SPORTS Schedule ICHABOD BASEBALL LADY BLUES SOFTBALL ICHABOD & LADY BLUES TENNIS MARCH MARCH MARCH 18 Rockhurst University, 4 p.m. 27 Missouri Western State University, 2 p.m. 16 cameron University, 10 a.m., M 21 Northwest Missouri State University, 1 p.m. 28 Truman State University, 1 p.m. 17 Midwestern State University, 10 a.m., M 22 Northwest Missouri State University, 1 p.m. 18 Cameron University, Lawton, Okla., 10 a.m., W 24 Wayne State College, 2 p.m. APRIL 20 Dallas Baptist University, Dallas, Texas, 9 a.m., M, W 27 emporia State University, 5 p.m. 3 Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Mo., 3 p.m. 21 East Central University, Tulsa, Okla., 9 a.m., M/W 28 Emporia State University, 2 p.m. 4 University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1 p.m. 21 Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Okla., 3 p.m., W 29 emporia State University, 2 p.m. 8 Baker University, 2 p.m. 27 Cowley County Community College, Wichita, Kan., TBA, M/W 31 Fort Hays State University, 2 p.m. 10 Pittsburg State University, 3 p.m. 28 Truman State University, 10 a.m., M/W 11 Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, Mo., 1 p.m. 29 Wichita State University, Wichita, Kan., 1 p.m., M APRIL 17 Southwest Baptist University, 3 p.m. 4 Missouri Southern State University, 3 p.m. 18 university of Central Missouri, 1 p.m. APRIL 5 Missouri Southern State University, noon 22 Emporia State University, at Hummer Sports Park, Topeka, 1 Missouri Western State University, 2:30 p.m., W 7 Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Mo., 6 p.m. 5 p.m. 3 University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1 p.m., M/W 10 university of Central Missouri, 3 p.m. 25 Fort Hays State University, 1 p.m. 4 Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Mo., 10 a.m., 11 university of Central Missouri, 1 p.m. M/W 14 Fort Hays State University, 2 p.m. MAY 10 Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, Mo., 3:30 p.m., W 18 Pittsburg State University, 3 p.m. 1-2 MIAA Postseason Tournament, TBA 11 Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, Mo., 10 a.m., M/W 19 Pittsburg State University, 1 p.m. 9-10 NCAA Regional Tournament, TBA 13 Johnson County Community College, 2:30 p.m., M/W 21 Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Mo., 6 p.m. 21-25 NCAA Division II Softball World Series, Salem, Va., TBA 15 Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Mo., 3:30 p.m., M/W 24 Truman State University, 4 p.m. 17 Emporia State University, 5:30 p.m., M/W 25 Truman State University, 1 p.m. All games in bold played at 18 Saint Edward’s University, 10 a.m., M/W 26 Truman State University, noon Washburn softball complex. 25-26 MIAA Postseason Tournament, Kansas City, Mo. 28 Newman University, Wichita, Kan., 6 p.m. 9 a.m., M/W
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Celebrating art alumni: Art exhibit connects alumni across the country CONTENTS
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FEATURES on the cover “Poppies with Latte & Strawberries,” by Patricia (Simpson) Settle, bfa ’62, Celebrating alumni: Ludlow, Wash., is one of more than 5 70 art works to be displayed in the Alumni Association recognizes outstanding Art Alumni Exhibit opening April 18 at the Mulvane Art Museum. alumni with annual awards
6 Celebrating art alumni: Art exhibit connects alumni across the country
10 Sen. Bob Dole: Enduring passion inspires gift to School of Law
9 Washburn Alumni Association Alumni director Alumni magazine editor Susie Hoffmann, bba ’87 Joy Thompson
Contributors Dena Anson, ba ’01 Robin Kruschinska, ba ’99 Contact Us! director, university relations assistant director, Alumni Association Katy Browne, aa ’07 Melissa Treolo, Your news, thoughts and questions are important secretary, Alumni Association writer to us. Please write, telephone or send us an e-mail. Gene Cassell, Wendy Walker Zeller, Letters to the editor and news of jobs, honors, sports information director director, donor relations and communications, weddings, anniversaries and births are always Washburn Endowment Association welcome. Please include your name, class year, Peggy Clark, university photographer Jeremy Wangler, address and daytime phone number. Letters to assistant sports information/marketing director the editor may be edited for length and clarity. Amanda Hughes, ba ’00 Vickie Waters, assistant director, university relations Address: 1700 SW College Ave., Topeka, Kan., office assistant, university relations 66621 Martha Imparato, FryeAllen, Inc., Topeka, Kan. Mabee Library special collections librarian design and layout Telephone: (785) 670-1641 E-mail: [email protected] The Washburn Alumni magazine is published quarterly by the Washburn Alumni Web site: www.washburn.edu/alumni Association for alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the university. Subscription is by To the editor: attention to Joy Thompson, dues-paid membership in the Washburn Alumni Association. Third-class postage paid (785) 670-1657, [email protected] at Topeka, Kan. From the President 19
I have been fortunate to travel with groups of students and alumni across this country and in Asia, Europe and South America. No matter where we go, we seek out cultural treasures, and much of departments the time, these are treasures of art. The thumbprint of culture is art. At Washburn, 2 calendar of events we interact with art, music and theatre by Jerry Farley bringing students, faculty and aficionados together through concerts, recitals, plays Alumni News and exhibits. 4 We have ongoing art exhibits in the Mulvane Art Museum, HISTORY & TRADITIONS student exhibits in Mabee 8 “At Washburn, Library and the art building, an annual Outdoor Sculpture we interact with art, WASHBURN ENDOWMENT Exhibit and a summer Mulvane 10 music and theatre Mountain/Plains Art Fair. As we teach, learn and by bringing students, campus news & sports celebrate art at Washburn, we 14 faculty and aficionados turn to our art alumni. There is no better example than together through class notes the Washburn College Bible, 22 concerts, recitals, designed by Washburn alumnus Bradbury Thompson, which is plays and exhibits.” on permanent display in the Bible Room of the Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center. Many more examples of art created by Washburn alumni are coming this spring to Mulvane Art Museum. The Washburn Art Alumni Exhibition will open April 18 in conjunction with an art alumni reunion during Alumni Weekend. With these alumni, our art students, enriched by their studies here will continue to represent a Washburn tradition by creating, appreciating, preserving and enjoying art.
Jerry Farley 4
www.washburn.edu/alumni | spring 2009 | 1 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Vian-Shin “Frankie” Yee, bfa ’97, “Cubes 8” ALUMNI EVENTS 26 Baseball tailgate and game, Showing through April 5 “Quilting Washburn vs. Truman State African American Women’s History: University, Falley Field, noon Our Challenges, Creativity & MARCH MAY Champions” 25 Kansas City event at Ameristar 1 After Hours honoring graduating Casino, 6 - 8 p.m. classes of ’79, ’89 and ’99, 5 p.m. APRIL 30 Salt Lake City, Utah, event in 28 - June 9 Alumni Association- April 4 - June 7 Washburn Art Student conjunction with Washburn School sponsored Mediterranean cruise Exhibition of Law, Utah Law and Justice Center, Room B, Main Floor, April 18 - June 21 Washburn Art Alumni 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. JUNE 5 After Hours, 5 p.m. Exhibition 20 Kansas City T-Bones tailgate, 5:30 p.m., game 7:05 p.m. JUNE June 6 - 7 Mulvane Mountain/Plains Art Fair Alumni events are in the Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center, unless noted. The Mulvane Art Museum is located in APRIL For information, call (785) 670-1641. 15 - 18 Alumni Weekend Garvey Fine Arts Center. 15 Retiring faculty reception, For information, call (785) 670-1124. 4 - 6 p.m. 16 Wake Up With Washburn, Mulvane EXHIBITS speaker AND EVENTS Tom Luedke, MUSIC ba ’83 and jd ’86, MARCH MARCH 7:30 a.m. Showing through March 22 “China 25 Symphony Orchestra Concert, 17 Alumni Association board of Before Mao: Through the Lens 7:30 p.m. directors meeting, 1 p.m. of a Flying Tigers Photographer” 17 After Hours, 5 p.m. APRIL 18 Nonoso reunion breakfast and 4 Opera, 7:30 p.m. initiation, Washburn Room B, 5 Honors Concert, 3 p.m. Memorial Union, 9 a.m. 7 Chamber Concert, 7:30 p.m. 18 Art alumni reunion brunch, 14 Percussion Ensemble Concert, 2 p.m. 10:30 a.m. 19 Washburn Singers Cabaret Concert, 18 Golden Reunion, 7:30 p.m. Washburn Room, 21 Percussion Ensemble Festival Memorial Union, 5 p.m. 26 Jim Rivers Recital, 3 p.m. 18 Alumni awards and 30 Jazz Concert, 7:30 p.m. recognition dinner, Washburn Room, Memorial Union, 6 p.m. For more information about award recipients, see page 5. To register, see page 29.
Julie (Gibbs) Brooks, bfa ’03, “Retire”
2 | spring 2009 | www.washburn.edu/alumni Kirk Lybecker, bfa ’73, “Lunch at the Cafe Hysteria”
ACADEMICS AND STUDENT LIFE
MARCH 17 Apeiron: 11:30 a.m. visual and 16 - 22 Spring recess performing arts, Mulvane Art Museum and Carole Chapel; MAY APRIL 1:30 p.m. oral presentations, 1 Ivalah Allen Recital, 7:30 p.m. 6 Advance registration begins for Henderson Learning Resources 3 Elaris Duo and Friends Concert, 3 p.m. summer sessions and fall semester Center; 3:30 p.m. remarks, Mabee 5 University Band and Wind 20 - 24 Greek Week Library; 4:30 - 6 p.m. poster session Ensemble Concert, 7:30 p.m. 27 Greek awards banquet and ball, and reception, Mabee Library 8 Washburn President’s Concert, Washburn Room, Memorial Union, 25 Thomas L. King Lecture in 7:30 p.m. 6 p.m. Religious Studies: Peter Gomes, Harvard University, Washburn MAY Room, Memorial Union 7:30 p.m. 8 Last day of classes For information, call (785) 670-1542. 9 - 15 Final exams
COMMENCEMENT May 16 Lee Arena, Petro Allied Health Center JUNE 5 - 13 Sunflower Music Festival, 7:30 p.m. 9:30 a.m. School of Applied Studies 12:30 p.m. College of Arts and All concerts are in White Concert Hall Sciences in Garvey Fine Arts Center, unless noted. 3:30 p.m. School of Business and Peter Gomes School of Nursing The schedule is subject to change. 6:30 p.m. School of Law For information, call (785) 670-1511. MAY 11 Washburn Women’s Alliance Award AWARDS CEREMONIES Luncheon: Lori Fisher of Heart of May 16 White Concert Hall, Garvey America Hospice, speaker, Fine Arts Center Washburn Room, Memorial Union, THEATRE 8 a.m. School of Applied Studies 11:30 a.m. For more information, certificate and awards ceremony visit www.givetowashburn.org/ APRIL 5:30 p.m. School of Nursing Newsevent-event/ or call (785) 670-4483. 17 - 18 “Rosencrantz recognition and awards ceremony & Guildenstern are Dead,” 8 p.m. 24 - 25 “Rosencrantz CRANE OBSERVATORY & Guildenstern SPECIAL EVENTS are Dead,”
Barabara Waterman-Peters APRIL 8 p.m. MARCH 2 and 16, 8 - 9:30 p.m. 26 “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are 20 WU Board of Regents, Student Dead,” 2 p.m. Recreation & Wellness Center, 4 p.m. “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are MAY Dead” is an absurdist, existentialist APRIL 7 8:30 - 10 p.m. tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard. 13 Jackie Joyner-Kersey The Crane Observatory is located on lecture, Washburn Located at the Andrew J. and Georgia Neese the fourth floor of Stoffer Science Hall. Room, Memorial Gray Theatre, Garvey Fine Arts Center. Union, 7 p.m. Schedule is subject to change. For information, call (785) 670-1639. For information, call (785) 670-2264. Jackie Joyner-Kersey
www.washburn.edu/alumni | spring 2009 | 3 ALUMNI News
Travel abroad with the Alumni Association Fall 2009: Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula | Nov. 8 - 15 Explore the history of ancient civilizations. The adventure starts and ends in the Western Caribbean resort of Cancun. Admire the beachfront ruins at Tulum and the Mayan city of Coba en route to Chichen Itza. Visit the Ball Court, El Castillo and the Cenote Sagrado. Stop in Izamal, a classic Mayan religious site, on the way to Uxmal. Visit the Palace of Masks in Kabah. Then go to Merida for sightseeing and a visit to the cathedral and the Museum of Anthropology and History. See the Mayan city of Ek Balam and its enormous pyramid. Discover the charming town of Valladolid before returning to Cancun and traveling home. Tentatively priced at $2,650 per person double occupancy, this trip includes roundtrip airfare from Kansas City, seven nights superior first class hotel accommodations, 16 meals and sightseeing. Details are tentative and subject to change.
