired attorney. Service Award from KU. Survivors include two daughters and four grandchildren. Surviving are his wife, Connie; a son, his wife, Jean, three daughters, two sons, Lloyd Lavely Jr., e’56, 81, May 12 in Richard, b’75; a daughter, Bonnie Yoxall two stepdaughters, two stepsons, a sister, Overland Park, where he was a retired air Frederick, b’79, g’81; two grandchildren; 13 grandchildren and nine quality control engineer at Black & Veatch.

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He is survived by his wife, Audrey; a Jane Dunmire Rhudy, d’52, 85, May 27 Woods Lumberyard in Arkansas City, and daughter, Lisa Lavely Metcalf, h’84; two in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was a he later worked as a nancial planner for sons, Laurence, c’83, and William, d’87, homemaker. Surviving are her husband, CIGNA. Survivors include his wife, Sara g’94, h’97; four grandchildren and a Darrell, p’52; two sons; a daughter; a Gilbert Woods, d’56; a daughter, Cynthia great-grandson. brother, Fred Dunmire, b’55; four grand- Woods Kim, ’81; a son; a brother, omas, Warren Legler, c’52, PhD’69, ’03, 85, sons; and two great-grandchildren. b’65; and four grandsons. May 12 in Lawrence. He taught at KU and Thomas Richmond, c’55, 82, May 30 in later retired as a product development Jacksonville, Florida, where he was a Marla Leuenberger Beimforde, engineer. He also served on the advisory retired public relations executive. 60ss’63, 76, May 2 in Camarillo, board of KU’s College of Liberal Arts and Richard Rumsey, c’56, l’58, 81, June 7 in California. She was a social worker for the Sciences. Surviving are his wife, Phyllis; a Wichita, where he was a retired attorney. Ventura County Department of Mental son, Stephen, e’76; a daughter, Kathy He is survived by his wife, Lorie Dudley Health. Among survivors are a son, a Legler Wright, ’81; eight grandchildren; Rumsey, d’57; two sons; two sisters, Ann daughter, a brother and four and seven great-grandchildren. Rumsey Olson, f’57, and Susan Rumsey grandchildren. J. Marvin Le Suer Jr., c’54, e’59, 82, Rappard, ’74; and 10 grandchildren. Robert Bryan, e’66, 72, May 31 in April 5 in Burbank, California. He worked Doris Holloway Sindt, g’56, PhD’68, 93, Emory, Texas, where he was a retired pilot as an aircra electrical engineer for Boeing July 9 in Lecompton, where she was a for the U.S. Air Force and UPS. He is and McDonnell Douglas. retired professor in the department of survived by his wife, Susan, assoc.; two Richard Loeb, c’59, m’63, 81, May 29 in psychology and counseling at Pittsburg sons; a daughter; two brothers, one of Spring eld, Missouri, where he was a State University. Survivors include a son, whom is Harold, ’70; ve grandchildren; retired physician. Surviving are his wife, Steven, e’93; and a sister. and three great-grandchildren. Faye, assoc., a daughter, two sisters and Philip Stevens, c’50, m’54, 87, July 2 in Betty Ann Landree Dickinson, c’68, 82, four grandchildren. Tonganoxie, where he had a 60-year career May 22 in Lawrence, where she was a Loren “Fuz” Martin, d’57, 81, March 29 as a physician. Surviving are his wife, Betty medical technologist at KU’s Watkins in Emporia, where he retired aer more DeLisle Stevens, c’51, d’62; four sons, two Student Health Center. She is survived by than 30 years as a realtor. He also was a of whom are Philip, m’77, and Matthew, her husband, William Boyd Dickinson III, coach and teacher. He is survived by his ’92; two daughters, Lisa Stevens Scheller, c’53; two sons, one of whom is William wife, Nannette Pitman Martin, d’55; a h’76, g’03, and Loralee Stevens, EdD’05; 13 Dickinson IV, j’76; and four daughter, Kimberly Martin Clapp, d’88; a grandchildren; and four grandchildren. son; a sister; two grandchildren; and a great-grandchildren. Janet Tharp Leiker, d’64, 73, May 28 in great-granddaughter. Judith Ferrell Taggart, g’55, 83, May 11 Wichita, where she was a retired public Joan Young Mills, c’50, 88, June 12 in in Overland Park. She founded JT&A Inc., aairs manager for Nissan Motor Corpo- Kansas City, where she was a retired an environmental outreach and education ration USA. Surviving are her husband, physical therapist at Truman Medical rm. Surviving are three daughters, Lura Tony, d’67; a daughter, Lisa Leiker Center. A memorial has been established Taggart Svestka, ’82, Carlene Taggart Alexander, d’95; a son; her mother; a with KU Endowment. She is survived by Bahler, ’83, and Sarah Taggart Crowson, sister; six grandchildren; three great- two daughters, one of whom is Dee Mills, ’82; a son, William Taggart Jr., b’81; two grandchildren; and a step-grandchild. ’92; and four grandsons. brothers, James Ferrell, b’63, and Robert Sara Lucinda Eggleston Rohrs, d’62, Robert Mitchell, g’58, 86, May 13 in Ferrell, ’65; six grandchildren; and a g’65, 75, June 24 in Columbia, Missouri, Temecula, California, where he was a great-grandchild. where she was a retired teacher and retired city manager. Surviving are his Paul Wagner, c’56, m’60, 80, June 9 in librarian. She is survived by two daughters; wife, Lois, three daughters, a son and Lee’s Summit, Missouri, where he was a a sister, Susan Eggleston Donaghue, d’60; several grandchildren and retired anesthesiologist. Survivors include and a granddaughter. great-grandchildren. two daughters, one of whom is Carrie Joan Hubbell Rumpel, ’61, 75, May 12 in Eileen Maloney Olander, ’50, 86, June Wagner Homstad, c’89; and a sister, Hays. She had a 34-year career as assistant 19 in Scottsdale, Arizona. She tutored Martha Wagner Tegeler, ’61. professor of accounting at Fort Hays State public school children and immigrants Anne Wiedeman, d’57, 79, May 2 in San University. Survivors include her husband, through Literacy Volunteer Services in Francisco, where she was a retired Max, PhD’62; a daughter, Karen Rumpel- Phoenix. A memorial has been established real-estate marketing consultant. She is Lopez, b’87; a son; a brother; and two with KU Endowment. Survivors include a survived by two brothers, Ted Wiedeman, grandchildren. son, C. Wayne, a’72; two daughters, one of b’51, and John Wiedeman, j’50; and a Donald Sayles, e’60, 82, May 7 in whom is Kristen Olander Palmer, d’81; sister, Mary Wiedeman Rogler, c’56. Yorkville, Illinois, where he was a retired four grandchildren; and two William Woods, b’56, 80, June 29 in engineering manager for Lucent Technolo- great-grandchildren. Lawrence. He and his family had owned gies. He is survived by his wife, Joyce, a