2010: Australia & New Zealand We’re thinking ahead to 2010 and planning for an alumni group travel opportunity to Australia and New Zealand. We haven’t set the date yet, but the trip will be approximately two weeks in length and cost in the range of $5,500 per person. Look for more details in the next issue of the Alumni magazine and on the Alumni Association Web site.
For more information, visit www.washburn.edu/alumni or contact Susie Hoffmann at [email protected].
Photo by Robin Kruschinska
n Future Alumni Network students celebrate at Brewster Place: Garrett Love, Montezuma, Kan., a junior who also wears #40 for Ichabods basketball, celebrates the holidays with Brewster resident Gladys Trower in December. Love is a member of FAN, co-sponsored by the Washburn Alumni Association and Office of Admissions, which throws an annual Christmas party for the Brewster Alumni Chapter. Gladys and her husband, Maurice Trower, are the parents of Washburn alumni Linda Trower- Shuss, ba ’72, Twin Falls, Idaho, and Vicky Wiley, bsn ’84, Prescott Valley, Ariz. 4 | spring 2009 | www.washburn.edu/alumni Alumni Association recognizes outstanding alumni with annual awards Awards will be conferred at the Alumni Association awards and recognition dinner April 18. To register for this event, see page 29.
Distinguished Service Award Ritchie Award This award recognizes alumni who have made personal and professional This award honors men who have distinguished themselves as teachers, contributions to society, demonstrated exemplary support to the instructors, administrators or benefactors at Washburn and also have given Washburn Alumni Association and the community, been of service to service to the community and/or their chosen professions. The award is named humanity, distinguished themselves in their careers and brought honor to after Col. John Ritchie, who donated the land on which Washburn is built. Washburn through their accomplishments. Larry Peters, bfa ’62, Topeka, retired as gallery director Jeanne (Olson) Bertelson, ba ’73 and jd ’77, Topeka, of the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery and curator of collections is an attorney in private practice. She has worked at at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. A the Kansas Department of Labor, Kansas Department past president of Kansas Museums Association, he serves on Aging, the Kansas Board of Healing Arts and on the board of the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery the Shawnee County District Attorney’s Office. Her in Lindsborg, Kan., and on the Foundation Board of community service includes the Community Youth the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. Peters exhibits in a Homes board, Czars: 400 Years of Imperial Grandeur, WU Campus variety of venues, including a recent U.S. Arts in the Embassy Program in Beautification Committee, Mulvane Art Museum board of directors, Athens, Greece. He received the Kansas Governor’s Arts Award for Arts Mulvane Mountain/Plains Art Fair and Friends of the Mulvane Art Advocacy, the Kansas Museum Association’s Distinguished Service Award, Museum. She and her husband, Ken, donated a sculpture to the and Washburn honored him in 2003 as an Alumni Fellow. Mulvane Courtyard, and have a named classroom in the Mulvane Art Museum. Ruth Garvey Fink Award This award honors individuals who have furthered the mission of the Edward Glotzbach, ba ’70, St. Louis, Mo., is vice Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center in supporting Washburn University. chairman of Information Services Group Inc., the former president and chief executive officer of TPI, Presented posthumously to Topekans Doris (Firestone) and the former executive vice president and chief Joss, ba ’33, and Charles Joss, bs ’35 and honorary information officer with SBC Communications Inc. doctorate ’80. Both Doris and Charles Joss played He holds a master’s degree from the University of key roles in raising funds for the Bradbury Thompson Southern California and serves on boards for the Laclede Group, Alumni Center. Doris Joss received a Distinguished Global Velocity Inc., the Newberry Group and the audit committee Service Award from Washburn in 1979. She was a at Edward Jones. He is a past chairman of the Washburn Endowment charter member of the Washburn College Bible Committee and served Association board of directors and was honored as a Washburn Alumni on the Washburn Endowment Association board, the Alumni Association Fellow in 1998. Alpha Delta fraternity named him Outstanding Alumnus board and the Mulvane Art Museum Women’s Board. Charles Joss was of the Year in 2005. a surgeon for nearly 40 years. He served on the Washburn Board of Regents, the Washburn Endowment Association board and the Monroe Award Stormont-Vail and Topeka Community Foundation boards. This award honors women who have distinguished themselves as teachers, instructors, administrators or benefactors at Washburn and also have given service to the community and/or their chosen professions. The Graduate of the Last Decade (GOLD) Award award is named after suffragist, lawyer and publisher Lilla Day Monroe. This award honors recent Washburn graduates who demonstrate leadership in career or civic endeavors and loyalty to Washburn. Barbara Waterman-Peters, bfa ’73, Topeka, is an artist. Her work has been shown regionally, nationally Beth (Hall) Martino, ba ’00, Topeka, was recently Photo by Robin Kruschinska named director of communications and press secretary and internationally in more than 250 exhibitions and is included in museum and corporate collections. for Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. Martino served since 2007 In 2005, she painted the image used on the Christmas as deputy secretary of the Kansas Department of Labor, card by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. She holds a master where she was previously director of marketing and of fine arts degree from Kansas State University and communications. She holds a master of science degree served as an art instructor at Washburn and KSU. Her honors include in journalism from the University of Kansas. Her community service Nonoso, an assistantship from the Kansas Arts Commission, three includes the Topeka South Rotary Club board, Leadership Greater Topeka artist residencies and a certificate of recognition for outstanding and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She was nominated contributions to the State of Kansas. Waterman-Peters is the visual for a YWCA Women of Excellence Award. As a student at Washburn, artist for Washburn’s Andrew J. and Georgia Neese Gray Theater and Martino was active in Nonoso, debate, Student Ambassadors and is a founding member of the Collective Art Gallery. Washburn Student Association. www.washburn.edu/alumni | spring 2009 | 5 feature
Celebrating art alumni: Art exhibit connects alumni across the country our alumni from across the country share a sneak preview of their art F and inspiration. These pieces will be part of the Art Alumni Exhibition opening April 18 at the Mulvane Art Museum, in conjunction with Alumni Weekend.
Phillip Stevens, bfa ’02, Gilbert, Ariz., is an artist and a strength and conditioning coach. His interest in strength athletics developed while he was pursuing a master’s degree in fine arts at American University in Washington, D.C. “Rob’s Shoes” is typical of the art work he is doing right now, Stevens said. “I like drawing and painting people, but it is hard to get somebody to sit,” Stevens said. “Working with objects is my emphasis now. I try to find things we normally look at for seconds. I invest hours and days into really looking at them.” Stevens said he often asks people to give him something to paint. Late in 2007, his brother Rob gave him a pair of shoes. Currently Stevens is creating a painting, “Your World Through My Eyes,” on a 1965 Volkswagen hubcap as Arizona’s representative in a world and state-wide competition sponsored by landfillart.org.
Phillip Stevens, “Rob’s Shoes” 6 | spring 2009 | www.washburn.edu/alumni Tom Parker, “Egress” Brooks (Mooney) Powell, “Avery Peak”
Brooks (Mooney) Powell, bfa ’71, Grand Junction, Colo., a former Topekan, is a charter member of the Women’s Board of the Mulvane Art Museum. One highlight of her service at the Mulvane came in 1980 when her painting became the catalog/poster for the “Fascinating Cat,” a five state exhibition sponsored by the Mulvane Art Museum and the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Powell painted “Avery Park” about two years ago when she went hiking in Colorado with a friend in the area west of Colorado Springs near Gunnison. “It is one of the remaining beautiful undeveloped parks in our nation,” Tom Parker, ba ’55, Highlandville, she said. Mo., holds a master of fine arts degree from the University of Iowa and serves as chairman, art and art history, and Patricia (Simpson) Settle, bfa ’62, as director of the master’s program in Ludlow, Wash., painted the acrylic, studio art and theory at Drury University, “Poppies with Latte & Strawberries,” Springfield, Mo. which is featured on the cover of “Egress” is part of a series Parker has this magazine. been working on for about five years. Her inspiration for “Poppies” The mixed media sculpture includes a came when she noticed a vase welded steel house that appears to be holding poppies on a desk at a on fire, a ladder fire escape and an oak local art gallery. She generally paints hand (a reference to Marcel Duchamp) people and landscapes in oils, but pointing the wrong way. began working in acrylic about two “This is amusing to me,” he said. years ago. She now has a number “There is no exit, as Sartre said.” of themed pieces she is planning Parker said that his work spanning to exhibit in March at Small World 30 years shows a consistency of themes. Gallery in Lindsborg, Kan. “Since I teach art history, much of my Patricia (Simpson) Settle, works make reference to other art. “Poppies with Latte & Strawberries” Politics is another theme, and popular culture recurs,” he said. www.washburn.edu/alumni | spring 2009 | 7 History & traditionS
A Washburn art tradition By Martha Imparato
Art department faculty pose for the 1969 yearbook. Seated (L to R): Edward Navone, Jack Wright, Judith Sullivan and Jim Hunt, chairman. Standing (L to R): John Whitfield and Joan Foth.
Art education has a long history at Washburn. Although courses in drawing and painting were offered in the very first catalog, it took awhile for art classes to be routinely taught and for the offerings to be varied.
8 | spring 2009 | www.washburn.edu/alumni Pictured in front of the Mulvane Art Museum, in approximately 1928 (L to R): Lucille Almgren, art instructor; Helen Anderson, art instructor; Faybene Wolfe, custodian and corresponding secretary; and Frances Whittemore, director and assistant professor of art.
Lester Hull (from a charcoal Wallace Baldinger Howard Church Alexander Tillotson drawing by James I. Gilbert)
In the 1890s, New York and Chicago-trained artist The first art department director at Washburn was Max Frederick Frances Whittemore arrived in Topeka with her Hagendorn, who served 1910-11, followed by Jessie Guild, bs ’02, husband Luther. While he taught Latin, she began 1911-13. as a drawing and painting teacher at Washburn Frances Whittemore became director in 1913 and held that position and taught sporadically during the next 20 years, until she retired in 1929. During that time she organized the Topeka adding courses in art history, interior decoration, Art Guild and was instrumental in the establishment of the Mulvane Art art appreciation and principles of art. Museum, which opened in 1924. Frank Peers, ba ’16, and several of his The Topeka Art Institute, siblings studied under Whittemore. which operated on the second Lester Hull directed the art department 1930-32, and established floor of the public library the fine arts degree. In 1933, Wallace Baldinger began a seven-year 1886-94, undoubtedly provided tenure leading the department, during which Bradbury Thompson, competition. Additionally, in ba ’34, graduated and started his long and successful career as an 1901, George Stone, one of the internationally acclaimed graphic designer. Institute’s graduates and later Subsequent directors included Howard Church, 1940-45; Alexander a Washburn faculty member, George Stone Tillotson, 1945-63; and R. James Hunt, 1963-81. In 1981, John Hunter opened the Reid-Stone School was named chairman of the combined department of art and theatre of Art in downtown Topeka arts and served in that capacity until 1997. In 1997, art and theatre with Albert Reid, a syndicated became separate departments, and Glenda Taylor was named cartoonist and publisher from chairwoman of the art department, where she serves today. Concordia, Kan. After only two years, however, the Reid-Stone School merged Allison Murphy, Topeka, a senior history major, prepared a Mabee Library with Washburn, and the two exhibit to highlight her semester-long research on the history of early Washburn co-founders joined the Washburn Albert Reid alumni and faculty artists. She utilized resources in the Washburn University faculty. Reid stayed only a few archives, the Mulvane Art Museum, the Topeka and Shawnee County Public years, but numerous students studied under Stone Library Sabatini Gallery and the Internet to enhance their entries in the during his two tenures, 1903-09 and 1916-18. Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists active before 1945, an online Several students, including Mary Huntoon, ba ’20, resource compiled by Susan V. Craig of the University of Kansas. and Margaret Whittemore, ba ’19, became successful artists and educators.
www.washburn.edu/alumni | spring 2009 | 9 Washburn ENDOWMENT
Enduring passion inspires gift to School of Law
en. Robert J. “Bob” Dole, ba ’52, jd ’52 and, honorary doctorates ’69 and ’85, Washington, D.C., has dedicated his life and career to the service of both law and S government. This enduring passion recently inspired Dole to establish the Senator Robert J. Dole Law Professorship Fund in the Washburn School of Law’s Center of Law and Government. Dole’s gift will provide funds to help recruit and retain an outstanding faculty member to serve as director of the recently established Center of Law and Government. “We are deeply appreciative of Sen. Dole’s generous support of Washburn University School of Law,” said Thomas J. Romig, dean of the School of Law. “Sen. Dole’s outstanding career as a public servant embodies the goals of our newly-created Center for Law and Government.” Romig noted the Center will parallel Sen. Dole’s career, educating students on all aspects of public service from local and state government to federal government.
10 | spring 2009 | www.givetowashburn.org New Endowments
“This significant gift will allow through its history, and Sen. Dole The following new endowments to benefit Washburn Law to prepare students is certainly someone Washburn a variety of areas at Washburn University were as highly-qualified public servants and our entire nation are proud established and fully funded during the first for a broad range of careers at all of,” said President Jerry Farley. half (July 1 - Dec. 31, 2008) of the current levels of government,” he said. “We are very fortunate to have the fiscal year to date. After graduation support of a Washburn from Washburn, Dole graduate like Sen. $500,000 and above practiced law and Dole who exemplifies Business Distinguished Professorship served as an elected “We are very a life of service to government official fortunate to have his community and $250,000 to $499,999 at the local, state country.” Senator Robert J. Dole Law Professorship Fund and federal levels. the support of a Washburn honored His extensive public Washburn graduate Dole in 1966 with a $100,000 to $249,999 service includes the Distinguished Service School of Nursing “Vision for the Future” Fund Kansas House of like Sen. Dole who Award, and the School Goppert Scholarship Fund Representatives, of Law conferred a four terms as Russell exemplifies a life Distinguished Service $25,000 to $49,999 County Attorney, of service to his Award on him in 1981. John J. Bryan Law Scholarship Fund eight years as a He served 1987-98 as a Wendell J. McDonald Scholarship Fund U.S. Congressman, community and Washburn Endowment followed by nearly country. ” trustee, receiving $15,000 to $24,999 30 years as a U.S. emeritus status in 1998. John J. Bryan Scholarship Fund Senator. Dole also In 2003, he established Brian J. Moline Memorial Fund — Jerry B. Farley, served as chairman Washburn president the Honorable Robert Chandler Family Nursing Scholarship Fund of the Republican J. Dole Scholarship Gary and Mary Eisenbarth Business National Committee, for Law Students, is a Scholarship Fund president of the U.S. Senate and member of the Lincoln Society and Georgia D. Sandlin Education Scholarship Fund as Senate majority leader. He a lifetime member of the Washburn Irvine E. Ungerman Excellence in Clinical was President Gerald Ford’s vice Alumni Association. Practice Award presidential running mate in 1976 The $300,000 Dole gift also Merton Elliott Law Scholarship Fund and was the Republican candidate qualifies for Kansas Partnership for President of the United States for Faculty of Distinction funds, If you are interested in establishing an in both 1988 and 1996. a legislative effort to ensure and endowment for Washburn University, please “We truly appreciate the promote high quality educators contact Washburn Endowment Association generosity of this very special in university classrooms. at (785) 670-4483 or visit us online at alumnus. Washburn has been www.givetowashburn.org. home to many outstanding alumni
www.givetowashburn.org | spring 2009 | 11 Washburn ENDOWMENT A gift of love “A gift of love” is how Hedberg is a member of the Shawnee Chorale Society Doris (Heck) Hedberg, and still sings in the choir at her church, First United b ed ’72, Topeka, describes Methodist. the donation she makes to This lifelong devotion makes her annual gift to Washburn each year. the Washburn music department an easy, but very “I have a great love for fulfilling, voluntary obligation. Washburn,” said Hedberg. “I give to the music department because I so Doris Hedberg “I think it’s good for the city believe in music,” said Hedberg. “I don’t know of Topeka and surrounding communities.” what life would be like if we were to do away Instead of one large donation, Hedberg’s is one with the arts.” of thousands of smaller donations made yearly to JuliAnn Mazachek, president of the Washburn the university by Washburn supporters. Most of her Endowment Association, said gifts like Hedberg’s donation goes to the Floyd and Doris Hedberg Fund have raised close to $4 million in funds as of for Music, which enables the music department to mid-January. “You can see how important smaller provide students with valuable resources it may not annual gifts are to the support of Washburn be able to afford otherwise. Doris Hedberg’s late University,” said Mazachek. husband, Floyd Hedberg, b music ’49, was a Hedberg says she is not a rich woman and professor at Washburn and former chairman of each year’s donation is something she has to the music department. carefully budget. A much larger gift will be given “The donation I make is not only done in memory to Washburn from her estate, but Hedberg said of my late husband, but in memory of the good years she would like to make clear that even a small he had at Washburn teaching,” she said. amount can do a world of good. Music has always played a large role in Hedberg’s “You don’t have to have extreme wealth to life. She is the mother of a former professional donate to things,” said Hedberg. “Wherever you musician and taught piano and voice lessons in her are, you do what you can. The most important part home. She was on the original boards of both the of giving, after all, is the willingness to give.” Topeka Symphony and the Sunflower Music Festival.
12 | spring 2009 Scholarships offer peace of mind Thanks to the generosity of our donors, Washburn is able to provide nearly $6 million in scholarships to students each year. With the cost of a college education on the rise and the economy in decline, scholarships are more important than ever to Washburn students to help finance their education, as well as provide some peace of mind. ReAnne Utemark For history major ReAnne Utemark, president’s and dean’s honor rolls. for the Washburn Review. She has also Parsons, Kan., who is a candidate for She has also received outside been involved with Washburn study graduation this May, scholarships provide scholarship support each year from abroad programs in France, Switzerland, a feeling of relief as she prepares to Kansas Kids at Gear Up. Utemark says Italy, Germany and, most recently, enter the real world and graduate school. she feels incredibly fortunate to be Dubai, where she was a presenter at the “It’s the classic story – I was raised facing a post-undergraduate future of no Women as Global Leaders Conference. by a single mom with limited resources. student loan payments. But, she says, She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi honor I would have been one of those kids the scholarships have also given her so society, Nonoso, Mortar Board and was going deeply into debt,” said Utemark. much more. named to Who’s Who Among Students “Without the help Washburn scholarships “I’ve been able to focus on academic in American Universities and Colleges. provide, I wouldn’t be able to graduate and extracurricular interests, and I’ve Utemark is applying for law school without any debt.” not had to struggle with the stress of and plans to study media policy and first Utemark has received nearly a dozen working full-time,” said Utemark. “In amendment law. She says she is ready to individual scholarships at Washburn, this day and age, that’s unusual.” graduate and take on the responsibilities including scholarships in history, Utemark did not have a full-time of a competitive law school curriculum, leadership and academics from the job, but she definitely put in many thanks to Washburn’s donors and the University. She is a Leadership Scholar hours outside class. She served as a scholarships they have provided her. who maintains a 4.0 grade point average staff writer for the Kaw yearbook and in her major and has been on both the as managing editor and editor-in-chief
A winning combination ashburn University and athletics are a winning combination. With the W formation of a men’s baseball team on campus in 1879, through the 2003 start-up of women’s soccer, sports continue to play an important role on campus. Washburn is now home to 10 men’s and women’s sports and has earned 33 conference championships since the early 1990s, as well as many individual player awards. Men’s athletic teams at Washburn include baseball, basketball, football, golf and tennis, while women’s teams include basketball, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball. Through the years, Washburn donors have made possible the construction of new sports arenas on campus and much-needed renovations to existing facilities. Thanks to you, Washburn has the kind of quality sports venues that have helped recruit and retain the many talented student-athletes proud to call themselves Ichabods and Lady Blues. Washburn football locker room following renovations. There remains one significant project to complete in support of Washburn student-athletes – the renovation of the locker rooms. As many of you know first-hand, a locker room is not just a place to change clothes; it is where team relationships are strengthened, game-winning strategies are developed and mental focus is achieved. The current locker rooms were designed and constructed many years ago and have served teams well with minimal enhancements to date. In order to accommodate a growing number of Washburn student-athletes and to meet the needs of today’s competitive athletic teams, a new project is underway to refurbish the locker rooms. If you would like more information about this project, please contact Washburn Endowment Association at (785) 670-4483 or visit us online at www.givetowashburn.org. www.givetowashburn.org | springfall 20082009 | 13 CAMPUS NEWS & SPORTS
Mock trial students