70 | KANSAS ALUMNI son, a daughter, two brothers, six grand- Merriam, where she was a retired nurse for been established with KU Endowment. children and two great-grandchildren. the Shawnee Mission school district. Surviving are her husband, Adam, her Douglas Vogel, c’65, g’74, 74, July 3 in Surviving are two daughters, Laurie parents, a sister and a grandmother. San Antonio, where he was retired vice Hinton Franklin, c’76, and Allison Hinton, president of scal aairs at Trinity ’74; a son; and four grandchildren. THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY University. Survivors include his wife, Nancy Harman Hoglund, c’74, 63, July 5 Jed Davis, 93, May 25 in Lawrence, Janice Jones Vogel, c’65, g’72; three sons; in Kansas City. She was a registered nurse where he was professor emeritus of theatre and a daughter. for 33 years, including 11 years at KU and a co-author of two books for children. Jerry Wible, c’69, m’73, 67, June 29 in Medical Center. She is survived by her A memorial has been established with KU Spring eld, Missouri, where he was a husband, Douglas, ’82; and three sisters, Endowment. Surviving are a son, John, retired physician and colonel in the U.S. Barbara Harman Watson, d’75, Sandra c’73; a daughter; three grandchildren; and Army Reserves. He is survived by his wife, Harman Adams, g’90, and Leslie Harman a great-granddaughter. Shirley, a son, a daughter, a brother, three Hubbel, ’78. Robert Hemenway, 73, July 31 in grandchildren and a great-granddaughter. Linus Orth, c’77, 60, July 8 in Roeland Lenexa. He served as chancellor of KU Janet Woerner, d’65, PhD’84, 72, June Park, where he served on the city council from 1995 to 2009 and led the University’s 29 in Yucaipa, California. She was a for eight years. He is survived by his wife, many eorts to receive designation as a professor emeritus of science, math and Judy Jarsulic Orth, j’77; a son, Linus, b’06; National Cancer Institute Cancer Center. technology education at California State a daughter; his mother; four sisters, Lea In 2012, the Alumni Association honored University in San Bernardino. A memorial Orth, f’71, Lois Orth-Lopes, d’71, g’89, him with the Fred Ellsworth Medallion. A has been established with KU Endowment. ’00, Sheila Orth, ’83, and Carmen Orth- memorial has been established with KU Surviving are two stepsons, two step- Al e, f’87; and ve brothers, three of Endowment. He is survived by his wife, daughters, two grandchildren and one whom are Nilus, e’84, g’89, PhD’92, Leah, assoc.; ve sons, three of whom are great-grandchild. Fabian, e’87, PhD’93, and Vincent, ’72. Matthew, g’01, Zachary, j’04, and Langs- ton, g’05; three daughters, one of whom is Jerry Bottenﬁeld, j’70, 67, May 11 Donald Babin, c’83, 81, June 27 in Robin, g’97; and 12 grandchildren. 70s in Lawrence. He had been 80sLenexa, where he was a retired Reynold Iwamoto, 86, June 17 in president of Botten eld Beauty Supply in lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. Lawrence, where he was a professor of Pittsburg. Surviving are his wife, Laurie Survivors include his wife, Eloise Alderson analytical chemistry. He is survived by his Hallock Botten eld, d’69; two daughters, Babin, ’58; a son, David, c’14; a brother, wife, Kuniye, assoc.; a son, Bryan, c’75; one of whom is Dana Botten eld, c’02; a Frank, c’71; and two granddaughters. two daughters, Karen Iwamoto Berlekamp, sister, Judith Botten eld Callahan, ’72; and Gay Anne Doudoro, ’83, 74, July 2 in b’79, and Ellen Iwamoto, j’81; a brother; a two granddaughters. Lawrence, where she volunteered for sister; and ve grandchildren. John Butterﬁeld, c’78, 60, July 10 in Headquarters Counseling Center and Jeannot Barnes Seymour, f’64, 84, Aug. Katy, Texas, where he was a retired Visiting Nurses. She is survived by her 1 in Lawrence, where she was retired from business development manager at husband, Michael, assoc., and a son. a 30-year career as art director for KU’s TURCK. A memorial has been established April Wilber Hackathorn, j’84, 68, May Oce of University Relations. Surviving with KU Endowment. He is survived by 29 in Prescott, Arizona. She was a free- are her husband, Todd, j’50; a daughter, his wife, LuAnn Ellis Butter eld, n’77; a lance copyeditor. Her husband, David, two Ann “Bunny” Seymour-Bierlaagh, c’80; a son; a daughter; and three sisters. sons and a grandson survive. brother; and a grandson. Joyce Murray Cheatham, e’77, 69, Sept. Mary Stanley Kettlewell, s’85, 58, May Robert Timmons, d’50, g’50, 91, Aug. 4 2, 2014, in Kansas City, where she was a 16 in Lake Lotawana, Missouri. She was a in Lawrence. He served as head coach of retired treasury agent with the Internal program ocer at Health Care Foundation KU’s track and eld and cross-country Revenue Service. A memorial has been of Greater Kansas City and also served as teams for 22 seasons, and he created KU’s established with KU Endowment. Survi- director of Child Protection Center. cross-country course at Rim Rock Farm. vors include six siblings, two of whom are Surviving are her husband, Evan; a son, His teams won 31 league titles and four La Vert Murray, c’71; and Charlene Gregory Wiley, b’01, g’03; her mother, national championships. He received the Scroggins, ’88. Ellen May Stanley, ’81; three sisters, one of Alumni Association’s Fred Ellsworth Robert Heil, c’72, 65, May 10 in Dewey, whom is Gail Stanley Peck, d’67; a brother; Medallion in 2000, and he was inducted in Oklahoma, where he was a retired and a granddaughter. the National Track and Field Hall of Fame photograher. He is survived by his wife, in 2011. A memorial has been established Amelia; two daughters; a brother, John, Rachel Hut Bremen, g’07, 32, with KU Endowment. Survivors include d’66; four grandchildren; and a 00sMay 19 in Phoenix. She was a his wife, Pat, ’51; three daughters; a son; a great-grandchild. senior management assistant for the City brother, George, ’48; and two Judith Price Hinton, g’77, 95, June 3 in of Glendale, Arizona. A memorial has granddaughters.

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Portrait of Wendell Castle seated on ‘Long Night’ (2011), 2013 {

inventive Castle has never been interested in repeating himself—even when it might have paid handsomely to do so. “ere have been times when I made something that has been very successful, FRIEDMAN BENDA AND THE ARTIST/ADRIEN MILLOT AND THE ARTIST/ADRIEN FRIEDMAN BENDA and there would be buyers out there if I wanted to make a lot of them,” he says. “But I don’t want to make a lot of them. I want to move right on. “I don’t get anything out of repeating something. I don’t learn anything. I want to learn something from my work. I don’t believe it’s true art if there’s no risk.” “Wendell Castle Remastered,” which runs Oct. 12 to Feb. 28 at MAD, is the rst museum exhibition to examine work that Castle created using digital tools. ough he still favors handcraing techniques American master such as carving, rasping and nishing, he Exhibition and book bring new perspective has lately begun to embrace computer technology as well. He still prefers to draw to sculptor’s long, iconic career by hand, but he also makes digital scans of handmade models and uses a computer- endell Castle’s upcoming exhibition the table—and the chair, cabinet, bench guided machining robot, freeing him to Wat the Museum of Arts and Design and other traditional furniture pieces—is a make large-scale sculptures that can be (MAD) in New York City pairs the whole new way of thinking about what disassembled and moved. world-renowned artist’s latest work with furniture and sculpture can be. “Pieces we’re doing now we could not some of his rst pieces, which launched a An early Castle dining room table have possibly done in the ’60s,” new sculpture genre in the 1960s and featured a big hole in the table Castle says. “e robot’s doing helped establish the Emporia native as the top. “e reason I did that,” Castle a lot of things that we just can’t founding father of the American art says, “is that the sculptural part do by hand.” furniture movement. that’s really open to a lot of exploring en and now the key technique e new pieces were created with the is on the bottom side of the table, not in Castle’s work is a process called old ones in mind, the 82-year-old Castle the top. So by opening up a table you can stack lamination. It involves gluing says. It’s all part of the long process of look right down and see what’s going on together thin layers of wood and then re-examining a nearly 60-year career that b e l ow.” sculpting the nished piece from that lately seems to have come full circle. at piece will be joined by a table he is block, much like a sculptor hews a “ey’re borrowing eight or 10 early making now in his Scottsville, New York statue from a block of stone. pieces from the ’60s and talking about how studio. “at also has a hole in the top,” he Castle says he rst heard of stack they came into being and how they were says, “but that’s where the lamination from KU sculpture made,” Castle says of the MAD show, similarity stops. professor Poco Frazier, f’29. He “then skipping up until today to talk about ey’re not remotely didn’t explore the technique much what new things we’ve brought to the similar in any until he le the Hill, and he found t a b l e .” other way.”