win fall awards Roxanne Kelly ashburn’s mock trial teams enjoyed (19 out of 20 points) as an attorney on the Dean for Kaw success during the fall 2008 semester, defense, taking second place at the tournament Area Technical W amassing nine individual attorney and in overall standings. Washburn hosted the witness awards and winning the University of Great Plains Regional Mock Trial Tournament School named Kansas Jayhawker Invitational and the Creighton Feb. 20-22. Roxanne Kelly, who served since 2004 University Bluejay Open tournaments and besting as director of academic services at the squads from the University of Kansas, University Preparing for competition: Amber Rivera, junior, Colwich, Kan., cross examines witness Eli Woody, a Kansas Board of Regents, joined Washburn of Missouri-Kansas City and University of Notre sophomore from Topeka. Seated are attorneys (L to R): in February as dean of Kaw Area Technical Dame, South Bend, Ind. senior Kim Caw, Topeka; sophomore Brittany James, Topeka; and freshman Joshua Rivera, Colwich, Kan. School. In the spring 2009 semester, the teams “Dr. Kelly has the solid leadership competed Jan. 31-Feb. 1 at Fordham University abilities to develop and manage a range in Bronx, New York, where one team placed 5th of academic projects which will enhance overall, and senior Michelle Neis, Tecumseh, Kan., the technical education programs at Kaw,” was recognized for her near perfect performance President Farley said. Kelly previously held the post of dean of instruction for Flint Hills Technical College in Emporia, Kan., and dean of the Albright School of Education and senior vice president for academic affairs at City University, Bellevue, Wash. She holds a master’s degree in education in curriculum and instruction from City University and a doctorate from Seattle University in educational leadership, with a concentration in higher education administration. The management of KATS passed from Topeka Unified School District 501 Board of Education to Washburn in July 2008, with the school now operating as a unit administered by Washburn and governed by the Washburn Board of Regents. 14 | spring 2009 | www.washburn.edu/alumni School of Nursing Dean to return to full-time teaching
Cynthia Hornberger, Roxanne Kelly Members of the debate team practice their skills. (L to R): seniors Steve Mitchell, Topeka and Patrick Muenks, bsn ’78, dean and Parkville, Mo.; sophomores Lauren Knoth, Independence, Mo., and Cassidy Crabtree, Arkansas City, Kan. professor, School of Nursing, plans to return Parliamentary debate teams to full-time teaching duties in July and focus rank nationally on nursing research and Cynthia Hornberger coursework in leadership our Washburn debate teams rank in the and are used to determine the top 64 teams and administration. Hornberger was named top 50 in the National Parliamentary to square off at the highly competitive NPTE dean in 2000 after joining the Washburn Tournament of Excellence from a field Championships scheduled in March at University F nursing faculty in 1989. of 762 teams across the nation. of California-Berkeley. President Farley praised Hornberger’s Washburn students listed in the rankings Kevin O’Leary, director of forensics, said that accomplishments, noting he accepted the include seniors Aly Fiebrantz and Steve Mitchell, since there are no divisions in debate, Washburn dean’s decision with great regret. both of Topeka; and Patrick Muenks, Parkville, teams routinely compete with students in large “Dr. Hornberger deserves recognition for Mo. Also ranking are juniors Joe Allen, Boise, university programs. her leadership and for the service she has Idaho; Shanna Carlson, Great Bend, Kan.; Andrew In 2008, Washburn placed second in the NPTE given to the School of Nursing,” he said. Lake, Topeka; and sophomore Keenan Hogan, Championship and was third in 2007. O’Leary said During Hornberger’s tenure as dean, Lyons, Kan. he expects Washburn to be among the top four the master of science in nursing program The rankings, which can be viewed online in the nation this year, along with the University was developed and the bachelor of science at www.npte.debateaddict.com, track the overall of Oregon, Western Washington University and in nursing program became one of the success of each parliamentary team in the nation Western Kentucky University. largest programs in the state. She was also instrumental in implementing international nursing exchange programs in Northern Alumni Association Board of Directors 2008-2009 Ireland, Finland, Hungary and China, and in establishing a mobile health clinic. President Board Members Hornberger serves as president of the Ann Adrian, b ed ’67 Kirsten Allen, ba ’88 William Marshall, ba ’61 Dennis Bohm, bba ’04 Erin Menard, bba ’05 Kansas Association of Colleges of Nursing Vice President Jami Bond, bba ’04 Dave Moore, bba ’70 and has created a Nursing Service - Education Roger VanHoozer, ba ’72 Stacey Calhoon, ba ’89 Cindy Rogers, ba ’69 Leadership Council in the Topeka area. Tara K. Cunningham, ba ’00 Jim Sloan, ba ’50 and jd ’52 Amy Garton, ba ’03 Leo Taylor, ba ’74 Ray Killam, bba ’70
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Business student excels in global competition
Alexander Tsui, an international student from Hong Kong, came in second in the online 2008 International Business ‘Quest’ Simulation Challenge. The percentage point variation broadcast features between the winner and Tsui was 0.00747. Tsui initially participated in the Capstone Business Simulation as part Kansas high schools of an eight-week team project in strategic management, a required class for seniors in the School of Business. Later in the semester, Tsui entered eams from 16 Kansas high schools are competing in the televised games the International Challenge by himself and succeeded in a field of 914 of “Quest,” which is broadcast on KTWU, KTWU-23.3DT and KPTS competitors running 702 simulated companies from university campuses (Wichita) through May 18. T around the globe. The 16 teams participating in the televised competition earned the highest “The competition is very taxing, very time consuming,” said Norma scores at the Super Saturday qualifying event staged in December on campus, Juma, assistant professor, School of Business, who taught Tsui’s class. where teams from high schools across the state were individually tested on “Alexander Tsui has demonstrated that it is indeed possible for their knowledge of a broad range of topics. Washburn students to compete against their peers from top schools The games will air at 11 a.m. Sundays on KTWU and 2 p.m. Sundays on like Indiana University, Baylor University, Penn State University and the KTWU-23.3DT. Quarterfinals will be shown April 5, 12, 19 and 26; semifinals University of Texas and emerge on the top,” Juma said. “I am extremely May 3 and 10; and the championship on May 17. Broadcasts on KPTS proud of him.” (Wichita) will be at 5 p.m. Mondays, with quarterfinals shown April 6, 13, 20 Dan Smith, president of Capsim Management Simulations, and 27; semifinals, May 4 and 11; and the championship, May 18. congratulated Tsui and the other finalists. “The International Business Quest is produced by KTWU and Washburn University. Support for the Simulation Challenge provides an opportunity for production is provided by Kansas National Education Association and Quest students of all levels to find out if they have Resource Corporation. what it takes to run a multimillion-dollar company,” he said. High schools paired in the first round of games: Tsui earned a bachelor of business Olathe Northwest vs. Hayden (Topeka) administration degree in management Topeka West vs. Topeka High in December. He is studying finance Clifton-Clyde (Clyde) vs. Mill Valley (Shawnee) in the spring semester and plans to Leavenworth vs. Lawrence pursue a master’s degree in business Washburn Rural (Topeka) vs. Manhattan administration in the fall. Shawnee Heights (Topeka) vs. Lawrence Free State
Independent (Wichita) vs. Junction City Alexander Tsui Wichita East vs. Bishop Carroll (Wichita)
Broadcasts may be pre-empted in March for pledge drives, so please check local listings.
16 | spring 2009 welcomes Greg Mortenson Washburn students filled White Concert Hall in November to hear Greg Mortenson, author of the New York Times bestseller “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time.”
Mortenson spent a day on campus as part of iRead, a program launched in 2007 to promote a common reading experience across the campus. St. Francis Health Center and a variety of campus organizations, including the Center for Undergraduate Studies and Programs and Washburn Student Government Association, sponsored the evening lecture. “Three Cups of Tea” is the inspiring true story of one man’s efforts to change the world – one school at a time. With journalist David Oliver Relin, Mortenson recounts his unlikely journey from a failed attempt to climb Pakistan’s K2, the world’s second highest mountain, to successfully building schools in some of the most remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. While visiting an afternoon class, Greg Mortenson listens as Deborah Altus, associate professor, human services, reads a letter announcing a $50,000 gift to Central Asia Institute from the Pennies for Peace Linden Root Dickinson Foundation, of Jamul, Calif. To both promote Mortenson’s lecture and $50,000 gift presented provide a way for Washburn students to support Deborah Altus, associate professor, human services, presented a check for $50,000 his cause, WSGA is sponsoring “Pennies for to Mortenson while he visited her afternoon class. A letter accompanying the gift from Peace,” a program Mortenson started when first the Linden Root Dickinson Foundation, of Jamul, Calif., explained why the Foundation beginning to build schools in Afghanistan and chose to send the check through Altus. Pakistan. It emphasizes the impact that giving “Professor Altus has been an avid supporter of your book and your mission,” the one penny can make on the education of letter states. “Although she is a college professor teaching over a thousand miles from students, as one penny buys one pencil. San Diego, she shares the same excitement and hope for community-based education, WSGA hopes to raise $12,000, the amount especially for girls, in the remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.” of money it takes to build one school. Erica Koepsel, Wichita, Kan., WSGA public relations For more information, visit www.ikat.org, www.penniesforpeace.org, director, said that by the end of fall semester, call Koepsel at (785) 670-2320 or e-mail [email protected]. $2,000 had been raised.
KTWU NEWS KTWU on iPod and iTunes
Several of KTWU’s local productions can now be downloaded and played on personal iPod devices. Programs offered include “Kansans You Should Know,” “What Would Jesus Do?” and the “Minds That Matter” lecture series from the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. These programs may also be viewed through iTunes on home computers as long as the iTunes program is downloaded from the Internet.
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Summer Camps Academics Athletics
JULY Lady Blues Volleyball Camps: 13 - 15 JULY Camp BLUE: Business Leaders 13 - 15 Setter Camp for grades 9 - 12 Understanding Entrepreneurship, Passing and Defense Camp for grades 9 - 12 registration required. For information, 16 - 18 Getting Started Camp for (785) 670-1030. grades K - 3 Hitter Camp for grades 9 - 12 15 - 17 20 - 22 General Skills Camp for grades 4 - 6 Pierre-Richard Prosper, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large, Pre-legal Workshop: Students General Skills Camp for grades 7 - 9 describes the process leading to the selection of interested in law careers will learn about Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as the site for detention of suspected terrorists. the opportunities available in law, Lady Blues Soccer Camp: registration required. For information, July 31 - Aug. 2 Residential (overnight) camp Global war on (785) 670-1030. for girls ages 8 - 18. Ichabod Football Camps: terrorism subject Mulvane Art Museum MAY of law symposium 12 - 13 Blue Crew Football Camp for Razzle Dazzle: A variety of classes for all grades K - 6 JUNE Former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Pierre- ages, preschool to adult, mornings 1 - 4; 8 - 11 High School Team Camp for Richard Prosper and Pulitzer Prize-winning (10 a.m. - noon) and afternoons grades 9 - 12 author and New York Times correspondent (1 - 3 p.m.) 15 - 18 Blue Crew Football Camp for Charlie Savage were among the featured JUNE grades 2 - 8 speakers at a two-day symposium in November 8 - 12; 22 - 26 sponsored by Washburn’s Center for Law and JULY Ichabod Baseball Camps: Government and the Washburn Law Journal. 6 - 10; 20 - 24 JUNE “The Rule of Law and the Global War on AUGUST 8 - 11 (rain day June 12) for ages 11 - 13 Terrorism: Detainees, Interrogations and 3 - 7 15 - 18 (rain day June 19) for ages 8 - 10 Military Commissions” drew 137 participants from across the United States and Europe. There are additional evening and select Bob Chipman Basketball Camps: Speakers, panelists and participants examined Saturday classes. For information and JUNE legal implications of governmental actions a brochure, call (785) 670-2420. 1 - 4, ages 6 - 14, boys taken in response to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 8 - 11, ages 6 - 14, boys and girls and re-evaluated and reassessed these complex 15 - 18, ages 6 - 14, boys and girls issues to explore possible ways forward as our Music 22 - 25, all day camp, ages 9 - 17, nation prepared for a new administration. boys and girls Video from the symposium can be viewed at Northeast Kansas Total Percussion www.washburnlaw.edu/ruleoflaw. Camp: July 21 - 25. Contact Tom Morgan, (785) 670-1521. To view and print out brochures, visit www.wusports.com
18 | spring 2009 | www.washburn.edu/alumni Ichabod & Lady Blues Sports By Gene Cassell and Jeremy Wangler
Softball Baseball
The Washburn Lady Blues softball team was picked fourth by the MIAA coaches in the preseason poll, receiving 66 points, tying with Northwest Missouri State University. The Lady Blues, who reached the NCAA Regional Tournament for the third time in school history last season, opened the 2009 campaign in February in San Antonio, Texas, at the St. Mary’s Invitational.
Wes Joy. junior, Burlington, Kan. The Washburn Ichabod baseball team was picked eighth in the MIAA Coaches Poll. The Ichabods opened the 2009 season in February when they played host to the Bethany College Swedes at Falley Field. Washburn finished the 2008 season with a 17-29 record, and the team was 12-24 in the MIAA. This season the Ichabods and the rest of the MIAA compete Whitney Tapp, junior, Blue Springs, Mo. as members of the South Central Region with the Lone Star and the Heartland Conferences. For up-to-the-minute coverage of Ichabod and Lady Blues sports, visit www.sports.com.
Tish Williams, junior, Edmond, Okla.
Dani White, senior, Berryton, Kan.
photos by Gene Cassell Brian Gorges, senior, Wichita, Kan.
Curtis Hamilton, senior, Silver Lake, Kan. www.washburn.edu/alumni | spring 2009 | 19 CAMPUS NEWS AND SPORTS A closer look at two seniors
Senior Guard Jessica Mainz 5-9 • Topeka • Shawnee Heights High School
This Year Jessica Mainz is in her fourth and final season with the Lady Blues. She started all of her first 17 games this year and is averaging 5.6 points, 4.0 assists and 3.4 rebounds. She’s a 55 percent shooter with an 83 percent effort from the free throw line. She has scored in double figures three times and reached at least five assists in seven different games.