What Castle, f’59, g’61, has brought to e restless, Serpentine Floor Lamp, 1965 OF FINE ARTS THE MONTREAL MUSEUM

72 | KANSAS ALUMNI Indeed, according to Castle’s own “10 “I don’t get anything out of repeating something. I Adopted Rules of umb,” available on his website, wendellcastle.com, if you always don’t learn anything. I want to learn something from hit the bullseye, the target is too near. my work. I don’t believe it’s true art if there’s no risk.” “If you make a perfect piece every time, you’re not really growing,” Castle explains. { —Wendell Castle} “You’ve got to put risk into your work, and that keeps you on your toes.” —Steven Hill

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The Secret of a Few, 2012

that it allowed him to make furniture color and 400 black-and-white photo- without relying on classic furniture-mak- graphs) includes every Castle piece that ing techniques like joinery. author Emily Evans Eerdmans could track “It immediately put me in a unique down from private collectors and the more place,” he says. Not bound by traditional than 40 museums and dozens of corporate woodworking techniques, he was also not collections that hold his work. e book REICH PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE ARTIST/ADAM FRIEDMAN BENDA bound by traditional furniture design. also includes essays by Glenn Adamson, Anything went. Jane Adline and longtime Castle friend More or Less, 2014 Just how far Castle has been willing to Dave Barry. push that freedom is evident in Wendell “In the book is everything they could Castle: A Catalogue Raisonnè, 1958-2012. possibly nd, whether I liked it or not,” Due this fall from e Artist Book Castle says with a wry laugh. “Some things Foundation, the richly illustrated record I wished they hadn’t found. But that’s the of his life’s work (with more than 1,100 way it goes. ey’re not all good.”

Wendell Castle: A FRIEDMAN BENDA AND THE ARTIST/MATT WITTMEYER AND THE ARTIST/MATT FRIEDMAN BENDA Catalogue Raisonnè, 1958-2012 by Emily Evans Eerdmans The Artist Book Foundation, $150 FRIEDMAN BENDA AND THE ARTIST/MATT WITTMEYER AND THE ARTIST/MATT FRIEDMAN BENDA

Dining Table, 1966

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those pinch-me moments.” lesson and has been working with her Kalinowski knew she wanted a career in ever since. music, although she initially thought a role Kalinowski knew it would be tough to in education or music therapy would t break into the industry in her 30s, so she the bill. Her vocal instructors, Vicki and investigated competitions as a way to Ward Jamison, encouraged her to pursue improve her vocal capacity and become performing arts. more comfortable in auditions. Her eorts During her senior year of high school, paid o. she was accepted into the Pennsylvania In the past 18 months, Kalinowski has Governor’s Schools of Excellence, a participated in several competitions ve-week program that gave junior and worldwide, including the Elizabeth senior high school students opportunities Connell Prize last fall in Sydney, Australia, to explore career interests in subjects such where she was one of ve soprano nalists as the arts, science or technology. It was a er the seminals held at the Metropoli- held at Mercyhurst University in Erie, tan Opera in New York City. Pennsylvania, where Kalinowski later “It was pretty incredible,” Kalinowski attended school and earned a bachelor’s says of the experience. “I mean, just having degree in vocal performance. an audition in the building was cool. It was Her time there proved invaluable. pretty humbling.” Kalinowski Because the university oers only an She will venture into academia this year, undergraduate program in music, students heading back to Mercyhurst University as don’t have to compete with more experi- part-time instructor of voice and vocal enced graduate students for leading roles literature. But she won’t give up perform- Vocal prowess in the school’s productions. ing. She will play the title role in Giacomo “I got so much experience on stage with Puccini’s “Tosca” this fall with the Aspiring dramatic soprano ﬁnds an orchestra in a big performing arts hall Connecticut Concert Opera. purpose in performing that I wouldn’t have gotten at a Juilliard or “I denitely want to have a professional Northwestern, where I would be one of 20 opera career,” Kalinowski says. “Never in iane Kalinowski’s love of music was undergraduates and the graduate singers my life do I feel more at ease, more Devident as early as her fourth would get all the leading roles,” Kalinowski comfortable, more like I’m doing what I’m birthday. says. “I walked out of Mercyhurst having supposed to be doing than when I’m “I remember my mom giving me little learned 27 arias.” performing on stage. It doesn’t matter melodies,” she says, recalling the gi of a She auditioned for graduate school at where the stage is or if it’s for anybody, it’s toy keyboard from her parents. “She’d go KU and did so well she was asked to sing just when I open my mouth to sing … it’s do something and say, ‘When I get back I for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, which indescribable. I feel like my purpose has want you to have the melody for “Old has a training program for young singers been met.” MacDonald Had a Farm” or “Jingle Bells.”’ attending school. “I ended up getting the —Heather Biele So I would sit there and plunk out the apprenticeship and the position at KU,” notes on the keyboard until I could get the she says. “It was kind of serendipitous how melody line out.” it worked out.” Piano lessons, school musicals and A er three years of study at KU and Old souls, new love hours of band practice followed, and by professional exposure with the Lyric the time she was 13, Kalinowski was Opera, Kalinowski le the Midwest for Haruf’s Holt saga closes with enrolled in voice lessons and participating Washington, D.C., with the hope of timeless tender mercies in community theatre productions. auditioning for roles in New York City. To Now, 20 years later, she’s an aspiring pay the bills, she took a job as a reception- ovelist Kent Haruf, ’68, died Nov. 30, dramatic soprano with vocal competition ist at a real-estate rm. But a er two years, N2014, at his home in the Colorado awards under her belt, including three of she hadn’t made any progress with her Rockies, high above the plains where he the top 10 prizes at the 27th-annual music career. long ago placed his patiently paced Annapolis Opera vocal competition earlier “I really didn’t sing much,” she admits. examinations of life, love and loss in Holt, this year. “I was just unhappy.” Colorado. His nal gi to readers who had “I was just blown away,” Kalinowski, She moved back to Pennsylvania grown to crave his precise cra smanship g’13, says of the event, where she took and contacted Vicki Jamison, her rst and gentle artistry is the posthumously home $5,000 in prizes. “It was one of vocal instructor. She scheduled a voice published Our Souls at Night.

74 | KANSAS ALUMNI e tight novel is a tting end to Haruf’s It was a good surprise. I’m not saying it gently swaying Holt saga, again leading wasn’t. But I still don’t understand how you deep into hearts and minds of ordinary got the idea of asking me. people leading extraordinary lives. I told you. Loneliness. Wanting to talk in And then there was the day when Addie the night. Moore made a call on Louis Waters. It seems brave. You were taking a risk. So begins Our Souls at Night, and we are As we found in Haruf’s ve earlier introduced to an improbable union of installments in the Holt journey—includ- lonely souls. “I’m seventy years old. I don’t ing Plainsong, a nalist for the 1999 care what the town thinks,” Addie later National Book Award—the author stares Carmell Jones tells her disapproving son about the day honestly through the summer-scented Quartet: Previously when her emptiness became unbearable interludes and declares that the chill of fall Unreleased and she had visited Louis with this must soon arrive. Los Angeles Session proposal: “I wonder if you would consider A fate that can be felt lurking from the Fresh Sound coming to my house sometimes to sleep rst page emerges. Despite their determi- Records, $13 w it h m e .” nation to live their lives as they see t, Louis accepts. eir nights in a chaste relentless carping of small-minded family bed are at rst exactly as Addie had and neighbors nally consumes Louis and suggested: nothing more than two solitary Addie’s hopes for a romance of their own private fashioning. with pianist Forrest Westbrook (who For a time, at least. recorded little, despite his long West Coast It is during a surreptitious phone performing career), Gary Peacock on bass conversation, aer Addie has le Holt, and Bill Schwemmer on drums. e cats when she nally calls Louis her “dear,” and clicked. Our Souls at Night our hearts swell with his. With that, the Jones, a Kansas City, Kansas, native who Holt chapters close, but le open are studied music at KU for two years aer By Kent Haruf possibilities for lonely people smitten with leaving the Air Force (where he played in Knopf, $24 love, too wise to give a damn what the band at Hawaii’s Hickham Air Force anybody else thinks. Base), in July 1960 heeded advice from his —Chris Lazzarino KU mentor, Bill Hardy—who had le for Occidental College during the years Jones was earning money as a railroad porter— to venture to Los Angeles and immerse people enjoying the comfort of sharing a Young man, himself in the West Coast scene. bed. Of course the town gossips get wind Jones reportedly planned merely to of the arrangement, but Louis and Addie blow your horn listen and learn, at least at rst, but soon declare they are too old to care. Lost ﬁrst recording shows found himself in a tight quartet practicing What they discover, though, is that they in Westbrook’s Santa Monica Boulevard do care for each other. A great deal. ey trumpeter Carmell Jones apartment, where the pianist had installed share the stories of their lives: A regret- already a giant of jazz studio-quality recording equipment. In table adultery that nearly destroyed a late August they rolled tape, hoping to family. e loss of a child that continues to s record companies and family create a demo that could win them a echo its pain through the years. A members si through piles of recording contract. eir sins and losses are both past and forgotten tapes, the “previously unreleased As happens with big-star dreams, those present, yet Louis and Addie also nd recording” has in recent years established plans were dropped and the reel-to-reel themselves trying to make possible a itself as much of a jazz standard as “Mood tape forgotten—until now, with its recent future neither saw coming. ey discover Indigo” and “My Funny Valentine.” And release by Fresh Sound Records. passion, both for physical intimacy and like fresh new takes on old songs we know e razor-sharp recording of six songs renewed interest in rejoining the world. in our bones, there occasionally emerges plus four alternate takes highlights Public dates. Private skinny dipping. an indisputable treasure. dizzying talents across the quartet, none Cocktails in Denver. Such is the case with “Carmell Jones more startling than the mature, exciting I didn’t know what to think. You Quartet: Previously Unreleased Los sound created by a young trumpeter on surprised me. Angeles Session,” featuring the 24-year-old the cusp of greatness. Don’t you feel okay now? Jones, ’60, in his rst recording, playing —Chris Lazzarino