Coach Ron McHenry said: “A lot has been said about Mainz, and the key words are toughness, competitor and highly-skilled. She’s very durable with playing a full season of soccer and a full season of basketball. She plays 35 minutes a game for us at a hard level, and in soccer, it’s the same way. You look at players over your coaching career and list the all-time ones you wish you’d never lose, and she’s on that list. It tells you a lot about her character and desire to win, and I haven’t even begun to talk about her skill level in basketball. When you see her, I think you see more her character and how she competes than you see her skill level.”
Did You Know? • Jessica is a two-sport standout at Washburn and the first female to earn MIAA most valuable player honors in two different sports. She was MIAA defensive MVP in basketball in 2007-08, and she is a two-time MIAA soccer MVP, earning the honors in 2006 and 2007. • Her favorite sports memory is winning the South Central Region title last year (in basketball) and advancing to the Elite Eight. • Jessica’s favorite NBA team is the Boston Celtics, but her dream one-on-one matchup would be against Michael Jordan. • She chose Washburn because it was the right fit for her, and she chose to wear number 13 because her sister wore it when she was little and everyone thinks it’s unlucky.
photos by Gene Cassell 20 | spring 2009 | www.washburn.edu/alumni A closer look at two seniors
Senior Forward Paul Byers 6-5 • Beattie, Kan. • Marysville High School
This Year Paul Byers has been the only player to start all of the first 17 games. He was averaging 8.6 points a game and 5.0 rebounds while shooting 45 percent. He scored in double figures in six games and set a career high Dec. 3 against University of Nebraska-Omaha with 26 points, shooting 10 of 14 from the field and 4 of 6 from 3-point range.
Coach Bob Chipman said: “He’s a terrific young man and a great athlete coming from a smaller school in Kansas here to Washburn. Obviously there were some adjustments, but he made those very well. He’s one of the best athletes I think we’ve ever had in the program, and he’s a great Washburn guy. He’s had some great games for us, and I know he wants that all the time, but it’s impossible to do that every night. He really wants to end his career in the right way by finishing strong and making the regional.”
Did You Know? • Paul is the only four-year senior on the team this year. • His favorite sports memory is being part of the team winning the state high school championship. • He chose Washburn because of the tradition and because of his family. His brother, David Byers, bba ’00, Topeka, played Ichabod basketball 1998-01, and his sister Anna Byers, Beattie, Kan., a senior majoring in elementary education, played volleyball for the Lady Blues 2004-05. • Paul’s favorite professional team is the Boston Red Sox, and his favorite sports movie is “Hoosiers.” • Through the first 17 games this year, Paul was fourth in career blocks at Washburn with 76. He had 31 in 2005-06, his freshman season, to rank eighth in single-season totals. • Through 17 games Paul was 14th in career rebounding at Washburn with 498. He needs two more to become the 14th player in Washburn history to have 500 or more rebounds and join Ewan Auguste (1997-01), bs ’02, Topeka, as one of only two players in Washburn history to have 75 blocks and 500 rebounds in their careers.
photos by Gene Cassell CLASS NOTES
Dan Holt, ba ’63, Abilene, Kan., retired as director of the PROFILE: Delano Lewis 50s Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum. Washburn honored Holt in 2002 with a Distinguished Rob Crooker, bfa ’51, Danville, Calif., is reunion group Service Award. president for the World War II Army 97th Infantry Division. Bobby Ann Loper, ba ’66, Tampa, Fla., retired from the theatre department at the University of South Florida, Mary (White) Farr, b ed ’54, Topeka, is serving as where she served as costume studio manager for more secretary of the Topeka National Association for the than 18 years. She is currently serving as costume studio Advancement of Colored People. manager at the University of Tampa.
Dick McConnell, ba ’53, Tucson, Ariz., was inducted Judy (Stuenkel) Soule, ba ’62 and m ed ’84, Topeka, into the National High School Coaches Athletic Hall of received the Gold Rose Award from the Junior League Fame. He is the all-time winningest basketball coach in of Topeka. Arizona, with 775 wins and 310 losses. He was named to the 1986-87 Washburn Athletics Hall of Fame. Wesley Weathers, bba ’66 and jd ’69, Topeka, was inducted into the Litigation Counsel of America. Kay McFarland, ba ’57 and jd ’64, Topeka, retired from the Kansas Supreme Court after 31 years of service and Rudy Wrenick, bba ’66 and jd ’70, Topeka, retired as 13 years as chief justice. Washburn honored her as an market president for Bank of America in Topeka after Alumni Fellow in 2005. 37 years of service.
Anniversaries Anniversary
Nancy (Owsley) Toedman, ba ’58, and Gordon Toedman, Janet (Thaete) Zima, b ed ’69, and Joseph Zima, ba ’69 Topeka, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in and jd ’72, Topeka, celebrated their 40th wedding November. anniversary in December.
Barbara (Ronsick) Waters, b ed ’59, and Larry Waters, bba ’59, Topeka, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in December. Delano Lewis, jd ’63 and honorary doctorate ’00, 70s Mesilla, N.M., was honored as Kansan of the Year by the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas on Jan. John Anderson, jd ’75, Olathe, Kan., retired as a Johnson 30. Lewis has served as ambassador to South Africa, County (Kan.) District Court judge after more than president and chief executive officer of National 60s 20 years of service. Public Radio, president and chief executive officer of District of Columbia operations for Bell Atlantic, now John Bremer, bba ’68 and jd ’74, Oberlin, Kan., ran Dan Biles, jd ’78, Overland Park, Kan., was appointed to Verizon, and director of the East and Southern Africa unopposed for a four-year term as district magistrate the Kansas Supreme Court by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. Division of the Peace Corps. He currently works in judge in Decatur County (Kan.), a position he has held Biles served more than 20 years as counsel to the international relations at New Mexico State University. for 24 years. Kansas Board of Education. Washburn honored Lewis with a Distinguished Service Award in 1989, and the School of Law conferred a Vernon Brown, bba ’65, Topeka, is treasurer of the Glenda (Kearney) DuBoise, ba ’77, Topeka, was Distinguished Service Award in 2003. Marian Clinic board of directors. appointed to the Marian Clinic board of directors.
Richard Dearth, jd ’69, Pittsburg, Kan., was appointed Tony Florez, bba ’77, Topeka, was elected president dean of the Kelce College of Business at Pittsburg of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northeast 30s State University. Kansas Inc. Robert Dyck, ba ’68, Vassar, Kan., retired after 36 years Michael Gibbens, jd ’78, Tonganoxie, Kan., was named Valerie (Witcomb) Valaas, ba ’38 and ba ’62, Wenatchee, in the financial services industry, the last 18 years as a district judge for the Kansas counties of Leavenworth Wash., celebrated her 90th birthday in January. a certified financial planner with Ameriprise Financial and Atchison by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. Services Inc. Bruce Goeden, bba ’72, Berryton, Kan., retired as executive director of the Kansas National Education Association after 25 years of service. 22 | spring 2009 | www.washburn.edu/alumni Donald Hoffman, jd ’77, Hays, Kan., was inducted as David Burlew, bs ’80, Ozark, Mo., was promoted to a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. training coordinator of the Kansas City Field Division of He has been practicing law for 31 years. the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Washburn honored PROFILE: Dennis Casebier him as an Alumni Fellow in 2005. Russell LaVigne, jd ’70, Juneau, Alaska, was appointed to the advisory board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse James Fleetwood, jd ’89, Wichita, Kan., was appointed by Gov. Sarah Palin. chief judge of the 18th Judicial District, where he has served since 1997. Robert Olejnik, bba ’75, Rossville, Kan., was inducted into the U.S. Postal Service’s Million Mile Club for Patricia (Landry) Hamilton, ba ’83 and jd ’87, Topeka, driving accident-free for 30 years. is an attorney in the Topeka office of the law firm of Stevens & Brand. Elizabeth Packard, ba ’70 and bsn ’78, Topeka, is an instructor in the Washburn School of Nursing. James “Jay” Harkness, bba ’89, Houston, Texas, was appointed vice president-investor relations and treasurer Sally (Davis) Pokorny, ba ’75 and jd ’78, Lawrence, Kan., of GulfMark Offshore Inc. was appointed a district court judge for Douglas County (Kan.) by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. Steve Hirsch, jd ’86, Oberlin, Kan., ran unopposed for his fifth term as Decatur County (Kan.) attorney. He Maurice Ryan, jd ’78, Kansas City, Kan., was named was first elected to that position in 1989. an administrative judge for the Kansas City, Kan., Municipal Court. Nancy (Brunk) Lewis, aa ’86 and ba ’90, Topeka, was elected to the Topeka Community Foundation board Bill Sneed, bba ’77 and jd ’80, Topeka, was named of directors. Community Volunteer of the Year by the Junior Dennis Casebier, bs ’60, Essex, Calif., stands in League of Topeka. Gerald Loney, bs ’81, Topeka, is project chairman of front of the $1 million Dennis G. Casebier Library the Topeka Postal Consumer Advisory Council. in Goffs, Calif., which was dedicated in October. Craig Snyder, ba ’74, Topeka, was named executive Built as a replica of the railway depot, the library director of Let’s Help Inc. Eric Melgren, jd ’85, Wichita, Kan., is a United States houses a collection of 6,000 books, more than District Court Judge for the District of Kansas. 100,000 historical photographs, 6,000 maps and Jeffrey Ungerer, bba ’76 and jd ’82, Topeka, is assistant more than 1,300 oral history interviews focused secretary of the Topeka Community Foundation board Debra “DJ” Morrow Ingram, jd ’86, Tulsa, Okla., was on the desert West. of directors. named president and chief executive officer of the Oklahoma Credit Union League. The opening of the library culminated a labor of love that stretches back to 1953, when Casebier Wedding Jerry Schemmel, ba ’82 and jd ’85, Littleton, Colo., was began exploring the California back country and named baseball coach at Metro State College in Denver. desert while stationed at a Marine Corps base located near Joshua Tree National Park. Dan Brooks, b ed ’79, and Kim McNabb, Topeka, on Sept. 28. He is a teacher at Washburn Rural Middle Mark Stubbs, ba ’84, Shawnee, Kan., was promoted to After earning a degree in mathematics at Washburn, School. executive director of the American Diabetes Association in Kansas City and Kansas after serving in a similar role Casebier took a job with the Navy as a missile in Omaha, Neb. scientist in Corona, Calif., and resumed his Anniversaries exploration of the desert. He was drawn to the Fonda (Peil) Telthorst, ba ’88, Kansas City, Kan., is a Mojave National Preserve, which borders Nevada contemporary Christian musician and worship leader. and Arizona, and was particularly interested in the Paul Etzel, bs ’71, and Rita Etzel, LaMesa, Calif., Mojave Road, a 150-year-old wagon trail that had celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary in October. Her third compact disc, “Sing Hymn Praises,” was released in May by Healing Audio Studios. been passed over by time.