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n June 11, 1873, KU celebrated its piece,” he says. “People had no idea that loaned the diploma to KU, where it will be Orst Commencement ceremony in something like that was in my little displayed in the Spencer Research Library University Hall. e monumental humble house.” exhibition “Achievement of a Dream: e occasion, complete with remarks from e diploma has served as a source Birth of the University of Kansas” from Chancellor John Fraser and a speech by of great pride for Smith and other Sept. 11 through December. U.S. Sen. John Ingalls, culminated with the Richardson descendants, including one of “ e fact that the rst diploma ever four graduates—Flora Richardson, Ralph her great-granddaughters, Virginia bestowed by the University of Kansas still Collins, Murray Harris and Lindorf Wuluhle, c’69. exists within the family of the recipient, Tosh—receiving their diplomas. Richard- “We always knew about her devotion to Flora Richardson, is amazing,” says Becky son was the class valedictorian and the KU,” Wuluhle says. “When I was little I Ozier Schulte, c’76, University archivist. University’s rst graduate. always heard the story that my great- “Being able to share this particular According to KUhistory.com, Richard- grandmother was the rst to graduate diploma with the public during the son and her fellow graduates addressed a from KU. ere was a real sense of pride University’s sesquicentennial is remark- crowd of more than 1,000 attendees with that was part of the family’s heritage.” able. is kind of alignment of the stars individual orations on Class Day, the day To help the University celebrate its rarely happens.” before the graduation ceremony. Her sesquicentennial this year, Smith has —Heather Biele speech was on the “Uses of Superstition” and was praised by the Daily Kansas Tribune. Richardson was 19 when she came to Lawrence with her family in fall 1870, and she enrolled in classes at KU the following spring. As a student, Richardson was a member of the Oread Literary Society LIBRARY SPENCER RESEARCH COURTESY and a founding member of the Kappa chapter of the I.C. Sorosis, which in 1888 became the Pi Beta Phi sorority. She also created the school’s rst student entomo- logical collection under Professor Francis Snow. Aer graduating, Richardson taught school and married Osgood Colman in 1875, the same year she earned a master’s degree in arts from KU. She and her husband had seven children, one of whom was Nellie Colman Bigsby, who graduated from KU in 1900. More than a century aer Richardson and her classmates made history at KU, Larry Smith, ’60, and his brother, the late Ethan Jr., b’56, made history of their own: ey discovered Richardson’s diploma in their grandmother’s attic. Richardson was their great-grandmother. For years, the diploma hung over the mantel in Larry Smith’s house. “It made for a good conversation

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