Donald Perkins, bs ’73 and aa ’75, and Linda Perkins, Throughout his 30-year career with the Navy, Topeka, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary Kathleen (Ridgway) Urbom, jd ’80, Topeka, is serving on the Marian Clinic board of directors. Casebier traveled frequently to Washington, D.C., in November. and spent many evenings at the National Archives and Library of Congress researching the Mojave Alice (Reinking) Swanson, b ed ’73, and Bob Swanson, Jeff Wagaman, ba ’84, Topeka, is chief professional officer of the Boys & Girls Club of Topeka. Road and the East Mojave Desert. After writing Topeka, celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in “Camp El Dorado Arizona Territory,” published December. Diane Wigstone, bba ’80, Arlington, Texas, plays a in 1971 by the Arizona Historical Foundation, he lead role in the movie “Crossroads Café,” released in formed the Tales of the Mojave Road Publishing Co., Kenneth Varney, ba ’79, and Debra Varney, Circleville, which has published 25 books, including 16 by him. Kan., celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in November by DNA Studios. December. Now retired, Casebier lives with his wife, Jo Ann, Anniversaries on the 113-acre Goffs Cultural Center and serves as executive director of the Mojave Desert Heritage and Cultural Association. The Casebiers donated Paul Goebel, ba ’84, and Beni Goebel, Lawrence, Kan., the land on which the library is located to the celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary in September. 80s Association, along with artifacts and a number of historic buildings that include the restored 1914 Deanna (Wietharn) Heideman, bba ’86, and LeRoy Goffs schoolhouse, which is on the National Register Barbara Barnard, bba ’88 and mba ’93, Topeka, is serving Heideman, Topeka, celebrated their 50th wedding of Historic Places. The schoolhouse serves as a on the Marian Clinic board of directors. anniversary in November. museum and gift shop.
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John Mazurek, jd ’91, Pittsburg, Kan., was appointed Hilary Cox, bs ’08, Memphis, Tenn., is pursuing a degree at Southern College of Optometry. PROFILE: the judge of the Columbus (Kan.) City Court. Bryan McMahon, ba ’99, Roeland Park, Kan., is assistant Bill Crooks, bba ’01 and mba ’06, Kansas City, Mo., prosecuting attorney for Ray County, Mo. marketing manager at Harrah’s North Kansas City, now manages promotions and events in addition to Sara Nelson, ba ’97 and bs ’01, Lawrence, Kan., joined the loyalty marketing program and the operational Pediatric Associates of Topeka PA as a physician. customer relationship management team.
Michael Pooley, bba ’92, Omaha, Neb., is executive Chad Giles, bs ’05 and jd ’08, Arkansas City, Kan., is an vice president of business development with DataX Ltd. assistant county prosecutor for Cowley County, Kan.
Karen Poulton, jd ’91, Barboursville, W.Va., has joined Dianne Graves, mls ’06, Eureka, Kan., is serving on the the law firm of Huddleston Bolen LLP. Mid-America Association for Institutional Research board of directors. Lyle Staley, aa ’92 and certificate ’92, Topeka, received the Association of American Railroads 2008 North Candace (White) Hapgood, bba ’03, Topeka, is an American Environmental Employee Excellence Award. enterprise risk analyst for FHLBank.
Troy Stremming, bba ’91 and jd ’94, Overland Park, Kan., Emily Huelskamp, ba ’07, Andover, Kan., received a A Phi Delta Theta family tradition: James M. Sims, was promoted to senior vice president of governmental Kansas Horizon Award, which recognizes exemplary Helotes, Texas, a freshman majoring in art, with affairs at Ameristar Casinos. first-year educators, from the Kansas State Department his grandfather and uncle after being initiated of Education. Huelskamp teaches at Andover Central into Phi Delta Theta fraternity on Jan. 3. Pictured J. Patrick Walters, jd ’93, Wichita, Kan., was elected a High School. (L to R): Theron “Buddy” Sims, bba ’67 and ma ’75, Sedgwick County (Kan.) District Court judge. Edwards, Colo.; James M. Sims and Theron Ryan Johnson, ba ’02, Topeka, is a programmer/analyst Sims Jr., bba ’90 and jd ’93, Mesa, Ariz. James M. Karen (Cudlin) Wittman, jd ’91, Tecumseh, Kan., is an at M-C Industries. is the son of James A. Sims, bba ’94, Houston, assistant Kansas attorney general and Kansas traffic Texas, (not pictured), who is also a member of safety resource prosecutor. Douglas Jones, jd ’02, Cottonwood Falls, Kan., was the fraternity. appointed magistrate judge for the Fifth Judicial District, which serves Lyon and Chase counties. Anniversary Kana Lydick, bba ’04 and jd ’07, Topeka, is an associate Robert Campbell, jd ’95, and Allison Campbell, Atchison, attorney in the Topeka office of the law firm of Stevens 90s Kan., celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in & Brand. December. Maureen (Brock) Bryan, jd ’94, University City, Mo., Beth (Hall) Martino, ba ’00, Topeka, is communications joined the law firm of Armstrong Teasdale LLP as a director and press secretary for Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. partner in the tort and catastrophic events practice group. Chris McGee, bba ’00, Topeka, is a partner in the newly 00s formed Krumins McGee Financial Group of Wachovia Paula (Roberts) Buchele, bba ’90 and mba ’94, Seminole, Securities LLC. McGee was also appointed to the Marian Fla., was promoted to assistant human resources officer Tara Balch, bsn ’08, Rossville, Kan., is a registered nurse Clinic board of directors. of Bay Pines VA Healthcare System. at Stormont-Vail HealthCare. Linsey Moddelmog, ba ’02, Lawrence, Kan., is an adjunct Nicole Corcoran, ba ’93, Silver Lake, Kan., is chief of Laurie Blanton, jd ’08, Bradenton, Fla., has joined the instructor in the Washburn political science department staff for the University of Kansas athletic director. Parker Law Group. and pursuing a doctorate in political science at the University of Kansas. Mariana Cordier, jd ’97, Rockville, Md., was named Jeffrey Blush, bba ’05 and mba ’08, Silver Lake, Kan., was to Cambridge Who’s Who. She is a fellow of the appointed to the Housing and Credit Counseling Inc. Wendy Monteith, bsn ’04, Silver Lake, Kan., is director of Maryland Bar Foundation and the Montgomery County board of directors. professional services at Heartland Hospice. Bar Foundation and a past president of the Maryland Hispanic Bar Association. Jami (Torske) Bond, bba ’04, Gardner, Kan., is a field Andrea (Robben) Motta, bba ’07, Topeka, joined marketing manager with NPC International. FHLBank as an auditor I. Winifred Gafabusa, bba ’93 and mba ’95, Kampala, Uganda, is a manager in the systems and process Jacqueline (Fuller) Butler, jd ’03, Larned, Kan., is Amber Myers, bba ’07, Topeka, is a collateral review assurance line of service at PricewaterhouseCoopers. an associate with the law firm of Smith, Burnett & analyst for FHLBank. Larson LLC. Stephen Koranda, bba ’99, Norman, Okla., is executive Haley Pollock, ba ’07, Topeka, is communications director of the Norman Convention and Visitors Bureau. Matthew Conwell, bsn ’06, Fairview Heights, Ill., is director for Paul Davis, minority leader of the Kansas a registered nurse in the cardiothoracic transplant House of Representatives. Kathy Lacy, bba ’98, Meriden, Kan., was named market intensive care unit of Barnes Jewish Hospital in president for Bank of America in Topeka. St. Louis, Mo. Amy Schlink, bba ’08, Berryton, Kan., is membership services manager for Gaches, Braden and Associates. 24 | spring 2009 | www.washburn.edu/alumni Kyle Sissom, bs ’08, Ft. Hood, Texas, is a transportation Gloria Starkey, ba ’08, and Joshua Chaloupek, Topeka, officer with the 36th Engineer Group. on Oct. 25. She works in Children and Family Services IN THE COMMUNITY: at the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Paige Stonerock, ba ’08, Overland Park, Kan., is Services. assignment editor of the news at KCTV5 and MyKSMO. TARC Inc. is a Topeka-based community Maria Turner, aa ’02, and Michael Dressman, Centralia, organization. Dave Stucky, jd ’08, Moundridge, Kan., is an associate Kan., on Aug. 2. She works at SBS Insurance Agency attorney with the law firm of Adrian & Pankratz in in Seneca, Kan. Ten Washburn alumni are serving on the TARC Inc. Newton, Kan. board of directors. Elizabeth Volk, ba ’08, and Grady Woodruff, ba ’08, Misty Vinduska, bba ’02, Newton, Kan., is Newton Topeka, on Oct. 18. Richard Martinez, bba ’83, Topeka, president branch manager of the Hutchinson Credit Union. Peggy (Meiering) Graham, jd ’95, Topeka, Dustin Walton, jd ’02, and Lindsey Malloy, Prairie Village, past president Jenna Wells, bba ’06, Topeka, was promoted to sales Kan., on Oct. 11. He is in-house counsel at HOK Sport Susanna Coxe, jd ’92, Topeka, president-elect manager for the Sunflower Marketing division of Venue Event. Barbara Duncan, bba ’96 and mba ’02, Topeka, M-C Industries. treasurer Cassandra Werthmann, as ’08, and Travis Mick, Virginia (Pence) Lockhart, ba ’50, Topeka, Lawrence, Kan., on June 14. She is a respiratory director emeritus Weddings therapist at Stormont-Vail HealthCare. Athena Andaya, ba ’87, Topeka, director Colette (Juhnke) Boucher, bs ’94, Topeka, Erin Bernasek, bba ’06, and Derek Grandstaff, Topeka, Jennifer West, bsn ’03, and Scott Forkenbrock, Lawrence, director on Sept. 13. She is a recruiter with the Department of Kan., on Sept. 26. She is a registered nurse in the David Brant, bba ’81 and jd ’84, Topeka, director Veterans Affairs, Health Revenue Center. emergency room at Overland Park Regional Medical Judy (Hermesch) Dowd, bsn ’76, Topeka, Center. director Andrea Curtis, as ’07 and certificate ’08, and Nathan Tiffanie (Desch) Krentz, bs ’95, Topeka, director Coffman, Lawrence, Kan., on Oct. 27. She is a vascular Lara Wiswell, b ed ’06, and Ryan Evans, Lenexa, Kan., sonographer with Veterans Health Administration. on Aug. 2. She teaches first grade at Washington Five Washburn alumni are serving on the TARC Elementary School. Foundation board of trustees. Raylene DeBey, as ’08, and Jonathan Cumpsten, Fort Collins, Colo., on July 26. Tom Lemon, ba ’90 and jd ’93, Topeka, Births past president Sarah Erdman, bsn ’08, and John Durino, Lyndon, Kan., Ken Scott, bba ’82, Topeka, vice president on Sept. 27. She is a registered nurse in the child/ Shannon (Charbonneau) Bergmann, ba ’01, and Matthew Angela (Hedstrom) Cool, bba ’98, Topeka, adolescent psychiatric unit at Stormont-Vail HealthCare. Bergmann, ba ’01 and jd ’05, Topeka, a boy, Grady trustee Matthew, on Aug. 16. Peggy (Meiering) Graham, jd ’95, Topeka, Shawn Gallagher, bs ’00, and Aubrey Rains, McPherson, trustee Kan., on June 7. He is a police officer for the city of Tiffany (Walter) Noller, bsn ’02, and Brad Noller, ba ’00, Ernie Kutzley, ba ’95, Lawrence, Kan., trustee McPherson. Topeka, a boy, Jackson Thomas, on Jan. 15. He joins a brother, Parker James, 1. Leann Hirschfeld, ba ’07, and Tucker Stover, bba ’07, Firestone, Colo., on June 14. She is pursuing a master’s Anne (Davis) Stoops, ba ’00, and Jason Stoops, ba ’97 degree in political science at Colorado University of and mba ’04, Topeka, a boy, Jacob Alan, on Oct. 16. Three Washburn alumni received awards at the Denver, and he is working at the Sheraton Denver Living the Dream Inc. annual banquet Jan. 17. Hotel. Dannielle (Rettele) Strathman, bsn ’08, and Matt Strathman, Topeka, a boy, Tucker Benedict, on Oct. 7. Nancy (Buchele) Parrish, jd ’85, Tecumseh, Jennifer Magnison, bs ’08, and Jon Banaka, Topeka, Kan., received a Community Action Award. on Oct. 4. She is employed by the State of Kansas. James Reynolds, attendee ’69, South Pasadena, Calif., received the Lifetime Achievement Tommy Mangino, ba ’08, and Danielle Huff, Lawrence, Award. Kan., on July 12. He is a graduate assistant football IN MEMORY Cheryl Rios-Kingfisher, jd ’93, Topeka, received coach and pursuing a master’s degree in community the Robert and Hazel Gomez Alma Award. health at the University of Kansas.
Paige Pfannenstiel, bba ’07, and Nicholas Woolery, 30s bpa ’08, Lenexa, Kan., on Aug. 2. She works in the advisory services practice of the accounting firm Marie “Eloise” (Grabham) Funk, ba ’37, 94, Tulsa, Okla., KPMG, and he is pursuing a master’s degree in public on Nov. 4. She was a school teacher, volunteered at administration at the University of Kansas and working 40s Gilcrease Museum, active in PEO and a lifetime member for the City of Olathe, Kan. of the Washburn Alumni Association. As a student, she Elizabeth (Hunter) Amsbaugh, ba ’41, 89, Topeka, on was a member of Nonoso and Delta Gamma sorority. Joshua Ray, bba ’07, and Ashlea Kramer, Mission, Kan., Jan. 15. A homemaker, she served 1953-55 on the on Aug. 2. Washburn Alumni Association board of directors and Carolyn (Edson) Stewart, ba ’31, 98, Topeka, on Oct. 31. was a past president of a Kappa Alpha Theta alumnae She managed resort hotels and country clubs, was a Deanna Stallbaumer, as ’05, and Brian Wullschleger, chapter. As a student, she was a member of Kaw staff member of the Topeka Junior League, Topeka High Baileyville, Kan., on Sept. 6. She is a radiologic and Ichadettes. Memorials may be sent to the Washburn School Historical Society and a lifetime member of the technologist at Nemaha Valley Community Hospital. University Athletic Scholarship Fund. Washburn Alumni Association. As a student, she was president of Nonoso and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
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Gordon Bowers, ba ’47, 83, Topeka, on Nov. 15. A Navy Robert Brandenburg, bba ’54, 77, Silver Lake, Kan., Ernest Renfro, bba ’53, 76, Wichita, Kan., on Nov. 24. veteran, he retired as president of Bowers Construction on Nov. 8. An Air Force veteran, he was a computer He was a retired oil accountant. At Washburn, he was Co. and was a past president of Topeka Board of programmer, sold insurance, was a truck owner-operator a member of Alpha Delta fraternity. Realtors. At Washburn, he was in the Navy V-12 and a lifetime member of the Washburn Alumni training unit and a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Association. As a student, he was a member of Alpha William Towle, bba ’59, 82, Tucson, Ariz., on Jan. 14. Delta fraternity. An Army veteran, he retired as president of Towle Tax Sidney Hunt, ba ’49 and jd ’51, 83, Overland Park, Kan., and Accounting. At Washburn, he was a member of the on Dec. 5. An Army World War II veteran, he worked Velesta (Thompson) Camblin, ba ’54, 99, Topeka, Association of Business Students and Sigma Phi Epsilon more than 30 years for IBM. At Washburn, he was on Jan. 8. She served 50 years as a registered nurse fraternity. inducted into Sagamore and Who’s Who Among at Security Benefit Association Hospital, Stormont-Vail Students in American Universities and Colleges and HealthCare and Eventide Convalescent Center. Memorials Carol (Kendall) Wadley, ba ’58, 72, Topeka, on Dec. 29. was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity and Delta may be made to Washburn School of Nursing Velesta She worked 35 years at Stormont-Vail Stauffer Health Theta Phi legal fraternity. Camblin Fund. Sciences Library. At Washburn, she was vice president of Phi Sigma Chi honorary pep club and a member Edward Pooler, b music ’49, 82, Council Grove, Kan., Anne (Milliken) Herrick, b music ’53, 78, Bowie, Md., of Alpha Psi Omega honorary theatre society and on Nov. 4. A Navy World War II veteran, he served on Dec. 31. She retired in 1981 from a teaching career Women’s Council. 27 years as instrumental music director for Greensburg at Meadowbrook Elementary School. At Washburn, she (Kan.) public schools and 13 years as librarian at was president of Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity and Jerry Whitson, b ed ’58, 73, Fairfield, Conn., on Greensburg High School. a member of the choir, Washburn Singers and Alpha Nov. 12, 2007. He was a headmaster at Hamden (Conn.) Phi sorority. Hall Country Day School, president of the Fairfield Helen (Iserman) Spencer, ba ’40, 90, Oakley, Kan., on Board of Realtors and a member of Washburn’s Whiting Oct. 14. She taught home economics and was a member Ardyce (Colvin) Jones, ba ’57 and certificate ’88, 73, Society. As a student, he was a member of Sagamore, of the United Methodist Church and PEO. At Washburn, Orlando, Fla., on Nov. 25. She taught high school English International Relations Club, Student Council and she was vice president of the freshman class and a and was a high-risk counselor for high school students. Phi Delta Theta fraternity. member of Nonoso, YWCA and Delta Gamma sorority. At Washburn, she was named to Nonoso and Who’s Who Among Student in American Universities and Colleges Thayne Swenson, ba ’41, 89, Tampa, Fla., on Nov. 26. and was president of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. A Navy World War II veteran, he retired from Amoco as associate tax counsel. At Washburn, he played varsity Bernard Kaeberle, ba ’54, 78, Topeka, on Nov. 20. An 60s tennis, was a member of Phi Gamma Mu national social Air Force veteran of the Korean conflict, he retired from Lois (Hale) Carder, b music ’65 and m ed ’74, 78, Valley science honorary and president of Alpha Delta fraternity. the Shawnee County Youth Center, where he worked in Falls, Kan., on Nov. 19. She taught instrumental and food service personnel. At Washburn, he was a member vocal music in the Kansas cities of Hoxie, Garden City, Alma (Long) Work, ba ’49, 81, Independence, Mo., on of ROTC and Independent Students Association. Topeka and Valley Falls and was active in her church March 25, 2008. At Washburn, she was a member of music program. Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Clifton Kruse, ba ’56 and jd ’63, 74, Colorado Springs, Colo., on Dec. 30. He was an ordained Methodist Robert Fawl, bs ’60, 76, Phoenix, Ariz., on Nov. 29. minister, a prison chaplain, nationally acclaimed elder He established Regal Graphics in Phoenix and previously law attorney and taught business law for 27 years at the was sales representative, account manager and district University of Colorado. He served 1974-77 on the manager for National Cash Register Corp. 50s Washburn Alumni Association board of directors and was a member of Washburn’s Whiting Society. As a student, Alma Jeanne (Johnson) Barnes, b music ’50, 80, Newton, Frank Fieger, bba ’64, 80, Topeka, on Dec. 15. A Navy he was president of Pi Kappa Delta honorary society and Kan., on Oct. 12. She was a charter member of Trinity Korean War veteran, he retired as a special agent with Psychology Club, was inducted into Sagamore and was Heights United Methodist Church, where she served in the Naval Criminal Investigative Service after 20 years a member of Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity. the music program. At Washburn, she was a member of service. of choir and Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity. John “Tom” Reid, jd ’58, 79, Newton, Kan., on Nov. 16. Louis French, b ed ’65, 75, Carbondale, Kan., on Oct. 28. He was a U.S. magistrate judge since 1984 and served William “Dick” Best, bfa ’59, 76, West Rupert, Vt., on A Marine Corps Korean War veteran, he taught at Admire 1980-84 as Kansas District Court judge, 1961-67 as Jan. 11. An Air Force veteran of the Korean conflict, (Kan.) Grade School and coached track, baseball and Harvey County (Kan.) probate/juvenile judge and he taught at Keuka College in Keuka Park, N.Y., served basketball at Northern Heights High School, Allen, Kan. 1959-61 as Newton municipal judge. At Washburn, as director of the Gilcrease, Chrysler and Bennington he was a member of Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity. museums and was an artist, print maker and potter.
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Bessie Mae (Wills) McIntosh, ba ’38 and jd ’40, 91, Newton, Kan., on Nov. 19. She was an attorney for the FBI during WWII in Washington, D.C., and then settled in Clay Center, Kan., where she was a homemaker, a member of the First Presbyterian Church and a 60-year member of PEO. A lifetime member of the Washburn Alumni Association, she served on the Alumni Association board of directors and was a Washburn Endowment Association trustee since 1976, receiving emeritus status in 1999. With her late husband, D. Elton McIntosh, she belonged to Washburn’s Lincoln and Whiting societies, supported the Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center, the Washburn School of Law and established the Elton and Bessie Mae McIntosh Scholarship. As a student, she was vice president of Student Council, chairwoman of the Athletic Board of Control and a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority.
26 | spring 2009 | www.washburn.edu/alumni Eron (Maxey) Haines, m ed ’69, 93, Yarmouth, Maine, on Jon “Greg” Logan, bba ’73, bs ’77 and jd ’82, 61, Topeka, Jan. 5. She taught elementary school in Ohio, Wyoming on Nov. 5. A lifetime member of the Washburn Law and Topeka, was a member of PEO, First Presbyterian School Association, he owned and operated Jon G in memory Church and a past president of the American Association Music and Radio Shack in Holton, Kan., and was an of University Women. attorney, real estate agent and a computer and tax Herbert Ragsdale, ba ’49, 83, consultant. At Washburn, he was a member of Delta Topeka, on Oct. 27. He joined William Hoffman, bba ’62, 76, North Little Rock, Ark., Sigma Pi fraternity and Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity. the Washburn faculty in 1967 on Jan. 7. An Air Force veteran, he worked 25 years for His wife, Patricia (Shupe) Logan, bs ’84, survives. and taught 31 years in the Union Pacific and Rock Island railroads and retired from modern languages department, the State of Arkansas. At Washburn, he was a member Georgann (Rausch) Mefferd, jd ’73, 59, Des Moines, retiring in 1998 as emeritus of Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity. Iowa, on Jan. 8. She was chief compliance officer at professor of Spanish and West Bank. At Washburn, she was a member of Delta Russian. A Navy veteran of Robert Lester, ba ’69, 61, Rocklin, Calif., on Jan. 7. He Theta Phi legal fraternity. World War II, he earned a retired from the Air Force after 28 years of service. At master’s degree in Spanish from the University of Kansas Washburn, he was a member of ROTC and Tau Kappa Kenneth Pierce, bs ’75, 59, Topeka, on Nov. 9. He in 1950 and taught Spanish, French and German for four Epsilon fraternity. served 1978-2005 with the Shawnee County Sheriffs years at what is now Kansas City Kansas Community Office, where he was awarded a Medal of Valor and College. From 1953-56, he was a Russian specialist for the Delia (TenEyck) Moore, m ed ’64, 96, Auburn, Kan., on retired at the rank of major. He also served 1983-2004 National Security Agency at Ft. Meade, Md., and studied Nov. 29. She taught at Auburn Grade School, Auburn at Washburn as an adjunct professor, was named Russian at Middlebury (Vt.) College. He served 11 years High School and retired from Jay Shideler Junior High outstanding adjunct professor of criminal justice in as a Navy intelligence officer in Japan, Washington, D.C., School. She completed the Menninger Bible Class and 1995 and was a lifetime member of the Washburn and Hawaii, was a translator of “Soviet Naval Operations was a Master Gardener. Alumni Association. As a student, he was a member in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45” and retired from the of Collegiate Young Democrats and Criminal Justice Navy Reserve at the rank of commander. While teaching Robert Murphy, ba ’62, 68, Choctaw, Okla., on Dec. 20. Association. at Washburn, he was chairman of the president’s committee A Vietnam War veteran, he served 24 years in the Air for International House, a member of numerous national Force, retiring as an Airborne Warning and Control John Rubottom, b music ’76, 54, Brooklyn, N.Y., on and regional professional organizations and served as System mission crew commander and instructor. A Nov. 8. An accomplished pianist, he earned a master’s chairman of the Kansas Chapter of American Association lifetime member of the Washburn Alumni Association, degree in piano from the Manhattan School of of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages. In as a student, he was in varsity cross country and track Music and worked more than 25 years as a certified the Topeka community, he was a Spanish translator for the and a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. gemologist. police department and the Shawnee County jail and was a Spanish consultant for Kansas Legal Services. Memorials James Riley, ba ’65, 65, Powell, Wyo., on Dec. 26. An may be made to the Herbert W. Ragsdale Award for Army Vietnam veteran, he taught and coached forensics Excellence at the Washburn Endowment Association. and debate at the University of Utah, University of Nevada-Reno and Boise State University and retired 80s Barbara (Devins) Kitts, aa ’91 and ba ’95, 56, Topeka, from teaching as professor emeritus at Northwest Pedro Cerca-Romero, certificate ’87, aa ’92 and bs ’93, 48, on Jan. 3. College, Powell. At Washburn, he participated in debate Topeka, on Dec. 20. He was the assistant administrator and was a member of Pi Kappa Delta forensics honorary for El Centro, taught English as a Learned Language Eldon Rightmeier, jd ’92, 57, Meriden, Kan., on fraternity. classes at El Centro and the YMCA, coached children’s Dec. 12. He worked for USD 340, Southwestern Bell, soccer and ran in several marathons. Sunflower Cablevision and the Kansas Department Frank Sandelius, bba ’68, 78, Lawrence, Kan., on Oct. 28. of Administration Division of Information System and He was an Army veteran, serving in Germany during the Carrie (Wagaman) Harned, ba ’84, 47, Lansing, Mich., Communications. Korean War. on Jan. 10. She was a high school teacher, coached girls sports, was an aerobics instructor and was inducted into Rosemary Schmidt, bs ’91, 71, Holton, Kan., on Billie (Powell) Spohn, b ed ’64, 79, Topeka, on Nov. 12. the Topeka West High School Athletic Hall of Fame. At Nov. 9. She was a dental assistant and worked for the She taught at Capital City High School, was a personnel Washburn, she played basketball and was a member of Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. director for Macy’s, a personnel specialist for the Kansas Delta Gamma sorority. Department of Administration and a certified financial David Strong, bba ’95, 54, Cleveland, Ohio, on Nov. 20. planner. Carolyn Lanzillo-Daringer, jd ’89, 49, Shillington, Pa., He was a tax attorney. on Dec. 18. She practiced law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and served 10 years as assistant district attorney for Berks County, Pa. 70s 00s Melvin Fehrenbacher, ba ’74, 66, Topeka, on Nov. 26. Daniel Morrow, ba ’07, 61, Topeka, on Dec. 14. A A Navy veteran, he served during the Cuban Missile Vietnam War veteran, he retired from Lawrence-Douglas Crisis at Guantanamo Bay and was a member of the 90s County (Kan.) Fire Medical at the rank of battalion chief American Veterans Motorcycle Club. Alene Blazier Willison, aa ’96, 64, Topeka, on Dec. 23. after more than 30 years of service. Hans Hansen, jd ’74, 65, Wichita, Kan., on Oct. 13. Larry Callahan, bs ’96, 34, Topeka, on Nov. 18. He He was a retired accountant and attorney. worked for Social Security and Disability Determination Services in the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Adabelle (Bonner) Haughawout, m ed ’70, 92, Topeka, Services. At Washburn, he was a member of Kappa Friends on Nov. 9. She taught music, English and special Sigma fraternity. His wife, Amy (Owens) Callahan, reading and was a soloist and patroness of Sigma Floyd “Leon” Ballenger, 68. Springfield, Mo., on ba ’97, survives. Alpha Iota music fraternity. In 2003, she received the Dec. 25. He was director of choral activities at Jefferson Award for her advocacy for the blind and Washburn in 1973 and also taught in Kansas public Beatrice Haynes, bsn ’95, 46, Topeka, on Oct. 31. She visually impaired. Memorials may be made to the C.E. schools and at Friends University in Wichita, Kan. was a registered nurse with the Veterans Administration and Adabelle Haugawout Music Fund at Washburn and Lexington Park Nursing Home. Endowment Association. www.washburn.edu/alumni | spring 2009 | 27 CLASS NOTES
Marjorie (Kittell) Booth, 92, Topeka, on Dec. 18. She Marvel (Bowlus) Peterson, 93, Topeka, on Jan. 16. taught 1937-38 in the Washburn physical education With her late husband, Cecil “Pete” Peterson, she was in memory department, was active in the Girl Scouts for many a benefactor of Washburn and a member of the Lincoln years and volunteered at the Topeka and Shawnee and Whiting societies. Eugene Hiatt, 91, Topeka, County Public Library. on Dec. 31. An Army Air Eleanore (Odell) Rost, attendee ’31, 98, Topeka, on Corps veteran of World Dale Briman, attendee ’49, 85, Topeka, on Nov. 22. Jan. 14. She was a lifetime member of the Washburn War II, he served on A World War II Army Air Force veteran, he worked Alumni Association and a member of Friends of the Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s in the family business, Briman’s Leading Jewelers, for Mulvane Art Museum and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. staff in England. He was more than 50 years and was a member of Friends of an attorney in private the Mulvane Art Museum. His wife, Joan (Walsh) Janice (Caulkins) Steck, attendee ’52, 77, Topeka, on practice in Topeka for Briman, ba ’73, survives. Nov. 25. She worked as a nurse in California and more than 50 years and Kansas, retiring in 1993, and was a lifetime member was active in Republican John Chiapetto, 79, Topeka, on Jan. 13. An Army of the Washburn Alumni Association and a member politics on the state and national levels. He served veteran, he owned a bookstore in Evergreen, Ill., and of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. 1967-71 on the Washburn Board of Regents as a worked in the Washburn bookstore and the School of city commission appointee and was a member of Law Libation Station. Paul Stuenkel, 71, Topeka, on Dec. 20. A certified the Ichabod Club and Friends of the Mulvane Art drug and alcohol counselor, he was an independent Museum. Maureen (O’Connor) Erickson, 97, Topeka, on Jan. 5. practitioner and also worked for Stormont-Vail She was an educator and was involved in numerous HealthCare and St. Francis Health Center. Memorials community organizations, including Menninger Family may be sent to the Paul and Marguerite Stuenkel Care and was a member of Washburn Faculty Wives Scholarship Fund at Washburn Endowment Association. and Washburn’s Whiting Society. Her late husband, Memorial GiftS Charles “Dee” Erickson, served 1936-46 at Washburn as Karen (Peterson) Welch, 72, Topeka, on Jan. 17. athletic director and basketball and freshman football She was the first executive director of the Topeka Remembering loved ones through memorial or coach. Memorials may be made to the Dee Erickson Community Foundation and a member of Friends honorary gifts to Washburn University leaves a Scholarship Fund at Washburn. of the Mulvane Art Museum. unique legacy in their names while enriching the lives of students at the university. A gift to Dorothea Franzen, 96, North Newton, Kan., on Dec. 31. Anna (Beebe) Wright, 83, Topeka, on Jan. 20. She Washburn honors individuals in keeping with She was an associate professor, biology, at Washburn served in the Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II your wishes and unites their memory with 1947-52, and also taught at Cedar Crest College in and was a registered nurse, retiring in 1984. Her the lives of so many others. Please visit www. Allentown, Pa., and Illinois Wesleyan University, husband, Donald Wright, professor emeritus of givetowashburn.org/Giving-TributesMemorials/ Bloomington. economics and business administration, survives. Index.htm for more information on how to create Memorials may be made to the Anna B. Wright, R.N. a memorial or honorary gift. Scholarship Fund at Washburn Endowment Association. Graduation anniversaries alumni WEEKEND
Golden Reunion, Washburn Room, Memorial Union, 5 p.m. Alumni in the classes of 1939, 1949, 1969 and Golden Ichabods in the class of 1959 are invited to get together before the Alumni awards and recognition dinner.
Alumni awards and recognition dinner, Washburn Room, Memorial Union; cocktail reception, 6 p.m.; dinner, 7 p.m. Those receiving Alumni Association awards will be honored with alumni marking graduation anniversaries in the classes of 1939, 1949, 1969 and Golden Ichabods in the class of 1959.
28 | spring 2009 REgistration FOR: Alumni Weekend 2009 alumni association events during WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15 4 p.m. Retiring faculty reception, Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center alumni WEEKEND THURSDAY, APRIL 16 7:30 a.m. Wake Up With Washburn, Alumni Weekend Reservations: Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center 8 p.m. Crane Observatory open house, I would like to join the Washburn Alumni Association. I have checked my membership choice. Stoffer Science Hall Annual Membership Recent Graduate Membership Lifetime Membership Lifetime Installment FRIDAY, APRIL 17 n $35/single or (5 years or less) n $500 /single or n single/four installments of $150/year 11:30 a.m. Apeiron visual and performing arts, n $50/couple n $15 per year n $650/couple n couple/four installments of $200/year Mulvane Art Museum and Carole n $60 for five years Chapel 1 p.m. Alumni Association board of Please mark events you will be attending and fill in information below. directors meeting, Forum Room, Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center Wednesday, April 15 Friday, April 17 1:30 p.m. Apeiron oral presentations, 4 p.m. Retiring faculty reception 5 p.m. After Hours, Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center Henderson Learning Resources Center Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center no charge 3 p.m. Lady Blues softball vs. Southwest no charge Baptist University, softball complex I plan to attend Saturday, April 18 4:30 p.m. Apeiron poster session and n 9 a.m. Nonoso breakfast and initiation reception, Mabee Library Washburn Room B, Memorial Union 5 p.m. Opening reception for Art Alumni n $11 per person Exhibition, Mulvane Art Museum Thursday, April 16 10:30 a.m. Reunion brunch for art alumni 5 p.m. After Hours, Bradbury Thompson 7:30 a.m. Wake Up With Washburn n $12 members of Washburn Alumni Association Alumni Center Tom Luedke, ba ’83 and jd ’86 n $15 non-members 6 p.m. Phi Delta Theta Founders Day Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center 5 p.m. Washburn Room, Memorial Union Banquet, Washburn Room, Golden Reunion, n $11 members of Washburn no charge Memorial Union. Contact Clint I plan to attend Whitney (785) 383-5633 Alumni Association n 6 p.m. 8 p.m. “Rosencrantz & Guildernstern are n $13 non-members Alumni awards and recognition dinner 6 p.m. cocktail reception: 7 p.m., dinner, Dead,” Andrew J. and Georgia Neese Gray Theatre, Garvey Fine Washburn Room, Memorial Union Arts Center, (785) 670-1639 n $23 members of Washburn Alumni Association n $25 non members SATURDAY, APRIL 18 9 a.m. Nonoso reunion breakfast and initiation, Washburn Room B, Memorial Union ALUMNI WEEKEND RESERVATIONS: 10 a.m. Ichabod and Lady Blues tennis vs. Saint Edward’s University, tennis complex Name 10:30 a.m. Reunion brunch for art alumni, Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center Guests 1 p.m. Lady Blues softball vs. University of Central Missouri, softball complex 5 p.m. Golden Reunion, Washburn Room, Address Memorial Union 6 p.m. Alumni awards and recognition dinner, 6 p.m. cocktail reception: City State Zip 7 p.m., dinner, Washburn Room, Memorial Union 8 p.m. “Rosencrantz & Guildernstern are Phone Dead,” Andrew J. and Georgia Neese Gray Theatre, Garvey Fine Arts Center, (785) 670-1639 Enclosed is my check for $ payable to Washburn Alumni Association.
Mulvane Art Museum Exhibit hours or credit card • See page 2 for exhibition titles • April 15 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. April 16 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Expiration / Name on card April 17 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. April 18 1 - 4 p.m. Reservations requested by April 10. Mail payment with form to Washburn Alumni Association, 1700 SW College, Topeka, KS 66621. Questions? Phone (785) 670-1641, visit www.washburn.edu/alumni or e-mail [email protected]. Events in bold sponsored by Washburn Alumni Association